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They're dismantling (what remains of) the social safety net and replacing it with a dragnet instead.
May 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
They're dismantling (what remains of) the social safety net and replacing it with a dragnet instead.
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the idea that oswald was a free agent — that despite all the machinations, JFK was killed as a result of random chance — is so intolerable to so many people they have to believe the conspiracies are true
The cosmic absurdity is that Oswald was the singular free agent in what was otherwise a network of strange and baroque machinations
March 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
the idea that oswald was a free agent — that despite all the machinations, JFK was killed as a result of random chance — is so intolerable to so many people they have to believe the conspiracies are true
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A recent report showed that the destruction of just one USAID program, the anti-AIDS PEPFAR initiative, would lead to the deaths of one million people *every year* www.vox.com/future-perfe...
March 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A recent report showed that the destruction of just one USAID program, the anti-AIDS PEPFAR initiative, would lead to the deaths of one million people *every year* www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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A bug in Cloudflare (and just the nature of how CDNs work) let an attacker learn the broad location of Discord, Signal, Twitter users by just sending them an image, according to a security researcher. It works because check which data center cached the image www.404media.co/cloudflare-i...
Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users' Broad Location
A security researcher made a tool that let them quickly check which of Cloudflare's data centers had cached an image, which allowed them to figure out what city a Discord, Signal, or Twitter/X user mi...
www.404media.co
January 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A bug in Cloudflare (and just the nature of how CDNs work) let an attacker learn the broad location of Discord, Signal, Twitter users by just sending them an image, according to a security researcher. It works because check which data center cached the image www.404media.co/cloudflare-i...
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Intel's Pentium processor (1993) can compute sines, logarithms, and other special functions. To do this, it has a ROM with 304 floating-point constants. I reverse-engineered this ROM and extracted the constants. You can see pi in the ROM, binary 11.001001..., encoded in the transistor pattern. 1/n
January 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Intel's Pentium processor (1993) can compute sines, logarithms, and other special functions. To do this, it has a ROM with 304 floating-point constants. I reverse-engineered this ROM and extracted the constants. You can see pi in the ROM, binary 11.001001..., encoded in the transistor pattern. 1/n
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Hi folks! I'm excited to be on BlueSky! I'm looking forward to posting about computer science research, ML, scientific advances, tasty food, nature, and making groan-worthy puns.
January 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hi folks! I'm excited to be on BlueSky! I'm looking forward to posting about computer science research, ML, scientific advances, tasty food, nature, and making groan-worthy puns.
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The fact that the FBI didn’t hold a press conference announcing the largest seizure of self-made explosives in history tells you everything you need to know about race and ideology of the suspect. Wanna guess? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...
F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. Farm
Investigators discovered more than 150 devices, mostly pipe bombs, on a property outside Norfolk, court papers say.
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The fact that the FBI didn’t hold a press conference announcing the largest seizure of self-made explosives in history tells you everything you need to know about race and ideology of the suspect. Wanna guess? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...
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The NYT published a bizarre religious article on the Pentium division bug exactly 30 years ago today: "Pentium and Our Crisis of Faith." It argued that you need to have faith in a computer's results, so the Pentium bug was like Martin Luther's Protestant revolt.
www.nytimes.com/1994/12/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/1994/12/28/o...
December 29, 2024 at 1:43 AM
The NYT published a bizarre religious article on the Pentium division bug exactly 30 years ago today: "Pentium and Our Crisis of Faith." It argued that you need to have faith in a computer's results, so the Pentium bug was like Martin Luther's Protestant revolt.
www.nytimes.com/1994/12/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/1994/12/28/o...
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In 1994, a math professor discovered that Intel's Pentium chip sometimes gave the wrong answer when dividing. Fixing this "FDIV" bug cost Intel $475 million. I analyzed the Pentium chip and found the bug. 1/N
December 28, 2024 at 6:57 PM
In 1994, a math professor discovered that Intel's Pentium chip sometimes gave the wrong answer when dividing. Fixing this "FDIV" bug cost Intel $475 million. I analyzed the Pentium chip and found the bug. 1/N
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This intro video is absolutely fantastic, one of the best project overview videos of this kind I've seen anywhere bsky.app/profile/nicb...
Finished up the video properly introducing / giving an overview of Clay! #cprogramming
youtu.be/DYWTw19_8r4
youtu.be/DYWTw19_8r4
Introducing Clay - High Performance UI Layout in C
YouTube video by Nic Barker
youtu.be
December 21, 2024 at 11:15 PM
This intro video is absolutely fantastic, one of the best project overview videos of this kind I've seen anywhere bsky.app/profile/nicb...
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Out of all the work I've done on Syria I think this is my favourite. It includes a lot of digital detective work, Russia stupidly providing key evidence, and Forensic Architecture doing clever things with 3D models, all to ID one chemical weapon www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/04...
The Open Source Hunt for Syria's Favourite Sarin Bomb - bellingcat
Throughout Syria’s lengthy conflict, Bellingcat has worked to investigate a large number of chemical attacks, including the nature of the weapons deployed in those attacks, using open source evidence....
www.bellingcat.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Out of all the work I've done on Syria I think this is my favourite. It includes a lot of digital detective work, Russia stupidly providing key evidence, and Forensic Architecture doing clever things with 3D models, all to ID one chemical weapon www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/04...
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New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
November 28, 2024 at 7:07 PM
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
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Central Park, New York City 🗽
November 24, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Central Park, New York City 🗽
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Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah
November 25, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah
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Bird flu, a virus that can also affect humans, has been discovered in a batch of raw milk sold in California store refrigerators, state regulators said Sunday.
It comes just a few days after a child tested positive for bird flu for the first time in U.S. history.
It comes just a few days after a child tested positive for bird flu for the first time in U.S. history.
Bird flu detected in raw milk sold at California store
The H5N1 virus was found in a sample of unpasteurized milk at a store, prompting a recall of one batch. Health agencies have warned against the growing dietary fad.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Bird flu, a virus that can also affect humans, has been discovered in a batch of raw milk sold in California store refrigerators, state regulators said Sunday.
It comes just a few days after a child tested positive for bird flu for the first time in U.S. history.
It comes just a few days after a child tested positive for bird flu for the first time in U.S. history.