La reestructuración del presupuesto europeo se esfuma. Todo el dinero para los empresarios del campo.

New on my blog: "Why Study CS? Thoughts on LLM-assisted software engineering" kmicinski.com/claude-code-...

keep simon peyton-jones off your pc with this one weird trick

"the marketplace of ideas can remain irrational longer than you can remain intellectually solvent", keynes skeeted, sagely

While everyone is distracted by Circus Trump, European countries let his far-right sponsor and mentor of JD Vance in via the backdoor. No European government should work with Palantir. None.

Bloquer un site qui propose de la connaissance en libre accès avec des articles "volés" : OUI ! Bloquer un réseau social contrôlé par un néo-nazi, où se balade une IA entraînée sur toute la production humaine volée et meilleure amie des pédophiles : Oh bah non, faisons même notre comm dessus 🫠🫠

it is a shame that leftist goals are incompatible with the existence of billionaires, bc i know a lot of people that could use a benefactor

new year, new bloggies: on pre-tenuring in v8 wingolog.org/archives/202...

My favorite: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooo...

campaign to ship « what would mamdani do » bracelets to european leaders

it is saturday night, time to get lost in wikipedia reading about the corn laws en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

please tell me cadre is not pronounced kay durr in english. i could not bear it

I think there's something extra grim about the former Prime Minister of Estonia being the one doing this equivocating. A tiny country next to a much larger, hostile regime has rather a lot to fear from the notion of "we can kidnap a leader we don't like" being even partway normalised. Pathetic!

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

On rigole (non) mais on est à ça 🤏 de voir une unité de Marines débarquer à Nuuk.

if you teach your parrot to say "awrk! i deeply regret that incident! awkk! i commit to listening and learning from this experience! whee-hoo!" you can also teach it to say whatever slurs you want

Each of these 3000 people was someone's everything.

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RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

tfw you see two unrelated articles about isambard kingdom brunel in one day. too online

Best response to fusion gag. "I started working on fusion in 1966. I did my master’s thesis at MIT in plasma physics, and at that time people thought we’d have fusion by 1980. It was only 14 years away. By 1980 it was 20 years away. By 2000 it was 35 years away." firefusionpower.org/Fusion_Neede...

Hello Romm-heads, here is a thread of some things I wrote and said this year:

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

my wife got me one of the coolest watches I’ve ever seen

It's like, how much more dark could this be? And the answer is none. None more dark.

Han hecho una “copia de seguridad” de (prácticamente) todo Spotify. 300TB. Wow. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...

happy chase-lev patent expiry day to all those who celebrate!!!!!!!!! please enjoy a straightforward implementation in C https://github.com/wingo/whippet/blob/main/src/shared-worklist.h

The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

had a dream we put my cat on salary (??) it included the line “pancakes won’t be the only thing this salaried boy is making” (???)

This time of year can be reflective or depressive, but I’ve decided on my technique https://www.patreon.com/posts/146122626?utm_campaign=postshare_fan #AliceFraser #writingCommunity #NewYearResolutions #ComedyWriting #CreativeReboot

new bloggery, an acceptance speech ~~ wingolog.org/archives/202...

many organizations should be cooperatives. but especially those that are nominally nonprofit like mozilla corporation, it avoids the tendency among leadership to cosplay at american psycho

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Tomorrow end of day, anywhere on earth, is our "pre-holiday" deadline for MoreVMs: 2026.programming-conference.org/home/MoreVMs... Submit your papers, talk proposals, or experimental setups now and enjoy some time off!

Good thread explaining why all EU options to financially help Ukraine are difficult and the over-complicated (and legally "creative") reparations loan seems to be the best solution after all. Takeaway: Abolish unanimity in budgetary matters or face the need to choose among suboptimal solutions. ⬇️

PDS europeo para @atproto.com gestionado por una organización sin ánimo de lucro (con gente muy maja dentro). En enero. ¡Por fin!

this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.

I'm in the fast lane doing the speed limit because that's as fast as you can go 😊 everybody beeps at me to thank me for keeping them safe

There's a pretense that despair/defeatism/doomerism is some kind of solidarity, when it's actually quitting while others face the horrors and resist succumbing to them. Wrote about that here.

The best scene in Jaws is when the boat guys sing a traditional sea shanty and Jaws pops out of the water and everyone is terrified but Jaws starts singing as well. There's this unspoken promise in the air that no one will eat anyone until the song ends.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Hay tres motivos para hacerse federalista europeo hoy en día. Pragmatismo: es la única forma material de hacer todo lo que necesitamos. Preservación: puede que sea la única forma de protegernos. Rencor: es la mejor forma de joder a la panda de fascistas que nos odian.

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

This was what I sent to someone years ago who was finishing up while struggling with depression

The hockey stick of doom vs. the hockey stick of hope (graphics: @yusufimaadkhan.com). www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/hoc...

Bonkers stuff in the NSS. It is like a far-right caricature of itself. The Trump admin believes it needs to save Europe from itself by backing far-right forces within Europe. As State Dept reprograms funding, get ready for the US to be the funders of far-right civil society in Europe.