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2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.

"I'm an idiot.. At least this one [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.."
(Linus Torvalds in response to a bug report.)
> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..
Disquieting ...
(Gonzalo Tornaria in response to Linus Torvalds's mailing about a kernel bug.)
> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..
We need to find some new terms to describe the rest of us mere mortals
then.

Dropping the penny is one thing, but like everything this moronic administration does is unplanned chaos.
https://fortune.com/2025/10/30/america-is-running-out-of-pennies-costing-millions/

America’s officially running out of pennies — and it’s costing retailers millions
“Let’s rip the waste out of our great nation’s budget, even if it’s a penny at a time,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Wow. I didn't know the history of R, actually, it's co-creator, Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Ross Ihaka, University of Auckland, of Māori descent.

A true global public good used by millions.
'...he remains modest and bighearted. Always resisting the pressure to commercialize his brainchild.'

Ross Ihaka: The Open-Hearted Data Hero - History of Data Science
Many inventors seek fame and fortune, or at least recognition. This isn’t the case for New Zealand statistician and associate professor George Ross Ihaka. Despite being the co-creator of R, an open-source programming language used by millions and loved by the likes of Google and the Bank of America, he remains modest and bighearted. Always resisting the pressure to commercialize his brainchild.

Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and
children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt,
tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards
uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half
of the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Primer paso: Heredar una fortuna.
Segundo paso: contactar a los amigos de tu papi.
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La receta de Nicolšs Ibšñez hijo para invertir en Estados Unidos
https://www.latercera.com/pulso/noticia/la-receta-para-invertir-en-…

#OpenAI is different. unlike robber barons orf yore, they didn’t #enslave masses, to pick cotton, extract oil or steel. They mined something more diffuse — every thought ever written, every photo ever shared, every line of code ever posted — and turned it into private property.
As Altman's

OpenAI Just Became America's Biggest Foundation. Now What?
OpenAI announced this week that their nonprofit now controls a $130 billion stake of the company, one of the largest philanthropic fortunes in America. I spent a decade giving away hundreds of millions in corporate philanthropy.

RawBench: A Comprehensive Benchmarking Framework for Raw Nanopore Signal Analysis Techniques
Furkan Eris, Ulysse McConnell, Can Firtina, Onur Mutlu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03629

RawBench: A Comprehensive Benchmarking Framework for Raw Nanopore Signal Analysis Techniques
Nanopore sequencing technologies continue to advance rapidly, offering critical benefits such as real-time analysis, the ability to sequence extremely long DNA fragments (up to millions of bases in a single read), and the option to selectively stop sequencing a molecule before completion. Traditionally, the raw electrical signals generated during sequencing are converted into DNA sequences through a process called basecalling, which typically relies on large neural network models. Raw signal an…

THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #8: LAIDBACK
This language was developed at the Marin County Center for T'ai Chi,
Mellowness and Computer Programming (now defunct), as an alternative to
the more intense atmosphere in nearby Silicon Valley.
The center was ideal for programmers who liked to soak in hot tubs while
they worked. Unfortunately few programmers could survive there because the
center outlawed Pizza and Coca-Cola in favor of Tofu and Perrier…