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The brilliant American Life segment with a juxtaposition of the “Greetings, People of Earth” story with reporting on ChatGPT and the Orcas creates a bricolage that may spur thought…

See Swank used in Slime https://github.com/slime/slime/blob/master/swank.lisp

What about medicine?

I actually used Lisp to implement an early (1995) social media platform, which provided a low barrier to entry and allowed me to try things quickly, beating the averages for a few …

Meanwhile, "In response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, we have taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey today." …

Despite the lack of examples, it still completes trivial clojure like "(defn connect [" and other lisp syntax like "(define (hello" which is promising for further refinement traini…

Given the large number of individuals that have access to such top secret documents, it is likely that enemies already are in the know of the sensitive information. Classifying inf…

By now, there is at least one other organism that can detect and act upon the signal. If farmers applies knowledge about this signal to improve their yields, plants may be selected…

Many libraries accept book donations. That way your book will be reused, possibly also providing the library with a little bit of extra funding.

Wikipedia articles related to politics should have warning labels about bias and potential disinformation when linked from google/twitter/facebook. Entrenched activist admins and e…

A recent Chrome update shipped with a bug that damages the file system on MacOS machines with System Integrity Protection (SIP) disabled, including machines that do not support SIP…

If you have more consulting work than you can/should handle, increase your rates.

The concern of users becoming the product when using an ad-based business model was discussed in a 1995 paper presented at the Third International World-Wide Web conference: "The d…

The AARDA autoimmune patient advocacy organization says more than 50 million Americans suffer from an autoimmune disease, with 75% being women. https://www.aarda.org/news-informati…

See also Mount Tam Biotechnologies, a spin-off from the Buck Institute focusing on mTOR modulators, shown to extend lifespan in mice. Their initial application addresses Lupus, an …

Correct, that's me attempting to spread the gospel of Common Lisp web server programming to what seemed like an endless mass of Apple developers at WWDC 97.

Apple invited me to present at WWDC97 as a young independent developer with a startup making software for "webmasters" on the Apple internet platform; "What cool sites use" accordi…

The key to make sense of the data for these diseases is a record of patient’s symptoms. Assembling useful datasets is not only a question about access, but also about resolving hum…

The test before reading/watching news is "would I read/watch this if it was a week old?" If you wouldn't, don't waste your time on it now.