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A dozen memes (in a thread) of the foreign policy moment: capitulation, surrender, losing the war.
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#USpol #Iran #kegseth

Still more reasons the AI boosters are full of as much shit as the AI itself.
#Sexism

Jen Horsburgh (@jenatlionra) on Threads
I just wanted to update my resume. Instead, I accidentally proved how a multi-billion-dollar AI tool hallucinates a glass ceiling for women. I changed a single variable: My name. Here is what happened when "Jennifer" became "Jeff." I fed Gemini, Google's AI tool, my old resume, my current info, case studies, and the kinds of roles I wanted, and asked it to write me a new resume. Simple. Except it wasn’t. The first thing I noticed was the softening.

In just 7 months, Katalyst built the
400 kg LINK servicing spacecraft under a $30M NASA contract.
Its job: rendezvous with Swift, capture it with three robotic arms, and boost it to a higher, stable orbit.
https://skywriter.blue/@drnereide.bsky.social/3montkodbsc2r…

I see one of Trump’s liquor cabinet had the decency to quit:
“Trump's labor secretary resigns amid investigation into misconduct”
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/20/nx-s1-5739251/labor-secretary-trump-chavez-deremer
Hagueseth is too bus…

"Dynamic electric vehicle charging incentives induce large shifts in both the timing and location of charging.
Incentives designed to shift charging toward peak solar generation periods result in a 34% increase in midday charging."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti

Bike to work, low-intensity run at lunch, bike from work, and publish the Java Geek Weekly.
What a cool day 😊
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/137/

TIL that I've actually created a few "high impact" packages on NPM (with 1 million downloads per week)... Just got this email from them (see screenshot)
If each one of these would just pay me $0.001, I could actually comfortably dedicate myself full time to these projects (which has been my long, long dream job). But the system and social contract around open source is completely broken and so I've to balance my time and try to sustain myself and my family via other ways for periods o…

Guest author Peter Firmstone continues to explore and analyze the theme of #Security Baked Into the #JVM.
Today's focus in on the Safe Codebase #Audit

A woman named Lanna shared that she left the United States two-and-a-half years ago and is now living in Germany.
She recently got a job as a part-time barista to make some extra cash.
The experience, even before she has started the job, has “broken” her—but “in a good way.”
Per her residence permit, Lanna cannot work more than 20 hours per week.
Rather than a traditional interview, the employer had her come in for a “try-out day.”
At the end of it, she was surp…

An American got hired as a part-time barista in Germany. The job benefits blew her mind.
A young woman living in Germany shared that her part-time barista job came with over a month of paid vacation and healthcare benefits.

Peter G Neumann, understood and strongly believed in the systems nature of problems.
That is, there’s not one cause to a problem;
everything, including the humans involved, interact.
Take, for example, buffer overflows,
long a security scourge on the Internet.
Is it the fault of the programmers?
I knew someone who, 40 years ago (and several years before the Internet worm made the problem obvious),
wrote a string-handling library before embarking on…

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93
For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward computer security and individual digital privacy. He also developed solutions.