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** Fri Feb 17 18:47 EST; goldblum
One of the reasons that the web has become something to avoid is
the habitual use of cookies and the intrusive and pointless use of
"whatever" dialogs to create the pretence of collecting your
permission. In most cases, the use of cookies is completely
unnecessary, just a surveillence tool used for marketing and
advertising, and other weird monetization tricks. Occasionally it
is central to the application (session and identity tracking), but
that is *much* more rare than you might think.

Screwtape is right, there is no good reason for the richness of
web. This article hits the spot, though it's a bit more aggressive
in tone than I normally enjoy:

https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/

Speaking of, screwtape wrote an excellent bit of polemic about
programming and AI, which he's been talking about on his show quite
a bit lately. Mostly this is a response to the rise of ChatGPT in
the zeitgeist, which has been dominating the discourse lately. Some
of his thoughts have been a bit disorganized, but this nails it.

gopher://tilde.institute/0/~screwtape/216843900-lisp-beyond-lisp.txt

It's concise and cogent. I agree wholeheartedly. He references a
talk by Sussman which I dropped in com during his show, which is
well worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI

In other news, I spoke to the coops.tech guy, Doug, this morning.
It was a good chat, and gave me an expanded sense of what is
possible. I had not considered the notion that we could maintain
separate businesses and simply pay into a shared resource pool out
of which mutual support would come (sick pay, unemployment support,
etc.). I would rather have the co-op be the entity through which
all our business must transact, and no matter what the contract,
all participants be paid the same. There would need to be
safeguards formalized to prevent disconnects turning into
disasters, and that will require careful thought; that was an
insight I probably would not have internalized until much too late
to be useful - fortunately (for me) Doug had already been around
that block.

Now I need to read about the models for incorporation available to
us here in Canada, look into the immigration aspects for Anatoly,
and see it Le would like to talk about this. I'm still excited.