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samudrijan··on Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers
The way Claude writes code comments there will be no shortage of data.
samudrijan··on Gold is now the top U.S. export
So not actually productive exports. Just draining the coffers as the criminals in charge loot the commons.
samudrijan··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
Got worried there for a second about the mokka pot I got through Amazon instead of Bialetti.
samudrijan··on Hittite royal archive found in Turkey
Where do you think we get the expression clay pigeon? Earliest form of airmail…
samudrijan··on China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024
The Biden admin passed the chips act along w the infrastructure bill. Too bad about their support for genocide and endless military spending.

Hard to say what good the Trump admin is doing except exposing the rot in right wing “governance.”

samudrijan··on 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished
Hijacking the top comment to plug Discogs. Amazing DB of music and used record shop.

https://www.discogs.com/

samudrijan··on 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
In the Leftovers people think living in Jarden is why they were left. Maybe St Helena is the new Jarden.
samudrijan··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
You can count on the corporate Dems to gnash their teeth and wring their hands and collect their paycheck.
samudrijan··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
I like clean water to drink and air to breathe and a climate that isn’t on an increasingly hotter trajectory. Government should police corporations.
samudrijan··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
That’s a whole 4% of my disc. Get that out of there.
samudrijan··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
Looking at you Logic Pro.
samudrijan··on Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace
I totally keep my agents away from git writes.
samudrijan··on What is going on with ceiling fans
Your fan doesn’t need Wi-Fi?
samudrijan··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
Delusional.
samudrijan··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
What is happening in Gaza is a genocide.
samudrijan··on Profit Margins of the Largest Companies
And whether you’re interested in profits or revenue.
samudrijan··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
How was the tomato?
samudrijan··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
samudrijan··on How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
No one from the city calls it San Fran.
samudrijan··on One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
Police abusing the law? Never.
samudrijan··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
Oil and gas and the GOP are one and the same.

Dems still subsidize O&G but they have other constituents they need to pay lip service to.

Banking and finance own both parties.

samudrijan··on The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
CIA, Oliver North and Reagan would like a word.
samudrijan··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
That’s due to xcel and word and corporate IT being built on AD.
samudrijan··on Boards of Casio
For old-school vintage synth patch wizardry with retro videos, Jexus is a favorite: https://youtube.com/@jexus?si=PkJuiLJaUpj3yjZl
samudrijan··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
Why does a fridge need firmware? Compressor and thermostat IC should do the trick. Maybe a fan to circulate some cold air.
samudrijan··on Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
No talk of overreach: “threatening “criminal liability” if they “further the propaganda”

> In June, the Justice Department intervened in an NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI over dozens of gas turbines the company was running without air permits to power a data center it maintained in Tennessee. The department asked a federal judge to throw the case out, arguing that the NAACP “threatens American national, economic, and energy security.”

> To make the point, the government filed a sworn declaration from Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer. Stanley swore to the court that Grok was “a matter of paramount national security.”

Seriously, wow. Time to clean up our act.

samudrijan··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
https://www.kwtx.com/2026/09/18/waco-man-seeks-probation-the...

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2026/09/16/affidavit-man-pos...

samudrijan··on What happened to the Snowden archive
Corporate Dems lose because they have become indistinguishable from their donor class and have failed to institute significant changes that would actually improve people’s lives. They are a captive opposition.
samudrijan··on US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments
View looks great from up here. Any peanuts?
samudrijan··on North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes
Yeah, no.
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