Scribbled Line

This is my scribbled line, its a collection of things I find interesting or want to remember. Here you can find a good summary of my world views in the writings I find important and things I just think are neat.

Pages

• Clear Line, A more strictly outlined set of views I hold, along with evidence I use to justify them to myself.
• Quotes, A list of quotes I like.

Important things

Writing that permanently altered me

• Kae tempest - A book of traps and lessons this poetry is genuinely probably the biggest driver behind a lot of my world views. Whole thing should be experienced in one session, somewhere outdoors alone and dark, whether that's sat outside a pub at night with a drink or in a forest.
• silly, goofy article about football in the future
• Contrapoints helped me realise how I want to experience love and helped me learn to respect myself, though nowadays I've realised they're a pretty flawed person sometimes
• CJtheX helped me work out how to exist in the moment and just actually feel things (the first of the two linked videos, second is a better summary but came out much later)

Healthy conversation, thought and debate

• Cory Dransfeldt - Just Enough News
• xxiivv - how to have healthy discorse

The value of other cultures (especially non-scientific, stereotypically "primitive" cultures)

• Against his-story, Against Leviathan! This is possibly the strongest narrative for properly emotionally integrating this point into your world-view, though the book itself is incredibly biased and a bit unhinged. Would recommend chapter 1 or 23 specifically, 23 especially.
• Twitter thread on african architecture

Anti-Growth, Small-Web, Small-Tech

• Factorio hate-post
• The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers
• Fucking webmaster
• Machines of Loving Grace by Reagan Bird - The utter evisceration of one of my core beliefs through empathetic story-telling

The value of community

• Transcender manifesto
• The sky is falling, we've got this

The merits of open source

• Predator drones run linux
• The sustainability of the commons
• How to kill an decentralised network, a post about how companies purposefully kill off foss software

Less important side notes

Interesting old internet things

• Red-bean
• Chiark/Greenend
• Old usenet posts I host

Neat Permacomputing/culture things

• Tiny polish farm working on self-automation
• Edge Collective
• Social media for old photos
• Group that writes low power software (suckless.org)
• Solar powered website/blog about eco-tech

Neat programming things

• Tetris programming
• Internet archiologist
• Bikeshedding
• OurPaint - FOSS Node based painting software

Stories where programs defy reality

• Email wont go further than 500 miles
• Wifi only works when its raining
• Magic switch