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@natecull Anyone who didn't grow up with peek and poke is at a serious disadvantage understanding what computers, ultimately, are about.

@djsundog Comments are just rumors that haven't been repeated yet.

@djsundog @KitRedgrave @jk @chr I spoke recently with an artistically-inclined individual who was working toward a vision of VR representations of programs and datasets as ecological renderings, such that from "code" would emerge *form*, readily navigable by recognizable landmarks that would grow and transform in accordance with edits to the underlying substrate.

@djsundog @impiaaa Lucifer sitting in on an emotions circle at Starford Academy.

@impiaaa @djsundog I've said it before, but it deserves reiteration:

The problem with STEM is it focuses too much on leaves and too little on roots. On rootedness and uprootedness. It's too teleologically arborescent.

Bring on, instead, the radically rhizomic, the just right and right just, the mirror neurons and rhetorical light shows, the simple essential grasping at dirt and worms and ladybugs, and all the simple and striking manifestations of the real and the realizable.

@djsundog @impiaaa @e Poducation.

@djsundog @impiaaa EEEE before STEM.

EEEE instead of STEM.

EEEE! EEEE! EEEE!

@djsundog https://mastodon.social/media/tLyAcFOIg8RIyVl6pHk

@djsundog i.e., you're flying your balloon ballast free.

@Mycroft @djsundog
"Look out!" someone shouted, pointing to the large delayed-action breech-lock rifle carried by a reanimated stitched-together corpse wearing a pinstripe suit. "It's the Thompson!"

"Actually," the figure said, patting the weapon, "it's Thompson's submachine gun, see?"

@djsundog @sydneyfalk @thegibson

Are aerostat bots a thing?

Asking for a friend.

@djsundog Mast Salon

@vertigo @djsundog I really think we should stop using the word "engineer" to describe someone who has none of the structural liability for getting things wrong that true engineers have.

@djsundog We need more design "lathing and milling" specialists, fewer software "engineers".

@djsundog compostposting

6502 for 2018

OH NO, CARMEN SANDIEGO HAS STOLEN your microprocessor opsec!

@djsundog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydPBalxaa4I

@saper The argument would hinge on lawyers (and justices) parsing the term "public" in "public use" as equivocal to the term "public" in "public domain".

e.g., "public use" refers to the government using a thing. "public domain" refers to the people using a thing. i.e., "public domain" is conceivably colorable as "private" property of the public, that is, used by the public in their private capacities, rather than through government use on the public's behalf.

@saper In the U.S. it would be a constitutional question.

Of course, the 5th amendment clause is "private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation".

However, one could argue (if they tried really hard), that new creative works derivative of public domain works were private property, and that by removing works from the future public domain one was foreclosing the creation of such future private property.

It's a big stretch, but I imagine there's precedent.