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[Archdiocese of New York @NY_Arch]

Alleluia!!!

[FIFA World Cup 26 Philadelphia™ @FWC26Philly]

Ecuador hasn't lost a game in nearly two years. Côte d'Ivoire just beat the No. 1 ranked team in the world.

The FIFA World Cup makes its debut in Philadelphia Stadium with the tournament's most underrated matchup.

@LaTri x @EquipeNatCIV

[FIFA World Cup 26 Philadelphia™ @FWC26Philly]

Philly was insane tonight 🇺🇸

Rockin' from start to finish at #FIFAFanFestival for the @USMNT opening match win!

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@6Gems @PitheadChapel Congratulations!

[Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 @celinegounder]

Europe Got This Sunscreen in 2000. America Just Caught Up.
Europeans have used bemotrizinol since 2000. It took a reform hidden in the 2020 COVID relief bill for Americans to get it, and a decade of advocacy before that.
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[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Dennis Ritchie invented C in 1972, co-built Unix in 1969, and his code is running inside every device you are reading this on right now and the colleague who announced his death had to do it through a Google+ post because no journalist thought to check.

He worked at Bell Labs in New Jersey for 44 years. He never gave a keynote. He never ran a company. He never appeared on a magazine cover. He just wrote code that became the invisible foundation everything else is built on.

Here is what he actually built, and why it matters more than almost anything that happened in tech.

In 1969, Bell Labs had just walked away from one of the most ambitious computing projects in history. The Multics project, a joint effort between MIT, Bell Labs, and General Electric, had collapsed under its own weight. Too complex. Too expensive. Too slow. Bell Labs pulled out.

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie refused to let the ideas die.

Working in a small office in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Thompson wrote the first version of Unix in three weeks during the summer of 1969. One week for the file system. One week for the process management. One week for the command shell. Ritchie was working alongside him, and when the system needed a language that could express what they were building, he built one.

In 1972 he completed C.

C was not just another programming language. It was a different philosophy about what a programming language should be. Before C, most systems code was written in assembly, which meant every program was tied to the specific hardware it ran on. You could not move code between machines. You rewrote it from scratch every time.

C changed that. It sat close enough to the hardware to be fast, but abstract enough to run on anything. When Thompson rewrote the Unix kernel in C in 1973, it became the first operating system that could be picked up and moved to a completely different machine without starting over. Portability was a new idea. Ritchie made it real.

The branching that followed is almost impossible to overstate.

Unix spread from Bell Labs to universities. At Berkeley, it became BSD. BSD became the foundation of macOS and iOS. Unix influenced Linus Torvalds, who built Linux in 1991. Linux now runs every Android phone, every major web server, every supercomputer on the Top500 list, and the overwhelming majority of cloud infrastructure at AWS, Google, and Microsoft.

C became the parent language of C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Objective-C. Rob Pike, who worked across the hall from Ritchie at Bell Labs for 20 years, said it plainly: "The browsers are written in C. The Unix kernel that the entire internet runs on is written in C. Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C."

Ritchie won the Turing Award in 1983. He won the National Medal of Technology in 1998, presented by President Clinton. He was head of System Software Research at Bell Labs for decades.

He answered emails from strangers with technical questions until the end of his life. His home address stayed listed in the phone book. His colleague Brian Kernighan, who co-authored the definitive C textbook with him, said Ritchie was a private person who did no self-salesmanship. That was not false modesty. It was just who he was.

He died on October 12, 2011, at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He was 70. He had been ill for some time. The world did not notice until Rob Pike posted a quiet announcement on Google+, and the news spread through the programming community in hushed tones.

No front pages. No tributes from heads of state. No candlelight vigils outside corporate campuses.

The device you are reading this on runs code that traces directly back to what he built. So does the server that delivered it to you. So does the browser or app you opened to get here.

Most people will never know his name.

The ones who built everything you use every day do.

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@Above96th Fantastic photo- so detailed!

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@FrGoyo Happy Anniversary, Father!

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Amateur sleuth exposes basic blunder in scores of cancer studies - The Times of London https://t.co/lspnzvJNdR

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@Above96th Love this!

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@TheTennisLetter @itsgaallopes ❤️❤️ Guga!!!

[Western People @WesternPeople]

Monaghan v Mayo: Date, time, team news and TV details
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[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Novak Djokovic on his loss to Fonseca at Roland Garros, ‘It was just amazing from his side… I don’t think I’ve done too much wrong with my game. He was just better’

“Incredible match to be part of. Tough one for me to lose being two sets to love up. But huge credit for João for really deserving to win the match. He without a doubt was the better player in the important moments, in those crucial 4th and 5th… some amazing exchanges and points and he just found incredible shots, lines. It was just amazing from his side. Obviously not great for me to be facing a player playing such a level. I don’t think I’ve done too much wrong with my game. He was just better.”

(via Roland Garros Press)

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@kevinroose @fsgbooks Looking forward to this!!!

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@Above96th @BirdCentralPark He’s beautiful!

[Secretary of the Army @SecArmy]

From the very beginning, this nation has been defended by ordinary Americans willing to answer an extraordinary call to serve. Memorial Day is a reminder that our freedoms were paid for by Soldiers who gave everything, and by the families who carry that sacrifice long after the battlefield falls silent. Today we pause to remember the fallen, honor the Gold Star Families who keep their memory alive, and recommit ourselves to never letting their legacy fade with time.
This We’ll Defend.

[Sammy P @spshoot]

Nostalgia is the key to picking the @OscarMayer Wienie 500 winner. I got mine, do you? @IndyCar @IMS https://t.co/vt4GYiykbM

[Billie Jean King @BillieJeanKing]

A day 60+ years in the making.

It is with great pride and so much gratitude that I share with you that I am a college graduate with a Bachelor's in History from @CalStateLA.

There aren't words adequate enough to encapsulate all that I am feeling in this moment, so I'll simply say this:

It is never too late to learn, to grow, or to chase the dream that still quietly calls your name. Life has a way of rerouting our paths and asking us to begin again when we least expect it.

But the dream does not expire simply because time has passed.

Whether you're 18 or 82, your goals are still worthy of pursuit.

Keep going for it. Keep believing in yourself. And never let anyone convince you that your moment has passed. Because sometimes the most meaningful victories arrive after the longest journeys.

📷: @CalStateLA

#Classof2026

[Delco Times @delcotimes]

Cassidy brothers no longer live in Delco but Delco lives in them and their Phillygoat line of T-shirts keeps influencing fan culture.

[City of Philadelphia @PhiladelphiaGov]

Big news from @SEPTAPHILLY!

There will be increased services on the Broad Street Line and additional services for bus routes to the @FWC26Philly Fan Fest at Lemon Hill.

➕Complimentary rides back from NRG Station beginning at half-time of each match, thanks to @Airbnb.