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🚨Job Alert! 🚨 "University of Georgia invites applications for two tenure-track positions at the Assistant or Associate Professor level with a focus on critical mineral resources. We especially seek applicants in the areas of #Economic #Geology and in

Look what an old #macOS SDK in the “Command Line Tools" tree causes on Apple Silicon:
$ clang -o ghba geh.c
In file included from geh.c:14:
In file included from /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/stdlib.h:62:
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:784:2: error: Unsupported architecture
784 | <…

Crack along weld caused #NorthDakota Keystone oil pipeline spill in April, 2025
https://northdakotamonitor.com/briefs/crack-along-weld-caused…

Do I know any C programmers?
I’m fiddling with a 20yo *trivial* C program and my editor(!) is warning me about the twisted casts in the first line of this:
if ((int)(addr = (void *)inet_addr(argv[1])) == -1) {
errnum=errno;
strerror(errnum);
perror("ERRNO");
(void) printf("IP address must be of the form a.b.c.d\n");
exit (2);
}
I can no longer understand what I was thinking. Can anyo…

I have Unix “muscle memory” that is older than the millennium and remains valid on most of the machines I administer.
E.g. the old “net-tools” utilities (ifconfig, netstat, etc.)were supposedly replaced a couple of decades ago but they remain functional on most Unix-like platforms. Almost no one ever uses the iproute2 (i.e. ip, ss, etc.) tools. @…

What @… is quoting here is a testament to the waste and the cruelty and the uselessness of this regime.
It is also a testament to the effectiveness of ubiquitous, sustained, pervasive resistance. “What good does it do,” you ask, “to have crowds of random people just yelling and honking and filming?” The answer is that it makes these harassment campaigns unsustainable.
https://toad.social/@KimPerales/115583290500226180

Aerial view of west central #Minnesota. Thousands of lakes on this glaciated terrain.

Video of pyroclastic flow at Semeru volcano, Indonesia, Nov 19, 2025. #geology (h/t Drsadhbh on bsky)
https://youtu.be/T02pJdKARLo

Love this shot… @… https://mastodon.social/@livelakemichigan/115737534613231556

Lake Michigan! Live! (@livelakemichigan@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Current* conditions near Ludington, MI:

Fucking amazing. Not surprising at all coming from such unfuckable losers, but still amazing.
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115503363869254443

dear @… and @…👇 https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115510648656097685

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (among other programs) to be eliminated at University of Nebraska-Lincoln #UNL. A tragedy all around. #Geosciences #Geology

Blend of Finnish, Norse, and Native American accents.
And it’s not just Minnesota. It extends across northern Wisconsin and into the UP of Michigan and the northern half of the LP. @…

sarah jeong (@sarahjeong.bsky.social)
the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent

Vile. A landlord so horrible even Trump is prosecuting. @… https://bird.makeup/users/macfarlanenews/statuses/2001360643161813234

Isn't the internet incredible? Here I am sat in my chilly industrial unit deep in the English countryside watching a volcano erupt in Hawaii.
@… https://toad.social/@doktrock/11561469

Aurora north of #Fargo last night, Nov 12 #northdakota

This is terrifying.
You could fit Solaris 8 into that. @… https://pleroma.pch.net/objects/5892a1e4-f070-4c5e-b6db-39566008802d

Bill Woodcock (@woody@pleroma.pch.net)
Not the future I voted for: the firmware for my keyboard is 266mb. EDIT: Sorry, that was the gzipped package. Unzipped it's 628mb.

JFC. I always assumed that acquisition had just fizzled out. @… https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115736145336445402

LOL at the idea of someone paying money to Cisco for email software and/or appliances.
I don’t victim-blame, so all I can say is: do not do that and thanks for the giggle. @… https://

"Captured at Battle of the Bulge at 19, #Fargo WWII vet nears 101st birthday" - InForum #northdakota

Captured at Battle of the Bulge at 19, Fargo WWII vet nears 101st birthday
Maurice Bonemeyer was just 19 when he was captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Now nearing 101, the Fargo WWII veteran reflects on faith, survival and gratitude.

No clue, as I’ve got no defined endpoint. Or direction. Or velocity. https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115561098220894837

That’s the key problem. People have very vague ideas that can easily and accurately be expressed in natural language and LLMs operate in the vagueness. A programmer will demand specificity before starting to code anything, which is a real nuisance to people with vague ideas about wanting some sort of app. https://in…

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Top acting, directing, cinematography, etc. Wow! Instant classic. See it in the theater if you can

New shape🚨! "Mathematicians Make Surprising Breakthrough in 3D Geometry with ‘Noperthedron’ "| Scientific American (h/t Amanda Montañez on bsky)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-make…

Mathematicians Make Surprising Breakthrough in 3D Geometry with ‘Noperthedron’
The noperthedron has a surprising property—which disproves a long-standing conjecture

Leon Panetta on New Yorker Radio Hour: asked to express his greatest worry explicitly given his broader and deeper knowledge of foreign affairs, he names the dysfunction of American Democracy.
That’s after having mentioned all the external crises we currently face overseas. He made the excellent point that our inability to handle our own business (e.g. immigration, health care, taxation) in a responsible way threatens our global credibility & security.
(He’s right)

🚨Job Alert!🚨Faculty Position in Low-Temperature #Geochemistry at University of New Mexico ⚒️ #geology
https://

Assistant Professor-LowTemp Geochemistry-Earth and Planetary Sciences
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) at the University of New Mexico invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor pos...

How is this still happening?
We all knew that hard-coded credentials were BAD and WRONG 35ya.
#InfoSec https://infosec.exchange/@offseq/115528481041007501

Offensive Sequence (@offseq@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image ⚠️ CRITICAL: CVE-2025-42890 in SAP SQL Anywhere Monitor 17.0 (Non-GUI) — hard-coded credentials let attackers bypass auth remotely for RCE & full system takeover. Audit & restrict access now. Await SAP patches. https://radar.offseq.com/threat/cve-2025-42890-cwe-798-use-of-hard-coded-credentia-91b98cfd #OffSeq #SAP #Infosec #CVE202542890

Tons of #Garbage in 2025 music wrap. Also, Top 500 #Starcrawler? Was fortunate to see them together at First Ave #Minneapolis

They are a military force in a war that cannot be won.
Kinda a natural spot in the rankings… @… https://…

Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social)
At $28.7B for 2025 (nearly triple its 2024 budget) and at least another $56.25B over the next three years, ICE's budget would be the envy of many national militaries... "Indeed, this budget would put ICE as the 14th most well-funded military in the world, right between Ukraine and Israel." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Research Experience for Undergrads (#REU) at Georgia Tech School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences! ⚒️🧪
Geosciences, #planetary science, atmospheric sciences, #oceanography,

Somehow Detroit got safer without Federal intervention.
I’d bet that a part of that is all the immigrants we have. @… https://mastodon.hong…

CBC Windsor (@cbcwindsor_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net)
Attached: 1 image Homicides continue to fall in Detroit as city mirrors U.S. trend on violent crime Murders in Detroit continue to tumble as the city recorded its lowest number of criminal homicides since at least the early- to mid-1960s. #crime #violence #detroit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-detroit-crime-2025-9.7036993?cmp=rss

Surprisingly… https://hachyderm.io/@EndlessMason/115684288195784801

EndlessMason (@EndlessMason@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image Is this a #infosec?

Or one could use LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice and not be dependent on some distant service provider.
Online office suites confuse me. It’s unclear what *modern* problem they address. Sharing files is a solved problem. Common data formats exist. https://mastodon.social/@DevOpsPink/11

Tatiana Mikhaleva (@DevOpsPink@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Proton rolled out Proton Sheets - a spreadsheet Google can’t peek into. Gemini: “Show me your data?” You: “No.” Sheets: also no, but in Swiss.🇨🇭🔐 End-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge, even file names get the Swiss-bank treatment. You open a spreadsheet - Big Tech immediately cries. Somewhere in California, an AI whispers: “But… my training data…” Privacy 1 : 0 AI https://proton.me/blog/sheets-proton-drive #Proton #Privacy #Encryption #CyberSe…

Happy New Year 🎊🎈! #HappyNewYear

Unclear to me why no one ever mentions Strongbox in #PasswordManager reviews. It is a perfectly fine PM for macOS/iOS/iPadOS that has a rich set of sync options, most of which don't involve any 2nd/3rd party storage. It stores its databases in KeePass2.x (kdbx v4) format, so it is data-compatible with the many variations of KeePass.
(I use it with SSH/SCP sync, so as long as I’m at…

Just heard a story on the Indiana Senate showing some spine in the face of violent threats, it occurs to me that if one had billions of dollars, one could probably buy a LOT of untraceable threats. There doesn’t need to be a mass populace making threats, just a paid staff.

Ammonites made it through the K-Pg extinction event according to this paper! #FossilFriday 🤯
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-34479-1

Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark - Scientific Reports
We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at Stevns Klint, eastern Denmark. The occurrence of this unit in disjunct basins between eroded crests of uppermost Maastrichtian bryozoan mounds prompts a reconsideration of ammonite redeposition as an alternative to the survival hypothesis. We describe new ammonite specimens from the Cerithium L…

He’s castrated himself, hasn’t he?
Established correlation to longer life…. @… https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/1158…

I wish he really meant it. @… https://c.im/@BBC/115856061532037421

BBC=Bari’s Blocked Content
I hope MacFarlane still has his job today… @… https://bird.makeup/users/dougfromdc/statuses/200888759131646783…

Sediments on #Mars Hint at Large Ancient Martian Moon
"Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos" | Eos |
https://…

Sediments Hint at Large Ancient Martian Moon
Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos, a study says.

So, I still have not updated my iPhone to v26 because I hate everything I’ve seen about the “Liquid Glass” and Apple still had a v18 update last time around.
But I expect I will be forced to upgrade since Safari with Lockdown Mode on in v18 chokes on almost every page, redrawing a couple of times before giving up. I also see this in a couple of apps which are probably just thin wrappers around Safari WebViews. Turning off lockdown mode for the site ends the problem.

Sediments Hint at Large Ancient Martian Moon
"Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos" #Mars
https://

Sediments Hint at Large Ancient Martian Moon
Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times the mass of Phobos, a study says.

"Law enforcement, protesters clash as federal agents make arrests in St. Paul" | MPR News #Minnesota #ICE

Law enforcement, protesters clash as federal agents make arrests in St. Paul
Gov. Tim Walz said state officials were monitoring what he called a “chaotic” situation “and working to understand what unfolded. We received no heads up from federal authorities on this operation.”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Golden Toad:
🎵 Time
#GoldenToad
https://goldentoad.bandcamp.com/track/time-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SElewX8lxksyUfjcgMZoT

xkcd: Geologic Core Sample
https://xkcd.com/3171/

The GOP conspiracists in Congress so desperately want to find a conspiracy against them that they asked Jack Smith a bunch of embarrassingly stupid questions. @…

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
Oh no, @marcelias.bsky.social!!! You're apparently a lose bc you have not met Jack Smith.

They have a great “big” point here about incrementalism but also: fiber, water, and even minimal activity specifically are great first steps towards feeling better.
I suspect that a lot of us 1st-worlders feel lousy in part because we’re each paving our own way to T2D, colon cancer, and heart disease. @…

I guess that every generation of D&D players needs to learn the same lessons over and over again. Like preverbal hominids. @… https://mastodon.social/@Viss/115838792855…

This log entry always appears at the top of my cable modem's web view of the log. Every 36 hours, the timestamp changes. It's not new,. just the same line with a new timestamp.
It has been this way for years, I believe for the whole decade that I've had it, although its rock-solid regularity may have started with the last update (2019) or with some upstream behavior change. It is harmless (DHCP clients must tolerate unrecognized options).
And people wonder why I e…

Apple makes it unnecessarily hard to set up a new Mac with a case-sensitive filesystem. They COULD just make it a setup option. The boot partition is always CI, but to get the data partition switched they force a full reset, reactivate, and reinstall FROM THE NETWORK. 15.5GB of download just because I am finicky. Then the install. Hours, when it could have been a checkbox and a few seconds
#IWeep6Colors

Not arguing...
However, there's a long history of lazy coders doing evil in the other direction by emitting diagnostic output to stdout (a cardinal sin) or arbitrarily joining the streams (see the classic "Csh Programming Considered Harmful")
I really wish everyone coding anything would get the same sort of grounding in fundamentals like this that were part of every CS 101 course in 1990.

For the past week or so I’ve been following @… posts about the events at this years “Ashes” cricket series.
I am enjoying being quite mystified by the terminology. I know very little about the game beyond it being a distant relative of baseball with a much harder ball and wickets with little baubles on top instead of a strike zone judged by an umpire. I have concluded that …

Edmontosaurus #dinosaur fossil found in #NorthDakota to be researched at Winona State University, #Minnesota #FossilFriday

Entirely true.
However, it is important from a strategic standpoint to maintain the argument that today's GOP is an aberrant degenerate personality cult rather than a real political organization with a rational view of the world.
The GOP is a zombie political party disconnected from its past and reduced to a mechanism for blocking sound government which might impede one man's lust for power.

Makes me almost glad to have outlived all of my elderly family… https://federate.social/@mattblaze/115600998838282974

Looks like the Danakil Depression is trying to become a bay…
I’ve always wanted to live through a major geologic event. I missed the Zanclean Flood, the filling of the Black Sea, and the glacial outbreak of Lake Bonneville, but hopefully NatGeo or someone will get some cameras out to that Hell-on-Earth location. It could be really big…
(keep it to yourself if you just want to tell me it’s not happening. Do you think I don’t know?)

Tyrannosaurus rex and #mammoth fossil finds in #Northdakota announced! 🦖 #dinosaur #paleontology

Live view of the #volcano eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu, from the northwest rim of the caldera Kīlauea #Hawaii #HVO #USGS