Mathematician. Applying semigroup theory to distributed computing, convergent replication.
A neighbour’s tall white pine came down a couple of years ago. I lifted up a section of bark the other day and there was all sorts of squirmy things that would appeal to a woodpecker (narrator: it was gross) so I wasn’t too surprised to see this pileated woodpecker on the fallen pine today.
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This album of music from Senegal from the 1970s is really good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHGjQ3kDmbc&list=PLMi9FkFXQN-LVkQUh2U6hqAPYV_6NaXqW&index=1
#Music #Africa
Me writing up the stuff about Harvard. "Oh, I'm sure a lawsuit will be filed soon." Finish writing and look. Lawsuit filed. Finish edit and get ready to post. Look one last time. TRO already entered. Things move fast these days.
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I loved that the identifying passphrase Andor & gang used this season was "I have friends everywhere." It keeps the show's key theme in the audience's mind. We get reminded over and over.
In the fight for freedom we do have friends everywhere. The decentralized nature of rebellion is its strength. We must do the tasks that have been put in front of us, but...we have friends everywhere.
Keep ‘em coming
#California Attorney General Rob Bonta says he'll sue the #Trump administration if the president signs off on Congress' vote to overturn the state's phase-out of gas vehicles.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/22/congress/california-says-itll-sue-feds-over-electric-vehicle-rule-reversal-00366265
welcome to the future, now your error-prone software can call the cops
(this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)
I don't know about you, but I'd find opening my curtains in the morning to be confronted with this quite alarming...
I'd certainly be viewing the contents of my coffee with suspicion.
What is ominous about this development is that it clearly shows the only remaining shelter to be found is in the accidental lee of structures designed in and of themselves to preserve corporate power.
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Just remember that every time a group has fought for positive social and political change throughout history, they have been told that what they were doing was pointless, wouldn't matter, and wouldn't change anything.
They have been wrong every time.
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The amount of money that the World Health Organization is asking for an entire year in its already reduced budget, $2.1 billion, is what the world spends on its military every 8 hours, director-general Tedros says in his opening remarks at the World Health Assembly #WHA in Geneva.
#globalhealth
I always thought these were the best photos of the St Helens eruption that occurred 45 years ago today. Can you imagine being there and seeing that!!!
(Photos by John Christiansen from Mt. Adams when Mt. St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980.)
#Volcano #Geology #StHelens #Eruption #Mountain #Photography
>>Exit polls showed Dan at 54-55% of ballots following a last-minute dash to the top after weeks of trailing George Simion, a hard-right supporter of [America's president] and a eurosceptic wanting to end military aid for Ukraine.
Dan had campaigned on a pledge to fight rampant corruption and to keep Romania firmly within the European mainstream.
If officials results confirm the exit poll reading, Dan would need to nominate a prime minister to negotiate a majority in parliament to reduce Romania's budget deficit - the largest in the EU - as well as to reassure investors and try to avoid a credit rating downgrade.<<
#Reuters #Romania #NicusorDan #Elections #EU #Europe #Ukraine
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/romanians-vote-presidential-run-off-that-could-widen-eu-rifts-2025-05-17/
Welcome to a random Saturday in May in California where:
* Over 100% of grid load is being generated by renewables
* The emissions for the grid are net negative if you count exports displacing dirtier sources outside California
* This has been true since around 9:30 this morning
Just another day in May.
The SF Chron over three generations cheered every move to stamp out, price out, evict or arrest every person or event or organized activity that made San Francisco interesting or livable in any way not fully supportive of the financial, tech or real estate business sectors -- and now it has run a column by Carl Nolte, on Bay to Breakers day no less, at last deploring how dull the city has become.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/san-francisco-boring-20328455.php
Friends and enemies, I would like to show you the best blue screen of death I've ever seen. I pulled over with two hyperactive dogs in the car just to take the picture.
