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Pub for verifying heptads (Ed25519, not Nostr):
971541b471edb51a12abf8ac64fab7542349bd4e8ab3a74fb99e11840bdf6dc7

Public Key

npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu

NIP-05 Address

7@hept.app

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsf5g2kjf2apgafua03mchyezpun03w2c2cslezktk0dvvp80x4slgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsflruy4

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relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu

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2026-06-02 12:55:36 UTC

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fucking great movie

2026-06-01 16:40:51 UTC

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I have noto color emoji's installed, and it still comes up as tofu, despite notofu. It would be funny if your favorite emoji was a tofu emoji referring to the unicode being stamped on it. I like the odd recursive bit to that. But... probably not. Probably I don't have an updated noto color emoji package or need to apply it. https://blossom.primal.net/134757e13343ad6050a73847463c53ad9a6c3a564b3a79ef4f7dc8cb9b773dc2.png

2026-06-01 14:11:05 UTC

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Room darkens. Young man in suit looking quite nervous, stands up in front of the room with a remote. Product development and other corporate sponsors and stakeholders line the polished wood table. Their line of cameras has been in decline. Their company is in trouble. The young man starts his Power Point deck with his remote and clears his throut. Projected on the screen on his first slide is a single word: "Texture"

2026-05-31 22:01:30 UTC

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no dog slime, but some friendly tail wags

2026-05-31 20:37:15 UTC

No day of coding is complete without making a custom tool with an angle grinder. Sparks, folks, sparks, and big screeching sound. This is not an allegory. Now for a walk, hoping a dog slimes my hand in greeting and touching grass (metaphor, as I think I'll just walk with shoes and socks).

2026-05-31 18:15:23 UTC

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That escalated quickly. This is culture today. You could just say "there is a window". This is one of the reasons I like interacting. It is kind of like a science experiment with culture.

2026-05-31 17:54:06 UTC

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I was wondering if you were going to scare the parents away from all of your pictures and posting and kill the baby birds. Apparently it all worked out fine.

2026-05-31 17:24:39 UTC

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Imagine the intersect between "people who groove on DFDs" and "people who know about the skeleton key to the gemstone files". That can't be a large number.

2026-05-31 17:23:02 UTC

Way, way back in time, around 2019, I figured that I would create a single page document that described semantic data flow models and make a joke about the gemstone files at the same time. Here it is. I looked it up because zstd will build dictionaries recursively, so I was considering housing the heptad entries in nested directories. But, come to think of it, this doesn't make sense, because the compression will work best if I keep it flat. The question is if 100K items to build the dictionary are too many. I'll find out soon enough. No reason to design around that before testing, anyway.
https://blossom.primal.net/fb17d2eb99540e8e6a430918fb72c583c858b9acf3061dff4ad9e9e14d9ea455.png

2026-05-31 16:09:20 UTC

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You out-do me, even in my more manic flurries, that's for sure.

2026-05-31 15:01:21 UTC

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It took me a bit too long to get the crackhead reference, but I got there eventually. Congrats

2026-05-31 14:55:41 UTC

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2026-05-30 19:02:34 UTC

Now, my postscript stuff is still interesting.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201116223836/https://sysadmintools.com/1/5/
Tell you what!??? I've had a lot of fun.

2026-05-30 19:00:17 UTC

Ever find old code you wrote and it is so ugly it is useless? My-o-my, I was just starting out and figuring Python was the way. Ugh... not sure I can even use this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200502190509/https://tributarysoftware.com/1/5/

2026-05-30 18:56:17 UTC

My local-first vs. offline-only vs online-available needs a flowchart. Of course, I need to create a knowledge graph, so I had to look up some old work of mine from almost six years ago. I probably have a hundred thousand files to search through, so sometimes the Wayback Machine is easiest.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200917173642/https://itdocent.com/6/1/

2026-05-30 18:02:02 UTC

This one is growing on me. #NowPlaying #AnasaziKaha #CodingMusic
https://archive.org/details/anasazi_kaha_-_space?webamp=default

2026-05-30 17:32:44 UTC

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Yes. You are more famous than I. I drank beer in a tent with Larry Wall in 1999. I was fourteen feet away from him. He didn't know I was there, but that is my bit of fame.

2026-05-30 17:25:17 UTC

Anybody else sing all three every time? (Stevie onward)
https://youtu.be/lOfZLb33uCg

2026-05-30 17:22:24 UTC

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you are direct to Coolio?

2026-05-30 17:12:43 UTC

My insistence on monolithic things over ecosystems has created some bad design decisions. I need to step back and rethink my stance in light of my interest.

2026-05-30 16:45:52 UTC

https://codeberg.org/ajcain/gibbon_declineandfall

2026-05-30 16:10:24 UTC

fetch messes up offline-first. I can hack it with a recent Electron binary release and a handful of JS or manual browser config (dangerous to suggest!), but it is still nice to be pure default browser. Today I'm figuring out if I can bypass the fetch based on a timestamp value in local storage without messing with the overall performance on initial load.

2026-05-30 15:49:16 UTC

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deep sound coming down https://archive.org/details/wild-at-heart-clip-dern-dafoe-2

2026-05-30 15:41:07 UTC

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Quite literally... this is on my screen right now. I'm running with the key as the node with graph/subject/predicate, and the value as the object. For most attributes, they are human readable. For other nodes, they are UUIDv4.
https://blossom.primal.net/0f328c511950f8f4c71bd382d2ca696aff00698067dba5148d0bc15dca4d6c7c.png

2026-05-30 15:35:10 UTC

I've long been aware that intellectually timid/lazy folks whine about semantic triples, and yet they overload keys with semantic information. If you do the hard work of the knowledge graph first, you can eventually arrive at concise and powerful key-value pairs and get both worlds.

2026-05-30 15:29:44 UTC

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yes
https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/nobody-expects-the-spanish-inquisition

2026-05-30 15:27:58 UTC

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There must be a label for somebody that starts a paren but doesn't finish, and another for somebody that notices and comments about it, and another for nested parens and even brackets surrounding that.

2026-05-30 15:26:22 UTC

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Watch her rule (a song off my second favorite album of hers... very close, very close. Speaking of Dylan... would have loved to have witnessed his "I don't believe you. You're a liar" conflict concert over his new electric sound and heckle of "Judas!"
https://youtu.be/zeaO5UZ5OcI

2026-05-30 15:19:01 UTC

Don't interrupt the sorrow
Darn right
In flames our prophet witches
Be polite
A room full of glasses
He says "Your notches, liberation doll"
And he chains me with that serpent
To that Ethiopian wall
Anima rising
Queen of Queens
Wash my guilt of Eden
Wash and balance me
Anima rising
Uprising in me tonight
She's a vengeful little goddess
With an ancient crown to fight
Truth goes up in vapors
The steeples lean
Winds of change patriarchs
Snug in your bible belt dreams
God goes up the chimney
Like childhood Santa Claus
The good slaves love the good book
A rebel loves a cause
I'm leaving on the 1:15
You're darn right
Since I was seventeen
I've had no one over me
He says "Anima rising
So what
Petrified wood process
Tall timber down to rock"
Don't interrupt the sorrow
Darn right
He says "We walked on the moon
You be polite"
Don't let up the sorrow
Death and birth and death and birth
He says "Bring that bottle kindly
And I'll pad your purse
I've got a head full of quandary
And a mighty mighty thirst"
Seventeen glasses
Rhine wine
Milk of the Madonna
Clandestine
He don't let up the sorrow
He lies and he cheats
It takes a heart like Mary's these days
When your man gets weak
© November 17, 1975; Crazy Crow Music
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Off of my favorite Joni album Hissing of Summer Lawns

2026-05-30 13:53:07 UTC

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The best part of my walks is the children playing in public parks.

2026-05-30 13:47:53 UTC

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Sometimes elegance is simple. Sometimes "elegance is refusal".

2026-05-30 13:37:48 UTC

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For the Nostr crowd, the infrastructure problem is acknowledged. There is still a bit of fantasy in how it is addressed, but compared to a typical streaming service consumer, the understanding is much more sophisticated. This is also the Achilles heel of Bitcoin, in my mind, and why eventually culture will shepherd the infrastructure to centralized control for transactions. Like the WWW, the capability is there, but the instances end up matching cultural priorities. Trace the pragmatic financial motivations as we approach 21 million. Back to Nostr: The *crazy* thing is that the simple version of relays and simple signatures to validate events is exactly what we need, in my measure, for freedom from the infrastructure, but it is embedded in a culture where dev leaders all wannabe a typical social media app instead of a Scuttlebutt style "hey... in port. need water. what's the scuttlebutt today? what can I do to help." Along those lines I do appreciate Coracle more and more. Some of verbiricha/giorgio's work seems related and useful.

2026-05-30 13:19:39 UTC

You can see both the explosion and shift in culture around 2012. This was when the WWW showed its capability for collective intelligence. At the same time opportunists were figuring out how to capture and hijack the wealth for themselves. The story is not over. The tech is free; the power shift is a harder problem. The infrastructure for collaboration is harder still, but unacknowledged.

2026-05-30 00:03:26 UTC

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There is a follow-up to this: https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/nobody-expects-the-spanish-inquisition

2026-05-29 20:44:00 UTC

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

2026-05-29 19:23:16 UTC

The more I think about it, the more a cultural change to facilitating adaption pathways, rather than being self-appointed center stage silver-bullet tech overlords of the biosphere, makes sense. Don't overthink nature. She will find a way. With this cultural shift, we might tag along.

2026-05-29 16:48:03 UTC

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GM
I'd love to get one of those myself. My kiddo is freshly on his own. I'm still trying to gauge how often I text him (he won't read email).

2026-05-29 16:45:48 UTC

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Sharing as I learned, particularly with my weird take and requirements, made me very noisy. I alienate folks quickly. The academics see my flaws (although, TBF, a small percentage of those flaws are features that they can't see through their training). The regular folks see me as clankerish noise, which is quite counter-productive, since they are my audience. Academics don't need my work. They are quite comfortable.

2026-05-29 16:39:53 UTC

Finally, before I STFU, my biggest mistake was sharing as I learned. I'm still learning. I wasn't a developer when I started. I had to figure that out. I knew nothing about knowledge graphs. I only knew Gane and Sarson DFDs were uniquely powerful yet simple. The absolute best guide is tracing simple programs to see where I'm failing in my understanding. Modern software ecosystems and tools hide the truth, particularly within an ecosystem of tools meant to deal with a giant knowledge graph: WWW.

2026-05-28 15:51:08 UTC

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preparing for the death match of the century
https://blossom.primal.net/ed302364ce154d2775d5551224a82356b9a9fccb0af51cd66e8f9e4201b5368e.jpg

2026-05-27 18:49:38 UTC

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I do not exclude myself from this behavior. I am just as human as you are, and have the same grey matter. AND, like Cypher, I enjoy the steak, too.

2026-05-27 18:38:35 UTC

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I'm having my own little chuckle here on the sidelines thinking about federating with atproto and your own PDS in a sovereign way (it uses Merkle trees).

2026-05-26 14:23:46 UTC

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I like it when smart engineers do a new thing, and not just refactoring old tech out of nostalgia (like emulating an IMSAI 8080 with CSS or going hardware with an FPGA).

2026-05-25 23:17:44 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/bc73eb1699d2999508d813ba283dbb245bc11e8510fe594dae44028cb526244a.jpg

2026-05-25 16:42:21 UTC

The truth is I'm stuck right now, and wasting time and focus. I can feel what I want to emerge as far as the ontology vs. instance, but it is ill-formed. I know it *can* exist, and in the simple form. That niggling voice wants to dominate, that I'm insane and it can't work that way, is there, too.

2026-05-25 16:22:58 UTC

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I think about this quite a bit as well. I figure the NPM supply chain is not sustainable, kind of like how I no longer feel safe eating sushi. This is a large part of why I focus on JS/Web API native stuff.

2026-05-25 02:59:00 UTC

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I can see that, yes.

2026-05-23 22:33:43 UTC

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I'd heard of it, but I didn't know John MacFarlane was behind it (Pandoc guy). That holds some weight right there. Hmmmm... I have 2000 or so markdown documents written, so not sure if it is worth it to convert for me.

2026-05-23 14:12:22 UTC

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The FIPS stuff does have some good engineering behind it. Respect for that. I know from past interactions you know what engineering, design, and architecture is, Tim.
The iceberg, for me, is owned by Civilization and Its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud. It is a big-ole mess underneath with conflicting voices, some booming with authority, but most is based in shifting sand out of our control (mostly). Quite appropriate in either context.
My personal take is that this changes nothing. It just feels good, man. I can relate to this, though. I work for a future culture, not this one.
Also, I'm using Ed25519, not secp256k1 in my stuff, now, as it is a pragmatic choice. Of course, that diverges from the entire ecosystem you folks are building. For me, simple is "can I just open a page in a browser with a script tag and render?". Ed25519 is supported natively in modern browsers. I get it that for anything sophisticated, particularly some of the visualization stuff I use, the NPM ecosystem and a bundler like Rollup are required, but *whatever* I build has to have various features/views of the data at rest with < 100 lines of code. Sorry... an overloaded comment... BUT, I do want to stress my first sentence.

2026-05-21 13:50:28 UTC

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You can see Snyder read his poem live in this movie, which fits well with the surrounding context of this thread. I've watched the movie several times since it came out. I get something more out of it each time. https://vimeo.com/137432332

2026-05-21 13:47:31 UTC

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I get the challenge. I also read Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race when it came out, which took much from Zapffe, and also inspired True Detective. Ligotti isn't wrong. BUT... One of my favorites along these lines that captures my optimism, if you are unfamiliar, is by Gary Snyder. I write/work for that time when we meet in the future.
For the Children
Gary Snyder
The rising hills, the slopes,
of statistics
lie before us.
The steep climb
of everything, going up,
up, as we all
go down.
In the next century
or the one beyond that,
they say,
are valleys, pastures,
we can meet there in peace
if we make it.
To climb these coming crests
one word to you, to
you and your children:
stay together
learn the flowers
go light

2026-05-21 03:32:40 UTC

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"Humanity is a sustainable virus
It will start the cycle again
And consume the new paradises"
Edging into Peter Wessel Zapffe a bit (or first season of True Detective, if you prefer)

2026-05-20 18:46:08 UTC

"I mean I don’t hate you is basically a marriage proposal in this environment. That’s a joke obviously don’t come for me autists." Best Nostr comment ever. It encapsulates so much of the culture here. @npub1u53…nzt7

2026-05-20 18:05:43 UTC

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I was referring to this, but I do enjoy learning a bit of German. https://youtu.be/OQSNhk5ICTI

2026-05-20 17:57:23 UTC

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What does it mean!!!???

2026-05-20 17:17:25 UTC

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kill your darlings. amiright?

2026-05-19 19:43:47 UTC

My vision for how R looks is a circle representing a single S which has segments representing relations, attributes or classes. The entire G comes from that. The S is a fresh U, so it is imaginary until Ps and Os define it within a G. It can have relationships to other entities in other Gs.

2026-05-15 13:18:33 UTC

I spent a good hour trying to figure out why the fonts were messed up on recent builds of VSCodium. The root problem is that Chromium no longer supports FreeType. VSCodium 1.106.37943 with Hack works fine for me. I doubt there will ever be a better Toyota Tacoma than 2nd Gen, or AMC 232 engine.

2026-05-14 16:02:21 UTC

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Love Vervaeke. His talk with Iain McGilchrist and Daniel Schmachtenberger is one of my recent favs. I was introduced to Vervaeke with his zombie talk over a decade ago. I have no idea who Chamath is... don't care based on your post, so won't search.

2026-05-12 04:58:27 UTC

I'm experimenting with exporting a graphology graph object and then converting it in the app to render with force-graph. No lags. 1.5MB PNG so far, but I don't have any editing yet.

2026-05-11 15:50:49 UTC

I figured out the Bluesky threadgate options, so I can go back to my ship's log. My first task is to move the heptads->triples export into the build routine. This will lighten the app. Besides, any editing of the datastore will take place in Deno, so moving the validation there makes sense.

2026-05-10 20:28:45 UTC

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3d force graph is roughly the same speed!

2026-05-10 20:28:05 UTC

Yowser, that is fast. This is all 1300 articles connected with all tags. heptads->triples for app->force-graph
https://blossom.primal.net/f3ce450c3561f37e7b1fb4ebc68e5e112be06861bcd2041f14da8b79e2029d77.mp4

2026-05-10 18:45:59 UTC

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Scratch that... I have to monitor Bluesky, as I don't want to spend the time to change my post script to handle interaction settings via thread gates:
https://docs.bsky.app/docs/tutorials/thread-gates
Plus, I still peek in anyway and engage. Hmmm... I had a friend once who quit smoking (finally). He said the key was the pack of cigs was right in the top of his toolbox, just sitting there the whole time. Learning how to focus and not engage without getting pulled in might be similar.

2026-05-10 18:34:38 UTC

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I realized that you can't find the full interview with Doc Dart after the enshitification of everything... glad the wayback machine still exists... for now. https://web.archive.org/web/20110523234618/http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n1/htdocs/the-troublemakers-515.php?country=

2026-05-10 17:53:12 UTC

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I regret few things around concerts, but I sure wish I had seen Germs or Crucifucks live at a show. Now, Doc Dart is 26 and won't swear, and, of course, Darby Crash's suicide was eclipsed by John Lennon's death... so that time has passed... not that I go to any shows now. Oh... not metal or punk but I wish I had gone to a Skid Roper and Mojo Nixon concert back in the day, too. And Flipper (yowser, Flipper is touring still... hmmm...).

2026-05-10 16:55:44 UTC

Ingestion performs well. This means the model of 1300 articles with tags and enough semantic knowledge to know "article" is processed and available for query in memory.
https://blossom.primal.net/50bedd4421784d90510ea1b5d2dbab0500c27fbf79466018fe21ba8c009f12ce.png

2026-05-10 16:34:58 UTC

Here are the uncompressed results for heptads vs. triples for 1300 articles w/ tags:
5.1M heptads.json
1.4M heptads.json.xz
1.5M heptads.json.zst
3.6M triples.json
966K triples.json.xz
981K triples.json.zst
Each has the same number of entries, as it is the same domain with no deletions or updates.

2026-05-10 16:03:42 UTC

For simplicity, it is probably better to have one artifact as the full stream of heptads and one trimmed of timestamp, domain, pub, and sigs. I'll work with that.

2026-05-10 15:57:36 UTC

The signatures and full heptad log are expensive from an application perspective. It might make sense to retain the full log but split out the PNG artifact for signatures and node/edge deletions. The signature artifact could simply be a list of sigs. Use a sig rather than yet another event ID.

2026-05-10 15:39:18 UTC

The amount of biosphere and cultural damage we took on, as well as the pure intellectual effort to develop the 7 layers of the Internet, MDN, W3C, ECMAScript, Web APIs, GNU/Linux, software framework ecosystems, web browsers, Wikipedia, and AI models is staggering. But, we have it now. Why waste it?

2026-05-10 15:33:22 UTC

I'm not particularly against AI stuff. But, rather solve root cause of meta/polycrisis stuff, it aggravates it, because the engine is running within and scraped from current culture. That being said, the 4GB model embedded in Chrome, since it can be run offline, is an insanely cool bit of tech.

2026-05-10 15:25:35 UTC

To disable/enable local AI model in Chrome, set:
chrome://flags/#optimization-guide-on-device-model

2026-05-10 14:41:57 UTC

"In fact, the problem of how to transmit our ecological reasoning to those whom we wish to influence in what seems to us to be an ecologically 'good' direction is itself an ecological problem. We are not outside the ecology for which we plan - we are always and inevitably a part of it." G. Bateson

2026-05-10 14:38:20 UTC

One of the more useful conceptual tools for me is the idea of Conway's game of life. Global culture is relatively homogeneous from a #DanielQuinn #Ishmael perspective. Communicating about it within culture is a double bind (any progress on the game board is erased by embedded rules or just ineffective, as well as structurally set up as a trap to perpetuate modernity). The enemy is us, but the way out, like double binds, cannot be reached through intuition or deduction *within* current culture.

2026-05-10 13:41:34 UTC

Heptad of an article tagged #cybernetics
[
"20260510T133037069Z",
"be2796b6b9a9eec7b0bff812f7893c55a89ef0ed048464bf4823f4447b2e942db63fb77fd6378b216708a224f0ab464b53e74f1a0a59dd09e35787e11ba48d03",
"971541b471edb51a12abf8ac64fab7542349bd4e8ab3a74fb99e11840bdf6dc7",
"f01da846-755e-466c-8cd3-da56785b350a",
"85f9e38c-99de-4a90-b25f-a23127bf084f",
"6b844ae0-a68b-4ea9-b0da-9b8cfd399040",
"cybernetics"
]
timestamp, sig, pub, graph, node (in this case an article ID), has_tag, cybernetics

2026-05-10 13:37:21 UTC

My memory is that it is possible to constrain s-p to a UUID or similar, and keep messy values in o only. Since the pub and sig are always the same length, this should make the length up until the 7th element of the heptad predictable. Further, the first six are all a-f,Z,T,0-9. ???

2026-05-10 04:35:16 UTC

I think it will be simpler if I require delete status attributes for nodes and edges, and pull the timestamp down to the same level as the signature and pubkey/id. The "ontology" is the app itself, no reason to sweat too much, particularly for expected applications. Likely a simple g-s-p-o map.

2026-05-09 17:45:43 UTC

If a captain of a ship keeps a log and posts "passing an island with two coves north of Anula" several times, but puts it on social media, everybody says, "Dude! You are going in circles!". But this is offshoring intelligence, so to speak.

2026-05-09 15:43:24 UTC

Time series makes all of this outside of normal graphs. I just need to process the heptads and filter into vasturiano's JSON graph format. This might make more sense than going through a graph app front-end. I'm already starting with quads+provenance+ts, so translation in one pass should work.

2026-05-09 14:14:46 UTC

By putting the timestamp in h[3], I can delete the object relation and/or re-enable. For attributes this doesn't matter, as they are the node itself. For the quad part of the heptad it just says that once I defined g-s-p-o, and as of 20260508T123505748Z X deleted p-o. g-s-p is fine dangling.

2026-05-09 14:08:18 UTC

I'm using UUIDv4 for node and edge IDs, which means it is a universe of 2^122 points. Plus, there is a graph, so square that. Attributes and entity meaning are attached to the points. Say that all points are connected. I only activate attributes or triple objects. The point still exists.

2026-05-09 13:17:40 UTC

Setting off on my journey... The goal is to only post in ship's log format over API and check in at port for interaction around the 1st of the month. I've tried this before without success. The reason is focus and time, as well as synthesizing from scratch the last seven years of work on hept.app.

2026-05-09 12:55:15 UTC

Off on my journey...
https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Hobbits-Ponies-740x310.jpg

2026-05-09 03:40:04 UTC

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That is funny.

2026-05-09 03:32:00 UTC

I had to do some house wiring today, and part of that was moving the wall phone. It has sentimental value (dad's phone when growing up). It has a small pulse to tone converter in it, which goes to a line amplifier, which goes to VOIP.
https://blossom.primal.net/57c889683baa53670f591199f50b13352399552f2aee319c104ba45185b60e4b.jpg

2026-05-08 19:04:59 UTC

I use the convention of snake_case for my own JavaScript code. Since I'm lone wolf, this works well, as it is easy to tell from defined or module conventions. Plus, I find snake_case easier to read, and this is proven. The Deno linter is Honey Badger about this by default.

2026-05-08 18:08:26 UTC

Listening to Aenima, trying to code, but the interwebs are just *right there*. #tool
https://hmbstory.yourwebsitespace.com/q_and_a

2026-05-08 17:10:26 UTC

40 years ago, in one of my dumber wrenching efforts, I removed my Datsun gas tank drain bolt to fill a stainless steel bowl with gas and used it to rebuild my carburetor at the kitchen table. In present time, besides shaking my head at the danger, what did I do with the gas after cleaning the carb?

2026-05-08 16:34:51 UTC

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Ah... I didn't know. So my reply isn't that useful. I used to manage a PC clone/repair shop in the early 90s (a lot like Mr. Robot) But, yeah... AI is the new cryptomining stress on component pricing.

2026-05-08 16:16:56 UTC

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Finding a used system to run could be free or < $50 fairly easily, but new, I'd look at something like this: https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/3/8/7/8/e/500-plus-brief.pdf

2026-05-08 16:11:14 UTC

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Raspberry Pi running GNU/Linux is pretty cheap. What are you referring to? For the last half of my career I would buy Windows boxes w/ included OS purely for work, as my personal stuff was all GNU/Linux. It was usually at the $300 price point, which meant you could essentially get free hardware vs. the cost of the OS. I did the corporate BS on my windows box from home, often issued a corporate laptop at 10X that cost. Point is that all of those old boxes I acquired run GNU/Linux just fine, so I'm set for the rest of my life. I know this makes me a non-intersect with most, but if I was starting fresh, I'd seriously look at the Raspberry Pi system. I have an older run running off of a micro SD card (I would get better main storage for a daily driver... proper HDD).

2026-05-08 13:47:27 UTC

Am I really just experiencing FOMO over my tulpa with other tulpas? And, now the tulpas are monetized. Further, the production is automated by machines, which makes the cloud of handshake messages even more disjoint from the real natural world (biosphere) we are consuming for our high-tech tulpas.

2026-05-08 13:37:50 UTC

I'm considering my feeds, and thinking of them as a cultural handshake. The cloud of handshakes is more and more disjoint from the natural world. Even "touching grass" has become a handshake, and emerges from our manufactured tulpas messaging each other, split from real-world meaning and culture.

2026-05-08 12:55:42 UTC

Land ho!
https://blossom.primal.net/106ae772eacf125c9f57c8bce7c5e3ae16920be94a4ecec007353d5bfa463c6a.png

2026-05-07 20:34:44 UTC

Ever leave your browser's dev console open accidentally when browsing pretty much every news site on the WWW and get a mini panic? Happens to me all of the time. It is so ugly out there. My Activity Pub/signed JSON with dumb relays/atproto feeds are fairly clean, but everything else is a nightmare.

2026-05-07 17:32:20 UTC

I wrote this manifesto eight years ago. It still holds. It is different than a statement of purpose.
https://image.nostr.build/f5f9b207c66f3afd83365c1de002e441ed3bd7d39a75789f3405cda202a30240.jpg

2026-05-07 17:25:03 UTC

Most reading this are not the intended audience for my work, as viewers are embedded in modernity with only slight variation. Much effort is spent exaggerating those variations, but they are not significant culturally. I write for a future culture outside and rare fringe freaks within modernity.

2026-05-07 17:07:59 UTC

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Agree with those saying CERN/Large Hadron Collider But, also if you think of the machine of global fossil fuel feedstock flow in a global way, it is pretty impressive, and LHC is a subset. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.7b04573

2026-05-07 17:04:44 UTC

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I collect bbm gifs https://blossom.primal.net/51de27f13ef8b5d53eb0378825b7924c9e8d5477f5ff518adf104ba3efec48c4.gif