Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
@bcantrill.bsky.social always offers great insights, and this episode with @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social (The Peterman Pod) is no different with some awesome stories from the industry trenches 🤠
Worth a listen 🤘
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhSL...
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.
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For Israel & the U.S. to go to war during Ramadan is also a message.
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
staying offline today, but all I'll say is:
Gaza was the test. Gaza was the precedent. Everyone that failed to speak out or condemn it is now seeing the cost of their silence.
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
🚀 Apache Iggy 0.7.0 is out! VSR consensus for clustering, LeftRight lock-free metadata, NUMA awareness, socket migration, and tons of SDK & connector improvements. Replication is coming!
iggy.apache.org/blogs/2026/0...
#iggy #rust #io_uring #vsr #apache #asf #streaming
BJP's Double-Engine Sanatan in action.
We should legislate identity portability for email addresses.
We have it for phone numbers, where the technical challenge was much greater. We should have it for email, too.
woohoo, my quickstart for Flink got added to the Iceberg docs 🎉
iceberg.apache.org/flink-quicks...
I’m still routinely intimated by some people in tech. Everything I publish gets negative comments to some degree. People telling me I’m dumbing stuff down too much, or I’m wrong about stuff and shouldn’t be writing about it.
Putting yourself out there eventually guarantees this will happen to you.
I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).
We are excited to announce that we can successfully use Rust's async/await on the GPU. This has never been done before.
www.vectorware.com/blog/async-a...
Supporting Rust's async/await (and futures) enables existing Rust code to work on the GPU and makes GPU programming more ergonomic.
Zero reaction from BJP on a CM's direct bigotry and hate-speech. In fact, the PM was in his state echoing him and giving it more legitimacy. That's how badly we have regressed.
I do not fear the rise of superintelligence.
I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.
🎉 JupyterLite is now part of Project Jupyter!
Run Jupyter notebooks directly in your browser: no server, no setup.
Many thanks to the JupyterLite contributors and supporters like QuantStack, Bloomberg and the Gates Foundation.
🔗 blog.jupyter.org/jupyterlite-...
Apache Arrow is 10 years old 🎉
The first git commit landed on 2016-02-05. Now Arrow has 10+ official implementations and a growing third-party ecosystem.
Read our celebratory blog post for some tidbits of Arrow history, and our outlook on the present and future.
arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/02...
Looks like "right wing groups" in India have been given a free hand by "high command" and told, "Jo uchit lage woh karo".
Sending my appreciation to the entire community behind @bsky.app
Political hate, now with AI. A BJP Assam post pushed a clip titled “point blank shot” showing Chief Minister Sarma firing at Muslim figures. This is how violence gets normalized .
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
How is it that some people in the US just lose their shit entirely just by being exposed to a "foreign" language? Weird sheltered lives.
FFS. I live in London. Firmly in the anglosphere. I hear a lot of different languages every single day.
Twitter died a long time ago and X isn't worth it. Before I made the jump, my ego was holding me back. I was too concerned with vanity metrics. I finally realized if you're posting stuff people want to follow, then they'll follow you, even when you leave. www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/k...
I was up till 3 AM forking go's crypto library.
Here's a fun lil debugging story for about why:
eieio.games/blog/ssh-sen...
Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
I just thought everyone should see this
This looks like a pan-India joke at the expense of Indian taxpayers: Indian States signing deals with Indian companies, for work in India, but in Davos, Switzerland.
