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rsnikhil.bsky.social
@rsnikhil.bsky.social
Dear email providers ( #gmail #proton ...): in my inbox, I would prefer you just showed me my specific email address that was used in each email, rather than the rather useless and unhelpful my-name or "me".
February 7, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌
February 6, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Wrong link above! Right one here. Please share with any WaPo journalists you know/follow

pressgazette.co.uk/comment-anal...
A letter to the 300 axed Washington Post staffers from Carole Cadwalladr
There is life for journalists after being sacked by a major brand, says Cadwalladr.
pressgazette.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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La alcaldesa de París se va de X y lo llama “gigantesca cloaca global”. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
Paris mayor quits X, calling social media platform a 'vast global sewer'
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Monday she was quitting Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, which she described as a "global sewer" and a tool to disrupt democracy.
www.france24.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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T20 World Cup mode activated!

My weekend long read on Corbin Bosch including:
🧱 his obsession with lego!
🇦🇺 why he moved to Australia and came back
🏏 his cricketing goals for the next two years

Read here:⬇️

www.espncricinfo.com/story/how-la...
Bowls fast, hits hard, like dad: late bloomer Corbin Bosch is making up for lost time
The South Africa allrounder talks about his dream debut and looks ahead to the T20 World Cup
www.espncricinfo.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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I am giving a talk about automatic formal verification of computer hardware using Harmonic's Aristotle system at the University of Cambridge at their CS department on Thursday 26 February 2026 at 2PM in room FW26. The talk is open to the public.
talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
talks.cam : Automatically Formally Verified Hardware using Aristotle
talks.cam.ac.uk
January 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM
On the Northeastern University campus.
January 27, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Northern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys Sabrinus) visiting our bird feeder last night at about 3am during the snow storm.
January 26, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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NEW: this is how the US press would report on this if it was happening in a ‘shithole country’. It’s an execution. But it also reveals how weak Trump really is
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Death Squads Execute Second Dissident
Or what the US press would say if this was happening on the streets of a "shithole" country overseas
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Brilliant idea by @arjenlubach.bsky.social:
The NAAGGA hat.
‘Naagga’ means ‘No’ in Greenlandic.
Sold out already!

lubach.shop/product/naag...
January 19, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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It’s truly a special kind of unhinged psychotic who will come up with “You didn’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize so I’m going to start World War 3.”
January 19, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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Happy 25th birthday to Wikipedia, the world’s most trusted and widely used encyclopedia, with users around the world accessing its wealth of information and participating in free information exchange.
Twenty-five years ago, Wikipedia was an unlikely idea: a place where anyone could share free knowledge.

Today, it’s one of the most visited sites on Earth, not powered by corporate ads, but by people.
January 16, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Announcing our first offline meetup for 2026! #FPIndia #Bangalore #Meetup! Talk submissions are also open.

Please RSVP if you wish to attend: hasgeek.com/fpindia/bang...

#Haskell #PureScript #Elixir #Erlang #Scala #Clojure #India #FunctionalProgramming
Bangalore FP January 2026 meetup
Bangalore FP January 2026 meetup
hasgeek.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
January 12, 2026 at 8:59 AM
There's beauty everywhere, if we pause to notice it.
January 9, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland are calling on An Garda Siochana to investigate X under the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1988, after its Grok AI chatbot generated non-consensual and sexualised deepfake images of children and women. Read more ➡️ www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
January 6, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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This is like an old fashioned Gawker blog but somehow British and high-brow. I'll take it. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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R.I.P. Mike Flynn, processor architect and professor.
One of the designers of the awesome IBM 360 model 91.
In Memoriam: Remembering Mike Flynn
Michael J. Flynn is a widely respected contributor—indeed a giant—in the field of Computer Architecture.  He made highly significant and impactful contributions throughout his career, both in indus…
www.sigarch.org
January 6, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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America is always like “ok but the NEXT regime change will work,” like when I “cut out carbs” briefly every January.
January 6, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Overheated power tools for finishing woodwork: burny sanders
January 1, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I saw this term recently: "ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation"

Seems weird/redundant--isn't AOT the essence of compilation?
Otherwise it's just interpretation.

#AOT
December 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM