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by jboynyc 7y ago
Is it valid literary criticism to point out pointless uses of cat on page 25?
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by jboynyc 7y ago
I'm a big fan of Allison Parrish's work using word embeddings and other techniques to write computer-generated poetry. http://portfolio.decontextualize.com/
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You can find details on the language here: https://janet-lang.org/
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by jboynyc 7y ago
This looks very nice -- like a long-overdue replacement for crush3r.com, which I was very fond of ca. 2011. Keep it up!
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Goodenough, Whittingham and Yoshino(edition.cnn.com)
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by jboynyc 7y ago
In a similar vein, I recently read this piece on the imaginary of "acid communism" and why it might be desirable. I can't say I was convinced by it, but I did learn a lot from it. https://communemag.com/cyberg
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Geeks in Cyberspace: A documentary about Linux nerds and the web that was(opensource.com)
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Sure, but that's a weird publication of hers to take issue with. For context (from Wikipedia): > In a paper entitled "The Five Sexes", in which, according to her, "I had intended to be provocative, but I had also writ
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by jboynyc 7y ago
I doubt there's much desire around here to argue the merits of gender studies in good faith. However, those proclaiming that gender scholarship doesn't get biology, I suggest you pick up Evelyn Fox Keller's excellent book Ma
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by jboynyc 7y ago
There was a discussion only recently about "no-nonsense" themes for Jekyll et al.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20266932 Note that people's definitions of what constitutes a minimalist/no-nonsens
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by jboynyc 7y ago
Ahem... Do you know about Anne Fasto-Sterling or Donna Haraway? They are both highly credentialed biologists and pivotal figures in the development of women's/gender studies.
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Publishers blocking IPs for alleged sci-hub use(twitter.com)
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Writers and Pellets: How Randomness, Success, and Art Can Drive You Crazy(tobiasbuckell.com)
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by jboynyc 7y ago
There are talks by the creators presented at FOSDEM that go into the development of the workflow language. https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixworkflowm... https://fosdem.org/20
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How co-op accelerators and incubators are supercharging a worker-owned economy(shareable.net)
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Critical Security Vulnerability in Jira Server and Data Center(confluence.atlassian.com)
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by jboynyc 7y ago
Beaker Browser has (a version of) this feature -- you can specify a donate link for your dat site, and the browser then displays a heart button that takes you to that page.
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by jboynyc 7y ago
FWIW, the best book I ever read at the beach was The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead. Enjoy your vacation!
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GNU Guix package definitions for Gov.uk software and systems(github.com)
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by jboynyc 7y ago
I can think of a locality that is covered by a higher number of geographic gTLDs: Cologne, Germany, has .cologne, .koeln, .nrw, .de, and .eu. (But, granted, Barcelona actually has .bcn as well.)
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by jboynyc 7y ago
Nicely done! In case people are visiting the discussion looking for more no-nonsense Jekyll theme recommendations, I recently came across this beautiful collection that seems to fit the bill: https://mademistakes.com/work&#x
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In this recent essay, Darius Kazemi suggests that Scuttlebutt and Dat (as well as Activitypub) should be regarded as complementary efforts rather than as re-decentralization silver bullets: https://blog.datproject.org/2019
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Escape from Model-Land(economics-ejournal.org)
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A highly opinionated guide to learning about ActivityPub(tinysubversions.com)
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Perhaps pweave, which is like knitr for Python. http://mpastell.com/pweave/
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Sounds like you might also want to keep eyes on another of Butterick's projects, a document processor called Quad, which creates documents directly, i.e., without going the (La)TeX route. Repository: https://github.com/
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by jboynyc 7y ago
Of course that depends on what kinds of assets you serve and how many hits you get, but to provide a ballpark, I had a small personal site with few media assets on S3, and it consistently cost me US$0.12 per month. I think once it cost me 1
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We Need a Public Media Stack(storythings.com)
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The Gentrification of the Internet(culturedigitally.org)
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About Blissymbolics(blissymbolics.org)
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