While 1701-D has parents caring for children, it has no children caring for parents, or extended families. I’d like to see non-nuclear families in future starships, tbh. It would be fun. #StarTrek
In the TNG episode, Clues, I find it difficult to believe that everyone on board consented to synaptic surgery by the Paxans. Like the children, for example. So Captain Picard allowed some members of his crew to be memory raped.
Cool writing prompt. Write a future where humans return to earth inhabited by these creatures: vox.com/down-to-earth/… or tell the story of one of these future animals
free idea for swc: AOT-compiled JS-to-Wasm plugins for tha masses :)
I kinda worry that de-opting back into JS AST will defeat a significant part of the performance wins. You know how users will pile on JS plugins - and if they can be writ...
On TNG, there’s also an ep where Troi “loses” her empathic sense. She has a strong reaction; people seem like cardboard cutouts to her. Later, they show Troi using the holodeck to train for command. Wouldn’t the holodeck be excruciating to her, like a really bad video game?
Tonight, I drink to Colin Robinson.
very good conversation with a reference to "Things to Come" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to…
Jon Lebkowsky https://twitter.com/jonl
Watch Plutopians talk about a Lexicon of the Future with @GuRuth : bit.ly/3aY50jJ
I'm still trying to wrap my head around what it would be like to use a Mac with ProMotion. That sweet, sweet 120Hz refresh rate is one of the things I love most about my iPad Pro. But part of that magic is the tactile feel you get as you're using the touchscreen.
"Many people want to boil down this to just 'crazy libs' obsessed with 'cancel culture' who want to harm Chappelle, but that could not be further from the truth. Within the Trans* team there is no desire to 'destroy Netflix' or cancel Dave.'" washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
When people start admitting that they don't know, but will try to find out, we might actually get somewhere. Bravo @twitter . protocol.com/policy/twitter…
Over 50 hours post-jab and no side-effects. Was a bit more tired last night, but nothing unusual, slept in today just in case. Now the 12 days wait til “fully vaccinated”.
24 hours ago
I got vaccinated
No one to see, nowhere to go
I got #JNJ vaccinated

Just drive across the Bay Bridge
And guide me to a lane
Asking, asking, asking
Confirming my consent
I opened up my car door
I rolled up my left sleeve
Oh, jab, oh oh oh oooh!



(to be continued)
Are there other words like:
"basically"
"just"
"simply"
used in explanations/instructions to obscure actual complexity or difficulty?

Is there a name for such words?

They often shame the reader as a side-effect (if it’s not easy, it must be my fault)
Reflecting on insightful #visualthinking talks by @nadrosia & @evalottchen @BTConf @StayCurio_us Café last week. A couple of quotes:

“making things and editing should be in two different phases … also in writing. these are two different modes”

“you want to have your own CSS in your hand [when drawing] ... your style for an h1 h2 or pullquote”

both by @evalottchen
Going for a run to move my feet and get more vert for the @Nov_Project_SF #sfhillclimbchallenge https://sfhillclimb.challenges.run, adding reps on top of last month’s 50/50 Grand Slam feat made possible by a 35mile run around SF to get the last 21 hills.
#sfhillclimbchallenge
Minor #OwnYourLinks #IndieWeb trick I setup a while ago:

Top level /github redirect to my profile so I can link to:
https://tantek.com/github/cassis instead of linking to @Github directly.

Enables eventual moving/selfhosting repos/issues without breaking links.
#OwnYourLinks #IndieWeb
Some days are more meetingfull and others are more meaningful.
Day before Thanksgiving 2019 my hot water heater broke, kicking off a cascade of forking paths still unfolding. For every repair I chose bold options, renovating thru 2020 lockdowns (another story). Most recently, painting the inside of my flat revealed:
Took my solar anniversary and the next day off from work.

Dialed down email, chat, news, & social media, creating larger blocks of continuous thinking. More insights surfaced, stretching from deeper in the past to possible futures. Some interconnected.
🌞🔄✅
rewatched Interstellar

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

more 2020:
Mar 9
* #NPSF Dolo^1
* 100% remote work
Mar 10
* Ocean Beach 😍 sunset^2
* Sutra philosophy class in-person
Mar 11
* #NPSF Alta Plaza^3

^1 https://tantek.com/t55X2
^2 https://tantek.com/t55X3
^3 https://tantek.com/t55Z1