Wow.. nerves of steel

You all will be shocked, I'm sure, to learn that the program for monitoring and interdicting NWS spread from South America was part of foreign aid through USAID. Aid which was cut by DOGE because foreign aid is dumb and obviously doesn't do anything to help America.

the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

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Given the anticipated size of the SpaceX meme stock IPO, it may enter major indices relatively quickly, driven in part by some relaxed rules on inclusion of mega IPOs. Here's an informative Business Insider article for the "concerned". www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-i...

This is evil. Why would anyone ever help us in the future? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

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Colorado Overrun With Flamboyant Children After Camp Director Notices Conversion Therapy Device Set To Reverse https://theonion.com/colorado-overrun-with-flamboyant-children-after-camp-director-notices-conversion-therapy-device-set-to-reverse/

Bondi fell into the Trump Trap, giving up her integrity to keep her job, and looks like she now will leave with neither.

As promised, here are some links from our #ATmosphereConf talk by @cassidyjames.com and @julietshen.bsky.social! First, here are the slides; we ran over time and so didn't get to share the last couple of slides with you all, but they're important. :) docs.google.com/presentation...

maybe my favorite thing on the internet: neal.fun/deep-sea/

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

BREAKING: 49 Senate Republicans just VOTED DOWN our simple bill to pay TSA workers. Republicans have now blocked TSA pay SEVEN times. It’s a slap in the face to the men and women who have been working without a paycheck for weeks.

At EPFL, Professor Martin Odersky set out to combine functional and object-oriented programming. The result was Scala, now used worldwide. In 2025 he received the Programming Languages Achievement Award. 🔗 Read the full story here : actu.epfl.ch/news/to-crea... #Scala #Epfl #Programming

A decade ago was the "high-water" mark for functional programming and the languages it inspired. Now everyone is focused on AI, of course. Andrew Oram is writing a retrospective series about FP, then and now. www.lpi.org/blog/2026/03...

I would have taken a fraction of the $80B Zuckerberg spent on this effort to tell him years ago that it was doomed from the beginning, but he didn't ask...

Raffi Krikorian’s Tesla “was in Full Self-Driving Mode, driving perfectly—until it wasn’t.” He writes about his crash, and whether this technology is training drivers to be complacent:

Excellent article from my friend Raffi. (Gift link.) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I wrote an @oreilly.bsky.social Radar post about the "PARK" stack for generative AI systems: www.oreilly.com/radar/what-i...

Barry Blitt’s sketchbook. @airmail.news airmail.news/issues/2026-...

Great quote: I feel like the current use of AI is a perfect example of the second "way".

RIP Tony Hoare, March 5 2026, age 92 blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony...

It's just impossible to keep up with the stupidity of our government

Not entirely sold on this AI thingy.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

This is the Colbert interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico that Barri Weiss, David Ellison & Donald Trump don’t want you to see. Twice in three months content on CBS has been censored. And this is only the beginning…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated Sen. Mark Kelly’s First Amendment rights by moving to strip him of his retired military rank for reminding troops in a video last year that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders, a federal judge ruled Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The whole racist backlash in "some quarters" against Bad Bunny and hispanic culture, in general, is not just bad, it's clueless and pathetic. Young people have largely embraced music from alternative cultures for a long time, starting with black music in the 50s up to K-Pop more recently.

Despite all the AI coding assistants, I'm still fastest going to Stack Overflow for answers...

Riffing off Brendan's method of juxtaposition in this awesome report, I'd like to offer another comparison: Food assistance cuts versus new funding for DHS in the "Big Beautiful Bill" Republicans cut food assistance by $187 billion while providing $191 billion in funding for DHS

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

NANDA is an interesting MIT project working on distributed AI agent technologies. If you are in the Washington DC area, there is a hackathon on Saturday, Feb. 21 at George Mason U. luma.com/4pwuq0o4

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

In a breathtaking reversal of reality, Trump uses a taxpayer funded website to whitewash the history of Jan. 6, blaming Capitol Police, Democrats and Pence -- everyone but himself and the mob that stormed the Capitol. @lukebroadwater.bsky.social @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...

NPR built a visual archive of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, showing exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there. In Chapter 3, we lay out a timeline of key moments throughout the day as the assault on the Capitol unfolded.

Black swan moment for energy production and storage?

Five years ago today, Donald Trump urged his supporters to attack Congress and the Capitol over a proven lie. More than 140 police officers were injured. Trump then pardoned the attackers. He betrayed his oath and his country, and we won't ever forget it.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. He also decided to raid Venezuela because Maduro was dancing on TV. He doesn’t make decisions based on the reality on the ground - he makes decisions based on his ego. Always.

As senior dev too, I nearly do not write any lines of code anymore. I interact with models and as I'm able to judge/guide them, I have acquired super-powers. The main issue I see is for people learning now. They have to trust as they do not know. We'll see where it shifts the knowledge cursor

I'm old enough to have been a software engineer during the web/.com explosion in the 90s. I think about that time vs. this current AI era a lot. I had no doubts about the web being massively successful, despite missteps (pets.com...). I'm not at all convinced about AI yet. We'll see...

I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...

And look, here's the thing, AI *can be* amazing. But the hype over generative large language models obscures the really profound, meaningful breakthroughs, as @mmitchell.bsky.social breaks down for us here: www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...

So many of us loved Rob Reiner's movies. He left such a profound impact on so many. What an absolutely black-hearted and despicable statement from the President of the United States about a man who was just murdered. Trump is deeply unwell and unfit to serve.

Last-minute gift ideas! Where to get your drunk Virginia raccoon merchandise dailyprogress.com/news/state-a...

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

Time to look into your settings, folks.