The more I read about it, the obvious it becomes that the big news story regarding Nvidia is corruption and financial shenanigans, not the affairs or honestly even the spy rumours. The scale and potential consequences of the former far outweighs that of the latter.

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I don't think it's the role of the Senate majority leader to get involved in open contested Democratic primaries. I have two colleagues right now in the Senate... who would not be there if the current majority leader had his way. He joined with APAC and Crypto to try to defeat them.... I think we need more democracy within the Senate Democratic Caucus... We need more participation from all the members, especially now this incredible new class that's coming in.

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A look at what a Democratic-controlled Congress could focus on to protect press freedom, including investigating the FCC and reforming transparency laws (Angela Fu/Poynter)

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2026/democrats-house-senate-press-freedom-trump/
http://mediagazer.com/261114/p1#a261114p1

been reading "how complex systems fail" by richard cook, 18 short points from a doctor who studied why things break in hospitals. it was written in the late 90s and it reads like a postmortem of every outage i've ever been part of.

the one that hit me: there's no such thing as a root cause. catastrophe needs several small failures lining up, each harmless on its own. "root cause" is mostly our social need to point at someone. yesterday the us grounded every flight for hours and the official answer was "old equipment." sure. and also everything else that quietly had to go wrong at the same time.

my other favorite: complex systems always run in degraded mode. everything is a little broken all the time, and it works because people keep patching it on the fly. that's not a bug report, that's my homelab's biography.

the uncomfortable takeaway is that safety isn't a part you buy. it's something people create every day, and the "fix" after an accident usually just adds more complexity for the next one.

https://how.complexsystems.fail/

#complexsystems #sre #safety #systemsthinking

@baldur the spy thing and the affairs are boring and irrelevant, but at least they are news. The corruption and financial shenanigans were already well-known and tolerated.

Why Every Revolutionary Needs “The Gadfly”
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@dentangle I mean, I don't think there has ever been a rhino function so 🤷‍♀️

icymi, i posted ALL the audio from my large library of work as CC BY. you can use anything in your own work.
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@cancel I still listen to your cowbell drift phonk track haha

@jalefkowit recent one coming to mind is 28 Years Later! though it doesn't have to be horror :)

@ai6yr i remember that the smart fridge was the holy grail of IOT back in the early, every single IOT ‘strategy’ deck had some hilarious scenario of the fridge ‘knowing’ you were out of milk and ordering it for you.
every single UX person i knew responded to it as that’s great and all “but I buy milk before i run out so i have it in the morning” or “but what if i don’t want it” etc.

such a narrow case fantasy of a user need to disguise implementing stealth leasing infrastructure

@WizardOfDocs willing to give anything a go :)

@tealk ich weiß es leider auch nicht.

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@georgetakei Uh, who cares.?...she can look how she wants to looks...like there are a thousand other things to focus on.

If I could, I would ship a green CRT as a part of every computer project I'm working on. Look how nice it is! https://ninakalinina.com/notes/win2apri/

Here is an observation about writing software that may be so general as to be incomprehensible.

When you go from having one of a thing to having two of a thing, it is easier and possibly even more readable to just duplicate the thing instead of creating a generalized system that can handle N things.

Once you get to having three of a thing, it is better in all ways to simply have a generalized system that can handle N things.

But you don't *do* this when N reaches 3. You wait until N reaches 4

Once again, countries in Eastern and Central Europe, such as Estonia, demonstrate how to respond to russian terrorism on their soil.

Meanwhile, Western European countries like Germany and France are still keeping their borders open to russians, despite having suffered numerous russian sabotage attacks.

https://vdd.gov.lv/en/news/press-releases/vdd-provided-support-to-kapo-in-preventing-sabotage-in-estonia

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