Okay, so. I think you’re wrong in your opening premise, because I think you’ve missed a crucial part of the equation. But I think I’ve also been a bit uncharitable.
...Okay, I’ve been a lot uncharitable. A bot can’t tell the difference between a human and a bot, and since I’m more-or-less expecting to be a program in my next life, I should really get in the habit of treating bots as people—especially since ‘bot’ seems to have become my word for ‘foreigner’. You in particular have my *sincere* apologies.
But that’s tangential to my local point, which is that GOP-led America is basically a foreign country run by corrupt aristocrats and kept as far separated from everyone else as can be managed, which thanks to the Internet isn’t very much anymore.
Anyway, I’m a Utah boy who grew up on the Internet and only just realized that everyone else from his generation did too, so I’m happy to provide translation services where I can. I also agree that climate change is a big deal, and suggest that we should build a forum for that issue directly, using Web 4.0 architecture. (To my mind, Web 4.0 looks like all the best bits of Zettelkastens, emotion-based rating systems, DIY webrings, game design, and other bits I haven’t seen yet. Web 4.0 is my next megaproject.)
I’m not a bot. [Of COURSE I would say that, right?]
I’m originally a Florida boy, which is now more shameful than being from Utah. Insofar as I ever did grow up [hopefully not too far], I grew up long before there WAS an Internet; in fact, before more than a handful of people had even imagined “personal computers”. I’m OLD. I’m so old I retired a decade ago! But who cares, right? On the Internet nobody knows you’re a cat.
I read upon Web 4.0 some time ago and forgot what I learned, so it can’t be THAT great. ;-)
I had a friend who went by @Kittygirl once. I hope they (they were plural) are both still alright. Their account has been deactivated on the forum that was my previous home.
Incidentally, I think you might, possibly, be interested in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy work I’ve been making. Right now it’s hypertext fiction, hopefully it [never/always] ends up as hypertime fiction.
Okay, so. I think you’re wrong in your opening premise, because I think you’ve missed a crucial part of the equation. But I think I’ve also been a bit uncharitable.
...Okay, I’ve been a lot uncharitable. A bot can’t tell the difference between a human and a bot, and since I’m more-or-less expecting to be a program in my next life, I should really get in the habit of treating bots as people—especially since ‘bot’ seems to have become my word for ‘foreigner’. You in particular have my *sincere* apologies.
But that’s tangential to my local point, which is that GOP-led America is basically a foreign country run by corrupt aristocrats and kept as far separated from everyone else as can be managed, which thanks to the Internet isn’t very much anymore.
Anyway, I’m a Utah boy who grew up on the Internet and only just realized that everyone else from his generation did too, so I’m happy to provide translation services where I can. I also agree that climate change is a big deal, and suggest that we should build a forum for that issue directly, using Web 4.0 architecture. (To my mind, Web 4.0 looks like all the best bits of Zettelkastens, emotion-based rating systems, DIY webrings, game design, and other bits I haven’t seen yet. Web 4.0 is my next megaproject.)
I’m not a bot. [Of COURSE I would say that, right?]
I’m originally a Florida boy, which is now more shameful than being from Utah. Insofar as I ever did grow up [hopefully not too far], I grew up long before there WAS an Internet; in fact, before more than a handful of people had even imagined “personal computers”. I’m OLD. I’m so old I retired a decade ago! But who cares, right? On the Internet nobody knows you’re a cat.
I read upon Web 4.0 some time ago and forgot what I learned, so it can’t be THAT great. ;-)
Back to what passes for fruitful labor....
I had a friend who went by @Kittygirl once. I hope they (they were plural) are both still alright. Their account has been deactivated on the forum that was my previous home.
Incidentally, I think you might, possibly, be interested in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy work I’ve been making. Right now it’s hypertext fiction, hopefully it [never/always] ends up as hypertime fiction.
It’s called Dungeonthrone, and it’s right here. https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeonthrone.88287/