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links re: how to identify fascism 

interglacial.com/pub/text/Umbe - - "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt," by Umberto Eco

theanarchistlibrary.org/librar - Ur-Fascism, by Umberto Eco.

Both of these texts will serve you well. The former more readily than the latter.

@sjolsen at least it was a hardware specification and we had real hardware to test our code against, but still, good god

@sjolsen unfortunately i have worked on projects like this and they are generally a good sign that you should start sending resumes

Ladies, if your man:

- can be called 美術品 in Japanese
- can be used for admiring
- is an art
- is a magnum opus
- can be used for appreciation

He's not your man. He's a work of art.

every war criminal that dies of old age is a policy failure

historical uspol, death, war, genocide, kissinger 

if you're confused about why people are so enthused about kissinger's death, read this:

theintercept.com/2023/05/23/he

pay special attention to the parts about how the bombing of cambodia laid the groundwork for the khmer rouge to take over and commit their genocide, and set up the template for all of the USA's secretive bombings and strikes since

and ask yourself why anyone should speak respectfully of this man in the slightest

Here is the C program I was trying to write. It doesn't really exist for any purpose except to be written in C. We didn't have a C program that drew graphics for the platform, so I wrote one.

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Wikipedia editors: “Henry Kissinger was”

made this pre-emptively, so i can boost it whenever the blessed day finally comes

@aronia @sjolsen yeah, that's my understanding too. it's one part finding the solution and three parts doing the solution with good programming practices

@efi because people actually like racket and it would make *me* sad to write my bad functional programming code in it

i should get back into haskell and this time try not to write code that makes the real FP people on my timeline want to vomit

Spotify wrapped has got to be the most obvious attempt to normalise the inordinate amount of data gathering done by corporations and I have absolutely no clue why everyone loves it

@sjolsen a kata is a concept from martial arts, especially karate. it's a choreographed series of moves used to teach precision of movement and intended to be practiced alone. ive seen "code kata" used to describe programming exercises, because the software industry has a problem with orientalism, i guess. as for the rest of the questions i can't help you there

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