Weasel

@weaselx86
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California, Ireland, Colorado.
MS Math/CompSci UCLA.
Locus, Sun Microsystems; PDP-11, x86, C, Go.
Programming since 1973.
I wrote the program that calculated the GPA that appears on my high-school transcript.

Starting in 1984 I led the project at Locus to create the first x86 virtual machine, to run MS-DOS under Unix, on the AT&T 6300 Plus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6300_Plus).

The lines in the avatar are horizontal.
There should be no profit in human misery.

Githubhttps://github.com/DavidButterfield
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Weasel3h ago
Lauren Weinstein4h ago

American Diabetes Assoc reverses, offers apology to Trump-critical scientists ejected from conference after earlier doubling down

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/diabetes-org-apologizes-for-ejecting-scientists-over-criticism-of-trump/

Weasel1d ago
Esther Schindler1d ago
Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years
"The lords put up a fight, forcing a compromise that will see an undisclosed number of hereditary members allowed to stay by being “recycled” into life peers."
https://apnews.com/article/uk-house-of-lords-hereditary-peers-expelled-535df8781dd01e8970acda1dca99d3d4
The UK is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years

Britain is ending the centuries-old tradition of hereditary aristocrats sitting in Parliament’s House of Lords. Late Tuesday the Lords dropped objections to a bill passed by the House of Commons that removes dozens of dukes, earls, and others who inherited seats in the unelected upper chamber. The chamber currently has more than 800 members. The vast majority are now “life peers” appointed by the government, but roughly 1 in 10 members are currently hereditary peers. A previous Labour government removed most hereditary peers in 1999 but left 92 in place. The rest will leave at the end of the current session of Parliament in the spring.

AP News
Weasel1d ago
Transgender World1d ago

Federal judge blocks Trump admin's effort to move 14 trans women to men's prisons

https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admin-trans-prison-transfer-policy-blocked

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Federal judge blocks Trump admin's effort to move 14 trans women to men's prisons

"[I]t is fundamentally unreasonable for prison officials to respond to serious risks ... by intentionally creating those risks and offering to treat them after they predictably occur."

Law Dork
Weasel1d ago
Terence Tao1d ago
I wrote a blog post on the proposed rule changes for the administration of federal grants: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/on-the-proposed-rule-changes-to-the-administration-of-federal-grants/
On the proposed rule changes to the administration of federal grants

The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed a vast and radical set of rule changes to how federal grants from all funding agencies are administered.  (A summary of the…

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Weasel1d ago
Lauren Weinstein1d ago

Senile Trump's FCC wants to destroy mobile phone privacy, morph U.S. into fascist nightmare model

https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

Weasel2d ago
Tom Lyon ✅2d ago
ALMOST hacked.
Just had a very believable 1/2 hour conversation with "Google" about someone trying to recover my account, which they would then "do a security scan" of.
They sent notifications, emails, SMS, all looking very official.
1/2
Weasel4d ago

Russians jamming GPS

https://youtu.be/tz23G_UXCGA

Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found

YouTube
Weasel5d ago
Randahl Fink5d ago

Warning: Misinformation.

----Original post text----

An unknown freedom fighter climbed The Justice Department building in Washington to remove the large blue Trump banner.

Not all heros wear capes.

----Update----

Unfortunately, this video is AI generated. I apologize for not doing a proper frame by frame check before sharing this — it simply never crossed my mind that someone would fake this. Thank you to everyone who provided evidence in the comments.

Weasel5d ago
Assn for Computing Machinery5d ago

Happy Birthday, Whitfield Diffie! Diffie received the 2015 #ACMTuringAward for inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key cryptography, including its application to digital signatures, and a practical cryptographic key-exchange method.

Diffie says the counterculture of the 1960’s inspired his interest in cryptography. Watch him explain: https://youtu.be/d820zuDbYIg

#ACM #Computing #TuringAward #ComputerScience #Encryption #Cryptography #Cryptographic #Pioneer #AI #Counterculture

Weasel5d ago
Lauren Weinstein5d ago

GIFT LINK: NYTimes: Details on Fascist MAGA Amercian Diabetes Association ejecting researchers including scheduled to present

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/well/ada-conference-diabetes-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oFA.9TAP.4jyYMctzXHiB&smid=url-share