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Slept in a little later than usual to try and catchup a bit on some sleep. Feeling better than I would have done otherwise but running a bit late compared to normal. I’m relatively happy with the amount of blogging from the past few days though not necessarily with the quality. Much of it has felt a but rushed and forced.

Anyhow, development-wise I’ve made a few small fixed to the RSS feed refactor that so far hasn’t had any major conplications so I’m going to slowly move ahead with that one small piece at a time, trying to make sure I don’t run out of build minutes.

Figured out that the logging synchronisation fix I made hasn’t worked. There was a bit of movement on the issue I raised in the debug module repo that said as much, but it was good to confirm it in my code. I have to re-read their latest advice because I couldn’t make heads or tails of it when I read it a few days ago. #

Elon vs the UK

Somehow all the posts I’ve been writing these past few weeks appear to be creating some sort of line of best fit through the blizzard of craziness. So without too much phanphare, a quick catchup paragraph.

It’s pretty obvious to everyone that we need growth, but it’s also don’t want to turn into robots so be the change you want to see in the world, who knows, maybe we’ll get the first podcasting prime minister sometime soon, especially since having basic communication networks is ever more important in difficult times. We are collectively starting to finally see the scale of the problem facing us, and with that in mind let’s try to listen to the other side, it might be the best way to try and not make things worse. I really didn’t plan any of this, so yeah we probably are living in some sort of simulation.

So what’s up with Elon getting all trolly with the UK this week? Not sure exactly, but it is a bit funny. Oh and it’s not just the UK, he’s trolling the entirety of continental Europe. The fact that this is even possible has got to be one of the funniest things to ever happen to humanity. Did I mention it’s all been done by sending 140 character text messages? Hey, it’s serious okay, this could totally be the end of civilisation as we know it. Stop laughing. I know it’s not easy.

Tom Luongo [36:17]: "Musk going after Farage was a big discordant move. Musk going after Farage tells me they know the parameters of the problem, because remember as we’ve gone on over the years, I’ve fine tuned my analysis to say we’ve got Davos, and we’ve got the british remanent. And those two things, they are not the same group of people. Starmer clearly represents the EU and continental european globalists. Now at the same time we have british globalists. Now they are both aligned with the idea that they need to get rid of the russians and the americans but one of them wants to be in charge when this is all over. And if you map Farage to the old british remenant, then it makes sense that Musk is going after both of them. And saying no no no we are taking out the whole fucking kit and caboodle, this is the real american revolution."

I’m not saying any of this is true, but to use Luongo’s analogy, it gives you the parameters of what kind of a meta story is possible. Whether it’s lunacy is beside the point. It situates you as to vaguely where in orbit you need to be. The interesting thing would be to create counter narratives, preferably a little more optimistic and fun, that can play at that level.

Then again it might all be true, and London really is the heart of darkness and all that, even though on the ground it seems a lot more like a third rate re-imagination of dad’s army, written by the children of the folks that wrote Grange Hill. It’s strange to think that only my generation can truely understand the innocent hilarity of the common sausage. I can almost see and hear the intro now. I bet that will turn out to be a fucking pedo ring too.

Anyway, pop punk anyone? But also, death metal!

I'm getting the familiar sense of another plus infiniti minus infiniti tsunami. Here we go again.

Update: Just listening to the rest of the episode, and the recursive fractalness is off the friggin charts! Oh my word. #

Following on from this piece I just wrote, which is effectively a dénouement post of the past few week’s blogging, I wouldn’t be suprised if worldo has a hissy fit and makes me ill. We shall see. I wrote this note because I just had an impromptu very brief runny nose, barely a few minutes after finishing said blog post. #

Jason Calacanis on the Nvidia Digits workstation [42:15]: "I’d say the thing that’s teally interesting about things that start as toys, or as hobbies, this feels like the raspberry pie, it feels like the PC in the early days. These things were toys and people were tinkering with them, and then an application comes out, and then people really want it, and then everybody has to have it. The Palm Pilot, the General Magic machines were these little digital assistants, they were PDAs, personal digital assistants, they had a dictionary on them, a calendar on them, they weren’t connected to the internet, you had to plug them in with a big fat cable to your computer to get the data to sync, it never worked, it took an hour, and then all of a sudden, now we all have iPhones and Android phones." #