I think I found the "wording" that links why cryptocurrencies and technologies that rely on it are antithetical to the concepts I understand to be critical to liberation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism holds it to SOUND like a good thing but under this ecosystem where we haven't even tackled the social issues, these digital systems would usher a new era of feudalism that should be remained to the limits of comics and books, never reality.

Whomst styles the whostyles? August 21, 2021



I love this idea… and who better to introduce it to me than Robin Sloan, writer, note-maker, and ambassador of Keep the Blogosphere Weird in his note Whomst styles?:



This is a “whostyle”: an attempt to carry the ~timbre~ of an author’s voice, in the form of their design sensibility, through into a quotation. It’s the author who defines their whostyle; the quoting site just honors it, a frame around their words.


The idea of giving each personality a little speech bubble to represent their creative identity is lovely, and reminds me of Microsoft Comic Chat. Let's keelhaul tiktok and bring back altcomix-inspired IRC chats!



image from Chris Gliddon's article



Robin frankly didn't make this easy at all, with his subtly changing background and header colors1. Jacob Hall made this easier with a lovely reference to all: revert, and the resulting conversation in his indie-web comments is a sort of charming internet House of Leaves, which Robin echoes:



I’ll add that even this glancing encounter with whostyles sharpens my annoyance with Twitter, the way it “smooshes” contributions into uniform, stackable blocks. But a timeline demands this, right? Maybe; I think a timeline of tweets brimming over with typographic variation would be tons of fun. Give us a miniature grid, let us play Müller-Brockmann!


Hear hear! I may very well try to make my own whomstyle.css... just for giggles.








  1. I gave up Robin... I'll try again later. :P ↩







Whomst styles? - www.robinsloan.com

↑ byEvan Travershttps://evantravers.com • posted • archived copy • current

Son what the fuck? 10 YEARS? Russia is looking wild for this (but also, a simple step for the USA to show some sense of allyship is to federally legalize weed, no one should be locked up for this shit)

if you let someone know for the first time how their actions have hurt or upset you, and the conversation ends with you apologising for doing this. it is a clear sign you are dealing with someone who is about to make your life very difficult.
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I’m not sure where I stand on the PTO debate.



On one hand, unlimited PTO sounds GREAT, but if the company culture around it sucks, then you’re SOL and the company owes you nothing for unused time when you leave.



On the other hand, 2weeks PTO/8 sick days sounds criminal 😭*
↑ byKhalia M. Braswell • posted • archived copy • current

I agree. Like I'm in favor of minimum forced vacation (like you HAVE to take off a month at least every year). But completely unlimited in the wrong place is a trap. And you tend not to know UNTIL you take it.

I’m not sure where I stand on the PTO debate.



On one hand, unlimited PTO sounds GREAT, but if the company culture around it sucks, then you’re SOL and the company owes you nothing for unused time when you leave.



On the other hand, 2weeks PTO/8 sick days sounds criminal 😭*
↑ byKhalia M. Braswell • posted • archived copy • current
Instead of keeping a backlog of features (solutions), try keeping a backlog of problems. That way you can prioritize the impact of the problem, instead of prioritizing how easy it is to build the solution 💡
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