🚨BREAKING: Chinese national who organises pro-Palestine rallies at UCLA, Liu Lijun, has just had her visa revoked

The Trump admin isn’t playing about. pic.twitter.com/DdozRjzE6n

— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) January 31, 2025

!asians is that at least like a Uyghur name? Do Uyghurs look different then Han?

Okay so this is just a full on Chinese. Weird!

I really, really, REAAALLY wanna drink right now, but I have a super promising date tomorrow, so I can't

But I'm defo going to the casino and getting fricking wasted after the date, regardless of how it goes (It's just our first date)

Are you drinking, frens?

!metashit :D

Current HP: 117/120

Current Mana: 160/180

Inventory:

• 1 Cookie

• 5 Marleycoins

I know people are going to talk about the money, but say someone was buying it for you, what are your opinions of the game outside of cost?

And yes, because I am a troll, I want to join the same Pirate Software server and join that guild harassing him in-game. teeeheeee

Trench crusade is doomed

!animalposters !cats

Was reading up on these protests trying to find any updates and was fascinated:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/canadas-trudeau-says-us-far-right-misinforming-muslims-lgbtq-schools

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-progressive-left-discards-muslims-as-un-canadian

Holy shit trudeau literally said the teacher who said it's uncanadian to be homophobic was in the wrong

Muslims are gonna win this thing and erode every liberal values, ppl are so afraid of being racist they let you do whatever to women, gays or any other minority

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma42so8/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma42s0m/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma41clf/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma41hy4/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma43n8f/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma41uqv/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnAustralian/comments/1ie25sg/what_are_reasons_australians_wouldnt_want_to/ma40x6h/?context=8

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups#intcid=_vanity-fair-verso-hp-trending_2c8c94d5-70bd-4bb4-bb07-df0fd1d13370_popular4-1_fallback_cral-top2-2

!friendsofredactor0 !redscarepod

These r-slurs truly think CHYNA is some free society built on socialist values. Are these neighborz even realz?

Lmao. China is so authoritarian they allowed these brave story fabricators to operate as long as their no. 1 adversary was willing to find them.

"Give me 300k per year to say China bad"

45% of Democrats want their party to be less extreme, vs 27% of Republicans.

!anticommunists !trump2028

Wow. Congress just tabled a bill that would *actually* kill open-source. This is easily the most aggressive legislative action on AI—and it was proposed by the GOP senator who slammed @finkd for Llama.

Here's how it works, and why it's different to anything before it. pic.twitter.com/XKIWWY7oYv

— Ben Brooks (@opensauceAI) February 1, 2025

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Hawley-Decoupling-Americas-Artificial-Intelligence-Capabilities-from-China-Act.pdf

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ifk4mj/new_bill_will_make_it_a_crime_to_download/

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ifk3ds/new_bill_will_make_it_a_crime_to_download/

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104172442

For anyone unfamiliar, the eponymous "crises" in the title are NOT about the evil orange man who is bad - Notes on the Crises is a political economy newsletter started a few years ago by Nathan Tankus to comment on the intersecting global economic disasters triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Nathan is a @TracingWoodgrains style "truth neurodivergent" not a wingcucked political hack. He's just a big giant dork who does things like FOIA request the minutes from all US Federal Reserve Board meetings from 1967-1973

Nathan looks like this, and I would believe almost anything that he writes, because it is backed by powerful neurodivergent spirits.

When he writes about the COBOL code in the treasury department, I'm confident he's talking to beardy old men who write and maintain that code.

I would also like to clarify some confusion on social media. The issue with understanding and grasping a COBOL system is not knowing COBOL, as a programming language, in the abstract. Nor is it, god help me, something that AI can "do" because you fired one of these chatbots up and got some code that could compile when you asked "write me some COBOL code". The issue is understanding the specific physical limitations of the system, the way that it interacts with the "Business Logic" of the code and a million other contextual factors.

There is specific code which tells you where to direct specific payments in specific ways and the structures, and why they are structured the way they are, requires deep contextual knowledge. This is "business logic". The entire issue with COBOL and why it has been such a struggle to maintain it is that COBOL systems (both private and public) developed for decades with very little documentation, have a million different path dependent coding choices. Mar Hicks 2020 article in Logic Magazine "Built to Last" is worth a read on this topic.

This is what I meant yesterday when I referenced that 30 different COBOL systems at Treasury had developed their own "dialects" and they launched Payment Application Modernization (PAM), which among other things, unified them. What they unified was the business logic of those systems (as well as likely other factors, most notably the physical architecture of the systems they ran on). Part of me wishes they didn't modernize with PAM because those 30 different and distinct systems would have been more secure from their infiltration. PAM processed 4.7 trillion dollars of payments in 2024.

It's also true that some similar issues can emerge with other more recent programming languages and the way "business logic" emerges if a mission critical IT system developed using a more recent programming language. But COBOL is unique; after all it's literally "common business-oriented language". So while knowing the COBOL programming language is better than not knowing it, it does not make that much of a difference with these young Musk programmers mucking about.

Happy bday peanut