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matt @stavola.xyz · 22h

Alternatively, this is like create-a-character for internet media personalities. The community is pushing and pulling on the various Dark Souls attribute slides for this poor man.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 22h

It's good that the subathon has a definite end.

Should it continue beyond that point, more parts of Pat will be changed via StrawPoll until he is turned into a totally different guy.

Pat Stares At Clown World @patstaresat.bsky.social · 1d

Brother

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matt @stavola.xyz · 22h

Good news: mlf imports work now and we have the beginnings of an lsp.

Bad news: my cough is now SSJ2 and the nose is stuck in faucet mode.

We're well into the sick now, but hopefully it'll blow over soon.

matt @stavola.xyz · 22h

I think Georgism fixes this

matt @stavola.xyz · 1d

This will be my LotR trilogy marathon equivalent

Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 1d

It is finished. After 734 hours and 28 minutes of research and writing, I finally have drafts of all three scripts complete!

Script 1 - 28,107 words
Script 2 - 24,768
Script 3 - 30,026
Total - 82,901

At my normal speaking cadence, that 8 hours of content across 3 videos. Filming will begin soon!

Reposted by matt

Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 2d

The medical journal where RFK learned that circumcision causes autism.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 1d

Turns out that this is only an issue if you hit _lexicon.bsky.app; _lexicon.video.bsky.app and others work fine.

These also all point to the same repo too, so if you know one you can get them all in one shot.

matt @stavola.xyz · 3d

So stream.place uses the ATProto standard _lexicon TXT DNS record to point to where the lexicon defs are stored.

Any other services do this? I tried a few and got nada.

matt @stavola.xyz · 2d

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so dire.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

matt @stavola.xyz · 3d

Others I found:

2048.blue
anisota.net
leaflet.pub

Weirdly enough, I don't see them for bsky. I figured if any app would have it set up, it'd be the first one!

matt @stavola.xyz · 3d

So stream.place uses the ATProto standard _lexicon TXT DNS record to point to where the lexicon defs are stored.

Any other services do this? I tried a few and got nada.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 3d

And so it shall be:

mlf.lol/docs/languag...

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matt @stavola.xyz · 3d

Do lexicons support conditional fields like that?

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matt @stavola.xyz · 3d

Any thoughts on representing a closed union? Having | _ felt "natural" as a hole in the set, but I can't quite place the opposite as of yet. I was avoiding a keyword here just because it'd make it awkward to work name clashes with a token.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 3d

Yeah this is actually a good idea. I had gone back and forth on the required/optional thing, but I think !: would work really well here.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 3d

At this point I'm just excited to see people "just do things" and ship whatever thing they find cool and interesting. Quite literally, the more the merrier.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 3d

I felt the same way once I saw Typelex 😁. I had just started mlf.lol and was wondering if I should bother, but I realized that this early on there *needs* to be multiple attempts/iterations.

Like, AT wins if we start seeing like 3 Reddit clones and 5 attempts at an AT web framework or whatever.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 4d

I dunno, I'd take an 'ol Burr vs Hamilton every now and then over what goes on today.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 4d

ProtonPDS would go hard, ngl.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 5d

Okay, no more weird DSLs, tomorrow we're going back to Rokkenjima and we'll stay there for a while.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 5d

Here is the share for the above:

mlf.lol/playground/?...

MLF - Matt's Lexicon Format

A human-friendly DSL for ATProto Lexicons

mlf.lol

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matt @stavola.xyz · 5d

The more I play with this, the more I love it.

Even if I'm the only one using mlf.lol to generate #atproto lexicons, it has been worth it. It really hits the pleasure centers of my brain just right.

A screenshot of the mlf.lol playground, displaying an example of ATProto lexicon generation from a source MLF file. The MLF source uses inline types, def types, tokens, records, constraints, references, and references to a "standard library." Thematically, the source refers to posters on an old school forum.

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matt @stavola.xyz · 5d

No island murder mysteries tonight, but mlf.lol now has com.atproto.* as part of its "standard library" with some additional bug fixes.

Still undecided how I want to handle things like key specifiers and encoding... easy way out is @ annotations, but I had other ideas in mind for those.

matt @stavola.xyz · 5d

I could continue to work on mlf.lol and get key specifiers and the com.atproto.* prelude working, but I am feeling the call of Umineko...

matt @stavola.xyz · 5d

I think about this more and more every day.

I know it's a massive huff of copium, but just how things are playing out and the timing of it all reads as strange to me.

matt @stavola.xyz · 20d

With a lot of the changes that have been happening and how the BSky team has been emphasizing the open aspect of the platform and protocol, this might be a canary in the coal mine situation.

I have to wonder if they are anticipating impending federal intervention or if it has already happened.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 20d

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.

matt @stavola.xyz · 5d

Yes this is "illiberal" in a sense, but this isn't a society. Nobody is being summarily executed. It's fucking social media!

It's in everyone's best interest to identify well known harassers, bigots, provocateurs, etc *before* they establish a foothold. Protect the people you supposedly care about!

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