Bruce Mitchener
waywardmonkeys.bsky.social
Bruce Mitchener
@waywardmonkeys.bsky.social
Like wildlife. Write code.

@ArmyOfBruce on oldsite.
Praying mantis flew in, pretended to be dead. A couple of minutes later, all was well.
November 20, 2024 at 6:04 PM
@oldsound.bsky.social My daughter (12yo) kept asking me brain teasers so I had her watch some videos on semiotics and talked to her some about ontologies. Maybe I will be creating a monster.
November 20, 2024 at 6:04 PM
A common lime swallowtail butterfly on a lime bush.
November 20, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Reposted by Bruce Mitchener
When Ultima Online (UO) stopped being cautious about banning griefers, our population doubled. A very small number of users (< 0.1%) were throttling our growth. The vast majority of people just don't want to spend their idle time in a shitty place.
Speaking of the average social media user: “just ban the Nazis” seems like a very simple and obvious move to a LOT of people.

While tech nerds historically prefer to argue about this in immense detail, philosophical conversations about blocking Slurs88 are a real hard sell to a lot of people.
May 8, 2023 at 3:04 PM
Need more butterflies here.
November 20, 2024 at 6:04 PM