I'm excited to get on board too!

Out-and-out superb explanation.

Trans girls on gender affirming hormone replacement therapy are girls in both physiological and performance terms! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

Wanted to look at the new line of Polk Audio speakers. Got about 5 pages into the site and got a Cloudflare block. I'm not using a VPN or anything else wonky. No more research into Polk for me. It's truly surprising how sensitive I am to being told I'm not wanted somewhere. I just go elsewhere. /1

This is wild. Fantastic journalism.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Filling classrooms with computers didn't have the huge and positive impact on learning that was promised. Filling them with tablets hasn't done it either. I know this might sound absurd to many (especially politicians) but what if we filled them with highly skilled and properly supported educators?

She basically invented astrophysics. She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally. She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe. She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.

Take care of your teeth. Try to be a better person each day, but don't hate yourself when you fall short; try again tomorrow.

Kode Vicious The Process: From start to finish While the Scientific Method gives us a way to evaluate a hypothesis, a Scientific Process allows us to organize our minds to form these hypotheses, lay out a piece of code, organize a project, or debug a program. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...

Does anyone I know have (or have had) Sonesse (Somfy) roller shades? Can you share your thoughts and opinions and experiences?

Three dead after historic funicular railway derails in Lisbon

Given what I'm seeing on email and on linkedin, the world seems intensely focused on (perhaps even desperate to be) deploying capital. Sign of the times. Make of it what you will.

I don't think anyone truly understands the scope and the consequences of this. 🍿

To the moon!

Unexpected things I did today: disassembled my generator control board to to meticulously clean out an ant infestation. Also reassembled it. I am not a big bug fan.

Develop, Deploy, Operate A holistic model for understanding the costs and value of software development: - Tensions between factors - 4 distinct forms of impact - Warning against measuring against unknown counterfactuals - Consensus mechanism for estimating DDR costs. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...

🚨 New blog alert: Postgres 18 beta 1 was released last week, and includes native support for UUIDv7. Great opportunity to explain why UUIDv7 is a great fit for your database keys, and show you how to use them in PG18. www.thenile.dev/blog/uuidv7

Okay my Samsung just updated and the new "sided" visor pull-down behavior is fucking obnoxious. Who asked for this? Feels optimized for lefties. At least let me left-right swap the top status bar if you're committed to keeping this mistake.

Браво Црно Горо! Поносан сам.

This is an opportunity for the EU to step up and provide an implementation. No one will both going back.

I've decided to set up a small electronics lab in my basement. Partly inspired by tariffs, but also I never felt like learned enough to be comfortably productive in my EE program at Hopkins. Wish me luck.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

This is inaccurate. There is no known vulnerability with Signal's core tech. The memo was discussing phishing attempts, which Signal has worked to mitigate. And it was hastily reported. It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.

You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including

It is clear that the epicenter of the free world is shifting.

$0.50/kWh on the Rivian Adventure network, while still cheaper than gas, is outrageously expensive.

I know this is pretty random, but the Duck Duck Go Browser should really make a direct exception to disallowing plugins for password managers. 1Password and others if there plugin only communicates locally. The tooling aligned and they should work in harmony else humans err and leak.

I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.

There are two types of people. Those that ask questions and want anseerrs, want to understand why that answer is so, and guage the likelihood of correctness. And those that start statements with, "I asked ChatGPT and..."

I feel like the biggest piece of advice I wish I could give my 20-year-old self is "floss and be careful with your teeth in your early 20s because oh man it sucks to deal with those consequences as you get older!"

If you think this is about small businesses, then I have a bridge I'd like to sell myself through a chain of faceless shell companies of indeterminate ownership.

‘Move fast and break things’ only works for people who have never had to clean up after themselves.

Back in the mid-20th century, the FBI could place an individual under surveillance solely for being LGBTQ. This is what enabled the anti-queer witch hunts of the McCarthy era. Now, DHS permits surveillance of LGBTQ people again. Just being queer makes you a suspect. www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...

Grok, the AI built into X, suggested this reply under President Zalenskyy’s tweet thanking us and hoping for peace. “Which territories might Ukraine cede?” The AI varies its suggestions, but they are all combative, as if trained on hostile rhetoric, whereas the real replies are supportive of Ukraine

I cannot describe how devastated I am right now.

Salesmen win by understanding people. They don't have to have a good product. They don't need to be right. They just need the people to BELIEVE. Elon is a used car salesmen with a lot full of lemons and a customer base full of believers.

The DC police last week sought to arrest a sitting member of Congress, a Florida Republican, for physically assaulting a woman in DC. But the US attorney’s office didn’t sign off on it. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

Zelenskyy offers to step down in exchange for peace and Ukraine’s Nato membership “If it brings peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to leave my post, I’m ready. I can exchange it for Nato [membership],” he told reporters on Sunday... “If such conditions exist [I will step down] immediately.”

This timeline is stupid, stressful, and absurdly dangerous. I'm just over here trying to make the best of it, but the avenues are limited and all of it tests my patience. Then I look at my wife and my kids and realize... this is good.

“The American team has almost no experience in high-level international negotiation, no regional expertise on Ukraine and Russia, and no relevant foreign language knowledge."

I read this whole thing and I'll say that it was perhaps the longest, most uncomfortable cringe I've had in ages. Just... Trying to understand the personal journey that would lead someone to frame a relationship this way.

remember, signal is the only decent dm platform. all the others exist for sharing a signal handle, the way internet explorer is there to install chrome

Increasingly, America’s rich and powerful—like Trump and Musk—use defamation suits not to win but to inflict ruinous expense and suffering on the defendants and solicit attention, support, and fundraising for themselves. This is a grave threat to free speech. @kenwhite.bsky.social

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

My question is, what's the consequence of doing something illegal (like freezing funding at NIH)? It can't just be to "stop doing it" as that would greenlight intentional short-term law-breaking to meet similar goals. Our systems continue to be ill-equipped to deal with these threats.

I'd like to congratulate all 56 of the ACM members that have joined the ranks of ACM's "Distinguished Members." It's no small feat. It's hard earned and well deserved. www.acm.org/media-center...

The ironic thing about this whole "no more X as a gender (sex) marker" mandate is that it could have affected me too. I applied to get an X everywhere. I'm not trans, I'm white, I'm male, I'm very comfortable with my (hetero)sexuality. I believe my gender shouldn't be anybody's business but mine.

Just a reminder that the economy was objectively VERY good before Jan 20. As everything is always someone else's fault in this administration, I dread the revisionist blame game that will echo for years.