“Satan was great so long as he was offering me cool stuff in exchange for my soul”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

"There was a long time where you could sort of look at Trump as a net positive if you were a Republican. You can’t make that same argument these days, because Trump is so deeply unpopular on so many issues. He is now a source of great political harm for Republicans and a drag on their ticket."

I was asked recently about the cost of running a #rustlang conference and why the ticket prices are what they are. We figured we can just publicly share the numbers for RustWeek, in the name of #transparency. :) 1/9

folks should only be allowed 5 posts or replies about things they are not knowledgable about a week if you wanna post, think about what you're actually writing either that or we need a way to imply side-eye when ppl post smtg crazy and or silly

I fear we may be in the end times (I’m in pretty strong agreement with a Bret Stephens piece)

Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. (Gift Article)

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

nytimes.com

@giacomocavalieri.me love your hashi puzzles! do you have any recommendations for other similar puzzles? i may have caught a bug :P

My applied cryptography course's summer semester started up this week. Here's an email I received yesterday from a student. I think that people should see this.

DtMF :")

46% of votes in and Tisza now has a *supermajority*!

MLB's ABS system somehow feels extremely human. It's not human vs robot, it's human vs human as judged by a robot.

'You Can't Defeat the Robots!': Baseball's AI Strike Zone Is Must-Watch Television

MLB's ABS system somehow feels extremely human. It's not human vs robot, it's human vs human as judged by a robot.

404media.co

In Idaho, a trans person can be sentenced to up to five years in prison if convicted of felony using-the-restroom. By comparison, simple assault is charged as a misdemeanor (up to six months in jail), and 2 DUI convictions gets you 10 days in jail in Idaho.

Christopher Wiggins@cwnewser.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BREAKING: When the governor signs this bill, transgender people can be charged with a felony for using a public bathroom in Idaho. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

saw this today when i updated neovim, was very confused for a few mins lol

Neovim@neovim.io · 5mo ago

#neovim Development News The 0.12 version will have a fancy intro screen. Beyond showcasing the logo, it visually enhances some parts for better readability. Special highlighting works in any color scheme. PR: - github.com/neovim/neovi...

I have been more or less silent on the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter, and even though the algorithm will prevent anyone from seeing it, I felt this needed to be said...

Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You...

It's wild to me that higher ed leaders can tell themselves that institutional neutrality will get the job done and then you've got Hungarian ambassadors and Russian dissidents saying this is the way you aid authoritarianism

Kimmer@kvonyborg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ is about how you lose your country,” Borenstein said. “You lose it through countless small little acts of complicity.” apnews.com/article/best...

x.com/AJENews/stat... bsky.app/profile/wise...

Al Jazeera Breaking News on X: "BREAKING: Iran reports damage to water, electricity facilities from US-Israeli attacks 🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/bdyxEmXYr3 https://t.co/zUut1zCESK" / X

BREAKING: Iran reports damage to water, electricity facilities from US-Israeli attacks 🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/bdyxEmXYr3 https://t.co/zUut1zCESK

x.com

Wiseowl374@wiseowl374.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You got a link, I’m not seeing anything?

“The Middle East has become the deadliest place in the world: - to be a medical worker - to be a humanitarian - to be a UN team member - to be a journalist And one of the deadliest to be a civilian.” – UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini

seeing lots of posts mis-spelling Purdue as Perdue there's perdue farms, purdue pharma, and purdue university, and i think they are all largely unrelated i guess my alma mater just gained notoriety outside of just shitting the bed in sports 🙃

wtf is going on at my alma mater?

Andrew Whitehead@andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Purdue has since warned faculty against speaking with the media."

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

🇨🇳In China: agencies budget billions for total surveillance. 🇺🇸In America we buy & install the cameras ourselves.

If you're reading about Epstein and his friends today, could you also take time to read this document? I guarantee that someone at your university right now is a sexual harasser and/or abuser. Maybe you could stop them.

Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sexual harassment is a horrible impediment to academic research, shutting out talented researchers and slowing scientific progress. What can we do? I believe we're not helpless; we can improve our communities through practical actions. Take a look: github.com/maria-antoni...

i hope people could use this to push into the collective conscious why chat control in the EU is a bad idea.

Signal News & Tips@aboutsignal.com · 8mo ago

Signal massively downloaded amid rising tensions, number one in Denmark 🇩🇰 🇬🇱 People are looking for a safer alternative to WhatsApp 👉 aboutsignal.com/news/signal-... #signal #signalmessenger #signalapp #tech #privacy #whatsapp #denmark #greenland #news

this is irresponsible reporting. a neural network can't comment on why it produced CSAM. a neural network can't be held answerable for generating CSAM. accountability lies within the fascist ceo and the team willing to work for him www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X

Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements ...

reuters.com

Really impressive how much Vance is emulating Putin’s rise to power. Including following a bumbling Yeltsin and playing to the egos of oligarchs.

Kingston Reif@kingstonareif.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“If they [the UK and France] allow themselves to be overwhelmed with very destructive moral ideas, then you allow nuclear weapons to fall in the hands of people who can actually cause very, very serious harm to the US.”

FIFA, the org that selected Russia and Qatar in the past two world cups, and saudi arabia in the future... I think upholding human rights might actually work against you if you want to host the world cup

ACLU@aclu.org · 9mo ago

The World Cup is only months away and FIFA is failing to ensure players fans, and immigrant communities here will be protected from increasingly authoritarian ICE activity. FIFA must commit to enacting protections against racial profiling, arbitrary detention, and unlawful immigration enforcement.

"We're in a subprime mortage bubble, but not in a housing bubble"

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 9mo ago

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

Pop Base@popbase.tv · 9mo ago

Today is International Men’s Day.

¿que es la vida si no puedes estar con los que amas? necesito más que solo una guía, por lo unico que pido son días donde de te digo que soy todo tuya. deseo que el amor no doliera tanto, mi corazón canta lleno de miseria. el tiempo en mi mundo pasa más lento cuando no te tengo en mi vida.

Over 10,000 killed within three days. Pools of blood around a hospital so large they could be seen from space. An absolute nightmare.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”