Larry O’Brien

That badguys pantse are NOTT flantering , @dieworkwear.bsky.social wouldenot approove

Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.

Ps: there are mRNA vaccines that are showing promise to FIGHT CANCER (including pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, and more)

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

A *2011* grant from NSERC Research Tools and Instruments, for 60000 CAD, to Geoff Hinton (@geoffreyhinton.bsky.social)

For "Large scale machine learning using GPUs"

Everything you're seeing now started from a pittance of cash given by the Canadian government for fundamental research

Refugee dies after U.S.-funded clinic shuts, family says | Honolulu Star-Advertiser A Burmese refugee with lung problems died after she was discharged from a U.S.-funded hospital on the Myanmar-Thai border that was ordered to close as a result of President Donald Trump’s freeze on fo...

Just one of countless unnecessary and intentional deaths due to the USAID nightmare.

In the early 21st century, a reality of writing airline reservation code was dealing with seat availability being restricted to 0-7. Because 3 bits was what early-60s SABRE established. Asking for 8 would give you 0 seats. Legacy programming is 100%about dealing with quirks.

It’s not that COBOL is a bad or overly-complicated language. Just the opposite: it’s a language that will lull you into taking things at face value. “This seems unnecessary complex to do the required thing.” Maybe! Or maybe it’s a crucial workaround some bizarre dependency introduced in 1967.

These 20-something DOGE coders have probably never even encountered EBCDIC before.

In just a few years with mainframe code I saw the craziest stuff: print commands that would cause bugs by changing the timing of functions, log files being used as command queues, ad-hoc arithmetic for few-bit fields… It’s an entirely different world than modern dev.

The chances of a 20-something engineer making a mistaken assumption injecting live code into a mainframe system is very close to 100%. It's not a knock on younger engineers, it's just that they almost certainly have never been exposed to the ways that such systems evolve. tl;dr: OMB is f***ed.

A problem with trying to communicate to so many of potentially reachable Americans that this stuff is patently racist is you have to try to talk about it in a way that breaks thru to millions of people who’ve been conditioned to think attacking affirmative action isn’t racist, who just apply that…

Writing, in an educational setting, is not essentially valuable bc of style or personal expression. It is fundamentally valuable bc it is the simplest possible method for students to externalize and reorganize a complicated thought pattern, which is necessary for any other complex task.

Radical publishing notion, right here: if your publishers are making a living from publishing and selling your books, then you, the author, should be making a living from writing them.

One of the lessons of the mid-late last century is that consistent systems will beat smart people every day of the week.

I BET DEI DID THIS

Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed Samples from Bennu contain the chemical building blocks of life - but with a twist.

Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise

https://go.nature.com/4hDtGhL

Boggled that the market is tanking because "[Chinese] [ML] devs figured out how to optimize for the hardware available." Does no one remember how good USSR coders were by the late 80s-early 90s? #DeepSeek

I live in Hōlualoa and _I_ think Ka‘ū coffee has been the best for a few years now.

Hand holding a spiky, clear, cellular model of a radiolarian with two spherical lobes and two concentric layers. Shadows from the complex skeleton blanket my hand

Here’s the radiolarian model after removing the supports #sciart #3dprinting

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Well, DeepSeek R1 won't answer questions about censored events from Chinese history so that's fun

Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism.

So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1

“Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This is not the end. But it is *an* end.

Things will get worse. (Much worse.)

We will endure. (Not all of us. The losses will be profound.)

And we will, one day, build something better. (I hope.)

Joe Biden Frees Leonard Peltier The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.

With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier

They should just break in and watch. I hear they have experience doing that.

I was going to opine that I too would ban an app controlled by a potential adversary that undoubtedly cultivates one-day exploits that could take over your phone. Then I thought about Xitter, which has exact same potential. FB and Insta, too, but Zuck isn’t as borderline sociopathic as Elon.

I bet you could get an informed answer at r/msfs (Microsoft Flight Simulator). Simulating long-haul is very popular.