I realized today that the whole concept of the vampire—across centuries and even in modern stories like Talamasca—may be built on antisemitic coding: blood libel, the cursed wanderer, the secretive outsider, the one who “feeds” on the host society. I never saw it before, and it genuinely unsettles me. It’s painful to recognize how deeply this old prejudice has been woven into something we thought was just fantasy.

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The worst programmer I ever knew was a good programmer. More likely you're stupid and incompetent to judge. I mean, his code was good. What made him the worst programmer I ever knew was stubbornness. He wrote the wrong thing, and never, ever turned back. He had a particular task that was daunting, so he met it with a dauntingly complex solution. One aspect of this solution was a new BASIC-like programming language (compiled to C via lex and yacc) that knew how to undo all of its commands at any time. It could receive an interrupt from the user that caused it to reverse execution back through commands, up and down the call stack, undoing everything along the way, until it reached a "stop back tracking" command. He spent months alone on it and the fact that it worked as well as it did is a tribute to his brilliance.

Unfortunately an exec saw it in an incomplete state and fell in love with it. Next thing he knew he had two weeks to deliver it. He tried his best to fix it up, but as soon as people started using it the bug reports started piling up. It had lots and lots of weird, non-deterministic bugs. They threw more people at it (that's when I came in), but in the end it drove him insane.

He stopped coming to work, stopped answering his phone. No one heard from him for weeks. I spoke with him months later and he said he just quit being a programmer. I spent a month trying to fix/figure out what the code was doing. I looked everywhere I could think of for information about languages designed to reverse execution direction. (All I found was a mailing list devoted to hypothetical CPUs with an unused mirror CPU that does the opposite of what the used CPU does, all so they can use transistors that are like electron see-saws instead of electron cliff divers, which would result in virtually no power consumption or heat, but conjures the spooky image of an evil negaverse lurking in the CPU running MicrosoftWord's evil twin... - Wouldn't that be Word's good twin? - anyway, back to my story.

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The so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), backed by the US and Israel and complicit in war crimes, announced the end of its operations in the Gaza Strip.

During the mission, it was like a death trap for Palestinian aid seekers. Circulated footage shows horrific moments as people tried to get food for their families. They were shot at intensively; hundreds were killed and thousands were severely injured.

"The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) today announced the successful completion of its emergency mission in Gaza after delivering more than 187 million free meals directly to civilians living in Gaza," the group said in a statement.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

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Can't wait for the patch notes.

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#Belgium braced for three-day national #strike over budget cuts

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Belgium faces major transport disruptions as well as closures of schools and public services during a three-day strike starting Monday to protest the government's proposed spending cuts and labour law changes.

"Don't be nervous"
"Don't cry"

I don't know if this is a #hottake but these are all shitty things to say, especially to children.

Let them be nervous, let them cry. And especially don't laugh because that creates shame and tells them they should hide those feelings instead. I have memories of this from my childhood and every time I see a parent laugh when a kid cries I get a little upset.

Smile and hug them instead, even if it seems silly for them to have these feelings.

THE BIG RIP
$50 Trillion

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Over the past 40 years, the rules of economics were quietly rewritten—leaving hard working Americans behind. This short documentary uncovers how economic lies, greedflation, and rigged policies led to a disappearing middle class, stolen wages, and a broken American Dream. It’s not about working harder—it’s about understanding how the system was designed to keep you stuck...

#TheBigRip #Theft #America #Documented #WealthTransfer #USA #Crime

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Dr. Ismail al-Thawabta, Director-General of the Government Media Office in Gaza, said that Israel’s own published data reveals a deliberate starvation policy in the Gaza Strip.

He explained that the 1.4 million meals reported by the Israeli Coordinator cover only a little over half of Gaza’s population, leaving nearly one million people without any meal, while total food entering the Strip remains far below minimum humanitarian needs.

He noted that the reported distribution of 3.5 million loaves of bread provides only about 1.5 loaves per person per day, and that November’s food parcels represent only a small portion of what families require monthly.

These figures, he said, show that Israel is restricting Gaza’s food supply in violation of humanitarian obligations and the ceasefire protocol, resulting in widespread deprivation affecting 2.4 million Palestinians, including over one million children.

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Sana, a seven-month-old girl, is living with her mother and two brothers after her father, journalist Yehya Subaih, was killed by Israeli occupation forces five hours after her birth on 7 May 2025. He spent only 15 minutes with her and was not able to choose her name.

The family remains displaced and facing an uncertain future as they continue to endure the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza.

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Fishermen in Gaza catch some sharks despite the ongoing Israeli restrictions and the reduction of fishing areas from 12 miles to only 6 miles during the war.

Fishermen are constantly subjected to attacks by the Israeli naval forces, the most recent of which was the abduction of three fishermen off Gaza coast and throwing another one in the water after firing at their boats and prevented them from fishing.

The difficulty and risks of fishing in the Gaza Sea have driven up the price of fish for local consumers, with prices now exceeding more than three times what they were before the war.

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@alexchapman@db.seedy.cc Its not like Bookshare, its literally a thing to like display what you're reading or have finished reading, games you've played, movies and shows and so on. If you wanna know more, as this is not a thing we just made, this is an instance kinda like Mastodon, but the main NeoDB website is neodb.net

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Well, this is a first. Today at Starbucks, I saw I had just over 100 reward “stars.” I asked to pay for the coffee, which would use 100 “stars.” Instead, they applied it to the handcrafted drink I also ordered, which cost 200 “stars.” When I checked my balance I saw I now have -80 “stars”! I am in debt in rewards points! I’m thinking of starting a new account, otherwise I’ll owe them “stars”! LOL

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Life update : YAY

So I expect that my financial situation will steady up slightly by next week. I get paid weekly, and that is super helpful. I can also see how much I made each week before I get my check. I love my job and my coworkers are nice and no one even gets under my skin.

I'm also very positive I'll be able to keep doing gigs with the company at other events after March and I actually won't be in such a horrible position anymore.

We are still broke as hell lol but it's like wow

This is obscene. The vile Shabana Mahmood has confirmed the new immigration rules will be retrospective.

"Under the incoming rules they will have to wait 20 years after they arrived before they can apply for settlement. It means more than 10,000 refugees who were set to qualify for settlement next year will now have to wait a further 15 years before they can settle"

#Refugees #UKPolitics #Racism

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“Shabana Mahmood was born in Birmingham, the daughter of Zubaida and Mahmood Ahmed. Her parents are of Pakistani origin with roots in Mirpur, Azad Kashmir. From 1981 to 1986 she lived with her family in Taif, Saudi Arabia, where her father worked as a civil engineer on desalination. After that, she was brought up in Birmingham,” where she learned ladder-pulling I suppose

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Marathon is already lining up another playtest in its sights, but there's still no inkling of a potential release date for the game.
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