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Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
The doofus renamed the Kennedy center to the Trump Kennedy center and is now surprised that people don't wanna play there 😄
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Musician Béla Fleck is the latest to cancel Kennedy Center performances after Trump's renaming
The Grammy-winning banjo player said the venue had become too "political," while the arts center chair accused him of caving to the "woke mob."
www.nbcnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:17 PM
The doofus renamed the Kennedy center to the Trump Kennedy center and is now surprised that people don't wanna play there 😄
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Are you ready to read 5,600 lines of c++ code ported to rust per hour?
I have the perfect job for you:
Do not despair, it is just 100 lines of code per minute.
I have the perfect job for you:
Do not despair, it is just 100 lines of code per minute.
December 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Are you ready to read 5,600 lines of c++ code ported to rust per hour?
I have the perfect job for you:
Do not despair, it is just 100 lines of code per minute.
I have the perfect job for you:
Do not despair, it is just 100 lines of code per minute.
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Several news outlets reported the amazing discovery of a 1970s Fourth Edition Research Unix magnetic tape. I incorporated the tape’s source code into the Unix History Repository hosted on GitHub and studied the code’s composition. Here's what I found.
www.spinellis.gr/blog/2025122...
www.spinellis.gr/blog/2025122...
December 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Several news outlets reported the amazing discovery of a 1970s Fourth Edition Research Unix magnetic tape. I incorporated the tape’s source code into the Unix History Repository hosted on GitHub and studied the code’s composition. Here's what I found.
www.spinellis.gr/blog/2025122...
www.spinellis.gr/blog/2025122...
Feature request for Google. On the left hand side on Gemini, allow a user to drag a chat into another to merge them (e.g., if they are both about music.)
December 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Feature request for Google. On the left hand side on Gemini, allow a user to drag a chat into another to merge them (e.g., if they are both about music.)
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The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
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Festive dot puzzles. A form-time favourite of mine.
Thanks to @gareth-metcalfe.bsky.social for the idea a couple of years ago!
mathsbot.com/puzzles/dotP...
Thanks to @gareth-metcalfe.bsky.social for the idea a couple of years ago!
mathsbot.com/puzzles/dotP...
December 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Festive dot puzzles. A form-time favourite of mine.
Thanks to @gareth-metcalfe.bsky.social for the idea a couple of years ago!
mathsbot.com/puzzles/dotP...
Thanks to @gareth-metcalfe.bsky.social for the idea a couple of years ago!
mathsbot.com/puzzles/dotP...
No Google, I didn't mean to voice search for "Giant steps jungle train" 🙃
December 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
No Google, I didn't mean to voice search for "Giant steps jungle train" 🙃
FIFA Will Award Its Own Peace Prize Next Month in Washington
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
A nice overview of continual learning (i.e., when models learn and evolve after deployment in production).
jessylin.com/2025/10/20/c...
jessylin.com/2025/10/20/c...
The Continual Learning Problem
jessylin.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
A nice overview of continual learning (i.e., when models learn and evolve after deployment in production).
jessylin.com/2025/10/20/c...
jessylin.com/2025/10/20/c...
Got this yesterday at a local used-book sale. I must have been the only computer scientist who didn't already own this book :P
October 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Got this yesterday at a local used-book sale. I must have been the only computer scientist who didn't already own this book :P
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I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
October 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
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There is no longer a fourth amendment in America. Act accordingly.
NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.
A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community.
thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...
A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community.
thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...
Feds detain dozens of immigrants in 'massive' South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago • The TRiiBE
An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in the course of the overnight raid in the predominately-Black neighborhood.
thetriibe.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There is no longer a fourth amendment in America. Act accordingly.
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In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs.
He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.
Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.
Why?
He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.
Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.
Why?
September 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs.
He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.
Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.
Why?
He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.
Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.
Why?
But what about 20250927, the best way of writing dates? 😉
Numerologists take note: tomorrow, 27th September 2025, is a square date in both US and Everywhere Else notation.
5205² = 27092025 and 3045² = 9272025
This is the last time this will happen for a thousand years!
(from @EdPeggJr on math-fun)
5205² = 27092025 and 3045² = 9272025
This is the last time this will happen for a thousand years!
(from @EdPeggJr on math-fun)
September 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
But what about 20250927, the best way of writing dates? 😉
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The blue shape is a Reuleaux triangle, and it has a lot of interesting mathematical properties. You might recognize it from drill bits, guitar picks and tamper-proof nuts in fire hydrants. www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicia...
September 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The blue shape is a Reuleaux triangle, and it has a lot of interesting mathematical properties. You might recognize it from drill bits, guitar picks and tamper-proof nuts in fire hydrants. www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicia...
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new: OpenAI is teaming up with Nvidia via a “strategic partnership” that will get the ChatGPT-maker more compute + cash on its road to superintelligence.
Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI “as each gigawatt is deployed.”
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI “as each gigawatt is deployed.”
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Nvidia is partnering up with OpenAI to offer compute and cash
A deal for ‘at least’ 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters
www.theverge.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
new: OpenAI is teaming up with Nvidia via a “strategic partnership” that will get the ChatGPT-maker more compute + cash on its road to superintelligence.
Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI “as each gigawatt is deployed.”
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI “as each gigawatt is deployed.”
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
This is really funny
Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
September 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is really funny
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Darkly amusing that the president who pardoned Ross Ulbricht also says illicit drugs are such a threat to national security that he can use the military to assassinate suspected drug dealers with no due process.
September 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Darkly amusing that the president who pardoned Ross Ulbricht also says illicit drugs are such a threat to national security that he can use the military to assassinate suspected drug dealers with no due process.
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Reposted by Dimitris Vardoulakis
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
August 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
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The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.