Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

America Is Now an Ally of Russia

Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order.

theatlantic.com

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

My first Zig projects were ports of two Godot video extensions I'd written in C++. I tried it mostly out of curiosity. Wrote about what made me want to keep using it, and how gdzig helped: tercek.me/blog/godot-v...

a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.

Been learning Zig. My favorite part is that allocation is never hidden: if a function needs memory it takes an allocator as a parameter. Wrote up the six you'd actually use, with an interactive demo for each. tercek.me/blog/zig-all...

Thinking of giving agents access to my password manager for an experiment. Big risk, potential for irreversible damage. Should be fun!

I wasn’t expecting cache invalidation to be my favorite Astro 7 feature, but here we are. tercek.me/blog/caching...

AI didn't accelerate frontend innovation. It froze the defaults from three years ago and made them permanent. New post: tercek.me/blog/agents-...

Hot take: most committed AGENTS.md files are just docs we should have been writing for each other all along. The workflow stuff? That's personal. New post on the gap between how we handle agent config now vs. how we should. tercek.me/blog/agents-...

Scene hierarchies and inspector panels were designed to be navigated by human hands — clicking, dragging, parenting nodes. Coding agents operate purely in text. Curious whether that mismatch creates a slow gravitational pull toward code-first game engines over the next few years.

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 9mo ago

The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.

the feds saying theyll end their campaign of terror against an american city if their demands are met is the biggest domestic scandal of my lifetime

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of repression. This case isn’t isolated. It’s part of a broader effort to silence dissent and erode democracy. But despite the administration’s best efforts, we’re going to win.

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums. He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up. How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

meatcoding (it's like vibecoding but instead you use meat that can think)

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

These guys are claiming Kirk as a nazi. I'm curious, from the right's perspective, is this unacceptable criticism, of the type that's getting liberals fired from their jobs, or is this honoring his legacy?

Conejo Valley Antifascists@cvantifascists.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵 1/7 Nazis exploited Charlie Kirk’s murder as an opportunity to recruit in Huntington Beach on 9/13/25:

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social · last yr.

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

Disgraceful.

it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

picking up some things at hobby lobby

Are there any APIs similar to Next’s cacheTags/cachePath in other frameworks? Seems like it would be pretty trivial to add some CDN cache headers when building pages… I suppose cache busting is where it gets more complicated and CDN specific

“We got a reaction out of everyone therefore it was a worthwhile endeavor” is literally the logic of a subway masturbator

Peter Sterne@petersterne.com · last yr.

This does not inspire much confidence in the NYT. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

Just gave @deno.land a try for some new packages, and it’s fantastic. Everything I’ve been missing from Node, and so much simpler. My favorite part is that packages are still accessible in non-demo projects, and I don’t have to worry about compiling for compatibility–it’s just part of the platform

NEW from me co-pubbed w/Rolling Stone: The elite panic about Zohran Mamdani is about him being the first candidate to defeat the oligarchy & its master plan in a nationalized election. They fear they've lost power to determine political outcomes. It's also why Obama-era Dem elites are panicking.

Who’s Afraid Of Zohran Mamdani?

The mayoral candidate defeated the master plan for the first time ever — and that’s prompted an elite panic about who gets to control political outcomes.

levernews.com

Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.