Daniel Lowe @dl@cantos.social

@chr
If this is your first moot
You _have_ to toot.

#introduction

I used to be a lot weirder. I'm a middle-aged geek, father to two boys, and I bang out code at #Google. I live near Boston now, but I grew up in central Mississippi.

I know the conlangs #Lojban and #TokiPona. I write hobby code in #Tcl and #CommonLisp.

I play a bunch of #music instruments, but none well enough to perform. I've been playing around with a DAW.

I started the cantos.social instance, trying to be a part of the small-scale Internet.

I try to be as kind as I can.

I don't have a problem with people in my yard, Todd, just people who don't ask permission. Those people are vermin by definition. You're really better off getting a new family - one that doesn't trespass in the yards of honest citizens.

You know, Todd, I'm not sure your family is there any more anyway. My basement is only so big, you know, so I may have shipped them to some other basements. Keep them together? What purpose would that have served?

Todd, you're getting awfully worked up about this. Well I checked with the police, and they said it was okay since the people were illegally there. I just call them illegals for short. Why would I have a shower in my basement? That seems like a huge waste of money!

They'll be fine, Todd. I have about 50 other people in there, and they're all doing fine. I mean, they should have read the sign, right? Crowded? I guess so, but it's kind of their fault, isn't it? They were trespassing in my yard, so I can do whatever I want with them.

Oh, hi Todd. Yeah, I've seen your wife and kids. They were in my yard, despite the clear "No Trespassing" sign, so I stuck them in my basement. What? Of course I can't let them out! What if they step in my yard again?

I love watching my kid on his computer, clicking around the GNOME shell like it was the most natural thing in the world. He's never known desktop Windows, only Linux.

I wanted to shout out to Erik Davis and his excellent podcast Expanding Minds, to which I have been listening for years. It's an interview podcast dealing with spirituality, psychedelics, and the cultures of consciousness. Hopefully one day he'll join us on the fediverse. 😁 https://techgnosis.com/category/podcast/

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.

A missed opportunity for #Twitter was to become the middlemen between news orgs and users near newsworthy events. Specialized tools could allow the news to pay for content licensing to obtain photos and video, then Twitter could take a cut. News gets content, Twitter gets paid, creators get paid.

IMHO, this would have produced a profoundly better Twitter, leveraging its unique status in the world and avoiding the more-eyeballs-at-any-cost trap of ad revenue.