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Distributed systems, operating systems, networking research.

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; affiliate faculty, University of Washington.

But realistically: mainly cat photos, food and wine, and bad jokes.

I also administer https://discuss.systems/

webhttps://drkp.net/

The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, like Minion, assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you.

#cats #catsofmastodon

Cowardly and embarrassing by the University of Washington, in the midst of a war that has what, probably below 20% approval if you were to survey higher ed?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/03/washington-college-professor-fired-iran-war-criticism

University of Washington professor fired from director job after sending email criticizing Iran war

Aria Fani of University of Washington’s Middle East Center is latest critic of Israel to lose position at US university

The Guardian

“Whatcha grillin’ out there?”

#cats #catsofmastodon

I have the solution to climate change. My hatred and loathing for Stephen Miller could power the world for a thousand years.

"How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one."
https://teybannerman.github.io/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html

"A few weeks ago, I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things."

Caturday special edition: Cat Person (Cat-Person?) holds sign at No Kings last #caturday Meow!

#photo #photography #cats #nokings #protest #kemonomimi #portrait

This is a very accurate graph of anything in my lifetime in the US.
I feel like the real problem here isn’t even that the head of FEMA disaster response thinks he got teleported to a Waffle House in the middle of the night but that the Newspaper Of Record felt the need to carefully investigate this nonsense.
@Axolotl1 @catsalad he has since grown up to become fluffier and more neurotic, as befitting the world today, and is now on SSRIs like the rest of us
@Axolotl1 @catsalad please find attached some prescription-strength photos of Minion as a kitten, for therapeutic use only