Hugh @hugh@ausglam.space

If you were thinking of auto-deleting your old toots I have good news - I made a thing for you (me): https://github.com/hughrun/ephemetoot

'Ultimately there is no "democratizing finance" to fix inequality; there is only wealth redistribution.'

https://tinyletter.com/reallifemag/letters/not-in-man-s-mind-but-in-the-entrails-of-beasts

Accidentally 4 bottles of wine at the farmers market.

What a stupid word. Have fun tomorrow, Americans.

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I like forests and libraries and Japan, but this Japanese "forest inspired" library is unconvincing.

Nice ceiling, the rest just looks like the warehouse bit of Ikea.

1 star, Margaret.

https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/nasushiobara-library-mari-ito-uao-japan

This, on the other hand, is uselessly, smugly, dystopian.

What's the point of this? Why simply throw up your hands and assume crypto investors HAVE to be radicalised to the right? Why not lay the groundwork to radicalise them to the left when the blinkers fall off?

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-ticking-bomb-of-crypto-fascism

This is hopelessly utopian and that's why it's good.

"Anything resembling a modern military, especially the preposterous US military, cannot be made just or sustainable to any meaningful degree and is necessarily an active cause of environmental degradation and injustice."

Tanks into trains
https://terrain.substack.com/p/tanks-to-trains

#PlantOfTheDay Our tomatoes!

I mean, obviously it's possible technically. Socially, is the problem.

I wonder if it would be possible to replace Libguides with a static site generator and markdown files. 🤔

Uh, why is @bookwyrm suddenly in French?

What better job to attend to than cleaning out this folder at 4.39pm on Friday?

"I did encounter many issues to get this result as the same as yourself until we fine-tuned the details"

Buddy it's your API.

So unfair, where's *MY* ice-cream huh?

That was unexpected!

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New year, same as the old year?

♊ gemini://notes.hugh.run/2022/2022-01-20.gmi

Every library I have worked at, all the staff referred to the library management system in ALL CAPS, despite the fact that the majority of people now working in libraries weren't born when ILS vendors stopped using acronyms for product names.

FOLIO is actually a regression back two generations of naming conventions.