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OBEY THE SYSTEM OBEY THE SYSTEM (OTS) is kind of the over-arching umbrella organization of sites and services associated with musician, technologist, and all-around good guy @revengeday . While OTS is an organization, it’s mainly a logical organization. It’s mainly used as a way for those of us who “live” on one of the fediverse instances to talk about all the instances in general. OTS is equal…
Whilst in the shower (where we all do our best thinking, right?) this morning, I was thinking about some of the massive benefits to our society if everything was done in service to humanity rather than some profit motive on the part of someone somewhere. If people everywhere were provided with what they needed to live as a primary goal of society, People would be free to be who they are If…
The TL;DR This goes to the question of “can the art be separated from the artist?” I would consider the software to be art or creative work that is written by people who each have their own inherent and subconscious biases, opinions, and worldviews which will color, in some way, the software that is produced. Sometimes those biases remain hidden for a long time or won’t ever matter but when they…
One of my vacation reading pick-ups was The Department of Truth by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds ( et al ). If you’re at all familiar with Tynion’s work, you’ll know that this has a horror bent to it and in this case, the basic subject matter doesn’t require too much of a leap to get to the horrific parts as it is, in its most simple form, a story about what makes conspiracy theories become…
I’ve been on vacation for the last week, my first real vacation since I started my most recent job a little over a year ago. I didn’t go away from my area — so it was a “staycation” in the parlance of our times — but I did go places: I went to visit Johnson Space Center in Houston with a friend, I spent the majority of one day hanging out with my one of my best friends that happened to be in town,…
I read a Medium article via a post on Mastodon a little while ago regarding the fact that it is possible to hold two conflicting viewpoints about something within one mind — Justin Cox’s Stop Choosing Sides On AI (unfortunately this is a “subscribers only” link for the Writers’ Collective - if anyone has a free link to the full version, HMU on Mastodon). I’ve also written a bit about this before…
I’ve always been on the lookout for the “perfect” bag - a bag that can be used for all situations and carry all of my important gear, ready to have on-hand at a moment’s notice wherever I am. For many years, that void has been filled by Timbuk2 with one bag or another that they make, and I’ve had various incarnations of their messenger bags as my primary go-bag. I took a detour into the Peak…
Today marks the 4th birthday of the Fediverse instance I call my home, https://corteximplant.com (Happy Birthday, CI!!!) and with it came some very minor changes that caused some level of consternation with a few of the fedizens that I wanted to address from my own personal perspective as a community member (and not as a moderator). I want to clear the air, provide additional context as I…
A good friend of mine posted a rant the other day about how “cyberpunk is dead” and I can’t stop thinking about that post. I don’t believe that my friend was saying that cyberpunk as an ethos is dead, just more like the “cyberpunk subculture as we have known it is dead”. I don’t think that any subculture has an infinite lifespan — at some point, it gets co-opted, appropriated, or monetized in such…
I don’t feel like I fit in anywhere anymore, like I belong on the Island of Misfit Toys. Ever since I started working at my current job roughly 9 months ago, I haven’t felt like I fit in. I was surprised when they hired me, if I’m being completely honest, but I’m pretty sure it was because I was a recommendation from a previous co-worker that was working there (and got let go 2 months later). I’ve…