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A historic first today as Opus 4.5 scores 100% on SvelteBench - the first model to do so. We're hard at work on the next version of SvelteBench that will use an agentic approach, if you have feedback, submit it here: github.com/khromov/svel... #svelte #ai
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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anyone else reconsidering whether or not to turn on pnpm's minimum package age? #SHA1HULUD
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Time to ride
Tern GSD locked up and covered in snow
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
lmao France
Europe’s English skills
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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lindaholmes.bsky.social
I will add: People who expected this teacher to be bummed do not know (good) teachers very well. A civics teacher? With a student who wants to run for office? That’s probably bliss.
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Best things I've read this week:

How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere
martinrobbins.substack.com/p/how-hs2-bu...

My Truck Desk
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...
How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere
A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.
martinrobbins.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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americanfietser.bsky.social
New York to Chicago by train:

1905: Pennsylvania Railroad, 18 hours

2025: Amtrak, 19.5 hours
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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interfluidity.com
i’ve become radicalized on crime, looking for some serious motherfucking tough-on-crime politicians, but tough on serious crime, the kind that causes massive rather than just particularized harm, the “nonviolent” (despite mass casualties) crimes of the rich and powerful.
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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robpalmer.bsky.social
ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to @manishearth.bsky.social on unflagging TC39 Stage 3 Temporal in V8 today. Heading for Chrome 144 🎉

By many metrics this new date-time API is the single biggest change to JS ever 🔥

V8 uses Boa's temporal_rs by @jason-williams.co.uk Kevin Ness & Manish 👍
November 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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New York Times, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social
> Studies increasingly find links between higher concentrations of certain pollutants and the prevalence of dementia.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/h...
What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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paolo.ricciuti.me
Mainmatter is looking for an experienced, Svelte freelancer for a few weeks of work or more. Immediate availability, 4 to 5 days a week, EU timezones, excellent English communication skills. Daily rate of 500€–800€/day. Please email jobs@mainmatter.com with your résumé, rate and availability.
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Scientists? Everyone opposes this except the tech bruh nutter who came up with this.
rezekjoe.bsky.social Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Oct 27
Soon the ultra rich will be able to pay to have huge satellite mirrors redirect sunlight onto their property in the middle of the night.

You know what happens to men who steal fire from the gods, right?????
Scientists Oppose Huge Array of Mirrors in Space That Shines Nighttime Sunlight on Wealthy Customers
The astronomical community is horrified at plans made by a for-profit company to flood the night sky with sunlight.
futurism.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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I hung the dry cleaning in the back
October 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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normative.bsky.social
While pretending to deplore it, this administration has been basically doing everything possible to calculatedly provoke violence against ICE agents as a pretext for ratcheting up brutality.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Oct 25
When ICE comes to Philly it’s going to be brutal
cmdroverbite.bsky.social Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · Oct 25
Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight
October 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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andrewkostrub.bsky.social
Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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nerdicdefence.bsky.social
Swedish PM Kristersson to receive Zelensky in Linköping today, and they will hold a common presser to announce "news from the defence export domain". Whatever that is, but we note that Linköping is known for Saab and the university producing aerospace engineers. www.regeringen.se/pressmeddela...
Statsministern tar emot Ukrainas president Volodymyr Zelenskyj
I dag, onsdag den 22 oktober, tar statsminister Ulf Kristersson emot Ukrainas president Volodymyr Zelenskyj i Sverige för ett möte. Efter mötet...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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whitep4nth3r.com
this is fine
AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto
The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.
www.dexerto.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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No costume but we did what we could. #NoKings #Malmö #Sweden
2 year old at the No Kings protest holding a poster in Malmö with a collage of a frog and it says RESIST
October 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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No costume but we did what we could. #NoKings #Malmö #Sweden
2 year old at the No Kings protest holding a poster in Malmö with a collage of a frog and it says RESIST
October 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
mattlehrer.com
TFW you can’t remember your own phone number. The worst part is that I actually got more sleep than usual last night.
October 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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I agree with all of this and it's very well said. The only surprising thing to me was that his main problem is the same as mine: I miss great Mexican food
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...
How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe
YouTube video by Evan Edinger
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October 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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diplomatofnight.com
Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
Aftonbladet
October 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM