Goodbye Taiwan?

#usenixATC will end after this year — in its 50th year. 😕

Such a shame as it is one of the premiere systems conferences. Landmark work has come out of it over the decades.

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NSF grant recipients: please download all your grant information/reports/report acceptances from research.gov ASAP.

There is credible information that it will be scrubbed and then be used to justify cancellation of your grants! Also please submit any due reports right away.

Please share widely.

Ha ha yes!

Two use cases for “etc.”

1. I remember too many examples to list
2. I don’t remember more than two examples

Yup! And the way my brain works, any small changes trigger annoyances.

Ha ha ha…too many examples that hit close to home. 😂

Here’s Elon cutting pediatric brain cancer research 👇🏻

😂

Even on gilligan's island they listened to professor, not the millionaire

YES! Chuck, where do you live? Can you call your Senator?

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

No, he’s doing what you do when you’re a private equity firm acquiring a company and want to wind down existing operations, keep a skeleton crew, and collect the profits

If you’re in an institution doing any kind of DEI work, the most important thing to do right now is simply call it something else. Change it to “Community Outreach” & then keep on doing the same important work. When they outlaw Community Outreach rebrand it as “Strategic Partnerships,” rinse/repeat.

Me setting up a new machine:

“ooh, time to try something new, switch it up a little”!

(5 minutes later”)

“f*#k this! I want it configured EXACTLY like the other one!” (with customizations dating back, unchanged, to 20 years!)

😂

A four-panel comic called Instinct is Weird. In panel 1, a yellow warbler looks at a beautiful nest in a shrub and says "I made this for some reason". In panel 2, there are five eggs in the nest and she says "these are my smooth round children". In panel 3 an egg has hatched into a yelling hatchling, and she says "Oh no now it's loud". In panel 4 she looks distressed as five hatchlings now fill the nest, begging for food, and she says "help".

Hello new followers! Here's one of my favorite older comics.

They’re mostly bots

Sir…

😂

“Add to taste” — the Desi mom recipe.

You can piggyback on the WiFi of the rover to upload them!

Going directly to the red zone I see.

Not till the end of this year unfortunately. Likely December (not finalized yet).

Yeah Twitter had that good mix — not just regular people but also media houses. Not as many over here from India

All the planes landed.

It is!😂

There are two kinds of people: those that load the dishwasher in any haphazard way that comes to mind and others that load it like they’re a Swedish architect, packing every inch of usable space.

More often than not, the two end up marrying each other.