Post APob5Sm1PxI6oq0VGa by ddgulledge@social.linux.pizza
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 (DIR) Post #APob5P03Rq8h7CXeaG by RetroGrouch@mastodon.social
       2022-11-19T00:23:57Z
       
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       Mastodon is making me nostalgic for #emacs and #LaTex - it has that lovely old-time, optimistic, not cynical (what's the opposite of cynical?) buzz about it. Not corporate, Tech-utopia as much as People focused. It's wholesome.
       
 (DIR) Post #APob5PRhn2G0UxTjgO by ddgulledge@social.linux.pizza
       2022-11-19T10:22:48Z
       
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       @RetroGrouch It's worth considering that #LaTeX was first released in 1984. It's built on top of #TeX which was first released in 1978. GNU #Emacs was first released in 1985. It's the most widely used Emacs implementation, based on ideas that go back to the original Emacs in 1976. They are still used today, and are still being updated. The collaborative environment surrounding them is actually an important feature.(cont)
       
 (DIR) Post #APob5PseAro9qW5Fg0 by mpjgregoire@mamot.fr
       2022-11-19T11:14:55Z
       
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       @ddgulledge @RetroGrouch We live in a society where new and improved is assumed to be better, where seniors are considered out-of-touch and the trends of youth are fashionable.  In fact, the things that began long ago and which are still alive or in use, the tried-and-true often have advantages over what is merely modern.  We overestimate our skill at creating afresh and undervalue what has proven itself.#innovation #tradition
       
 (DIR) Post #APob5QUDv9rjj3fGFM by lxo@gnusocial.net
       2022-11-20T18:46:07Z
       
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       *nod*, it's a fabricated cultural faith, used mainly to seduce the youth into corporate traps.  how could they sell them stuff that's worse and that makes suckers of them otherwise?
       
 (DIR) Post #APob5R4NkimzXCa8bg by ddgulledge@social.linux.pizza
       2022-11-19T10:26:10Z
       
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       @RetroGrouch This is how culture actually works. We build on the ideas around us. We remix them and add something of our own. Nina Paley illustrated this beautifully in her video All Creative Work Is Derivative:https://youtu.be/jcvd5JZkUXY(cont)
       
 (DIR) Post #APob5Sm1PxI6oq0VGa by ddgulledge@social.linux.pizza
       2022-11-19T10:32:40Z
       
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       @RetroGrouch More fundamentally, it's how communication works. It's no accident that the only constructed language that has outlived it's creator to continue to be used is #Esperanto. L.L. Zamenhof explicitly gave it, and control of it's future development to it's speakers.(cont)
       
 (DIR) Post #APob5UMZVY7bkU7CsK by ddgulledge@social.linux.pizza
       2022-11-19T10:42:54Z
       
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       @RetroGrouch Communication matters. It's easy to emphasize mass communication because so many people have access to the same things. Again, it's not an accident that Project Gutenberg is named after Johannes Gutenberg who effectively made books available to the world, by making them easy and cheap to reproduce. But communication is interactive. It requires an answering voice.(cont)
       
 (DIR) Post #APob5WOlwL4Q3t9zaC by ddgulledge@social.linux.pizza
       2022-11-19T10:47:57Z
       
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       @RetroGrouch Social media can't be based on production and consumption of content. It has to be based on conversations, not recordings. It's interactive. It's me seeing your words in the predawn hours and riffing off of them. It's the people who will find this conversation because of the things we've mentioned, and join in.
       
 (DIR) Post #APobWfoV2kev538nqK by Binkle@sleepy.cafe
       2022-11-21T03:01:19.680879Z
       
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       @RetroGrouch I feel the exact same way. Emacs and the fediverse are cut from the same cloth. It reminds me of old forum culture