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

Yoyogi Park today

Vigeland: We talk about how, oh no, they just hate us for our freedom. No, they hate us because we bomb girls schools.

One of the reasons we like Hellboy is because it says you can break free of whatever chains your DNA or background put on you, and be nurtured into something else.

🚨 My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has now been updated with 2025's data. We are rapidly losing ice. Graphic available at: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... More info: wgms.ch/global-glaci...

I gather the SF&F subgenre formerly referred to as'blokes in cloaks' is now to be known as 'mantasy', and may be considered the counterpart to 'guy fi'. You may now go on with your day.

I think if you're at the point at which you've added curl to your list of slopware, you've lost touch with what's important in life

Climate has almost disappeared from our conversation. But it remains the most pressing challenge of our times. Last week the WMO said the planet is “more out of balance than at any time in observed history.” Energy security and climate security are not competing priorities.

AOP Wine Yields in Selected French Regions, 1974–2024. Enormous range in both levels and variability. Hérault has the lowest mean yield (42 hl/ha) and the lowest volatility (CV = 14.4%). Alsace and Champagne have the highest mean yields, but Champagne also shows the greatest variability (CV = 23%)

A timeline of rapid change in the #Arctic from 1950 through all of 2025... [*Click to open*] Download high-resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe.... (ECMWF ERA5 temperature data)

We did impromptu huddles at my last job. I was doing unrecorded 1:1s (because jfc you want your direct reports to feel comfortable enough to vent) and feeling good about that. But it's become clear that I was extremely naive

Amidst reports of rising anti-foreign sentiment, a Kyodo survey of the 47 major administrative districts found 35 are budgeting for new outreach initiatives with foreigners, or increasing funding to existing schemes. www.47news.jp/14069075.html

blog.python.org/2026/03/jit-... Without Ken Jin’s mentorship, I would not have been able to integrate frozendict into the Python 3.15 JIT infrastructure so smoothly. In CPython’s JIT, frozendict can currently be constant folded when used as a global variable.

Good advice here. (Also, Hugo nominations close today, if you were still thinking of nominating. Better hurry.)

marketing email: hello my customer, check out this awesome new feature in app that knows where you live <click link> feature not available in your country

Today’s chapter plan, in a supreme moment of ‘thanks, past-me’ says just ‘somehow they get rescued.’

Well I just got the OK so I am doing MY OWN DANG COVER REVEAL WICKHILLS has a cover now! Illustrated by Tom Roberts and designed by Russell Trakhtenberg! Which I copied and pasted so I would not make a typo! Anyway, BEHOLD! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I get in my cab to the event and the driver looks at me and says “I had you before, yeah? You write book?”

In this post, I serve as an unreliable narrator of the talk I gave two weeks ago at the Cultural AI conference at NYU (thanks again to @leifw.bsky.social and @t-shoemaker.bsky.social for organizing this unique event and for inviting me to share my perspective):

new @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social ! we talk to @leifw.bsky.social about his book Language Machines, talking structural linguistics, poetics and LLMs, and their connections to sports analytics I had a lot of fun doing this pod: www.buzzsprout.com/819853/episo...

if you're in the Western Tier, this is going to slap, as the kids used to say

for anyone in nyc

RIP Tracy Kidder, who inspired so many of us, and gave us permission to feel unapologetic passion for our chosen craft bcantrill.dtrace.org/2019/02/10/r...

We model the average. Reality delivers the extremes… Low-probability, high-impact scenarios at 2C can rival typical impacts at 3–4C Key risks: Crop failures, extreme rainfall and flooding, increased wildfires Key lesson: plan for the extremes, not the mean www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nono: kernel-enforced security for AI agents. Looks like a rather unobtrusive but efficient way to enforce capabilities-based permissions, with built-in configurations for popular agents like Claude Code and the wild OpenClaw. And a very cool name 😛 nono.sh

I’m one of these authors! It’s neat!

Oh! Hey! This book I’m on tour for is actually out and available and you can buy it or reserve it at your library BUT ALSO IT IS HORROR AND VERY GROSS so it’s okay if you sit this one out. It’s about botflies! The New York Times called it disgusting! torpublishinggroup.com/wolf-worm/?i...

Does anyone have a blog/tutorial/example project with best practices for wrapping up a Rust library into a C library? I know vaguely to use pub extern "C", but I'd love some concrete strategies for e.g. returning errors, where to do C/Rust string conversion, etc.

"This is not efficiency. This is not streamlining. This is the systematic elimination of scientific stewardship at the world’s largest biomedical research funder." elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/i-wrote-re...

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

So thrilled to see Sour Cherry up for a Nebula Award!! Congratulations to all the incredible finalists 👏👏👏

Really delighted that The Incandescent is a Nebula finalist For Best Novel. Congratulations to all the nominees!

Woke up and this is still real! My love letter to Greek myths is a Nebula Award finalist! Thanks so much to everyone at SFWA who embraced Alcides and Auntie Hera.

Oooh, it's out, it's out!

I assure you that if I, a liberal college professor, had the ability to indoctrinate my students: they would read and follow instructions at a far higher rate than is currently observed. If I was *really* good at it, they might also read the syllabus.

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For #trr26, I just read @rykaaoki.bsky.social's Light from Uncommon Stars. Of the 77(!) books that I have read so far this year, none have made me cry as much or left such a strong impact as this book. Thank you for such an amazing book.

BREAKING: The blackout in Spain and Portugal in April 2025 did NOT happen because of renewables. The final ENTSO-E report on last year's Iberian blackout is out — and it's essential reading for anyone working on the energy transition. www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...

old news but our city zoo was not doing hot financially. then a monkey rejected its child, the child became famous, and the zoo may be saved.

This is now out as part of cargo-nextest 0.9.131. My coworker and I used a Perfetto trace to analyze a test run on a work project today! Proved valuable in less than a day :)

Absense makes the heart grow fonder? After a couple of weeks away, our most recent episode of Oxide and Friends is the most downloaded ever after 2 days. Check it out! Tell your friends. Smash that like button?

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Sometimes I think about how great America could be if not for racism and it breaks my heart.

Excellent read. A sufficiently detailed spec is not far from code. I wouldn't be surprised to see a formal grammar for specs emerge, at which point we'll just have invented a higher level programming language or reinvented MDA. And then we'll just need a compiler, not an LLM.

We often speak of "Nine nines" of uptime (99.9999999%) as being a goal for a system; on the latest Oxide and Friends we talk about a subsystem that had exactly that uptime for Oxide -- and how that wasn't nearly enough. youtu.be/zUwmc_-SLFg