Hardly a crisis ;) Time well spent.

Apparently KD is injured, so if he doesn't play in the next couple of games, I'm changing my prediction to Lakers for that series.

NBA playoff prediction time!
Round 1 winners: Celtics, Knicks, Pistons, Cavs, Spurs, Nuggets, Rockets, Thunder.
Round 2 winners: Celtics, Pistons, Nuggets, Thunder.
Round 3 winners: Celtics, Nuggets.
Nuggets win the championship.

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

Solution: don't search next time :P

Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran The bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?

Pete Hegseth believes that Jesus guides Tomahawk missiles, even when they hit elementary schools.

I wrote about the roots of his militant faith - from the Crusades to the confederacy - and what they mean for the US and Iran today.

he's fucking spiraling

Trump just posted a wall of text blasting Tucker Carlson/Candace Owens/Megyn Kelly/Alex Jones, who have been increasingly speaking out against him on Iran and calling for his removal from office

He also rebuts Owens’ conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron is a man & Jones’ conspiracy re: Sandy Hook

Today, House Democrats tried to bring another War Powers Resolution to the floor.

Republicans blocked us.

As gas prices soar and troops are put in harm’s way, the GOP continues to be complicit in this reckless war.

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.

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Seung Min Kim @seungminkim WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump promises strikes on Iran’s power plants and bridges on Tuesday if the Strait of Hormuz isn't reopened.

textbook sanewashing

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment.

This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

The last update to my webpage was 8 years ago, before I started working on ML compilers! Just spent 20 minutes with Claude Code and cleared some old cruft, and made it look OK on mobile as well :)

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Americans don't want this freaking war!

The following is the text of the email that Penelope Hegseth sent to her son, Pete Hegseth, on April 30, 2018. One sentence was redacted by The New York Times for privacy reasons. Son, I have tried to keep quiet about your character and behavior, but after listening to the way you made Samantha feel today, I cannot stay silent. And as a woman and your mother I feel I must speak out.. You are an abuser of women - that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as

have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. I am not a saint, far from it.. so don't throw that in my face,. but your abuse over the years to women (dishonesty, Sleeping around, betrayal, debasing, belittling) needs to be called out. Sam is a good mother and a good person (under the circumstances that you created) and I know deep down you know that. For you to try to label her as "unstable" for your own advantage is despicable and abusive. Is there any sense of decency left in you? She did not ask for or deserve any of what has come to her by your hand. Neither did Meredith.

hand. Neither did Meredith. I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side... bunk... we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont' care) Don't you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us... that's what babies do. It's time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece.

lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted] And yes, we are praying for you (and you don't deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply) I don't want an answer to this... I don't want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But... On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say... get some help and take an honest look at yourself... Mom

Just remembering the letter Pete Hegseth’s mom sent him, calling him an abuser of women and telling him their family is “broken by your behavior and lack of character.”

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...

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The Coldest Cold Email: Oracle’s 30,000-Person Layoff Is a Preview of What’s to Come A 6 a.m. message signed “Oracle Leadership” just ended tens of thousands of careers. Here’s what it means — and what to do if you’re next.

I remember when it was a scandal that a company laid people off over Zoom. Now that seems warm and fuzzy compared to the norm today.

Oracle laid off 30K people with a 6AM email with a link to click and accept terms if they wanted severance.

Fun fact. In Greek, "τρώω τα πάντα" means "I eat everything" but also "I eat the pandas" 😄

This guy speaks for me, too! 👍
#NoKings

Well done. #NoKings

This is genuinely a bombshell. All courthouse arrests should cease immediately. There should be a Congressional investigation & civil rights actions for every illegal abduction of immigrants trying to follow the rules and appear in court. (2/2)

TIL that a git repo can have multiple remotes. (May be obvious to others but I hadn't run into this.)

The interesting part though is *how* I learned this. I learned it from Claude Code, which mentioned it while it was trying to solve a task I gave it.

Remember this when certain state funerals are planned in the future and people get their knickers tied in a bunch because people aren’t sufficiently grieving, and call for them to lose jobs and such.

The people who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel after Charlie Kirk's assassination will now control television stations that reach 80% of Americans, twice that what was legally allowed before Trump's takeover.

The state capture of network television is almost complete.

Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.

WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf, then punishing them when they didn't pay up.

Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.

That a deranged person like this is the president of the US is beyond me.

At the very least, the will of the people would be represented.

IMO, by far the biggest problem is the electoral system itself. If we fixed all the undemocratic aspects (eg, popular vote determines the president, no senate, voting rights of puerto rico and DC, no gerrymandering) then many other problems would fix themselves. I'm not holding my breath though :(

In the age of AI-generated slop, the quote "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter" is as relevant as ever. 🙂

Tony Hoare (1934-2026) Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor  Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGO...

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