Dan Ports

@dan@discuss.systems
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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/

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American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

Link: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/american-science-brain-drain/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44449614

American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

Over the first half of 2025, the USA has cut science as never before. This disaster for American science is a gift to the rest of the world.

Big Think

The New York Times today if it was December 7, 1941.

"The US base at Pearl Harbor hosting navy ships reports several stopped floating Sunday morning."

Me
Vibe Coding

You MUST listen to RFC 2119.

Eric Bailey: It turns out you can just pay people to do things. I found a voice actor and hired them with the task of "Reading this very dry technical document in the most over-the-top sarcastic, passive-aggressive,...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqi

I think most people severely underestimated how much fascism and kleptocracy would triumph through the surrender and default of forces that should have opposed it.

If you are using undocumented immigrants' tax records to find and kidnap them, then it was never about them paying taxes.

If you are showing up at their place of employment, then it was never about them not working.

If you are showing up at courthouses, then it was never about getting them to "do it the right way".

If you are kidnapping women and children, then it was never about criminals.

If you're refusing to give them due process, then it was never about the Constitution.

If you are building concentration camps in Florida to keep them here in cages, then it was never about the border.

If you're spending billions to do this, then it was never about the economy.

And if you're doing all this in the name of a 34 time convicted felon, then it was never about following the law.

Gravitas is the quality of being weighed down with #gravy. The mass of the #gravy contributes to its #gravity. Salmon that is cured with #gravy and sugar is known as #gravlax. This process was invented by Dr. Wave E. Greyvee, of the Poutine Institute of Curdistan.
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The New York Times today if it was December 7, 1941.

"The US base at Pearl Harbor hosting navy ships reports several stopped floating Sunday morning."

@petergleick

There's a reason I subscribe only to their West Coast counterpart.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-07-01/trump-us-climate-website

@lackthereof Good comparison.
LA Times staffers say billionaire owner’s pro-Trump meddling worse than previously reported

Editorials with Donald Trump are now only allowed if they present the ‘opposing view’

The Independent

@petergleick

Have been taken down by government they mean…

@petergleick

You’ll be happy to hear the European Union (along with every other rational nation’s climate data) is reporting verifiably.