Amani Al-mehsenin kolumni: Vihapuhe estää naisia osallistumasta politiikkaan

Vihapuheesta on tulossa osallistumisen este. Kuka haluaa politiikkaan, jos vaakakupissa on pahimmillaan oma turvallisuus, Al-mehsen kysyy.

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#Vapaaaika #Vihapuhe #Sukupuoltentasaarvo #Sukupuoli #Sananvapaus #Tasaarvo #Naiset #Viharikokset #Demokratia #Väkivalta #Syrjintä #Sosiaalinenmedia #Häirintä #Amanialmehsen #Kolumnit #Kolumnityleradio

I had some opportunity to play with Ted Nelson's #ZigZag data structure, as described on the Project Xanadu webpage. Nelson described ZigZag as a possible alternative to relational #database so of course that caught my interest.

ZigZag zzstructure is described as multi dimensional and idk I think that misses the point a bit? It is really not very complicated.

Imagine you are on a webpage. The webpage is a member of possibly multiple webrings. You can click prev-next buttons to navigate in each webring. That is all that ZigZag zzstructure is! ZigZag calls each webring a "dimension", and ZigZag viewers tend to be 2D or 3D spreadsheet-looking programs that automatically follow the webring links so you can get a grid visualization of part of the linked graph. You can select which "dimension" (webring) to put on the X dimension and which to put on the Y dimension.

Nelson killed the leading open source ZigZag viewer due to disagreements. So it is not easy to play with ZigZag these days. The two viewers I found are very old and both had bugs. This online one written in early aughts javascript miraculously still works mostly. So I started playing with it.

One of the examples was a calendar/agenda, so I started modeling my own agenda. One thing I quickly encountered is that many:many relationships, and even 1:many relationships, are difficult to represent, like something as basic as having the same person in multiple meetings. There are various workarounds (Ctrl+F "Many to one reference") but this seemed to still be an open problem when Nelson chased the users away and the idea faded out.

I guess this shouldn't be surprising: ordinary hypertext is also bad at modeling many:many relationships, and hypertext does not apply the regimented restrictions on links that zzstructure does. The difference is that zzstructure's ring topology runs out of gas before you even get 1:many relationships, which hypertext handles just fine.

Nelson's patent expired in 2019 so I was thinking of building my own implementation to play with, but the limitations are very stark and imo the multidimensional zzstructure is not comfortable for me to navigate.

#hypertext #retrocomputing #database

@hannah would you like it back i do not want it any more

@andypiper Was it an old post, as in did it have a picture of a wilted head of lettuce?

Zum Ende der Woche kommen hier unsere #Job-Schätze:

@wikimediaDE sucht eine:n Manager:in Community Growth, in Berlin:
https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/66580113/Manager-in-Community-Growth-Wikipedia-all-genders-/

Der Media Forward Fund sucht eine:n Head of Upskilling, remote oder in Berlin:
https://mediaforwardfund.jobs.personio.de/job/2767491

Die Combase AG sucht eine:n Linux-Systemadminstrator:in, in Dresden:
https://www.itsax.de/jobs/301144/linux-systemadministrator-in-w-strich-m-strich-d-in-dresden

Die Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich sucht eine:n Senior Java Backend Developer:in, in Wien:
https://www.statistik.at/fileadmin/extensions/career/940.pdf

Schönes Wochenende! 👋

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August

Cancellations have accelerated.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/cities-terminate-flock-contracts-at-record-pace-in-august/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Aikoinaan suomalaiset poliitikot katsoivat Natsi-Saksassa alkavaa holokaustia, ja päättivät, että näiden kanssa me halutaan hyökätä Neuvostoliittoon. Nyt heidän seuraajansa katsoo Gazan kansanmurhaa ja päättää, että näiden kanssa me halutaan tehdä "ainutlaatuista" sotamateriaaliyhteistyötä.

Jos nyt jotenkin ei ollut täysin selvää, mitä se arvo siinä Kokoomuksen "arvopohjaisessa realismissa" tarkoittaa, niin kyllä sen viimeistään nyt pitää olla. https://yle.fi/a/74-20242803

Nobody here is disputing you're on fire - okay maybe campists, but I ain't those people.

It's just you know... look at what we, Americans do, whenever we "liberate" someone. There is a pretty clear historical track record of how this works out - the Marshall Plan was a long time ago, recent examples are not that way and you know I ain't lying.

"Sananvapaus turvaa oikeuden kritisoida, mutta se ei tarkoita, että luottamustehtävässä toimivan pitää pelätä."

Ajattele tätä ennen kuin äänestät.

#eduskuntavaalit2027 #sananvapaus #feminismi

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Over 150 wildfires are burning in Algeria 🇩🇿, but the country has received little international news coverage or aid compared to European countries on the other side of the Mediterranean.

#Wildfires #Algeria #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

@tommi You attending as well? 👀

I thought that Proton had one of the better public post-mortems that I've seen in some time.

The details regarding the rapid temperature rise within the data center are pretty frightening and the snap operational decisions made are of particular interest.

August 27 Frankfurt data center incident:

https://proton.me/blog/august-27-outage-incident-report

#Proton #ProtonMail #Outages #PostMortem #HugOps #Infrastructure

@NilaJones We can, Nila, because it's you and me, and we fucking sing, and we won't stop singing.

I'mo cite a whole different tradition that still yet begins with us.

"Redemption Song".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv5xonFSC4c

Kehitysvammaliiton toiminta uhkaa loppua hallituksen STEA-rahoitusleikkausten vuoksi.

Kehitysvammaliitto kerää adressiin nimiä. Allekirjoita säkin! https://www.adressit.com/kehitysvammajarjestojen_toiminta_turvattava_-_sakerstall_verksamheten_inom_organisationerna_for_personer_med_intellektuell_funktionsnedsattning

#adressit #kehitysvammaliitto #vammaisuus #kehitysvamma #selkokieli

finished Hackers today and boy that book ends on a depressing note

I mean, not if you live in 2010 I guess, and are a sucker for big tech optimism

but fin 2026, it's really depressing to read that book and realize where the world has ended up

RE: https://chaos.social/@digiges/117172435549332872

We finally got our tickets, Meg and @harryfk are attending. Can’t wait, see you there! 🙌 #FediDay

Anyway, as always, please know that I am very certain that you are not lying to me when you say your government is awful, evil, and out to get you. That is not the point. I don't owe anything to anyone out here. The point is simply that the United States is a fascist empire, it does not have your best interests at heart, and asking for America to help you be free is like dousing yourself in cupfuls of gasoline because you're on fire.

@rk

thanks!

@inquiline
I haven't listened to it yet but I have seen that there's an Interview Podcast with the author here too: https://newbooksnetwork.com/lavender-sounds