software is a mirror that reflects the times and the environment it was created in.

this is why much software created in the 1970s counterculture was joyful and humanistic, and why much software created in the 2020s capitalistic hellscape is soul-crushing malware (adware, spyware).

#retrocomputing can mean celebrating hardware limitations and creative coding, but it can also mean celebrating personal computing - computers that are tools for liberation - bicycles for the mind, not cattle trains to the slop farm.

I'm not convinced the point is even to get rid of programmers, so much as it is to make them dependent on a resource that only their employers can afford to provide, so that management has a dial to turn whenever the workforce grows too demanding.

Maybe AI's not a replacement worker. Maybe it's a company town.

KITTY ODYSSEUS #3 part 2

previously: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/116240070949465845

https://triapul.cz/kitty_odysseus/

#kitty_odysseus #comic #art #mastoart

🏛️Europa quiere endurecer (aún más) su política migratoria y avanzar hacia su propio ICE

❌El nuevo Reglamento de Retorno, en tramitación, abre la puerta a una mayor vigilancia, controles raciales en vía pública y espacios privados, así como deportaciones masivas a centros de privación de libertad fuera de la UE.

✍🏽Una crónica de Youssef Ouled.
https://www.pikaramagazine.com/2026/03/europa-quiere-endurecer-aun-mas-su-politica-migratoria-y-avanzar-hacia-su-propio-ice/

Seems like STklos will be the first Scheme to actually be strictly against LLM contributions: https://github.com/egallesio/STklos/issues/880#issuecomment-4082602848

And it's a pretty interesting Scheme as well, has an object system based on CLOS (generic functions, mop, multiple inheritance etc).

#scheme #lisp

Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing and there is reason to fear she may have been apprehended by authorities, possibly likely even for being framed. Nobody has been able to reach her and many of us are worried for her safety.

Joyce does work on verifiable open source hardware. She also has been an activist pushing against the rise of far-right Christian nationalism globally but especially in Singapore. Because of this and her identity, she has people who would like to see bad things happen to her.

Probably for this reason, she may have been misidentified by Five Eyes as being a threat actor. Joyce wrote about this concern in November, posting a threatening screenshot where she was tipped off. https://bitowl.online/about

Please spread this wide. Hopefully this is a false alarm but Joyce is a kind-hearted person who fights for human rights and computing freedom; many of us are worried for her safety.