The degree to which empty trays are lefty to back up at the end of airport security conveyor belts is simultaneously fascinating and troubling.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

my luke warm take is that if people knew what it meant for a compiler to be correct the broader idea of “abstraction” would be much clearer since its usually the first example they encounter note for nerds: this conflates abstraction/refinement with “less detail” which are not necessarily the same

Jokes on you, I had no goals and thus have completed the set of all such goals.

The presents have been unwrapped, the candles lit, the big meal eaten... now's a great time to play with Miren! Whether it's that holiday cookie app you vibe-coded or something more serious, give Miren a spin! After you've had your fun, come let us know how it went in Discord (miren.dev/discord)!

I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post.

i am also always hungry

This makes me sad to be alive.

I think we have a winner in the category of "Most Ideal Time for the AI Bubble to Burst"

martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/a... As someone that does manual and automated proofs about software for a living I have a few thoughts. TL;DR it'll help a lot in my day to day, designing the theorem is the crux, and perception of value vs perception of cost is the main problem 1/6

Related: One of the most interesting parts of being in a Waymo is you watch other drivers absolutely rage at it because it generally obeys every speed limit and traffic law, and this pisses off so many drivers who are used to being able to pressure other people into going faster.

my reviews of the Precision Fuel 60g Chew Bar: all the fragrant charm of a urinal cake in a gummy that will take you at least 5 actual minutes to chew through resulting in a glucose spike second only Everest in its height and rate of ascent (they work real good on rides though)

“Two liver spots walk into a bar …”

> 'cause some- times there's a man--I won't say a hero, 'cause what's a hero?--but sometimes there's a man. And I'm talkin' about the sandwich guy here-- sometimes there's a man who, well, he's the man for his time'n place, he fits right in there--and that's the sandwich guy, in DC.

lazy with side-effects

we all aspire to be Fred, a Stair Master

It honestly never occurred to me that “letting your kid do obviously dumb things because they just won’t listen to reason” would be part of a parent’s job description. In retrospect it should have been obvious with even a cursory assessment of my own childhood.

I’ve been frustrated with how we write and manage software for years now. Next week, @miren.dev’s vision of a better way begins!

London is fast becoming a cycling city. As each new piece in the network appears—which has more than quadrupled from 90 to 431 km since 2016—so do new cyclists. Its infrastructure now sees a stunning 1.5 million daily users—a 43% spike since 2019—moving nearly half as many people as the Tube below.🧵

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this hits brutally close to home

gotta wonder why the wet floor in that huge “wak min” closet

“Get seated. Get sated.” was right there too

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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

yesss let it begin

it remains unclear to me why there isn’t a fund to provide sandwiches for consumption during protest or for “ballistic vest impact” as it where

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Change one letter, ruin a candy Almond Knickers

“I can still see the fine print without glasses!” he said nursing his lower back and reading dosage information on the Advil bottle.

what are we doing here

holy hell Liquid Glass is absolutely awful

😭😂🤣

it’s not niche, stop using your foot to press the crosswalk button you degenerate

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

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searching for your limits is fun, finding them not as much

just realized the dril drunk driving tweet also works for regular driving

nah it just snagged when he was taking out his comb

Frosted Flakes over Honey Bunches of Oats? time to find new friends

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

There are a lot of rather awful things going on in the world just now but fwiw I had a nice bike ride today. (A cool flyover, watch at 10x 😅) strava.app.link/lImUDx6McXb

we’re already so close to 40k, prompt engineering is effectively praying to the machine spirit and thermal paste is really just a machine salve

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Can't stress this enough:

the only people left on these platforms love polka dots it’s not that complicated

My brilliant wife! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/s...