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weaselx86

@weaselx86@mastodon.social

California, Ireland, Colorado.
MS Math/CompSci UCLA.
Locus, Sun Microsystems; PDP-11, x86, C, Go.
Programming since 1973.
I wrote the program that calculated the GPA that appears on my high-school transcript.

Starting in 1984 I led the project at Locus to create the first x86 virtual machine, to run MS-DOS under Unix, on the AT&T 6300 Plus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6300_Plus).

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née Twitter https://mastodon.social/@weaselx86
There should be no profit in human misery.

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talia_christine, to random
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Everything is fine.

weaselx86,
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@la_sombra @talia_christine

dgar, to random
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weaselx86,
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@dgar

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Rapper Meek Mill is wondering out loud if Africans have access to streaming music apps like Spotify, and if so, if they listen to his music.

There aren't enough stories about the Africans working at big tech companies, but there are a lot of us. There are many Ghanaians, South Africans, Kenyans, and Nigerians 🙋🏿‍♂️, working in tech.

I often remind folks that Nigerian 7th grade math curriculum includes binary, octal, hexadecimal, statistics and data, algebra, and geometry.

https://youtu.be/2JTnr9XW-lk?si=D4ch-nw-zDkKNiAe

weaselx86,
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@zenkat @mekkaokereke

I moved to the new district only a couple weeks before the start of the school year. Monday the first day I was the only freshman in a Geometry classroom full of sophomores; I was the first ever student in the district to take Geometry as a freshman. That Wednesday, a few minutes into the class, the door opened and in walked another five or six freshmen to join the class. When we became seniors they had to invent a new math class for, by then, about a dozen of us.

weaselx86,
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@zenkat @mekkaokereke
Amazing there are still people who believe capable students should not take Algebra in 8th grade. I did that over 50 years ago, and would have been terribly bored otherwise. It kept my interest in Math enough that Math/Computer Science later became my major at UCLA.

After passing Algebra I with an "A" in Long Beach I moved to another district where the "counselor" wanted to make me take it again. Fortunately my mother was a teacher and insisted I be enrolled in Geometry.

DamienWise, to random
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It's all about perspective!

#TwoGuysOnABus #TrolleyProblem

weaselx86,
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@DamienWise

StillIRise1963, to random
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I think people are too kind to the purveyors of misinformation. Stop letting the facilitators of fascism off the hook.

weaselx86,
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@lin11c @StillIRise1963

A society that permits "freedom of lies" is guaranteed to poison itself.

zakalwe, to random
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"I paid off MY #student #loans myself! Why should these kids get theirs #forgiven?"

Dude. You had $3,000 in student loans. Some of "these kids" graduated from college $70,000 in debt for the same degree you got, now they're earning half as much as you did for a comparable job and they have no expectation of any retirement benefits, and they've been paying on that loan for fifteen years and owe more on it now than they did when they started paying it. They are being ruthlessly exploited by student loan management companies whose entire business model is based upon gouging people who are struggling to pay off their student loans.

Would it fucking KILL YOU to show a little compassion and understanding?

weaselx86,
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@zakalwe @arisummerland

RustyBertrand, to random
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weaselx86,
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@RustyBertrand @Edelruth

RickiTarr, to random
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Oppenheimer is Godzilla's Dad.

I don't make the rules, don't get mad at me.

weaselx86,
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@RickiTarr @Mary625

Billboard ad for original Godzilla / Gojira movie (released October 1954)

"H-Bomb Monster First Science-Fiction Film to be Produced in Japan"

Kodachrome slide photographed May 1954, Tokyo, Japan by Richard R. Butterfield

markmetz, to Ukraine
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“The notion that the war is unwinnable because of Russia’s dominance is a Russian information operation, which gives us a glimpse of the Kremlin’s real strategy and only real hope of success. The Kremlin must get the United States to the sidelines, allowing Russia to fight Ukraine in isolation and then proceed to Moscow’s next targets, which Russia will also seek to isolate. The Kremlin needs the United States to choose inaction and embrace the false inevitability that Russia will prevail in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin’s center of gravity is his ability to shape the will and decisions of the West, Ukraine, and Russia itself.“



Denying Russia’s Only Strategy for Success | Institute for the Study of War

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/denying-russia%E2%80%99s-only-strategy-success

weaselx86,
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@markmetz

"The Russian strategy that matters most, therefore, is not Moscow’s warfighting strategy, but rather the Kremlin’s strategy to cause us to see the world as it wishes us to see it and make decisions in that Kremlin-generated alternative reality that will allow Russia to win in the real world."

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/denying-russia%E2%80%99s-only-strategy-success

lauren, to random
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The NY Trump trial starting next Monday won't be televised, but here's what I predict we're in store for.

The trial will be running mon-tue-thu-fri. Unless granted an absence by the judge, Trump apparently must attend this criminal trial every day it is in session.

Reporters will be permitted to live report from the courtroom and overflow room. So there will be a continuous stream of information (mostly textual, I assume) pouring out, that will accompanied by drawings of participants and other extras.

To what extent there will be wall-to-wall coverage on the news networks is unclear, but the trial itself is expected to run six to eight weeks or so.

Buckle up.

weaselx86,
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@otownKim @lauren

He sees his allies jumpin' off
Like rodents one by one
The watertight indictments
Have got them on the run

He glowers in the courtroom
His diaper filled with brown
Old Donnie's lost his marbles
And the train it won't stop going
'Till the Beast's brought down

DrALJONES, to random
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    weaselx86,
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    @DrALJONES
    The United States of America has the best politicians money can buy.

    tofugolem, to random
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    Too much of the mainstream media is glossing over the fascism of conservatives and is using “but both sides” reporting to normalize their growing extremism.

    This should not be regarded as normal by anyone but fascists.

    1-minute video
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSCNSMDHb28

    weaselx86,
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    @tofugolem @FrankFrank @ProjectLincoln

    This is a rather chilling mashup of audio and video of a protester being thrown out of a 2016 Trump rally, and a protester being thrown out of a 1939 Nazi Bund rally at Madison Square Garden.

    In this video, Fritz Kuhn watches from the podium as Isador Greenbaum is thrown out of the 1939 rally.

    Trump also had a protester thrown out of one of his 2016 rallies: "I'd like to punch him in the face, I'll tell ya!"

    https://youtu.be/Qc0m3GivQe8

    w7voa, to random
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    A Hollywood Hills resident is campaigning to remove the frequently vandalized Donald Trump star on the nearby Walk of Fame, but it's unclear who could authorize such an unprecedented action. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-27/donald-trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star

    weaselx86,
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    @w7voa

    San Antonio wax museum forced to remove Trump statue because people kept punching it

    https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wax-statue-removed-from-museum-visitors-keep-punching-it-2021-3

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    weaselx86,
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    @gfarrell

    deirdresm, to random
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    Tom Digby (Bubbles) will be buried in Half Moon Bay at 4 pm today.

    https://maps.apple.com/?ll=37.404246,-122.416722&q=Dropped%20Pin&t=m

    Almost exactly where Tom will be laid down. Just front & left of a large pine & just right of the entrance, placard & entry sign for the Purisima Cemetery. Parking is on the road shoulder across the street. (Don't use Apple Maps using the official cemetery address or you will end up a mile away at someone's house. Google maps is somewhat better but still confusingly far from the entrance & parking.)

    weaselx86,
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    @deirdresm

    Some web links about Tom Digby...

    Tom Digby's works collected for the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention, expanded in 2014:

    https://conchord.org/xeno/digby/digby.html

    Articles mentioning Tom Digby in Mike Glyer's File 770:

    https://file770.com/tag/tom-digby/

    DemocracyMattersALot, to Florida
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    Why did Marco Rubio—who sits on the senate intelligence committee—take at least $1.5 MILLION from Len Blavatnik, an oligarch who has burrowed into America?

    https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/08/how-putin-s-oligarchs-funneled-millions-into-gop-campaigns/

    weaselx86,
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    @DemocracyMattersALot @tomwwolf

    In addition to the $1.5 million Rubio received from Blavatnik, he also got $3.3 million from Torshin, via Butina and the NRA.

    Follow the rubles (green arrows) from Russia to Rubio and other senators (shown in yellow oval):

    JuanWild, to random
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    Robert Reich
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    SCOTUS has the ability to move quickly when it wants to.

    It did so with Trump's Colorado ballot case.

    It must do the same with Trump's immunity case.

    Voters are entitled to know before casting their ballots whether they are choosing a felon for president.

    weaselx86,
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    @JuanWild @RBReich @joeinwynnewood

    People have gotta know whether or not their president's a crook!
    -- Richard M. Nixon

    video/mp4

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    I’d like to see a contest where people paint Trump’s Dorian Gray attic portrait.

    weaselx86,
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    @StillIRise1963

    weaselx86,
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    @StillIRise1963

    I photoshopped the image a couple years ago to illustrate Noel Casler's discussion of Trump's hair:

    video/mp4

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    weaselx86,
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    @jeffowski

    They move the date of Easter around to share celebration with something different each year. For example, next year they've scheduled it to coincide with Adolph Hitler's birthday.

    CedarTea, to random
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    In case anyone's wondering how the housing situation is going in Ontario, we now have provincial elected officials' offices referring people to for-profit homeless encampments.

    https://www.innisfiltoday.ca/local-news/mpp-khanjins-staff-referred-people-to-landlords-private-encampment-8560255

    #onpoli #housing

    weaselx86,
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    @CedarTea @lopta
    @EricLawton

    I understand the German word "backpfeifengesicht" means "a face in need of a fist".

    What would be the German word for a neck in need of an axe (or guillotine)?

    Mrfunkedude, to random
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    So here's the question, do most politicians just happen to have punchable faces or are those with punchable faces just happen to be attracted to politics?

    weaselx86,
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    @Mrfunkedude
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    San Antonio wax museum forced to remove Trump statue because people kept punching it

    https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wax-statue-removed-from-museum-visitors-keep-punching-it-2021-3

    pluralistic, to random
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    It's the start of a long weekend and I've found myself with a backlog of links, so it's time for another linkdump - the eighteenth in the (occasional) series. Here's the previous installments:

    https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

    --

    If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/25/anthology/#lol-no

    1/

    weaselx86,
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    @pluralistic

    “[t]he LAPD is not expected to like the existence of ‘Fck the LAPD’ merchandise. But their sole remedy is to not do things that result in people wanting to buy and wear ‘Fck the LAPD’ merchandise.” That may be difficult, he conceded, “[b]ut I promise you it would still be easier than trying to get a court to rule” that these shirts are infringing.

    https://www.loweringthebar.net/2024/05/lol-no-explained.html

    dlakelan, to random
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    I can't emphasis enough the point that exp(t)/(exp(t) + exp((1-epsilon)t)) ~ 1 for large t and any positive epsilon.

    This may seem obscure but it's the problem with "capitalism" as we know it. Even in an infinite world where wealth grows exponentially forever, eventually the person with the epsilon larger growth rate than everyone else owns everything.

    Add in political power and finite resources and it just happens faster.

    weaselx86,
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    @dlakelan

    Extreme wealth concentration is an inherent property of a capitalistic system.

    The wealthier participant in a transaction has an inherent advantage in risk-tolerance and greater ability to hold out for a better deal.

    Absent sufficiently progressive taxation to counteract it, the inherent advantage of the wealthier participant in every transaction leads to a positive feedback loop of wealth accumulation and concentration with mathematical inevitability.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/

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