Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

we're gonna have to welcome qanon to the resistance before this is over

mods are asleep post regime censored content

Meanwhile, Trump is simultaneously trying to fuck up our beaches with more offshore oil drilling

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

i think we start by reframing maintenance into a design task. www.academia.edu/44399371/Mai... mark thomas young talks about this in his work. orthodox view of maintenance is keeping an artifact's original design stable and intact, by working to repair it when it diverges from intended design

In a loose folksy way I’ve started to believe that shit falls apart approximately every 80 years because the generation that knew True Horror dies off and the young folks left don’t comprehend the stakes.

well now this seems like a bit of a fucking problem.

you have got to be shitting me. why is everything THIS stupid now

published the MCP server here: bsky.app/profile/inan...

federal hiring: not great

This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm” www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...

ICE snatched a human rights hero. Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices. On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.

SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

gemini's neurosis makes it arguably the most sympathetic llm sometimes

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...

You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.

LMAO this is like if the McCarthy trials targeted Marilyn Monroe

T-Minus 10 days until the baby is supposedly due. My wife, understanding me deeply as a person knows that I will end up working on programming projects despite being on parental leave from work. What would be the coolest thing to build for the Haskell ecosystem that doesn't exist yet or is bad?

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.

I'm now going to tell you about why it's so clever: www.iankduncan.com/engineering/...

“But people would simply not read the FAQ,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

Why did nobody ever tell me how cool the Punycode algorithm is. It’s so frickin clever.

Pretty pleased to have a few of my blog posts from the last few weeks turn up on the front page of Hacker news in the same day!

Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.

CRDTs are the data structures that make “Google Docs-style collaboration, but for arbitrary data” possible. I've had a lasting fascination with them for about 11 years. So, I wrote up a field guide that is hopefully a handy introduction. With interactive examples! iankduncan.com/engineering/...

Happy Thanksgiving

maybe i am going insane

Bodied by my eldest , frankly

Across all the planets in the milky way the average number of trees per planet is at least 30

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

Sci-fi Author: In my book I invented the Utopia Disjunction as an aspirational vision / Tech Company: We have carefully studied why the Utopia Disjunction from classic sci-fi novel Please Create The Utopia Disjunction would be unprofitable

Thinking a lot about the inverse of the torment nexus– the "utopia disjunction"

you can invent a little torment nexus, as a treat

Big part of why we moved to The Netherlands: unpublishablepapers.substack.com/p/where-do-t...

In looking for examples of people calling the Web dead, I learned that, apparently, you can say the Web is dying for 30 years and get away with it. tedium.co/2025/10/25/w...

They are straight up robbing taxpayers blind at this point and not even trying to hide it. Just ransacking the treasury out in the open. This motherfucker pleaded guilty! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One can imagine a future society where a lifetime's journal entries written by the honored dead are compiled into custom-trained advice-oracle chatbots housed in ancestor shrines. This is not that. This is chatGPT with "imagine you are $CUSTOMER's deceased grandparent" stapled onto a generic prompt

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Oh, Dick Cheney died? Well-- *sees Bluesky mod around corner* What's really important is championing the open protocol.

Zohran says you’re trans now

Wat