Darius Kazemi @darius@friend.camp

I've been building a Facebook Events style event organizing system for the Fediverse. It's based on the simple, open source, privacy-respecting event organizing tool https://gath.io

The attached video is a work-in-progress preview and shows compatibility with Mastodon. My hope is to get it working with lots of software, including stuff like Friendica that supports events and calendars.

Check out more at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/organizing-on-32729070

I finished my stint as a Mozilla Fellow and now I'm relaunching my Patreon with a focus on, well, fixing social media.

This means I'm going to continue my concerted work trying to make the fediverse a better place, in the form of best practice guides for running instances, external advocacy, and technical tutorials and training so that more people can contribute software to the fediverse at large.

You can read a partial summary of my work so far at my new Patreon page!

https://www.patreon.com/tinysubversions

this same ranking could be "Pynchon novels sorted by the number of truly bad puns I remember from each book, in descending order"

Purely based on personal preference/enjoyment

1. Against the Day
2. Gravity's Rainbow
3. The Crying of Lot 49
4. V.
5. Inherent Vice
6. Vineland
7. Bleeding Edge
8. Mason & Dixon

I'm at Carnelian Coffee in PDX and they have an excellent cold brew (truly exceptionally good) and also minerals on display and books on minerals you can buy?? Also shocked that the minerals appear science themed rather than mysticism themed. (Nothing wrong with witch crystals but science rocks are more my aesthetic.)

I took snippets of the DEC BASIC-8 manual for the TSS/8 operating system and inserted them into a poetry generator. This is the poem. (The randomizer runs the same every time (no seeds though I could fake it) so this is in a sense *the* output.)

You know what's fun? Pressing a button and making this thing click and whirr and blink.

Having fun with BASIC-8 interpreter on the PDP-8/e at the Living Computers Museum in Seattle. Made a weird little landscape/flag generator.

@danbruno new theory: towa is grandmaster. mostly because: she's a girl, she is highly organized and effective, it would make very little narrative sense but there is nothing to EXPLICITLY contradict it in the lore, we know almost nothing about her background, she is one of Falcom's most popular characters

Illich is interesting to me because he argues from positions that are neither recognizably left nor right nor center. When libertarians tried to claim him as one of their own he fought back, saying (paraphrased) the free market is the most destructive of all institutions. Yet he is also firmly against large scale social welfare programs, preferring more local scale entities. If I had to pin a broad label on him it would be anarchist but even that doesn't seem right.

Re-reading Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society".

"The pupil is [...] "schooled" to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence [...] to accept service in place of value. [...] Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavor are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the [...] agencies in question."

I appreciate that this person picked a tag that also describes their state of being while tagging