We are beginning to see the aftershocks of terrible decisions over the last few weeks. post-gazette.com/business/healt…

I bet if DOGE ran for a few years, we'll see a proportionate amount of license waste.

Musk's white house appearances next to Trump, always sharply dressed in a MAGA hat, show that he can kiss ass as well as the next guy.

One of the cool things in this interview: Satya suggests that Microsoft's growth is intertwined with world GDP growth---for Microsoft to grow much faster, the world GDP itself must grow much faster. How many such companies exist on the planet?

I have it on good authority that at a top-5 CS school two Chinese students rejected PhD admission offers and are joining DeepSeek instead. This is a first. Alarm bells should be going off now. Instead we are cutting funding to our universities.

I am sure the paper is cool, but the authors couldn't just write "Google" as their affiliation is telling about the internal dynamics at Google.

Signal folks must be workshopping marketing taglines, such as: If it is good for war plans, it is good for senior bingo night plans (but don't accidentally add your kids)

If everyone is using their personalized AI to read papers, who should I be writing for? How does one write a paper for AIs?

I just went to NSDI, a top venue for computer systems research. Change in papers' src country: 2015    2025 USA     76%     45% China   10      42 Other   14      13 China's research investments are bearing fruit, while the US is gutting science funding.

NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones nature.com/articles/d4158…

How the US gave up being a science superpower steveblank.com/2025/05/13/how…

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Curious emerging pattern: I frequently review docs at Amazon, and now when I complain about writing style, people blame AI.

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Coding agents are proof how far you can get in life with just pattern matching.