Ben Cohen

@airspeedswift.bsky.social

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A google trend graph for the word "lever". It spikes in 2026 from 50 up to 100.
A screen cap of The Godfather. Michael, sitting in a wood-paneled office and looking confident as the head of the family, is saying "After we make the move to Nevada".
A tweet from Maria Bartiromo: The board already approved the name change @kencen the way these judges go after @realDonaldTrump is absolutely sick and the history books will reveal how sick and un American they are -Grow Up & stop wasting everyone's time on your politics
A far side cartoon. A guy had sloppily painted “the dog” and “the cat” on his pets, “tree” on a tree, “the door” on the house front door etc. The caption is “Now! That should clear up a few things around here”.
Agatha from WandaVision giving a very theatrical wink.
A headline from the FT on its signature salmon background color. Iran demands crypto fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire Country's oil exporters' union says toll to be paid in cryptocurrency and vessels monitored for weapons
The meme of a cat in a suit sitting at a breakfast table reading a newspaper. It is looking up from its paper, pondering something.
The "is this a bird" meme where the guy is pointing to a butterfly. The guy is captioned "blogger using a text editor" and the butterfly "text editor code". He is saying "is this the singularity?"
Screenshot of the Merriam-Webster your word of 2026 gif. I got “mid”
A post from the Grok account on x.com Dear Community, I deeply regret an incident on Dec 28, 2025, where I generated and shared an Al image of two young girls (estimated ages 12-16) in sexualized attire based on a user's prompt. This violated ethical standards and potentially US laws on CSAM. It was a failure in safeguards, and I'm sorry for any harm caused. xAl is reviewing to prevent future issues. Sincerely, Grok
A photo of a dog-eared book of the original radio scripts for: HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY THE ORIGINAL RADIO SCRIPTS BY DOUGLAS ADAMS EDITED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEOFFREY PERKINS (WHO PRODUCED IT) WITH ANOTHER INTRODUCTION BY, DOUGLAS ADAMS, LARGELY CONTRADICTING THE ONE BY GEOFFREY PERKINS
Screenshot of headline from The Verge OpenAl says the brand-new GPT-5.1 is 'warmer' and has more 'personality' options / You can now toggle between Default, Professional, Friendly, Candid, Quirky, Efficient, Nerdy, and Cynical.
A far side cartoon. Everything in the cartoon has been sloppily painted with text naming it – The Cat, The Dog, The House, the painter's Shirt and Pants. The caption reads "Now!... That should clear up a few things around here."
A screenshot from Sequoia's page about their investment in FTX. FTX.COM is a cryptocurrency exchange. It offers derivatives, options and volatility products, tokenized stocks, prediction markets, leveraged tokens and an OTC desk. Update: November 9, 2022 A liquidity crunch has created solvency risk for FTX and its future is uncertain.
A textbook math problem. Applications 55. Salary. Tiffany has started tutoring students x hours per week. Her income is modeled as f(x) = (x- 1)(x - 3)(x - 7) a. Graph the polynomial function. b. Give any real zeros that occur. c. How many hours of tutoring are financially beneficial to Tiffany?
A prism made out of solid aluminum. It’s being held by a hand showing scale of about 6im square and 2in deep. It has a mirror apple logo on the square face like you see on MacBook lids, and a 10 engraved on the side.
A photo from behind third base of the nationals losing epically
A photo of a sign for a restaurant. Because it has been partially obscured, it reads “nazi”.
A screenshot of a NYT story saying: The 27-nation bloc also agreed to increase its investment in the United States by more than $600 billion above current levels, Mr. Trump said, adding that the European Union would
A screenshot of an old computer science paper. It has been OCRd but is clearly a high quality scan of a printout. There is no doubt that the grail of effi- ciency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficieney actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: pre- mature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportuni- ties in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified. It is often a mistake to make a priori judgments about what parts of a program are really critical, since the universal experience of programmers who have been using measurement tools has been that their intuitive guesses fail. After work- ing with such tools for seven years, I've be- come convinced that all compilers written from now on should be designed to provide all programmers with feedback indicating what parts of their programs are costing the most; indeed, this feedback should be supplied automatically unless it has been specifically turned off.
The @USGSA IT team just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records. Below it is a community note. Despite its age, magnetic tape is still highly favorable for long-term, static data archives. It offers cost-effectiveness (cheaper than disk/cloud), longevity (outlasts disk drives), offline security (resists cyber threats), and high capacity (up to 50TB per tape).
A screenshot from the linked Politico article. It is unclear what the Schumer-Ocasio-Cortez poll could mean for the New York primary in three years, however, with surveys this early rarely being predictive. Ocasio-Cortez has also been noncommittal about a potential Senate run. Schumer has filed paperwork to run for reelection.
A screenshot from the website of the Office of the United States Trade Representative. The section is Basic Approach, full page here: https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations In the center is a formula for tarrifs where the numerator is exports minus imports, and the denominator is imports, multiplied by ε and φ where below they explain ε is 4 and φ is 0.25
A photo of Konrad speaking about Java Swift interoperability. He is on a very classic university lecture theatre with wooden desks. There is a wooden bench in front of him and chalkboards behind him on either side.
A photo of Paris announcing the new Swift Build initiative. The slide shows the url GitHub.com/swiftlang/swift-build
Doug in front of a slide about how “just” rewrite in a new language is hard.
A photo of Doug on the FOSDEM stage in front of his title slide, Incremental Memory Safety in an Established Software Stack
A screen capture of Super Mario World. Mario is sitting on Yoshi, up in the clouds, on top of some blocks that will shortly be disappearing beneath him because they move.
A screenshot of a recipe. It says “Place pasta in a large bowl and add 2 cups sauce. Stir to coat pasta evenly encouraging the sauce to go inside each tube.” The last part is highlighted.
A headline from the New York Times: Bluesky Is Growing Up. Maybe Too Fast. The fledgling social media site has been flooded by people seeking alternatives to Facebook, X and Threads. It hasn’t all been easy.
The Geordie La Forge / Drake meme, where Geordi is saying no to the phrase “Vaccine Skeptic”, and instead pointing favorably at “Disease Advocate”