Ethan Heilman 😼

Adam Tooze: The Trump trade is dead. Long live the anti-Trump trade. Wherever you look in financial markets, you see signs that global investors are going out of their way to avoid Donald Trump’s America.

(deep cut?)

aws, = My Account More • Operational issue - Multiple services (UAE) Service Multiple services Severity @ Disrupted Increased Error Rates Mar 01 9:41 AM PST We want to provide some additional information on the power issue in a single Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1 Region. At around 4:30 AM PST, one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire. The fire department shut off power to the facility and generators as they worked to put out the fire. We are still awaiting permission to turn the power back on, and once we have, we will ensure we restore power and connectivity safely. It will take several hours to restore connectivity to the impacted AZ. The other AZs in the region are functioning normally. Customers who were running their applications redundantly across the AZs are not impacted by this event. EC2 Instance launches will continue to be impaired in the impacted AZ. We recommend that customers continue to retry any failed API requests. If immediate recovery of alfatected tesourte TEE2 Instance,

AWS reporting that ME-Central-1 (UAE) is having an “operational issue” after it was “impacted by objects”

health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

h/t to a former colleague for bringing this to my attention

OpenAI has decided AI safety with regards to automated weapons is less important than money from government contracts. We must reward companies that hold the line and punish companies that defect.

I canceled OpenAI two weeks ago because I saw the writing on the wall. Just subscribed to Anthropic.

Big protest at the Lincoln Monument. Seven D.C. high schools walked out to come here.

Maybe in-universe Dawkins got accidentally dosed with a slow acting memetic hazard while doing work for the Foundation and they moved him out into a public communicator role as a sort of retirement plan.

"Meaning is canonical; slack cannot enter."

Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

For a better understanding how this can be related to TEXTSECURE, suppose the following example (jealous spouse attack): Bart (Pb) wants to trick his friend Milhouse (Pa). Bart knows that Milhouse will invite him to his birthday party using TEXTSECURE (e.g., because Lisa already told him). He starts the UKS attack by replacing his own public key with Nelsons (Pe) public key and lets Milhouse verify the fingerprint of his new public key. This can be justified, for instance, by claiming to have a new device and having simply re-registered, as that requires less effort than restoring an encrypted backup of the existing key material. Now, as explained in more detail below, if Milhouse invites Bart to his birthday party, then Bart may just forward this message to Nelson who will believe that this message was actually sent from Milhouse. Thus, Milhouse (Pa) believes that he invited Bart (Pb) to his birthday party, where in fact, he invited Nelson (Pe).

eprint.iacr.org/2014/904.pdf

Quality lawyering though.

Apparently singing La Marseillaise was a thing at Hollywood parties after the Nazis invaded France in 1940, and the writers of the script simply slotted it in. Ronald Reagan said he was sick of hearing it and avoided certain parties as a result

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Given all the fan art that exists, why is no fanart of @nealstephenson.bsky.social's flynks?

Bro what the fuck

The Resistance Gains Momentum Trump had a bad week.

“The Trump years have been and remain all too real, and we’re not going suddenly to wake up and discover that all is back to normal. But yesterday offered some promise that a hard-earned awakening could lie ahead.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-resist...

No one asked for it, yet here it is: curried functions in C

pastebin.com/9pqG2gqd

(as if to warn of divine wrath, my 'e' key seems to have stopped working while I was writing it)

YouTube video by Songs from the Stars Bill Sutton - Do It Yourself [HQ]

"...
They make big bucks for systems, so they never want it known
That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home
...
It crashes every hour, and it isn't worth a damn
But I'm satisfied because it runs just like an IBM!
..."

Can you post the URL source so this can be easily verified?

the man who owns Palantir, a key contractor to the US intelligence community. Under US law, Thiel, as a holder of high level security clearances, was required to report this contact to USG. It does not appear he did so.

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

what the fuck man

Boston Armizare Teaching Students The Ancient Art Of Sword Fighting | WBZ NewsRadio 1030 Students at a historical fencing club called Boston Armizare, with locations in NH and Boston, are learning the ancient art of sword fighting through the use of medieval teaching manuals.

wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/bost...

The GOP has offered nothing this century except for catastrophic wars. No healthcare plan; no re-industrialization. Now they're losing their only issue, immigration, as people see the violence and havoc that comes with mass deportations.

Man charged with assault after fight during student-led anti-ICE protest in Buda Hays County Judge Ruben Becerra said on Tuesday he is calling on the District Attorney’s Office to investigate after a brawl between students an adult man ensued during a confrontation at Monday’s …

This is my hometown - Buda, Texas. Guy runs up and starts pummeling one of the girls. I am so proud of these high school students standing up for their neighbors. There are more of us than the fascist dipshits, and there's safety in numbers. www.kxan.com/news/local/b...

A letter to the director of the CIA from Senator Ron Wyden saying he has sent a classified letter that expressed concerns.

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Canadian Company Cancels Sale of Virginia Warehouse to ICE

This is a fascinating story. ICE tried to buy a warehouse in VA from a Canadian company, to turn into a detention center. One of the company’s advertising partners basically told them that if they sold, they could kiss their ads goodbye.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.