Why is @jamellebouie.net so good at this? He's a frustratingly competent political analyst. Just extraordinary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXZv...

English speakers who play chess love to import words/terms from other languages. E.g., luft, intermezzo, zwischenzug, zugzwang, and en prise. I’d like to suggest we adopt kachi-koshi/make-koshi. Example usage: A: How’d you do in the tournament? B: Not great, I got a make-koshi.

These Senate Democrats are selling out every citizen of the US that has resisted the Trump regime. They will vote for Trump nominees. But how many will show up at NoKings protests, how many went to Minneapolis to lead the people? Everyone on this list must be primaried.

Environmental Hero Makes Fossil Fuels Too Expensive for Anyone to Keep Using: tinyurl.com/yc6m5fzk

RIP Tony Hoare, March 5 2026, age 92 blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony...

We can vote this privileged moral cipher out of office in November, Ohio.

Great. Another way to hide disfavored content from adults.

Ok, but why is Graham Platner actually a thing? Wtf is wrong with yall?

New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:

Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…

I have a fun pen and paper return-oriented programming activity. I give students 11 sequences of instructions ending in ret and ask students to construct 5 higher-level gadgets. checkoway.net/teaching/cs3... I also have the same thing in code: checkoway.net/teaching/cs3...

YOOOOOOO fucking KNUTH dropped a lil note on a problem of his being solved w/claude y'alllllll

A fantastic rundown from @jamellebouie.net about what it means to live through Republican governance. "We elected a Republican president, and the Republican president is doing things that Republican presidents do." www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tEX...

Every so often @chess.com releases new bots. The Yoko Ono bot is the most interesting I've seen. Both sides play with white pieces. (Deleted and reposted to add alt text. First time I've forgotten. My bad.)

I can't respond to Gita's thread here bsky.app/profile/xoxo... but I want to note that the response to the final "Shut the fuck up" directed at Bouie by Martin was especially gross. I thought that @evanurquhart.bsky.social had a good take on the whole thing. Going back to my own lane now.

Yeah this has been bothering me for a while. Bouie is able to be wrong about things, that’s not in dispute. But I have experienced the sheer glee people get when they can tell a black person “um actually” and like, people truly salivate at the chance.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Random memes from like a decade ago.

This sad tale is the most American story ever. You have a non-violent refugee, in need of help. You have racist neighbors, calling the cops on him. You have violent cops, beating him for "not complying" by not dropping his "weapon" (walking stick) then claiming they were hurt. Then abuse by ICE.

Truly one of the most enraging, weak-kneed things that the D.C. Circuit has done over the past 13 months.

There have always been horrifically anti-trans groups and individuals. Few have done more, though, to launder their hate into “respectable” conversations than Jess Singal. No publications have done more to help that along than The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Ugh, TIL C23 makes realloc(ptr, 0) UB for non-NULL ptr. [My reading of the spec makes realloc(0, 0) perfectly well defined though!] realloc is already difficult to use correctly, but why would they introduce UB, especially for something that already has two perfectly reasonable implementations?

Would you like to know about every Super Mario 64 glitch involving the Chain Chomp? Have I got a video recommendation for you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXx6...

While developing an ATProto app, I went down a rabbit hole around the odd way Bluesky defines "character limits". I have a challenge for anyone who knows a lot about languages: mastodon.social/@mcc/1161050... If you don't like reading, you can just play around with: data.runhello.com/bs-limits/

The finish isn’t very good (I may sand it a bit and apply another coat later), but I’m really pleased with how my chess board turned out! Now I just need to turn some pieces* and it will be complete. “Just.” * I’ll probably buy some pieces, at least for now.

Let's learn some surprising things about hummingbird tongues. First, as you can see, their tongues are forked & feathery, highly specialized for lapping up their liquid diet of nectar. But it gets weirder up close!

I downloaded their E1 and effcc product briefs. I cannot tell what this "spacial dataflow architecture" actually is. The E1 product brief says it's a lower power RISC-V (RV32iac+zmmul) processor. I'm curious how this differs from, e.g., an ESP32-C3 which has a RISC-V (RV32IMC).

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

First, do no harm to the balance sheet.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

The Chief Justice of the United States will literally change the rules of the Supreme Court of the United States instead of divesting in individual stocks.

This is an incredibly low bar.

C is a great programming language.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Yikes: guy who blogged about how an AI agent published a “hit piece” against him, says (human) reporters seem to have used an LLM to read (and misreport) his blog post theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

So I've been told I'm holding it wrong and that AI is really very powerful and can do lots of things. And also inspired by a post I saw about how AI went from not being able to add to not being able to solve ugrad homework to not being able to solve group isomorphisms…, I decided to try again. 1/8

A personified AI agent submitted a github PR to matplotlib. The project maintainers closed the issue, then the AI (really, the developer controlling it) published a blog post on "its" blog accusing the project maintainers of discrimination, then the LLM (again, the developer) had to issue an apology

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

This is very much true in computer science too!

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

This is false. A friend reported seeing 4.9 million live (and that the number dropped off when Kid Rock started). And anyone can go check YouTube where it shows 19 million right now.

My opponent did not make a move for 3 straight days.

Since the pronouns labeler is gone.

the pronouns labeller is gone because its developer had a public spat with the developer of blacksky for creating a mechanism in which blacksky users could hide their posts from other atproto instances, such as mainline bluesky. she previously wrote a blogpost discussing ways in which she could use

I guess the pronoun labeler is gone now. It seems the person running it just decided to nuke it on a whim. *sigh*

This is an act of cultural vandalism: zombo.com RIP zombocom, 1999-2026. You could do anything at zombocom. Anything at all.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊