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My adviser was super early to programming vision experiments on home computers; he was doing psycho physics on an Atari ST and couldn’t get it to flip between stimuli fast enough until he learned the game dev trick of dropping part of the video buffer into keyboard memory so it could be swapped

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This all feels like watching someone you love (America) suffer from an addiction and watching helplessly as they spiral into chaos. Except every time you try to get them support or stage an intervention they call in drone strikes on the rehab center.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

This should be the end of Noem’s career in public life. It almost certainly won’t be, however, which is itself damning.

submitted 4 days ago • 775 comments

The propaganda derived from the intersection of alternative medicine and the anti-vaccine movement is a bottomless pit of science illiteracy.

submitted 7 days ago • 461 comments

“In ‘advanced’ nations, clean water is considered essential, but we tolerate foul air, despite a century of evidence that it harms.”

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

So, you might be wondering: does it matter if Covid shots are recommended? Yes, yes it does. 1. Insurance won't cover them if they're not recommended. That's a HUGE challenge for a lot of people. 2. If more people skip the shots, manufacturers will make fewer doses, making them harder to find.

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 8 days ago • 360 comments

ME: Give it to me straight doc. Is the tumor malignant? MY ONCOLOGIST WHO THE INSURANCE COMPANY REPLACED WITH AI: Regarding White genocide,

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

A new report finds the bottom 60% of U.S. households—or *two-thirds* of the population—can't afford a “minimal quality of life": housing, health care, and other necessities. "Indicators like GDP and unemployment tell us the economy is thriving. But they don’t reflect the reality of most Americans."

submitted 10 days ago • 53 comments

And Gnome has posted their own accessibility update, which is awesome: blog.gtk.org/2025/05/12/a...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid. While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts...

submitted 10 days ago • 225 comments

The UK public goods discourse cycle strikes again.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

submitted 14 days ago • 117 comments

Hey games people: Open source habitual project organizer Miguel de Icaza has just ported Godot to run on the iPad. You can create iOS games entirely on iOS with this. mastodon.social/@Migueldeica... xogot.com

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

my vet, who's hard of hearing: can you repeat your cat's name me:

submitted 16 days ago • 424 comments

discourse.llvm.org/t/2025-asial... AsiaLLVM agenda is out!! It looks like it’s going to be good!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

In this ongoing work, we provide a bandwidth efficient solution to State-based CRDT reconciliation with no need for external metadata. We leverage recent developments in set reconciliation after decomposition of CRDT states into sets. Findings also improve general set synch. arxiv.org/abs/2505.01144

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Next week at ESOP 2025 (European Symposium on Programming) in Hamilton, ON (not in Europe) I'll be giving a talk on Stratified Type Theory! (Tue 6 May 10:30 am) We replace stratified type universes with stratified judgements, and restrict dependent function domains to strictly smaller levels.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

when i say that there was a venture capitalist conspiracy against american democracy i cannot express how literal i am being

submitted 26 days ago • 75 comments

Looking through old photos and I found this one of a whiteboard in Mozilla offices from Nov 2011. IIRC I was explaining early borrow checker designs to @dherman.dev and @pcwalton.bsky.social.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The strangest thing of all is how they’ve gotten me to side with the DoD, defense contractors, the Chinese government, the WTO, Mitt Romney, Dick Cheney, the Pope, and Harvard

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

submitted 25 days ago • 116 comments

Tomorrow is May Day, when everyone in the world—except in the US—celebrates worker’s rights based on something that happened in the US. Literally all your civil rights and freedoms exist because someone sometime said “fuck this shit” and fought to make it better. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymark...

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

sighs and resets the "it has been N days since I had a long public conversation in which I somehow managed to make myself the main person critical of rust" sign next to my desk

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments