Dimitris Vardoulakis

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.

There is no longer a fourth amendment in America. Act accordingly.

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?

But what about 20250927, the best way of writing dates? 😉

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...

Nvidia is partnering up with OpenAI to offer compute and cash A deal for ‘at least’ 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters

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...

This is really funny

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.

*Microsoft's

An infographic stating that Trump's agents are not just targeting immigrant communities involved in crime. It shows figures representing the proportion of immigrants taken by ICE, categorized by criminal record: 7% with violent convictions, 28% with no violent convictions, and 65% with no convictions, captioned with a note that ICE is breaking up families and not only pursuing criminals.

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."

Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April

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.

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding. The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home. Impaired by a stroke, a man fell for a Meta chatbot originally created with Kendall Jenner. His death spotlights Meta’s AI rules, which let bots tell falsehoods.

Jesus www.reuters.com/investigates...

YouTube video by idiocratease Epic Sarah Cooper - Elon Musk talking to Joe Rogan about naming his kid X Æ A-12

This is not a Trump one, but it's one of my favorites. So good.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m4M...

Saw a funny Elon-protest bumper sticker today saying "Send Elon to Mars" :D

Good news for Ireland and Austria....

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

One of my favorite things to do in Greece in the summer is to get a Sunday paper (το Βημα της Κυριακης) and sit down with a coffee and enjoy. Will definitely miss this when I return to the US soon.

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).

It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.

It has written majority opinions in only 3.

Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

I gave a talk on our work on verifying the eBPF verifier in the Linux kernel at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management & BPF Summit, March 2025, Montreal, Canada. Daroc Alden from Linux Weekly News has written a nice summary article on the talk. Here is the link: lwn.net/Articles/102...

The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence. ​

A fun moment

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

I agree with Jensen and, like him, pretty much disagree with.everything Dario says. | Yann LeCun I agree with Jensen and, like him, pretty much disagree with.everything Dario says. Quote from Jensen: “One, he believes that AI is so scary that only they should do it,” Huang said of Amodei at a pr...

Yann LeCun agrees.

www.linkedin.com/posts/yann-l...

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he disagrees with almost everything Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says Jensen Huang is not on board with some of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s predictions about advanced AI.

Great headline 😄

fortune.com/2025/06/11/n...

Google chief scientist predicts AI could perform at the level of a junior coder in a year Jeff Dean, Google's Chief Scientist, said AI will have to learn more than basic coding before it's operating at the level of a junior engineer.

No way this happens in a year.

www.businessinsider.com/google-boss-...

0/4!! Injuries destroyed that one. I predict thunder will win the West, and the title. I'm not sure about the East; both teams don't seem that great. Let's say Knicks due to home court advantage.

Only 5/8 correct from the first round. Didn't expect the nuggets to rally so hard after the coaching change. For the second round, I'm changing the earlier prediction to say that they ll go past the thunder. All else the same.