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Well, I've bodged together a method of making #Emacs #Lisp function calls return different values based on the properties of #orgmode section headings containing the calling block.
I thought I might use it to fill in some boilerplate, indicated by a named quote block with custom percent expandos. And use that slightly varied boilerplate over and over again. But for the specific employer-related task I have in mind that just seems...underwhelming. Especially if it's a task I have to do 20 more times. There's a better automation path there.
(Those more experienced than I probably know exactly what functions are involved already!)
Regardless of whether it has application to a particular task, it is very #nifty that I can quite literally implement #madlibs by calling functions upon the very document I'm editing.
I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time.
https://influence.citationneeded.news/
Here’s the full story behind the Tech Influence Watch launch, including what I found while building it and why it matters now: https://www.citationneeded.news/tech-influence-watch/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf
Boiling it down, every single request stemming from "age assurance" / "age verification" / "identity verification" is part of the slow but persistent fight against general purpose computing (itself but one front in the never ending struggle for human freedom)
The idea that you should be able to do anything without seeking permission from someone else is so abhorrent to some people they demand reality twist itself into absurdities to satisfy their need for authority.
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