Stephen Miller is descended from Russian Jews
—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable.
Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable.
In a series of tweets, interviews in right-wing media, and statements made elsewhere,
Miller has outlined an elaborate worldview that has escaped notice in the mainstream media.
It casts immigrants as a threat to “civilization” in terms …
Does anyone know of any examples of #Pandoc Lua filters that implement some kind of inheritance of attributes?
Specifically, I’d like to take the language possibly set by enclosing blocks into account when processing inline elements.
Das Kind hat den Jähzorn freigeschaltet...
Von Isidor nach Tibet über Meister Eckhart ins alte Indien, und dann an den Hof von Qublai Khan. Is's that kind of day. #ILoveMyJob
I regret that I have inadvertantly informed you falsely. Yes, there is widespread fraud in gift cards around but Apple (and Shoppers Drug Mart) did deliver when I found the right strip to scan.
The link below has not been changed but I have deleted what I typed
https://glo…
„Die Origin-Story von Jesus enthält sämtliche Zutaten für eine spektakuläre Trash-TV-Doku-Soap: Teenager-Schwangerschaft, dubiose Vaterschaft, Kuckucks-Kind und Stallgeburt irgendwo im Nirgendwo.“
https://www.familienbetrieb.info/adventskalender-2025-tag-0…
This computer is kind of interesting actually. The floppies are from a Mindset workstation (the rest isn't).
Here's a cool video on it (no, not the one from the 2-bit guy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmwa0xCSnU
Increased deportations would be bad enough. An increase in the kind of immigration nightmares you see in, say, “Mo” on Netflix would be awful already. But that’s not what we were seeing.
We were seeing anonymous masked thugs abducting people and disappearing them. We were seeing a secret police with blanket immunity. We were seeing a complete breakdown of the rule of law. We were seeing an authoritarian police state forming.
And we were expected not to care, because it was targeting dark-skinned people.
6/
It's kind of hard to believe that in 2026 it will be a decade since Prince tragically died.
It was very unexpected and still seems a bit unreal.
Did Performance
Played two Loopy gigs
Just a tiny birthday party and in a camping field with friends.
This is probably about the target number really.
It's nice to play now and then but couldn't be monthly or anything even more frequent.
Didn't feel like either went great. Health issues affecting performance plus nerves
Just one with video of any kind.
Added a couple of great songs to the playlists, need to practise more really.
At the end of a Hoopla class and the end of
a self-organised group class.
They were good fun.
But having to book a course every eight weeks means constantly churning co-players and long gaps where I don't get around to it or it was all booked up.
Tried to get a more permanent group going...
Trying to get some sort of indie-group off
the group rather than just short runs of
classes with new people all the time.
We found a group an booked the room but didn't get most of the actual people to turn up. Need to presumably meet more people up for that sort of thing.
So there will be new improv class starting
in Jan.
A new show in March at least.
What kind of egg is this?
"Meta’s business is both supporting and profiting from organized crime, and at 10% of its revenue, it’s also kind of dependent on it... I can find no analyst commentary on Meta making sixteen billion dollars on fraud, because it doesn’t matter to them"
#Kleptocracy
#Enshittification
To portray a mind as a kind of high-powered survival machine orchestrated and controlled by genes is, then, fundamentally a misconceived picture of what minds are.
Ball, Philip. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology (p. 427). (Function). Kindle Edition.
All games published on any kind of store should be required to have demos- even tiny, short ones, just so you can see if you like the mechanics and gameplay
POL-OS: Öffentlichkeitsfahndung - Vermisstes Kind in Osnabrück - Osnabrück (ots) - Seit den Mittagsstunden gegen 12:45 Uhr wird in Osnabrück der 5-jährige Bairem L. vermisst. Der Junge wurde zuletzt im CKO an der Johannisfreiheit, im Bereich einer dortigen Rutsche innerhalb des Gebäudes, gesehen. Der Junge ... https://www.
Regex is kind of a nightmare, but it's so satisfying when it finally works.
Self-hosting is becoming popular among a certain kind of user,
-- say the typical readership of ItsFoss.
There is a simple explanation for this shift:
people want their data, dollars, and destiny back.
Centralized platforms optimized for engagement and extraction are colliding with real-world needs
— privacy, compliance, predictability, and craft.
Linux, containers, and a flood of polished open-source apps have turned what used to be an enthusiast’s pro…
I wonder if trivial code libraries (like the cliché left-pad) are going to mostly disappear because it's fewer tokens for a LLM to just inline that code than to manage the dependency, and advanced/experienced programmers aren't going to use that kind of thing anyway…
Collecting the Shards
Over the past few weeks, I have published several new books. From the outside, that can look like some kind of creative superpower. Like I locked myself in a room, drank a heroic amount of coffee, and sprinted through a stack of fresh manuscripts until the world blurred and the covers appeared. That is not what happened.
@… this is a different kind of shape but a related theme of what is and isn’t necessary by @…
Substrates and algae
…
Spotted a newly cleaned-up area across the street from the northeast tip of Bernal Heights Park, with some little plants like this coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis). It's nice to see this kind of stewardship and especially the use of SF native plants
it's kind of unbelievable that in 2025 the "instant messaging" problem is *less* solved than it was in 2010
How many men are going to be going to the other kind of club this weekend wishing, hoping, and praying they might find their Rose? 🏒⛸️❤️ #HeatedRivalry
1/2
Must be kind of challenging to write such an article without mentioning that #Apple offers exactly that for a few years now …
Your Laptop Isn’t Ready for #LLM s. Yet... https://
Sources: UK and Chinese security officials set up a forum to discuss cyberattacks after hacking accusations, the first of its kind, to help prevent escalation (Alex Wickham/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
Datacenters/compute should be a thing that states provide to their citizens kind of as public utility that is run only on renewables in regions where the negative externalities would not affect people (requiring a public vote with a high threshold for acceptance). with everyone getting a fair allotment for their own use (and the ability to pull it together in associations). Decisions on added infrastructure etc. would be made democratically with the locations of those data centers being comp…
'Whether it’s left Labour MPs worried about retaliation from the whips, “Your Party” organisers arguing over the finances and structures of a new left vehicle, or Greens whose leaders still view a rapidly militarising EU as some kind of progressive force, we need more seriousness and urgency over the deadly threat to us all posed by the ruling-class drive to war.'
Confront the war fever sweeping the continent
| Morning Star
But, but, but I thought Trump had "negotiated" a magical cease fire between Israel & Hamas?
Could it be that it's all bullsh-t & as usual he's the worst kind of incompetent?
#shocked #sarcasm
POL-OS: Osnabrück: Vermisstensuche erfolgreich beendet Osnabrück (ots) - Ein in den Mittagsstunden als vermisst gemeldeter fünfjähriger Junge ist nach einer intensiven Suche im Bereich der elterlichen Wohnanschrift wohlbehalten aufgefunden worden. Das Kind wurde durch seinen Vater angetroffen. Die ... https://www.presse…
I actually maintain a list of #Linux distributions that I bet you've never heard of, but still receive regular updates:
- https://paldo.org
paldo is a Upkg driven GNU/Linux distribution. It's kind of a mix o…
I think the most neglected thing about helping others is that you should actually ask what kind of help they need. "Helping" without actually understanding their needs is inefficient at best, and outward harmful at worse.
While this is an important thought in general, it also applies to creating patches for #FreeSoftware.
Meine Schuld, weil ich auf der #Fahrbahn fuhr und nicht auf dem Gras.
Mit Blick auf das Kleinkind im Kindersitz habe ich gesagt, dass sie wahrscheinlich die am lautesten Schreiende wäre, würde jemand so an ihrem Kind vorbei fahren. Darum fährt sie es mit dem Auto, war die Antwort!
It is cold in northern parts of the world. Studded tyres are awesome. If you do not have them, forgot to mount them or cannot afford to invest for your usage, I am here for you.
The number of times I have been caught out and unicycled on snow and ice is quite high. If I can do it, you can do it. Just take it easy! Oh and wear a helmet, even if you do not normally. That kind of a fall is exactly what they are for.
i’m reviewing a paper on reducing energy costs in large model training and it keeps slinging words like optimize and optimization around and calling other approaches suboptimal and i feel like i would be kind of an old crank if i were to ask if optimality is on the table here (it is not)
EDIT: hold on, maybe it is
It probably helps that recently I have been looking at cpio archives in hexdump† (because that is the kind of nerd I am), so I know how archiving basically works under the hood.
For my own custom archive format, I only bothered to implement the absolute bare minimum I need.
† https://gist.github.com/…
Thank you to the kind person behind the anonymous account who keeps DMing/forwarding me screenshots of interesting Twitter posts about my work a few times a year, but then never responds. You know who you are and I truly thank you for your service! 🙏
As much as I appreciate it, unfortunately I can not go back to that place [if this is partially meant to lure me back] and I'd much rather wish for people still there due to various network effects and social pressures to organize them…
I thought “X” was a rediculous name; “W” is equally rediculous.
Secondly the “must verify” and “must use your legal name/ID” means this thing is DOA.
All IMO ofc.
What should they have used?
Websites
Fuck having any kind of govt run social media. Just have accounts that point you the official websites and be done with it.
(This is not some kind of false modesty. Most of what you’re hearing from me here is just me passing along information from community channels. My personal contribution has mostly been helping communication, helping people with tech issues, doing some volunteering, keeping watch, protesting, doing neighborhood support work — that kind of stuff. I don’t want to downplay the importance of any of that. It matters a •lot• that there are so many people doing all of those things! It matters that I’m one of them! Just…you know, I’m one among many, a small player who somehow ended up holding one of the mics on Mastodon, and that’s it. The courage you see is the courage of many.)
montreal: Montreal street gangs (2007)
Network representing relationships between gangs, obtained from Montreal Police’s central intelligence database, spanning 2004 to 2007. Nodes are gangs, and an edge represents some kind of relationship between two gangs (as elicited from interviews with gang members).
This network has 35 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
Been giving Home Assistant another try. It’s ok I guess.
Probsbly not a common problem but there really is no good solutions that I could find for managing multiple locations from a single instance or even some kind of federated view or something.
Integrating Choria Switch and Metric abstractions into it So I can pull in sensor stats and interact with heaters etc - but let Choria keep autonomously own the devices.
(Also a updated picture of my Pi case for sensors)
Oh hey, if you like mesh networking and hidden networks, you might want to keep an eye on https://reticulum.network/
It still has some issues, but it's getting off to a good start. It's kind of amazing how easy it is to embed it in other things for steganographic purposes. I definitely see room for improvement, but it's already exciting.
Nomadnet (built on top of it) is already really exciting. It feels very much like the 90's internet. Enjoy!
Listening to Tom Petty now as I mentioned I'd have to do- 'Echo' from 1999. And man, is this one still buried in there, I know like, every lyric still. Right before it, I did 7Seconds' one from 1999, 'Good to Go'. Must be a 1999 kind of day. What a year for music.
#90s #90sMusic
Kind of an odd way to assure someone a poll is "completely anonymous," but I decided to answer Yes so I could take the poll. It was all questions about US national politics and approval/disapproval of various politicians and billionaires. I tried to answer truthfully, but on a few of them "strongly disapprove" is such an understatement that it almost doesn't feel truthful.
Wikipedia-Gründer Jimmy Wales: Warum Vertrauen Wissen schafft
Wer kennt sie nicht: die Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia mit ihren über 60 Millionen Beiträgen in über 300 Sprachen. Sie verspricht, neutral und objektiv das Wissen der Menschheit zu sammeln. Nicht alle glauben an das Versprechen. Elon Musk hat mit «Grokipedia» vor Kurzem ein Gegenprojekt lanciert.
📺
Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
SOOLIN: See for yourself [they look] He's shut down life support. [Red emergency lighting come on]
[Hold - Piri kneels by Nebrox's body]
AVON: Presumably, wherever he is, he has some kind of breathing apparatus.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/416
RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/115746396115275350
I think my take on why I don't use AI coding tools is much more detached from their abilities.
It's partly that my kind of coding requires skills that I don't want to lose. But it's also the…
Want to try an imagine how difficult things could get for us in the EU? (Or elsewhere?) You dont even have to try hard.
If you are responsible for planning, running, maintaining or procuring IT infrastructure of any kind for any organisation, this is essential reading.
https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology/
Wenn alle doch mal endlich Trump wie das kleine verzogene, trotzige Kind behandeln würden, das er ist. 🙄🤡
Sonnet 105 - CV
Let not my love be called idolatry,
Nor my beloved as an idol show,
Since all alike my songs and praises be
To one, of one, still such, and ever so.
Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
Still constant in a wondrous excellence;
Therefore my verse to constancy confined,
One thing expressing, leaves out difference.
Fair, kind, and true, is all my argument,
Fair, kind, and true, varying to other words;
And in th…
I wonder if I can convince myself to run hass on a dedicated device instead of k8s. It would make it much saner for integrations like Shelly's CoIoT which perform better when they can connect directly to hass on a native non-http service port.
I'm kind of bummed mqtt has somewhat fallen out of favor as it's definitely very reliable for wifi devices that sometimes roam and reconnect.
heard a great firsthand terence mckennaism last night: "things seemed to be going along just fine. the stones came out with satanic majesties & the prospects for real psychedelic rock seemed limitless. and then the Band released music from big pink & everything seemed to go into reverse all at once." on one hand, lol. i dig big pink most days. but also kind of a mostly defensible position, especially taking into account the nonmusical backdrop of 1967-1968.
Our university library has one of the cooler archival fonds around: the Syd Bolton Collection. It's comprised of almost 14,000 video games and hundreds of consoles and systems, along with over 5,000 issues of game magazines, hundreds of books and literature, peripherals, and related technology, materials, and documents. It is one of the largest collections of its kind in the world and the largest known in Canada.
Here's a photo that's a bit different from my usual style.
I took it with the tele lens on last weekend's hike. The inversion caused such a great sea of clouds with just some sole islands.
This kind of weather really offers such unique motives. And again: it was worth carrying the zoom lens up there :-D
Enjoy!
#photography
The kind of inspiration I need in a gym
It's kind of funny that Trump thinks he controls Venezuela with almost no Americans on the ground, even not an embassy and with the original regime (except Maduro) in place. It is a fantasy. Also oil companies don't really want to invest. Even if they do, it will take many years to make it work.
#venezuela
I'm not sure why it took them this long to stand up against the administration. His attacks against churches, hospitals, and schools isn't new.
"'We are troubled by threats against the sanctity of houses of worship and the special nature of hospitals and schools,' the bishops said in a special message, the first of its kind in 12 years."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol
Okay, this must absolutely have been made with some kind of generative AI, but it's not pretending to be real, it's hella funny/deadly serious and just superb. (I especially love the tough walrus smoking a cigar while driving a fishing boat 😂 ) Kudos to the makers!
what is going on with URLs
Been playing with what kind of image to use in the fake window. Some beachy sunset as though looking out from a beach bar?
Maybe that's too lazy just based on the window blind I made a couple of years back. Will I sleep paranoid I'm being watched by Krux?
POL-ROW: Rücknahme der Öffentlichkeitsfahndung: Vermisste 13-Jährige wohlauf Rotenburg (Wümme) (ots) - Rotenburg. Seit gestern fahndete die Polizei öffentlich nach der 13-jährigen Vermissten aus Helvesiek. Im Rahmen intensiver Ermittlungen konnte das Kind körperlich unversehrt von Polizeikräften in Süddeutschland ... https://www.
It’s obvious that this tool was made by people who care about data and care about humans. It’s not even that it’s •perfect•; it’s just that it’s •thoughtful•.
That kind of human-to-human feeling of “we did our best because we care about the strangers who use this tool” just seems almost like an act of radical defiance in this Era of Enshittification. I appreciate it so much.
kind of funny that emojis have only been around in Unicode for 15 years
"chatbots over-rely on this kind of sensory-immaterial conjunction because[IT] impresses people passing superficially over a text--exactly the kind of fake-deep crowd-pleaser for which L.L.M. output is being fine-tuned."
(Original title: Will A.I. writing ever be good?)
https://maxread.substa…
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
The best description of Brown University, from Bess Kalb. (And to be clear, the heirs and star's kids are invariably also in that carton.)
https://besskalb.substack.com/p/brown-america
Kilauea putting on a show tonight. Live on YouTube if you like that kind of thing.
A kind person just praised my courage in a DM, and…
Don’t praise my courage. I’m a drop in the bucket. My contributions are tiny compared to what others are doing.
I have never, ever seen so many people so ready to take action, putting their lives on hold, stepping into danger because their neighbors are in danger. I have never seen so many •comfortable white people• stepping up to take action — and the people who are actually in the crosshairs now, well, their courage I cannot even fathom.
The one-of-a-kind Star Trek Deep Space Nine 2-hour documentary, "What We Left Behind" is available for FREE.
Beginning w/ Max "Rom" Grodénchik & Andy "Garek" Robinson, this's a must-see for any Star Trek fan.
▶️ What We Left Behind: Looking Back at #StarTrek #DS9
RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/115753132367853909
Charlie Brown with a beard? That kind of does my head in.
Posting media without any kind of alt text makes kitty sad.
You wouldn't want kitty to be sad, would you?
One baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied.
Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, wearing a plastic gas mask and flanked by Roman soldiers in tactical vests labeled “ICE.”
In another Chicago suburb, not far from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that has drawn protests over detentions, a sign at the manger outside the Urban Village Church says
“Due to ICE activit…
Actually amazing things don’t need large scale hype—and vice versa things that have large scale hype machinery behind them are never amazing.
(This is probably some kind of “razor” but not sure if it has a name.)
In today's 'no shit' news, best not to trust Google AI Overviews or any kind of 'AI' thing for any kind of real, reliable health advice
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/02/google-ai-overviews-ri…
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