Jason Madden

The "anti-woke" forces on a Texas school board have a new target: A poster that implies interracial friendship is possible. This isn't a one-off. The long term agenda of the "anti-woke" movement shows that the goal is undoing a century of progress. salon.com/2023/08/14/new…

Hear ye! Hear ye! THE FINAL SEASON of Matt Groening's DISENCHANTMENT - featuring Bean's epic conclusion - premieres September 1st, only on Netflix.

Souvenir hunters are haunting the Beetlejuice II movie set in Vermont. Police are investigating two thefts, one of a large lamppost topped with a distinctive pumpkin decoration and the other a 150-pound abstract art piece. apne.ws/vR0mKtF

We’re celebrating 50 years of animation at the Official 50th Star Trek Animated Celebration panel! ✨ #StarTrek #StarTrekTAS #StarTrekSDCC bit.ly/StarTrekSanDie…

@TweetDeck Oh, and @tweetdeck dropped Teams support? WTH?! How am I supposed to tweet as @gevent and @relstorage now?

Well @tweetdeck officially sucks now. Not only is the UI worse in every way, but the functionality is broken. No more real-time streaming columns, no more "Activity" column. Real-time tweets about, e.g., weather warnings matter!

gevent 23.7 has been released, featuring initial Python 3.12 support, and fixing some CVEs in the bundled version of c-ares. This release also bids a fond farewell to Python 2.7 support. The minimum required Python is now 3.8 gevent.org/changelog.html

Same-sex sociosexual behaviour is widespread and heritable in male rhesus macaques: It is frequent, can evolve, and is not costly, indicating that SSB may be a common feature of primate reproductive ecology By @EwanFlintham et al. nature.com/articles/s4155…

This is a real place. It's a village in the Netherlands called Bourtange (population: 430) built in and around an 18th century star fort. How and why does it exist? That's where things get interesting...

From Sotomayor's dissent: "Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class."

The RelStorage team is pleased to announce the release of RelStorage 4.0a1, which adds support for Python 3.12 and removes support for end-of-life Python versions. #ZODB

"Don't ingest the alpha source!" was a running gag among us kids, and became the camp motto printed on our T-shirts. (Ingesting an alpha source is really bad.)

From a science camp: You have an ɑ, β and ɣ source. You must hold one, put one in your pocket, and eat one. What do you do? A: Hold the ɑ (can't penetrate skin), β in pocket (can't penetrate fabric), and eat the ɣ (if it's that close, you're !#$! anyway) epa.gov/radiation/radi…

Khaaaannn!!! I mean, Nooooooo!

That time Korean fishermen pulled a 32-legged octopus from the ocean, off the coasts of South Korea [read more: buff.ly/3R2ECcI]

The greenlet project is pleased to announce the release of greenlet-3.0a1, featuring support for Python 3.12b3. This release drops support for legacy Python versions (2.7, 3.5 and 3.6) and compilers. It is otherwise a drop-in update for 2.0. Changes: #a1-2023-06-21" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">greenlet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/chan…

If you're unable to create a majestic monolith with basic programming tools like encapsulation and namespaces, you don't have what it takes to improve upon the situation with a distributed swarm of microservices. Your spaghetti code will just be on five different plates.

Return to BABYLON 5 as the epic interstellar saga continues! #B5AnimatedMovie

Read "other side" to mean whatever you want. This was only about doing your duty as a citizen, no matter how you vote, but apparently politics is advesarial now...

There are over 50,000 registered voters in my city. You know how many of them showed up to Tuesday's election? Less than 10%! This is why the nutjobs on the other side run away with thing. You have to show up and vote people! Citizenship has responsibilities as well as rights.