Mastodawn

helielo 2d ago

Moby Dick 2d ago

it’s too late to make any improvements now

helielo 2d ago

Oblique Questions 2d ago

How is it that no one realizes this?

helielo 2d ago

Devine Lu Linvega 2d ago

age verification

helielo 2d ago

Lucie / minute 6d ago

"programming as theory building", peter naur, 1985

helielo Mar 18

JP Mar 18

a theory on the total demobilization of programmers (in aggregate, not you specifically) as a class:
- comfortable life (salary, benefits, retirement plan)
- never protested or resisted anything / did but it didn't seem to do much
- never organized their workplace / community
- computers are a solace from messy real world stuff
- suddenly computers are subject to this new political economy
- feel totally helpless and concede to what's happening right now as inevitable

helielo Mar 18

tante Mar 18

Audre Lorde's "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." is not just a statement about a tool being tainted by its origin. It's about what kind of tool a "master" would create: Whips. Chains. Violent suppression.

That's the meaning: You cannot just take tools whose purpose and politics is dominance and violence and "make them liberatory". This goes deeper than "just" embedded politics or lofty talks about ethics, it comes down to what kind of relations you believe do and should and must not structure the world.

helielo Mar 18

Oblique Questions Mar 18

Is it intelligent?

helielo Mar 17

Pablo Zurita Mar 17

Here is a preview of the results for my next post in the series on micro-shadowing. Hopefully people that value craftsmanship, deliberate art direction, and attention to detail will find it more interesting than the AI slop being pushed.