This supports the idea that even a “drifted” influenza vaccine can still meaningfully reduce infection and severity, especially at the population level. TLDR - It's very much still worth getting the flu vaccine this year. It still confers a degree of protection which matters especially now.

😍😍😍 Lots of good stuff

Working on a talk. There is a quote from Ben Horowitz that says “There is no silver bullet that’s going to fix that. No, we are going to have to use a lot of lead bullets” I am trying convey the message that there is not going to be the “perfect” solution, but not happy about the imaginary.

He's a 10 but only in bits of security

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

Kids, have you talked to your parents about not making changes to the BIOS and Windows Registry that is recommended by some strange LLM or non-applicable forum post. Talk to them before someone else does

While complaining that America is "besieged" by foreigners, DHS used an image by Japanese artist Hiroshi Nagai

Can we also address that the xAI team is both deflecting blame and perpetuating a fraud here? Grok is not sentient. It cannot regret anything. It is not sorry. The safeguards that failed are the sole responsibility of the xAI team. Period.

I saw “Phantom of the Opera” at a theater in Chicago over the weekend. I don’t know if it was sold out, but I didn’t see any empty seats. I think theater attendance is doing OK.

If you start "Fissure Quest" at exactly 11:32:58 pm tonight, Boimler will scream "Holy (bleep)! We're all going to die!" just as 2026 begins. No worries If you're late! You can start "The New Next Generation" at 11:54:25 & he'll do the same thing! The perfect way to start 2026. #StarTrekLowerDecks

Why is this a bad thing. My Irish colleagues are more than capable of using an LLM and telling you to F-off if they don’t.

I LOVE when web developers/designers like my "I hate websites" posts. It really makes me feel like we're all in it together 🥰

The people running the DOD are clowns 🤡

Someone naming any company “Sauron” is a giant red flag 🚩🚩🚩

“And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"

“she hadn’t decided what to do. She says she felt like God was holding her hand. She breathed in, and Spanish came out.” 😭😭😭 Amazing piece.

Shot and chaser 🤣

This thread went off the rails. I'm genuinely perplexed. My point: some profs act like they’ve been assigned a side and must argue it like a competition. Remember, this entire charade started because of a *𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦* that “an entire literature” existed questioning birthright citizenship.

Dodge Aries (K car) no anti-lock brakes, no airbags, and an inexperienced 16 year old driver (me) zooming down back WI road at night, only to discover that a herd of black and white dairy cows were in the middle of the road and I missed one by inches going 55 😬

Sloppy research points to sloppy conclusions.

“Golden Fleet” We live in the dumbest timeline….

Rue’s first web framework should be called Woe 😊🤣👍

The US is not Denmark. Denmark is not the US. The Danish immunization schedule is not adapted for the realities of the American Healthcare system and population. Let me explain. This is a long thread so buckle up 🧵

I feel this in my bones. This week was supposed to be a calm slide into Christmas.

This one hits… If X was so successful, people would be slinking back and reactivating their accounts. Instead my feed is full of:

6 month ago me was either a genius or an idiot, and I don’t have enough brain power left for today to figure out which one he was🤣

We talk a lot about inequity in who gets credit. I feel an underexplored thing I see in software is also what is easily erased and forgotten. I guess I have been in this industry long enough to start to see people loudly and viciously argue a side and then entirely reverse it with no comment

One last thing: If you truly feel small or invisible, just find a way to be kind or helpful to others. Maybe volunteer if you're at a con. I won't spoil what will happen next ;p

Yes 👑

The British executed the commander responsible for killing the survivors of a boat sinking. www.usni.org/magazines/na...

AI nuclear winter can't come soon enough! And the thing is the ML revolution already happened and these gigawatt datacenters are going to be just huge money pits: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/07/t...

Given the constraints I am working under, what if the problem has no optimal solution?

Been off all week, now I need to remember how do I log in and what my actual job is 🤣

This was handed in for a PSYCH CLASS & when the prof said she didn't use empirical sources but rather submitted op-ed she whined about religious liberty + prof got suspended. I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.

The Pope really didn’t say anything that controversial, and some of these VC’s act like the Pope just called for their excommunication 🤪

What a load of 💩 My spouse was part of a group that helped an Afghan family settle here in WI. She caught a cold that wiped her out for a day or two. Guess who was at our doorstep with a crap ton of food?

You should absolutely read this keymaterial.net/2025/11/27/m...

It’s the “take it to a casino and double up” line that really sells how ridiculous this all is…

My spouse is getting a social work masters degree and one day asked me “do IT people have any sort of professional code of ethics?” 😳

Keys are hard. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

🦃 Thanksgiving is coming up in the US. 🦃 What are you thankful for in software security? I wrote about the welcome progress on memory safety defects. What other areas are moving in the right direction? #SecureByDesign medium.com/@boblord/29-...

Not that anyone here needs to hear this, but for the record, in a democracy "people voted differently from the way I expected or hoped" does not constitute evidence of fraud, no matter how many pretty charts and graphs of "voting patterns" you make.

I learned an important lesson today. If you start a question with “if we wanted to be petty about this..”, my technological astute colleagues will absolutely come ideas that are both wildly petty and technologically feasible. And no we won’t be implementing any of them (At this time…..)

If you see this, post an anime you love.

Conversations about OAuth:

So let me get this straight. For profit businesses are attempting to be good members of their respective communities and the party of “small government” is using their power to club them back in line. 🤬🤬🤬