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You're not an alcoholic unless you go to the meetings.

The moss on the tree does not fear the talons of the hawk.

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.
-- Daniele Vare

<Endy> knghtbrd: QW's netcode is doing strange things to me. :P
<knghtbrd> This is unusual? ;>
<Endy> Not really. :P

"I am ... a woman ... and ... technically a parasitic uterine growth"
-- Sean Doran the Younger [allegedly]

* knghtbrd is each day more convinced that most C coders don't know what
the hell they're doing, which is why C has such a bad rap
<Culus> kb: Most C coders don't know what they are doing, it just makes it
easier to hide :P
<Culus> see for instance, proftpd :P

Ensinar é aprender duas vezes
-- Joseph Joubert

... an anecdote from IBM's Yorktown Heights Research Center. When a
programmer used his new computer terminal, all was fine when he was sitting
down, but he couldn't log in to the system when he was standing up. That
behavior was 100 percent repeatable: he could always log in when sitting and
never when standing.
Most of us just sit back and marvel at such a story; how could that terminal
know whether the poor guy was sitting or standing? Good debugg…

Oi, rato otšrio!
-- palíndromo

The big question is why in the course of evolution the males permitted
themselves to be so totally eclipsed by the females. Why do they tolerate
this total subservience, this wretched existence as outcasts who are
hungry all the time?

fast wie bestellt: Bibliothekscontent im @… (https://mastodon.social/@schwarzPhotoBot/114833542317777500), passend zu…

Q: How does the Polish Constitution differ from the American?
A: Under the Polish Constitution citizens are guaranteed freedom of
speech, but under the United States constitution they are
guaranteed freedom after speech.
-- being told in Poland, 1987

Heute vor 58 Jahren: Am 18. August 1967 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Crosstie die 5. #Atombombe "Bordeaux". Crosstie war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 67/68 bei der insgesamt 48 #Kernwaffentests

Eh, that's it, I guess. No 300 million dollar unveiling event for this
kernel, I'm afraid, but you're still supposed to think of this as the
"happening of the century" (at least until the next kernel comes along).
-- Linus, in the announcement for 1.3.27

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If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
-- Freeman Dyson

today, n.:
A nice place to visit, but you can't stay here for long.

You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 17. September 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Stoddard". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in

comment:
A superfluous element of a source program included so the
programmer can remember what the hell it was he was doing
six months later. Only the weak-minded need them, according
to those who think they aren't.

Pannalal Ghosh - "The Magic Flute of Pannalal Ghosh" (1968)
#NowPlaying #PannalalGhosh #vinyl

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

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"Here is the thing: the video describes, at an excruciatingly slow pace (at least by the standards of our generation’s TikTok-formatted brains), with the terms and phraseology of 1968, and during no less than one and a half hours, the very computer you are using to read this article. Yes, the one on your lap or on your desk."
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Florida’s Everglades National Park is often referred to as the most endangered national park in the United States.
In 1968, developers tried to construct the largest airport in the world in the middle of the park,
which was already suffering from a multitude of environmental crises:
disrupted water flow, a drastic decline in the bird population, human development, invasion of exotic species, and the endangerment of the Florida panther.
After an upswell of public outcry…

DeSantis Races to Open Immigrant Detention Camp in Swamp Amid Hurricane Season
Even before “Alligator Alcatraz,” Ron DeSantis had defined his political legacy by gleeful cruelty against immigrants.

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 17. Juli 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Spud". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in #Nevada

Revisiting Cases 2 and 11 of the Map Color Theorem
Timothy Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06407 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06407

Revisiting Cases 2 and 11 of the Map Color Theorem
In 1968, Ringel and Youngs solved the remaining cases of the orientable Map Color Theorem by finding genus embeddings of the complete graphs $K_n$, for sufficiently large $n \equiv 2, 8, 11 \pmod{12}$. Following the approach previously explored by the author for $n \equiv 8 \pmod{12}$, we aim to streamline their constructions for $n \equiv 2, 11 \pmod{12}$ by finding families of current graphs with simpler patterns for the arc labelings.

Apropos the developing confrontation in Chicago...
Anybody remember the film "Medium Cool". Below is a link to the 1968 police riot scenes (give it time - the events build somewhat slowly.)
These scenes were shot live as the police riot developed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh7wIGAcKxM

The nonexistence of sections of Stiefel varieties and stably free modules
Sebastian Gant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07263 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07263

The nonexistence of sections of Stiefel varieties and stably free modules
Let $V_r(\mathbb{A}^n)$ denote the Stiefel variety ${\rm GL}_n/{\rm GL}_{n-r}$ over a field. There is a natural projection $p: V_{r+\ell}(\mathbb{A}^n) \to V_r(\mathbb{A}^n)$. The question of whether this projection admits a section was asked by M. Raynaud in 1968. We focus on the case of $r \ge 2$ and provide examples of triples $(r,n,\ell)$ for which a section does not exist. Our results produce examples of stably free modules that do not have free summands of a given rank. To this end, we al…

TIL: Franz Josef Wagner (das ist so ein ganz furchtbarer Bild-Schreiber) und Andreas Baader, der Begründer der RAF, waren gemeinsam bei den "Schwabinger Krawallen" https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/alex-assmann/im-gefaengnis-frei.html

#NYC's #Stonewall Inn on Christopher St was listed as "active" & "casual" in this "enlarged" #LatestEdition Spring of 1968 gay guide

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nick Drake:
🎵 Strange Face – Take 1 – November 1968
#NickDrake

lolcuomo https://pagesix.com/2025/08/22/society/cuomo-posts-immediately-deletes-video-working-on-his-car/

Andrew Cuomo posts, immediately deletes latest car-related campaign video
The hot wheels loving politico posted a deleted a video of himself working on his 1968 Pontiac, and likening it to running the city.

Freunde der elektronischen Musik kennen Wendy Carlos. Sie veröffentlichte 1968 die Platte "Switched on Bach", auf der sie Bach-Stücke mit einem Moog-Synthesizer interpretiert. Die es damals überhaupt erst 3-4 Jahre gab. Das Computer-Magazin Compute! hat im Heft 01/1986 ein längliches Interview mit Frau Carlos. Nachzulesen beim @…

Compute! Magazine Issue 068 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Compute! Issue 68 - January 1986. Making Music with MIDI - The Computerized Musician - Solitaire - SpeedCalc for Commodore 64 and 128 - Casio CZ-101 Music...

Gerry Philbin, Jets Ring of Honor member and Super Bowl champion, dies at 83 https://www.nfl.com/news/gerry-philbin-dies-at-83-jets-ring-of-honor-member-super-bowl-winner

Heute im @… (https://mastodon.social/@schwarzPhotoBot/115065697236869104) : der Lindencorso. Der Lindencorso hat sogar eine

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 12. September 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Knife-A". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in

I watched the 4k of "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968). #Kubrick could have just made a film about a murderous, sentient computer, and that alone would've been great. Instead, he added the "Jupiter" story with the mysterious monolith, which is both inexplicable and brilliant. The soundtrack is tremendous.

A Little Clairvoyance Is All You Need
Anupam Gupta, Haim Kaplan, Alexander Lindermayr, Jens Schl\"oter, Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17759 ht…

A Little Clairvoyance Is All You Need
We revisit the classical problem of minimizing the total flow time of jobs on a single machine in the online setting where jobs arrive over time. It has long been known that the Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) algorithm is optimal (i.e., $1$-competitive) when the job sizes are known up-front [Schrage, 1968]. But in the non-clairvoyant setting where job sizes are revealed only when the job finishes, no algorithm can be constant-competitive [Motwani, Phillips, and Torng, 1994]. We con…

Heute vor 58 Jahren: Am 14. Juli 1967 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Crosstie die 1. #Atombombe "Vito". Crosstie war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 67/68 bei der insgesamt 48 #Kernwaffentests

Tight Bounds for Cycle-Edge Decompositions and Covers
Saieed Akbari, Jonny Aloni, Arash Beikmohammadi, Alexander Clow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01901 https://

Tight Bounds for Cycle-Edge Decompositions and Covers
An old conjecture of Gallai states that every $n$ vertex graph can be decomposed, that is $E(G)$ can be partitioned, into $\lceil \frac{n}{2}\rceil$ or fewer paths. In response to this conjecture, Lovász proved in 1968 that every $n$ vertex graph can be decomposed into $\lfloor \frac{n}{2}\rfloor$ or fewer cycles and paths. We study a related conjecture which states that every $n$ vertex graph can be decomposed into $n-1$ or fewer cycles and edges. We prove this conjecture for all graphs with …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
David Bowie:
🎵 In The Heat Of The Morning (BBC Session, 13 May 1968)
#DavidBowie
https://accruecassettes.bandcamp.com/track/in-the-heat-of-the-morning
https://open.spotify.com/track/3sjuC8X5jF43HJ2Eaynwd7

The Markov property for $\varphi^4_3$ on the cylinder
Nikolay Barashkov, Trishen S. Gunaratnam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21466 https://

The Markov property for $φ^4_3$ on the cylinder
We prove that the $φ^4_3$ model satisfies a version of Segal's axioms in the special case of three-dimensional tori and cylinders. As a consequence, we give the first proof that this model satisfies a Markov property and we characterize its boundary law up to absolutely continuous perturbations. In addition, we use Segal's axioms to give an alternative construction of the $φ^4_3$ Hamiltonian on two-dimensional tori as compared with Glimm (Comm. Math. Phys., 1968). We exploit this probabilisti…

Denver, n.:
A smallish city located just below the `O' in Colorado.

Better tried by twelve than carried by six.
-- Jeff Cooper

The anger of a woman is the greatest evil with which you can threaten your
enemies.
-- Bonnard

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Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 9. August 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Imp". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in #Nevada

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
Fania All-Stars:
🎵 Son Cuero Y Boogaloo
#FaniaAllStars
https://faniaallstars.bandcamp.com/track/son-cuero-y-boogaloo-live-at-red-garter-greenwich-village-ny-1968

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 25. Juni 1968 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Crosstie die 55. #Atombombe "Sevilla". Crosstie war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 67/68 bei der insgesamt 48 #Kernwaffentests

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 25. Juni 1968 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Crosstie die 54. #Atombombe "Funnel". Crosstie war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 67/68 bei der insgesamt 48 #Kernwaffentests

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 6. September 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Noggin". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
Fania All-Stars:
🎵 If This World Were Mine
#FaniaAllStars
https://faniaallstars.bandcamp.com/track/if-this-world-were-mine-live-at-red-garter-greenwich-village-ny-1968

Heute vor 58 Jahren: Am 4. August 1967 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Crosstie die 3. #Atombombe "Gibson". Crosstie war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 67/68 bei der insgesamt 48 #Kernwaffentests

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 30. Juli 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Tanya". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in #Nevada

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 29. August 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Sled". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in #Nevada

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Nick Drake:
🎵 Strange Face (1st Sound Techniques Session, March / 1968)
#NickDrake

Heute vor 57 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…

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 27. August 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Diana Moon". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Heute vor 58 Jahren: Am 27. Juli 1967 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Crosstie die 2. #Atombombe "Stanley". Crosstie war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 67/68 bei der insgesamt 48 #Kernwaffentests

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Johnny Cash:
🎵 Folsom Prison Blues (Live at Folsom State Prison, 1968)
#JohnnyCash
https://megasmurf.bandcamp.com/track/johnny-cash-folsom-prison-blues

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Nick Drake:
🎵 Mayfair (March 1968)
#NickDrake
https://open.spotify.com/track/6istaDvCXRRswqM4tJRzmE

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Nick Drake:
🎵 Fruit Tree (March 1968)
#NickDrake
https://noah23.bandcamp.com/track/fruit-tree-fame-ii-feat-nick-drake-bliiit

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Nick Drake:
🎵 Man In A Shed (March 1968)
#NickDrake
https://nickdrakeandthesadbeads.bandcamp.com/track/man-in-a-shed
https://open.spotify.com/track/7rDJymAeuDbAKmRO07dGHS

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Nick Drake:
🎵 Way To Blue (Cambridge Winter 1968)
#NickDrake
https://antisymbolrecords.bandcamp.com/track/way-tableaux-lyrics-by-nick-drake-from-his-song-way-to-blue

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Nick Drake:
🎵 The Thoughts Of Mary Jane (Cambridge May 1968)
#NickDrake
https://detrasdelsol.bandcamp.com/track/the-thoughts-of-mary-jane-juan-irio
https://open.spotify.com/track/3k5C3vlDqE5rOqiikOjJ10