Nicholas Weaver

Gotta love footnote 54:

At 1.87 feet above MHHW (average daily high tide), the San Francisco tide gauge set a new record high tide for the month of October. The old record was set just 2 weeks ago on Oct. 11, 2026. This record may be short lived with higher tides expec... https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2114942891634360682

In essence, this is no different than running risky Gain-of-Function research on a dangerous pathogen... Uncontrolled H5N1 outbreaks on mink farms are a global risk, as Mink have α2,6 receptors similar to humans. The virus could evolve that infection route in Mink www.propublica.org/article/bird...

We weren't given licenses to produce these missiles because our "partners" in the US are afraid that we'll scale up production of these missiles, and then a bunch of countries will cease to be dependent on the US! Someone is really worried about their money, while we here are afraid for our lives.

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RFK Jr is being a racist shitgibbon today, so I'm just going to throw this back into the universe.

(The conclusion.)

You know a judge is pissed when he says: "The Court would much prefer not to have to resolve Lorax v. Once‑ler redux": ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

hidden away in the closet, his portrait slowly becomes gayer and gayer

The Donut Labs battery of biotech. PR scheme to raise funds.

We've been improving dogs through genetic engineering for literally twenty thousand years but throw enough buzzwords into the prospectus and you, too, can achieve a valuation of over a billion dollars. If only poor Thrug had known the trick, he wouldn't have died broke in a cave.

I find the prediction markets pretty much useless when it comes to “who is going to win” beforehand, because the sentiment is infected with the personal biases of the degen crypto sickos who participate what they are usually good at is doing math once the results start to come in

i think cities should enable development according to impersonal rules and then levy impersonal taxes on land to pay for impersonal social services free_speech.png

It's... also not particularly novel for Americans who DO follow this sort of thing to be happy when autocrats in other countries are defeated? I'm just barely old enough to recall the ouster of Pinochet being broadly celebrated in international coverage as a victory for human rights & democracy.

Just stunning what's happening in CS/NLP. Don't sleep on this sociology, we'll have to deal with this too. And when organizers can't trust paper provenance, they will understandably start to rely more on author reputation. Network scholars can tell us what happens next.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

It’s like $50mm per MW per year on a 90-day cancellable contract vs Neoclouds at $15mm per MW on 5yr firm deal. Elon bought up a ton of GPUs, realized he had no use for them, and then resold them to the market when there was functionally zero available capacity with no lead time

One of the many things I wish Elon Musk would be prosecuted for is his criminally negligent homicide in convincing people that Teslas are "Self Driving".

Truth be told this is way better than I thought it would be. Long term I don't see the Anthropic model being long term money spinner: Too few moats, and the work on "ablating" models is really work on automating/specializing. The future is still at the edge IMO. But cash flow + is a big deal

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By the way: I have been saying for a while that the debt markets will be what drags this era to its knees. Every single neocloud needs endless debt and will need it for the foreseeable future. Coreweave will burn, it is a time bomb as I’ve been saying a year and a half.

WhatsApp may be Meta but it wasn't designed by Meta nor actually designed as a social network but a secure communications channel. Group chats do not have their content seen by Meta, Meta only gets the the metadata (who talks to whom).

It is going to be so hilarious if Trump strokes out and dies and JD decides "Trump is SUCH a boatanchor, ehh, forgetaboutit" and doesn't pardon anyone.

my main takeaway from the cheesecake factory thing is that I remain extremely sad we never got an obama versus trump general election matchup obama would have broken him in half, rural dipshit whispering powers or no

No one is Assigned Marine at Birth. Marines are made, and they get really mad if you tell them someone who is a Marine isn't a Marine.

Yeah, good. (Many Chinese cars also not allowed on Bundeswehr bases either)

It is time for reporters to start asking "What is that lump under your pants?" and "Do you not know you lost the Iran war already?" and "Are you fucking insane?"

$446 million of his (sometime) reported net worth of $1 trillion means he’s still only spending 0.0446% of his net worth to try to buy elections. put in more concrete terms: if you had $100, this would be like spending less than 5 cents. now tell me again why i should vote against a wealth tax.

Bad play calls are going to happen, yes ML says you probably wanted to go for it. But a good aggressive coach would do the same. But I'm not sure how much ML/"Analytics" buys you in these situations anyway, because a coach can justify it as "trust in the players" even when it fails.

It's very funny that some Dallas Cowboys executive signed that Netflix deal thinking it would be great for them and then all of a sudden they've had to actually pay the workers they'd been exploiting for decades.

That is the thing Marines care about. Are you Marining? Okay good

the navy isn't as much of a surprise but i was not expecting we'd get the United States Marines in the national divorce

Getting flashbacks from serving during DADT, when every unit had a sailor or three that we all knew, protected, and shut the fuck up about

It isn't given, it is "attempted purchasing"

So @courtwatch.bsky.social and @seamushughes.bsky.social flagged this case but couldn't remember "why is it interesting"? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Oh, its interesting. Are SuperMicro's directors civilly liable for their GPU smuggling as stock fraud?

It is time to make it illegal to pay ransomware. Period. And the US can: ALL these gangs have significant foreign nexuses, designate them all by default.

Humans should really do more research. There were operating manuals that would have warned her not to fuck with us.

I always adore this little machine at the Oakland airport and was delighted to see that the author of the 5min piece the machine printed out put their Bluesky handle on the story, shout out to @chrisblake.bsky.social for making a trip to see my dying grandmother a little less bleak

this is truly the best tankie bait ever devised by humanity

You know this is what they really want:

"Palmer luckey wants to jurassic park dogs except into cronenberg horror killing machines" is the sort of thing that just might break through

It's bleak that Serious News Outlets will tie themselves into knots writing headlines that obscure the horrors of a story while @people.com just waltzes in and calls it like it is.