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Ben Krasnow @benkrasnow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New video: Drawing electricity from this sodium-water reactor prevents it from exploding (in theory) youtu.be/l0qqUE1pgXU

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Drawing electricity from this sodium-water reactor prevents it from exploding (in theory)

YouTube video by Applied Science

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the way I think about it is that a slice is a texture, where the drawn intensity relates to the underlying signal intensity in a manner sufficient for me to make quantitative judgments about my data. hopefully that's what yall are going to ship!

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

found a new type of guy

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AITA for correcting my girlfriend's family every time they mispronounce my turtle's name?
I have a turtle named Geoff. Yes I know Geoff is normally pronounced Jeff. His isnt. My girlfriend's family knows this and still calls him Jeff basically every time his name comes up.
His name starts with /dz/ instead of the normal American English J sound /d3/. So regular Geoff/Jeff is roughly /dzef/ and his is /dzef/. They are similar but they are NOT the same consonant. /d3/ is a voiced postalveolar affricate and /dz/ is a voiced retroflex affricate. Basically you make the beginning of "Jeff" with the tongue farther back/retracted, which gives it a harder, deeper "dzh" sound.
I'm really into etymology and historical linguistics so the spelling was intentional too. Geoff is already a weird spelling from a modern English perspective because gives you basically no reason to predict /dzef/ unless you already know the name. Obviously I am NOT claiming medieval Geoffrey was pronounced / dzef/. I

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

is a plain slice viewer in scope? volume rendering is great in a lot of cases, but it also obscures the underlying data

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“fans” here (and maybe elsewhere) is a polite euphemism for “sickos”

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

love how this implies the ABC song has "fans"

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 22/09/2026

Published deck.gl-raster v0.8! - Initial globe view support - New icechunk example - Improved request latency for MosaicLayer - Fixed reprojection for images extending beyond ±85° latitude - Improved rendering precision at high zooms - Improved performance developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast...

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

curious to see how this would look if the time axis were represented as a third spatial axis. a time sausage.

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

csv cleaning is one of the lesser-known millennium prize problems

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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We functionally pay violent drivers over $1 trillion per year in subsidies so they can kill and horrifically maim millions of Americans per year. That's the medical/loss of life/disability cost *paid by victims and society* for letting drivers drive violently. All so they can have cheap insurance.

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

loved this explanation of image formation in optics. cool to see resolvability expressed as the system's capacity to generate the right *destructive* interference! youtu.be/n5YpxFiJf7k?...

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How a Telescope Mirror Creates an Image

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

lol at what it takes to build the 13M-line Lean proof of Fermat's Last Theorem github.com/anthropics/f...

Check it yourself

You need Linux or macOS (some paths are too long for Windows), elan (it installs Lean 4.33.1 from lean-toolchain), and a network connection: Lake fetches Mathlib from GitHub and compiles it from source, since no prebuilt Mathlib matches this toolchain (about 13 minutes at 96 jobs).
The build needs about 5 GB of memory per parallel job (a few modules need up to 36 GB); about 67 GB of disk under .lake/, plus C files (about 220 GB) that can be deleted as the build goes. Ours took 5 h 32 min at 96 jobs, with a peak of 153 GB of memory.
comparator takes about 15 hours (ours: 14 h 46 min), nearly all of it the kernel replay on one core. Our peak memory was 230 GB, so allow 300 GB. Run nanoda after the comparator script, whose tools it reuses. Writing the 37.8 GB export takes about 90 GB of memory for an hour, and the check itself about 40 GB (about 30 minutes at 16 threads). Both scripts are for Linux (bash, git, python3, GNU coreutils; nanoda also needs patch, cargo and crates.io).

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I vibe coded a vscode plugin for working with Zarr metadata documents: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa.... It's basically fancy JSON schema validation (without actually using JSONSchema), check it out and tell me if anything sucks about it

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Zarr Metadata - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Validation, hover documentation, and completions for Zarr v2/v3 metadata documents (zarr.json, .zarray, .zgroup, .zattrs, .zmetadata).

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ravens partner for life and they strengthen their pair bonds by performing what can be described as vocal "duets". [📹 June Hunter]

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CrankyGayBear 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @crankybear17.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thought I was brushing away some lichen from the base of our birdbath and it leaped when I touched it! Turned out it was a Maine Gray Tree Frog 🥰

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

very cool! btw this link from the bottom of the post 404s: www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-08...

mattkeeter.com

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Back? on MY bullshit? It's more likely than you think 🌱 #nativeplants

A screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet being appropriated for garden layout purposes. It's frankly a mess but seems to involve a lot of diversity, so that's nice.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 16/08/2026

Drawing all 16,777,216 possible 12 bit RGB colours in one 2D image, each exactly once. Pixels are mapped from the 256³ colour cube, following a three dimensional Hilbert curve, to a two dimensional Hilbert curve filling the square. so nearby colours stay close.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hummingbird chick hatching 🐣

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Yard Gone Wild @yardgonewild.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Pick almost any direction in the yard… and look, there’s another Frog😄

Cope’s Gray Tree Frog watching me water things this morning from an old “bluebird house”

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

seems like people have started work on demused

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

amused and bemused jointly imply the existence of cemused

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

www.nature.com/articles/s41... cool scope but in terms of data sharing I know yall can do better than this:

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

kyle's work here is awesome! this is going to be a huge win for the `zarr` library when we wire everything up. stay tuned!

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 13/08/2026

Zarrista: a new, faster Python library for working with Zarr data! 1.9x to 2.7x faster than Zarr-Python for reading local data. developmentseed.org/zarrista/lat...

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Zarrista: Faster Zarr for Python - zarrista

A low-level Zarr API for Python, powered from Rust by zarrs.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’m fascinated by the different sounds crows make. Here’s a crow making a quiet rattle. August 8, 2026, Graceland Cemetery.

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"GPU texture address mode collies" meme continues to be my main achievement in life, I think.

Border collie, Clamp collie, Repeat collie, Mirror collie

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

just learned about the guy that played Go so hard he died

A highlight of Edo Go history was a match hosted by the Matsudaira family in 1840, where he counterattacked Inseki's prized disciple, Akaboshi Intetsu (sent as a challenger), with a series of brilliant tetsujis. The game took a week to play and was so intense that Akaboshi collapsed from exhaustion and vomited blood, dying shortly after.[6] This incident made this match famous in Go history, and it is now called the blood-vomiting game.

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I think they would agree in distinguishing all limbs on the left side (sinistrals) from the dextrals (limbs on the right side). I also think their language would basically be latin

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trevor manz @manzt.sh · 03/08/2026

pixi 0.76 can now run standalone python scripts in isolated, on-demand environments. dependencies live inline via PEP 723, like uv supports, but pixi can layer on conda and system dependencies too. fun to build this with @prefix.dev folks. coming to a @marimo.io notebook near you SOON.

Screenshot of a standalone Python script declaring Rich and the system package FFmpeg as inline dependencies, then running in an isolated environment with pixi run --script.

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Lisa 🇨🇦 @pinkmouse.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Prepare to be dazzled! I saw a chickadee in the bird bath so I went out to get a video & then the hummingbird decided to have a drink & bath as well. I put the fountain there for the birds & hummingbirds - glad it is getting put to good use! ♥️

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Davis Bennett @davisvbennett.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

glad you liked it! in the future we want a fast default, given the storage backend + codecs the user picked. getting there requires a substantial rev on store, codec, metadata abstractions, but IMO the value of this was proven by the perf gains of the new pipeline. see github.com/zarr-develop...

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fully separate sync and async internal APIs · Issue #4217 · zarr-developers/zarr-python

current state our Store API uses async methods for doing IO. In Python today, this is ergonomic for high-latency storage (stuff stored on a server far away), and unergonomic for low-latency storage...

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