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Yaakov Agam maker of the Tel-Aviv Fire And Water Fountain wins Israel Prize for his plastic art.

2026-01-08T03:12:00Z

Israeli artist Yaakov Agam wins Israel Prize for his kinetic plastic art.

I didn't know anything about him, just love his kinetic cake-shaped Tel-Aviv Fire And Water Fountain.

Zeit Glocke Is The Best Cartoon On The Internet Right Now.

2025-12-26T07:17:00Z

The best cartoon right now on the Internet is Zeit Glocke. It tells the comedic tale of a Nazi uberkind and a Murikan Jewess girl who become best friends and go together on time traveling adventures.

Here. Watch it. Like it. Subscribe to it. Chuck money at it. It is great.

Great.

Great.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZBD7lIWvFZRerOlnEhaALIq0dI21jbyi.

You Have A Sad Feeling For A Moment, Then It Passes.

2025-12-25T19:23:00Z

After our noon raid of the ancient ruins I think of this lovely bit from everything2, written by a feller who named himself alfimp.

alfimp's profile said:

This account was representative of The Alfimp Collective (http://alfimp.freeshell.org), until it died. Now it's representative of nothing and no-one but me, but I'm stuck with the name. Ho-hum.

Now for his main bit:

You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes
(idea) by alfimp August 8, 2002
Nethack taught me a lot of things. It taught me about frustration and perseverance, about luck and fate, about addiction and obsession, about hope and fear, even about the importance of exercise and healthy eating.
But most of all, it taught me about death.
My own death, of course, which I learnt will come when I least expect it, when everything is going right for once - that when no threats are apparent and I feel I can relax a little, it will be then that I choke over a tin of spinach, or mistake a blue e for a blue o, or a pink h for a pink h. It taught me that my life will flash before my eyes in the last seconds of my life - a catalogue of newly understood possessions, of attributes, of those I've severely wronged, and of moral codes I've followed and broken. It also, of course, taught me that a single magic word uttered on my demise will allow me to reincarnate as a youngster of my choosing.
Most of all, though, it taught me about the death of others.
You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes
How beautifully summed up. And that's it, there, in that one sentence, the entire "grieving process" compacted into a line. The shock, for it comes when you thought your friend was healthy and off frolicking on his own somewhere nearby in the cave. Sure, you heard noises, but you assumed it was just that he'd found a new temporary play-mate to maul. But this brings you to. This has happened.
And then through the shock, your hand paralysed over the space bar, come the memories. Teaching him to play fetch when he was only little. Throwing him treats as he purloined ever richer treasures from unsuspecting shops. Even christening him. And the time you realised he'd really grown up, and that the roles had reversed. The time you knew you were going to die, when a disembodied eye had you entranced as it hovered hypnotically before you, such that the newt or xan pecking at your leg couldn't distract your attention, though with each click of the clock you watched, mouth agape, as your life force was drained. When you knew it was the end and could barely bear to watch. And then, then he came bounding out, your saviour, and remembering your kindnesses destroyed the creature that plagued you, ate its corpse in victory, guarded you till you came to. He saved your life, as you saved his. You were a team. And now he's dead.
And yet you move on. As these thoughts come to a close, your hand descends, and time unfreezes. You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes. Then even that thought passes, and new more pressing messages replace it in your consciousness. And life goes on, for you, and you find new pets, and perhaps you even start to forget about your first - except occasionally when little things remind you, like blowing a whistle and being surprised for a second when it's her, and not him, who comes bounding to your side. But the feeling is no longer sad. Merely wistful.
No, it's true. You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes.
15 C!s

Bananas Musical Songs With Lyrics And All.

2025-12-24T09:20:00Z

Here are some first part of the 20th century songs by people who really love bananas.

That's your intro.

Now go and listen to these masterpieces!

1919-??-?? - Yes We Have No Bananas by Green Brother's Novelty Band.
1922-06-?? - I've Got The Yes We Have No Bananas Blues by Billy West; Brown; Hanley; King.
1936-??-?? - I Like Bananas Because They have No Bones by George Elrick.
1949-??-?? - Yes, We Have Not Bananas performed by Louis Prima & His Orchestra composed and written by Irving Conn and Frank Silver.

It may or may not be a euphemism for some thing or another, but I cannot quite make a connection yet.

Also, first time I see an Elrick outside of fiction.

The Great GNU Guile Conspiracy, Or - Why Fresh Auto Compile Instead Of Force Auto Compile Like Everybody Else?

2025-12-17T05:01:00Z

I am losing me marbles.

GNU Guile has the most annoying command line flag.

Look, in all other commands you --force-something when you want something done, to force the command to do something it wouldn't do, right?

So, when running a Scheme script with GNU Guile, GNU Guile would normally only compile the scripts once, save the results to its cache directory, and use those bytecode files in later runs.

But sometimes you want GNU Guile to re-compile all the the script files.

why?

From the GNU Guile manual:

Automatic compilation generally works transparently, without any need for user intervention. However Guile does not yet do proper dependency tracking, so that if file ‘A.scm’ uses macros from ‘B.scm’, and B.SCM changes, ‘A.scm’ would not be automatically recompiled.

So what do you do? You tell GNU Guile to --force-compile……… Sorry, no. You tell GNU Guile to --FRESH-auto-compile.

And I didn't quote the whole paragraph. Here is how it continues:

To forcibly invalidate the auto-compilation cache, pass the ‘--fresh-auto-compile’ option to Guile, or set the ‘GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE’ environment variable to ‘fresh’ (instead of to ‘0’ or ‘1’).

See how even they phrase it?! "To forcibly invalidate"! They know what's the right phrase. Force. You force it to do what it wouldn't.

Oh, and the cherry on top:

6b480ced9c31be3106e675b51afb2dfa4245bd03

Do you know what it is? Do you?!

Here's a hint:

- ** Added --force-auto-compile option
+ ** Added `--fresh-auto-compile' option

Don't know yet?

From 6b480ced9c31be3106e675b51afb2dfa4245bd03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:48:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix typo in `NEWS'.

---
 NEWS | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cfbc65a3c..df6de65cf 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ interpreted as starting an R6RS hex escape.  This is backward compatible
 because the symbol printer would never produce a "\x" before.  The
 printer also works better too.
 
-** Added --force-auto-compile option
+** Added `--fresh-auto-compile' option
 
 This allows a user to invalidate the auto-compilation cache.  It's
 usually not needed.  See "Compilation" in the manual, for a discussion.

See?! Even their unconscious muscle memory knew what flag must it be, but they used "fresh" instead of "force" anyway, calling it a "typo".

Why did you do it?! Why did you choose to diverge from established convention and cause my sanity to completely shatter?!

WHY DID YOU DO IT?!

Queers For Palestine Are More Evil Than Hamasnik Nukhbas.

2025-12-14T10:49:00Z

Queers for Palestine have a sort of suicidal brain disease, a thing you read about in weird fiction. They end up doing things more evil than Hamasnik Nukhbas, those kind of religiously motivated mass murderers / rapists that would go into Dar Al Kharb, kill all men, rape all women, and then take them on as war concubines.

I needed to phrase it for myself why I find them so loathesome, and here it is:

It is in their traitorous self harming actions. They would let Evil into our world, thinking they are doing what is right, even though this Evil wants them dead. It is a double evil — one for letting Evil in, destroying themselves and the rest of us; the is the evil of their delusions, for pretending they are doing Good.

Chickens For KFC, yes.

In the Desert by Stephen Crane.

2025-12-08T02:46:00Z

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’
‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered;
‘But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.’

Copied from a Chris of Liminal Spaces review of A Voyage To Acturus by David Lindsay.

After Midnight by The Vault Underground.

2025-12-01T22:59:00Z

if you close the blast door
the rations could last to november
flee the sun-like shine
it's now hell on earth forever

all the people are frying and they're having good tan
i wish it wouldn't happen to me
but if you close the blast door
i'd never have to see the mutants again

if you close the blast door
the rations could last to november
leave the raiders out
and drink a toast for the water reclaimer

I am not 100% happy with it as it is and there's a good chunk of song I need to add, but I like the idea. Living in a bunker most of your life gives you beautiful ideas.

Based on After Hours by Lou Reed sung by Moureen Tucker.

Cartoon (I love it so hard) by:

Youtube - nitonoh.
Twitter - miffedgnome.

Same Question Two Opposite Answers by Two Science News Youtubers.

2025-11-24T15:26:00Z

I find it funny - two science news videos published in the last few days saying the opposite of each other.

Sabine:

We’re (Probably) Not Alone Out Here…

Anton:

Math Suggests We May Be the Only Intelligent Life in the Universe

To be fair, they are talking about two different papers…

Sabine covered "The solitude zone: A probabilistic window for singular lifeform existence".

Anton covered "A reassessment of the “hard-steps” model for the evolution of intelligent life".

The Extremely Short Stories By triapul.cz Are Mocking Me And I Love It.

2025-11-07T04:06:00Z

The two following extremely short satirical stories "We, the window managers" and "blue hair", written by the surrealist artist of analognowhere fame, are mocking people like me and I love it.

"We, the window managers" is a day in the life of a religiously motivated digital minimalism advocate, specifically minimalist window managers.

"blue hair" is the experience of patronising a cafe as a free software developer, specifically one of the ideologically deplorable 9front project.

"We, the window managers" - https://triapul.cz/_/1759142778.
"blue hair" - https://triapul.cz/_/1762430441.
https://analognowhere.com/.
https://9front.org/.

I Wrote A Gnu Guile Script That Converts Mozilla Firefox Json Bookmarks Archive To An Org-Mode Format.

2025-09-21T10:29:00Z

I wrote a GNU Guile script that converts Mozilla Firefox JSON bookmarks archive to an org-mode format.

https://codeberg.org/kakafarm-guile-modules/guile-firefox-json-bookmarks-archive-to-org-mode-format/

Just:

guile firefox-json-bookmarks-archive-to-org-mode-format.scm < bookmarks.json > bookmarks.org

Possible problems:

I do not know the ACTUAL specification of the Mozilla Firefox's JSON bookmarks archive format (I looked up for it but couldn't find it).
I am not sure if I am doing the right thing when using write instead of display to print strings, but it does take care of linebreaks.

So if you have any comments and/or improvements in mind, please write a message on the issue tracker or on the Balkanised Activitypub Federation to @mu@posting.solutions. I haven't left the house in days and am very lonely. Thank you!

Stephan Malinowski Made Charming Visualisations For Frog Round (What A Queer Bird The Frog Are) Which Is A Charming Bit Of Music.

2025-09-01T15:42:00Z

Background.

Stephan Malinowski is a musician who wrote a music visualisation program. These visualisations are pretty. They can also visually show musical patterns hidden to untrained idiots like myself.

Visual visualisations visually visualise... blah!

A nice musical bit he visualised is the Frog Round. A "round" is a special kind of music where the same bit of music is played at different pitches, but each pitch is playing a different part of the same music from the other pitches. Don't ask me. Ask the Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_queer_bird, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_(music).

The lyrics.

Anyway, the Frog Round (What a Queer Bird the Frog Are)'s lyrics:

What a queer bird, the frog are
When he sit he stand (almost)
When he walk he fly (almost)
When he talk he cry (almost)
He ain't got no sense, hardly
He ain't got no tail, neither, hardly
He sit on what he ain't got hardly

The visualisations.

By Stephan Malinowski AKA Smalin AKA Musanim. He made at least five versions of this particular bit of music. There might be more.
- Anonymous, Frog Round (What a Queer Bird the Frog Are, ver. 1). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHwwJkKp7Oo.
- Anonymous, Frog Round (ver. 2). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh8jnoFDjQM.
- Anonymous, Frog Round (ver. 3). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81twzXaOUrQ.
- Anonymous, Frog Round ("What a queer bird the frog are", ver. 4). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPjjCw67WGI.
- Anonymous, Frog Round ("What a queer bird the frog are", ver. 5). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6eVZQXkRIo.
x8 HARMONIES(!!!11) VERSION! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fMUR5C2rqg.

"Ballast", yet another shitty poem.

2025-08-29T05:15:00Z

ballast

blasted fast

toward a planet side

colony

in heavens' void

we two

moving fast forward

our fates sealed

in cold equations'

certainty

Thanks to Michelle of @Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org for the prompt I randomly saw on the timeline.

Originally https://shitposter.world/notice/AxeBLxIVyK57o5HkdE but then also https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/41247827.

Postmodernism's Hyperreal of Intelligence And The Unrequited Lovemaking Of The English Language. (but really it is about Moldbug)

2025-08-28T23:56:00Z

Notice: This post is not about postmodernism's bad writing, but about Moldbug.

Another notice (made in 2025-09-07T16:12Z): I plagiarised a joke from Limmy's Show's Americanism sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygYJqt8pvLc. See if you can spot it.

Brother sent me a 90 minutes documentary (read: opinion piece).

It was made entirely of stock footage and named "How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult" clearly (read: possibly) inspired by Adam Curtis's documentaries (read: opinion pieces) made entirely of stock footage - "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" and especially "HyperNormalisation". Instead of Adam Curtis's matter of a fact BBC English accented narrator voice, we have a stoner Murikan, which I am told is actually a Canadian, quipping along the way.

And he is using the term "hyperreal". It annoys me. The "hyperreal" is a weird neologism the narrator names the normal word "delusion". It is a virtual reality people go into in states of crisis. People who go into "hyperreality" (read: delusions) build their life around it and sometime have others for company, like an unfunny comedian opening a new comedy club just for him and his posse. In the video the narrator keeps talking about a cult leader (read: a famous podcasting comedian) opening a cult compound (read: comedy club) for his cultists (read: the famous comedian's posse and audience), prefering to believe in comfortable lies instead of harsh truths, followers pretending to laugh at jokes made by their dear leader that would leave normal people deadpan just to keep their cult leader's ego well petted and secure their position at the comedy club. As you already know, there is only one reality and many opinions each based on good or bad reasons. When you base your opinions on bad reasons you are deluding yourself, so when the cultists mentioned in the 90 minutes opinion piece go into "hyperreality" why not just call it "delusion" like a normal person?

The term "hyperreality" comes from a certain brand of pseudoscience called "Postmodernism". One of its well known problems is inventing words for words for which we already have words. The word "delusion" is one of those words which the new unecessary word "hyperreatily" was invented. The new words are often fancy long ones thrown into the mix as chaff, to confuse the reader into believing that a superior intellect had written it.

In closing, Postmodernism is trying too hard and needs to take some writing classes. It may benefit in reading this bit by George Orwell:

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/.

p.s. forget about postmodernism and all that crap! That's yesterday's news because Moldbug won! In the end of the video the stoner guy says J.D. Vance is one of Moldbug's avid readers and Moldbug's crap was hugely influential on the current Murikan politics. And even though Moldbug's crap was partially a sort of a reaction to postmodernism, postmodernism doesn't matter anymore, because Moldbug won! If you do not know who Moldbug is, it means we are doomed. So in closing closing, have a nice weekend.

p.s.s. Moldbug's Neoreactionary writing is at least on par with postmodernism's writing in terms of bad writing. They are dark mirrors of each other. The bad writers that killed liberal democracy. I like that. So in closing closing closing, have a nice evening.

A Fairly Ironed Out Working Example of GNU Guile's guile-quad-tree.

2025-07-15T14:36:00Z

Added a fairly ironed out working example of GNU Guile's guile-quad-tree (https://github.com/Halfwake/guile-quad-tree/). It is in the ./examples/point-in-out-areas.scm file.

https://github.com/Halfwake/guile-quad-tree/commit/295224563162839dbf8e5fec86c3fdb757a9ac87

This is what guile -L . examples/point-in-out-areas.scm shows when one is in the root of the project:

If you want to run it you also need to have David Thompson's Chickadee module installed (https://dthompson.us/projects/chickadee.html).

The Hemifusome Wikipedia Article Is Only A Week Old And Still Reads Like A Scientific Article Rather Than A Wikipedia Article.

2025-07-07T11:00:00Z

A very new Wikipedia article about the Hemifusome! It was not yet scrutinised by stickling Wikipedians so it reads more like a scientific article than a Wikipedia article! Wow!

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemifusome:

Hemifusomes are intracellular organelles first described in 2025 by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Virginia School of Medicine.[1][2] Discovered using in situ cryo-electron tomography, hemifusomes are heterotypic vesicular complexes marked by a persistent hemifusion diaphragm and a characteristic 42-nanometer proteolipid nanodroplet (PND). These organelles account for up to 10% of vesicular structures at the cell periphery and often contain intraluminal vesicles, but they do not participate in conventional endocytic pathways. Hemifusomes are proposed to act as platforms for vesicle biogenesis via an ESCRT-independent mechanism for multivesicular body formation. Their shape has been likened to a snowman wearing a scarf.

Zdzisław Beksiński's Answer To Fermi's Paradox.

2025-06-29T03:10:00Z

Zdzisław Beksiński's answer to Fermi's Paradox in the form of a painting:

Each fire is a burning sun.

Each rock is a solar system.

Between the rocks, an impassable void of interstellar travel.

The people hugging the fires are life forms waiting for their suns to die, waiting for extinction.

Wrote it before, but searching, so I rewrote it.

For fun, here is slightly animated video of the scene.

The Social Media Sketch By Monty Python.

2025-06-11T05:06:00Z

I was reading my stupid https://shitposter.world/ timeline and saw this:

https://shitposter.world/notice/Av0O6grVGkvbmoX2H2 (https://clubcyberia.co/notice/Av0O6N5HMvva7UBWoy)

An example of a nice bit of trolling, and I thought maybe we sometime really do go into social media loony bins looking for an argument and ruin our lives by saying incendiary nonsense, just like in that old argument clinic sketch.

And it looks like, huh, people wrote about it at least as back as 2007(!!).

I Was Trying To Write A Guix Package Definition For MS-Edit.Exe, But I Had Problems.

2025-06-06T13:17:00Z

Sigh. I was trying to write a guix package definition for edit.exe and I had problems.

First of all, my cargo was not new enough, so I had to add strange runes into the Cargo.toml file.

editexe@computor ~/edit [env]$ cargo check
error: failed to parse manifest at `/home/editexe/edit/Cargo.toml`

Caused by:
  feature `edition2024` is required

  The package requires the Cargo feature called `edition2024`, but that feature is not stabilized in this version of Cargo (1.82.0).
  Consider adding `cargo-features = ["edition2024"]` to the top of Cargo.toml (above the [package] table) to tell Cargo you are opting in to use t  See https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/reference/unstable.html#edition-2024 for more information about the status of this feature.

Then this insurmountable problem appeared:

editexe@computor ~/edit [env]$ cargo check
    Updating crates.io index
  Downloaded libc v0.2.172
  Downloaded 1 crate (791.6 KB) in 0.59s
error: rustc 1.82.0 is not supported by the following packages:
  edit@1.1.0 requires rustc 1.87
  edit@1.1.0 requires rustc 1.87
  edit@1.1.0 requires rustc 1.87
  edit@1.1.0 requires rustc 1.87

Well, that's about that. I do not have a new enough Rustlang version.

Please someone remind me to have another look at this when rustc version 1.87 comes to Guix?

Oh, and that last extra newline? I did not put it there. It was part of the output. (that reminds me that I should put source boxes inside boxes in the site's CSS because I cannae see it on the site unless I look at the HTML source code…)

BYE!!!11

Alexandra Elbakyan Should Win The Saviour of Mankind Medal Award.

2025-05-28T01:36:00Z

39.95€ for a 9 pages long 51 year old computer science paper (Finkel on Quad Trees, 1974).

WHAT A GREAT DEAL.

This is why Alexandra Elbakyan should win a Nobel or a Saviour of Mankind medal or something.