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[?]Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 » 🌐
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The thing is, nobody really wants the job of Labour Leader right now....

1mago 06.50 GMT Labour ‘failing on every count’ under Starmer, says Unison leader Andrea Egan in call for party to shift left Labour’s defeat in Gorton and Denton is likely to reignite calls for Keir Starmer to be replaced as leader. Lucy Powell, Labour’s deputy leader, appeared to anticipate this in comments earlier this morning, when she insisted that Starmer was “the person for the job”. (See 5.31pm.) But this morning Andrea Egan, the relatively new leftwing general secretary of Unison, one of the two biggest unions backing Labour, said the party is “failing on every count” under Starmer. In a statement she said: 44 The Greens won for a simple reason. Many traditional Labour supporters, in Manchester and across the country, want to see progressive values robustly defended against the far-right, not gleefully abandoned. A Labour government should be standing up for workers, defending migrants and refugees, and taking the fight to Nigel Farage rather than letting him set the agenda. Under Keir Starmer the party is failing on every count, leaving the Greens to fill the vacuum. Cosying up to the rich and powerful, and protecting their interests whilst attacking ordinary working people and the left has singularly failed. The prime minister is now reaping the electoral consequences of that strategy. If the government wants to survive, it urgently needs to stand up for workers and defend our fundamental values.

Alt...1mago 06.50 GMT Labour ‘failing on every count’ under Starmer, says Unison leader Andrea Egan in call for party to shift left Labour’s defeat in Gorton and Denton is likely to reignite calls for Keir Starmer to be replaced as leader. Lucy Powell, Labour’s deputy leader, appeared to anticipate this in comments earlier this morning, when she insisted that Starmer was “the person for the job”. (See 5.31pm.) But this morning Andrea Egan, the relatively new leftwing general secretary of Unison, one of the two biggest unions backing Labour, said the party is “failing on every count” under Starmer. In a statement she said: 44 The Greens won for a simple reason. Many traditional Labour supporters, in Manchester and across the country, want to see progressive values robustly defended against the far-right, not gleefully abandoned. A Labour government should be standing up for workers, defending migrants and refugees, and taking the fight to Nigel Farage rather than letting him set the agenda. Under Keir Starmer the party is failing on every count, leaving the Greens to fill the vacuum. Cosying up to the rich and powerful, and protecting their interests whilst attacking ordinary working people and the left has singularly failed. The prime minister is now reaping the electoral consequences of that strategy. If the government wants to survive, it urgently needs to stand up for workers and defend our fundamental values.

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    [?]JuneSim63 💚 » 🌐
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    "I am putting all the employers we bargain with – from Reform UK-run local councils to Wes Streeting’s Department of Health and Social Care – on notice: Unison will be fighting without hesitation to win for members. Our size and resources are without parallel among trade unions in this country. From this point on, those great assets will be geared towards transforming the lives of public-sector workers"
    Andrea Egan, new General Secretary of Unison


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      [?]Anthony » 🌐
      @abucci@buc.ci

      A weird thing about being 50 is that there are programming languages that I've used regularly for longer than some of the software developers I work with have been alive. I first wrote BASIC code in the 1980s. The first time I wrote an expression evaluator--a fairly standard programming puzzle or homework--was in 1990. I wrote it in Pascal for an undergraduate homework assignment. I first wrote perl in the early 1990s, when it was still perl 4.036 (5.38.2 now). I first wrote java in 1995-ish, when it was still java 1.0 (1.21 now). I first wrote scala, which I still use for most things today, in 2013-ish, when it was still scala 2.8 (3.4.0 now). At various times I've been "fluent" in 8086 assembly, BASIC, C, Pascal, perl, python, java, scala; and passable in LISP/Scheme, Prolog, old school Mathematica, (early days) Objective C, matlab/octave, and R. I've written a few lines of Fortran and more than a few lines of COBOL that I ran in a production system once. I could probably write a bit of Haskell if pressed but for some reason I really dislike its syntax so I've never been enthusiastic about learning it well. I've experimented with Clean, Flix, Curry, Unison, Factor, and Joy and learned bits and pieces of each of those. I'm trying to decide whether I should try learning Idris, Agda, and/or Lean. I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting a few languages. Bit of 6502 assembly long ago. Bit of Unix/Linux shell scripting languages (old enough to have lived and breathed tcsh before switching to bash; I use fish now mostly).

      When I say passable: in graduate school I wrote a Prolog interpreter in java (including parsing source code or REPL input), within which I could run the classic examples like append or (very simple) symbolic differentiation/integration. As an undergraduate I wrote a Mathematica program to solve the word recognition problem for context-free formal languages. But I'd need some study time to be able to write these languages again.

      I don't know what the hell prompted me to reminisce about programming languages. I hope it doesn't come off as a humblebrag but rather like old guy spinning yarns. I think I've been through so many because I'm never quite happy with any one of them and because I've had a varied career that started when I was pretty young.

      I guess I'm also half hoping to find people on here who have similar interests so I'm going to riddle this post with hashtags:


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