Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.
And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
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Global surge in ultra-processed foods sparks urgent health warning
Ultra-processed foods are rapidly becoming a global dietary staple, and new research links them to worsening health outcomes around the world.ScienceDaily
We had a new sail made and cut the old one into panels, a few were bad, some were good, we gave some away to friends on other boats, and we'll reuse some for various projects.
I needed a liner for my backpack[1], and dacron is the perfect material for that!
[1] wiki.xxiivv.com/site/commuter_…
‘Even more beautiful than I imagined’: the nifty Japanese printing gadget uniting artists worldwide
It’s fast, affordable and its colours are as vivid as screenprints. Designer and risograph devotee Gabriella Marcella talks about founding Riso Club, connecting device users from New York, London, Damascus, Kyiv, Lille, Lima and beyondAlice Fisher (The Guardian)
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Take a few deep breaths. Remember to be kind. part 2
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Associated Press dumps journalists for AI
#OurModernTimes #Ai #ManagementFailure #NoLongerTrusted #AssociatedPress #AIPress
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I implemented @neauoire@merveilles.town 's Rejoice, in Perl for some reason 😀
This was attempt like 3? I vaguely remember reading a Moore quote about "writing, rewriting, and rewriting again". I follow that advice religiously
I absolutely hate writing parsers, and yet invariably end up having to write a parser. This is probably the best one I've done but its still a bit of a mess!
The only difference I can spot between my implementation and the UXN one is that mine can't differentiate between [x x x] and x^3 (it always uses the latter). This means that things like [ .x .x .x ] will only print a single x (I'm not sure what the intended behaviour is for that case anyway tbh?)
Ah! That's cool, yeah I think .x should always only print one, I'll have to think about that X).
Have you tried running the acid file on it?
git.sr.ht/~rabbits/rejoice/tre…
[ .x .y .z ] should have an undefined order. Matches with having multiple jumps enter the bag.
hehehe, a text-based adventure game is theoretically possible. I added a naive "?" command to get a line of input (its then split into words, and those words are put into the bag)
I think user input will be fiddly though, because its essentially giving the user a REPL with unlimited access to the program. Perhaps limiting the input to a specific subset of words would work, like ?[look take quit]
Obama made a decision to “look forward” rather than prosecute the architects of the GWB torture program.
That kind of impunity can seem expedient, but it’s morally offensive and bad for democracy.
If Dems should find their way back to power (?), the criminality of Trump and Co. will need to be prosecuted. Political (democratic) legitimacy demands it.
One possibility is outsourcing. Hand perps over to the international courts and let them mete out justice.
ICC, if you’re listening…
Congressman Lieu saying what needs to be said. Laws exist, not on paper, but in their application.
Covenants without the sword, Hobbes wrote in the 17th C, are but words.
RE: mastodon.social/@Gargron/11636…
Joy Mastodon, resplendent in her garden today, sends best wishes to all her fellow #plushtodon souls.
Need more pictures of #plushtodon to improve mental health (#blåhaj will also do).
One of my favorite things about Mastodon is clicking through to people's profiles and exploring their personal blogs.
It's rare to find someone without a site, and it's always a delight to discover their obsessions, their diverse interests, and the unique ways they've designed their own spaces.
#Blahaj is hanging out with #Plushtodon and the other in-house Open Source Plush Buddies!! 
#xenialinuxfox #Xeniathelinuxfox #plush #plushie #plushies #tux #firefox #FirefoxPlush #SonyMavica #Mavica #SonyMavicaFD90
So, @exquisitecorp sent me this graphic design book A Co-Program For Graphic Design, in it were a few pages about Hilbert, Peano, and briefly mentioning Formulario Mathematico, a book written in Giuseppe's own simplified Latin. His work has been on my mind lately as I try to design a kind of standard notation to use across all my notes hoping to standardize multiple topic-specific notations into just one style.
Regardless, as I was clumsily trailing Peano's footsteps, I came across this video[1], giving me the idea to try and translate some of the Rejoice examples into Peano's Latino Sine Flexione, as a kind of.. homage? Zoom forward a few days, a hundred hours of Latin youtube, nearly breaking Arch installing Latin dictionaries, I might have gone beyond just translating examples..
Introducing: wiki.xxiivv.com/site/gaude
[1] youtube.com/watch?v=sfWMgWnSQU…
> I try to design a kind of standard notation to use across all my notes hoping to standardize multiple topic-specific notations into just one style.
You're inventing the Glass Bead Game 
By all means please continue
there is a marble^1 in my Castilian bag!
Cheers ;)
21 years ago, Linus Torvalds launched Git, and now he's more famous for it than Linux. Who knew? 🤯
#linux #git #opensource
💻 Tecnología feminista: trayectorias enraizadas en el cuidado "Coding care" como enfoque para reimaginar tecnologías. Cuatro trayectorias desafían sistemas extractivistas construyendo infraestructuras alternativas, espacios de aprendizaje y modelos de gobernanza. Tecnologías basadas en seguridad colectiva, accesibilidad, sustentabilidad y autonomía comunitaria.
Qué son los "cristales de memoria" que desafían las leyes de la física y prometen solucionar el problema del almacenamiento masivo de datos: ofrecen densidades y estabilidad inéditas, pero quedan dudas sobre reproducibilidad y escalado.
🔗 bbc.com/mundo/articles/c875end…
¿Apostamos por estas promesas tecnológicas o priorizamos modelos de almacenamiento más justos y sostenibles? 🔬
Qué son los "cristales de memoria" que desafían las leyes de la física y prometen solucionar el problema del almacenamiento masivo de datos
La "big data" se está convirtiendo en un gran problema. Ante el aumento de las emisiones de los centros de datos, los investigadores están recurriendo a soluciones novedosas para el almacenamiento.Laurie Clarke (BBC News Mundo)
Deforestation Devastates Tesso Nilo National Park’s Endangered Creatures
Act now to save Tesso Nilo Park. This vital Indonesian park has lost 78% of its primary forest, threatening the habitat of Sumatran tigers and elephantsPalm Oil Detectives
#Kimono. Another photo from my trip to #Japan last year.
#photo #photography
#autumn #city #outdoors
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#creativecommons #ccbysa
This feels like an appropriate UK parliament petition for today
petition.parliament.uk/petitio…
Petition: Hold an immediate parliamentary vote on US use of UK bases
We call on the Government to hold a parliamentary vote on the decision to grant the United States permission to use British military bases for strikes on Iranian missile sites.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
One can still hope.
Would Social.coop want to experiment with running a Bluesky PDS?
Hi, all! Eduardo from the Tech Working Group here, but posting on my personal capacity. I wanted to gauge community interest informally on a possibility, with the potential of running an actual proposal later if there's enough appetite.Loomio
Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •In the first days of December, as it became clear that the ICE invasion was a real thing that was really happening to us, as groups of us gathered swapping rumors about the kidnappings and clearly inadequate tips about phone security, we had no idea what to expect, no idea what would happen, no idea what we were going to do. As much as we’d planned, heard from other cities, tried to be ready, we had no idea.
Only one thing was crystal clear: nobody, absolutely nobody, was coming to save us.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •It was clarifying. We knew, with complete certainty, that nobody was coming to save us.
If we don’t stand in their way when they come to kidnap our neighbors, nobody will stand in their way.
If we don’t try to help people who need to hide, nobody will help them hide.
If we don’t try to feed people who can’t work, can’t even go outside to get food, nobody will feed them.
It put things into focus really fast.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •I wish I could tell you that all our preparations meant we were ready, that we never despaired, that we knew we would endure. I don’t think any of that is true. I spent much of December and January considering, seriously and vividly considering, that this was the arrival of an authoritarian police state that could outlive me. But I didn’t spend too much •time• considering that — because there was work to be done, work right here, in my lap, and nobody was coming to save us.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •I never quite understood what Carolyn Forché meant when she said “the choice is ourselves or nothing.”
I think maybe I do now.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •You don’t know what’s going to happen. You don’t know what to do. You feel powerless. Nothing you can do seems like it could possibly be enough.
And then the work is there, on your doorstep, in your hands, and you •just do it• because that is what you do.
Nobody is coming to save you. The choice is ourselves or nothing. The moment you believe that, that you •know• it in your bones, is the moment the work truly begins.
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Paul Cantrell
in reply to Paul Cantrell • • •My fellow people of the United States, if I have anything to teach from what Minneapolis just lived through, it is this:
Nobody is coming to save us.
Not Congress. Not the courts. Not the ICC or the EU or NATO. Not the generals or the rank and file. Not the press. Not the markets. Not the elections. Not some mythical version of “The People” that materializes out of nowhere as some messianic external force.
We’re it. We’re all we’ve got. If we don’t stop fascism from completely engulfing the US, then nobody stops it.
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