I tried gas town for a couple weeks. In some ways it was impressive: since everything was agent-based, it could could power through any problem, which was more impressive a few months ago. But… 🧵

/me at the Computer History Museum, looking at dead computers "VAX'd?"

Downplay a book or movie: “Something Somewhere Occasionally”

Jake_Vig@jakevig.bsky.social · 6d ago

Downplay a book or movie: "Reasonable Expectations"

This is a really excellent benchmark, pointing to some serious missing capabilities in coding agents: arxiv.org/abs/2603.247.... They don't write code with an eye towards maintenance!

SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks

Software development is iterative, yet agentic coding benchmarks overwhelmingly evaluate single-shot solutions against complete specifications. Code can pass the test suite but become progressively ha...

arxiv.org

IF YOU CAN ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE WARNER BROS YOU CAN MAKE A SECOND D&D MOVIE

‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Sequel Was Written but May Never Be Filmed Due to ‘Financial Reasons’

The "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" writers were hired to write a sequel, but it may never be filmed due to "financial reasons."

variety.com

It’s counter-intuitive outside the software world, but a bug that happens all the time is vastly preferred to a bug that happens SOME of the time. The difference is ease of fixing: a sporadic bug is way harder to identify and locate.

Stephen G@jovianmoon.io · 2w ago

I hate when restarting fixes a bug that you think lives in code

I have no interest in Zig as a tech, so I've largely tried to ignore it. My one extended interaction with Andrew was on Lobste.rs, where we were talking about gift-giving and social expectations of reciprocity. He was either unaware of it, pretending to be, or unwilling to concede a lost point. 🧵

Andrew Lilley Brinker@alilleybrinker.com · 2w ago

Memory safety is good, and I will never argue against a language pursuing it. That said, Andrew going for a memory safety model with a substantial runtime cost, seemingly out of social animus toward Rust, is extraordinarily petty.

I’m calling it now. LLMs will cause cursive to return. How it’ll go: As we demand students show they’re not cheating with AI, hand-written tests and assignments will make a comeback. Because print is slower than cursive, we will start teaching it to kids again.

Whoaaaa We're halfway there Whoa-oh! Now get halfway there! Halfway there, we'll make it I swear Whoa-oh! Now go halfway there! -Jon Bon Zeno

While this is true in a certain sense, I think “it is what it is” is frequently deployed as a call for acceptance, not just a vapid tautology. I don’t think it’s very effective at that, since all clichés are thought-terminating instead of -inducing, but imo, it’s no worse than the others.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3w ago

"it is what it is" is undoubtedly the GOAT thought terminating cliché. nothing else even comes close. it just is what it is

You could only think Little Italy in 2026 is a bastion of authentic Italian immigrant culture if you don’t live in New York and haven’t for at least 20 years, which explains why Mamdani’s biggest haters believe it

"Do you know what their goal is? Well, Elvis did! Artificial intelligence! Robots! They'd like that, wouldn't they? Yes, sir! Sleep! Sleep!" youtu.be/EOzc0_bfSvc?...

Puzzling Evidence - True Stories (1986)

YouTube video by Signia

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W.E.D.em Boyz@leftistwonk.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm not sure there is a more cooked brain on the planet than Joe Rogan's

"Your efforts to define them, and me, outside the Jewish community, are dangerously short-sighted. Jews are not made safer by proscribing a particular vision of Israel as the price of full belonging." forward.com/opinion/8355...

My hopes for the rabbi who envisions my defeat — and for a better Jewish future

Elliot Cosgrove says I’m doomed politically as a Jew who seeks a new path for Israel. I invite him to join me in reckoning with our shared spiritual challenge.

forward.com

IIRC, Stephenson hasn't tried to be funny before or since. Snow Crash really is an outlier when you look at his work after.

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · last mo.

Opening up a judgement free zone but what's the smallest thing that discouraged you from entering into a vast cultural landscape that others have found vastly rewarding. Mine was discovering that the hero/protagonist of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash was called Hiro Protagonist.

I think @bsky.app would do very well to "acquire" @foryou.club and make it the default. Would solve 90% of the complaints people have about bluesky. Discover is still unusable to me.

zeu@zeu.dev · last mo.

ladies and gentlemen, we got one

🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ajahn Brahm 🪷 🔗 Go deeper: buddhistdoor.net #Buddhism #Buddha #Dhamma #Theravada #Kindness #Gratitude #Awakening #Mindfulness #Meditation #Spirituality

Submerged stories allowing fascist supremacy to stay popular even when its outcomes are disreputable, submerged stories that allow radical systemic change to stay disreputable even when that is what is both desired and needed, and how to tell the difference. www.the-reframe.com/the-submerge...

The Submerged Story

Want to win the story game? First, know whose story you're really telling.

the-reframe.com

Happy 100th, Mel Brooks.

it won’t let them leave the room until they present three compelling alternative theories

Untitled Goose Gains

austin@aparker.io · last mo.

new insane SoftBank deck dropped group.softbank/media/Projec...

Newly published tests show a Chromium/Blink engine running on iOS is 28.6% faster than Safari in Speedometer page responsiveness tests. 🏎️💨📱⚡️ This is a clear example of the costs Apple imposes on consumers and businesses, costs created by its 17-year ban on competing browser engines. 🧵👇️ (1/8)

28% Faster: The Blink Prototype That Shows Why Apple's iOS Browser Engine Ban Must End - Open Web Advocacy

open-web-advocacy.org

"Far-right extremism and the conflation of Jewish identity with Israel are the main drivers of antisemitism in Australia, the Jewish Council of Australia (JCA) says." www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

Conflation of Jewish identity with Israel driving antisemitism, Jewish Council says in submission to royal commission

Progressive Jewish group calls for more focus on the threat from the far right and the recognition of a diversity of views within the community

theguardian.com

“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013 www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Iain Banks: the final interview

Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .

theguardian.com

Nobody should play pre-2000s games without a CRT filter, because the pixel art was built with CRT in mind. Without a filter (or a real CRT), everything is brighter and more jagged than it was intended. Doubly so for official emulators (looking at you, Nintendo).

Sick Combos@sickcombos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i've seen too many good video game opinions today, time for some bad ones what is your take that will have you like this?

Damn, Widow's Bay going HARD towards the finale. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/m...

Meteor explodes over Massachusetts: New details on size, where it landed

NASA shared new details on the size and path of the meteor on Monday, upgrading the size of the object and revealing how far it flew before exploding.

nbcboston.com

The Brakrooms "Yeah, buddy!"

Loving the new Opus 4.8. It hasn't said "belt-and-suspenders" once all day 😆