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The most somber aspect of being mortal is never getting to know how the story ends.
Surely one way to praise a legendary computing pioneer is to send them a saccharine summation of their résumé.
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Surely one way to praise a legendary computing pioneer is to send them a saccharine summation of their résumé.
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
LeMonde said, not on our watch
December 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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An engineering student has reverse-engineered the Tesla Robotaxi app to track the service's availability. The tracker details 32 Tesla Model Ys used in the Robotaxi network in Austin, which is far from Musk's earlier claims of having 1000 Robotaxis in Austin.
Tesla's Austin Robotaxi Project Is Smaller Than Elon Musk's Claims: Report
Tesla Inc.'s (NASDAQ:TSLA) pilot Robotaxi operations' scale in Austin could reportedly be smaller than what CEO Elon Musk has claimed. Tesla Robotaxi Tracker An engineering student at Texas A&M Univer...
finance.yahoo.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
An engineering student has reverse-engineered the Tesla Robotaxi app to track the service's availability. The tracker details 32 Tesla Model Ys used in the Robotaxi network in Austin, which is far from Musk's earlier claims of having 1000 Robotaxis in Austin.
RIP Marbles
December 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
RIP Marbles
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joseph: do you have any rooms
innkeeper: yeah sur—
[mary in audible labor]
innkeeper: ew
innkeeper: yeah sur—
[mary in audible labor]
innkeeper: ew
December 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
joseph: do you have any rooms
innkeeper: yeah sur—
[mary in audible labor]
innkeeper: ew
innkeeper: yeah sur—
[mary in audible labor]
innkeeper: ew
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Missed this. P-Funk did a Tiny Desk some years back. One of my favorite bands of all time. Saw them a couple of times in the mid-1990s. youtu.be/IxAcW7zgAD4?...
George Clinton & The P-Funk All Stars: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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December 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Missed this. P-Funk did a Tiny Desk some years back. One of my favorite bands of all time. Saw them a couple of times in the mid-1990s. youtu.be/IxAcW7zgAD4?...
@alamodrafthouse.bsky.social I would absolutely watch this double feature
December 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
@alamodrafthouse.bsky.social I would absolutely watch this double feature
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Whether it's a low-level Biden staffer asking Facebook to correct some COVID misinformation or Donald Trump's right-hand man telling CBS to kill segment about ICE sending people to torture prisons, both sides have sought to limit free expression.
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Whether it's a low-level Biden staffer asking Facebook to correct some COVID misinformation or Donald Trump's right-hand man telling CBS to kill segment about ICE sending people to torture prisons, both sides have sought to limit free expression.
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Bari Weiss is even more hamhanded than I imagined her to be.
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‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Bari Weiss is even more hamhanded than I imagined her to be.
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So the segment HAS been approved by legal and compliance hmmmm someone could always upload it
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
So the segment HAS been approved by legal and compliance hmmmm someone could always upload it
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
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given rising global populism — and tendency to demonize people with little power in society — worth reflecting that the hero in Australia's mass shooting was a Syrian refugee, and the key witness in the Brown University shooting was a homeless man
December 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
given rising global populism — and tendency to demonize people with little power in society — worth reflecting that the hero in Australia's mass shooting was a Syrian refugee, and the key witness in the Brown University shooting was a homeless man
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I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism
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The world's leader in science is dismantling itself. For nothing.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The world's leader in science is dismantling itself. For nothing.
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We all have the sense that something is wrong with pricing in this country, that new technology or market power is ripping us off. The unsealed case proves we are not crazy, and is sparking a movement toward fair prices.
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
Pepsi and Walmart’s Monopolization Machine Revealed - The American Prospect
An unsealed lawsuit that Trump’s FTC tried to bury puts the pricing schemes of business on full display.
prospect.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We all have the sense that something is wrong with pricing in this country, that new technology or market power is ripping us off. The unsealed case proves we are not crazy, and is sparking a movement toward fair prices.
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
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Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
It didn't take long to go from "Don't believe what you read on the Internet" to "It is mandatory to regurgitate what you read on the Internet."
www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...
www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...
Purdue unveils comprehensive AI strategy; trustees approve ‘AI working competency’ graduation requirement
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University on Friday (Dec. 12) unveiled a broad strategy of AI@Purdue across five functional areas: Learning with AI, Learning about AI, Research AI…
www.purdue.edu
December 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It didn't take long to go from "Don't believe what you read on the Internet" to "It is mandatory to regurgitate what you read on the Internet."
www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...
www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...