Notices by Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net), page 8

Feel free to go down the rabbit hole, I can’t anymore.
http://patricia.no/cppcon/

All of these people, all still on the board, spent a whole year figuring out how to protect a man convicted of rape and possession of CSAM and, knowing about his conviction, paid for him to attend CppCon while they encouraged parents to bring their children there.
https://isocpp.org/about

Program in Rust because they might actually ban a convicted rapist from attending in person meetings.

Fuck me, the bar is on the floor.

One of these days I need to learn Rust.

Oh no I went over to check a thing on Twitter and the fascist programmers are imploding because they want to love Rust but it’s made by “gay trans woke furries” 🤣

Normal folks hating on C++: it’s an old and memory unsafe programming language.

Me hating on C++: there is a convicted rapist and registered sex offender on the C++ committee and the committee leadership worked really hard to keep him there.

@inthehands it’s also in the video I uploaded, but I guess it’s not possible to play it in all clients?

“When every point on the two dimensional plane fits your model, that’s called prayer, that’s astrology!” 💀☠️

This is about the most Norwegian thing.

Guardian publishes an article praising Norwegian parenting:
“How to be a Norwegian parent: let your kids roam free, stay home alone, have fun – and fail”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jul/11/how-to-be-a-norwegian-parent-let-your-kids-roam-free-stay-home-alone-have-fun-and-fail

Norwegian newspaper: “The Guardian praises Norwegian child-rearing to the skies. But is it really that rosy?”

The most popular Norwegian hobby is to rag on our country amongst ourselves.

@forteller that’s a quote from the video

“There have been 6 Nobel prizes in economics trying to rescue this curve” ☠️

Here I am innocently watching Edward Tufte’s keynote on data visualization and then he absolutely MURDERS economics 💀
https://youtu.be/rHUDJ8RyseQ?si=nYtoIKWyArcwbBu_

Alright, Europeans, given that the Americans will, with increasing likelihood, elect an autocrat, how will you prepare? I will assume that Putin will grow more bold and so will Netanyahu. Hopes for an imminent solution to climate change will become less likely. I know it’s depressing, but one thing I learned from the pandemic is that survival is community based. So how can we prepare, both as individuals, and as parts of our local communities?

Reminder that a Trump presidency would most likely lead to the US explicitly and enthusiastically backing an escalation of the genocide in Gaza.
“Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev

On Project 2025: “The screening for ready-to-serve loyalists has already begun, driven in part by artificial intelligence from tech giant Oracle, contracted for the project.”
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-loyalists-2024-presidential-election
Looks like Oracle is auditioning for the IBM role in the next fascist state 🙃
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Senator Brown is 🔥

Omg what kind of nerd have I become?
https://www.youtube.com/live/vv6n0oTJMRU?si=bDoXxYOQLrQjfIs_

Senator Tester asks a very reasonable question with the intuitive understanding of the economy as an adaptive system.
Economist Powell answers with three variables, one of which is under his control.
This is exactly the problem. The adaptive effects in the complex system they are manipulating is outside of their model. He is being asked how they factor in, short answer is: They don’t.

3/ Anyway. If we remove ideological doctrines that are extrapolated from simplistic economic models. What is left?

A system of systems of systems etc. A real global economy. Hundreds of slightly or massively different national economies, which break down across all sorts of things like sector, geography, class, whatever. Down to the individual.

But also a system that has at least partially been created by these economics ideologies. Which means that it has clear features from them. On all scales.

2/ Also they will both be absolutely enraged that anyone would dare to say such things about their movement, which is obviously right and good. And such a person would necessarily have to be either ignorant or possibly evil.