Wolf Wejgaard

Programmer and IDE builder #SourceInDB #ProgramIsBook #literateprogramming #immediacy #holonforth

[Wolf Wejgaard @wejgaard]

Procedural programs are usually edited in files as streams of code definitions.
These programs have the intrinsic structure of books:
Chapters (files) with Sections of Units (definitions).

The ideal structure for handling the text in a browser.
I developed HolonS conventionally with streams until it could create its own code as a struct.

The joy started - I had two deciding features:

Clarity: Browse and study the project like a book, and look up unit definitions by clicking on the name in the structure or in the book's text anywhere (hypertext).

Immediacy: Change the definition of units and reload and substitute their code in the running program.

HolonS handles the source code in a database as a CMS.

[Wolf Wejgaard @wejgaard]

https://t.co/Hmpe4NrTG3

[Wolf Wejgaard @wejgaard]

@Gosleepriya 12h

[Wolf Wejgaard @wejgaard]

@riley_ngg Thanks! Wonder why the concept doesn't spread.

[Wolf Wejgaard @wejgaard]

Procedural programs are usually edited in files as streams of code definitions.
These programs have the intrinsic structure of books:
Chapters (files) with Sections of Units (definitions).

The ideal structure for handling the text in a browser.
I developed HolonS conventionally with streams until it could create its own code as a struct.

The joy started - I had two deciding features:

Clarity: Browse and study the project like a book, and look up unit definitions by clicking on the name in the structure or in the book's text anywhere (hypertext).

Immediacy: Change the definition of units and reload and substitute their code in the running program.

HolonS handles the source code in a database as a CMS.

[Wolf Wejgaard @wejgaard]

@elonmuskmel7 !!

[Wolf Wejgaard @wejgaard]

@elizabethholzm6 @Nermeenalswaisi .

[Wolf Wejgaard @wejgaard]

@MrsbeastD 26

[Wolf Wejgaard @wejgaard]

HolonS is the current version of Holon programming. It started in 1990 with HolonForth in DOS. Like this:
https://t.co/oxJ3J6jmuK

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

A colonizer is always angry, because a colonizer is always guilty.
A colonizer is always violent, because a colonizer is always afraid.

A colonizer is always angry and afraid because a colonizer is never home.
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Lately I started getting words for it, this colonizer homelessness, the fact that colonizers look and feel like aliens to natives not only because they don't belong, but because the colonizers themselves feel the same way.

Think about it: wherever a colonizer goes, whatever they see, smell or taste, it is never theirs, or completely natural. It is not organic to them, but engineered; their whole existence is.

Whatever sustains and nourishes the native, threatens the colonizer and reflects their strangeness: the food, the music, the landscape, the flora and fauna. the sounds and smells, everything.

Whatever comes naturally to the native is a great effort for the colonizer: they don't understand the codes, and never will. They can't be still.

Aa colonizer is not an immigrant, a tourist or a guest, they have to find meaning for their stay. It must be a higher purpose, a higher calling, else what can explain both their presence not home, and the violent means they always need to maintain it? We are not designed to inflict pain and injury for comfort. We need a story to put us in a positive light.
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So much of the western world's anxiety, I think, is just a colonizer's latent, repressed homelessness. Because colonialism is not just taking other people's home, it is also, and forever, being without one yourself.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

A week or so ago I posted about a phenomenon I called Colonizer Homelessness, my theory, or explanation as to why colonizers are always afraid and violent (because they are never home).

I want to expand and explore that concept a little further, and talk about identity, or more precisely, native identity vs colonizer identity. This may help explicate something quite deep in our culture, but it may also allow us to see the current geopolitical moment as a colonizer identity crisis.

(If you're not following me, follow and then continue reading).
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For purposes of this post, I will use America as an example, due to its being arguably the vastest colonial project we know, but also because I know a little bit about its history and culture. What I say holds very much true for Israel as well, but I am sure it can be corroborated by the experiences of many other places.
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Have you ever noticed how large American founding papers loom not only in American politics and political consciousness but also in American culture in general? Have you ever seen a country where the national flag is so worshiped and widely displayed as part of everything, and where the national anthem is part of everyday life?

Why is that? why do the American Constitution, the Federalist, the Declaration of Independence, the Mayflower Compact, or Thomas Paine's Common Sense, matter so much?

And, just as importantly, why does no native community on this planet have a similar set of founding papers? Why don't they have founding fathers? Why do all those savages not have an appreciation for the beauty of an engineered myth?

Well, they actually don't. Because native communities and native people never had to fabricate a collective identity.

For natives, it is very simple and natural to know who they are. Their sense of collective self is absorbed from family and community, language and landscape. It flows and forms completely naturally.

Natives don't need to be formally and repeatedly explained to who they are, but colonizers always do. To use familiar philosophical language, I'd say that native identity is posteriori in nature, whereas colonizer identity is a priori.

Natives know who they are based on common, shared, commutative experience, expressed more in dress, music, food, and art than in dialectic arguments. Colonizers know who they are, if they ever do (and they don't. they can't), because they have been told such and such values represent them.

See the difference?
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But this is only the beginning. Because if you organize a community around intellectual fabrications it may sound nice in founding papers, but in reality, your people will feel hollow. Engineered identity to identity is a picture of lunch to actual burger and fries.

You will need emotional content to fill the void. But where will you get it from? Oh, miraculously, providence provided your vacant lands with some natives you can hate for being the (again, serendipitously) the exact opposite of your fabricated sense of identity. Mission accomplished.

You will never see a community of people more possessed of demonic hate as colonizers feel towards the people they colonized, and you will never see a culture as premised on the negation of other people as a colonizer culture. That's because colonizer culture have no positive meaning of their own.
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But this, too, is not enough. Because the very existence of a native community, with its natural, non-intellectual, but psychologically nourishing sense of collective self, becomes a threat.

This community mirrors back to you your own instance contradictions, and just how unnatural and forced they are.

So you have to kill all of it. You have to make native, indigenous identities extinct.

This is why America, which really is, at its core, little more than the marketing of marketing as essence, fight and hates native communities so much, all around the world. This is why it was friends with Aparthid, and immediate ally to Australia and Canada, and why it destoyes Hawaii's indigenous identity. This is also a ,major part of why it supports Israel so much.

If your identity, your mission in life, is to replace native, indigenous identity with an intellectualized marketing simulation of it, this job cannot be partial, or its absurdity will be exposed.

If you are America, if you are a colonizer super power, you have to irradicate authenticity completely and forever.
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It is a whole different subject of its own, but those also beautifully explain the corporatization of the economy, and the deliberate, meticulous destruction of small, mom-and-pop stores and businesses: everything that has real identity must be destroyed for colonialism to fulfill its mission.
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America's renewed international aggression can be seen, per my theory, as a reflexive reaction to a perceived threat. A double one: first because Americans themselves have begun to tire and question their fabricated self, and second because native identities, the global south, which should have been gone by now, looks more energized than ever. And this scares made-up America to death.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Art Deco skyscrapers were the ultimate expression of American optimism. These are the best: 🧵

1. The American Radiator Building, NYC (1924)

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Here's an edited version of the space hosted by @DavidSacks with @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy @JDVance1 @SenMikeLee and others regarding the $100 billion Ukraine bill.

This version boosts audio quality and cuts time by 35%.

Thank you @DavidCarbutt_ for the work!

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

NEW: David Sacks and Senator Mike Lee discuss Ukrainian corruption and the Senate refusing to audit the more than $100 billion that has already been sent to Ukraine.

@DavidSacks: "Does this bill address the issue of corruption in Ukraine?"

@BasedMikeLee: "There is not, to my knowledge, anything in this bill that adequately deals with the issue of corruption."

@DavidSacks: "I would point everyone to the Time Magazine article on Zelensky... One Ukrainian official turned off the tape recorder and whispered to the Times reporter, people are stealing like there's no tomorrow."

@BasedMikeLee: "The truth is this thing still has about $8 billion going directly to the government of Ukraine. These are not choir boys or Boy Scouts. These are people who have really set world records for corruption. It's an art form over there."

@DavidSacks: "We've also just recently learned that there were a couple dozen officials in the Ukrainian Defense Department who are now being prosecuted for absconding defense funds to their personal accounts. There's also been a case of billions of dollars of weapons coming from the United States that can't be accounted for, presumably sold on the black market."

@BasedMikeLee: "This turns a blind eye to that."

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

https://t.co/teCMbI2DEu

[Rhys @RhysLindmark]

We’re all holons.

Holons are wholes that are simultaneously parts.

As a human, I am a member of my home, family, community, nation-state, globe, and universe.

At those layers, there are emergent behaviors, and everything beneath me is also a holon.

[Yishan @yishan]

A thread on a few commons myths about reforestation:

[Wolf Wejgaard @wejgaard]

Stream versus Struct
#stream - Dr. Ting's #eForthOverview .pdf has a table of contents with a list of the pages in chapters and sections. The word definitions (Forth units) are included with their sections.
#struct - #HolonEForth presents the overview in a book structure with the units as separate lists. The unit names in the text are #hypertext links to their definitions. A control click lists the words that use this unit.
#HolonEForth works in Windows, macOS, and (some) Linux.
https://t.co/eOJdKIO3UJ
May it ease the way to Dr. Ting's inspiring explanations of Forth details.