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If you're interested in technical performance or debugging, I published my journey implementing a bounded MPMC ring buffer starting from a naive single threaded strategy bumbling my way through to a higher performance multi-threaded design.
k-cross.github.io/limits1
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Paving the Way to Lock Freedom: Part 1
The unfiltered journey of building a thread safe and efficient ring buffer
https://k-cross.github.io/limits1
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Kate Marvel
12 days ago
Sentient prion Russ Voght wants to destroy US science. Submit your comment on the proposed rules by July 13 š
www.standupforscience.net
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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Science activists and allies mobilizing to save science, health and democracy itself from the Trump administration's dismantlement and privatization.
https://www.standupforscience.net
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)
11 days ago
Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.
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Alejandra Caraballo
12 days ago
This isn't just about Laverne, this is a story of trans people being purged from all facets of employment. The functional unemployment rate for trans people is roughly 30% or higher. Trump has made it convenient for companies to not hire trans people at all.
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Laverne Cox Has Lost 90% of Her Income and Blames Trumpās āRegimeā for Attacking āGender Ideology and DEIā
Laverne Cox says the Trump regime's attacks on gender ideology and DEI has cost her speaking engagements and teaching jobs.
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/laverne-cox-income-trump-gender-attacks-1236781356/
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When I think of polymarket or kalshi I canāt help but think of everyone behind them are from the movie Rat Race
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David Ho
30 days ago
Signal users should pay attention to this.
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Hackers are trying to steal Signal users' backups in new wave of phishing attacks | TechCrunch
A new hacking campaign is trying to trick Signal users to give up their secret recovery key, which can be used to access online backups containing past messages.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/hackers-are-trying-to-steal-signal-users-backups-in-new-wave-of-phishing-attacks/
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John Wiswell
about 1 month ago
Absolutely badger your senators. Become the badger. Become a family of badgers in their phones.
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James Youngman
about 2 months ago
I did some napkin math, and we're talking about a high speed rail network five times the length of the Shinkansen system, from 2020-2025's investment alone. Can't help wondering how many of these routes we could have built.
youtu.be/wE5G1kTndI4?...
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spacex buying cursor is the funniest fucking thing i've read in a while
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Liz Fong-Jones (ę¹ē¦®ē)
2 months ago
also these transcripts show that you should not be listening to ChatGPT for legal advice lmfao
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Heās got a better plan to get out of dinner than Iranā¦
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Tim Price
2 months ago
This is so funny. What if heās worried this guy can actually read his mind and tell everyone what a big pedophile he is
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Classic overreach!
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Marisa Kabas
2 months ago
NEWāI got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
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Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usaid-abortions-barney-nicholas-enrich-into-the-wood-chipper-book-exclusive
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Feel like I'm speed running learning how local election politics work right now, had no idea about the different "strong mayor" and "city council" systems.
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Robert Rohde
3 months ago
We need to talk a bit about how utterly absurd the March heatwave was in the USA. This heatwave would have been impossible without a boost from climate change, but even with climate change it remains a deeply unlikely event. A thread looking at some of the numbers. š§µ
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Frosted Poptart
3 months ago
Montana has figured out a way to put the screws to Citizens United. Good. All states need to do what the gutless SCOTUS won't.
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The Trump presidential library should be named "Trump Center for Kids who can't Read Good"
3 months ago
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Kalshi and Polymarket remind me of the movie Rat Race
3 months ago
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Patrick Chovanec
3 months ago
Lt. Sharpe and Sgt. Harper for the win.
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404 Media
4 months ago
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by
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I decided to write about the internals of AI agents and feel like I covered memory pretty well. I'd love any feedback on it if you have it.
k-cross.github.io/ai_agents
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Introduction to AI Agents
Current concepts in the design and creation of AI agent systems
https://k-cross.github.io/ai_agents
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Ian Coldwater š§š«
4 months ago
$1400 to go to keep this Minneapolis immigrant family in need safe, housed, and out of eviction court! Can you help make this happen for them tonight? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! I really appreciate you and I know they do too š«¶š»
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Low key irritated that a crab can mean claw or rust now. They could have picked a different shellfish⦠maybe itās okay because thereās like five independent evolutionary paths to crabs
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Ilya Kreymer
4 months ago
This incredible story underscores, amongst other things, the need for trust and transparency in arching tools, and for web archiving toolchain to be fully open source and archives to be verifiable.
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I'm pretty sure Trump meant to call it "Bored of Peace."
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Rep. Judy Chu
4 months ago
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed E.O. 9066, authorizing the forced relocation & incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans, solely because of their heritage.
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Pam Brisse
5 months ago
Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the governmentās lies about what they are doing.
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Angry American Guy
5 months ago
This is critically important. Without it, the internet as we know it ceases to exist.
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Mar Hicks
5 months ago
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientistābecause the person felt she did didnāt deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00254-z
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
5 months ago
If you're planning on recording federal agents, turn biometrics off on your phone and opt for long passwords instead, EFFās
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Sousveillance: When the Public Surveils the Surveillance State
In a time of repeated violent clashes between civilians and federal law enforcement, particularly involving Department of Homeland Security operatives, recording and documenting their activity is crucial to ensuring truth and accountability.What has been demonstrated over the last month, following t...
https://thefulcrum.us/civic-engagement-education/sousveillance-ice-surveillance-state-dhs-data
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instead of making new laws why don't y'all try to enforce the ones we already have?
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SETI Institute
5 months ago
On the 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle ChallengerĀ disaster, we remember the seven astronauts who lost their lives and honor their courage, curiosity, and commitment to exploration. Credit: NASA Read more:
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Katharine Hayhoe
5 months ago
New study finds that emphasizing collective efficacy (people's ability to catalyze large-scale change) is very effective in catalyzing behavioural change. As you can see from my pinned post, I'm a big fan of simple messages that can mobilize public support for climate action!
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A megastudy of behavioral interventions to catalyze public, political, and financial climate advocacy
Abstract. Addressing climate change depends on large-scale system changes, which require public advocacy. Here, we identified and tested 17 expert-crowdsou
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/1/pgaf400/8439560?login=false
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Laura Bassett
5 months ago
This needs to happen at the very least
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News Eye
5 months ago
Wow. The front page of tomorrowās Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.
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5 months ago
"Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samaroo, 41, both of Las Cuevas, Trinidad, were returning to Trinidad from Venezuela when they and four other people were killed in the strike."
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Radley Balko
5 months ago
ICYMI: I looked through a published archive of Boston newspapers from the 1760s, when British troops were stationed in the city. The accounts read remarkably similar to what's happening in Minneapolis.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities...
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Two cities under siege
Remarkably similar scenes from Boston and Minneapolis, 260 years apart, show a federal government betraying its founding principles.
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities-under-siege
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Michael Sainato
5 months ago
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
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He's lecturing everyone on the consequences of actions but fails to recognize the consequences of their actions lmao. When the people, state gov, and local gov all don't want you there, maybe listen?!
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Kelsey Hightower
5 months ago
Twitter died a long time ago and X isn't worth it. Before I made the jump, my ego was holding me back. I was too concerned with vanity metrics. I finally realized if you're posting stuff people want to follow, then they'll follow you, even when you leave.
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Open-source champion Kelsey Hightower on the promise of Bluesky
Ann OāDea spoke to US software engineer and open-source champion Kelsey Hightower about the promise of the AT protocol.
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/kelsey-hightower-bluesky-ap-protocol-open-source-kubernetes
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I sure hope this is wrong but it's better to understand potential strategies they could employ.
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miss andry
5 months ago
If you think ICE is heading to your town, start organizing now. We had a lot of the infrastructure but still have taught so many people things theyāve never had to learn before, about community, mutual aid, etc. I just connected two people yesterday! Itās growing. You could have a head start.
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R.I.P. yunginnanet
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GitHub - yunginnanet/HellPot: HellPot is a cross-platform portal to endless suffering meant to punish unruly HTTP bots.
HellPot is a cross-platform portal to endless suffering meant to punish unruly HTTP bots. - yunginnanet/HellPot
https://github.com/yunginnanet/hellpot
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Aaron Rupar
5 months ago
Democrats needing to message on affordability as the country endures a brutal authoritarian takeover is tragic. Take it from someone who lives in occupied Minneapolis. Our problems go deeper than prices.
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LMAO, straight from Jack Smith's report.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle
5 months ago
I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them. But this one hit today. And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon. fascism wrapped in our own flag
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They're serving fake "ICE" warrants, know your paperwork.
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I've really been enjoying the `devenv` tools for `nix` environments. I've also made it so that AI agents for projects by default must use the `devenv` environment. It's not hardened or anything, but it is nice to be able to destroy environments safely on demand.
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