Matt Rosoff

Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0 But first, kernel 6.19 is upon us, with many goodies Penguin emperor Linus Torvalds has announced the next version of the Linux kernel will be version 7.0, a matter of some small interest, because it continues his convention of not using version numbers he can’t count on his fingers and toes, and perhaps cements a numbering convention that sees kernel series end with version 19.…

Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0

At the Elysian on Capitol Hill. They are giving out beer cozies and have a Dark Side beer!

You Can Call the Super Bowl the "Super Bowl" Are you going to a Big Game party on Sunday? Or perhaps going to watch the pro football championship game? Or take in the majestic splendor of the Superb Owl? You can also just call it by its real nam...

This was standard misinformation in every newsroom I’ve worked in and I have no idea why

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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

This dev made a Llama with three inference engines : Meet llama3pure, a set of dependency-free inference engines for C, Node.js, and JavaScript

This dev made a Llama with three inference engines
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Always. You have to build a ref-proof margin.

The best predictor I know - who never bets - called Seattle 27-23 so that’s right in line

Wait I’m confused - aren’t bets always 50/50? Isn’t that the point of the spread? House takes the vig?

Lol

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Concur. The district should be disbanded and turned over to the state. Corrupt and idiotic.

Angry World by Neil Young on Apple Music Song · 2010 · Duration 4:12

Wonder if he knew just how angry it would become.

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Dear Dems, the people want you to run on abolishing ICE, not appeasing fascists.

The district apparently has some $100m slush fund, while teachers are asking for fully paid family health coverage and 3% raises for the next 3 years. Surely this can be handled. But instead both sides are digging in and STUDENTS SUFFER.

I’m not versed enough to know which side is in the right. I know teachers are not paid well for SF, but they have lots of time off and negotiated perks most private sector workers don’t. But the district has made so many student-hostile politically driven moves, I don’t trust them at all.

And here we thought after recalling the idiot school board and getting both kids into Lowell and graduating one of them, our days of dealing with the incompetence of SF schools was over. Alas. They just had to smash parents in the face one more time. Strike starts Monday. A pox on the whole system.

I'm glad rich people have Tamogotchis now but if they're not going to devote their lives to ending hunger, homelessness and genocide, maybe they should go to the ASPCA and do something worthwhile but 1% harder.

Is there some scifi book about rich people assigning computers agency and "sadness" so they can fix the computer "sadness" but ignore the suffering of the real-life people they're brutalizing and/or ignoring?

Anyway, either way, it's a website, it doesn't have feelings, and none of this is real.

Blame “the media” which has been systematically destroyed by the people it used to hold accountable, good one.

Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began.

Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.

Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem 'As fast as we install this AI capacity, we are monetizing it,' says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy AWS has an open cash spigot for AI infrastructure, with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy telling investors the company has been monetizing compute capacity as fast as it brings it online and it plans to double capacity by the end of 2027.…

Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem

Jeff Bezos, Moral Cretin What the decay of the Washington Post says about the future of the journalism industry

One of many tech leaders who used to seemingly be “one of the good ones” but turned out to be just a billionaire. History will forget these guys or treat them as ruinous villains.

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Starting to wonder if a whole lot of bubbles are about to pop.

the last two people on earth will probably block each other

Why this is the worst crypto winter ever: AI crowds out crypto for mindshare and power grid access, crypto is mainstream, gold beats BTC as a safe haven, more (Bloomberg)

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Heather is the absolute best person. gold medal quality human. If you’re smart you’ll hire her right away before your competition snatches her up.

If you need editing or writing or a personality hire, my email is hkellywork@gmail.com, Signal is hkelly.11, Insta/Tiktok are @heatherthereporter

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

As someone who has long freelanced, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought about finding another line of work. If I hadn’t gotten a book contract I’d have probably left journalism altogether. There’s so many talented and hardworking reporters who have been forced to leave the field entirely.

The mass layoffs at the Post really just make me feel a deep sadness for our industry. The severe weakening of the media ecosystem since 2017 has been catastrophic for American democracy. It has also, of course, come at great cost for journalists themselves.