RE: https://mastodon.social/@lucasarts_places/116342226506221299
MM's Famicom port's backgrounds were all redrawn to avoid any need for screen scrolling, and the "out of order" staircase in the library is even more of a tease than the C64 original!
"but we need a way to move money around without having to go through oppressive governments" - sure ok so why would you trust such obviously purely self-interested criminals in such an enterprise? are you so totally gullible or unprincipled that you find common cause with anyone who says they want a thing you want? this degree of moral-ideological disorientation is going to ruin your life and relationships if it hasn't already.
everyone who has worked on and/or invested in blockchain or cryptocurrency over the years bears some measure of responsibility for the current US president getting elected and using it as it was intended: an unregulated shadow economy whose biggest use cases are overwhelmingly ransomware, gambling, and money laundering. any principled justifications you might have had for that are a joke to the small number of totally amoral dudes getting richer off it. they appreciate your work and your $$$.
https://tante.cc/2026/04/01/dissolving-the-social From the capitalist boss perspective the fundamental function of current "AI" is to dissolve worker solidarity, mutual respect, and trust.
Dissolving the social
“AI” exists to disenfranchise labor. That’s what it’s for. Regardless of how good these stochastic systems are or the flaws they have just being able to point at the non-unionized robot whenever the employees ask for raises or anything really is incredibly valuable for business. The existence of “AI” and the supporting narrative mean that […]
I'm actually pleased I've spent several years very slowly writing a small program by actually learning a lot about what it needs to do and thinking about its design and painstakingly validating it. it beats the pants off putting my name on this garbage
Servo project has a pretty good roadmap:
https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmapgives you an idea of what's coming but doesn't promise anything. more projects should publish roadmaps like this!
Roadmap
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. - servo/servo
autonomous vehicles essentially serve a hyperloop-like function - created by an industry to soak up funding and political mindshare to head off and ultimately starve a public good that threatens an existing business.
AVs have gotten further because they seem more achievable (despite only solving the easiest ~80%) and because they took a consumer form that seems less obviously fraudulent. but no one should have any illusions that they exist for the same reason: to fully privatize transit.
computer-controlled retractable car door handles will be considered one of the iconic technologies of the 2020s
if you've lost respect for lots of people in your life these past couple years you should allow yourself the time and energy it takes to grieve for that
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