ℝeallyℝadley

~Right-libertarian, but I like to tweet about sci-fi, fantasy, wordplay, language, and tech. I don't hide my beliefs, but I'm open-minded.

[ℝeallyℝadley @ReallyRadley]

Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legends. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten…
Thank you, friends.

[ℝeallyℝadley @ReallyRadley]

@kendrictonn “Too many maggots.” 🤪

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

Quoted tweet is a very good analysis, and I invite you to read it before continuing with my comments.

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Now that you're back, I can add a few things.

It is the fact that Unix is a tradition in the MacIntyre sense that enables it to inspire loyalty and a sense of tribal fellow-feeling among its practitioners. Technology stacks alone don't do that, but once a tradition has developed what Macintyre calls "internal goods" it can and often does become an emotional focus and even a form of identity for its practitioners.

Quoted tweet speaks as though Unix and the open-source tradition are coextensive and indistinguishable. This is nearly true nowadays, but in the early histories of Unix and what became open source the relationship was more contingent and complicated. There were nascent open-source communities around other closed-source operating systems, and it is at least possible that one of those competitors could have inspired a Linux equivalent and become the focal technology stack of the open-source tradition. I could name a few possibilities: TOPS-20 is probably at this late date the least obscure of them.

I have spent most of my adult life, more than 45 years now, working in this tradition. Trying to understand it better. Helping it understand itself better. Allowing it to shape me, and shaping it in return, in a mutual creation so intimate that it is often difficult for me to know which parts were me and which were the egregore. And I cannot offhand think of any better way I could have spent those years.

[Irrationalbasis @Irrationalbasi5]

@FischerKing64 A good Voir Dire question is how many bumper stickers you have on your car.

[Jason Premo • Acclaim Aerospace @JasonPremoMFG]

@FischerKing64 @myth_pilot Because 99% teachers today are unhinged marxist ideology indoctrination sponsors, hence the hundreds of school in Chicago, Philly etc with near 100% high school students incapable of reading or math proficiency at 8th grade levels.

[ℝeallyℝadley @ReallyRadley]

@sleepy_devo @planefag How about schools teaching communist propaganda and gender transitioning kids while hiding it from parents? Or arresting parents who dared to complain when their daughters were raped by “trans girls” at school?

[ℝeallyℝadley @ReallyRadley]

@Houseofeden007 Thank you! ❤️🫂

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Kid3 spent most of yesterday in the ER. She’s been struggling with daily+ vomiting, headaches, and (most recently) altered mental status (some aphasia, forgetting common skills). Ruled out Wernicke’s. (It’s not bulimia, btw.) Found a pituitary adenoma. We see endoc & neuro next.

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@AtomicCoyote61 Thank you! ❤️🫂

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@random_scrub Thank you, scrub.

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@bronzebarbarian ❤️🫂

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@danfarnsy Thanks, Danny.

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Mrs read somewhere that “avocado tastes like a clean dick”. I insist that she, as a scientist, test this assertion.

On my way to get guac!

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@Nymdok Thanks, Nym.

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@bronzebarbarian Thank you for the Kraft Single(?).

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@offhandmanor1 Thank you!

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Is the British–American earnings gap explained by the higher caffeine content of coffee over tea?

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Allow the old man an indulgence in something he loves more than any bike.

[ℝeallyℝadley @ReallyRadley]

@jessesingal What would he wear on California beaches? Is there a Malibu Stasi outfit?

[travis4nh @travis4nh]

You "earned" $1M/year sitting on the board of Burisma Holdings from April 2014 to April 2019, despite having zero experience or skill.

Yeah, $5M - more than my lifetime earnings - for a do-nothing board seat sure sounds like "elite oligarch class" to me.

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

I don’t want a coffee that "notes hints of cherry and cocoa."

I want a coffee that walks into my brain, flips a table over, and says,
"Get up. We have responsibilities."