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Dear frog in the pot,
what you got for $20 now comes with the $100 plan.
We’ve added a little boost to make it feel like an upgrade.
To boil or be boiled, that is the question.

This must be spread widely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDvAQf1cnr8&t=927s

Freedom shouldn’t mean to be able to make poor choices so that others can prey on it.
Freedom should just be about having a peaceful life.

Those… those pesky hierarchies, yes… it’s their fault, nasty things… always making everything messy, yes… But our precious relational model, oh yes… it’s better… much better, my precious… so clean, so elegant… and they doesn’t understand it, no… they never understands our precious…

@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us A more cynical systematic take: the Google we liked was a decoy. Search could exist in that form only while growth (not profit) was the focus. Once it became the business, the incentives inevitably shifted. That’s the VC playbook now: subsidize growth, then enshittify.

Zero-rate money made it feel normal. We got used and even entitled to “free and good.”

Hey it looks like Google now hallucinates excerpts and references. The link to Wikipedia is broken and the page is not in the deletion log!
What a time to be alive 🍿!

If I had to write the reader for a lisp, I would make the comma works like: (a b, c d e, f) would read as ((a b) (c d e) (f))

Note to self: support tagged strings in next languages so that formatters can know when and how to reflow.

Touched down in Charlotte for #ClojureConj

A friend gently reminded me for my birthday “there are always a number base where you are in your 20s” – there’s even an increasingly number of such bases. I’m more in my 20s than ever!!!

💡space filling curves as progress bars!

Having fun with ClojureDart and Flutter for an actual app.

I really really like the manga Hirayasumi. Lovely cosy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirayasumi?wprov=sfti1

Gram-Schmidt? Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time…a long time.