The "furnished hard copy" was four hundred pages of cell diagrams, equations, genenome tables, and chemical processes, all with numerous journal citations. But in front was a one-page list somebody had prepared for the press. I would bet my purple jacks that its simplifications had been paid for in hours of screaming by technical experts who didn't want their precious facts distorted just so they could be understood. But here the simplified distortions were, ready for the newsgrids. Washington is Washington.

Programming in javascript is made considerably more difficult by the fact that the spelling doucment is apparently hard coded into my finger memory. I'm just gonna stick let doucment = document at the top of the file and be done with it.

There's an Einstein quote that begins "Concern for man himself" from a 1931 address at caltech, and I can find three or so variations on the wording, but not the actual speech even though I think it's likely he spoke more than 50 words.

lol, just figured out wikipedia table sort is numeric, but only up to the first comma. So 9 22,934 45 123 345,223,900 600,300 800 is sorted...

You're a fan of manly men? Name every movie that stars Ron Perlman, Ray Liotta, and Burt Reynolds.

Finally finished Exodus: Archimedes Engine. It's a bit like Schismatrix, but three times longer because it's crossed with GOT. It takes a while to get going, and even when it's moving, there's just so much. It ends at a satisfactory point, but "then the adventure continues". I liked it enough if you're looking for a long read.

Tired: wifi

Wired: wires

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukraine-russia-drones-fiber-optic-cable-6c96a9f1

Watching all the kpop videos I can before tariffs hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oIlEJ6Ne-I

Okay, this is an interesting one for TLS nerds out there: https://opossum-attack.com/
This is somewhat related to previous research where I was part of about STARTTLS. The idea here is to exploit the fact that the opportunistic and non-opportunistic TLS variants of protocols are sometimes different.
Their practical exploit targets opportunistic TLS for HTTP. This is, as far as I know, not used anywhere practically, but some servers support it. If yours does, better disable it.

It's nice to see that the FSF is coming around to the idea that autoconf and configure scripts are malware. Free software shouldn't waste my time performing thousands of useless calculations before I can use it.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots

Tariff Monday and TACO Tuesday.

I found an old boomernet terminal, but after following the instructions to press *10 to receive god's blessing, I only heard a few soft clicks and then another dial tone.

TIL pthread_atfork is now obsolescent because it's effectively impossible to use without violating other parts of the standard.

I like the theory that the dumpster diving bitcoin guy hired a team of invisible ninjas to dig through the trash heap without anyone noticing and found his lost drive.

Has science gone too far?

Remember when TikTok was giving teenagers uncontrollable Tourette's? Is the crisis over? Did we find a cure?

They call it an island of love, and yet everyone is unhappy, curious. Apparently it's because they're really thirsty.

A hard boiled south of the border thriller in which the hero detective must track down a pair of sexy assassins before they catch on to his investigation. The Murder Ritas.

Why isn't the zig build tool called gurat?

The is diabolical... a Python object that hallucinates method implementations on demand any time you call them, using my LLM Python library https://github.com/awwaiid/gremllm

I thought the spotted lanternflies were bad, but this is next level.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/03/lovebugs-seoul-korea/

HN: we need to rewrite tmux in rust so the scroll wheel works.

Me: set-option -g mouse on