Tim Raveling

New feature up on the Changelog! We pick apart the AI apocalypse, look at the weird cult all the fearmongering is coming from, and discuss the real reason apocalypse talk is useful to tech elites. systemist.net/changelog/le... #ai #apocalypse #cults

Friday's Changelog, on the delightful terminal tool "the fuck", and the curious case of the world's largest owl: systemist.net/changelog/le...

Rupert Murdoch should be sent to the Hague

Hi everyone! Today on The Changelog, we have a music player for the terminal, and the largest revolution in human history. systemist.net/changelog/le... #history #revolution #terminal #tui

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This week's Changelog is up! Topic: Fiat Money is a kind of money that directly tokenizes a threat of violence from the state, and in doing so creates an organic system of coercion against the state's victims. systemist.net/changelog/le...

This week on The Changelog: we discuss Pyroclear, the most metal way to clear your terminal; the half-life of European noble families; and a look at perverse incentives and how they work. systemist.net/changelog/le...

“We” did not lose a war with “Iran.” The U.S. govt, seeking to become a regime, lost a war with the Iranian regime. Both have long histories of murderousness toward the people in their immediate control. Both are fossil fuel pyramid schemes, exchanging all of our futures for short-term vanities.

This week on the Changelog: North American languages are constructed fundamentally differently from Eurasian ones. Also: - Dispositio: a tool I made for project planning in the terminal - A timely quote by Mika Waltari systemist.net/changelog/le...

New post up on The Changelog, with some interesting tidbits, and also a deeper look at one of my favorite recent topics, Conway's Game of Life: buttondown.com/systemist/ar...

This week's #terminal project has been developing a #go game client, in Go! Naturally, it's called GoGo. Play hotseat, or online via OGS. Would love any feedback, and enjoy! github.com/tsraveling/gogo

First newsletter is out! This week: arttime terminal tool, facts about whale sharks, and some thoughts about how logical systems *are* the artistic medium unique to games. buttondown.com/systemist/ar...

Launching my new site: The Systemist! Hosts several free tools I've built, plus weekly newsletter "The Changelog", in which I will share cool tools, interesting facts, and thoughts about systems, game design, politics, and the places those things intersect. No ads or promos ever. systemist.net

if you want people to mourn, live a life that will be mourned when it passes

I don’t think Platner is bringing out the worst of the left; I think he’s sliding some careless leftists rightward. This was always the risk with him. And any candidate for whom one excuses bigotry of any sort. It’s always a rightward slide.

And finally today, a free tool for #artists -- Art Roulette, an app that lets you run timed sketching sessions from your own reference photos on your own computer. Available for free on Mac, Linux, and Windows (and made in @godotengine.org!) github.com/tsraveling/a...

And my second TUI tool (also written in Go with BubbleTea, which I've been loving): Furnace, a tool for tracking your daily caloric intake in the terminal. Allows you to create your own food library, set up recipes, set your goals, and track a rolling average. github.com/tsraveling/f...

Other things coming soon, but today I'm soft launching my first FOSS app: Dispositio, a tool for planning and time estimating large projects in the terminal: github.com/tsraveling/d...

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

I'd thought I'd lost her 😭😭😭😭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCvF...

There's a Farsi saying, "del be del rah dareh", which roughly means, "there's a path between our hearts". It's the kind of thing you say when somebody you're thinking about calls you in that moment out of the blue. But I also think paths like that are built by people like her. She will be missed.

Very saddened to hear of the passing of Marjane Satrapi, responsible for one of my 10 favorite political quotes of all time. We need more voices like hers. Kill the patriot in yourself. It will only be used to hurt people. We are one human race.

United Healthcare denied your claim again? ... ah nope uh who's next

Reading a few pages of my leather-bound copy of Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language" every night like it's the fucking bible

Trump undoing refrigerant climate rules over the objections not just of environmentalists but of industry—even capitalism says “too much”!—& not for the sake of consumers, who will pay more, is what I call “extinctionism.” Wrecking the world just to wreck it, not even for a buck.

According to ProPublica, Jeff Bezos pays a real tax rate of 1.1% percent. So he's right; we should be taxing him at about 80-90x the rate he is currently being taxed. Doing this would indeed help that teacher in Queens.

A) everybody should read Robin Wall Kimmerer (this is from Braiding Sweetgrass). B) this sums up my #1 complaint with the entire survival game genre -- every game in it I've seen *completely uncritically* assumes this commodified view of the land and its inhabitants.

Fuck all of these evil cowardly little pricks. Free Palestine. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This gets more to the point about what AI is, though -- it's not "deciding to blackmail an exec," it's parsing through a corpus wherein fictional AIs would do something like that. AI might be possible, but LLMs are not that, or even an "early version". www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-cl...

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If you have people in your life who acknowledge the horror of what Israel has done to Palestinians but argue over the term genocide or say "what about," & you want to persuade them, or help them think more humanly, some might be able to actually hear this. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Ostranauts is so frickin' cool. Looks like it might be time to get back into it.

if you meet the buddha on the road, kill him

corporations co-opting fandom practices was such a dark move imo - instead of fans using their imaginations to produce transformative work and communities, fans became passive consumers entitled to “service”

Orban is out. Yahoo!!!!

"... and then he just started EATING them"

my big take about the last week of discourse is I've found just about everyone annoying, including myself. This isn't good for us as individuals and it isn't good for any hope building a popular front. Whatever the solution winds up being, micro-blogging won't save us.

waffle house is in fact the most Stephen Kingly american chain (not a joke) so this does track

and perhaps even more importantly, are incapable of creating a *new* style; simply because at their cores LLMs are synthesis search systems that are *at best* capable of matching existing text in the corpus. by definition derivative, which can still be useful, but not for making art.

Incredible how a specific brand of smart people can be this dumb sometimes. You don't hate social commentary - you hate social commentary that doesn't conform to your own, and you're normative enough that you don't have to worry about reminding people you are human. gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

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