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André Arko @indirect.io · 10h

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...

The RubyGems “security incident”

Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. Fir...

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Coda @codahale.com · 10h

Tired: Soros-funded protester

Wired: antifa uruk-hai

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Coda @codahale.com · 13h

me, having catastrophically fucked up installing the car seat four times in a row: I understand it now

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Coda @codahale.com · 21h

Found a bobcat

A zoom photo of a bobcat crossing a suburban road.

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Coda @codahale.com · 1d

I can’t believe they caught Georg Antifa hiding under the floorboards of Kenny & Zuke’s

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Coda @codahale.com · 1d

There are also sparse Merkle trees (e.g. key transparency schemes) which work like prefix trees and have heights proportional to the tree size vs hash size

Coda @codahale.com · 2d

War is hell

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 2d

Noem and influencers on roof of ICE facility in Portland, ostensibly looking at a very calm city block on a hot Tuesday afternoon….

Coda @codahale.com · 2d

Ok, now on a scale of 1 to 10 how likely are you to recommend UPS WEBSITE to a friend or family member?

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Coda @codahale.com · 3d

Oh cool, so our choices of brain-warping text-based social media companies are a) Nazi Bar b) Nazi Bar Simulacrum c) HOA Confederacy or d) Vibe Cop Riot

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Coda @codahale.com · 3d

Found an elk:

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André Arko @indirect.io · 4d

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

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Coda @codahale.com · 6d

Everybody wanna have a big parasocial following validating their existence but don’t nobody wanna get captured by their audience

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Coda @codahale.com · 6d

Poster’s madness comes for us all, I guess

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Coda @codahale.com · 6d

me in the preschool parking lot: haha yeah, it’s about how our anticipation of our mortality is the defining characteristic of humanity and kind of a unifying principle, sort of a neo-Kantian existentialism I guess, yeah, the screaming is loud, thanks

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Coda @codahale.com · 7d

I’m remembering back when Bluesky first really got going and all the folks I know with T&S backgrounds were trying to convince the Bluesky devs not to become the public face of T&S issues because that was just gonna be a big disaster and uh

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Dorian Lord Zedd @zeddrick.bio · 8d

University of Washington - Piece of shit disrupts Psych 210 (The Diversity of Human Sexuality) throwing up nazi salutes, yelling Heil Hitler, and calling everyone “retarded degenerates” and “fags"

The professor, Dr. Nicole McNichols, and her class
👏DO
👏NOT
👏PLAY
👏THAT
👏GAME

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Coda @codahale.com · 7d

HEALTH needs to release this album already because I’m driving around town listening to the two pre-released tracks on repeat like a fuckin maniac

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Coda @codahale.com · 8d

Hey, I’ve got that one too!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8d

if there's one sentence I could bang into the heads of all the Kleins, Yggys, etc desperately searching for the perfect policy appeasement, it's this one: "They might reason that this is not a problem that can be addressed by policy concessions because policy is not what is causing it."

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 9d

extremely well put

An actual pragmatist would evaluate and change course. Someone who understood public opinion might notice that anti-immigrant sentiment responds to media coverage, not objective reality. They might reason that this is not a problem that can be addressed by policy concessions because policy is not what is causing it. They might even consider offering a different narrative and seeing whether that makes a dent. A truly daring politician might consider telling the British public the truth: that they are being lied to by the right-wing press about the cause of the country's problems, and that Reform is capitalising on this for political gain.

The government does not seem inclined to do any of this. Despite understanding themselves as critical thinkers, reactionary centrists are conformists at heart. And they are so unmoored in our current age because, increasingly, there is no social consensus for them to conform to. Affluent countries the world over are balkanising into fascist and anti-fascist factions. One must simply pick a side. There is no longer such a thing as “British public opinion” (if there ever was). Rather, half the country supports socially illiberal parties and half supports (broadly speaking) liberal ones, similar to the split in the Brexit referendum. If we follow international trends, the values of these two sides will only grow more irreconcilable. Starmer is—though you would never guess it—the captain of the liberal team. His job is not to find consensus, but to hold his own coalition together.

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Coda @codahale.com · 8d

I Saw Satan Fall Like Share Prices

Coda @codahale.com · 8d

The Antichrist was AI regulation

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 9d

I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]

You don’t have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.

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roland @roooooland.bsky.social · 9d

how *would* you explain this. "imagine if the only company making serious investments in JavaScript was, like, Mailchimp, and the language's only killer app/framework was written by JK Rowling, whose own business was utterly insignificant"

Eric @edavis.dev · 9d

is there a good explainer out there for the Ruby Central stuff for somebody not very familiar with the ecosystem?

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Coda @codahale.com · 9d

I’ve got a Withings cuff which averages three measurements that I use every morning for a baseline and it’s fucking wild how much variance there is when I get my BP measured elsewhere. Even places which should know better, like doctors’ offices.

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Coda @codahale.com · 9d

Well that’s pretty fucked up

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