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Jack Rusher
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Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin.

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · Apr 15
Intro. I’m a multifaceted weirdo, so in three parts:

① Homeschooled child prodigy, early/pre-web Internet’er, contributed to software used by ~2/3 of the world. Worked at multiple labs, including Bell/AT&T. Many successful startups.

Currently building tools to move forward science and computation.
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📰 Future of Coding Weekly

🧠 micrograd

🎥 I am not dead yet

📝 The Hidden Gem in S/SL: Why Dataless Languages Matter

🔗 newsletter.futureofcoding.org/posts/future...
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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i used to joke that the solution to the housing crisis is to make home prices lower but keep home values high, but slowly realized that's what a lot of the financial engineering is actually trying to do.
February 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Color meditation, 2021, #clojure.
November 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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izzywisher.bsky.social
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey. Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.
September 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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atproto.berlin
We invite you to our inaugural Berlin ATProto community day / Nov 18th - the day before @eurosky.social in Berlin.

Time: 10am - 4pm CET

Venue: is now confirmed to be EDGE Grand Central, Invalidenstraße 65, 10557 Berlin
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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macwright.com
the hallucination problem with llms is very bad macwright.com/2025/11/07/h...
Hallucination city
macwright.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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bhgross144.bsky.social
Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner.

As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!

#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩‍🔬🗃️📜
The squares for Curium and Meitnerium from periodictable.com, featuring portraits of their respective namesakes, are presented above a caption "Only two women have chemical elements named after them. Both were born on November 7th." (I'm aware that there was some ambiguity surrounding Lise Meitner's birthday, but Ruth Lewin Sime's biography notes that Meitner celebrated the occasion on November 7.)
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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hardmaru.bsky.social
The US government should subsidize Open AI rather than OpenAI
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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transmetropolitanr.bsky.social
lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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“Is there a timeline, a regulatory environment, in which the internet does not turn into a highly efficient manufacturer of niche suicide cults?”
The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
harpers.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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inconvergent.net
i published a first version of my browser puzzle/platform game (+ level editor). you can play it for free (w/a keyboard) at boxtype.app. levels are encoded in the url; if you make something you like you can share it with anyone

i'd love to hear what you think!
screenshot of the game (the website) a square world made from white blocks. cyan and magenta color scheme. logo in upper left corner. some menu items in flat simple geometric style
June 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Do I have any Gen-Z/young Millennial followers who are really into music? I have questions!
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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mariotrost.dev
Erik Loomis delivers another great obituary www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney
Screenshot from the linked blog post, quoting: And I mean, really, can you imagine—you want to be a good person and give over your bodily organs as transplants if you die and they are usable. You imagine all sorts of people your heart could go to. What you don’t imagine is your sacrifice leading to more years of Dick Cheney. If you wanted to argue against organ transplants (and my organs are listed to be harvested if need be), I can’t imagine a better argument to kill it than “your heart is going to keep a human monster alive for another 15 years.”
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
a group of people are dancing in a village with the words ding dong the witch is dead
ALT: a group of people are dancing in a village with the words ding dong the witch is dead
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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mrprudence.bsky.social
'it takes 992 threads to go through the draft 4 times'

Frances Louisa Goodrich
Velvet Rose weave pattern, date unknown
November 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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troutgirl.bsky.social
I worked at Friendster when we had an n-dimensional graph, and mostly what we discovered at vast expense was... After 2 degrees, you are strangers.
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9d
Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Several lawmakers said Thursday that the Pentagon relayed that it did not need to know the identities of those being targeted in the attacks, or if those killed had been trafficking drugs. “What they told us is they have to show a connection to a designated terrorist organization or their affiliate, and as long as they can show that connection, they believe they are authorized to strike,” Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-California) said in an interview. But such connections could be as much as “three hops away” from a known drug trafficker, Jacobs told reporters after the briefing.
November 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
quite literally everything i hear about the economics of this feels insane, especially given the big issue of the tools not doing what boosters say they will do. so many details make me feel very not good!
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Absolutely gorgeous cover of an 80s classic:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSja...
Need You Tonight - Beck
YouTube video by beckmangroup
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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adamchalmers.com
I'm looking to hire someone to help me build KCL! It's a programming lang for 3D design that we're making at Zoo. You'd be working closely with me on the KCL interpreter, the CAD API it calls, and our mechanical engineers. This is a Rust-heavy role. DM me any questions. zoo.dev/jobs/4619187...
Zoo: Design Studio
zoo.dev
October 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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titzerbl.bsky.social
Today I presented to the Wasm CG a proposal for fine-grained dynamic code generation as a core WebAssembly feature. The proposal is now at phase 1!

github.com/WebAssembly/...

Also immortalized in song: suno.com/song/19e0679...
GitHub - WebAssembly/jit-interface: WebAssembly specification, reference interpreter, and test suite for the jit-interfaces proposal.
WebAssembly specification, reference interpreter, and test suite for the jit-interfaces proposal. - WebAssembly/jit-interface
github.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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ftrain.bsky.social
My old friend Steve is the worst person at computers on earth. A little while ago he asked me to please explain AI to him, and I did my best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oR...
Paul Ford on AI
YouTube video by Alive with Steve Burns
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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winterbloed.be
October 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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stevekrouse.com
i'm hiring a 'growth engineer' to work side-by-side with me at val.town in brooklyn

we're a small team on a mission to spread the joy of programming

we're looking for someone self-directed, loves talking to users, write english & typescript, and own projects end-to-end

if this is you, reach out!!
October 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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fndriven.bsky.social
"From that perspective, the question is less, “Why are flights so cheap?” and more, “Who actually pays for them?”" #environment #railway www.theguardian.com/environment/...
When trains are pricier than planes, there’s a heavy social, financial and environmental cost
In this week’s newsletter: whether it’s a holiday or work trip, railway travellers find themselves burdened by astronomical prices
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM