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Is said cabin Way Over Yonder, or is it So Far Away?

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

This actually explains a lot of disagreements I’ve had over colors

Oh look. A President, a Governor, a Mayor - all at the crash site at the Chesapeake Bay with first responders. Not swimming. Showing empathy and leadership.

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Although ofc a big difference now is in how much of what we see is algorithm-driven

The panelists discussed a lot about cycles and historical repetition. And brought up technology towards the end, like the spread of misinformation and disinformation. How much of an accurate parallel to the past can we make when we’re talking about pre-internet events? But also it’s relevant to…

Went to the umich 2025 MLK Symposium event: Where Do We Go From Here?: Perspectives on Race, Democracy and Justice. Great panel! I wish we had more stuff like this in the CS dpt - esp. intersection of technology, data, journalism, history

Picture of email with subject ‘Your Instagram account is scheduled for deletion’

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And renewed my @aadl.org library card! Shoutout books

Also working on dynamic programming written problems for Foundations of Computer Science… I have no more to say about that

Reading about mutation testing for software eng class. Our next hw is about test automation tools

Thoughts: reminds me of how in earlier cs classes they would have us write tests specifically to be run against an instructor-created buggy implementation to try to trigger bugs. We were the mutants 👾

Not many people know this but the jersey devil survives off of only raw coffee beans. Sort of panda/bamboo situation if you will

At the univ of Michigan vr lab they now only have meta quest pros :/ afaik. Took me like three hours the other day to figure out how to play a Steam game on there bc there r so many IT restrictions on what you can run/download

This exactly - I hope there’s a valve index 2 in the pipeline. I always preferred Vive and valve headsets to meta quest anyway

Washtenaw County sheriff won’t help ICE with immigration crackdown Newly-elected Sheriff Alyshia Dyer says her department will not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts.

www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

David Lynch’s influence on video games goes far beyond Twin Peaks The late auteur’s legacy looms large over the medium of games

www.polygon.com/features/513...

Everybody should check out Control 🎮

Baltimore will not change immigration policies, Scott says, despite arrest threat A Justice Department official directed prosecutors across the nation to investigate and charge officials who don’t comply in carrying out the administration’s mass deportation agenda

Baltimore will not interfere with federal agencies carrying out President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigrant deportation plans, but the city also won’t go above and beyond to help those agencies, Mayor Brandon Scott said Wednesday.