When It Happens, no matter where you are or what time it is, the ear-splitting noise of the mass celebrations outside will be impossible to miss.

Love this question! The piece that sprang to mind was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yor... – it spoke to me in my 20s seeking the sublime in the everyday, but feels more meaningful to me now, in an era of scrolling and AI speed & where the moments between are more precious the older I get.

in Maine this creature is called Susan Collins' Amazing and Unmerited Luck

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

2. It is not about using scripture to shield powerful men from accountability for sexual violence. “Everyone has sinned” is not an appropriate political argument, especially if the sin in question is rape. Really disgusting and unacceptable stuff here.

Cars in cities have a geometry problem that can't be fixed by changing the fuel source.

Lovely. And this guy is the rat who lived in the last Airbnb I ever stayed at.

Doomed to spend my entire career explaining to people that developers who became developers after *they* became developers are in fact "real developers".

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

Being willing to work with others is good; abandoning a positive vision of what you stand for is not.

Two years after Darializa Avila Chevalier took part in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University, she is now set to represent the district in which the university is located in Congress.

I found BASIC programs I wrote as a kid on old CDs in my garage. My favorite was always this fractal I’d designed. With small modifications, it runs on qbjs.org (the calling conventions differ, and young Dave was undisciplined in modular state management). This brought back such joyful memories.

girl me too

Bought a used Zip drive off eBay and pulled a stack of disks from the garage. They’re almost 3 decades old but seem to have held up 🤞

the way that my husband and i repeat, "why am i PERSECUTED???" whenever we face the slightest inconvenience thanks to this clip

every time I rewatch “Die Hard” I am struck afresh by how delightful it is to have an action movie protagonist who simply never stops complaining the ENTIRE time about how much he hates everything that’s happening. it’s like “what if the way Indiana Jones feels about snakes was the whole movie”

Think it’s time for a new descriptor for Rust projects other than “blazing fast.” I propose “rip-roarin’”.

If your design review is just “it’s too complicated,” you are likely doing more harm than good. Yes, simplicity is important. You can probably help your colleague simplify things! But you have to show good faith curiosity about their motivations and not just dismiss them out of hand.

getting ready to fight the robots

Art is not a nice-to-have.

Interesting framing from an outlet whose photographer had a finger broken by ICE a couple days ago

I am so proud that Claude likes my ideas

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

in rust, an allocation is temporary, but a reference? lasts a lifetime

Not a big problem? Lil issue

Misplaced your Beastie Boys license? Ill issue

No base case for a recursive LISP function? nil issue

Inkwell run dry? Quill issue

Nowhere to sit by the window? Sill issue

Remember how for like one week a year or so ago Democrats did a pretty good job of being like "The right is actually pretty weird and creepy!" and it was going really well and it was a resonant message and then they just dropped it totally inexplicably?

All I see is people metacommenting on the discourse and I have absolutely no idea what the discourse is actually about. It’s great. Don’t tell me

@bunnythedoc.bsky.social I deleted IG (addictiveness and rage bait weren’t good for me), but I miss your account! If you ever decide to start cross-posting here you’ll have at least me as an audience 😄

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Every time I introduce an algorithmic feed into my life, it eventually makes me so miserable that deleting it becomes easy. Bye IG, bye Threads. 👋🏻

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

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

what do I do if I am already experiencing those

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

Once again: close an area to cars, business *increases*. Every time. And yet every new proposal to close an area to cars meets the same resistance from business owners. I'm starting to wonder whether business owners really are rational self-interest maximizers, I tell you!

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

tech companies used to be called like “Babinko!” and now they’re all called “Porch”

I feel the same way about AI as I do about the internet—both could be incredibly valuable contributions to society if they’re managed for the public good. In the hands of fascist tech billionaires, they’re a threat the civilization. It’s not the tech, it’s the ownership structure.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

In some ways worse than today’s kayfabe parade of right wing operatives. They’re more dishonest, but bad faith is what they do. News reporters and analysis playing dumb about the context here have no excuse.

They think you're stupid.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

Troubleshooting CI/CD is so much easier with Claude's help. And it's still terrible.