Lars Vilhuber
@larsvil.bsky.social
Cornell | AEA Data Editor | 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇩🇪
Computer science
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Economics
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I hope this means we'll continue to be able to buy foot long sandwiches without a background check. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Usually, "back to the office" mandates should have CEO's lead by example. And if you don't show up, you are fired. Not rewarded with even higher incentives. Can I get that "back to the office" BONUS as well??? Please?
Was driving along that weird stretch of US-Canada bisected street (the street is in Canada the houses on the southern side are in the US), and almost all the houses in the southern side, usually flying 🇺🇸, were flying 🇨🇦, with posters "Elbows up".
@nytimes.com ia starting to resemble Fox News in their selection of facts to highlight in their headlines and pictures.
🔥Tear it all up! bsky.app/profile/bell... bsky.app/profile/nyti... Burn it all down! bsky.app/profile/your...
blinkux.com
This might actually be worse than that. This is an embedded Linux system connected to the internet. Embedded systems are notoriously poorly updated. What can possibly go wrong with this? blinkux.com/uploads/blin...
Are we sure it's not an orange skinned alien? I thought I caught a glimpse in MIB 3.5... Just a different skin...
Sorry, which picture is from what country? I can't tell which one comes from the country with the dead dictator.
Tylenol.
Reposted by Diane Coyle, Lars Vilhuber
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The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.
www.404media.co
Forgot to link to the source: @404media.co www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
When beds malfunction bc of a DNS failure, I think there's some overly poor/over-optimistic engineering at play. Anybody should be able to sleep even with a failed DNS infrastructure (except for the engineers who screwed it up). PSA: Jailbreak your bed! github.com/throwaway312...
Bummer you couldn't add this on, might be about right. Maybe time to revisit the idea...
Scoop: I have a picture of what the new facade of the WH East Wing will look like.
Death penalty in Afghanistan (10 in 2025) and... Some other extremist state... (14). For reference, Afghanistan population is 42 million, that other state: 23 million.
We don't know if he was using dial-up 📞... Is that less or more secure?
Are they investigating him bc he was keeping NOTES, or bc he was doing so on an **AOL email** 😲😭??
Lars Vilhuber
@larsvil.bsky.social
· Oct 11
You mean it is now easier than ever to abduct and ransom somebody? Seems like an invention straight out of Guayaquil.
Lars Vilhuber
@larsvil.bsky.social
· Oct 11
Agreed. Very clear, despite length. A must read. If folks didn't already suspect a scam/trap worthy of the best Nigerian prince, here's the detailed analysis.
Lars Vilhuber
@larsvil.bsky.social
· Oct 11
A truly 🇩🇪 thing: having to finish your beer **before entering the bar**. Where presumably you'll have another one.
Lars Vilhuber
@larsvil.bsky.social
· Oct 11
Ich glaub, das letzte Mal war ich vor über 30 Jahren in Hamburg...🤔1990? 😲
Lars Vilhuber
@larsvil.bsky.social
· Oct 10
Quick: left or right? Which location requires more US troops to keep the peace?
Lars Vilhuber
@larsvil.bsky.social
· Oct 7
Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans
It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
www.washingtonpost.com
Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans.
"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk." From people who clearly know what they are talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk." From people who clearly know what they are talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Lars Vilhuber
@larsvil.bsky.social
· Oct 7
SCOOP: Furloughed federal workers aren't guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the government shutdown, according to a draft White House memo described to Axios by three sources.
Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay
A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.
www.axios.com
Holding 750,000 workers hostage. And their families. Sounds like a medieval despot's power trip.
Lars Vilhuber
@larsvil.bsky.social
· Oct 7
I asked for an Old Fashioned in Hamilton ON 🇨🇦. I was told they couldn't do a true one, since they weren't serving bourbon. Canadian rye only. I asked what he then called it. He paused for a moment, then said "Standing Proud". The drink was great!
Lars Vilhuber
@larsvil.bsky.social
· Oct 7
Pete Hegseth's one-dimensional view of combat readiness
I served on the Navy’s first combatant ship to have women permanently assigned, and all of us on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower were completely qualified for our jobs, writes Laura McTaggart. No combat ...
www.wbur.org
Seems quite well founded discussion... www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
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Axios
@axios.com
· Oct 7
Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay
A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.
www.axios.com
SCOOP: Furloughed federal workers aren't guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the government shutdown, according to a draft White House memo described to Axios by three sources.