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).
The lines in the avatar are horizontal.
There should be no profit in human misery.
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@mekkaokereke
When school lunch programs throw out the "who deserves to get free lunches?" and just provide for every child, the entire program is cheaper due to the lack of an enforcement layer, all children get fed, and children learn more and pay attention better.
Being overly concerned that someone might get something they don't "deserve" usually ends up screwing over the ones who need help most.
We're supposed to "promote the general welfare" of the public - not gate-keep who gets help.
Interview: "Does Donald Trump have a sense of his own limitations?"
"Deep down, absolutely. That's why he's constantly on guard. He's paranoid".
When he demands power, "he's doing so from a place of pathology. He's doing so in a way that actually fuels his sense of insecurity, of his unfitness, of his unbelonging."
"So he will increasingly become more defensive, dangerous & tyrannical."
Dr Bandy X. Lee, forensic psychiatrist
Report: Jared Kushner & Israeli-aligned White House officials are supplying Trump with false intelligence about the war on Iran.
The disinformation "downplays Iran’s missile attack frequency & minimizes the casualties caused by Iraqi & Lebanese resistance strikes."
"Senior officials, including... Hegseth & Rubio, have been steering Trump toward a broader escalation plan”.
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #palestine #USCrimes #IsraeliCrimes #Islamophobia .
EU and West Asian officials fear Iran is preparing for a 'devastating battle scenario' that would lead to the destruction of key Saudi and Israeli infrastructure, the closure of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the withdrawal from the Non-Proliferation Treaty
"In the body camera footage, a police officer parks his black SUV on the grass, a rosary swinging from the rearview mirror. He exits his car, moves briskly past a pair of protesters, and points an accusatory finger at the suspect: a 7-foot-tall inflatable penis holding an American flag.
The alleged crime? Unclear. There’s no sound at first, only the silent spectacle of a person in a penis suit turning toward a cop with a stance that says, 'Who, me?' A handmade sign comes into view in the person’s right hand. It reads 'No Dick Tator.'"
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/03/penis-costume-no-kings-protest-alabama-censorship/
As I look at the news
I keep seeing stories
about how a handful of humans
are on their way
to orbit around
a cold and lifeless rock.
And as I look at the news
I keep seeing stories
about how a handful of humans
are on their way
to making this planet
a hot and lifeless rock.
“The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.”
~ Randa Slim quoted by Greg Dworkin
Idaho’s bathroom bill isn’t just about bathrooms. It never was
I avoid X-twitter. Someone sent me the text of a post there, and it is hysterical (and sadly, has an element of truth). I can't find it posted elsewhere, so I guess I need to share the link here:
https://x.com/gothburz/status/2039690059947901243?s=61
FYI/FYA
I am the Vice President of Output Accountability at Microsoft. I report to nobody with that title because the title did not exist until I created it. The title is necessary. The outputs are not accountable to anyone. Someone should be. Our Terms of Service for Copilot include
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #LinkedIn #social #media #SocialMedia #data #security #safety #InfoSec #internet #web
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.
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DrALJONES
Jason Lefkowitz
Plague Poems
William Lindsey 
Transgender World
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Metin Seven 🎨