Get on with figuring out how we are going to host this meeting here in Cochabamba within the next 60 days.
I'm going to be working for a respectable software company, and I'm now helping my landlady take out the garbage, ... just like you told me to. See I'm Still Looking for A Job.
Dianna Cowan, a.k.a. Physics Girl, on programming. At 4 minutes 51 seconds, "Right now, think about what problem you have. I bet you can think of a program or app which can solve that problem." I can. But I can't write that program or app.
The idea is simple: instead of writing actual programs, we write programs which write programs. But rather than trying to invent one general purpose meta-language, what we do is design a new programming language for each application. This allows us to abstract from all the tedious detail such as having to decide which particular programming language to use.
It also allows us to solve some hard problems such as the one Ken Thompson identifies in his Turing Award speech On Trusting Trust. This is because a meta-programmed system does not actually have any concrete representation in source code, so is not susceptible to any attack that is based on recognising the source code of the target system.
I wrote some more about it in this essay: Genesis, and a year later I tried to interest the GNU/Free Software community in it with this: GNU Thunder. Now I'm going to try again, by describing the same underlying thing in a way that I hope might interest the decentralise/indieWeb/dWeb people: see Lee Camp on Protests Everywhere.
To see why we need to be much more careful about the distinction between truth and meaning, see this, from the introduction to The Definition of Standard ML, by Robin Milner, Mads Tofte, Robert Harper and David MacQueen, and it's about language design in very general terms.
The job of a language-definer is twofold. First – as we have already suggested – he must create a world of meanings appropriate for the language, and must find a way of saying what these meanings precisely are. Here, he meets a problem; notation of some kind must be used to denote and describe these meanings – but not a programming language notation, unless he is passing the buck and defining one programming language in terms of another. ...
... The second part of the definer’s job is to define evaluation precisely. This means that he must define at least what meaning, M, results from evaluating any phrase P of his language (though he need not explain exactly how the meaning results; that is he need not give the full detail of every computation). This part of his job must be formal to some extent, if only because the phrases P of his language are indeed formal objects. But there is another reason for formality. The task is complex and error-prone, and therefore demands a high level of explicit organisation (which is, largely, the meaning of ‘formality’); moreover, it will be used to specify an equally complex, error-prone and formal construction: an implementation. We shall now explain the keystone of our semantic method. First, we need a slight but important refinement. A phrase P is never evaluated in vacuo to a meaning M, but always against a background; this background – call it B – is itself a semantic object, being a distillation of the meanings preserved from evaluation of earlier phrases (typically variable declarations, procedure declarations, etc.). In fact evaluation is background-dependent – M depends upon B as well as upon P.
The keystone of the method, then, is a certain kind of assertion about evaluation; it takes the form
B |-- P ⇒ M
and may be pronounced: ‘Against the background B, the phrase P evaluates to the meaning M’. The formal purpose of this Definition is no more, and no less, than to decree exactly which assertions of this form are true. [their emphasis, not mine.]
The relevance to security is that it is by subverting the meanings of evaluations that any parts of the system can potentially become hostile agents. So what we are aiming to do by using metaprogramming in this way, is to define many different ways in which these meanings can be rendered independently of their concrete representation in any particular part of the system.
Welcome to The Matrix:
Now, after six years underground, let's talk about about inclusion and empathy in this working environment:
Randall Munroe going through what people like Elon Musk and Geoff Bezos do to map out the future of humanity, and figure how to make money from it, except he's not worrying about the profitability of the exercise. He points out that it is thought-provoking, however.
This is really excellent. People in Bolivia will be able to identify Industrial Capitalism as it is described here, but they will say "why don't we have factories or jobs?"
... and People in China Will Say "Long Live the Communist Party of China!" So we all know what is the difference is between communism, socialism and capitalism now, don't we? Good! And we know where they were invented too: British Empire in China. And democracy? That was invented in London too, on Cheapside, I think. See The Real Hong Kong.
The systemic failure is that nobody gives a shit about people so fucking poor that you can't even make a profit out of feeding the cunts! See Argentina.
Don't worry, the women at the FT don't get it either. They still think financial markets mean something.
Maybe open a school for them under Blackfriars Bridge?
... and I am so fucking bored! What is the point of my posting this shit when nobody gives a fuck? And quick as a flash, Jason comes up with one answer, ... Jason Bermas on Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, ... something about boring and stupid I think, ... and here's Brussian Polly Boiko answering more questions:
2 minutes 41 seconds "He died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and screaming, ..." Gee, Mr President, what a terrible way to end your career! 😂
In a civilized country, you would have an Inspector of Prisons who was responsible for maintaining standards in prisons and ensuring the rights of prisoners are not violated. Britain used to have a such an office, but in the case of prisoners of the United States, such as Julian Assange, that office apparently doesn't exist. It was called H.M. Inspector of Prisons or something, indicating that it was something to do with The Crown, or Sovereignty, or some outdated tradition like that.
At 3 minutes 51 seconds, a computer and network security lecturer from a UK University says "If you have great security and a weak password, then your security will be defenceless. So as well as working on defences we are trying to raise people's awareness of the passwords." Sounds to me like the problem is education! 😂 This guy is a fucking joke, fire him!
I was arrested on Friday on a COMPLETELY FALSE charge manufactured by the Venezuelan opposition related to their siege of the embassy in DC. I spent 2 days in jail, was shackled for extended periods & was denied my right to call a lawyer. Here's the facts: https://t.co/2Nco0OzQ7P
I am still trying to believe in this sort of direct action, underground, ... the trouble is that it's off all of the media radar, ...
These are the only kinds of forms of protest that I think will actually work.
The history of these kinds of "underground architecture" movements in the United States goes back to the sixties. The fact that after one year these two videos have achieved a total of fewer than 100 views says it all, ...
But around here, this is the sort of thing that counts as society. A bunch of guys with sticks ripping down banners of people peacefully protesting a corrupt government.
This talk at 1 min 39 seconds by Leo, shows that there is a global decentralised network of interoperating groups, and that some people are thinking about how to increase intercommunication amongst these groups.
... to me they're all pretty much the same thing; Snowden, the CIA and Aliens, I mean, ...
... and here's a really excellent little op-doc Laura Poitras made on the NSA whilsteblower William Binney, for the NYT no less, in August 2012, almost a year before Snowden hi-tailed to Singapore, ...
... and what does this have to do with The Matrix? Well, it's about self-sufficiency in the Third World, ... you need others to help you, ...
... otherwise, well, you end up spending all your time dodging bullets, I guess, ...
... and surveillance, ... well, be careful what you say about people on the phone! 😂
... see You Whores Are All Fucked, and remember, context is everything in the semantics of connected independent processes. For example, ...
Just check the replies to this youtube comment, which would make even Stagger Lee blanch, ...
Now, hands up those who think that there is any risk that Lori will misinterpret what I'm proposing in this post. I don't. And now, hands up those who think that "code talk" is a suitable medium for making contracts, or covenants? I do. But it quite severely restricts the kind of contracts and covenants you can make. See Revolution: The Real Deal. So you see, we have the upper hand, siempre!
It all depends upon from whom the people have the choice of the new parliament. Sadly, it is not clear to me that there are any better alternatives; and that is not to be taken as being a tacit approval of the present Parliament! See The Role of Parliament in British Military Action Overseas.
In response to calls for a recount in the disputed general election of a week ago ,Vice President Álvaro García Linera today justified the blockade by campesinos and cocaleros of the main road between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra and called for the closure of other roads in the country by affiliates of the ruling party MAS. From García Linera justifica bloqueos por afines al MAS y arremete contra Mesa.
El vicepresidente, Álvaro García Linera, justificó hoy el bloqueo de campesinos y cocaleros en la carretera que une Cochabamba con Santa Cruz y el llamado a cerrar otras carreteras del país por afines al Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS).
I can hardly believe I am hearing this! To placate HK ptotestors, she's offering them a 90% mortgage on a million dollar apartment. That's probably 300 sq meters at the most, bought from a property tycoon. See SCMP's Yonden Lhatoo on Hong Kong Housing Crisis.
The deep political crisis created by the unrest has led Beijing to begin drawing up plans to replace Ms Lam by as early as March, less than three years into her five-year term. As embarrassing as that would be for President Xi Jinping, people briefed on Communist party deliberations in Beijing say senior Chinese officials realise that Hong Kong needs a new beginning if it is to restore public confidence in the government.
Well, when half of the ruling class are of French descent, and you include the Scots, the Welsh and good many Irish, what can you expect? See Absolute Nonsense. I'd stick with the lady wearing a Barbour jacket and Wellington boots, myself! 😂 ❤️💓💕
The thing that really cracked me up was this comment:
There is yet hope for the human race!! .😂 ❤️💓💕 Her stories about genital exams remind me of a joke I once told about two gay gynecologists. But I think it in poor taste to repeat one's own jokes, so if you didn't hear it the first time, then you'll have to wait 'til someone else tells it to you.
Mifsud had many connections with British intelligence and senior members of the British government, for example Teresa May, as Julian Assange tweeted, the day before the Ecuadorian Embassy took away his Internet access, ...
There is something very odd about the Joseph Mifsud story and the role of the UK in the 2016 US presidential election:
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— Defend Assange Campaign (@DefendAssange) March 22, 2018
This shows that what you see ain't necessarily what other people get on Twitter. The same applies to any social media, and even e-mail. So don't assume people have actually seen anything you think you have sent. This is why I try to get people, like my daughter, for example, to confirm or respond to things in a way which shows that they have actually seen them. But nobody does do this, so I have no idea who reads what I write, or what they read that they think I wrote, but didn't. We need secure communications, people!
This is the 50th Act. Casualties so far: 11 dead, 25 people who have lost an eye and five who have lost a hand, and over 2,000 other injuries. The EC say that the French police have the right to use these LBD weapons and that the French police cannot investigate the actions of members of their own force, but there is no EC authority that can investigate police actions either.
At 2 minutes 34 seconds a referendum on a citizens' initiative to debate EC austerity measures is anti-democratic. This is because it is a condition of the Maastricht Treaty that EC Member States are not allowed to critique decisions made by the European Central Bank. See this, from 1 hour 25 minutes. "The ECB is an international organization that is above and outside the laws and jurisdiction of any individual nation."
I am surprrised that Gilets Jaunes can effectively use Twitter to organise protests, given the degree of control Twitter are prepared to use to suppress certain information. See Jason Bermas on Twitter.
The Guardian are doing another series on this. But I think that it's as Che Guevara said: we have to reinvent men and women at the same time, otherwise nothing is going to make sense to anybody!
Great song, but I never had the faintest fucking clue what it was about! 😂 Somebody says it is a connection to the Wish You Were Here cover art, that burning guy at Pinewood, ...
Any band who has a record label called "Hypgnosis" should be treated with much respect! I mean, you let them fill your head with shit like this and you can hardly complain when your life starts to look like some fucking demented high-school science project gone badly wrong! 😂❤️💕💓
... or a hard-core Guiness commercial, ...
These "little projects" are good for the whole soul, ...
... but they're unethical as buggery, so we need some real science going on behind it.
What they don't understand is the dependency the United States' economy has on this "big tech" monopoly. So they try to treat it as a national problem that can be solved to the benefit of the US, ... and of course it can't, because the US earns vast amounts of foreign income from this monopoly, without which it would collapse overnight. Now the rest of the world could help America sort this out, if only we weren't so busy trying to stop America from fucking us in the ass all the time.
Now I have more respect for Rachel Maddow. I always wondered why she did a fucking awful job of everything, but those assholes just carried on paying her to do it!!! 😂❤️💓💕
