I have seen the greatest minds of my generation copied, co-opted, ripped off, written over, memified, stolen, and misapplied whenever they put their best efforts into the work they post on the internet. I have no illusions that my own work has become grist for the mill. I’ve seen it. Most of my readers are …
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Federation
So this weekend has seen some shakeup. I joined Mastodon and started learning about how it works and how that it relies on an open standard called ActivityPub, which allows separate sites to share activity such as posts, comments, etc. This is the nervous system between Mastodon sites, enabling them to federate (just like how …
Chirps
This blog is primarily for my long-form thoughts. Which explains why it’s so quiet of late: I rarely have thoughts longer than 280 characters.
Mute
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” I’ve seen this platitude festoon an abundance of freshman blogs and journals that ramble on before their eventual abandonment. Judging from the state of my life and the state of my own blog and journal, I’ll go on to say that the examined life isn’t that much farther …
Scrape
I know no actual humans read this blog. You could say I write mostly for the robots. But since nobody’s reading, I have greater latitude to post whatever I want. Wouldn’t matter anyway.