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-"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..."
Joined Sep 2018
"BASIC in 2020 - DIY microcomputer w/ early 90's graphics - Colour MaxiMite 2 (build/test)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzrX72aB7zg
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Wikipedia, like Google, maintains a blacklist of media outlets, not only including awful right-wing websites but also leftist anti-imperialist outlets like The Grayzone and TeleSUR.
And Wikimedia Foundation's CEO worked with US gov't regime-change groups.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/10/wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone-as-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing/
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1969 Tektronix white paper explains how a mouse works. #retrocomputing https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_tektronixcormationDisplayConceptsJan69_5521470/page/n69/mode/2up
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Oh I so love this comment from Reddit:
Computer Science had fantastically approachable textbooks with clear, simple diagrams, as well as practical examples that you could really implement yourself to solve real problems. I noticed however that while the research papers written in the 60s and 70s had a clear, easily readable style, around the late 90s they become riddled with made-up pseudocode unique to each paper and at least 50% Greek letters, because deep in ours hearts we all recognise that we're not proper computer scientists until we learn to program in ancient Greek like the great philosophers did thousands of years ago.
Found in a discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/fek5dd/why_are_textbooks_written_so_badly/fjpyxwu/
I don't think he deserved to be downvoted.
"Giants: Who Really Rules The World?
Abby Martin sits down with Peter Phillips, former director of Project Censored and professor of Political Sociology at Sonoma State University."
"Amiga Samplers (technical) - FutureSound / Master Sound / Stereo Master" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gTWf6IGCJM
"Amiga Samplers : Budget dance music in 1990" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MXYZh1jcs
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Latest progress on my programming language: Some basic APL functionality has been implemented (such as ⍴, ⍳, ¨).
The main thing that sets my language apart from APL is that it's lazy evaluated. That is essential when working with large arrays. An operation such as ⍉ or two-argument ⍴ are very cheap in terms of CPU usage.
I've also started building a simple user interface for it.
"Inference Rules via the Algebra of Boole | MathFoundations 275 | N J Wildberger"
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RT @MaxBlumenthal@twitter.activitypub.actor
The Trump admin has spent $654 million in “aid” to overthrow Venezuela’s government, including $435 million through USAID and $128 million directly to Juan Guaidó and his corrupt coup administration — all while imposing crippling austerity at home.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/23/usaid-venezuela-regime-change-trump/
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RT @TheGrayzoneNews@twitter.activitypub.actor
A US citizen was just detained and interrogated by DHS agents about the anti-war movement and its solidarity with Venezuela.
@MaxBlumenthal@twitter.com on the Trump administration's chilling witch hunt against Americans who resist its economic warfare and coups:
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/24/us-citizen-detained-interrogated-dhs-venezuela/
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"Under US pressure, social media companies censor critical content and suspend Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian accounts"
I like the space station idea, specifically gravity by centrifugal force... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXIDFx74aSY
Looks interesting, especially the embargo part. https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q4/122
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The constant desire for the GNOME developers to remove useful features never cease to amaze me.
In the latest version, you can no longer set a solid colour as background. You can only choose images.
Seriously? You can even see it in the screenshot here, so it's not just me that's doing something wrong: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.34/#settings-background-panel
"Chris Hedges talks to author Stephen Kinzer about the CIA’s quest for mind control through its experiments in drug and torture during the 1950s and 1960s, both domestically and internationally. Kinzer’s new book is titled Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control."
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-"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..."
Joined Sep 2018
