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Back in April,
@bcantrill.bsky.social
and I talked to Andres Freund on the
@oxide.computer
podcast to discuss the xz fiasco; over on Mastodon I described making the image, and since its starting to be used without attribution, I thought I'd talk about it here...
share.transistor.fm/s/e2538f7d
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A bunch of folks at Oxide uncovered a tricky deadlock associated with async Rust (yes, another!), so--of
[email protected]
and I got the crew together to discuss. If you're writing async Rust, you'll want to know how to avoid and diagnose "Futurelock"
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Oxide and Friends 11/3/2025 -- Futurelock
YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqpLGvalyrI
about 9 hours ago
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I’m confused. No mention of jj???
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Philip Bump
1 day ago
Surprised he heard about it.
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The Onion
2 days ago
Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
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Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything
FLOWER MOUND, TX—Condemning the “woke left” for what he called the “modern evisceration of masculinity,” local conservative man Hank Daniels confirmed Monday that he was never going to stop being prou...
https://theonion.com/conservative-man-proudly-frightened-of-everything-1849598211/
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The New Yorker
2 days ago
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win.
#NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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The Washington Post
2 days ago
Democrat Abigail Spanberger was elected governor of Virginia, the first woman to hold the office. The race, one of only two gubernatorial contests this year with New Jersey’s, offered Democrats a test ground for rebuilding ahead of the 2026 midterms.
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Virginia elects Spanberger as first female governor, in rebuke of Trump
Democrat Abigail Spanberger has won the Virginia governor’s race, the Associated Press projects, after campaigning on the economy and promises to stand up to Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/11/04/virginia-governor-election-spanberger-earle-sears/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Say what you will about the Speaker but he sure as shit doesn’t get sucked into the doomscroll
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I just realized: next week we’ll have 6 people on the pod including 4 founders and 2 VCs. There’s going to be a surplus of confidence… and probably a lot of interruptions to clean up in post…
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3 days ago
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🌸☀️idspispopd🌙🥀
5 days ago
The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.
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Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower
7 days ago
Do y’all think 💨 fish can 💨 see water?
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Bryan Cantrill
6 days ago
Join us on Monday at 5p Pacific to discuss!
discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...
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My colleague Dave Pacheco wrote up a great description of a new (to us?) Rust async pathology--"futurelock"--another extremely sharp edge to watch out for, with no particular guardrails. Of course, we'll be talking about it with
@bcantrill.bsky.social
on Monday's Oxide and Friends
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609 - Futurelock / RFD / Oxide
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0609
6 days ago
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Thoughts?
6 days ago
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Wondering if I can take this off my todo list or if I'll get around to it one of these days...
6 days ago
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Looking for your next read this weekend as you either ignore oversugared kids or do your own candy bingeing? The Oxide Friends have you covered:
oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/boo...
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Oxide and Friends | Books in the Box V
Revisiting an annual tradition--Books in the Box! Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends share book recommendations (and--sometimes--anti-recommendations). Take a listen if you're looking for your next...
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/books-in-the-box-v
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On Monday, @bcantrill and I revisited an Oxide and Friends tradition: Books in the Box! We--and live listeners--share recommendations--worth a listen if you're looking for your next read!
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Oxide and Friends 10/27/2025 -- Books in the Box V
YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company
https://youtu.be/jBduzUVORnk
8 days ago
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Mike Masnick
8 days ago
What if we gave the worst people in the world, the people who are just fundamentally assholes, all the power? What an experiment.
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Everything is LLMs!
blogs.oracle.com/linux/dtrace...
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https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/dtrace-and-llms
9 days ago
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Love it when adorable artwork comes home from school
9 days ago
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@molly.wiki
your book review of the abominable Read, Write, Own was so delightful and likely saved humanity from so much wasted time. May I ask you to share your perspectives on this dreck?
ifanyonebuildsit.com
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
The race to superhuman AI risks extinction, but it's not too late to change course.
https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/?ref=google-ad&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22720293810&gbraid=0AAAAA_oFpEaRAaKrxLho8VdtgQAlOQGZ3
9 days ago
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10 days ago
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Bryan Cantrill
10 days ago
All of our other plans have fallen through, so it must be time for our annual Books in the Box episode! Bring the books you have read (and would recommend!) from the past year, and join
@ahl.bsky.social
and me, today at 5p Pacific
discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...
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Join the Oxide Computer Company & Friends Discord Server!
The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 4539 members
https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1432446272060657837
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Max Kennerly
10 days ago
Love to show how smart I am by bragging about my score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
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I’ve made a huge mistake
11 days ago
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Poor guy’s wings didn’t form right. Wild seeing the proboscis probing away
13 days ago
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14 days ago
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Go home, fascists
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jamelle
16 days ago
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
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18 days ago
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Faine Greenwood
20 days ago
Here’s a block list:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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This conversation
@bcantrill.bsky.social
and I had with
@browncsdept.bsky.social
’s Michael Littman was so delightful and engaging. Hope you enjoy!
share.transistor.fm/s/2f7628de
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AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman | Oxide and Friends | Episode 29
LLMs have had a dramatic impact on education. There are obvious reasons for concern, but what about the less obvious opportunities afforded by LLMs? Bryan and Adam were joined by Michael Littman, prof...
https://share.transistor.fm/s/2f7628de
20 days ago
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This is why we do it. For the children
21 days ago
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LLMs have the potential to dramatically impact education... for the better!
@bcantrill.bsky.social
and I were joined by Michael Littman, Associate Provost for AI at
@browncsdept.bsky.social
, to talk about his role advising the university on productive, innovative, creative uses for AI.
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Oxide and Friends 10/13/2025 -- AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman
YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company
https://youtu.be/Q2vcupDdIfc
22 days ago
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1. Can't wait to get Monday's Oxide and Friends recording up. 2. Dying on my line to
@bcantrill.bsky.social
"you mentioned your high school calculator without really going into sufficient detail about it..."
22 days ago
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John Scalzi
22 days ago
And while I'm on the subject of appearances, where I'll be tomorrow night, with Kim Stanley Robinson, in San Francisco:
www.jccsf.org/event/john-s...
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JOHN SCALZI & KIM STANLEY ROBINSON – THE SHATTERING PEACE
Two masters of sci-fi take the stage for a thrilling conversation where imagination meets urgency, and the future of humanity hangs in the balance.
https://www.jccsf.org/event/john-scalzi-kim-stanley-robinson-the-shattering-peace/
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I’m glad there is no market for betting who this is because I would make an emotionally large wager
24 days ago
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Bryan Cantrill
24 days ago
As a reminder, this is coming up in a little bit -- join us!
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This is going to be tremendous. Hope you can join us… or catch the recording
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26 days ago
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Hey fuck you
@mbenioff.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
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Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/marc-benioff-san-francisco-guard.html
27 days ago
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I think I prefer the future where humanity is eaten by genAI to the shell script apocalypse alternative
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28 days ago
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Google calendar feature request: allow me to choose violence and set the default 1:1 meeting title to be "quick chat..."
29 days ago
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The New Yorker
about 1 month ago
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson.
#NewYorkerCartoons
Sign up for our humor newsletter to get Daily Cartoons delivered to your inbox:
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Shriram Krishnamurthi
about 1 month ago
OOPSLA 2026 deadline is just a week away! Can you please help us get the word out by sharing? Thanks!
2026.splashcon.org/track/oopsla...
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SPLASH 2026 - OOPSLA - SPLASH 2026
Welcome to the website of the SPLASH 2026 conference. We are working hard to fill the website with all related information. Please check back soon! In the meantime, please consider this overview of th...
https://2026.splashcon.org/track/oopsla-2026
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Nice ewaste find on the dog walk the other night. Anyone able to educate me about what the heck this is?
about 1 month ago
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This is kind of cool: today, Oxide and Friends is going to pass 1,000,000 downloads. I’m not sure what
@bcantrill.bsky.social
had in mind when we did our first Twitter Space in 2021, but I’m surprised and delighted to have reached so many folks.
about 1 month ago
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If
frinkiac.com
started charging $5/month I would not hesitate to put that on the corporate card as a legitimate, critical business expense.
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Frinkiac
The Simpsons Search Engine - Create Memes and GIFs
https://frinkiac.com/
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Latest Oxide and Friends is up on the pod
share.transistor.fm/s/20b6e3dc
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Systems Software in the Large | Oxide and Friends | Episode 28
Dave Pacheco is leading Oxide's multi-year effort around full-system update. He recently gave a talk about his experience leading that project, the complexities of designing the system and organizing ...
https://share.transistor.fm/s/20b6e3dc
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On Monday, Dave Pacheco joined
@bcantrill.bsky.social
and me to reflect on his experience leading a large, complex (very complex) project to build automated update into the Oxide Rack. Hard-won wisdom on leadership and the avoidance of debilitating "organizational procrastination".
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Oxide and Friends 9/22/2024 -- Systems Software in the Large
YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company
https://youtu.be/rrgp4WXnA5Y
about 1 month ago
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OxF from last night will be up shortly, but I couldn't resist sharing this teaser... which pretty much speaks for itself (and I swear is 100% unedited)
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OxF Bonus Blather 9/22/2025
YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company
https://youtu.be/5D_Y_xvAD7o
about 1 month ago
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Bryan Cantrill
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As promised last week: today on the podcast,
@ahl.bsky.social
and I will be joined by Dave to talk about this extraordinary talk, the system that it describes -- and the experiences of the team in developing it. Join us, 5p Pacific today!
discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...
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