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links, etc Trump’s Slow-Burn Authoritarianism there’s a lot of media attention on the notion of violent authoritarianism, the expected cronyism of a trump term, etc. this is the first time that i’ve seen someone sit down and really discuss the slow-burn authoritarianism. we saw glimmers of this when the sharpies were busted out to talk about hurricane path projections, etc. but the impacts to scientific research, the impacts to the ability to regulate based on science get hollowed out....

links, etc How the Election-Denial Mindset Works buckle up folks - you know how dumb the average american is … now remember that half the population is dumber than that. The Death of the Minivan i can’t really believe i’m writing this down, but there’s a part of me that kind of misses the practicality of the minivan. i loathed how dorky it was in the late 80s and early 90s when we had one....

links, etc Amazon AI: Amazon’s Secret Weapon in Chip Design is Amazon - IEEE Spectrum a fun IEEE article about how amazon does vertical integration with hardware and some interesting nuggets about their engineering process. nothing paritcularly revelatory here, but the feedback loops that they operate on and the visibility into cloud scale problems is pretty interesting. a little on the duh side of things, but likely nice when you’re working in an enviroment with effectively limitless compute you really can just throw more CPUs at the problems....

links, etc Intel Honesty not a bad rundown of the current state of intel. it’s unsparing in the critique. one thing that it doesn’t do is provide any coverage of the situation the balance of the intel portfolio. of note, their horking the network stuff. barefoot tofino was binned. it wasn’t a particularly sexy asic, but it did allow operators to start having some conversations around where it made sense to turn the dial in overlay and packet processing on the host stack vs....

links, etc diyPresso - World’s first DIY espresso machine i cannot seem to look away from this.