another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry

For everyone interested in data infra, want to get a quick sense of how big data works, how data systems are designed, and what the tradeoffs are, start with this share from @xiangpeng.systems, really nice intro! intro-data-system.xiangpeng.systems

I’ve been a fan of @eff.org for a long time, and I’m joining them in the fight to #TakeBackCTRL. Authoritarians are using tech to spy on us and silence our voices. Technology should enhance our lives and support democracy, not make them worse. Join the fight today: takebackctrl.org

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Historischer Schritt: Die #RWTH gründet neue Fakultät für #Informatik. 👍 Erstmals seit 1966 wird an der Aachener Universität dieser Schritt vollzogen. Aus der bisherigen Fachgruppe Informatik wird die Fakultät 9. 😀 ➡️ www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/bpvsdt 📸: Fakultät für Informatik/RWTH Aachen

They never change unless we make them: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Loved this piece from Cal Newport in the New Yorker about what if AI doesn't get much better than it is today, and not just because he quotes me www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

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The next book we're reading in the Software Internals Email Book Club is the 2nd edition of The Art of Multiprocessor Programming. Sign up and volunteer to kick off discussion for one chapter! eatonphil.com/2025-art-of-...

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

OPEN SCIENCE IS THE FUTURE! Very pleased to see the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM — the parent organization to my “home” conference SIGGRAPH) has announced it is transitioning to full open access by January 2026!! #ACM #open #access #science #publication #journal #compsci

Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities. Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq

Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

A couple days late but I'm just getting around to properly reading the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change's vital new report on "The imperative of defossilizing our economies". docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/42 🧵Some thoughts:

Jens Spahns Reaktionsmuster, wenn er kritisiert wird: 1) Kritiker diskreditieren 2) Ablenkungsdebatten starten 3) Unwahrheiten in den Raum stellen 4) Kritikern subtil drohen 5) Verschiebung der Debatte durch überwölbendes Meta-Narrativ statt Fakten #spahn #SpahnRücktritt

My experience working as a software engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, on behalf of DOGE. sahillavingia.com/doge

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket so it can free up time and resources for cramming more "AI-powered" trash into Firefox www.404media.co/pocket-app-s...

Pocket, One of the Only Apps I Ever Liked, Is Shutting Down 🔗 www.404media.co/pocket-app-s...

Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written. www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

Announcing the Local-First Landscape A comprehensive guide to help developers choose the right tools for building local-first applications. localfirst.fm/landscape

Pacific islands urge rich countries to submit new national climate plans, adding that "All countries have also agreed to phase out fossil fuels, and NDCs should contain clear details on how governments plan to achieve this" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Times sure have changed.

Duh.

I have seen many folks share it. But this is just so on point. 💯 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

To learn more about account verification and trusted verifiers on Bluesky, read our blog post:

The 'suggested for you' horizontal scroll is finally working in my Android app. Thank you, @bsky.app !

Upcoming events on local-first: • Local-first Conf Berlin, Germany, 26–28 May www.localfirstconf.com – for industry folks • Workshop on Theory and Practice of Decentralized and Local-First Software, Bergen, Norway, 3 July 2025.ecoop.org/home/plf-pla... – for academics (industry crossover welcome)

🦀 Hello World! The Rust project now has an official presence on Bluesky! ✨ We'll be posting the same on our Mastodon and Bluesky accounts, so you won't miss anything on either platform.

This is an article that I've wanted to write for over a year, and I finally got the chance to do it! Atproto Ethos is a deep dive into how we think about protocol design - its influences, the core innovations, and the opinionated takes that we've adopted

Wish that you spent your Friday doing something besides checking if TikTok was banned or not? Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.

#ThePrimeagen persona is often over the top with his opinions. But pleasantly insightful plea for editor wars. As long as it stays playful, it only shows the coder's dedication to the craft. youtu.be/tNZnLkRBYA8?...

Being insulted and called "ableist" for politely suggesting people *try* to use alt text, because apparently some people have conditions that make it harder to post alt text is... well... a reason why people stop trying to be helpful.

Just watched The Economics of Programming Languages by @evancz . What a fantastic, understated talk. Miss #strangeloop . 🥲

As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

Kann man nicht oft genug teilen - der Shift, den Qualitätsmedien sehen sollten. => open.substack.com/pub/getthetr...

Lmao 🤣 savages

THEYRE MAKING NEW PEBBLES WHAT HOLY SHIT ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist