🗞️ For your weekend perusal, check out Unison community member @zetashift-01.bsky.social's latest blog post! Here, he's using Unison Cloud Daemons to write an uptime notifier! zetashift.unison-services.cloud/s/blog/posts...

It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid

computational.chat introduces a simple idea: computations that can pause for user input with rich UI controls. Unlike a typical chatbot, there's a real programming model here, and these conversational flows can include any mix of regular code, humans-in-the loop, and LLMs.

🎥 New conference recording from the Unison community! A deep dive into content-addressed code and how it changes refactoring, dependency management, and remote code execution. 🌟 Dejan's keynote is one to watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQHo...

Dejan Miličić - Unison: A New Programming Paradigm

Unison is a pure functional language introducing a groundbreaking concept: content-addressed code. On top of the well-known advantages of functional programm...

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We have a consulting group, now open to work in a variety of languages, including Scala, Haskell, Rust, Elm, and of course Unison. More details here: www.unison-lang.org/blog/consult... Please boost to help get the word out. And we'd love to hear from you if you're interested in working with us!

Unison Computing now has a consulting group · Unison programming language

We are spinning up a consulting group, now open to work in a variety of languages, including Scala, Haskell, Rust, Elm, and of course Unison. Our goal is a self-sustaining model in which a mix of consulting and product revenue funds development of Unison-based tech well into the distant future. We aim to be cash flow positive as a business in the next 12 months and could use your help in getting there.

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🧵🪡 Our latest release of the standard lib includes a new `Threads` ability for structured concurrency. Why is it an improvement over our existing primitives? Here's a video with some comparisons. youtu.be/xU_MRNNo4kg

Introducing the Threads ability for safer structured concurrency

The latest Base upgrade contains the Threads ability, for safer structured concurrency. This video talks about the problems that the Threads ability solves a...

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“Mr. Beast Salesforce ad” - they’re calling it the least appealing phrase ever assembled in any language. They finally did it

While in California, Ian Watt asks Theodor Adorno how his day went

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

How to Film ICE

Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

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FREE EBOOK! Cities Under Siege, Stephen Graham's powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life is available as a free download.

Cities Under Siege

Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political viol...

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Very WIP, but these ceramic whistles depict what happens to ICE in the fires of hell. 👹

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

Ah, I see we have reached the cultural void that is "All Art is now Propaganda." Cool cool cool...

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The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

This is like Kendrick and Drake if both of them were Drake.

BNO News@bnonews.com · last yr.

UPDATE: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rejects Elon Musk-led bid

🐘 The new Unison Postgres library features typed queries, prepared statements, and support for custom decoders! `lib.install` it here: share.unison-lang.org/@runarorama/...

Also worth contacting the governor and asking him to publicly reaffirm his commitment to this extremely vulnerable group. governor.wa.gov/contacting-g... 360-902-4111

Sid@polychromie.didnotaskfor.skin · 2y ago

It's a good time to contact the WA attorney general and ask why he hasn't joined with the others who are instructing hospitals in their state to keep providing care! I already did. fortress.wa.gov/atg/formhand... or (360) 753-6200

at least @techdirt.bsky.social is not fucking around

A Coup Is In Progress In America

A coup is underway in the United States, and we must stop pretending otherwise. The signs are unmistakable and accelerating: in just the past 48 hours, Elon Musk’s DOGE commission has seized …

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Coming soon: create Unison Cloud clusters in minutes on your own infra, anywhere. www.unison.cloud/byoc/ 🔐 All data stays with you. We don't see service requests or data in storage. ⚡️ Services deploy in seconds, service calls in 1 LOC, and more..

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Deploy to the cloud with a function call. Call services as easily as local functions, verified by the typechecker. Access typed storage as easily as in-memory data structures.

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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

💜 It's hard to remember all the progress that @unison-lang.org has made, since most of the time we're heads-down, building the plane and flying it. But to put all this in context, at the start of 2024 here's where we stood <takes giant breath>...

Unison@unison-lang.org · 2y ago

✨ Here's our 2024 Unison Wrapped! We've had an unforgettable year of Unison features, contributions, and achievements. Take a look back at what we've accomplished and get a peek at what’s to come. 🔮 Check out the full experience: www.unison-lang.org/wrapped2024/

Working in tech is cool because you can lose half a day to "rectangle sometimes too big."

There's lot's of bad news out here, but two of my favorite humans (and one large cat) are starting a pottery studio in Portland. Don't let the fascists steal your joy. Go make some art!

Bittersweet Studios @bittersweetstudios.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi. We hear it's like old twitter (non-derogatory) on here and since Instagram is a cesspool of trash run by and for a pathetic nerd (derogatory) that simps for nazis, we decided to open an account. 🤷 Let's make some pots. :)

many of us are doomin out tonite myself included so here is a poem by tony hoagland i like to read when i am trying to snap out of it a little

Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

Literally every company now

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

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Paul Graham's latest piece is the hottest piece of garbage he's ever written -- which honestly is really saying something. But I take solace in the HN comments, the most upvoted of which observes that his mind has turned to mush. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4268...

New year, new Unison UI. Try it out! 🤩

Unison@unison-lang.org · 2y ago

🌟 The the first official release of the UCM Desktop app is here! Browse your local codebase, click through to source definitions, and read the docs, all in a sleek new UI. ✨ github.com/unisonweb/uc...

Just a lil’ reminder that I publish all of my visualisation code at github.com/samwho/visua... under an MIT license. You are welcome to use it (I’d love to hear about it if you do!). If you see stuff in the wild that looks a bit like mine, please don’t immediately think it is stolen. 🙏

GitHub - samwho/visualisations: Code behind my visualisation blog posts

Code behind my visualisation blog posts. Contribute to samwho/visualisations development by creating an account on GitHub.

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🎄Happy holidays from one person who liked sitting for the family photos, and two creatures who didn’t! 👹👹