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Nathan L.

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I write code and code accessories in the 🍎 fruit mines.

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Home improvement pro tip: Imagine how much spray foam you need. No. You need less than that. No. Still less. Stop. Oh god, it's expanding. This is a disaster.

28.09.2025 02:40 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
By The Editorial Board

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.

A founding principle of the United States, enshrined in the Constitution’s opening amendment, is that our republic depends on citizens’ freedom to disagree with one another. They need to be able to do so intensely, on matters of life and death, including war and divisive modern issues like abortion, gun safety and health insurance. There are limits to free speech, yes, but they involve edge cases, like shouting fire in a theater or inciting an imminent act of violence. If the American ideal of freedom means anything, it is that Americans can engage in an extremely wide range of political speech, including the tasteless and the offensive.

By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. A founding principle of the United States, enshrined in the Constitution’s opening amendment, is that our republic depends on citizens’ freedom to disagree with one another. They need to be able to do so intensely, on matters of life and death, including war and divisive modern issues like abortion, gun safety and health insurance. There are limits to free speech, yes, but they involve edge cases, like shouting fire in a theater or inciting an imminent act of violence. If the American ideal of freedom means anything, it is that Americans can engage in an extremely wide range of political speech, including the tasteless and the offensive.

Hey @nytimes.com, do you have literally *any* First Amendment experts on staff, because this is embarrassing.

Glad you're speaking up about this, but feels like you should... not make basic mistakes like this?

cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

19.09.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 1092 πŸ” 171 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 18

Michael Eisner publicly attacking Bob Iger is crazy, what year is it

19.09.2025 19:19 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0
Storylords (entire series)
Storylords (entire series) Storylords is a 1984 low-budget live-action instructional television series shown on educational and PBS member stations in the United States, often during instructional television blocks. It was produced at the University of Wisconsin-Stout for the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. Holy Camole! Storylords consists of twelve 15-minute programs which focus on building reading comprehension strategies through the use of fantasy. The storyline consists of a young boy named Norbert who has been apprenticed by Lexor - an old Storylord from the land of Mojuste - to defend Mojuste's citizens against the wicked Storylord, Thorzuul. Thorzuul seeks to turn all of those who can't understand what they read into stone statues for his collection. EPISODES: 01 - Activating Prior Knowledge Before Reading 00:00:00 02 - Connecting What You Know With What's On The Page 00:14:48 03 - Knowing When You Don't Know (In Your Head) 00:29:06 04 - Knowing When You Don't Know (On The Page) 00:42:58 05 - Directed Reading-Thinking Activity 00:57:01 06 - Question-Answer Relationships 01:11:50 07 - Decoding Words in Context 01:25:56 08 - Inferring Word Meaning in Context 01:39:57 09 - Story Mapping 01:53:52 10 - Pronoun Anaphora 02:08:08 11 - Identifying Main Idea and Details 02:22:56 12 - Integrating Comprehension Strategies 02:36:57 MAIN CAST: Colm O'Reilly - Norbert Tanya Tiffany - Mandy Mike Nelms - Jason Karin Worthley - Mrs Framish Alexis Lauren - Lexor Larry Laird - Thorzuul Dennis Fenichel - Milkbreath Thunder and Lightning, Trumpets and Drums. Readers Rejoice! A Storylord Comes!

I genuinely thought this might be lost media until 30 seconds ago.

youtu.be/sv14ETGOHdc?si=iofa5...

19.09.2025 07:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"$25k MRR in 30 days!"

Ok, cool (maybe), but lemme know how many people unsubscribe or charge back on month two of their $20/month app that asks Google to draw fake abs on their selfie.

17.09.2025 00:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The man sitting next to me on the Metro is reading a printout of the "Tariff" Wikipedia page

03.04.2025 21:20 πŸ‘ 8104 πŸ” 670 πŸ’¬ 204 πŸ“Œ 128

"Nathan why are you spending so much time thinking about cassoulet?"

Well why aren't you spending any?

24.12.2024 03:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can't block Team Snapchat

I tried

12.12.2024 23:51 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I know I seem to be totally alone here, but "this movie about how a young woman is bullied by all her friends and then she learns her hero is actually a fascist dictator needed brighter colors" is just a strange concept to me.

01.12.2024 05:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In the middle of tonight's Simpsons parody of Fahrenheit 451, set in a dystopian future where people are forced to watch overly complicated prestige TV dramas, this happened. I am still processing it.

25.11.2024 01:41 πŸ‘ 6373 πŸ” 331 πŸ’¬ 194 πŸ“Œ 27

Give me back my phone.

25.11.2024 03:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

NPR’s increasingly toothless coverage of US politics that felt increasingly divorced from any relationship with the truth, over paranoia that it would be seen as biased, was the biggest thing that pushed me to question why I worked in news at all.

24.11.2024 23:14 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What's crazy is, considering how expensive everything was, I have no idea if these are even good numbers

24.11.2024 21:58 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

We’ll try to keep it always working well then, haha.

If you filed a feedback for this crash, I’d love the feedback number so I can make sure it’s on our priorities, if it’s not already fixed.

21.11.2024 20:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Xcode 16.2 Beta 3 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.

Xcode 16.2 Beta 3 is out and includes significant enhancements for Predictive Code Completion β€”Β check it out: developer.apple.com/documentatio...

21.11.2024 04:26 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Political cartoon showing a line of dominos. The first one is labeled Trans Rights and has a blue-pink-white trans flag painted on it and is tilting. Three people (representing a trans man, trans woman, and person wearing rainbow colors) are pushing back to keep it from falling. Behind it the second domino is labeled "Gay Rights" and "Freedom of Expression" and has a couple, one member of who is pulling the other from behind the domino and walking towards the first domino. The 3rd one "Women's Rights" and "Free Love", a woman is pointing and shouting to rally others behind the domino to come forwards, the 4th one " Free Speech" and "Democracy" and has people peering out from behind it as well as two people running forwards with a piece of lumber, the 5th one "Freedom of Religion" and "Modernity", and has a few people nervously peeking out from behind it, the 6th one is "Literacy". Dominos 7-10 are unlabeled and faded out in the background.  

Text on bottom: "United we stand, Divided we fall"

Political cartoon showing a line of dominos. The first one is labeled Trans Rights and has a blue-pink-white trans flag painted on it and is tilting. Three people (representing a trans man, trans woman, and person wearing rainbow colors) are pushing back to keep it from falling. Behind it the second domino is labeled "Gay Rights" and "Freedom of Expression" and has a couple, one member of who is pulling the other from behind the domino and walking towards the first domino. The 3rd one "Women's Rights" and "Free Love", a woman is pointing and shouting to rally others behind the domino to come forwards, the 4th one " Free Speech" and "Democracy" and has people peering out from behind it as well as two people running forwards with a piece of lumber, the 5th one "Freedom of Religion" and "Modernity", and has a few people nervously peeking out from behind it, the 6th one is "Literacy". Dominos 7-10 are unlabeled and faded out in the background. Text on bottom: "United we stand, Divided we fall"

United we stand, divided we fall.

18.11.2024 08:05 πŸ‘ 15227 πŸ” 5932 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 90
The Dragon Book (compilers) cover with the dragon swapped out with the LLVM dragon. Art contains references to technical phrases used in the LLVM community (NFC commits, Address Sanitizer, SSA form).

Art by Jessica Paquette in 2018

The Dragon Book (compilers) cover with the dragon swapped out with the LLVM dragon. Art contains references to technical phrases used in the LLVM community (NFC commits, Address Sanitizer, SSA form). Art by Jessica Paquette in 2018

oh yeah I never posted this classic here

18.11.2024 13:31 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

I would like to think I'm a relatively stable person but in truth all it takes to disarm me completely and leave me reeling and in denial is to witness a normal human being voluntarily entering and eating at a Subway restaurant.

27.07.2023 04:13 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google is changing up search. What does that mean for news publishers? A shift to AI-generated search results will decrease the traffic that Google sends to publishers' sites, as more people get what they need straight from the Google search page instead.

Something very strange is happening to the Web. Finding something from the past on search engines is eroding. Atemporality replaced by an immediate, constantly vanishing, consumerist hyper-present. What we thought was an infinite Borges-ian library turning into Amazon checkout with a ticking clock…

09.07.2023 19:47 πŸ‘ 1134 πŸ” 430 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 94

In the Queer Rapture, your children will be left behind

09.07.2023 03:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No offense, but who in their right mind looks at what happened to Twitter over the last 7 months and says "yup, I'm gonna trust those people with my money..."

05.07.2023 21:46 πŸ‘ 913 πŸ” 164 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 16

My β€œYour Network” list is already stuffed with names that fill me with dread, so this app might have legs

04.07.2023 02:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OpenAI APIs are slowly becoming the world’s largest honeypot for people who think they can β€œcreate value” without any meaningful insight or actual effort.

04.07.2023 02:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0