Leslie Lamport, of LaTeX fame, is a very accomplished mathematician and computer scientist with a Turing award for his work on “fundamental contributions to the theory and
practice of distributed and concurrent systems”. He just published a draft of his new book:
"A science of concurrent programs"
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science.pdf
True to his pedagogic approach to everything he does, "The book assumes only that you know the math one learns before entering a university." Even the appendices are fantastic. Can only wish I'll remain this lucid at his 82 years old.
Well, at least this monstrosity is too expensive to become ubiquitous. Although I'm sure it will help influence more horrific F150s in the future.
@aaronesilvers ideally, right to repair means we crack the devices and unlock, but as I'm sure you're aware they're fighting against that
"As you watch the American media go through every possible contortion to avoid giving a dead Palestinian even a fraction of the worth of a live Zionist, ask yourself: Is that a properly functioning world?
Don’t you get a sinking feeling that some central aspect of our society is deeply broken?"
@nat just fooled all of us long enough to win the primary, since Lamb had already taken the "establishment" lane. Turns out it's all bullshit, as soon as he got to DC boom, settles in to the Democratic party establishment.
On December 7, 2005, the FBI carried out a crackdown on environmental activists that became known as the Green Scare.
Even after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the FBI focused on ecological activists as their #1 priority. As catastrophic climate change intensifies, remember—people tried to resist the destruction of the environment, but they forced this nightmare on us at the end of a gun.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/green-scared
This zine explores the lessons of that wave of repression.
https://medium.com/@danielmcgowannyc/my-own-pearl-harbor-232b11321499
In this text, one of the arrestees describes his first day in custody.
Information security experts are leaving Twitter in droves, demonstrating that it's entirely possible to leave a toxic platform and stop supporting its extremist owner.
A lot of them are here.
https://www.cyentia.com/the-death-of-infosec-twitter/
(As a commenter pointed out, this is from earlier this year.)
Noah was fired for wearing a Palestinian flag pin. Sophie, a DSA member, was fired for refusing to tell her colleague to remove their flag pin. June was fired for posting a tweet in support of Palestinian liberation.
The Anti-Defamation League’s call for the FBI and IRS to surveil, investigate, and possibly prosecute student activists is a new level in its McCarthyite campaign to silence any and all criticism of Israel.
“However avaricious, the titans of past gilded eras still saw themselves as human members of civil society. Contemporary billionaires appear to understand civics and civilians as impediments to their progress, necessary victims of the externalities of their companies’ growth, sad artefacts of the civilisation they will leave behind in their inexorable colonisation of the next dimension.”
@Rushkoff in the Guardian.
@skyfaller neither party wants my vote. Democrats in particular have rat fucked or co-opted any candidate I voted for.
They will no longer get my vote.
> Plans like putting 11 million immigrants in concentration camps.
Oh you mean the concentration camps that Obama built and then Trump expanded?
@njwatt
> the United States is not one of the primary actors in the area
Are you for real? The only superpower in the world, who has fought two wars in that region and is the primary supporter of Israel, is not one of the primary actors in this area? Delusional
@skyfaller so basically you're saying vote for Biden or go into the mountains and start a civil war?
@njwatt @skyfaller your concept of democracy is I get to vote for two candidates, both of which support a genocide in Gaza.
That's not a democracy
@njwatt @skyfaller again, how could a Trump presidency be worse for Gaza than Biden's policies?
@njwatt @skyfaller has Biden moved the embassy out of Jerusalem?
When Biden was VP he was part of administration that would drone strike weddings and double tap the location when help would arrive at the scene of the first missile strike.
Biden is actively assisting a war crime in Gaza _right now_ and you're focusing on a hypothetical, when I can demonstrate that there is no difference between the two