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  As the weather cools, Climate's urgency feels less. Too bad it isn't. #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #collapse #extinction #fall #autumn #weather

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  This port of the CL condition system to Jolt looks interesting. Haven't been through it in detail, but the write-up on it, at a quick glance, looks thorough. https://reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/1wr299y/cl_conditions_and_restarts_in_jolt/ (I don't know what Jolt is either, but I guess a Clojure library or DSL. since it's on their subreddit.) EDIT: I see the Foralero package, which I did not look up because the name did not immediately suggest conditions, is probably the real sour...

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  I posted a new essay, Taking Rights for Granite, on my blog this morning. https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/09/taking-rights-for-granite.html #politics #rights #laws #meaning #dictionaries #words #battlefields #vigilance

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  I just published another essay on my blog, 'Metaphor Matters.' It talks about the ways metaphors go beyond helping us visualize a topic to influencing how we think about that topic. https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/09/metaphor-matters.html #language #metaphor #philosophy

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  I just posted an essay to my blog titled "Compliance is not Ethics". The title says it all, really. But somehow I always find reason for additional text. https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/09/compliance-is-not-ethics.html #compliance #ethics #philosophy #BusinessEthics #ChocolateBunny

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  This week's Climate thought arrived before its deadline. But will your response? #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDenial #LispyGopherClimate

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  your flame lights my world I'd battle dragons for you though some will be you #haiku #senryu #poem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #ShortPoem #love #acceptance #dragons #commitment #FridgeMagnet #FridgeMagnetPoetry #FridgePoetry #poetry New fridge. Repopulating it. Same old fridge magnets, but they cried out for fresh poetry.

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  While it was only a matter of time, this is still a very bad development. «An internet troll on the Pentagon’s payroll has made a database to track Americans based on their political affiliation. … The release of the evidently government-funded DSA Explorer comes amid a broader effort to label left-wing activists and organizers as domestic terrorists. In a lengthy disclaimer on the database website, Pounds warned that her data may not be 100 percent accurate. … “Do not rely on this material w...

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  «…This collapse could be a result of global heating. “It’s not that much of a stretch to think, yes, we’re seeing one terrible ramification of human-caused climate change,” he says.…» ".…could be.…" and ".…not that much of a stretch.…"??? Could we even possibly make this accusation any more feebly? Was anyone predicting glaciers would melt before climate change? They were formerly the kind of long-term fixed thing no one expected to change all of a sudden. Remember the phra...

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  «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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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...

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  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...

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  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

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  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

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  @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&...

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  @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...

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  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

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  @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...

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  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