Notices by Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)

Columbia rolled over for them, so of course they’re trying more places.

Academia needs to buck up and stand together, starting with the Ivies if they still fancy themselves standard-bearers. “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/brown-university-trump-crackdowns

@nickevershed.bsky.social @lisamelton

Making policy with bad data? Norfolk around and Norfind out.

From @kcivey: disappointing but I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised

https://mastodon.social/@kcivey/114277307492231661

@dannotdaniel @noondlyt
That’s one of my refrains, but with these nincompoops, I’m much more in the camp of “why not both?”

@kcivey @fedward
I hear a lot of the faculty are apoplectic. But also afraid.

@edwiebe @blogdiva

It’s so good!!

@SteveBellovin @arstechnica

Yup. Google could even feed compromised code to one single user (they know who’s logged in) at one specific time, and then never again. No security researcher even sees the compromised code to analyze it.

To quote @pluralistic, supporters will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no supporters.
https://queer.dev/@furioursus/114274323555372699

What’s the academic equivalent of “fuck around and find out?”

@musicman @rik
Mass protests pretty much everywhere. Your username says MPLS; there’s one at the state capitol at noon Saturday!

@VE3RWJ @darius
Ha, for real!

@obviousdwest
I think it’s pretty close to all bad. It’s the wealthy who have the greatest tolerance for risk; insurance protects the small players most. And if anyone thinks the damage will be limited to corporations and not people, well…yeah, nope.

@Catfish_Man
Yeah. I think this general family of problem is why the idea of revolution is so enticing to so many of the left, even at the expense of making good and concrete progress: building things is •hard•, really hard, and just seems daunting. And the seductive appeal of the greenfield rewrite never ends.

(Saying that, I realize how much I tend to view socioeconomic change from my engineering viewpoint: “It’s important to try things, I assume I’m wrong at least half the time, vision should be grand but implementation should be incremental, all grand philosophies should be subject to change based on experience, etc.”)

@WideEyedCurious
Did much the same: when Trump took office, moved most of it into stable accounts, plus a chunk in an overseas stock index. The only thing I’m regretting now is the bit I left in a Vanguard retirement fund. feh.

The argument is roughly that the costs of climate change will be so large and come in such rapid, chaotic succession that society won’t be able to handle those costs, and won’t be able to function.

He’s saying that in language that people steeped in businessthink can actually hear, and honestly I appreciate that.

I know the headline-based gut reaction is “destroy capitalism, oh no, please continue,” but what the guy’s actually saying is wild and truly terrifying:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer

New game show idea:

Contestants explain DNS and other highly technical subjects to Flavor Flav; he rates their explanations. Sort of a cross between British Baking Show, that Comedy Centeal Roast show, and engineering school.

Inspired by @darius:
https://friend.camp/@darius/114276053651666010

Love it.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a64379232/tiktok-trend-tesla-owners-trading-in-cars-for-other-electric-vehicles-set-to-taylor-swift/

I would love it if somebody with the requisite video production and voice acting skills made this into an actual 20 second spot. https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/114275757338095344

@brainwane
There might be something here to give you ideas, and if so, please steal language freely: https://devgarden.macalester.edu/events/1