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Introducing gpt-oss gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models

New open models from OpenAI:

openai.com/index/introd...

#ai #gpt #oss

HP Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu For beginning readers And At The Mountains of Madness

Got a couple new kids’ books…

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.

They’ve gotta allow full water.

I heard felons are openly hanging out on rooftops today in DC!

We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.

Talking about this tomorrow with @davidgiard.bsky.social for technology and friends

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie is 20 years old.

Having to pay a decent amount in taxes is actually a good problem to have.

Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax' Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.

1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state.

2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible.

www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

a man is sitting in a car with a group of women and says `` that 's bait . '' ALT: a man is sitting in a car with a group of women and says `` that 's bait . ''

Well done ;)

Your overthinking it :)

This is a good change for #aspnetcore #dotnet API endpoints

github.com/aspnet/Annou...

📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.”

Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:

Palestine Emergency Appeal Help Save Lives in Palestine — Islamic Relief Is on the Ground Providing Life-Saving Aid. Support vulnerable families today

I have 45 signed copies of the DevOps Handbook to give away. DM me with a receipt for US$100 or more (any currency!) to any of the following charities supporting Palestinians dated today with your address.

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What a real hacker takes to DEF CON! #realhacker #defcon #cybersecurity

If you've been following our Supercharged Sagas series, Kyle shows us how to test sagas using #NServiceBus with NServiceBus.Testing.

Learn more:
https://blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/supercharged-sagas-unit-testing-strategies/
#SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareArchitecture #Sagas

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”

Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

Dune, 1965

Bella is the real MVP

Shocked. Who could have predicted this?

Oh, right.

Sad

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

1 in 4 of all UK Nobel Prize winners were born overseas.

Ashamed of how funny I still find this

Have you heard of .NET Aspire but aren't sure how it'll help you? It makes it easy to containerize apps and their dependencies!

Be sure to check out Barret Blake's .NET Aspire talk at #CincyDeliver!

https://www.cincydeliver.org/Sessions/Details/5530

#dotnet #DistributedApps

They are pro-corruption, so of course they did.

This is a video of a bear on a trampoline. Whatever argument you may or may not have tonight is invalid.

Seeing Cyndi Lauper (can’t find an official BlueSky account for her) at Blossom Music Center tonight with @mickeyme.bsky.social 🎶🎵🎤🎸