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computer science, russian, astronomy @ colby ('21)

almaty, kazakhstan
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on a technical level, I agree, but honestly I think the societal understanding of the word "zionist" has already changed

the original tweet being quoted (in the attached screenshot) was a manifestation of that
tweet: "sure zohran isn't as pro palestine as we want him to be but calling him a zionist is such a stretch im sorry"
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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sorry, @nytimes.com what is this phrasing?
Mr. Kirk’s death, which was captured on video, was part of a wave of political violence that has targeted people across the political spectrum. Mr. Trump survived two assassination attempts while running for president last year; Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota state lawmaker, was killed in June; Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania was the victim of an arson attack on his home in April while he and his family slept; and in 2017, Representative Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, was nearly killed during a shooting at a congressional baseball team practice that targeted Republicans. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/politics/trump-charlie-kirk-medal.html
October 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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easy mistake to make! such devices need to be in your checked baggage, not your carry on
Aviasales.kz At Almaty airport, a foreigner joked that there was an “atomic bomb” in his luggage For this, the traveler was held accountable for pettyhooliganism. According to the police, 411 violators have been removed from flights since the beginning of this year. And this is not only for jokes about the "bomb", but also for drinking alcohol and being intoxicated. So it's better to never joke at the airport, even if your friends burst out laughing.
September 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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how can america claim to be a country ruled by law and order if ICE literally acts against the interests of the govt and with absolute impunity?
However, in an unexpected twist, lawyers on both sides argued that, if Abrego Garcia were released, he risks being taken into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a second deportation. That would deprive Abrego Garcia of the chance to defend himself against the charges, which he has denied. And lawyers for the government argued that it would also scuttle their criminal case against him.
June 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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like the regime they answer to, american tech companies continue to demonstrate that they cannot be relied upon by the international community
To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.
June 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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mas.to/@Rib@fedi.ri...
@Rib@fedi.rib.gay via mastodon: "Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v) She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf). So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!"
April 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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this seems totally reasonable, just poorly communicated
For instance, Mozilla said it may have removed blanket claims that it never sells user data because the legal definition of “sale of data” is now “broad and evolving,” Mozilla’s blog post stated. The company pointed to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as an example of why the language was changed, noting that the CCPA defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”
March 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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the man will always let you down, eventually
we salute the specific opinion, not the man
February 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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it's better as a circle
February 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
donald trump: "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law."
February 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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awesome

www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduat...
In a 1985 paper, the computer scientist Andrew Yao, who would go on to win the A.M. Turing Award, asserted that among hash tables with a specific set of properties, the best way to find an individual element or an empty spot is to just go through potential spots randomly — an approach known as uniform probing. He also stated that, in the worst-case scenario, where you’re searching for the last remaining open spot, you can never do better than x. for 40 years, most computer scientists assumed that Yao’s conjecture was true. Krapivin was not held back by the conventional wisdom for the simple reason that he was unaware of it. “I did this without knowing about Yao’s conjecture,” he said. His explorations with tiny pointers led to a new kind of hash table — one that did not rely on uniform probing. And for this new hash table, the time required for worst-case queries and insertions is proportional to (log x)2 — far faster than x. This result directly contradicted Yao’s conjecture. Farach-Colton and Kuszmaul helped Krapivin show that (log x)2 is the optimal, unbeatable bound for the popular class of hash tables Yao had written about. Highlighted: Krapivin was not held back by the conventional wisdom for the simple reason that he was unaware of it.
February 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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guys it's literally legal I've done the research
(my) tweet: "I keep having dreams about smuggling suitcases full of loose eggs into the US through TSA"
February 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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not to mention that it breaks functionality that they've had for years—they're actively making their products worse

see gemini's attempt to add my flight to my calendar recently
email (which gemini used as the basis for the calendar event) for flights on dec 19, 2024 and jan 6, 2025 gemini adding a trip event to my calendar for nov 13, 2025
February 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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he's a hypocrite, too
elon: "but maybe her advice is amazing" quote tweeting a list of public employees (including nancy pelosi's niece) elon: "So many fake jobs" quote tweeting the name of the director of climate diersification
February 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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he has no fucking idea what he's talking about

www.ecfr.gov/current/titl...
293.311 Availability of information. (a) The following information from both the OPF and employee performance file system folders, their automated equivalent records, and from other personnel record files that constitute an agency record within the meaning of the FOIA and which are under the control of the Office, about most present and former Federal employees, is available to the public: (1) Name; (2) Present and past position titles and occupational series; (3) Present and past grades; (4) Present and past annual salary rates (including performance awards or bonuses, incentive awards, merit pay amount, Meritorious or Distinguished Executive Ranks, and allowances and differentials); (5) Present and past duty stations (includes room numbers, shop designations, or other identifying information regarding buildings or places of employment); and (6) Position descriptions, identification of job elements, and those performance standards (but not actual performance appraisals) that th musk replying to a tweet listing OPM employees on the ground helping musk mess with the US Treasury payment system, saying "you have committed a crime"
February 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
February 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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damn they're getting really good at making "AI" behave like a real person
claude: The error suggests a syntax issue. Try this corrected version [code] me: what exactly did you change? claude: I didn't change anything. The code I shared is identical to the previous version.
January 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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actually, all you need to do to access tiktok in the browser is change a cookie and use a vpn, and you can continue using your US account

[cc @wukko.me @wired.com]
tweet from uwukko: "if you want to access your US tiktok account after the block, here's how to do it: open the tiktok web app with vpn enabled, then modify the "store-country-code" cookie in dev tools to any country code that's not US (such as uk, au, nl, etc), and go to the home page lol"
January 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I wasn't even calling him a russian actor, I was calling him a (dumb) bad person, but now that you mention it, saying "moldavian" instead of "moldovan" is quite suspect
"Be aware that in transistria there are a lot of russians went there as invasion force. They do not even speak Moldavian."
January 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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recognized by whom? not moldova

www.loc.gov/item/global-...
Moldova: New Law Establishes Romanian as the State Language of the Country On March 16, 2023, the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova adopted Law No. 52 on the Implementation of the Considerations of Certain Decisions of the Constitutional Court. The purpose of the new law is to replace “Moldovan” with “Romanian” as the country’s only official language. The Moldovan and Romanian languages are identical linguistically and semantically, with the only difference being the use of Cyrillic script in Moldovan. Background to the Adoption of Law No. 52 Article 13(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova currently in force refers to the national language as Moldovan. Moldova’s 1991 Declaration of Independence from the Soviet Union stipulated that Romanian is the official language. On December 5, 2013, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova delivered its Judgment on the Interpretation of Article 13 Para. (1) Inter-related with the Preamble of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova. With regard to the question of the country’s official language, the court took into consideration the written opinion of the then-president of Moldova, who exhorted that “the official name of the state’s language must be determined only in terms of scientific truth, with no political interference.” The court also cited the Moldovan Academy of Sciences’ assertion that “the official language of the Republic of Moldova is Romanian and the phrase ‘Moldovan language, based on Latin alphabet’ of the Article 13 para. (1) of the Constitution can be equalized semantically with the Romanian language,” and that “the official language of the Republic of Moldova shall operate on the basis of orthographic rules of the Romanian language.”
January 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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nafo moment (westerner wishing death on random civilians)
"they can freeze to death" (regarding transistrian civilians)
January 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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flights into newark right now
December 16, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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wrapped
December 4, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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top response in that very thread

and we don't even need to go across the web, they advertise to users directly within the app store searches

searchads.apple.com
from twitter: "This is how predictive search works nothing about privacy here. apple does collect alot of telemetry but this ain't it." "Apple Maps provides the same search functionality, but it never associates the events with the user's ID."
November 25, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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here's a specific example of apple collecting personalized data for the sake of advertising
https://x.com/mysk_co/status/1859974551469257122 "This is an example of what the App Store app shares with #Apple when you search for an app. Everything you type in the search field is recorded as an event and associated with your Apple ID before it is sent to Apple. When I search for "Google Authenticator," events are recorded as I type character by character. The leap between rows 78 and 79 is when I picked a suggestion. The timestamp of every event is recorded. This means Apple can calculate my typing speed 🙃. If I misspell a word, it will be on my record 🫣. Data is sent to Apple in near real-time (the difference between the Event Time and the Post Time). There is no way you can opt out of sending such app Analytics to Apple or request it be anonymous. Visit privacy[.]apple[.]com and request a copy of your data to learn what identifiable data Apple collects about you. ✌️"
November 25, 2024 at 10:04 AM