Stephen Shaffer

Well fuck. This wasn’t the post-VulnCon news we were expecting.

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“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.”
— Karl Marx

Ok, I feel like this is mean to say to our closest celestial neighbour, but it would be SO COOL if that asteroid could hit the Moon instead 👀

OMG. I was wondering that as the tariff numbers made no sense, but this is even dumber than I thought. I mean, this is "fail your econ 101 class and have to go meet with the professor" bad.

I am often asked about my sincere belief in others & how that gives me hope.

Today @booker.senate.gov gave me hope. He was heroic. He is a helper.

As I say in my book Find The Helpers, what matters more than the moment is what we do next. Corey Booker just showed the way for what to do next.

Breaking: Chuck Schumer arrives late to Senator Booker’s speech, asks him to start again from the beginning.

Just heartbreaking

In ML there is the Precision/Recall curve that helps measure how accurate models/predictions are. Not sure how weather models are created these days but in short, yes there are measures.

Baseball Reaches Its Breaking Point An elbow-injury epidemic has become an existential threat to the sport, prompting the M.L.B. to brainstorm new solutions, such as the use of a heavier ball.

This story for the New Yorker is the culmination of many years of reporting on and thinking about one thing: What's the deal with pitching? It was nice to reconnect with people I know from the baseball world, and I have now seen the inside of a person's elbow.

www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...

"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts." — Marcus Aurelius

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Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app

I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now

Thanks for your service to our country

“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen: theatln.tc/UHOLqA9E

This breaks my heart. How can people be so heartless.

Rising global temperatures can influence the timing of events, such as when crops are ready to plant and harvest and when flowers and trees bloom.

One example is the timing of the peak cherry tree blossom in Kyoto, Japan, where records stretch back to the ninth century — that’s over 1200 years.

I mean it’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?

The "senior" in "senior developer" refers to their age in binary years, not human years.

Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics, a group of Democratic Senators have decided to collaborate…

Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech.

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...

#phdchat #lotr

A graph of the evolution of the dark energy (vertical axis) as a function of time (redshift on the horizontal axis) - showing an offset from the cosmological constant (a flat horizontal line). Here is the figure caption from the paper: FIG. 12. Comparison of the constraints on the equation of state of dark energy using the CPL parametrization and a bin- ning reconstruction approach, using DESI+CMB+DESY5. The solid green line shows the best-fit w(z) based on w0 and wa inference and the green contours around it represent the 68% and 95% confidence intervals. We also show in blue the constraints from the binning approach [47], with the hori- zontal bars indicating the bin width (which is fixed) and the vertical bars representing the 1σ error. Additionally, we in- clude in gray the 1D posterior for each binning parameter. The ΛCDM limit corresponds to the horizontal gray dashed line.

Congrats to @desisurvey.bsky.social - it's looking more & more like dark energy isn't Einstein's cosmological constant! If you've woken up to the news & are searching for the publications, they don't appear to be on arxiv 🤷‍♀️ but they are online. 🔭 #cosmology 🧪
ℹ️: data.desi.lbl.gov/public/paper...

Something to think about

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Where do Maryland's federal employees live and work? Thousands of federal workers call Maryland home. Many of them also work in offices across the state.

1 in 10 Maryland workers is a federal employee. Here’s where they live, work.

Euclid Q1 data release fields

It's #Euclid data release day!

@esa.int and the Euclid Consortium are making 63 deg² of Wide Survey data available to the world. Imaging and spectroscopy data, catalogues and masks for 20+ million galaxies, quasars, stars and substellar objects.

#astronomy #science #space

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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.

If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

Extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts would cost trillions, by the way.

We need to overturn Citizens United to fix our broken campaign finance system and stop power-hungry billionaires from taking advantage of it.