Preskton
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architect at work. infra at hachyderm. board at nivenly. synths and gardens at home.
I post more at @[email protected], mostly about mastodon infra.
architect at work. infra at hachyderm. board at nivenly. synths and gardens at home.
I post more at @[email protected], mostly about mastodon infra.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
like "did it actually do anything?" fast.
uv. do ittttt.
uv. do ittttt.
Finally tried uv. It’s not just fast: it’s laughably fast.
Like, “this is what should run every kind of package management on a whole computer” kind of fast.
Like, “this is what should run every kind of package management on a whole computer” kind of fast.
December 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
like "did it actually do anything?" fast.
uv. do ittttt.
uv. do ittttt.
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"Strong Floor, No Ceiling" is just dressed up magical realism / prosperity gospel.
The strong floor is literally funded by the ceiling. This is the function of a society: it blunts the tails of the distribution, preventing good and bad luck from snowballing.
We gonna need a ceiling, sorry.
The strong floor is literally funded by the ceiling. This is the function of a society: it blunts the tails of the distribution, preventing good and bad luck from snowballing.
We gonna need a ceiling, sorry.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Strong Floor, No Ceiling" is just dressed up magical realism / prosperity gospel.
The strong floor is literally funded by the ceiling. This is the function of a society: it blunts the tails of the distribution, preventing good and bad luck from snowballing.
We gonna need a ceiling, sorry.
The strong floor is literally funded by the ceiling. This is the function of a society: it blunts the tails of the distribution, preventing good and bad luck from snowballing.
We gonna need a ceiling, sorry.
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Strong floor, no ceiling!
Big windows, small walls!
Narrow bedrooms, wide baths!
No couch, all ottomans!
Fluffy carpet, smooth tiles!
Big windows, small walls!
Narrow bedrooms, wide baths!
No couch, all ottomans!
Fluffy carpet, smooth tiles!
November 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Strong floor, no ceiling!
Big windows, small walls!
Narrow bedrooms, wide baths!
No couch, all ottomans!
Fluffy carpet, smooth tiles!
Big windows, small walls!
Narrow bedrooms, wide baths!
No couch, all ottomans!
Fluffy carpet, smooth tiles!
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so we're literally living the plot of Wag the Dog
November 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
so we're literally living the plot of Wag the Dog
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Here's how silly US racism is.
Black people in California vote consistently for us to to be taxed more, because we are a rich state. We also vote to send that money to West Virginia to help them.
But white people in WV vote consistently to cancel the very programs and assistance they depend on.🤦🏿♂️
Black people in California vote consistently for us to to be taxed more, because we are a rich state. We also vote to send that money to West Virginia to help them.
But white people in WV vote consistently to cancel the very programs and assistance they depend on.🤦🏿♂️
‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Here's how silly US racism is.
Black people in California vote consistently for us to to be taxed more, because we are a rich state. We also vote to send that money to West Virginia to help them.
But white people in WV vote consistently to cancel the very programs and assistance they depend on.🤦🏿♂️
Black people in California vote consistently for us to to be taxed more, because we are a rich state. We also vote to send that money to West Virginia to help them.
But white people in WV vote consistently to cancel the very programs and assistance they depend on.🤦🏿♂️
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This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
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This.
Some of y'all still don't understand what I mean when I talk about pelicans flying close to the water.
Pelicans use the ground effect to fly close to the water with low effort. Let's say, 36cm above the waves.🤡
Sometimes they even dip below that altitude! But they return to it.
Some of y'all still don't understand what I mean when I talk about pelicans flying close to the water.
Pelicans use the ground effect to fly close to the water with low effort. Let's say, 36cm above the waves.🤡
Sometimes they even dip below that altitude! But they return to it.
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This.
Some of y'all still don't understand what I mean when I talk about pelicans flying close to the water.
Pelicans use the ground effect to fly close to the water with low effort. Let's say, 36cm above the waves.🤡
Sometimes they even dip below that altitude! But they return to it.
Some of y'all still don't understand what I mean when I talk about pelicans flying close to the water.
Pelicans use the ground effect to fly close to the water with low effort. Let's say, 36cm above the waves.🤡
Sometimes they even dip below that altitude! But they return to it.
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I can't believe we're starting a new oil war in the decade of solar and EVs. We really are stuck in the 1950s, unable to evolve to tomorrow.
It would be funny if real people weren't going to be hurt over this.
All war is bad. Civilians get hurt the most. Mostly children.
It would be funny if real people weren't going to be hurt over this.
All war is bad. Civilians get hurt the most. Mostly children.
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I can't believe we're starting a new oil war in the decade of solar and EVs. We really are stuck in the 1950s, unable to evolve to tomorrow.
It would be funny if real people weren't going to be hurt over this.
All war is bad. Civilians get hurt the most. Mostly children.
It would be funny if real people weren't going to be hurt over this.
All war is bad. Civilians get hurt the most. Mostly children.
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If you can understand why a Hispanic ICE agent with a deportation quota will not save you....
Then you can understand why a Black cop with an arrest quota, cannot save you either.
The racism is in the system, not the individual.
The individual is just a part, working within that system.
Then you can understand why a Black cop with an arrest quota, cannot save you either.
The racism is in the system, not the individual.
The individual is just a part, working within that system.
If you try to push on the individual responsibility And interpersonal racism of the cop?
Then you will end up hiring a bunch of Black cops... who will work within the same racist system, and the outcome will not change.🤷🏿♂️
Eg, a city going from 400 to 800 cops, but 200 of the new cops are Black.🤦🏿♂️
Then you will end up hiring a bunch of Black cops... who will work within the same racist system, and the outcome will not change.🤷🏿♂️
Eg, a city going from 400 to 800 cops, but 200 of the new cops are Black.🤦🏿♂️
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you can understand why a Hispanic ICE agent with a deportation quota will not save you....
Then you can understand why a Black cop with an arrest quota, cannot save you either.
The racism is in the system, not the individual.
The individual is just a part, working within that system.
Then you can understand why a Black cop with an arrest quota, cannot save you either.
The racism is in the system, not the individual.
The individual is just a part, working within that system.
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Ah forgot to ask y'all the provocative key question:
If more cops don't even reduce the murder rate in the most violent, highest homicide, most dangerous neighborhoods in Baltimore and Chicago...
Then...
What are we paying *billions* of dollars for? 🤡
If more cops don't even reduce the murder rate in the most violent, highest homicide, most dangerous neighborhoods in Baltimore and Chicago...
Then...
What are we paying *billions* of dollars for? 🤡
I've shared on here before, why more cops do not and cannot reduce the murder rate in US cities.
I've shared that criminal justice reformers have known what does work, and has worked in dozens of US cities. It's now driving record low homicide in Chicago and Baltimore♥️🕊️
Now let's talk cop killings
I've shared that criminal justice reformers have known what does work, and has worked in dozens of US cities. It's now driving record low homicide in Chicago and Baltimore♥️🕊️
Now let's talk cop killings
Baltimore Streets
YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
m.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Ah forgot to ask y'all the provocative key question:
If more cops don't even reduce the murder rate in the most violent, highest homicide, most dangerous neighborhoods in Baltimore and Chicago...
Then...
What are we paying *billions* of dollars for? 🤡
If more cops don't even reduce the murder rate in the most violent, highest homicide, most dangerous neighborhoods in Baltimore and Chicago...
Then...
What are we paying *billions* of dollars for? 🤡
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Chupacabra:
This is just somebody's ugly dog.
This is just somebody's ugly dog.
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Chupacabra:
This is just somebody's ugly dog.
This is just somebody's ugly dog.
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Excited to announce that I’ll be giving the keynote at FOSS Backstage in Berlin in March!
26.foss-backstage.de/aeva-black-t...
26.foss-backstage.de/aeva-black-t...
Æva Black to keynote at FOSS Backstage 2026
We are excited to share that Æva Black will be the keynote speaker for next year's edition.
26.foss-backstage.de
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Excited to announce that I’ll be giving the keynote at FOSS Backstage in Berlin in March!
26.foss-backstage.de/aeva-black-t...
26.foss-backstage.de/aeva-black-t...
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Some of y'all:
Stop comparing ICE treatment of immigrants to police treatment of Black people!
Me:
No.
People immediately understand how ICE deportation quotas cause immediate and systemic harm to immigrant populations, and shred families apart.
But pretend not to understand police arrest quotas?
Stop comparing ICE treatment of immigrants to police treatment of Black people!
Me:
No.
People immediately understand how ICE deportation quotas cause immediate and systemic harm to immigrant populations, and shred families apart.
But pretend not to understand police arrest quotas?
Classic video. I will never stop sharing this.
Do you think Black people want this cop running around their city with a ticket quota and an arrest quota, ruining the lives of Black people for no reason?
Or trained and working as a detective, solving homicides, SAs, and returning stolen property?
Do you think Black people want this cop running around their city with a ticket quota and an arrest quota, ruining the lives of Black people for no reason?
Or trained and working as a detective, solving homicides, SAs, and returning stolen property?
Cop Fired for Speaking Out Against Ticket and Arrest Quotas
YouTube video by ReasonTV
m.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Some of y'all:
Stop comparing ICE treatment of immigrants to police treatment of Black people!
Me:
No.
People immediately understand how ICE deportation quotas cause immediate and systemic harm to immigrant populations, and shred families apart.
But pretend not to understand police arrest quotas?
Stop comparing ICE treatment of immigrants to police treatment of Black people!
Me:
No.
People immediately understand how ICE deportation quotas cause immediate and systemic harm to immigrant populations, and shred families apart.
But pretend not to understand police arrest quotas?
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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You want to harness economic populism? Then get off your ass and do the difficult work of building solidarity across and through difference. That’s what makes a coalition; just look at who’s winning.
Asking people to abstract their identity away into some aggregate is a failure mode.
Wake up.
/9
Asking people to abstract their identity away into some aggregate is a failure mode.
Wake up.
/9
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
You want to harness economic populism? Then get off your ass and do the difficult work of building solidarity across and through difference. That’s what makes a coalition; just look at who’s winning.
Asking people to abstract their identity away into some aggregate is a failure mode.
Wake up.
/9
Asking people to abstract their identity away into some aggregate is a failure mode.
Wake up.
/9
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And we're live with Firebot Friday! Join us as we release the beta for the brand new and MASSIVE @firebot.app 5.65 update, talk about some of the new features and improvements, and more! Join us!
twitch.tv/zunderscore
twitch.tv/zunderscore
zunderscore - Twitch
It's Firebot Friday! Let's talk about the new 5.65 update and RELEASE THE BETA!
twitch.tv
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
And we're live with Firebot Friday! Join us as we release the beta for the brand new and MASSIVE @firebot.app 5.65 update, talk about some of the new features and improvements, and more! Join us!
twitch.tv/zunderscore
twitch.tv/zunderscore
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Blacksky Algorithms & rsky, 1st merch drop. soon come
@blackskyweb.xyz
@blackskyweb.xyz
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Blacksky Algorithms & rsky, 1st merch drop. soon come
@blackskyweb.xyz
@blackskyweb.xyz
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Zork I, II, and III are now open source. Microsoft has released the classic Infocom text adventures under the MIT license! opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
opensource.microsoft.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Zork I, II, and III are now open source. Microsoft has released the classic Infocom text adventures under the MIT license! opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
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They said “science fair-style” and we took it seriously.
See you at the Chicago Waldorf School for the 40th Ward Dems candidate fair! ☺️
See you at the Chicago Waldorf School for the 40th Ward Dems candidate fair! ☺️
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
They said “science fair-style” and we took it seriously.
See you at the Chicago Waldorf School for the 40th Ward Dems candidate fair! ☺️
See you at the Chicago Waldorf School for the 40th Ward Dems candidate fair! ☺️
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🤔What the hell is International Men's Day? Every day is my day.
It's a day when men can talk about "the issues that face us?" I could do that yesterday. I will do that tomorrow. None of y'all can stop me.
When I talk about men's mental health y'all tell me to shut up. But now we have a day for it?
It's a day when men can talk about "the issues that face us?" I could do that yesterday. I will do that tomorrow. None of y'all can stop me.
When I talk about men's mental health y'all tell me to shut up. But now we have a day for it?
a man in a green hoodie is being interviewed by a woman in a dressing room .
Alt: Russell Westbrook asks "What?!" And says "Y'all n-words trippin'"
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🤔What the hell is International Men's Day? Every day is my day.
It's a day when men can talk about "the issues that face us?" I could do that yesterday. I will do that tomorrow. None of y'all can stop me.
When I talk about men's mental health y'all tell me to shut up. But now we have a day for it?
It's a day when men can talk about "the issues that face us?" I could do that yesterday. I will do that tomorrow. None of y'all can stop me.
When I talk about men's mental health y'all tell me to shut up. But now we have a day for it?
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he's going to "welcome" them the same way he welcomed the South Korean workers who were setting up the electric vehicle factory.
Trump: "You can't come in, open up a massive computer chip factory…and think you're going to hire people off an unemployment line to run it. They're going to have to bring thousands of people with them, and I'm going to welcome those people."
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
he's going to "welcome" them the same way he welcomed the South Korean workers who were setting up the electric vehicle factory.
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maybe this really is the year of Linux on the desktop
Microsoft warns Windows 11 agentic OS may face Xpia malware risks
Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11, but issued a security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.
www.windowscentral.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
maybe this really is the year of Linux on the desktop