Darrell Root

@PeterJAngel @senatorshoshana Imagine buying a product and before they decide on a price they ask to see a list of your family’s income and assets. That would be crazy! Oh wait. That’s the current college system.

Your median professor sits so far left that AOC, Sanders, and Warren would count as moderates in any faculty lounge. Faculty from 55 elite universities form one towering blue spike of ideology far out on the left, density exploding past 6, with virtually nothing on the conservative side. This was built through decades of selective hiring, social enforcement, and the systematic purge of dissent. And because they credential the people who run media, law, government, and tech, the monoculture leaks into every elite institution downstream.

@DoubleODispatch @stuntdoubles007 Your blimp stuck on the Golden Gate Bridge? Grab a hand axe and go out onto the bridge after 007! Best Bond villain ever!

July 10, 1984: Location shots & limited stunt work for the Golden Gate Bridge scene for "A View To A Kill" is filmed, with Martin Grace doubling for Roger Moore, Karen Price doubling for Tanya Roberts & Mike Runyard doubling for Christopher Walken. Thanks @stuntdoubles007 for 📸

"When the show premiered, there were 12 paramedic units in all of North America...Within 10 years, more than half of all Americans were within 10 minutes of a paramedic rescue or ambulance unit. Experts say that growth simply would not have occurred without Emergency!"

@RDKLInc “Z80 inside” 😂

Z80-MBC2 Modern Z80 computer

Sometimes you just gotta break out ol’ reliable

@eliteobsolete Kodak chose not kill film cameras with digital cameras, so someone else killed film cameras…and Kodak

someone had to say it

@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R Remember swap space? I ran early genetics calculations on a Sun Sparc II with 16MB of RAM and 200+ MB of swap space on disk. The data structure for the calculation would take 200 MB of memory. I’d start the run on Friday and leave the sparcstation thrashing disk all weekend.

askingTheRealQuestionHere

@t3nable @RDKLInc “Any algorithm can be implemented in O(1) time if you don’t care about correctness”

First make it work, then make it pretty

@FirePhotoGirl 0 to 1300 acres in four hours 😬

Summit Fire #breaking

In January 2000 I started at Cisco Cisco provisioned me with one of their early IP phones, part of their “eat our own dog food” strategy The Cisco IP phone worked…but had issues. Cisco rapidly improved their IP phones and made billions selling them. Most of Cisco’s competitors had IP phones in “labs” and “tests”, but fell behind.

@WarMonitor3 Iran can help resolve the situation by giving the US the precise latitude and longitude of each rogue unit and commander.

Sources suggest Iran does not have control over parts of its military on the coastline and rogue units have been firing at shipping causing ceasefire violations. What…

@ParallelRiker He should have added wireless power:

Seymour Cray's inclusion of built-in seating was next level genius.

@JenniferJJacobs @CBSNews Iranians can start by giving the US the precise latitude and longitude of each hardliner

NEWS: Iranian officials privately told Trump advisers that they made a mistake in shooting at commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, that the attacks stemmed from an "errant" sect of hardliners who are trying to undermine negotiations, and that they want to keep talking, senior U.S. officials told @CBSNews. White House wants the regime to publicly acknowledge its mistake, which the Trump administration views as a violation of the ceasefire. Trump has directed his team — led by JD Vance, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and Marco Rubio — to continue negotiations. The talks are to take place in Oman. The U.S. will respond, using military and economic leverage, if Iran continues to engage in hostile acts, the officials said. cbsnews.com/news/iran-priv…

wtf

@TheBabylonBee But a few years back you could get this deal for only $5.25 million in San Jose!

Your tweet got to us via a datacenter. The services on your phone work because of multiple datacenters. For decades I was paid to (in part) build and maintain networks for multiple datacenters. Datacenters are not new. They are everywhere. Every building has telecom rooms. A “server room” is just a larger telecom room with more stuff. A “datacenter” is just a large server room, possibly in a dedicated building.

What’s your honest opinion on data centers? I want to be able to tell elected officials how you feel about them.

Microsoft announced that it is laying off 4,800 people total and 1,600 from the corporation's XBOX division. Yet, Microsoft has been approved this year to hire from foreign countries 2,273 H1B employee visas. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. End H1B, it is detrimental to Americans.

A concerning number of British MPs have absolutely no interest in acting on behalf of British people.

@CatWorkers Expert installing cat5 wiring, plus their human intern

@hollyotterbein The roads on Monday:

Scoop: Graham Platner privately told staff that he is planning to officially file paperwork to end his Senate campaign on Monday — the drop-dead deadline for him to exit the race. axios.com/2026/07/09/gra…