Human folly for 02026-06-16

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• Diff (paulgraham.com):

  #pg from 02001 on what made #Lisp different originally: conditionals, a function type, recursion, dynamic typing, garbage collection, unifying expressions and statements, a symbol type, homoiconicity, and being able to “compile or run code while reading, read or run code while compiling, and read or compile code at runtime”.

• (dl.acm.org):

  #PDF #paper by Mitch Bradley providing a #Forth implementation in #PostScript

• DOJ claims xais unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of National economic and energy security (techcrunch.com):

  #news about #xAI #pollution: techcrunch says Memphis levels of formaldehyde, PM2.5, and nitrogen oxides have increased since last year, but as far as I know gas turbines don’t emit #formaldehyde or particulates

• Hmt3X2W4F2Y8Grc4G117Qsmy1I1X23Cc (library.edf.org):

  #PDF of the Environmental Defense Fund saying that in fact gas turbines do emit #formaldehyde #pollution, but only at levels up to 76 ppb, below the “NESHAP limit”. #toread

• Formaldehyde (en.wikipedia.org):

  #formaldehyde in air is positively correlated with eye and nasal irritation down to 46 ppb. #toxicology #pollution