Thomas Blackwood @followingdra@qoto.org

FACT: Matt Corallo, Bitcoin Developer, started working on Bitcoin while in high school.

Libyan terrorists nurtured by British imperialism bite the hand that feeds #ClassWar https://www.cpgb-ml.org/2018/09/05/news/libyan-terrorists-nurtured-by-british-imperialism-bite-the-hand-that-feeds/

Alexis de Tocqueville: Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Collusion between British security services and jihadis revealed #ClassWar https://www.cpgb-ml.org/2018/09/05/news/collusion-between-british-security-services-and-jihadis-revealed/

Thomas Paine: All national institutions of Churches appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and to monopolise power and profit.

Paul Warburg: We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent.

Thomas Narut: U.S. Naval psychologists specially selected men for these commando tasks from submarine crews, paratroops, and some convicted murderers were being released from prisons to become assassins.

My predictions: Twitter will be the first of the social media Old Guard to collapse. Facebook will be the second. What follows will be a war of sorts between decentralized platforms like Mastodon and Diaspora and centralized, though "free speech focused" platforms like BitChute, Minds and Gab. They will probably split along political lines (Mastodon and Diaspora lean mostly left; MGB, right), and they're pretty evenly matched, so I don't know who's going to win; it may tie pretty closely to the political situation of the next four to eight years.

#introduction
Hi everyone, I just tried Mastodon out since yesterday (I heard about it for a while tho).
I'm finishing my master degree in CS next year in France. I'm a FOSS enthousiast and a great fan of formal methods (in CS at least).

Short term: I'm learning Rust (for those into CS stuff you should definitly take a look at it if you haven't already) and doing a chess AI (a modest one compared to what we do today).

Medium term: Work and live for a while in China to learn about those guys, I think we still don't understand each other well enough.

Long term: try to improve the way we as humans interact with Big Data, AI and computers in general because I think that our usage is not sane yet (and especially for Big Data).

I didn't plan to introduce myself but I guess that's a kind of tradition. I'm looking forward to read and write interesting stuff with you guys 😀