@tignotaro.bsky.social great show in Omaha and thanks for playing along with us. Just so you know, that Menards jingle was first written in 1972, was rearranged and re-recorded in 1982, and HAS NOT CHANGED SINCE

@mkennedy.codes wrt combining async/await and free threading -- I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility. Go and Erlang map their thread constructs onto a fixed number of OS threads, usually matching the core count. So you may not need any decorator saying "this is cpu bound"

@edzitron.com This will not surprise you journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The silicon gaze: A typology of biases and inequality in LLMs through the lens of place - Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham, 2026

This paper introduces the concept of the silicon gaze to explain how large language models (LLMs) reproduce and amplify long-standing spatial inequalities. Draw...

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The Trump/ICE method is akin to stochastic terrorism. You flood a city with untrained hotheads. You pump them up with white nationalist propaganda and tell them to escalate and kick ass. You also make clear you'll shield them from any legal accountability. You don't know specifically who is going...

Oldie, goodie:

On the Media@onthemedia.bsky.social · last yr.

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@pythonbytes.fm for your live recordings, do you happen to have an iCal url I can add to my calendar? I'm anti-YouTube-notify-bell (well really anti-most-app-notifications) but I still want to join one of the recordings.

@designthinking.lol Do you know that your RSS feed isn't being updated on your main site? Looks like the RSS feed was last updated Apr 25, 2025. % curl -s designthinking.lol/feed/ | grep lastBuild <lastBuildDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:42:43 +0000</lastBuildDate>

How often do I have to keep reposting this strip? #cloudflare

@brianokken.bsky.social you mentioned that your daughter got some bad chemistry advice from ChatGPT (and to her credit, called BS on it). You should check out the paper "ChatGPT is bullshit" [1]. [1] eprints.gla.ac.uk/327588/1/327...

You know it's bad when even Newsmax won't sign the press agreement www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

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I scored 15/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

😂

BREAKING. From a reliable source. MITRE support for the CVE program is due to expire tomorrow. The attached letter was sent out to CVE Board Members.

@samatkins.co Thanks for forking pylibyear, it solved some problems with libyear running on newer python versions. So I hate to be the one to mention this, but I think the author of the original Python project (Nasir Hussain) passed away back in May of 2021.

TIL that (at least some) filing cabinets have a big block of concrete at the back. It makes complete sense but I just never knew...

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

@ehorley.bsky.social @jjx.bsky.social Listened to PP046. on the topic of RFPs and getting IPv6 support in enterprise gear: Apparently one of the few phrases that can actually get through is "must work in the *absence of IPv4*" because "works on IPv6" isn't specific enough.

@meganhunt.bsky.social I see the effort to make Nebraska a winner take all state is back... I know you'll fight against it but is there anything I as a private citizen can do beyond keeping you elected?