jcastroarnaud, to design Portuguese
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A provocative thought, and a question.

After meeting the (https://www.uiua.org/) programming language, and identifying it as queer (in both gender and style), I started thinking about the intersection of and .

I feel that most programming languages are : the (do this, then do that) matches the stereotype of "man commanding". Object-oriented paradigm, same thing. paradigm resembles an assembly line, also stereotypically male.

I feel that some languages are : SQL and Prolog, both . But I know no language.

Do you see programming languages as gendered? If so, which ones you see as female, and why?

A Brief History of Imaginal Machines - Erik Davis, PhD (www.youtube.com)

Even the most cursory look at the history of modern visual and electronic media (printed broadsheets, camera obscura, phantasmagoria, magic lantern, radio) makes it clear that media technologies have always been bound up with the imagination in its archetypal as well as cognitive senses. Media technologies not only mimic and...

ricardoharvin, to random
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Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.

We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.

Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.

ricardoharvin,
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Paraphrased: "If it's not useful and #accessible to the #poor and #disabled, it's neither #radical nor #revolutionary"

The U.S., and most of the "West" / #GlobalNorth, no longer has a radical or revolutionary mindset.

Neither #VentureCapital nor #HedgeFunds have or can deliver bold, #innovative results, only #vampiric variations on what exists.

Until that #paradigm is demolished, we can't hope to build the new #world we all desperately need.

#ReimagineEverything

https://youtu.be/5Mn5jNx4dbc

sillymickel, to psychology
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