this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Evening in Adelboden (1913) by Waldemar Fink

At my previous job I used Angular and thought it was annoying but not that bad. After having used React for the past few months... Angular has pretty serious design flaws. The Elm UI model is THE model for writing excellent UIs, you can easily emulate it in React, you can't in Angular.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Having fun looking through Caves of Qud game files. Stumbled upon a file 'Genders.xml' with XML entries for genders like "elverson", and "hartind".

Maybe now is the time to switch to jj vcs. I hate getting a ping of a broken issue on prod and having to do a little dance to make it okay to switch branches.

Iroh from @iroh.computer is the coolest rust library I've seen in a long time

There was already a *lot* going on with Bluesky, and now it's under even more pressure. I wrote about how I think about moderation, affordances, expectations, human needs, and powerful trolls for @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/trump-admini...

Since the administration seems hell-bent on starving millions of Americans, I've set up a recurring donation to Gleaners food bank. Please consider contributing some of what you have to an organization helping to create food security. donor.gcfb.org/page/donate

Pure cinema www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw8j...

Setting up comprehensive visual regression testing cli on a big giant messy vanilla js web application with playwright might be the most sanity preserving thing Ive done. Being able to type a one liner into my terminal "show me all visual differences between my local branch and prod" is amazing

The emacs equivalent of neovim plugins are usually much better designed, and simpler. Something about the emacs community produces such a high quality package ecosystem.

Imagine if you had a society where all the politicians were like Mamdani, but the political debates were over super nerdy details on exactly how to implement/run a universal child care system.

It's pretty depressing to me how many people - even on the left - still don't realize that modern states, borders, polices, prisons, etc. must be abolished. States have been so internalized that most leftists, feminists, poor people, etc cannot ever think about a society organized differently

How do I nominate a youtube video for an award youtu.be/LBUHBfFSa4I?...

hyprland is so well made omg also pretty amazing that I can use ddcutil on linux to control my monitor brightness through software, when mac and windows offer no facilities for this w/o HDR being on.

“It's really quite repulsive that Palestinians have had to negotiate an end to their genocide,” says Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu.

oh so László Krasznahorkai wins a nobel prize for literature but Im not even considered for my bluesky skeets

(1/4) I'm soft launching nooki.me to get some early traction and feedback on what to improve. Excited to see how this platform grows!

Version 0.3.0 of Jacquard is up on crates.io! Bunch of breaking changes, but also OAuth (client) support! Now I can actually get to work on some of the features people have been requesting. Please create issues on Tangled for bug reports and feature requests <3 tangled.org/@nonbinary.c...

Just saw Perfect Blue. Some scenes were extremely mesmerizing, and the way the dissociation was done was really engaging. But looking back on the movie it's honestly just disgusting how the writers wrote Mima, and the ending they gave her. Offers no justification for her fetishization.

Adding a precommit hook for an LLM to do code review is kind of neat. My use case: python codebase that has no type analysis unless function has type signature, ensure all modified functions in commit include type signature. This makes the LLM ensure that the codebase gradually becomes type safe.

Replaced our frontend bundling tooling at work with rspack and bun and Im seeing a 70x speedup in builds. Good lord.

The Sora tiktok product is so disgusting on so many dimensions. What kind of sane organization uses hundreds of millions of dollars not to improve human welfare but to steal art in order to replace artists. Imagine all the ways that money could have otherwise been used.

Took a waymo today in downtown SF with my parents, and it successfully handled 3 near miss scenarios with aggressive drivers. Genuinely shocked by how good their driving algorithm is. Take 1 million of amazing technology I wish was everywhere and wouldn't have severe adverse effects on society.

Extending types by implementing new traits for them in Rust would be my absolute least favorite thing in the language if the compiler errors weren't so good at making it work. NoiseMapBuilder.build() is not a method! What?! The documentation shows it is. Sorry, you need to import this trait.

New AI datacenters in Indiana are projected to effectively double Indiana's industrial electricity usage. In a state which overwhelmingly uses fossil fuels for electricity.

Gotta be AOTY gotttdamm

Apparently many data centers use open looped evaporative cooling to dissipate heat, meaning municipal water goes into the datacenter and goes out as steam. Often times using underground well water from the local community. I always assumed they used closed loop systems. This is really really bad.

CORS is evil

Shock of all shocks

My painting SAWYER COUNTY BARNS

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

Fellas, docker registry is down, time to kick back, drink a beer, and enjoy some time off.

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

Not only is this forced rush back the US deeply cruel, but if you're in the US currently on H1B you're effectively trapped in the country. If you want to go back to China, you'll need to renew your visa to come back into the US. Meaning you'll need to pony up 100k.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

I think it's time to show off what I've been cooking lately... New track out next Friday as part of SILKENWOOD's comeback compilation!!! Really excited to be a part of this one. 🩵

The Hopf fibration visualized in Julia

i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay

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The ability to get a 50x speedup in Julia just by annotating with types and moving around variable declarations is sooo impressive.

The most authentic chinese food places in the bay are always in a strip mall, always looks like the left, are named something like FAMOUS FOOD, and don't have a menu in English.

One of the reasons I use and love android being taken away... Gonna have to start looking at forks to run

Shiraz Khan, Jikai Ye, Gregory S. Chirikjian Means of Random Variables in Lie Groups https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12030

Establishment democrats are building their social media campaigns not on actually addressing any issue at all but simply parodying the Republican party. Which would be poetic if it wasn't so stupid

Why does silicon valley have worse infrastructure resilience than freakin West Lafayette Indiana. Woke up at 2am this morning to my UPS beeping because the power went out. Its still out 6 hours later. On a sunny 80 degree day. And it isnt the first time

Mannnn gleam syntax is phenomenal. Except for the lack of macros