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• Post #4310681

  «France’s maize harvest is the lowest in 50 years; across Europe, nine million tons of grain have been lost. Such losses are of particular concern for the U.K., which imports much of its food.» People often say improvements in technology will let us support a much larger population. because we can feed more people per acre. But the flip side of that is that if we lose one of those acres, we put a lot more people at risk. https://pouet.chapril.org/@dallo/117018756728357617

• Post #4048887

  Hush, Climate Science. Tell better researched stories. Like those Big Oil tells. #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #narrative #stories #StoryTelling #statistics #denial #ClimateDenial #ClimateDelay #ClimateScience #science https://veganism.social/@Dragofix/116961289450079689

• Post #3798488

  RE: https://bne.social/@travis_nice/116915720209889228 You seek Climate proof? If such spiky graph's aren't it, maybe a flatline? #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #extinction #ElNiño #ElNino #heat #OceanWarming #RecordHeat #RecordTemperatures

• Post #3663737

  Hot days steal focus. I crave time for OTHER things, NOT climate change talk! #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDelay #ClimateDenial #heat #UnseasonablyWarmWeather #ClimatePsychology

• Post #3536372

  arctic thirty-eight? well, at least not three eighty. THEN we'd have to care. #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #Arctic #heat #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

• Post #3387281

  unlike ostriches, we DO hide our heads in sand, baking hopes and dreams. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-silence-on-climate-change-is-totally-unacceptable (About the ostrich myth, see https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/animals/ostriches-really-bury-heads-sand) #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #denial #ClimateDenial #ClimateDelay #ClimatePolitics #ClimateSilence #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ostriches

• Post #3343210

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@primonatura/116753774676038889 This news is days old. News or not, Climate matters. New's the wrong question. #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateNews #news

• Post #3299731

  As Climate ratchets, skeptics scoff, still asking proof. Cartoon Physics shield. When none remain to agree, will that be finally Proof? #tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #Climate #ClimateDenial #denial #CartoonPhysics #physics #extinction

• Post #3211202

  end of a hot day we pause to rest overnight though climate change won't #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #relentless #ClimateDenial #ClimateUrgency

• Post #2864574

  I'm sitting here absolutely bawling, tears flowing down my face, as I watch The Kings Affection in background. It's a Netflix k-drama, for those that don't know it. Korea is lately putting out some brilliant works. I'm only about 3/4 through and won't spoil anything by going onto detail. I see homages to Twelfth Night and Roshomon. It's nicely structured. It's a good love story, but also a recurring theme of some of these Korean dramas is...

• Post #2864573

  Sudhakar Velamoor wrote a very brief but thoughtful analysis of why "agentic search" will be different than the kind of search we've been using. I'd quote it here, but it's so short—just one paragraph, maybe twice as long as this one you're reading—that it would be unfairly stealing his thunder. If you're the sort that is trying to find ways to get a foothold on the changes "AI" is heaping upon us, this is a useful pie...

• Post #2777425

  So hot we might die? Relax. If it was THAT bad, Someone would warn us. #haiku #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #heat #RecordHeat #collapse #extinction #Cassandra #ClimateWarning #ClimateReporting #ClimateLogic

• Post #2777424

  just scorpions we. atop a blue marble frog oil finds its purchase #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #collapse #extinction #anthropogenic #oil #FossilFuels #LateStageCapitalism

• Post #1842531

  As part of my history project, I was looking for a document I wrote that offered specific advice on converting Maclisp and Zetalisp to Common Lisp. I had to laugh when I found it. It's already published as part of the Sunday Morning Edition of the Pitmanual (the webbed version of the Revised Maclisp Manual, the printed version of which was the Saturday Evening Edition). The printed version does not contain the conversion guide. It was an "extra" I through in as part...

• Post #1819353

  I couldn't find a copy of the memo named "Loop Iteration Macro" by Glenn Burke and David Moon, January 1981 (MIT/LCS/TM-169) at MIT's dSpace site, or anywhere else. So I scanned in my copy and have uploaded it to my web site. NOTE WELL: This document was written prior to CLTL and describes a facility that was available in MACLISP and the Lisp Machine's Zetalisp. Common Lisp drew design ideas from this, but the syntax, semantics, and associated function...

• Post #1806130

  I ran across and scanned an old document recently that describes the command set for TECO-based Emacs on the MIT ITS operating system in the very early 1980s, probably, although the document is not dated. I think I either produced it, or had a hand in how it was produced. But in any case, the grouping and layout suits me in terms of describing why certain commands are related to one another, and making it easier to see why particular letters were chosen as mnemonics. TECO was the language Emac...

• Post #1775919

  @screwtape This message is part of some prep you and I were doing for an upcoming show, but it also contains information that might have information that is of historical interest, so I'm going to send it in publicly viewable mode, even though it somewhat joins a private conversation already in progress and the context may not be entirely clear. (I guess people can ask questions if something in here makes no sense out of context, or they can tune in when we talk on your show on what&...

• Post #1387639

  @screwlisp You can pick up the document 'Signalling and Handling Conditions' from this index page: http://nhplace.com/kent/ZL/ It was longer than I thought it would be, but I think you'll find it interesting to see what the Zetalisp condition system (which inspired the Common Lisp condition system) looked like. In spirit, it was much the same. The biggest differences are: * The CL system has 'active' restarts, where the ZL system had a passive thing w...

• Post #1387638

  Once gas prices fall we can get back to asking how to slow gas use #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #gas #gasoline #GasPrices #sustainability #irony #paradox #hypocrisy

• Post #1129599

  @tomjennings @craigbro @davefischer This is going to go into a lot of personal opinion that I cannot back in any objective way. I'm just exposing my own thoughts. I mostly agree with this, and surely there were a lot of site conditionals. And note I call them site conditionals and not architecture conditionals, because exactly as you say, they seemed so specific to a particular machine. Even the four PDP-10's running ITS were slightly different model numbers. They knew about e...

• Post #1129598

  Turns out I was wrong... Climate IS safe to ignore. Happy April Fool's! #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #AprilFool #AprilFools #AprilFoolsDay #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #collapse #extinction

• Post #1129597

  what if you found out Climate was cheating on you, no shared future plans #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #metaphor #cheating #infidelity #betrayal #ClimateBetrayal #TippingPoint #TippingPoints #ClimateTippingPoints #hindsight #AcceleratedHindsight #collapse #extinction

• Post #858406

  RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn100/116298626465000329 «…The record supports an inference that Anthropic is being punished for criticizing the government’s contracting position in the press. In their announcements, the President and Secretary Hegseth called Anthropic “out of control” and “arrogant,” describing its “sanctimonious rhetoric” as an attempt to “strong-arm” the government. The Department of War’s records show that it designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk because of its “hosti...

• Post #858405

  That's just "bad weather". Won't be "changed climate" for years. After we're extinct. #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #weather #ClimateDenial #extinction

• Post #769120

  The climate has changed, skipping past fair-weather friend, just unfair foe now. #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateChanged #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #weather #FairWeatherFriend

• Post #769119

  Sometimes excellent poetry appears in the most unlikely of places, something we all should help happen more often. Kristen Darling today posted a lovely and insightful piece on LinkedIn. It begins: «How to Have the Life You Want One day, I hope to stop interrogating my peace. I will stop demanding peace turn out its pockets and to keep its hands where I can see them. I will stop inserting anxiety where I spent a few moments …» Read the rest here (no account required, do it in an incognito wi...

• Post #769117

  Compound interest. Watch funds grow. Climate woes, too. Lack of interest. #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

• Post #452365

  Having recently read it aloud at a charity event, I have finally just published to my website my 2012 essay "Lie to Me", written at the time for my friend Juli, inviting honesty, which it suggests is more about trust, immediacy and fearlessness than it is about truth. I figured somehow that Valentine's week was a good time to get it out into the world. There is an accompanying audio reading by me. It is about 5 minutes long. https://nhplace.com/kent/Writing/Lie-To-Me....

• Post #452364

  We've made no promise. Our glue is stronger than words.. Love speaks best in deeds Deeds can't promise, but sustain. Futures are built, not promised. #tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #love #promises #future #commitment Notes to follow on a conversation thread.

• Post #452363

  Context: Someone wrote a post about a reading of erotic poetry where they opined about how awkward and distasteful it would be for them to hear people the age of their parents read erotic poems. I found this very upsetting and responded to that thread explaining why. Hopefully they've removed that post. I can no longer see it. Though I guess it's possible they blocked me and that's why I can't see it. Either way, I'm removing the individual's n...