Mahmoud Hashemi @mahmoud@qoto.org

Coming out of the cave https://sedimental.org/what_i_ve_been_up_to_in_2025.html

So if nominative determinism has any sway, feeling somewhat #blessed. Not a bad thing to reside in Byzantium while the other half of the empire falls...

Fun #California history for y'all. I'd assumed the Golden Gate was named after the Gold Rush, but the name predates the rush by a year. Instead, it's named after the Golden Horn:

> The name first appeared in his Geographical Memoir, submitted to the U.S. Senate on June 5, 1848, when he wrote, “to this Gate I gave the name of “Chrysopylae” or “Golden Gate” for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn.”

@glyph a few news cycles back, zuck unveiled a makeover (new hair, casual youthful clothes, tan? Can't recall). People made fun of him for wearing a gold chain. It all did look pretty out of place given his established public persona. It sounds like a committee put their tongues in their cheeks to make a reference whose moment has passed. We're into the ai Grinch era now.

This talk was completely unexpected and totally next level. Any other #python #packaging talks getting on Peter Wang's level? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA7NVwmx3gw

Even when I skip the CFP, I still land on screen. Thanks for the shoutout, Peter Wang! #pybay #python

@luis_in_brief slowly starting to roll out more, but for now old-fashioned's the best way. Shoot me an email and I'll send you a link :)

@luis_in_brief @glyph More to your point, the "needed healthcare" cuts both ways. There are those who went corporate/proprietary when they didn't need to and those who didn't who practically should have. That's one of the biggest reasons motivating my current project: helping people help each other live fuller, more open lives with means they might not have realized they had.

@luis_in_brief @glyph Love the spirit, but for the record, not a great counterfactual. Unfortunately, Gore was more openly hawkish on Iraq than Bush, even: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/why-al-gore-would-have-invaded-iraq-and-what-it-tells-us-about-syria/article14105322/

There's this little recurring theme in Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht that sounds just like Yoko Kanno's Rush (from Cowboy Bebop) [2]. Coincidence or connection?

[1]: https://youtu.be/5h5Xc-rUef4?t=479 and https://youtu.be/5h5Xc-rUef4?t=514
[2]: https://youtu.be/XtxsYF4e3uM?t=151

@pganssle this exact thing happened to me months ago. Kind of mindblowing that it's still happening. I think I ended up foregoing the trial and buying credits.

@pganssle original Dragonball may have kid Goku, but there's a lot most contemporary American parents wouldn't consider kid appropriate. 😅 The theme song is Mina's fave rn tho

@pganssle chuffed or chafed?