Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 33

Hey there, hi there, ho there, this is your FAVORITE disk jockey, DJ Adrift-o on the comms and broadcasting to absolutely nobody and nothing. [long silence] The-- the phone lines are open and we're taking requests, so if you're out there, let us know. Until then, we're only playing the hits, so coming next is "Food Supplies Are Low and So Is Morale" by The Crew of the FORMIC. Anybody... is anybody out there?

I was hoping some time here would let me get my talk into a more coherent state but under the influence of this music I'm adding sections like "what even is an operating system anyway?" to my outline; send halp

Opossom done for Indomita.

#Mastoart #Krita #Indomita

Cat-like typing detected

#cats

Boss: Can we trust this code?

Me: Read this. <link to Thompson's 1984 "Trusting Trust" paper>

Boss: Dear God! Secure software is an illusion.

Me: And most machine learning is applied statistics.

Boss: Stop it! Lalalalala ... I can't hear you.

Me: My work here is done.

New blog post: https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2019/02/07/1 sometimes we misuse cool-looking tools, like Socratic questioning or the Devil's advocate position, by using them when we don't yet have a trusting relationship, a defined question & decision framework, or a magic circle

Anyone know any US-based public librarians who are active on the fediverse? I don't just mean aware of it, I mean actively participating on at least one federated social media instance

Elsevier: We were literally an arms dealer as recently as 2007, but you can totally trust us now!!

https://www.caat.org.uk/issues/arms-fairs/reed-elsevier