Brian Piercy is caffeinated for your safety.
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Polymath. Product manager on hiatus. Music. Dogs. Appalachia. Linux. Ruby on Rails. Python, ML/DL/LLMs. Semiconductors. Football. Tacos. Vampire hunter. (Not really.)
Let’s see how long this lasts.
Art Briles Lands First College Job Since Baylor Scandal
Division II school Eastern New Mexico is hiring Briles as its head football coach, the university said Monday.
frontofficesports.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Let’s see how long this lasts.
Good. A pox on every one of those clowns.
DOGE is no more, and in its wake, only chaos
After Musk was chased out of DC, a power vacuum at the head of DOGE caused chaos and ultimately led to its dissolution.
www.theverge.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Good. A pox on every one of those clowns.
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This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
Sounds all too familiar. #Appalachia
A Development Economist Returns to What He Left Behind
Paul Collier spent decades studying the poorest countries on earth. Now he advises struggling towns in the place where he grew up.
www.newyorker.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Sounds all too familiar. #Appalachia
We shopped yesterday for e-bikes. Add this to my due diligence list.
The Alarming Rise of Fake Lithium-Ion Batteries
How safe are the batteries in your e-bike or vape pen? Discover the risks of counterfeit lithium-ion cells and what you can do to stay safe.
spectrum.ieee.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We shopped yesterday for e-bikes. Add this to my due diligence list.
Enron, anyone?
Meta wants to get into the electricity trading business | TechCrunch
In order to accelerate the construction of new power plants needed to provide energy for its data centers, Meta is looking to get into the business of trading electricity.
techcrunch.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Enron, anyone?
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The International Association for Cryptologic Research has used heliosvoting.org – my online voting system – for a number of years.
This year, a trustee lost their secret key. The election has to be re-run.
Below, a few thoughts that didn't fit in the NYT piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
This year, a trustee lost their secret key. The election has to be re-run.
Below, a few thoughts that didn't fit in the NYT piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The International Association for Cryptologic Research has used heliosvoting.org – my online voting system – for a number of years.
This year, a trustee lost their secret key. The election has to be re-run.
Below, a few thoughts that didn't fit in the NYT piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
This year, a trustee lost their secret key. The election has to be re-run.
Below, a few thoughts that didn't fit in the NYT piece.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
