We’re gonna have to have the talk again about how there’s never a singular root cause to an incident but just many contributing factors aren’t we

carrot in the back: reverse cowgirl so that you, a cucumber, can peer longingly into the dip.

For what it's worth, there's an obvious alternative explanation for why Justice Sotomayor's memo isn't on letterhead and the others are. Assuming "February 16" was a typo, she probably filed her memo on February *6,* which was a Saturday--when neither she nor her clerks were necessarily in chambers.

I think part of what makes matt Levine good reading is not just that hes funny and very good at explaining complex finance topics but that you can also feel his desire to be a neutral professional journalist at war with his desire to scream that so much happening in markets is so fucking stupid

jab jab jab jab

the strait of hormuz is neither opened nor closed, but a secret third thing

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it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

you can get an M1 Air — still a very decent computer — for less than $400. incredible.

nice

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions.

We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

also i don’t think either alito or thomas is staying for any reason other than “fuck you, make me” when it comes to retirement

i hear her book is quite good

yeah it is critical that dems win the senate

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

As a second Claude Code hobby project I’ve been trying to get it to crack classical crypto. Turns out this requires assembling good benchmarks from a lot of public material. But at a certain point Claude Code decided that continuing on this project represented a violation of their “Usage Policy”.

So the zero-knowledge proof implementation Google used for their proof of quantum circuit had some bugs and Keegan Ryan + team were able to create a "proof" of an even more efficient quantum circuit (0 Toffoli gates).

Anyways that's an odd and unexpected sequel update to the night of martial law. The president I'm referring to is this guy, whose double chin you may remember from the livestream he did while jumping a fence to get to the National Assembly to vote

South Korea is doing quote-post diplomacy President Lee drew a parallel between occupied Korea and Palestine

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

Figma stock drops ~7% after Anthropic launched Claude Design, a dedicated app powered by its latest model Claude Opus 4.7 (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)

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IRGC's Navy Commander: Enemy tried to cross Strait during the ceasefire. Forced it to retreat.

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these pellets, do you have a recommendation

When I say, "That's doable", I am quoting 'scripture'

NO IT'S NOT, it's Metalocalypse

my honest to god closest thing is Clone High

When I say "Does he look like a bitch?" I am quoting scripture

honestly i kinda find it funny that every outage/computer problem is blamed on vibe coding

it's all a bit "insufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from slop"

A table listing total operations, number of qubits, and Toffoli-gate count for Google's low-gate and low-qubit implementations, and Trail of Bits' implementation. The Trail of Bits implementation beats Google's on every metric.

Two weeks ago, Google published a paper proving in zero-knowledge that they had an efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm.

Today, Trail of Bits can prove that we have an even better implementation which beats Google's on all metrics! 🫢

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Donald Trump post "The U.S.A. is the “HOTTEST” Country in the World right now. Just a short time ago, under Sleepy Joe Biden, IT WAS DEAD, LAUGHED AT ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! But not anymore - Nobody’s laughing!!! President DJT"

Trump slowly evolving into dril

Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women The two women died during miscarriages. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to their deaths.

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas after doctors delayed treatment.

The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to the deaths, but the doctors were given minimal punishment.

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