Are we now at that point where these people over the next two years till the 2029 election will protest while they will pretend to protest for protecting the vote they will actually want to seek a mandate through violence because perhaps they know that that's their best opportunity? 'The likes of Neha Bora and Prashant Bhushan, they want a revolution, let them have it' @Tushar15 Watch #TheHardFacts# with @RShivshankar #NehaBora# #PrashantBhushan# #Protest# #RahulGandhi#

China has hills that look painted. They’re outside Zhangye in Gansu Province, where bands of red, orange, yellow and gray run across the landscape. Early or late in the day, the colors can look almost unreal. They aren’t. The hills formed over tens of millions of years as layers of sediment built up, were pushed and tilted by tectonic forces, then slowly worn down by wind and rain. The famous striped hills are part of the Zhangye Danxia landforms, but the area doesn’t all look the same. Nearby Binggou Danxia is rougher and more dramatic, with formations that look like walls, towers and cliffs. The setting matters too. Zhangye sits along the old Hexi Corridor, one of the main routes that connected China with Central Asia along the Silk Road. People, goods and ideas moved through this region for centuries. So when you visit, you’re looking at more than colorful rock. You’re standing in a place shaped by geology over millions of years and by human movement for a very long time after that. That’s the kind of place I like writing about in the Timeless Traveler newsletter. It catches your eye first, then gives you a reason to keep thinking about it. Subscribe if that sounds like your kind of travel.

Explaining to my daughter that her mom and I watch different TV shows Daughter: Does she watch stuff without you? Me: Some. She likes The Biggest Loser. Do you know that that is? Daughter: Um.... is it you?

.@RepLuna says that that based on internal conversations, she believes a historic peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is on the horizon: “Some people didn't want the peace deal in Iran to work. That's too bad for them. It's going to hold up. And we're going to get the peace deal with Russia and Ukraine and that will be President Trump's legacy. A lot of people are going to be upset about that in Congress because they're not going to be making too much money anymore on their stock portfolios. But that's too bad. That's not what the plan is. And so, I'm happy that President Trump is at the helm, and what I will say is that a lot of people can speculate, but they don’t actually know what's happening with internal conversations.”

It isn't unexpected that the focus of the Bun Rust rewrite is on the anti-Zig side more than anything, since the internet loves to hate. What is unexpected and unfortunate is that leadership within Bun hasn't tried to steer the conversation away from that at all. There are so many positive and interesting takeaways from this and I'm not really seeing any of them pushed as the primary message. A positive thing that hasn't been talked about at all is how far Bun came thanks to Zig. And even if you dump it now, its meaningful for how good Zig was to even build a product to this point and impact by any metric. I would've loved to see anyone in leadership say this. On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Programming languages used to be LOCK IN, and they're increasingly not so. You think the Bun rewrite in Rust is good for Rust? Bun has shown they can be in probably any language they want in roughly a week or two. Rust is expendable. Its useful until its not then it can be thrown out. That's interesting! There's been a lot of talk about memory safety and no doubt Rust provides more guarantees than Zig. But I'd love to see a better analysis of why Bun in particular suffered so much rather than take the language-blame path. How could engineering as a practice been more rigorous to prevent this? What were the largest sources of crashes other programs should watch out for? How does Rust prevent them? How could Zig theoretically prevent them? That's interesting. I know the official blog post hasn't come out yet from Bun. But they're smart enough to know that that PR would stir up controversy the moment it opened, or they should've been. And plenty in the company have been tweeting and writing about it. Its somewhat telling to me in various dimensions what they chose to talk about first. I tend to think I'm pretty good at corporate PR/comms (especially when it comes to developer audiences) and I think appealing to the negative is never the right long term strategy; it does work to get short term eyes though.

Texas has a new governor and that that means for crypto and AI remains to be seen. No matter what, you'll need a way to monitor the situation, which is why Del is talking about @foremanmining this week. #MDMining#

Jim Cramer on $NBIS Nebius: “I think that that’s the kind of company that if you see $NVDA Nvidia going down like this, I can only tell you Nebius should be going down twice as fast. We have high quality tech stocks that go down every single day, and Nebius is not high quality.”

the feeling of being convinced that blessings are coming your way is inexplicable, and that delusional optimism fills you with overwhelming peace, joy, and excitement the secret is that that feeling is a choice you can decide at any moment to take the steering wheel and drive