Senator called. Tuned in to the Senate livestream.

Just did this. (I live in Becker's district.) Said "please vote yes," and they took my surname and phone number.

Just called! His lines are empty, they didn't even ask me to hold and it took me less than 3 minutes.

Duty of candor to the court suggests “frenemy”

New paper from me, @chinmayisharma.bsky.social and Parth Nobel about all things open AI systems.

Thrilled to share that Unbundling AI Openness, my article with @alanrozenshtein.com and Parth Nobel is forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review! It introduces a framework of "differential openness" to correct the oversimplification of AI as either "open vs. closed." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Not building housing screws young people, pushes them out & tanks future economic success. We need to make it easier & faster to build the homes we need for a bright future. Our current vetocracy need to change & we’re working to change it.

@alanrozenshtein.com and co-authors @ptnobel.bsky.social (Ph.D. candidate, Stanford University) and Prof. @chinmayisharma.bsky.social (Fordham School of Law) have published an article on @ssrn.bsky.social, "Unbundling AI Openness," forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review (2026). z.umn.edu/AIOpeness

This is what hes referring to btw. He thinks the property on the left has more character than the right.

🚨 Urban Stats 28.0.0 🚨 The mapper is now completely redesigned by me and @spudwaffle.bsky.social, allowing for much prettier looking maps and way more customization alongside significantly more options for geographies! See below for some of the examples of the maps you can create!

This is incredible.

Insane thread. Worth a read

The supreme court should be an annually rotating panel of circuit judges from all circuits. We should not have a fixed SCOTUS.

Release 0.15.0 includes many improvements to the marimo editor's AI integration such as dramatically simpler configuration (switch between local and hosted models with a single click) and custom model setup for chat, code editing, and autocompletion.

So, rather than fighting back against the Trump admin, @klobuchar.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com is focused on giving them new internet censorship tools because some idiot made a parody video of her on TikTok.

Is there any update on when the 2025/26 COVID boosters will be available? Influenza is out now.

Honestly like they never feel magic to me, it never breaks my sense that they're identifying a task from a prompt then doing normal ML on that task

drinking water >>>>>

Baby otter doing baby otter stuff!

When we went on long car trips as a kid, we had a tape player. One of the tapes that we played on long trips was the 1991 Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection, which featured Poisoning Pigeons in the Park and the Masochism Tango, by Tom Lehrer. Losing Lehrer makes the world a less happy place.

We could never build this much dense housing in Marin

Apparently the wave of resignations and layoffs at the Washington Post got rid of all the people who know that Jeremy Corbyn was never the U.K. Prime Minister.

Genuinely mindbending!

Juxtastat DAU update! Crazy how we've been >1000 every day for over a year now! Thank you all for all your support, and make sure to keep spreading the word!

It's also how MechaHitler—I mean Grok—can satisfy the EO, since its system prompt is on Github. (8/9)

Just read the new "woke AI" EO. It's…surprisingly better than expected, once you get past the culture war bloviating in Sec. 1. Here's what it *actually* does. (1/9) www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

impossible regulations with discretionary enforcement are best understood as a cudgel to compel behavior from corporations (laudatory or derogatory depending on who’s holding it)

One time a retired State Department official told me that he believed cryptographers are all lying about the security of golden key encryption because they're all anti-surveillance libertarians.

I'm excited to announce CVXPY 1.7: convex optimization on the GPU! We added support for 4 new GPU-based solvers: cuOPT a MILP solver by NVIDIA, CuClarabel by a Oxford and Stanford team, MPAX by a MIT team, and support for a new GPU-accelerated backend in SCS (when build from source with cudss=True).

rt if you either love my son or legally cannot be broadcasted by the BBC

Interested in large-scale GPU optimization? Interested in how modern neural networks are being deployed to solve classical optimization problems? Writing a paper on these topics? Submit to the ScaleOPT workshop at NeurIPS! www.cvxgrp.org/scaleopt/#su...

watching A Nice Indian Boy with a nice indian boy (@ptnobel.bsky.social)

For the record: —Making it easier for families to live near & be able to walk to transit is a good thing. —Making it easier for disabled people to access transit is a good thing. —Building new apartments & condos under modern building codes — meaning ADA compliant — is a good thing.

NIMBYism is strangling California. It causes our severe housing shortage, which pushes middle income, working class & young people out of our state. It fuels homelessness. It harms our economy by creating workforce shortages. It undermines child care, clean energy & so many other needs.

People always ask me how do you balance being the best programmer in the world with being incredibly popular and attractive? And I always tell them, you know, it’s not easy

Finally, I view copyright (and the concept of IP itself) to be corporate theft of our shared commons. Strengthening it helps companies over people, broadly speaking

Overheard at #WeRobot "when I first got to Stanford I thought Palantir was a t-shirt company"

LAST TRAIN TO BREMEN, the award-winning tabletop game about a band on the run, comes to backerkit this summer with @possumcreekgames.com. save the date

just some reminders of what it's all about

using computers is so fun

You are all one pinch of asafoetida (हींग) away from tastier meals

Excited to share that the PokeAgent challenge was accepted as a NeurIPS competition! This should serve as an excellent benchmark for competitive games AND ‘speedrunning’ the RPG. I hope to see both the RL and LLM agent communities working together here to eval agents in Pokemon More info soon👀

Juxtastat 631 4/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥 juxtastat.org

Ok as someone who's experienced both year round idyllic weather in SoCal and four seasons in Boston, anyone who says they prefer having four distinct seasons is obviously lying/coping. Like, you enjoy 3 months of freezing and 3 months of humid mosquito season???

starting to think we need a modern temperance movement to crack down on digital forms of gambling (crypto, sports betting etc)

Senator Arreguin of Berkeley up now. He notes that housing is a statewide concern, and that if localities were making progress on this issue, we'd be building much more than we are wouldn't need state interventions like #SB79. Author's note: that's fucking right!

has anyone ever

We updated the autocompletion UI. Not just for Python, but for SQL too!