Notices by ☆ Dmitri ☭ (yogthos@mastodon.social), page 10

The United States shows all the warning signs of impending social and political collapse https://thewalrus.ca/americas-next-civil-war/

iPhones are Allergic to Helium
https://ifixit.org/blog/11986/iphones-are-allergic-to-helium/

accurate

there's still hope for humanity:

"Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app from their phone in the last year, says study"

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/facebook-exodus-44-percent-of-americans-age-18-29-have-deleted-app.html

perspective

RISC OS has been open sourced and will be developed under RISC OS Open Ltd governance. https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2018/10/22/risc-os-is-open-for-business

the big sneeze

can we take a moment to talk about phrasing

@jasper there are a number of advantage to using s-expressions. A couple of big ones for me are:

Having a single syntax for logic and data. You can take any piece of code and transform it using the same language you're already using. I wrote about the benefits of that in detail here

https://yogthos.net/posts/2017-10-03-MovingForwardByLettingGo.html

S-expressions also allow much better editors where you're manipulating blocks of logic as opposed to lines of code as seen here

http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.html

#tokyocameraclub https://mstdn.tokyocameraclub.com/media/yxWSpN5ZVSmo2u1nsNc

UK steps towards zero-carbon economy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45856377
#newsbot

We’re boned

We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We called those the barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger.

- Peter Kropotkin

Warner Brothers shut down an entire publisher that they owned and destroyed almost all their stock, just to prevent Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman from publishing a book critical of US foreign policy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Revolutionary_Violence#Publishing_history