Cyrus Omar

"Readable formal specifications are not a convenience that AI can replace. They are the foundation of trust."

Reminder: the entire NSF budget is 9B and NIH like 47B. And they have 500B that they don’t know how to spend.

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

every time someone’s like “why can’t we have a nuanced discussion about trans issues” i want to scream “MANY OF US ARE ALREADY NAVIGATING OUTRAGEOUSLY DEGRADING ‘NUANCED DISCUSSIONS’ WITH LOVED ONES ABOUT WHETHER WE’RE FULL PEOPLE WHO CHANGED OR THE WALKING UNDEAD.”

just let us piss & play soccer!

UK: Prince Andrew arrested.

South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.

Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.

USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

do you code goofy or regular?

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Browse code by meaning Navigate a repository using topic modeling

We can build better interfaces to language models than chat if we're willing to put in the design and engineering work. This post showcases a proof-of-concept implementation of one such interface: a semantic navigator for an arbitrary repository of files

haskellforall.com/2026/02/brow...

The Case for Keeping ICE and CBP Defunded - The American Prospect Democrats should not provide one thin dime to MAGA storm troopers.

ICE/CBP have gone unfunded for 3 days; how about 3 years? The best way to claw back the $170 billion immigration enforcement surge in the Big Beautiful Bill is to just claw it back. The 2nd-best way is to slowly drain it by never funding the underlying appropriation. @ryanlcooper.com makes the case:

glad you've moved on from your subliminal ways

Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.

Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Google "provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024 while attending Cornell University in New York"

Your regular reminder that the citizens who serve on these DC grand juries lack the basic right to representation in the very government they are asked to participate in. Statehood for DC must be at the top of the agenda when we get through this crisis.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.

I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

This isn’t a setback. This is deliberately thwarting the research and development of safe and effective medicine.

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.

Avoiding Medical Care due to Heightened Immigration Enforcement Concerns: Findings from a National Latino Immigrant Sample - Journal of General Internal Medicine Journal of General Internal Medicine -

"Due specifically to deportation plans announced by President Trump, 13% of Latino immigrants reported avoiding healthcare services. Less than half of those who have avoided care were naturalized citizens (44%)"

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ICE is torturing legal residents until they agree to deportation

i'm afraid to ask this but how can a bunny be bad

Weird how these posts never include "I support national legislation to limit gerrymandering"

This galaxy is VERY tiny—much much smaller than our own Milky Way—& incredibly distant. But we can see it AND distinguish its shape!

How?

The light we see from it is from SO LONG AGO that the Universe was MUCH smaller at the time: we see it as it was when it was close enough to us to look big!! 🤯

I had long since rewritten the app myself in Swift, so this was only a contrived test of Xcode's new agentic programming support. But it did in 5 mins what took me months (years?) of on-again/off-again effort and preparation

make more liberatory computing propaganda, please

7. #CDC reports that about 95% of the confirmed cases so far this year are in people who aren't fully vaccinated (2 shots).
This map shows most parts of the country don't have measles vaccination rates high enough to stop spread if measles is introduced. Measles isn't going away anytime soon.

Dems inability to imagine a better country needs to be addressed. They need to dream bigger and fight harder. American and dem constituents are under attack and these cowards want to negotiate surrender.