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Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2024-12-22 · 05:50 UTC

Are there myth/story traditions where there's more than one Trickster character? If so, are there stories of the Tricksters encountering/tricking each other?

All the stories I can think of are a Trickster faced with a mundane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster

#lazypost

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2024-12-22 · 05:50 UTC

#lazypost

Are there myth/story traditions where there's more than one Trickster character? If so, are there stories of the Tricksters encountering/tricking each other?

All the stories I can think of are a Trickster faced with a mundane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster

#lazypost

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2024-12-22 · 05:50 UTC

#lazypost

Are there myth/story traditions where there's more than one Trickster character? If so, are there stories of the Tricksters encountering/tricking each other?

All the stories I can think of are a Trickster faced with a mundane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster

#lazypost

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2024-07-18 · 21:55 UTC

Per @cratermoon, Emacs still does `unexec`. https://lwn.net/Articles/707615/ Actually, the unexec code deserves a place in a list of big influences on my life. You see, in the early ‘80s, there were many more computer architectures and Unix variants than there are today. The unexec code was very sensitive to both, so there were a lot of C #ifdefs. As I was the maintainer for the Gould PowerNode¹, I watched `unexec` change over time. And… (1/2)

#ifdefs

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2023-08-13 · 12:56 UTC

I’m reading “The Sweep and Force of Section Three” (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751) in which two conservative legal scholars come at the 14th Amendment from an originalist/textualist perspective to argue that ex-President Trump is constitutionally barred from holding federal office. It’s pretty good so far. It makes me wonder (as an aside): there must be analyses of how originalist/textualist the *original* (1800-era) courts were. Links?

#SupremeCourt #originalism #legalInterpretation #history

#history #legalinterpretation #originalism #supremecourt

Brian Marick @marick · 2023-08-13 · 12:56 UTC

I’m reading “The Sweep and Force of Section Three” (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751) in which two conservative legal scholars come at the 14th Amendment from an originalist/textualist perspective to argue that ex-President Trump is constitutionally barred from holding federal office. It’s pretty good so far. It makes me wonder (as an aside): there must be analyses of how originalist/textualist the *original* (1800-era) courts were. Links?

#SupremeCourt #originalism #legalInterpretation #history

#supremecourt #originalism #legalinterpretation #history

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2023-08-13 · 12:56 UTC

I’m reading “The Sweep and Force of Section Three” (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751) in which two conservative legal scholars come at the 14th Amendment from an originalist/textualist perspective to argue that ex-President Trump is constitutionally barred from holding federal office. It’s pretty good so far. It makes me wonder (as an aside): there must be analyses of how originalist/textualist the *original* (1800-era) courts were. Links?

#SupremeCourt #originalism #legalInterpretation #history

#history #legalinterpretation #originalism #supremecourt

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2023-08-13 · 12:56 UTC

I’m reading “The Sweep and Force of Section Three” (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751) in which two conservative legal scholars come at the 14th Amendment from an originalist/textualist perspective to argue that ex-President Trump is constitutionally barred from holding federal office. It’s pretty good so far. It makes me wonder (as an aside): there must be analyses of how originalist/textualist the *original* (1800-era) courts were. Links?

#SupremeCourt #originalism #legalInterpretation #history

#supremecourt #originalism #legalinterpretation #history

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2023-08-13 · 12:56 UTC

I’m reading “The Sweep and Force of Section Three” (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751) in which two conservative legal scholars come at the 14th Amendment from an originalist/textualist perspective to argue that ex-President Trump is constitutionally barred from holding federal office. It’s pretty good so far. It makes me wonder (as an aside): there must be analyses of how originalist/textualist the *original* (1800-era) courts were. Links?

#SupremeCourt #originalism #legalInterpretation #history

#history #legalinterpretation #originalism #supremecourt

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2023-08-12 · 15:26 UTC

The paper on git mentioned below (which paper has mysteriously appeared at https://user.fm/files/v2-70616ae0bb8486581447a54b89c79292/derosso2016-git.pdf) speaks of “conceptual design”, which I’m not familiar with. However, it’s described in a way that reminds me of conceptual blending (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_blending). Long shot: is there an intellectual connection? Might make for an Oddly Influenced episode. (Connection to Christopher Alexander seems more likely.)

#conceptualDesign #UX https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/110867522248703490

#ux #conceptualdesign

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2023-07-09 · 14:58 UTC

This reader of the Aubrey/Maturin novels found “Hammocks: a Maritime Tool” well worth a skim. Illustrations that resolved some questions I didn’t know I had about the use of hammocks in naval ships during the Napoleonic Wars.

https://thescholarship.ecu.edu/bitstream/handle/10342/7036/PANICO-MASTERSTHESIS-2018.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Also: looking at the build instructions for an HMS Speedy model helps. (Sophie in /Master and Commander/ was Speedy in real life.)

https://vanguardmodels.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Speedy-construction-manual-1.pdf

Also: https://modelshipworld.com/topic/22420-hms-speedy-by-vane-vanguard-models-scale-164-master-shipwright-limited-edition/

#patrickOBrian #aubrey #maturin

#maturin #aubrey #patrickobrian

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2023-07-09 · 14:58 UTC

This reader of the Aubrey/Maturin novels found “Hammocks: a Maritime Tool” well worth a skim. Illustrations that resolved some questions I didn’t know I had about the use of hammocks in naval ships during the Napoleonic Wars.

https://thescholarship.ecu.edu/bitstream/handle/10342/7036/PANICO-MASTERSTHESIS-2018.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Also: looking at the build instructions for an HMS Speedy model helps. (Sophie in /Master and Commander/ was Speedy in real life.)

https://vanguardmodels.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Speedy-construction-manual-1.pdf

Also: https://modelshipworld.com/topic/22420-hms-speedy-by-vane-vanguard-models-scale-164-master-shipwright-limited-edition/

#patrickOBrian #aubrey #maturin

#maturin #aubrey #patrickobrian

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2023-04-13 · 22:08 UTC

#peopleAreWeird

In the early 1960’s, constructing bubble chambers was all the rage. These were massive machines containing alarming amounts of liquid hydrogen. The 1965 explosion of the east-coast bubble chamber, CEA, (http://washuu.net/cea-bang.htm) rather bolstered the status of safety engineers over physicists. (See Galison’s /Image and Logic/.)
…

#peopleareweird

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2022-11-20 · 18:31 UTC

CW: business value

/Seeing Like a State/ (podcast episode tomorrow at https://podcast.oddly-influenced.dev/) is about #legibility of "productive units" to administrators or "the sovereign". Forests are legible when simplified to quantities of harvestable lumber. Villages are legible when simplified to producing taxes/conscripts. And so on.

I read people saying they've moved on from a focus on producing "story points" or "features" to producing #BusinessValue. Seems good!

But I have a question...

#businessvalue #legibility

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2022-11-20 · 15:14 UTC

@vy There was a #GordonPask mini-conference that was attended by some #cybersyn veterans. It was saddening to listen to them talk of the hope they had in those days.

Rereading /Seeing Like a State/, I wondered if they would be been able to dodge the "high modernizing" bullet.

#cybersyn #gordonpask

Brian Marick @marick · 2022-11-20 · 15:14 UTC

@vy There was a #GordonPask mini-conference that was attended by some #cybersyn veterans. It was saddening to listen to them talk of the hope they had in those days.

Rereading /Seeing Like a State/, I wondered if they would be been able to dodge the "high modernizing" bullet.

#gordonpask #cybersyn

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2022-11-20 · 15:14 UTC

@vy There was a #GordonPask mini-conference that was attended by some #cybersyn veterans. It was saddening to listen to them talk of the hope they had in those days.

Rereading /Seeing Like a State/, I wondered if they would be been able to dodge the "high modernizing" bullet.

#cybersyn #gordonpask

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2022-11-20 · 15:14 UTC

@vy There was a #GordonPask mini-conference that was attended by some #cybersyn veterans. It was saddening to listen to them talk of the hope they had in those days.

Rereading /Seeing Like a State/, I wondered if they would be been able to dodge the "high modernizing" bullet.

#gordonpask #cybersyn

Brian Marick @[email protected] · 2022-11-20 · 15:14 UTC

@vy There was a #GordonPask mini-conference that was attended by some #cybersyn veterans. It was saddening to listen to them talk of the hope they had in those days.

Rereading /Seeing Like a State/, I wondered if they would be been able to dodge the "high modernizing" bullet.

#cybersyn #gordonpask