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Coming soon: 2021-07-26 at 5:00 PM UTC

@werekat presents:

Descriptivity as Counter-Ideological Narrative: Writing History in Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine

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@tychosoft and yet a priest class of white, wealthy, libertarian males is all we've got, 32 years after the GPL was first introduced.

That's not the GPL's fault, of course, but we're in such a dire situation because a licence, which is a legal agreement, cannot address non-legal matters such as the patriarchy, global inequality and capitalism itself. Solving those requires devs take a hard sance on subjects that are inherently political in nature. Unfortunately that's something they're (mostly) not willing/able to do, partially because of how neoliberal academia frames technology as "neutral" and "agnostic", which it's not. The sooner we realise there's a power concentration problem in the FLOSS community, the sooner we'll be ready to address it.

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Coming soon: 2021-07-29 at 7:00 PM UTC

@eearroyo1312 presents:

Bacteria! How they swim and how they know where to put their stuff

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@paul @csepp @neauoire @eris i think maybe my ultimate frustration with a lot of alternative computing spaces is that they're unimaginative? You have a universal machine in front of you. You can compute any general recursive function. Maybe pick an interesting one?
It's worse than regressive because at least before the current hyper-commodified age there were non-textual hypertext projects and stuff that were (though misguided in some ways) trying to create new/better computational landscapes.

@csepp @neauoire @paul @eris welkin (without reflection extensions, which can be confined to an IO-style monad) can theoretically be compiled natively without too much hassle since it requires everything to be sized and all duplication is explicit. in practice having a runtime is fine. i run WASM on microcontrollers, and a welkin runtime is *much* simpler than a WASM implementation. i haven't tried to write the smallest implementation possible but I'd bet less than 100 LoC of C would suffice.

@eris @syntacticsugarglider @csepp This anecdote only touches up on accessiblity, but a friend of mine who is normally a python developer, broke his arm and started to do voice-to-text programming in forth, and they told me that this was one of the nicest example of voice programming since forth is such a simple language to parse with spaces being the only token spacer.

Just thought I'd share this, I've been meaning to mention it for a while and I haven't had the chance.

@glyph These are the sorts of things that have led many representative democracies to withdraw their bids over the years, or not even bid for the games in the first place, leaving autocracies as the most likely host of many future games. Many former host cities also have empty multi-billion-dollar buildings in the place of what were previously functioning neighborhoods or open spaces. It's a rare city that can avoid this fate when the Games come to town.

@deianeira sometimes at night I look at the ceiling of the boat, and I wonder if maybe we're the gut bacteria of the bigger boat organism, helping it move around.

The solar balloon invented itself

If you picture a flying machine, you probably imagine a craft which is heavier than air, somehow kept aloft with wings or propellers. Heavier-than-air flight dominates discourses about aviation..

https://aerocene.org/a-brief-solar-ballooning-and-aerocene/#

in love with the <details> and <summary> tags

Coming soon: 2021-07-27 at 4:00 PM UTC

@pettter presents:

Music as journey - on interwoven hierarchies in polyphonic music and how to display, manipulate and explore them.

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Coming soon: 2021-07-27 at 8:00 PM UTC

@bgcarlisle presents:

Retroactively prospective clinical trial registrations

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Someone took a bunch of plants (oregano, valerian, rue, catnip, and fennel) from the #pandemicpatch
I'm hoping it was someone who took pity on the plants in the current drought and brought them home to care for them and will return them later.
Or maybe they are just gone.
I'm sad and kinda disappointed about it. But my reaction is really interesting. Same for when the bench was taken.
My initial reaction is to start thinking of ways to make it harder to take things. Put cement blocks on the benches. Attach the herbs to them and keep them in larger pots.
But i actively want work against that reaction. Instead of trying to lock everything down, i want to keep it as open as possible.
I can start thinking of those things not as gone and stolen, but as passed along to someone who needed it more. Maybe who ever took the bench just really wanted a bench at home? While im sad its not public anymore, maybe its still improving someones life. Which was the whole point in the first place.