Alexis Zarkov
lumennaturalis.bsky.social
Alexis Zarkov
@lumennaturalis.bsky.social
Mathematician, physicist, philosopher, inveterate wiseass.
Jesus, Nichols thinks he's kidding.
November 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It was generally agreed that lack of coordination, particularly FBI/CIA, was a flaw that permitted 9/11 and had to be corrected, but the standard Washington solution of extending a treelike hierarchy upward is intrinsically flawed. See www.scribd.com/document/357...
John Backus Turing Award Lecture | PDF | Functional Programming | Programming Language
Functional programming
www.scribd.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
As I recall DHS was created as a corollary of Democratic pushback against Bush; trying to look tough on "terror". A bad idea then and now, classic "when in doubt, create a new bureaucracy" Demthink. [Mirroring the creation of the DNI, Bush's way of retaliating against the CIA for insubordination.]
November 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Hopefully so. Best reporting on DOGE, far and away. Keep it up.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
And here's why that's bad news for Joe Biden.
November 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Next they'll be running alien abduction stories.
October 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Precisely why these people are simultaneously working to make sure there never is another Dem administration.
October 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Four years? you sweet summer child.
October 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
But he should take no chances and buy a shitload of TrumpCoin as well.
October 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Occasionally I look at a guy, Richard Feynman for instance, and quote Zorba, saying, some men should live a thousand years. — Some women too.
October 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM