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Good Morning #Canada
The list of abandoned towns in PEI is apparently so short that no one has produced any really scary histories. It makes sense being a small island that there isn't enough distance to truly "abandon" a settlement. Maybe a house here or there, perhaps a short street. But that means you are more likely to be living next door to a haunted location. So today, we have a list of ghostly tales from around the island that may, or may not, be myth. Remember, don't go into the old shed with all the sharp farm tools....
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://pointseastcoastaldrive.com/scary-stories-of-points-east-coastal-drive/

"The goal of the Nuremberg Trials was straightforward: To punish those who committed these horrific crimes and to deter others from engaging in the same conduct in the future. That is the very reason why Donald Trump along with Stephen Miller, Border czar Tom Homan and DHS secretary Kristi Noem--at the very least--need to be held accountable for their crimes in connection with their mass deportations that have repeatedly violated the law. If what they are doing is not a crime against humanity, then nothing is."
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-stephen-miller-tom-homan-and

Here’s a condensed version of a letter I sent to the Star Tribune last week.
I know that the editorial staff was considering publishing it, because they contacted me about it. Ultimately, however, they opted not to.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Today, a customer lost some changes due to git stach drop. This meant that they were no longer accessible with git reflog. As a last resort, git fsck came to our rescue: https://www.python4data.science/en/latest/productive/git/review.html#fsck

Review
log: Filter and sort:$ git log [-n COUNT], lists the commit history of the current branch.--n, limits the number of commits to the specified number.,.,,$ git log [--after=" YYYY-MM-DD"] [...

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

Please complain about Schumer and his cohort. Please give the mushy centrists black eyes. Please light a fire under all the politicians.
But…please also look for work you can do that doesn’t center around elections. Start local. Help people. Throw sand in the gears. Whatever it is, do work that counts.
Create a context in which there •has• to be an anti-fascist opposition party, because that’s the work so many people are already doing. •That• is what the cynicism is trying to stop you from doing.
/end

Someone should invent a way for computers to count. At the moment both GMail and GitHub have incorrect message counts in my inbox. Again.
This has happened many times. Given that computers make it possible for me to order toilet paper for delivery by 2pm and then send me hundreds of messages about toilet paper by 5pm, it seems odd to me that they can't count.
But hey, I guess it's hard to count how many things are in a list, especially when the list is empty.

Pre/Absence: Prompting Cultural Awareness and Understanding for Lost Architectural Heritage in Virtual Reality
Yaning Li, Ke Zhao, Shucheng Zheng, Xingyu Chen, Chenyi Chen, Wenxi Dai, Weile Jiang, Qi Dong, Yiqing Zhao, Meng Li, Lin-Ping Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07967

Pre/Absence: Prompting Cultural Awareness and Understanding for Lost Architectural Heritage in Virtual Reality
Lost architectural heritage presents interpretive challenges due to vanished structures and fragmented historical records. Using Hanyuan Hall of the Tang dynasty's Daming Palace as a case study, we conducted a formative investigation with archaeologists, heritage administrators, and visitors to identify key issues in current interpretation practices. We found that these practices often compress complex cultural layers into factual summaries and rely on linear narratives that overlook the contin…

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment-2: An Intensity Mapping Optimized Sounding-rocket Payload to Understand the Near-IR Extragalactic Background Light
Michael Zemcov, James J. Bock, Asantha Cooray, Shuji Matsuura, Dae-Hee Lee, Candice Fazar, Richard M. Feder, Grigory Heaton, Ryo Hashimoto, Phillip Korngut, Toshio Matsumoto, Chi H. Nguyen, Kazuma Noda, Won-Kee Park, Kei Sano, Kohji Takimoto, Toshiaki Arai, Seung-Cheol Bang, Priyadarshini Bangale, Masaki Furutani, Viktor Hristov, Y…

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment-2: An Intensity Mapping Optimized Sounding-rocket Payload to Understand the Near-IR Extragalactic Background Light
The background light produced by emission from all sources over cosmic history is a powerful diagnostic of structure formation and evolution. At near-infrared wavelengths, this extragalactic background light (EBL) is comprised of emission from galaxies stretching all the way back to the first-light objects present during the Epoch of Reionization. The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment 2 (CIBER-2) is a sounding-rocket experiment designed to measure both the absolute photometric brightness of…

It’s so yellow and ugly why do people like it I don’t get it.
At least the AI generated art on Pinterest blends in so well it’s hard to catch sometimes.
But the people making “illustrations” for business contexts don’t even try.