While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

gosh I hope that I have even understood wheelnext's problem domain well enough to articulate this problem https://github.com/wheelnext/wheelnext/issues/90

this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference

I realize that sometimes it is necessary, but please remember that it is rude to remind someone that Ross Douthat exists. (Dear reader, I throw myself upon your mercy in your evaluation of whether, in this instance, the collateral damage of reminding you that he exists yet again was worth it.)

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

after many years of having a love/hate relationship with my text editor/cult due to a deeply negative opinion of the cult's leader and organization, I cannot believe I've never thought of learning the lessons of history and just doing a schism I'm an Emacs Protestant now

I have owned an iPad of some variety for the last 10 years and I still don't know how to hold the fucking thing

This may seem like a very peculiar idea, but, this is why I am lowkey a little bit excited for the *good* usability implications of Liquid Glass https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115498384204338221

I really want to stress that if you work at a company that makes a *profit* from your use of Python, you should be _extremely_ embarrassed if you have raised less money than we did https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115499665145387452

Just in case you're as disgusted-fascinated by Gerrymanders as I am*, I present to you a selection of perversely specific district boundaries. I don't like it, but I can't help but admire the work. (* I voted yes on 50: sometimes you have to fight fuckery with fuckery)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115493527623089000 This is amazing! But I want to remind others who weren't able to donate now but can in the future or whose US employers use Python, PyPI, etc. but are not PSF sponsors, that this drive covered a little over 2% of the funding that the PSF […]

If you are in #seattle there is still time for you to vote. Hours, even. Get your ballot into a ballot drop box before 8 PM. Turnout is lower than it should be; take it from an immigrant, voting is a precious responsibility and one you should exercise as often as you can.

I want to note, though, that even with all of this enthusiasm, the PSF is still not as funded as it would have been if they’d compromised their mission and taken the bestringed money offered by the NSF. This is good energy, to get grassroots funding to happen, but we *need* corporate […]

Thanks to @glyph for kicking it off, and to @petrillic, @amethyst, and @Yhg1s for sharing in the match. My part is half done. Tomorrow I’ll also forward this to my employer who will match my donation as well.

We hit the goal, so here my part of the matching pledge. Thank you, everyone who donated, commented and shared! https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115493527623089000

We did it! Y'all are absolutely amazing, and together we've matched $17,000, for a total of $34k raised for the PSF. A personal thank you to everyone who donated, and an extra heap of thanks and gratitude to @glyph for organizing and managing all of this. And of […] [Original post on toots.n7.gg]

2025-2025 goals for how I talk about @ThePSF: owning the fact that we're a charity, and how that's actually a very good thing for the language and the community that's grown around it because all this talk about "foundations" actually doesn't mean an actual definable thing, and that doesn't […]

Did you know @ThePSF is a charity that runs on a budget that is a vanishingly small proportion of the money that Python-using corporations make, but we still put on PyCon US, run PyPI, and (try to) fund grants that support Python events all around the world. Changes in the tech and politicial […]

I will be streaming on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/glyph_official/ tomorrow at 10AM US/Pacific, which is to say, in a little bit less than 16 hours. Hopefully, writing some Python code, but possibly showing off my "how overfull is glyph's to-do list" progress bar depending on how things go […]

Hi folks! If you've just followed me from my fundraising efforts, did you know I have a patreon, and you can join and get updates about what I'm doing for as little as $1/mo? Support my writing, coding, posting, whatever *this* is, etc, and read updates like this […]

The range increments of a full subway sandwich are only 10/20 so you have disadvantage on your throw more than a few paces away. You can double the range with a half-sandwich wrapped tightly and druis have a fifth-level subclass feature that removes disadvantage if the sandwich has sprouts

Matt Levine is really tapping into the zeitgeist with today's "Money Stuff" opener: > The main point I want to make here is that this is all so dumb and I hate it.

oh thank goodness finally

I have a talk idea brewing about our ability to evaluate technology as being "good" (or at least "effective at what it's meant to be doing"), and how generative AI is the first real "basic" technology that evades our (mathematical) ability to measure success or efficacy TWO QUESTIONS a) what […]

apropos of *waves arms ambiguously at the world* I am so fucking sick of hearing about "filter bubbles" or "needing to listen to the other side" or "hear difficult ideas". this is a non-problem. an anti-problem. ensconce yourself in a filter bubble. find safety. to do otherwise is self-harm.

infosec has a lot to learn about understanding failure conditions and accurate, understandable error messages from roadies

warm take #2a: As an engineer, writing timezone-handling code is a privilege: you're enabling people to have a normal, predictable life in the place where they actually live; also you're saving literally billions of people from having to figure out what a bill/schedule/whatever means because it […]

This week, the #python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5MM NSF grant, due to a requirement that the PSF abandon diversity work. So I joined forces with Python folks (@offby1, @petrillic, @amethyst) and we're matching up to $12,000 of donations to the PSF. 🧵

If you’re a user of Libby (the library app), consider before following their suggestion to type #inspireme into the search bar. It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that. This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed […]

Someone has suggested LLMs are "good for writing summaries" but today I wrote a summary of all 38 chapters in "The Book I Can't Talk About Until it is Done" and this really helped me put them in order better and decide what I need to write next, cut and revise. Just having the summary done […]

You have one less reason to not donate to @ThePSF to reward them for standing by their community. And don’t forget to send your receipt to @glyph - we still have plenty of matching funds to go around! https://fosstodon.org/@lorenipsum/115470439602513874

It's true: I've joined @glyph, @offby1, @amethyst and @petrillic in gift-matching donations to @ThePSF I've done gift matching before, because I think the PSF is doing tremendous work and I want more people to realize that. I was planning on doing gift matching for the end-of-year, but this way […]

is everyone pumped for No-AI November

California folks: if you have a Prop 50 mail-in ballot but haven't mailed it in yet, do it today. Please. I am begging you. It's literally the only question on the ballot and it'll take you like 30 seconds to fill out. Redistricting only happens if enough people vote for it by next Tuesday. #yeson50

solve for a pair of floats(x, y) where the python expression ((x == y) and (repr(x) != repr(y))) evaluates to True

From several halloweens ago, a spooky #python story, submitted for your approval: https://blog.glyph.im/2019/10/the-numbers-they-lie.html

"X shouldn't be political." OK but it is. Now what?

We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it. Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!

This brain-dead discourse is *everywhere* and it drives me insane.

[uspol, extremely grim] welp, now we've got the trains. can we call it "fascism" yet or do you need a 24/7 live stream of the mass graves https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/post/3m4gge27yos2t

Even if you don't do anything particularly intense with numerical results in #python, this is still a good issue to know about: https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-with-my-subnormals.html h/t @nelhage

Hell, not even the DNC—any state or local Democratic Party can step up here. This *should* be a DNC thing, but whatever gets it done.

Before somebody shows up to tell me that the DNC can't possibly replace SNAP: that's not what I'm saying. But I am saying that the DNC has rather more resources available to them than the Black Panther Party did in 1970, and they should redirect some of those resources to help Americans.

The National Museum of African American History & Culture has a virtual exhibit about the social programs of the Black Panther Party, for those who aren't familiar with them. They fed and cared for a lot of people around the country. nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

The Democratic Party would do well to look to the social programs of the Black Panther Party as inspiration if SNAP disappears on Saturday. Just running party-sponsored food drives and regular party-sponsored spaghetti dinners in some major cities would be both helpful and good PR.

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally. Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

This is a good way to put it. I'm not going to write anyone off as an irredeemable human being but as a political matter, the American right is animated by bigotry and misinformation. It just is.

Yes. One of the most powerful drivers of elite political discourse right now is wishful thinking: We don't want what's happening to be happening, so we make up a story in which it in less bad and more fixable than it is. All very understandable but it is false and not helping!