Notices by Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel 🇪🇺🌹🌻 (alper@refactorcamp.org), page 7

@Elmkast My new jam is taking everything at face value as hard as I can.

@rixx German YA? Don't mind if I do. Solid list by the way! Though sad that I can't come up with any additions.

@Elmkast Quick read so you might as well but don't expect too much from it.

Facebook is even worse than a criminal enterprise because most criminal enterprises don't target children.
https://www.revealnews.org/article/facebook-knowingly-duped-game-playing-kids-and-their-parents-out-of-money/

@aRandomCat Would be lovely to have a society of career women and domestic men.

@Danhon I'd stick with the German and quote Wittgenstein: "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen."

(Some dipshit borrowed my tractatus long ago and never returned it I recall now.)

I am increasingly of the opinion that German is fundamentally unsuited for digital work. Language demarcates a socio-cultural space.

Always so sad when somebody you respected starts believing their own hype.

@bitboxer That stopped for me since they can talk and I go out about town speaking very loudly and obnoxiously in Dutch to them. 🤣

I don’t get it: you wouldn’t comment on anybody in the street how cute they look, what makes it ok to do this with (my) kids?

Is it because they’re defenseless and therefore can’t retaliate?

@BruceJia This was based on this short update: https://twitter.com/ard_bab/status/1084784111347220480?s=12

Germany is proceeding to monumentally fuck up its land tax reform. Exactly what we need right now.

And for the entirety of Germany the current land tax revenue is only €13B!? That's a joke.

@Elmkast You will barely do any programming in R itself (maybe loop over some dimensions or segments) but instead mostly use the APIs sequentially to do analysis and plotting would be my guess.

So mostly writing short scripts by example and understanding the statistics that it's actually about.

@ye Cultured Code/Things is doing more or less anything I need.

@riga From what I've seen not even that high caliber.

AHP is one of the best writers on our culture on any given day but with this one she has resoundingly hit it out of the park. I'd add connections to Premium Mediocre and Crashed to top this off.

The solution to this situation is like she describes 1. to learn how to live: there's no point in doing stuff for others if you do not want to and 2. to radicalize yourself: our condition is deliberately created by people who benefit from it and it can be uncreated.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work

@kureshii There's bound to be some good stuff in his mix and match of philosophy and self-help.

I"m just thinking: maybe I could control more things if I left the house more.

I have been railing a bit against my domestic confinement but having just read Trungpa I am reassured that this is the right path:

“But if you do not start at home, then you have no hope of helping the world. So the first step in learning how to rule is learning to rule your household, your immediate world. There is no doubt that, if you do so, then the next step will come naturally. If you fail to do so, then your contribution to this world will be further chaos.”

@bitboxer I mean nothing you can do about that, right? The only thing you can influence is how you deal with it.

(And to be honest I think I have had it pretty easy in most respects and not that easy in only a couple.)