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🏳️‍⚧️ rights are human rights. Data and software 💻❤️🔥. 🐍, 🦀, etc. Lives in 🇯🇵.

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Søren @sxren.social · Jun 12

Made by immigrants. by Mule Design

We are Christian. We are Muslim. We are Jewish. Atheist. Quaker. Puritan. Bolshevik. Socialist. Greek Orthodox. We came from Europe. Africa. Asia. South America. Mexico. And islands in the Pacific. So...

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 11h

🚨 OxF EUROPE-FRIENDLY TIME ALERT 🚨

On Monday, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined my Brown CS prof Michael Littman (and AI provost!) to talk AI in higher ed. Join us at 9a Pacific for what promises to be a lively and wide-ranging discussion!

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Join the Oxide Computer Company & Friends Discord Server!

The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 4522 members

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 1d

The videos are up from Git Merge: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I didn't attend, but was in town because of the first #jj-vcs conference, which was the day before. Those videos will be up at some point too.

Git Merge 2025 - YouTube

Git Merge is dedicated to amplifying new voices in the Git community and showcasing the most thought-provoking projects from developers, maintainers, and tea...

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 3d

Oooh People are so mad about Bad Bunny’s Halftime

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

Have you ever noticed that old clothes online sometimes look better than old clothes in your closet?

Why is that? 🧵

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Technische Universität München @tum.de · 3d

Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa on being awarded the #NobelPrize in #Chemistry! 👏 The honorary doctor of our university is honored for his research on #organometallic framework compounds: go.tum.de/479463

📷 A. Battenberg

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for TUM Honorary Doctor Kitagawa

Japanese materials scientist and TUM honorary doctor Prof. Susumu Kitagawa has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Søren @sxren.social · 3d

what bailey said

Bailey Townsend 🦀 @baileytownsend.dev · 3d

whew

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister clarifies her prayer request

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @baileytownsend.dev · 3d

whew

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister clarifies her prayer request

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 10d

Our SIGMOD paper with our friends at Tsinghua + @wesmckinney.com + @pateljm.bsky.social on creating a next generation open-source data file format is out. F3 is a future-proof file format avoids the mistakes of Parquet.
📄 Paper: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/...
📁 Code: github.com/future-file-...

F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future
SIGMOD 2025

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CMU Database Group @db.cs.cmu.edu · 5d

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Jordan Tigani (@jrdntgn.bsky.social) will present how @motherduck.com supports modern workloads with DuckLake. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...

[Future Data] DuckLake: Learning from Cloud Data Warehouses to Build a Robust "Lakehouse" - Carnegie Mellon Database Group

When building scalable data systems, it is easy to focus on the... Read More +

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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 8d

New blog post: Cancelling async #rustlang!

This is a written version of my talk at #RustConf 2025, where I talk about the joys and sorrows of future cancellations in Rust, with lessons from our work at @oxide.computer. Includes a video of the talk as well. Check it out!

Cancelling async Rust ꞏ sunshowers

Correctness in the face of cancellations: a written version of my talk at RustConf 2025.

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Sylvain Wallez @swallez.com · 7d

Nice writeup on the modernization (or more exactly rewrite) of a 10-year-old side project by my colleague and friend @beachape.com

lloydmeta @beachape.com · 7d

Ported an old Scala app to #Rust , now running it as a #lambda, wrote about it

beachape.com/blog/2025/10...

Porting InstaBeach to Rust: A 10-Year-Old Play App Goes Serverless

How I rewrote a decade-old Scala/Play application in Rust and deployed it to AWS Lambda to save money after the yen crashed.

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Søren @sxren.social · 3d

therianthropism

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16d

The US Army in 1945 also noted that fascistic political figures would seek to whip up animosity toward disfavored groups like Black people, religious minorities, and the foreign born, creating "convenient scapegoats" to rile up their followers. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 1

The first fascistic tactic to look out for is a hate campaign against a particular religious, racial, or ethnic group. Like, for example, let's say a candidate emerges who calls all people of one nationality "rapists" and "criminals," while promising to ban immigrants from only one religious group.

1. Pitting of religious, racial, and economic groups against one another in order to break down national unity is a device of the "divide and conquer" technique used by Hitler to gain power in Germany and in other countries. With slight variations, to suit local conditions, fascists everywhere have used this Hitler method. In many countries, anti-Semitism (hatred of Jews) is a dominant device of fascism. In the United States, native fascists have often been anti-Catholic, anti-Jew, anti-Negro, anti-Labor, anti-foreign-born. In South America, the native fascists use the same scapegoats except that they substitute anti-Protestantism for anti-Catholicism.
Interwoven with the "master race" theory of fascism is a well-planned "hate campaign" against minority races, religions, and other groups. To suit their particular needs and aims, fascists will use any one or a combination of such groups as a convenient scapegoat.

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Søren @sxren.social · 3d

❤️
have discovered several favorite authors by searching for books with the same editor

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 4d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 4d

as always, i'm impressed with rudy

he made good decisions before and is continuing to make good decisions now. that's why his project is one of the small handful of projects I have a recurring donation to

quoted this post here in the middle but the whole thread is good

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 4d

I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do until it was necessary.
It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6d

the best answer i got for this:

awaitsync on Threads writes: "Metrognome"

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 6d

Do not flirt with monsters lest you become a monster, and if you leer into the abyss, the abyss leers also at you.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 6d

It's okay for the abyss to stare back, but does it have to wink?

That's just unseemly.

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E. J. Swift @catamaroon.bsky.social · 6d

And so delighted to get a mention in @newscientist.com best science fiction books for October 2025 🐺

www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

The best new science fiction books of October 2025

Science fiction legend Ursula K. Le Guin is honoured with a new collection out this month, and sci-fi fans can also look forward to fiction from astronaut Chris Hadfield and award-winning authors Ken ...

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 8d

Slides for my #monktoberfest talk today, "Trust as Infrastructure" (video to come): speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/tr...

Trust as Infrastructure

Presentation that I gave at Monktoberfest 2025. Video to come.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9d

It’s honestly shocking to me that tech has effectively rolled over and accepted it now costs $100K to hire a foreign worker.

The degree of capitulation during his second presidency has been quite stunning.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9d

I’m tired of living in unprecedented times. Would love me some precedented times right about now.

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arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · 8d

Wenbo Pan, Jie Xu, Qiguang Chen, Junhao Dong, Libo Qin, Xinfeng Li, Haining Yu, Xiaohua Jia
Can LLMs Refuse Questions They Do Not Know? Measuring Knowledge-Aware Refusal in Factual Tasks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01782

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