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I just did an actual task on the Internet with a modern browser that isn't Chrome, Firefox or Webkit-based.

I just did an actual task on the Internet with a modern browser that isn't Chrome, Firefox or Webkit-based.

I,I "It turned that into a wildly spinning bean-spewing piece of unreliable munitions, and it was currently painting my entire kitchen...

I,I "It turned that into a wildly spinning bean-spewing piece of unreliable munitions, and it was currently painting my entire kitchen a fresh shade of beige."

It's kinda terrifying watching Americans get good at circumlocuting around censorship in real-time

It's kinda terrifying watching Americans get good at circumlocuting around censorship in real-time

Words of humility can be turned to words of supremacy. Watch out for that sleight of mind, because it’s a subtle one.

Words of humility can be turned to words of supremacy. Watch out for that sleight of mind, because it’s a subtle one.

“Negligence, like risk, is thus a term of relation." Absolute banger...

“Negligence, like risk, is thus a term of relation." Absolute banger sentence.
https://everything.happens.horse/@ingrid/114211727264836474

All this to say I'm tired of ethical reasoning that is all runaway trains and inductive expansion of scope into infinity.

All this to say I'm tired of ethical reasoning that is all runaway trains and inductive expansion of scope into infinity.

I think a lot of our failures are because we philosophize about it badly, and we don't recognize community action very well except in...

I think a lot of our failures are because we philosophize about it badly, and we don't recognize community action very well except in trite admonition about failures: against “if we all just..." and “the tragedy of the commons", as if the group is a nebulous non-entity that acts but never takes action, never considers, never deliberates.

So much of systems study would be more obvious if we weren't always obsessed with breaking it down just a little too far for the same reasons: the whole works differently than the pieces. The communication cannot be separated from the action.

I'm actually curious about this and I want it to exist so that it is not yet one more thing I should work on.I've long had a belief...

I'm actually curious about this and I want it to exist so that it is not yet one more thing I should work on.

I've long had a belief that a lot of our ethical conundrums are difficult because they're all framed in terms of individuals: but we never act alone.

All our thought experiments are a lone actor encountering a trolley gone on the wrong rails, but nearly never a community acting, a family working together.

The individual still exists, but it's the wrong unit to think about things most of the time, at least as the only. We have to work at multiple levels.

Elinor Ostrom's work is tangential to this: it's a work of economics not ethics, but even so, much of her work is about the fact that as communities with interest in something, we manage it better.

Have anyone ever published a book on ethics with 'we' rather than 'I' as the agentive subject?


Have anyone ever published a book on ethics with 'we' rather than 'I' as the agentive subject?


Cryptography might be one of the most damaging things to activism ever invented.

Cryptography might be one of the most damaging things to activism ever invented.

No "world heritage" posts on fedi I guess

No "world heritage" posts on fedi I guess

Man the fact that everyone's posts these days are set to expiring kinda sucks

Man the fact that everyone's posts these days are set to expiring kinda sucks

I,I "Life of crime and/or business"

I,I "Life of crime and/or business"

Humans: "I understand probability. It's not that hard."Also humans: "I thought it was supposed to rain this...

Humans: "I understand probability. It's not that hard."

Also humans: "I thought it was supposed to rain this afternoon"

Pretty sure anti-monarchists and patriots in New England are humming God save the King and Oh Canada at this point

Pretty sure anti-monarchists and patriots in New England are humming God save the King and Oh Canada at this point

I am looking forward to the frustration of all the cool stuff being built being in other countries and looking at it aspirationally. Sigh.

I am looking forward to the frustration of all the cool stuff being built being in other countries and looking at it aspirationally. Sigh.

If someone suggests one more reading group ima scream.

If someone suggests one more reading group ima scream.

Amazing sentence, "Maybe we've got so many goofs on our hands that they felt the specter of a human extinction event was necessary...

Amazing sentence, "Maybe we've got so many goofs on our hands that they felt the specter of a human extinction event was necessary to cut through all the humor.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L02gl9YoSFg

I kinda think the protests this summer are gonna be lit in New England. It's too cold now, and the blows haven't landed here, not...

I kinda think the protests this summer are gonna be lit in New England. It's too cold now, and the blows haven't landed here, not fully, but I'm hearing fire from people who are usually quiet

One of the core dilemmas right now is ‘how much do we resist change' vs 'how much do we build new things that replace what's...

One of the core dilemmas right now is ‘how much do we resist change' vs 'how much do we build new things that replace what's being broken?’, particularly at the state level.