1776-2025. “No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.” (Vladimir Lenin)

I am not a GNAT. #notagnat

Ask yourself why Rolling Stone is the only outlet performing this obvious public service.

Confirmed!

True story bro.

The @pragprog.com Spring Sale is here, featuring my book, "Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks," among other great books. Week 6, dubbed "Fresh Perspectives," starts May 14, 2025, and ends May 21. Use promo code 2025PERSPECTIVES at the Publisher's site pragprog.com/titles/dzsev...

Even Fox knows it.

From the stack-oriented design of Forth to the early object-oriented experiences in Simula, bridge the chasm between contemporary code and legacy systems. Updating or maintaining older systems? This could be your lifeline. by Dmitry Zinoviev @aqsaqal.bsky.social pragprog.com/titles/...

Welcome to Russia 2.0!

The Prisoner of Château d'If-Then-Else.

A random thought. #dancer #danger #ballet #art

A brilliant Banksy.

The nadir of American diplomacy.

Did you know that ()() is not a #palindrome, but ())( is? Now, live with that.

"We have overlooked one day" 😞

Call me old fashioned, but being Russia’s KGB agent “Krasnov” since 1987 should disqualify Trump from being President of the United States. Retroactively, immediately, and forever.

ChatGPT: "You're absolutely right! There was no fall-through in the original switch statement. The [[fallthrough]] in my optimized version was a mistake... Fixed the incorrect [[fallthrough]]." Also, DOGE fired nuclear weapons workers. Do they use ChatGPT, too?

Действительно, очень большие яички!!

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

Once you realize that Trump and all the MAGA Republicans are working for Russia and Saudi Arabia, not America, everything they do makes sense.

Sounds like they made a fascist turducken.

We hurt for more than ourselves by electing him. Far, far more.

I shocked my operating systems students by telling them that client/server systems used to be called master/slave systems. They could not believe such monstrosity was possible, but fir us, it was perfectly acceptable terminology!

Just a reminder that my colleagues Prlin Bicen and Arka Sarkar published the paper "The “Non-Musk” effect at X (Twitter)" explaining the takeover of Twitter by Musk link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trudeau: I think Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us. I don’t think there are a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning saying, "Oh, damn Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada."

@aqsaqal.bsky.social celebrating his latest PragProg release - Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks Open your eyes to new ways of thinking about programming, and change the way you code today. http://pragprog.com/titles/dzseven #Forth #Occam #APL #Simula #SNOBOL #Starset #m4 #7in7

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Our beloved Canada is under threat. The threat comes from the president of the US—a convicted felon and known predator. But the threat is also being driven by the hate algorithms of oligarchs like Elon Musk….

"New ways of thinking from old languages… helpful in plotting feline world domination?" ~Dmitry's skeptical cat @aqsaqal.bsky.social https://pragprog.com/titles/dzseven

Breaking: A Reagan-appointed judge just blocked Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.”

It was a Nazi salute and anyone who says otherwise is lying.

If you have a PhD and do not have imposter syndrome, you are an imposter.

Screenshot from Duolingo four years ago on this date. They knew.

I’ve uploaded the full set of slides from last year’s AI & Society course to Google Docs. In case anyone’s interested. #ai #courseware #society drive.google.com/drive/folder...

About to geek out on a Christmas present, "Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks" by @aqsaqal.bsky.social I foresee interesting takes on problem solving, getting reacquainted with old frenemies Forth and Simula, and two or three headaches along the way.

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

what the actual ….

Did you know that the longest night of the year gradually decreases by about 72 milliseconds per year while also oscillating with the period of roughly 19 years? Practically speaking, if you're over nineteen, the shortest day of your life has already passed! 🌌✨ #Astronomy #Time

True story.

I think this is the only way to get Trump to turn on him. Let’s all start calling Musk the president.

My favorite conferences: * International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2) * INSNA Sunbelt * International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet) What other conferences in the fields of computational social science and network analysis would you recommend?

"...the very idea that all of the physical and social world can be divided up into discrete parts, each tagged with the name of an owner, is a part of capitalism's ideological infrastructure that had to be painstakingly constructed over many years" (Peter Frase, "Four Futures").

My most recent books are in, and, insanely, on the same day! Thanks to @pragprog.com and Chapman & Hall/CRC for publishing and FedEx and USPS for delivery :)

Thank you, I didn't know it but I really needed to see this after seeing the one tRump (or whoever first did) posted. This was brilliant and got good giggles.

The Soviet Politbureau instantly comes to mind... It is scary how rapidly the USA becomes a poor replica of the late Soviet Union. When I came to the States for the first time in 1993, the USSR had just collapsed. "No empire lasts forever," they said. Is it the US turn?

#MakeEarthFlatAgain!