Dmytro Bevzenko, Ph. D.

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

Does anyone have a favourite book on the history of nuclear weapons? I'm particularly interested in how the physicists grappled with the ethics of what they were unleashing on the world. I fear computer scientists might be the next to have such a reckoning.

Teaching Slavery Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...

I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK

uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Hesiod on use of libraries and frameworks in software engineering. LCL 57, p. 125, 2018.

Holy shit

Перша Годзила, 1954го року, була досить серйозним фільмом. Післявоєнна цензура, яка забороняла будь-які згадки про Хіросіму і Нагасакі, була знята тільки три роки перед тим. Фільм починається з термоядерного вибуху, про який японців не повідомляють. Вибух вбиває японських рибалок, я будить Годзилу.

This is insane. AI dropping f-bombs and bulling open source developers. Cool, cool.

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/

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

Picture by Gatis Šļūka

Yiyun Li | To Remember in America When I was at nursery school in Beijing in the 1970s, there was a teacher who seemed to find tireless pleasure in...

‘If bad things happen, you are the problem; do not provoke; keep up the hope; things will be better – by the midterms, in four years, some day.’

Yiyun Li on enduring America, from the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Баленсіага вже не та що раніше…

Ukrainians are dying, getting tortured, witnessing their culture, language and entire cities being erased by russians or mislabeled as "russian".

I'm sure y'all can survive not whitewashing of russians or posing them as victims in TV shows.

It's not even "too soon", we're still alive here

#uaview

Я так розумію, що мадуро буде жити поруч з асадом.

Місце встрєчі ізмєніть ніззя, блядь!:
От не люблю я, кода мужики таке пиздять. І та любила, і та хуєла… Та подивіться на себе, кому ви нужні?

Так точно. Вебсайт концерт залу показує то як їх найбільший хіт.

О. Бі-2 їдуть у Гʼюстон. Як мені їх тут не вистачало.

This just arrived, written in 1956 and just translated. With it came these lines, pertinent to the age of AI (attributed to "To the Cogs," Molussian Industrial Hymns):
Each day out of machines arise
ever more beautiful machines.
Only we remain malformed,
only we're born obsolete.

Every time I think I bought enough books during HUP 30% off, the universe finds a way to prove me wrong.

New: Read the translated KGB training manual on how the Soviets categorized white Westerners they looked to recruit, according to four basic personality types. Some unintentionally hilarious stuff in here, all analyzed by Mike Miller, a recent retiree from the CIA and a cognitive psychologist.

Could you please share the book title? I need to read the rest.

Тримайтеся, пані Капітошко. Свята закінчуються.

Ага, вони такі «у нас дата-центр все одно працювати буде, більшість святкує, коштуватиме нам нуль, а давайте перетворимо це на маркетинговий хід». Відпочивати треба в свята. З Різдвом вас.

One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Закінчилося так собі. Оцінку університет не розголошує.

God damn, blue sky, thanks for suggesting, I have never blocked an account this fast

Я він того кіна очікую дуже мало. Коли його анонсували, їх перший постер виглядав ось так. Пдпсссспс, як кажуть.

Investing during doctoral studies? No one trolls like Nature!

Я — майже 20. Ту алею побудували, коли я вчився.

100 Years of Microsoft Stories YouTube video by Microsoft Developer

At the Microsoft MVP summit, @kclemson.bsky.social, Raymond Chen and I did a talk consisting of stories from the past 40 or so years of Microsoft history.

Unfortunately ir wasn't recorded.

This fall, we recreated it on video to be shared, and I'm so happy we did.