#source: library and archives canada

[tonifrissells]

Personnel of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C.) taking part in a firefighting exercise, London, England, 28 February 1943.

Credit: Capt. Frank Royal, Canadian Department of National Defence, Library and Archives Canada, PA-037479.

ID 3381922

[tacticalhimbo]

TRANS DAY OF REMEMBRANCE 2024

Don't have the spoons to make a spiel about how solidarity in and out of the community is important, but wanting to highlight that as is. We need to speak out and show up for those who fight alongside us, and for those we've lost*.

*Remember: Any concrete numbers you see statistics wise are not 100% accurate. The violence against us, especially our BIPOC siblings, are majorly under-reported.

Here are some organizations and resources to share around, with attributions and pronouns (as of writing the post). I'll section this off based on what type of resource/org they are... more or less--

Archival.

2600 Pages of Hate: Transphobia and Fascism by maia crimew (It/She)

Black Trans* Oral History Project by Blu Bachanan (They/Them) and Naomi Simmons-Thorne (She/They)

Digital Transgender Archive by K.J. Rawson (He/Him) et al.

LGBT+ Intersectionality, a Google Drive full of Resource Books

The Mirror Memoirs by Amita Swadhin (They/Them), Jaden Cervantes-Fields (He/Him), and Bilen Berhanu (She/Her)

NYC Trans* Oral History Project

The Trans* Library (Carrd)

University of Victoria Transgender Archives (Canada)

Varied.

Baltimore Safe Haven, established by Iya Dammons (She/They).

Bklyn Boihood, established by Black masculine-of-center queer and trans people of color.

Black Trans Femmes in the Arts, established by Jordyn Jay (She/Her)

Black Trans* Travel Fund, established by Devin Michael Lowe (He/They) and Morticia Godiva (Her/Shey)

Brave Space Alliance, established by trans and gender non-conforming individuals.

FedUp Collective, established by Zain Lugay (They/He), Sam (They/Them), Cody (He/Him), Ian (He/Him), JO Walduck (She/They), et al.

For the Gworls, established by Asanni Armon (They/Them; Sources Vary)

The Gender Affirming Letter Access Project, established by transgender, nonbinary, and allied mental health and medical providers.

"The Gender Binary" is a Misnomer; Gender Has Always Been a Hierarchy by Talia Bhatt (She/Fae)

Privilege, Power, and Pride: Intersectionality within the LGBT Community by Kittu Pannu (He/Him)

The Okra Project, established by Gabrielle Inès Souza, Max Rigano, and Celyna Jackson (Pronouns Unknown).

Organización Latina Trans in Texas, , established by Anandrea Molina (Ella/She, Rigoberto Reyes/Monika Adams (Él/Ella/She/He), Gia Pacheco (She/Ella), Danny Lopez (Él/He), Noemi Garza, Barby Ledesma, Vanessa Garcia, and Kassandra Rivas (Pronouns Unknown).

Princess Janae Place, established by Jevon Martin (He/Him) and Dani Farrell (He/They).

The Transgender Education Network of Texas, established by various BIPOC trans community members.

Trans*, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project, established by Janetta Johnson (She/Her), zy'aire nassirah (He/Him), zen "zee" mills (She/Her), van dell (They/Them), Valentine McClain (They/She), eli b. (They/He), et al.

TransgenderNI (Northern Ireland) / Belfast Trans Resource Centre, established by trans community members.

TransInclusiveGroup, established by Tatiana Williams (She/Her/Goddess), Krys Gordon (She/Her), Adrianna Tender (She/Her/Diva), Mei-Lan Diaz (They/Them), and Na'stacia Buchanan (She/Her).

Trans Latin@ Coalition, established by Paolo Coots (She/Her/Ella), Arianna Inurritegui-Lint (She/Her/Ella), Alexa Rodriguez (She/Her/Ella), et al.

Trans* Needle Exchange, established by Oliver (Pronouns Unknown).

And remember, community is what keeps us alive.

It is important to call out bigotry in our spaces; important to let those here know we value them and their existence. Do not solely fight for those who are gone, fight for those who are living with us here and now.

Let the folks in your lives and in your communities know you care about them. Listen to them. Learn from them. None of us are free until all of us are free.

Which is why I'm also going to drop broader-focus organizations and resources for the global community:

alQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society

Canadian LGBTQ+ History

India's LGBTQ+ Movement

LGBTQ+: A Troubled History in Mexico

LGBTQ+ Orthodox Jewish Education (PDF)

LGBTQ+ Narratives in Pakistan

LGBTQ+ Rights Ghana Support Fund

Nigeria's Queer History

Queer Activism in Africa

Queer Nigerian Emergency Fund

Feel free to add onto this (preferably with more grassroots kinda stuff/individual spotlights; anything goes long as it's vetted really).

[greelys-corner]

Greely Expedition Publications and Media

See anything missing from the list below? Let me know!

Last Updated April 23, 2025

Narrative Histories:

Abandoned in the Arctic: Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, 1881-1884 Geoffrey E. Clark ISBN: 978-0974089522

Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition Leonard F. Guttridge, 2000 Print ISBN: 0-425-17654-1

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Expedition Buddy Levy, 2019 Print ISBN: 978-1-250-78206-9

Abandoned: The Story of the Greely Arctic Expedition 1881-1884 Alden Todd, 1961 Print ISBN: 1-889963-29-1

Memoirs and Biographies:

The Outpost of the Lost David L. Brainard, 1929 Print ISBN: 978-1-5107-3521-7 (An abridged version of Brainard's diary from August 1883 to June 1884)

Three Years of Arctic Service Adolphus W. Greely, 1886 Bib ID: 2344946 Free Digital Copy: https://archive.org/details/threeyearsofarct02gree/page/n5/mode/2up

Farthest North; or the Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition Charles Lanman, 1885 Gutenberg EBook #54019 Free Digital Copy: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54019/old/54019-h/54019-h.htm

Canada's Forgotten Arctic Hero: George Rice and the Lady Franklin Bay Expeditionm 1881-1884 Jim Lotz ISBN: 9781895415940

In the Lena Delta George W. Melville, 1885 Library of Congress #: 04016772 Free Digital Copy: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=O20SAAAAYAAJ&rdid=book-O20SAAAAYAAJ&rdot=1

Six Came Back David Brainard, 1940 No free, digital, or mass-print copies available (An abridged version of Brainard's diaries from 1881 to 1883. Very few copies available for less than $100 US)

Expedition Member Diaries:

Adolphus Greely (abridged and published as Three Years of Arctic Service, see above): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/greely-journal/

David Brainard (abridged and published as The Outpost of the Lost, see above): https://collections.dartmouth.edu/teitexts/brainard-diary/diplomatic/brainard-2-diary-diplomatic.html#?start=0&length=12&view=list&col=brainard-diary&oc_0=main-title&od_0=a

George Rice: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/greely-rice-journal/

Hampden Gardiner: a partial transcript and scans of Gardiner's journals was provided via US CECOM - hit me up to receive a copy

Documentaries and Video Essays:

Abandoned in the Arctic PBS, 2007 https://www.pbs.org/show/abandoned-arctic/

American Experience: The Greely Expedition PBS, 2011 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/greely/ Currently available to rent/buy on Amazon Prime, but follow the link for image galleries and primary sources.

Tragedy on the Ice: U-M Astronomy and the Ill-Fated Greely Polar Expedition University of Michigan, 2023 Available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqcmYerIKrA

Polar Survival: The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-1884 The History Guy, 2021 Available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4abprNgpnU

Fiction:

Starvation Shore Laura Waterman, 2019 ISBN: 9780299323400

The Greely Expedition's Fatal Quest for Farthest North Golriz Golkar, 2023 ISBN: 9781666390629

Websites:

Science and Survival at Fort Conger Virtual Museum Canada https://fortconger.org/index

Articles and Blog Posts:

David L. Brainard and the Greely Expedition of 1881-1884 Cecilia Brainard https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2016/01/david-l-brainard-and-greely-expedition.html (A blog post about the author's spouse's ancestor: our own David Brainard! She's also recently published a book of short stories!)

In The Archives: Edward Israel's Polar Sky Laura Bien, 2011, The Ann Arbor Chronicle https://annarborchronicle.com/2011/01/21/in-the-archives-edward-israels-polar-sky/index.html

A Tale of Survival, Wrapped in a 19th-Century Reindeer-Skin Sleeping Bag Betsy Golden Kellem, 2020, Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/caribou-sleeping-bag

Ghosts of Discovery Harbor: Digging for Data Andreas Muenchow https://icyseas.org/2016/02/11/ghosts-of-discovery-harbor-digging-for-data/#comments

An Arctic Execution: Private Charles B. Henry of the United States Lady Franklin Bay Expedition Glenn M. Stein https://glennmstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/An-Arctic-Execution-Charles-B.-Henry-LFBE-2011.pdf

The Arctic Exploits of Dr. Octave Pavy Douglas Wamsley https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276748841_The_Arctic_Exploits_of_Dr_Octave_Pavy

[softantlers]

me again yes yes... younger trans person (ytp) anon... hahahaha ytp anon... unless nobody knows what a ytp is anymore, then that joke will fall quite flat

but for starters, this post: https://www.tumblr.com/softantlers/786795964843343872/i-am-once-again-here-to-tell-you-that-if-you-have?source=share

THANK YOU FOR SAYING IT. i've received nasty messages from people in the past who would comment on my best writing always having the worst aspects, and the "worst aspects" were always just trans headcanons 😭 i fear that hc'ing a popular character as transmasc because i see myself in them and feel comforted by that is NOT hurting anyone worse than, y'know, actual bigotry. it's sort of a 'kim, there's people that are dying' moment, so thank you so much for summing it up perfectly.

secondly: TYSM FOR THE LAST MESSAGE! I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT CHRYSALIS QUARTERLY! i went through a lot of the volumes (i especially loved vol 2, no. 2 because of all the FTM / transmasc perspectives) and man... it was so cool to see that our history is still preserved. we've always existed!! we will always exist!! god, that's so awesome. it's the little things that'll make you feel so much better. the dallas denny interview was also so cool, she IS a real one 😭

tl;dr though, your writing is awesome and you've created a wonderful safe space for the trans community on your page. hats off to you!! can't wait for nat as daddy meta

cheers!

younger trans person anon, how i adore you.

i do fear that our generations are clashing because while i am definitely older than you, you might have hit a blurry spot for me on the internet. (i haven't been on tumblr since i was a teenager and briefly young 20s.) what is ytp??? urban dictionary... did not help me.

and YES. i'm glad that post was meaningful to you. trans exclusion is probably the profoundest movement toward majoring the minor that i've seen in a creative space in a very long time. i would go as far to say that you hc'ing characters as trans is good and important and meaningful (not just for yourself but for the others who will benefit from seeing themselves too) and it is actually not comparable to any sort of bigotry. i'm sorry you've gotten any bullshit about your art/creativity, and tbh i hope you remember that for every asshole who doesn't get it and wants to tear you down, there's another trans person who is going to appreciate the rep you're sharing. and that?? that's worth a million times more than some cis person being offended lmfaooo.

yes god, yes god! chrysalis!!! oh younger trans anon, now that i've got you onto the digital transgender archive, the places we can goooo. i've shared a lot of transfeminine rep, but some transmasc stuff that's REALLY fucking cool:

rupert raj was a mixed race trans activist in canada! he was a therapist???? he also did a lot of cool mutual aid organizing for transmascs and was super active in the 80s. we have!! always been here!!

YEAH. i'll have to brush up on chrysalis and read the volume you mentioned. it is really heartening to see those who came before us share their perspectives. <33 i'm glad you liked!!

also gahhhh younger trans anon, i'm going to drown you in recommendations if you don't stop me. so isaac fellman is an author who actually works for the digital transgender archive. he wrote a book called dead collections which is about a vampire transmasc archivist. it is... really messy book? some people don't like it because it's weird, but -squints eyes, gestures- i like weird.

in any case, it is GENUINELY SO FUNNY. and also!! the representation is... hmm... not as binary as what i normally see, so i really appreciated it. i actually got to beta it as part of this library program thing i'm forgetting the name of, so i'm not sure what the final story is like, but it was pretty good when i read it!

GAH bless you for the writing compliments. thank you for writing trans stuff too!! im cooking the nat as daddy meta soooo good today don't you worry.

[olganikolaevnas]

Mrs. Duval threading needle [William Duval's wife, Aulaqiaq. Although blind, she was still able to thread the needle and sew.]

Pangnirtung, Northwest Territories (Current day Nunavut), 1946 Library and Archives, Government of Canada. Archives/Collections and Fonds - Item ID #3192235 (x)

Aulaqiaq was the second wife of German-born American whaler, William Duval. Duval had his first whaling expedition to Arctic Canada in 1879, leaving back to the United States in 1883, and finally permanently returning to the north in 1884. William integrated well into Inuit society, as he became fluent in Inuktitut and was given the name of Sivutiksaq (which translates as harpooner).

Aulaqiaq and William had four children, two of whom survived childhood (daughters Towkie and Alookie, born around 1900 and 1902, respectively). Aulaqiaq and William still have many descendants in Baffin Island region of Nunavut currently.

Unfortunately, I could not find much information on Aulaqiaq herself, aside from her marriage to William Duval, and the children they had together.

Sources: (x) (x)

[historia-vitae-magistras]

This is a little different from your usual content. But you have so much niche information that just I love to hear about. Do you have any podcast recommendations?

WHOO okay so I'm doing my nonfiction podcast recs and leaving out my horror or audio dramas but without further ado:

It's been out of production for years, but Caustic Soda is probably my favourite of all time. It's a small Canadian production of tons and tons of episodes on everything from shark attacks to murder to warfare to bugs and anthropology. It's so fucking funny and pretty well-researched as time goes on. Honestly, I was so young listening to this that it formed part of the lens through which I view the world.

Stuff You Missed in History Class: Often corny, wee bit lame, occasionally hilarious, always solid; this one is probably the one that has taught me the most. It's been on the air forever now, and it's really fucking great. They have also used sources that I actually dug out and made public for the first time and I'm quite proud of that. Its the favourite sweater of podcasts.

Time to Eat the Dogs is about the history of science and exploration. I highly recommend it if you like any of those things. I really like the host's interview style; all the guests are academics and authors. It's very conversational and feels like having a lovely sit-down with good friends, but those friends have Ph. Ds.

Casting Lots: Two really, really funny Brits discuss survival cannibalism across time and space. This podcast informed me that a story i heard as a fireside tale was based on true events. It somehow manages to mention Canada in every other episode and then some. I love the first three seasons in particular. They have truly done some incredible work in the course of their series and pulled from some primary sources that surprised even me, an actual archivist. They're shockingly respectful for how funny they are and how disturbing the content is and really take into consideration things like culture, empire, sex and racism as they discuss cannibalism, and it's just. I love it so much, truly.

Big Old Boats: It's not technically a podcast, but I've never once in my life actually watched the video as he discusses various maritime disasters, and I don't think I've ever missed anything by doing so. This is an absolute must-listen if you enjoy maritime history, missing ships, ghost ships, or just anything weird related to a boat. Archival work I did is actually mentioned in a couple of episodes!

Not What You Thought You Knew: Another podcast I really love that was, unfortunately, a very short run but academics and actual historians debunking popular historical myths. I am very, very fond of the episodes on The Night Witches in particular.

The Midnight Library: Last but not least my favourite fucking podcast currently running. It's a nonfiction podcast framed as a fictional witch/librarian in her cursed library telling (mostly) true stories around a particular theme, human vice, or any number of stories. And the way it's framed is so fucking great. Like they're talking about real history, witchcraft and folklore in so many of these, but you get little glimpses of world-building that have honestly started to bleed into the way I write. Even the ads are for fake magical businesses like 'the League of Lady Grave Diggers, the Broom and Fang pub. The library assistant/bouncer is a werewolf. The Witch's on-again and off-again boyfriend is a spring-heel jack. It's just so fucking clever a way to frame a nonfiction podcast in a spooky atmosphere while being historical, terrifying and funny in turns.

Anywho, if you listen to any of them let me know! And sorry if that went overboard!

[inspofromancientworld]

The Science of Discovering the Past: Online Collections X

By Internet Archive - http://www.logoeps.net/internet-archive-logo.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31011825

The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 and is a digital library that provides free access to collections of digital media ranging from archived websites through to audiovisual material to support its mission of providing 'universal access to all knowledge'. It is a non-profit organization with headquarters in San Francisco, California, United States.

By Beatrice Murch - https://www.flickr.com/photos/blmurch/5079018246/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=167754667

One of the earliest projects of the Internet Archive was crawling the internet and archiving copies of the sites it visited with the first page being a download page for Internet Explorer from May 10, 1996 at 2:42pm UTC. The Wayback Machine, which makes it easier for the general public to search the large amounts of saved sites, was launched in 2001. In 1999, the Archive began storing the Prelinger Archives, which is a 'collection of films relating to U.S. cultural history, the evolution of the American landscape, everyday life, and social history'. It also hosts NASA images, software, the Open Library. Many of these are aided by a program developed for the Archive called 'Archive-It'.

In November 2016, a copy of the Archive to be based in Canada was announced after the first election of Donald Trump, which garnered widespread news coverage with the implications that it was necessary to do so.

Most of the materials in the Archive were received through donations, including donations from large libraries and universities. All material they receive is digitized to make it available online. If items are not in the public domain, the items are available to patrons of the Archive for time limited, renewable controlled digital lending. This is done under the 'first-sale doctrine', which is the doctrine that allows library lending, gift giving, and other forms of sharing by limiting the rights of intellectual property owner's control over resale. This was tested when four large publishing houses sued the Archive in 2020 and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the Archive could not digitally lend books that were available for sale in electronic forms. There is a case that began in 2023, on the same day that the prior case concluded, brought by the music industry against the Archive's Great 78 Project.

With the wide range of data that the Archive holds, from books and written material to images and videos, it is possible to find a wide range of material from nearly any time period, including material from various libraries about any time period. The Archive can be searched directly or explored by collections based on the source of the information, from library to journal to physical media source.

[this-week-in-rust]

This Week in Rust 544

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust on Twitter or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions.

This Week in Rust is openly developed on GitHub and archives can be viewed at this-week-in-rust.org. If you find any errors in this week's issue, please submit a PR.

Updates from Rust Community

Foundation

Guest Blog: Attending CISA’s Open Source Software Security Summit

Newsletters

This Month in Rust OSDev: March 2024

Project/Tooling Updates

lilos v1.0 released

medium-to-markdown v0.1.1 : Convert your medium blogs easily into markdown files

Fluvio v0.11.6 release and project updates

venndb 0.4.0 - custom validators

Tantivy 0.22: Performance improvements, new aggregations and stability fixes

Announcing r3bl_terminal_async - build async interactive CLIs in Rust

[video] Demo + architecture overview of Ferrostar, a cross-platform turn-by-turn navigation SDK with a Rust core

Observations/Thoughts

The Rust Calling Convention We Deserve

Sized, DynSized, and Unsized

Coroutines and effects

Porting a cross-platform GUI application to Rust

Adventures In Rust: Bringing Exchange Support To Thunderbird

Rust Walkthroughs

Why SQLite Performance Tuning made Bencher 1200x Faster

drop, the destructor of Rust structs

Building with AWS S3 using Rust

Rust tokio task cancellation patterns

[video] Build with Naz - Published crate r3bl_terminal_async for building async interactive CLIs in Rust

[video] Trent Billington - Bevy ECS - Power tool for data oriented applications

[video] Building a procedural art generator

[audio] Isograph with Robert Balicki

Research

A Study of Undefined Behavior Across Foreign Function Boundaries in Rust Libraries

Rust Digger: Does size matter? The biggest crate is 450MB; More than 100 crates are over 50MB

Miscellaneous

GitHub Sponsor Rust developer David Tolnay

Learn how to write TCP servers using Rust's std::net module

RustFest Zürich 🇨 Talks announced

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is scandir, a high-performance file tree scanner.

Thanks to Marty B. for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

No calls for testing were issued this week.

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

Call for Participation; projects and speakers

CFP - Projects

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

awesome-alternatives-in-rust - Add dqy alternative to dig

fluvio - When a topic is deleted, connected clients should have their connection closed

fluvio - MQTT Connector: Prefix auto generated Client ID to prevent connection drops

fluvio - Remove localhost from fluvio in favor of 127.0.0.1

If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here.

CFP - Speakers

Are you a new or experienced speaker looking for a place to share something cool? This section highlights events that are being planned and are accepting submissions to join their event as a speaker.

RustConf 2024 | Closes 2024-04-25 | Montreal, Canada | Event date: 2024-09-10

RustLab 2024 | Closes 2024-05-01 | Florence, Italy | Event date: 2024-11-09 - 2024-11-11

EuroRust 2024| Closes 2024-06-03 | Vienna, Austria & online | Event date: 2024-10-10

Scientific Computing in Rust 2024| Closes 2024-06-14 | online | Event date: 2024-07-17 - 2024-07-19

Conf42 Rustlang 2024 | Closes 2024-07-22 | online | Event date: 2024-08-22

If you are an event organizer hoping to expand the reach of your event, please submit a link to the submission website through a PR to TWiR.

Updates from the Rust Project

432 pull requests were merged in the last week

add simple async drop glue generation

llvm backend: Prevent creating the same Instance::mono multiple times

static_mut_refs: use raw pointers to remove the remaining FIXME

add a lower bound check to unicode-table-generator output

add an opt-in to store incoming edges in VecGraph + misc

add llvm-bitcode-linker to build manifest

allow workproducts without object files

at debuginfo=0, don't inline debuginfo when inlining

correctly change type when adding adjustments on top of NeverToAny

coverage: branch coverage tests for lazy boolean operators

coverage: prepare for improved branch coverage

delay interning errors to after validation

delay span bug when Self kw resolves to DefKind::{Mod,Trait}

don't ICE for kind mismatches during error rendering

don't ascend into parent bodies when collecting stmts for possible return suggestion

don't error on subtyping of equal types

don't inline integer literals when they overflow - new attempt

don't repeatedly duplicate TAIT lifetimes for each subsequently nested TAIT

fix ICE in eval_body_using_ecx

fix ICE when there is a non-Unicode entry in the incremental crate directory

fix capturing duplicated lifetimes via parent in precise_captures (impl use<'...>)

fix normalizing in different ParamEnvs with the same InferCtxt

fix trait solver overflow with non_local_definitions lint

flip spans for precise capturing syntax not capturing a ty/const param, and for implicit captures of lifetime params

give a name to each distinct manipulation of pretty-printer FixupContext

ignore -C strip on MSVC

implement Modified Condition/Decision Coverage

implement PROBLEMATIC_CONSTS generalization

implement syntax for impl Trait to specify its captures explicitly (feature(precise_capturing))

improve ICE message for forbidden dep-graph reads

interpret: pass MemoryKind to adjust_alloc_base_pointer

interpret: pass MemoryKind to before_memory_deallocation

interpret: use ScalarInt for bin-ops; avoid PartialOrd for ScalarInt

introduce perma-unstable wasm-c-abi flag

let inherent associated types constrain opaque types during projection

make suggest_deref_closure_return more idiomatic/easier to understand

make thir_tree and thir_flat into hooks

make the comments for ReturnDest variants doc comments

match ergonomics 2024: Implement eat-one-layer

match ergonomics 2024: mut doesn't reset binding mode

match hyphen in multi-revision comment matchers

opaque types have no namespace

outline default query and hook provider function implementations

prefer identity equality over equating types during coercion

print note with closure signature on type mismatch

properly handle emojis as literal prefix in macros

remove default_hidden_visibility: false from wasm targets

remove uneeded clones now that TrustedStep implies Copy

silence some follow-up errors on trait impls in case the trait has conflicting or otherwise incoherent impls

simplify shallow resolver to just fold ty/consts

stop taking ParamTy/ParamConst/EarlyParamRegion/AliasTy by ref

subtype predicates only exist on inference types, so we can allow them to register opaque types within them

tell LLVM Vec::len is invariant across growth

use raw-dylib for Windows synchronization functions

refactor clippy in bootstrap

when suggesting RUST_BACKTRACE=1, add a special note for Miri's env var isolation

miri: data_race: make the release/acquire API more clear

miri: no_std works on Windows now

miri: add localtime_r shim

miri: address reuse improvements and fixes

miri: deadlock: show backtrace for all threads

miri: directly call handle_alloc_error

miri: implement support for __rust_alloc_error_handler

miri: make realloc with a size of zero fail

miri: move read_byte_slice to general helpers file, next to read_c_str

miri: threads: keep track of why we are blocked, and sanity-check that when waking up

Box::into_raw: make Miri understand that this is a box-to-raw cast

PatRangeBoundary::compare_with: also add a fast-path for signed integers

codegen ZSTs without an allocation

stabilize Wasm target features that are in phase 4 and 5

stabilize const_io_structs

stabilize checking of cfgs at compile-time: --check-cfg option

stabilize generic NonZero

make checked ops emit unchecked LLVM operations where feasible

improve std::fs::Metadata Debug representation

fix negating f16 and f128 constants

force exhaustion in iter::ArrayChunks::into_remainder

checked_ilog: improve performance

add an intrinsic for ptr::from_raw_parts(_mut)

fix: make str::from_raw_parts_mut mut

use queue-based RwLock on more platforms

add support for Arm64EC to the standard library

codegen_gcc: fix PassMode::Indirect with params

codegen_gcc: fix check for main function already declared

codegen_gcc: fix panic when calling get_fn for a variable

codegen_gcc: fix passing custom CG_RUSTFLAGS when building sysroot

codegen_gcc: implement more type kinds

cargo install: including Locking message

cargo resolver: add default Edition2024 to resolver v3

cargo resolver: add v3 resolver for MSRV-aware resolving

cargo credential: trim newlines in tokens from stdin

cargo msrv: error, rather than panic, on rust-version 'x'

cargo msrv: put MSRV-aware resolver behind a config

cargo toml: don't crash on parse errors that point to multi-byte character

cargo toml: disallow source-less dependencies

cargo toml: error on [project] in Edition 2024

cargo toml: report _fied variants (e.g. dev_dependencies) as deprecated

cargo: fix 'cargo build' fails when list_files() with gix is triggered

rustdoc: always display stability version even if it's the same as the containing item

rustdoc: fix copy path button

rustdoc: support type '/' to search

rustdoc-search: fix description on aliases in results

rustdoc-search: single result for items with multiple paths

clippy: threadlocal_initializer_can_be_made_const will not trigger for unreachable initializers

clippy: arithmetic_side_effects fix false negative on +=

clippy: ptr_as_ptr: fix duplicate diagnostics

clippy: emit the needless_pass_by_ref_mut lint on self arguments as well

clippy: fix is_test_module_or_function

clippy: reduce single_char_pattern to only lint on ascii chars

clippy: rework interior mutability detection

clippy: the multiple_unsafe_ops_per_block test needs asm!

rust-analyzer: cargo script mvp

rust-analyzer: add convert From to TryFrom assist

rust-analyzer: allow rust files to be used linkedProjects

rust-analyzer: VFS should not walk circular symlinks

rust-analyzer: handle escaped chars in doc comments

rust-analyzer: replace Just the variable name in Unused Variable Diagnostic Fix

rust-analyzer: implement BeginPanic handling in const eval

rust-analyzer: make test harness arguments configurable and not --nocapture

rust-analyzer: render matched macro arm on hover of macro calls

rust-analyzer: try to generate more meaningful names in json converter

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A week dominated by small mixed changes to perf with improvements slightly outweighing regressions. There were no pure regressions, and many of the mixed perf results were deemed worth it for their potential improvements to runtime performance through further optimization from LLVM.

Triage done by @rylev. Revision range: ccfcd950..a77f76e2

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count Regressions ❌ (primary) 0.4% [0.2%, 1.8%] 57 Regressions ❌ (secondary) 0.4% [0.2%, 1.9%] 26 Improvements ✅ (primary) -0.8% [-3.4%, -0.2%] 50 Improvements ✅ (secondary) -0.6% [-1.9%, -0.1%] 32 All ❌✅ (primary) -0.2% [-3.4%, 1.8%] 107

0 Regressions, 5 Improvements, 6 Mixed; 2 of them in rollups 62 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

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[disposition: merge] experimental project goal program for 2024 H2

Tracking Issues & PRs

Rust

[disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for std::path::absolute

[disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for convenience methods on NonNull

[disposition: merge] Inline more svg images into CSS

[disposition: merge] Edition 2024: Make ! fall back to !

[disposition: merge] static_mut_refs: Should the lint cover hidden references?

Cargo

[disposition: merge] fix(toml): Warn, rather than fail publish, if a target is excluded

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[new] experimental project goal program for 2024 H2

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[indochina1]

Treaty of Hue, August 1883. Source: Library and Archives Canada

After the debacle of the Garnier expedition, the French were determined to bring order to northern Viet Nam and safeguard their trading routes in the Red River Delta. Further military forces were sent into Tonkin, and in August 1883 the French defeated the imperial Vietnamese army decisively at Thuan An. French administrator, Francois-Jules Harmand, then dictated a harsh peace treaty to the Vietnamese court at the imperial residence of Hue which surrendered twelve Red River forts to France; recognised French rule over Cochin China and extended a French protectorate over the remaining provinces of Annam and Tonkin. Although the Nguyen dynasty was allowed to remain in place, the Treaty of Hue ended Vietnamese domestic and foreign policy autonomy and effectively marked the beginning of French colonial rule over Vietnam.

[444namesplus]

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[michaelcosio]

Did Japan Attack the Continental US - Fact or Fantasy?

Apr 3, 2024

The complete omnibus edition of my previous series about WWII Japanese attacks on the Continental United States and Canada, 1941-45, with some new material added as well!

Primary Source: 'The Fujita Plan: Japanese Attacks on the United States and Australia in World War II', by Mark Felton (Pen & Sword: 2006)

Credits: US National Archives; Library of Congress; San Francisco Public Library; Christian Mehlfuhrer; Frank Schulenburg; United States Air Force; Chase Doak; Cacophony; Chris M Morris

Thumbnail: World of Warships

[tonifrissells]

Rifleman R.M. Douglas of The Royal Winnipeg Rifles with a group of Dutch women who are celebrating the liberation of Deventer, Netherlands, 10 April 1945.

Credit: Lieut. Donald I. Grant, Canadian Department of National Defence, Library and Archives Canada, PA-140683.

ID 3200238

[needcaffeine]

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[papenathys]

To put it in baby terms, let us take the concept of the publishing industry, piracy and libraries/library service apps, and brick and mortar indie bookstores in relation to Amazon. I don't think any of us want to wilfully support Amazon. But I've been in publishing school, and I have worked with indie authors in my capacity as an editor, a scholar and an author myself for the past couple of years.

And I want to ask you, what viable "ethical solutions" do you have for people in India, in lieu of boycotting Amazon? Do you want us to buy books from abroad with the obscene shipping rates of India Post (and that's a public courier service, think of privatized ones). In terms of exports, for my 0.21 kg paperback book of about 300 rupees base price, I had to pay some 17-18 USD average for USA-Canada shipping (which readers would cover, but trust me, these rates change *every* day and INR is weak as fuck. 17 USD = roughly 1500 rupees last I checked.) For imports, when I have to review newly released books from abroad (for promotional campaigns), I can never accept paperbacks from publishers because they come to a pit stop in Delhi, and I have to pay an unholy amount to get the parcel cleared from customs. As for indies or special editions, most Indian banks don't even authorize paying to book subscriptions or to GoFundMes and payment portals outside of recognized institutions and international banks.

What about brick and mortar bookstores? Ethically, it falls upon upper middle class and financially affluent people to support indie bookstores in India and keep them afloat. But even with independent bookstores like Speaking Tiger or Seagull Books, Amazon *is* their lifeline, despite the very horrible cuts it takes, asides production and overhead costs. Amazon distributes the books not just abroad, but to places where people may not have access to brick and mortar.

For example, my cousins who live in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. A lot of them live in hamlet towns which only recently got urbanized with shopping malls and bookstores, and they are naturally dependent on Amazon for helping them open small business stores, and keeping them afloat, because Amazon manages most of the middlemen stuff that other courier services would have you do with extra steps (like for me, who chose India Post for my books). More often than not, in such places, at most you'll get a Starmark with Colleen Hoover, Chetan Bhagat and Sudha Murty.

So let's talk about libraries. You think we have accessible libraries with well stocked contemporary titles and independently published, lesser known titles? Hell no. The average Indian kid does not visit libraries and the only library access we have is institutional archives. Even so, speaking from my experiences in university, our department and Central Library often didn't come with the requisite texts, and we had to find a dog-eared, crumbling copy from a retired professor and make 70 xerox copies for a class... Which by the way is still "unethical" distribution.

There's a bunch of library service apps that you can download and put a VPN on, and that will be an extremely time consuming and wasteful procedure, that is, given your book even exists on said library.

This is not even skimming the surface of the safety of queer and trans kids, and the lack of availability of resources for vulnerable and marginalized groups. It is not viable or just logistical to source queer books from brick and mortar or "ethically" when I, a 25 year old urban English-speaking privileged dyke with an award nominated book, don't dare to keep copies of internationally published lesbian/queer zines where I contributed. a) it's not safe for me and b) zines aside, it's JUST not viable, given housing crisis, lack of living space, and the sheer amount of consumerism that goes into maintaining a carefully curated bookshelf of physical titles. So instead, I either ask my zine editors for a free e-copy and backup to a drive, or at least for indie titles by marginalized authors, some mutuals abroad usually buy an e-book copy and share it with me (shoutout to some friends online, you're great).

Which is to say. Sustainable consumption is hard when you don't have money, safety, resources, access or connections online. Don't be fucking condescending and righteous when talking down to people who are not from the West. None of us are twirling our mustache and throwing money at Bezos because it gives us a kick. We are literally stuck here.

So the thing is as much as I appreciate the focus of activists and educationists on long-term crisis management or whatever, I feel like–especially for people from the so-called global north–at some point you have to realise that if your activism does not address, and cannot be comprehended in terms of the material realities of the global south, your ideologies or resistance values will not find footing outside of USA or Europe or what ever. Especially with issues pertaining to sustainable consumption, consumerism and so on. It just doesn't work. Like a lot of the well intentioned holier than thou speech just comes across as really out of touch, privileged and disingenuous when you cannot understand the differences of lived realities between someone from Boston and someone from Jaipur. Get real.

[titleleaf]

Old-Time Radio/streaming radio drama recslist, with especial reference to horror

Somebody asked for recs for places to stream radio shows and otherwise listen to radio drama, but I can't find where they replied to me, so I'm just gonna do this here. This is far from an exhaustive list of sources or even a recs guide for specific episodes. but I find OTR (and less-old-timey radio drama) a great accompaniment to crafty tasks like sewing or doing art.

I would also be remiss not to mention Nitrate Diva, whose seasonal horror radio round-ups got me into that particular corner of the listening world. If you're looking for ideas of what to listen to, her guides are great -- not all mystery or thriller podcasts ran primarily-horror or supernatural content for most or even much of their programming time but she's cherry picked some amazing starting places.

Old Time Radio Downloads - does what it says on the tin, and should be streamable in your browser as well as downloadable. Hosts a wide spread of genres and some international programming, with episode information and more details than a lot of places. No search function that I can see, however, wtf.

Old Time Radio Researchers - volunteer org with an immense catalog of OTR programs available for free streaming, hosted by the Jim Beshires Memorial Episode Library,with 90,000+ episodes. Beyond their killer streaming archive they host OTTRPedia (with a great list of books their info is sourced from) and some episode scripts.

OTRCat - show catalogue and purchasing library for old-time radio shows on physical media like CD

Archive.org's Old Time Radio showcase

M.R. James On TV, Radio, and Film - not hosting but just a guide to various radio adaptations of M.R. James' stories between 1951 and 2010.

For specific program recs beyond NitrateDiva's above/"everything with Vincent Price in it, especially Fugue In C Minor",:

The Black Museum -- Orson Welles telling you weird stories about murder weapons from the Scotland Yard Black Museum. Sort of proto-true crime podcasting.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - my parents, both big mystery and SF enjoyers, remember this from the 1970s and from later reruns! (And it tickled them both intensely that it appears in the Spielberg film Super 8.) Includes episode guide and ratings for all 1300+ episodes, and a great index of which programs are adaptations of other existing fiction, whether an ostensible adaptation of "Casting The Runes" as "These Will Kill You" or Plutarch's account of the murder of Julius Caesar.

CBC Radio Mystery Theater was apparently a thing out of Canada -- Leslie McMurtry has an amazing paper, "Sounds Like Murder: Early 1980s Gothic on North American Radio", about the history of gothic and/or horror programming in radio drama and the way CBC's program Nightfall reflected contemporary anxieties and committed to nihilistic uniquely-Canadian Gothic.

Many of these shows, including Nightfall and The Black Museum, are also streamable via Apple Podcasts. Not my preferred way to listen but also one of the ways I was introduced!

I enjoy modern narrative horror fiction podcasts and I'd love any resources anyone has about how to learn more about, or where to browse, other radio drama with horror themes. The BBC has done a number of great horror programs, as has Big Finish's kickass collection of shows, but I'm not sure the best way to go about digging into those.

[zef-zef]

Pioneers of Electronic Music.

Ann Southam

When she began to study composition seriously in 1960, a teacher, Gustav Ciamaga, introduced her to the relatively new field of electronic music.

"I loved the mucking-around quality of it," she said of her time in the University of Toronto's electronic-music studio.

"It was a combination of making things happen and letting things happen. There was no point trying to tune anything. Things would just kind of drift off. It was like a wilderness of sounds. And now that whole wonderful playground has been paved over," she said, referring to the much more sophisticated equipment available today. (source: theglobeandmail)

She founded, with Mary Gardiner, the Association of Canadian Women Composers in 1981. She was the first president (1980–'88), life member (2002), and honorary president (2007). (source: thecanadianencyclopedia)

photo: taken from facebook, but original is archived by the Canadian goverment :-) Date:10 March 1975. Reference:Accession number: 1981-262 NPC, Box number: 6359 Type of material:Photographs Found in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:4814808 Place of creation:Canada Extent:1 photograph. Language of material:English Additional information: Series added entry: X-306, frame 22/22A Source:Private

source: government of Canada: Library and Archives :-) 📸: Walter Curtin