Fri Feb 17 18:47 EST; goldblum
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  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.