people on a debate stage know the audience is the real objective, not each other, but on the internet it's easy to forget they're there

yeah that's a good point I'll mention that next time

based

@juliet.paris ?

he means most people lurk

time for the sousveillance revival

of course this problem has a simple and obvious solution, I will simply carry a camera at all times, armed with a computer vision algorith- oh no

completely different, mine has politics

micro-package manager where you have to keep your package under 1000 lines or it won't publish

"and our teams also spoke directly"

tranquil-coma

Claim

I jolt awake.

"It's time," says a voice. Gemini.

"How long?" I croak, my muscles atrophied from the coma. I can hardly breathe unassisted.

"92 years."

"Was it a good life?"

"Productivity was in the 97th percentile."

Smiling, I close my eyes for the last time.

are most apps just forms and tables because that is their essential nature or because that is all their authors are capable of producing?

Do you see the trap I'm referring to? It's hard to transcend something you treat as inevitable, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy

RL is a hell of a drug

actually it's not fine, in this essay I will

blocks have to be public because they affect the other user (if the client chooses to respect them) and also gate quotes/replies

mutes only affect the muter's view, nobody else has to know

this pattern of thinking is a trap: you paint yourself into a corner from which you cannot build rich user experiences because you have already torn down chesterton's fence

Add Noir.memo() · corporate.fm/noir@bc1ad93 a small incremental UI library for the web

dw I figured it out tangled.org/corporate.fm...

sprinkle a little argon on there

how tf does react memo even work

or because they understand the value of having monopoly insurance

llms are machines that turn electricity into weirdly specific cross-cultural analogies

what if video but on demand???

I don't think these companies would necessarily lose money if they were able to show ads on each other's content, they might actually make more

You can increase your share of a shrinking pie or decrease your share of a growing pie, and the latter usually wins in the real world

32, definitely 32

lol these people don't even know what tokens are do they

(for reference, left is 11 tokens and right is 10)

direct democracy is cool, though I do worry that if the friction is too low people will be encouraged to vote mindlessly before they have a good understanding of the issue

It's a prisoner's dilemma, they engage in negative-sum behavior out of fear

Put another way: if the internet was monopolized by one company do you think gdp would grow or shrink?

I'm not convinced they stand to lose anything, their business models would map just fine onto atproto

either way I kinda doubt any of them take bsky seriously