One of the cool things about working at @spritely is the morning calls; after we do our morning check-in, and there is usually something interesting we are working on, we usually spend a few minutes talking about "topics of interest" in the tech space.

Today @dthompson and I talked about:

- Carp and other statically typed lisps (thx to @vv for filling me in on her recent experiences)
- How targeting WASM-4 as a playground would be a good way to experiment with building a new "low level lisp" (we've done some wasm-4 stuff before) https://wasm4.org/
- The 6502 / NES emulator literate program *book* that @kingcons wrote which is really cool https://redlinernotes.com/docs/cl-6502.pdf
- asi64, a 6502 assembler written in Racket https://docs.racket-lang.org/asi64/index.html
- Our mutual interest in using propagators for type solving and flow analysis (see section 5.7 of https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/49525 )

Fun stuff!

@pluralistic
es certero en «La austeridad crea al fascismo».

1. Los servicios públicos fallan. La gente no siempre sabe a quién culpar. Muchos dejan de confiar en el Estado.
2. Los fascistas llegan al poder movilizando ese descontento. Eligen un enemigo ficticio y fácil de reconocer, para ganarse el apoyo de esas personas que están justificadamente furiosas porque los servicios de los que dependen se han derrumbado.

This viral image of Saturn isn’t real; it’s AI slop

A new image of "Saturn's North Pole" has gone viral.

Too bad it's an AI fake.

Here's what the real things look like, and how you can tell for yourself.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/viral-saturn-real-ai-slop/

We have recently received a trust score by 9.6 out of 10 from "European & Open Source Alternatives", a website that wants to help people find trustworthy alternatives to Big Tech.

With that stellar rating, we are currently the top-rated alternative in the Maps category, side-by-side with our friends from #OpenStreetMap ❤️

Check out how that score was calculated for us, and other map alternatives here: https://european-alternatives.cloud/en/browse?category=maps

Well this is truly bad. US national level OS-level age verification bill. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info

The text of it isn't out yet.

EDIT: Well the text is now out and it's as bad as you could imagine. It's not even just that you need to verify your age to access a website... operating systems must verify your age to let you *use a computer at all*

EDIT EDIT: Thanks to @Andres4NY for pointing out that it also holds responsible anyone who has any software shipped on the operating system of a computer, meaning FOSS developers eveywhere

Last month, the EU Council wanted to push through voluntary scanning. But they failed! 🎉

However, the trilogue discussions on Chat Control 2.0 start this Thursday. But #ChatControl is a Trojan Horse for citizens and businesses in Europe. Interestingly, not everyone should be monitored:

❌ Government

❌ Military

✅ YOU

Make sure your country opposes Chat Control! Learn why: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism