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we software engineers are not gods and you should not revere us, but our ability to shape our own realities gives us such absurd powers. we can find an individual paragraph, line, word, even just a single symbol in our creative works, and see backwards through time whence it came
we are so accustomed to the act of merging together unrelated texts and intertwining them without losing history we can do it in our sleep. it's such a cool power. i love git. thank you (switches into finland swedish) linus torvalds.
now, if only i could do this for other worlds
i wish to know who planted every blade of grass, and read their thoughts from when they did it. if only i could. well, a girl can dream, maybe that's just as good
i want to find a note in a chord in a symphony that touches the heart and shake the hand of the centuries dead musician who put it there
i don't think that “everyone” should “learn to code”, but i do want everyone to know that this world, that world, every world is made out of stuff, dripping with it, thick and elastic, but also very solid and metallic, and soft, and you can reach out, grasp, and change it
you can, and you will, make and unmake the world. maybe not this one, but a world, one of the many worlds, a world that is meaningful to you and to others, a space that you inhabit or pass through. and you must. the power is in you, you need only realise it
@hikari "The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently"
@hikari everyone else could have that too if we had any idea how to teach them