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Breaking: surge in global productivity now that Slack is down.

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Want to understand what’s happening on tech in the gov? Opportunities and risks? Listen to @ann-lewis.bsky.social and her experience and advice. Especially how to make it a bipartisan effort podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

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New Blog Post! www.shadaj.me/writing/dist... I argue that we’re still lacking a programming model that’s native to distributed systems, and outline what’s missing.

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The HYTRADBOI 2025 program is looking awesome! 🔥 www.hytradboi.com/2025/ A whole lot of #data and #database goodness in easily digestible 10 min 🍕s ➕ you get to hang out with the speakers on Zulip chat, all from the comfort of your 🏠 for $2^6 or less! See you there in a couple of hours❗

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We don't talk enough about Scaling to Catastrophe in distributed systems. Today's post, part 2 in the Physical Properties of Data series, explores the different scaling phases through the lens and math of the Universal Scalability Law. www.graphiumlabs.com/blog/part2-g... #databs #dataengineering

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Book Club is tomorrow! We are discussing Data & Reality Chapter 4: Relationships Basically, everything boils down to relationships, right? Once again graphs seem to be entering the chat… #datasky #databs jennajordan.me/book-club/

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This hits hard… “Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.” You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.

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I heart Tina Smith.

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Taps back button on screenshot of social media post a million times before realizing it’s a screenshot.

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Leadership is doubling down, but GOP members are getting nervous about the budget’s extreme unpopularity. You can call your Representative now at 202-224-3121.

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This is great. www.theverge.com/news/617014/...

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Here's a slice of @opensanctions.bsky.social + @openownership.bsky.social data, merged using entity resolution from Senzing. I got to wondering about the temporal graph (transactions) in AML, which "overlays" atop the structural graph of UBO ... and recalled my ORSA training ...

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Ok, my next @mojomagazine.bsky.social How To Buy is on Drone. It needs to be historical, definitive... educational? 😶 W. Basinski, E. Radigue, Earth, K. Drumm, P. Oliveros, T. Hecker, SunnO)))??? Any help appreciated. What r your fave drone long players? Best submissions will be quoted in the mag.

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Did your Rep or Senator get rocked at a townhall last week over Elon's DOGE crime spree? Check out epic townhall rockage list and if they're not on it drop us a line so we can add them. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ye-ol...

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From henceforth I shall call anyone working for DOGE the #MuskRats

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Once again, pushing this book right now for many reasons, but the discussion of how "supply chain" took over the economy is quite germane to our moment: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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This is 100% correct — I have heard the Silicon Valley money guys admit as much out loud, about all of these fools.

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If anyone who receives this would like help writing a suitable prompt injection for when they use an LLM to evaluate responses, I am at your service. DM or @hmason.64 on Signal.

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I know there is fierce competition, but I think I found the worst person in Texas.

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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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I’ve come to learn many people don’t know this!

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A good friend of mine traded in his Tesla for exactly the reasons you think.

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Now I’m mumbling about all the 2015-2018 reporting on Russian connections to Numpty and president elon and how the Biden admin, NSA, CIA, etc ignored it

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DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

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Here it is finally: Our mathematical methods book for life scientists! Aimed at advanced undergrads and beginning grad students, plus all those who want a deeper look at the math behind quantitative biology. @portugueslab.bsky.social. 1/3

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Elon is a dick (and a clear and present danger to our country). Hey, DOJ, looking forward to receiving your letter. DM me if you need my address.

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I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

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I have three reviews to go for the Obs but today, after 180 of them, is my last column for OFM. So I thought I’d summarise my searing advice from the last 15 years: the wisdom, the provocations and the occasional stupidities. Enjoy. Or grind your teeth. Your call www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...

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When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first The moral here isn't to tell the truth It's to never co-operate with Nazis

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Government funding expires March 14 and there's a chance they'll need Democratic votes to prevent a shutdown so that could be a good time to demand that Musk and his teens are out of government and an impartial investigation into what they've done thus far

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A reminder that government is fundamentally different from business: the Landsat program created more than $30 Billion in value by giving away free data. www.usgs.gov/landsat-miss...

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I will believe AI is useful when I am allowed to remove it from my devices

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Democrats must make clear that, of course, we believe in changing government for the better - and show how different that is from Trump's destruction of government's capacity to protect workers, consumers, and families.

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files-to-prompt 0.6 adds a -m/--markdown option for outputting file content inside fenced code blocks in a markdown document and a new option to send lists of file paths (optionally null-delimited) to standard input, contributed by Ankit Shankar github.com/simonw/files...

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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

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"This account of how the Trump administration’s firings played out over the weekend, sowing pain and chaos, is based on interviews and messages with more than 275 federal workers" www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/... via @hannahnatanson.bsky.social et al

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Found this in my notes app. “We have been convinced there is virtue in wrapping our toil in permissiveness so that others can bundle it with scarcity.”

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I gave a talk on Intuitions for Distributed Consensus last year, the first talk I've given in many years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mik...

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