I had the displeasure of reading an article in the Harvard student paper by an economics major who said in apparent seriousness that comp sci majors are wasting time on theory classes like “Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations” when they could be learning REAL skills like prompt […]

Most of the GOP members of Congress aren't afraid of #trump, they're afraid of Trump's _base_ primarying them. Nearly all of them loathe Trump and would be very happy if they could get rid of him while still preserving GOP power. They're looking at the #epsteinfiles and how #MAGA is reacting to […]

Google stopped letting owners of early Nest themostats remotely control their devices last month. But it's still remotely collecting extensive surveillance data from them: https://www.theverge.com/news/820600/google-nest-learning-thermostat-downgraded-data-collection #privacy

"The fact that JD Vance has openly cited Curtis Yarvin as an inspiration and that Thiel is the person most responsible for creating Vance as a politician should be viewed as a national emergency." My comments to @thorbenson.bsky.social madness.ghost.io/we-need-to-t...

my haiku summary of @pluralistic’s enshittification: everything is shit in ways you can’t imagine we must regulate

RANDOM REMINDER theft is the #business model of capitalists; because capitaliats main goal is to produce #poverty. in a 2014 Economic Policy Institute study of #wageTheft in 2014, they found wage theft was 3x all forms of robberies ―in USA―, COMBINED. and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Today RFK Jr. both suggested that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause peanut allergies *and* admitted there are no data to support this hypothesis, so he wants to find some. Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.

I’m looking forward to the day when MTG will only refer to Magic: The Gathering again, as the goddess intended

Train journey to the Norwegian Arctic Circle on the Nordland Line (Nordlandsbanen) in spring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNiN7gOcNI4&t=14004 #trains #norway #webcam

The richest man on earth owns X. The family of the second-richest man owns Paramount, which owns CBS, and could soon own Warner Bros, which owns CNN. The third-richest man owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The fourth-richest man owns the Washington Post and Amazon MGM Studios. Another […]

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It sometimes surprises me to learn that there are people who don't know that one of the first really big datasets used to train and evaluate computer language and social models was (and still is) a bunch of internal emails from Enron. Yes, that Enron. Collected as part of the investigation into […]

I keep seeing the idea that English is the next programming language and it's making me think there's a kind of inversion of how we think of coding skills and abstraction. I'd say that in order to express the necessary information in an English language specification you currently need […]

#mullvad #vpn presents And Then? https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2025/11/14/mullvad-vpn-present-and-then #stopchatcontrol #chatcontrol #privacy #masssurveillance #politics

"Don't be evil" is so far in the past, it's not even a memory anymore (Original title: Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort) https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/

Sunshine and Moonlight are pure magic. The fuck do you mean I can play games and watch videos at 120hz 1080p on my phone on coffee shop WiFi with almost no latency??? The future is wild Sunshine, the server: https://app.lizardbyte.dev/Sunshine/?lng=en-US Moonlight, the client […]

So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING. A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened. I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my […]

am sorry but Kash Patel always looks coked out of his mind. https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-kash-patel-dan-bongino-waived-polygraph #uspol #fbi

I just learned about a new data storage format. A rare analog digital hybrid. Behold the "Aperture Card" This is a punch card that holds a microfiche slide with a document, diagram or photo. The punch card could be used to catalog the scanned document or to […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

It’s called an F350 because that’s how much it costs to fill the gas tank. The F stands for “Fuel”.

Schumer Begged 2028 Dem Contenders Not to Criticize Shutdown Deal | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/post/203146/schumer-2028-presidential-contenders-democrats-criticism-shutdown-deal

Better snatch em up for xmas before they sell out, folks. 🧸 "But the worst influence by far appeared to be FoloToy’s Kumma, the toy that runs on OpenAI’s tech, but can also use other AI models at the user’s choosing. It didn’t just tell kids where to find matches — it also described exactly how […]

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?

I honestly don’t know what to say anymore. It is overwhelmingly clear at this point that the Republican Party has sold its soul to protect a child rapist, led by wealthy ghouls who will never have enough. There is only one war, now and forever, and it is the class war. There must be consequences.

The government of the wealthiest nation on earth shut down over whether people should be able to eat AND get affordable healthcare but the media says a few "moderates" might reopen the government by deciding that it's okay for some people to have to go without one or both.

#trump *connected with* #laurenboebert by phone Tues morning, acc/to 2 people familiar with the call, a day before Speaker #mikejohnson was set to finally swear in a #democrat, Rep #adelitagrijalva of AZ, who was expected to provide the 218th signature needed to force the #epstein vote. [Also […]

More on the #laurenboebert #situationroom meeting. Shocker, it wasn’t about the #trump admin being transparent, but pressuring her to back down from voting to release all the #epsteinfiles. Trump & his admin on Wednesday ramped up a pressure campaign on congressional #republicans who are […]

Trying to #floodthezone, #house #republicans have now released 23k pages of documents from the estate of the #sextrafficking rapist #jeffreyepstein — shortly after Democrats released several emails that stated #trump knew more about Epstein’s #sexcrimes than acknowledged. They were published […]

Top ofcls met in the White House #situationroom on Wednesday with Rep #laurenboebert (R-CO) who is backing an effort to force a House vote on whether to demand the release of the files. She was *summoned* to sit down with top #doj & #fbi ofcls, acc/to 2 people familiar with the matter. One of […]

I am once again asking Upper East Siders to get a fucking grip.

The Roberts Court could have lifted the administrative stay and taken a week or longer to do (a) and/or (b). In the meantime, people would have been getting their full SNAP benefits for November. Instead, the Roberts Court prefers that people suffer hunger while the Court goes about its business. 3/

Very good column from Will Bunch on the Senate Dems decision to appease Trump and the contrast with ordinary Americans who are actually fighting Republican Fascism […]

Republicans are starting to talk about HSAs again so I want everyone to be super clear what a non-solution HSAs are. They work for a very limited range of people. If you have under $100/mo health costs, or tens of thousands of dollars a year, they can work. Have moderate ongoing costs? You're fucked

What the actual fuck, Microsoft's “GUID” version of UUIDs, despite being the same from a generation and textual representation standpoint, in binary is encodes the first three fields as little-endian and the rest are big-endian. Instead of just… having everything be big-endian like the original […]

A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists https://www.404media.co/a-small-town-is-fighting-a-1-2-billion-ai-datacenter-for-americas-nuclear-weapon-scientists/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

I’m old enough to remember when the Internet was decentralised

#housing official #billpulte fired #ethics workers who were looking into his ally The actions have also sowed uncertainty & undermined confidence in Pulte across the #mortgage industry. …Relatively unknown before joining the #trump admin, Pulte has built tremendous influence since he was sworn […]

What is it like to be a progressive in Trump country? Photographer Isabelle Zhao traveled from Alaskan outposts to the pine woods of East Texas, and discovered something unexpected: hope. https://flip.it/8abt1X #uspolitics #trumpadministration #donaldtrump #maga #republicanparty #usa #unitedstates

Not a dime to any incumbent Democrat Senator who does not call for this. (Which will mean not a dime to practically all of them.) 3/3

Folks, it doesn’t matter that Schumer voted “no”. He got the Dem caucus on board with caving. THEN the caucus figured out who should vote yes to provide cover for D Sens up for reelection in 2026, who might have been in serious danger of being primaried. As for the retiring D Senators, doing […]

@Nonilex Sen. Schumer need to be replaced as leader. This is the last straw.

I'm grading student papers, and I can report that one effect of generative AI is that I now suspect everything my students submit. And that's not a good place to be in while grading. #bangenaifromuniversities

google drive is really a revolution in "what if a file manager sucked"

The most racist people imaginable have a cunning plan to undermine the most popularly-elected NYC mayor since 1969. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/9/republicans-push-to-strip-zohran-mamdani-of-us-citizenship-is-it-possible

Trump is now telling states to “UNDO” food assistance He’s literally taking food from hungry Americans as he throws Gatsby parties with giant seafood towers

One of those eye-openers from @pluralistic . I actually went to my unused facebook account to publish it there. 'Cause it's there were it's needed the most. (and on threads and stuff) https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/08/faecebook/#too-big-to-care