Mauro Tortonesi

Don't mind these losers. Congratulations! Ad maiora!

Important takeaway: I'm never going to apologize for a typo in an email again.

Watson’s death is a fantastic reminder that you can be intelligent without being a good person.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Elon Musk's legacy, perhaps more than any person in the Trump administration, will be of wanton, deliberate mass murder on an unimaginable scale

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Tuba girls meme: users getting blasted with “AI”

Software in 2025

👏👏👏👏👏👏

But @ioquatix.bsky.social's sus is even better! 😉https://github.com/socketry/sus

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

The iPhone 16 Pro's A19 chip just took the #1 spot for single-thread performance on the planet

Not "for a phone" or "in its class"

Just straight up faster than Intel's best desktop CPUs

Wide cores + dedicated cache + really good branch prediction. Apple's playing a different game at this point

#Java peers...Find out what #JDK enhancement proposals have been integrated in #JDK25 since #JDK21:

openjdk.org/projects/jdk...

Men would rather tear down an entire open source ecosystem than going to therapy

Night Watch is truly a masterpiece. Arguably the best book I've ever read.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but magic doesn’t exist.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a strip mall psychic or a Silicon Valley bro trying to sell it to you.

I used to love the USA. It's so sad to witness what's going on over there.

Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.

This is hard-core and deserves respect.

gaultier.github.io/blog/x11_x64...

Actually, it's only piracy when resource-constrained individuals do it for personal use. Otherwise it's called sparkling intelligence, when billionaires do it for profit.

I have a dream…

That one day people will care about children the way they care about embryos.

Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?” Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.” Snowy is very excited about the drink he has found.

a man sitting in front of a microphone with the words i agree entirely above him Alt: Neil Degrasse Tyson sitting in front of a microphone saying "I agree entirely"

Great post!

I’m a proud CRUD monkey Web pages aren’t that different from what they were in the late ’90s, early 2000s. They’re still just forms. They still just write to databases. A lot of people, I think, are very uncomfortable with t...

"We must fight for a fast web, or it’ll remain a total mess."

kyrylo.org/software/202...

Calvin: I read that scientists are trying to make computers that think. Calvin: Isn’t that weird?? If computers can think, what will people be better at than machines? Hobbes: Irrational behavior. Calvin: Maybe they’ll invent a psychotic computer.

he was right

we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid