[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

A tweet from Robert Reich states: “The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?”

The oligarchy wants full control of what we watch and read.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

A tweet from Melat Kiros for Congress reads: “I’m sure it’ll trickle down any day now.” It quotes John Fugelsang’s tweet, which says: “The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickle-down economics began, it was 31.”

It started with Reagan and has accelerated under Trump.

This is your sign to RESIST! #PortlandFrog #Resist #NoKings #Protest #ProtestSign #NoKingsDay

Trump has explicitly stated that he is terminating federal employees based on political affiliation. Data is currently being collected, but layoff notices have already gone out to employees at the Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy,

Stand tall. We will win.

Sharing 16 seconds of peace - a small RMNP stream from last summer. [And hey! Glad to meet ya! Follow me if you love nature, seek peace and pursue kindness for all.] #peace #waterfall #asmr #nature #tiktokrefugee

C.J. Kayfus is hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and two outs in the ninth inning to clinch a playoff berth for the Guardians.

Somehow, it feels fitting.

Clinched! Guardball chaos!

Without the depraved, untethered-from-reality brain of Trump, we wouldn’t know Portland is ravaged by war.

This is THE way. Thanks for leaning in on this important task. Proceed and be bold. 💫

We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.

THUGS

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

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Find Your People Thank you to Bucknell University for inviting me to be this year's commencement speaker. And congratulations to the Class of 2025!  Watch the speech on YouTube. Thirty-two...

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*kidnapped (Citizens are not ‘deported’).

So I modified my Bluesky username to @unang.st. Can you see it or does it say @unangst.bsky.social?

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America.

Hats off to all the #HandsOff protestors yesterday!

Next step for the US, work towards a general strike ✊

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If you are (rightfully) worried about privacy when signing a strike card, follow their own instructions below, give a false phone number and get a temporary email address.

#HANDSOFF NORTHEAST OHIO CHAGRIN FALLS!!!

It is truly inspiring to see how much energy the #HandsOff rallies are channeling.

What’s next? Flex your economic power.

Boycott the corporations that are buying our democracy.

Test dog video. Who’s walking who?

DeWine watches as Trump signs order to dismantle the education department Trump's plan would return education authority to states but it faces Congressional and court hurdles.

Ohioans - are you paying attention? www.cleveland.com/news/2025/03...

Join us March 22nd from 12pm-2pm at the NEW Cuyahoga Valley National Park free speech zone for a peaceful protest in support of public land workers and public lands. #protest #CVNP

Resistance is alive and well in the United States Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.

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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive