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Why did the press ignore a gathering of the world's leading fascists? (Charles R. Davis/The Redoubt)
https://www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-press-ignore-a-gathering-of-the-worlds-leading-fascists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260601/p44#a260601p44

from my link log —
D as a C replacement.
https://theartofmachinery.com/2019/04/05/d_as_c_replacement.html
saved 2019-07-03 https://…

Just wrote a fun little algorithm for iterating through all grid positions within X euclidean distance from a center, roughly in order of distance but also mostly ensuring each position yielded is at least diagonally adjacent to the previous. It's a fun problem to think about with lots of design tradeoffs and many valid solutions.
My solution requires that the origin be on the grid (I think?) and uses a bunch of caching instead of a bajillion distance checks, although I don't actually know what the memory/speed tradeoff is like or whether there are any gains at all (could be net losses, which I'm starting to wonder about more as I write this post). Thankfully I don't expect performance to be very critical here anyways, and doing the caching actually helped separate some logic in a useful way.
A fun little diversion from bigger stuff in the project and a reminder of some of the joys of programming design at a small scope. Feels kinda like mastering the local town's minigame while you're stuck on the main quest in an RPG.
#programming

This is such a sweet story…
#bikeTooter #cycling

I Rode My First Gravel Race at 53 and Became a Cyclist on the Way
For Summer Russo, a self-described big-bodied rider who had never touched gravel, the path to riding 54 miles of Oklahoma red dirt at the 2026 Mid South gravel race began not with a plan, but with a heart that said yes before her mind could talk her out of it. At 53, with a 34-mile personal record to her name, Summer joined the All Bodies on Bikes gravel team – a program built on the radical premise that cycling belongs to every body – and discovered something she hadn't been looking for: h…

'Yesteryear,' a tradwife satire, understands Christianity better than most Americans
https://religionnews.com/2026/06/29/yesteryear-is-a-tradwife-satire-its-also-a-strikingly-accurate-portrait-of-american-religion/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Truthpaste:
🎵 Never Gonna Give
#Truthpaste
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/2FmKeSugXWcZMlhynAgONf

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Queens of the Stone Age:
🎵 Keep Your Eyes Peeled
#QueensoftheStoneAge
https://qotsa.bandcamp.com/track/keep-your-eyes-peeled
https://open.spotify.com/track/3NsalxTTrWTFPnIrUjl3Ze

OMG, I'm having a laugh with Opus 4.8. They trained it to be more honest, but now it's like Jim Carrey in Liar Liar. Earlier it was like "I accidentally deleted all the work I just did, but it's okay - I fixed it." And now it's admitting every little mistake it makes. It's hilarious.

'Yesteryear,' a bestselling novel about tradwives, is spot on about American religion
https://religionnews.com/2026/06/29/yesteryear-is-a-tradwife-satire-its-also-a-strikingly-accurate-portrait-of-american-religion/

"The Renowned and Truthful Chronicle of All the World's Events is one of the various rags published each day in Turai."
#Thraxas #bookstodon