You are very welcome. It’s well earned and I’m enjoying the read.

GeeCON 2024: Ted Neward - Why the Next Five Years Will Be About Languages Thanks to the plateau of per-chip performance increases and the resulting need to work better with multi-core CPUs, the relative difficulty of mapping user r...

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The Columbia Network Pushing Behind the Scenes to Deport and Arrest Student Protesters For some members of the “Columbia Alumni for Israel” WhatsApp group, speaking out for Palestine and criticizing Israel are tantamount to supporting Hamas.

Members of the WhatsApp group strategized how to best build cases to paint student protesters as “supporters of Hamas.”

Even if you put the major ethical considerations to the side, X is full of bots and scammers - so engagement is pretty much nil. Also, your follower stats is probably false because a lot of people (like me) have left but kept their accounts locked so they cant be impersonated. Get of X. It's time.

This was an interesting conversation—check it out, tell me what you think.

all manner of weird bullshit happened between 2015-2020 but jan 6 2021 should be an clear cutoff point after which a someone’s inability to take a strong and unambiguous stance against trumpism matters

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Yeah, women let men lead for a while, and look where it got them.

Women ain’t stupid.

And a plane strike. Delta flight apparently got hit on approach to land.

Random foreign actor: send us all your deets by tonite.

Military leaders: Who the fuck is this guy? Don't do it. Obey the chain of command.

Random foreign actor: Have you ever witnessed such INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are being spent?

There Is No AI Revolution Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...

Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn.
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Welp, power’s out at the house again.

Nifty rainstorm, but not a fan of the downed power lines.

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Gay Valimont is the Dem nominee in the Florida special election to replace Matt Gaetz on April 1st.

The House is currently 216 Dems & 217 Reps.

𝗪𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗟𝗜𝗣 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 6 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀.

Winning this critical election would put Trump & Elon's disastrous agenda on HALT!!!

BREAKING: Trump is losing support: Less than one month into the chaotic return of Trump, and these Trump-voting farmers have already had enough. If the election were held today, they would not vote for him.

Make sure everyone sees this!

Opinion | I Shudder to Imagine Kennedy Running Our Health Agencies. (Gift Article) We have to go toe-to-toe with this administration and resist its attacks on public health.

"We will have to go toe-to-toe with this administration ... challenging its attacks on science in the courts, finding ways to protect public health through state and local action." Huge respect for Gregg Gonsalves, fighting for global health equity for decades.

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From Anguish to Aggression: Trump Goes on Offense After Midair Collision President Trump at moments of national tragedy has always been more comfortable finding fault than providing comfort or expressing empathy.

In the wake of this week’s deadly aircraft collision near Washington, President Trump happily jumped to conclusions and pulled the U.S. apart rather than together, Peter Baker writes. "He has long demonstrated that he is more comfortable as the blamer in chief than consoler in chief."

NYT headline: Trump makes misleading claims blaming Biden and D.E.I. for the crash

If only there were a shorter English word for "makes misleading claims".

Trump Truth Social post: "The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!!"

California Department of Water Resources tweet: "The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days. State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful."

Tweet from California state senator Mike McGuire: "🚨 BS Alert 🚨 First off, shocker, water from the Pacific Northwest doesn’t flow to the Central Valley. Second, federal water pumps were down for repair and are now back on. Third, rest assured, the military has not invaded the delta. Facts are hard."

Everything is so damn stupid.

Tomorrow’s sportsball wishes:

- Commanders squeak one past the Eagles (it’s been far too long since Washington had success like this)

- Bills blow the Chiefs apart (I dislike dynasties and the Chiefs are one)

Chances of me getting my wishes: Practically zero

How it started. How it’s going.

For example….

Why resist? In two years, left unchecked, Trump’s policies are going to absolutely wreck his alliance of tech bros, MAGAts, Evangelicals, and far-right sympathizers, so… sure, let him go.

The county will be trashed, but hey, this is what the men of the US wanted, instead of a competent woman. Win!

BLOGGED: Distributed systems and organizational design

As an engineering manager, I've discovered that there is a remarkable similarity between distributed systems design and engineering organization design.

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Family includes everyone! ❤️

Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge).

You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*