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Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America (1995)

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What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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Arista cEOS Containers Run on Apple Silicon

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A few days ago, someone mentioned Arista released a cEOS EFT image running on Arm. Of course, I had to test whether it would run on Apple Silicon.

TL&DR: YES 🎉 🎉

Here’s what you have to do to make the Arista cEOS container work with netlab running on an Ubuntu VM on Apple silicon:

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Waiting For The Worms

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I've seen a lot of people express the sentiment that they initially found Musk compelling because the books they loved as kids made them also want to be an Astronaut and go to Mars, and they saw in his public persona some kind of a kindred spirit.

Well, I also read a lot as a child, and I wished for an ebon longsword that nourished me with the damned souls of my enemies. But then, eventually I -- unlike Elon Musk -- was no longer twelve.

(Promotional consideration for this post paid by Palantir Inc.)

But that aside, I think that we've all been missing the boat by diagnosing Musk with a terminal case of "Read Too Much Heinlein". I think that the childhood Boomer media he's actually cosplaying is Pink Floyd The Wall. Think about it!

  • Coddling parents actually hated him.
  • Got too many groupies too early.
  • Wife left him.
  • Absolutely blitzed on drugs.
  • Finally went full Nazi!

I mean, Geldof even makes that dumb "X" gesture!

Look at those crossed hammers! That is literally the Twitter logo!

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The Network State Coup is Happening Right Now

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The Nerd Reich:

Elon Musk's attempt to destroy the United States government isn't random chaos. It's the methodical execution of the "network state" blueprint. [...]

Everything Elon Musk and his tech cronies are doing to our government is what Balaji Srinivasan spelled out in his network state cult manifestos -- a tech CEO takeover of government, the purging of institutions, the rise of crypto corruption as a dominant economic force, the quest for new territory. But nobody wants to talk about it.

For those of you who are new to this newsletter, I spent last year writing a New Republic series on the network state. Sadly, everything spelled out in those stories is happening now. What Musk and Marc Andreessen are doing to our government is precisely what Srinivasan envisioned. A purge of Democrats, a merging of tech and right-wing forces to remake government and media institutions. Some reporters now observe that Musk is doing to the government what he did to Twitter, but Srinivasan was way ahead of them: [...]

Musk's DOGE is a rebranding of Curtis Yarvin's RAGE (Retire All Government Employees). This is what's behind the buyout offers, firings, and elimination of entire departments. The strategy: Purge the government of civil servants and replace them with those loyal to a dictator. It's about gutting democratic institutions from the inside out and turning them into something else.

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netlab 1.9.4: Bug fixes, VRRPv3 on Junos

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During the last three weeks, we were busy squashing bugs (device configuration fixes, other bug fixes). Some were recent; others were ancient pests uncovered by better integration tests. The end result: netlab release 1.9.4.

netlab release 1.9.4 passed hundreds of integration tests and should be a better choice than the previous 1.9 releases. To upgrade, execute pip3 install --upgrade networklab.

New to netlab? Start with the Getting Started document and the installation guide, or run it in a GitHub codespace.
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