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Proof of life. Day 2 of Dead & Co.

Dienstag: Betrüger nutzen S-pushTAN-Probleme, NSO Group will neues Verfahren
Betrugsseiten ködern Opfer NSO Group hält Strafsumme für zu hoch Bundeskartellamt sieht Missbrauch Berufung gegen EU-Vorgaben Inder hinter KI-Chatbot

How to tell a vibe coder of lying when they say they check their code.
People who will admit to using LLMs to write code will usually claim that they "carefully check" the output since we all know that LLM code has a lot of errors in it. This is insufficient to address several problems that LLMs cause, including labor issues, digital commons stress/pollution, license violation, and environmental issues, but at least it's they are checking their code carefully we shouldn't assume that it's any worse quality-wise than human-authored code, right?
Well, from principles alone we can expect it to be worse, since checking code the AI wrote is a much more boring task than writing code yourself, so anyone who has ever studied human-computer interaction even a little bit can predict people will quickly slack off, stating to trust the AI way too much, because it's less work. I'm a different domain, the journalist who published an entire "summer reading list" full of nonexistent titles is a great example of this. I'm sure he also intended to carefully check the AI output, but then got lazy. Clearly he did not have a good grasp of the likely failure modes of the tool he was using.
But for vibe coders, there's one easy tell we can look for, at least in some cases: coding in Python without type hints. To be clear, this doesn't apply to novice coders, who might not be aware that type hints are an option. But any serious Python software engineer, whether they used type hints before or not, would know that they're an option. And if you know they're an option, you also know they're an excellent tool for catching code defects, with a very low effort:reward ratio, especially if we assume an LLM generates them. Of the cases where adding types requires any thought at all, 95% of them offer chances to improve your code design and make it more robust. Knowing about but not using type hints in Python is a great sign that you don't care very much about code quality. That's totally fine in many cases: I've got a few demos or jam games in Python with no type hints, and it's okay that they're buggy. I was never going to debug them to a polished level anyways. But if we're talking about a vibe coder who claims that they're taking extra care to check for the (frequent) LLM-induced errors, that's not the situation.
Note that this shouldn't be read as an endorsement of vibe coding for demos or other rough-is-acceptable code: the other ethical issues I skipped past at the start still make it unethical to use in all but a few cases (for example, I have my students use it for a single assignment so they can see for themselves how it's not all it's cracked up to be, and even then they have an option to observe a pre-recorded prompt session instead).

Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/08/30…

Cloudflare's Matthew Prince has a plan to get Google and the AI oliigarchs to pay for your content even though many are used to getting it for free. He might have enough leverage to make them.
AI chatbots are blowing up the 30-year economic relationship publishers have had with search engines. Many think this will kill the web if not addressed. Google needs to change first. It's resisting. Cloudflare's Matthew Prince is going to try and make them.

There's a big biological component at work with Yellowstone's geothermal terraces.
The first hint is the color -- there's definitely microbial life involved in the terraces.
So what's happening?
In faster water microbes form clumps and filaments.
In slower water you can see just the barest hint of terraces forming.

Y a propósito de nueva música chilena, las Frank's White Canvas sacaron hace poquito una nueva canción que serš parte de un nuevo disco.
«Insane»
https://song.link/s/0pMhx6kywXAQmpo44nnBbC

It's time to have a serious conversation about Trump's health (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-to-have-a-serious-conversation-about-trump-s-health
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p39#a250901p39

Metacurity is back after our hiatus, and we're shaking things up. Check out today's issue for a special report and a recap of the top infosec developments of the past two weeks, including
--More on DOGE and that insecure database at SSA…,
--UK's age ID law pushes users to non-compliant sites,
--Noem fires FEMA workers for failing basic security protocols,
--UNC6395 stole mass of authentication tokens from Salesloft,
--A hacker used Anthropic's Cl…

More on DOGE and that insecure database at SSA…
UK's age ID law pushes users to non-compliant sites, Noem fires FEMA workers for failing basic security protocols, UNC6395 stole a mass of authentication tokens from Salesloft, A hacker used Anthropic's Claude in crime spree, Salt Typhoon struck at least 200 organizations and 80 countries, more

Russia's Rosatom seeks to sell 49% stake in Turkey's first nuclear plant: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/russias-rosatom-seeks-to-sell.html

Jan 31, 2025 I went to a double header of men's and women's basketball from Hobart Williams Smith at Ithaca College's Ben Light Gymnasium; I'm catching up on developing them now.
Here's № 2 Monty Nedd of the Statesmen
#photo #photography

Crabs on a train.
https://www.badische-zeitung.de/flusskrebse-krabbeln-durch-s-bahn-polizei-greift-ein

Flusskrebse krabbeln durch S-Bahn - Polizei greift ein
Freilaufende Flusskrebse haben in einer S-Bahn für Unruhe unter den übrigen Fahrgästen gesorgt. Die Bundespolizei stoppte die Bahn in Köln.

Seven-round NFL mock draft for 2025 season: Every team's full set of win-now picks https://www.nfl.com/news/seven-round-nfl-mock-draft-for-2025-season-every-team-s-full-set-of-win-now-picks

Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/08/30…

Cloudflare's Matthew Prince has a plan to get Google and the AI oliigarchs to pay for your content even though many are used to getting it for free. He might have enough leverage to make them.
AI chatbots are blowing up the 30-year economic relationship publishers have had with search engines. Many think this will kill the web if not addressed. Google needs to change first. It's resisting. Cloudflare's Matthew Prince is going to try and make them.

Dead and Co., San Francisco. Bob Weir can be seen on the monitors. The fog plays a role in the light show.

Rings with uniformly S-w-Noetherian Sspectrum
Xiaolei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21403 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21403

Rings with uniformly S-w-Noetherian Sspectrum
In this paper, the notion of rings with uniformly S-w-Noetherian spectrum is introduced. Several characterizations of rings with uniformly S-w-Noetherian spectrum are given. Actually, we show that a ring R has uniformly S-w-Noetherian spectrum with respect to some s 2 S if and only if each ascending chain of radical w-ideals of R is stationary with respect to s 2 S, if and only if each radical (prime) (w-)ideal of R is radically S-w-finite with respect to s, if and only if each countably genera…

Positivity of GCD tensors
Projesh Nath Choudhury, Krushnachandra Panigrahy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24053 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Positivity of GCD tensors
Let $S=\{s_{1},s_{2},\ldots,s_{n}\}$ be an ordered set of $n$ distinct positive integers. The $m$th-order $n$-dimensional tensor ${T}_{[S]}=(t_{i_{1}i_{2}\ldots i_{m}}),$ where $t_{i_{1}i_{2}\ldots i_{m}}=GCD(s_{i_{1}},s_{i_{2}},\ldots,s_{i_{m}}),$ the greatest common divisor (GCD) of $s_{i_{1}},s_{i_{2}},\ldots,$ and $s_{i_{m}}$ is called the GCD tensor on $S$. The earliest result on GCD tensors goes back to Smith [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., 1976], who computed the determinant of GCD matrix on $S…

As for “but it's great for coding!“…
…world-wide there's about 3.6 billion jobs or so, of which ~25 million are in software development; this means maybe about 0.7% of all jobs world-wide can use "great for coding".
Writing actual code amounts to maybe, if you're lucky, 10% of the work a software developer does.
The rest is meetings, high-level specifications, email and chat, more meetings, learning new things, updating stuff, lots of testing and debugging, etc.
The gist is, the supposed gains from "AI" are completely irrelevant (and indeed there's signs and studies that show it doesn't do anything for programmer productivity either).
tl;dr: This is the worst economic bubble in history, pushing a dream of a magical technology that unfortunately doesn't work, by appealing to investor greed.

Surjectivity and flatness over DVR's (after Moret-Bailly)
Benedictus Margaux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01313 https://arxiv.org/p…

Surjectivity and flatness over DVR's (after Moret-Bailly)
We study morphisms of schemes $f : X \to S$ which are locally of finite type. We present conditions under which there exists a morphism $g : S'\to X$ of $S$--schemes such that $f \circ g $ is the canonical morphism $S'\to S$. Furthermore, we exhibit situations in which $f$ is flat surjective. Our results are mostly concerned with $S$ being the spectrum of a DVR.

Faster Algorithm for Second (s,t)-mincut and Breaking Quadratic barrier for Dual Edge Sensitivity for (s,t)-mincut
Surender Baswana, Koustav Bhanja, Anupam Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01366

Faster Algorithm for Second (s,t)-mincut and Breaking Quadratic barrier for Dual Edge Sensitivity for (s,t)-mincut
We study (s,t)-cuts of second minimum capacity and present the following algorithmic and graph-theoretic results. 1. Vazirani and Yannakakis [ICALP 1992] designed the first algorithm for computing an (s,t)-cut of second minimum capacity using $O(n^2)$ maximum (s,t)-flow computations. For directed integer-weighted graphs, we significantly improve this bound by designing an algorithm that computes an $(s,t)$-cut of second minimum capacity using $O(\sqrt{n})$ maximum (s,t)-flow computations w.h.…

Just did my four Bandcamp purchases for Bandcamp Friday this month - these. Links below. I've probably gone on and on about these artists before. 😂
Baghed - Smear Campaign (LP, cool punk)
https://baghedband.bandcamp.com/album/smear-campaign
Lord Ra - Wallet (s…

Spam calls 🙄

#PhantastikPrompts 02.08.2025: What were your favorite stories as a child?
Many. But high on the list (in order of age suitability) were
A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh and sequels;
James Thurber's The Thirteen Clocks;
John Masefield's Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights;
Alan Garner's Weirdstone of Brisingamen and sequels;
anything by…

Characterization of non-singular hyperplanes of $H\left(s,q^2\right)$ in $\mathrm{P G}\left(s, q^2\right)$
Stuti Mohanty, Bikramaditya Sahu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23330

Characterization of non-singular hyperplanes of $H\left(s,q^2\right)$ in $\mathrm{P G}\left(s, q^2\right)$
In this paper, we present a combinatorial characterization of the hyperplanes associated with non-singular hermitian varieties ${H}\left(s, q^2\right)$ in the projective space $\mathrm{PG}\left(s,q^2\right)$ where $s\geq3$ and $q>2$. By analyzing the intersection numbers of hyperplanes with points and co-dimension $2$ subspaces, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for a hyperplane to be part of the hermitian variety. This approach extends previous characterizations of hermitian var…

Chinese anime feels very challenging to watch for me.
I'm not sure if there's a larger culture of "and the things happened outside the show, fans will know what's up, because they watch more than just the show" or it's just culturally accepted to run a little looser/faster in the content.
There's also strong tendencies to weave in Chinese history and culture plot points or references that just continue to miss me.
BUT - I do enjoy that they tend to go _hard_ on universe building and story intensity. Everything is always epic.
Lord of Mysteries so far is an -amazing- mysticism story with strong Lovecraftian elements. Would love to see more like it. Live action would be absolutely wild.

Practice Points: CeeDee's big catch among Saturday highlights https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/practice-points-ceedee-s-big-catch-among-saturday-highlights

"If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose."
-Anthony Hopkins
#acting #coaching

heise | WordPress absichern: So einfach geht's
WordPress ist sehr beliebt – leider auch bei Angreifern. Unser Sicherheitsratgeber zeigt, wie Sie Ihre Website mit einfachen Maßnahmen besser schützen.
https://www.…

Did you know that the tickets for the world's most important awards ceremony run through Flownative's servers? 😎
I conducted another interview, this time with long-time customer @… from Passcreator. David talks a bit about what's going on and it's really exciting to see what he and his team have built over the years based on a flow applicati…

Our trip down Müller's play started over a decade ago, with rehearsals finally starting a year before the pandemic. The script has so many facets, it's imperative to give a production a unique focus. It took us until 2024 to find ours: Amidst all the brutality and perversion, it's a love story.
https://chao…

Where's that blog post about this song. It's seriously far more fascinating than you'd expect...
Ahh yes here we go. Bookmark and read later. It's great. #TOTP

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Projected Rotational Velocities of B stars in the Carina Nebula
W. Santos, S. Daflon, J. V. Sales Silva, K. Cunha, R. Blomme, T. Morel, A. Herrero, J. Maiz Apell\'aniz, L. Mahy, S. R. Berlanas, T. Bensby, A. Bragaglia, F. Damiani, A. Frasca, G. Gilmore, V. Kalari, A. Lanzafame, S. Randich, S. Van Eck, S. Zaggia, L. O. Kerber, O. J Katime Santrich

The Gaia-ESO Survey: Projected Rotational Velocities of B stars in the Carina Nebula
The Carina Nebula is an active star-forming region with several open clusters rich in massive OB stars, thus making it an optimal target for studying stellar properties such as rotation for large samples of these early-type stars. We studied a sample of early-type stars probable members of the 8 open clusters in the Carina Complex. The observational data consist of high-resolution spectra from the Gaia-ESO public Spectroscopic Survey. Astrometric and photometric data from Gaia EDR3 and radial v…

Building (or rebuilding) a manufacturing ecosystem - the skilled workforce and complex supply chain - takes time and money. I haven't seen much evidence that this is recognized, or supported, in #47's world, or indeed the "market" (the private investment that will take years to show a return on capital).
Interesting contrast between Foxconn in India:

Trump wants America to make iPhones. Here's how India Is doing it.
Explore the impact of Apple's new iPhone factory in Devanahalli, India, and its potential to reshape the country's manufacturing sector.

Building (or rebuilding) a manufacturing ecosystem - the skilled workforce and complex supply chain - takes time and money. I haven't seen much evidence that this is recognized, or supported, in #47's world, or indeed the "market" (the private investment that will take years to show a return on capital).
Interesting contrast between Foxconn in India:

Trump wants America to make iPhones. Here's how India Is doing it.
Explore the impact of Apple's new iPhone factory in Devanahalli, India, and its potential to reshape the country's manufacturing sector.

AI's Euclid's Elements Moment: From Language Models to Computable Thought
Xinmin Fang, Lingfeng Tao, Zhengxiong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23080

AI's Euclid's Elements Moment: From Language Models to Computable Thought
This paper presents a comprehensive five-stage evolutionary framework for understanding the development of artificial intelligence, arguing that its trajectory mirrors the historical progression of human cognitive technologies. We posit that AI is advancing through distinct epochs, each defined by a revolutionary shift in its capacity for representation and reasoning, analogous to the inventions of cuneiform, the alphabet, grammar and logic, mathematical calculus, and formal logical systems. Th…

Regular genus of $\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{S}^1 \times \mathbb{S}^1$, $4$-torus, and small covers over $\Delta^2 \times \Delta^2$
Anshu Agarwal, Biplab Basak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01315

Regular genus of $\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{S}^1 \times \mathbb{S}^1$, $4$-torus, and small covers over $Δ^2 \times Δ^2$
A crystallization of a PL manifold is an edge-colored graph encoding a contracted triangulation of the manifold. The concept of regular genus generalizes the notions of surface genus and Heegaard genus for 3-manifolds to higher-dimensional closed PL manifolds. The regular genus of a PL manifold is a PL invariant. Determining the regular genus of a closed PL $n$-manifold remains a fundamental challenge in combinatorial topology. In this article, we first resolve a conjecture by proving that the …

“International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.”
– Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust
The more things change…
https://www.…

IBM's Role in the Holocaust -- What the New Documents Reveal
Newly-released documents expose more explicitly the details of IBM's pivotal role in the Holocaust.

On HHS.gov there is a "quiz" to help identify which vaccines you need.
Or, rather, there was.

Nobel physicist behind Eastern Washington's LIGO observatory that confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity, dies at 92 https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/aug/27/nobel-physicist-behind-eastern-washingtons-ligo-ob/ "When …

Nobel physicist behind Eastern Washington's LIGO observatory that confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity, dies at 92
RICHLAND – The renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild resulted in the LIGO observatory at Hanford in Eastern Washington has died. Rainer Weiss, 92, died Aug. 25 in Massachusetts, according to MIT News. Weiss was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor emeritus.

I'm using a lot more ChatGPT lately and it's useful for so many things. But it's absolutely best for cooking. I'm a competent cook and can sort of wing recipes in several cuisines. It's great for things like "help me cook an Indian curry with chicken thighs, cilantro, and yogurt".

> fifties era Rocketship Republicanism … come back to earth to find the Overton window has moved the landing pad and it's gotta set down somewhere
— @… can turn a phrase, y'all
https://

Trump's tariffs beat up economy as private sector loses jobs in June
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/2/2331299/-Trump-s-tariffs-beat-up-economy-as-private-sector-loses-jobs-in-June?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main

Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to Claude, citing ToS violations; sources: OpenAI's use of the API let it compare its models' behavior against Claude's (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-revokes-openais-access-to-claude/

Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude
OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service.

📉 Token That’s Literally USELESS Is Crypto’s Latest Meme Cult
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/06/18/token-that-s-literally-useless-is-crypto-s-latest-meme-cult

Looking for the Next Dogecoin (DOGE), SHIB, PEPE? Useless Might Just be The Bet
In a flat market, where most tokens promise the moon and deliver a tweet, USELESS has found its niche: no promises, no pretenses — just a meme that’s worth tens of millions.

"Peace" from the Kremlin? Russia's empty promises and Trump's attempts to meet with Putin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/quotpeacequot-from-the-kremlin-russias.html

George Cheeks addresses Paramount's Trump lawsuit settlement, saying companies often settle to avoid "the high and somewhat unpredictable cost of legal defense" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-g

CBS Chief George Cheeks Addresses Paramount's Trump Lawsuit Settlement
Paramount Global co-CEO George Cheeks -- who is the head of CBS -- addressed the Trump settlement at the media company's 2025 annual shareholder meeting.

U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles,
saying that Americans should be vaccinated against the virus
-- no matter where they’re going.
U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway.
But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously emphasized the importance of vaccination for travelers going to countries with outbreaks.

All international travelers should get measles vaccinations, CDC says
U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles, saying Americans should be vaccinated against the disease no matter where they travel in the world. U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously emphasized the importance of vaccination for travelers going to countries with outbreaks. Last week, the CDC updated its guidance to call for vaccinations for travelers goi…

Commanders HC Dan Quinn on Terry McLaurin's trade request: 'It is an emotional time' https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-hc-dan-quinn-on-terry-mclaurin-s-trade-request-it-is-an-emotional-time

Practice Points: CeeDee's big catch among Saturday highlights https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/practice-points-ceedee-s-big-catch-among-saturday-highlights

MALDEF TAKES A STEP TOWARD CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT ON BEHALF OF U.S. CITIZEN DETAINED BY ICE (MALDEF)
https://www.maldef.org/2025/07/maldef-takes-a-step-toward-civil-rights-lawsuit-on-behalf-of-u-s-citizen-detained-by-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p141#a250702p141

Apple's lead AI researcher for robotics, Jian Zhang, has left for Meta's Robotics Studio; sources: three more researchers left Apple's Foundation Models team (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The media focus on this one criticism is insane, just massive focus on ensuring everybody is quoted as being against Bob's chant.
The manufacturing of consent in plain view. No support of Bob allowed to be quoted, only condemnation. No focus at all on the horrors committed by the army itself, just condemnation and contrition from all corners.
And all so much louder than the coverage of death and hunger and destruction and genocide being committed by that army.
Our media environment is so focused and in lock-step, even though it's in theory free. Yet not a single newspaper saying, you know, the Vylan character has a point! Maybe we should disband a criminal army!
Got confused about the date in the show here, but the reading's about right. The bandwagon rolls on because it's a victory for everyone. The media gets to condemn someone, and they don't have to condemn Israel.
https://wordcloudtarot.com/readings/2025-07-01-gazaandglastonbury/

Currently working on implementing Matrix's new 'Matrix Authentication Service' for our NZ-based instance... non-trivial. But it's such an impressive system (it's doing far more than competitors like Salesforce Slack and Microsoft Teams).

Y con música nueva, como tiene que ser, es este regreso de Casanova. «Soñar es Peligroso»
#Casanova

Shooting, five victims, Old Navy at Abercorn mall in #savannah
According to police scanner.

Tesla nimmt Model X und Model S in Deutschland aus dem Programm
Tesla hat seine Oberklasse-Modelle Model S und X in Deutschland aus dem Konfigurator genommen. Damit bietet der US-Autobauer hier nur noch Model 3 und Y an.

He’s probably (he’s on the list) doing it out of (he’s on every page of the list) a strategic need (and there are photos) and sound military and national security (and there is footage) concerns. There’s no way he’d do this as a distraction (this way, this is the way he does it as a distraction), that would be reckless, irresponsible and dangerous (which he very much is).

Trump orders US nuclear subs repositioned over statements from ex-Russian leader
President Donald Trump has ordered the repositioning of two U.S. nuclear submarines. Friday's decision comes after what he calls "highly provocative statements" by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev and Trump has fueded online in recent days. The impact on U.S. nuclear subs — which normally and routinely patrol global hotspots — remains unclear. But the move potentially escalates tensions between Washington and Moscow at a delicate time, as Trump threatens new sanctions in a…

Ukraine destroys Russian S-300 radar in occupied Crimea, military says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/01/ukraine-destroys-russian-s-radar.html

Sweet, Arizona has TWO on this list of the USA's top twenty most boring cities 😂🤣
Edit - found the link these rankings came from, with the explanations of how they came up with them: https://financebuzz.com/most-boring-cities-in-america-ranked

Bored in the USA: The Most Boring Cities in America, Ranked
FinanceBuzz evaluated 75 of the biggest cities in the U.S. to find the most boring cities in the country. Is yours on the list?

Some remarks on $u$-$S$-Noetherian and $u$-$S$-coherent rings
Xiaolei Zhang, Wei Qi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21400 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21400

Some remarks on $u$-$S$-Noetherian and $u$-$S$-coherent rings
In this paper, we give some new characterizations of $u$-$S$-Noetherian rings and $u$-$S$-coherent rings in terms of uniform $S$-version of injective precovers, flat preenvelopes and absolutely pure modules, respectively. Moreover, we give a negative answer to a question proposed by Bouziri [3].

Addiction (Speculatve)
Kind of a fucked-up metaphor, but I was thinking yesterday that parenting is a lot like addiction. If you separate me from my child, I'll take completely irrational and desperate actions to get them back, driven by a deep instinct that goes well beyond "love." I'll also make self-disadvantageous long-term decisions like forgoing sleep, working an extra job, or quitting a job to do some combination of providing for and/or being present with my child.
Even in parenting situations where love is absent, and beyond, I think, the possessiveness that sometimes festers in those situations, there's often (although not always) a craving for simple presence of the child.
In a healthy relationship, there's a whole lot more than this, but it's interesting to me that the same obsessive craving and absolute priority that we think of as diseased and/or monstrous in someone addicted to a hard drug can be healthy in the right context (that is, when it doesn't contribute to abusive or twisted parental relationships but instead exists alongside a healthy amount of love and respect).
Makes me wonder if there are ways to have a truly healthy drug addiction, although I recognize the answer might well be "no" and that even if it's "technically/theoretically yes" it might still be harmful to hype up or even merely discuss that possibility since it might help addicted people in harmful addictions more easily justify inaction. At minimum I think any "yes" answer here involves assuming utopian-level differences from our current society.
#Parenting #Addiction

Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama,
reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado.
The long-expected decision from Trump caps a four-year tug of war between two states and opposing administrations about where to locate U.S. Space Command,
an intense fight because the headquarters would be a significant boon to the local economy.
Alabama and Colorado have long battled to claim Space…

Trump will announce Space Command moves from Colorado to Alabama
President Donald Trump’s administration will announce U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado. That's according to two people familiar with the announcement. The people say Trump is expected to speak Tuesday afternoon and will give the new location. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to confirm the plans ahead of the official announcement. A Pentagon website set up to livestream the remarks …

Without Public Notice, U.S. Olympic Officials Exclude Transgender Women From Competing
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/08/01/without-public-notice-u-s-olympic-officials-exclude-transgender-women-from-competing/

"But Google's AI summaries are bad, no one wants them"
Both of these things may be true (probably are), but that doesn't matter if it works for Google (90% of people don't scroll beyond them).
So yes, AI works, in the same way shitting on my doorstep works so it's inconvenient to leave the house.

I've been binging the Vikings series on Netflix. Constantly Googling historical characters for their true stories. It's rubbing my nose in the utter failure of AI, which clearly can't tell the difference between fiction and reality.

An interview with Independent Studio's Head of Content Al Brown, who expects podcasts and video to eventually become The Independent's biggest revenue source (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Independent's video and podcast Studio aims to become biggest revenue driver
Independent's new Studio launch will aim to become the main source of revenue, and expand its team next year.

NFL's Top 100 Players of 2025: Five things voters got wrong https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-s-top-100-players-of-2025-five-things-voters-got-wrong

Me acabo de encontrar con esta sorpresa: una nueva canción de Foo Fighters que se llama «Today's Song». ¿Se vendrš nuevo disco de la banda?
https://open.spotify.com/track/14PhYqLZ4QLKprqeCOMx36

#ICEBlock, an iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents,
⭐️has rocketed to one of the coveted top spots in Apple’s U.S. App Store rankings.
The upshot: Criticism from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi helped get it there.
Most of ICEBlock’s users
— about 20,000
— are in Los Angeles,
where ICE ra…

ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral overnight after Bondi criticism | TechCrunch
The citizen app for anonymously reporting ICE agents and raids went viral after criticism from the U.S. Attorney General.

With Kenny Clark's addition, UCLA becoming pipeline for Cowboys DTs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/with-kenny-clark-s-addition-ucla-becoming-pipeline-for-cowboys-dts

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Tesla nimmt Model X und Model S in Deutschland aus dem Programm

Datadog is joining the S&P 500, replacing Juniper Networks after HPE acquired Juniper, before trading on July 9; DDOG jumps 10% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/datadog-stock-jumps-sp-500-index-inclusion.html

Datadog stock jumps 10% on tech company’s inclusion in S&P 500 index
Hewlett Packard Enterprise's closing of its Juniper deal created an opening in the index, which has added several technology companies in recent months.

So, is there a glitch with the animatronic Donald?

Know what's even BETTER than using some kind of dumb looking LLM generated image for your blog post and/or website?
Using a free (or paid) image from https://unsplash.com. Sure, it's an Adobe thing, but the free Creative Commons stuff, you just grab and then you can credit the photographer/artist. It's …

Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash
Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.

DMG Media, Guardian Media Group, and other UK publishers call for the CMA to include Gemini in its investigation into Google's search and search ads dominance (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/publ…

Publishers call for CMA to include Gemini in Google investigation
Publishers have responded to the UK's competition watchdog (CMA)'s investigation on Google's market dominance.

U.S. Jobs Report Falls Flat With Only 73,000 Added in July (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News)
https://meidasnews.com/news/u-s-jobs-report-falls-flat-with-only-73000-added-in-july
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p24#a250801p24

US envoy Kellogg denies agreeing to help halt Ukraine's drone strikes on Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/us-envoy-kellogg-denies-agreeing.html

Breech's final record prediction for every NFL team, plus best-case scenario for each franchise in 2025

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/breechs

“You just don’t go knocking on people’s doors,” one neighbor said.
Gun nuts peddling the fantasy of "protecting your home" have made this country a hellscape. No kid should be shot for ringing a doorbell.
https://www.khou.com/artic…

Internal documents and sources detail how Cambodia's Huione Group supercharged the growth of Asia's cyberscam industry into a multi-billion dollar behemoth (Kai Schultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

With Kenny Clark's addition, UCLA becoming pipeline for Cowboys DTs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/with-kenny-clark-s-addition-ucla-becoming-pipeline-for-cowboys-dts

Ding dong ditch gun = child murdered.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/11-year-old-shot-dead-ringing-doorbell-running-houston-home-rcna228332

Canada's US trade minister exits DC as tariff talks stall (Mike Blanchfield/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/01/canadas-u-s-trade-minister-exits-d-c-as-tariff-talks-stall-00488775
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p118#a250801p118

North Korea already using Russian Pantsir missiles to defend Pyongyang, Ukraine's intelligence chief says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/north-korea-already-using-russian.html

Immigration officers were caught on video -- celebrating proudly -- after using chokeholds and a stun gun to arrest two undocumented immigrants in Florida.
The owner of the video,
an 18-year-old American citizen,
was threatened and charged
after he refused to delete the footage revealing the harsh tactics used by immigration authorities
to meet the Trump administration's mass deportation goals.
Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was on his way to work on the mor…

This U.S. citizen recorded an immigration arrest. Officers told him to delete it or face charges.
The peaceful traffic stop in Florida turned violent after immigration officers arrived and used chokeholds and a stun gun to make arrests.

Saw a comment from an old magat claiming that shiftless lazy young men were selling food stamps.
Food stamps haven't existed for years.
Magats believe crazy shit.

Google says it is reviewing the court's ruling on search and has "concerns" about how the requirements "will impact our users and their privacy" (Lee-Anne Mulholland/Google)
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/d…

Read our statement on today’s decision in the case involving Google Search.
Our response to the Court's September 2025 decision in the Department of Justice's lawsuit over how we distribute Search.

If you ever wondered how the Romans got to be such horrible people that they staged gladiator fights and animal spectacles, just look around.

As U.S. fleet steams toward coast, Venezuelans face uncertainty, fear and, for some, hope
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-08-31/as-u-s-fleet-patrols-off-coast-venezuelans-face-uncertainty…

As U.S. fleet steams toward coast, Venezuelans face uncertainty, fear and, for some, hope
Long-suffering Venezuelans face new potential crisis as the U.S. sends navy vessels off its coast and increased pressure on President Nicolás Maduro.

Ripple has applied for a national banking license, which would place Ripple's dollar-backed stablecoin, RLUSD, under the US OCC's regulatory remit (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/rip

TSMC says the US revoked its authorization to ship gear to its main Chinese chipmaking base in Nanjing, after the US revoked Samsung's and SK Hynix's waivers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-02/…

As it celebrates the 80th anniversary of Japanese surrender,
China is trying to recast wartime history by downplaying U.S. help while emphasizing Moscow’s role.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/01/china-world-war-2-history/

On WWII anniversary, China seeks to erase U.S. role in victory
As it celebrates the 80th anniversary of Japanese surrender, China is trying to recast wartime history by downplaying U.S. help while emphasizing Moscow’s role.

Roblox's average DAUs grew 41% YoY to 111.8M in Q2 and hours engaged rose 58% YoY to 27.4B, driven by the success of tycoon-style farming game Grow a Garden (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Best comment on a story about flying through dangerous air turbulence: "Don't conjugate around the bathroom."
#malaprop

Cleaning the garage.

Heading to Chicago this week. Italian beef, Vienna dogs, deep dish pizza. Art Institute. Billy Goat Tavern. I'm sure I can manage this without any help from red state militia nitwits or US Marines.

If the poors want health care they should just launch their own lines of fragrances and mobile phones.

They're not building an Alligator Alcatraz in the hot, fetid swamps of Florida.
They're building Alligator Auschwitz.