Notices by Susan Potter ??? (susanpotter@mastodon.social)

Trump's speech repeated false claims (unsurprising since he is a big fat liar always):
- US aid to Ukraine not $350bn but $120bn, Europe has provided more aid
- the US never funded $45m DEI scholarships in Burma
- millions not getting Social Security fraudulently
- outdated polls also misrepresented
- 68% of eligible voters did NOT vote for Trump in election, therefore there is no mandate

In case anyone wondered whose side Trump is on.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/

Is it wrong to be rooting for Canada? Asking for an American friend...

Shared on a group chat.

"In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."

Herbert Simon, polymath (economics, computer science, political science), 1971

I lived in Britain while growing up for 14 years (7-21) so I have an experiential PhD in understanding class social dynamics. Since moving to the US, I have been telling my American friends (now I am American) that we need to talk about the C-word (class) a lot more and maybe Trump wouldn't be on the brink of taking over on the last day of the Republic.

When I hear of the "digital twin" approach to solving the 200% problem I hear "zero abstraction". No judgement, but accurate.

Replying to: https://www.systeminit.com/blog-system-initiative-is-the-future

Didn't Terraform try to do? Maybe not intentionally yet often out-of-date.

Instead of knowing how the underlying system works AND how the tool you use to configure it maps to it (the 200% problem), now you have to know the underlying system AND check the "digital twin" isn't out of date for simulation purposes.

I hate busy work.

The three languages on my RADAR for 2024 are:
- Roc
- Unison
- Idris2

Notable mentions:
- Fstar (F*): would compete for my attention with Idris2 as both are dependently typed functional languages
- Grain: functional language focused on WebAssembly targeting

Roc is designed to be a fast, dev-centric functional language.

Highlights:
- compiles to machine code and WebAssembly
- memory-safe, automatic memory management
- async I/O
- "Platforms" allow domain-specific memory management
- Morphic, Perceus, LLVM

https://roc-lang.org

Unison is a statically-typed functional language focused on developer experience that rethinks code representation, distributed computation, effect management (abilities), and codebase/unit management.

https://www.unison-lang.org

I have just been requested to commute three days a week 135 miles away each way from my home (I have not moved) to an office I was never required to attend before the pandemic starting end of September.

If anyone needs remote product/infrastructure/platform engineering or backend developer who has 15 years cloud deployment experience and data center to cloud migration experience, email me on spotter@referentiallabs.com.

#haskell #PureScript #Deno #typescript

Everyone still on the hellsite: Twitter is burning but Mastodon is not usable, bluesky is meh, and I don't know anyone on T2.

Me: I can toot from an emacs buffer to Mastodon, how much more usable do you need it to be?

Everyone still on Twitter: ... What is emacs?

I am not interested in excusing Javice at all but I feel compelled to point out JP Morgan has a long history of settling cases where they were accused of fraudulent activities. A match made in heaven perhaps. If Javice was hired by JP Morgan for one of their business units directly she would be high ranking right now.

https://news.yahoo.com/charlie-javice-fooling-world-years-110000458.html

To support my claims here are a few links around somewhat recent fraudulent activities JP Morgan settled:

"JPMorgan Chase & Co. Agrees To Pay $920 Million in Connection with Schemes to Defraud Precious Metals and U.S. Treasuries Markets" https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jpmorgan-chase-co-agrees-pay-920-million-connection-schemes-defraud-precious-metals-and-us

Settlement: September 2020
Activity: 2018

JP Morgan sued by DoJ for Fraudulent Mortgage Lending Practices. JPM settles for $614million.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-sues-and-settles-jpmorgan-chase-614-million-fraudulent-mortgage

JP Morgan admits evading regulatory audits by letting employees use WhatsApp for messaging

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/17/jpmorgan-agrees-to-125-million-fine-for-letting-employees-use-whatsapp-to-evade-regulators.html

Again, JP Morgan is only mad that Javice duped them instead of working with them to dupe others.