I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job. To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.

#devconf-us Robert introduced an important blog on understanding kV cache in #vllm

#devconf-us keynote happens now

Mass deportations are the number one domestic policy priority of this administration, above everything else.

President Trump's war on his predecessor is dramatically escalating just as he faces new pressure over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files — with a steady stream of leaks about his ties to Epstein extending the scandal, day by day. www.axios.com/2025/07/24/t...

Orlando FL at The White Wolf.

Ordinary people and Doomers, whether appalled or excited by climate collapse, need to understand that the world in which we live is a political world and that politicians, confronted by the intransigent modalities of physics, are perfectly capable of engineering societal panic to avoid reality panic

ICYMI: Jim Lovell, a former Navy test pilot and the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering in an ordeal that transfixed the world, died this week at 97.

"It’s definitely a case of shooting the messenger,” said Dean Smith, chief strategist at FolioBeyond. "Firing the head of BLS is not going to improve data collection and dissemination … it’s going to undermine confidence in the data going forward,” he added. finance.yahoo.com/news/us-payr...

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Only 36 million Latinos voted in the 2024 election. That’s half the Latino population, now 66 million. And IF half of the eligible voting population voted for Trump, that’s only 25% of the total population. So 75% of the TOTAL Latino population did not vote for Trump. Please stop justifying hatred.

🚨BREAKING🚨 I just released the full report on Congress trading in 2024. Like every year since 2020, some US politicians beat the market. From the start of 2024 to year end, many had unusual trades & huge portfolio gains. Here are the top political traders of 2024.

How Dunning-Kruger works... and travels.

Florida's newest invasive mealybug currently prefers roadside weeds but may pose a threat to solanaceous crops (e.g., tomatoes, peppers). This species was only recently described from Japan where it is likely also introduced. New open access paper: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

“If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions.” —Molly Ivins, who died of breast cancer at the age of just 62. She should have been 80 years old today.

Thanks for the invite Bill!