RoadRiverRail @roadriverrail@signs.codes

Howdy, @jez! Not sure how long you've been here, but I don't remember welcoming you to #signsandcodes before, so...welcome!

@Wewereseeds That's pretty much all of us. Not that many will admit to it, though, and fewer will actually do the work.

If you don't have the right tools, invent them.

@epilanthanomai
Fascinating story, the Urbit thing. I still can't tell if there's any there there with Urbit, and I don't want to buy an address to find out, given it could go to neo-reactionaries.

A little snapshot of my night.

Me: "Hm. (sips whiskey) I have a little time on my hands. Maybe I'll play around with that Urbit project I heard about on The Third Web."
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: "OH SHIT THIS WAS FOUNDED BY MENCIUS MOLDBUG RED ALERT RED FUCKING ALERT"

@epilanthanomai Because quality is job one at #signsandcodes, I've not actually attempted any kind of restore from backup.

#signsandcodes theoretically now has a backup system in place. Because quality is job one around here.

I do confess that my job involves a little too much cross-cultural yelling at odd hours of the day regarding closed-source components my vendors leave me using and supporting. When I got into operating systems, I thought it was going to be all about the valor, man.

@epilanthanomai ...and this is why I will never forgive Samsung.

@JohnBrownJr Basically, they don't really think about the future, and when they do, they do it only in terms of the immediate present.

SOMEBODY GIVE THE LORD A HANDCLAP! #vaguesamples

@epilanthanomai Not gonna lie...I glanced across my screen and thought I saw "Kamala" and "DMT" and suddenly thought perhaps American politics were getting very interesting.

@kew I've never understood monogamy...like, it's never made basic emotional sense to me at all. What was weird, though, was the day I realized I also seriously don't understand straight people at all.

A lot of scholarship has been done raising doubt on the Labor Theory of Value, but it seems to me you only need a Labor Theory of Minimum Cost. 🤔

@epilanthanomai Yeah, it's "son and heir". Incidentally, I think one could probably fill a book with the things Americans mishear or misinterpret in Smiths songs.

I understand the desire to give an office's meeting rooms clever names in an attempt to "humanize" the environment, but couldn't we have cute names AND an addressing scheme? Is it too much to ask that finding the room be made easy?

@epilanthanomai This is probably very ignorant of me to say, but you've always seemed so effusive and empathetic that I wouldn't have suspected at all.

Of all the sci-fi futures we could be living in, we're actually living in Robocop.