Nathaniel Ledford (@nateledford.com)

The Closest Miles Davis Ever Came To Playing Free Jazz Plus: James Brandon Lewis and the Messthetics rock out.

The long-awaited reissue of the 'Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965' box set captures Miles Davis edging close to free jazz for a surprising reason.

Plus: the best jazz releases of the month, including a rocked-out new one from the Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis.

23.02.2026 15:36 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

09.02.2026 02:11 👍 25093 🔁 5881 💬 104 📌 50

Lo único más poderoso que el odio, es el amor.

The only thing more powerful than hate is love.

09.02.2026 01:36 👍 393 🔁 130 💬 2 📌 9

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

03.02.2026 00:30 👍 23321 🔁 11636 💬 287 📌 230

Screenshot showing that r/Conservative, noted bastion of free/awful speech, is now ranked just one above us in weekly visitor numbers.

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

01.02.2026 19:53 👍 2445 🔁 501 💬 22 📌 35

Fake Trump post claiming only criminals carry guns on 'our streets' spreads online after Alex Pretti shooting People online shared the exact same screenshot of the alleged post, a clear indication it was a fabrication.

❌ A screenshot doesn't show a real Trump post claiming only criminals carry guns on "our streets." Look out for the fake post, which spread online after Border Patrol agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis: www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

26.01.2026 20:34 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2

A biography of Frederick Douglass

Seems as good a week as any to start reading this. #NowReading #BookSky

20.01.2026 16:21 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Game alert: 49ers-Seahawks delayed to 8:20pm ET due to Buffalo-Denver going into overtime.

18.01.2026 01:00 👍 22 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1

Trumps main problem is that he hasn't been told to fuck off often enough.

16.01.2026 17:12 👍 1007 🔁 124 💬 55 📌 10

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

09.01.2026 19:49 👍 14126 🔁 3742 💬 146 📌 203

Your 2025 wasn't quiet, here's the proof. #Playback25 is OUT NOW ▶︎ https://t.co/7B3LDbxzRh

02.01.2026 00:23 👍 57 🔁 14 💬 7 📌 15

01.01.2026 16:31 👍 483 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 2

Rush Anna of the North BAND-MAID TWICE Green Day

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Rush (14) Anna of the North (9) BAND-MAID (8) TWICE (7) Green Day (5). #myweekcounted 209 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

28.12.2025 17:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump Assures Wall Street He’ll Go Back To Just Fucking Over Poor People Soon

Trump Assures Wall Street He’ll Go Back To Just Fucking Over Poor People Soon https://theonion.com/trump-assures-wall-street-hell-go-back-to-just-fucking-over-poor-people-soon/

27.12.2025 21:15 👍 1729 🔁 231 💬 24 📌 0

BAND-MAID Rush Mutemath Green Day Alestorm

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: BAND-MAID (31) Rush (30) Mutemath (21) Green Day (14) Alestorm (12). #myweekcounted 408 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

21.12.2025 17:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

17.12.2025 19:18 👍 4238 🔁 1965 💬 124 📌 93

Ditching music algorithms? Here are 12 streaming alternatives to explore If you're looking to shake things up in the new year, these streaming platforms will help you diversify your music-listening habits.

If you're looking to shake things up in the new year, these streaming platforms will help you diversify your music-listening habits. n.pr/3MFVckn

17.12.2025 00:38 👍 205 🔁 50 💬 13 📌 11

KC has been eliminated from playoff contention.

With the KC loss, KC has been eliminated from playoff contention.

14.12.2025 21:15 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 10

Rush BAND-MAID Green Day Mutemath TWICE

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Rush (36) BAND-MAID (16) Green Day (16) Mutemath (13) TWICE (8). #myweekcounted 318 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

14.12.2025 17:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On this date in 1979, @theclash.com - 'London Calling' was released.

📈 #2 for 1979, #136 overall

rateyourmusic.com/release/albu...

14.12.2025 16:00 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

Announcing Rust 1.92.0 The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.92.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via `rustup`, you can get 1.92.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don't have it already, you can get `rustup` from the appropriate page on our website, and check out the detailed release notes for 1.92.0. If you'd like to help us out by testing future releases, you might consider updating locally to use the beta channel (`rustup default beta`) or the nightly channel (`rustup default nightly`). Please report any bugs you might come across! ## What's in 1.92.0 stable ### Deny-by-default never type lints The language and compiler teams continue to work on stabilization of the never type. In this release the `never_type_fallback_flowing_into_unsafe` and `dependency_on_unit_never_type_fallback` future compatibility lints were made deny-by-default, meaning they will cause a compilation error when detected. It's worth noting that while this can result in compilation errors, it is still a _lint;_ these lints can all be `#[allow]`ed. These lints also will only fire when building the affected crates directly, not when they are built as dependencies (though a warning will be reported by Cargo in such cases). These lints detect code which is likely to be broken by the never type stabilization. It is highly advised to fix them if they are reported in your crate graph. We believe there to be approximately 500 crates affected by this lint. Despite that, we believe this to be acceptable, as lints are not a breaking change and it will allow for stabilizing the never type in the future. For more in-depth justification, see the Language Team's assessment. ### `unused_must_use` no longer warns about `Result<(), UninhabitedType>` Rust's `unused_must_use` lint warns when ignoring the return value of a function, if the function or its return type is annotated with `#[must_use]`. For instance, this warns if ignoring a return type of `Result`, to remind you to use `?`, or something like `.expect("...")`. However, some functions return `Result`, but the error type they use is not actually "inhabited", meaning you cannot construct any values of that type (e.g. the `!` or `Infallible` types). The `unused_must_use` lint now no longer warns on `Result<(), UninhabitedType>`, or on `ControlFlow<UninhabitedType, ()>`. For instance, it will not warn on `Result<(), Infallible>`. This avoids having to check for an error that can never happen. use core::convert::Infallible; fn can_never_fail() -> Result<(), Infallible> { // ... Ok(()) } fn main() { can_never_fail(); } This is particularly useful with the common pattern of a trait with an associated error type, where the error type may _sometimes_ be infallible: trait UsesAssocErrorType { type Error; fn method(&self) -> Result<(), Self::Error>; } struct CannotFail; impl UsesAssocErrorType for CannotFail { type Error = core::convert::Infallible; fn method(&self) -> Result<(), Self::Error> { Ok(()) } } struct CanFail; impl UsesAssocErrorType for CanFail { type Error = std::io::Error; fn method(&self) -> Result<(), Self::Error> { Err(std::io::Error::other("something went wrong")) } } fn main() { CannotFail.method(); // No warning CanFail.method(); // Warning: unused `Result` that must be used } ### Emit unwind tables even when `-Cpanic=abort` is enabled on linux Backtraces with `-Cpanic=abort` previously worked in Rust 1.22 but were broken in Rust 1.23, as we stopped emitting unwind tables with `-Cpanic=abort`. In Rust 1.45 a workaround in the form of `-Cforce-unwind-tables=yes` was stabilized. In Rust 1.92 unwind tables will be emitted by default even when `-Cpanic=abort` is specified, allowing for backtraces to work properly. If unwind tables are not desired then users should use `-Cforce-unwind-tables=no` to explicitly disable them being emitted. ### Validate input to `#[macro_export]` Over the past few releases, many changes were made to the way built-in attributes are processed in the compiler. This should greatly improve the error messages and warnings Rust gives for built-in attributes and especially make these diagnostics more consistent among all of the over 100 built-in attributes. To give a small example, in this release specifically, Rust became stricter in checking what arguments are allowed to `macro_export` by upgrading that check to a "deny-by-default lint" that will be reported in dependencies. ### Stabilized APIs * `NonZero<u{N}>::div_ceil` * `Location::file_as_c_str` * `RwLockWriteGuard::downgrade` * `Box::new_zeroed` * `Box::new_zeroed_slice` * `Rc::new_zeroed` * `Rc::new_zeroed_slice` * `Arc::new_zeroed` * `Arc::new_zeroed_slice` * `btree_map::Entry::insert_entry` * `btree_map::VacantEntry::insert_entry` * `impl Extend<proc_macro::Group> for proc_macro::TokenStream` * `impl Extend<proc_macro::Literal> for proc_macro::TokenStream` * `impl Extend<proc_macro::Punct> for proc_macro::TokenStream` * `impl Extend<proc_macro::Ident> for proc_macro::TokenStream` These previously stable APIs are now stable in const contexts: * `<[_]>::rotate_left` * `<[_]>::rotate_right` ### Other changes Check out everything that changed in Rust, Cargo, and Clippy. ## Contributors to 1.92.0 Many people came together to create Rust 1.92.0. We couldn't have done it without all of you. Thanks!

11.12.2025 00:00 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

BAND-MAID Rush Green Day Hannah Diamond NiziU

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: BAND-MAID (58) Rush (34) Green Day (31) Hannah Diamond (14) NiziU (14). #myweekcounted 401 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

07.12.2025 17:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can you power your computer by typing? YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

Can you power your computer by typing?

What the latest What If? video in collaboration with
@minuteearth.bsky.social!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L44...

02.12.2025 21:06 👍 1038 🔁 121 💬 22 📌 12

#ICYMI: Quad9 will be discontinuing support within DNS-over-HTTPS (DOH) using HTTP/1.1 in just 2 weeks!

#infosec

01.12.2025 16:49 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Since it's another NFL Sunday on Bluesky the sports app, I thought I'd share this excellent football starter pack created by @minakimes.bsky.social: go.bsky.app/8RH6KbH

30.11.2025 15:26 👍 189 🔁 53 💬 13 📌 2

Rush NiziU BAND-MAID Mutemath Angel Vivaldi

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Rush (14) NiziU (11) BAND-MAID (6) Mutemath (5) Angel Vivaldi (4). #myweekcounted 201 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

30.11.2025 17:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

she's heartbroken

27.11.2025 17:31 👍 293 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 3

DHS Privacy Release Form If you or a loved one has an open order of removal or are worried about getting picked up by ICE, consider filling out this

As holiday travel picks up, we have heard reports of travelers being detained by DHS.

If you are a NY-14 constituent worried about detention, consider filling out an ICE privacy release form. This form allows my office to contact ICE on your behalf ⬇️
bit.ly/dhsprivacyform

26.11.2025 18:08 👍 667 🔁 323 💬 19 📌 9

The US White House has announced it has eliminated the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE.

23.11.2025 23:15 👍 250 🔁 47 💬 36 📌 30

Green Day BAND-MAID Rush TWICE ITZY

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Green Day (27) BAND-MAID (18) Rush (14) TWICE (13) ITZY (11). #myweekcounted 357 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue

23.11.2025 17:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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