Ian Coldwater makes a statement before the Minneapolis City Council. They wear a black knit hat and a vintage KubeCon EU 2019 (Barcelona!) t-shirt - a shirt which some of you also probably have in a drawer. The lower third from this livestream says: March 03, 2026 Committee of the Whole Temporary pre-eviction notice extension ordinance lims.minneapolismn.gov

Powerful statement earlier today from @lookitup.baby in support of a pause in evictions for Minneapolis families in this time of crisis.

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a stop sign on a lonely corner. it says "STOP" with "ICE" plastered on beneath it. a fire hydrant in the foreground ruims the composition

to everyone whose nervous systems are absolutely shot from the reality of living in mpls the last few months: try to get outside today. soak the sun, listen to birds, talk to your neighbors, feel the wind.

healing starts with you. when you're ready, extend out.

remember to love yourself.

breathe!

Announcing Bear & Glass, Apple workflow consulting - BrettTerpstra.com I’ve mentioned before that what I really wanted out of my career was to be a consultant, especially in automation and efficiency on Mac and iOS, for teams and small-to-medium size businesses…

Lately on the blog: Announcing Bear & Glass, Apple workflow consulting

https://brettterpstra.com/2025/10/31/announcing-bear-and-glass/?utm_campaign=blog_post&utm_source=mastodon

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Pinterest CEO rebukes, fires 'obstructionist' employees who created tool to track layoffs Pinterest CEO Bill Ready lashed out at staffers who created an internal tool to track layoffs at the company, and fired those involved.

Nothing says the beatings will continue until moral improves like laying off the people who built a tool to track layoffs at the company.

Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership

watch us, bitch

How to Make Package Managers Scream @ FOSDEM'26 - Kenneth Hoste YouTube video by Kenneth Hoste

The recording of my "How to Make Package Managers Scream" talk at FOSDEM'26 is now available, enjoy!

youtu.be/PBlDHlFnzGo

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Use the (direct action) force.

Stand With Minnesota A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

Want to help support people in Minnesota right now? Check out standwithminnesota.com

Non-masked MN National Guard are out handing out hot chocolate, coffee and donuts to protesters. One simple act has de-escalated the situation and helped gain the trust of people. See the difference between professional soldiers and the pretend tough guys in CBP and ICE?

Anyone else have any connections at NASA to speak about that library being disposed of and if the internet archive can help find a home?

New blog post! Riffing on Sean Goedecke’s recent post on why you can’t design software you don’t work on.

A digital illustration styled to look like an embroidered fabric patch or cross-stitch. The text reads 'TWO YEARS OF WORD GAMES' in the center, with '2025' at the bottom and 'AMAN V. RHEA' in the top right. The background is a checkered pattern of colored squares (green, yellow, gray, purple, and blue), mimicking the color palettes of Wordle and Connections.

A scatter plot titled 'CROSSWORD TIMES' comparing daily Mini Crossword completion times over two years. The chart uses a pixelated aesthetic. Aman's data (left, in blue) shows a widely scattered distribution with a trend line hovering between 1 and 1.5 minutes, and includes a high outlier labeled 'Legendary bad Saturday.' Rhea's data (right, in red) is much more tightly clustered near the bottom, with a trend line consistently sitting around or below the 1-minute mark.

A waffle chart titled 'WINS IN A DAY' displays the percentage of days when each player achieved 0, 1, 2, or 3 wins (a 'Sweep'). Aman's grid is dominated by '1 win' (yellow) and '0 wins' (beige), with only a few red squares representing a Sweep. Rhea's grid is much more colorful, featuring large blocks of '2 wins' (green) and a significant number of 'Sweep' (red) squares.

An infographic titled 'CONNECTIONS: Who flops, clutches, or cracks purple?'. A table shows Aman has a slightly higher perfect game rate (30%) than Rhea (29%). Below, a horizontal bar chart compares specific play styles: Aman is more likely to play 'By The Book' (solving in exact order, 13%) and 'Total Flop' (losing all attempts, 6%). Rhea is significantly more likely to 'Clutch' (win with 3 mistakes made, 17%) and solve 'Purple First' (cracking the hardest category first, 8% vs Aman's 3%)

Rhea and I have been tracking our @nytimes.com word games (Wordle, Connections and the Mini) for the past two years. I decided to analyze our 4,200 gameplays with #rstats to determine a winner and made some festively embroidered charts with ggplot. Have a read. #dataviz

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Smarter, Not Faster: The Storage Reality Hidden in 85,000 AI Checkpoints - VAST Data Stop chasing multi-terabyte-per-second performance for your global storage. Focus on "checkpoint overlap," not raw bandwidth. Invest your budget in what matters most: GPUs.

Very last minute, but I'm giving a talk online tomorrow (Thurs Dec 18) about my analysis of over 85K model training checkpoints and implications for system design. Punchline is "less bandwidth makes training go faster."

Registration required: www.vastdata.com/events/vast-...

#AI #storage

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Great question, @glennklockwood.com! Here’s the AI Factory Lego set I left #SC25 with. I hope this answers your questions. 🤪😂

That’s rough. Take care and get well soon! Sorry it happens at an event!

Steam Machine and Steam Frame: your questions answered There’s a lot to dig into.

Here is our Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Controller ultimate FAQ.

@jaypeters.net and I put our heads (and some extra Valve answers) together. If you've got more Qs let us know!

www.theverge.com/games/820293...

1000% more useful than all the info valve itself has put out there about these three new devices

Blender Development Fund Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
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Andreas Dilger is now working for The Lustre Collective (thelustrecollective.com) after leaving DDN. I am glad to see his leadership continue to drive Lustre into the future. Say what you will about it, Lustre is the standard to which every other #HPC file system is compared.

#SC25

👀 ICYMI: Exciting news from #ORNL today, not one but two supercomputers headed our way...! ⚡️⚡️

Read more about #OLCF 's #Discovery and #Lux supercomputers here 👉 www.olcf.ornl.gov/2025/10/27/o...

And check out this video for a hashtag#Discovery sneak peek 🤩: vimeo.com/1130587062

#HPC #AI

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Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain of the Loyola University Chicago men’s basketball team who shot to fame during the school’s Cinderella run to the Final Four in 2018, has died at the age of 106.