NSF is following through with their plans to transfer the lifeblood of NCAR's work (the supercomputing center) to a "third party": www.nsf.gov/news/transit... Not sure what that'll mean for our access to it, but it shows they are serious about following through with their dismantling plans.

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NEW: Oklahoma regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to find the culprit — then closed the case. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

OxCaml isn't just useful due to its language extensions; it's making us think through how to engineer OCaml code to be lower allocation by default even before switching. See @mtelvers.tunbury.org's progress on an MP3 decoder to speed it up 10x www.tunbury.org/2026/02/11/o...

Speaking of Matrix jank... a 7000+ person room that I think is a Fedora room just randomly started notifying me for every message and became an "Empty chat" in my client (definitely not empty). I'm so sorry but... Matrix really isn't ready for prime time. Please think twice before moving there.

Imagine if an iPhone XS user in Australia with fully updated iOS couldn't make a phone call to emergency services, and Apple said "that's impossible, we already fixed that issue with a new cellular modem firmware in iOS 18.7.4". Wouldn't that be crazy?

Articles about Discord age verification have breached into local news.

I understand I was really disruptive today but in my defense I’m literally a silly little guy

They got me again

Pro tip — if you need to make a busy, distracting webapp STFU by halting all processing, just run `JavaScript:Function.prototype.call=undefined` in the URL bar to send the webapp the equivalent of a fatal heart attack. Useful on mobile to silence irritating, GPU-draining <canvas.-driven animations.

Does anyone have a favorite or quirky application of BDDs/ZDDs (Binary/Zero-suppressed Decision Diagrams) that they’d like to share? I’m tinkering with them to look into novel instruction decoding approaches (like SW LUT cascades). I need a better decomposition with fewer support variables tho… =\

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I hope these CEOs get _______.

"How #pastagang was born" a blog post from January 2025 www.todepond.com/wikiblogarde...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

this is literally going to strongarm every queer user into giving info after they declared every single lgbtq+ server to be "adult servers" years ago. so now it's literally give us your info or lose access to your communities and resources. fuck you discord.

six thoughts on generating c ~~ wingolog.org/archives/202...

Small box. Big roar. Impressive floof. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

Y'all, we did it. 💕 This crew of chaotic nerds has sent half a million whistles to people requesting them, for free. With your help! Need whistles? linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Box acquired. Floof deployed.
Standing by for further instructions… and preferably snacks. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

The Transport For London traffic cameras are finally back online, which means CamJam is working again! jonty.co.uk/camjam

This is an act of cultural vandalism: zombo.com RIP zombocom, 1999-2026. You could do anything at zombocom. Anything at all.

At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city. Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026

A really great post by Marty! Who’s the next contestant on Spin That Yield?

you have probably heard that webassembly supports garbage collection. are you looking for an ahead-of-time compiler for wasm with gc? as it happens, i have written a little monograph on the topic wingolog.org/archives/202...

I'll be giving a talk on using open source tools to estimate China's nuclear forces, past and present at @stanfordcisac.bsky.social on February 12. cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/open-...

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

The Indy Chamber of Commerce - mirrorindy.org/indiana-home...

Big W for the world, generally Big L for those Serious Thinkers in our field who ran to place pieces on why we gotta upload the arsenal

They had a most excellent editorial voice, as demonstrated by this "what's new" entry from December 10th 2020 about the height of Mount Everest simonw.github.io/cia-world-fa...

They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.

When New START expires at midnight, nothing can legally stop the Trump regime from dramatically increasing the number of operationally deployed nuclear weapons, especially on ICBMs and SLBMs. Within months, it could easily surge the number of such warheads by uploading MIRVs from the reserve force.

the great sphinx

Sveum and Vazquez, alongside other BORTAC agents, showed up in reports and body cam footage released by a federal judge in November. We were able to further confirm Michael Sveum's identity because one of those videos includes his phone lockscreen with a photo of himself at an ultrarunning event.

We got one of these things for the office and every time the newest headline alarms me anew.

Arms Control Pope

Clad in the Bib of Ultimate Humiliation, I am ruined. 
Songs will be sung of this betrayal. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

At least I got bedtime on time. Human promises to give us more attention tomorrow

Got my website running live on my zero-allocation (ish) OxCaml webserver! First of a series of posts on building out our planetary computing system infrastructure using the performance extensions in the Jane Street fork of OCaml. anil.recoil.org/notes/oxcaml... (and thanks @thenumb.at for tips)

you: [stressing for days to send the perfect single email] billionaires: hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

It’s a double snuggle Sunday again

Friday mood:
 Saffron: “Behold… the forbidden floof.”
Also Saffron: “Touch it and face the consequences.” #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky #TGIF

Yeah it's a well known problem with turbot. i'd guess that they are involved in at least half of trawler sinkings out here. They're just special lil ugly guys!

Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.

Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles’

How many people here would be interested if I did a digital security/privacy advice blog somewhere?