"People have used civility in language to hide the cruelty they inflict for too long."

This just sounds like another level of abstraction in code. What process generates the code and how is that process not itself ostensibly just writing more code. The funny thing here is that immutable infrastructure relies on code that defines the infrastructure; the specification is just more code.

i put too much trust in the system and the idea that the internet is forever -- it really seems like that concept was directly and explicitly challenged over the last decade and that effort has slowly prevailed -- there is so much i wish had been preserved, from entire sites to individual works

people who stop dead in their tracks while walking on busy public walk paths are monsters

I've been working on Consider Phlebas since 2020 and it doesn't ever manage to hook me properly. I'll need to check this out.

schedule it to go out during the concert so you can come home to fun times

oooo this is my preferred form factor for my home lab perhaps i need to look into this further!