Putin said earlier this week that Russia has no plans to invade Europe. I had a deja vu moment when I was listening to his crap:

Me, too! It’s a fantastic project that is under a lot of pressure right now.

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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

NASA's Copilot (not relation to Microsoft or GitHub Copilot): "language and framework to program hard-realtime, embedded systems ... supports temporal logic, clocks, voting algorithms and state machines, ... general purpose algorithms." (Has a back-end to generate #Bluespec) tinyurl.com/3868ef6z

I come from a land Dharmendar indianewengland.com/dharmendra-e... #Dharmendra #Bollywood

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

The Donzerly Light

Kathleen Fisher is an inspired choice as the next ARIA CEO. And I was *just* reading her papers on PADS to send to @patrick.sirref.org as ideas for our time travelling shell! ariaresearch.substack.com/p/introducin...

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Hooray for bitblt, a.k.a. rasterop in some backward provinces. You younguns don’t get it — but if all you knew was 24x80 character displays (*) or worse, bitblt was a long tall drink of water. Color is fine but 80% of the advance came with the bilevel display. (*) vector displays notwithstanding

Gave a talk yesterday: "Property Based Testing to verify a pipelined CPU design (hardware)" at the New England Programming Languages and Systems Symposium, about verifying my Fife RISC-V CPU using U.Cambridge's TestRIG and RISC-V Intl.'s RISC-V ISA Formal Spec nepls.org/Events/36/

Vibgyor coding.

New: for @equatormag.bsky.social I spent months talking to BBC journalists, from front-line reporters to the former head of the World Service, about how the corporation came unstuck over Gaza. But as I was working on the story, it collided with something... bigger... www.equator.org/articles/ins...

These patriotic displays have gone a bit too far now, if you ask me.

I wrote a thing! Technically it’s an opinion piece but secretly it’s a love letter to Cornell. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

#Banksy #Ukraine #Resist

"How do you acquire the fundamental computer skills to hack on a complex systems project?" K.C.Sivaramakrishnan's suggestions: kcsrk.info/ocaml/2025/1... #SystemsProgramming #OCaml #Compilers #RuntimeSystems #Debuggers #GarbageCollection

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

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In the present idiotic self-inflicted FAA brown-out, to reduce ATC workloads in busy airspaces, planes with the most pax (commercial aviation) should "trump" planes with the fewest pax (oligarch bizjets), am I right? This policy would resolve the "crisis" most expeditiously.

🙀 "One change allows companies to claim that their AI training data are legal without the usual requirements. If implemented, this will free the U.S. tech giants from any fear of enforcement against their using their data free-for-alls for AI training"

The Bluespec 'bsc' compiler version 2025.07 has been released. Release notes: github.com/B-Lang-org/b... Source code; binary distributions for Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Rocky Linux, Mac OS: github.com/B-Lang-org/b...

Fun fact from Wikipedia: #Mamdani graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in Kingsbridge Heights, where he co-founded the school's first #cricket team. #NYC

#Mamdani #NYC

#Tesla #Cybertruck oxymoron: "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)"

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"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv. www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

#Dijkstra in 2001, to the #UTAustin mucky mucks; "... in the specific comparison of Haskell versus Java, Haskell, though not perfect, is of a quality that is several orders of magnitude higher than Java, which is a mess." www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr...

#ChatGPT #plagiarism #ripoff #TechBroHubris

Aah, food for the soul.

"Leave to remain": is there any British Govt. phrase more emblematic of its own confusions? #UK #Britain #immigration

The snowflakiness of this regime reaches new heights. And they claim to be against "cancel culture".

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

Freddie Mercury came to the UK as a kid because people that looked like him were being killed back home in Zanzibar. In the UK, he formed Queen. In the UK, he became a global icon. 📍 Liverpool, where Freddie Mercury met Brian May

Captain! Wormholes now in view, activate escape plan. We will remain to deter pursuers. May you deliver the Councillor safely. Godspeed! Number One! Phasers on 11!

#Caturday Whatever your interest, there's a nap for that. Download from your favorite nap store.

#Caturday "Humans, you have failed your test. We come to end the experiment."

Oxymoron?

Da iawn, Caerffili. 👏💜

#Caturday Everyone's making a feline for the exits.

#Caturday We're good to go. Security is busy investigating the cat burglars at the other end of the Louvre.

#Caturday Hello down there, are you STILL wallowing in self pity? Call me when you're done.