Still proud that I got a motion all the way to Conference Didn't get enough votes vs government-supported motions, but did pretty well, considering how technical it is

Friends, do not argue about politics today. But if you must, argue with the in-laws about test yield thresholds and the relative merits of a "zero yield" criterion. Not college football or Congress.

My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand. When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.

I can't stop thinking about continuity 3D print this thing and you'll think about it too: printables.com/model/149091... More explanations + links + videos in the model description

This post is about the Home Alone movies.

Same

I went to a Looking for Growth event. It was tragic, self-contradictory, and hopeful. The most important bit wasn't the speeches, which were a mixed bag. It was what wasn't said, and it'd be impossible to tell without being there. (Short summary and a link below)

Here. This managed to ignite my utter loathing of tech bros enough for me to write this. othermeans.io/p/get-your-f...

Barbican my beloved 😍

Lovely hands-off usage growth on TORRENTDYNE (I shall update it soon)

Here you go

Built a thing: labourreforms.uk

You have no idea how cursed syntax highlighting is

Long weekend coming, you know what it means right It's your chance to ship

Scotland eh

SNAFU is a critically underrated Rust crate. SO MUCH NICER than the standard thiserror+anyhow combo

@fasterthanli.me bug report I skimmed the meta tags quickly and didn't find any obvious issues, so it might be on Kagi's side, and it's purely JFYI

This is the best javascript library you could find today

Those logos next to pricing tiers are a very neat detail

While you were partying this Sunday I studied the blade

Decent Allen keys for £15 vs shitty noname Allen keys for £4

that wasn’t a mistake or an accident in Kryvyi Rih bombing. no. russians packed the missile with cluster munitions and hit at the heart of a densely populated neighborhood, on a friday evening when people were enjoying good weather outside and kids were playing. this is what utmost evil looks like

Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

This is obscene, thank god the language has evolved Source: www.drmarkwomack.com/pdfs/beowulf...

Burn every autocrat alive, slowly

Reposting something, again, that a good friend and mentor of mine shared about his experience as a natsec guy on 9/11. I've said it before but natsec/mil/FP bluesky is having our furniture rearranged on us as we speak.

We're gonna talk about something fun, cool, not political tonight. The stuff I wanted to use this account for and have degrees and papers and a career in. We're gonna talk about why steel is a wonder material, probably the material of the future, not just the last century. Yes, there's a graph.

Here it is — very happy to officially release the book that @marianoguerra.org and I have been working on for the past 2½ years. If you bought it in early access, thanks for your support! 🙏 If you haven't bought it yet, please check it out!!

I'm Enkidu-pilled now. If you're not gilgameshmaxxing you're ngmi

The curse of an educated writer Normal speech: "cats exist" Academic writing: "it is widely assumed[14][15] that cats[17] exist" Post-academic blogging: "it is widely assumed that cats exist"

Good stuff on Taiwanese nukes (or rather their improbability) secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/the-blue-s...

Today we weep for Enkidu, the wild man of the steppe, Today we cry for Enkidu, the friend of the beasts

This is how you get radicalised

Yet another political compass

This is just throwing lighter fluid on the coals of the pending proliferation crisis.

This is catastrophic on so many levels www.reuters.com/business/us-...

Let’s take a look at Cook Islands’ partnership with the PRC. A thread 🧵 www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Is Ukraine the first country to be asked to pay reparations for being invaded

I can't put into words how glad I am that we have adults in the Parliament and in charge

This is not what I expected from Branson, but it's a very welcome point www.virgin.com/branson-fami...

There is a profound disconnect between the promises of AGI and the mundane reality of gluing prompts together and trying to cram every business problem into freeform text

Ukraine is our problem (Europe’s). A big ocean sits between the US and Europe, I have been screaming this for years. The fall of Ukraine moves the frontline closer to us in Europe. I'm tired of hearing for calls to do this EU Army or that, BUILD WEAPONS, SPEND MONEY. Nothing else matters.

Today is one of those days when if you don't have a chill running down your spine you're not paying attention Both a big war in Europe and a nuclear war just got much more likely We HAVE to snap out of the slumber

Bastion of the turbofish github.com/rust-lang/ru...

Well ackchyually

1/4 Danish Military Intelligence, FE, has released an updated assessment on Russia. I see this as worst case scenario(s), and they are rather vague on assigning probabilities, but the preconditions they use are sensible IMO.

Peak Linux on Desktop conversation

Brief experience report: granian is not production ready, sadly. The most basic of configs, a straightforward Django app, and yet there are regular panics and core dumps. Stability, not microbenchmarks is what I look for with this kind of software.

Every Single Time I have to pull a large number of files from S3 in Python I'm BAFFLED by how there is not a single universally accepted way to pull stuff efficiently (ie, in parallel)