blake shaw 🇵🇸 / is on Nostr

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2024-03-19 02:10:18

Under communism #elisp will be the mandatory first programming language for all aspiring programmers.

2024-02-16 14:55:56

37% of the activists arrested in #Germany on #antisemitism charges in the past 130 days have been #Jewish. #Jews make up less than 1% of the total population of Germany. Think about what that means.
Germans learned nothing beyond how to manufacture and promote a semblance of reconciliation in which Jews are a mere transference object through which Germans may be absolved of the crimes of Nazism and the #Nakba. When we no longer function as objects that Germans can transfer their responsibility for genocide onto — when we no longer serve to act as an insurance policy on their responsibility for crimes of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the commercial war economy of the imperial core — then suddenly *Germans become the victims of antisemitism* visited upon the German people by the Jews.
A society where that is even fathomable has not actually repented for the #Holocaust. Which is exactly why Germany is the world's #1 champion of the genocide in #Gaza.

2024-02-12 03:32:00

Israel just bombed a tent city full of #refugees who fled North #Gaza for #Rafah on the #IDF's orders.
Horrifying photos show families frantically rummaging through the carnage for the limbs of their family members. I won't reproduce them here, but they can be found on the bird site from @gazanotifications
They are murdering poor people trapped in a concentration camp, in the places they were told to flee for safety. They are killing impoverished, innocent, starving Palestinians, mostly under 30, with nowhere else to go.
This brutality is unparalleled in my lifetime. All studies show that Israel is in a class of its own, outdoing the Dresden bombings by a landslide. Saying this is not antisemitic: it is your duty, whoever you are.
I am #Jewish: scholarly, spiritually, and Litvak Ashkenazi. It's not antisemitic for me, OR ANY NON-JEW to say. In fact, its every human's duty to call for this bloodshed to cease IMMEDIATELY, and to even call for this genocidal Zionist occupation to be dismantled before there is any more blood shed.
I have been doing activism in Palestine since 2012, both boots-on-the-ground defense of protestors, and teaching programming. These are not antisemites; my Palestinian friends are as close to me as any others. And I have had 6 students murdered in Gaza in 120 days. All the others are starving, fleeing from tent city to tent city, trying to survive the most hellish circumstances of drone democide any people have ever witnessed in the history of humanity. Thats a simple fact now.
If you are a goy and claim to support this in our name, WE WILL REMEMBER. The vast majority of #Jews outside of Israel who are under 40 years old are anti-Zionists today. All the fastest growing Jewish organizations of the past decade are anti-Zionist. And we will not forget those who cheered on a 21st century #Holocaust while evoking the memory of our family members killed in Nazi #Germany. Especially not the #Germans, who have been by far the worst inciters and supporters of genocide outside of #Israel.

2024-01-04 09:53:35

One of the #Guix maintainers has blocked me for my vocal support for #Palestine, without any confrontation or interaction between the two of us. As a long time activist in the International Solidarity Movement, I'm used to it, but I was under the impression Guix is a more open & progressive project than what is the norm for #GNU and #FOSS
Seems to confirm those bad interactions I started having every time I chimed in on the mailing list over the past two years were in fact people trying to push me out, rather than just people having bad days.

2023-10-11 03:35:25

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 oh sorry, I just wouldn't personally want to be spreading fascist ideas that Trotsky lifted from Marinetti. He was a fan of the futurists and wrote highly of the movement, after all.

2023-10-11 03:24:25

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 though as in the Futurists were proto-fascists.

2023-10-10 22:45:59

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 isn't this basically the thesis of Marinetti and the Futurists though?

2023-08-10 16:17:32

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@npub1w66…rc58 no, but I lower

2023-08-10 12:17:29

ever since @npub1ukm…dd9t mentioned his plans to go #NoPhone its become like my dominant fantasy

2023-08-09 23:44:48

just heard a dude say that vscode is like your current text editor but on steroids and the fact that most people think that sounds like a good thing makes me very concerned

2023-08-06 18:20:14

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@npub1w66…rc58 thanks comrade, but as you know, you can take the scheme away from the schemer, but that doesn't mean we ain't' schemin'

2023-08-06 12:30:34

Been relatively offline as of late. On the upside, I've landed a decent contract for the next few months leading the development of a SAAS startup, which means I'm experiencing a bit of stability for the first time in many moons. On the downside, I'm under NDA and can't share any of the stuff I'm working on, and have had no free time to hack on Scheme.
As I'm doing CG work again, I'm considering diving into #SICM. I've loved the first two chapters of LiSP, but as its not really tied to what I'm working on atm, its hard to find time to dedicate to it. I'm a bit scared of SICM, as even a friend who studied physics (and has read SICP) said he found it to properly difficult. But I think if I go in assuming the book will take a year at minimum to complete, and allow myself to take my time without trying to schedule according to abstract expectations, it could be just the right time to brave the beast.