Clarity Flowers

in music school my teachers liked to say "practice makes permanent"

The macOS built-in curl, git, pip, python3, perl, ruby, and openssl all read /etc/ssl/cert.pem, which still has the emSign root, but they don't check revocation like Apple's Secure Transport libraries. This is, uh, a problem. git and pip especially. I added a short-term workaround to this page.

steve novick is such a fucking baby oh my god. develop a politics based on something other than not being in the cool kids club my guy

People often forget that progress is when the things get better.

finished citizen sleeper 2. loved it even more than the first one. would love to make a game that feels like this.

unless we discover an entirely new kind of force, thermodynamics dictate that a "flying car" would necessarily be Insanely Fucking Loud. nobody actually wants that shit.

sentience/sapience is a fascist concept fundamentally imo

LLMs deserve no more or less moral or ethical consideration than farms, factories, cell networks, or any other of the things we make. We should be building our systems so that they output the things we need as a function of their own self-reproduction. Maybe stewarded, but not dominated

with bikeportland on indefinite hiatus the Mercury is the only reliable source of news in portland

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

I unfortunately think there's a high chance that "infinite personalized music" takes off because that's already how many people treat streaming services. I hope I'm wrong.

I feel so vindicated lmao they're just saying it out loud. Wild that anti-AI and pro-AI people can both go through the exact same process of reasoning and then conclude opposite things. "AI is like cars" so true bestie we should abolish cars too while we're at it.

literally me

realizing that happyness by age chart is just the social security retirement age lmao

Communism is a scientific discipline and tomorrow's strategy must be an improvement, correction, or refinement of yesterday's. Anything else is america's favorite pastime, anti-intellectualism

Carmageddon does a no-show in Portland. Closing the I-5 freeway increased AM peak hour travel times about five minutes compared to normal conditions. cityobservatory.org/wheres-my-ca...

ever since I learned that accurate cartography was a tool specifically invented to serve colonialism I haven't been able to see the fantasy genre's obsession with maps and video games' need to have a linear coordinate system to represent space the same way

Fire is invented.

humanity perfected music when it invented funk and all music that comes after must live in its shadow

makes "at least three" and "don't play games with me, kid" look pretty good by comparison

man this is a really bleak lineup here outside of TKL/Morillo. I don't think we're getting a third progressive in d3.

the regime is able to predict and prevent potholes before they happen, but strategically leaves 4 rotating potholes in every urban center, 3 of which it immediately fills upon being asked so as to test its comms network, and 1 it deliberately neglects to ensure a baseline opposition to the regime.

One thing Berry understood is that ecological wisdom and the fight for freedom have always been intertwined. "Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias."

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges v0.4: When you die while confused, a confused version of your name is no longer recorded with your score.

thank god we set down elden ring to play some more big walk last night

have started testing my handwriting as part of my kanji flashcards. feels good to actually be able to write this stuff.

the kind of person who thinks the moda center is the heart of portland culture lives too far away from the nearest dispensary. truly grow up. that place sucks ass and it's crazy that taxpayer dollars are going to sink into a soulless black hole because officials have no idea what fun is

Big Walk is a game where you sit on a bench next to your girlfriend at a light rail station as you wait for daybreak.

marxism and anarchism are best friends ☺️