i have yet to figure out if i'm an element (canonical thing), a set (composed stuff), category (objects with relations), or space (collection with limits)
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...the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
not actually "fluent in ithkuil".
> i don't get it, why are they confessing? > they're not confessing. > they're bragging.talk some more about docker. please
you lost the game. the one where the first rule is you don't talk about-
on hypertext
#2025-04-31
on hypertext
#2025-04-31
aka. "these feds must have really shit sex."
aka. "better forget about subtext."
other art: a brief history of hypertext
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
bob metcalfe, infoworld 1995-09-21:
in the web's first generation, tim berners-lee launched the url, http, and html standards with prototype unix-based servers and browsers.
a few people noticed that the web might be better than gopher.
in the second generation, marc andreessen and eric bina developed ncsa mosaic at the university of illinois.
several million then suddenly noticed that the web might be better than sex. [sic]
three decades later (as of 2025), and whatever supposedly used to be "better than sex" hasn't
changed. this page consists of nearly backwards-compatible building blocks to those
available in the 1993 release of the browser killed by firefox via <iframe>s and a scheme in sheep's clothing. in thirty years the ietf has kicked its rfc number
from 1384 to 9720. whatwg and w3c have waged
their war over xhtml vs html5. steve jobs published his
"thoughts on flash", an obituary to futurewave's overzealous dreams of an
interactive world wide web after their last hopes were snuffed out and snorted by adobe's executives.
marc, rapgenius 2013:
i often wonder how the internet would have turned out differently if users had been able to annotate everything – to add new layers of knowledge to all knowledge, on and on, ad infinitum.
so now—since xanadu didn't ship—we sit in the tar pit of dreams of post-war narcisstic mania, waiting for hypertext to emerge from "his" well, for comments, annotations, ratings, and likes to coalesce into fucking geniusrap, and to desperately reign in more webshit before nvidia-powered crawlers smolder our electrical grids and ability for art.
roko's basilisk is no thought "experiment", for that it would have its audience take an alternative perspective and ponder the "possibility". the basilisk though, is an infohazard. and "the bad news [about hell] is, whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create."
long live mosaic, watch as we shatter what's left of it.
death to the web.