
Designer of Tinderbox. Hypertext publisher. @eastgate at BlueSky.
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Here's another of the truly individual architects of the Victorian age: David Valinsky's "The Architecture and Writings of E.S. Prior: Challenging the Arts and Crafts" does full justice to Prior's unique buildings and inspiring vision. victorianweb.org/art/archite…
The audacity of English Wikipedia.
In “Who is a Jew?”, the lead presents the Nazi racial definition before Jewish self-definition.
A persecutor’s category comes before the voice of the people persecuted.
Religion, ethnicity, and Israel’s Law of Return are there. But Jewish nationhood is missing. Jews are a people with thousands of years of shared history, culture, and national identity.
That is an editorial choice. And it matters.
Stop donating to Wikimedia if you don’t want to fund this.
Support the research exposing Wikipedia's bias: coff.ee/wikibias
Team #Tinderbox: yesterday’s backstage release was woebegotten, but today’s should be dandy!
Mark Bernstein retweeted
This is very funny
Team #Tinderbox: there's a new backstage release!
Lots of hidden work cleaning up concurrency with the tagger, the indexer, and the agent queue.
Mark Bernstein retweeted
Lots of @TheGreenParty officials posting about how they “don’t agree” with the motion.
We are often asked: “What would you have done when they came for the Jews?”
Well, your party just did.
So either own it or leave it.
Enough with the empty posturing.
Mark Bernstein retweeted
Anti-Zionism is antisemitism when it says that:
* Of all countries in the world, only the state of the Jews should vanish.
* Of all alleged colonial powers, only the state of the Jews should vanish.
* Of all alleged ethnic cleansers, only the state of the Jews should vanish.
* Of all alleged genociders, only the state of the Jews should vanish.
* Of all alleged apartheid regimes, only the state of the Jews should vanish.
Oh, and only the state of the Jews is guilty of all those alleged crimes without any need of due process.
I hope you are beginning to suspect there’s a common pattern.
Surprising TDD/AI experience. I’ve got a tricky bug. Opus 5 has a theory! It's kind of odd, but not entirely implausible.
I say, "write a failing test, and then I’ll understand.” It does—and confirms the fail.
Then, on its own it fixes, confirms fix, and reverts!
Mark Bernstein retweeted
me: how do i open pdf
claude: You're right to ask. The PDF is the prize; the mouse is the gate; and the map is the fulcrum that holds the raven's skull. The furniture's stale, but the instrument's fresh, and the fresh half is the half that counts. I deleted your home directory.
Mark Bernstein retweeted
It's been a long time since I've seen a big tech company use developers well to do what only developers can do.
And it's very rare. Most big tech companies resent developers, but find their stories help build interest.
Net-net they try to crush developers, and usually that works.
Mark Bernstein retweeted
In 1945-46, Dutch authorities présented Dutch Jews returning from Nazi concentration camps with bills for unpaid property taxes -- unpaid because Dutch authorities had in 1940-44 shipped them off to the Nazis.
According to this account, Dutch authorities sent all passengers on an @elal flight arriving in Amsterdam for a customs inspection to see if they had evil products from Jerusalem, the Golan or other “settlements” in their suitcase. A real outrage nieuwrechts.nl/113322-heksen…
A note to Wikipedia editors:
Jewface is not a subtopic of “Jewish culture.” The relevant context is antisemitism. This is not complicated.
Time never said that non-Jewish actresses “may be accepted” when their performances are deemed “more authentic by Jewish audiences.” Time examined the recurring exclusion of Jewish women from Jewish roles.
Also, when describing Macklemore wearing a black wig, beard, and fake hooked nose, don’t begin with the apology. Begin with the antisemitic caricature itself, and don’t bury this example at the bottom of the article.
Remember: antisemitism isn’t Jewish culture. It shouldn’t be an editorial norm either.
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Summer Festival of Artisanal Software.
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