Notices by Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe), page 3

@clacke "International Labor Day" never stopped being a day of protest for the US labor movement, though

@clacke I've only watched the first episode, but I like it so far. Thanks for sharing !

@fence I couldn't find anything about it, though I found a lawyer arguing that it would be as enforceable in Belgium as in France and Italy, where it has been enforced

@clacke Oh no, I'd thought that was an emoji picker. I had no idea it was a reaction. Brb sending myself some mails to react to

@clacke There's more Californians than Canadians, and they have no less legitimate a claim to the two letters, so yeah. Probably not worth fighting that windmill

@loke @bobjonkman @david_megginson

@helenbellmusic And just like that I remember exactly what the OCF smelled like in the late 90's

@clacke I'm sure lots of us have those stories, but I got a rejection in 2002 for not having 10 years of Java experience. I probably didn't want the job anyway, given that

@clacke The lua vm made a big splash by being register-based and significantly more efficient to interpret. They wrote a paper on it

@m455 yo ho, yo ho

@m455 > this feels like cheating or avoiding the whole "dont mutate globals" because you cant in elixir

I like the technique used by the ML languages here: your variables are immutable, but if you want to make a mutable variable you instead box its value.

Doing that silently under the hood is a classic Lisp implementation trick

@m455 fatherhood confirmed

@RL_Dane Can you rephrase this as a request for an AI integration?

@pettter I certainly don't share the political perspective of the authors of that report. But an interesting aspect of US Congressional investigations is that they can get access to and make public, private documents that otherwise the public wouldn't have access to. And they have in fact done so here, and documented a syphilitic chain from the US Executive through university "researchers" to big tech companies.

The documents they cite are quite clear in their goal of laundering censorship.

If anyone is wondering what happened with that David Rand fellow at MIT who was badly/incompetently scraping fedi, he's tied up with a US NSF-fronted attempt at automating online censorship. A pretty sinister project of the US executive, that's apparently beyond the pale for at least some of Congress. https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/new-report-details-how-national-science-foundation-funding-ai-tools-censor-and

It was p at shitposter dot club who pointed this out in the context of that damn scraper. That instance is, uhm, difficult so you may have missed the original message. It's worth reading though!

https://shitposter.club/objects/1414fed5-883d-4ff6-81bc-4103e01726d3

@jacqueline That's a fedi special. "Lol /etc/hosts doesn't work" is the Mastodon special twist

@kaia magnifique !

@clacke @RandomDamage Oh gods! Couldn't you at least have imagined digestive biscuits 😹

@clacke ooh, that's a very relatable description

@schappi @kaia nel blu dipinto di blu felice di stare lasù

@clacke Oh no no, no one says that. There are 32 counties in Ireland, of which 6 are in Northern Ireland, and 26 are in the Republic. There's no need to adjust language to try to make the partition seem natural.

BTW, that article's title does not use neutral language. "The British Isles" is a strongly politically loaded term, by which Britain lays claim to some natural possession over Ireland. You won't find the term used in Ireland, except by the most extreme unionists.