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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 16/04/2026

Shocking result on my pelican benchmark this morning, I got a better pelican from a 21GB local Qwen3.6-35B-A3B running on my laptop than I did from the new Opus 4.7! simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/... Qwen on the left, Opus on the right

The bicycle frame is the correct shape. There are clouds in the sky. The pelican has a dorky looking pouch. A caption on the ground reads Pelican on a Bicycle!

The bicycle frame is entirely the wrong shape. No clouds, a yellow sun. The pelican is looking behind itself, and has a less pronounced pouch than I would like.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

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Mario Zechner @mariozechner.at · 08/04/2026

BIG NEWS. I've sold out. Let me know how you feel about this in the comments below. mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...

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I've sold out

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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

No one is allowed to say they didn’t vote for this. You voted for a vulgar, narcissistic, incompetent, mentally ill, bigoted, unfit, incompetent, maleficent person to run the United States of America. You knew exactly what you were doing. Stop pretending.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 03/04/2026

US and Israel bombed a public research university in Iran which was free for Iranian students. War crimes upon war crimes and no opposition party in site 😡

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 31/03/2026

Bellingcat found 31 posts with AI-generated imagery shared on social media by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam and West Bengal in December that appeared to meet the United Nations’ definition of hate speech. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

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How India’s Ruling Party is Using AI to Boost Hate Speech

Bellingcat found 31 posts by the BJP that appeared to feature AI-generated images, along with either anti-immigrant or anti-Muslim hate speech, in Assam and West Bengal within a month.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The President of the United States is a war criminal. Fact, not opinion.

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Laurent Saint-Félix @anaethelion.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

We're working lots with Arrow these days. I needed a tool to do some debug/filtering. So I've built a thing! If that helps you as much as it helps me, use it, feedbacks and PRs are welcome. 🥳

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/03/2026

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/03/2026

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting was demonized and harassed because JK Rowling claimed she was male. Her boxing career was disrupted for over a year. Now, she's been cleared to compete as female after further "sex eligibility reviews." This is going to happen again. www.reuters.com/sports/olymp...

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Olympic boxer Lin Yu-ting cleared to compete after sex eligibility review

Olympic champion Lin Yu-ting has been cleared to return to international competition after World Boxing completed a review of her sex-eligibility status, opening the door for her to fight at the Asia...

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nrc @ncameron.org · 23/03/2026

I have availability for Rust coaching, or consulting on Rust strategy from early April; from a single call to ongoing 2 days/week. I can help your team get things done, adopt Rust and use it more effectively, or to accurately evaluate Rust as a new technology.

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Karthik @beastoftraal.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

A violent, communal mob confronts an old man. One man stands up against the mob. And the Court berates that man. And asks him to "trust" the very same police force that let the mob roam freely, terrorizing people with impunity in the first place. Thank you BJP for turning Indian into this.

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kepano @stephango.com · 18/03/2026

It's part of Obsidian Web Clipper and doesn't require Obsidian. It runs on all browsers that support extensions, including mobile (Safari and Firefox). obsidian.md/clipper

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Obsidian Web Clipper

Highlight and capture web pages in your favorite browser. Save anything and everything with just one click.

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

There were more traffic deaths than homicides in 2025. I’m running to make LA streets safer for everyone!

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

From a friend in Beirut this morning, who in the last few days has seen several Israel missile strikes within walking distance of their home.

it just feels so horrible
we feel powerless
we've tried fighting,
we've tried surrendering
we've tried ignoring
we've tried building
israel doesn't let you exist
that's it, our choice is fast death
or faster death

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Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Today I launched blunder.clinic, a realistic daily #chess puzzle app! Short 🧵

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realistic daily chess puzzles, dont blunder

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TokioConf @handle.invalid · 12/03/2026

We're setting aside 20 free TokioConf tickets for contributors and open source maintainers. If you've submitted a PR to any tokio-rs, hyperium, or tower-rs repo, that's you. Know someone who qualifies? Send them our way! tokio.rs/blog/2026-03...

tokio.rs

Free TokioConf tickets for contributors and open source maintainers | Tokio - An asynchronous Rust runtime

Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 12/03/2026

I'll be at the first TokioConf next month! If you want 15% off a ticket, DM me, I've got codes to share 👀 More details about it in general here: tokio.rs/blog/2026-03...

tokio.rs

TokioConf Update: What to Expect | Tokio - An asynchronous Rust runtime

Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.

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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 11/03/2026

Small announcement: April 1st (no fooling) I'll be joining the @oxide.computer team! I'll still be building embedded systems in Rust, but excited to be working on slightly larger computers than I have in the past :)

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 10/03/2026

stop the presses!!! ghostty 1.3.0 has search! (and a ton of other cool things) ghostty.org/docs/install...

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1.3.0 - Release Notes

Release notes for Ghostty 1.3.0, released on March 9, 2026.

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 09/03/2026

worked with the tcpdump folks on an updated set of examples for the tcpdump man page www.tcpdump.org/manpages/tcp... the idea is that if you've forgotten how tcpdump's basic flags work, you can find a quick reference in the man page!

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region. Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat. We live in Orwellian times.

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Marko Bevc @marko.social · 04/03/2026

@bcantrill.bsky.social always offers great insights, and this episode with @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social (The Peterman Pod) is no different with some awesome stories from the industry trenches 🤠 Worth a listen 🤘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhSL...

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Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets | Bryan Cantrill

YouTube video by Ryan Peterman

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse. 1/2

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

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👻Calvinboo Congress👻 @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

staying offline today, but all I'll say is: Gaza was the test. Gaza was the precedent. Everyone that failed to speak out or condemn it is now seeing the cost of their silence.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/02/2026

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

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Apache Iggy @apache-iggy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

🚀 Apache Iggy 0.7.0 is out! VSR consensus for clustering, LeftRight lock-free metadata, NUMA awareness, socket migration, and tons of SDK & connector improvements. Replication is coming! iggy.apache.org/blogs/2026/0... #iggy #rust #io_uring #vsr #apache #asf #streaming

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Karthik @beastoftraal.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

BJP's Double-Engine Sanatan in action.

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Blaine @blaine.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

We should legislate identity portability for email addresses. We have it for phone numbers, where the technical challenge was much greater. We should have it for email, too.

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 19/02/2026

woohoo, my quickstart for Flink got added to the Iceberg docs 🎉 iceberg.apache.org/flink-quicks...

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 18/02/2026

I’m still routinely intimated by some people in tech. Everything I publish gets negative comments to some degree. People telling me I’m dumbing stuff down too much, or I’m wrong about stuff and shouldn’t be writing about it. Putting yourself out there eventually guarantees this will happen to you.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 19/02/2026

I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).

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vectorware.com @vectorware.com · 17/02/2026

We are excited to announce that we can successfully use Rust's async/await on the GPU. This has never been done before. www.vectorware.com/blog/async-a... Supporting Rust's async/await (and futures) enables existing Rust code to work on the GPU and makes GPU programming more ergonomic.

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Async/await on the GPU

GPU code can now use Rust's async/await. We share the reasons why and what this unlocks for GPU programming.

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Karthik @beastoftraal.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Zero reaction from BJP on a CM's direct bigotry and hate-speech. In fact, the PM was in his state echoing him and giving it more legitimacy. That's how badly we have regressed.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 13/02/2026

I do not fear the rise of superintelligence. I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.

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Project Jupyter @jupyter.org · 12/02/2026

🎉 JupyterLite is now part of Project Jupyter! Run Jupyter notebooks directly in your browser: no server, no setup. Many thanks to the JupyterLite contributors and supporters like QuantStack, Bloomberg and the Gates Foundation. 🔗 blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlite-...

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JupyterLite Officially Joins Project Jupyter!

We are thrilled to announce that JupyterLite is now an official part of Project Jupyter. This milestone marks a significant step forward…

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Apache Arrow @arrow.apache.org · 12/02/2026

Apache Arrow is 10 years old 🎉 The first git commit landed on 2016-02-05. Now Arrow has 10+ official implementations and a growing third-party ecosystem. Read our celebratory blog post for some tidbits of Arrow history, and our outlook on the present and future. arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/02...

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Apache Arrow is 10 years old 🎉

The Apache Arrow project was officially established and had its first git commit on February 5th 2016, and we are therefore enthusiastic to announce its 10-year anniversary! Looking back over these 10...

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Karthik @beastoftraal.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Looks like "right wing groups" in India have been given a free hand by "high command" and told, "Jo uchit lage woh karo".

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 10/02/2026

Sending my appreciation to the entire community behind @bsky.app

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Hindus For Human Rights @hfhr.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Political hate, now with AI. A BJP Assam post pushed a clip titled “point blank shot” showing Chief Minister Sarma firing at Muslim figures. This is how violence gets normalized . www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

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AI video showing a top Indian official shooting Muslims causes outrage

Video featuring Himanta Biswa Sarma deleted by Hindu nationalist BJP party's Assam unit after backlash.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

How is it that some people in the US just lose their shit entirely just by being exposed to a "foreign" language? Weird sheltered lives. FFS. I live in London. Firmly in the anglosphere. I hear a lot of different languages every single day.

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