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#elite

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Mark Moxon

Sometimes it's the small projects that are the most enjoyable.

Case in point: this month I'm building !EliteNet, which connects the #Archimedes version of #Elite to the Econet multiplayer scoreboard, so ArcElite players can compete against #BBCMicro players.

I last wrote a RISC OS application in 1995. That's 30 years ago! Turns out that BBC BASIC V is still a great language to code in.

And I've never written a RISC OS relocatable module before, so even now, this old dog is learning new ARM-based tricks.

And… ArcElite! ❤️

I absolutely love this hobby.

Archimedes Elite
The Elite scoreboard
#retrogaming#retrocomputing#riscos
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DoomsdaysCW

#Quakers condemn arrests of #activists at meeting house

March 30, 2025

"The arrests of six female supporters of activist group #YouthDemand at a Quaker meeting house have been condemned by the faith group.

"Quakers in #Britain said the arrests were the first at a meeting house and 'an aggressive violation'.

"The Metropolitan Police said six people were arrested on Thursday evening at the Westminster Meeting House on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a #PublicNuisance.

"The force said it came amid concerns there were plans to 'shut down' London during April using tactics such as road blocks.

"Youth Demand said more than 30 officers were involved with making the arrests.

"Paul Parker, of Quakers in Britain, said he could not recall anyone being arrested at a Quaker meeting house in living memory.

"'The forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when a society #CriminalisesProtest.

"'#FreedomOfSpeech, assembly, and fair trials are an essential part of free public debate which underpins #democracy,' he said.

"Police said a further five arrests for the same offence were made on Friday - four at addresses in #London and one in #Exeter.

"Youth Demand, which is not affiliated with the Quakers, said the meeting was 'an opportunity to share plans for non-violent #CivilResistance actions' due to take place in April.

"The group claimed a number of houses were also raided on Thursday and Friday as part of the operation.

"Quakers in Britain said: 'Quakers support the right to non-violent public protest, acting themselves from a deep moral imperative to stand up against #injustice and for our planet.

"'Many have taken non-violent direct action over the centuries from the abolition of #slavery to women's #suffrage and prison reform.'

"The Met said the force understood the importance of the right to protest but added that Youth Demand had stated an intention to 'shut down' London in April.

"'We have a responsibility to intervene to prevent activity that crosses the line from protest into serious disruption and other criminality,' a spokesman said.

"On Thursday, officers raided a Youth Demand planning meeting where those in attendance were plotting their April action.

"Six people were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.

"A further five arrests for the same offence were made on Friday, 28 March. Four of the arrests were at addresses in London and one in Exeter.

'Policing priorities'

"Out of the 11 people arrested, 10 have been released on bail and one will face no further action.

"Asked about the matter on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: 'I have made clear to the police this government's priorities for policing are reducing serious violence... and bringing back neighbourhood policing, those crimes in town centres like shoplifting.'

"Youth Demand, which describes itself as a 'new youth resistance campaign fighting for an end to #genocide', began carrying out acts of #CivilDisobedience last year.

"Its demands of the government include stopping all trade with #Israel and raising money from 'the #SuperRich and #Fossilfuel #elite' to pay damages for the effects of fossil fuel burning."

Read more:
bbc.com/news/articles/cj3x5j6g
#UKPol #ThoughtCrime #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingActivism #PublicNuisanceLaws #Article20 #2023PublicOrderAct #Resistance #UKResistance #ProtectMotherEarth #FreePalestine #IsraeliWarCrimes

Quaker Meeting House on St Martin's Lane, London
bbc.comQuakers condemn arrests of Youth Demand activists at meeting houseQuakers in Britain says the arrests were the first at a meeting house and "an aggressive violation".
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Mark Moxon

In anticipation of June's Econet LAN Party at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley, I've updated Elite over Econet.

It now supports flicker-free graphics, up to 100 players in multiplayer, better server support and more. Game on!

For more details and downloads see elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite

For tickets to the LAN Party on 7-8 June, see eventbrite.co.uk/e/econet-lan-

And for discussion on Stardot about the event, see stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopi

See you there!

Page 1 of an example scoreboard from Elite over Econet
Page 2 of an example scoreboard from Elite over Econet
#bbcmicro#retrocomputing#retrogaming
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Thor A. Hopland

What's happening in the #US government right now seems like they're "#fuzzing #democracy", that is overwhelming the system and the opposition in order to install autocracy.

The primary problem IMHO being that the #constitution is still written in an antiquated form of #English which allows an #elite class of specialized #lawyers to interpret laws, and therefore be gatekeepers of law.

This is what idolization of documents gets you. At the very least update the phrasing to be more clear.

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DoomsdaysCW

#ForcedSterilization of #DisabledPeople Isn’t a Relic of the Past

In a majority of states, #eugenics-era laws still let doctors sterilize disabled patients against their will.

by Julia Métraux
February 27, 2025

"'In order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence,' Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote for the majority in 1927’s Buck v. Bell, the state could—and should—'prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.' Forced sterilization, the court held, was not only legal but laudable.

"In 1924, 17-year-old Carrie Buck was institutionalized, having been deemed 'feebleminded' on the grounds of 'promiscuous' behavior. In reality, Buck was raped by her foster family’s nephew. Three years later, with the Court’s blessing, Virginia’s 'State Colony of Epileptics and Feeble Minded' sterilized Buck against her will. The decision, passed at the height of the 20th-century eugenics movement, has never been overturned.

"'There’s a very different standard being applied to disabled people’s autonomy.'

"To this day, 31 states and #WashingtonDC, still have laws on the books that allow for the practice—and just two, #Alaska and #NorthCarolina, have laws that fully ban the #nonconsensual #sterilization of disabled people, according to a 2022 report from the National Women’s Law Center. There’s no official account of just how many disabled people have been sterilized under those laws.

"Some of these laws aren’t even that old. In 2019, #Iowa and #Nevada passed new forced sterilization laws that applied to people under #guardianship. Both bills passed unanimously, and the end result is consistent with laws on the books in other states. There was no discourse among politicians—let alone objections—about the ethics of sterilizing disabled people without their consent.

"Sterilization and Social Justice Lab co-director and founder Alexandra Minna Stern said that early IQ tests, which sought to measure intelligence in part on the basis of class- and culture-based questions involving Beethoven’s sonatas, the early United States, and college athletics, were 'used to categorize people who would then be targeted for sterilization,' generally those who were '#marginalized or maligned in some way': in #California and the #Southwest, often #MexicanAmericans; nationwide, #Black, #Indigenous and #poorer white Americans, particularly women. The people behind the tests, Stern says, were 'white, #elite men who wanted to create a certain type of society in their own image.'

"NWLC senior counsel for health equity and justice Ma’ayan Anafi, who is also disabled, told Mother Jones that “forced sterilization laws are a really powerful example of how violations of disabled people’s bodies and rights are baked into our legal system today.”

Read more:
motherjones.com/politics/2025/
#USPol #reproductiverights #Fascism #BodilyAutomony

Mother JonesForced sterilization of disabled people isn't a relic of the pastIn most states, eugenics laws still let doctors sterilize disabled patients—even against their will.
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Peter Riley

@streetartutopia

Freedom without equality is privilege, injustice - Micky Bakunin

When #ELITE (#Billionaires) talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of us slide into worse economic insecurity and fear.

When they speak of “freedom”, what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Text on street advertisement: WHEN DID FIRING PEOPLE LIKE NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS AND AIR TRAFFC CONTROLLERS SEEM LIKE A BETTER IDEA THAN SIMPLY TAXING THE RICH ? Image people pass by a street footpath advertisement cars are driving through.
Text on sign attached to car “DOGE COULD SAVE $18 BILLION BY CANCELLING MUSK’s SPACEX & TESLA SUBSIDARIES “
#Amazon#Bezos#Capitalism
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Mark Moxon

Elite on the Apple II contains code by Ian Bell and David Braben.

No surprises there.

But did you know it also contains code by Steve Wozniak, Randy Wigginton and Rob Northen?

Find out why in my latest deep dive.

elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/

elite.bbcelite.comFile operations with embedded Apple DOS - Elite on the 6502A deep dive into file operations with embedded Apple DOS in Apple II Elite
#retrocomputing#retrogaming#8bit
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Mark Moxon

New deep dive: How the Apple II version of #Elite was developed on a #BBCMicro

In which I pick through the clues on the source disk, and try to piece together the original 1986 development pipeline for Apple II Elite.

elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/

elite.bbcelite.comDeveloping Apple II Elite on a BBC Micro - Elite on the 6502A deep dive into how Apple II Elite was developed on a BBC Micro
#retrocomputing#retrogaming#8bit
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Mark Moxon

Last year, Ian Bell released the source disk for Elite on the Apple II.

My latest guide shows how you can assemble the source in your browser and see exactly what Bell and Braben's build process looked like back in 1985.

elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/

elite.bbcelite.comBuilding Apple II Elite from the source disk - Elite on the 6502A deep dive into building Apple II Elite on a BBC Micro from the source disk
#retrocomputing#retrogaming#8bit
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Mark Gardner

Pretty amazing that the #NES, #AppleII, #BBCMaster, and #BBCMasterCompact versions of the seminal 3-D space trading and combat video game #Elite all fundamentally base their source code from the #Commodore64 port. (All pre-dated by the #BBCMicro and #AcornElectron versions, of course.)

universeodon.com/@markmoxon/11

Universeodon Social MediaMark Moxon (@markmoxon@universeodon.com)New: I've analysed the source code for all 9 versions of Elite on the 6502, and I've put together a family tree showing the decade-long forking history of the source. Software archaeology in action! 😀 https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/the_elite_source_code_family_tree.html #retrocomputing #retrogaming #8bit #bbcmicro #c64 #apple #nes
#Nintendo#Apple#RetroGaming
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Matze Schmidt

Im Übrigen wird die nächste hochkulturelle[1] Großveranstaltung in Kassel - #Documenta - wie immer inhaltlich von einer #Elite modelliert werden. Von dieser wird entschieden, was gezeigt werden darf. Über das Ansinnen von #HansHeinzHolz , Kriterien für die "Weltkunst" zu entwickeln (1972), ist frau zur Demokratisierung der symbolischen Produktion hier usw. nie hinausgekommen.

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Thor A. Hopland

@flyhigh it is.

But as any #African intellectual will tell you, first the #oligarchy and #elite of #Africa has to be dealt with, #freetrade between African nations need to happen (actual free trade, none of this wishy washy bullshit), #feudalism needs to die in a fire and basically all predatory contracts with multinationals needs to also gtfo or renegotiate.

Then there's some of those IMF loans that were made in bad faith on both sides. That needs to be a lawsuit in the #ICJ.

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