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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

"Community", like "Happiness", is something that cannot be obtained by aiming at it too directly

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

sometimes I just want so badly to be relieved of the pressure to be interesting

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Grindset hustle bros quoting "what do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life" as if they like Mary Oliver is so ironic like bro do you even let the soft animal of your body love what it loves

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

just like, feed in a screenshot of the game every turn and get back actions as a series of mouse coordinates to click on?

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

the correct approach to type theory is "exactly as much as I need to be useful and no more" HKTs should be safe, legal and rare

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

discovering Eve for me was like finding the abandoned relics of an advanced alien civilization anyway, if you like this, try - www.cell-lang.net - oceanpark.com/ap5.html - any Datalog, really

cell-lang.net

The Cell Programming Language

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I just miss earnest posting about mental health, meditation, mysticism, etc. On old twitter it was more possible to carve out a little sub-community and tune out the tiresome stuff

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

sometimes I wish I could cause computer programming to happen via heavy lifting / physical exertion rather than via typing and screen-staring (Bret Victor's Dynamicland is probably the closest thing to this, if only)

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

an unelected billionaire running our government like a king is un-American. our forefathers didn't fight and die in the Revolutionary War for this! ^ would really like to see electoral candidates take this kinda messaging and run with it

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

see this is less controversial / has less collateral damage than "unrealized capital gains tax", while still having much the same effect of hurting billionaires

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

which I mean, I do acknowledge you gotta go outside SV and accept that YC will never fund you if this is your mission, for a start. I think the core conceit was that you can somehow " improve the world and peoples' agency" and "get rich" at the same time

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

it sucks, not just bc of the negative effects on all society, but also for those of us hacker nerds who believed in the ethos of the 90s, who want to be scrappy and open-source and make tools that improve peoples' lives and see tech as a viable *anti*-authoritarian tool

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

how does it work? and are you open to collaborators?

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

how do you find the output quality to be?

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

it's not that so much; representatives and electors are apportioned according to population counts at the 10-yr census if CA's pop shrinks while SD's pop grows (for example), and SD stays R, the net effect is more R votes in the House and Electoral College

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

something something stuck culture and simulacra There’s a wide open space here politically / culturally for those who can articulate a compelling vision of a better future that isn’t a rehashing of the old

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

it’s open source, run a distillation locally!

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

what is the tactical value of saying “both parties are the same” at this particular moment?

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

generalizing further: the surest way to kill the inherent joy in an activity is to be dependent on the outcome

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

there's a case to be made for availability and archival. e.g Netflix/etc. can just pull a show and make it unavailable, unless you've downloaded a copy (also, in that case, have the show's creators & actors have already been paid for their labor? not really clear on the contract terms there tbh)

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

app idea: a popup that appears every time you open the site and asks "are you sure you want to scroll through your timeline right now?"

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

there's a pretty good use case in turning unstructured -> structured data

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Which requires taking actual effective action to bring your lifestyle in line with your values/intentions Which requires the energy and health to put forth the effort Which requires getting enough sleep …

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

To do that, be aligned enough in your day and life that you don't feel an unconscious need to self medicate & escape by forcing distracting stimulation into your face all evening, and you can go to bed tired & satisfied

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

To have a better life, better health etc - get enough sleep To get enough sleep, go to bed on time To get yourself to go to bed on time, stop scrolling & notice when you feel tired

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

A political movement built on energy and enthusiasm is more attractive than one built on doom and despair

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

css is the superior programming language all you need to do is let selectors create/delete/modify elements and then it’s Prolog for web devs. this will never happen but one can dream

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 28/01/2025

Boston Market recently changed their name to Boston MARKET, a move that increased their market capitalization by 500%

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

this is either extremely idiotic or the most brilliant engagement hack of the year

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Do you think AI obsoletes “end user development” tools like low-code, Excel style formula or scripting languages embedded in software, etc? I remember your work on things like Riffle based on the premise “it should be easier to make your own app” and wondering how you see GenAI changing that

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

well, it's accelerationism, right; if it gets worse and everything goes down in flames, the empire collapses, perhaps utopia can rise from the ashes, I think that's the idea never mind how many people will suffer horribly along the way

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I think it's more like "people respond to incentives"

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

try not to confuse anxiety for morality

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

at the very least, worth remembering that the corollary of agency is responsibility

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

(but also that delivery platform co op would be Cool and Good and I’d support it anyway)

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

yeah, one could imagine a worker owned platform co-op delivery app where drivers make a decent living and the app itself takes 0% profit - and delivery would still be very expensive under that system in order to pay the drivers!

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

👋 I follow you over there too, glad you’re here!

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I love bsky because it’s open and free of corporate control but many ppl I know don’t care about that, they won’t abandon the big tech apps unless the user experience is at least as good on its own terms - and that includes “shows me interesting people/content with minimal effort”

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I mean, my hidden agenda here is “I want 170m Americans using decentralized protocols instead of corporate giant owned apps, and in order to achieve that we need to offer a comparably compelling alternative” if not cigarettes, at least nicotine patches, or people just won’t go for it

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I’m wondering if any of the “atproto TikTok replacements” (@skylight.social, etc) can innovate here

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Yeah, at the very least we need transparency here. Fortunately with bsky we get to choose - I’d like a better algorithmic feed to at least be *available*

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

yeah, I get that - but like, the popularity of TikTok et al speaks for itself I think, we can rail against it but there’s a real need being met here Also the cold start problem - when you’re totally new and don’t know who to follow- or you make your first posts and you’re “screaming into the void”

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

just seeing posts from the people you follow lacks this. where are the small accounts on bsky posting things out of the norm that I might be interested in, whom I might like to meet? Idk, nowhere in my Following or Discover feed, that’s for sure, especially when I first sign up

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

one goal of social media is to “find the others” - discover your community, people you wouldn’t have known to follow otherwise. TT did this well (cf “welcome to the ___ side of TikTok” etc). and I think that’s why ppl felt so devastated about a potential ban - the loss of that community they found

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oak sprout @oaksprout.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

everyone processes differently I suppose but I don’t have time to surrender to despair; there is too much to do, so many things to fix, so much to build!

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