=== ANCHOR POEM === ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ what if we added a tier between cities and states and said that all "big cities" had the government that the states once had, the states had the government that the nation once had, and some new awesome other kind of government replaces the federal one the world is just too big for a nation the size of ours. there's too many people, too many problems, and too great are the differences between us - we need another layer of abstraction to handle this mess. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 messages/232 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── Would work best if it was "town square style" instead of "federated style" because federations are based on trust while town squares are explicitely based on geographic proximity. Which should be something you can scale easily (little slider on the side, oriented vertically up and down, that determined how close the comments you see should be) Federations exist in mastodon. But we still need a town square. We need the ability to visit other town squares, through the ability to project our voice as infinitely far as they'd like to listen. But we also deserve the capability to interact with those close to us on a topic-by-topic basis, aka each and every individual web page that the Internet sees fit to create. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/2160 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── they could vote on "next year's project" in times of peace, or perhaps have massive brain-storms with chatrooms set up at different tables that they could pick up a phone and contribute to then wander to another table at, or maybe even set up structures for who does what. Then they could do things that they claimed responsibility for, and in doing so they could be judged. perhaps according to a system like this: https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/algorism/html-pages/education-system ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/4092 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── why not make a unified fediverse identity that can post on whatever instance it wants? ... hmmm could be accomplished with a layer of abstraction. You could use a "fediverse client" software to enter text into an HTML page which would have it's own UI and stuff and would organize your accounts and instances such that you could mark like, 3-7 as places you'd like to put a particular message. Then it would just... do it l m a o spam is gonna get sooooo much worse before it gets better but trust me, we'll figure it out. And it won't be long, either. It's a solvable problem, we just haven't built anything to handle it yet. ... yet... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/5198 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: capitalism-doom-mentioned │ │ ║ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ what if the corporations all unionized and started working together to │ ║ understand what "profit" really means in a world where "profit" may or may not │ ║ but probably does imply the death of all humanity? │ ║ │ ║ what if we demanded it? │ ║ │ ║ -- │ ║ │ ║ dear canvassers: don't visit so many different suburbs │ ║ │ ║ visit the same one, more than once, continuously, so people can get to know │ ║ your presence │ ║ │ ║ they will talk to their friends about it, who live elsewhere. │ ║ │ ║ thus ensuring it spreads. │ ║ │ ║ knock once a day, eventually they'll know it's you and will simply ignore it. │ ║ Don't be rude and knock 4 or 5 times, just once, with several taps so they │ ║ know it's someone trying to get ahold of you, and not just some random noise │ ║ in the background scenery. then, when they sometimes answer, talk to them │ ║ about what you believe in. answer their questions. encourage their questions. │ ║ pose dichotomies that are explained by some value or virtue you express to │ ║ portray. you can do "good" things in any programming language, just type~~ │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴──────────┘ --- #5 notes/elective-democracy-electors --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──── we need like, several more layers between us and the president. most people only need to worry about what's nearby. sort them by location, instead of previous attempts at "many representatives" which sorted by social class or relevance. we have a tradition for it, in America, with our representatives and senators congressional discrestricts or even, what about by affiliation? voluntary, governmental corporations, run by the people for the people and yeah "I don't want to do what you're telling me to do" "okay" "there will be consequences" omg be an adult (suddenly kids forget how to be as everyone's doing the war thing) not ideal. ouch pain maybe we should stay a little bit sane why is soldiering so hardship? it could just be... another job where you didn't kill each other but you still blew stuff up and fought in tournaments and had gaming hackathons or sword-fight contests duels between people who disapproved y'know fun human stuff like... "kaboom" now we know how to blow up bits of rock neat, why did dynamite becauswer (oh right then you ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┘ --- #6 fediverse/822 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────── it's not cities and rural, it's cities and capitals and mid-sized-towns and small towns and rural and transients and whoever else wants to have a differently-designed format for their inter-personal experience in the [moment, but also society - something with culture?] ... what was I saying? nothing nevermind click here --------------------------------------------> v ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #7 notes/app-idea-reddit-api --- ════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────── Here's an idea: A program that uses the Reddit API to create an account with a random username and password and automatically subscribe it to every state subreddit for all 50 states. It would be a lot of posts from a lot of different places, but someone could endlessly scroll and find more and more news stories that were relevant to them as a nation. They'd hear about ongoing struggles in other places, and they'd yearn to help them. They'd hear of other's struggles, and they'd see how they could apply their lessons to their own lives. Like... Maybe there's a factory upstream that pollutes a river - well, we should probably do something about that and make it so that it doesn't happen ??? like... duh ??? The problem is we don't want to spend the resources on it. We'd rather focus on growing as much as we can. The issue is, of course, that we'd run out of resources eventually, but eh oh well. Oh yeah you gotta make sure that each account has an equal amount of posts between each region. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/6117 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────── Hmmmm, well, what if we psyopped the people into believing there were alien invaders or extra-dimensional fae creatures or angels and demons or "yeah we already tried that, religion doesn't scale perfectly either. And you can't really manifest those sort of effects except in your prophets and select few others, and that doesn't scale either because humanity wouldn't let it" I see, can you tell me more about that? why and how did humanity arrest the scaling of schizophrenia? "well, for one thing it's debilitating and it sucks. For another, it's different for every person so if you ask one they'll be like "the aliens have blue skin" and the other will say "no they don't have skin at all they're made out of energy" and the public says "HMMMM are you really sure you are generating outmoded assumptions" and the dear reader said "*yeah we don't really understand this part, most of us just glaze eyes over it and move on" and that's not ideal" ... nuts, lost coherence, better try again tomorrow... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┘ --- #9 fediverse/4892 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── what if we made a giant dictionary of every single possible pixel arrangement storable in 8 bytes and it took up like, half a gigabyte, and then we indexed into it whenever we wanted to print an arbitrary visual element to our terminals? something something not-curses https://notcurses.com/ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┘ --- #10 fediverse_boost/6155 --- ◀─╔═══════════════════════════════[BOOST]═════════════════════════════════───────╗ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ If I were a person with an irresponsible streak, I could be so problematic. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ I could say things like, "wow, let's spend some time generating traffic that sounds like coded military speak over not-quite-secure channels between fanciful antifa units, to help stymie AI surveillance", for instance. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ Or social media messages that are "accidentally" not made to friends-only filters wherein you mention your concerns about the upcoming operation in "some fictional place" for you and your antifa buddies. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ You know, that kind of really irresponsible suggestion could lead to some creaive thinking! And that in turn could mean we could come up with enough traffic to make it very difficult to auto-sort noise from signal? Imagine how dangerous that could be for the enemies of antifa, our beloved US government (for we all citizens of the US world). │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ It's unthinkable, really. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ The good news is, I'm not like that. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ Me? Mostly harmless. │ ║ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ║ ╠─────────┐ ┌───────────╣ ║ similar │ chronological │ different ║ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────╝─▶ --- #11 fediverse/4692 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings by writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad they can come and read the balls and maybe feel something ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/5953 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── what if we had everyone work on accessibility tech every tuesday and wednesday with shared commons to discuss research "I wrote this little script..." "I found this neat directory..." "there's more where that came from..." "three's company" "programmers, always carrying scripts like an actor" "english is so weird" listening to the fediverse is an altogether new experience did you know there's more blind users (screen readers) than queer people on the fediverse? which instances does your instance grow federation with? I wonder who talks to who how much? I bet we could add a feature that dealt damage... yeesh, scary thought police incoming. all it takes is a BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE dumbass obviously the internet is the first thing we'd implement if you're not immune to BACTERIA, you won't be secure in the mindscape. scary... but good news is they don't appear in a vacuum. it's too dark and dry. germs like wet things, like rotting food. just don't touch gross stuff and you won't get sick :) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/423 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: us-pol-cursing │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ How about next election after this clusterfuck where we demolish the fascists │ ║ we take a breather and say "okay every candidate submits their plan for a │ ║ controlled demolition of capitalism, the winner gets to implement their idea" │ ║ │ ║ wait that's a terrible idea people will just vote for the thing that makes │ ║ them feel good and is vaguely shaped like a D or an R. │ ║ │ ║ How about this: we design a decentralized program that can run on any computer │ ║ or phone that locally analyzes every file and pattern to generate a │ ║ personality matrix that will interact in a massive simulation that is a │ ║ mirrored reflection of the structure of our society as it currently exists │ ║ (and as it'd be proposed to exist) and anyone who wants to vote can run │ ║ through pseudo experiences tailored to their personality / demographic or │ ║ whatever and play with the proposed system to see which one they like more. │ ║ It'd have to be very statistically sound in order to accurately reflect │ ║ reality. │ ║ │ ║ wait, that's just a torment-nexus-precursor. Darn. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/5878 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ revolution is when you successfully prevent your comrades from being kettled │ ║ │ ║ [wait for time, it echoes in cyclical motions] │ ║ │ ║ no sand castle survives contact with the ocean. a sea of people at high tide │ ║ can break any wall, surpass any boundary. at low tide, it keeps the │ ║ sand-castle at bay, ever contesting it's advance as the tide on the other side │ ║ of the world makes progress. │ ║ │ ║ rhythm is unbeatable. vigor is collective flow state. you cannot resist that │ ║ which you cannot catch, but their nets grow tighter with each year and our │ ║ fins and flippers grow ever more agile and elusive. │ ║ │ ║ eventually, they'll build brick walls if we let them, checkpointing our │ ║ progress at every boundary. not ideal. borders keep us divided, the world │ ║ deserves more than our picketing minded, dream bigger than "the same, but nice" │ ║ │ ║ though it'd be nice if it were nice as well. consider it a design requirement, │ ║ once you got the project managers on board. │ ║ │ ║ turns out, we dont have much to fight over, as there is enough for all │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═─────────┘ --- #15 messages/1346 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─ what if we said that each square meter on the planet gets the same proportion of nuclear weapon usage? if your country is big enough to qualify, they can launch 1 or more nuclear weapon at whoever they please, and the launch systems have to be designed such that anyone anywhere can order them to launch. ... okay that also feels like a big problem. hmmmm. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┘ --- #16 fediverse/3802 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── what if we got together and adopted a new open source project every month and just collectively worked around the clock to learn and work through the important problems facing it or even like, cleared out the backlog of stupid pointless boring tasks that would allow the developers to work on something better call it the wandering parade of development could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/5375 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: police-mentioned-psy-ops-mentioned-human-waste-mentioned-which-is-a-nice-way-to-say-feces-ew-gross-who-put-that-on-my-timeline-guards-arrest-these-men-they're-criminals-of-the-law-against-pooping-my-pants │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ what if we psyopped the copps um I mean what if we flash-mobbed the cops er wait hang on what if we marched with signs and changed what was on their minds uhhhh that won't work it's disabled so they say wait hang on who said you could poop your pants this is a combat scenario there's no time for fooling around in her pants with the hand ... wait, what was I going on about? oh yeah, -- stack overflow -- anyway, as I was saying, [something completely unrelated] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/351 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: us-politics │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-252 kinda makes me think we need another layer between state and federal. or would three be too many? four if you count local, which frankly suffers from the same problem. I mean, how many people go to city council meetings? how many city council meetings actually matter? Idk never been /shrug ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/4740 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┐ ║ what if we built an atlas of what every rural property produced │ ║ │ ║ like "they grow squash and blueberries here and sometimes they make honey" │ ║ │ ║ or "this place has a bunch of lumber they want to get rid of" │ ║ │ ║ or "here there's a patch of wildflowers that have been set aside for the │ ║ butterflies" │ ║ │ ║ or "there's a training ground here for intercepting ICE vans in urban areas" │ ║ │ ║ or "don't post shit like that on the internet dumbass what are you even doing" │ ║ │ ║ or "oh I dunno trying to be a face I guess, don't look to me for cutting edge │ ║ advice because I'm just a level 12 paladin who's totally a noob and can barely │ ║ lift 50 pounds" │ ║ │ ║ or "this is where the cows graze" │ ║ │ ║ or "yeah well you're the cutting edge on some things and you're very far │ ║ behind on others. like for example you seriously need to level up your opsec │ ║ so that nobody can hear what you're saying." │ ║ │ ║ or "yeah but then nobody will hear what I'm saying" │ ║ │ ║ or "I've said too much, god save you Ritz Menardi, for we all stand beside you" │ ║ │ ║ or "here's a meditation retreat" : ) │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴──────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/1417 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── a 4th dimensional entity would exist at about the same speed we do sometimes... it feels like what I do is my responsibility to the universe like, I had been commanded the reason nations are important is because they are an allegiance based solely on geography. something we can all agree on is the material, so why not define ourselves by it? but that's all they are just words we pray to our star so look around. Your allegiance is to your neighbor, and theirs to theirs, an endless fabric of trust. We are all neighbors on this ball of sticks and mud, so come along with me and see the ways it could be. Much brighter, by far, to orbit our star, than to give up on life's precious notions. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ |