@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-03-13 18:23:13
Doin' US taxes again. Super blah without a donut!!
Last year my personal filing was about 200 pages long. (We also do a separate corporate filing.)
And once again my taxes will far, far, far exceed the actual disposable income I have received.
Yes, this is an upper-middle-class, first world problem.. But I do hate paying what amounts to big wads of $$ to pay for El Cheato's destruction of the US.
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social2026-03-12 23:32:05
Sigh. The world is falling apart in Ukraine and the Middle East, and all journalists can talk about is Starmer's mistake in appointing Mandelson.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-11 21:51:06
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/…
@salrandolph@zirk.us2026-03-12 20:32:26
As bombs have been falling across the Middle East, I’ve been re-reading Etel Adnan, Lebanese-American poet and painter, especially her book The Arab Apocalypse.
At the same time I have returned to her paintings, which I first encountered at Documenta 13 in 2012. These paintings are small, yet they offer expanses of color and light that fill the eye and lift the spirit.
I thought you might like to see them too.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-12 00:09:14
Iraq oil ports halt operations after tanker attacks – report
Iraqi officials are saying oil ports have “completely stopped operations” while commercials ports continue to operate after an attack on a fuel tankers, according to Iraqi state media.
Iraqi port security officials have said two foreign tankers carrying Iraqi fuel oil were in flames after being attacked by Iranian boats laden with explosives, killing a foreign crew member.
Iraq’s General Company for Ports chief Fa…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-01-12 21:57:26
Raiders Get Curt Cignetti Message Amid Fernando Mendoza Link https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/curt-cignetti-message-fernando-mendoza-link/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-10 21:36:00
Internal doc: the State Department moved its internal chatbot from Claude Sonnet 4.5 to GPT-4.1, following Trump's directive to cancel Anthropic contracts (Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/acquisition/2026/03/state-offlo…
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-02-11 03:47:09
I've posted pictures of 𝐷𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑚 in other seasons but I took this one on a freezing cold day with blowing, not falling, snow
#photo #photography #cornell
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-10 20:51:41
US military 'drawing up additional options' to keep strait of Hormuz open, says White House
Karoline Leavitt said that Donald Trump is committed to allowing the free flow of oil through the strait of Hormuz,
and reiterated that the US president has offered for the navy
“to escort tankers when necessary”.
“The US military is drawing up additional options following the president’s directive to continue keeping the strait of Hormuz open,” Leavitt said.
I wil…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-01-12 21:07:43
Insider Delivers Exciting Take for Raiders Amid Coaching Search https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/nfl-insider-exciting-take-coach-search/