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mildly tankie in the streets, extremely tankie in the video game baldurs gate 3

« Prometheus was the god who brought fire to earth and aided man in defiance of Zeus. Instead of Christ, who had become mythical in the thought of Strauss and Bauer, Marx directed himself to Prometheus to express his commitment to human welfare. »

the JD doesn't mention it so i would inquire before applying, but it is tagged for remote work: https://jobs.code4lib.org/jobs/61853

anyway i’m reading early marx and without weighing in on the controversy as to whether late marx disavows early marx or is a refinement of it, i think the reason why early marx, the part where he is journeying from a Western Christian upbringing thru Hegelian philosophy to Marxist enlightenment, tends to be popular in Western and predominantly white liberal settings is pretty obvious, and maybe charts a way forward for the rest of us

“boo hoo i have no moral or cultural authority who isn’t completely bankrupt and responsible for the oppression of millions so i will just flail around in the void” read marx

not all marxists are white but white people CAN be marxists. u can claim that one. it’s not appropriation

in retrospect it was probably a good call giving us the room next to the shower

kind of bitch who writes DTDs for her projects

« In F/LOSS, openness relies on a steadfastly closed epistemological frame that not only constitutes technology as apart from persons, but shapes this separability in such a way that code is more than just outside the realm of the social: it is downright FREED from it. The social here is not exactly orthogonal to the technical as F/LOSS imagination has it; rather, social forms shape how ties are SEVERED, as well as how they are built, between people. Not needing to know with whom code is being exchanged, or having a stake in their concerns, is as central to F/LOSS as open scrutiny to improve code quality. »

the couple of paragraphs which include this do pack a theoretical wollop, but unfortunately Dawn Nafus does not have the rhetorical prowess of Marx

« Community members are decidedly NOT free to build ties that might oblige others to explain themselves, which is exactly what women’s groups do, and exactly why they are considered problematic. If someone does not like being in one software project, the accepted course of action is to simply start another project else- where, not create an obligation for that community to include you. This particular form of exchange means that others can push the technology along further only AS individually willful agents who have taken it upon themselves to ‘read the f***ing manual.’ »

« Members often describe their work as ‘scratching an itch’ by producing something tangible and craft-like. Scratching an itch is a common reason why people become involved with communities and why they stay. Yet tradition and repetition, key elements of other forms of craft production, have no place other than as building blocks upon which to take one’s own work further. Re-doing work similar to that of other coders does not scratch the itch satisfactorily, whereas it generally does among craftspeople. In this way, the craft system looks suspiciously like a system of science. It is not considered interesting to just make a media player or word processor, but only NEW KINDS of media players or word processors that exemplify some transformation in knowledge. »

my very asleep girlfriend just woke up enough to flop on top of me and pin me to the bed

oh nice new BERWYN

there are definitely engineering decisions which are complex and weigh a lot of factors and require technical and theoretical expertise to evaluate, but those tend to be interesting problems

hard problems tend to be more like “i have known what needs to be done for six months but it is so aesthetically repugnant that i can only work on it for a couple of hours a week before my brain loses the ability to focus”

a hard problem is simply a problem that is hard

this was also a fine bit but in my head what i heard was “grandma can’t be doing that, she has arthritis”

here’s the actual clip if you’re curious

all other things aside, biden saying “i’m the most pro-union president and you all doubted me, but guess what, the data is in” and then leaning close into the mic and whispering “when the unions win, we all win” WAS pretty great

putting these in a separate repo like this does create an unfortunate situation where i’m going to constantly be having to update a subrepo hash but frankly if i’m going to have to run a manual build every time anyway might as well