One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

question for the halo lore nerds and/or biology nerds when Cortana accidentally teleported the Chief upside down at the beginning of Keyes (the level) by accidentally flipping the coordinate data, doesn’t that also flip the Chief’s entaniomers? wouldn’t this slowly and painfully kill him?

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doesn’t Darth Vader overthrowing Lord Sidious at the end of Episode 6 just mean that Darth Vader is the stronger Sith master?

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

After working with Claude a while, it feels like my brain is depleted, and I need to recharge. I'd like to think it's like strength training, and my brain is building muscle. But it feels more like eating a pint of ice cream and crashing out.

Something happens to my brain after agentic coding that I can’t describe. It’s like cognitive offloading which folks have already written about, but even more. It feels like I can’t think through problems anymore. Like a fog. Using agentic but losing my hard-won agency.

DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!!

Guy who will never ever let you in the room: I hope you choose to be in the room.

Maaaaan where am I gonna put all my little side projects now that GitHub, Show HN, etc are full of vibe coded crap? Share with my friends?? Gotta make more friends first lol

don’t say “we vibe coded it,” say “for the first time, the software is deeply participating in its own evolution”

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

in 2028, all hiring contracts for software-related positions will contain a "outgoing employees hereby submit to being converted to SKILL.md files when they leave" clause

ok this is seriously annoying, VSCode now distinguishes between "python environments" and "python interpreters" and won't resolve anything, and the same environment appears in the status bar as both the interpreter and environment. how do i get it out of this state

Butterfly eggs, perfected micro-geometry which distributes stress across the shell resisting impact, pressure and deformation.-Alix Willemez

Some cool software that I want to learn but don't have time right just now, so i'll put it here in case someone else is interested!

valve is doing an excellent job of reputation management as they come closer than ever to deciding what to charge for the Steam machine and Steam frame If you get customers thinking you’re on their side, they’ll blame your supply chain rather than you for the sticker shock

suddenly remembering i haven't plugged my newest in a while. i think everyone should buy and read the book SIMPLICITY which i'm just so tremendously proud of the further i get away from it

In 10 years the next political innovation will be the post-election gerrymander which will allows county zones to be redrawn after the votes are counted and tallied That way we can ensure the constituent demographics reflect the incoming government’s representation rather than the owner way around

I’ve reached out to NY AG James’ office and Mayor Mamdani’s office to find out how they plan on responding to this gross overreach.

Do you like Midsommar, but wish it were queerer and more futuristic? Buy Mattie's book Simplicity, on sale at your local comic book barn! And while you're there, pick up Boy's Weekend! Great if you hate Elon! And listen to her podcast, @killjamesbond.bsky.social, of which she is all three hosts!

in light of the tanstack compromise i am declaring a moratorium on writing any javascript of at least one (1) year. we will evaluate at that time if we are okay with returning to javascript, but only packages that were shipped on or before the start date of the moratorium may be used.

Just made a data labeling widget in Jupyter notebook via AnyWidget Turns out it’s so good that it accidentally perfectly supports active learning in multiple passes Don’t just make LLMs do your data labeling! Instead build tooling that make it super nice and fast for you to do your own

game dev math tip: sin(x) ≈ x for small x, it’s fine

Why are biological processes homochiral anyway

When you think about it, pressing the red button *pushes* you towards an outcome where most people in the world think similarly, but only the blue button *ensures* that outcome

this is just going to make the cycle of distrust a fuckton worse, and I will be explaining to any bsky pbllc staff who will listen to me that I think the choices being made here are lighting user trust on fire.

Listen to me, Boss, and through me tell the story of that kid wicked good in all ways of contendahin’, the wandahah, fucked with for years on end, after he plundahahd the joint on the up theah on Beacon Hill.

We’ve been told our content needs to be more informative so here you go

The gutting of the voting rights act will lead to "the largest-ever decline in the number of Black representatives on Capitol Hill [ever] — breaking a record set around the end of the post-Civil War Reconstruction era." It's a purge of Black representation. www.npr.org/2026/04/30/n...

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

We have this in our Mustang, and it is considerably more accurate at measuring how focussed the driver is with white drivers than with non-white drivers. Don't want to be the most Bluesky-guy ever, but I am a bit worried that this isn't yet as reliable as you'd hope for something that's required.

Here's your regular reminder: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

God forgot to swap in the LoD model on the celestial spheres again

it’s highway robbery, ladies. I think the new meta is to bring a thermos. we’re so cooked

i don't know why companies don't hire as many trans women as possible when they'll all overwork themselves for twice the productivity of anyone else but you only have to pay them 60% as much. just seems like shrewd business!

Cant wait to hear Gavin Newsom call trump the f slur on television

i think a cool thing is that every time some right winger is revealed to have, let’s say, a non-normative sexuality, i get to hear what liberals really think about me but feel they can’t voice :)

Seriously considering getting into the morning habit of going on a 30-minute train ride, getting Dunkin Donuts, and then going back home. It’s way better than staying bed and getting up late

The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh

The monkey's paw interpretation: if everyone dies from nuclear fireballs due to Trump's attacks on Iran, then all three statements could technically be true! @jonbois.bsky.social how could you jinx us like this

absentee / mail-in voting executive order is out: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... news.ballotpedia.org/2026/04/06/t...

honestly feels bananas that people have to go to work and live their lives while this is going on bsky.app/profile/sahi...

One Need Not Be a House is one of my favorite pieces from the quake brutalist map jam! The author wrote about his inspiration and process on his blog

The murderbot diaries by @marthawells.com are a fucking blast. And full of queer space future goodness. (Also corporate space capital shittiness, but they're the bad guys, obv)

qui-gon was very wise. one of the more fascinating Jedi masters IMO. I really wish we saw more character studies of jedi who studied the “Living Force” as opposed to everybody else interested in the “cosmic force”