Søren
@sxren.social
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights.
Software and data 💻❤️🔥.
🐍, 🦀, etc.
Lives in 🇯🇵.
Software and data 💻❤️🔥.
🐍, 🦀, etc.
Lives in 🇯🇵.
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I love all my first lines (I spend an inordinate amount of time on most of them. My second fav is The Stars Are Legion: "I remember throwing away a child") but that GW line does triple duty: character, setting, AND worldbuilding, 15 words. And it fell right out of my head, fully formed. Magical.
This hits hard! I loved the Light Brigade, I definitely need to add this one to the pile.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I love all my first lines (I spend an inordinate amount of time on most of them. My second fav is The Stars Are Legion: "I remember throwing away a child") but that GW line does triple duty: character, setting, AND worldbuilding, 15 words. And it fell right out of my head, fully formed. Magical.
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Taito is offering a prize of 100,000 yen for information on the whereabouts of a Crown 602 crane game machine. The model was released 60 years ago, and Taito will give the prize to anyone who can lead them to an existing machine. www.yomiuri.co.jp/economy/2025...
６０年前に発表のクレーンゲーム機クラウン６０２、情報提供呼びかけ…タイトー「当社の技術の原点」
【読売新聞】 ゲームセンター運営大手のタイトーは、６０年前に発表したクレーンゲーム機「クラウン６０２」を保管している人や企業がいないか、情報提供を呼びかけている。最も有力な情報提供者に１０万円を贈る。「当社の技術の原点。日本のどこか
www.yomiuri.co.jp
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Taito is offering a prize of 100,000 yen for information on the whereabouts of a Crown 602 crane game machine. The model was released 60 years ago, and Taito will give the prize to anyone who can lead them to an existing machine. www.yomiuri.co.jp/economy/2025...
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There's a floor plaque in Shinagawa Station, marking the spot Godzilla is first supposed to have hit land in Japan. You can now buy plaque merchandise. shopping.jreast.co.jp/feature/S008...
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
There's a floor plaque in Shinagawa Station, marking the spot Godzilla is first supposed to have hit land in Japan. You can now buy plaque merchandise. shopping.jreast.co.jp/feature/S008...
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i have never once in my life thought that the ESRB was too light handed but this is about to turn me into Joe fuckin' Lieberman
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
i have never once in my life thought that the ESRB was too light handed but this is about to turn me into Joe fuckin' Lieberman
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Analysis and exploitation of a Use-After-Free vulnerability in the Linux network packet schedule (CVE-2025-38001)
syst3mfailure.io/rbtree-famil...
#infosec #Linux
syst3mfailure.io/rbtree-famil...
#infosec #Linux
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Analysis and exploitation of a Use-After-Free vulnerability in the Linux network packet schedule (CVE-2025-38001)
syst3mfailure.io/rbtree-famil...
#infosec #Linux
syst3mfailure.io/rbtree-famil...
#infosec #Linux
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Fascinating stuff.
A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire, this study claims to have identified thousands more miles of Roman roads than were previously known.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire, this study claims to have identified thousands more miles of Roman roads than were previously known.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Fascinating stuff.
A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire, this study claims to have identified thousands more miles of Roman roads than were previously known.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire, this study claims to have identified thousands more miles of Roman roads than were previously known.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Over the past 25 years (1998-2023), French red bulk wine prices have taken divergent paths. While Médoc prices have declined, those of Bourgogne—and, to a lesser extent, Beaujolais—have surged.
November 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Over the past 25 years (1998-2023), French red bulk wine prices have taken divergent paths. While Médoc prices have declined, those of Bourgogne—and, to a lesser extent, Beaujolais—have surged.
even better the second time
another banger ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
New on the pod oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/fut...
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
even better the second time
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Curious about what happened between @python.org & the National Science Foundation? Me too, so I asked PSF executive director @eximious.bsky.social onto @redmonk.com's MonkCast to discuss the situation & share her perspective redmonk.com/blog/2025/11... youtube.com/shorts/_DDWk...
NSF grant controversy with #python software foundation's Deb Nicholson
YouTube video by RedMonk
youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Curious about what happened between @python.org & the National Science Foundation? Me too, so I asked PSF executive director @eximious.bsky.social onto @redmonk.com's MonkCast to discuss the situation & share her perspective redmonk.com/blog/2025/11... youtube.com/shorts/_DDWk...
another banger ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
another banger ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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New on the pod oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/fut...
Oxide and Friends | Futurelock
We're big users of async Rust at Oxide, and recently we found (another) very odd and hard to debug pathology related to async Rust that we dubbed
oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
New on the pod oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/fut...
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Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI
Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.
arstechnica.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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The thirty candidates for neologism of the year have been announced. I've just learned チャッピー (no.13 on the list) is ChatGPT. news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/ae4...
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The thirty candidates for neologism of the year have been announced. I've just learned チャッピー (no.13 on the list) is ChatGPT. news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/ae4...
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facing a rising tide of AI slop, arXiv is putting its foot down
arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers
Cornell University’s academic paper repository will no longer accept Computer Science papers still under review.
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
facing a rising tide of AI slop, arXiv is putting its foot down
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JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS (forthcoming): “Wine Stars & Bars: The combinatorics of critic consensus and the usefulness of order preference models” by Jeff Bodington.
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS (forthcoming): “Wine Stars & Bars: The combinatorics of critic consensus and the usefulness of order preference models” by Jeff Bodington.
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
www.cambridge.org/core/service...
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as my fellow Teen Voguers come over here I’ll be sharing their accounts, throw them a follow, offer them work, and we’ll be launching a gofundme/something similar soon!
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
as my fellow Teen Voguers come over here I’ll be sharing their accounts, throw them a follow, offer them work, and we’ll be launching a gofundme/something similar soon!
cool. crisis engineering by @marinanitze.bsky.social et al is available for preorder. bookshop.org/p/books/cris...
Crisis Engineering: Time-Tested Tools for Turning Chaos Into Clarity
Time-Tested Tools for Turning Chaos Into Clarity
bookshop.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
cool. crisis engineering by @marinanitze.bsky.social et al is available for preorder. bookshop.org/p/books/cris...
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As the PSF heads into our end-of-year fundraiser this month, we want to “connect the dots” and share a full picture of our current financial outlook: what’s happening, why, and how you can help sustain the future of Python and the PSF. 🧵
Connecting the Dots: Understanding the PSF’s Current Financial Outlook
As the PSF heads into our end-of-year fundraiser, we want to share information to help “connect the dots” and show a more complete picture of the PSF’s current financial outlook. You’ve heard from us on subjects related to our financial position from several different angles recently (a list of those posts is below). We’ve prioritized proactive communications, because we believe in transparency, we have trust in our community, and we value keeping you informed— we know how invested in and impacted by our work you are. We now want to pull those threads together in order to create some shared clarity on the big picture, and, hopefully, inspire you to action to support our fundraising efforts.
pyfound.blogspot.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
As the PSF heads into our end-of-year fundraiser this month, we want to “connect the dots” and share a full picture of our current financial outlook: what’s happening, why, and how you can help sustain the future of Python and the PSF. 🧵
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This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ
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Sometimes i get sad at those “I wanted to look up what kind of horse pulled medieval wagons It’s three hours later and playtex bra sewers made spacesuits i have a problem” no. No, you don’t. Hydrate and get back in there
I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯.
Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee
It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism
Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee
It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism
November 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Sometimes i get sad at those “I wanted to look up what kind of horse pulled medieval wagons It’s three hours later and playtex bra sewers made spacesuits i have a problem” no. No, you don’t. Hydrate and get back in there
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INSIDE THREAT is coming!
The sixth Rachel Peng book follows our heroine as she goes to New Orleans, finds domestic terrorists, accidentally adopts a dog, and gets extremely drunk with a sexy arms dealer. Also, murder.
www.patreon.com/posts/inside...
The sixth Rachel Peng book follows our heroine as she goes to New Orleans, finds domestic terrorists, accidentally adopts a dog, and gets extremely drunk with a sexy arms dealer. Also, murder.
www.patreon.com/posts/inside...
October 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
INSIDE THREAT is coming!
The sixth Rachel Peng book follows our heroine as she goes to New Orleans, finds domestic terrorists, accidentally adopts a dog, and gets extremely drunk with a sexy arms dealer. Also, murder.
www.patreon.com/posts/inside...
The sixth Rachel Peng book follows our heroine as she goes to New Orleans, finds domestic terrorists, accidentally adopts a dog, and gets extremely drunk with a sexy arms dealer. Also, murder.
www.patreon.com/posts/inside...