Notices by Daniel Schildt (autiomaa@mementomori.social)

@ben Paw Patrol is a corporation in the series.

Wikipedia describes it in more detail:
"In a 2020 paper published in the journal Crime, Media, Culture, Paw Patrol is criticized for sending the message that companies are more capable of providing social services than the state.[38] Author Liam Kennedy argues that the show "encourages complicity in a global capitalist system that (re)produces inequalities and causes environmental harms". Kennedy suggests that Paw Patrol echoes the "core tenets of neoliberalism" by depicting the state and politicians as either unethical or incompetent while the Paw Patrol corporation is entrusted with crimefighting and conservation.[39][38]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paw_Patrol

38. Zandbergen, Rebecca (February 7, 2020). "Does Paw Patrol encourage our kids to embrace capitalism?". CBC News. Archived from the original on July 23, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2020.

39. Kennedy, Liam (February 2, 2020). ""Whenever there's trouble, just yelp for help": Crime, conservation, and corporatization in Paw Patrol". Crime, Media, Culture. 17 (2): 255–270. doi:10.1177/1741659020903700. S2CID 213219103.

@internic There is such payment model on Cloudflare for the LLM companies (giving them much faster download speeds for 3rd party content scraping), but not for regular consumers.

@mark @david_chisnall

@mark @david_chisnall Instead of fixing broken code with proper logging and code performance observability, lets stop all the effort and expect Cloudflare to care about actual humans (and not just about their PaaS billing). 😓

@leymoo @ireneista @dalias @codinghorror It's the problem with lobbying: very few highly skilled people have enough free time to help decision makers without getting paid for the advice. It would help if leaders would pay for the advice of professionals, but somehow that is seen as a bad thing in the public sector (as a "waste" of tax money).

And people who mainly work in the consulting industry have gotten so used to fulfilling almost any requests from their customers that it's incredibly difficult to find consultants who would be willing to promote ethics and safety (without increased risk of losing their own jobs for keeping people's digital safety in mind).

@dalias @bagder Google was also actively doing meetings with different government's lawyers at ICANN 2016 summer conference. They're relatively quiet about lobbying activities but are present in a lot of places.

Linux Foundation itself has been a front for Intel and Nokia in the past, for example buying domain names from individuals before large corporations announced OSS projects.

Story of what happens when the most skilled scientists in the world get deported because of racism and xenophobia:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-54695598

#history #science #research

@amszmidt @m3tti Larger context of that blog post (by Malcolm McCrimmon) is on the higher level concepts instead of the “syntax or not syntax” arguments.

Malcolm McCrimmon writes:
“Just as Lisp macros are powerful because they can operate on any Lisp code, including themselves, Smalltalk classes are powerful because they themselves are objects. Smalltalk, like Lisp, runs in the same context it’s written in. It’s objects all the way down.”
https://insearchofsecrets.com/2014/08/04/lisp-smalltalk-and-the-power-of-symmetry/

That was the reason why I originally posted a snippet to the blog post. Language as a data(flow) in itself, instead of a language for operating on a separate data(flow).

@m3tti @amszmidt At least a lot of people build their own versions of Lisp with very different kinds of programming language structures. Even while PG is likely a “bit” off from the technical viewpoint, on a conceptual level it has at least some match with the reality.

Paul Graham wrote about Lisp programming:

"Lisp has no syntax. You write programs in the parse trees that get generated within the compiler when other languages are parsed."
https://insearchofsecrets.com/2014/08/04/lisp-smalltalk-and-the-power-of-symmetry/

#programming #Lisp

@matt @badnetmask At least they got to use those leftover game assets from the closed game world project. Most of the original emoticons on Slack are descendants of a failed online game. It was the second failed game company by the same founders. First failed game company turned into Flickr, second to Slack.