Peter W🤓

James Baldwin was born August 2, 1924 in Harlem.

nazi dorks in a fight with a bystander down on a street. hard to make out details but it's blood tribe in matching red uniforms.

Looks like Blood Tribe got stood up to in Concord, NH this afternoon. Still working on more details, but so far it seems they tried their flash march / rally like usual and people weren't having it and threw punches. People say they ran away scared with a large police presence in the area after.

Wait….. what?!

The soulless ghouls of corporate investment and finance on Wall Street are all MBAs that majored in “humanities” like Econ or Poli Sci..

Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels Chris Booth’s channel – rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism – garnered 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube in about two months

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I agree that Axios et al often miss the forest for the clicks, but here they use language of "purging dissenters, rewriting history, criminalizing opposition" and say Trump "threatened to eviscerate the integrity of US govt data."

That is the kind of descriptive language we need more of from media

Ghislaine Maxwell Moved to Minimum-Security Women’s Prison in Texas

There it is.

Hey guys, how is it looking to “import from archive”? I’d be interested in funding the dev to get this back working again.
(Also maybe in helping to market BlueArk as well.)

Frontier AI Labs: the Call Option to AGI Since the launch of ChatGPT less than three years ago, the pace of AI development has only accelerated.

Great write-up on the economics of investing at this moment in time in the AI wars: open.substack.com/pub/eastwind...

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race. (Alfred North Whitehead)

"Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude."
~ Alfred North Whitehead

He’d not wrong about the looming crisis, but he’s delusional if he thinks anyone is going to trust his company to be the default identity layer.

Use your voice.

Senators Introduce Bill To Restrict AI Companies’ Unauthorized Use Of Copyrighted Works For Training Models The legislation would require that AI companies get individual consent.

deadline.com/2025/07/sena...

oh for fuck's sake they started denying the word "expression" and it turns out that, uh, the mechanics of gene expression into proteins is a thing that now is politically banned?

Lawyers for Harvard and Trump square off in court in Boston With more than $2 billion dollars in federal research grants at stake, the two sides will argue before a federal judge as the university pushes back on the administration's demands.

With more than $2 billion dollars in federal research grants at stake, the two sides will argue before a federal judge as the university pushes back on the administration's demands.

This is more of a comment about him as a tech innovator or inventor - and hence puts some color on the current attempts to poach talent from other companies.

In Epstein Case, Follow the Money, Democratic Senator Says

In the Epstein Case, Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden says: Follow the money.
 
Wyden has found that four banks waited until Epstein's arrest on federal charges to flag $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions.
 
He wants the documents made public.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...

Yiiiiiikes

I’m really enjoying Python and Golang right now, and both of them are fun or great in various ways, but I have to wonder if I just have Typescript fatigue and every other language seems amazing by contrast

That’s how we get ya! 😉

Even the actual business success of Facebook - ads - came from other people:

Greed Over People

Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that."

(ht: @ronxyz.bsky.social)

Just a thought.. If you are trying to drive intruders out of your neighborhood, why not put 2x4s with long nails (driven through them and pointed up) in front and behind the car, so that they have to get out & remove them before they drive away? Then they get doused with fart powder & spray hoses.

Photo of an asparagus patch showing the tall, feathery branches that grow from mature stalks.

One joy of gardening is learning how stuff grows. Green beans are just unripe beans. Hops grow on vines and smell like beer. Bay leaves come from bay trees. This is what asparagus looks like when you stop picking it.

The Big LLM Architecture Comparison From DeepSeek-V3 to Kimi K2: A Look At Modern LLM Architecture Design

The Big LLM Architecture Comparison, by the excellent @sebastianraschka.com

magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/the-big-ll...