Building an operating system for managing planets at Ecosophy - https://xitter.cf/t.co/601ijvnyAo Former @OCCRP. Former MP at @althingi. @smari@mastodon.social

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But either way, it is massively disingenuous to say they want to stop illegal migration and drug trafficking while also maliciously defunding the network of organizations the US has built up over decades to help combat those very problems.
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Lava slowly creeps towards the police chief of Suðurnes, Iceland, during interview.
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I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org
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RIGGED ELECTIONS IN GEORGIA 🇬🇪 I've spent the last 48 hours proving fraud in the Georgian elections. Let me show you the evidence in 2 charts. Chart 1: Russian tail...
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This is pretty profoundly wrong. Arenas are great for control and performance, and have nothing to do with Rust (thankfully) or virtual machines.
When Rust programmers tell you to just use an arena and indices instead of pointers and dynamic memory to encode your data structures, they're essentially asking you to write a small virtual machine to work around the limitations of their programming language.
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Wear high visibility clothing at all times so you can be seen by drivers
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Dunking on OOP was easier
OOP Design Patterns is a scam. All you need is functions.
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Your brain on FP is believing that remembering ~50 functions is superior to learning a single language construct
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So. @WestJet owed me €600 compensation because they delayed my flight 2 days. They only send money to PayPal, which is dumb. I accidentally chose an account I opened while in the US, therefore a US account, and now @PayPal is refusing to give me my money for 180 days. What do?
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I'm angry with @WestJet for not offering options that aren't incredibly dumb. They could have used the international banking system instead of a single completely inane US company.
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But I'm WAY more pissed off at @PayPal for deciding, apparently arbitrarily, to withhold the money for HALF A YEAR for no clear reason.
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I'll be in the SF Bay Area for the next two weeks. Want to meet up? Ping me!
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Imagine a tech CEO you're considering working for or investing in. You reference check him with his former VP of Marketing and they say "unfit to be a CEO, never working with him again". You check with his former VP of Sales who says "should never be a CEO again". Damn, not good but you keep going. His former CTO says "he's borderline incompetent". You check with his former General Counsel who says "no respect for the rule of law, lies all the time, never working with him again". Ok really bad given he hired all these people but you try one more, his former CFO who says "I wouldn't work with him if I were you, he can't be trusted". That guy you're vetting? That's Trump. His former Vice President isn't supporting him and thinks he’s unfit for office. Same with his first Attorney General. And his first Defence Secretary. And his second. And his former head of the Joint Chiefs. Same with his second Chief of Staff. And his third. And his second National Security Advisor. And his third. You'd never work for or invest in a CEO who referenced so badly with so many senior people they chose to hire and worked closely with. Why would you ever vote for someone who does?
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The video montage of Tim Walz is 🔥🔥🔥
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I utterly condemn the far-right thuggery we have seen this weekend. Be in no doubt: those who have participated in this violence will face the full force of the law.
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Fuck you nazi scum My sons friend just messaged him to say he can’t play footy tomorrow as his dad fears he’ll be attacked for being a Muslim He was born in Britain, his dad was born in Britain, his grand dad was born in Britain Fuck you all
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Anti-muslim riots in the UK were fomented by disinformation from Russian propagandists and by ant-Muslim activists like Tommy Robinson - who has his own ties to Russia.....
1/🚨 Tommy Robinson and Russia🚨Given recent days, questions should be asked about Robinson's links to Russia. In 2020, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) went to Moscow & St Petersburg. This marked his 1st overt meeting with figures tied to malign elements within Russia. Some he met specialise in foreign influence operations / spreading disinformation.
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1/🚨 Tommy Robinson and Russia🚨Given recent days, questions should be asked about Robinson's links to Russia. In 2020, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) went to Moscow & St Petersburg. This marked his 1st overt meeting with figures tied to malign elements within Russia. Some he met specialise in foreign influence operations / spreading disinformation.
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We used to say Brexit was like watching your local library being burned down by people who can’t read and now it has actually happened.
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