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I stand with Ukraine and the truth that Russia is an invader.

This is such a good read

So, 1) 'no kings' is a good slogan. 2) Striking how these town halls are running ahead (but in the same direction) as the approval numbers. Kinda suggests highly engaged voters are souring faster. Not exactly a big surprise, but probably real bad news for the GOP for midterms and special elections.

This is your regular reminder that Elon actually knows very, very little about technology. As my dad would say, just enough to get himself into trouble. And now the rest of us, unfortunately.

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

look at that little head nod acknowledging and agreeing w the crowd as they cheer his nazi salute

What is happening now in the federal government is what happens when private equity takes over a company. They come in with confident ignorance and cruelty, they tear the company to shreds, they extract millions. The company fails and everyone else loses their job. They always get away with it.

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

Highly recommend signing up for Brian’s newsletter, he’s an incredible reporter doing excellent work. Help him keep doing it!!

Elon did not have legal status in the U.S. when he founded his first company here, and then very likely lied about it to obtain his citizenship. So he can stfu about “illegal immigrants”

Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences. AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade. Grab your beverage of choice.

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

Yeah, this mentality did not work out great for the Romans: it led to a lot of law violating, but not much country saving. Indeed, it let to quite a lot of country destroying, in fact.

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

Newsletter: Dubbing it “Operation Choke Point 2.0”, cryptocurrency companies have co-opted legitimate concerns about banking discrimination to fight regulation — and Congress is buying it. www.citationneeded.news/crypto-indus...

Just discovered that while I was writing yesterday, Adam Levitin at Credit Slips published “Debanked by the Market”, a much longer explanation of something I briefly mention in my piece: creditslips.org/creditslips/... Worth a read, and I’ll add a footnote to my article to link to it.

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

The next F# feature that Mads would like to have in C# from #fsharp is Type Providers youtu.be/T9UqIkuGnuo?...

The latest Oxide and Friends aka the MST3K Journal Club is up on the pod: share.transistor.fm/s/061ac489

Newsletter: Crypto exchanges face legal troubles, and Trump’s crypto empire grows as regulations are slashed and enforcement is sidelined. www.citationneeded.news/issue-76/

This video of mine from five years ago is aging depressingly well --- and it leaves me at once bitterly disappointed and steadfastly resolved www.youtube.com/watch?v=px9O...

Last night, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by Andy Hock and James Wang from Cerebras to talk about the pace of genAI innovation--remarkable even in the first few weeks of 2025! youtu.be/NfR3CUkfOVo

Azure will be 15 years old next month. Listen to Scott Hanselman and I discuss a little bit of its history in our latest "Scott and Mark Learn To..." podcast episode:

I wrote for Slate about how a conservative think tank plans to "identify and target" Wikipedia editors who it claims are abusing their position—a dangerous escalation that shifts the fight from debating edits to going after the editors themselves. slate.com/technology/2...

Just went live to talk about what is happening, what we can do, and what to expect this week: www.instagram.com/reel/DForuR_...

credit where credit is due to Wired for doing some great reporting on this over the last few days

I know we're all communicating here on Bluesky, but for the Americans here who are upset with what's going on in Washington, it's worth remembering that yelling at your representatives (phone, mail, email) is more effective than yelling here. A good primer from 8 years ago: youtu.be/KXXYkLa-HHI?...

White women are about to be the latest to learn that when you support fascists because "they'll go after other people and improve things for me", "other people" always shifts to include you eventually (Tweet by Trump's new Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs)

Deviating from my typical F# to experiment a bit with Zig lang codesuji.com/2025/01/30/A...

Looking at the first week of the new administration, it certainly seems like the theme of this new administration is going to be "there is a reason you don't do that." There's a reason you don't appoint violent alcoholics to run the department of defense...

What could contribute more to government efficiency than by securing lucrative contracts for your crypto donors to implement inefficient technology that is uniquely suited to solving problems you don’t have? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Newsletter: Trump horrifies even some of his crypto-steeped fans by launching a memecoin before his inauguration, and a flurry of activity from the new administration signals what’s in store for the crypto world in the next four years. www.citationneeded.news/issue-75/

Did a talk this morning about my career and how to make an impact as an IC. Here's the last slide.

in the last issue of my newsletter, i wrote "Side note: If someone promises you a risk-free 20% annual yield if you just let them hold on to your dollars for you, the risk that that you never see those dollars again is in fact very high." anyway here's a post from Justin Sun today

Newsletter: Adversary cases from the FTX collapse further expose how crypto companies do business: with secret acquisitions of “grey area” businesses, buying influence, and creative accounting. www.citationneeded.news/not-just-one...

Newsletter: The SEC is still busy even though it may soon be undermined, crypto industry capture of government continues to worsen, and several media outlets botch their crypto reporting at a time it’s needed most. www.citationneeded.news/issue-72/

Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed. The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.

I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture. This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out. charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...

Here is a look at estimating shortest path in a graph using #fsharp www.codesuji.com/2024/11/27/E...