Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)

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Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· 29d

"Hot Cars". Admittedly, Irkutsk is having a bit of a heat wave (they are a tad warmed and wetter than Fairbanks). Where is Irkutsk you ask? "North of Mongolia".

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· 29d

Wondering if you can indigo ice-dye hair. While it's on your head. Brain won't stop today. Please stop. archive.org/details/back...

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· 29d

Why does Doonsbury seem better now than it did then?

Skull and Bones steals Van Buren's skull for Bush I. So says Doonsbury, anyway.

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· 29d

Well, that was a rabbit hole.

4th week of December 1988, Doonsbury depicted Skull and Bones stealing Van Buren's skull to honor the election of Bush I.

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jul 13

The short one was me in '76. I got to sing about hanging King George.

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jul 13

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jul 12

Cannibalism

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jul 12

Consume their power and BECOME FREEDOM!

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jul 10

Free for the first 5,000 miles.

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jul 10

Bomb disarming codes protected by paywall...

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jul 9

I was a Far Side/Calvin and Hobbes/Bloom County guy. However...

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jul 8

First nice(ish) bike I had was a Roger Rivière branded boom-bike. Dude set a number of cycling records... all doped to the gills. Eventually drove off the course in 1960, broke his back. He blamed his mechanic but his pocket were full of pills.

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jul 6

But that isn't fun for them.

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jul 6

GenX had it's own malaise.

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jul 6

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 30

$5.50 for a Yucca 574 pack in 1970 $50 today. Which feels like a lot until you price daypack sized packs today. Jansport classic style daypack? $65 Inflation is moving faster than my brain.

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 30

In retrospect... Mr. Banks killing the bank CEO and then getting a place on the board tells us a lot about the world.

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 29

www.psubs.org/magart/MI_Sp...

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 29

What's it like in your head?

Handicapped parking space printed upside down.

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 29

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 29

You want to find a tent full of guys interested in skin care? "Light green and Loam."

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 25

If you draw the short straw and have to reenact OPFOR, do it like this guy. BDUs and tennis shoes profile, no headgear, missing eagle ensignia. Skip the iron cross though (though this one appears to not have the swastika in it) and do a sports badge. Or a pokemon medal.

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 25

Berthold Woltze: Der lästige Kavalier/The Annoying Gentleman This painting is perfect in every way (except in that the world it depicts exists).

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 25

I mean, we were the only ones who though it was the "End of History"... that liberal democracy and market capitalism were the endpoint. Dude who formulated that... ah. He has an arc, at least. Was predicting today 10 years ago. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/43715...

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 25

I wonder how many of these terms have changed meaning since the coining of "Information Dominance" Mind you, the wrap up to that paper is crazy 90s pilled. universityofleeds.github.io/philtaylorpa...

Make Them See Things Your Way

As Sun Tzu noted, the acme of military skill is the ability to win without fighting. Information dominance, as such, may obtain, for instance, if one state could convince another that its interests were just and should be acceded to. History shows few cases where zero-sum claims (I want what you have) are happily conceded. But the interests of the United States (or the West, in general) are regarded as universal and positive: an acceptance of the status quo, abjuring the use of force and coercion in international relations, adhering to the rule of law, the fair and free flow of commerce, the bolstering of human rights, etc. If all other nations were to accept these principles (the Nazis and Communists did not), then the resolution of further disputes would lie in implementation details. Ideological dominance, the "End of History" as it were, is, in many ways the highest form of information dominance.

Such dominance may have a counterpart in cyberspace. In a digitized age, information systems are the lenses through which warfighters look at their world: these lenses magnify the important at the expense of the trivial. Might there be a way to construct an information system for international security that reflects the orientation of its chief architects? Can others be induced to adopt it; if so, will they let their own systems atrophy? That being so, might then a renegade nation be unable to develop an opposing concept of international security without a determined act of will, global scrutiny, decades of work, and considerable national treasure? No one knows the answer to these questions, but if they are "yes" the concept of information dominance may some day assume a far greater importance than mere support to warfighting as known and practiced throughout human history.

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 23

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 22

This isn't where I was going with this? I was referring to how when DC was a literal swamp moving there for a gov job stood a chance of killing your family (see: kids of several presidents). Looks like some number of local service-level workers still live in DC. FIL's family was of this group BITD.

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 22

TIL what's old is new again... commodore.net/computer/

Sir Unqualified Expert, Knight of the Lambda Calculus (Apostate)@unqualifiede· Jun 22

Holds up the bad elastic on the tights? Works for sweat pants.