PJ @pj@qoto.org
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Retired #systemsengineering professional and #organizationalchange coach with decades of experience in the #military and #aerospace domains.
WRT #STEM, I'm primarily interested in the #Science and #Engineering of #Systems. My stance towards #Technology is opportunistic (will use whatever works best for the occasion) and I consider #Mathematics a necessary evil to get things done properly.
My experience with #computing technology starts in the late '70s on a room-sized IBM machine running FORTRAN programs from buckets full of punch cards, turned hard towards HPL BASIC on a much smaller HP 9825A "fully algebraic desktop calculator" with a miniature magnetic tape cassette where to store programs, and abruptly ended a few years later after a couple of months of "peeking" and "poking" in ASM on an even smaller ZX81 connected to a BW portable TV.
Even if I was reasonably good at programming the moment I got my first DOS/Windows PC to play with at work and surf on something called the #Internet, I fell in love with things like #writing, #drawing, and #exploring new ideas, that could now be done much better and faster with this new gadget, so I soon decided that being a #user, doing the #design and #testing while dealing with other #people to define #product and #process #requirements is much more fun than the actual #development of the #software product itself.
I'm very glad I found this Mastodon #community where we can "Question Others to Teach Ourselves". Please feel free to ask questions and argue with anything I say. Be sure I'll be doing the same. Nothing is sacred. There are no stupid questions, just BS answers.
Stay safe and be nice to others.
PJ
Joined Oct 2022
This president always reminds me of Biff Tannen, the godfather in “Back to the future 2” .🤣
If there is one lesson to be learned from this election it is the fact that campaigns run on #fear are much more efficient than those run on #joy. When people are miserable they don't want to see other (hopeful) people having a good time.
Also, if you start your campaign with "mind your own business" don't finish it with ads advising me to "cheat" on my husband in the voting boot.
PJ
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" One of the things they keep reminding me is that good psychology is good social change. Authoritarian power is derived from fear of repression, isolation from each other and exhaustion at the utter chaos. We’re already feeling it.
Thus, for us to be of any use in a Trump world (or a Harris world, for that matter), we have to pay grave attention to our inner states, so we don’t perpetuate the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion or constant disorientation."
"If autocrats teach us any valuable lesson it’s this: Political space that you don’t use, you lose."
wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/…
#trust #community #resilience #ProtectingPeople #DefendingCivicInstitutions #DisruptAndDisobey #BuildingAlternatives
This has to be outlawed as immoral:
>The Times noted in a follow-up piece that Musk owns about 411 million Tesla shares, worth around $78 billion, and that he’d pledged 238 million shares for personal loans. Borrowing against their vast portfolios, as ProPublica has detailed, is how Musk, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, and other ludicrously wealthy Americans have managed to legally avoid the lion’s share of income taxes.
@MotherJones@press.coop
If Elon Musk and His Buddies Think Delaware Is Too Strict, We’ve Got a Problem There’s a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal about how billionaire...
#Neoliberal elimination of price controls, deregulation, and reduction of state influence in the economy, mostly via privatization and austerity, as an ideology for maintaining political power fits nicely with #postmodern rejection of the certainty of knowledge and stable meaning.
Elon Musk Fanboys Explain Why They Are Signing Up For Neuralink Human Trials
>“Pretty efficient way to put me out of my misery.”🤣
Ukrainian watchmaker fixes Newfoundland clock tower that hasn't told time in decades
What else can you expect from a "benevolent dictator" than to play innocent while his goons do his bidding?
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/19/congress/speaker-race-threats-house-00122416
>"#Effective_altruism is a philosophy that aims to do as much good as possible," explains Brian Berkey, associate professor of legal studies and business ethics at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, US. "It's how to help ensure people's time and resources are spent well in making the world a better place. Through empirical evidence, individuals can make more informed decisions over which charitable causes to support."
#Trickle_down economics on steroids, that's what it is:
You can't make this s#!t up!
Elon trying to look like a Patrick but still trading lower, and both of them surpassed by Harry Potter, the #1 Best Seller in the *"Children's Books on Orphans & Foster Homes"* category for audiobooks on Amazon:
Tim Gurner, CEO of the Gurner Group makes sure no one wants to work for his company.
>“In my view, we need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around,”
Nothing's more satisfying than a quick meal in your favorite joint after a hard day's work preventing an alien invasion.
>The Chinese influence peddlers worked regular office hours, based on Meta's analysis of the covert campaign. The unknown state-linked actors took regularly breaks for lunch and dinner, all done within Chinese timezones — despite the tricksters pretending they were located across the Western world.
😂
https://www.politico.eu/article/china-behind-largest-ever-digital-influence-operation-says-meta
What a spin doctor!
The real problem is not the #elite class gorging on stolen money and their self-serving "friends" in politics, but rather the "#professional class" that despite everything managed to get themselves an education and were lucky to find work as civil servants.
Fake "entrepreneurs" and their "yes men" pretending to care for the "little uneducated man" will save us all.
Disgusting🤮
BTW, I thought **class divide** is a term used only by "filthy Marxists":
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jesse-watters-makes-jaw-dropping-123319165.html
>“[Wind River] actually changed a law, where you can now be prosecuted if you’re a U.S. citizen for committing rape on an Indian reservation, and there’s now a database for missing murdered Indigenous women,” he says. “So keep your fucking award. Who’s going to remember I won an award in 10 years? But that law had a profound impact. All social change begins with the artist, and that’s the responsibility you have.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/taylor-sheridan-yellowstone-interview-1235519261/
Just finished watching #JuryDuty on #AmazonPrime.
Very nice and entertaining *hidden camera* type of improv comedy.🥇
Anything about #aliens in that stash?
Federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of former President Donald Trump acknowledging that he held onto a classified document about #...
>'Shark Tank's' Kevin O'Leary calls Target's $15B woke collapse a warning to corporations
While in the meantime, he is probably busy buying BUD and TGT stocks as NYSE suggests "Buy" for both🤔
>Interestingly, the brewing tensions over Muslim students declining to partake in in-class Pride activities recall the “reasonable accommodation” debates of yesteryear — only with the ideological roles reversed. **The same progressives who once breathlessly defended the right of Muslim women to don Niqabs in voting booths (and, famously, at citizenship ceremonies) are now claiming that celebrating Pride Month is a sine qua non of being Canadian**
And why is this such an issue?
It just shows that those progressives are consistently being #inclusive.
- Listening:
- https://radioparadise.com/listen/channels
Retired #systemsengineering professional and #organizationalchange coach with decades of experience in the #military and #aerospace domains.
WRT #STEM, I'm primarily interested in the #Science and #Engineering of #Systems. My stance towards #Technology is opportunistic (will use whatever works best for the occasion) and I consider #Mathematics a necessary evil to get things done properly.
My experience with #computing technology starts in the late '70s on a room-sized IBM machine running FORTRAN programs from buckets full of punch cards, turned hard towards HPL BASIC on a much smaller HP 9825A "fully algebraic desktop calculator" with a miniature magnetic tape cassette where to store programs, and abruptly ended a few years later after a couple of months of "peeking" and "poking" in ASM on an even smaller ZX81 connected to a BW portable TV.
Even if I was reasonably good at programming the moment I got my first DOS/Windows PC to play with at work and surf on something called the #Internet, I fell in love with things like #writing, #drawing, and #exploring new ideas, that could now be done much better and faster with this new gadget, so I soon decided that being a #user, doing the #design and #testing while dealing with other #people to define #product and #process #requirements is much more fun than the actual #development of the #software product itself.
I'm very glad I found this Mastodon #community where we can "Question Others to Teach Ourselves". Please feel free to ask questions and argue with anything I say. Be sure I'll be doing the same. Nothing is sacred. There are no stupid questions, just BS answers.
Stay safe and be nice to others.
PJ
Joined Oct 2022
