https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260614012006.htm
oh my brain is so smooth, polished clean by the constant stream of horrors combining war crimes with the stupidest time to be a programmer ever
I feel if you put a little hole in my ear brain would just run of like water. I'm not stressed, I'm unable to feel anything but stress, for the last many years. it's like constantly being inside tiktok with press but it never ends it never pops it just compresses further and further until there's just nothing. only silly jokes
Your brain was never designed for this much bad news
Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.
Tonight Putin bombed the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra cathedral, a unique UNESCO World Heritage site, built in the year 1051.
How much more will we tolerate before we send the devil back to hell?
Deep geeking here. Got a c++ wxWidgets class to load the spec of a dialog box from an xrc file and show it. Then, I finally got the same thing running in Erlang! I'm very new to wxWidgets, Erlang, and xrc files, so this is great progress for the day, and a needed proof-of-concept for future work. :D
A federal judge tosses out the indictment charging Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man mistakenly deported by the Trump administration last year, with human smuggling.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-charges-dismissed-indictment-judge/
Judge tosses federal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
A federal district judge granted Kilmar Abrego Garcia's motion to dismiss two criminal charges on the grounds his prosecution was vindictive and selective.
I've also been reading up on Erlang. I've been playing with wxWidgets for a C++ UI framework, and the Erlang distribution has wxWidgets built in, and easy-and-safe concurrency and distributed processing. Anyone have thoughts or experience with Erlang?
Love the idea of cheap-and-safe concurrency and distributed processing, as well as a REPL (that I really liked from LISP explorations).
Today, I made progress on doing a frontside on a low ledge. First, neither foot moved. Then the right one, and then back to none. Then the right one twice, and back to no movement twice.
<fast forward 20 more tries>
The right foot moves 1 foot, the left an inch or two.
<fast forward through more failures>
The right moves a foot, the left nearly as much
<fast forward through more failures>
Three at-least-6-inch moves on both feet
Wow, this is quite sick.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment_climate/594922/government-changes-climate-law-to-prevent-lawsuits Frankly, fuck polluting corporations that shirk the real cost of their pollution, as well as the Coalition who clearly don't represent the best interests of the people of Aotearoa. If it's incompatible with humanity and a viable planet, it shouldn't be a thing. Corporations need a lot of humbling. They don't have a right to exist.
Government changes climate law to prevent lawsuits
Mike Smith, whose case has now been blocked, says the move is unprecedented, while other activists are calling it a "shocking abuse of power".
Regarding creativity, stop chasing original ideas...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hQLp2Cl49Q
Stop chasing original ideas—here’s what actually makes you creative
I decided to write a networking library in C++, because using Godot got boring. After weeks, I'm really tempted to play with Go, because C++ has so many footguns and my feet hurt and are riddled with holes.
Attacks on VPNs are, at their core, attacks on the tools that enable digital privacy. Utah is setting a precedent that prioritizes government control over the fundamental architecture of a private and secure internet, and it won’t stop at the state’s borders.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/utahs-new-law-regulating-vpns-goes-effect-next-week
Utah’s New Law Targeting VPNs Goes Into Effect May 6th
Update, May 11, 2026: Utah has agreed to not enforce the VPN law until Sept. 3, 2026 after Aylo, the parent company of Pornub.com, challenged the law in court.For the last couple of years, we’ve watched the same predictable cycle play out across the globe: a state (or country) passes a clunky age-...
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