Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialmcc @dryad.technology · 08/04/2026*rubbing eyes* This thread is my best effort to put solid cites on the contents of the Iranian "10 point proposal", which various news articles over the last couple days have referenced, and which versions of are currently floating around Bluesky. (This is attempt 2, for me. I deleted attempt 1.) 17618
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialThomas Gazagnaire @gazagnaire.org · 02/04/2026I've finally managed to write why I'm doing a bit more regularly. Hint: it took a while because I had first to rewrite the world in #OCaml ... gazagnaire.org/blog/2026-04...gazagnaire.orgThomas Gazagnaire :: A CSS Engine in OCamlA typed CSS parser covering Level 3 through 5, a structural diff tool, and an optimiser. With a live browser demo via js_of_ocaml. 3228
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialShellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026🙄 Once you see it, you can't unsee it 52395650
prozacchiwawa.bsky.social @prozacchiwawa.bsky.social · 14/03/2026it seems like if one is used to one level of salt intake and then suddenly get more, it can cause muscle tightness and cramps due to an imbalance with potassium (i think it changes how one's nerves process signals temporarily). 110
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 02/03/2026"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai." 2144001649
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialTodd Gill - Retro Frog @retrofrog.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Oh my 781905613
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialNiall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Admittedly I would probably say this, but I thought this article was a very insightful analysis of the problems with building AI agents, based on real experience. (Jury currently out on the _solutions_ but at least the problems seem clearly outlined.) utkarshkanwat.com/writing/bett...utkarshkanwat.comWhy I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)I've built 12+ production AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here's why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actually works in... 41911
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialCompositional IT @handle.invalid · 07/07/2025🌱 Sprout: a BDD testing DSL in F#! Inspired by Jasmine + powered by computation expressions. Ready to declare your specs? Have you tried ‘feature … scenario …’ in F# yet? #fsharp #BDD #testing @fsharp.bsky.onlinegithub.comGitHub - dlidstrom/Sprout: Sprout is a lightweight F# test DSL using a minimalist BDD-style syntaxSprout is a lightweight F# test DSL using a minimalist BDD-style syntax - dlidstrom/Sprout 042
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialYvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Just thinking of the Harvard computer women a century ago, who looked at images of the universe like this by eye to make discoveries. They revolutionized astronomy, and Rubin definitely will too! Also, wow how excited would Henrietta Leavitt and Williamina Flemming be to see this! 🤩 🔭🧪🎢 229149
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/06/2025damn yes needed this today 01417
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialdan @danabra.mov · 22/06/2025why does ml actually work? i understand backpropagation but that's about it. are we "looking for a function"? why are these functions particularly "arrivable at" via ml and transformers or diffusion? what is it about nn? any compelling evidence it's "enough" or are there other structural approaches? 11282
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥 9736361014387
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/04/2025Wasn't expecting Cory @booker.senate.gov blocking senate business with an actual in fact standing filibuster to protest what the fuck is going on but I'll take it. @ossoff.bsky.social @ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov &c can ask questions to work in breaks 959689
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Ooo, I know this one! Doing An Internet.media.tenor.coma cartoon character with a rainbow behind him and the words whoaaa aa aa aa aa aaALT: a cartoon character with a rainbow behind him and the words whoaaa aa aa aa aa aa 123237
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialnursesarah18.bsky.social @nursesarah18.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Well done fellow Wisconsinites!!!!! We can’t be bought! Congratulations @crawfordforwi.bsky.social !! I feel this thing creeping back in…HOPE. Thank you to EVERYONE who knocked doors, made calls, wrote postcards, etc. We did it!!! @WisDems 💙 033841
prozacchiwawa.bsky.social @prozacchiwawa.bsky.social · 02/04/2025"With this candidate's loss, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created." 010
prozacchiwawa.bsky.social @prozacchiwawa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025destroying it _is_ success for doge. they want to "accidentally" break it in a way that congress won't be able to do the appropriations to fix. 113810
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialDr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Premium Blue(Sky) content 2427
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialneutral @neutral.zone · 26/03/2025Ken Burns’ The Internet: A Series of Unfortunate Events A slow pan over a blurry JPEG of a dancing baby, accompanied by a somber violin score. A dramatic reading of a 1999 forum post. 1845070
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 26/03/2025Laughing darkly to myself as John Roberts realizes that he’s not a leopard 836131
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialElisabetK @elisabetk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025To be fair, you say "me" but it's actually Trump. The school isn't being selfish here. Giving up an entire incoming class because they can't guarantee they won't be stranded, or worse, deported is a huge blow to their institution, as well. 3364
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialLeo Bebb @leobebb.bsky.social · 13/03/2025DOGE is like economizing on your car by not filling the motor with oil. 0213
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialRat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 11/03/2025Have you ever been so sick of a device you rage bought a competitor's? I have! 282
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialOCaml @ocaml.org · 11/03/2025dlvr.itLearning OCaml: Matching Anything or the Lack of AnythingI’ve noticed that some newcomers to OCaml are a bit confused by code like the following: let () = print_endline "Hello, world" let _ = foo bar Both of those are forms of pattern matching, but one of them is a lot stricter than the other. In OCaml ()… 031
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialTy Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Watching my 401K drop like a stone, as I’m sure many are, now is a perfect example why Social Security must be protected, and not privatized. It is also a great rebuttal against those who say people should just save on their own and invest in the market. How’d that work out in 1929? 571870558
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The Trump-Musk fiasco is of a piece with our much larger slide into "clientelism" or "personalist" rule. Trump is now discovering it has a downside: He's corruptly giving Musk extraordinary power, but now Trump is yoked to Musk's epic failures. h/t @jamellebouie.net newrepublic.com/article/1926... 629762
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialAlexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 11/03/2025me for real 031
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I am so tired of Republicans saying “this is crazy” behind closed doors. 1835067
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialsabine 🐫🦀 / "use ocaml"; @sabine.sh · 11/03/2025publishing all the new editions of the OCaml Platform Newsletter as a LinkedIn Newsletter (in addition to existing distribution channels) if you want to keep updated or promote reach of the newsletter, here's a link: www.linkedin.com/newsletters/...linkedin.comOCaml Platform Newsletter | LinkedInOCaml | Updates from the OCaml Platform projects. 051
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialK.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 11/03/2025Bernie’s current message is “Make your congressperson recognize they can either be scared of getting primaried by Musk or by their constituents, and they have more to fear from their constituents.” Be brave, and be brave in numbers. 225069
prozacchiwawa.bsky.social @prozacchiwawa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025that's the sovereign citizen argument in a nutshell. people deciding neither to be protected by the us or subject to its laws, not "subject to us jurisdiction" in any way. would be hilarious for both arguments to land simultaneously. 100
prozacchiwawa.bsky.social @prozacchiwawa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025read a few sections from the odyssey in high school but it was relatively brief (this would have been around 1990). 000
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Want to genuinely test something: Followers, were you taught about Homer in K-12 education? 5202847
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialFati Iseni @fiseni.com · 11/03/2025I really dislike XML comments. It's way too much noise, and it's hard to reason about the code. We need a better mechanism to document APIs. #dotnet #csharp 141
prozacchiwawa.bsky.social @prozacchiwawa.bsky.social · 10/03/2025X11 traditions die _hard_. it was common to configure everything with xfontsel strings well into the 2000s. 010
prozacchiwawa.bsky.social @prozacchiwawa.bsky.social · 10/03/2025back when this was getting written, everything was in pixels and even the worst scaling was expensive. Few displays had more than 256 colors so any kind of subpixel rendering wasn't feasible. Instead, X enabled you to specify your default font dpi (with standard ones being 75, 100 and 120). 100
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialDelilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025So here's my big announcement, regarding filling some very big shoes of a very dear friend... 10672289
prozacchiwawa.bsky.social @prozacchiwawa.bsky.social · 09/03/2025apropos of another thread, this is a pretty good watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtr...youtube.comYou Are Witnessing the Death of American CapitalismYouTube video by Benn Jordan 031
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialSygnin @sygnin.com · 09/03/2025It’s pretty cool what you can accomplish with some ethanol, water, a PHD and a gazillion hours of cleaning (Seriously though, that’s some amazing work they did to clean & restore the colors & art in the temple)archaeology.orgFeatures - An Egyptian Temple Reborn - Archaeology Magazine - March/April 2025By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens 116245
prozacchiwawa.bsky.social @prozacchiwawa.bsky.social · 09/03/2025the great "i like this kind but not as much" famine of 2025 120
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialkate conger @kateconger.com · 09/03/2025I know I’ve said this on here before, but it’s really remarkable and humbling to see our book resonate with people who want to understand DOGE. Thank y’all so, so, much for reading. It’s really special to me and @rmac.bsky.social. Hope to see some of you at the Tucson Festival of Books this week! 828224
prozacchiwawa.bsky.social @prozacchiwawa.bsky.social · 09/03/2025that generation gave us the war on drugs, which we're still doing and all the changes to the country that follow from "anyone could be possessing drugs and the most important thing is to stop them". boomer parents pushed us away from family formation and toward overeducation while defunding schools 010
prozacchiwawa.bsky.social @prozacchiwawa.bsky.social · 09/03/2025maybe all the good ones. we're still in a world where saving money through corporate consolidation is always "good", where a business that works and is profitable is a shameful dinosaur and private equity target. where a house is more important for its financial performance than giving shelter. 110
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialHallie Bateman @halliebateman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Anyone in Brooklyn have a part-time job for (no joke) my very sweet 90-year-old friend? She was just laid off from an office job of 25 years. She thought about applying to be a greeter at a hospital but you need to be able to physically do CPR on someone, which she can't. 1516976
Reposted by @prozacchiwawa.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/03/2025D’Wayne Wiggins, founding member of Tony! Toni! Toné!, has died, according to family 611220410