Macleod Sawyer

In 1997, local television in Kharkiv accidentally filmed one of the most iconic rave moments in history.

AFAIK no one has been able to identify them after all these years, but the news station did have an interview with them a few days later.

Although they are known as the 'russian rave kid', they are likely Ukrainian (the club is in Ukraine, and in the original interview they spoke with a Ukrainian accent). There is speculation they were someone with dwarfism as well, but again never confirmed.

You know, in what club you are? Of course. Do you have a girlfriend? Of course I do. Congratulate her on a holiday to the camera. And she's here. I have already congratulated her.

Weeeeee really need to be figuring out how to build outside of the traditional internet. Meshtastic and such are doing a really good job at what they do but it’s not enough, that isn’t infrastructure. I’d love to get plugged in with any folks working on the software side of that, i’m a hardware and infrastructure guy myself so like if a node needs to get on a roof or somesuch i can make it happen! Tap in bro PLEASE

been interested in permacomputing as a framework for this

have been really enjoying this essay (from 2004!) wrt permacomputing. the modern tech industry is obsessed with whether software can scale, whether a prototype is a viable business, whether code is maintainable indefinitely. it doesnt have to be any of those things! if you know how to code, you can write software just for yourself, or your community, or for one event. and its ok for software to just be that, to be hyperlocal, to not have its own life, to be specific to what you (yes, you!) actually *need* your computer to do.

also if anyone reading doesnt have a technical background im gna plug this workshop i ran on beginners html and css for london permacomputing club. cant reccomend learning browser basics enough as a starting point for getting into permacomputing. we all hate react web apps taking over everything, but as far as standards go, you can do so much with vanilla html, css, and js, with zero dependencies, and it is guaran-fucking-teed to work the same in twenty years. and its fun!

Reading the description I was like "Ah! Sounds like CollapseOS!", looking a the site and the way its written (and the fact they cite in CollapseOS in their 'recommended projects' section) this makes me think this might be the same people, but strange it doesn't outwardly say that. Same style too. CollapseOS is a forth based operating system where even the very core 'words' of the OS are editable, nothing is compiled blobs (unreadable by human eyes), everything is built from scratch and the smallest possible fundamentals, meaning: in theory its an operating system that can exist forever with or without network or updates, as long as you understand the OS. Forth is an incredible concept (and one of the oldest languages) so I love that project with all my heart and its mission, so if they are bridging out from their 'civilization collapse is imminent" into a more, less paranoid, state into 'permacomputing' then I can more likely happily talk to people about this. If you're interested in permacomputing, I would suggest clicking through to this page, which lists all of their pages in the wiki: https://permacomputing.net/all_pages/

Their previous about page was better too at getting to the point and being understandable without excessive clicking: https://permacomputing.net/index-old/

The state and the powerful wield the concept of pornography and obscenity to render any and all things obscene, for whatever escapes their power, whatever they cannot possess and control, is obscene to them.

This is the concept of a MVP or prototype concept for the modern age. Where you do everything you minimally need, while throwing everything you can at the wall to see what sticks, then once you finally find something that works, you rework it all from scratch from everything you've learned. That's engineering, it's an iterative process, it's fun. Everyone should do it more (myself included). LLM's can be a valuable tool for this if used properly and responsibly. Knowing the limits of the tools, and knowing that you will be be reworking and needing to understand how it works on a deeper level for that later rework once you find something meaningful and useful.

Thinking about the Ferengi economy and how they would presumably have the most advanced financial machinery in the quadrant but all of their money is based on actual physical specie. They don't have credit cards; they don't have paper money; they don't even have promissory notes, as far as I recall. They only deal in cold, hard gold-pressed latinum that must be really heavy and really expensive to cart around the galaxy.

That's how their economy survives and keeps values stable in the face of post-scarcity options and possibilities, where physical labor and physical value derive hard direct value from. By requring physical labor and physical transfers, this keeps the prices equal to value of effort to posess, conceal, and labor to keep control of. Additionally, by removing the concept of non-tangible credit they require physical relationships and communal wealth strategies. Their religion is capitalism and economic market expansion, to keep that dream alive they must have extremely reliable economic values. They do not appear to hold the concept of "imaginary" value, such as shareholder value, and by not letting imaginary value derive absolute value they can focus on physical rules of acquisition that has reasonable expectations of value, where economic value is only grown through dealmaking and tangible logistical economic dominion.

in less than three years we will have adults born in the 2000’s 

the funny thing about this is that both people born in the 2000s are reblogging this freaking out because they arent ready to be adults and people who were born before the 2000s are freaking out about how they feel old and that it cant be happening because all people born in the 2000s are like 4

in less than two years we will have adults born in the 2010’s 

This take is biologist approved 👍

Too much ethical decision making is built upon the assumption that what's naturally there has more authority than what a human being thinks should be there. Too much ethical decision making is built upon assuming some things to be simply sacred and therefore untouchable.

this is an example of the appeal to nature logical fallacies

#I was gonna approve this post but another biologist already has#so this post is now double biologist approved#this is also the naturalistic fallacy (via @hexagonaldecency)

I feel like if I were a god, I would spend the first million years or so learning how the universe works before making any amendments to it. I would be a cautious god. Humans would be long dead by the time I got around to doing any miracles.

I come from the hacking world, and I would be spending the first few million years breaking bits and pieces in absolutely horrific ways just for the fun of it and to learn how it really works, not how it's supposed to work. The universe is a puzzle made to be smashed and rebuilt as needed. I would be a truly unhinged god, and that's how it should be.

I need everyone here to know that some people still think DARE was one of the greatest things they had ever done, and looked back at the 90s and went "yes, that, but more of it.",

so now it's called RAAD for "rise above alcohol & drugs" and i need you to understand that someone got paid to come up with that acronym. and then a committee approved it. and then they printed banners, and then they sponsored race cars.

just take a moment and regress back to your 15-year-old brain for a moment: you're in a folding chair in the gym. no one wants to be there. the cop says "RAAD" out loud with a straight face. what do you do.

I would start planning how to get some alcohol and drugs, personally.

A quick tip for any DIYers, engineers, or anyone wanting to build cool shit:

If you don't know the name of a part or how to search for it, but know of something similar that does, then search for replacement parts for that one thing. Eventually(!) as you scroll through the catalogue you'll see what you need and find out the real proper name for it so you aren't searching for things like "mounting rotational platform on wheels like cars but smaller" when obviously what you are forgetting is the name of "wheel hub with bearings" even though you might be a semi-professional engineer and have used them dozens, or perhaps hundreds, of times...