from my link log —
Typeclasses vs Modules.
https://sm2n.ca/articles/typeclasses-vs-modules/
saved 2026-10-03 https://dotat.at/:…
‘They slammed their M16s against his skull’:
-- inside the film about Amy Goodman’s fearless reporting
As "Steal This Story, Please!" charts her astonishing reports on everything from climate summits to earthquakes to massacres,
Goodman talks about dissent, censorship – and her ‘magic moments'
👉 "I consider an exclusive a failure,”
Amy Goodman says.
It is not a typical observation for a journalist to make,
but it is the approach a…
I feel like every time https://mydialect.us becomes a trend here I get completely different results saying the same shit. I've never even been to the southern or western halves of America
"So you're telling me that this spoiled take-out rice *really* sparks joy?", he meowed at me, and I had to admit that he had a point. #CatsOfMastodon #FridgeCat
The morning after, I'm thinking about how the US didn't just lose the game against Belgium, but also lost the reputation boost that hosting countries typically enjoy.
Russia and Qatar leveraged their World Cups as sportswashing... a ball-and-cup trick swapping a troubled record for a month of hope and unity. Whatever the world thought of them going in, the spectacle helped to rewrite it.
The US blundered that same opportunity with a phone call. 🧵
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Academia is so cooked.
I'm constantly getting emails for courses like this one, which promises to teach you to use GenAI to (a) come up with survey items, and (b) to then *validate* those items. Step (a) is bad enough, but then step (b), which typically involves asking humans to take the survey and then using sophisticated techniques to make sure it's measuring what you want it to, is replaced by piping the survey into the computer and treating the output text as meanigful res…
Washington’s battleground 3rd District is a high priority for both parties.
The district went for President Trump in 2024 while reelecting moderate Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
Gluesenkamp Perez, a centrist who was first elected narrowly in 2022 and has made a name for herself by sometimes breaking with her party,
successfully fended off primary challengers on Tuesday to advance to the November ballot.
Republican Braun, a retired Navy captain, won the other sp…