#![deny(unused_must_use)] <- Seems handy to avoid intense scratching the head when forgetting .await

Marloes de Koning van @nrc.nl volgde de #EuroStack afgelopen jaar en schreef dit mooie stuk over de situatie en wat er bereikt is. Met ook het nieuws dat ik niet meer in EuroStack signal groepjes zit, al wens ik ze wel het beste: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

The hardest working streets don't have time for cars.

“This attack on the trail hunting is an attack on the countryside!” “But polls show over 70% of people in rural areas oppose trail hunting” “That’ll be all the incomers. They’re not really country people” I think I’ve heard this argument elsewhere…

Low-quality simulation of a whole mouse cortex on a supercomputer. How long til a crappy human sim starts talking to us? What are we going to do then? Just turn it off? dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

How to un-redact Epstein documents in 5 seconds using Google Docs. 🤷‍♀️ When you fire seasoned workers and replace them with loyalists, don't expect competence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYrg...

I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS

Wow, that’s shocking to see - I held Princeton in high regard until I saw this. Waiting for a book on how the earth is flat and is sitting on top of the elephants‘ backs…

High time for the EU to finally start using its ‘trade bazooka’: the Anti-Coercion Instrument. #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU #WeAreEU🇪🇺

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Love this! @tomflood.bsky.social giving @theonion.com and @thebeaverton.com some pleasant competition when reality bites. Tom you need to do a future team up with @effinbirds.com

Team TRA @zpz_polbru wenst iedereen veilige feestdagen. Samen sterk, samen veilig, richting 2026. 🎄🚦 TeamTRA @zpz_polbru souhaite à toutes et à tous de joyeuses fêtes en toute sécurité. Ensemble forts, ensemble en sécurité, vers 2026. 🎄🚦

sure, guys, that empty barn is real secure now just like you wanted

Well, this is pretty unambiguous. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

the students of the agnes varda school of photography have an exhibition at espace vanderborght. if you are in town today: it's next to mort subite and it's free.

the tubers should come together to demand the release of epstein files m.youtube.com/shorts/U0pnw...

So, what did we achieve for 🇪🇺's cloud situation in 2025? It is now crystal clear our governments can't continue to run on 🇺🇸 clouds. Yet even now, neither buyers or sellers of cloud tech in 🇪🇺 sense the urgency. Below I elaborate & discuss an unorthodox way out of this mess: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

It’s almost Xmas, the time when wishes may come true, they say. So: 🚀 Introducing: the Kubernetes Wish System: github.com/ayourtch/k8s...

Entirely correct ranking, at least for the top one.

There’s an Arabic version of “every cloud has a silver lining” that translates to “no cows, no feeding them at dawn.” A Scots version is “today’s rain is tomorrow’s whisky.” And a Romanian phrase for looking on the bright side is un șut în fund, un pas înainte, or “a kick in the ass, a step forward”

My biggest pet peeve on the bike is drivers who don’t signal their turns. I’m trying not to get killed on the road and a big part of that is riding defensively and anticipating what drivers will do. It’s easier when they signal their intentions.

What was the Dotcom Boom like? Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill.bsky.social - cofounder and CTO at Oxide): "One of my early life lessons: that boom will go on longer than you think possible, and when it switches, it will collapse faster than you can fathom."

Even the little wins are the wins.

At least five FUBARed Waymo robots: Market & Guerrero, SF One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how. Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO. OP: tiktok.brahmsstan

Whenever you are about to type in that people should "just" do something, step away from the keyboard & read up on the situation. If it were a "just" thing it would've happened by now. You can improve your thinking by treating "just" as a signal word you are likely not seeing the whole picture.

Looks timely, given the @firefox.com latest moves. (After being a two decade long FF user and advocate, I am now shopping around).

I have an Xmas wish…

Petit #sautebouchon un peu insolite hier 😎 Rue du Trône, Ixelles Nouvelle démonstration que le vélo offre la liberté promise par les publicités automobiles (Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise - @tomflood.bsky.social ) 🤓 (source: Instagram)

"With its democracy now explicitly under threat, Europe must join India, Brazil and China in standing up to Trump." And here's how; enforce Europe's laws and pop the AI bubble. by @johnnyryan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide 2025 Breakthrough of the Year'. www.science.org/content/arti...

The best part of this amazing short film is when the snow plow shows up and you're like AWW YEAH HERE COMES OUR HERO, and then it just glides into failure

This news reads well with my post berthub.eu/articles/pos...

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

#CarFreeThursday in Brussels. Could be cool if a few of these folks were to participate in @critmassbrussel.bsky.social - this looks like a pretty effective way of blocking the intersections!

Look ma, people seem to like these new modal filters at rue du Trône ! - nobody is trying to vandalize them!

Amazon Redshift Serverless announces the general availability of dual-stack mode supporting IPV6 aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...

More than half of Toronto drivers in a Universtiy of Toronto study didn't look for people walking or on bikes before turning right. Study used eye-tracking tech. Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed. www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...

e360.yale.edu/digest/new-y... - a strong data point for the congestion pricing.

And an important lesson: don’t try preparing Bluesky threads in the middle of doing DIY. It’s distracting. And you make errors. At least I didn’t also drill into my finger or something as well. But the gist of this is clear enough: 24 Commissioners need better tech ethics!

"Les chercheurs ont découvert qu'à l'âge de 12 ans, le fait de posséder un smartphone par rapport à ne pas en posséder était associé à un risque accru de dépression, d'obésité et de manque de sommeil (+31% de chances, +40% et +62%, respectivement)." #santémentale #santé #obésité #smartphone

Any country or actor that says “our policy for Europe should prioritise cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory within European nations” is the EU’s enemy. We can ignore it, we can deny it, we can refuse to acknowledge it, but it is.

This is the Neude in Utrecht. It spent decades in the late 20th century as a car park before being returned to the people and becoming a vibrant public square once again. Your city could do this too - it’s a political choice.

Having an artisanal agent perform its own refactoring is pretty cool. i would have been bored to death doing it manually, but somehow watching it and clicking “approve” is more fun. Truly ”three things one can watch forever - how water flows, how fire burns, and how others work” 😂

Windows CLAT Enters Private Preview: A Milestone for IPv6 Adoption techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/network...

perhaps this is a controversial take, but outside of handling fraud, payment processors should be "content-neutral"

The most successful cities will be the ones that give people safe, affordable, efficient, enjoyable freedom of choice in transportation.