The fundamental values of a true community are elsewhere: in love, poetry, disinterested thought, the free use of the imagination, the pursuit of non-utilitarian activities, the production of non-profitmaking goods, the employment of non-consumable wealth - here are the sustaining values of a living culture.— Lewis Mumford
「 CDP-897 is a unit from 1992. It’s 32 years old, and it works flawlessly. All buttons work, CD reading is spot on, audio it generates through all outputs is clear. It even came with a full service manual, which till this can day can be easily found on the web. Nowadays not many things exist after 5 years of purchase, and here I am. Just another happy owner in the 30-year history of this player. 」
"si épargner des souffrances aux animaux n’est pas un enjeu, c'est que cette souffrance est importante pour vous. (...) Elle devient donc notre principale valeur. Nous revendiquons avec ferveur nos méthodes d’élevage et d’abattage. "
I’ve been posting about wanting blogging to feel more like posting on here forever and…I think this gets me there. Why bother hosting a #blog and all of that hassle when your #Mastodon account could literally be a blog?
It’s amazing what a well-maintained API enables in for client apps like this. When the UI is in play, Mastodon effectively becomes infrastructure
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
「 I am proudly introducing the first Omake on this site: User Friendly Archive. This adds over 5000 subpages, so I am now a webmaster of a significant website. 」
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic or eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary.
Dear tech blogs. Please stop.
These are massive trillion+ dollar megacorporations.
There’s no “war”, no need to choose sides. No flame wars to be had to take more of our money.
These are appliances to get stuff done or enjoy for fun.
Period.