To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Men Loving Large Language Models (MLMMLLLM)
negative democracy — Q47,76
The concept of a republic where everything decided by a representative or owner or occasionally an election is up to an anti-vote (this can be called anti-voting, negative voting or un-voting). Within negative democracy, it would actually be possible to anti-vote for the president instead of voting for another candidate, or anti-buy an iPhone rather than buying an Android phone. This concept seems to be vastly more intuitive to most people in the United States, who in practice tend to misuse existing voting systems specifically to "un-vote" for people they voted for solely to be able to take their vote back.
[Dimensionality:] S - abstract concept or motif
[Field:] meta-Liberalism (MX onto LR), "Zinovievism" (Zv)
just purchased this--
https://www.ebay.com/itm/167635879732
and this--
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/136018976639
for the permacomputer project
Petition EN8047 – Expel the Israeli ambassador from Australia
Petition Reason The state of Israel is continuing to commit appalling crimes in Gaza where more than 50,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been murdered and children are starving to death. Israel also targets and murders journalists. Israel must receive a strong message that this is unacceptable and that the mass killings must stop immediately. Petition Request We therefore ask the House to send…
https://moraleconomy.au/2025/10/08/petition-en8047-expel-the-israeli-ambassador-from-australia/
NATIONWIDE MARCH FOR PALESTINE – SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER
This Sunday marks the two-year anniversary of occupation, oppression and genocide in Gaza. The continuing humanitarian crisis has seen devastating events in recent weeks. A double airstrike on a major hospital resulted in the deaths of 20 people, including journalists and healthcare workers, and the United Nations has officially declared a famine within the Gaza Strip. Unions have a long and proud history of standing…
https://moraleconomy.au/2025/10/08/nationwide-march-for-palestine-sunday-12-october/
@vidak Most of these aren't IF, but like little cryptography or minigames, that fill in the end of each chapter.
But there's a bunch of other "type in text adventures" books in the folksonomy group.
The news about the acquisition of the Arduino platform by Qualcomm is a disturbing development.
Much of the project's exploration into microcontroller platforms depends on Arduino and its ecosystem.
This project prides itself on its free software credentials, and it has always sought out open hardware and software wherever possible.
If you've been working in the #Arduino ecosystem, it's probably time to check out #Zephyr OS. Under the banner of the Linux foundation, Zephyr is a free platform that won't be bought out from underneath you. (It's so good, that even Arduino announced they were adopting it, after their previous high-end-device platform choice died of Capitalism).
HMU if you want some pointers, Here's me a few years back talking about Zephyr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxsLPh5dF_s
@mdhughes gonna take a look soon, maybe the permacomputer project could have some amazing interactive fiction???
Mentioned in today's #lispygopher show, adventure books with computer programming puzzles:
https://archive.org/details/RetroGamingBooksFiction/MicroAdventureNo.1-SpaceAttack1984.pdf
You want all the Micro Adventure, Arcade Explorer, "A Magic Micro Adventure", and Time Lost books. The rest are mostly pick-a-path in videogame worlds with no coding.
#retrocomputing #books
