RUTTE: Ukraine’s hard-earned battlefield lessons are saving lives far beyond its own borders. At this moment, our friends in the Gulf are defending themselves against Russian and Iranian drones, thanks in part to Ukrainian technology that didn’t even exist just one year ago.

Lina Khan helped Joe Biden set this up, but he never pushed it hard to take credit for it. Now, with Khan working for Mamdani, he's doing it for NYC residents. And actually telling them he's doing it. Good policies aren't good politics unless you take credit constantly for them.

MORE OF THIS.

Slogging through writing study data export code. Most of my projects collect data as event streams, where summarizing can be a bit tricky. That said, capturing streams and determining outcomes from those events is much more robust everywhere else (including writing new export outputs.)

Uber, but for turtles.

I'm aware that all kinds of science are hard, etc etc but sometimes I swear to god that people have no idea how intensely difficult social science is compared to lab science because "laboratory conditions" literally do not exist.

2014 me vs Now.

I forgot that @tikirussy.bsky.social had an account here, else I would have tagged him! In any case, I've been working with Russ for well over a decade now on various projects - he was a frequent contributor to @pnakoticatlas.com - and he does really interesting work! Get your copy while you can!

One last news and social media pass before swapping in my C++ brain... Writing a really cool Turbo Module for React Native with its own persistence layer with database row-level encryption.

I had a lot of fun lately tinkering with a little hardware project. It will be a small amp that plays music on my wifi speakers once a nfc album card is inserted 🎵 First test version is working - now i have to refine a lot of stuff and finalize it 😊

Reaching people on #Meshtastic #Meshcore and #Reticulum Currently requires running 3 separate nodes. We think that's too many boxes. So we're combining them into 1. Open hardware. Open firmware. 3 mesh protocols running simultaneously. nodestar.net/gateway

Lord help me, I just ordered another Meshtastic node... Looking forward to testing this before sending it on to my little brother to set up a cluster of nodes in Northeastern New Mexico. I've been using Seeed's T1000-E card tracker for months now and I've been impressed with it #Meshtastic

“What the hell do the love letters of that old fraud H.P. Lovecraft have to do with the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs?” A slight departure for #NationalUnicornDay – @cstross.bsky.social’s Hugo Award-winning novella “Equoid”, via @reactorsff.bsky.social 🦄 🐙 reactormag.com/equoid/

Did you know that Dr. Ole Ivar Lovaas, who pioneered Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) for autism, also developed therapies to “cure” gender nonconformity in children? ABA forces children to suppress their autistic traits to make them seem more “normal.” I’m autistic. IMO Lovaas was a monster.

My personal site seems to be offline at the moment (along with my own work on the Lovecraft copyright saga) but I remember corresponding with Alex when he was writing this. I shared my scans of the docs from the Wandrei vs. Derleth estate trial as well as Warren Thomas's thesis on Lovecraft.

Share an image you can hear 🖤

Signal has a setting to stop this (Settings > Notifications > Notification Content). It's likely not an issue limited to just Signal, but more fundamental friction between secure chat apps and phones. Very interesting data point when talking about forensics www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

We are now all Xenosaga.

They call it "mass" because of the powerful mass driver cannons equipped on the Papal battlemech

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Ukrainian drones now strike deeper in Russia. Serhii Okhotnik’s drone designs keep Ukrainian soldiers safe, trading Chinese Mavics for a Ukrainian design.

I wonder if JD Vance regrets killing Pope Francis now that Pope Chicago is in charge

This administration is turning me into a militant Catholic and I don’t know what to feel about that

I converted to Catholicism last week. Here’s why it’s necessary for the United States to invade Vatican City and install its own pope.

This is why you don't launch products on April 1st. I was pretty sure that this was a joke. #Ghost #HomeAssistant

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

Oh yes! FINALLY.

3 hours later and she's done

News used to be better

The Gundam McDonald's ad is here!

When I get a new follower...

By the time this game was wrapping up, I was rooting for my opponent to run up the score as much as possible. It's not every day you lose by more than HALF A BILLION POINTS in Marvel Snap. #MarvelSnap #AssWhooping

We can only hope.

Drop something TELEPHONIC 📲 🖤 ☎️ (Posting this to confuse The Youngsters...)

@ashcanpress.com's run on Uncanny X-Men is often overlooked in the lead-up to Krakoa, but he wrote my all-time favorite Cyclops & Wolverine moment, as Cyke heads to the mansion to commit suicide by villain in 2019's Uncanny X-Men #11. Wolvie gives him some other options. #WolverineWednesday

Saturday: I don't even want to be in this war anymore Sunday: Open the strait you crazy bastards! Monday: Tick tock! Tuesday AM: Your entire civilization will die! Tuesday PM: Peace! We win! A beautiful thing! Wednesday AM: We'll be starting a joint venture with Iran Wednesday PM: Back to war

Been working my way through The Last Dinner Party's studio albums and just about every song is an earworm for me. I really enjoy their intermixing of styles and forms. "Rifle" might be my favorite out of all of them for precisely this reason. If this is "art rock", sign me up for more!

Getting caught up on the Anthropic Mythos news, and my brain keeps coming back to this scene in an otherwise unremarkable Terminator film.

I am constantly amazed at the incredible shots of the moon the Artemis crew is sending back.

New rule change coming to MLB to make it more exciting for new fans...

Got my Johnny Blue Skies tickets for the United Center show in September. Picked some seats next to the sound board so that the show sounds REAL good. #SturgillSimpson #Turtleheads #MutinyAfterMidnight

This is Chewy. He loves to help his grandma garden. She can’t kneel down to dig holes anymore, but that’s his favorite part, so they're a perfect team. 14/10 (TT: chewythenewfie)

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Hey guys can you remind me the details of how he did it in Nicaragua because I’m forgetting exactly how we paid for that

kids these days don't know about Unknown Kadath

Marjorie Taylor Greene saying "this is NOT what we promised the American people when they voted for Trump"