Jacky?!

@omg.jacky.wtf

Captain of @olamaelcu.net (also web @ @divine.video) + other things. I write (and record) things. I like reading. A lot. ⓘ Mwen pa zanmi ou e li plis pase ou

A list of over 20 crates in a Neovide window

Michelle and Barack Obama making growling faces while reading a children's book

Shinji stressing out about the burden of running a Personal Data Server

Jacky holding up his copy of The New Yorker showing Mamdani on the M train

Limited Lexicon Storage: Being able to set a limit on what kind of records/lexicons can be persisted to the PDS (on a global and per-account basis).

Per-User "Database" Connection: Allow for a user's repository to be connected to via a quasi database that can be queried using a GraphQL endpoint or an equivalent DSL, inspired by https://atmosphereconf.org/event/686gZde.

User Repository Statistics and Quota: Allow for plucking metrics about users individually like:
* total size of media assets
* total # of records per lexicon type
* listing references in all records by counts (showing total bsky likes in a meta way)

Also can enforce a quota by prohibiting one from adding records or data that would exceed a predetermined limit (like 100GB of media) and allowing the limit to be dynamic.

Livtet's plugin settings screen partially written in Haitian Kreyol

A crash in an app Jacky’s developing due to him rewriting database changes without first clearing the database

Jacky calling ansible's shell passthrough command to invoke arbitrary code on remote hosts

A terminal screenshot of a string value equating to true in JavaScript; making a joke of the OP's point about the truth value of a string

Firefox's AI consent screen with an explainer at the bottom highlight what each option provides and dictates

The reaction bar for iMessage showing up on an 2019 MacBook Pro

Stella having fun with a toy wooden stick

Jacky's using his green screen randomly with a particular anime wallpaper in the backgrkund

Kashmir Hill is a technology journalist whose “sentences carry both weight and grace,” according to her unauthorized biography.

The problem was not with other places, or with the man wanting to see them, but with travel’s dehumanizing effect, which thrust him among people to whom he was forced to relate as a spectator. Chesterton believed that loving what is distant in the proper fashion—namely, from a distance—enabled a more universal connection. When the man in Hampstead thought of foreigners “in the abstract . . . as those who labour and love their children and die, he was thinking the fundamental truth about them.” “The human bond that he feels at home is not an illusion,” Chesterton wrote. “It is rather an inner reality.” Travel prevents us from feeling the presence of those we have travelled such great distances to be near.

If you are inclined to dismiss this as contrarian posturing, try shifting the object of your thought from your own travel to that of others. At home or abroad, one tends to avoid “touristy” activities. “Tourism” is what we call travelling when other people are doing it. And, although people like to talk about their travels, few of us like to listen to them. Such talk resembles academic writing and reports of dreams: forms of communication driven more by the needs of the producer than the consumer.

The account reporting screen showing "trump's face labeler" and "bluesky moderation service" when one selects "fake account or bot" after selecting "misleading"

This deli is using AI for its flyer for food

A Hamas official said the group wished for the swift entry of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), a body which is tasked with overseeing the future administration of Gaza under a US-backed plan to end Israel's genocidal war on the Palestinian territory.

About 30 or so physical Xbox 360 video games

Jacky holding five DVDs; Get Out, Roots, I Am Not Your Negro, Spartacus: Vengeance and Moonlight

A flyer for a movie night in Bedstuy off 382 Tompkins avenue on 11 July

Despite a bit of a slow start, Jacky demonstrates how muting an account's reposts and quote posts can look

A post meant to go into Blacksky's community only but an error indicating that I don't have access to post into the community just yet.

She’s certainly right about that. Abuse and misinformation are everywhere on X. Foreign bots run amok; there are entire factories in Russia and elsewhere which exist to drive misinformation and stir up hate on X and other social media.
But that’s exactly why I stay. X remains unparalleled as a social media site focused on news, comment and discussion with around 570 million monthly active users. What happens if those of us who aren’t driven by hate and who try to use reason rather than gut impulse (or at least like to think we do) leave? The bigots, the bots and the lunatics have the place to themselves.

The heading of a page on Wikipedia about a prominent African American woman with a notice about the text being LLM-generated

And the answer is: because none of them are interested in accomplishing anything of substance, their aims revolve entirely around being acceptable to one another. Their truth — which they are pursuing competently, even intelligently, as agents — is not about change but about propriety. Ideas, for them, are evaluated based on whether they are proper or not and people in that group succeed based on their ability to reheat one harmless, socially-acceptable idea after another. To reiterate: it's not that they're wrong, it's that the truth that emerges from their purpose is largely detached from any consequence that would be considered meaningful to the rest of us.

We all do it to some degree of course, but some people do it almost exclusively. For reasons that I will get to, it is the backbone of their epistemology and this has interesting consequences that I detail below. One thing that's notable is that the people who favour a worldview built exclusively of retweeted ideas is that they congregate. They prefer one another's company to the company of those (from any political side) with a stronger tendency to interrogate their own assumptions. We can think of them, essentially, as the Retweeting Class.

$These ruptures have left American politics prey to both the paralysis of the center-left and to the drive of an authoritarian right to break apart the legacies of the civil rights movement and the New Deal. Neither alternative offers a stable prospect for the future, not least because the right has nothing close to the kind of majority that could entrench its own project. Trump’s very focus on unilateral executive action is a sign of political weakness—an inability to build the type of majority that can pursue ends through popular law rather than through presidential diktat. The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive” to liberty, “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,” and to design the forms of rule “most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” Standing behind these words was an unspoken faith in the constituent power of a people to reestablish the terms of their economic and political life. It is hard to look at the United States today and see its institutions and practices as a hospitable home for the exercise of such power. The mechanisms of collective renewal and meaningful self-government have been fractured.$