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Unfortunately for Republicans, the situation is very easy to describe: 1. Trump won a cost-of-living election 2. Then he publicly announced a plan to raise the price of imports 3. Then he even-more-publicly started a war that raised the price of gas 4. Meanwhile, he got rich on crypto scams, while engaging in downright Pynchonian misadventures with the reflecting pool and ballroom, which sent the unmistakeable signal that "I care more about random bullshit than America's money problems ... and also I'm not even good at executing on the random bullshit"

What's going on in Washington State? Housing supply is going absolutely vertical. And just broke 29,000 listings in August 2026. That's up 128% in the last three years. And the highest level for August back to 2017. Homeowners are fleeing Washington State in droves, and tech layoffs are surging. The locals who want to stay are priced out of the market, with the typical home costing $591,000. This is a nasty combination for home values, which are already declining. Washington ranks our biggest 'downward forecast' state in 2027. Track the data for your ZIP: reventure.app/map

Its a bit under the radar, but @GovernorVA and @GovSherrillNJ are quietly steering Democrats' data center policies back to a sane place: No moratoria Let communities decide No NDAs or subsidies Prioritize local construction jobs open.substack.com/pub/blueho…

"People in tech don't understand how actually awesome Walmart is." - @benthompson "One, their stores are like this crazy dystopian experience." "Two, if you go in their stores, their app is unbelievable. It will guide you through the aisles to tell you exactly where to go to get the thing that you need. It's amazing. It's the best in-store app by far compared to anyone else." "If what you want to buy is in their store, you can get it delivered in an hour. Who knew? No one in tech who's going to be buying stuff or who is technically inclined through ChatGPT actually knows how good the Walmart e-commerce experience is."

NEW: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson proposing new budget that *does not* include new taxes, cites important of robust economy. "I have made the difficult decision to transmit a budget without major new revenue." @komonews

Collapse underway. Seattle sellers just flooded the market with a record 531 homes in one week, and buyers are walking away seattlered.com/housing/seatt…

The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled the voter-approved natural gas initiative is unconstitutional. seattletimes.com/seattle-new…

Again more doomer bullshit. And I quote “and this is mostly academic” Yes Noam, it is highly academic. What you’re referring to is most likely BitWhisper and/or perhaps or thermal covert channels on multi-core platforms or maybe even HVACKer which is a more recent extension of the work detailed in BitWhisper. Since you’re fear mongering like mad, perhaps someone should explain to the good people how ridiculous your statement is. Let’s start with BitWhisper. BitWhisper was published in the 2015 IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF). In this paper they experimentally tested machines positioned approximately 0–40 cm apart and reported effective communication rates of approximately 1–8 bits per hour. 1-8 bits per hour at a max of 40cm away! Now that’s a close distance for any true air gap and extraordinarily slow to take over the world don’t you think? Sure it may work for short commands or small secrets. But the statement you’re making is ludicrous. HOWEVER, any serious security professional understands that part of air gapping a machine should include shielding. You know like RF/EM shielding, acoustic shielding, optical shielding, USB/peripheral controls, power-line filtering/isolation, and yes thermal shielding, in addition to physical separation. Now what about thermal covert channels on multi-core platforms? That’s a goodie from USENIX Security 2015. Instead of transmitting heat between separate computers, they demonstrated communication between supposedly isolated components inside the same machine. Their experimental Intel Xeon system achieved thermal covert-channel rates of up to 12.5 bits/second. Now to your credit, a later review of covert-channel research explicitly categorizes temperature-based channels as working within a processor core, between processor cores, and between adjacent desktop computers. But again I point you back to what a real air gap is. And how it addresses, as in eliminates, the remote possibility of what you’re stating in the interview. So, on behalf of humanity we’re not mushrooms my man. So stop keeping us in the dark and feeding us bullshit. But hey, I get it. If any of you doomers set up a proper test environment you’d disprove all of your own assertions. 😂 Cc @mattjay @RSnake For reference: “BitWhisper: Covert Signaling Channel between Air-Gapped Computers Using Thermal Manipulations” by Mordechai Guri, Matan Monitz, Yisroel Mirsky & Yuval Elovici published March 26, 2015 (arXiv); subsequently published at IEEE CSF in July 2015. arxiv.org/abs/1503.07919 “Thermal Covert Channels on Multi-core Platforms” by Ramya Jayaram Masti, Devendra Rai, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Christian Müller, Lothar Thiele & Srdjan Capkun published March 24, 2015 (arXiv); published at USENIX Security in August 2015. ⁠arxiv.org/abs/1503.07000 “HVACKer: Bridging the Air-Gap by Attacking the Air Conditioning System” by Yisroel Mirsky, Mordechai Guri & Yuval Elovici published March 30, 2017. arxiv.org/abs/1703.10454