It's giving "this parking lot is the heart of the community" vibes

On this week's Oxide and Friends, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by @benleonard.bsky.social to talk about the amazing Oxide rack explorer (explorer.oxide.computer) he designed, turning CAD models into a 3D interactive site.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Mangaka Itsuki Sayaka has gone viral for posting her drawing on Calbee's monochrome crisp packets.

hey you! yeah! wanna hear about @rust-lang.org being used to build high-performance middleware? today in the @sdv.eclipse.org Rust Special Interest Group we'll have Angelo Corsaro to talk with us about Eclipse Zenoh and its new no-std project 10am EDT/4pm CEST (.ics is below to join!)

Bodies are a scam I'm going to sell mine for $3 and be a brain in a jar 😡

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McSweeney’s on the economics of the AI bubble. This description of AI driven layoffs is excellent satire.

New sign of the apocalypse spotted. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

HELLO ALL did you know: my publisher is doing a GOODREADS GIVEAWAY of my upcoming novel WICKHILLS! Please enter and spread the word! It is a good fantaspionage book! It only contains one (1) word of doom! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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My book has a cover! I told the press I had a thing for the design of computer books from the 1970s and I was so excited they took that seriously. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

You're never the weirdest person at the Renaissance Festival.

Has there been a more divisive consumer product feature? DuckDuckGo installs rising because Google announced more AI features in Search is wild.

Anyway, happy Friday! (I for some reason thought the conference I'm speaking at started today rather than tomorrow so I am up EARLY.) Today is a good day to pre-order WICKHILLS! A fantaspionage (???) about a world with only six cities... and they're ALL in trouble if Ferec can't stop being a dick.

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section of ArXiv told 404 Media's @samleecole.bsky.social that this is a one-strike rule—meaning authors caught just once including AI slop in submissions will be banned—but that decisions will be open to appeal.

Four days!

YES! New Murderbot is out! So happy. @marthawells.com saves my weekend!

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

There's a 2003 National Academies report on sharing materials that has a section on "Reasonable Access" -- that might be an early source given its prominence? www.nationalacademies.org/read/10613/c...

Anyone know the history behind this infamous phrase? Who was the first to use it? How did it catch on??

When two Kamisu City mayoral candidates, Kiuchi and Ishida, were tied on votes last year, the winner was decided by drawing lots. Kiuchi won but Ishida challenged the results, and the result has now been invalidated. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Book Review: We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune Title: We Burned So BrightAuthor: TJ KlunePublisher: TorPublication date: April 28, 2026Length: 171 pagesGenre: Contemporary/science fictionSource: Review copy courtesy of the publisher via NetGalleyRating: ★★★★★ A heart-wrenching standalone novel by…

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Dr. Xiangyao Yu (@xiangyaoyu.bsky.social) will present the architecture of the Sirius GPU-native database system. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...

The Southern Ocean as an evolutionary arena for structural genomic variation www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🧪🦑🌎

NHK World just released a fascinating documentary about the 50 year history of Comiket. Definitely give it a watch before it is taken down on May 3rd. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/... My favorite part has to be the moment where they show a guy selling doujinshi about baseball umpires. Love that guy.

excited for radiant star. haven't kept track of all the amazing authors and books i've learned about through ann's newsletter. the latest is the fortunate fall.

Just sent out a newsletter! There's nothing Earth-shattering in it, just a reminder that Radiant Star is out on May 12. buttondown.com/annleckie/ar...

Hello! I'm rereading The Incandescent by Emily Tesh ahead of Tuesday's book club meeting Happy to say it holds up very well second time around even though I know what's coming It was my favourite book last year, so clever and well done Book club is here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697896146...

Voidverse by Damien Ober: Review by Paul Di Filippo locusmag.com/review/...

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"If you danced from midnight to six a.m. who would understand?" -Anne Sexton / The Twelve Dancing Princesses

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i've had line managers that were, to me, exceptional managers or exceptional software developers. never both. until now. it's been a total game changer for me. the conversations hit different. feeling very fortunate. even as i struggle a bit returning to an ic role by choice after ~6 years.

"Researchers at Dublin City University created 10 blank smartphones registered as male teenagers, five on TikTok and five on YouTube Shorts, with no history, likes or prior searches. Within 23 minutes, all of them were being served misogynistic content they had never looked for. …

🧮 🧠 🖥️ 🕰️ 💭 Excited to share new preprint with @olivia.science and @blokpoel.bsky.social, see below. This is a brief commentary on Multiple Realisability. We propose formalisations to assist theoreticians in thinking through how MR applies, at what levels, & how it can guide our modeling. 1/🧵

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

French government switching to #linux 🇫🇷❤️🐧 "2026 is set to be l’année de Linux." 😅👌 magnifique! share.google/xHwAIaMQuFzz...

haven't finished yet but crisis engineering is going in my books in the box for 2026❤️ bookshop.org/p/books/cris...

The @oxide.computer rack contains within it a distributed system that needs to trust itself. But how is this trust built? This week, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by colleagues Andrew and Finch to explore how Trust Quorum was designed, built, and verified.

YOU GUYS. I got my copy of Crisis Engineering & it’s somehow even better than the manuscript. A publication for our time. Buy it.

In @science.org for chemsky, Amir Hoveyda's group report a remarkably streamlined approach to precise expansion or contraction of macrocycles www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very cool discussion of the use of color theories in industrial hygiene.

Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in war on Iran https://aje.news/fwp7n7