I was struck by this blog article posted to Hacker News for two reasons:
One, he seems butt-mad that Jon Blow did a thing.
I mean, don't get me wrong, Blow is one of those people with the demeanor I call "home schooled", and it doesn't surprise me at all to find out that he is now an anti-vaxer loon and bitches on Twitter about "cancel culture". But he puts his time and money where his mouth is, and isn't afraid to tell the world to fuck off while he does his own thing with blackjack and hookers, so I give him the same limited respect I gave the TempleOS guy.
And two, I discover, I'm not alone in the wilderness!
Which is weird, because I've watched a dozen hours of his videos on the Jai programming language, and never seen a recommendation for the talk where he connects the shit state of software with the collapse of civilization.
Everything I thought would be happening one or two decades from now is happening now.
My recent obsession with retrocomputing, my advocacy for Right to Repair, my contempt for the software industry, and my contempt for the Internet in the age of social media, are all glommed together in the same place in my brain, and I finally understand why.
It's the pointless complexity, stupid.
And it isn't that things are unnecessarily complex, it's that things are also deliberately complex to obfuscate how control over systems is exercised. "Stallman was right" is more right now more than ever. The new normal is creating a brittleness in our infrastructure that will literally accelerate and exacerbate the collapse of civilization.
That blog also informed me about the Uxn project, which is very much about these themes.
I was already aware of Collapse OS. I'm surprised that none of my searches about stack-based virtual machines brought me to Uxn, since it is the approach I was taking in my half-assed attempt at an llvm knock-off for 8-bit and 16-bit computers.
1 comment:
Blogger len said...
"He does make a good point about the counterproductive effects of "demonizing non-college whites", but he appears to be unable to restrain himself as he dismisses them as uneducated morons who are (1) stupid, (2) emotional, (3) easily manipulated and (4) cartoonishly masculine."
I notice you're not actually saying he's wrong. The best argument you have is not that the caricature is false, but that not everyone who votes for Republicans resembles the way the right-wing media, talking heads, and politicians portray themselves.
Your showing remarkable ability to see-through. ;-) For how long do you observe that junk pit?
Well, there is simple explanation to it -- he (Loco) do not oppose him (Davy) because he do not want to be banned from this sacred garden of Freedom to be Cointrarian... :-)))))
'Cause, anybody who'd be too kin with being "contrarian to a contrarian" will be eliminarted... why that place have no anonimouses anymore, ask yourself? Or, you can ask that host Brinny...
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