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Yoda is a caricature of ESL (English as a Second Language) speakers. Does that caricature add to Yoda's mystique, or is it just another prejudice inserted into the Star Wars universe?

Interesting Twitter thread on the impact of silicon semiconductor / chip shortages on small hardware producers: twitter.com/_MG_/status/138832

@fribbledom You also don't necessarily need to buy new. The local uni has a surplus sale warehouse that sells good quality used office furniture. I also got a used Herman Miller at another sale for $200; it just needed cleaning and new castor wheels.

Happy May Day everyone!

If you want to catch the wonderful panel put on last night by Forest City Anarchists (@FCA), and featuring Sima Lee (Marooncast), Klee Benally (Indigenous Action Network), and a friend from It's Going Down, the recording of the stream can be found here:

twitter.com/FCAnarchists/statu

A handful of billionaires control most of the UK’s national newspapers.

New Internationalist is owned by over 3,600 readers from all around the world. You can join the world’s largest media #coop & help New Internationalist through current economic troubles.

crowdfunder.co.uk/new-internat

Happy May Day everyone!

Very happy to have come across so many nice people in the cooperative online communities like here in Social Coop and excited about all the cool things we will pursue in the future.

media tracking of COVID-19 

@kyle This is true even in languages that are considered at a higher level of abstraction. i.e., closer to human language or clearer in describing the problem solution. Leon Starr does a very good job of explaining why good documentation is important in his book, Executable UML: How to Build Class Models. He also stresses how important it is to preserve even the little pictures that you might draw to help yourself understand the problem. Documenting assumptions is very important.

Excited to announce that The Intercept now has a Tor onion service version of its website, giving users a more anonymous option for reading the site

theintercept.com/2021/04/28/to

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