Human folly for 02025-08-08

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• (youtube.com):

  Edward Teller explaining in David Hofmann’s 01966 #von-Neumann documentary, made with a grant from the Mathematics Association of America, how Teller was like a three-year-old child to von Neumann

• (youtube.com):

  #news #video on #Trump #tariffs coming back into effect yesterday, in many cases over 30%. #USA GDP grew at annualized 3% during the second quarter. But the labor department revised its job growth numbers for May and June downwards by a large factor, like 6× or something. Mostly filler: talking heads and stock footage. From the #WSJ. #economics

• (youtube.com):

  #Trump wants 100% import #tariffs on semiconductors to #USA, except for companies planning to build fabs there, and demands that #Intel’s CEO resign

• Flip card (github.com):

  ultrathin fluid-implicit particle (FLIP) simulation business card with a board-edge #USB-C connector copied from #CNLohr’s tiny touch LCD project

• The secret history of Tor how a military project became a lifeline for privacy (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu):

  #Tor #privacy #news #toread

• Job growth has slowed sharply the (stayathomemacro.substack.com):

  #USA #economics #news. #Trump fired the director of the #BLS for the sharp downward revisions in job numbers.

• Its beginning to smell a lot like (paulkrugman.substack.com):

  Paul Krugman predicts #USA #stagflation. #economics #news #toread

• Shipmv (github.com):

  Walter Bright’s “Empire” for #PDP-11 in assembly, written for his H11. Non-commercial-use license. #retrocomputing

• ChaCha20 performance on PDP (niconiconi.neocities.org):

  someone tried to get ChaCha20 running in #PDP-11 assembly. #retrocomputing

• The the firm at the heart of the Democratic spam machine (metafilter.com):

  #FEC reports on #USA #politics machine #Mothership Strategies show that 98% of its revenues go to its own people and only 2% to actual political campaigns. #corruption

• The future is not self hosted (drewlyton.com):

  in favor of interoperability instead of #self-hosting, as if they were alternatives

• SF based internet archive is now a federal depository library what does that mean (kqed.org):

  #Internet-Archive is now a Federal Depository Library