Hooray! The talks from the 2025 #Monktoberfest are now live. Enjoy them all here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Video for my #monktoberfest talk is now up! youtu.be/WF7J7qtZ8TA?...

Rust 1.92.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀 This version adds RwLockWriteGuard::downgrade(), adds Location::file_as_c_str(), improves diagnostic and validation for various attributes, no longer warns for unused Result<(), Infallible>, and more! Check out the announcement: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/11/R...

oh: don't tell me to rush. i'm already russian.

Toto says cumulative sales of the Washlet have surpassed 70 million. Launched in 1980, it took 18 years to sell 10 million Washlets. Overseas sales started kicking in from around 2010, and US demand has driven recent growth. www.yomiuri.co.jp/economy/2025...

Thank you everyone who has given me such warm support and thoughtful feedback on the early access release of my upcoming book: hubs.la/Q03Q9PGP0 I really appreciate it. The site-wide sale is over but if you want 50% off at checkout from now until Nov 27, use code MLLippert at checkout. Thanks!

This is absolutely awful. This was one of the best resources for climate indicators data, and my go-to share for help answering public questions. Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...

No new show this week, but last week's show is up on the pod now as well. oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/dea...

A production rack–up for several months–suddenly had all service processors become unresponsive. Last week, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by the Oxide team that investigated the issue--and discovered its surprising root cause!

Japan issues tsunami warning for east coast following 7.6-magnitude earthquake. https://cnn.it/4pAYJik

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Scientists recently combined the DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab. Things went sideways real fast.

I have put together a (long overdue!) draft RFD on using LLMs at @oxide.computer, but I know that there is a ton more to be said on the topic; thoughts and experiences welcome! rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576

a fun post from Nassim Taleb I come back to often arguing that the apparent statistical content of IQ measures is fully explained if you take them to be able to detect severe intellectual disability but not any real difference between non-disabled people

I'm at the combination

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

I'm reading a great book about termites that suggests we think about these types of animals as individual components of a single organism. A diseased cell emitting a chemical trigger telling other cells to destroy it is easier for us to parse. I think a lot about human illusion of a single self

I documented the steps and missteps I took with jj (jujutsu) getting a repo set up from scratch, initial commits made, and pushed to github. This is the intro workflow I needed, but couldn't find. www.visualmode.dev/from-zero-to...

this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...

New post: a defense of lock poisoning in Rust. Followup to recent discussion: decided to write about lock poisoning, looking at the arguments on each side, and informed by our experience at @oxide.computer dealing with the parallel problem of unexpected async cancellations Please give it a read!

omg. the suspense

Snake-Eater by @tkingfisher.com - a woman finding her self-confidence again after escaping a bad relationship, while also dealing with the god of roadrunners (which are vicious mini-dinosaurs) that was involved with her late aunt. Cozy, creepy, and wonderful. Full ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review here: bit.ly/4ioEim0

There is still a significant knowledge gap when it comes to industrial electrification. As I noted in a recent interview and now covered by Table.Briefings, most companies are “unclear about the options and costs.” table.media/en/climate/f...

Happy Thanksgiving! Need a pod while washing dishes? New Oxide and Friends examines a bug introduced over 18 years ago. Performance is great but not—it turns out—without correctness oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/gro...

Incredibly disappointed (shocked even) that the plan is to make the default Rust mutex not poisonable in the 2027 edition. Poisoning is one of the best examples of Rust focusing on rigor, and removing it from the default mutex would be a massive step backwards.

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

listened to this one twice back to back

awesome conversation. founder vs investor in my 2025 books in the box

Hey hey! We recently tripped over a ZFS data corruption bug–introduced over 18 years ago! @bcantrill.bsky.social and I discuss with members of the Oxide team as well as Matt Ahrens, the co-inventor of ZFS.

keep an eye out for more coming from both Woven by Toyota and the wider community when it comes to safety-critical Rust

Somewhat notoriously, Dad loved all sorts of pens, including the Parker Rollerball. To this day I have no idea why he taped the cap on the end.

outlaw planet was also gorgeous bookshop.org/p/books/outl...

On Monday, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by members of the Oxide team to talk about a doozy: an 18-year-old ZFS data corruption bug that we recently nailed. We'll be at a special Europe-friendly time: 9a Pacific/noon Eastern/5p GMT -- join us for the wild tale! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

this is a gorgeous story

On Monday, OxF hosted @oxide.computer founders, @sdtuck.bsky.social and @bcantrill.bsky.social, Oxide investor Seth Winterroth, and the authors of Founder vs. Investor, Liz Zalman and @ganeumann.bsky.social. Delved into best and worst investor behavior. Check it out!

Through November, JR East is hosting live music performances in a Green Car running on the Chuo Line. www.traicy.com/posts/202511...

A planet is about to be destroyed by the collapse of a binary star system in Slow Gods, Claire North’s first venture into classic science fiction. Read it! says Emily H. Wilson

I love all my first lines (I spend an inordinate amount of time on most of them. My second fav is The Stars Are Legion: "I remember throwing away a child") but that GW line does triple duty: character, setting, AND worldbuilding, 15 words. And it fell right out of my head, fully formed. Magical.

Taito is offering a prize of 100,000 yen for information on the whereabouts of a Crown 602 crane game machine. The model was released 60 years ago, and Taito will give the prize to anyone who can lead them to an existing machine. www.yomiuri.co.jp/economy/2025...

There's a floor plaque in Shinagawa Station, marking the spot Godzilla is first supposed to have hit land in Japan. You can now buy plaque merchandise. shopping.jreast.co.jp/feature/S008...

i have never once in my life thought that the ESRB was too light handed but this is about to turn me into Joe fuckin' Lieberman

Analysis and exploitation of a Use-After-Free vulnerability in the Linux network packet schedule (CVE-2025-38001) syst3mfailure.io/rbtree-famil... #infosec #Linux

Fascinating stuff. A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire, this study claims to have identified thousands more miles of Roman roads than were previously known. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Over the past 25 years (1998-2023), French red bulk wine prices have taken divergent paths. While Médoc prices have declined, those of Bourgogne—and, to a lesser extent, Beaujolais—have surged.

even better the second time

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Curious about what happened between @python.org & the National Science Foundation? Me too, so I asked PSF executive director @eximious.bsky.social onto @redmonk.com's MonkCast to discuss the situation & share her perspective redmonk.com/blog/2025/11... youtube.com/shorts/_DDWk...

another banger ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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