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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

‘Rustle in Feilding’ – Cat mural by SwiftMantis at Manawatū Street Art Festival in Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand.

A hyper-realistic mural of a long-haired cat with green eyes painted by SwiftMantis in Feilding, New Zealand. The artwork, titled Rustle in Feilding, shows the cat’s paw extending beyond the frame, creating a 3D illusion against the white wall of a building. The detailed fur and vibrant colors were created for the Manawatū Street Art Festival in Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Just wanted to say that I will also declare Norway as my enemy if I don’t win the Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Jan @jangray.bsky.social · 2d

Today's work -- first w-i-p draft of a CX API for a CX Runtime for uniform services for accelerator CX libraries for RISC-V Composable Custom Extensions.

github.com/riscv/compos...

(lists.riscv.org/g/tech-compo...)

Intrigued? Please join RVI riscv.org/members/join/ and then join our task group.

composable-custom-extensions/src/api.adoc at main · riscv/composable-custom-extensions

This task group will propose ISA extension(s) and non-ISA hardware and software interop interfaces to enable routine reuse and composition of a subcategory of custom extensions called composable ex...

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Jan @jangray.bsky.social · 2d

“Memory interfaces … rely on parallel, bi-directional buses, with separate command and data … at different frequencies …

We believe on-package memory needs to undergo a similar revolution by adopting a unidirectional, serialized, point-to-point interconnect like UCIe, as proposed in this paper.”

arXiv cs.AR Hardware Architecture @csar-bot.bsky.social · 2d

Debendra Das Sharma, Swadesh Choudhary, Peter Onufryk, Rob Pelt: On-Package Memory with Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe): A Low Power, High Bandwidth, Low Latency and Low Cost Ap... https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06513 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06513 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.06513

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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 3d

Happy “Cal Professor gets a Nobel Prize” Day. The second in a week. We're gonna have to build a bigger on-campus reserved parking lot for our Nobel Laureates.

Also 🧵 "Six of nine Nobel Laureates so far this year have been American based, half of whom immigrated to the US."

Nobel Prize medal that has been Photoshopped to replace Nobel's head with the head of Oski, the mascot of the University of California, Berkeley. The wording on the medal has also been changed to "Oski Nobel."

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rsnikhil.bsky.social @rsnikhil.bsky.social · 5d

The Blair witch project

rsnikhil.bsky.social @rsnikhil.bsky.social · 5d

I am pleased to accept the suggestion of becoming an insultant. We shall exult in the insult.

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Signal @signal.org · 8d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Functional Architecture @funarch.bsky.social · 6d

FUNARCH2025 just one week away. Safe travels and see you in Singapore!
conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp...

FUNARCH 2025 - ICFP/SPLASH 2025

The Third ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional Software Architecture - FP in the Large “Functional Software Architecture” refers to methods of construction and structure of large and long-lived software...

conf.researchr.org

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 5d

Spot the difference!

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 8d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Yaron Minsky @yminsky.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to say that we're looking to hire someone to focus on OxCaml education! We're doing enough to change the language that we have a pretty big internal education task ahead of us, and we want to hire someone to focus on it!

Please share this with others!

www.janestreet.com/join-jane-st...

OxCaml Educator :: Jane Street

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.

www.janestreet.com

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rsnikhil.bsky.social @rsnikhil.bsky.social · 7d

Today is the anniversary of the launch of #Sputnik (1957), the first artificial Earth satellite.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1

Sputnik 1 - Wikipedia

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rsnikhil.bsky.social @rsnikhil.bsky.social · 8d

ATONE's etymology is literally AT ONE.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a...

Definition of ATONE

to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome —usually + for; to make reparation or supply satisfaction for : expiate —used in the passive voice wit...

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 11d

In the heart of Seoul, a ribbon of water now threads through where an expanse of asphalt once stood. The Cheonggyecheon Stream restoration, which replaced a major elevated motorway with an ecological and recreational corridor, has become a powerful case study in placemaking and traffic evaporation.🧵

Nighttime photos of the Cheonggyecheon Stream in Downtown Seoul, a former motorway restored into a linear park with wide footpaths, terraced seating, accented lighting, and abundant greenery.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 9d

OOPSLA 2026 deadline is just a week away! Can you please help us get the word out by sharing? Thanks!
2026.splashcon.org/track/oopsla...

SPLASH 2026 - OOPSLA - SPLASH 2026

Welcome to the website of the SPLASH 2026 conference. We are working hard to fill the website with all related information. Please check back soon! In the meantime, please consider this overview of th...

2026.splashcon.org

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rsnikhil.bsky.social @rsnikhil.bsky.social · 10d

"For the first time in a major (#semiconductor) node transition, the cost per transistor will rise." #TSMC
www.eetimes.com/tsmc-price-h...

www.eetimes.com

rsnikhil.bsky.social @rsnikhil.bsky.social · 10d

I had to click through

rsnikhil.bsky.social @rsnikhil.bsky.social · 11d

Et tu, #YouTube? #Google www.bbc.com/news/article...

YouTube to pay $24.5m to settle Trump lawsuit over Capitol riot

The streaming giant is the last company to settle with the president after suspending his account in the wake of the 6 January attack in 2021.

www.bbc.com

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YosysHQ @yosyshq.com · 23d

We are hiring! Both technical and admin, please take a look at our jobs page!

www.yosyshq.com/jobs

#jobs #hire

Jobs

Employee Profile: Synthesis or Formal Verification Developer at YosysHQ You might know YosysHQ from our many Open Source EDA Projects. We are the maintainers of Yosys and the accompanying Open Source ...

www.yosyshq.com

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rsnikhil.bsky.social @rsnikhil.bsky.social · 11d

Jock Spock could grok no Rocq,
His pair could code no LEAN.
And so between them both, you see,
No theorem's proof was seen.

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Bruno Levy @brunolevy01.bsky.social · 19d

Teaching processor design at Telecom Nancy
Lesson 1: build your own risc-V processor at home using a FPGA
Course notes are here:
github.com/BrunoLevy/le...

Title slide: "adventures with FPGAs", with a composite background made of photos of FPGAs and peripherals

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kvarko @kvarko.bsky.social · 12d

גמר טוב

WordBuilder jumble puzzle from the newspaper’s puzzle page, with the letters E, T, N, A, O. “How many words of three or more letters, including plurals, can you make from the five letters, using each letter only once? No words beginning with a capital are allowed. There's at least one five-letter word. Good 13, Very Good 17, Excellent 21.”

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 14d

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents.

I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights.

sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

An image of Sian's letter to the Minister for Women and Equalities.

You can read the full text of her letter at:

https://www.sianberry.org.uk/publications/letter-regarding-statutory-guidance-from-the-equality-human-rights-commission/

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Firdose Moonda @firdosem.bsky.social · 19d

In South African cricket, that 2am phone call came from Quinton de Kock and was to express his desire to play international cricket again.

Now, he finds himself in the white-ball squads to Pakistan and could be in line for the next two World Cups.

www.espncricinfo.com/story/quinto...

De Kock is back on his own with 'no strings attached'

Head coach Shuki Conrad says de Kock's inclusion for the next two World Cups will depend largely on his form and fitness

www.espncricinfo.com

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