"I’m not here to take drugs, or get drunk, I’m not really looking to hook up; in fact, once I get in, if you dance too close to me I’ll probably move. I’m here as a 45-year-old woman, to be on my own, surrounded by techno music played on one of the best sound systems in the world, the harder and louder the better." http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/really-techno/ This is so delicious. #technoqueers #techno
Old computer books by Usborne https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-coding-books/
Including this *adorable* old "Machine Code for Beginners" book https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxv0SsvibDMTcHNXalEtYkVtU00/view
@thornyonmain Ah these are my favourite scholars on India's struggle for independence: people that misspell Gandhi.
I bet they have not heard names like Subhash Chandra Bose or Bhagat Singh or Aurobindo Ghosh or any of the princely states that fought the British, all of which made colonialists' life very inconvenient. India's independence did not happen because the British suddenly developed a "conscience".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_movement_for_Indian_independence
Also Gandhi was an ass sometimes, towards a lot of people.
I mean that's not an unrealistic expectation, a large part of Canadian history is Americans fleeing north and becoming Canadians. That's basically where Ontario and New Brunswick came from (as political entities), the huge influx of empire loyalists.
That's how my mom's family ended up in the Maritimes, and I assume why my mom is still really obsessed with the Royals and their weddings (but seriously, why?)
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Ring ring.
Early in my computering learnings I stumbled on the art of computer programming volume about "sorting and searching". I thought there must be some mistake, because what kind of fool thought that was worth writing a book about much less using the clearly awesome power of computers for.
Reader, the mistake was mine.
@cypnk The number repeatedly given for the proportion of silent films lost to time is 90%. Fifty years worth of seminal culture, the birth of a new form of collective human literacy, gone like a forgotten rumour. I also mourn how virtually all we know first hand of Ancient Greek history boils down to barely more than 2 historians, the loss of Alexandria’s gem...
Given that virtually none of the new infotech has a horizon beyond ten years, the future for our now looks as grim.
big mood
But how to effectively keep it disjoint from pedantic superior nineties usenet lisp culture. Questions.
Sorry I just realised there's some kind of possibly sour joke in there I totally wasn't trying to make I mean literally lisp culture was always a bit disappointing to me and maybe it'd cross over into truly excellent if it were strictly more queer.
Maybe I just need to find queer _lisp_ mastodon.
@HTHR Which parenthesis style do you prefer for your lisp ?
- ( classic )
- [ blocky ]
- { curly }
- < aerodynamic >
- ≤ mathematic ≥
- « French-speaking »
- » German-speaking «
- ¿ interrogative ?
- ¡ exclamative !
- …many others not mapped on my keyboard…
God, summer. Is anything worse? Heat, bright, noise.
I want to live in a bunker, at the bottom of the ocean.
On Enceladus.
queer euphemism for just started dating and are currently inseparable: "oh, we've been brunching a lot"
Sometimes I'm a real idiot.
The web, by not really putting much thought into how to do data storage or addressing, and by foolishly embedding links into documents, essentially cemented a hierarchical system in which the rich get richer -- because control over domain names and access to expensive hardware was directly connected to ability to serve and control data.
It's stupid to address a document based on a machine, which is why email got rid of routes & fidonet never had them.
