This week:

• NockApp Framework: Developer Alpha Released
• On Democracy and Oligarchy
• Jock.org is now live
• Buzz Aldrin's Lunar Communion

NockApp Framework: Developer Alpha Released

We’re excited to announce the developer alpha of the NockApp framework, featuring two key components: Crown and Sword.

Crown is a Rust interface to a Nock kernel, designed for simplicity and easy integration with your IO systems. It allows you to peek and poke a Nock kernel and receive the results of these operations.

Sword, previously known as Ares, is a solid-state Nock runtime. It integrates as a library, providing direct access to Nock execution within any Rust program. Sword can durably persist your Nock program’s state, eliminating the need for databases, files, object-relational models, or serialization for persistence.

As part of this release, we’re also previewing choo, the Hoon compiler as a NockApp. Though still in its early stages, we’re working on enhancing it for seamless integration into your favorite developer environments and CI.

This is an alpha release, so expect bugs and rough edges. We’re dogfooding this internally and invite the Nock developer community to test it out and provide feedback. File issues, reach out on X, and let us know what you think.

On Democracy and Oligarchy

You'll see the world 1000x more clearly if you mentally replace the word "democracy" with "Western intelligence-run oligarchy."

This is what politicians and the press mean when they use the word democracy.

The shift toward surveillance and censorship to "save democracy" makes a lot more sense once you see this.

You'll also think more clearly if you examine the Western oligarchy as a series of mutually adversarial, but intertwined, regional power centers rather than a monolith.

If you think within your adversary's words and paradigms, you'll always be confused.

Jock.org is Live

Jock is a new scripting language designed to compile to Nock.

The website is currently a placeholder, but the Nock Scripting Language is on its way.

In the future, check Jock.org for updates.

Buzz Aldrin's Lunar Communion

During the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, Buzz Aldrin took the first Holy Communion on the moon.

He brought bread and wine with him and held a small ceremony inside the lunar module.

Although he wanted to broadcast it to the world, NASA kept it low-key to avoid controversy over religion in space. Read more.