It's unfortunate that groups like whoever wrote the DHS PR have learned that lies can never be completely corrected. Every inaccurate story, even if completely contradicted, leaves behind some nonzero number of believers.

How intentional is the misdirection? Will we find a memo in discovery, 20 years from now, describing a plan to take the horror of pharma companies greed and dishonesty, and turn it into an anti-science supplement industry?

Yes, yes they are.

If they were ever tested, they'd fold.

fwiw, the "government is socialism" canard isn't worth the effort. If we want it, push for actual socialism; ie., no means testing, universal healthcare, public housing, etc.

Tactically, this is a green light to push @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social out of office. He just told at least a plurality of his voters that he's against them, against what many of them worked for in the mayor's election.

@aoc.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social made a terrible miscalculation

So, one age that tended towards a multiplicity of approaches for build and dependencies, and another with cheap networking that tended towards one agreed-upon solution. Haskell never had a blessed build and dependency distribution solution. It was my greatest roadblock, at least.

So anyway, my take is that Haskell landed between two software epochs: the C et al ecosystem, which had no central authority, two entirely different methods of distributing reused code, and many build systems; and then the web ecosystem, with tools built for that age, which tended toward singular.

Sorry for late reply, but I alluding to the Stack "vs" Cabal issue, and other more subtle issues that I don't fully understand, like why Linux distros like Arch have such a mess with libraries.

I'm far from the first, or most illustrious, voice sad about this. Have I mentioned Shake? lol

I want to also point out that calling any platform that Rust doesn't target "retro" to be over the line...

...for zero-cost and low-cost functional abstractions without needing a runtime.)

There is a wider issue with the preference for MIT/Apache dual licensing, over GPL3, imo. But the infrastructure dependence is a single point of failure, requires compromise of community values, and prevents organized action like bds.

I'm very new to the community (I was around for the lang's inception, but have been away since), and this dependence is striking, esp. given its reputation for consciousness.

In the wider FLOSS world, better alternatives have been used for a decade. Freedesktop on Gitlab is one example.