Blinken’s gf was an early supporter of Israel: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/15/obituaries/maurice-blinke....

Biden’s current “envoy” to Lebanon and Israel, Amos Hochstein, is a former IDF soldier born and raised in Jerusalem.

Classic game that universities love to play where they hire someone but that person isn’t “really” part of the university. Happens with extension but happens in degree granting programs too with adjuncts.

Not sure about this. Generally there’s a line out the door of highly qualified people to teach at places like Caltech for little or nothing. A few years ago, UCLA tried to hire someone to teach a chemistry course as a volunteer position. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/03/21/ucla-criticiz...

Sure, but somehow these people aren't teaching, one way or the other. Maybe it's not a shortage of able people (in fact you're right, it definitely isn't) but they aren't teaching at top universities. Or there isn't enough of these teachers.

People have spent their whole lives on the “Homeric question,” but basically Homer is well preserved and overall the variations are minor. In particular, as far as can be determined from quotations in Plato, the Homer we have is basically the same as the one that Plato had.

Too bad there’s no pics of the machine running.

There's a clip of Sid running one of these exact machines here https://youtu.be/XwUM33VJRbY?t=605&si=O_D66Uasv2iJD0JY

CA high speed rail has taken 16 years so far with another 15 on the horizon, and that required 0 novel technology.

Article discusses the Yaroze in the first few paragraphs.

What a ridiculous idea. You think your mother should or is capable of auditing the Facebook app before installing it?

In a perfect world, everyone would verify all software.

I bought my mom an iPhone.

And everyone knows its impossible to write malicious code for an iPhone...

The baddies just switch to social engineering hacks anyways.

This is from 10 years ago. I would be curious to know where they are now and how they feel now about this career decision and blog post.

Seems like they got into tech, like many people leaving science: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa19/speaker-or-organize...

Looking at the webpage, she is now active in the diversity & inclusion space, which is still booming. She gets an endorsement from Sumana Harihareshwara, who turned the DEI up to 11 in Wikiland.

The talks of the Women in Chemistry section at the recent American Chemical Society meeting included gems like "Metalloids and mentoring: Life at a PUI as the 'Other" and "Transgender chemistry graduate students navigating between trans and STEM identities".

All of that sounds nice until you start teaching in Alabama or get students from a reservation in New Mexico, then you see that what the DEI folks offer is completely useless when it comes to deprivation.

Maybe try downloading android studio and setting up a phone in there. It will have access to the real Google play store.