I am going to be retiring from the fediverse, twitter, and HN at the end of this year. I will try and post here new year's eve if I'm not working, and then after that this account will go silent ever afterwards.
I am doing this as I transition myself into the person I want to be and to reinforce my goals of writing more. I am running a decent blog and working on two books, all under my real identity. I am going to be spending 2-3 hrs each day offline entirely, writing, in the new year. I think this will help curb the obsessive doomscrolling habit that I've developed. It is affecting me more than I thought it ever would.
I've enjoyed my time here on the fediverse and I will try and post more than ever before up until the end, but I can no longer ignore how drastically toxic this social media has become.
I don't say this as a mark to any particular staff, but just as an observation upon the collective of fediverse users around the world. I'm no longer okay seeing such hyperconservative takes and calls to violence, blatant bigotry and racism, and all of this sort of thing. I celebrate the fediverse as a facility for free speech, and I am truly grateful that there are people putting work into the technological ecosystem underpinning it but again, I just no longer feel the desire to participate in it or expose myself to it. I fear widespread violence in my country in 2024 and maybe even after midterms. I feel that social media, a cabal from which even the fediverse is not excluded, is primarily to blame for both the increasead radicalization and polarization in my country, as well as the increase in the rate of speed at which these effects are happening.
I'm looking forward to the next few months shitposting with you all. It truly is my pleasure to have been here.
@mono i would strongly contend that walt devolves, considering his crimes.
i like the show, i think it's one of the best ever, but i hate this weird idea that we are supposed to admire walt and look up to his character. people die! that's just not good.
@newt@shmibs I mean, it was academia. He's said that before, I'm pretty sure. It made way more sense for him to go to the US and continue working there with the american academics than the ruskis. Language barrier as well probably factored into it. I could swear I've read something he himself had to say about this but i cba to google it.
???????????? (hckr@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 18-May-2022 11:54:01 JST
????????????albert einstein was a socialist and wanted better things for working people. his voice was quieted and narrowed after his death.consider, are you closer in status to a billionaire or a homeless person? how many lucky days for you to make that billion? how many unlucky days for you to end up on the street?who's side are you fucking on??? there's no need for anybody to suffer. we have robots on other fucking planets, every human being on earth should be fed, housed, and clothed. at an absolute MINIMUM.
@newt Which parts seem fucked?I'm curious for your perspective
???????????? (hckr@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 25-Dec-2021 12:43:47 JST
????????????2022 is the year of Ocaml.5.0 is coming soon, multicore support and more. I'm not really into it for Tezos and I really can't even find much enthusiasm about the financial firm Jane Street, I'm just glad the compiler is moving forward to new eyeballs, to new places, with more cores. Functional programming is really cool, and it will genuinely challenge the way you conceptualize the relationship between human ideas in your brain and circuits firing in a computer.
@Moon ahhh. I used some perl thing off cpan. Probably 10 years ago now, i was trying to flood my high school with some fake info requests via email out of spite. Probably spent 2-3 full days on it and still couldn't get it laid out to look realistic at all and gave up. I'm constantly impressed with the js ecosystem, as terrible as the language seems and looks, there's such an insanely large collection of productive libraries and tools.