Notices by (⚗️ pnathan) (pnathan@imaginair.es), page 4

I'm moving to Tacoma, WA, from Seattle, WA. Turning into a single family house homeowner (blech).

The finances to do this were stupid hard. but now that I have property, I'll be catered to. also blech.

I look forward to imploding my property value through aggressive upzoning, increasing diversity, and seeking policies that, at the least, put renters on an equal footing.

I'm almost tempted these days to think that proper mass housing should come through mass apartments owned by the city.

http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/

Civil Rights in Seattle. Do you have questions about Washington KKK? Maybe the Black Panthers?

Take a look! Bookmark!

@lnxw48a1 oh my. sounds lovely.

@lnxw48a1 Thanksgiving Drama or Mastodon Drama?

so tomorrow starts the annual perversion of the solstice festival, celebrating the Winter King in a red suit who brings gifts for children.

and then the howling about how the Risen King, born in the fall, should be celebrated in place of the Winter King.

spare me your holidays. spare me your feasts. spare the gatherings moaning about the replacement kings.

@IlexysCrowe in my art practice I've found good tools really help.

(but you don't need as near many as one might think)

@h @bob I have had no real answers when I've pressed the FSF people about "how do I pay the rent while not touching proprietary software".

The best thing going seems to be "consult to big corporations" ala Red Hat.

(sigh)

My studio.

A little messy from having too many paint tubes.

I hope to get/make a full sized h frame easel one day on the not too distant future.

https://imaginair.es/media/k4wpwwulfEVVL8O2X2A

@Leucrotta @swauger are any proposals floating that have a chance of being enacted? it's a frigging nightmare out there ..

Biblical art project, sketch.

Abishag: the woman brought to be a new concubine to David in his old age.
https://imaginair.es/media/Wk0NfNPNq8DRJNrMQBY

starting an art project.

Bible Stories without the Whitewash.

we have these *horrid* board books for my baby. "Noah and the Ark". "David and Goliath".

everyone portrayed is like tanned white people and happy. HAPPY.

what.

these people were probably pretty brown and definitely often miserable.

if you're going to have a board book about the ark, do not have 2x2x2 animals. There were 7 pairs of clean, 2 pairs of unclean.

let's talk about sanitation. that ship must have reeked. you have to figure that as Noah is floating out there shovelling poop out on his boat of stinky animals howling and so forth, there are dead bodies floating by bloating in the mideast sun.

now take hannah, samuel's mom. She's being hassled by her husbands other wife. Otherwife gets more food, unloads the snark on her for having no kids. Why aren't there pictures of poly families in board books?

when david smashed goliath's brains out, david was a teenager. beard shadow, most likely. ridiculously tan. cocky, too. He probably looked like a jock. why aren't the brains part of the standard images?

David was a sexual problem after his first wife gave him the cold shoulder. When he was dying, they got a hot young girl to get in his bed to see if that'd get him healthy again (it didn't). Now that's a perverted (to us) way to end the Great Hero's story. But it should be in there too.

Then the bible story books skip over the prophecies. Probably because it's gore, gore, gore, heavy sexual allusions, more gore, more "things gonna get better one day".

new testament, things are gorgeous, yea? nah. you had this huge pig herd and a lunatic. Jesus healed the lunatic but the pigs all ran into the sea and died. More bloating in the sun and Jesus gets the boot for asploding the local economy.

another one. so Jesus was this goody two shoes dude, yeah? let's adjust that in your board book. his first miracle was getting a wedding - a multiday rager of a party in that time - even more drunk by giving them the gooood wine.

the book of Acts in the bible has a lot of torture. Probably needs a lot of blood, piss, and filthy straw in the artistic rendering.

Stephen died in that book. Smashed by rocks. That's not a pretty death surrounded by nasty people and a glowing light. It's raw, ugly, and bloody.

and the book of revelations is calling out to be done up in full heavy metal art style. whole thing is like the ultimate album cover inspiration.

look, if you're gonna roll with the bible, roll with it. The blood on the sword, the stupid sexual antics, the stoning, and the bullheaded perseverence in the torture room.

and don't tell your children any different. it's not a lacy fairy tale.

@webology that sounds like a nifty idea.

@noelle ooooo now that's a painful burn

@szbalint He's an ass and I'd never work directly with him outside of duress. He is the single most publicly toxic person in open source that I know of, giving implicit permission for generations of people to be asses. He should be retired.

He's also living in a 1985 mindset about security, and his exit would be the single best thing for kernel security.

@natecull operational and denotational semantics are the Textbook Answers here. Whether they are sufficient is a different question. Haven't looked.

@natecull The question I think is worth doing some Real Academic Dabbling on is that we don't know what software Really Is.

let me toy with some ideas and then stagger off to bed, hopefully engaging on a similar idea, but deeper.

1. we do not know the metaphysical state of software, nor

2. the ontology of software knowing.

3. Programs are neither information nor matter. They are both imaginary and real. They are as real as a book and as alive as ink on a page.

example. what is mastodon? No, no, don't say "a server" or "the fediverse". because intuitively that is not what mastodon IS. That's just what makes up (some of) the stuff of mastodon. mastodon is the servers, the internet connections, the mobile browers, the home browsers, the command lines, all agglomerated to produce a relatively unified experience in the medium.

Then, what does it Really Mean to say mastodon knows to follow someone? Not *how*, but what? why?

what do we MEAN when we say "the computer did something wrong", that statement is bereft of technical reality. the computer acted in accordance to the material state it founds itself in.

if we don't understand what we conjure up, how can we hope to socially cope with it?