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My 14-year-old was complaining about lag so today he learned the ancient art of wiring Ethernet through the attic, with great success.

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Knowing how fickle the algorithms are, it’s a genuine professional risk for a gaming YouTuber to “get political” and call out Nazi bullshit. So thank you @mattlowne.bsky.social for doing the right thing. Watch his video and juice the numbers.

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I decided to talk about the weird spiralling of Elon this past week: picking fights with astronauts, and stating the ISS needs de-orbiting ASAP. I also discuss the implications of all this on SpaceX, the West's efforts to return to the Moon and go to Mars, and a whole lot more. youtu.be/eZb9ShrZHrQ

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Q: Why is it so much easier for the US right to organize and be unified than the US left? A: Anti-Black racism. The only consistent thing that the right agrees on, is this. It's what unifies them. But the US left is very anti-Black too! So they try to get the benefits, without helping Black folk.🤷🏿‍♂️

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Imagine how much it SUCKS to be a time traveling assassin. Try explaining why you had to stop Obama he was going to sign the law for electric car subsidies.

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I cannot over-stress how much of the low-hanging fruit in programming comes from actually executing on the good ideas we already have from the past sixty years. "Nothing new, we just assimilate all the good ideas and make sure they work well together" is like a super power.

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Very on brand for France to help us out with a King-related problem.

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unleashing social media on the world at large was like inflicting smallpox on immunologically naive peoples. Only psyches scarred over by endless stupid flamewars on usenet or IRC were truly ready for it

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Also if you know a woman in STEM affected by the current administration, please file an issue (github.com/MelSumner/wo...) or encourage them to do so! Thank you for sharing this project.

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Overnight trek on Mt Garfield with two hiking buddies, one of whom is an extremely hard core pup. Snowshoes all the way.

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Allegory alert!

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This is such an embarrassing self-own. He's admitting that — in his head-canon — being scolded by a young woman is a Big Deal. These dudes want to pretend they're tough and manly but all they do is complain about getting their feelings hurt.

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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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Just in case people don't know the context, this is a policy called splitting the letters, developed by fundamentalist Christians to use feminist and queer language and culture to split the T off and then turn the others against each other. You can watch their 2017 conference planning it.

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Allstate’s CIO said in an interview that AI is writing claims emails and now the company’s PR department is trying to get that scrubbed from the internet.

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She speaks my love language.

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Bureaucracy, famously not important in war

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Lots of people are acting like this article proves the economy was secretly terrible the last few years. But it absolutely does no such thing. It’s an incoherent pile of anecdotes (“cities feel chaotic!”) and goofy alternative statistics (“the true unemployment rate is 23%”). Total crank material.

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TIL that in German the notes that we name “a b c” are instead “a h c”. They reserve the “b” for our “b-flat”. Bach would have said his b-minor mass was in “h”. 🤯

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This is also just a classic “Falsehoods Programmers Believe…” example. When your system needs to reflect the messy realities of 380 million people, there are a whole bunch of valid reasons you wouldn’t want to literally use SSN as a primary key.

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"Polio: An American Story" describes how indirect costs became a thing. The precursor to the March of Dimes wanted to give a Harvard professor a grant to study polio. Harvard turned it down b/c they'd lose money by accepting the grant. The foundation offered to pay indirect costs and they accepted

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Update on my life: Last year, I joined my kids' school's PTA, because they needed a treasurer and I'm good enough with numbers. It was a straightforward, self-contained job: balancing the checkbook for an organization that only did a few fundraisers each year.

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A thing to understand here is that Wired + Teen Vogue is Condé Nast — this is the Newhouse family being basically the only good billionaire publishers. Other than them, it’s the indies of the new alt media and stalwarts like ProPublica and then basically crickets.

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BREAKING: I’m hearing the great Donald Shoup has passed away. Few urbanists can really be called game-changers, but Shoup powerfully changed how we see parking rules and their huge affect on cities. The recent revolution in parking standards was inspired by his unique work. Thank you Donald. #RIP

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Latest example of AI setting attorneys’ careers on fire

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The internet wasn't "boar"-ed when a rural Southerner asked for the best way to handle 30 to 50 of these

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What’s funnier is that this story isn’t proof of skill. It’s proof of technical immaturity. Bro didn’t know what source control was yet.

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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

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One small shred of positivity is how fucking stupid these guys are. “Make enemies out of the security services” is like the #2 worst move a wannabe authoritarian can make.

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where's the EO that we've all gotta rename our github branches back from `main` to `master`?

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Opinion | The Left insisted that we all embrace Barack Obama. But now that Republicans have our own African-American president, Elon Musk, they’re back to their typical intolerance. by Hugh Hewitt

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free hint to blue state govs: automatically offer jobs in your own state's security services to the various cops, prosecutors and armed forces members that trump is unfairly drumming out. you will need people with guns who hate trump for what is coming next, and... there they are

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Feels like I'm going to wake up one of these days and find out the U.S. now pays Social Security purely via ape NFTs.

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The first congressperson who gets arrested trying to stop Elon Musk is the 2028 front-runner.

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Pushing live production code cooked up by some young coders over a week of sleepness nights in place of a legacy system that is fundamental to the operation of the US government is against every programming best practice.

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Elon musk isn’t elected. He’s a Nazi nepo baby who breaks everything he touches. And right now he’s locked himself in a room with grandpa’s Social Security check.

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Yeah, I'm not sure most folks have really Internalized the fact that even if Elon and his goons get removed tomorrow, every computer they've touched as well as every computer that shares a network with a computer they've touched is fundamentally compromised!

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Coming up in a few minutes, we have the TRO hearing in the DC organizational plaintiffs OMB case (National Council of Nonprofits, et al, v. OMB) I will live cover the hearing in this thread, via the public dialin. Review the docket here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69583...

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