Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🖼️ xkcd — Hot Water Balloon #3153

  • 🔤SpellBinding — DNORUWY Wordo: VIRUS

  • Nyctography

    Problem number one is remember which cells you’ve already written in; problem number two is to remember which pages you’ve already written on.

    I do a lot of my writing in shorthand which works fine in the dark except for that second problem, how to turn to an unwritten page.

• Politics and World Events

  • The Gordian solution to gerrymandering

    Gerrymandering is a fancy word for redrawing the voting districts in your favor.

    In “area control” board games (games where you win a region by having the most representation there, and you win the game by winning most regions) the tension is usually to not overcommit where you are already winning and to recognize where you’re definitively gonna lose and don’t commit anything there. By conserving your resources in those two ways you can win as many regions as possible.

    Through gerrymandering, political elections can be won this way. You create many regions where you’re either juuuust winning (but unambiguously winning) by also creating a few regions where you get totally clobbered, making your opponents wastefully overconcentrated in those regions.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Lurking Mode and Playdate

    I am ever so slightly back. I haven't written a post in a year. I grew weary of much of the daily content on Antenna and wasn't finding the kinds of things I wanted to read. I also threw myself into some other hobbies and creative practices, and started to faze out of spending time on the Ctrl-C tilde as I wasn't feeling inspired. I started using a RSS feed reader after years of seeing others extol its virtues and when I finally found a feed reader I liked more of the content I wanted to read started to come to me! I am using Feeds, the News Reader for Gnome, which also seems to be called Gfeeds in some places. Okay.