
2025-06-30 03:09:00
GOP Senators agree to change a provision in the tax bill from a 10-year ban on state AI regulation to a 5-year ban with carve outs for issues such as copyrights (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
It’s language pedantry! No, it’s math pedantry! Anyhow, “Comparing Numbers Badly” gripes about the mis-use of “order(s) of magnitude” and percentages in comparing numbers: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/30/Number-Comparison-Representa…
After decades in the U.S., Iranians arrested in Trump’s deportation drive
Mandonna “Donna” Kashanian lived in the United States for 47 years,
married a U.S. citizen and raised their daughter.
She was gardening in the yard of her New Orleans home when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers handcuffed and took her away, her family said.
Kashanian arrived in 1978 on a student visa and applied for asylum,
fearing retaliation for her father’s support of…
@… 絵文字一覧をみると、妙に充実しているジャンルあるでしょう……。
あれ、せっせと作ったりヨソのみつけてきて申請したりして、活動してる人がいるんですよ……
Has anybody made a Mac app yet (or an open source script) that lets a Mac emulate being a Switch 2 dock?
from my link log —
On the design of compact elastic binary trees (cebtree).
http://wtarreau.blogspot.com/2025/03/on-design-of-compact-elastic-binary.html
saved 2025-05-05
On Thursday 03.07. I'll have the honor of giving a talk with @… on "Fascist AI" in the "Loops" series of events (https://www.newpractice.net/loops
I wrote up a longer post about a bike riding group and how we use the web... along with some of my own thoughts on how to do it.
Feedback and ideas are welcome!
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/05/31/milwaukee-critical-mass-web-site/
Four different recommendations for the Pinecil, and looks like a winner at a glance!
The morning display of the #NoctilucentClouds on 30 June 2025 over Bochum, Germany, was impressive - and rich in all kinds of wave phenomena! Here is a small sample - see https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlcaroundtheworld/posts/1704146383554293/ for more and https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10230510209273908 for the full series of the night.
Vi har desværre sandsynligvis en syg kanin. Nogen der har anbefaling til et specialiseret kanin dyrlæge i KŸbenhavn eller omegn?
On Website Technicals (2025-06) - Tech updates: Junited - Rigby to OEM - GPTBot badness, captions, diversion delay, under-volt, X11 fossil... #Junited2025 - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-tech
Half a pint of pistachio gelato, 2 ounces limoncello, 1 ounce #espresso.
The gelato melted very quickly, even in the frozen glass, before adding the chilled limoncello and hot espresso. Still good, but I’ll probably make it once more and forget to do it again.
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Gerücht: Einsteiger-MacBook vor großem Comeback
Neue Gerüchte aus Apples Zulieferkette: Zum Jahreswechsel soll ein neues Einsteiger-MacBook in die Serienproduktion gehen. Es verfüge über ein 13-Zoll-Display.
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Der Arc Browser war zwei Jahre lang mein Standardbrowser, bis ihr lascher Umgang mit Security-Issues mich zu einem Wechsel führte. Das war wohl ein guter Entscheid …
Letter to Arc members 2025 https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025…
hey, a new jonathan richman album, featuring jerry harrison on a bunch of tunes (ie. half of the modern lovers). https://jonathanrichman.bandcamp.com/album/only-frozen-sky-anyway
⏰ New study challenges assumptions linking racial attitudes and political identity in U.S. cities
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-assumptions-linking-racial-attitudes-political.html
Die Abhängigkeit von US-Konzernen kostet Europa Milliarden – und gefährdet die digitale Souveränität. Open Source-Lösungen werden zur echten Alternative, wie das Beispiel OpenDesk zeigt. Unser Gespräch mit Alex Smolianitski vom @… bei #9vor9.
When Liberals Hated National Injunctions (Allysia Finley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/when-liberals-hated-national-injunctions-law-politics-e3985134?st=JjUWHJ
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p95#a250629p95
Bryan Kohberger to Plead Guilty to Killing 4 University of Idaho Students | Associated Press
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/kohberger-idaho-students-killed/2025/06/30/id/1217089/
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PSG or Inter? 🤔 #uclfinal
People who are worried about #ClimateChange:
Do you usually vote for the Green party in your country's elections? If not, why?
#SaveThePlanet #Elections
Looks like someone cut a Yugo in half.
Yugos were basically Fiats that Fiat no longer wanted to make. https://mstdn.social/@bweller/114770694902314410
Coffee will be interesting today... the only Oat Milk I have left is Chocolate, and there's just one V60 filter cone 😅
What's a good number of presentations to fit in a conference day?
NIME (a single-track conference with low acceptance rate), fits in about 14 presentations of various lengths (all pretty darn short - 5, 10, or 15 mins), amongst a couple of other sessions. They have 5 papers per 90 minute session. https://nime2025.org/program/
Our Mind on Music Podcast: Interview with Stan Stewart
https://ourmindonmusic.wordpress.com/2024/03/18/our-mind-on-music-podcast-interview-with-stan-stewart-aka-stanley-g-of-muz4now/
Also, I’m shocked that Joy is 82!
From the "Your UX is bad so you should feel bad Dept.":
The act of observing the state of your 365 subscription changes the state of your 365 subscription. Or Schrodingers's 365 subscription - until you check, the subscription is both active AND expired in superposition and by checking your subscription the waveform collapses to one of those two states. Was your subscription ever really active at all?
Qatar, Saudi, Egypt join call for Hamas to disarm, give up Gaza rule - #France24
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250729-qatar…
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 2,023 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: ca. 50 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Mit Förderung sind noch…
What a difference a solstice makes to egg production. It's a cold wet day here, the kind of day chooks (chickens if you are not in Aus) hate. But 7 eggs from 10 geriatric chooks. A week ago we were lucky to get 2 eggs a day. I might not be able to sense the lengthening days yet, but they can. #retrosuburbia
There's got to be liquor in one of these free little libraries.
toot of, tootles ⚙️🛠️ (8 Uhr-Dienst)
@… that numberplate looks like AI created it
Cardamom Pistachio Ice Cream (Dairy-Free And Vegan) #plantbased
if you follow this account bluesky then remember to follow this bridge account so I can see your posts and stuff
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xbifsywyv5pka5jlknhv5yv3
Die Böden in Deutschland sind so trocken wie nie zuvor. Und das schon vor der kommenden Hitzewelle...
Im hbz wird eine neue Leitung der Gruppe "Datenbankservices und Verbunddienstleistungen" gesucht, siehe https://metadaten.community/t/hbz-leitung-der-gruppe-datenbankservices-und-verbunddienstleistungen/827
Mam klapko sandały w których najmniejszy palec jest niewidoczny, mogę poczuć się w nich jak wygenerowany przez AI xd
Ich sage Mangold, ihr sagt? #kochbubble #fedikocht #rezept
Der Morgen beginnt mit Sofaameisen und Balkonmeisenbabys.
I just hacked this game - MassPole (Position)
Don't hit the DD cups! :)
#Boston
Casi se me pasa que hoy estš de cumpleaños el tremendo guitarrista de RATM, Audioslave y tantos otros proyectos. Activista político y admirador de Víctor Jara, por lo demšs: Tom Morello. Hoy cumple 61 años. 🥳🎂🎸🤘🏻
#TomMorello #CumpleañosRockero
Arbeiten und bezahlt werden müssen endlich als unabhängige Konzepte verstanden werden.
Imagine if a candidate for US President had a workable program to ban sludge, that bureaucratic hell companies and the government put us through on support lines, in endless phone menus, and online to make us give up. They'd win 50 states!
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
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The barbarian role of cultural demolition crew is especially important when you consider how often cultural reconstruction is needed. Many of Rome’s glaring defects — exploitation, authoritarianism, corrupt self-aggrandizement — flow from deeply human tendencies. Time and again they’ve transformed promising civilizations into decaying, oppressive monstrosities. Time and again, history seems to cry out: Bring on the demolition crew! And time and again barbarians cheerfully respond to the call. Their previous massive wreaking of destruction, near the end of the second millennium B.C., had come after civilization went through centuries of apparent ossification.
In a way, barbarians are just a special case of that general and potent zero-sum dynamic in cultural evolution: brutal competition among neighboring societies. This rivalry renders ossified cultures vulnerable to a makeover, minor or major. They may be taken over by a vast neighboring civilization, which will revamp them in its image. Or they may be infiltrated and perhaps even disassembled by barbarians, paving the way for future reassembly. Or they may revive and prevail — an example of the “challenge and response” dynamic stressed by Arnold Toynbee. In any event, the point remains the same: however deeply human the tendencies of exploitation, authoritarianism, and self-aggrandizement, cultures that surrender to them may not be long for this world.
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(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)
Is it time for the barbarians now? Or perhaps we — here on Fedi — are the barbarians.
家にサーバ飼ってるとエアコンは基本つけっぱなしなるよねぇ(家?)
An inside look at ex-unicorn Builder.ai's demise, which oversold its AI platform's abilities and frustrated customers with delivery delays and buggy products (Varsha Bansal/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/builderai-ai-apps-downfall/
Nicht die Erste Studie mit dem Ergebnis: Auch Kund*innen parsen "KI"-integration als Signal für niedere Qualität
(Original title: Marketing: Werbung mit KI im Text schreckt Kunden ab)
https://www.golem.de/news/marketing-werbun
What would war between EU and Russia actually look like: think WW1 style attrition and the absolute collapse of a way of life that many of us are very comfortable with.
@… is as ever to the point in this one.
https://youtu.be/HwnBnsQBeOA
from my link log —
O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call.
https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/
saved 2025-05-17
Im KI-Zeitalter reicht ein PowerPoint-Deck nicht mehr. #Accenture war lange der Gewinner der Digitalisierung, doch KI stellt das Geschäftsmodell auf den Prüfstand. Accentures Rolle als Vermittler schrumpft, da Kunden zunehmend auf direkte Tech-Lösungen setzen. Ob Accenture mit „Reinvention Services“ relevant bleibt?
Flint's still-unfinished lead pipe replacement serves as cautionary tale to other cities (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/flint-water-crisis-lead-pipe-replacement-d4f7e458dce73c6f153281276548d1da
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p94#a250629p94
KI-Update: KI-Crawler als Bedrohung, KI-Stromhunger und -Emissionen, KI-Agenten
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
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"The lack of an announced successor space for the National Science Foundation and accusations of largesse to the Housing and Urban Development secretary have swirled since the proposal was unveiled last week."
Virginia lawmakers demand answers on Trump’s planned ‘displacement’ of NSF - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/06/virginia-lawmakers-demand-answers-trumps-planned-displacement-nsf/406429/
Today’s ride was tough but I got in 12 miles and saw a bird… I did see another large bird and a baby rabbit but didn’t get photos.
#biking #bikeTooter #mke
sweet setup.py you've got there for your pure-python project. i, too, am a big fan of the 1990s.
What is your favourite physical book that you want to be seen reading in public? Wrong answers only.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/30/performative-reading-public-tiktok?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…
- Here's the deal. I never have to change the diapers, and every day is "Taco Tuesday."
- You're a pig. You're disgusting. Deal.
3×Weckerfehleinstellung beim Hauptwecker=Handy😯
Zum Glück ward Schatz' gerade wach und ich mit.
Und es gab noch im Flur den Reservewecker, richtig eingestellt.
Und wir haben nicht Wechsel-Schicht-Dienst, sondern gestaffelte Dienste (6, 7,) 8, 9, 12 Uhr.
Und³ es hat sich seit April so ergeben, daß die 6&7- Dienste von zwei Kollegen permanent, nicht in Rotation übernommen wurden.
#Wecker
@… 15k xp, damn. It's on my list but I need more prep it seems
Do you condemn the phase "Viva la revolución"?
@… カレーは毎日でもいい!! うまそう!!
The UK Supreme Court denied Uber's appeal in a case over VAT, forcing Uber to pay a 20% VAT on fares outside London while rival private taxi operators pay none (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sus
(This was not by me but I very much relate)
https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/114772417335001235
from my link log —
Elliptic curves as art.
https://elliptic-curves.art/
saved 2025-06-19 https://dotat.at/:/XJL08.html
I still need to get around to automating this stuff a bit more, but for now I just type a few numbers each month for my biking stats...
#bikeTooter #python
Tumblr's Move To WordPress and Fediverse Integration Is 'On Hold' - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/30/211204/tumblrs-move-to-wordpress-and-fediverse-integration-is-on-hold
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mrrrgnnn tootles 🖖 fedizens
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@… @… kaassoufles are worse for that tho, but yeah that sucks when it happens
Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Cucumbers Sickens 45 People (Isabella Kwai/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/health/cucumbers-recall-salmonella-outbreak.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p33#a250531p33
Wow have never seen a player cheered on to the field like rose lavelle was
#nwsl
Super nice start to the day... Heading out on a bike ride in a bit. It will be lovely!
Have a great day!
I think one main issue I have with the whole "EURO Stack" stuff is that it is not looking for an alternative. It's "we want what we got just with EU companies". But the fact that the Internet and its services have been turned into a mall is the big fucking problem. I don't want a "European Facebook" built on the same logic of exploitation.
Mit dem „Stellen Sie sich vor, es betrifft Sie persönlich“-Argument kann man alles begründen. Mit dem Abwägen von Grundrechten hat es dieser Staatsanwalt nicht so. https://flipboard.com/@nzz_ch/technologie-61hqqojtz/-/a-bLrcbVBNTjue2k…
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Stereolab (37) El Cuarteto De Nos (36) St. Vincent (26) Eruca Sativa (25) Mark Pritchard (19). #myweekcounted 369 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…
from my link log —
Hask is not a category.
https://math.andrej.com/2016/08/06/hask-is-not-a-category/
saved 2025-06-22
Trump administration halts, then releases, NIH research funding (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/29/trump-administration-nih-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p167#a250729p167
Military asks to pull 200 National Guard troops from protest duty – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/national-guard-troops-california-protest-wildfire/3735565/
from my link log —
comrak: a CommonMark and GFM compatible Markdown parser and renderer in Rust.
https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak
saved 2025-03-31 …
So far only one company has been charged for using migrant workers despite Trump’s pledges for tough punishments | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-worksite-raids-ice-charges-b2779885.html
from my link log —
Type-level bounded recursion in Rust.
https://catgirl.ai/log/typelevel-bounded-recursion/
saved 2025-05-26
from my link log —
UK Online Safety Act Notes for small sites.
https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/
saved 2024-12-17