Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story?

Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of.

Ready? Off we go, then.

Die Regierung will hunderttausende Schutzsuchende, die hier arbeiten und in Sozialkassen einzahlen, loswerden. Deshalb sollst du auf Feiertage verzichten und Überstunden machen. DU sollst die Schäden der rechten Politik auffangen. "Remigration" bedeutet: mehr Arbeit für weniger Geld für dich.

Heute etwas weniger Enthusiasmus bei den Moderatoren - aber immerhin hat man der AfD die Möglichkeit eingeräumt, sich ausgiebigst im Livestream selbst zu feiern.

Ich wiederhole mich: die Medien brauchen eine Strategie für den Umgang mit solchen AfD-Ergebnissen. Das geht so nicht.

Was mich so stört an der Reaktion auf die Ulmen-Sache ist, dass es so viele prominente Männer gibt, die sonst zu jedem Mist was sagen und die sich jetzt raushalten. Intellektuelle, Wissenschaftler, CR, Pundits, Kommentatoren. Die finden das sicher schlimm, aber sie belasten sich nicht damit.

GitHub - mozilla/uniffi-rs: a multi-language bindings generator for rust a multi-language bindings generator for rust. Contribute to mozilla/uniffi-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Spent some time with UniFFI this weekend. Experimenting with it for SlateDB's official bindings. It seems really nice! Anyone out there using it? If so, what has your experience been?

github.com/mozilla/unif...

Spritpreise: Dieser AfD-Fake kostet dich Geld! Hohe Spritpreise treiben viele Autofahrer zum Tanken ins Ausland. Doch AfD-Accounts verbreiten Fakes über angebliche Verbote. Warum du legal im Ausland tanken darfst – und warum die AfD nicht will, da...

Hohe Spritpreise treiben viele Autofahrer zum Tanken ins Ausland. Doch AfD-Accounts verbreiten Fakes über angebliche Verbote. Warum du legal im Ausland tanken darfst – und warum die AfD nicht will, dass du das tust. www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/...

AI-friendly: hosted MCP in Claude Marketplace, two-click OAuth install, my agent calls your API directly with MCP scaffolding.

not AI-friendly: local Docker setup, bespoke config, saving a coarse API key that outlives the person who created it & shows up in an auditor's naughty list months later.

NEW: Ukrainian, US, and Russian representatives concluded trilateral and multilateral negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 18.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 18, 2026: isw.pub/UkrWar021826

Other Key Takeaways ⬇️ 🧵(1/11)

3/ Russian officials signaled that Russia would not be satisfied with just territorial concessions and reiterated commitment to Russia’s original war goals, which include dismantling the NATO alliance.

And their heads must be spinning and their mouths are watering around the clock at those sweet numbers.

And it's also likely as hell that no one is remotely troubled by the minor detail that this figure amounts to roughly 550% of Russia’s entire annual GDP.

Today the winter Olympics open. Russia and Belarus are allowed to participate under neutral flag.

Picture by Gatis Šļūka

Russia launches mass attack on Ukraine, triggers emergency power outages Russia carried out a mass attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure in the early hours of Feb. 7, triggering emergency power outages across most regions, Ukraine's state grid operator Ukrenergo said.

⚡️Russia launches mass attack on Ukraine, triggers emergency power outages.

Russia carried out a mass attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure in the early hours of Feb. 7, triggering emergency power outages across most regions, Ukraine's state grid operator Ukrenergo said.

Ein kleiner Ofen hält Gorilla Toni warm. Wenn die Temperatur in seinem Gehege auf unter 20 Grad fallen sollte, würde er sterben. Egal, wie heftig Russland die ukrainische Hauptstadt Kyjiw angreift: Pflegerin Valentyna kommt zur Arbeit, um das zu verhindern. Unsere Reportage aus dem Zoo.

Trotz Blackouts backen Olha und ihr Team im Kyjiwer Szeneviertel Podil weiter frische Brote. Weil Russland Städte in den Blackout schießt, schießen die laufenden Kosten in die Höhe. Ohne Durchhaltevermögen und Improvisation müssten viele ukrainische Betriebe längst aufgeben. 1/3

Ashby taught us we have to fight fire with fire There’s an old saying in software engineering, originally attributed to David Wheeler: We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection. The problem is that indirection a…

Wrote some thoughts about complexity and LLMs:
surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/01/31/a...

Russland lügt, führt Krieg, lügt und führt Krieg. Eine Dauerschleife aus der Hölle. In der Berichterstattung werden Russlands Behauptungen zu oft nicht klar eingeordnet. Viel zu oft gelingt die russische Desinformation. Ein aktuelles Beispiel. 1/5

i think a core beef that i have with a lot of this "automation is bad" sentiment lately is that there is no inherent moral good in laboring

the story of humanity is one of invention, where we improve our conditions by building things that help us do more things more easily

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Putins Plan ist leicht zu durchschauen: Russland will weiter Krieg führen und sucht nach Gründen, um seinen Krieg zu legitimieren. Dafür genügt dem Kreml eine plumpe Lüge – sogar ohne inszenierte Belege. Weil Trump sich nicht für Fakten interessiert, führt Putin ihn locker vor.

He is not wrong in it's own stupid way.
Putin does want to see successful Ukraine, just without Ukrainians, Ukrainian culture, identitet, sovereignty, freedom, language or history.
You know, the small things.

NEW: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov reiterated that the Kremlin will not sign any peace agreements to end the war in Ukraine “right now.” 🧵(1/12)

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 26, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar122625

In a turbulent world that moves ever faster, Christmas offers us a rare pause moment to breathe, slow down, and remember what truly matters.

China is funding Russia’s genocide.

#BoycottChina

NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin used his annual Direct Line televised press conference on December 19 to reaffirm his commitment to achieving his full war aims in Ukraine.

Read the full December 19, 2025 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar121925

We experienced catastrophic Kafka failure in @honeycomb.io's EU instance on 5 Dec, exacerbated by missing automation and safeguards. Recovery is now complete, and we have posted an outline of critical events during the incident. Fuller retro will follow in Jan. status.honeycomb.io/incidents/pj...

Adam Warski: A Tour of Ox 1 0 - Direct Style Concurrency and Resiliency [Scala Days 2025] Ox provides a toolkit for safe concurrency and resiliency for Scala on the JVM. After two years of prototyping, we’re delighted to showcase the final product. With Ox, you can build and deliver direct-style Scala applications today. In the code-first presentation, we’ll begin with concurrency (incl

✨ Concurrency doesn’t have to mean tangled abstractions. This session walks through Ox 1.0 and its direct-style approach to concurrency and resiliency.
Here’s "A Tour of Ox 1.0: Direct-Style Concurrency and Resiliency" by Adam Warski

Antonio Jimenez: Exploring Cats Effect’s New Integrated I/O Runtime [Scala Days 2025] Exploring Cats Effect’s New Integrated I/O Runtime: Async I/O with io_uring This presentation explores the new Cats Effect I/O integrated runtime and how it leverages kernel interfaces like io_uring to achieve dramatic performance gains. We will dive into the foundations of this approach: blocking

🤖 Cats Effect keeps evolving, and so does its runtime. This talk explores the new integrated I/O runtime and what io_uring brings to async I/O.
Check out "Exploring Cats Effect's New Integrated I/O Runtime: Async I/O with io_uring" from Antonio Jimenez

Ich erkläre es im Lichte der Schlagzeilen nochmal mit Handpuppen: Ja, wir alle „hoffen auf einen Waffenstillstand“ - natürlich. Nur: die Ukraine bietet diesen doch seit Monaten bedingungslos an! Es scheitert an Russland. Und ohne Druck auf Russland wird Russland nicht einlenken.

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AWS re:Invent talk on their Oct ’25 incident Last month, I made the following remark on LinkedIn about the incident that AWS experienced back in October. To Amazon’s credit, there was a deep dive talk on the incident at re:Invent! OK, i…

There was a great talk at re:Invent about the Oct. 25 us-east-1 outage! My impressions on the talk are here: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/14/a...

100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.