I have been more or less silent on the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter, and even though the algorithm will prevent anyone from seeing it, I felt this needed to be said...

this person has figured out how to give people "functional tetrachromacy" using extensive training and glasses with a pair of dichroic filters with differing spectral response www.color-in-color.info/tetrachromac...

** Speaker announcement ** Catch Kora & Cosmo Bobak's talk 'Writing a top-10 chess engine in Rust' at RustWeek 2026! Info & tickets: 2026.rustweek.org/talks/chess/ See you in Utrecht May 18-23, 2026! @affinelytyped.bsky.social #rustweek2026 #rustlang

** Speaker announcement ** Boxy will walk us step-by-step through a hypothetical first contribution to rustc at RustWeek 2026! Info & tickets: 2026.rustweek.org/talks/boxy/ See you in Utrecht May 18-23, 2026! #rustweek2026 #rustlang

Very excited to open day two with @affinelytyped.bsky.social!

Von Neumann said, per Fermi’s word, that “four params can fit an elephant,” elephant! How absurd, and there he didn’t quit: “with five I’ll make them wiggle their trunk,” which shows to great effect: with skill, an appendage is easy to rouse and even make erect.

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

Phrases like “biological male who identifies as a woman” drive me up a wall. If by “biological male” you mean “assigned male at birth”, say that instead of pretending to be objective. Biology is not uniaxial, not discrete, and not immutable, and in most or all aspects a transfemme person may be...

i do not think that nonhuman things have feelings to be hurt but i do think the intent to hurt feelings is bad for a person notwithstanding whether the object of their sadism is real

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, [icons, races, ...], armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.”