Notices by D Dino (garbados@toot.cat), page 37

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remember frens

even if u aren't a kobold

don't forget to gently yourself

in the midst of this world
in this upside-down world
moonlit

we must seize the means of survival because the ongoing alternative is literally death. it's not a theoretical thing. it's not a distant abstraction. it's today. it's tomorrow. it's the crushing screaming terror of dead and dying friends, police continuously knocking over tent cities and shooting people just like you, side by side with the untouchable rich who maintain that poverty is intractable but who have never known anything like scarcity.

i don't know how to communicate the state of things to folks who don't live it. nobody close to me eats enough, sleeps enough, has winter clothes, or any assurance that we'll be able to make rent on a regular basis. medical debt, student debt, credit card debt -- it just accumulates. there's no other way to survive. people freeze to death in the street next to towers of empty condos. this isn't a metaphor. it's not a joke. we're dying.

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what am i missing

do not imagine that a currency market is any way to equitably distribute finite goods. it is not a solution to web of trust problems. it’s a speculator’s game. how long are you willing to ride the bubble?

a highly consistent distributed ledger, divorced from all this proof-of-work stuff would have tremendous value
to communities trying to operate local voucher and coupon programs. the use cases abound for this but somehow we’re stuck reproducing currency markets for rich nerds.

i’ve also been really excited about peer-to-peer tech that uses the browser as its execution context, like the web apps you can peer using the beaker browser. dat provides a distributed filesystem as a mutable torrent, allowing you to publish the equivalent of a magnet link while retaining write access to the torrent. serve web apps this way, and they can generate their own apps and give them their own torrents. a peerful web is possible, using software that already exists. we got this ✊️❤️

i'm in comcast's dumpster
filling garbage bags with routers.
i flash their firmware
and give them to my neighbours.
the network grows
with everything they throw away.

the year is 3226 and elon musk has done it. he has seen into the simulation, found its code, and now sits aghast at the screen. semicolons and whitespace appear intermittently, seemingly without reason. he recognizes this. he remembers it in the vestiges of his mammalian remains.

brendan eich steps from the shadows. “yes elon. it is javascript. it has always been javascript”

in nineteen-dickety-six, allen turning invented compytooters

it's often said that governments are responsible for essential services. they think about food security so nobody starves. they think about logistical security so goods can get where they're needed. but they don't. we freeze and we starve from fake shortages.

when governments do not provide these essential services, they do not become less essential. we must think about the material security of our communities. we must provide the essentials because no one else will. no one but each other.

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