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Interesting Things That I Know Of
I don't know what else to put on my index page, so here are some things that I like.
- indie game store: https://itch.io/
- music store: https://bandcamp.com/
- static website hosting provider: https://neocities.org/
- list of independent game wikis (bookmark this!): https://getindie.wiki/listings/
- good programming advice: https://grugbrain.dev/
Languages that I like:
| name | role | appeal | strongest impression |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fish | shell | simple syntax i can remember | the core team is too busy to release a new version for a critical bug. the bug is now fixed. |
| Python | scripting | has many libraries | |
| Janet | scripting | simple lispy thing | good. it's good. |
| Zig | all-access | negligible drag in math realm | weird design decisions (no unused variable), the dictactor's towards-me use of violence |
| Rust | empowering | supports you | the borrow checker disallows correct memory access patterns |
Terminal: KiTTY
GUI libraries that do it right: imgui uhtml htmx
If you like playing around with language models, try out RWKV.
Games I like (and may still play):
- SS14 (source): Comedic Rhapsody in Space. Realtime multi-player. A lot of features got added recently (2023-08-14).
- Intricacy (with source): Picking locks that hurt your brain. Async multi-player, with user-created locks.
- Dona Misa: The game is random. Sometimes you can win.
Music I like:
Present events worth worrying about
Human nature is a part of nature. We are living in a world where, internationally, war on many fronts, ideology warping sense of reality, wealth inequality is high.
We are entropic flowers each trying to bloom in a different way. While our ability to do whatever we want and not know about consequences is surprisingly precarious to our continued survival, our wish to be who we want to be is true.
Russia wants to be safe from NATO and North Korea too but South Korea fears North Korea so looks for protection. It's a mess. We fear each other's history, since information cannot travel instantaneously.
This is about information. Culture baggage, historical baggage. Unlike in the movie TENET, we are continuously being attacked by our past. That's I can freely speak about the true nature of this war.
This is about fear. We need to work together to face upcoming climate change.
This is about survival. Can we survive together without being divided? The original Australians have already figured that out. I hope we figure this out too.
The three factors are complected.
Entropic flowers bloom when low entropy meets high entropy. We do not have to act like the universe. The ancient Australians proves that we can act nice to each other and coexist. It will take some time to heal our wounds. Maybe we are both evil.
Hierarchies repeatly and repeatly amplifies personal fear -- some person's fear. This is a signaling problem -- hierarchies natively have insufficient signaling.
I have designed a structure to boost signaling in any organization from O(N) to potentially O(N²). Please take a look. I have hope that sufficient signaling will solve some of the social problems we face together, together.
I highly recommend Nonviolent Communication. You should read that book before reading anything else on this website.
A key to survival under the coming war: respect each other's boundaries. NATO is a bad example of this. Sometimes, being too kind is a sin.
Wealth and productivity inequality is high.
Slavery like treating peasants as serfs still exists today. However, there is now another cause of wealth inequality: automation.
Those who own machinery that makes food, clothes, building materials can trade with each other and have their every need satisfied. In countries like Vietnam and China, the poorest of the poor can't even choose to be exploited, as clothing factory line have strict sanitary rules that they don't comply. The group of high [productivity per capita] only need each other to live well. They don't need to live on rent like the nobility of 1525 Germany. Competition of the labor market -- to put it simply, the high productivity class don't need the low producitivity class to live. Those who only know manual labor are competing with machines.
From the human welfare perspective, this is fucked up. This is why I support direct wealth transfer (a.k.a. universal basic income). There was never any Mehrwert to begin with. It's not about "seize the means of production". The stuff I invented, not many people know how to use it.
In China, there is tremendous hate from menial labor workers (including taxi drivers) for "the capitalists" (due to Marxist indoctrination). In the US, Trump gains power by promisng workers laid off due to globalization jobs. The UK's wealth tax movement is going strong. It seems to me that a proper wealth tax is the only peacful solution to wealth inequality.
Other than producing more goods, owning machines allow the owner to attract speculative capital. Economic crisis to date are caused by political corruption (e.g. "bail out") and poor design of currency.
Cold war, again. This time on a smaller scale. I wish for a day where there is no more war.
The Internet has synced our consciousness together too much to create this war. As 國安9課 put it, a way to remaining individuality after everything is synced up to the net: everyday human curiosity.
- The combat debacle in Sudan.
The Israel War On Gaza.Ended for now.- The Russia-Ukraine War. Since the end of USSR, we are now mostly likely to see mushroom clouds.
- Politicians fearmonger for power.
- Our ancestors built democracy in the image of autocracy, and we are now seeing the design influence.
- Rent triumps over profit: a bad time to be free
Media sources
Sadly, the only way to know what is going on in other contries is to connect with people there directly, including on social media. Most media outlets have opinions, which render them useless as sources of information. We don't know how to circumvent this. We want to know. We know now.
@whitingx@mastodon.cloud recommended another way of acquiring global news: Wikipedia Portal:Current_events. It has Atom feed too!
Criticism of the idea of Human Rights
The definition of Human rights, according to UN, are defined as the morality of slaves by modern slave masters, according to Nietzsche.
Article 2
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, ...
Article 3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Entitled? By whom? Nature sure doesn't give us protection from the elements.
This felt weird the first time I read about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The idea that one deserve something just because they are born into this world is a wish. I think the whole Declaration is akin to prayers, given the amount of Member States of UN are subject to frequent reporting by www.hrw.org.
Article 30
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
A political institution is the most oppressive thing known to us today. It is exactly States that end lives most effectively.
It is concerning to me that, somehow, this document should be a moral compass for free individuals. It ought not to be. Please have your own morality instead of repeating this dogmatism.
Whether we fight for liberty or slavery, we are employed by human nature (1 or 2 centuries ago this would be called "God's servant" or "Devil's advisor"). However, there is much more to life than this.