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A quote by Rick Owens. It reads: "Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead."

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work.

Let's talk about it. 🧵

i'm a millennial i was there when cybersecurity was created i should not be forced to take the company's cybersecurity training every 6 months 😒

It feels weird to see a former project I poured years of work in, go full AI slop. A bit sad, and it does not bring confidence in the production runs going forward

So the plan was to do a re-run of Venezuela.

Keep the dictatorship, but with a more «US-friendly» leadership.

Une minute de silence pour toutes les victimes civiles en Iran ? Ou alors l'assemblée nationale ne rend hommage qu'aux nazillons ?

Haussmann would like to have a word

Release v0.3.0 · ptondereau/biscuit-php Pre-built Binaries This release includes pre-built binaries for Linux x86_64 (glibc and musl) across multiple PHP versions, with both Thread-Safe (TS) and Non-Thread-Safe (NTS) variants. Available ...

Great news for PHP devs who want to use biscuit!

biscuit-php v0.3.0 has been released, with an improved API, musl builds, and better performance for builders
github.com/ptondereau/b...

Huge work from @rooferz.bsky.social

This is the best and only way to think

Is WebAssembly the Secure, Efficient Alternative Everybody was Waiting for? Laurent Doguin and Geoffroy Couprie discuss their pioneering work with Wasm on the infrastructure side. They walk us through the benefits and challenges of building a platform over WebAssembly and why...

3/5 ➡️ Is WebAssembly the Secure, Efficient Alternative Everybody was Waiting for? with Laurent Doguin & Geoffroy Couprie
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#WebAssembly

Précisément 😄

I love my city and my neighbors. I really do. Now more than ever

Fun fact : Par sa décision, le @conseil-etat.fr n'a pas seulement validé la liberté d'utiliser l'écriture inclusive.

Il a aussi entériné ce que les juges administratifs ont retenu :

Le fait que l'Académie française « se soit déclarée opposée à son usage » n'a... *aucune* incidence légale.

(🤭)

It should be back up now. I've been neglecting my server a bit, sorry 😅

Counterpoint: we have lowered our standards so much over the years that AI became usable for it.
And now AI is helping us reach new lows we could not imagine before

One thing I love about the Onion staff is that when you click on these articles, it's clear they do actually read our media releases.

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

Excerpt from "now it can be told": " The piles themselves were surrounded by heavy shields of steel, pressed wood and concrete, to protect the operators from the extreme radioactivity that accompanies the formation of plutonium. The energy of this radiation is cquivalent to that of hundreds of tons of radium, Each pile was located within an area of one square mile. At first they were six miles apart. S additional piles became necessary, we planned to intersperse them between those already in existence, so that the distance betwee them would then be three miles. Design of the equipment for the chemical separation plants had to i keep abreast of, and in some cases ahead of, the development of the process itself. Fortunately, the two separation processes that seemed to offer the best prospects employed virtually the same equipment and piping layouts, SO that it was possible to go ahead with a design the first stages of which would be suitable for either process. Almost every one of the major design decisions for Hanford had to be made before the Clinton pile was in operation. Oricinally eight separation plants were considered necessary, then Six, then four. Finally, with the benefit Of the `perating experience and information obtained from the Clinton semi-works, we decided to build only three, of which two would operate and one would serve as a reserve. I should like to point out that these separation plants were designed when we only had sub-microscopic quantities of plutonium. Here again, each plant was provided with its own water system and steam plant and the other service facilities needed for independent operation. Each plant was a continuous concrete struc- ture about eisht hundred feet long, in which there were individual cells containing the various parts involved n the process equipment. To provide protection from the intense radioactivity, the cells were surrounded by concrete walls seven feet thick and were covered by six feet of concrete.

This is what happens when you try to skip to an endgame factory in factorio

Les Halles is our Moria.

So you're saying you want AI agents in your editor 😏

The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion.

I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans.

🧵 Long thread.

Honestly that's the best job

Maybe we should introduce "seniority without accountability", that would fit very well with modern software development practice

Oh, that's interesting. It's probably a useful measure of value against the rest at the instant, but is it stable enough over time to use it again as money?

Considering gold is mainly used as an investment vehicle, without any large practical use in industry, that sounds like a weird metric

You'd think that by this time they would have built a proper business and not need anymore to push snake oil, but no, the grift continues

I have been saying for quite a while now that, any time somebody tells you that their thing is "end-to-end encrypted" you must smile and nod and go, "oh that's cool, very nice" before fixing them with a steel glare and asking, "between which two ends?"

As someone who works on the interaction layer of software: it's this.

Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.

A group of bagpipes player, preparing for a small concert in front of a bar

Disassembled bagpipes, ready to be cleaned up, oiled, then working on airtightness

Bagpipes! Where disassembly and maintenance is half of the fun