Sam Trenholme’s blog
Round Up
August 28, 2026
Today, I look at Lindsay Clancy, Cofnas, a recent article by Kasparov, a webcam “pimp” recently arrested, as well as touching on Lua.Lindsay Clancy
There are a lot of women supporting Lindsay Clacy, a woman who systematically killed her three children. Even the liberal press is saying she shouldn’t be prosecuted for murder.
While there is nuance in Clancy’s story, at the end of the day this comes off as an extreme case of a certain kind of woman. This kind of woman, when told that another woman has done something bad, will, without even knowing the woman, immediately justify the offending behavior, no matter how egregious. These kinds of women who defend another woman’s behavior, no matter what, are the kinds of women I put up strong, healthy boundaries with.
Cofnas redux
While some academics feel Cofnas should not have been placed on suspension, many more feel his “Race Realism” is downright racist and has no place in academic discourse.
I personally think it’s OK for Cofnas to have his views on race, even though I strongly disagree with him. Where he crossed the line was looking up a Black person’s academic papers to hound him and accuse him of plagiarism—that is something I see as targeted harassment, even if the papers were in fact plagiarized.
Kasparov on “Woke 1”
World Chess Champion Kasparov is no fan of “Woke 1”, and with good reason: The cancel culture of that era suppressed free speech and reasonable discourse.
Webcam “pimp” arrested
Nikita Tyukalo was a webcam “pimp”—he coerced and manipulated girls in to becoming pornographic webcam “models”. He was arrested and currently is in jail; the linked article describes his alleged misogyny, how he ran the operation, and what ultimately tipped off police to arrest him.
While he was, as per the linked article, being very manipulative and even at times violent with those women, the women in question chose to relate with someone who, it would seem, had a very deep hatred of women.
Why I stick with Lua 5.1
Sometimes, people argue that Lua 5.1 should no longer be supported, and everyone should move on to Lua 5.5. This is not feasible.
As a poster on Lobsters points out, PUC Lua breaks compatibility between point releases, and applications that embed Lua need to not break scripts used by the applications.
There’s a reason I forked Lua 5.1 and named it Lunacy—that guarantees that any future changes to Lua don’t break the scripts I use to make this blog nor the scripts that make MaraDNS’ documentation.