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Robert Reich, always on point. 🎯

A national poll released this week by The New York Times and Siena University found that Democrats entered the fall with an advantage of nearly nine percentage points over Republicans on the congressional ballot
— an edge similar to 2018, the last time there was a so-called blue wave.
“Republicans are panicking and are on the brink of losing the House, with the Senate not far behind,” Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, said in an interview.
But…

Who Will Win the Midterms? Republicans Are Reeling.
The party is putting up a costly defense of states and districts that President Trump won easily in 2024. And in places like Georgia, strategists wonder if it’s too late.

from my link log —
Concurrency vs paralellism.
https://www.tedinski.com/2018/10/16/concurrency-vs-parallelism.html
saved 2024-04-09

Concurrency vs parellism
The difference, and what is means to design for each.

Source: Apple passed $10B in annual sales in India for the first time in FY 2026, up from $9B in 2024-25 and $6B in 2022-23, as it expands its retail footprint (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I'm not even the first person to say things along this line either:
"Another motivation for reducing the steel intensity of modern society is to limit the consequences of geopolitical conflicts. The more steel we produce for peaceful purposes, the more steel becomes available for war and destruction. Remarkably, the production of military equipment is absent from modern steel statistics, and if mentioned, its share is very low. However, in times of war, steelmaking facilities switch to producing steel for military purposes. The steel industry can thus be converted into a weapons industry at any moment, and there is now a lot more steel production capacity available than there has ever been in history."
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024/03/how-to-escape-from-the-iron-age/ buried in the last footnote.
Oh, and that article also shows the math that proves that there is no way to move to EVs without absolutely blowing through the carbon budget. You have to switch to bikes and trains. There's literally no other way to keep an even close to habitable planet.

Er is een opvangcrisis, geen asiel/migratiecrisis,
Migratiesaldo gedaald tot onder de 100.000, het laagste punt sinds 2020 - #opvangcrisis

Migratiesaldo gedaald tot onder de 100.000, het laagste punt sinds 2020
Het aantal eerste asielaanvragen daalde vorig met een kwart ten opzichte van 2024.

Have a fabulous birthday, America!
“Cruising Queens”
2024, Moises Salazar Tlatenchi. Oil on canvas, glitter, and yarn.

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden

Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“
2024 stammt der meiste Strom in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien – und sie sind günstiger als Kohle oder Gas. Fakten statt Mythen.

PhD Research Plan Sketch (2024) - An outline plan for research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research -

PhD Research Plan Sketch (2024)
An outline plan for research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research

RE: https://mastodon.online/@SocraticEthics/116852007606471639
They’re clearly learning from the Israelis.
‘By February 2024, it was reported that "every hospital in Gaza is either damaged, destroyed, or out of service due to lack of fuel…

POL-WHV: 53-Jähriger nach Gerichtsbeschluss in Fachklinik untergebracht Wilhelmshaven/Friesland (ots) - Ein 53-jähriger Mann, der seit Ende 2024 im Bereich der Friesischen Wehde und später in Varel durch wiederholt auffälliges Verhalten in Erscheinung getreten war, befindet sich seit Ende Juni 2026 aufgrund einer ... https://www.

from my link log —
Performance culture.
http://joeduffyblog.com/2016/04/10/performance-culture/
saved 2024-06-01 https://

➡️ A search engine in 80 lines of Python
https://www.alexmolas.com/2024/02/05/a-search-engine-in-80-lines.html
(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden

Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“
2024 stammt der meiste Strom in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien – und sie sind günstiger als Kohle oder Gas. Fakten statt Mythen.

from my link log —
A history of parsers of the Ruby programming language.
https://railsatscale.com/2024-04-16-prism-in-2024/
saved 2024-04-19 https…

Prism in 2024
In Ruby 3.3.0, a new standard library was added to CRuby called Prism. Prism is a parser for the Ruby language, exposed as both a C library (optionally usable by CRuby) and a Ruby library (usable as a Ruby gem). The Prism project represents many person-years worth of effort, and is the result of a collaboration between Shopify, CRuby core contributors, other Ruby implementation authors, and Ruby tooling developers.

Dem Congressman Jared Golden just ended his reelection campaign because of threats to his family.
Citing his experience of spending last Thanksgiving in hiding and the escalating wave of political violence and assassinations, Golden announced his retirement.
𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦'𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘷𝘶𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚.
Trump won here by 9 points in 2024.
We are now 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗴𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱, and 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀.
Already MAGA is thro…

HOME | Matt Dunlap for US Congress
Matt Dunlap is running for Maine’s 2nd congressional district because we deserve a representative who will put Mainers above politics – and who won’t cave to Trump.

On Website Technicals (2024-09) - Tech updates: anticipating the heat pump, BibTeX crossref, ETag clean-up, APFS defrag, Gallery traffic trim. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-88.html

On Website Technicals (2024-09)
Tech updates: anticipating the heat pump, BibTeX crossref, ETag clean-up, APFS defrag, Gallery traffic trim.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117021215493505628
In September 2024,
billionaire hedge-fund owner John Paulson
— an adviser to the president and one of his biggest fundraisers
— gave an interview supporting Trump’s tariff proposals on CNBC.
“What …

Today I found a open source thing for doing _exactly what I needed_ but then it didn't work and I inspected the source code and found that it uses services that are no longer online.
Turns out it was all vibe-coded and the LLM referenced services that are long dead presumably because the training data ends with 2024 or so and it just assumed the services are still up.
The person doing the vibe coding didn't bother to check. Now the code is up on Github and you get recommend to use it by search engines. Great stuff.

Structure and Dynamics of the Inner #Corona Measured from the DEB Initiative 2024 #Eclipse Image Sequence: #CitizenScience and Solar Structure: https://aasnova.org/2026/08/03/featured-image-citizen-science-and-solar-structure/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
DEADLETTER:
🎵 More Heat! (6 Music Session, 16 Sep 2024)
#DEADLETTER
https://deadletter-band.bandcamp.com/track/more-heat
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZhwXB5goScBW6ZyDCyZlY

The progression of the #poolpond #backyardproject over the past 2 years. I started it on Labour Day of 2024.
The first picture is August 3, 2024 as the last true “before times” picture. We started by demolishing the old shed… but the pond work itself didn’t start until Labour Day that year!
We’re getting there! It is almost starting to look like a backyard again :)
A few important things remain from the original yard. The fence, which was mostly just renewed and heightened for bylaw, not changed. The hazelnut tree, which has dealt wi5 all the earthly disturbances surprisingly well. It is full of nuts again this year. The rhubarb, which is impossible to kill if we wanted to and is as big as ever, and the chicken coop and run, which has been moved around but will find a spot eventually.
#diy #patience #gardening #landscaping