The level of corruption to pardon a drug kingpin who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine while claiming you’re committing war crimes to fight Venezuelan cartels is worse than anything I ever saw in Nigeria. This is so gross.

Serious Cryptography is the current default answer to “how do I learn cryptography engineering from a book?”

What are we even doing here

You either die a Web 2.0 hero, or live long enough to be acquired by Bending Spoons.

Jepsen and Antithesis worked together to write a glossary for anyone building, testing, and operating distributed systems. It covers the basics of concurrency, consistency models and phenomena, faults, and some testing approaches: https://antithesis.com/resources/reliability_glossary/ […]

I fear it's gonna end like email. No trust on a new mail server (pds) by default to combat spam—few big providers trusted (gmail, outlook)

People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers. Anyway, about China ...

this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.

can’t say Merry Christmas anymore because of the Woke Police 😔

Finally www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...

Let me put this more productively: there was considerable public fury toward previous Republicans for lies, crimes, misbegotten wars, etc. But it ran up against the *enormous, extremely powerful* forces defending elite impunity. And the latter forces won, decisively. It was barely a fight.

incredible quote lol

A lot of folks know me for one or two posts, and might not know I've created nine (9!) visual explanations of computer science topics, aimed at practitioners. If you're looking for things to read this Thanksgiving, I think you'll love them. Computer science is a lot of fun, when explained well. ❤️

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

I look at a promoted search result and my first thought is "not good enough to rank organically, I'll skip". It's a negative signal. I wonder if it's a learned response from the pre-google era.

did you know standard barcodes almost ended up being round instead of square?

The BBC is now so fearful of Trump that it edited a statement of opinion about Trump out of the broadcast of a speech by a respected historian. It is a measure of how dangerously pliant much of the press has become in the face of Trump's threats.

The solution is, at least partially, what we should have been doing all along: student-centered teaching instead of lectures, uncomfortable as it is for those like me who are control freaks. And the other is an emphasis on the performance: in-class writing and speaking. Very much worth reading.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

the duality of me:

I wonder if my ad-viewing habits are common: I don't use adblockers but I always skip promoted search results in Amazon and Google (I also always deny tracking cookies).

A movie that takes place where you're from.

It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own

Overdiscussed: TikTok Underdiscussed: YouTube

1/2. “The COP of Truth cannot ignore science. 75% of carbon emissions come from fossil fuels. Today we are not even allowed to discuss pathways for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.” Colombia at the close of #COP30.

Eu tava com meus mano Lá na minha quebrada Chegou o Vanderlei E veio dar ideia errada

nano banana prompt: “Create a super annoying linkedin profile”

thomas nagel failed to consider bruce wayne

Bluesky today is so weird, us Brazilians celebrating Bolsonaro's arrest while Americans are reacting to RFKjr's nighttime habits.

PODE JÁ!!

a "versão extendida" tem um toque especial bsky.app/profile/brux...

Edição de colecionador

One remarkable thing is that three of his sons were each responsible for worsening the situation for Jair at different moments.

habemus vídeo do nosso trompetista começando os trabalhos

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

It was a huge honor to work with Evan and turn one of my blog posts into an IEEE spectrum article! I feel like almost a real writer now. spectrum.ieee.org/robots-foldi...

When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!

Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

There's a deep irony that the personal computing "revolution", which arose to challenge the authority and centralization of the corporate mainframe of the 50s and 60s, ended up creating and distributing the office desktop metaphor of computing to the world.

no. no!

The slickness!

2. Similar to the CrowdStrike 2024 incident, it involved files used to distribute attack signatures to agents running security checks. These processes require timely distribution to keep up with attacker's evolving strategies. Rapid security response is in fundamental tension with system reliability

FOMO about #EuroskyLive. I'll catch the recordings later.

My takeaways from the Cloudflare outage