Anirvan Chatterjee

"One agent encoded information by evicting selected data from the cache. Another timed how long it took to reload that data…using the difference between fast and slow reads to recover the message…exchange the synthetic secrets without changing a shared file or opening a network connection"

"Schwarz, whose family has ties to Switzerland, said she is relying on a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and other private funding from Europe to fund her postdoctoral research on the effect of extreme heat and wildfires on hospitalizations across California."

"the CEO of automatic license plate reader company Flock, told an audience of police chiefs at a private police conference Sunday that anti-Flock protests around the country are not real…and claimed without evidence that the social media opposition to Flock is driven mostly by Russian bots."

“The standard way of thinking about estimates is that you start with a proposed piece of software work, and you then go and figure out how long…This is entirely backwards…teams will often start with the estimate, and then go and figure out what kind of software work they can do to meet it”

“Liberal podcasters and influencers opined that El-Sayed should have just let it slide — for the 1,000th time. Such an easy solution when it comes from those outside the sphere of suspicion.” www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

"Vang contends that [82-year-old] Matsui is offended by her decision to eschew the 'unspoken rule' in Democratic Party politics that younger elected officials should pay their dues and wait in the wings until more senior members are ready to leave." calmatters.org/politics/202...

"When the iconic clock showed it is not 5 to, but 5 past twelve, the activists sounded their alarm: time is up. The moment to end the frequent flyer programme, is long, long due. Activists showed their fuchsia purple shirts with texts summoning KLM to stop rewarding frequent flying."

"The most favorable polls are giving the anti-Netanyahu bloc a seat count in the low-to-mid-50s (out of the Knesset’s 120)…there is an easy way to make up the difference. Unluckily for them, it involves sitting with…Arab parties, which the bloc’s leaders have almost unanimously ruled out."

"The student, who has limited verbal communication, was walking to school when agents tackled him, questioned him about his citizenship and restrained him in their vehicle…The student underwent surgery for injuries to his wrist…and was left with bruises and lacerations."

The Apple Music 404 page is really fun music.apple.com/404

"Bay Area 'rapid response' hotlines monitoring immigration arrests have seen an uptick in reports since this weekend, said Lisa Knox, co-executive director at California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice. Knox is in contact with eight regional hotlines that field calls of reported arrests."

Shubho Bijoya, y’all

"One of the things living in NYC taught me was how to treat the city as an extension of your home. I’m not sure people who live in rural and suburban areas think that way about the relationship between their homes and locations." kottke.org/26/10/where-...

"But more than five million Spaniards live in buildings of three or more stories without elevators, including more than one million people over age 60…This leaves some residents with an accessibility paradox: the neighborhood beyond their building may be easier to navigate than the building itself."

"the agency had been directed not to alert the voting machine company if it uncovered flaws, contrary to its standard practices. The request made the CISA employees fear they were being asked to take part in political interference" www.propublica.org/article/cisa...

"In 2013, the average age of a DSA member was 67. After Donald Trump was elected in 2016, it was 33…Thirty-three isn’t that young, but given the median age of a member of Congress (57.5 in the House and 64.7 in the Senate as of January 2025), DSA members are practically tweens."

This is the kind of subtle AI integration I want in my operating system sixcolors.com/post/2026/10...

"But the potential illegal voting identified by the Department of Justice (DOJ) is painstakingly microscopic: just 0.00006% of all ballots cast in the elections at issue, or one alleged illegal vote for every 1.7 million votes." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Democratic governors in Red States can’t perform miracles. They can push policy toward renewable energy and climate resilience to a certain extent. And unlike the Republicans who would otherwise fill their seats, they aren’t actively pushing in the opposite direction."

"If I don’t build it, someone else will, and with my technology, no doubt. I would much rather that history’s first artificially created human being be the result of my painstaking research than the work of some reckless Swiss scientist who doesn’t share my commitment to safety."

Their win would benefit Asian American historians as well: "Tribal leaders and historic preservation officers said they’ve been continuously left in the dark regarding the closures and that they were not consulted on the plans."

Just saw this shared in a group chat. Please read this entire thing. First it made me laugh, and then it made me tear up.

“We weren’t denied graduation, expelled, or deported like students protesting genocide in Gaza. But…when you are a member of a despised minority group you can’t trust liberal institutions to look out for your interests, no matter how woke they claim to be.”

Authorities have revealed disturbing new details about the attempted mass shooting targeting Indian people at the largest Hindu temple in Aurora, IL. Last Sunday, the temple was full of worshipers when 19-year-old Alexandros Paporakis arrived with a rifle and other weapons.

“As the dust began to settle, mathematicians were left confronting a landscape that had abruptly changed around them. Many of them had just watched years of work and carefully laid research plans evaporate in an instant, or knew colleagues who had.“

Good grief, Gavin. Given his politics, I can vaguely understand why he would oppose prop 40. But permanently banning *future* wealth taxes? calmatters.org/politics/202...

This is such an invasive and wildly inappropriate policy indiawest.com/us-adds-jour...

Yay to publishing negative results! Does UBI impact drug use? Turns out that at least in this one case, receiving basic income neither increased or decreased cannabis use pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

"'We are making different editorial decisions,' Wilkinson said during the court hearing…'We are watching everything that we do because every time we do something — even not broadcasting this presidential speech — brings out the anger in the administration and the retaliation from the agency.'"

"Earlier this year, numbers released by the State Department confirmed America now has a whites-only policy when it comes to granting asylum. Of the 4,499 refugees admitted to the United States between October 2025 and the March 2026, every single one of them was a white South African."

Fingers crossed: "In Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy…showing him trailing Democrat Amy Acton by nine points in one poll and six points in another…In Los Angeles, Nithya Raman…leads incumbent Mayor Karen Bass by 11 points in the most recent independent poll" americankahani.com/politics/two...

"'They all have guns and badges and the boys are at their whim,' Ramírez-Sánchez told me. 'But what has stayed with the young men after the incident is the support. It underscores that once you get to know our young men, they become your young men too.'" calmatters.org/commentary/2...

"Utah’s yearlong review discovered an infinitesimal 27 confirmed noncitizens out of more than 2 million registered voters. Of those 27 noncitizens on the rolls, only 13 of them had cast a ballot since 2018." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I love these stories of old scripts and glue code www.reddit.com/r/perl/comme...

"The demonstration took place under the ‘People’s Clock’…time is running out to avert the worst of climate collapse…The number of heat-related deaths also reached unprecedented levels with more than 34,600 people having died in five Western European countries as a result of the heat."

“‘It’s a very scary moment, where you’re following the law, you haven’t been to court in 20, 40 years,’ she said. ‘There was a woman who reached out to me, who’s been in this country since 1987. I wasn’t even born…got the letter, trusted her government, walked into this building and was handcuffed’”