Notices by Bruce Elrick (virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca)

@evan
In my mind intelligence is summed up as the ability to perceive the world outside ourselves (and ourselves) and make predictions about what-ifs to decide what one's own actions one should do to make things happen in a way that pleases us.

This ability requires a model of the world be in our brain and the basic building blocks of that model is knowledge, including rules for how things work (applying rules plus observation plus memory is the main engine of intelligence)

Bishop Rev. Mariann Edgar is has far more character and courage than any MAGA, including the ones that have served in combat.

https://www.latintimes.com/republican-lawmaker-calls-bishop-deported-telling-trump-have-mercy-scared-children-572949

@evan My family shares a number of AnyList lists.

Hey Fediverse, I'm looking to get #fedihired.

Honestly I would prefer to work in an office environment in Calgary because it would help me focus. I also am thinking I want to work for an organization that betters the world and I'm ok with making less if that's the case.

I have tons of experience building, operating, and optimizing IT infrastructure, in particular hypervisors, operating systems, and storage, both primary and backup. I'm also good at bridging business and IT

#calgary #FediHire

@evan Here am I like "what on Earth is Kings Day?". Even Google is not definitive for my search. Simple search mentioned Netherlands April 27. Adding Canada drove that down enough to let me figure out that Epiphany (which I'm also largely ignorant of) might/is also known as Three Kings day?

I think I've avoided learning about all the "serious Christian" (eg Catholic, Anglican, or any of the Orthodox Christian churches, in my mind). Not that I've learned much about Protestant ones either.

@evan
Yes!

@evan Yes, we do.

@evan I strongly agree.

The current world order has three classes.

A) Employees that do "real work" which is design/build/operate products/services/business.

B) Employees that do decision, planning, and other guard labour functions.

C) The capitalist class.

C exploits B to exploit A. High class information-handling and manipulation workers (lawyers, accountants, managers) are class B. Low class information-handling and manipulation workers (clerks, data processors) are class A

@evan @johnefrancis John might be referring to Alberta provincial limits. The ANDP introducted limits on corps and unions (!) in the mid 10s and the UCP just repealed them.

@evan
A person who learns mostly learns the intensity of their ignorance.

@evan
Oh that's interesting.

Loyal Order of Buffalo Buffaloes, I'm sure.

@AmeliasBrain @pluralistic
Absolutely. But I would then not call that not preventing a merger.

@evan
I typically wear Puma white ankle socks. The logo and writing were grey or black.

For a while I work one on colour on the left and the other on the right.

Now I have blue added into the mix so I've gone back to keeping both the same.

@evan
Heh. Not rarely, not often... sometimes

@evan
I had a really lucky second guess. My wife said her second guess was the first thing that popped into her head.

@evan Hard-mode heck.

@evan Qualified yes, because they are not magic and thus are also a bad way to get news and a good way to get incorrect news.

@evan
I use Tailscale. So daily.

@evan
Public is an excellent default position for posts, but would be a terrible requirement.

That being said, a select ActivityPub server software/ ActivityPub instance that only allows public posts would be an interesting art piece or experiment.

If you are progressive like me, then this analysis of why Trump is in power and the Democrats are not says it all, as far as I'm concerned (yes, there's misogyny, racism, and many other bad things, but this is the most fundamental).

For my fellow #canadians, including the Alberta NDP, there is a lesson here too. #ableg #yyc #yeg

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/so-what-does-that-mean-in-practice