Tim A.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Yo Andy Yen @proton.me and the rest of Proton management: you're offending your core customer base. I'm a Visionary customer, with you since launch. Stop buying into the hype. LLMs are a useful tool, but mandates are idiotic and unfair to your hard working staff. www.404media.co/proton-to-re...

RIP Walter Koenig. Thank you for providing me with so much joy throughout my life. #babylon5 #koenig #chekov

What an amazing life. What an amazing person. Be seeing you, Mr. Bester. <3

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

I know it's rude to do so, so I won't, but it is SOOO tempting to put the anonymous, low-follower accounts that pop up in my mentions to say "nuh-uh! LLMs *are* useful" on blast. >>

🗺️ October 24, 2026 5/5 countries in 6/13 guesses 🟢🟢🟢🟡🟢 whereabouts.earth/daily/ #Whereabouts

STOP! PHP is a perfectly ok language, but it doesn’t power 70% of the Internet. - by its own measurement, it powers about 2/3 of web domains (not the internet) - the overwhelming majority of those domains no/low traffic WordPress blogs - very few of the top 100 sites by traffic OR revenue run PHP

Remember five years ago when you had no idea who Vivek Ramaswamy was? Wasn’t that glorious?

XKCD foretold this. Was this comic popular enough that some hare brained fool used an LLM to generate a private key that was just “4”? I can’t believe I’m thinking this is a possibility. But here we are.

YouTube TV: $35 -> $83 (237%)

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Props to the ad agency: they nailed the "white person who plagiarises and steals credit using LLMs" look with 100% accuracy

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

This emirita Penn professor is a hero, and this arrest is absurd: giving rights to corporate robots over tax-paying human citizens? It's ridiculous we allow billion dollar corporations to flaunt ADA and use our sidewalks for free. They should be banned from Philly www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman...

If you are still on Musk's X, you are enabling his treachery.

It's almost as if it's not a good idea to rely on pieces of defence and communications infrastructure that are in the hands of one of the most morally depraved and emotionally unstable wretches ever to walk the earth

It's the last chance to get BarCamp Philly tickets for Saturday - ticket sales end tonight at midnight! technical.ly/civics/barca...

the earth is a resort for like 15 people to do whatever they want, whenever they want, to whoever they want. we're all just staff

Two weeks ago, we made TopK faster. This week, we made COUNT faster, and explored how real search workloads combine text with filters and sort orders. www.paradedb.com/blog/opening...

Of course Kash Patel wants to hand the UFC a NO-BID contract to train FBI agents. The UFC is a sports entertainment business. The FBI already trains agents in defensive tactics. And we’re supposed to believe Dana White, Trump’s buddy, runs the only organization in America qualified to do this.

I’m glad time has vindicated Sebulba. Everyone was so cruel to him because he “tried to kill a child” during the Boonta Eve Classic even though he was literally Darth Vader

This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.

I'm not a Figma user, but would like to give a shout out to the Figma team. I administer GitHub Enterprise for our organization, and just received a request from the GitHub Figma integration for LESS permissive access. This is incredibly rare and a testament to their team being responsible.

Lane Johnson retired, one of the greatest NFL players ever. He rejected "tough guy" bullshit: his humility and courage saved lives. An NFL offensive lineman so open and vulnerable to share his mental health struggles. He's a Hall of Fame football player and a Hall of Fame human being.

the tech industry is about to invent books

Abdul El-Sayed on Fox News: "I think about MLK. He said this thing I always think about -- 'If your coalition is not uncomfortable, it's not big enough.' A lot of people wonder why I'm having this conversation with you. It's because there are people out there who I want to have a conversation with."

Holy shit.

Here's how many plays the #Eagles have had per drive to start the second half, by week: Week 1: 3, 3, 3 Week 2: 3, 7, 3 Week 3: 3, 3, 3 Week 4: 3, 3, 4: turnover on downs on a failed Brotherly Shove. MAYBE try something a little bit different?!

Two weeks ago, @planetscale.com launched TIN. They benchmarked it against us, and it was very fast. So we spent those two weeks making ParadeDB faster without their tradeoffs. Today, we are faster than TIN. www.paradedb.com/blog/opening...

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

You know what's directly related to next-level idiot bigot Pete Hegseth being in charge? This. They're not woke, they're fucking asleep at the wheel: techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/h...

The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.

You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

The Fairmount Park “Conservancy” has installed the first artificial turf in the Meadows. This is the first of 16 playing fields it plans to put in FDR Park. Over 30 acres of toxic plastic, replacing woodlands and meadows, at enormous cost to our city, the health of our youth, and our environment.

A blue wave in the midterm elections won’t fix everything. Frankly, none of the immediate problems Americans face will be better immediately, because that isn’t how government works. And that’s all the more reason we need to push as many republicans out as possible now. (Thread)

CNN: "Right now the Chinese communist state media are allowed on the White House grounds, but we are not. I think that says it all." TRUMP IS THE COMMUNIST.

Michigan, absentee ballots have gone out. The election is HERE. Make sure you have a plan to vote by November 3rd to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All! 🗳️ abdulforsenate.com/vote 🗳️

The defense contractor who bribed Susan Collins has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins

Wow, looks like they used “AI” to make this flag shaped like the mainland United States. Bad move, NFL… what a misshapen mess. Texas and Florida are suffering from massive shrinkage. Not to mention the numerous violations of the flag code.

WIFE: I had to buy a strainer today and omg they cost so much now ME: *barely audible* Expensieve HER: Get out!