Femi Agbabiaka
@yangwenlisennui.bsky.social
Incredible
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Incredible
Is there any relationship between Rust and Racket boxes?
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Is there any relationship between Rust and Racket boxes?
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the worst people alive are now convinced they're geniuses, and recognition and admiration are just one more prompt away, if only people would listen and agree
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
the worst people alive are now convinced they're geniuses, and recognition and admiration are just one more prompt away, if only people would listen and agree
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
peptides instead of elixirs, but yeah
This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.
![At least five Tang dynasty (618–907) emperors were incapacitated and killed by immortality elixirs. In historic recurrences, the newly enthroned emperor understandably executed the Daoist alchemists whose elixirs had killed his predecessor, and then subsequently came to believe in other charlatans enough to consume their poisonous elixirs.
Emperor Xianzong (r. 805–820) indirectly lost his life due to elixir poisoning. The Xu Tongzhi (Supplement to the Historical Collections) says, "Deluded by the sayings of the alchemists, [Xianzong] ingested gold elixirs and his behaviour became very abnormal. He was easily offended by those officials whom he daily met, and thus the prisons were left with little vacant space." In response, an official wrote an 819 memorial to the throne that said:
Of late years, however, (the capital) has been overrun by a host of pharmacists and alchemists ... recommending one another right and left with ever wilder and more extravagant claims. Now if there really were immortals, and scholars possessing the Tao, would they not conceal their names and hide themselves in mountain recesses far from the ken of man? ... The medicines of the sages of old were meant to cure bodily illnesses, and were not meant to be taken constantly like food. How much less so these metallic and mineral substances which are full of burning poison! ... Of old, as the Li Chi says, when the prince took physic, his minister tasted it first, and when a parent was sick, his son did likewise. Ministers and sons are in the same position. I humbly pray that all those persons who have elixirs made from transformed metals and minerals, and also those who recommend them, may be compelled to consume (their own elixirs) first for the space of one year. Such an investigation will distinguish truth from falsehood, and automatically clarify the matter by experiment.
After the emperor rejected this appeal, the palace eunuchs Wang Shoucheng and Chen Hongzhi 陳弘志 assassinated him in 820.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d2snfeymcblmvoaxvgfs7i6/bafkreicj4uaxsxrzzrod3yxa3uihy7odewkf4jpynd6mplgxek23u2rx5q@jpeg)
![When Xianzong's son and successor Emperor Muzong (r. 820–824) came to the throne, he executed the alchemists who had poisoned his father, but later began to take immortality elixirs himself. An official wrote Muzong an 823 memorial that warned:
Medicines are for use against illnesses, and should not be taken as food. ... Even when one is ill medicines must be used with great circumspection; how much more so when one is not ill. If this is true for the common people how much more so will it be for the emperor! Your imperial predecessor believed the nonsense of the alchemists and thus became ill; this your majesty already knows only too well. How could your majesty still repeat the same mistake?[27]
The emperor appreciated this reasoning but soon afterwards fell ill and died from poisoning. Palace eunuchs supposedly used poisonous elixirs to assassinate Muzong's young successor Emperor Jingzong (r. 824–827).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4d2snfeymcblmvoaxvgfs7i6/bafkreieltlwjzprlfasqdo67fgciczehab5vw7qrdojwhixyyet6f33yc4@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
peptides instead of elixirs, but yeah
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One more week to the `feedchicago` Logic for Programmers sale! Get the book for 50% off, and all royalties will be donated to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. We're already at 1600, let's try to hit 2000!
leanpub.com/logic/c/feed...
leanpub.com/logic/c/feed...
Logic for Programmers
The mathematics that will help you in your everyday programming.
leanpub.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
One more week to the `feedchicago` Logic for Programmers sale! Get the book for 50% off, and all royalties will be donated to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. We're already at 1600, let's try to hit 2000!
leanpub.com/logic/c/feed...
leanpub.com/logic/c/feed...
One of my greatest convictions and greatest challenges in the tech industry is to avoid ego traps. This industry encourages cultivation of one’s ego by tying traits like self-worth and one’s intelligence to work output. Egotistic mindsets are infectious. But ego kills growth.
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
One of my greatest convictions and greatest challenges in the tech industry is to avoid ego traps. This industry encourages cultivation of one’s ego by tying traits like self-worth and one’s intelligence to work output. Egotistic mindsets are infectious. But ego kills growth.
Told LBJ to go fuck himself to his face before the Civil Rights Act passed, the first one I knew of referring to the U.S. as the Fourth Reich. RIP
"There is a role for every person in revolution if he is revolutionary."
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Told LBJ to go fuck himself to his face before the Civil Rights Act passed, the first one I knew of referring to the U.S. as the Fourth Reich. RIP
I got aggressively addicted to writing battle automation for MUDs I was playing.
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I got aggressively addicted to writing battle automation for MUDs I was playing.
Reposted by Femi Agbabiaka
Well well well, multi-core threads have arrived in #racket
blog.racket-lang.org/2025/11/para...
#lisp #scheme #programming
blog.racket-lang.org/2025/11/para...
#lisp #scheme #programming
Parallel Threads in Racket v9.0
posted by Matthew Flatt, Ryan Culpepper, Robby Findler, Gustavo Massaccesi, and Sam Tobin-Hochstadt With the version 9.0 release, Racket includes support for shared-memory threads that can take advan...
blog.racket-lang.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Well well well, multi-core threads have arrived in #racket
blog.racket-lang.org/2025/11/para...
#lisp #scheme #programming
blog.racket-lang.org/2025/11/para...
#lisp #scheme #programming
crazy how good haskell's cffi is
November 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
crazy how good haskell's cffi is
Something negative that the 2016 campaign (or maybe even Obama?) and Twitter have left us is that USians stan politicians now. This results in predictably vibes based critiques or non-critiques that are completely incoherent from all sides.
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Something negative that the 2016 campaign (or maybe even Obama?) and Twitter have left us is that USians stan politicians now. This results in predictably vibes based critiques or non-critiques that are completely incoherent from all sides.
my hot take is that 99% of men who dump on their exes are losers. I’m willing to accept there are exceptions, but I have not met them yet
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
my hot take is that 99% of men who dump on their exes are losers. I’m willing to accept there are exceptions, but I have not met them yet
shit was never funny. idk how they got to pivot from the same 5 jokes about minorities to being liberal darlings but whatever
Also “South Park” humor has never been that funny to me. Keep it.
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
shit was never funny. idk how they got to pivot from the same 5 jokes about minorities to being liberal darlings but whatever
A corollary to the Feynman effect, for sure
@acollierastro.bsky.social
@acollierastro.bsky.social
Hunter S. Thompson was a good writer who was also an insane drug addict and generations of men in their 20s have destroyed their livers writing extremely boring pastiches as the result of incorrectly inferring some causal relationship there
just read a piece calling Nuzzi a "modern day political version of Hunter S. Thompson" and I think I need to log off
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
A corollary to the Feynman effect, for sure
@acollierastro.bsky.social
@acollierastro.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥
By the way, Jeff Bezos, you fucking pathetic coward: Zohran Mamdani got the pragmatic things he needed to get as a leader without ever submitting to the likes of MBS and disrespecting the memory of Khashoggi and every journalist in America.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🔥🔥🔥
😭😭😭
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
😭😭😭
ABSOLUTE MARTIAN MANHUNTER is.. really good wow.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
ABSOLUTE MARTIAN MANHUNTER is.. really good wow.
he’s still got it
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at GU Politics: "the struggle is not whether AI is good or bad. It's who controls it and who benefits from it."
#bernieatgu #aisystem #ai #berniesanders #geoffreyhinton #computerscience #gupolitics #gupoliticsforum #georgetown
#bernieatgu #aisystem #ai #berniesanders #geoffreyhinton #computerscience #gupolitics #gupoliticsforum #georgetown
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
he’s still got it
I might see sauron fall in my lifetime
November 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I might see sauron fall in my lifetime
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjIT...
the fallout from this latest american racist backlash will last decades
the fallout from this latest american racist backlash will last decades
ICE took my dad.
YouTube video by KASPER-!!
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjIT...
the fallout from this latest american racist backlash will last decades
the fallout from this latest american racist backlash will last decades
Crazy that they were about to get locked up a few years ago. Great that they still can be
It sucks an unreal quantity of ass knowing who these people are, having been to parties where you saw them pitch their company, and know—years in advance—that they are terrible, morally bankrupt people and who, despite years of fucking up and corruption, have still been rewarded immensely for it.
*KALSHI RAISES $1B AT $11B VALUATION: TECHCRUNCH
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Crazy that they were about to get locked up a few years ago. Great that they still can be
I'd like to talk to the A&R who is convincing all of these rappers that being hip-hop is a bad thing.
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'd like to talk to the A&R who is convincing all of these rappers that being hip-hop is a bad thing.
this is good news right?
VANCE SAYS ASKING AMERICANS FOR 'LITTLE BIT OF PATIENCE' ON PRICES
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
this is good news right?
I’m surprised it didn’t bring up the robopenis
If Musk is tweaking Grok this hard, who's going to invest in xAI?
Its real-time content gleaned from Twitter is the only edge it has in the LMArena. In any other usage category, xAI is irrelevant (so far).
Hard to believe that xAI is trying to raise $15bn at a $230bn valuation right now.
Its real-time content gleaned from Twitter is the only edge it has in the LMArena. In any other usage category, xAI is irrelevant (so far).
Hard to believe that xAI is trying to raise $15bn at a $230bn valuation right now.
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I’m surprised it didn’t bring up the robopenis
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"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...