weird way to support support sex work, but I applaud the dunkers’ sex-positive allyship

So Chotiner keeps savagely dunking on people, people keep going there, and no one ever learns anything. At what point do we start reading this as "people don't mind being dumpstered by Chotiner; they come out ahead anyway" If Chotiner is smart enough to dunk, he's smart enough to know this, right?

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily slidecrafting-book.com #quarto

Context collapse will truly be the end of us all.

Tomorrow, 8AM PDT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZHZ...

If you introduce your students to the idea of Rubber Duck Debugging, then you have to give each of them a rubber duck; I don’t make the rules.

How many valid JSON strings are there?

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

Chotiner: You've written a lot about the band Weezer over the years. Me: That's right. Chotiner: And The Blue Album is their best work as you've said. Me: 100%. Always has been. Chotiner: In 1996 in a letter to your high school girlfriend you wrote... Me: Can we go off the record real quick?

Don't miss this one.

😳 I remember stories of tiny versions of these (100 cards or so) being dropped at airport and library bathroom stalls from 15 years ago. 100k SIM cards is… a whole lot!

The Aaron Swartz production function www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-aaron-...

We’re so wired to anthropomorphize things. I pressed the “skip room” button of our robot vacuum; it said out loud “leaving the current room immediately” and started scooting away. I felt kind of bad that I kicked it out!

The one IDE that behaves in the same zipcode of "not criminally hostile to users" in this respect is Google Chrome. I suspect this is the primary reason JavaScript continues to win at everything.

It's 2025, and interactive debugging is still broken because IDEs feel it's remotely acceptable for to gaslight you about where you clicked "add breakpoint". Surreal that I've seen this class of issue since at least... ~2002?

I hope the future is unkind to computer people, out there making every little daily thing worse, every chance they get Good thing we let them insert themselves on every aspect of our modern existence!

Sometimes I'll refer to a feature or a task as an admission of defeat. The mere existence of it tells you that something, somewhere, went horribly awry Anyway

I keep reading that it was important to the guy, but feels to me that 100000 Pascal wagers is really only about 1 bar bet

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

More of this, please. Never felt the urge before, but I'm inclined to give them some money now. This verification work is very, very hard, but the process of showing your work steadfastly in the open is, well, the essence of good science, and one of the few ways we know to build consensus reality.

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

we are so deeply fucked.

How Snake Oil Becomes Normal Technology: A Brief History of American Capitalism

If you find an alligator eating them, that's when you really need to start worrying. Do not and I repeat DO NOT go to the lighthouse.

Instructors who use gradescope: Have you recently looked at the gradescope website on Chrome? Candy cigarette levels of moral hazard on display from the Google Chrome team, I hope y'all are proud

The only tolerable way to watch YouTube will soon be through an independent system of verification, recommendation, and vouching. That’s already true of Netflix, Amazon Video etc, so I guess we need like a letterboxd-like recommender for everything online now. Thanks, i truly hate it

We just found a YouTube channel that’s ai generated slop content created by mimicking the practical engineering guy’s voice. Took us a good 45 seconds to notice something was weird. I’m unreasonably upset by this, I can’t begin to imagine how he feels.

for the PL-heads in my feed, this is a straightforward extension of a tremendously simple and cool TOPLAS paper from 22 years ago: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

(🤫🤫🤫 I'm here from the future, don't tell anyone!) coming (hopefully) soon to your (hopefully) favorite Markdown authoring system. Look at these beautiful error messages!!! I MUST DISAPPEAR NOW OR CAUSE A RIFT IN THE SPACETIME CONTIN

Fun. But also, this now makes me wonder how much of RLHF in ChatGPT is “do not run your mouth on MS”

I'm looking into generating good syntax errors for our upcoming markdown parser. Do you have an example of a programming language implementation that you think emits syntax errors you particularly like? Negative examples are ok too, but I'm specifically looking for positive examples.

Thank you posters of inconsiderate, code-of-conduct-violating messages; You let us provide ongoing evidence to the whole community that we are willing and able to enforce our standards, and I think that's so generous

In addition to the quality of the math content and exposition, the production quality is outstanding too. The 3d rendering, the animation, the camerawork, how it all synchronizes with the narration, all of it. what a treat.

Hello! What fresh hell awaits us on this beautiful Monday morning?

The crispness of North American seasons still impresses me, 20 years in. “We’re past Labor Day? Time for the mornings to be in the 40s now!”

bah, tche

that color trick is close to MSX's color display processor did, where each row of 8 horizontal pixels used only 2 bytes. One byte served as a foreground-background mask, and the other byte was split in two nibbles, giving one of 16 colors for fg/bg. 256x192 16-color pixels in 12kB VRAM!

This morning's typo: metadada definitely what it feels like somedays

actiony metroidvanias are super not my thing, but it warms the cockles of my heart to see many people I assumed were normies celebrating Silk Song day

is you using google docs with your full account name on it on a criminal fucking conspiracy Never change, Brazil

“Welcome to the Midwest! This is the monthly tornado siren test” …Would have been a great message to get ahead of this very loud siren

I know that's like 6th or 7th on the concern list, but is... is that entire kitchen cabinetry made out of burl

Don’t dunk, block. That’s maybe more important for bigger accounts even!

ngl this is a dril-tier headline, holy shit

Although it's been Eternal September for 31 years now, it's officially September now. I see all y'all forum maintainers, good luck out there 🫡

so I'm learning today that Discord calls their ads "Quests", as in you watch an ad ("do a Quest") and then there's a reward associated with it? The lack of respect these people have for us all is remarkable.

If you tune in to www.twitch.tv/geoguessr in the next couple of minutes, the last match of the grand finals is about guessing a place without moving, panning or zooming at all These people are impossibly good.

Competitive geoguessr is so wild