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A look at WindBorne, which uses weather balloons and AI to improve forecasting, as potential budget cuts to NOAA threaten its access to public weather data (Tim Fernholz/New York Times)
https://www.

The Future of Weather Prediction Is Here. Maybe.
Thanks to A.I., companies like WindBorne hope to usher in a golden age of forecasting. But they rely in part on government data — and the agency that provides it is in turmoil.

Teflon Don
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This is a joke, not a threat: I hope you'll lol, not take legal action.
#satire #potus45

Reminder: public protest is about visibility, not hiding. The power comes from people being willing to be visible, put their time on the line, and if needed, their bodies.
If you're going to start shit, maybe just ... don't. Direct action of the illegal sort requires careful planning and a tactical and strategic plan for why it will win. It happens sometimes, but it's not the mode, it's not the mode of the No Kings protests. This is a popular, public demonstration of outrage. It's legal (for now, and I hope, ever).
Yes, the police may try to kettle protesters and then trap them into curfew violations in places that have curfews. Masks won't save us from that where it happens. Just running the system with competent representation (and enough bodies to make it A Problem for the system) will.
We don't all need to be masked vigilantes at protests, and in a lot of cases, we need to be worried about the people masking up and starting shit. Remember that this is our opponents current tactic: masked, violent attacks. Don't look like them.

"Restoration, protection aim to save Belize’s coral reef from extreme heat and disease"
#Belize #Environment #CoralReef

Restoration, protection aim to save Belize’s coral reef from extreme heat and disease
PLACENCIA, Belize — After Hurricane Iris decimated the coral reef at Laughing Bird Caye National Park in 2001, many wrote off the UNESCO World Heritage site as a coral graveyard. But a small group from the coastal village of Placencia, Belize, about 18 kilometers (11 miles) from the island, saw hope. In 2006, the park […]

I uploaded my original announcement #tvamrks video to youtube in hope to get more people to find it.
If you could give it a thumbs up or a comment that would be super cool of you!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

AVweb, Aviation Consumer, IFR. KITPLANES, Aviation Safety are all gone. A dark time for aviation. A beacon of hope: Russ Niles has created a new site: AVBrief.
https://avbrief.org/so-long-avweb-hello-avbrief/
If you fly, or if you want to fly, or if you love flying, sign up…

@… @… Sure, it was your first sentence that made me feel the need to reply. I hope you are less divided now. 😄

Happy birthday @… hope you have a great day!

Conservatives are asking Trump for another big tax cut
Currently, an investor who bought stock for $1,000 in 1980 and sold it for $10,000 today would owe capital gains taxes on the increase in value of $9,000.
But under the proposal pitched by Grover Norquist and others, the calculation would start by adjusting up the value of the original purchase to account for inflation
— which would reduce the amount of gain that’s taxable after selling the stock.

Although a 199…

Conservatives are asking Trump for another big tax cut
Fresh off passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” some anti-tax advocates hope to push the administration to change how taxable capital gains are calculated.

In some UK woodlands, every young tree has died. What’s going wrong? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/10/britain-ancient-woodlands-failing-regenerate-forests-climate-drought-heat-dis…

Raiders hope they found another leading linebacker gem in Elandon Roberts https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/jun/10/raiders-hope-they-found-another-leading-linebacker/

For those not up to speed with the latest AI jargon, I hope to clarify some things:
Every time a company promises a revolutionary “AI” product, they just exploit cheap labor from India.

I don’t have any heroes because people are always flawed and will disappoint you if you invest them with your faith and hope , except for Greta Thunberg, who is a hero and must be protected at all costs.

"There's a mission, or a mandate, I want you to fulfill. It's a mission nobody asks you for, but one that I hope you, as teachers, will take upon yourselves. Awake in your students the pain of lucidity. Without limits. Without piety."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKBGfpHCbYc

love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear;
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun more last than star
—do lovers love? why then to heaven with hell.
Whatever sages say and fools, all’s well
-- e.e. cummings

Hope Suite and Hope Sweet
#hope
https://muz4now.com/2017/hope-suite-hope-sweet/

Hope Suite and Hope Sweet
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Nathan Fillion says Superman's true power is hope #Firefly
https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/amid-political-backlash-canadas-nathan-fillion-says-supermans-true-power-is-hope/

My partner and I were out to dinner last night. Five teen girls showed up. They sat down ordered food, then chatted, laughed, and engaged with each other. A bit later five teen boys came in, sat down a table over from the girls, and each one was hunched over the table with their face in their phones… I’m not even sure they spoke to each other.
We left about 10 minutes after the boys arrived but goddamn I hope they stopped staring at their phones.

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#satire #potus45

The Orlando Sentinel got a cease-and-desist from Florida's DCF that claims its reporter coerced families for a story on a foundation tied to Gov. DeSantis' wife (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/orlando-sen

Florida agency tells newspaper to halt reporting angle on foundation associated with governor's wife
Florida’s child welfare agency has sent a letter to a newspaper telling it to “cease and desist” its reporting on foster families for a story about a nonprofit associated with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ wife. The foundation is the subject of an investigation. The Orlando Sentinel received the letter on Friday from the Department of Children and Families. The letter claims the newspaper’s Tallahassee reporter intimidated foster families who had received money from the Hope Florida Foundation w…

When I noticed the person at the supermarket kiosk yawn, and said "is it too late for coffee", I hope they didn't think it was an offer 😅

So farewell then Pinetime Watch 🪦.
It isn't showing any signs of charging. even after a completely-flat battery reset. Last hope gone.
Now nobody at all is running my custom software I think, and I have no way to fix the bugs.
Could replace it, but I'm not really paying any attention to the things it measures anyway. Heartrate is too unreliable to be useful and steps seems likely to be counting my leg-jiggles since I tend to hit 10,000 most days without trying or leaving the flat.
The software which tracks my time and mood is probably better running on the phone really. Easier to add notes and detail. Can't really input text from a watch. Location data can be added in ways the watch couldn't.
So back to not wearing a watch at all I think. Who needs it now we all carry pocket watches with internet and telephony.
#pineTime #smartWatch

I'm not an atomic scientist but I thought I knew all the element names well enough to recognize them [0], so today's news about #Samarium (h/t/ @…) is extra weirdly ominous because I *don't* recognize the name
it's oddly made-up-soundin…

Joanna Bryson, blathering (@j2bryson@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Excellent — let’s hope this is all China has to do to make war obviously stupid. #Samarium

I hope the other Mastodon sponsors are wealthier than me.

Oh wow, MacOS's new liquid glass themes look genuinely cool. I hope the ricing community picks it up.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-introduces-a-delightful-and-elegant-new-software-design/

It's worth bearing in mind that all AI companies are in that phase where they burn money to attract the most customers and hope that the competition blinks first. That means all AI is pretty badly underpriced.
For coding, that's a problem. It's just on the edge of being arguably positive for some. If the price goes up by an order of ten, the bubble is going to burst. And it may take the other AI use cases with it. After all, coding was kind of a killer app.

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For all the other passengers and crews of #Dreamliner‎s around the globe, I hope that #AirIndia flight 171 indeed didn't crash due to general issues with the aircraft type. 🧐 #Boeing
“Th…

Air India crash investigation focuses on movement of engine fuel control switches
Data-driven reporting and analysis on the strategy and technology of flying.

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DORIAN: How long before we make planet fall?
SLAVE: One hour, Master. That is Earth standard time, of course. I hope that is satisfactory.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/45 B7B3

“I’m usually fine with surveillance capitalism but this is too much, even for me.”
#surveillance #capitalism #BigTech

Filippo Valsorda :go: (@filippo@abyssdomain.expert)
Attached: 1 image I usually get where big tech is coming from, but this is just malicious tracking. If you're an engineer and you're asked to implement something like this, it's time to whistleblow. I hope the IE DPA will look into it. Anyway, Local Network Access (https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/local-network-access) can't come soon enough. https://localmess.github.io

Rather pessimistic table of countries on these new Nightjet carriages. Only space for one more country. One would hope that approval for France, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and perhaps Denmark would be nice to have for future needs.
Or are these tables actually obsolete and will be changed to some “goes everywhere” marking in the future, like what I think is the case for freight wagons?

Fundamental Parameters for Central Stars of 103 Infrared Bowshock Nebulae
Nikhil Patten, Henry A. Kobulnicky, Matthew S. Povich, Angelica S. Whisnant, Sydney Andrews, Alexandra Boone, Srujan Dandu, Naomi Jones, S. Nick Justice, Dylan Hope, Alexander Larsen, Ryan McCrory, Julia Meredith, Maria Renee Meza, Alexandra C. Rosenthal, William Salazar, Alexander R. Sterling, Noshin Yesmin, Daniel A. Dale

Fundamental Parameters for Central Stars of 103 Infrared Bowshock Nebulae
Stellar bowshock nebulae are arcuate shock fronts formed by the interaction of radiation-driven stellar winds and the relative motion of the ambient interstellar material. Stellar bowshock nebulae provide a promising means to measure wind-driven mass loss, independent of other established methods. In this work, we characterize the stellar sources at the center of bowshock nebulae drawn from all-sky catalogs of 24 $μ$m-selected nebulae. We obtain new, low-resolution blue optical spectra for \nu…

“A majority of the country now knows that he’s the old man behind the curtain and not the wizard,” he said. “He still has control over Maga and Republicans in Congress but he doesn’t have the persuasive capacity any longer to keep his hold on the broad majority of the country.
“This is a sign of his weakness and that he’s not as strong as he believes he is. It’s one of the reasons why he’s looking for these avenues to re-establish his strength and power and have there be a perception that people are bending the knee.
“Every time he tries to do this, it fails and he grows more distant to the American people. That has to give us hope we have the tools in the coming months to start winning elections and building a more successful pro-democracy movement that can contain the damage that Trump and Maga are doing to the country in the coming years.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/10/donald-trump-authoritarian-democracy

Some more water / stream with a lot of green in the #blackforest /#schwarzwald last year.
I hope we'll go there again later this year.
(powered by my own Peertube instance 🥰)
https://video.franzgraf.d…

Cowboys 2025 training camp position preview: New year, same problem at DT https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-2025-training-camp-preview-new-year-same-problem-dt

Just out! My new article, 'Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility' in Comparative Education Studies is an exercise in hope to collectively, consciously, and critically re-examine education and education systems.
We can harness education's potential of promise by questioning assumptions - which/whose knowledges are legitimised and valued; what has been counted, discounted or marginalised as evidence.

Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility    - Comparative Education Studies (CES)
Commentary Reimagining Our Futures: Education and the Promise of Possibility Prachi Srivastava | pp. 86-91 Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the largest global disruption of schooling in recent history, resulting in immediate and cumulative ruptures. This commentary proposes a collective, conscious, and critical re-examination of education and education systems with a view to harnessing the […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Hope of the States:
🎵 Footage/Steamtrain
#HopeoftheStates

Mac OS Tahoe trying to catch up to @… with Spotlight, I see. Hope they expose the APIs so Raycast can do it better, as usual. #WWDC25

„She is excited to go home and keep dreaming her American Microdream (a new trend where Gen Z workers, instead of using their salaries to buy homes and support a family, hope to someday pay off their student loans.) She sighs. The Microdeath cannot come soon enough.“
This piece is very good!
„Are you sure these are new workplace trends? Are you sure you aren’t just describing a routine phenomenon in an alarmed way?“

@… I definitely did that with CDs, but still, the lyrics don’t go into my head until I break it down, or someone breaks it down for me.
Except for Linkin Park.
It’s an amazing podcast. I hope you enjoy it! I recommend being choosy about the back catalogue.

Logging in here or the first time in a while to wish @… a very heartily fuck you for inviting a racist to give a keynote at #RailsConf.
What a way to sully your legacy and that of the conference, putting a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
There's a German expression for this—a "Griff ins Klo" (reaching into the toilet and pulling something out).
I hope y'all step on Lego bricks daily.

I sure hope this ends with Musk buying Taco Bell.

It is a week until the grand Kim Jong Un, oops I mean FFOTUS imperial parade.
(How could I conflate Kim Jong Un's parade with the FFOTUS one? - North Korea does a much better job of putting on mass tributes.)
Anyway, I do hope that DC Metro workers and Uber/Lyft drivers take a sick day off as many of the parade goers will be anti-vaxers with active, infectious Covid or Measles.
Don't forget that on the 14th you should arrive mid-day to your local Metro stop, park in…

I don’t have any heroes because people are always flawed and will disappoint you if you invest them with your faith and hope , except for Greta Thunberg, who is a hero and must be protected at all costs.

Admiral Ipecac
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Chuckling at all the 'its-my-money' libertarian casino players who've been cheering for Trump greed.
Hope you enjoy the 10% drop in deductible losses. Mmm. Taste the MAGA.
✅ Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Includes Huge Tax Hike for Gamblers
https://

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Includes Huge Tax Hike for Pro Gamblers
One professional gambler told FOS how the legislation could turn a year with a $1 million profit into one with a $2 million loss after taxes.

With Mia Fishel coming to the #NWSL I hope it's only more clear to people that while the best women's clubs are not (yet) in the States, the most competitive and hardest to win league is and players benefit for experiencing both.

Anybody can be popular if they've got Bob Hope's joke writers. Look at Bob Hope!

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Ended up with a little over 10 lbs of Asian plums from our plum tree which I hope will make some lovely jelly this fall.
#gardening #gardening #oklahoma

Rookies' Bond Will Help Determine the Raiders' Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-tonk-hemingway-jj-pegues-christian-wilkins

At Least 82 Dead in Texas Floods as Families of Missing Wait and Hope (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/texas-river-floods-search-death-toll-8bef8045?st=oWi1kC&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p1#a250707p1

Today I'm making Chongqing style noodles, aka xiao mian (重庆小面) at @…. I am preparing a vegan and gluten free, somewhat purist variant. Hope everyone will like it. 🍜

I just love this section at the end of your journal entries, @…! 🤩

Oh wow Argonaut Games is talkin Buck Bumble. I hope they remaster it for newer consoles like they just did with Croc. That would be amaaazing
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/croc-studio-argonaut-wants-to-remaste…

Croc studio Argonaut wants to remaster cult N64 shooter Buck Bumble
"We hope that Buck Bumble will have his day in the sun eventually", the studio's co-CEO says

Wow. I truly did not think the Supreme Court would go that far. I sure hope class actions and the APA are able to provide an adequate substitute. If not, then welcome to the new American dictatorship.

Happy birthday America. I hope you have a good party.
But listen. You're going to be 250 years old next year. It's probably time to settle down a bit, stop being quite so obnoxious and start playing nice with others. Don't you think?
#July4th

Morning all! Back in the office for another week of it all.
No client appointments today, so I'm going to be getting stuck into some writing, course design and video scripting. Hope everyone has an excellent day.

Ya gut the National Weather Service and then the fourth largest city in the country gets stomped by weather we didn’t see coming.
trump tornados in Oklahoma, trump floods in Houston, and your and my town will get the same too.
Help flood folks now: text REDCROSS to 90999.
https://www.…

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Some of the country’s largest liberal foundations are quietly working to raise at least $250 million
to help civil groups push back against President Trump and what they see as his steady drift toward authoritarianism.
The effort is in its early days,
working to secure initial commitments.
But the scale of the collaborative undertaking has turned heads in the tightly networked world of philanthropy.
It comes as donors are licking their wounds and many efforts to …

Liberal Fund-Raising Drive Seeks $250 Million to Aid Pushback Against Trump
Donors hope to raise huge sums of money to help those fighting what they see as a drift toward authoritarianism, but without attracting unwanted White House attention.

Two Paul reactions to the overall shape of the article:
- Wow, I didn’t realize how much just a few states shape new development in the US power grid.
- If you’ve been despairing about how quickly the authoritarians are going to reshape the US, find hope here. Despite their bluster, they don’t get to just dictate reality; some forces are bigger than them. Nothing is foregone.

#SGDQ2025 starts today!
For those who haven't heard of it, it's a charity marathon steam (plus in-person event for many of the runners) that raises money for Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders). Some of the best runners in the world speedrun games for an entire week, and while there's sometimes cringey moments, it's overall an LBGTQ-inclusive space with a thoughtful core team, and there are always going to be a ton of epic and/or hilarious moments throughout the week.
Check out the schedule page to see if any games you love are on it, and you can always catch VODs on YouTube after the fact if you miss something good.
I was going to post some games I'm looking forward to, but it seems like the schedule & main page are down right now. Hope it's not a DDoS...
#SGDQ #GDQ

I wrote about frictionlessness and "AI". The essay is admittedly a bit of a weird ride trying to connect a few very distinct thoughts. I hope it's still worth reading.
https://tante.cc/2025/07/30/friction-and-not-being-touched/

Friction and not being touched
The journalist Karen Hao – who published an absolutely fantastic book about OpenAI called “Empire of AI” recently – coined (as far as I know) one of the best terms for describing modern “AI” systems: Everything Machines. “AI” systems are not framed as specific tools that solve specific problems in specific ways but just as […]

Fucking Equinix is so damn thirsty.
Apparently they noticed hostility in my latest response to their idiotic survey spam and so what did they do?
They had a putative human write me to ask for MORE of my time to help them do marketing.
I hope I ruined that human's afternoon. It's only fair.
#Sysadminnery

@… Thanks for running such an awesome server! Hope you have a great weekend!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions:
🎵 Sleep
#HopeSandoval #TheWarmInventions
https://open.spotify.com/track/4su7ugm4fmcmYBRv9y3v3D

Hey! It's #SciFanSat day and I'm there again, this time with a #ScienceFiction story that was quite a challenge to translate to English.
Hope the effort was worth it.

Until today, I had never, in my life, felt the urgent need to use an electrical fan at home. The cat is not happy. I was not happy to go out in the middle of the morning and buy one. I just hope in 10 years I won't need a space suit to walk outside.

🥨 Liquid brines discovered on Mars surface during seasonal frost melting
#mars

Study suggests liquid brines could form on Mars' surface during seasonal frost melting
Due to extreme temperatures and the dryness of Mars, it's thought to be impossible for liquid water to form on the planet's surface, a critical precondition for habitability. The only hope of finding liquid water appears to be in the form of brines, which are liquids with high concentrations of salts that can freeze at much lower temperatures. But the question of whether brines can even form on Mars has yet to be answered.

That's a BIG kitty peeking at me. I better it wants skritches! :3

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
KELDAN CONTROL: Nova Queen, this is Keldan Control. The ship is an unmanned ore carrier on Computer Flight Coordination.
NOVA QUEEN PILOT: I hope you're sure about that, Keldan, it's still on zero-four-zero.

Hope the folks in Steubenville had a great time yesterday celebrating Dean Martin day!
Everybody Loves Somebody

#DeanMartinDay…

Raiders Hope Their 'Game Changer' Changes More than Just Games https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-darren-mcfadden-raheem-mostert-maxx-crosby

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvg7vxx888kt
It took him a few months but Trump's getting what he wanted: military on US streets.
I hope LA residents and protesters remember that a single demo can be attacked and dispersed easily; 20 different demos can't.

Los Angeles protests: Trump orders National Guard be deployed after clashes over immigration raids
The US president says he's sending in 2,000 troops to deal with unrest over raids on undocumented migrants.

Currently taking a break from the neverending volleyballoon game in the lounge room. Wee grandson has his da and grandda conscripted while I am secreted in the laundry waiting for the washing machine to complete its cycle in... 2 minutes now. Hope everyone is having a lovely Sunday. I stayed in bed until 9am! Had 2 cups of tea. Then I resignedly got up, got dressed, and officially started the day.

Oh #waterfallWednesday! I almost missed it again.
I hope you enjoy it. And it also reminds me that I wanted to visit that place again. Especially now as it rained so much.
#waterfall #photography

“I hope you will join me in supporting PBS, NPR and all their member stations as they work,
even in the face of intimidation and threats from our president,
to serve communities throughout this country with quality independent programming.”
 
Trump ordered to defund PBS so more Americans get their news from right-wing propaganda outlets like Fox News. Now we need to show PBS UNDENIABLE support in their fight against Trump’s administration!
 
I'm signing th…

This Is a Shameful Way to Make Law -- Senate Republicans hope to pass their mega-trillion-dollar spending law this morning. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-a-shameful-way-to-make-law-trump-republicans-senate-congress-big-beautiful-bill-medicaid-spending-debt-deficit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p35#a250701p35

Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto plan a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease confusion over the spread of unofficial aliases (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

LLMs exhibit "potemkin understanding"!
Hope the methodology here is better than the last LLM-hater arxiv paper that came through
Must read it more carefully...
https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/114758840374128081

Greg Egan (@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz)
Attached: 1 image “Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models” A detailed analysis of the incoherent application of concepts by LLMs, showing how benchmarks that reliably establish domain competence in humans can be passed by LLMs lacking similar competence. H/T @acowley@mastodon.social Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21521

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Chicken Out Lout
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#satire #potus45

Comedy.
Man, I hope this is a funny comedy and not a “touching” comedy 😑
#comedy #tvshows

I hope Joyce Carol Oates got her foot fixed.

@… Ooof. Hope there’s no more surprises.

Draft Dodgin' Don
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Trump celebrated the start of his long-awaited tariffs Thursday,
— though economists say the cost of the import taxes will probably get passed on to U.S. consumers and businesses.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the federal government could collect $50 billion a month in tariff revenue,
which Trump administration officials hope will be a boon to the U.S.'s dismal financial health.

U.S. stocks finished mixed Thursday, as investors appeared unbothered by the …

Trump’s tariffs take effect, potentially upending global trade and prices
New import taxes kick in on goods from dozens of U.S. trading partners.

issuing a blessing out to the world to the people who made it possible to renew my passport online without having to mail the existing one in
that's probably the 18F folks, bless them
i know our gradual descent into scary places is frightening enough and I am grateful for the ability to hold onto the physical document.
(and I hope that 🏳️‍⚧️ friends can get their papers with the right markers on them soon, dangit)

I’m really glad Mastodon 4.4.0 will allow server admins to opt into sending the Referer header, and I hope admins of large instances will turn it on.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.0-beta.1
I also hope that third-party mobil…

Analyzing the Performance of a Critical Part of the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-aidan-oconnell-geno-smith-pete-carroll-seattle-seahawks

@… I hope you have figured it out for today.
Alas, tomorrow, the struggle begins again.

A controversial new book:
"We are eating the Earth"
says excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a long-term challenge resulting from an otherwise cheerful story,
in which more people live better lives with fuller bellies and bigger dreams.
Lawyer-turned-science-cop Tim Searchinger discovered that the popular carbon solution of 20 years ago,
-- plant-based biofuels,
-- was a disaster in the making.
His insight: Land used to grow fuel w…

There’s new hope that humans will save our planet
‘We Are Eating the Earth,’ argues for producing more food on less land to avert climate crisis.

Don the Con
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