inquiry

Although I tried as best I could to imagine positive negativity with respect to mikka luster's eloquent expression in In Defense of Positive Negativity, I just plain found myself agreeing with everything Mikka wrote.

But, to me, no matter how well positive and/or negative comments might lead to mutual sharpenings such that a given idea set moves forward, I still value the interactions themselves higher than whatever outcomes, essentially highlighting points in time – aka “now” – when mini emergent ripples of The One Great Attention meet and dance.

So even if/when I vehemently disagree with someone, any and all interaction with them is far closer to “all the world's a stage” than any possibilities of advancing some potential “truth” with respect to a given topic.

And the stage, well, that's simply where it's at!

Moving right along, a happy good morning/day/evening to you, too, mso!

I appreciate your having-had-to-work-for-it-to-find-it mention in “Engaging with posts on fediverse” – with emphasis on that dash-mediated-phrase because, well, in reference to this:

So anyway, as I saw I was mentioned I realized that 1) it's very cool and 2) there's 99% chances I could've missed that if I didn't happen to read that particular post at that particular time. Now, I'm very new to even the concept of blog federation (fediverse, mastodon?), but do these systems allow you to know you've been mentioned so that you can keep an engaging discussion going?

the last thing I want is some machine learning and/or other automation making things what I want to call “unfulfillingly easy”. I want to feel the joy of making the investigative effort to see if anything I wrote was sufficiently worth attention/consideration to interact with – especially in cleverly cloaked ways – with some nifty unintended consequences of becoming familiar with more articles and authors along the way. Had some notification done that work for me, I'd likely have missed out on a lot.

(Now, I could make tenuous exceptions for any notification mechanisms I write for me, because then I'm at least lapping of the joy of coding, and creating something I can bend and twist as needed. But even though I'm already thinking how I could do that with a combination of Curl and Lua starting from the read.write.as URL, again, why would I want to pull the rug of my reading joy out from under me by replacing exhilarating exertion and magical accident with what might be modeled as spoilers?)

And maybe I don't need to know that information. Perhaps it's part of the beauty of it: if you happen to read something you are interested in you can comment on it by writing a post. If the stars align the original author can see it too, but otherwise that's fine.

Perfectly put!

“Welcome to the new place” (courtesy of Mikes Thoughts) is soooo a kind of post I hope to chance upon a lot. Perhaps a little commentary thereupon expresses why better than just coming right out and typing it?

The new place is not the same as the old place. Gone are comments and likes from here. This place focuses on creation of ideas and content and not on publicizing or make the blog more or even less worthy by including various links to products, services, or other stuff. From here on out, its about the wandering and the feelings and the real stuff that may actually be fake but you won't now until you go to Lao or Vietnam.

You've got me wondering how those places have the power to unmask “real stuff that may actually be fake”.

I live in Southeast Asia so its grand tapestry of places and I don't really have a home besides a hotel with decent wifi and a few small bags. Today and tomorrow have descended into a pit and so have responsibilities and goals and requirements and milestones.

How descending into a pit leads to having “responsibilities and goals and requirements and milestones” ratcheted up my curiosity even more. What kind of pit? The absence of the details is killing me! (I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Nothing wrong with patiently waiting for the goods.)

Look for some content here on the little things in the places I go and things I see. I left wordpress behind because it did not focus on the little things like content and instead left me paying for a business service at $300 a year which gave me no real thrill. At least with the woman in the bar in Hanoi I was offered boom boom. I respect that offer even if I did not take her up on it.

Okay, I'm all but certain this is the first time I've read of how Wordpress compares/contrasts with some bar women in Hanoi. Glorious!

So there is no show to get on with besides my life and the things which may or may not present themselves. What you see here as far as a blog platform is what you get. I want a platform that focuses down on content and ideas and creation and less on the dubious integrities of the five things to see in Rome or Siem Reap. If you are a travel blogger or want to be or perhaps you desire to be that digital nomad or round the world traveler, I have no tips. Nothing for you here, get along. But if you want some stuff that tends to the smaller, with images from a FujiFilm X-T30 camera or an iPhone 7 plus stay tuned.

I can't wait!

And welcome! This is not the place it was. And I'm glad.

We are federatedly the instruments – and, in the exercise thereof, hope – of MIGA (Making Internet Great Again)!