he can be your retribution. but he is incapable of being your renaissance.

“one of America’s superpowers is to spin up yarns to reduce the urgency for action.” #DanWang https://danwang.co/2023-letter/

it’s darkly amusing that the contemporary Republican Party can be characterized as RINOs vs Rhinos. https://www.kkoworld.com/kitablar/ejen-ionesko-kergedan-eng.pdf

So, my wasted day, it turns out there are mysterious incompatibilities between BlueHost and Apple Mail. (With Spectrum maybe somehow in the mix as well?)

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254051351?=undefined&previousThread=253705194021&sortBy=best

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250149808?sortBy=best

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/729660

@paninid definitely. people are not persuaded by just the arguments they hear, but by the communities they belong to. belonging to a place like here, participating and finding some real fellowship here, rather than a place like there, is a step towards opening up to better ways.

it’s easy and often justified to condemn crypto, but let’s not forget that the real action in money laundering, corruption, and reinforcement of oligarchy sits at the intersection of the conventional financial system and the political system. https://www.levernews.com/the-oligarch-exemption-for-new-business-disclosure-rules/ ht @mike_kraft

it’s a mistake to mistake condemnation for contribution.

again, “trafficking” is just the name people give transportation for purposes they don’t like. although here it is so broadly defined as to include even the suggestion of the possibility of transportation. https://jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-travel-bans-proposed-in ht @dangillmor

@ionizedgirl@toot.cat The curl request that generates the response includes an old-school Host: header (which points not to shared.bluehost.com, but the host i intended to hit). perhaps curl displays that as a kind of translation since humans are accustomed to working with that header. It's a WordPress blog, almost certainly reverse proxied for sure, probably from HTTP/1.1 because that's lots more accessible to accept and generate by hand.

@ionizedgirl@toot.cat good call! it decodes to 'shared.bluehost.com'

what is "host-header" in a HTTP response?

people who trust themselves too much are untrustworthy.

as we descend
i ask
can this be the nadir?
is this it?
are we there yet?
i take heart.
eventually even
children arrive.

@danjac@masto.ai @GeePawHill maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Database?wprov=sfti1 ? seems a successor to Berkeley DB which is used back in the day.

@Alon That's not a set of claims that surprises me, I don't have a strong view of Israel's immediate-term military dependence. But then what does Bibi sacrificing victory just to avoid committing to two states look like?

Have a lot of adjectives. Don't be a noun.

@Alon What does that look like? The US withdraws support, creating conditions under which Israel finds the war unsustainable before what Israelis expect of victory, because Bibi refuses to accept a process towards Palestinian statehood in exchange for continued support?

@lauren The AT&T divestiture was right at the turning point of antitrust (whether cyclical or not). It was the last major effort of a superceded regime that people now are (hopelessly you think?) struggling to reinvigorate. I don't think the shape of the tech industry is captured by high-frequency political cycles. Particular forms of industry are better characterized by rise and fall than either stasis or cycle. Google, I think, is a dinosaur, whatever proves the asteroid.