Out of a want to work more in the open, I'm still eager to livestream. I have a slightly high bar of what I want, mainly because I want to provide a really nice experience (and because since I'm kinda hand rolling this, why not have some fun with it). One thing I need is a programmatic way to determine what workspace I'm on. Eh, I might just work on that live too.

Turned on auto-deletion of posts from my todon.eu Mastodon account. An ephemerally-organized life is a beautiful thing, something we kind of have built into our brains, but technology can make that harder to lean on (some things we need to forget). Waxing poetic aside, this is also me telling myself to use my journal more.

The more I'm reading from Haitian authors (not people who travel to Haiti from the US and observe but locals who have lived, learned and experienced life in Haiti), the more I'm realizing I really cannot take a lot of American authors who chronicled Haiti as some war-torn country and more of the effects of American imperialism, the hatred of Blackness from the US and how the US will do anything to prevent people from being free. Like weakening government to allow famine and disease to spread. Or destroying local political movements and describing them as "rebels" when they're fighting to give people food, water and power. Clinton backed this (both of them, which is why I couldn't support her in the primaries) and the US still uses these policies across other countries like Puerto Rico, Guyana, Jamaica and the like. To be anti-American, at this point, is to be anti-imperialism. And there's nothing wrong with that.

I wish there was another name I could use for the region of America that isn't America. I'd link to it from my site (similar to how I link to USDAC on the bottom of every page of my site since it's hosted on stolen Indigenous land) and definitely use it instead. I know of the term Turtle Island but that seems to be more Northern regions. The closest tie (if any) would be that of the Tiano to me.

Justifying extortion of prices of medicine because "it's good to have private/public interactions" despite private interest control nearly every aspect of our lives makes you sound a bit silly, TBH. Like pick a side (or just candidly that profits are more important than people.

Told myself that I won't buy any more books, but now I need to know MORE. Here are some that I've been itching to read:

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This is something I speak with my partner about with so much. Like I've been tempted to find people that I know nearby to do this with (but that's currently not possible, sadly).

Time for me to replace Gitea with Forgejo. Maybe we'll finally get some decent code collaboration logic built in. I'd love to see something that'd enable more of that without vendor lock-in. So we can actually have a open coding community.

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Okay, so I've begun upgrading git.jacky.wtf to Forgejo (or moving, since this is like swapping the running version with the updated version of Gitea I was running). I use dokku.com to run apps on my server, making it pretty easy. It looks like this is mainly a name switch for now.

Another reminder that credit scores are not a measure of your worth or even your buying power. It lends to be a marker if you're worth lending to. Which somehow extends to determining if you're worthy of having a place to live in, a job to work at, a means of (expensive) transportation or even in some environments, if you're a person worth associating with.

Fuck them, and fuck anyone who lends on financial instruments as a means of measuring the worth of a living being.

One of the worst things to happen with e-mail for 'customer service' was the concept of a "no reply" inbox. People are going to ask questions. Route it to your "support" tool (most of them can and do).

it's a bit wild how much the US government needs citizens to be poor in order to continue functioning. To a point where it's even aggressively disrespectful when "news-worthy" politicians make MORE than the people they demand votes from. For example, Biden makes more than people who actually contribute to society, but demands them to overwork and be underpaid. How is this not a feudal state? Because we give a farce of "democracy"? If it was truly something for people, why are student debt loans not cancelled? A platforming point that seems to be more air than action, there's very little reason to look up to people who couldn't be bothered to look down to us.