Recently I asked someone what actions he's taking to help with an issue he cares about a lot. He said he didn't know what to do -- what he could do that would actually make a difference. What I said helped him, so I wrote it down for others too. harihareswara.net/posts/2025/i...

On the one hand, there’s all the other stuff, but on the other hand, it’s John Coltrane’s 99th birthday and you can listen to WKCR’s 24-hour broadcast of his music www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Navratri Ki Shubhkamnaye – नवरात्रि की शुभकामनाये संदेश May Maa Durga stand with us and bring us strength and victory in dangerous times.

My 2nd grader just woke up to say "sometimes my eyeballs get strangled together and I can't open my eyes."

This paper is really well written, and I encourage you to read it if you're ML-adjacent. An example they give is birthdays: birthdays across a population are uniformly(*-ish) distributed. Thus, asking an LLM for a birthday is going to be a shot in the dark, every single time.

In case anyone else thinks "Radiation? That's just like x-rays right?" It is very much not. Brought to you by day 4 of not being able to lift my head, and my terrifying backlog of an inbox.

Cool I guess the writers are doing fanfic now

oh my god they released Mecha-Hildegard

As an update, Katabasis was a very solid trip through academic trauma, complete with a loyal lab cat. Highly recommended.

In case you, like me, find first two chapters of this oddly weak, I highly recommend you push through to get *this* gloriousness. I had to draw out hyperbolic surfaces to make certain I understood her geometries ❤️

For the evening crowd (with thanks to everyone who has already gotten in touch with datasets)

Not that it comes as much of a surprise to many of us, but it's worth emphasizing once again - the 👏 brain 👏 uses 👏 distributed 👏 coding 👏. 😁 Two new papers from the #IBL looking at brain-wide activity: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience 🧪

Who here do I know that hosts their own webpages or blogs? A postdoc colleague and I would like to ask a few fast questions about your traffic patterns over the last 5 years. (please reshare for reach thank you!)

Hey hey hey! My new novel Everybody's Perfect is available to preorder with a release date of June 30th 2026! (I'm linking to Amazon but you can preorder it from anywhere good books are sold) www.amazon.com/Everybodys-P...

And today I spent replenishing the supply...

I write science fiction, and it's still not dead. Pass it on.

Still on practice books, but definitely getting better at binding. I also made the endpaper.

ATL friends: Go to this I can't imagine a better event

Please please help me spread the word! I've been to Atlanta a few times, but I don't know as many folks there as I do in Seattle or LA. So I would really *massively* appreciate any and all help letting ATL folks know about this event. 🍑💖📚

Book news! I have a novella, The Sheltering Flame, coming out this fall with @wtpress.bsky.social, sharing covers with @aknighton.bsky.social. I've been waiting eagerly to share this weird little urban fantasy about radical hospitality, consent, and home repair. wizardstowerpress.com/media/wizard...

Ron Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening to right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products.

Our little-anthology-that-could is still randomly on super-sale from Am*zon. Less than $5 for this beautiful paperback: a.co/d/0NE0fgO It's the perfect time to get your hands on these tremendous SFF stories from Elizabeth Bear, Daryl Gregory, F.E. Choe, Shen Tao and more. #speclit #booksky

Every now and then, I remember that "short scale" and "long scale" trillions exist and I'm mad about it every time.

AI coming for NSA jobs

The ONLY AI I will allow! For those wondering: Adrak means ginger and ilaichi means cardammom. A proper Chai indeed, well deserving of that GPT. This Indian approves.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

@ucsfchildrens.bsky.social , thanks to the scabs you brought in to replace your striking radiology team, I'm with a 7yo who has been lying in the ER for over 8 hours with a broken femur, waiting for the official radiology report.

Only 2 out of 120 papers in my NeurIPS SAC batch have all reviewer scores ≥4! Don't despair with the low scores and focus on writing a clear and concise rebuttal! Good luck!

No argument at all, but I also love this flexeril for the brain of a show.

That's how you say, "Fuck you in the heart, Donald," in Evangelical Christian.

🤖 At #ICML? Come check out our position poster "Stop treating ‘AGI’ as the north-star goal of AI research", wherein we challenge the “it goes without saying” narrative that AGI is a great goal for AI research. Tomorrow (Thursday the 17th) between 11 and 13:30. I’ll be there with @graziul.bsky.social

We announced the new native Go FIPS 140-3 mode today! FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings. Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.

No one writes about the bereaved frog spouse and orphaned tadpoles in fairytales…

If you are at or near Worldcon (or even if you're not) my second performance reading will take place at the Theater Puget Sound in Seattle, WA (about 1.5 miles northwest of the convention center) on SUNDAY August 17, again starting at 7 PM: www.scottlynchstore.com

How to be classy, how to be cute, how to actually walk the walk... Love you for this, @cloudflare.social ❤️ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/t...

Reminder! I'm curating the August Odd Salon, at Public Works in San Francisco, and the last day to submit talks is *tomorrow*! Make my decision hard! Submit your brilliant idea here: Oddsalon.com/speak

SEX TIP: Try tracing out the entirety of The Voynich Manuscript with your tongue during oral

This part is also important.

I'm curating this salon (6 10-minute talks centred around a theme, loud and tipsy audience interaction encouraged) on August 5th. If you are in the bay, I want every one of you nerds on the stage or in the audience ❤️

Holy shit.

Happy Longest Day, San Francisco

This is the content I still log in for. (and, of course, the way you stack tesseract poop is "eternally" )

I'm deeply heartened by the fact that the majority of my following is nonchalant about CUDA Crunch

Oh hey I'm back in San Francisco

Painfully accurate

Moment of Gratitude: CloudFlare CloudFlare saved the Internet Archive servers from a DDOS yesterday. Max rate of this DDOS attack was 525 Gbps (44.93 Mpps) of a "TCP flood" @archive.org does not have enough bandwidth to fend off that kind of attack = wouldbe bad saturday. Thank you #CloudFlare

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

Teen Vogue continues to be a goddamn treasure and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

Here is a link to one of the big local papers: www.startribune.com

*standing over a ruined roast* I just know that DNS is to blame for this somehow