Philip M. Bacchi

Im looking forward to the Singularity 😇

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

Investors like Paul want the immigration debate to be strictly polar because it is the only way their traitorous ideas might seem reasonable.

They paint one side as racist, backwards, economically illiterate absolutists and the other as enlightened, growth-minded cosmopolitian realists. Support for laws that protect American citizens can be dismissed as uneducated, anyone who hires immigrants or foreigners in any capacity a hypocrite.

American law should, and does, advantage American citizens. We should not have to compete on an even playing field with billions of people who almost universally don't share our values or respect our institutions, even if they are "the most qualified" or willing to work double the hours for the same wages. The men running Operation Paperclip did not think Americans should have to compete with the entire Third World, they understood that a carefully controlled amount of highly-skilled expert immigration is net good for America even when allegience is in question.

It is worth noting that even on a purely economic level, ignoring all burdens of loyalty or allegiance to your countrymen and treating America as nothing but an economic activity zone, it still doesn't make sense to say without qualification that foreigners should get any job where they are more qualified than their American counterpart.

As just one easy example out of dozens, about 20% of immigrants return home after less than five years, taking all their savings and vested shares with them. Another 20% will leave within ten years, doing the same. All the while, they will wire, on average, ~15% of their wages out of the United States economy every month. Some occupations and origins average 30%! The idea that this should be completely ignored with regard to employment and immigration policy is rampant among the same people who tell you with a straight face that limits on immigrants will destroy the American economy, that the dumb rednecks need to be saved.

I lean very libertarian and have strongly supported immigration to America for many years with countless public examples. That doesn't put me on the same side as the men who want to sell out America, and no amount of long-past accomplishment obliges any of us to listen to their lectures from the other side of the Atlantic.

[Philip M. Bacchi @pbacchi_io]

@HLC_actual Please tell me "the kid" got a kill. Hell even a ground target would be nice.

[Tim Pool @Timcast]

I call on trekkies to join me in invading star trek

we will retcon everything after voyager and begin a new series following the aftermath of the dominion war

[Philip M. Bacchi @pbacchi_io]

@elonmusk I think you should focus on constitutional amendments,call it a 21st century Bill of Rights, that puts heavy restrictions on Congress and any other branch of government necessary, because Congress is where the problem is and there’s no possibility that they will fix it themselves. Go to the constitutional convention route which I believe requires 34 states to initiate and 38 states to ratify amendments independent of Congress.

[Philip M. Bacchi @pbacchi_io]

@Schizointel @HLC_actual

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Jelly vs jam vs preserves vs marmalade

[MrGM @MrGMYT]

There’s an amazing website that’s been created where you can check which easily obtainable Mounts you’re missing in World of Warcraft

I found it on Reddit and is created by Onkie (can’t find them Twitter) but it’s really great and I highly recommend!
https://t.co/vdJ938TA5E

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

Today's big beef is between tech-success maximizers like @elonmusk and MAGA nationalists who think the US job market is being flooded by low-skill immigrants because employers don't want to pay competitive wages to Americans.

To be honest, I think both sides are making some sound points. But I'd rather focus on a different aspect of the problem.

When I entered the job market as a fledgling programmer back in the early 1980s, I didn't have to worry that some purple-haired harpy in HR was going to throw my resume in the circular file because I'm a straight white male.

I also didn't have to worry that a hiring manager from a subcontinent that shall not be named would laugh at my qualifications because in-group loyalty tells him to hire his fourth cousin from a city where they still shit on the streets.

It's a bit much to complain that today's American students won't grind as hard as East Asians when we abandoned meritocracy more than 30 years ago. Nothing disincentivizes working your ass off to excel more than a justified belief that it's futile.

Right now we're in and everybody-loses situation. Employers aren't getting the talent they desperately need, and talent is being wasted. That mismatch is the first problem that needs solving.

You want excellence? Fire the goddamn HR drones and the nepotists. Scrap DEI. Find all the underemployed white male STEM majors out there who gave up on what they really wanted to do because the hiring system repeatedly punched them in the face, and bring them in.

Don't forget the part about paying competitive wages. This whole H-1B indentured-servitude thing? It stinks, and the stench pollutes your entire case for "high-skill" immigration. You might actually have a case, but until you clean up that mess Americans will be justified in dismissing it.

These measures should get you through the next five years or so, while the signal that straight white men are allowed to be in the game again propagates.

I'm not going to overclaim here. This will probably solve your need for top 10% coders and engineers, but not your need for the top 0.1%. For those you probably do have to recruit worldwide.

But if you stop overtly discriminating against the Americans who could fill your top 10% jobs, your talent problem will greatly ease. And you'll no longer get huge political pushback from aggrieved MAGA types against measures that could solve the rest of it.

Doesn't that seem like it's worth a try?

[Alexey Naumov @nallexn]

Happy to announce a major revamp of the clean architecture SwiftUI sample project!

What's changed:
•Project structure has been migrated to use @main App
•CoreData → SwiftData
•Combine → async - await
•XCTest → Swift Testing

https://t.co/WnWEnpDaO3

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Every successful revolution must face the big question.

"What now?"

When you achieve victory, when you seize power, what do you do with it? The way to answer that question is to return to your first principles... why did you rebel in the first place?

To "make America great again".

Well, why did America stop being great?

Infiltration of the apparatus of power by socialists.

Socialism is, and always has been, a scheme for rule by intellectuals. The working class stuff was only ever window dressing... a set of campaign promises made by socialist intellectuals to people with jobs.

"If you let us have total political and economic power over your entire nation, we will manage everything very smartly with our big smart-person brains, and make sure everything is great, with sunshine and rainbows."

But twenty-first century socialism developed a huge problem.

Capitalism started delivering on stuff that socialism only promised.

By the mid twentieth century, just after the war, it was easily possible for a young man to get married in his early twenties, purchase a home on a single working class income, and support his wife while she looked after the children.

That home and that life may have been modest by today's standards, but it was respectable, and men could feel pride in it, and advancing technology was making things cheaper and better all the time.

You can't get young men to fight a system that respects them and rewards their work.

And if socialism had really ever been about the working class, that would have been that. The working class is on a path to a stable, secure, happy existence.

Pack it in. Close the offices. We're done. Mission accomplished.

But socialism wasn't about fair treatment for the working class, it was about power for intellectuals.

So a new way had to found.

If capitalism was working too well for the working class, it had to be sabotaged. Choked with regulations. Taxed out of prosperity. Outsourced to China.

And a new underclass had to be found and imported.

And all of this had to be done without an actual wellspring of popular support.

So socialists set out to infiltrate the critical structures of society, and implement control without consensus.

The universities, so that the young could be indoctrinated into a future socialist consensus.

The press, so that the illusion of popular support for a socialist consensus could be created where none actually existed.

The federal and state bureaucracies, so that the law could be controlled and weaponized without the need for consensus, and so that third-world populations could be imported who were dependent in, and supportive of, socialism.

The trade unions and professional organizations, so that industries critical to the health and welfare of Americans and the economy could be sabotaged.

The election infrastructure, so that fake votes for socialist candidates could be ginned up.

This is how we got to where we are now.

We almost lost the republic.

During the years since 2008, socialist infiltration has done incalculable harm not only to America, but to the lives of individual Americans, some of irreversible.

Mitigating this damage, and seeking restorative justice — for example going after processed food companies like we went after tobacco companies, dismantling DEI and disparate impact policies, etc — is certainly on the agenda, but the highest priority must be reserved for removing socialist apparatchiks from the institutions they have infiltrated.

Why? Because the Trump administration has four years to do it.

If this work is not completed in four years, we risk subversion at the election level again.

If it is completed, at least to a large degree, then other projects can be allowed to take as long as necessary, because succeeding administrations will be elected according to the informed will of the American people, and will therefore be pro-capitalism, and pro-America.

So, what to do?

Federal bureaucracies must be cleansed. A large number of them, such as the Department of Education and the ATF, can simply be eliminated, because they serve no purpose at all.

Others can be purged under the auspices of DOGE.

DOGE itself can be set up as a sort of super-predator... a government agency that preys on government agencies instead of on citizens.

One of the best ways to implement this would be to set up hotlines, allowing the ordinary citizens to summon the DOGE when a federal agency does something ridiculously inefficient, grossly tyrannical, or simply silly.

Just as federal bureaucracies have gained power and budget by preying on people, and extending their influence into every aspect of life, the DOGE must be given the ability to discipline federal agencies, and incentivized to do so.

Appeals against a bureaucratic agency should, for example, no longer be handled by the agency itself (a clear conflict of interest), but by DOGE.

Eventually, fear of DOGE would keep agencies self-policing.

This could inspire states to set up their own equivalents where necessary.

The press must be brought in line. Since the press are a private organizations, and are constitutionally defended from interference, the solution here is not direct attack, but bolstering the competition.

X has been very effective at crowdsourcing the news, empowering legions of amateur sleuths, bloggers, and podcasters to counter the false narratives of the mainstream press.

Enhancing X and allowing it to feed (instead of censor) other monetization platforms), would allow this alternative press to earn more and expand their operations.

In addition, the mainstream press can be cut out of the loop... denied all direct access to the administration. Kick them out of the White House Press Corps and replace them with prominent internet dudes.

Want to get a message out to the American people? Go on Joe Rogan's show instead of NBC.

Force the New York Times and others of its ilk to become a secondary source, "reporting" on what they saw on Joe Rogan or Tucker Carlson.

There is no need to declare war on the traditional press... just support the legions of new internet media and commentators, because we are ready and waiting to eat their lunch.

Which would you rather read? A Devon Eriksen article, or a New York Times Op-Ed?

Thought so.

Now think what I could do with a research staff, and an investigative reporter or two.

The universities must be de-Marxified.

This need not be done through direct regulation. In fact, it's better if it isn't. Direct government action against universities would allow socialists to propagandize, crying about anti-intellectualism and Nazi book-burning, and generally rolling around on the ground and writhing in feigned agony, like a poncy European kickball player trying to draw the penalty card.

Instead, go after the universities' Unlimited Money Machine.... the federal Stafford loan program.

Since these loans are need-based, they allow universities to raise their fees without upper limit, and manipulate naive teenagers just out of college into spending vast sums of money they simply do not have, and will not be able to repay.

This is especially true since universities manipulate these kids into choosing stupid majors which will not pay off.

And since student loan debt is inescapable even through bankruptcy.

So this program in particular is ripe for attack. You are not "punishing universities". You are defending young people from debt slavery.

That's how sell the changes. Then you privatize the whole program.

If private banks are going to be shouldering the risk of student loans which are treated like any other loan, you can be sure they will not rubber stamp any amount for any major.

They will loan students what they think students can repay.

Smart kid? Good highschool grades? High SAT score? Wanna study computer science? Sure, kid, have fifty thousand dollars. Maybe even one hundred. But not two hundred fifty, that's ridiculous.

DEI admission? Women studies? Nah, kid, can't touch it. Sorry.

What this does is it subjects universities to market forces.

No longer can they endlessly subsidize stupid departments full of non-useful experts in dumb fields. No longer can they afford legions of silly administrative posts.

They have to show a profit. So they must direct resources at departments which do. Departments which those student loan banks are willing to invest in.

This starves the Marxist Ideologue Department at your local college. If universities are subject to the pressures of the free market, they will have to give useless dead weight the boot.

No direct lawfare required.

In addition, it also solves your H1B visa problem. Because the fact that you can get student loans for technical majors more easily (or at all) is sure as hell going to influence what kids choose to study.

You might even see tech companies start to invest in high school kids, funding their schooling in exchange for work after graduation.

The trade unions and professional organizations must be held accountable.

I have less to say on this one, as it would require a situational case-by-case response. Probably many cases would involve removal of special legal protections from liability, along with strict right-to-work laws.

Above all, the election infrastructure must be secured.

This would involve direct government action. Election laws specifying strict criteria for which election results could be certified in federal elections would do the trick, if coupled with strict scrutiny by both official and unofficial groups.

California would start purging its voter registration rolls and checking IDs real quick-like if failure to do so meant having all of their 54 electoral votes simply excluded from the official count.

Since my expertise is in computer science, much of that it in security and cryptography, I have a great deal to say about what those requirements could be, but I will save that rabbit hole for another day.

Suffice to say that it would be very possible to make election infrastructure very tamper-proof indeed, and completely and permanently auditable, including an ability for each individual citizen to cryptographically verify that their vote had been properly recorded and counted.

But let me emphasize that this is a solved problem. Election fraud is possible solely because certain people want it to be and for no other reason.

These must be the first priorities of any America-first administration. Other goals can, and should, be pursued in parallel (banning toxic food, securing the border, ending the Federal Reserve, etc), but the most critical step, the step which allows all others, is to make sure that future election results reflect the actual will of the American people.

Because everyone who isn't hopelessly deceived knows that Donald Trump won three elections.

[Philip M. Bacchi @pbacchi_io]

@mbrandonw @pointfreeco OK, what’s on the list? That’s an idea. Do you have a road map for where pointfree is going?

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@amuse @amuse]

I can’t imagine how frustrated the FAA and Boeing are right about now. If we don’t elect Trump in November I worry that this sort of innovation will be stifled…

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

"Good, our first catch of the day!"

OMG!

[Philip M. Bacchi @pbacchi_io]

@pointfreeco I asked https://t.co/3o86M4HUm3 if they supported TCA and this was their response. I wonder if y’all could team up to make that work

https://t.co/OSweGB99GL

[Philip M. Bacchi @pbacchi_io]

@aabewhite Can skip handle apps written with the compostable architecture? #TCA https://t.co/IqTldBHvqV

[Philip M. Bacchi @pbacchi_io]

@Warcraft https://t.co/ncgpl5qW5I

[Philip M. Bacchi @pbacchi_io]

@aabewhite Aww drat. Is it on the roadmap to have it working?

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

So, Cognition AI just introduced Devin, the most capable autonomous coding agent I've seen.

Instead of just autocompleting tasks, it can write entire apps on its own in minutes.

It also correctly resolves 13.86% of issues, autonomously.