no shit

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

The "small man" @radeksikorski during the fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in 1986.

What a deal! Surrender, resign, and give us a ransom in exchange for nothing!

So when U.S. Key Hole reconnaissance satellites see Kh-101 cruise missiles targeted at power plants and hospitals being loaded on to Tu-95’s in Russia, they won’t be warning Ukraine in advance. Nice, another absolutely unconscionable decision.

In an 1997 AI class at UT Austin, a neural net playing "infinite-board" Tic-Tac-Toe found an unbeatable strategy: Choose moves billions of squares away, causing your opponent's to run out of memory and crash, forfeiting their turn. The winning move was to kill your enemy.

This was never Zelensky's choice. Peace makes sense only with REAL security guarantees, which no one is willing to provide. US, UK, France, and Russia all "guaranteed" Ukraine's security when it surrendered its nukes 20 yrs ago. Russia has been breaking each and every deal since!

Can someone in the US file a FOIA request about arstechnica.com/security/202… to find out if they were the person paid to try to have me killed by law enforcement? There's a chance it could be traced back to the person who paid for it. I can contact the detectives here about it.

I will just point out that this was how the University of Michigan announced its current DEI program in 2022. Seems like they are living up to their promise!

At Keflavik airport, there’s a guy whose job it is to guess the nationality of anyone leaving the country and click the right flag. They must be hiring only the advanced racists for this job, someone who can tell a Norwegian from a Swede with just a glance

It’s incredible how powerful this idea is once you apply it to the rest of the economy. For example, 100% of catastrophic aviation accidents happen during the last 30 minutes of the flight.

well actually because of the objc_msgSend branch prediction on apple silicon its really "Objective-C is how the computer works"

i hope the xz author is alright. it's gotta suck having something you created and cared for getting undercut and infiltrated by someone maliciously. to them your project is just a means to get something elsewhere. to you, the thing you were both making was the point

I disagree with many of the "long-term, planned = state-sponsored attacker" takes on the #xzbackdoor. I once spent a few months becoming a Facebook subcontractor, just to poke around in their internal SRT review tool for bugs. (I explicitly asked their team first if I could try!)

RT @mgattozzi:

Root programs need to implement a policy that removes CAs, or specific trust bits for a usage they do not utilize, after a certain period. These CAs represent an unnecessary threat surface for the web if they are not contributing to its greater good.

There are 7 CAs that issue 99% of all certificates that are un-expired the web as of today.