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The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

i'm a millennial i was there when cybersecurity was created i should not be forced to take the company's cybersecurity training every 6 months 😒

It feels weird to see a former project I poured years of work in, go full AI slop. A bit sad, and it does not bring confidence in the production runs going forward

So the plan was to do a re-run of Venezuela. Keep the dictatorship, but with a more «US-friendly» leadership.

Une minute de silence pour toutes les victimes civiles en Iran ? Ou alors l'assemblée nationale ne rend hommage qu'aux nazillons ?

Great news for PHP devs who want to use biscuit! biscuit-php v0.3.0 has been released, with an improved API, musl builds, and better performance for builders github.com/ptondereau/b... Huge work from @rooferz.bsky.social

This is the best and only way to think

3/5 ➡️ Is WebAssembly the Secure, Efficient Alternative Everybody was Waiting for? with Laurent Doguin & Geoffroy Couprie bit.ly/4mNLpW6 @ldoguin.name @geoffroycouprie.com #WebAssembly

I love my city and my neighbors. I really do. Now more than ever

Fun fact : Par sa décision, le @conseil-etat.fr n'a pas seulement validé la liberté d'utiliser l'écriture inclusive. Il a aussi entériné ce que les juges administratifs ont retenu : Le fait que l'Académie française « se soit déclarée opposée à son usage » n'a... *aucune* incidence légale. (🤭)

One thing I love about the Onion staff is that when you click on these articles, it's clear they do actually read our media releases.

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

This is what happens when you try to skip to an endgame factory in factorio

Les Halles is our Moria.

The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.

Maybe we should introduce "seniority without accountability", that would fit very well with modern software development practice

I have been saying for quite a while now that, any time somebody tells you that their thing is "end-to-end encrypted" you must smile and nod and go, "oh that's cool, very nice" before fixing them with a steel glare and asking, "between which two ends?"

As someone who works on the interaction layer of software: it's this. Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.

[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy

In this forsaken period of performance reviews, remember the one joy you can get out of it: endorsing your friends for the things they are good at but will never admit, potentially putting them on the career path they would not dare to try

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Sometimes I feel we got a little bit too comfortable with blameless postmortems. We should introduce the accountability premortem. If something can fail and it was predictable, somebody should put their neck on the line, either to prevent it or to deal with the consequences if they arise

A related thing I’ve seen is decent software folks saying “at least what I do isn’t critical” as a way to distance themselves from the perceived responsibility/stress/burden of the things we work on, knowing the tradeoffs we make. We’re given huge amounts of power and should act accordingly.

People forgot what happened to Enron and the Big 5. It's not exactly the same kind of creative accouting, but there's the general feeling of "I'll build this big thing, benefit from it, it won't bring down my books and somebody else will hold the bag"

I really want to know the full story behind this epic hack, and yet I also hope it is never solved.

Every day on here you learn another way the US is bonkers but especially today. Still, very probably a reasonable rule

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

The most important thing to remember about all this fantasy-engineering of the Constitution is Madison's warning: If we suck as a people, no clever constitutional schemes will save us.

i somewhat rudely wrote a mini-thread about public speaking in the replies i’ve gone from literally hyperventilating in a small room to confidently getting 800+ people to laugh while i tell them “you’re doing it wrong” imo it’s worth a read

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

Then again, me writing posts that an LLM can't reliably divine the intention of signals another problem.

There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Ce matin, je vous parle d'IA générative et des personnes étrangères 2 prémisses 1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde 2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer

if you can fund moderately risky products that might 2x your money but you can also fund stupidly risky projects that might 100x your money and if it fails you get bailed out, then your options are clearly: - modest bet: meek - moderate bet: stupid, risky - ridiculous bet: high reward, no real risk

This is very clearly the direction in which things are headed, especially since so many of the people who built and maintained the tools the US IC has developed-in house have been fired or have left.

Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder. Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined

This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio. In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory. CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil. +

There's "learning the britton bagpipes" hard, and there's "having learned britton bagpipes and trying out scottish airs where everything is wrong by a halftone because they were too lazy to rewrite their sheets" hard

i’ve posted here repeatedly about privileging the lie and the importance of NOT using the frame the fash want you to (and how basically everyone fails at this completely) this is a whole ass thread of great examples of how to do it correctly

Late stage capitalism means you too can own stocks in Auschwitz.

«CEO Damon Hininger said on the Aug. 7 call. “We are in an unprecedented environment with rapid increases in federal detention populations nationwide and a continuing need for solutions we provide.”» prismreports.org/2025/10/23/p...

A jarring thing when you approach your 40s: seeing the most hippie of your old classmates wearing ill fitting suits and getting MBAs