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But I don’t trust him. Some of this is my inability to forgive him for a stupid thing he said in one of those holy well essays. Aside from that, I wonder how many years it will be before he says something truly ugly.

I can’t help but compare him to Wendell Berry, who has been a major influence on us both (if I understand correctly). Berry is deeply humane and patient and rooted. Kingsnorth wants to be—and, while that desire is very commendable, I don’t think he’s there yet. He feels too “of the moment” and tapped into certain trends that don’t help my worry about where he’s going. For being a student of Berry, Kingsnorth talks less about localism than I expected. I think if he moved that direction more fully, I would be a bit less suspicious about his motivation.

The show is absolutely magical. Everyone was great, but especially to see these seniors, who I know so well, build these incredibly complex characters from vignettes, was mind-blowing. Beatrix’s friend has an amazing scene near the end that totally had me in tears, and the waterworks continued as Beatrix gave the final monologue of the show and she was So Damn Good.

The final performance is tonight at 7pm. Tickets are free. Come see it.

Interesting thought with a small Pluribus spoiler. We should all think of our AI pseudo-people with as much disdain as Carol has for the "people" who watch over her. They aren't people, in either case. In Pluribus they give you the hint in everything they say. It's not "I think this" it's we. I'd like my chatbot friends to use similar language. Never behave like a person. That should be as forbidden. We'll regret not controlling this, I think. #

Tim Bray did an analysis of how the Sarah Kendzior suspension on Bluesky would have played out in the MastoVerse. #

I have been thinking, for years now, why not reconceive the discourse system on the social web to factor out moderation. It is the web, so anyone can add a feature any time without having to rewrite the whole web. I've been trying ideas out for years, but people preferred silos. Hoping now there are enough people to start a bootstrap. Won't be much of a discourse system if people don't course. 😄#

More testing stuffffff#

• With any luck this will be the last of the tests for this particular feature. #
• If this continues to work, tomorrow or Monday I'll switch it over to cross-posting to daveverse instead of the throw-away test site. #
• Below are the debugging messages I used today. Nothing really happening here. ;-)#
• This is one of those days I am pretty sure I have nothing to write but as I get going I'll remember stuff. Maybe. As you've probably surmised I'm still working on tests. These are called regression tests. Yesterday I got the whole thing running, but knew I still had to move things around, and turn some features off that weren't needed. So every time I do one of those things that could shake things up, I have to try it again to make sure I didn't break it. This is the page I have to look at for the result. The cool thing is that the wordpress site is starting to feel like scripting.com, the software runs that quickly. But there are a lot of bits of software running all over the place that have to work in order for it to feel that solid. #
• How did the regression test go? Wellll, I did break a bunch of stuff. But I put the pieces back in place. And with any luck this post will show up on the other end. It did. #