swiley @swiley@qoto.org
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Email mastodon+swiley@swiley.net (this makes all of my computers beep and turn on an indicator light and is always the fastest way to reach me.) I was on octodon a while ago but abandoned my account. I've never been a member of gab or parlor.
If you’d like to learn to program I would consider the SICP [1] more or less the peak of American CS pedagogy (at least as far as beginners go) along with “The Practice of Programming” once you get through that.
I play ukulele, I’m ok at reading music and decent at improv. I learned from Walter Piston’s “Harmony” and some of Adam Neely’s videos.
My main phone is a pine phone so if I don’t pick up when you call the battery is probably dead, the modem is probably dead, or I’m currently swearing at calls/pulseaudio/alsa. I’d strongly recommend sending an email instead.
Dispite what my web page says I’ve stopped uploading my scratch projects to GitHub once I started to understand the basics of collaboration with git. I was using the flamegraph as gamification/motivation but it doesn’t work as well with feature branch/squash merge workflows so I just keep most things on my VPS until I’m happy with publishing updates.
[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
Joined Jan 2021
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EXPOSED: China stockpiled PCR tests many months before first covid case emerged
PCR tests are worthless without the verified pure sample provided to labs to calibrate instruments. They still do not have a purchasable sample of covid...
https://www.newstarget.com/2021-10-05-china-stockpiled-pcr-tests-months-before-covid.html
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"Eschatological leftists, rather than genuine liberals, or for that matter eschatological nationalists or religious fanatics, are not interested in righting this or that individual wrong, reforming this or that defective institution; they aim at resetting the terms and limits of human existence itself. They are like doctors who, instead of wanting to cure illness, want to abolish death. They dream of an existence in which there are no frustrations, no contradictory desires, no conflicting interests. For them anything less than root and branch change is but a sticking plaster over a gaping wound, and anyone who enjoys the present moment is deficient in compassion for those who are not in a position to do so. The only permissible enjoyment is in fighting the good fight.
Why? What is the gaping wound that they want to heal? It is the transitoriness of human life to which, in the absence of religious belief, they cannot reconcile themselves, the life that Macbeth says is full of sound and fury that signifies nothing. They seek in political action that transcendence that would assure them that their lives in fact have significance; and since the problem is a metaphysical one that will never be solved, victory over eschatological political belief, of whatsoever kind, is never final or even very lasting. Indeed, as things get materially better chiliasm grows stronger, for people have greater leisure to dwell upon their dissatisfactions."
Theodore Dalrymple
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MooN
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#info #news
Key Architect of mRNA Technology Argues a Vaccine-Only Strategy Won’t Work
Dr. Robert Malone advocates a four-pronged approach to tackling Covid, one that relies less on universal vaccination and more on empowering and better informing individuals.
https://globalcovidsummit.org/news/key-architect-of-mrna-technology-argues-a-vaccine-only-strategy-wont-work
https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD
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Bomb shell news has been dropped. Do your own research don't rely only on one source check and double check!
https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/04/teen-boy-deaths-increased-by-63-percent-since-they-had-covid-vaccine/
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Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists
https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2021/10/ti-calculator-innovation/
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"Scandinavians curb Moderna shots for some younger patients"
https://www.wtrf.com/news/international/sweden-suspends-use-of-moderna-vaccine-for-young-people/
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"Sweden, Denmark pause Moderna vaccine for younger age groups"
https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/10/06/sweden-denmark-pause-moderna-vaccine-for-younger-age-groups/
@Kelly_NAproducR @adam
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From Sidney Powell:
DoD Documents: Over 70% "COVID" Hospitalizations are "Fully Vaccinated" Over 65 https://rumble.com/vnb99j-dod-documents-over-70-covid-hospitalizations-are-fully-vaccinated-over-65.html?
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(🇫🇷) L'Assemblée nationale lance une « consultation citoyenne » pour comprendre l’#abstention https://frontpopulaire.fr/o/Content/co667479/l-assemblee-nationale-lance-une-consultation-citoyenne-pour-comprendre-l-ab
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ICYMI: EFF's @joemullin recently spoke with Electronic Frontier Alliance member @ef_georgia about the the risks of Apple's CSAM solution. You can now catch the full talk here: https://twitter.com/ef_georgia/status/1445807078321397760?s=20
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- mastodon+swiley@swiley.net
swiley.net
Email mastodon+swiley@swiley.net (this makes all of my computers beep and turn on an indicator light and is always the fastest way to reach me.) I was on octodon a while ago but abandoned my account. I've never been a member of gab or parlor.
If you’d like to learn to program I would consider the SICP [1] more or less the peak of American CS pedagogy (at least as far as beginners go) along with “The Practice of Programming” once you get through that.
I play ukulele, I’m ok at reading music and decent at improv. I learned from Walter Piston’s “Harmony” and some of Adam Neely’s videos.
My main phone is a pine phone so if I don’t pick up when you call the battery is probably dead, the modem is probably dead, or I’m currently swearing at calls/pulseaudio/alsa. I’d strongly recommend sending an email instead.
Dispite what my web page says I’ve stopped uploading my scratch projects to GitHub once I started to understand the basics of collaboration with git. I was using the flamegraph as gamification/motivation but it doesn’t work as well with feature branch/squash merge workflows so I just keep most things on my VPS until I’m happy with publishing updates.
[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
Joined Jan 2021
