I know SEPTA has a lot going on, but can we talk about how they had an extra-long trolley blitz this summer, and then this weekend closed the tunnel again for more repairs, which are now stretching two days beyond the scheduled date with no end in sight?

On our “toxic tour” of dirty uses along the Delaware in Chester City, it became even clearer how unjust it is for Philly to send its trash here to be burned — poisoning our air and lungs. Let’s stop making Chester and our neighborhoods sick! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

David Fincher's THE SOCIAL NETWORK, and Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross's Oscar-winning score, turned 15 years old this fall. Here's some of my artwork for the album, created by manually corrupting images from the film by editing their raw hex data in a text editor, damaging them from the inside. 1/

developing a protocol for establishing sessions and exchanging data over UDP is hard

I HAVE PLAYED THESE GAMES BEFORE!

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Bluesky mods just openly hate democracy

Hey @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social this sign is way too close to the door and sample ballots right? 46-10 I'm in meetings this morning and can't call in to report.

THE central source for news about middle aged dudes in Chicago and Philly. I’m never logging off.

Getting blocked by on-the-order-of-1000 accounts is a big nothingburger, but I'm worried that multiple people at huggingface complaining about it on X, including an ethicist who I think really does mean well, tells you a lot about which way the wind is blowing over at huggingface.

So much happened over the weekend, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed, including --Hackers who stole trove of sensitive UPenn data derides 'dog**** elitist institution', www.metacurity.com/hackers-who-...

What happened to "algorithmic choice"?

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

I just became a supporting member www.python.org/psf/membersh...

Ok - #jj-vcs question: if I push a jj repo (backed by git) and pull it onto another machine, are change IDs the same across machines? What's the story there?

Does literally anyone know why Google AI forbids me from learning more information about black pepper??? I’m typically ignoring the AI Overview but this one has baffled me lol And also if anyone has a recipe for a soup that’s heavy on black pepper, I’m all ears

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

Last night I migrated to blacksky. The process was easy enough but not something I'd recommend unless you can explain what a PDS does.

[looks in the box] hey, it's actually not torment nexus for once - it's paradox of tolerance this time.

I lied, put your clothes back on. we're watching Adam Curtis's Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone: What It Felt Like to Live Through The Collapse of Communism and Democracy

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

call me when they bring back bilenky junkyard cyclocross

"You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day."

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

Something about the two stories about ChatGPT's involvement in suicides/murder that came out this week that really stuck out to me: OpenAI basically has a boilerplate response when their product gets people killed. "Deeply saddened" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

yea i don't wanna get all performative on ya but we were gonna do this on substack and took a closer look at it and ghost is a much better option and seems unlikely to recommend nazi crap to people etc etc... YOU can make switch too! ghost.org

For those unfamiliar: the “brains aren’t fully formed until 25” myth was a misread of a study that measured subjects’ brain dvlpmnt UNTIL age 25 & then the study stopped, & it was misreported as development ending then when really the DATA ends then & past 25 we have no data yet. Misreported science

"Documents suggest that, throughout the early months of 2024, Fox — in consultation with members of Shapiro’s office — pushed the university to ban Penn Students Against the Occupation of Palestine (PAO), its main pro-Palestinian student group" www.chronicle.com/article/josh...

Docs show Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) quietly inserted himself into Penn’s governance: forcing leadership changes, politicizing the antisemitism task force, allying with pro-Israel activists to ban a pro-Palestine stude... https://tinyurl.com/2cpyxj68 #philly #philadelphia #jawnphilly

FAFO

We should steal not only the European attitude towards public transit, but Berlin's S-bahn, zoned fare, and ticket validation systems, specifically.

every profile of a DOGE boy should include the number of people they’re responsible for killing

I know the whole thing is "AI replacing workers" etc but uh, not what's happening in the labor market near as I can tell

here, read something smart about AI and the labor market for a change www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-are-we...

Join us on August 13 for Localhost! 🦠 Peter Whidden will present Mote, an interactive ecosystem simulation with hundreds of thousands of organisms. His custom GPU physics engine models many simple behaviors at a massive scale, producing fascinating emergent phenomena. RSVP below ⬇️

while I'm scolding ppl, this article is currently 20x more popular than our scoop from an hour ago about ICE's new facial recognition app, which is perhaps the most powerful/concern face rec database/tool widely deployed. happy to use current events to start a convo www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

A little bit of SSTV from the ISS from their pass over Philly just now #hamradio #sstv

Damn... this is so fun to play with 🔥 🎛️ s-rack — A modular synthesizer written in Rust 🦀 🌐 Supports desktop & runs on the browser via WASM ➡️ Try it out: latest.s-rack.app ⭐ GitHub: github.com/sharph/s-rack #rustlang #synthesizer #modular #synth #egui #wasm #audio #modularsynth #opensource

Happy birthday Django! Thank you for (much of) my career.

PA sent out an "extreme" EAS message to notify about intermittent 911 issues

"Fascism makes people irrational, spineless, and small. That’s what I was trying to teach students in my class at Penn, until they wouldn’t let me teach it anymore." carterjcarter.substack.com/p/im-resigni...

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

It’s easy to say “I’m not letting that get to me”, but I can definitely tell which of my friends haven’t stopped using X, The Everything App to get information every day

I just published a zellij plugin to let you interact with neovim windows and zellij panes better. github.com/sharph/zelli...

MFW I'm walking around Philadelphia and cherelle parker is mayor