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spinor: My impression from what I’ve read, seen, and heard and...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:20:00 -0700

My impression from what I’ve read, seen, and heard and the week I spent in the United Kingdom with my family (mostly England, but we did spend a day in Cardiff) is that the Union Flag is a lot more common than the English one, though.

I have been waiting to say this for a while, (the original post/ though I’m American

mediaite: Rep. Jose Serrano is the only member of Congress...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:00:44 -0800

mediaite:

Rep. Jose Serrano is the only member of Congress openly praising Hugo Chavez today.

capitalists: (create a system that fosters and rewards greed)

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:35:58 -0800

capitalists: (create a system that fosters and rewards greed)
capitalists: look! it's human nature to be greedy!

katsplanet: LINK TO A PETITION EXAGGERATED, UNINFORMED, AND OVERLY DRAMATIC DESCRIPTION OF WHAT...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:43:59 -0800

katsplanet:

LINK TO A PETITION

EXAGGERATED, UNINFORMED, AND OVERLY DRAMATIC DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE PETITION IS FOR

“WHY DOESN’T THIS HAVE MORE NOTES”

“TUMBLR WILL GO IF YOU DON’T SIGN THIS RIGHT NOW”

tomato-jellyfish: “if i get 500 000 notes on this post my mom is gonna buy me a-“

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:12:11 -0800

tomato-jellyfish:

“if i get 500 000 notes on this post my mom is gonna buy me a-“

sloppyjoebiden: AND THE SAME ASSHOLES WHO PUT THEIR FANDOM GIFS ON SERIOUS POSTS WILL GET SO...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:39:39 -0800

sloppyjoebiden:

AND THE SAME ASSHOLES WHO PUT THEIR FANDOM GIFS ON SERIOUS POSTS WILL GET SO FUCKING PISSED OFF IF YOU ATTACH SERIOUS COMMENTARY/CRITICISM ON THEIR FANDOM SHIT.

BEING A SUPERWHOLOCK DOES NOT GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO RUIN EVERYBODY ELSE’S GOOD TIME.

Story of my life offline as well. Sigh

bloggish: Sometimes countries are monarchies Sometimes countries are republics Sometimes are...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:53:33 -0800

bloggish:

Sometimes countries are monarchies

Sometimes countries are republics

Sometimes are empires

Sometimes countries transition from one of these forms of government to another

And then there’s France:

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Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:27:05 -0800

Yes, yes, I know nobody loves me on any other day of the year. I just don't appreciate corporate assholes setting aside a day to remind me of that fact.

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:55:07 -0800

Valentine’s day? More like Thursday.

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:09:11 -0800

Valentine’s day? More like Thursday.

Wait, were you born in 1996 or 1986???

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:08:15 -0800

1996…

A Rationale for Koioslisp

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:47:32 -0800

As I worked on Koioslisp, I was asked the same question numerous times: why? At first, this question surprised me: lispers create new dialects rather often, and indeed it is a rite-of-passage for new converts to write a simple lisp interpreter. But such languages are usually examples to demonstrate the ease of implementing lisp within itself, and as such Koioslisp cannot be one of their fold. Neither is it a proof-of-concept as are so many research lisps: while Koioslisp acknowledges their pioneering place as playgrounds of new ideas, Koioslisp is not the successor to Scheme or Kernel—and it does not pretend to be. Indeed, its model is the big fish in the small pond: Common Lisp, and as Koioslisp aims to replace it in such a position, it requires justification. Though Common Lisp is the industrial lisp par excellence, being, at least in my own mind, superior to almost every other language, it represents the swan song of Symbolics, and as such, it has begun to show some signs of staleness, being thus in need of revitalization. This is the task Koioslisp is to accomplish. An objection is raised—what about the new industrial lisps, like Racket, Clojure, or Qi/Shen? Why not use them instead of creating yet another language? The answer is that although they are important in their innovations, they have made decisions I regard as unfortunate: Qi/Shen and Clojure have added too much syntax to respectably call themselves lisps, and Racket, being a descendant of Scheme rather than Common Lisp, is primarily a lisp for programming language theory: it’s usefulness as a powerful tool is a great benefit, but it is secondary; the same indeed can be said for Qi/Shen, which also suffers the downside of having no Free Software definition. Clojure also has several disadvantages: the reference implementation relying on Java stack traces being an example—a more serious problem being the contradiction that its first major selling point was its use of the JVM (thus allowing, at least in theory, easy use of Java libraries), but now there are implementations on different platforms which are often incompatible with Java libraries, and thus many Clojure libraries. Thus, there are no alternatives I find acceptable, and so I have decided to provide one.

Now that we have outlined the context that produced Koioslisp, we must find how it manages to resolve these problems. The first priority, of course, is filling in the crucial areas that Common Lisp missed and cleaning the parts where it got messy: standardized sockets, concurrency, and better integration with CLOS; better file, readtable, user interface, time, and package support; case-sensitivity. Upon this, new constructs from other Lisp dialects (and sometimes from other languages entirely) are added in a tasteful manner: abstract data types, monads, logic programming support, list comprehension, a saner looping mechanism, lazy evaluation with explicit annotation, hygienic macros, and several new sequence types.

mssswitch: feministfashionista: tinytruant: fuckyeahfeminists:...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:19:11 -0800

mssswitch:

feministfashionista:

tinytruant:

fuckyeahfeminists:

Shout out to the Nice Guys (tm) out there who need to see this.

THIS.

oh god this is back, BRILLIANT

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Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:32:36 -0800

The United States of America on college education

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:06:20 -0800

Student: I'm not going to go to college because I don't want to go into debt.
USA: YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT. YOU'RE GOING TO AMOUNT TO NOTHING YOU FUCKING SCUMBAG. YOU'RE THE REASON WHY MY TAXES ARE SO HIGH.
Student: I'm just going to attend a small community college instead.
USA: HAHAHA YOU WERE TOO STUPID TO GET INTO A GOOD UNIVERSITY. ENJOY YOUR MCDONALD'S DIPLOMA.
Student: I attended a four year university and received a diploma in a field I am interested in. Now I am $50,000+ in debt.
USA: YOU DUMBASS. WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GO TO COLLEGE WHEN YOU KNOW YOU COULDN'T AFFORD IT? YOU DIDN'T EVEN CHOOSE A USEFUL MAJOR EITHER. GOD PEOPLE LIKE YOU MAKE ME SICK.

fearandwar: The only real Marxists are those who have actually digested Marx’s thought. And I mean...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:37:06 -0800

fearandwar:

The only real Marxists are those who have actually digested Marx’s thought.

And I mean they’ve eaten a copy of Capital.

On my to-do list

"As soon as a Western man comes into contact with the East — he’s already confused. The West has sort..."

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:48:07 -0800

“As soon as a Western man comes into contact with the East — he’s already confused. The West has sort of an international rape mentality towards the East. …Basically, ‘Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes.’ The West thinks of itself as masculine — big guns, big industry, big money — so the East is feminine — weak, delicate, poor…but good at art, and full of inscrutable wisdom — the feminine mystique. Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes. The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated — because a woman can’t think for herself. …You expect Oriental countries to submit to your guns, and you expect Oriental women to be submissive to your men.”

- David Henry Hwang (via literatureisboss)

The difference, is of course, quite obvious–when sexual violence happens in the United States, not only do we have a habit of ignoring its root causes, we also reduce it to a “few rotten apples.” But in either case, we do not blame America's “culture,” or the American nation as a whole. The inability to properly understand the sexual violence epidemic in India, and the resort to “cultural” or “national” explanations for these crimes, exhibits orientalism and reductionism. Moreover, it serves to undermine awareness of sexual violence in the West. And perhaps, most importantly, it does not give us meaningful solutions for how Indian society, as it demands justice for the victims of sexual violence, can move forward to protect the rights of women.

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:53:48 -0800

The difference, is of course, quite obvious–when sexual violence happens in the United States, not only do we have a habit of ignoring its root causes, we also reduce it to a “few rotten apples.” But in either case, we do not blame America's “culture,” or the American nation as a whole. The inability to properly understand the sexual violence epidemic in India, and the resort to “cultural” or “national” explanations for these crimes, exhibits orientalism and reductionism. Moreover, it serves to undermine awareness of sexual violence in the West. And perhaps, most importantly, it does not give us meaningful solutions for how Indian society, as it demands justice for the victims of sexual violence, can move forward to protect the rights of women.

Everyone who reblogs this by January 31st will have their url written down and taped somewhere in my hometown in Germany

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:51:16 -0800

knittedsocks:

I will do them all and I’ll take pictures of where I put them, and tag your url.

Finally, a productive one

Cormac McCarthy Goes to the Grocery Store

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:37:58 -0800

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