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Not too good to be true, but definitely too early to victory-lap. The recent “universal” respiratory vaccine paper that’s getting attention is a mouse study, published in Science. It used an intranasal formulation that did not target one specific pathogen. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How much coke/meth is he on right now?

If they had DEI they’d know it was Targét not Tarzhay

Maybe if Whiskey Pete spent a little less time on loyalty tests for promotion and complaining about “fat soldiers” and more time doing his actual job….

Read this whole thread: But also I want to branch off of this. My division has started requiring LLM code reviews instead of a second human, and it LOOKS great to management "finding all these mistakes," but in practice it's a huge waste of time and money.

Sir, I will not stand for this Wile E. Coyote slander. He was a mis-understood technology innovator who simply lacked appropriate application of his technological gifting. He clearly has more innovation and drive than our current president.

For a party that has historically freaked put about the federal government knowing too much about you (ie gun ownership) they seem really happy to hand over people’s data to the feds.

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Only fools disagree with our glorious leader. To the camps with you.

So in theory, a user based outside of the US could be used to attack the websites of US based companies or other companies based in Europe or Asia and make it look like it would be coming from the US. Great job State Department on thinking this one through 🤣

The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies. I was feeling positive that Peter Jackson was going to do something cool and that movie ended up being trash. My spouse still makes fun of me for the ranting she had to endure after seeing it in the theater together.

The collapse of curiosity driven research has occurred in STEM too. Everything has to be outcomes focused - cure disease, grow better crops, etc. But so much of what humanity has discovered is from "basic" curiosity-driven science. I'm hugely in favor of funding curiosity in every discipline.

I have been recommending pca/cryptography library to my Python users when they need to do x509 stuff and this podcast has strengthened that recommendation. Also dang OpenSSL, where did it all go wrong?

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “We need to keep our private keys private”

The idea that art has to be the thing you make your living from instead of just being a thing you do to nourish your soul and bring you joy in your non-working hours - this, too, is the death of culture.

Anyone remember the “fortune favors the brave” Super Bowl commercial, right before crypto winter hit….

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“There’s no evidence to support this approach to achievement,” agrees Caulfield. “As opposed to improving outputs, it’s more of a statement of your commitment to the cause.” 🙄🙄🙄

Every one of those military guys who are stunned that protesters in Minnesota can be organized shoved off the planning for their military unit's family appreciation days or unit morale days to the one female officer or NCO in the unit.

I remember installing this when my kid was a toddler. He is in high school now 😭

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

This article was hard to read in that there are so many stories of jaw dropping incompetence, grift, and horrible behavior by FBI leaders.

They were legal refugees “There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery”

Another reason ICE needs to be abolished.

How about a hostage situation? (Blinks in x509) 🤣

I was in school with some first gen Hmong immigrant kids in the 80’s and 90’s. Almost of them were born in the US or have become citizens decades ago. Their kids were all born here. They have paid way more in US and Federal taxes than the ICE agents attempting to arrest them. This is so dumb.

Sorry Bears fans, that sucked

As someone who works in the crypto/PKI space and has leadership based in this corner of the world, this post is slightly mortifying 😬

Trump preparing his “I need to get on a plane to Switzerland” money. And I really really want to be wrong about this.

This is absolutely a 🤡 take on software engineering and outages. It can take a culture of learning from our mistakes to a one of trying to find scapegoats.

I am pre-caffeinated and was wildly annoyed that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) was getting a name change. 🤣🤣🤣

“War on Protein”? Sir this is Wisconsin. You can buy part of a cow if you have the right connections. We have entire stores for meat and cheese. My waistline is not for want of protein 🤣

Powell throwing punches 🫡

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.

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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.