Whew, dang. Jinkies.

Thirty years ago, in a different life, I was a philosophy postgraduate student and taught first year undergraduates their introduction to metaphysics and ethics. In the first time, every time, someone would turn in an essay which read like this, and you would have to patiently explain to them they were going to have to rewrite it or fail, because philosophy does not mean writing down all the random thoughts you had when smoking that bundle of weed the night before the deadline.

https://writing.exchange/@ianbetteridge/111246622364130553

I mean, I'm constantly writing down every random thought in a notebook here or there - sometimes while under various influences. But you don't see me (very often) issuing a manifesto

This reads to me like a fundamental misunderstanding of open source software?

"What does it say for the future of open source, if foundations will just take it and give it a home. That is tragic for open source innovation."

https://www.thestack.technology/hashicorp-ceo-predicts-oss-free-silicon-valley-unless-the-open-source-model-evolves/

@TheDarkHorse get well soon and sweet dreams

I've seen some folks confused by the mention of "the eros of the train" in that manifesto. If you weren't a teen obsessed with Atlas Shrugged, you probably wouldn't get it.

This "eros" thing isn't a lust for public transit. IMO, it's a nod to the scene where a couple of Ayn Rand's characters got real hornt after a train ride:

One of them owned the train line. The other invented the special steel from which the rails were built. Lots of folks tried to stop them, but they succeeded anyway. They boned afterward in celebration.

I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but that whole thing reads just like something 17-year-old me would have plotzed over.

That manifesto just stinks of the same actually literally horny for capitalism vibe that drips from every page of Atlas Shrugged.

Like, I don't want to kink shame, but so much of that book reads like a melange of BDSM crossed with findom.

@brennen Yeah, I mean if these folks would just admit to it being a particular fetish and not a basis for a global socioeconomic philosophy, I think everyone would be better off

@brennen yeah, privately owned trains and rail conquered the north American continent, according to national lore

Dang, good weather on this last episode of Night Vale

Cuz it’s a hurricane
a hurricane party
End days
every other Wednesday
Live girls dance
dead men float

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nldrVYADC_Q

Went to try to read a thing on "MIT Technology Review" and got intercepted by 3 different popup modals and a banner before I managed to scroll 1cm through the page. The title of the piece was "How to fix the internet" and I already closed the tab.

I really wish there were a service to deliver primal screams to the folks who direct the construction of these things on websites. Not the web developers, mind you, the directors.

@danhon That site threw three captchas at me and then broke :/

Dang, computers are making me cranky today

@scarfwitch Yeah, looks like it just came out a couple weeks ago! https://dessa.bandcamp.com/album/bury-the-lede

@socketwench I can have a tiny one as a treat, these days.

Not like back when I would kill off a 12-pack of Mountain Dew in a single day and wonder why I was vibrating between dimensions

A thing I just remembered:

Back in college, my roommates and I drank industrial quantities of Mountain Dew. We built an archway around our dorm's front door with the empty cans and duct tape.

Sometimes I think we summoned something through that gateway.

@sabrinaweb71 Eh, I also boosted it and then went back and read it after I got through the first batch of cookies set

@socketwench my beverage intake these days tends to be water, coffee, and sometimes tea. And I do occasionally get adventurous and have a pamplemousse la croix

But also booze, which is very sugary, but I don't just kind of drink that casually throughout a day

@bkahn "Reader view" in Firefox is pretty much my constant go-to. I kinda wish it were the default

@elithebearded Sounds about right. I'd bet the BDSM you read was at least written by an author self-aware enough to know what they were writing 😅

@LambdaCalculus @socketwench once upon a time, when I used to work the overnight shift at the front desk of my college dorm, I'd start the night with a SURGE soda and a Snickers bar. Always wondered why I felt so surly at that job

I never quite understand why folks writing blog or forum posts put a tl;dr section at the end as a conclusion, rather than at the front like an abstract

@bunbrary You might enjoy this book about public stairways in Portland. Maybe a weird thing, but it's neat to encounter these on walks around the city.

https://www.powells.com/book/portland-stair-walks-explore-portland-oregons-public-stairways-9781621063452

@bunbrary Also, welcome to Portland from Lord Butterscotch and Lady Buttercream

Oof, I really dislike running into a project that has a bot which automatically closes issues as "stale" just because they've gone awhile since someone last looked at them.

9 times out of 10, I'm landing on that issue page after experiencing the bug. Issue's closed, but I clearly just encountered the bug. Just because no one got around to it, doesn't mean the thing fixed itself

What's even worse is when I encounter multiple duplicates of the same issue filed for the same bug in the project - all closed as "stale"

@tankgrrl Yeah, like it's not even "wontfix" it's ""