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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 31/07/2026

Really happy with this talk giving a comprehensive update on #CarbonLang - youtu.be/WJl4ftb5Fxg - Updated syntax we've landed on - The _amazing_ C++ interop that is working and implemented now - A nice, brief sneak-peak at the memory safety model (instead of the 2-hour deep dive) #NDCToronto

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 16/07/2026

The Argentinian player that scored the 1st goal against England, is the same one that uploaded a social media video of himself singing racist and transphobic songs about Black French players. The transphobia was included to insult Kylian Mbappé, and to isolate trans people from public life.

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 11/07/2026

Uh, followers of Libs of TikTok are not "cool" or "fun"... At least he unfollowed after the criticism, but still... katamari64.se/posts/2026/o... (To be clear, I think the wikipedia thing is silly and doesn't make sense, but IDC. It's the following list that I find unacceptable)

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Odin, Wikipedia and Engagement Farming

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My LinkedIn is full of posts by former Microsoft colleagues who accepted the voluntary retirement offer. I counted at least 9 posts from people I worked with in the past. For some reason, it felt even sadder than layoff posts. It was hard to put into words until this post from a now ex-Microsoftie.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/06/2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has delivered on his signature campaign promise after New York City's Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 to approve the first-ever two-year rent freeze in the board's history for roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments across the city.

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 25/06/2026

A must read IMO. I'm not saying I agree with literally every point, but this is IMO the closest stance on AI to my own, and a really well written one so it's a pleasure to read. =]

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 24/06/2026

I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you dislike the Democratic party and think that you can do better, then please run for our nomination!♥️🗳️ If you win, they become your resources. If they help you win, they're your volunteers. Ask Dems to invest time, money, and energy. Many will say yes.

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winston @winston.cc · 21/06/2026

if your dad sucks let me—an actual dad—use father's day to tell you what I think every child deserves to hear from their parents: I'm proud of you, and so glad you're figuring out how to survive this messy world. The world is better with you in it. This is extra true if you're trans.

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 20/06/2026

But just to be clear, this is a critique I have heard from others and am working to understand, including whether / under what circumstances its an issue for me, not something I have a deep understanding of myself. I'm really looking forward to your article as I grapple with exactly this topic. =]

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 20/06/2026

Most of this I think your earlier points already cover. Beyond that: current LLMs incentivize and present statistical consensus as truth. They center "normal" and obscure diversity. This applies even to a hypothetical "unbiased" training set, and often amplifies the bias present in training.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 19/06/2026

Happy Juneteenth! When we celebrate the time that racist Texans tried to keep slavery going for another 2 years after abolition. But "the news🤡" of abolition reached their slaves! By "the news" I of course mean Black soldiers from the United States Colored Troops that liberated the Black Texans.

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Attached: 2 images Hey, who remembers that time that the South lost the Civil War, so slavery was abolished? But racist Texans didn't want the slavery party to stop, so they kept slavery going for an...

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 18/06/2026

writing my second response on AI, this one on ethics. here's my list, what am I missing? come on bsky, you were built for this day 😉 * datacenters that are too loud and use fresh water * data labeling work that is extractive & exploitative, chasing low pay * models trained on data without consent

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 19/06/2026

... you can't "fix" this with less biased data, etc. Relatedly, the ability to conjure a convincing but false narrative to suit and thus substantiate and support that... "consensus-reality on tap" is I think the quote I remember reading? Not sure how to distill either of these effectively.

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 19/06/2026

Normalizing and incentivizing fundamentally truth being determined as the mean, and worse the historical mean, and the specific inroads/support-structures that creates for fascist ideologies and platforms? It's connected to the bias and misinformation, but I think an important other angle...

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 16/05/2026

The only "diverse" views incompatible with DEI efforts are those fundamentally centered on the inferiority of specific groups, and consequentially on the _superiority_ of the other group. This is how to recognize white supremacy. It's right there.

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 16/05/2026

Amazing compressed summation of the horrible nature of the "anti-DEI" movement: "[excluding] diverse people to accommodate diverse views about those people's inferiority" (it's a dense, carefully worded statement ... take the time to parse it all out.)

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 07/05/2026

This talk was so much fun, thank you to Kate and everyone who has made this awesome conference series possible!

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

1. Your coworkers shouldn’t be the first humans to have read what you produce. Vetting the content is on you. 2. If you’re using AI, you have no excuse for the content being lengthy and verbose. Conciseness is a prompt away. (2/2)

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 10/04/2026

There. Are. No. Women. Aged. 15. Girls. You mean girls. Racists keep trying to spin declining child abuse and the resultant teen pregnancy as a bad thing. It's not.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 02/04/2026

Can we get back to not being such a weirdo country soon please? I can't keep getting cooked in the group chat like this.

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 17/03/2026

""" Every team has some monoliths that are a little too big, and too many layers of reviews. Maybe we won't get all the way to Singularity. But, we can engineer a much better world. Our problems are solvable. It just takes trust. """

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 17/03/2026

""" Reducing review stages, even to an uncomfortable degree, is going to be needed. But you can’t just reduce review stages without something to replace them. That way lies the Ford Pinto or any recent Boeing aircraft. """

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 17/03/2026

Choice pull-quotes: """ Every time something goes wrong, you have to ask, “How did this happen?” and then do a whole post-mortem [...] and fix the underlying Root Causes so that it doesn’t happen again. [...] Why was it possible for the coder to get it wrong? """

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 17/03/2026

Enjoying this interesting and challenging write up about software engineering as it is changing: apenwarr.ca/log/20260316 Not sure I'm fully bought into the conclusions, but I find the core idea of quality being better achieved through a differnet process quite compelling. At least as an idea.

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Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...

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CppNorth @cppnorth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

NDC Toronto 2026: The Opening Keynote! 🎉 Join Scott Hanselman for our Opening Keynote! You won't want to miss his inspiring kick-off to an incredible week of software development content. 📅 ndctoronto.com/agenda 🎟️ ndctoronto.com/tickets 🍁 May 5-8! #NDCToronto #Tech

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 08/03/2026

I cannot plus this enough... I'm so sad that we can't move past this nonsense. It's somewhat the ultimate timezone self-own.

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 04/03/2026

TIL about yet another bigot.... I just.... 🤬 But more importantly, thank you for spreading awareness about the excellent research here and awareness of the people willfully ignoring and subverting it.

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 04/03/2026

My new favorite rebuttal to tired citations that women are "in general" and "consistently" less competitive and less willing to take risks. Also some seriously fabulous research work.

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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

There is no ethical way to become or remain a billionaire. Thank you for coming to my TED talk,

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/02/2026

It's hilarious to me how much white Dems are like "Yes ICE is terrible. Yes cops do exactly the same things as ICE, at 10x to 100x the scale, but they target Black people, so that's OK! We have to be careful what arguments we make about ICE, or we will immediately have to reckon with the police."

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 05/02/2026

This fundraiser was so successful that I’m doing another one! The extra funds that were set for the first family went towards the second family’s total rent need. Let’s keep it going!

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 03/02/2026

(repeating a question asked repeatedly over the years) Partner: Why did we ever abandon Disco? (context: Disco is the most hilariously upbeat and happy music genre) (for the first time offering a real answer) Me: Because we realized, eventually, that the timeline we were on didn't _deserve_ Disco.

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 01/02/2026

I know lots of folks are sending free whistles where they are needed. But if I am happy to buy some and help fund those and related efforts, any recommendations for where to buy them?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims. We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear. Never again means never again for anyone.

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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

DAILY MEMO: ICE Continues to Use CHP and Local Police Resources Despite California's Sanctuary State Policy Around 40 people were kidnapped from Santa Paula to Riverside, with more than half from the City of L.A. in the last three days. @eltragon.bsky.social

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/01/2026

If you want to know where Silicon Valley is at these days, this story doesn't mention that one reason the pro-murder VC in this story works at this fund because he was fired for sexual harassment from his prior job at Square.

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Chandler Carruth @chandlerc.blog · 27/01/2026

Another thing you can just do -- go into the replies, and donate to one of the families. Or all of them.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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