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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Hungary: “Resign! Resign!”, citizens crowds chant outside Viktor Orbán’s and president’s offices in Budapest. 🇪🇺🇭🇺
December 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
― John Waters
― John Waters
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
― John Waters
― John Waters
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TESLA NEW REGISTRATIONS IN SWEDEN -88.7% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN OCTOBER, MOBILITY SWEDEN DATA SHOWS
November 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
TESLA NEW REGISTRATIONS IN SWEDEN -88.7% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN OCTOBER, MOBILITY SWEDEN DATA SHOWS
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This was a tough but necessary decision - I posted my own notes on this here, from the perspective of a current PSF board member simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This was a tough but necessary decision - I posted my own notes on this here, from the perspective of a current PSF board member simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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Swedish flying electric boats coming to DC! The company, Candela, is located in the same building as my art studio and they have been testing their boats on the bay below our house for years.
Flying electric boat to showcase cutting commute times in half in Washington D.C.
What if your morning commute didn’t involve gridlock on the 395 or the Orange Line crawl, but instead meant silently...
electrek.co
October 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Swedish flying electric boats coming to DC! The company, Candela, is located in the same building as my art studio and they have been testing their boats on the bay below our house for years.
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The 🇬🇧British television drama series "THE ONEDIN LINE" created by Cyril Abraham, starring Peter Gilmore, Anne Stallybrass, Jessica Benton and Howard Lang was first broadcast in the U.K. #OnThisDay in 1971 on the BBC Network, it ran for 9 series with a total of 91 episodes ⚓️
October 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The 🇬🇧British television drama series "THE ONEDIN LINE" created by Cyril Abraham, starring Peter Gilmore, Anne Stallybrass, Jessica Benton and Howard Lang was first broadcast in the U.K. #OnThisDay in 1971 on the BBC Network, it ran for 9 series with a total of 91 episodes ⚓️
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This seems like a mistake.
The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...
"Border Security" with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states | Matthias Monroy
The European Commission wants to negotiate an agreement that would allow US authorities direct access to police-stored fingerprints and facial images in Europe. Potentially, all travelers could be…
digit.site36.net
October 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This seems like a mistake.
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I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!
October 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!
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🤮 Surreal: Iran’s regime covered the legs of Finland & Sweden’s foreign ministers on State TV, afraid their men would be “tempted.” Can we all agree: when a regime needs to hide women’s ankles to keep men from ‘sinning,’ they’re not a government, they’re a frat house of horny ayatollahs?
September 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
🤮 Surreal: Iran’s regime covered the legs of Finland & Sweden’s foreign ministers on State TV, afraid their men would be “tempted.” Can we all agree: when a regime needs to hide women’s ankles to keep men from ‘sinning,’ they’re not a government, they’re a frat house of horny ayatollahs?
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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
June 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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DOJ as we have known it, as a place where prosecutors from the AG on down do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way, is over.
Pam Bondi wraps up her press conference by accusing Abrego Garcia of being a child-groomer human trafficker and gang member and the walks away
June 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
DOJ as we have known it, as a place where prosecutors from the AG on down do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way, is over.
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Temp job alert!!
Senior lecturer in Egyptian archaeology and cultural history at Uppsala University (Sweden)
Read more here: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Senior lecturer in Egyptian archaeology and cultural history at Uppsala University (Sweden)
Read more here: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Temporary position as Senior lecturer in Archaelology with a focus on Egyptian archaeology and cultural history - Uppsala University
Temporary position as Senior lecturer in Archaelology with a focus on Egyptian archaeology and cultural history, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of A...
www.uu.se
June 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Temp job alert!!
Senior lecturer in Egyptian archaeology and cultural history at Uppsala University (Sweden)
Read more here: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Senior lecturer in Egyptian archaeology and cultural history at Uppsala University (Sweden)
Read more here: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Sound advice from the King himself. #BookSky #HorrorSky
June 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Sound advice from the King himself. #BookSky #HorrorSky
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🎉Happy birthday to the sensational Swedish illustrator, John Bauer, who was born on this day in 1882.
Bauer's captivating watercolor imagery of elves, gnomes and trolls have inspired generations of artists such as Brian Froud, Charles Vess and, of course, me...
Bauer's captivating watercolor imagery of elves, gnomes and trolls have inspired generations of artists such as Brian Froud, Charles Vess and, of course, me...
June 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🎉Happy birthday to the sensational Swedish illustrator, John Bauer, who was born on this day in 1882.
Bauer's captivating watercolor imagery of elves, gnomes and trolls have inspired generations of artists such as Brian Froud, Charles Vess and, of course, me...
Bauer's captivating watercolor imagery of elves, gnomes and trolls have inspired generations of artists such as Brian Froud, Charles Vess and, of course, me...
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As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.
May 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.
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"If you visit American city..." begins one Tom Lehrer song that could be updated.
"If the measles don't get you, the chlamydia will."
www.healio.com/news/infecti...
"If the measles don't get you, the chlamydia will."
www.healio.com/news/infecti...
HHS closes CDC lab that tracks STIs, alarming experts
The Trump administration has shut down a CDC laboratory dedicated to tracking STIs, which experts said could weaken the country’s ability to keep an eye on drug-resistant infections, including g...
www.healio.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"If you visit American city..." begins one Tom Lehrer song that could be updated.
"If the measles don't get you, the chlamydia will."
www.healio.com/news/infecti...
"If the measles don't get you, the chlamydia will."
www.healio.com/news/infecti...
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Q&A from a talk I gave last week.
Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"
A: Fascism. It's fascism.
Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"
A: Fascism. It's fascism.
May 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Q&A from a talk I gave last week.
Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"
A: Fascism. It's fascism.
Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"
A: Fascism. It's fascism.
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Detta är ett allvarligt underbetyg för 🇸🇪. Det är många aspekter som spelar in här: den stramare migrationspolitiken, informella värderingar som gör det svårt att komma in i det svenska universitetsväsendet utifrån & en slutenhet som tex illustreras av att Etikprövning bara kan göras på svenska.+
International PhD students advise against doctoral studies in Sweden - Universitetsläraren
Sweden is no longer an attractive country for international early-career researchers, says the SULF Doctoral Candidate Association in a new report.
universitetslararen.se
May 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Detta är ett allvarligt underbetyg för 🇸🇪. Det är många aspekter som spelar in här: den stramare migrationspolitiken, informella värderingar som gör det svårt att komma in i det svenska universitetsväsendet utifrån & en slutenhet som tex illustreras av att Etikprövning bara kan göras på svenska.+
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Guys. For the first time, a graphic novel has won the Pulitzer in a general category. (Maus won in a special category) This is amazing. Congratulations, Tessa Hulls and the team at Macmillan!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Feeding Ghosts
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIRWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOKS CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2025 ANISFIELD WOLF PRIZEWINNER OF THE LIB...
us.macmillan.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Guys. For the first time, a graphic novel has won the Pulitzer in a general category. (Maus won in a special category) This is amazing. Congratulations, Tessa Hulls and the team at Macmillan!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...