Goodnight Nostr. It was a fall day dreams are made of. Everyone’s happy and well fed.

We got the last of the chanterelles for the season I think, about 5lbs. They are a little frost bitten from this week, but perfect for a thanksgiving feast!

GM Nostr! ☀️ Anyone into naming? A name can look decorative to a programmer while carrying an entire relationship for the person using it. Words matter more than most people realize.  “Member,” “customer,” “user,” and “beneficiary” are not automatically interchangeable. Codetry tests what changes when one replaces another, and how we can help the end user name their software so it doesn’t drift underneath them. What word in your project carries more responsibility than its schema suggests?

GM Nostr! Let’s create hope that survives contact with an ordinary hump day. Do you think someone can keep their job, care for family, meet obligations, and gradually gain more control over their tools & relationships?

GM Nostr. I am hosting homeschool races today on the homestead! We made medals from old clay deposits found on a beach in our chain of lakes. They turned out pretty cool!

We can disagree about how far technocratic control will go and still agree that people should have stronger capabilities now. Portable records. Clear permissions. Local governance. Tools that do not quietly redefine their users. That is useful work without requiring everyone to share the same prediction about the future.

When governance systems that we cannot inspect begin to clamp down and force us into choices with false equivalence but no recourse, what do you picture the masses doing? What will you do? I’d love to see useful, inspectable tools (that are actually discoverable) that can support people from where they are into a more sovereign lifestyle without expecting them to go full adoption overnight. For Codetry, that means turning naming, consent, and boundary decisions into things people can actually test. What’s a name that means a lot to you? A word that causes flushed cheeks if people use it improperly, without really understanding it the way you do…

Authoritarian governance is the familiar tool of the powers that be and the first thing they’ll reach for when the road gets bumpy. Technocracy has no exit. We need more grassroots community developers using methodologies like Codetry to get into the building games before they gate keep AI and we all lose our human transmission protocols.

Great podcast and optimistic view on the future. View quoted note →