Crataegus Monogyna

[Crataegus Monogyna @mooneyjohn]

@anishmoonka Interesting question!

[Crataegus Monogyna @mooneyjohn]

@br0k3nsh0t @dhh It can if you put a skilled agent between user and OS. I haven't got a clue I just type cnix and a Claude code session comes up with the right context, I tell it to install something, tweak my wayland bar, build a custom feature... And everything is git tracked.

[Crataegus Monogyna @mooneyjohn]

@clairevo @elawless Bravo!

[gabsmashh @gabsmashh]

babe wake up, new term just dropped

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Killer whale mothers stop having calves in their thirties and then live another four decades. Biologists have long asked why an animal would spend half its life unable to reproduce. A study of 378 whales in PNAS found the answer in what happens after the grandmother dies.

Researchers used census records of northern and southern resident killer whales off Washington and British Columbia, running from the mid-1970s to 2016, and tracked calves whose maternal grandmothers were known. When a grandmother died, her grandcalves were significantly more likely to die in the two years that followed.

The size of that effect depended on something specific. Grandmothers who had already stopped breeding gave a bigger survival boost than grandmothers still having calves of their own. A whale who is still reproducing has less to give.

The effect was strongest when salmon were scarce. Older females lead the group when foraging in lean years, and decades of memory for where fish turn up becomes the thing keeping calves alive.

Humans and a handful of toothed whale species are the only mammals known to go through menopause. In both, females stay alive long past their last birth and stay useful. A 2016 study of semi-captive elephants in Myanmar found that calves born to young mothers had roughly eight times lower mortality risk when the grandmother lived alongside them, though elephants keep breeding into old age.

Menopause looks like a loss of function until you notice it comes bundled with an extra forty years. Evolution does not usually pay for four decades of nothing. In killer whales, the currency it buys is grandchildren who survive the bad salmon years.

https://t.co/pGDmwCKvVM

[William Meijer @williameijer]

Dummies miss patterns.
Shape rotators recognize true, replicable patterns.
Wordcels recognize patterns that only exist in the training data

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Iceland has a breed of sheep that nobody breeds for meat, because for a thousand years it has been bred for one quality only. Judgement.

They are called forystufe. Leader sheep. Taller, longer in the leg, narrower through the body, oddly marked, and always at the front, with their heads up while the rest of the flock has its head down. When they move, the flock moves. Nobody votes.

A proven leader sold for two or three times the price of a good sheep. Bloodlines became famous. When a great one died, the farm kept the head.

And the claim attached to them sounds like folklore until you read the records. They know the weather is coming, sometimes a full day out. If the leader will not leave the barn on a morning that looks perfectly fine, you do not move the flock. Farmers arranged their winters around the opinion of a sheep, and wrote it down as fact.

Autumn round-up, 1884. A large flock is being driven across the interior when a blizzard comes down on open sand and rock. Every landmark goes. You cannot pitch a tent on that ground and turning back is worse than going on.

At the front is a ram called Surtur, from Svinavatn, already known as a superior leader. The fjallkongur, the man running the round-up, makes a decision. He hands the whole thing to the sheep and tells his men to stay together.

A third of the way across, Surtur stops, turns, and walks back down through the flock to find the men. His face is packed solid with ice and he cannot see. They clear it. He returns to the front and walks back into the weather.

He comes back for the same service several more times that night. Nobody has to fetch him.

Then he stops and will not move at all. The men feel about and find grass under their boots, which tells them they are off the desert and nothing else whatsoever.

At dawn the storm eases and they work out where they are.

They are standing on the exact spot the round-up stops every year after crossing the sands. Surtur had halted there since he was a lamb. Afterwards the fjallkongur told his owner that without the ram, men would have died out there as well as sheep.

There are fewer than 1,500 leader sheep left, all of them descended from one district in the north east. Iceland recognised them as a breed of their own in 2017. There is a small museum out there, run by a local teacher, with the heads of the great ones on the wall and a coffee blend named after the animals. The saying on the wall is that if you wear clothes made from their wool, you will always find your way home.

Genetic work has since confirmed they really are distinct from every other Icelandic sheep. The folklore was right. Folklore usually is, out where the weather kills people.

No laboratory. No pedigree software. No genome. Just farmer after farmer, century after century, watching which animal was at the front when the light went, and breeding from that one.

A thousand years of selecting a sheep for its judgement, and at the end of it they built it a museum.

And here we are, in the country that calls them stupid.

[Khan Fatima @Khan_Fatimaa1]

🚨SHOCKING: PRESIDENT OF AUSTRIA ASKS ALL WOMEN TO WEAR A HIJAB 🧕

“With increasing Islamophobia- the day may come when all women are expected to wear headscarves as a gesture of solidarity with those who choose to wear them for religious reasons.”

Why are European leaders so mental?

[Crataegus Monogyna @mooneyjohn]

@IroncladDev I made the switch to NixOS a few months back, using it with niri tiling window manager too. I made a bash shortcut to run a Claude code instance with a NixOS skills+memory loaded. So I can chat to my OS to make changes easily. I have no time for directly faffing with nix config

[bebeal @bebeal]

I built a web tool that reads the measurements saved on the tape
you measure an object -> it models an aluminum extrusion frame sized around it -> it prints the cut list
so this is my workflow now for putting things (like a PC) on casters

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

On my second day at an American office I was asked to present to eleven people.

In my country a new man is silent for a season. He carries documents. He learns the shape of the room. He speaks in year two.

I had been in the building thirty one hours.

I prepared for six days. Forty one slides. I rehearsed standing up, in a conference room I booked at six in the morning, out loud, to nobody.

The night before, a woman named Priya sent me a message at 9:40 PM.

"Send me the deck real quick"

I sent forty one slides to a colleague at 9:40 at night. She had a child. I had seen the child on her desk.

To burden another with your own preparation is a debt of the deepest order.

I began composing an apology of appropriate weight. I got four sentences in.

She replied before I finished. "cut 12-19, they'll fight you on 22, say the number first then the reason not the other way around"

Then: "youre fine"

Then, eleven minutes later, with no prompting at all: "also Dan always asks about headcount. have that ready"

I did not know who Dan was.

The next morning a man asked about headcount.

I want to be extremely clear about what had occurred. A woman I had spoken to twice had, at ten o'clock at night, from her home, in a language of no capital letters, told me the future.

The presentation went well. That is not the story.

The story is what happened while it went well.

I said something imprecise about a timeline. Nobody corrected me.

Instead a man across the table said, "So to build on that," and then said the correct thing, as though it were mine, as though he were agreeing with me, as though I had said it and he was merely extending it.

He took my error, wore it briefly, and set it down somewhere it could not hurt me.

Nobody in that room acknowledged this had happened. Eleven people watched a man do that and eleven people did nothing, because it was not an event.

A blade is not tested on the man who cannot yet lift one.

Afterward I attempted to thank him. This is where I made my mistake.

I thanked him formally. I used his full name. I referenced the specific moment.

He looked genuinely uncomfortable, the way a man looks when you compliment his shoes for too long.

He said, "Oh. Yeah, no worries, man."

Then he changed the subject to a parking situation.

He would not let me place the debt. He refused delivery.

I have watched for it since. I have been watching for eight months.

It happens constantly. It happens in every meeting in this building. Somebody says a wrong thing and somebody else says "building on that" and repairs it in flight, and the wrong thing simply never existed.

They do it for interns. They do it for a man who has been here nineteen years. They did it last week for a director, and the person who did it earns less than half of what he does.

Nobody has ever named this out loud. There is no policy. It is not in the handbook. I checked the handbook.

In my country the senior man is protected and the new man endures. Here the room protects whoever is currently exposed, and rank is not consulted.

Last month a new engineer joined. Twenty four years old. First job. He said a number in a meeting and the number was wrong.

I heard myself say, "So building on that."

I did not decide to say it. It came out already assembled.

He looked at me afterward and started to thank me, formally, with my full name, referencing the specific moment.

I told him about a parking situation.

Priya still texts at 9:40 at night. She sent me one on Tuesday about a meeting I was not nervous about.

I have never told her what she did that first night.

I do not think she remembers it.

I am fairly sure it was Tuesday for her, too.

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Someone 'accused' me of vibe coding the LFRR simulator.
I've been coding since 1982, I've hand assembled machine code, injected fixes into running processes, worked on software that's made it to Mars and worked as a software developer for decades.
OF COURSE I USED AI CODE TOOLS

[Praveen Kumar Verma @Alacritic_Super]

What if you could design PCBs by talking to an AI?

That's exactly what KiCAD MCP Server enables.

It connects AI assistants to KiCad through the MCP, allowing natural-language PCB design workflows.

What it can do 👇

- Create and manage KiCad projects
- Generate and edit schematics
- Place and organize components
- Route PCB traces (including Freerouting integration)
- Run ERC and DRC checks
- Create custom symbols and footprints
- Manage reusable component libraries
- Search JLCPCB parts with pricing and availability
- Export Gerbers, PDFs, BOMs, and manufacturing files
- Capture snapshots and maintain session history
- Works across Windows, Linux & mac

Imagine saying:
"Design an ESP32 sensor board with USB-C, an IMU, LiPo charging, and I²C headers."

...and letting AI generate the first draft before you review and refine it.

[colin burke 🇮🇪 @colindotfun]

@juanbuis but have you considered

brownie-an motion

[DHH @dhh]

Standing by our principles back in 2021, and not caving to the woke mob, remains one of the proudest achievements in my career. And you don't forget the (very) few who came forward to help. Thank you again, @pmarca (and @tobi and @patrickc) 🙏

[mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer]

Probably no point in training infantry after 2030, they’ll just be a tactical and operational liability

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a report directing federal research funding toward individual scientists and AI use rather than universities, per WSJ.

The directives will shape about $200B in annual federal R&D spending.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

GDP is £3.3 trillion so that’s £23 billion a year.

The annual budget of NASA is about £18 billion.

We could have the stars…

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Decels committing crimes against Kardashev scaling