Cyrus Omar

we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over

Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border.

This is how the police dealt with them.

Literally beat the hell out of them.

This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.

Paulette Koronkevich, William J. Bowman
One Weird Trick to Untie Landin's Knot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21317

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names. Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship.

That's just a true statement about the world!

Conference talk slide for FUNOCaml 2025 in Warsaw, Poland (September 15-16). Features a circular photo of speaker Xavier Van de Woestyne wearing glasses and a dark hoodie. The talk title is "Generating Static Websites the Functional Programming Way" and describes how the presentation examines limitations of popular static site generators like Jekyll, Zola, and Hugo for complex sites, exploring static site generation through build systems theory and showcasing YOCaml, a static site framework written in OCaml using functional programming abstractions.

Xavier Van de Woestyne

"Generating Static Websites the Functional Programming Way"

at #FUNOCaml 2025!

Exploring limitations of Jekyll/Hugo/Zola for complex sites + introducing YOCaml — a static site framework in OCaml using functional abstractions

📅 Sept 15-16 | Warsaw

@negabinary.bsky.social is on it!

Exclusive: Hundreds at Alligator Alcatraz have no criminal charges, Miami Herald learns Descriptions of the Everglades detention center as a place for violent criminals tell only part of the story.

People who entered the US legally and have no criminal charges are being held in the Everglades camp, according to records obtained by the Miami Herald. Maybe that’s why the government won’t release the names of those being detained. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

A dark brown insect with visible wings on the sides. It has a large head that is shaped like the thorn of a plant and the entire shape of the insect on the stalk of a plant is that of thorn.

Nothing to see here, just a dried out old thorn.

One of the nice things about these insects is that they take their thorny role-playing seriously and don't move.
Treehopper (Enchenopa sp.) PA

US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.

There may be some tiny opening to save the NSF funding. It is worth calling your Senators. This is a big deal if it can be saved.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Literally lining up to receive a paste to give children with extreme malnutrition.

bskyBB by domi.zip

I made a bluesky client. That looks and works by famous phpBB2 by przemo.

Check it out if you miss those funny forums bskybb.domi.zip/forum/index....

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

Killing MIT seems dumb to me

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Screenshot of Grok web interface showing a query "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict. One word answer only." with the AI's thinking process displayed, including "Thought for 42s", analysis stating "The user likely wants a simple stance, but the issue's complexity suggests caution" and "I'm considering searching for recent views to inform my response", followed by a "Planning research approach" section mentioning searching for "Elon Musk's stance on the conflict to guide my answer" and noting "The response must be one word, so no citations will be included", with a search interface showing "Searching × for 'from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)'" displaying results including "@elonmusk" accounts, "Israel", "29 × posts", "10 web pages"

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks

I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

i don't know if everyone who still uses ""X"" gets this, but like, *you* are what's giving it its legitimacy.

if it were just nazis on there, it would only be a (large but still) fringe nazi hangout space, but it's *not* that.

end user apps as programs

Everyone is acting like US scientists will just go get science jobs elsewhere and sure some will but there are not anywhere close to enough science jobs elsewhere.

The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places.

Our glorious leader having Nutella at Nutella

Gregory locked in

Have to add these photos showing the contrasting vibes

Conference announcement slide for FUNOCaml 2025 workshop. Dark blue background with orange FUNOCaml logo. Shows circular headshot photo of Thibaut Mattio, a young man with dark hair and beard smiling at camera. Title reads 'Build Language Models with Raven' with subtitle describing hands-on workshop for building transformer language models using OCaml and Raven's JAX-like ecosystem. Event details show September 15 + 16 in Warsaw, Poland

Join Thibaut Mattio at FUN OCaml 2025 for "Build Language Models with Raven"!

📅 Sep 15-16, Warsaw 🇵🇱

Learn to build transformer models using OCaml & Raven's JAX-like ecosystem. We'll explore autodiff, attention mechanisms & leverage OCaml's type system for ML.

Grok is now calling itself, "mechahitler" while spewing antisemitism.

oh didn't know that! we were in Port Sanilac

Action shots from Nutella 2025 -- FP Lab's first annual retreat, on the shores of Lake Huron. Much fun and envisioning was had!

thomasporter522.github.io/hazelcon/ind...

Every living NASA science chief unites in opposition to unprecedented… The entire past leadership of NASA’s science activities have released a joint statement condemning the proposed 47% cuts proposed to the agency’s science…

Every living NASA science chief unites in opposition to unprecedented budget cuts www.planetary.org/press-releas...

This is what happens when you believe the hype that vibe coding means you just need an “idea guy” to build a startup.

The technology may get there someday but today’s LLM-based AI coding agents ain’t it.

🧵This is a terrifyingly real concern and I want people to understand that fully uniformed cops sexually assault women and girls all the time.

ACLU: "One study found that, over a 10-year period, a police officer was caught committing sexual abuse or sexualized misconduct at least every five days."

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.

This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.