Brendan Halpin
bthalpin.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Brendan Halpin
@bthalpin.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Sociologist in Limerick

Mostly playing with unrealistic computer models of real world processes

Emacs, Stata, Shiny & Rstats, Julia, Python

Linux on the […]

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@simon_brooke "6. Corporations, despite being persons, may only be punished for crime by fines; etc"

...and not too much because it might hurt them
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
@simon_brooke I recently happened across a copy of Nevil Shute's Trustee from the Toolroom, and re-read it. Quite a few neuro-divergent characters, before the term was invented! (Main character a fitter/engineer obsessed with making fine miniature working models.)
December 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
"financé par un milliardaire d’extrême droite, Pierre-Edouard Stérin"

Starting to make sense: it's a defamation claim from an astroturf organisation funded by a far-right billionaire. Normal billionaires wouldn't bother, but the extreme right don't want to operate within the existing democratic […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Reposted by Brendan Halpin
This [KEYBOARD] is a machine that turns [UNHINGED IDEAS] into [THREE OR FOUR LIKES ON MASTODON AND MAYBE ONE OR TWO BOOSTS].
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Gamification of opposition! Go for it!
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM