I have no interest in Zig as a tech, so I've largely tried to ignore it. My one extended interaction with Andrew was on Lobste.rs, where we were talking about gift-giving and social expectations of reciprocity. He was either unaware of it, pretending to be, or unwilling to concede a lost point. 🧵

I’m calling it now. LLMs will cause cursive to return. How it’ll go: As we demand students show they’re not cheating with AI, hand-written tests and assignments will make a comeback. Because print is slower than cursive, we will start teaching it to kids again.

Whoaaaa We're halfway there Whoa-oh! Now get halfway there! Halfway there, we'll make it I swear Whoa-oh! Now go halfway there! -Jon Bon Zeno

While this is true in a certain sense, I think “it is what it is” is frequently deployed as a call for acceptance, not just a vapid tautology. I don’t think it’s very effective at that, since all clichés are thought-terminating instead of -inducing, but imo, it’s no worse than the others.

You could only think Little Italy in 2026 is a bastion of authentic Italian immigrant culture if you don’t live in New York and haven’t for at least 20 years, which explains why Mamdani’s biggest haters believe it

"Do you know what their goal is? Well, Elvis did! Artificial intelligence! Robots! They'd like that, wouldn't they? Yes, sir! Sleep! Sleep!" youtu.be/EOzc0_bfSvc?...

"Your efforts to define them, and me, outside the Jewish community, are dangerously short-sighted. Jews are not made safer by proscribing a particular vision of Israel as the price of full belonging." forward.com/opinion/8355...

IIRC, Stephenson hasn't tried to be funny before or since. Snow Crash really is an outlier when you look at his work after.

I think @bsky.app would do very well to "acquire" @foryou.club and make it the default. Would solve 90% of the complaints people have about bluesky. Discover is still unusable to me.

🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ajahn Brahm 🪷 🔗 Go deeper: buddhistdoor.net #Buddhism #Buddha #Dhamma #Theravada #Kindness #Gratitude #Awakening #Mindfulness #Meditation #Spirituality

Submerged stories allowing fascist supremacy to stay popular even when its outcomes are disreputable, submerged stories that allow radical systemic change to stay disreputable even when that is what is both desired and needed, and how to tell the difference. www.the-reframe.com/the-submerge...

Happy 100th, Mel Brooks.

it won’t let them leave the room until they present three compelling alternative theories

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Newly published tests show a Chromium/Blink engine running on iOS is 28.6% faster than Safari in Speedometer page responsiveness tests. 🏎️💨📱⚡️ This is a clear example of the costs Apple imposes on consumers and businesses, costs created by its 17-year ban on competing browser engines. 🧵👇️ (1/8)

"Far-right extremism and the conflation of Jewish identity with Israel are the main drivers of antisemitism in Australia, the Jewish Council of Australia (JCA) says." www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013 www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Nobody should play pre-2000s games without a CRT filter, because the pixel art was built with CRT in mind. Without a filter (or a real CRT), everything is brighter and more jagged than it was intended. Doubly so for official emulators (looking at you, Nintendo).

Damn, Widow's Bay going HARD towards the finale. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/m...

The Brakrooms "Yeah, buddy!"

Loving the new Opus 4.8. It hasn't said "belt-and-suspenders" once all day 😆

In #UnderstandingComics, Scott McCloud proposes the concept of “amplification through simplification” to explain the richness & intensity of our identification with comics characters. It’s one of McCloud’s most appealing concepts–and one of the most frequently critiqued. 1/12 #ComicsStudies

Star Wars was released 49 years ago and is the story of Greedo, a young Rodian who makes his way through the ranks of the pirates and criminals on Tattooine, only to meet an unpleasant end when he runs across a smuggler who shoots him in a cowardly fashion.

Well said. It's also worth pointing out that even if we do miss the 2c target, hitting 2.1 is still better than 2.3. Climate tipping points are not all or nothing, there are multiple tipping points at different temperatures.

About the conversation around automatic programming, how useful or useless it is. Well, for me it is quite simple: you need to be very good to multiply your output. Retaining quality is harder now, but if you manage you are accelerated 100x. Instead of fighting I enjoy the race.

Spiders Chris, who stars in over 10000 films a year, is an outlier adn should not have been counted (Not to make light, but the tumblr joke was right there)

We can do no greater harm to ourselves than not to think about impermanence. Where impermanence is not properly understood, everything samsaric becomes important and a seemingly reasonable cause to accomplish, when in fact life is as fragile as a bubble. ~ Khandro Rinpoche

If tree were like humans, you would see them reaching down with their branches and raking up all the leaves to hold onto them for security.... This our tendency, to pick up the pieces of our pet beliefs and theories, and hang on for dear life. —Adyashanti (in Emptiness Dancing)

Given the ease of maintaining forks with LLMs, the past decade’s reckoning w/ maintainer burnout, and to be fair, a lot of antisocial maintainers who never wanted to shepherd a community in the first place, I think we’re about to see a massive shrinkage of FOSS communities.

'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Party That Unilaterally Surrenders

Widow's Bay is absolutely fabulous. Witty and downright hilarious, while also being scary--often in the same moment. Excellent acting and superb scripts. Really love it!

Watching tiny kittens trying to get anywhere is hilarious. You can barely stand and your eyes aren’t even open. You don’t even know where you’re trying to go. But you are certainly determined.

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

Remote attestation is a heavily underdiscussed threat to computing freedom. People often mistakenly dismiss it with "I will run my own fork (of the OS or browser) / Magisk", not understanding that with hardware attestation, you're literally unable to 1/

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

All Star Wars should be Andor now.

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My all-time favorite lyric is, “Didn’t even hang around long enough for a one-night stand.”

Why is Opus 4.7 constantly talking about belt-and-suspenders now? I half expect it to adopt an old-timey, aw-shucks explanation mode. "Yer absolute right, young fella! Why, back in my day..."

Israel’s new death penalty law places thousands of Palestinians at imminent risk of execution and escalates the systemized killing of Palestinians by the Israeli apartheid regime.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

One thing I'm seeing proposed more and more as a prophylaxis against another Trump is to ban felons from holding public office. And this might be an unpopular opinion, but I *hate* that plan. Here's why.

When you feel imposter syndrome sneaking up on you, just remember that JD Vance lectured the Pope on theology.

But Lord Donald … what about the hardest times in my life? … then, in the midst of my deepest struggle, there was only one set of footprints …. Trump Christ: Yeah I don’t walk with losers

Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury as the Trump admin tries to unmask anonymous online critics. “We should be very, very, very concerned that they’ve now taken one of these to a grand jury,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @theintercept.com. theintercept.com/2026/04/10/...