Mastodawn

I was introduced to Apple by learning BASIC on a IIe when I was 7. So, this morning, I thought I’d write a little “Happy Birthday, Apple” program in BASIC. But there's no basic interpreter for the Mac! So I Apple dorked all the way out and wrote one for my 7-year-old.

https://github.com/jpurnell/ApplesoftBASIC

Eryn Wells Mar 31

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Doc Impossible Mar 31

I remember the late '00s, the avalanche of constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. I remember the fear, the hate, the huge support for those measures. And now massive majorities support gay marriage. *Massive*.

We win by being visible.

I want to repeat that.

We win by being visible.

All of our research shows that the main way to deradicalize a bigot is for a member of the group they hate to be just... visible. Unremarkable. It doesn't work on everyone, of course, but the lies and fear and hatred that radical bigotry relies on at the most basic levels *CANNOT* survive contact with reality for long.

Being visible is how we beat this. It always has been. It always will be.

Being visible changes the world.

When they fight us, we fight back harder. Listen to your elders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-JIOWUw1o

L020A Sylvia Rivera, “Y’all Better Quiet Down” Original Authorized Video, 1973 Gay Pride Rally NYC

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Eryn Wells Mar 26

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@w0bb1t/116295047359899655

Hell yeah Obies💖

Eryn Wells Mar 11

Riley S. Faelan Mar 11

The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.

A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.

This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.

Eryn Wells Mar 11

I watched two Coding Train videos tonight, one on Weighted Voronoi Stipling, and another on drawing and animating the Dragon Fractal. His videos always remind me how much I love programming as an art, a game, and a means of exploration.

Eryn Wells Mar 6

Logan Five Thousand May 30, 2024

I thought the sign read
“Haiku Club” not “Hiking Club.”
We walked for hours. Hours.

#haiku

Eryn Wells Feb 28

mhoye Feb 28

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.

Eryn Wells Jan 24

eve massacre Jan 24

“ICE made a classic Nazi mistake: they invaded a winter people in winter.” from Margaret Killjoy's latest.
"I’ve been involved in protest movements for 24 years now (maybe it’s cheesy, but I picked a specific protest as my starting point) and I’ve never seen a population so united, and it’s not even close."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-185417158