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The universe does not simply exist in time -- time is something the universe continuously writes into itself https://theconversation.com/is-time-a-fundamental-part-of-reality-a-quiet-revolution-in-physics-suggests-not-273841

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not
Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.

When Anthropic’s AI isn’t being used to mass murder schoolgirls in Iran, it’s helping Mozilla improve Firefox.
So it’s not all bad, surely.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/hardening-firefox-anthropic-red-team/

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team  | The Mozilla Blog
For more than two decades, Firefox has been one of the most scrutinized and security-hardened codebases on the web. Open source means our code is visible,

Things that are awesome: buckling spring keyboards. Decided it was time to clean the keycaps so pulled them all off, tossed them into the ultrasonic cleaner, heated the water to about 55C, added a few drops of dish soap, and let them clean for about 15 minutes.
Removed the keycaps, blew them off with my Wolfbox blower, then eventually installed them back into the keyboard. It's nice to have the keyboard clean and clicky. Also: installing buckling spring keycaps is a pain in the …

Kash Patel ordered polygraphs of more than two dozen members of his team, sources tell MS NOW (MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/kash-patel-ordered-polygraphs-of-more-than-two-dozen-members-of-his-team-sources-tell-ms-now
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p94#a260507p94

Teen who went to photograph L.A. ‘No Kings’ rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-07/teen-who-attended-la-no-kings-rally-shot-blinded-by-dh…

Teen who attended L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by DHS agent, attorney says
Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent and is now blind.

The 100baseT1 decode benchmark is dropping below real time when I have a lot of traffic on the link. Do not want.
Sooo now to figure out how to either double the speed of the decode or steal some more time from something else along the critical path like the edge detector or CDR filters that I've spent a ton of time optimizing.
It looks like the workload scheduler might be a weak point here: the greedy algorithm makes the eye pattern run as soon as data is available, which ma…

This breaks my heart that this man has to be on the women’s team to play. This isn’t the win that people are saying it is.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/minnesota-soccer-team-signs-trans-man-player/

Red Lines under the EU AI Act: Restricting Real-time Remote Biometric Identification Systems for Law Enforcement Purposes
https://fpf.org/blog/red-lines-under-the-eu-ai-act-restricting-real-time-rem…

MediaTek launches the first phase of its Taiwan data center, aimed at R&D, powered by Nvidia's B200 platform, and built on Nvidia's DGX SuperPOD infrastructure (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

MediaTek launches Taiwan's most advanced data center to maintain AI edge
Chipmaker to use Nvidia-powered facility for own research and development work

Southern California parents didn’t like the texts their teen daughter sent to boys;
They tortured her to death
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-06/socal-parents-tortured-their-teen-daughter-to-death

SoCal parents tortured their teen daughter to death over text messages
The parents were convicted last month of second-degree murder, torture and child abuse, among other criminal charges.