fallynleaf
@fallynleaf.bsky.social
fan of Moby Dick, pro wrestling, and language learning
プロレスは諸行無常
プロレスは諸行無常
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I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class
December 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class
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Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵
"Memory Safety for Skeptics," published in the ACM Queue.
Arguing for why memory safety is worth pursuing, even amid competing priorities and limited budgets, and with or without Rust.
Arguing for why memory safety is worth pursuing, even amid competing priorities and limited budgets, and with or without Rust.
Memory Safety for Skeptics - ACM Queue
queue.acm.org
December 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵
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The US is at war with Venezuela.
No Congressional authorization, no public debate, no clearly stated goal, no casus belli, and a gradual ramp up rather than big opening, so many haven’t noticed (or deny it). But this attack removes the ambiguity.
US is at war with Venezuela. With no end in sight.
No Congressional authorization, no public debate, no clearly stated goal, no casus belli, and a gradual ramp up rather than big opening, so many haven’t noticed (or deny it). But this attack removes the ambiguity.
US is at war with Venezuela. With no end in sight.
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast | CNN Politics
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that...
www.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The US is at war with Venezuela.
No Congressional authorization, no public debate, no clearly stated goal, no casus belli, and a gradual ramp up rather than big opening, so many haven’t noticed (or deny it). But this attack removes the ambiguity.
US is at war with Venezuela. With no end in sight.
No Congressional authorization, no public debate, no clearly stated goal, no casus belli, and a gradual ramp up rather than big opening, so many haven’t noticed (or deny it). But this attack removes the ambiguity.
US is at war with Venezuela. With no end in sight.
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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
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I always try to emphasize this: in the big picture, the median liberal, aka the kind of person who donates to ActBlue, or is a campaign volunteer, or who makes up part of one of many of the legacy liberal organizations, is to the left of the median liberal think tanker or Congressman on Palestine.
The latter very feverishly thinks Israeli ultranationalism is just plainly good and that Palestinians should suffer under it for eternity and also that the US should for whatever reason underwrite this arrangement with its full soft and hard power
December 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I always try to emphasize this: in the big picture, the median liberal, aka the kind of person who donates to ActBlue, or is a campaign volunteer, or who makes up part of one of many of the legacy liberal organizations, is to the left of the median liberal think tanker or Congressman on Palestine.
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Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
December 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
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I have not been read this year's Yuletide fics because I've spent the last week or so feeling extremely antisocial but this one is fucking incredible archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Anonymous - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
December 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I have not been read this year's Yuletide fics because I've spent the last week or so feeling extremely antisocial but this one is fucking incredible archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
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I teach Talal Asad’s surgical takedown of Walzer as often as I can: On Suicide Bombing
unsarcastically: I give credit to Michael Walzer for explicitly saying, in essence, "btw I didn't read any of this and am just gonna vibe it out" in the intro to his racial capitalism article rather than the pretend reading done by most in this genre
We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
December 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I teach Talal Asad’s surgical takedown of Walzer as often as I can: On Suicide Bombing
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Heba Muraisi, on day 54: “[I]can feel myself get weaker as each day passes" with "bruising on her arm and constant body ache"…is losing the ability to "form sentences, and struggling to maintain conversation".
She vows to continue until their demands are met.
www.thenational.scot/news/2572535...
She vows to continue until their demands are met.
www.thenational.scot/news/2572535...
Hunger strikers on day 54 of protest 'losing ability to speak and stand'
PALESTINE Action protesters on hunger strike in prison are "losing the ability to speak and stand", according to Prisoners for Palestine
www.thenational.scot
December 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Heba Muraisi, on day 54: “[I]can feel myself get weaker as each day passes" with "bruising on her arm and constant body ache"…is losing the ability to "form sentences, and struggling to maintain conversation".
She vows to continue until their demands are met.
www.thenational.scot/news/2572535...
She vows to continue until their demands are met.
www.thenational.scot/news/2572535...
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This article shows that Ben Gurion had the Palestinians driven from their homes and then had the villages razed to the ground to prevent return.
Evidence Israel has been destroying. Good for Haaretz for this reporting.
archive.ph/XUSpz
Evidence Israel has been destroying. Good for Haaretz for this reporting.
archive.ph/XUSpz
December 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This article shows that Ben Gurion had the Palestinians driven from their homes and then had the villages razed to the ground to prevent return.
Evidence Israel has been destroying. Good for Haaretz for this reporting.
archive.ph/XUSpz
Evidence Israel has been destroying. Good for Haaretz for this reporting.
archive.ph/XUSpz
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Working with violent illegal settlers, Israel’s military is ramping up its brutal attacks on Palestinians in order to force them into homelessness so it can steal their land.
This is ethnic cleansing.
https://ow.ly/XNN950XMArR
This is ethnic cleansing.
https://ow.ly/XNN950XMArR
Israel Is Attempting to Create a New Status Quo in the West Bank, Locals Say
Military escalation may be the opening move in a broader effort to reinstate settlement activity in the Jenin area.
ow.ly
December 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Working with violent illegal settlers, Israel’s military is ramping up its brutal attacks on Palestinians in order to force them into homelessness so it can steal their land.
This is ethnic cleansing.
https://ow.ly/XNN950XMArR
This is ethnic cleansing.
https://ow.ly/XNN950XMArR
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Despite the mutual admiration between Zionists and fascists, they are usually seen as separate political movements. However, when viewed through the lens of Western racism, colonialism, and imperialism, the connections become clear.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/unde...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/unde...
#Palestine #Israel
Understanding the relationship between Zionism and Fascism
Despite the mutual admiration between Zionists and fascists, they are usually seen as separate political movements. However, when viewed through the lens of Western racism, colonialism, and imperialism,...
mondoweiss.net
December 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Despite the mutual admiration between Zionists and fascists, they are usually seen as separate political movements. However, when viewed through the lens of Western racism, colonialism, and imperialism, the connections become clear.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/unde...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/unde...
#Palestine #Israel
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Like, the good luck charms many baseball fans practice are absolutely a form of ritual magic from an anthropological standpoint, but imagine what American baseball would look like if Protestants didn't have hangups about ritual magic being Satanic and didn't need to maintain plausible deniability.
December 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Like, the good luck charms many baseball fans practice are absolutely a form of ritual magic from an anthropological standpoint, but imagine what American baseball would look like if Protestants didn't have hangups about ritual magic being Satanic and didn't need to maintain plausible deniability.
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Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying
Mark Zuckerberg and current and former Meta executives agreed on Thursday to settle a $8 billion shareholder lawsuit alleging the company’s directors failed to prevent billions of dollars in fines and...
www.france24.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
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Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.
“California is on a path to self-destruction,” wrote Bill Ackman, joining opposition to a tax proposal alongside Google’s cofounder and more.
Possible California Wealth Tax Causes Billionaire Freakout: Page, Thiel Threaten To Leave
“California is on a path to self-destruction,” wrote Bill Ackman, joining opposition to a tax proposal alongside Google’s cofounder and more.
www.forbes.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.
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A critical aspect of Israel’s siege on Gaza was to severely limit the flow of electricity. Israel’s ability to regulate electricity in Gaza has a long history that is tied to its colonial domination of Palestinian territory – as historian Zachary Cuyler details in this essay.
Power Struggles—Energy as a Weapon of War, Domination and Resistance in Palestine - MERIP
The role of the grid in Israel's colonial domination.
buff.ly
December 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A critical aspect of Israel’s siege on Gaza was to severely limit the flow of electricity. Israel’s ability to regulate electricity in Gaza has a long history that is tied to its colonial domination of Palestinian territory – as historian Zachary Cuyler details in this essay.
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Israeli attacks on journalists’ families "have become a repeated & organized pattern." With 706 journalist relatives killed in Gaza since 7 Oct 2023, "the scale and consistency of the attacks indicate they are not the result of random wartime conditions." www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...
Israel systematically targets families of Palestinian journalists: Report
www.middleeasteye.net
December 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Israeli attacks on journalists’ families "have become a repeated & organized pattern." With 706 journalist relatives killed in Gaza since 7 Oct 2023, "the scale and consistency of the attacks indicate they are not the result of random wartime conditions." www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...
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this fellow has broken loose from somewhere; he’s talking about something and somebody we don’t know
December 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
this fellow has broken loose from somewhere; he’s talking about something and somebody we don’t know
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Sudan was the third Arab-majority country to sign the Abraham Accords. The 2021 coup halted normalization, but the process remains in development and part of "the wider web that connects authoritarian regimes across the region” as Bayan Abubakr explains in this essay.
The Abraham Accords and Sudan’s Global Counterrevolution
On October 23, 2020, Sudan became the third Arab-majority country to normalize relations with Israel under the Abraham Accords. The deal between Israel and the civilian-military Sudanese Transitional…
buff.ly
December 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Sudan was the third Arab-majority country to sign the Abraham Accords. The 2021 coup halted normalization, but the process remains in development and part of "the wider web that connects authoritarian regimes across the region” as Bayan Abubakr explains in this essay.
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December 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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READ: More than 10,000 bodies buried beneath the rubble in Gaza. Read what recovery looks like after 2 years of Israeli genocide. 👇
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/one-...
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/one-...
One excavator, 10,000 bodies, a sea of rubble: inside Gaza’s effort to retrieve and bury its dead
Under the relative calm of a ceasefire, Civil Defense crews in Gaza are undertaking the monumental feat of recovering thousands of bodies still trapped under the rubble.
mondoweiss.net
December 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
READ: More than 10,000 bodies buried beneath the rubble in Gaza. Read what recovery looks like after 2 years of Israeli genocide. 👇
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/one-...
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/one-...
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That time of year again!
December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
That time of year again!
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A small but concrete task for today:
Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm.
Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?
Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm.
Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?
December 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A small but concrete task for today:
Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm.
Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?
Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm.
Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?
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The U.S. appears ready to reassess its tactics in carrying out Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza. The news vindicates the strategy Palestinians have used during the ceasefire to avoid the surrender Israel has demanded in exchange for ending the genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
Palestinian factions have come together to thwart Israeli plans in Gaza, for now
The U.S. appears ready to reassess its tactics in carrying out Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza. The news vindicates the strategy Palestinians have used during the ceasefire to avoid the surrender Israel…
mondoweiss.net
December 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The U.S. appears ready to reassess its tactics in carrying out Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza. The news vindicates the strategy Palestinians have used during the ceasefire to avoid the surrender Israel has demanded in exchange for ending the genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
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The new preface to this great and depressing scholarly book gets into the explosion of sports betting and “prediction markets” since 2012’s 1st edition, plus well-meaning games-for-change types trying to harness dark patterns for good. Everyone within 30 feet of gamedev should read it.
December 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The new preface to this great and depressing scholarly book gets into the explosion of sports betting and “prediction markets” since 2012’s 1st edition, plus well-meaning games-for-change types trying to harness dark patterns for good. Everyone within 30 feet of gamedev should read it.