Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me every week for half a year, we live in a post-shame society. apnews.com/article/iran...
Trump says Mideast allies have reached outlines of deal to end Iran war, says US to stop new strikes
President Donald Trump is claiming that Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the Iran war and says that he would hold off on ordering new strikes in the five-month old conflict ...
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Just laser focused on pinpointing every last thing that made America the most successful economy in the history of the world, and then getting rid of it. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation
The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.
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Whenever someone says we should make some changes while the strategic rewrite is still pending.
What makes interpreters a pain in the^W^W^W interesting challenge for safety and performance is they defeat lots of tricks compilers can pull to mitigate the cost safety e.g. if the program you're interpreting is what runs the loop indexing into the array, you can't statically hoist those checks.
Swift Language@swift.org · 2mo agoMemory-safe. 13% faster on average. ⚡️ The TrueType hinting interpreter in macOS and iOS has been rewritten in Swift, replacing the original C implementation. Pixel-perfect accuracy was validated across 27 million glyphs. And the results: www.swift.org/blog/migrati...
Not only is this incredible, it is a great source of learning materials for those of us transitioning from our bad C habits into safe and fast idioms:
Swift Language@swift.org · 2mo agoMemory-safe. 13% faster on average. ⚡️ The TrueType hinting interpreter in macOS and iOS has been rewritten in Swift, replacing the original C implementation. Pixel-perfect accuracy was validated across 27 million glyphs. And the results: www.swift.org/blog/migrati...
Why is everyone making us putting our party leader's face and name on everything so political!
The Swift Mentorship Program is starting! 🙌 Dates to know– 🌟 Jun 1: Mentor surveys closes– essentials.applesurveys.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🌟 June 8th: Mentee surveys open 🌟 June 29th: Mentorship pairings announced 🌟 July 6th: 10-week cohort begins Details on the program here: www.swift.org/mentorship/
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Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
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I assume it's one specific consultant, who needs to be cast into the pit of fire, who is going to all these dem candidates and telling them how to use Unicode to bold stuff.
My neighbor told me ai models keep creating deepfakes so I asked what he’s doing and he said he just goes to the researchers and gets a paper on spotting deepfakes so I said it sounds like he's just feeding research papers to the ai companies and then his daughter started crying.
Science Magazine@science.org · 3mo agoDeepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42dMPBg
It is 2034. Every 108 minutes, President Vance must go to the situation room and type the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 into a terminal to extend the Iran ceasefire.
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
Oh it turns out that vanquishing the college student who uses they/them in their email signature is not bringing you the fulfillment that you hoped for? You are still working in your crappy and unfulfilling job, paying a mortgage you now can't afford, and dealing with your annoying kids... I see.
The way this omnishambles ties together different threads of badness is impressive.
ElementaryUI 0.2 is out! Now entering "blazing fast" territory 🚀 - BridgeJS for JS interop - Swift 6.3, Spans, Lifetimes… - fewer allocations with move-only containers ⚠️ Swift 6.2 support dropped github.com/elementary-s... #Swift #WebAssembly #ElementaryUI
Release 0.2.0 · elementary-swift/elementary-ui
⚡️ More speed With most JS interop switched to BridgeJS and a bit of Swift 6.3 optimization work, ElementaryUI is entering blazing fast territory. ⚠️ Breaking Changes This release drops support for...
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Just got a call from the school counselor, because the kids were reading a short story in English class by Roald Dahl about a murderer using cyanide and apparently looking up "how long does cyanide take to kill you" on the school wifi sets off ALL THE FIREWALL ALARMS.
God bless those print news reading teenagers.
Reuters Institute@reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 4mo ago1️⃣ Online platforms are now the main source of news for many young people In 2015 only 21% of 18-24s across 18 markets said their main source of news was social media. Ten years later, this percentage has risen to 39%, overtaking news sites and apps, which have decreased from 36% to 24%
In fairness, he's probably baffled by Velcro.
Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · 5mo agoKid Rock posted after the election that he and AG Pam Bondi were going to "whoop ass" on the companies ripping off music fans. Bondi's DOJ just sold those fans out. And Kid Rock is baffled. My latest in @nytopinion.nytimes.com ... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/o...
I feel seen (and don’t like it, will avoid being seen again)
fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · 5mo agoBeen getting the same train for the past year. The same person sits opposite me every day. This morning we struck a conversation. Needless to say I won't be getting that train again. Worried they're thinking the same and we both end up getting the same train again.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his substack depends on his not understanding it".
A nonbinding resolution condemning blotting out the sun failed along mostly party lines, with Jared Golden voting with republicans. The Supreme Court has declined to take up the case, as the petitioners challenging the constitutionality of the president to usher in eternal darkness lack standing.
River_Tam@rivertam.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt's more like Polls show only 13% of Americans wanted Eternal Darkness and 55% opposed it. He's definitely going to lose a ton of support for this one. Even MAGA doesn't want this. Two weeks after President Trump says he's going to blot out the sun:
I wrote about @telemetrydeck.com on the official Swift blog swift.org/blog/buildin...
Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service
TelemetryDeck is an app analytics service specifically for developers, designed to manage usage analytics that are anonymized, privacy-focused, and really easy to use. TelemetryDeck is managing the da...
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Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...
Alysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time
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Controling your Philips Lighting Hue lights with Swift on AWS Lambda. The whole infra runs serverless for less than $0.20 / month! www.ryantoken.com/bl... Thank you Ryan Token for having written this. cc @swiftlang
Serverless Swift
It’s Swift on Server, minus the server. Deployed on AWS via Swift Cloud.
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ai blogger: my god do you see this, the tools are being used to build the next generation of tools! compiler engineer dealing with ugly bootstrapping issue: huh, you don’t say
despite their owners best efforts
Poll Tracker 📊@polltracker.bsky.social · 6mo agoTrump job approval rating by news platform 🟢 Twitter/X: +9 🔴 Facebook: -7 🔴 Cable TV: -10 🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14 🔴 Local TV: -17 🔴 Instagram: -21 🔴 Broadcast TV: -28 🔴 TikTok: -28 🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33 🔴 Reddit: -40 www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...
This demo of ElementaryUI from the pre-fosdem #swift meetup was very impressive. Looking forward to seeing where it can go. youtu.be/OmQ881sOTIc
Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI
YouTube video by Swift Meetups
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