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It says "Reginald Scott Braithwaite-Lee" on my 🇨🇦 passport. You may know me from a book called "JavaScript Allongé" or from my work at companies like […] [bridged from https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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Woo hoo, following @slava on Mastodon now. Slava created Factor: https://factorcode.org, a practical concatenative programming language... You know, like Forth, PostScript, Joy, and Combinatory Logic. Check it out! 👏🏽

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The U.K.'s Daily Telegraph newspaper has periodically published sob stories about families who can't afford to support their lavish lifestyle due to various government initiatives such as taxing school fees, but the latest took the biscuit. Journalist Georgina Fuller reported on a family who […]

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Can you smell what The Rock is Matthew Cook-ing?

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What Is The Name of This Society? https://raymondsmullyan.com

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Thoughts from Eric Foreman's basement: 1. We'll know that generative AI is really here when the entire stack from LLM vendors all the way down is written by LLMs, and everyone who remembers the code that was originally written by humans is gone. 👇🏽

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What if I’m wrong? What if “enterprisification” rhyming with “enshittification” isn’t a coïncidence? What if enterprisification is actually just a specific pattern of enshittification? https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/114621607007523899 🎓 @pluralistic

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TFW you cant tell the difference between a north korean smartphone, and windows 11 with recall https://www.techspot.com/news/108156-north-korean-smartphone-secretly-takes-screenshot-every-5.html

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New avatar, who dis? (artist is @rstevens)

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Just because the pursuit of joy is far more accessible to those not living in dread, and therefore not equitably distributed... Is no reason not to pursue joy.

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“There is a degradation of the soul that happens when it consumes what something with no soul produces.” —dsign, 🍊🕸️ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44156660

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Centrist: Someone who agrees in principle with your grievances, but values their order over your justice. And therefore, cannot endorse your taking action, as that may provoke instability.

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“The party told you to submit to the beat and hit the dance floor. It was their final, most essential command” —The Chronicles of Raganwald (1984) https://youtube.com/watch?v=d16E7cAgzR0

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“What AI is is an ideology—a system of ideas that has swept up not only the tech industry but huge parts of government on both sides of the aisle, a supermajority of everyone with assets in the millions and up, and a … growing sector of the journalism class.” aworkinglibrary.com/writing/tool...

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Wendy Carlos explaining the future in 1970. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBDH5uhs4Q

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Rollerball (1975) showed us a dystopian future controlled by corporations, through the eyes of elites working within the system. The closest we get to the proles are the crowds at the matches. The original story was heavy on the futility of life under […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

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“DNA does not have one strand for animals, another for cats, and a third for jaguars. It does not compose these specializations together to produce the final specimen individual. DNA is a chaotic, unstructured mess. Einstein once said that “God does not play […] [Original post on functional.cafe]

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I'm in a hotel room in Québec, where Tesla’s sales have fallen 87% YoY. The TV is on with ordinary, mass-market morning television. Every. Single. Car. Ad. Is. For EVs. Lots of models and manufacturers to choose from, and EVs are fully normalized (it […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

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“Prototypes in JavaScript are “just objects,” and since they are “just objects,” we can add, remove, or modify methods of the prototype by adding, removing, or modifying the functions bound to properties of the prototype.” —Prototypes are Objects (and why […] [Original post on functional.cafe]

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