The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.

Americans, across party lines, want corporate and dark money out of politics. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-corporate-po...

A close-up of a rocky shore overlooking a Massachusetts bay. The wave are turning to white water as they hit the black rocks close to the water. The rocks above the water are green from algae, then tan as bare rock furthest from the water. Across the bay, another shore is seen with houses and a light house.

A rocky shore along a Massachusetts bay. Two houses are in the top left of the image overlooking the water. A tree without any foliage is next to one of the houses above the water. In the distance, a faint lighthouse is seen at an opposite shore.

God forgive me, I love New England.

Just got a commit message with three zeros in a row. I don't think I've ever seen more than one before!

And maybe who he thinks the NYT source was?

LET THE MOON PEOPLE REST

It's a Washington Post article saying "Can AI be a 'child of God' inside anthropics meeting with Christian leaders," and the subtitle is "The artificial intelligence company asked religious leaders for guidance in building a moral chatbot”

I swear to God, Anthropic is always up to the most embarrassing shit. Seriously cut it out. Oh my God, go back to pretending you're not actually doing shrinkflation.

If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

# — pre-rebase.sh ——

printf "Repent? [Y/n] "
read a

case "$a" in
[nN]) exit 0 ;;
*) exit 1 ;;
esac

I’m trying it now from Duck Duck Go and it’s been better, I think, but not revolutionary

Core Dispatch #2 is in the works!

Got a cool CPython-adjacent link, tool, or quote? Submit it for feature in the next edition!

coredispatch.xyz/submit

My first introduction to this guy was a 2021 Klein podcast guest hosted by Douthat. He starts by condemning theocratic government in Iran and religiously motivated liquor laws in Utah. Then he cites his Catholicism while wishing for oppressive laws towards queer people. A wildly unserious person.

I am (obviously) not familiar with the mechanics of these kinds of stories. If Vance was a source, would corroboration be required to print how opposed Vance was? Or would they take him at his word and assume he was against the war all along if he says so now?

Thinking about the alternate path laid in front of us by the Artemis II crew, and how I felt hearing people experience the night sky in our moon’s shadow, live, for the first time.

Genocidal threats over territory within 12 hours of that accomplishment… the contrast can’t be more clear than that.

I’m sure I’m naive, but I truly do not understand why, especially at this point. Love reading you and @sulliview.bsky.social, including her latest newsletter on these kinds of headlines. Surely threatening to kill tens of millions imminently is breaching any journalistic threshold they have.

We could have covered two-thirds of all US college tuition this year (or tripled NASA’s annual budget) with what the Pentagon spent in 5 days alone last September.

I really cannot comprehend the sheer amount of money we can spend. It’s amazing what NASA does with one-third of one percent.

New Yorker headline that shows a hand writing “Ishmael” on the right and a robot hand on the left writing “Call me.” Underneath is the headline “Is It wrong to write a book with A.I.?” By Joshua Rothman.

An excerpt of the article that reads, “If the creation of fiction is a layered endeavor—if premise, plot, style, and so on are to some extent separable—then must all the layers be made by the same individual?"

If the creation of an article is a layered endeavor—if purpose, content, structure, and so on are to some extent separable—then maybe you’d like AI to replace YOU as a columnist at the New Yorker, Joshua

A poem titled, At My Aunt's Funeral, I Read in Her High School Senior Yearbook That She Hated Clichés, So I Decided to Take an Overused Phrase from the Service and Tell You a Story About Her The phrase in the middle reads, “She was a fighter.” "In the summer of my seventh year, I became fixated on water webbing sunlight at the bottom of a pool. 2We swam in my aunt's backyard—my sister, my cousin, and me. Aunt Sue didn't often join us. *She stayed inside and watched shows that featured possessed mothers, women's bodies drifting to a muddied shore, teenagers screaming for help from the bottom of a pit. Rhythmic almost, the same mistakes these characters made repeatedly, my aunt clicking on the lamp and muttering, I can't believe they did that, I can't believe they did that. Some years later, her liver would fail, and then her kidneys, and then her legs, too tired to take the stairs or pump in the breaststroke, and I could tell you why, but then I would be just like the pastor in his eulogy saying, fighter, warrior, a heart of gold. These days, I'm furious about the impasse of her life until I think of how one time-after I pushed my sister into the corner of a table—she told me she hit my dad in the head with a shovel when she was a child, blood dribbling in dark streams over his blond hair just after he'd been provoking her, and I wondered how she could make me feel so light despite my cold-blooded blunder, how I could feel like I was floating outside of the rubbery Intex in her backyard while we bonded over the horrors we had caused. Every question after that one drew me back to that feeling: How hard I could squeeze my lungs; how fervently I could kick my legs into a furor of foam. 1°How-if I prodded enough-fast my aunt could swim toward me if she was a shark, and we, the mermaids, fleeing from her jaws. "For a moment, she must have forgotten what was real and what was not. 12Gleaming placoid scales, her own lotus skin, molars-now-turned-serrated-teeth finding my …

I have a CNF piece about my aunt up at @whaleroadreview.bsky.social today. She unexpectedly died in November 2024. This is what I wanted to say about her at her funeral that I couldn’t: that I was so angry about how ppl spoke about her chronic illness, and how hard she made me laugh.

Go Artemis!

How is `jj op restore` different from `git rebase --abort` or `git restore`?

For context, I’ve only tried jj a bit, for big rebases and such I’ve continued to use Git purely out of FUD. Sounds like I should give it a real try.

happy tdov, nerds

Tabby cat sticking his head out of pink cat tree, with wide yellow eyes

This picture of my cat makes him look like a literal baby WTF!!!!!

Joey Carpinelli Far more repositories than intended. Far fewer blog posts than intended. The perfect amount of cats (two).

Wrote a bit about a small trick I've found while coordinating edits across multiple repositories.

Something I’ve never understood is why --first-parent doesn’t sufficiently “linearize” the history in GitHub et al.

We are excited to announce that we can successfully use Rust's std::thread on the GPU. This has never been done before.

www.vectorware.com/blog/threads...

Supporting Rust's std::thread enables existing Rust code to work on the GPU and makes GPU programming more ergonomic.

Unrelated but I’m curious — y’all are on Tangled and GitHub. Is one of those a mirror? Curious how that works as someone who’d be interested in syncing to both.

Tall glasses of ice cold 2% at The Federalist tonight.

I found much more success turning thinking off entirely for opus 4.6. Not sure what changed from previous versions

Simpler static dispatch on enum variants!

A screenshot of Tracey's dashboard view, showing a table of contents on the left, and a main pane showing a rendered markdown file with requirement annotations.

A popup context of a requirement that has highlighted the relevant test that is verifying a requirement

A "coverage" page showing impl and test coverage of various requirements

@fasterthanli.me is absolutely *cooking* with Tracey. I couldn't be more excited. Using this for a prototype IDL project for postcard, but it's so good I'd like to replace postcard's spec with one written in tracey (or really: just add annotations to the existing markdown+rs!)

tracey.bearcove.eu