This is the platonic ideal of the bluescreen. I am using a device. When it fails, I want to see a big sterile readout that says "the machine has failed. This is why." Not fucking "Google the error message to learn more :]" you fucking rats.

Tech does not exist outside the context of other things happening in the world, and neither do we

We desperately need to get away from arguments for the humanities that elevate them because of what they do for technology. The humanities should not be understood as service disciplines. They are an extension of us, and that is enough.

"The first madness was that we were born, that they stuffed a god into a bag of skin." (Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater) Why does this quote go so hard holy shit

Is there any information about the design of MARISA tries? It seems to be relatively well-known, as far as niche data structures go, but all I can find are wrappers around the C++ library for different languages, so it seems like nobody even reimplemented it natively? www.s-yata.jp/marisa-trie/...

New blog post: www.hmpcabral.com/2026/04/26/t...

if a position of authority can be misused in this way, that position of authority should not exist. It's clearly not enough to simply change who is in that position, no more than praying that the next king be better than the last.

Tapping the sign

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

the “combing through and finding weird little details that interest me” part of research is so crucial

"Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn."

Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

That's some real Bogdan shit

Durotriges Dig@durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A startling recreation of the North Bersted Iron Age warrior wearing his (not at all) ostentatious crested helmet The warrior's damaged vertebrae suggest that he wore this hat quite a lot in life © Artas Media 2019 📷 March 2026 at the #Novium Happy #FindsFriday

Did you want an unnecessarily detailed post about compiler optimisations? I got you covered www.hmpcabral.com/2026/03/20/t...

Getting a rug for the dining room has filled a hole in my soul I didn't even know was there

Is breaking down cardboard boxes a full time job with benefits, because I think I'd be pretty good at it

Is the Kremlin soft power machine working overtime lately or is it just me? Heated Rivalry, The Great, Ponies, Idiotka, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, The Wizard of the Kremlin. Hard to miss the theme here

Wrote a thing, because I don't know how to stop digging myself into holes www.hmpcabral.com/2026/02/25/t...

New (and first) blog post! It was (mostly) fun to write some JavaScript for the first time www.hmpcabral.com/2026/02/09/m...

Is using the Banach fixed point theorem while doing your tax returns normal, asking for a friend

The "actual leftist solidarity or Comintern cosplay" litmus test (Ukraine/Syria) never fails

bronze age collapser@myrrlyn.net · 7mo ago

from: this account “ukraine”

Who was going to tell me there was a statistical mechanics critique of totalitarianism

Actively getting brain damage from the amount of people ecstatic at the possibility of using LLMs to extract every last drop of "productivity" out of their time away from their desks. Some of you need to learn to sit with your thoughts and just exist in the world.

A zoomer complimented my outfit so nobody can tell me shit the rest of the day