Keep the name.

Because I stayed awake in US history class, I know it stands for the fundamental reforms to capitalism which later enabled the United States to navigate between the extremes of fascism and socialist revolution in the 1930s. I thank progressives for:

• the right to vote for all non-felon citizens

• free education for all

• libraries for all

• fire escapes, emergency exits (it's amazing how much you miss them when you move to a country where you are constantly having to ask someone to unlock the door to let you OUT of a building)

• the concept of "the weekend"

• near elimination of child labor (the exception was unfortunately farm labor)

• national parks

• being able to rely on meat and dairy products not to make me ill (at least in the short term)

• ingredient lists for food and medicines

• the concept of government transparency and public accountability of elected officials

• direct election of Senators

I'm sure I left off some important other achievements of the original Progressive movement. Modern day progressives would do well to look to the origins of the name. It's a hopeful political ideology, and the best chance for delivering practical change in the present, rather than trusting in some distant utopia.

The zapvertising astroturfing risk?

It could end up as yet another pay-to-play economy, except advertisers really ought to be paying the end-users for their attention, rather than paying themselves to climb the relevancy ladder.

Alex: Thanks for the thoughtful presentation.

Do you think it's possible to calculate transitive trust/relevance based on each principal's social graph?

Would it be desirable to have a dampening function on such a transversal search, a la IP routing protocols' TTLs. Otherwise you might end up with social graph loops.

Also, I may care less about the judgement of a friend of a friend of a friend than I do about a direct friend.

When I think about webs of trust, I immediately think about how unwieldy the PGP user trust survey is. Also, I think I'd feel a bit uncomfortable about broadcasting my evaluation of my social graph connections. So if there are any gradations between "connected" and "not connected", it seems like that ought to be private information either stored locally for each client/user, or else self-signed/encrypted data if published for cross-Nostr-client portability.

OK, one last blurb re: open social graphs. I think Tantek Çelik's microFormats, hCard, XFN, and FOAF concepts might be relevant, although they all seem to lean towards the too-much-information/self-compiled-dossier side of social graphs. See http://gmpg.org/xfn/and/#idconsolidation for some links.

Thanks again!

What is the difference between partially nude and partially clothed? Is this agl ass half-full/half-empty, tea cup overflowing koan?

I meet your proxmox and raise you a QubesOS

fanta… fanta… twig? Ah! I get it!

Bootsy made for Walken, then?

I use "elixir lang" (a la "golang") and I generally get decent results. Add "string" and you'll get the guitar strings no matter what.

I'm going to krank call das Krankenhaus.

"The Unknown"? The description sounds wild!

Nope, apparently that movie had sound.

Just read her Wikipedia bio (is that cheating?). Is the movie "Our Dancing Daughters"?

With those eyes it's gotta be Joan Crawford. Which movie? I've got no idea, but the fashion looks like the 1920s or early 1930s.

cajones - plural noun. Furniture (dresser, cabinet) drawers

cojones - plural noun, slang. Testicles, and by extension: courage, guts

egrep '^..a.ery$' /usr/share/dict/words

…and the best answers were:

toadery

snakery

knavery, and…

beanery

As with any marginalized social movement, the lower the stakes, the greater the infighting.

Maybe change their shell to something very boring like /bin/true, /bin/date, or cmatrix? Or, more seriously, rbash or scponly. Don't forget to update /etc/shells

So… 6?

NOSTRINFLU

fees?