@jpm I have been pulling kgs and kgs of tomatoes off my plants and I cannot for the life of me figure out how they got to soup

📝 I blame the hyperscalers for the IPv4-first mindset https://jasminchen.dev/articles/2026/hyperscalers-ipv4-first-mindset/

Citadel Securities Added 60 People in Asia, Half in Hong Kong
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-21/citadel-securities-added-60-people-in-asia-half-in-hong-kong?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Emerging Markets @emerging-markets-bloomberg

@ami_angelwings Jernau Morat Gurgeh, from Iain M. Banks' "The Player of Games".

An expert in games of all types, they are sent to an alien planet which the Culture wishes to teach a lesson in ... well, *culture*. The civilisation is brutally repressive, racist and misogynistic and organises itself around a great game. Winning the ultimate tournament gives one the right to become emperor of the empire.

As racists tend to be, the Azad believe it impossible for any lesser race to win the game at even moderate levels, let alone the tournament. Gurgeh's job, of course, is to humiliate them by winning.

There is a story within a story as well, which you might figure out before the reveal, but will give you a big 'oof' when you do either way. The Culture is a post-scarcity anarchosyndicate which in short means anyone can have whatever they want whenever they want it, so citizens often make elaborate multi-level schemes to keep themselves occupied.

@evan I really enjoyed the early time in this poll where everyone was choosing answer 1 or answer 4, neatly dividing ourselves into perverts (affectionate) and non-perverts (neutral).

Like, let's be clear right - we do know he WOULD cheat if he could, don't we? They did after all try a coup, they are after all rigging elections so Black people's votes don't count.

So it's not really a case of "he would never do that." It's really just a question of "can he do that" right?

The Lord of Loud with some cars in the 1980s

#guitar

It’s feels like all of society are in a collective mass psychosis greed pyramid scheme right now.

I assume it felt like this in May of 1929.

GET EQUIPPED WITH

LEFTOVER
NOODLES

@mastodonmigration
He’s a serial grifter and can’t control his urges.

Who called it an "AI Therapist" and not "Freudian Slop?"
h/t @AgnesBC

@quixoticgeek Xero Shoes sandals.

@hipsterelectron

@hipsterelectron I have several pieces in this series. This one looks even more like crystal formation.

Ignore that this is a link to my shop. Its the first link to the image I thought of: https://www.artatomic.io/product/sticker-blue-boxes/19

@sundogplanets

Ooh! Llamas!! 👍

I want to know how someone could possibly look at a tomato and think “that would be amazing to drink - hot”

@stevendb @lockdownsystems Thank you!!

I coach a youth robotics team.
The robots are programmed in #Java, on the #Android ecosystem.

Looking for suggestions for good, short courses in Java suitable for high-school aged humans (15 to 18). Paid courses are fine too.

I'm looking for practical, "do some short assignments" type of course so that keen students can get up to speed quickly.

(Java is NOT my choice here, and I personally don't love it as a teaching language but making the robot do stuff is very motivating!)

it's not at all true that everything is a file. everything is data dependencies https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/116608838850901028