as noted yesterday, Trump has now come around to treating an Iranian toll system covering the Strait of Hormuz as a given. Hard to overstate the level of strategic failure. US started the war purely as a war of choice and ends up dramatically empowering Iran and given the Iranian govt big wins.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6h ago

Reuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be ​unlikely to risk transit without paying."

Welp, that's a wrap. Buried Giant Studios has just finished its #GenCon2026 debut. What a wild ride it was. I hardly had time to post during the show, but I wanted to jot something down now. 🧵

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Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightly | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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this is a drum I will beat about Spider-Man any time the subject of his day job is raised: for nearly twenty years we've been saddled with "Peter's day job is Scientist" because comics writers haven't realized he's not a Tony Stark or Reed Richards regardless of how brilliant he might be

Mark O. Stack@markwwc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Spider-Man hasn't fully left the Daily Bugle behind because J. Jonah Jameson is one of the all-time support cast members, but Peter Parker has been removed from being a photojournalist for so long that I do really miss it as a flavor.

Man I hate this timeline. I don't even like EA, but private equity and Jared Kushner kill every good thing

Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterday

Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666

At the Ecuadorian Parade yesterday in NYC. Mamdani is down with the furries.

(Me learning about git config’s [includeIf hascomfig:…] header) I see “every config language grows to eventually include a shitty programming language” remains undefeated

New desired piece of Rust expressively: anonymous or semi-anonymous associated types. Want to implement a trait but don’t want the associated types to be explicitly named (because I want to be able to change them).

Hot take I think all the emphasis in chess’s formal rules on check/checkmate is silly. Just capture the king.

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

we're gonna start building DCs without, uh, let me check my notes here...it says "computers"?

George Pearkes@peark.es · yesterday

oh this is going to be fun lol *US DRAFTING BAN ON CHINA DATA CENTER COMPONENTS: REUTERS

i love this building that just got approved by the toronto government to start development thats an 11 story residential apartment building with retail space on the ground floor, with a buddhist temple on the very top

Lmao now that AI is writing code, the authored justification for python choosing to omit visibility controls is literally no longer true

Lucretiel@lucretiel.me · 2d ago

It’s even spelled out as an explicit style policy titled “we’re all adults here”

Okay so I finally watched the Wicker trailer and I really did not appreciate from the memes the extent to which the movie is LITERALLY about her fucking this wicker Skarsgård all the time and the town having to deal with it. I definitely thought that was just regular extra tumblr sexyman discourse…

Cleared out my corporate ./target directory today. More than half a TB in there.

The diversity of horizontal navigation in 2004

(explaining electoralism to a tankie) ok so imagine you’re a soviet soldier. you’ve already got the hat and the illiteracy, awesome. now imagine it’s early 1942 and you’re in a fighting retreat towards stalingrad and comrade general keeps saying “this is the most important battle of our lives”

Lol he probably got them as bar mitzvah/wedding presents. This is a total non-issue.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 3d ago

well that's going to complicate things, but it gives him a really easy PR win with the base

WAD, wontfix, ticket closed

COINTREAUPRO@strings.bsky.social · 4d ago

So… they’re working

type Null = Option<!>; const null: Null = None; type bool = Option<Null>; const true: bool= Some(null); const false: bool = None;

In Mario Kart: Double Dash, shadows in the environment do not follow any kind of lighting logic and appear to have been placed solely based on "vibe". This results in shadows being cast in nearly every possible direction at the same time.

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

it’s basically the same dynamic as cops, everyone who isn’t already a complete shithead is immediately hazed to the point that they either become one or quit

Foxbat?@foxbat.gay · 4d ago

It's also kinda a reverse nazi bar situation. Potential members who are just kids who've been raised conservative show up to a few meetings and any of them with remotely functioning senses of decency bounce because they were not prepared for shit like "marital rape isn't real" to openly talked about

On August 1, 2003, Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe founded the MySpace social network. MySpace popularity skyrocketed, and by February 2004, the network had acquired one million users. Tom's MySpace profile in 2005

“What kind of man builds a machine to kill a girl? No he did not use his hands, Like a smart man, he used a tool; But just the same! Can you question who's to blame?”

Nash@radiodeadair.com · 4d ago

If I make a Kill All The Kids In The Park Machine and push the button that kills all the kids in the park, then I killed all the kids in the park. This is really cut-and-dried established law. What the hell are you on about?

Me, literally homeless: “but what if someone else with less upper body strength needs the support system more than I do” Partners, aghast that I just loaded 150lbs of moving baggage into a Lyft XL by myself: “what the fuck is wrong with you”

This month marks the tenth anniversary of Hollandspiele, which started taking orders for a reprint of Brian Train's The Scheldt Campaign on August 16, 2016. We have in that time released 122 games, expansions, and freebies - 64 of them my own designs. What a beautiful gift this life & work is.

Fucking prophetic line

I have never in my life seen such a systematic effort to cherrypick and abuse allegedly scientific results as in the press and social media coverage of LLM studies. people saw 22 year old maniacs on twitter bragging about 100 PRs a day and thought “let’s be that stupid in the opposite direction”