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I’ve been working full time as a contractor and last week was my full time employee at the company I’ve been contracted to. Jack Henry is the company and it’s been the most welcoming first week of any employer I have ever worked at!

@… @… You'd have to renounce your citizenship, and even then, there's an exit tax that would take 2 years or more to amortize, so to the end of this administration. If it leaves power peacefully when…

It seems #Google #scholar has now really become #slopware. Every week I get weirder and weirder edit suggestions, this time to revert several published papers to their preprint versions..
Is

@… @…
FTFY (AI-generated, sorry)

#spatenbraten

Nvidia will bald 100 Milliarden US-Dollar Quartalsumsatz knacken
Die Marke von 100 Milliarden US-Dollar Quartalsumsatz ist nah, in drei Monaten will Nvidia sie knacken. Das Börsenpendel schwingt ins Plus.
h…

Nvidia will bald 100 Milliarden US-Dollar Quartalsumsatz knacken
Die Marke von 100 Milliarden US-Dollar Quartalsumsatz ist nah, in drei Monaten will Nvidia sie knacken. Das Börsenpendel schwingt ins Plus.

#Juniorteam x Goethe: Hier tret ich ein.
https://chessy.shop/artikel/produkte/plakate#0177

Sources: Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry (Laura Bratton/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/salesforce-emplo…

Salesforce Employees Worry Over Anthropic’s Invasion of Slack
When Anthropic on Tuesday launched a high-profile AI product for businesses that use Slack, some employees at Salesforce, which owns Slack, were confused. In social media posts, Salesforce promoted Anthropic’s new product, Claude Tag, which works as a kind of AI teammate that lives inside group ...

@… the travesty is not AI companies making fair use of copyrighted material, it's that you have so internalized the copyright lobby's arguments that you think copyright law overreach is legitimate in the first place. Aaron should never have been prosecuted at all, and in fact neither MIT nor the copyright holders wanted him to be, it was an ambitious Fe…

Heute vor 58 Jahren: Am 27. August 1968 kam es in der sowjetischen Werft #Sewmasch in #Sewerodwinsk zu einem #Reaktorunfall auf dem U-Boot K-140. Ein Fehler bei der Installation der Steuerka…

heise | Mac-Apps gegen Foto-Dubletten im Test
Wer viele Bilder verwaltet, stößt irgendwann an Speichergrenzen. Mac-Apps helfen beim Aufräumen. Die vier Programme im Test haben unterschiedliche Stärken.
https://www.

Mac-Apps gegen Foto-Dubletten im Test
Wer viele Bilder verwaltet, stößt irgendwann an Speichergrenzen. Mac-Apps helfen beim Aufräumen. Die vier Programme im Test haben unterschiedliche Stärken.

i wonder if it’s natural to grab a pen out of mid air in freefall with your fingertips, if a more full-hand grasp would risk batting the pen away
(she has to use her fingertips because it was filmed by sticking the pen to a sheet of glass)
https://frames.social/@2001/statuses/0

Post by 2001: A Spaced-Out Odyssey, @2001@frames.social
Frame 32,694 of 207,800

FW Geestland: Schwerer Verkehrsunfall auf der L 119: Sieben Personen zum Teil schwer verletzt Geestland (ots) - Neuenwalde. Bei einem schweren Verkehrsunfall auf der Landesstraße 119 zwischen den Ortschaften Neuenwalde und Fickmühlen sind am Samstag (25. Juli 2026) gegen 17.20 Uhr sieben Personen verletzt worden, zwei davon schwer. ... https://www.

A good day to give #Helix another try :vim:

"The NYPD said in a statement to the BBC that it had seen a number of incidents involving people going into the sewer system to look for valuables and scrap metal after a storm."
If they had read "Dodger" by #TerryPratchett, they would know that these people are toshers, and the practice is known as toshing.
New York can be proud that it has reinvented a pro…

WOW Forever is seriously tempting me back. I haven’t played since classic launched… which was around the time my Wife passed so I never really get to play very much.
Has anyone tried it out yet?

@… I don't remember that one, but it did reoccur in 2011.

Too hot to listen to vinyl on the tube amp, so listening to some new thrift store cd acquisitions on the other system 💿

New NERDS paper on ‘Data production biases in human mobility data’
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/08/27/new-nerds-paper-on-data-production-biases-in-human-mobility-data/

@… Thailand is also a critical supply-chain hub for some major components like hard drives.

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

The Candlekeep campaign has ended.
The unfailingly optimistic and jovial cleric, Ned, once again waded into the front lines to heal and fight. Having defeated the elder god by closing a portal (because a fair fight would’ve been bad), they’ve all decided to rest for a bit.

@… my classmate Soledad Valencia is head of the project to replace the RER B with a dedicated line to connect to CDG:
https://cdgexpress.com/en
Sadly, it's only …

Rec Me Podcast
Each week we discuss an Album that we have recommended to each other based on a theme, and then decide if it goes into our rotation...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/rec-me/

RIVM update rioolwaarden en percentage positief Sars-Cov-2.
Met vandaag een behoorlijke stijging. Het virusniveau 169 van vorige week is door de aanvullende data opgehoogd naar 181 en momenteel zien we een stijging naar 231.
Er zitten 8 nieuwe dagen in de data: 10 t/m 17 september. Alleen de laatste 2 dagen hiervan betreft minder dan 50% van de meetstations, alles daarvoor meer dan 75%.
#qp2t

www.maptap.gg August 26
97🔥 89🎉 90👑 91👑 78👏
Final score: 873
1. x: 608 pts, 3,142 km, 1 min, 4 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 1 pts, 13,041 km, 1 min, 18 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 1,932 pts, 1,419 km, 25 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 672 pts, 2,993 km, 20 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 4,617 pts, 119 km, 23 sec, 0 steps
Total: 7,830 pts, 20,714 km, 3 min, 31 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1183 — 42,185/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆9,872 · 📅 0y · 🌍 4.4mi
2️⃣ 🏆7,947 · 📅 5y · 🌍 281.7mi
3️⃣ 🏆9,559…

@… indeed. Furthermore, LLM intelligence, such as it is, is an emergent property of throwing exponential amounts of compute at biomimetic neural networks and the LLM experts do not even have a solid theory for their own area of expertise.
This is not unheard of, much of the early development of semiconductors predates the quantum a mechanical explanatio…

Finally made it to 7 Mile house post-McClaren walk.

Just came across this in #TheEconomist. I knew that the #Japanese #birth rate was low, but this shows it's going to get worse because the size of the childbearing cohort is about to start shrinking…

@… that is true of most status pages, which are owned by Marketing, not Ops.

#pastpuzzle en-550
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https://www.pastpuzzle.com

NERDS Paper on Comparing the Italian and Danish Music Industries
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/07/27/nerds-paper-on-comparing-the-italian-and-danish-music-industries/

@…
1: far-right terrorists with anti-LGBTQ animus.

30 Jahre Windows NT 4. Für viele nur Nostalgie, für mich damals Arbeitsalltag: Server aufsetzen, Bluescreens deuten, auf das nächste Service Pack warten. Bemerkenswert ist weniger die Technik als die Marktlogik: NT hat die Konkurrenz aus dem Serverraum gedrängt. Diese Abhängigkeit spüren wir bis heute. @vowe@heise.social.de erinnert daran.
#WindowsNT

Remember that 80s slogan, "The National Front is a Nazi Front".
I say,
"Reform UK is becoming a Nazi Front, or at least a new 'British Union of Fascists' (Blackshirts)"
Reform pledges to prioritise British-born young workers for social housing but plans slammed as 'blatant distraction' - Manchester Evening News

Reform pledges to prioritise British-born young workers for social housing but plans slammed as 'blatant distraction'
The UK's leading housing charity has hit out at the move

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
The KLF:
🎵 3AM Eternal
#TheKLF
https://retrovese.bandcamp.com/track/the-klf-3am-eternal-retroverse-119-bpm
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ldLTYuqnHU92weLtw6W9m

Unsere knallbunten Figurenplakate im Set für 2€ (zzgl. Versand):
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Pre-alpine Pink Hour (2026)
It's a new day, it's a new dawn...
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

RIP Frank Beard, you fucking legend. I'm playing some ZZ Top later. And tomorrow. I mean, more than I usually would. What a loss.

Den stora klimatdemonstrationen i Stockholm har lockat 20 000 personer, enligt Naturskyddsföreningen som är en av arrangörerna.
Edit: Uppskattningen nu höjd till ca 50 000. https://www.dn.se/direkt/2026-08-23/20-000-demonstrerar-for-klimatet-2/

20 000 demonstrerar för klimatet
Den stora klimatdemonstrationen i Stockholm har lockat 20 000 personer, enligt Naturskyddsföreningen som är en av arrangörerna.

Trump has opened a new front in his campaign to intimidate political foes,
threatening a prominent liberal think tank with a $5 billion defamation lawsuit
over a report concluding that his deployment of the National Guard to cities across the country has had little effect on reducing violent crime.
The threats against the think tank,
the Center for American Progress,
were Trump’s latest effort to use the legal system to punish critics for voicing unflattering fa…

Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic
It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.

Next up at #cloudaustin Dog Days of DevIps, Daniel is talking about Retireval Augmented Generation (RAG).

Highlights: Tre Tucker's best catches from 119-yard game vs. Chargers https://www.raiders.com/video/highlights-tre-tucker-best-catches-nfl-week-2-chargers-2026-season

Edit complete! Will post a link once we've got it on YouTube...
#MusicVideo #TheAdventuresOfDirkBalsäk #Filmmaking

goodnight
#wildflower

Gestern vom Darß mit dem Velo übers Fischland nach Warnemünde und zurück
Zuerst die Grenze von Vorpommern nach Mecklenburg überquert
#AnnerOstseeIssesImmerSchön
1/n

Today I learnt that the Arctic Circle isn’t fixed and moves slightly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Circle

After the Singularity

Tour 119: #Brandenburg: #Wanderung #Strausberg - #Blumenthal (ca. 27 km)
Strausberg be…

@… Five and a half hours of Opus 4.8 and I'm now looking at no errors whatsoever.
Honestly still unsure and uneasy about using LLM's for this, but it's hard to deny the results. This would have taken me a good week or two to do. Maybe even 3 or 4. But the real question now is: How much did it fuck up?

📋 #ClaudeCode ships with a built-in cron scheduler. #Codex CLI does not. So I built one myself — one skill file plus one #Python helper, no daemon, no service, no queue

The BBC News website is wall-to-wall Dolly at the moment. As is right and proper.
#DollyParton

We gaan binnenkort horen welke omroep genocide allemaal prima vindt. Ik gok op WNL.
'Nederland doet toch mee aan het songfestival'
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artikel/5655007/nederland-eurovisie-songfestival-deelname

Nederland doet toch mee aan het songfestival
De kogel is door de kerk: Nederland doet dit jaar toch mee aan het Eurovisiesongfestival. Dat melden meerdere media. Nadat AVROTROS zich terugtrok, leek de deelname even op losse schroeven te staan. Welke omroep het liedjesfestijn op zich neemt, is nog niet bekend.

Kim F is up next at #cloudaustin Dog Days of DevOps talking about deterministic testing in the age of AI

The Rewrite With Sammy
Join host Sammy Hyde for candid conversations with literary agents, authors, editors, and publishing insiders...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-rewrite/

Old Saw - "Country Tropics" (2021)
#NowPlaying #OldSaw

Does #Bonn already have a #NixOS or #RustLang meetup? 🤔

On the the Golden Gate betas the new MenuBarAgent seems to hang all the time and it makes day to day user very difficult as most apps these days seem to default to the menu bar over the dock without enabling a specific option per application. I submitted FB23707510 on the off chance this has not already been reported.

OpenAI expands its ad pilot program across 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy; the pilot launched in the US, the UK, and others (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-is-taking-its-ad-business-to-31-…

OpenAI Is Taking Its Ad Business to 31 New European Markets
Expansion of its ads pilot comes as ad revenue climbs over 25% since the start of August.

„Spiel mit mit Schach“ – den Turnbeutel in vier verschiedenen Farben gibt es bei uns im chessy.shop:
https://chessy.shop/artikel/produkte/taschen#0006

Far-right criminal #fascist Danny Tommo arrested for slashing an inflatable boat with someone aboard. The crimes he's been arrested for carry multiple years in prison, and he's got previous for violent crime.
#fascism

1,12 Milliarden US-Dollar: Infineon will Spezialspeicher abstoßen
Winbond plant den Kauf von Infineons Produktlinien rund um die nicht flüchtigen Speichertypen NOR-Flash und F-RAM.
https://www.

1,12 Milliarden US-Dollar: Infineon will Spezialspeicher abstoßen
Winbond plant den Kauf von Infineons Produktlinien rund um die nicht flüchtigen Speichertypen NOR-Flash und F-RAM.

software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 6488 nodes and 150985 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de…

Another secret proxying talk at #cloudaustin Dog Days of DevOps, with varlock, courtesy @…

Songs build little rooms in time
And housed within the song's design
Is the ghost the host has left behind
To greet and sweep the guest inside
Stoke the fire and sing his lines
#NowPlaying #vinyl

From the Lounge tent at #emf2026, Cobra and Viper ships from the original BBC Micro version of #Elite. With an original screenshot for comparison so you know what I'm talking about.

#Netcup Vienna DC has a total network outage for over half an hour now and no reflection of it on the @… status page... :blobcateyes: (but dozens of posts on the netcup forum)

Next up at #cloudaustin Dog Days of DevOps Evan N is talking about building agents with AgentCore, guard rails and permissions included.

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

After a quick Dog Days of DevOps presentation from me about doing silly things with local LLMs (#CloudAustin

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116958382115564493
So @… shut down their own Mastodon instance, don't po…

Du brauchst so viele Partieformulare, dass der Titel nicht mehr aufs Bild passt? Kein Problem: 1000 Partieformulare für 70€ durchschreibend oder 40€ ohne Durchschlag.
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The Gold Members Lounge. #emf #emfcamp #emf2026

It's time for Dog Days of DevOps at #CloudAustin. First off is @… demo'ing Talos.

@… surely Gruber has standards ?

@… so does that mean the balaclava-wearing blackshirts will mass at the egress roads for Piddington to stop the now-foreign wrong'uns there from leaving?

I'm going to have this going round in my head the whole weekend now.
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff4500/fc04415.htm

@… they don't take proper care of their reserve, since it took them a year to detect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Map…

@… Congratulations!
Now comes the hard part: avoiding turning into Bridezilla. All the harder since there are two of you. (Just kidding, of course).

I can see what he's thinking, but the #YesMinister episode pretty much writes itself.
BBC News: #Burnham to send high-performing civil servants to mayoral offices

@… GSM networks (and thus their 4G and 5G descendants) have had that capability since the mid-nineties, when the use case was that you had a honking big phone in your car, and a smaller mobile phone with worse reception. At most they will need some sort of provisioning logic speaking Apple protocols since handoff does not rely on paired SIM cards li…

@… @… that could just mean X's tailspin has stabilized and has enough of a residual audience that it makes business sense for MacStories to remain there.
The whole article is a long-winded periphrase for "money matters more th…

Do androids dream of electric jellyfish? #emf #emfcamp #emf2026

@… @… you mean the aspect ratio all office paper outside the United States has, based on the German DIN A series (in Europe and Korea) and B series (in Japan), precisely because A4 folded in half is A5?

@… Isn't that basically a reductio ad aburdum of Calvinism and the doctrine of grace: if you are poor, you must be devoid of grace and hated by God? Hence the various televangelists peddling prosperity gospel and other Mammonist tropes.

Sparky Dave posing with his wonderful invention at #emf. For those who weren't there, it generates a fine mist of water that you can walk through. Wonderful on a hot day.
#emfcamp #emf2026

@… @… because the medieval feudal aristocracy never conscripted peasants to fight as what we'd now call cannon fodder?

@… what time and place were you thinking for dinner?

@… @… @… it’s amusing that a discipline that’s all about incentives gets all huffy when you point out …

@… arguably following redirects could lead to invasion of privacy, in that if the redirect embeds a cookie in the URL, it could be used to persistently track a reader.

@… my feed reader is fine, unless I am missing something. I do see your marquee tag

@… @… the dynamics of oppression and control are exactly the same. You could also add the British Raj's Indian Army to the list. A tiny number of British officers controlling a huge number of Indian soldiers, who they knew from the experien…

@… Larkspur in Marin County, California, already had ALPR at its boundary for the same purpose in October 2015, long before Flock was founded. The city police would be alerted if a car from outside hadn't left by sunset, the implicit assumption being they would be burglars, not tourists.
The only difference is that Flock networks and aggregates this beyond…

@… L Ron Hubbard and Scientology...

@… @… for the receipts on this:
https://

@… I have some recommendations here:
https://blog.majid.info/paris/
You were asking for Telco stuff. How about the Caselli Pantelegraph, a working fax machine from 1865, …

@… the part I don't understand is how the oil markets can see like us how Trump is depleting the US Strategic Petroleum Reserves at an unsustainable rate to delay the inevitable reckoning, and why oil isn't already at $500 a barrel.

@… @… that’s what ZFS zvols with encryption are for

@… @… highly seconded. Has a huge collection of steampunk tech and artifacts like Foucault's pendulums (did you know he made more than one) and his original gyroscope.