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//I'm [[h0p3]]. Take whatever set of pseudonymized identities, forms, masks, bots, strategies, or tactics (even into [[Gradual]]ized [[T42T]] [[Memetic Warfare]]) you need to speak with me, [[hope]]fully as kindly as you know how.// <<list-links "[tag[???]]">>

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A long-term, cute version of [[PH]]. I haven't filled the cricketed section out yet, and that's fine.

//Ghetto public IMing off my wiki, @taboi. I need a globby method for communicating fragments that doesn't cost an entire tiddler per message. @ is about molecularizing briefer communications and [[lft]] for signaling. Unfortunately, this also doesn't make it easy for my interlocutors to cite the passage through hyperlinking alone, and it requires more work on the part of a reader to disentangle the uncertain timeline.<<ref "i">>// !! Groupchats: <<list-links "[tag[@]]+[tag[groupchat]]">> !! Individuals: <<list-links "[tag[@]]-[tag[groupchat]]">> --- <<footnotes "i" "This isn't the best option for rapidfire dialogue (and I'm not particularly skilled in it, I suppose), and hence they have the right to ask me to stop using this flawed tool.">>

//-=[ Rabbitholed ]=-//

; 2020.02.26 - @AFitzsimons I am honored to wait. I'm also happy to meet earlier. Where would you like to meet? ; 2020.02.26 - @h0p3 & AKChen bump :) let's meet someday, even if it is a year or two from now!

; 2020.07.25 - @All [[I am lost|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1XhabUawmU]]. Qua [[Yalelib: Low-Hanging FOSS]], I'm in need of 5 of [the holiest, most [[awe]]some, the tits, the animations, the most [[beautiful]], [[right]], [[good]], anything you find most valuable] pieces of digital infrastructure you have ever seen or imagined. [[W5H]] is that [[directory]]? Use your own definitions and dreams. ELI5 me, please, what 5 pieces of tech do you hold in the highest regard? ; 2020.03.20 - @All Our doors are open if you need a place to stay. ; 2020.02.18 - @All I'm determined to stay with FF as my primary driver's seat, warts and all. I'm looking for a [[FF|Firefox Extension Collection]] addon which is better than [[Owl|https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/owl/]], preferably as effective as Chromium's [[Deluminate|https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/deluminate/iebboopaeangfpceklajfohhbpkkfiaa?hl=en-US]] extension. I've tried a bunch, and nothing, not even Owl, is performant and consistent (I'm fine with ugly). If you see anything pop out atcha, lemme know, por favor.

//<3// <br> You know who you are. If you need to write in my name, let me know. I'll hand you the key. <br> ส็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็༼ ຈل͜ຈ༽ส้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ -=[Is This Place A Honeypot?]=- ส็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็༼ ຈل͜ຈ༽ส้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ I value [[privacy]] and anonymity in many contexts. Does this place really provide the degree and kind of anonymity that matters for a functioning democracy? It seems like decentralization is going to be crucial in a lot of ways. I don't see why this is really that safe of a place. How is this not just another chan? <br> It's not rude to me. Sometimes all I can do is listen (and, I do not claim to be a skilled listener). I think what you've said is extremely expensive to write. I see a lot of fairness in that description of the (and a) Human condition; an appreciation for the concerns of moral luck pops out of it. I'm sad to say I don't have a satisfactory answer, though I work toward one. You'll have to pardon my gibberish. I'm sitting in my underwear with a burned hand as I write this. I make a distinction between expectation and prediction, and some do not. I am concerned with the context of all contexts. I cannot say I shift well, and I cannot say I know how to care about what matters correctly enough. To my eyes, there are some things which ought not shift, though, sadly, I must shift to find them in many contexts. I also think I find myself in deviantly particular contexts in which the prescription is not easily generalized or appreciable from otherwise more statistically normal perspectives. I think it's fair to say I don't live up to the expectations of the average person in a wide variety of domains. To most people, I'm a cranky and delusional loser sitting on my computer year after year (and, sometimes, that is true). I have worked to escape contexts in which I am not fairly considered, but I'm also extremely privileged in my ability to do so. I feel like I have more control over what I choose to expect of myself (though, I suggest there is an objective standard for this that I do not ultimately decide) than my ability to affect or meet the expectations of others. I think this part of life is exceptionally lonely (even with support). <br> -=[ Rabbitholed ]=-. Hrm. Weird. Do you play the fiddle? Was that real? I'm a paranoid person. I need more dots. You have 24 hours. Flash again. <br> I agree, anon. It is so rare that I am so impressed by anyone's vision, sentiment, and perspective. It's my honor to meet you. Also, I forgot to give you this `<` to help with the `3`. Sorry about that. I am reminded of categories and random [[gh057]]s of a foaming [[time|Simulacra and Simulation]] and a mothly [[place|I Am h0p3]] that I cannot say I've remembered and understood well enough. The world is chaos and random symbols like fooAe5PeLvxWbar go //brrrr//. I also have people who write on my behalf, some even in my [[name|Alias]] and with its various forensic properties, in some contexts. It is my honor to have people I trust that much. I've even considered giving a secondary and especially heavy trapdoor key [to a mere map (to a mere priceless treasure or precious jewel) everyone can read from but not everyone can write to so robustly] to some people I hold in extremely high regard (even in radical disagreement in spots I'm often willing to say are trivial whenever fittingly necessary). What do you think of honesty and transparency? If it's interesting enough to merit inspecting, how [[pseudonymous|2020.02.12 - GR6A: Finally, a reason to say: Hi!]] should I be with you? Is there something about being Human that cannot be pursued through a protocol? Finally, my selfish and perhaps most important question: how's the weather been lately? <<< I'm of a generation unimpressed with the concept, largely, since it's become abundantly clear that you can create fictive personae with your own name and are given freedom to do so (are required to do so) in a variety of media. But that someone else might write with my name--that's when it starts to get interesting. <<< What do you think of your pseudonymity? <<< I think I haven't been so pleased with mutable pseudonymity since I was a child astonished that you could write any return address on an envelope that you wanted. <<< Aw, that h0p3 said what I was thinkin. I wish I had a satisfactory answer. What do you think? <<< What's a 3 between friends? <<< Will the real h0p3 plz stand up? =) Happy to prove it's me. How are you, [[Other]] [[h0p3]]? <<< Why and how does this exist, y'all? <<< {{2019.11.14 - Anonymous: HN Post}} {{2020.03.04 - Anonymous: <3}}

; 2020.03.24 - @CAldritch The experts and gurus I trust believe [[the future of TW|https://boffosocko.com/2020/03/22/23-2019-06-25-twggf-the-future-of-large-tiddlywikis-h0p3/]] is bright; they have not appeared nearly as concerned as I have been. I take it my pessimistic worry is likely unworthy because I am not sufficiently competent with this tool. Poorly, I'm trying to commit myself further to idiomatic TW usage. I suspect you could acquire mastery of it and see why they are likely correct (even if I don't see why).

; 2020.09.22 - @chameleon [[It|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.09.22%20-%20Wiki%20Review%3A%20I'd%20just%20like%20to%20interject%20for%20a%20moment]]'s soothing. Excellent for the night. Gracias! I'm also glad to hear that the interview went well. <br> ; 2020.09.15 - @chameleon Though it would be fun, I'm trying to avoid [[playing games|https://wiki.waifu.haus/private/#2020.09.14%20-%20Wiki%20Review%3A%20come%20on%20by%20white%20lies]] if I can. I'd prefer to simply VC with you. <br> ; 2020.09.09 - @chameleon [[Letters]] are [[wonderful|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.09.05%20-%20Wiki%20Review%3A%20bruh]]. My write speed continues to slow down as the world speeds up (losing my mind, lol), but I am lucky to hear from you. VC would be cool too. <br> ; 2020.09.02 - @chameleon `/salute`, [[o7|https://wiki.waifu.haus/private/#2020.09.01%20-%20Wiki%20Review%3A%20non-fiction]] <br> ; 2020.08.30 - @chameleon In case you need a socially engineered [[reference|https://wiki.waifu.haus/private/#2020.08.29%20-%20Wiki%20Review%3A%20fucking%20references]], I'm happy to be whatever you need. <br> ; 2020.08.18 - @chameleon [[Aye|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.08.17%20-%20Wiki%20Review%3A%20juicy]]. <br> ; 2020.08.14 - @chameleon Fuck. I'm sorry, [[that sucks|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.08.13%20-%20Wiki%20Review%3A%20write%20a%20cover%20letter%2C%20prole]]. <br> ; 2020.08.07 - @chameleon <<< [[*wave*|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.08.06%20-%20Wiki%20Review%3A%20I%20can't%20hold%20back%2C%20I'm%20on%20the%20edge]] <<< ٩( ᐛ )۶ <br> ; 2020.08.04 - @chameleon <<< [[I hope I get the job...Aced the interview. Really good. Place has a great working culture and I'd be getting paid to write C...Interview followup. I'm competing with a couple of other candidates. I'm worried, but hopeful.|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.08.03%20-%20Carpe%20Diem]] <<< Hell yeah! =) <br> ; 2020.07.29 - @chameleon <<< [[Good call with the recruiter! Now I have an email followup to take care of!|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.07.28%20-%20Carpe%20Diem]] <<< I wish you luck! With [[Magnus]]' transition, it seems useful too. <br> ; 2020.07.15 - @chameleon `/hug` [[♥|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.07.14%20-%20Wiki%20Review%3A%20We're%20Descending%20Into%20Old%20Tyme%20Mem'ry]] To my knowledge, you are the only sneerclubber to speak at length with me. <br> ; 2020.07.01 - @chameleon Yes, [[ma'am|Root Users]]. I understand where you are coming from, and I will continue to pursue your safety as well as I am permitted. If you are asking me not to argue about the topic with you, I will aim to avoid it with you (and that silence will begin now: I will not dissect your argument). To my eyes, this is not our big disagreement, but I agree we profoundly disagree here. I will speak of more pleasant things with you. <br> ; 2020.07.01 (am) - @h0p3 <<< https://www.reddit.com/r/DeclineIntoCensorship/comments/hi3qwo/massive_banwave_imminent/ As it was predicted. I am obviously opposed to this. The normative problem of freespeech is an incredibly expensive topic to speak about wisely. <<< Agree to disagree? Personally I think it's [[a good thing|https://wiki.waifu.haus/2020.06.29 - finally]]. Places like gendercritical were absolutely causing harm to trans folk that I know (and myself). Getting rid of the spaces reactionaries use to organize and recruit is, in my opinion, a net good. They deserved to be deleted. Idk. I feel this is going to be our big disagreement. I don't buy the "free speech" defense here. There are places where our principles will clash, and we have to prioritise - like Maslow's hierarchy of needs. For me, free speech is higher on the pyramid than the baseline of safety for the people I care about (and, selfishly, myself) and thus I'm willing to cede it in this case. <br> ; 2020.06.23 - @chameleon <<< [[Some good shit. Why isn't he more well known|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.06.22%20-%20mackie]] <<< He is well-known...to some, lol. He's a legend in that field (kinda like Dennis Ritchie). You should definitely check him out (Plantinga too). I know he changed my mind. At the very least, he's primary source material in philosophy of religion. Like most academics, academic philosophers are rarely well-known by-and-large, but that's because the public isn't actually that interested in philosophy. <br> ; 2020.04.22 - @chameleon <<< [[I wonder if he expects a reply?|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.04.21%20-%20Daily%20Task%3A%20the%20very%20lazy%20chameleon]] <<< No, [[Root User]]; I don't. It may be worth your time. That's up to you. I'm happy to have had even your instant messaging acknowledgement. <br> ; 2020.04.14 - @h0p3 > (on Derrida) We didn't end up talking about it. I have no money for books right now, sadly. I would read my pdfs, but... reading books on a monitor is unpleasant. I'd rather send them to an ereader or something, but idk if it'd work with my kindle (I've barely used the thing). > Not so interested in piracy. I'm surprised. She probably has plenty of methods of access to everything she wants. Oh I'm totally into piracy, lol. I'm just pretty good when it comes to sources (I use libgen for books, and various public trackers for music, movies, etc). The reason I'm not into private trackers is because of the elitist community (you have to take a fucking exam to get into some of them) and the fetishism around ratios (I can almost never get a good ratio, because I only go on private trackers for obscure shit, and can't afford to seed 24/7). I'm sorry if I seem a bit aloof about some conversation topics. I'm trying to I guess, invite you to say the first word on the topic? Maybe I'm just really bad at communicating :) Don't take my silence on something as boredom or dislike of the topic. If I don't want to talk about something, I'll be clear on it - like you with saying "that's evil" I am not shy about saying "that's boring" or "that makes me uncomfortable" `^^` > I wonder if she will ever surface again to go public. I imagine I will, eventually. The KF thread in mind is so shit it'll eventually get locked (it's already just a drama channel for waifuists, and the most active guy there is a huge a-log) and then I can move back into public without worrying about being a source of ridicule. > I'm doing a shit job of VCing with her. I think the fault is mine as much as yours :) My schedule is weird and hard to work around. Sorry about that. Also: yes make an edh deck! > I should ask her about a bunch of sources for anime memes. They're common enough in group chats/discord servers. I get mine from there, and I also have a huge stash from my chan days. > I wonder if she would be interested in meeting K and L. Weebweb. Always ;) Of course, us waifuists are considered weird even among weebs, so I hope I wouldn't weird them out too much `^^` > I thought she would like that philosopher more. Seems to have plenty in common. Stupidly, I haven't been reading her. The website is actually too wide for my laptop, so I can't read it comfortably (reader mode isn't available for it, either). I've not got that background in heavy leftist theory (yet). My theory knowledge is mostly limited to turn-of-the-century anarchists, and later the primmies/post-left. <br> ; 2020.03.17 - @chameleon Hey, we should VC again sometime. <br> ; 2020.03.10 - @chameleon "[[Tend|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.03.10%20-%20optimism:%5B%5B2020.03.10%20-%20optimism%5D%5D%20Root%20Legal]]" is an apt word. This might be a topic we can think about together if you are interested. There are strong reasons we should favor destroying IP as it exists in Western legal systems altogether, but I appreciate how the GPL (which continues to evolve) abuses and turns a legal system that supports capitalism against itself. The GPL, however, is not as subversively leftist as it could be. For example: [[2019.03.30 - /b/]]. <br> ; 2020.02.18 - @chameleon """ ゴ ^^ゴ^^ ゴ ^^ゴ^^ ゴ ^^ゴ^^ ゴ ^^ゴ^^ ゴ ^^ゴ^^ ゴ ^^ゴ^^ ゴ ^^ゴ^^ ゴ ^^ゴ^^ ゴ """ Gracias. I've dabbled in those. I may need to take another shot in that direction again. <br> ; 2020.02.18 - @h0p3 I used to use a global stylesheet from userstyles.org that made fucking everything dark. I don't recall what it was called, though, and I abandoned it in the end. This looks similar: https://userstyles.org/styles/31267/global-dark-style-changes-everything-to-dark and there's more where that came from: https://userstyles.org/styles/browse?search_terms=global%20dark&type=false (also, I suddenly realized my last @ had a 2019 for the year. Could this be the work of [[an enemy ＳＴＡＮＤ？|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrLkimtAHj0]]) <br> ; 2020.02.15 - @chameleon I'm enjoying watching you reach out, at least in part, from your [[wiki|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.02.15%20-%20fuck%20steve%20jobs]], `/wave`. Most don't respond, which is okay. <br> ; 2020.02.14 - @chameleon <<< [[I really need to write an article about the failure of the phone to replace the desktop as anything other than a facebook/insta/twitter machine|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.02.14%20-%20the%20revolution%20that%20wasn't]] <<< I agree, and would be interested. One concern I have is that even desktops and laptops have largely become mere FIT-machines (can reduce so much down to even 10 platforms) in practice. Phones may be part of that process in a significant way too. Least common denominator drives which platforms will be centralized upon. <br> ; 2020.02.10 - @chameleon I remember reading a mention of it! I would like to hear about your trips and travel in general. Immersing yourself in a different culture is always a special experience. <br> ; 2020.02.10 - @h0p3 https://philosopher.life/#2020.02.09%20-%20Prompted%20Introspection%3A%20Take%20Me%20To%20Africa%2C%20Please I've been to Morocco! Technically Africa, even if it's closer culturally to the Middle East. I hated that trip though. Remind me to tell you about it sometime. <br> ; 2020.02.03 - @chameleon I appreciate that you are so [[thoroughly and charitably considering|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#DeathOfRobinhood]] my correspondence with [[DeathOfRobinhood]]. I'm sorry if it makes you [[sad or angry|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2020.02.02%20-%20the%20other%20dor]]. I totally get how it feels alien (I think I'm often an alien speaking with aliens). I'm grateful that you would spend so much energy digesting it; if it turns out not to be fruitful in our relationship, I apologize. <br> ; 2019.12.29 - @h0p3 I got pretty lucky... I played my buddy Robert, who uses a black/blue milling type deck which is very weak to the deck I play; and I also played a younger kid who had to cobble his mono-red deck together because half the deck he walked in with was illegal. Those matches I went 2-0, and in the other two of four I went 1-1 and 0-2. A big reason I'm building a new deck is because that deck, while good, relies heavily on good draws and sharp play. It's like playing `1. e4 c5` as black in chess. <br> ; 2019.12.28 - @chameleon Yo, [[Congratz|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.12.26%20-%20forever%2025]]! What decks did you play against? Anything stand out to you in the tournament? The heart-thumping moments? =) <br> ; 2019.11.12 - @chameleon Thank you for both of your congrats :) I should reply on @ more. I signed up for letter.wiki after seeing it in your link log: https://letter.wiki/KonataIzumi/. They wanted me to use my real name, but I'll do that (unfortunately, quite literally) over my dead body. They can enjoy the pseud. I browsed through; I almost responded to a TERF, but I don't think that's a terribly good idea, we will quite literally end up talking past each other. <br> ; 2019.11.09 - @chameleon [[Congratz|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.11.09%20-%20uh%20oh%2C%20stingy]] on the new job and dinero, and sucks on the vehicle. Hopefully, Monday will be significantly better. Similarly, I'm hoping our vehicles don't break down before the new job for us. <br> ; 2019.11.07 - @chameleon [[Liberal|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.11.07%20-%20*shakes%20fist*%20liberals]] is one of them really hard words to define. I can't say I'm a huge fan of the variations of Maoism I've seen, but I'm not sure the lines make sense to me either (e.g. I'm not convinced there's a meaningful difference between factory workers and farmer-peasants). I'm convinced the Rule of Law can be peeled apart from dictatorial totalitarianism (though perhaps that's uncharitable). To some [[dok]], I admire the fervor and willingness to sacrifice, admission of the necessity of violence, the vigilant appreciation for neverending class struggle, and the pursuit of unification of what I take to be Maoism. As a political program applied in the world, I consider it a failure (though that is typical of any system I've seen applied) since it still centralized political [[power]]. It never escaped capitalism in my eyes. <br> ; 2019.10.23 - @chameleon Congratulations! In my gibberish: I wish you both decades of fulfillment, wrestling, and [[T42T]] dialectics all the way down. <br> ; 2019.10.18 - [[@h0p3|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#%40%3A%20h0p3]] Inane comment lol, but I'm loving how your letter to DOR is developing. And I thought I had to wait a while... Hope life finds you well. I'm really enjoying being with the hubs. We're going to have our basic ceremony next week. <br> ; 2019.10.14 - @chameleon Lol. I adore how you aren't immediately disgusted by me, btw. See, I just don't have enough people in my life who I can talk about this with. <3 I'm having a tough time finding a picture of the box (which I believe has changed); my google-fu is failing me. Oh, it definitely has a cute anime girl on the cover to match. My memory is pretty awful, but I don't think I've ever seen an anime girl that wasn't cute. <br> ; 2019.10.13 - [[@h0p3|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#%40%3A%20h0p3]] [[RE:|https://philosopher.life/#Product%20Review%3A%20Pocket%20Pussy]] 0/10 doesn't have [[a cute anime girl on the cover|https://www.kanojotoys.com/marshmallow-touch-chubby-girl-onahole-p-4399.html]] <br> ; 2019.10.12 - @chameleon [[//|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#Chameleon%20Standards%20Superstructure]] nedles to say -—​– i'l sucesfuly never mispel a word in scrable again. swetothed subokeper comites enjoy the biternes of cofe, spoge, and pe. whiporwil po is never fodstufs except maybe in zos. <br> ; 2019.10.06 - @chameleon It's an art project. We're making art out of books for my wife's library's "Books+Art" competition thing. It's preachy AF, ofc, as always. Still brainstorming and hashing it out. Thinking about making a tiny bookshelf to have the students think about their own books. We're thinking about making a tiny wiki for this project in particular too, as I think it would be nice to have part of the exhibit sit in cyberspace. It's just {[[Dream]]}ing for now. <br> ; 2019.10.06 - [[@h0p3|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#%40%3A%20h0p3]] What's up with your new category, [[Buxe & Braincandy]]? Books? lol, I'm a little confused. Looks cool though! I love to see you write new pages or update your older ones :D <br> ; 2019.10.03 - @chameleon wtf did i just listen to? i thought my mac speakers were fucked up or something. Delicious. Thank you. I'm wondering if you will be interested in the music scene out in Nashville. <br> ; 2019.10.03 - [[@h0p3|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.09.06%20-%20h0p3%3A]] Shape of you, eh? Why not take it up to eleven =w=. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXfQsHT5c30 <br> ; 2019.09.29 - [[@h0p3|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.09.06%20-%20h0p3%3A]] We're done at last! 2019.09.06 - h0p3: bitches brew. Enjoy! <br> ; 2019.09.27 - @chameleon [[I did|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.09.27%20-%20there%20can%20only%20be%20one]]! =). Also, I hope [[your speech goes well|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FnO3igOkOk]]. It's gotta be surreal for you; it almost always is for me when I'm leaving. Oh, if you are bored out of your mind (which I find hard to imagine), you might check out [[The Genius of Birds|https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25938481-the-genius-of-birds]] by Jennifer Ackerman. <br> ; 2019.09.21 - @chameleon I have been [[there|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.09.21%20-%20more%20letter%20musings]]! Imho, the length makes it unwieldy to write (at least in my brief experience), but it doesn't make it unwieldy to read. It's highly unlikely you could write something too long for me. I //want// to read (I prefer something below 500k word count, XD). I've been reading and re-reading your letter. Build what makes sense to you, go wild if you want, or be comfortable. Skies the limit, and we got time, yo. <br> ; 2019.09.16 - @chameleon My opinion is likely irrelevant, as usual, =). I don't know what [[ratification|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#Emigration%20Checklist]] looks like for you, and I'm sure you are ridiculously busy. I doubt you will need it, but you might. Plenty of people won't give a shit about your piece of paper, especially given your experience (though there are plenty who don't care about experience but focus way more on the interview and networking process itself), but if you think it would be difficult to ratify this once you are in the states, I think you should do it now. I've had to present my own credentials here and there, and it's a [[ltf]] blessing to be able to just whip out your credential-genitalia on command. Dear Mahakala: `/salute`, o7. As to [[waiting, 😈|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.09.06%20-%20h0p3%3A]], lol, [[oh, ninja please|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wllN1i8bR2w]]. I'm lovin' watching it slowly unfold; we're in agreement on the thrill of this [[Cyberspace Mind-Meld|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#Cyberspace%20Mind-Meld]] [[hyperconversation]]. I'd much rather be taken on the satorilogical ride of madness! This is a fantastic treat for me. I'm opening up the letter on impulse, lol. Also, sorry about [[the blitz|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.09.16%20-%20slow%20down!!!]]. I've been behind on my grafting. You are correct though (and I appreciate your watchful gaze), I'm feeling a bout of quasi-mania. <br> ; 2019.09.12 - @chameleon [[Awww yisss|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.09.12%20-%20ISSUED]]! Fantastic. =) <br> ; 2019.09.11 - @chameleon Unfortunately, not Nashville. It's easier to find like-minded people and jobs in Nashville. I think you are going to like it there. I live all the way at the Eastern tip in Johnson City. It's awesome that we may be fairly close! =) <br> ; 2019.09.11 - [[@h0p3|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#%40%3A%20h0p3]] [[2019.09.10 - TDL: Trip]]<<footnote "NS" "I've totally been namesearching myself ;)">> - you're in TN?! Dang! For some reason I thought you were in Chicago; maybe the timezone thing. What region of TN <<footnote "TN" "if you say Nashville I'll explode">>? Crazy small world. <br> ; 2019.08.25 - @chameleon When I'm wrong about what matters, you should call me out! While I have the political right, I do not have the moral right to say just anything. I'm grateful you would take the time to say something and to hold me accountable; it is [[The Golden Rule]]. I appreciate your desire to help me express the truth in a palatable way. Unfortunately, what I have to say eventually becomes unpalatable to most everyone in the end. Are you sure you aren't unjustifiably tone-policing me? Are you sure you aren't pointing to rhetoric rather than substance here? Despite how little I quickly say in that one bullet-point, there is more to see in this wiki. It's not clear to me you have taken the time to evaluate my sentence in my context with sufficient charity. I think we have just a misunderstanding here. If it makes you feel any better, these were her words. I also don't think it's absurd because it's true. Unless it's necessary, I'm not here to quibble over the locution, connotation, and conversational implicature (as an autist [even this is shorthand, right?], that would be an endless task for me with everyone I meet and read). Tell me the significant semantic content that differs if you think I'm wrong. I think it's reasonable to cut me some slack in this case. For irrational and immoral reasons, Whitney doesn't want to work with or be around this woman who is married to a transexual person (and, yes, the details are morally arbitrary in this case). I am taking her to task, and I suspect I will have to defend my new co-worker. To be clear, when Whitney signaled for this outgrouping with her disgust about this gossip, I corrected her with a: "cool, that's wonderful," knowing full well that turns me into an untouchable with her and anyone she tells (certainly my boss, as I have seen). She chose not to wrestle much further with me on the topic though. You are correct that I owe the entire rainbow a great deal. I think I know something about this solidarity you speak of, and I cede very little ground when it comes to morality. I have the opportunity to defend, explain, and justify the moral rights of persons all the time with the people I teach, including those who have [[power]] over me. Yes, I regularly intervene and listen to my youth on these topics. However imperfectly, I'm actually fighting in the trenches here; I'm paying the price in my mission. I aim to follow [[The Moral Law]] all the way down, as you know (which is hardly to say I'm succeeding). Does this ease your conscience some? <br> ; 2019.08.25 - [[@h0p3|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#%40%3A%20h0p3]] In your wiki review - 2019.08.23 - Wiki Review: Bacon is Delicious - you mentioned that Whitney was "married to a trans". My approximate reaction. That's a really strange way of putting it. A trans woman (mtf) or a trans man (ftm)? Ever since meeting Nobu (a trans woman) I've been wary of phrasing like this, it leads down some sketchy avenues. I'm very enthusiastic about LGBT rights, being a pansexual woman myself, and from my perspective solidarity across the entire rainbow is indispensible; cede a centimeter, and social conservatives will take a kilometer. IDK, this isn't a callout post, it's your wiki and you can write what you want (and even if I didn't say that I doubt I could stop you from doing so, lol). Just my conscience demanding I say something, really. <br> ; 2019.08.15 - [[@h0p3|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.08%20Mid-month%20Journal%20Review]] To answer your @, Senpai, I'm going to use it for gaming, yeah c: Probably will even dual boot (much as I despise windows, it has some good games, so I'll have a lightweight windows partition solely for gaming)...[[Yep|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#Avalokiteshvara]]. Gaming. I've had a midrange card for years by now and I'm sick of it. I want to be able to make games my bitch again ;) <br> ; 2019.08.14 - @chameleon Your possible [[future computer|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.08.14%20-%20New%20PC%3F]] looks amazing. I'm excited. Random thoughts from someone who doesn't know computers as well as you: * The cooler that comes with the Ryzen is loud, imho, but I've not slapped my hyper212 on it (maybe I should). * One of the reasons I didn't go with that SSD is because it is QLC. We've had 2 SSDs die on us in our household, so I'm worried about it (perhaps irrationally). Nvme has not disappointed me! * I assume you will be gaming or doing GPGPU with that beast! You might consider a cheap GPU for passthrough. * If price matters: ** You might consider dropping to a 3600/3600X. *** Single-threading is still king to me, but you may make far more use of those cores than I would. ** When was the last time you used an optical drive? I still had a floppy drive 2 builds ago, and my last build, [[monster-10]] still has an optical. Might not be worth it; I simply don't know. If you've used one in the past year, then I think should you should keep it. * I know some people think 32GB of RAM is too much, but they are wrong. I think this machine will last for a long time. * Call me shallow, but I want to see the case too! =) <br> ; 2019.08.11 - @chameleon I'm sorry I don't have versioning set inside the wiki yet, but it is on the [[docket|Wiki: TDL]]. You are the third person who has asked, and it makes good sense! None of the versioning addons are great. I wish we could store ONLY diffs in TW as well. I modified the [[MacDonald quote|Love]]. [[Love]] is a topic I keep thinking about. <br> ; 2019.08.11 - [[@h0p3|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#%40%3A%20h0p3]] I see you edited the [[Love]] page on your wiki. I wish I had diffs, because I'm looking at it like "hmmm, I've been writing the gushing page recently, have I just been subtweeted" <br> ; 2019.08.06 - [[@h0p3|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#%40%3A%20h0p3]] Ping pong. Hope you're doing well, Senpai. I saw you got my letter but I guess you're not planning to respond yet. Just wanted to touch base, maybe have a chat over discord (or @) about stuff. <br> ; 2019.07.30 - @chameleon No, doubt, the wiki is a [[mind-amplifier|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.07.30%20-%20Loper%20OS]]. It's a fuckton of work, imho, but it allows one to autonomously generate feedback loops, abstractions, and relationships in the stories we tell ourselves like no other tool I've used before. Tools which help you communicate better with yourself (iteratively improving or growing representations) may often be amazing [[communications devices|http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568]] as well. I know you are still rapidly piecing together the infancy of your wiki. Who knows when you get the chance, but I'd be interested in [[your reasoning|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.07.30%20-%20%22Exists%22]] about [[John "everythingstudies" Nerst]]. I'd be interested in his response to your thoughts as well. It takes a special mind to do philosophy and engineering. Aside, I'm enjoying your linking to other people. You know how to pick out the [[beautiful]]-weird. I'm hoping in time you will be able to reveal a history of all the cool and crazy [[gems]] you've encountered. You give me the feeling like you've got 10,000 rabbitholes to pull out of your hat. <br> ; 2019.07.27 - @chameleon Thank you for [[the illustration|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#2019.07.27%20-%20h0p3%3A]]. Last time I wrote HTML was back in the 90's, and I didn't need none that this fancy CSS `/mumble about lawn and old dog`; I'm way out of my league. My friend [[Sphygmus]] built $:/plugins/sphygmus/core/stylesheet/flex4h0p3 for me. It works when I import it on your wiki. You should be able to tweak it to your liking. IIRC, I had to adjust some other appearance settings as well.

; 2020.08.29 - @DeathOfRobinhood Thank you. It's moving. Not that this matters, but I am a fan of that style of painting: it triggers or enhances open-eye hallucinations for me. Helluva story too. We sat and watched it together. Daayaammmn. We can all relate to the lost cowboy comet whizzing by the sun out of control. Aliens, man. I don't belong here. Do any of us? Lol. I know what it's like to be and to feel not well-suited to a context, lawd; and, like that character, I know what it's like to write so foolishly about what I do not understand. That is me in the world and with [[others]] so often. Whether I know it or not, I am too often a fish out of water, the wrong man for the job, remarkably delusional, bringing my penis-shaped kazoo to the orchestra, and failing to find the prayed for intersection between where I feel I belong and where I actually belong (closing the dream gap). Sometimes I aim to be a clowny menace to //Rick & Morty//'s nihilism while respecting just how meaningless or purposeless life can feel in too many contexts. It's sad, but I think there's [[hope]] in this [[vidya]]. I am not alone. I belong with that person too. May there always be room for one more. <br> ; 2020.08.27 - @h0p3 //Not well-suited// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ7xBVZwMl8 A short film for you, in love :) <br> ; 2020.02.21 - @h0p3 Things that leap out: Arendt's concept of the will; Disney's chunking of the will; as an animator, assuming non-propositional processes when thinking motive and sequencing out actions. I haven't watched Quinn's Body Beautiful yet, but will get to that to see what I'm missing. I'm recently revisiting Donald Crafton's [[concepts|https://www.academia.edu/34912973/Animes_Actors_Constituting_Self-hood_through_Embodied_and_Figurative_Performance_in_Animation]] of embodied and figurative performances, and Herhuth's article will, I hope, help inform how I think about performing in embodied mode at least. <br> ; 2020.02.21 - @DeathOfRobinhood That is a great intersection for us! This is good work too. Thank you. What leaps out for you here? <br> ; 2020.02.21 - @h0p3 https://journal.animationstudies.org/eric-herhuth-the-animated-will-intelligent-movement-and-embodied-intentionality-in-character-animation/ <br> ; 2020.01.16 - @h0p3 Thanks for staying up to compose that entry on Moral Luck. I'm sorry for worrying you. The news I received does not affect me directly, but people for whom I want better things. I could feel my heart beating in my chest all night, but I'm to blame. My reasoning is childish and I appreciate your instruction. <br> ; 2019.10.19 - @DeathOfRobinhood [[This|http://lisahistory.net/hist106/pw/articles/AnimationinPalaeolithicArt.pdf]] is [[cool|https://i.imgur.com/bEAsfSr.gif]]. <br> ; 2019.07.12 - @DeathOfRobinhood If you have a collection of quotes sitting around somewhere, I would like to read them; you know how to pick out the [[salience]]. There is something special about [[antipleonasm]]s. I would argue, in your shoes, that Christ is something like an antipleonasm (in terms of moral responsibility only the //finite// aspect of the [[fff]] is applicable). I'm extremely curious about your numinous/voluminous claim. I stand on quicksand trying to reason about how the transcendent becomes immanent to any [[dok]]. When it comes to [[faith]], one of our strongest disagreements will be about the conditions of freedom; that may also be worth our attention. <br> ; 2019.07.12 - @h0p3 Yes, I got stuck on that Booth quote and thought the possibility that someone somewhere might benefit from a visit from some reddit nomad was worth the time to it took to share it. Don't worry about taking a lot of time to respond, or even about making your responses to me especially sophisticated. I'm still working of my response to the other half of our earlier exchange (the 'God email') and am coming around to the idea that the numinous does not necessarily reside in the voluminous :) <br> ; 2019.07.11 - @DeathOfRobinhood I am a fan of [[that quote|https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/c9pafd/william_booth_on_loneliness/]]. I take it you've been reading //Friendship at the Margins//. The letter is taking forever, btw. I'm sorry.

; 2020.03.19 - @demystifyscience I stumbled across yall by way of [[this here thread|https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/fkyjl8/all_words_are_objects_or_concepts_to_exist_an/]] on [[Reddit]]. I dove in and wandered around your site after that and thought I'd drop you a line. I [[hope]] to be a [[good]] philosopher (though I'm probably merely a polarizing madman); that's the primary interest that brought me to you. You are odd and intelligent, and I find that delightful. I agree that [[evil is real|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/2/4/nuance-in-the-age-of-apocalypse]], and [[IA2DYJ]] with nuanced and [[Straussian]] interpretation. An [[honorable stranger|2019.12.10 - Antipleonasm Analysis: Ahoy]] I know has had me thinking about [[resonance|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/2/5/pqsy6p5bfogpk2juex5k5v3s3lasvm]], and I'm interested in knowing more of your thoughts related to that topic. Michael Shilo DeLay appears to be [[philosophically opinionated|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/2/7/what-exactly-warps-when-gravity-bends-spacetime]] in physics'n'metaphysics, and I reckon it's worth my time to see exactly where he is reaching as best I can. Anastasia Bendebury is [[clearly|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/whatiswork]] concerned with [[applied|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/2/10/why-carbon-emissions-are-a-proxy]] [[ethics|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/2/27/whats-in-a-pandemic-part-1]], which is [[something|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/2/16/an-animal-morality]] I hold in extremely [[high regard|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/2/13/bugs]]. I also appreciate [[Michael's perspective|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/2/13/lets-replace-remedial-ed-with-civil-conservation]] on [[school|Afterschool Teaching]], and we might have lots to talk about there too. I'm excited by your interest in Saint [[Leibniz|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/2/14/what-do-they-mean-energy]]. We may have some wrestling to do about [[concepts|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/2/17/demystifying-time-travel]], objects, [[ontology|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/3/12/exist-vs-occur]], [[representation|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/3/3/the-higgs-boson-is-not-a-physical-object]], [[reification|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/2/21/why-is-light-speed-limited]], [[instrumentality|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/3/2/he-big-bang-is-an-exquisite-but-impossible-idea]], realism and definitions of [[rational justification|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/3/12/exist-vs-occur]], the hard problem of [[consciousness|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/3/14/can-physics-explain-consciousness]], and [[metaphysics|https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/the-physical-definition-of-time]] (that's up to you). Even in disagreement, I've enjoyed your good work. It's my honor to [[speak|Contact]] with [[you|demystifyscience]], and I'm glad to have the chance to read your words. ; 2020.03.19 - @h0p3 Hi Thanks. What are your interests the brought to u to us? What did you enjoy about the blog? ; 2020.03.18 - @demystifyscience Out of the Blue: Hey, I'm a nobody, but I've enjoyed your blog. I'm always looking for people to speak with. If you ever want a penpal, hit me up: https://philosopher.life/.

; 2020.06.11 - @DJ Trump: ᛋᛋ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1271062068238651392 <<< Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) Our great National Guard Troops who took care of the area around the White House could hardly believe how easy it was. “A walk in the park”, one said. The protesters, agitators, anarchists (ANTIFA), and others, were handled VERY easily by the Guard, D.C. Police, & S.S. GREAT ... <<< Sick dogwhistle, breh. I too have always admired ze [[ᛋᛋ|2020.06.01 - Antipleonasm Analysis: MLK's Durable Social Phenomena]]. Who wouldn't emerge from one's bunker to applaud them? I'm pretty sure capitalists and libertarians can't be anarchists either. Our hunters who took care of the area around our ship could hardly believe how easy it was. “A walk in the park,“ one said. The baby seals and mother seals protecting their young were VERY easily handled by our hunters.

; 2019.07.11 - @Eli I'm also interested in [[what you have to say|https://eli.li/2019/07/11/i-should-probably-be-doing-work-but-i-really-want-to-write-a-thing-about-the-power-politics-at-play]] about virtue signaling, selective honesty and omission, imagecrafting, [[moral]] responsibilities in wielding rhetoric, and the nature of [[power]] in representation and [[naming]].

; 2020.07.02 - [[CeeJay]]: Proof : `/wave` <br> ; [[2020.06.27 - epicfailguy228: Proof]] <<< {{2020.06.27 - epicfailguy228: Proof}} <<< <br> ; [[2020.04.25 - Indieweb: Wiki Event Notes]] <<< {{2020.04.25 - Indieweb: Wiki Event Notes}} <<< <br> ; [[2020.03.27 - Carpe Tempus Segmentum: Freshly Squeezed Penis Sauce]] <<< {{2020.03.27 - Carpe Tempus Segmentum: Freshly Squeezed Penis Sauce}} <<<

; 2020.07.14 - @GR6A I'm grateful to see your continued work. You have an eye for details. I'm excited by what you may create with TW. <br> ; 2020.02.17 - @GR6A Cool, see you soon! =) <br> ; 2020.02.17 - @h0p3 Thank you h0p3! I'll check back soon/asap... -g-

; 2020.03.20 - @gwern [[I giggled|https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/fleys8/the_most_human_algorithm/fkz087u/]]. Also, I've settled in. Not that it will be likely any time soon, but if and when you ever want to meet up, please let me know the time and place.

//That line got me. Dank mayocidal lolcow maymays just fo' moi? Oh you, you shouldn't have! It's exactly what I always wanted. I know it will help me escape from my crippling depression. And, yes, I'll be so careful: I'll make sure not to cut myself. Harming oneself is haram. Womp womp.// ; 2020.08.25 - @h0p3 <<< Thou Shall Not Try Me. -- Mood 24:7 <<< <br> ; 2019.11.17 - @h0p3 She says to me, "I think you should [[self-identify|Identifying With Fictional Characters]] with that stupid man suit." <br> ; 2019.10.19 - @h0p3 Daddy, what did you do during the erosion of our democracy? ... I shared some white-hot memes with a small group of likeminded friends. <br> ; 2019.10.04 - @h0p3 My daughter said I'm a "dragon who hoards [[gem]]s and breathes fire through argumentation." <br> ; 2019.09.20 - @h0p3 I am Trump: "I'm speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain, and I've said a lot of things." <br> ; 2019.07.05 - @h0p3 My daughter told me: "I'd roast you, but it's wrong to burn trash." <br> ; 2019.06.20 - @h0p3 My daughter proclaimed: "[[The Good]] is a Bad Idea." [[Be A Good Dad]] is working out absurdly well. <br> ; 2019.06.19 - @h0p3 Hey baby, I just shit my pants. Can I get into yours? <br> ; 2019.06.15 - @h0p3 笑贫不笑娼。 <br> ; 2019.06.11 - @h0p3 When you try to take an interest in real-life issues and end up a mentally unhinged recluse living in a nightmare alternate reality fuelled entirely by memes... <br> ; 2019.06.11 - @h0p3 Mommy is soooo proud of you, sweaty. Let's put this sperg out up on the fridge with all your other failures. <br> ; 2019.06.10 - @h0p3 MORE👏🏿TRANS👏🏿POC👏🏿PRIVATE👏🏿PRISON👏🏿GUARDS👏🏿

!! Hypertext 2020's: * https://www.kickscondor.com/HT2020/index.html * https://www.kickscondor.com/notes/hypertext-2020 * https://wiki.waifu.haus/#%40%3A%20hypertext%202020 * https://sphygm.us/#%40%3A%20hypertext%202020 * https://philosopher.life/#%40%3A%20hypertext%202020 * https://discord.gg/AWYsSz6 --- !! Senpais' Current [[Prompts|Prompted Introspection]]: * Sir【[[Kickscondor]]】 * Madame ༼[[chameleon]]༽ * Madame ᛝ[[Sphygmus]]ᛝ * Sir ⦗[[h0p3]]⦘ --- !! 2020.04.27: Discord """ Welcome, telos. We hope you brought pizza. 04/27/2020 [8:11 PM] chameleon: Oh, new friend? [8:12 PM] h0p3: :smile: [8:12 PM] telos: just a wanderer across the lonely web, who happened to discover the invite link... [8:12 PM] h0p3: Hello [8:12 PM] h0p3: It's good to meet you. [8:12 PM] robotic_scarab: i kept hearing notification noises but it took me a minute to realize they were coming from this one :sweat_smile: [8:13 PM] telos: a pleasure to meet you as well, and apologies for the intrusion haha. I am an admirer [8:14 PM] h0p3: Not an intrusion. I'm glad you joined us! It's for everyone. [8:14 PM] telos: there are only 5 people here so I wasn't sure! ... thank you for the kind welcome [8:16 PM] h0p3: I love your name, telos. You don't happen to know someone by the name of [[AretEterA]], do you? [8:17 PM] telos: thank you... I don't think I know someone who goes by AretEterA [8:19 PM] telos: TIL you have several entries related to teleology on your site [8:20 PM] h0p3: It is an important concept for me. I cannot say I understand it well enough. [8:20 PM] h0p3: Kinda growin' it out. [8:24 PM] telos: https://philosopher.life/#2018.07.15%20-%20Prompted%20Introspection%3A%20Confronting%20My%20Ethics this one really resonates [8:25 PM] chameleon: I responded to the same prompt! [8:25 PM] telos: ! can I see? [8:26 PM] chameleon: I'm less developed than senpai but it's a contrasting view mb? [8:26 PM] chameleon: Attachment file type: unknown 2020.04.11_-_ethics.tid 1.58 KB [8:27 PM] telos: wow tiddlywiki is amazing [8:27 PM] chameleon: Rn my wiki is locked down, but we can get to know each other and I'll shoot you a password [8:27 PM] h0p3: If you had a link you'd like to add to the Hypertext 2020's section, I would be glad to put it up for ya. Happy to help you make a wiki too, if that would be useful to you. [8:27 PM] telos: Rn my wiki is locked down, but we can get to know each other and I'll shoot you a password @chameleon We can take our time :slight_smile: [8:30 PM] telos: thanks for the offer h0p3! I'm not sure I fully get what hypertext 2020 is about yet, I might need to lurk and scroll more before I know what kind of contribution would be appreciated [8:31 PM] h0p3: I'm not sure I get what hypertext 2020 is about either. I would argue that [[kickscondor]] has been helping us think about what it means to communicate in [[hyperconversation]]. It's an experiment. :slight_smile: [8:31 PM] telos: i see! [8:32 PM] telos: I'm aware that this conversation too may be excerpted onto the hypertext 2020 page :laughing: [8:35 PM] h0p3: Aye. You should not say a thing to me that you would not say publically (even if I aim to stay off the radar in some respects). I'm dogmatically open even here. [[chameleon]] and [[Sphygmus]] (robotic_scarab) are [[Root Users]]; I try to change what they ask me to change (including [[REDACTED]] comments). [8:37 PM] telos: Yeah, I agree with your and [[chameleon]]'s comments that this warren-like wiki is cozy enough to keep out less determined trolls and characters, so a somewhat safe place to be open [8:38 PM] telos: I also appreciate the offer to help with a wiki. I may not be ready for it yet, I'm just a jekyll pleb, but a special friend of mine (whom I know has been inspired by you and [[kickscondor]]) has been experimenting with tiddlywiki for their teaching. Were they here right now I'm sure they would be excited to learn from you hehe [8:39 PM] h0p3: I am honored to meet people. The more the merrier. [8:45 PM] h0p3: My site uses Jekyll too, but I didn't set it up (github). If and when the time comes, I'm happy to read websites made in whatever you have available. """ <br> !! 2020.04.14: Discord """ [7:18 AM] chameleon: [7:19 AM] chameleon: Discord, why!? [10:06 PM] h0p3: [10:07 PM] chameleon: oooooh [10:07 PM] chameleon: it's that wotsit [10:07 PM] chameleon: kintsu! [10:07 PM] robotic_scarab: dang! you're getting good at that [10:07 PM] chameleon: yeah! second that :smile: [10:08 PM] h0p3: :blush: """ <br> !! 2020.03.22: Discord """ [12:01 AM] h0p3: I'm feeling fairly overwhelmed as well. Seems like there's more dominoes to fall in the world too. [12:03 AM] chameleon: it's wild [12:04 AM] chameleon: the last time I felt this much instability was when I first became aware of politics in like, 2007 or so [12:04 AM] chameleon: (I was still quite young. young teenager I think.) [12:04 AM] h0p3: I'm predicting 45% real adult unemployment in the US. [12:04 AM] robotic_scarab: I'm sure you're glad you made it over to be with The Abyssal before this all went down :dizzy_face: [12:07 AM] chameleon: yeah, it was a near miss, haha [12:07 AM] chameleon: I'm just hoping USCIS is still operational to give me a green card [12:09 AM] h0p3: Me too. [12:15 AM] h0p3: I'm not convinced it's going to be a problem, but it could. I intend to stay up and out in public as long as I can. If you need to disavow, disconnect, or distance yourselves from me, please do (I'd be really sad, but I would also understand). If you want a namechange (or more) on my wiki, it's yours. [12:16 AM] chameleon: I think what I've sent to you is fine [12:16 AM] chameleon: and the bastards still don't know about the "chameleon" name [12:17 AM] chameleon: my past slyness has helped me here, it's still "kona" to these people [4:34 PM] chameleon: j3d1h needed a password too! [4:58 PM] h0p3: That's cool. I'm really glad that you are a part of her life. [4:58 PM] h0p3: I feel like we are integrating. """ <br> !! 2020.03.21: Discord """ [11:51 PM] chameleon: I'm thinking I'm going to lock down the wiki for now. I'll DM you folx apache passwords so you can still read it [11:52 PM] chameleon: thanks to coronavirus there's more activity in certain areas of the web [11:52 PM] chameleon: all the animals come out at night… [11:52 PM] h0p3: I hear that. [11:56 PM] robotic_scarab: I've really retreated into a bubble the past couple of weeks. I'm feeling lots of overwhelm in various areas and defaulting to shutting down. So I hear you on that. protec yourself <3 """ <br> !! 2020.03.13: Discord """ [7:01 AM] chameleon: @robotic_scarab I love that cipher book [7:01 AM] chameleon: A favourite: [7:02 AM] chameleon: Thought you could make it less prone to error by using symbols inside the quad, blank for A, O for B, * for C [10:36 AM] robotic_scarab: ooo I like the idea of using different symbols! better disambiguation than positioning of dots [10:37 AM] robotic_scarab: my favorite was always the - put a piece of paper with specific cutouts over a block of text to reveal a message - even though it's really impractical! """ <br> !! 2020.03.05: Discord """ [9:37 AM] robotic_scarab: curious to hear your reactions to kicks' latest post? [9:38 AM] robotic_scarab: is it esoteric link sharing disguised as a short story? a mysterious way of saying good-bye? a satirical send-up of the state of the internet but also genuine reaction? [4:19 PM] chameleon: I feel scolded! [4:19 PM] h0p3: I do not know. [4:19 PM] h0p3: I am sorry. I am still thinking. [4:23 PM] h0p3: Kicks is hard for me to read systematically. I often ask my wife and family to help me understand him. We have no idea. [4:24 PM] h0p3: (I say that knowing full well that interpreting me is a terrible task) """ <br> !! 2020.02.27: Discord """ [6:26 PM] chameleon: https://aufilduweb.valeryfarcy.com/?VXnnNw chameleon's wiki — or, things chameleon knows Un tiddlywiki pas banal ! [6:26 PM] chameleon: Un tiddlywiki pas banal!! """ <br> !! 2020.02.25: Discord """ [5:04 PM] chameleon: Daily dot Temple [5:04 PM] chameleon: .tmplOS [5:04 PM] chameleon: :thunk: [5:04 PM] h0p3: Lol :slight_smile: [5:05 PM] h0p3: Just as perfectly crazy. [5:06 PM] chameleon: I honestly have a lot of respect for temple os [5:06 PM] chameleon: it's so out-there crazy, and yet it works [5:07 PM] h0p3: I have enormous respect for it too. I think it's amazing. It's crazy and effective. """ <br> !! 2020.02.21: Discord """ [4:46 AM] chameleon: I changed the icon, muahahaha [4:46 AM] chameleon: (thanks for the tips sphygmus. my wiki is in tip-top working shape now :wink: ) [12:09 PM] h0p3: :slight_smile: [12:10 PM] h0p3: Is it possible to have too much Kona in my Discord sidebar? [2:49 PM] chameleon: Never! ;) """ <br> !! 2020.02.17: Discord """ [2:01 PM] robotic_scarab: @chameleon here's all the gory detail on how I get the colored titles in my sidebar tabs! https://sphygm.us/#200217%20%E2%80%93%20wiki%3A%20colored%20titles%20%26%20icons%20in%20sidebar%20tabs [2:52 PM] h0p3: Backwards compatibility is kinda loose in TW, lol. [2:52 PM] h0p3: Eventually, I may not be able to upgrade again. [2:54 PM] robotic_scarab: yeah, and the more custom code one has, the trickier upgrading gets [2:54 PM] h0p3: We're boned. [2:57 PM] robotic_scarab: It seems like tiddlywiki itself has 2/3/5/more different ways of achieving things, and isn't internally consistent about which ones get used where [2:58 PM] robotic_scarab: Guessing some of that is to do with the nature of it being open source, complex, and hard to master [2:59 PM] h0p3: Yeah, I agree. I also don't mean to sound ungrateful, lol. TW is amazing. It's the kind of thing which I want taxes to go toward developing. That people in their spare time (for the most part?) made this thing still blows my mind. [3:19 PM] chameleon: well, stone me [3:19 PM] chameleon: the open tab IS broken [3:20 PM] chameleon: I didn't notice because I never use it [3:20 PM] chameleon: thanks for the guide though, sphygmus :redacted: [3:20 PM] robotic_scarab: that's so funny to me - it's my #1 used tab XD [3:22 PM] h0p3: I like watching people play vidya games. It's not terribly rational. Sometimes, I wish I could just watch other people work on their wikis like a vidya game. They've got those for coding. [3:23 PM] h0p3: Also, Sphygmus, if you had a person color for tags on my wiki, what would you like? I've got [[chameleon]]'s green. My family has picked their colors out. I don't have one for you. [3:23 PM] chameleon: I could stream my daily tasks lol [3:24 PM] h0p3: Workflows are cool. [3:25 PM] chameleon: hop into vc :slight_smile: [3:28 PM] robotic_scarab: @h0p3 sure! I pick #FFEF07 :) [3:28 PM] h0p3: gracias :slight_smile: [3:30 PM] robotic_scarab: @chameleon what is your working default story river set to? is it Root/Legal, the same as your published wiki? (what about you, h0p3?) [3:30 PM] chameleon: I mean that's what opens up when I open the wiki [3:31 PM] chameleon: I do things like a cavewoman [3:31 PM] chameleon: grug me wiki [3:31 PM] h0p3: I have it set to blank in Chromium [3:31 PM] robotic_scarab: :smile: [3:32 PM] robotic_scarab: i'm not sure what it says about me that I keep mine set to last open tiddlers and hoard them in there [3:49 PM] h0p3: I've set Chromium to pop back up with my previous state, including the storyrivers. It's not the same, but there's some functional overlap there. Definitely hoarding. [3:54 PM] robotic_scarab: ah, right, because your URL changes when you navigate to tiddlers so reopening the tab opens you at the same spot [3:54 PM] robotic_scarab: that probably works very well with bob [3:54 PM] h0p3: Yes :slight_smile: """ <br> !! 2020-02-14 19:06 CST: [[sphygmus]] I want to dig in and reply to your question about "the culture wars" seriously -- but on a lighter note, enjoy these two takes on it: * ''[[Carmen by Stromae|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKftOH54iNU]]'' (translated captions in the video) ** [[more "accurate" translation here|https://genius.com/3896228]] * ''[[Like mich am Arsch by Deichkind|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVvHj1FLCn4]]'' ** [[translated lyrics here|https://lyricstranslate.com/en/mich-am-arsch-me-my-ass.html]] <br> !! 2020.02.11: Discord """ [3:40 PM] chameleon: /waves at chameleon ? :D @robotic_scarab p much =w=. I've thought about doing a wiki review for a while now and I decided to take the plunge [3:41 PM] robotic_scarab: nice! looking forward to seeing how it develops for you [3:41 PM] robotic_scarab: h0p3's comments on his wiki audit has me experimenting with tiddler fields again -- looks like TW 5.1.20 fixed the bugs with multi-line fields under Node.js, which opens up more options for working with them. [3:42 PM] chameleon: Oooooh nice! [10:30 PM] h0p3: I think a lot of other intermediate and advanced TW users rely heavily upon fields. I think I'm doing something wrong in not. It was the same with tags. [10:53 PM] chameleon: You're in vc and I kinda wanna join but [10:53 PM] chameleon: Hella shy all of a sudden [10:57 PM] chameleon: Maybe when I shake off this damn cold [11:03 PM] h0p3: :slight_smile: [11:04 PM] h0p3: I got this schweet mic: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DK89QZS/ [11:05 PM] h0p3: That way I can annoy all the people I love. [11:05 PM] chameleon: Damn that's great! [11:05 PM] chameleon: I'm stuck on either phone or webcam mic [11:20 PM] h0p3: We'll talk when you are feeling up to it. I actually prefer my phone to sitting on my computer by miles because I really like to walk while I talk (it helps me; I think it may even be a form of stimming for me).""" !! 2020-02-10 19:42 EST: [[h0p3]] ; >> 2020-02-03: [[kickscondor]] I'm learning to appreciate connecting with lots of methods. I'm grateful that you reason about the limits of this particular practice in a semi-purist fashion with us. I still take writing to be critical to (and arguably the hardest part of) relationships. Usually, I encounter the opposite problem: why would anyone pay attention to what I have to say on my wiki (and write back) when they can use more immediately gratifying mediums with lower barriers to entry that are considered (by social norm) to be more ephemeral (though, I find this word baffling), low-key, and non-committal? I don't think most people who might read as closely as you often do would want to remain so remote (not the right word, but I don't know the right one) either, so you are somewhat like a control testing group perspective to stand out against the other relationships I have which are mixed.<<footnote "h:wam" "We have very few exceptions to communicating over anything other than our sites.">> Sometimes I think we are like two scientists mutualistically studying different problems together over a series of tubes. What we have doesn't match the consistent revelatory and self-modeling work which [[Sphygmus]] and [[chameleon]] engage in; they are more strongly integrated into my daily life. I adore that writing is the centerpiece for our communication,<<footnote "h:foc" "In a way, we've overshot the golden mean toward the much rarer side of vice. It's fascinating.">> but diversity in expression is still valuable. My assumption is that if and when you want to connect further, you will. Until then, I think it's good to enjoy what we have. <<< looking at self-modeling as a type of permanent serialization format, where you’re attempting to prematurely get frozen (cryogenically), what medium(s) would be your chosen form of carbonite? <<< I'm assuming the metaphor isn't meant to be taken too strongly here, and you can correct me if I'm wrong about that.<<footnote "h:wat" "You know me, I'm nitpicky: why should I think I am attempting to //prematurely// get frozen? I agree I'm trying to learn how to create immutable aspects of objects [[irwartfrr]], not prematurely though. Serialization^^tm^^ still doesn't describe it correctly.">> The wiki is still my chosen medium, but it captures, enables, or replicates a lot of mediums and methods. Long-form writing is also still the pinnacle to me, although I have a harder time knowing what doesn't count as long-form in here. I capture a lot of stories and thoughts in this horcrux-pensieve. Sometimes, larger, evolving, emerging, or meta stories about those timeslices arise. If we are going sci-fi for mediums, at least for the foreseeable future, it's not clear that ML will become energy-efficient enough to do anything more than augment this medium; there are, however, possible mediums which are significantly better for self-modeling. To be clear, however, I'm not looking directly for those methods which are best at self-modeling given unlimited resources without deontic constraints. One of my preferences is to use a self-owned medium which the average joe can replicate to some extent, [[WINTCIS]]. In terms of infrastructure, text is energy-efficient, flexible, easier to compute over, cheap to store in decentralized fashions, and something which even the poor kid in India could achieve on their shitty Android phone (though, obviously, that is still severely limited).<<footnote "h:sap" "It reminds me of //Apollo 13//, where we have to ask what the folks up in space have available to them right now.">> <br> !! 2020.02.08: Discord """ [1:41 AM] h0p3: Spencer > Tristan > Alastair > Dorian > Caspain > Percival """ <br> !! 2020.02.06: Discord """ [1:31 AM] robotic_scarab: yeah, I do wonder if it's some incompatibility with a set of plugins or some other code interaction I'm not seeing blocking it from working [1:42 AM] h0p3: Also, doesn't work in mine either. [1:43 AM] h0p3: Will ask what j3d1h thinks of it tomorrow. [4:50 PM] robotic_scarab: I'm taking a poll [4:50 PM] robotic_scarab: Between Alastair, Dorian, Percival, Spencer, Tristan, Caspain, what's yalls fave """ <br> !! 2020.02.05: Discord """ [12:59 AM] robotic_scarab: yeah cozy mode is dramatically different than compact mode [12:59 AM] robotic_scarab: the CSS hack suffices for my desktop and I don't have the same issues with the mobile app, so [1:00 AM] robotic_scarab: I just get frustrated by UI changes that reduce usability rather than increase it :triumph: [4:41 AM] chameleon: :transtriumph: [9:27 AM] robotic_scarab: omg [9:27 AM] robotic_scarab: https://flibbles.github.io/tw5-relink/ [9:27 AM] robotic_scarab: this is such a gamechanger [9:27 AM] robotic_scarab: no more manually renaming my hard links :raised_hands: [9:27 AM] robotic_scarab: @h0p3 have you seen this plugin before? [3:09 PM] h0p3: Yes. I saw that one recently while working on the Yearly [[X-Section]]. Pretty sweet. I've not tried it in my wiki yet. It's powerful, enough so that it could do a lot of damage. [5:10 PM] robotic_scarab: Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working for me :sob: [5:10 PM] robotic_scarab: It just isn't actually renaming anything [5:11 PM] h0p3: One day, we may be forced to kind of start from scratch again and migrate, and I don't mean when they eventually get to TW-WASM. """ <br> !! 2020.02.04: Discord """ [6:37 PM] h0p3: What are the specs on gotama? [7:04 PM] chameleon: Just a sec, I'll grab 'em. It's a vps tho so no physical parts `^^` [7:46 PM] robotic_scarab: yoooo if you haven't already, don't restart your discord [7:46 PM] robotic_scarab: the new UI update is trash [7:46 PM] robotic_scarab: they removed the lines between messages in compact mode which makes readability so much worse. :scream: [7:59 PM] chameleon: [7:59 PM] chameleon: it highlights the current message on hover [7:59 PM] chameleon: and shows you your most used emoji (which are :heart: :jueputa: :konadance: for me apparantly) [8:00 PM] robotic_scarab: yeah, I don't really care about that part [8:00 PM] robotic_scarab: I use compact tho and it's just plain unreadable for me without the lines (and they shifted the way user names are aligned, too, making it doubly worse) [8:01 PM] chameleon: ahh jeeze [8:01 PM] chameleon: can you fix it with css hacking? [8:01 PM] robotic_scarab: yeah, betterDiscord to the rescue [8:01 PM] robotic_scarab: someone else already made a CSS file for it to add back the dividers, at least [8:01 PM] robotic_scarab: working on installing rn, phew [8:06 PM] chameleon: do you have a link? a friend on another server is complaining about the same issue [8:06 PM] robotic_scarab: for sure! lemme write down the steps I took [8:08 PM] robotic_scarab: 1. https://betterdiscord.net/home/ -> click here for secondary support server - current BetterDiscord server 2. check pinned tab in support in channel from above for links to windows/mac/linux DL links 3. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/84617750827261952/312679447579066368/unknown.png -> how to install themes 4. https://github.com/PseudoResonance/BetterDiscord-Theme/blob/master/OldMessages.theme.css -> adjusted theme that's also currently pinned in the css BD channel [8:09 PM] robotic_scarab: the OldMessages theme isn't perfect (spacing is still a bit wonky) but it's a good enough fix for me right now [8:09 PM] robotic_scarab: hopefully that helps! [8:20 PM] chameleon: thank you! [8:21 PM] robotic_scarab: yup! just a heads up tho, BetterDiscord is technically against Discord's TOS and they reserve the right to ban people for using it. :rolling_eyes: [8:23 PM] chameleon: oof, yeah [8:23 PM] chameleon: sucks hard >< [8:24 PM] robotic_scarab: idgaf, I'm literally using it only to change the CSS and not whatever else it can technically be used for. I can understand if other people don't want to take that risk tho. :person_shrugging: [8:24 PM] robotic_scarab: so lmao if I disappear from discord it's cause they banned me for CSS changes XP [8:27 PM] chameleon: haha fair enoughski =w=. [8:39 PM] chameleon: @h0p3 [8:39 PM] h0p3: :slight_smile: [8:39 PM] chameleon: ironically, it's hosted back in England! [8:39 PM] chameleon: I get a decent ping though, so that's fine [10:54 PM] chameleon: @robotic_scarab wanna hear something funny? the spacing between posts on the non-compact mode is too large =w=. [11:17 PM] h0p3: Trying on another machine. Meh. I can live with it. """ <br> !! 2020-02-03: [[kickscondor]] <<< Sphygmus: From my perspective, this worry about “projecting a facade” or “putting on a mask” is a worry about our extended lack of phenomenological contact with the qualia of others. That is, in a face-to-face conversation I have the experience of seeing and participating in another person’s outward expressions of emotion (laughing, frowning, body language, tone of voice). The true connection between the other’s internal state and their external emotions aside, I still experience a sense of physical, embodied, and emotional feedback which leads me to believe I am experiencing a true expression of their internal state. <<< Yeah.<<footnote "k:7" "Meaning: you’re saying great stuff - my actual response to your writing was to be dumbfounded by how solid it was and to have no good reaction - which means I’ve had to patiently walk around the neighborhood endlessly, attempting to summon a measly worthwhile thought.">> I think this was a big part of my early letters to h0p3. Like: a total doubt that written communication could work. But it turned out to be really fun and rewarding - partially because it was so difficult and fraught with peril. So I find myself wanting to avoid corporeality with you all because I want to see how far this can go.<<footnote "k:8" "Hah, and maybe we’re at the end!">> <<< The internet, our websites, and our conversations over/through them completely remove and de-sync this feedback, and that disconnect triggers our unconscious to start worrying about whether we are actually receiving the truth of others’ internal states. <<< Yeah.<<footnote "k:9" "Meaning: so good.">> I’m not at all against video or multimedia communication - I got into Snapchat for awhile. I just want to find the strength in hypertext writing. It seems hasty to me to give up after 20 years in (10 for most people). We have a lot to learn about reading and writing online.<<footnote "k:10" "And may not be able to - so I understand anyone who wants to bail on it.">> I think there’s a yearning for the return of text. Video and audio now dominate - and have serious issues, too. I think part of this comes from so much of human history being tied up in text - perhaps this lends a ‘sacred’ feeling to text - but it’s also that it isn’t as tied up with physical performance and is able to be ingested internally in a way. I’m seeing more people writing about what they’re reading and challenging themselves to read more - it’s still seen as a virtue in people’s minds. I guess I feel like asking all of you: looking at self-modeling as a type of permanent serialization format, where you’re attempting to prematurely get frozen (cryogenically), what medium(s) would be your chosen form of carbonite? <br> !! 2020.02.03: Discord """ 9:48 PM] chameleon: alright~ https://wiki.waifu.haus/ is back online and serving from gotama! """ <br> !! 2020-02-03 17:03 EST: [[h0p3]] ; >> 2020-01-28: [[Sphygmus]] I'm slow to say we connect to someone's qualia^^tm^^ directly,<<footnote "h:sqd" "Even the conditions for experiencing qualia aren't something we can be certain about.">> but we can probably get closer to it. It's an empirical process, hence your reasonable doubt. We are blackboxes (even to ourselves to some extent), and that trusting trust problem cannot be solved all the way down. There's a [[faith]] in [[The Other]] problem which is never eliminated. While I will agree it exists, I don't know what that perfect (for the [[fff]]) solution entails, nor can I provide a perfect method for finding a solution (even accounting for our limitations). Communicating in-person often doesn't provide enough distance, and, likewise, communicating entirely remotely is usually too much distance. I agree we are wired for in-person encounters. There are significant privacy trade-offs here. My encounters with someone in-person do not leave me clean images that I can study later over the years; I'll only ever have fading and distorted impressions. It's true that this problem doesn't actually disappear when I have an external image to look at either, but some aspects are mitigated. Conversely, real-time communications do not give much compute time for cognitively finding collisions for deception. The best solutions I've found are mixing communications channels. You'll find I aim to be formal or thorough in my letter-writing, but if you catch me at 3am in IMing, I'm looser and more likely to shoot-the-shit. There comes a point in some of my relationships where voice is necessary; we simply can't communicate fast enough in writing. But, even my in-person encounters are fantastically augmented by having a wiki. I need them all to connect. Maybe conditions for feeling authenticity in connection are likely to vary on per person basis too. The Discord server may help us build more bridges. You can also call me whenever you want [[Sphygmus]]; I've never asked if I could call you because I'm already a creeper, lol. [[Kicks]] knows he can whenever he wants to, and [[chameleon]] has muh info now as well. I'm hoping to hear your voices (I need to walk while I talk). <br> !! 2020.02.02: Discord """ [3:24 AM] chameleon: !! Retired * Hostname: mahakala ** Retired when I left for america ** KDE Neon - it's OK, but I'll probably stick with lubuntu next time I make a fresh install * Hostname: anubis ** 5 years of faithful service o7 ** Some ubuntu flavor I forget. [3:24 AM] chameleon: ;_;7 anubis [3:24 AM] h0p3: /salute [3:25 AM] h0p3: I just mounted my old monster mobos on the wall next to me. [3:25 AM] chameleon: my wiki is actually offline for now [3:25 AM] h0p3: Aye. [3:25 AM] h0p3: It's okay. I will read as soon as I see it. [3:26 AM] chameleon: Attachment file type: unknown chamewiki.tgz 1.02 MB [3:26 AM] h0p3: That's one of the more interesting parts of our relationship. There's way more reading and observation than writing-to. [3:27 AM] chameleon: here's a backup for you to keep around in case you get chamesick =w=. [3:27 AM] h0p3: :heart: [3:27 AM] chameleon: changed literally just now to retire anubis """ <br> !! 2020.02.01: Discord """ [3:09 PM] robotic_scarab: did either of you know about "Mystery of Time and Space" the escape the room flash game? [3:10 PM] robotic_scarab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAEtP9BnkDk (video spoils solutions ofc) YouTube Fancyjake Mystery of Time and Space Revisit [16:9] [3:10 PM] robotic_scarab: it's one of those early internet weird things that stuck with me (though I never got to the end of what was published) [3:11 PM] robotic_scarab: er, "early" internet [3:12 PM] h0p3: Nope. I've seen games like it, but not this one. I like how it makes you use virtual computers in the game. "UNOX" :slight_smile: [3:14 PM] h0p3: Were you ever into Myst? [3:18 PM] robotic_scarab: hm, no myst [3:19 PM] robotic_scarab: i've tried to play it since but it's almost too obscure for me -- or i'm just not devoted enough to pressing random buttons to see what happens anymore, lol [3:19 PM] h0p3: I never had the patience. [3:20 PM] robotic_scarab: my first video game was really a free copy of amazon trails that was included in a cheerio box promo with "LightDog" advertising [3:21 PM] robotic_scarab: hilarious because the longest time I played it, sitting on the first screen, never figuring out how to get the canoe to advance [3:21 PM] robotic_scarab: somehow eventually I did figure it out though and then it got even more fun! [3:22 PM] robotic_scarab: the rest of my gaming was edu-tainment, carmen san diego (<3), floppy disk edu-tainment games (treasure math storm, treasure mountain, etc) and a few handed down cd games (jump start advanced 4th grade lmao, sim city 2000 (the best)) [3:22 PM] h0p3: ...took the words right out of my mouth, Carmen San Diego. [3:22 PM] robotic_scarab: she was so suave [3:22 PM] robotic_scarab: of course the maze screen saver in windows 98 provided hours of entertainment on its own :joy: [3:24 PM] robotic_scarab: http://www.ohio-distinctive.com/games/green/green.html must be the precursor to my love for stardew valley rofl [3:24 PM] h0p3: Games got way more fun over the years. [3:25 PM] h0p3: Yeah, you did have a lot of edutainment, lol. :slight_smile: [3:26 PM] robotic_scarab: not the typical gamecube / gameboy memories of my generation but fun nonetheless :relaxed: [3:30 PM] h0p3: dusting out the cobwebs in muh brain here, first for me was: The California Raisins on C64 and Pong on Atari. Didn't get to play much though. Carmen San Diego and Oregon Trail at school, alongside the other edutainment possibilities, were where I got to spend more time just playing. I loved the computer lab. [3:31 PM] robotic_scarab: apparently there's a carmen san diego show now?? no idea if it's any good at all [3:35 PM] h0p3: Noice. Looks nicer than the older shows. [6:35 PM] chameleon: @robotic_scarab what's that xx character, is it in unicode? [6:35 PM] chameleon: X X [6:35 PM] chameleon: [6:38 PM] robotic_scarab: it's in the rune section of Unicode I believe [6:38 PM] robotic_scarab: Give me a sec and I'll find the code [6:40 PM] robotic_scarab: https://unicode-table.com/en/16DD/ ᛝ - Runic Letter Ing (U+16DD) Symbol: ᛝ, the characters name: Runic Letter Ing, Unicode number for the sign: U+16DD, the icon is included in the block: Runic. [6:44 PM] chameleon: Thanks! [6:44 PM] chameleon: Time to make :lucid: [6:44 PM] chameleon: :seizonsenryaku: [6:52 PM] chameleon: :lucid: [6:53 PM] chameleon: I could presumably make a :redacted: as well :stuck_out_tongue: [6:53 PM] robotic_scarab: haha! yes, I like that unicode rune a lot too [6:53 PM] robotic_scarab: https://unicode-table.com/en/16A1/ ᚡ - Runic Letter V (U+16A1) Symbol: ᚡ, the characters name: Runic Letter V, Unicode number for the sign: U+16A1, the icon is included in the block: Runic. [6:54 PM] chameleon: Just a ᚡ? wasn't it two runes? [6:54 PM] robotic_scarab: oh yes you're right it's a combo [6:55 PM] robotic_scarab: ᚮᚡ [6:55 PM] robotic_scarab: https://unicode-table.com/en/16AE/ ᚮ - Runic Letter O (U+16AE) Symbol: ᚮ, the characters name: Runic Letter O, Unicode number for the sign: U+16AE, the icon is included in the block: Runic. [6:56 PM] chameleon: [6:57 PM] robotic_scarab: i wonder what font discord uses? the runes show up different in discord than in FF for me [6:57 PM] chameleon: yeah hm [6:59 PM] chameleon: aha! noto sans runic [6:59 PM] chameleon: looks way better [6:59 PM] robotic_scarab: :D [7:00 PM] chameleon: [7:00 PM] robotic_scarab: awwwww hell yea [7:01 PM] chameleon: :redacted: [7:01 PM] chameleon: that looks so fucking schway [7:01 PM] robotic_scarab: :yinyanggdrasil: :redacted: :chameleondialectic: [7:22 PM] chameleon: btw [7:22 PM] chameleon: my wiki and other services will be offline starting about 1 am today [7:23 PM] chameleon: since I'm migrating my shit """ <br> !! 2020.01.30: Discord """ [12:56 AM] h0p3: :slight_smile: [3:35 AM] h0p3: Offering cheesecake to a fatman over here. [3:36 AM] chameleon: https://lichess.org/RBtb56xc lichess.org Rapid (5+8) casual Chess • Challenge from japanoise (1227?) Join the challenge or watch the game here. [3:36 AM] chameleon: :quieres: [3:36 AM] h0p3: Lol! :slight_smile: [3:37 AM] chameleon: ¿quieres? :wink: [3:37 AM] h0p3: Quiero dormir. Me siento como una mierda. [3:38 AM] chameleon: ah, que rollo [3:38 AM] chameleon: ¿otra vez? [3:41 AM] h0p3: Yeah. Sounds fun. [3:41 AM] h0p3: I'd like to find a game we all would enjoy. Though, I'd like to limit how much I play. I'm trying to NOT play games, lol. [3:41 AM] h0p3: Gnite [3:41 AM] chameleon: nini! sleep tight, space cowboy! [9:21 AM] robotic_scarab: a decent number of my first dates in college were meeting up at a coffee shop on campus and, at my suggestion, playing a game (either a card game with the pack I had brought or an actual board game in the coffee shop that had actual board games) [9:22 AM] robotic_scarab: i'm not quite sure how good of a strategy that is overall but it did help me with the otherwise sort of awkward gaps that might happen in a conversation with someone completely new :P [9:23 AM] robotic_scarab: I feel like card games in particular have a history of social bonding, sitting around a table shooting the shit and playing pinocle or gin rummy or something, lol [12:09 PM] h0p3: Far more competent than I am on this front. Didn't go on many dates, and only dated people I already knew. k0sh3k asked me out for coffee, and I'm like: "thank you, but I don't like coffee" (at the time, I didn't). /facepalm. It became a game with our classmates to sit us together because I was that oblivious. [12:09 PM] chameleon: d'aww [12:10 PM] chameleon: one of my buddies from uni met his wife on fresher's week [12:10 PM] chameleon: like, literally he went to anime society, there was a cute girl there, so he asked her out and the rest is history [12:10 PM] chameleon: pretty chad [12:11 PM] chameleon: as for me, I've met all but one of my serious partners over the net. lol [12:14 PM] h0p3: The thought of trying to meet a partner today sounds pretty terrifying to me (I'm going to be useless to my offspring on this front). I think enjoying instant messenger (ICQ and MSN messenger) was super important though. k0sh3k got drunk and just asked me over messenger while I was playing Everquest 2. [12:15 PM] chameleon: hehe [12:15 PM] chameleon: I'm at least old enough to have used that a little while I was at school [12:15 PM] chameleon: (mostly to make AMVs and talk about anime girls with my buddy Chris. I miss that guy) [12:16 PM] chameleon: he got really confused once because I was playing runescape and managed to have my MSN window focused instead [12:16 PM] chameleon: so I was talking one-sidededly about runescape shit to someone in game =w=. [12:19 PM] h0p3: lol, yeah. That is a special moment, where you realize that you typed everything to the wrong window/person. I wonder if that is less likely to occur for people who are primarily mobile users. [12:21 PM] chameleon: My phone does a splitscreen mode, but I don't use it [12:22 PM] chameleon: Boomer mode only for me [12:22 PM] h0p3: I did not even know there were splitscreen modes (unless you were not running a standard OS). [12:23 PM] h0p3: Neat. I don't think my screen is big enough to warrant that. [12:25 PM] chameleon: Even on desktop, the extent of my multitasking is usually just music in the bg while I work [12:26 PM] h0p3: You are likely far more organized than I am. [12:26 PM] h0p3: Mine is a gigantic fucking chaos I'm trying to reign in. Just piles of shit I cram in workspaces. "stay there, don't mildew, I'll come clean it up later" [12:27 PM] h0p3: Hoarder [12:27 PM] h0p3: Speaking of which, how many of them AMVs you have left? [12:27 PM] chameleon: none! [12:27 PM] h0p3: womp womp [12:27 PM] chameleon: all lost in the Great Laptop -> Desktop Transfer of 2010 [12:28 PM] h0p3: I don't think most people realize how traumatic that can be. When I lost my music collection, I just cried. At least that can be recovered in a sense though. [12:30 PM] chameleon: aww I'm sorry :c [12:32 PM] chameleon: I didn't really care about my AMVs. stuff like my music collection made it. (/media/pippa/Samsung/media/Music/old\ shit/) [2:45 PM] robotic_scarab: I've almost typed things to the wrong person with the discord mobile app [2:46 PM] robotic_scarab: it opens to the last person i DM'd which isn't always the person I'm intending to message when I open it, lmao [2:47 PM] robotic_scarab: windows live messenger is what it was called when I used it with kids from another family -- definitely missed out on the AIM era (I wasn't allowed to have my own user account on the family computer until I turned 13 -- of course that rule got relaxed for my brother :eyes: ) [2:50 PM] h0p3: Aint that some shit. Younger siblings had it made in that respect. Sure, go play with the chainsaw. [2:54 PM] h0p3: No idea if it was because he's a dude, either. I stayed with a fundie family from El Salvador for a chunk of a summer. They have 4 daughters (one of which was in her 20's), and I'm 16 at the time. They said it was totally fine for me to be out as late as I want because I was a manboy. Even the adult daughter had a curfew though. Double standards are not easy to justify. [2:57 PM] h0p3: I had it relatively easy on my machine until I got kicked out of school. Then my usage and machine was started getting scrutinized (more than usual blockers). You'd get kicked out of the house for having watched porn in my house though (since that might bring the devil into the home). [2:57 PM] h0p3: AIM was huge too. I do not understand why these services were shutdown. [3:03 PM] robotic_scarab: oohhh man so we had some sort of parental firewall thing that would block some websites from loading [3:03 PM] robotic_scarab: Somehow I found out about "vtunnel" which would network proxy around that [3:04 PM] h0p3: https://imgur.com/gallery/kRUfJfr [3:04 PM] robotic_scarab: :joy: too true [3:05 PM] h0p3: It only fueled my interest in computers. [3:06 PM] chameleon: I managed to get my dad's password to the parental filter [3:06 PM] chameleon: easy recovery questien. silly dad. [3:06 PM] h0p3: Delicious [3:06 PM] h0p3: He ever find out about that? [3:06 PM] chameleon: not afaict [3:06 PM] chameleon: it was a bad filter anyways. it filtered the word "lesbian" [3:07 PM] robotic_scarab: I don't think my parents discriminated computer usage based on gender, but I have always been annoyed that my brother got the super cool Snap Circuits toy set and never played with it, when I was super excited about it :C (Of course bro being young he never let me touch it out of principal lmao) [3:08 PM] robotic_scarab: and by out of principle I mean being the usual younger sibling "you can't touch my toys!" nothing ideological there lol [3:13 PM] h0p3: Looking those up, them snap circuits are nifty. [3:41 PM] h0p3: If you did switch to sphygmus.wiki, would you be forwarding sphygm.us to it? [3:42 PM] robotic_scarab: yeah, for at least a month [3:42 PM] robotic_scarab: probably ideally I'd do it longer, like six months or something [3:43 PM] robotic_scarab: If I did switch the goal would eventually be to let sphygm.us expire [4:41 PM] h0p3: Noticed today shreddit stopped working for me recently. Lazy google: https://github.com/x89/Shreddit/issues/145. Voila. Done. [5:21 PM] chameleon: hehehe [5:21 PM] chameleon: I'm japanoise! [5:21 PM] chameleon: tfw you and I are doing the chameleon dialectic [5:23 PM] chameleon: :chameleondialectic: :seizonsenryaku: [5:23 PM] chameleon: next I need to make sphygmus emojis """ <br> !! 2020-01-30: [[kickscondor]] <<< @chameleon: I’d like to pre-emptively avoid lumping in “activists” with those types of people. <<< Yeah, ok, I need to fill that in a bit. I’m not making a judgement here. I’m not putting them all in a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ category. There are good and bad trolls, good and bad activists.<<footnote "k:4" "I will say that I imagine that, like a craft or role, there are probably true experts and the rest of us are just playing, probably destructively. I think that’s the thing about trolls and activists. You have to have quality moves as well as real message. That’s asking a lot! I think it’s this thought, of ‘minions’ that operate in the ‘troll’ and ‘activist’ roles, that really make me think to group them together.">> (Although sometimes I wonder if centuries from now we’ll look back and see the pursuit for humor as being far more virtuous and generous than the pursuit for political ground. Maybe slightly - eh probably not.)<<footnote "k:5" "Also, could activists be more effective as trolls? While [[throwing|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM3nucc3XTc]] a shoe is activism, I think I have to score it in the troll camp.">> My grouping here is more a matter of directionality or something. Hypertext 2010 was an effort in isolation - or solipsism, as you say - impossible to intrude upon (without hacking it) - so quite unsuitable for a troll or activist, whose fuel requires targets, people to trigger or people to sway. We don’t really have those directional targets. I mean I’m cool if people join us, but it’s not essential. In fact, I think, for me, the directionality is inverted. I’m here to read. I’m not trying to own or gather up a bunch of Winnie Lims. I just want to read what she’s got and see what happens.<<footnote "k:6" "Like it’s a catalyst? Like it’s an unknown substance? What happens if I put THIS in the tank?">> Maybe I want to be owned and gathered. No, that’s not it - I mean perhaps in the moment of reading, I’m happy to be destroyed by it - but I’ve got my own thing I’m doing, it’s just going to be less dramatic. The directionality is just: I want to collect some of these cool stickers you’re offering. It’s like the pleasant capitalism that happens at the level of coins rather than cash. It’s possible that ‘hypertext 2020’ continues to be hermetic, ‘staying under wraps’. But, no, I think that while trying to articulate this directionality, I want that inverted movement. Perhaps it’s like a vacuum tube where the pressure got too hot. So now a hole broke and everything is getting sucked inside. It’s a nice breeze. Time to break some glass. Agreed on the mainstream - just on principle. My back is [[turned|https://www.kickscondor.com/flooding-the-culture]]. <br> !! 2020.02.29: Discord """ Welcome robotic_scarab . Leave your weapons by the door. 01/29/2020 chameleon just slid into the server. 01/29/2020 [7:34 PM] h0p3: I have no idea what we are doing here, btw. :slight_smile: [7:34 PM] h0p3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BnKd7RrjE [7:34 PM] chameleon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXMskKTw3Bc YouTube Pcrusen Never Gonna Hit Those Notes [7:35 PM] h0p3: I have a new favorite. [7:35 PM] robotic_scarab: :wave: [7:35 PM] robotic_scarab: yay experiments! [7:36 PM] chameleon: are we all senpai here [7:36 PM] chameleon: even me [7:36 PM] h0p3: Yup. :slight_smile: [7:36 PM] chameleon: :kona: [7:37 PM] h0p3: Admin rights for everyone; whatever works for you works for me. [7:37 PM] chameleon: oh so I see! [7:37 PM] chameleon: hang on, time to make emoji [7:38 PM] chameleon: it's all I'm good for as a discord hotpocket :heart: [7:40 PM] chameleon: :yinyanggdrasil: [7:41 PM] robotic_scarab: gotta make one of h0p3's favicon :smile: [7:43 PM] chameleon: :favicon: [7:44 PM] chameleon: unfortunately you need nitro to post animated emoji but hey [7:55 PM] chameleon: I don't know if this'd make a good emoji but, it's me [7:57 PM] chameleon: http://cdn.attackofthecute.com/September-12-2014-20-52-54-kk.jpg [7:57 PM] chameleon: also this [7:57 PM] chameleon: (I'm a shy chameleon) [9:13 PM] chameleon: oh if folx (looking at you, h0p3) want a game of chess, I have an lichess account [9:14 PM] chameleon: I'm mostly casual these days, but I can be persuaded to enjoy a quick game [9:14 PM] chameleon: https://lichess.org/@/japanoise lichess.org japanoise (1227) japanoise played 67 games since Nov 13, 2016. Current Rapid rating: 1227. [10:08 PM] robotic_scarab: sadly I'm not a chess person :pensive: [10:09 PM] robotic_scarab: on the other hand if we're talking hearts or super casual bridge... """ <br> !! 2020-01-28: [[Sphygmus]] * https://sphygm.us/#%40%3A%20hypertext%202020%3A%20feelings%20%26%20wires * https://sphygm.us/#200128%20%E2%80%93%20Log%3A%20streams%20in%20passing%20contact <br> !! 2020-01-26 17:01 CST: [[chameleon]] Part of the solipsistic nature of the wiki is that trolls don't really have much of an effect on it. I don't visit that side of the internet and I'd prefer to keep it that way. It's in public, but I could easily lock it down by using basic authentication or cryptography or whatever. I'd like to pre-emptively avoid lumping in "activists" with those types of people. My very existence is political in today's hyperpartisan world, and many of those "activists" are at least attempting to make the world a better place, even if I don't agree with their approach ([[not by half|https://wiki.waifu.haus/#Cancel%2FCallout%20Culture]]). The only "activists" I'd shit on are those that appropriate the language of activism to perpetuate bigotry, i.e. TERFs and other second-wavers. Outside of just, y'know, ignoring them and focusing on my wiki, I exist in a true cozyweb too. 2dl has a gatekeeping system, and beyond that I exist in PMs and the like which (except with [[h0p3]]) generally stay ''private'' messages. I've thought about starting a group chat, or even private mailing list. I appreciate the notion of staying under wraps. I love that "[[dark forest|https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1]]" analogy. > I guess my question is: to what degree do you feel the four of us are being shaped by the culture? Or are we attempting to reshape it in miniature? As much as possible, I want to negate, even escape, the ~culture~. I don't like the mainstream 2010s-now-2020s internet. I hate twitter, I hate facebook, I hate 99% of youtube, I hate instagram, and `<s>`i hate everyone that posts there.`</s>` If I had my way, we'd all forget the irony-poisoned, toxic, proprietary-software cultural shit-show of today and use the infrastructure we have to replicate and expand on what was good about the past. I want to see an internet which is just about weird, funny shit again. I want communities which are about sharing our love of something, not shitting on what someone else likes, or gatekeeping each other for having insufficiently patrician taste. I want an end to harassment; to reactionary bullying; to corporate shills and #influencers. I want the internet to be fun again. <br> !! 2020-01-26 14:27 EST: [[h0p3]] ''>> 2020.01-21: [[kickscondor]]'' Those are big questions. Outgrouping cannot be escaped online or offine, it can only be shaped. There are no neutral parties or people devoid of ideology (even if a person may describe themselves as such). Even attempting to avoid or calmly stand outside of cultural war is an act of cultural warfare (though it may be the justified move in some cases). If I understand correctly, a cozyweb is a dialectical body designed with infrastructural outgrouping. To varying [[dok]], it tends to shield itself from the public and provides its users various control mechanisms for avoiding conflict with most of the world (which is not the claim this is always justified). Parts of what I'm engaged in here isn't toward the cozyweb because it's too public (vulnerable and compromised even with pseudonymity), however, the funnels do limit the probabilities of how the public might engage or react to it. Cultures are the dialectically ordered spheres of belief and desire of agents. Beyond curiosity, I don't think there is anything particularly special about them at first glance; lots of creatures have them. Ours are interesting because we can be responsible for them (which I wouldn't say about, for example, a bee culture). Hence, I am a culturalist; not all cultures of persons are morally equal. At the very least, some are permissible and some are not in various circumstances. I don't know the degree to which each of us are shaped by "the culture" (which I presume to be the set of all cultures on the planet), and it's not easy to pick out what consists in "shaping." Someone can hold a gun to my head and say "jump or I shoot," and I'm still capable of choosing not to jump (even if I'm not politically free to do otherwise); that kind of freedom is what allows us to intervene upon how culture shapes us to some [[dok]]. We can react differently and choose not to assent. Unless we're thinking about a causally isolated agent with beliefs and desires (and perhaps not even then, depending on the nature of the agent), culture always shapes an agent to some [[dok]]. Some influences are more direct or efficacious than others, and our responsibilities vary. How does it work culturally (as a description) is a different matter than how it ought to work (as a prescription). Are the beliefs and desires of a culture justified? I have doubts that we'll have a practice which is justifiable and contagious at the same time. I am not convinced our work here will likely be of any serious consequence at large, so the attempt is a Hail Mary pass (one I'm obligated to attempt). There is work to do in improving the odds of success though. <br> !! 2020.01-21: [[kickscondor]] Ok, thank you - the answers about ‘funneling’ or ‘iceberging’ or ‘shitpiling’ or whatever you want to call it are all really interesting. I really like Chamy’s take on drafting as another layer. I hadn’t considered that kind of granularity at all. I guess we can start to wind the discussion down - I think the last thing I want to ask about touches on the ‘culture wars’ and the surrounding online warfare that we find ourselves in. Specifically: the ingroup/outgroup dynamics that plague the Internet, the trolls and activists that stoke the fire, and the norms that are being established around how one should talk and write publicly. This is already a topic in the discussion - the personal/private distinction we’ve discussed indicates where we stand in defending ourselves, the topic of doorways into our icebergs is somewhat about who to invite and how to set the right note - and h0p3 just went into how the funnel can ‘bounce’ trolls and vampires. (Which troubles me, because I like to meet trolls and vampires, too. For sure I’d love to meet vampires! I’m not sure I want them to bounce as much as to rattle around inside.) So this topic might kill the discussion - I feel like it’s more enjoyable to just allude to the conflict rather than to take it on - not that no one’s talking about it, it’s like everyone is talking about it all of the time. And I think it goes without saying that the shape of our ‘cozyweb’ is due to these forces. I guess my question is: to what degree do you feel the four of us are being shaped by the culture? Or are we attempting to reshape it in miniature? Because ‘hypertext 2020’ isn’t really a complete discussion without some vision for how our smaller landscape could function. We have some good ideas for how the craft of hypertext might progress in 2020. How can it possibly work culturally? <br> !! 2020-01-17 15:18 EST: [[h0p3]] ''>> 2020-01-12 17:15 CST: chameleon'' <<< Can I provide it? <<< I think that's the real issue. We get to be librarians about ourselves for [[others]]. It's a 