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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,103,580 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/23/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,103,580 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/23/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
“An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon killed five people Sunday, including three children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said … four of the killed, the three children as well as their father, held U.S. citizenship”: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025…
"Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work. Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output. Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, "
(Original title: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity)
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bundesverfassungsgericht lehnt Beschwerde im Fall Modern Solution ab
80/20 rule: 80% of conservatives are projecting (being gay, not wanting children, had an abortion, drinking, etc.) and 20% are just evil
そこはあなたのベッドではなく、アイロンをかける台なんですよ……(よくここで寝てる)
#chacha_cat #cat
The Flagship galaxy mock catalogue - a comprehensive simulation for the #Euclid mission: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/05/aa50853-24/aa50853-24.html -> A virtual Universe for Euclid: https://www.euclid-ec.org/public/press-releases/euclid-flagship-simulations/ - the largest cosmological simulations catalogue is now public.
So you teach your kids to respect revealed truths and not question authority and then wonder how sociopaths and malignant narcissists come to power and why you find yourself living under the yoke of fascism?
#microNonfiction
The closure of rural hospitals is a looming problem across all of California.
Two Inland Empire lawmakers are urging state officials to take action to save a hospital in Blythe.
Last spring, Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe was on the brink of closure,
after a series of financial mishaps left it bleeding cash.
In May, the hospital announced that it would not accept new patients, “for the foreseeable future,”
although its emergency room and clinic remained open, th…
"International treaty protecting world's oceans to take effect"
#Oceans #Conservation #Environment
Tijdlijn van donaties aan politieke partijen in Nederland voor 2025 | #DonationWatch
https://donation.watch/nl/netherlands/2025/timeline
Ik wilde even controleren dat de VV…
schade dass es in der mensa kein happy meal mit labubu gibt
Bin ich eigentlich der einzige hier, der möglichst alles tut, um aus Umwelt Grühn Deng Fliegen zu vermeiden?
Come, muse, let us sing of rats!
-- From a poem by James Grainger, 1721-1767
🍎 🍯 to all who celebrate.
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"The equestrian contest with two-horse cars was invented by Enyalios [Ares], as Kallimachos has written in the Aitia."
Callimachus, Aetia Fragment 2
🏛 Silver libation bowl with low-relief of chariots with Ares, Athena, Herakles and Dionysos, Greek, from Northern Apulia, 300-200 BCE
#DayOfAres
@… When I first moved to Pasadena, the two drive-thru dairies there I knew of were notorious for selling you weed (before it was legal) if you asked for a special product
Reminds me of a tactic I used in my adapted Suckerfish fly-outs a millennia ago (b&w arrows for nested items so clients could use any color).
“Taking a shot at the double focus ring problem using modern CSS”
https://piccalil.li/blog/taking-a-shot
I am wondering if I am turning into a watch infuencer. 🤣 I was looking at a watch that has been out for a while but AFAIK nobody was discussing. It is a pocket watch and most of its dial is in Chinese, with unexpected markings as it is a 24 hour movement but 12 entries on the face.
While deciphering the dial I posted in a couple of different places. One related to translations and one for Chinese watch fans.
Looking now at the manufacturers site it states, "7 sold in last …
Stockyard Sessions
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
Fake Fruit is so good.
The high quality sound production of Tiny Desk really shows the band's talent too. I just love this band so much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxytIk4W7wo&t=179s
Sinclair Says It Won't Air Jimmy Kimmel on Its Affiliate Stations - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/sinclair-wont-air-jimmy-kimmel-on-abc-affiliate-stations-2025-9
Request for budget-neutral extension of the project submitted ✔︎
Let’s hope for the best now!
Petition FÜR: Beibehaltung der gesetzlich verankerten täglichen Höchstarbeitszeit von 8 Stunden (§ 3 ArbZG)
(Ich gestehe: Sternchen hier dran machen mich nicht glücklich. Bitte Retrööt! 🔄 )
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_08…
It was nice to see @… again.
https://photos.jws.app/2025/i-had-lunch-with-steve-today-that-was-lovely/
Oh the irony!
Wes Streeting suggesting that Donald Trump is wrong to stop prescribing paracetamol (as we know it here) without any evidence it is causing harm is EXACTLY WHAT HE IS DOING by stopping prescribing of puberty suppressing drugs in children experiencing gender incongruence. Literally, exactly the same - no evidence, just politics.
#ukpolitics
Investigate the government's blatant censorship & obvious violation of the 1st amendment.
And sue the f'ing pants off of Fat Putin.
From: @…
https://
Kamala and her team ran a poorly executed corporatist campaign saddled by every horrible choice they and the Biden administration ever made about immigration, law enforcement, arms deals, trans rights, public health, the Supreme Count, and genocide, so it’s very funny to see her try to get back in the public eye
How isn't there a #rugby podcast called "Asking Questions"?
Waiting for big tech to start trying to convince people they can track your blinking on smart glasses and you need 10,000 blinks a day or some shit.
213gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
toot of, tootles ⚙️🛠️
Listening to @earthtoeve.bsky.social’s Have You Heard the News?
#music
Mit rumwurschteln
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It really annoys me when there's a movie I want to watch and there's no way of renting it in the UK, and the only options are to buy it or pay for another streaming platform.
Tonights frustration... Aporia
As a general matter, societies (and countries) have a right to protect themselves.
This protection ranges from things like civil laws (e.g. to require people to live up to contracts or not to assault one another.) Stronger protective measures are found in criminal laws that can restrict physical freedom (i.e. jail/prison time), force the disgorgement of taken property (such as taken by fraud or robbery), and even to take away a criminal's life. The strongest is war in which whole…
6 years is way too fucking long. Chuck Schumer was (re-)elected in 2022, and his term isn't up until 2029. That's extremely broken.
Went out to The National in Grass Valley and saw Lorraine Gervais perform. She's a local singer and always has a great band, sort of jazz / cabaret. Good fun, a nice thing about my small town.
Q for #WordPress users - is there a site / service where you could give it the URL for a site and see what WordPress theme might be closest to the current look of the site?
I have a number of sites to migrate to WordPress (from TypePad) and I'm looking for a quick way to find a basic theme that provides similar features to what I have in the different sites?
麻辣 is my crack and opium. Sooo good! 😋
Découvrez notre association 'Les Chardons Bleus' et notre mission de soutien aux victimes d'abus de la OKC.
https://chardonsbleus.org/association
Przeglądanie zdjęć z lat 2015/2016, by dopisać do nich miejscowości, przynosi kilka konkluzji:
1. Jeżu molu, jak zdjęcia mogą mieć tak niską rozdzielczość?! 2560 x 1440? Toć to mniejsze niż rozdzielczość mojego ekranu w tej chwili.
2. Sporo zdjęć jest po prostu złych. Rozmytych, z ukosa, czy z paluchami.
3. Wygląda na to, że podobały mi się panoramy. Bardzo niskiej rozdzielczości panoramy, należy dodać.
4. Domyślne wyłączanie zapisu lokalizacji to zbrodnia. Zanim człowie…
One key point of democracy (and the minimal requirement) is that there is an official and working way to get rid of the running government (and representatives i.e. parliament).
This includes a free press, i.e. access to information and different (critical) views on politicians.
#pol
Its good to have many tests in your R package, but it can be a pain to debug some failing tests when it happens. {lazytest} for the rescue: only rerun the failing tests, until they pass: #RStats
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USA bekräftigen Beistandspflicht der NATO
Der neue US-Botschafter bei den Vereinten Nationen, Michael Waltz, hat die Beistandspflicht der NATO bekräftigt. "Ich möchte diese erste Gelegenheit nutzen, um zu wiederholen und zu betonen, dass die Vereinigten Staaten und unsere Verbündeten jeden Zentimeter des NATO-Territoriums verteidigen werden", sagte Waltz bei seinem ersten Auftritt im UN-Sicherheitsrat.
Anlass der Dringlichke…
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Very annoying that the earthquake didn't wait to be invited?
“Things were shaking in our newsroom,” posted Dave Clark, a news anchor for KTVU-TV. “It caught everyone off guard.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s…
Very annoying that the earthquake didn't wait to be invited?
“Things were shaking in our newsroom,” posted Dave Clark, a news anchor for KTVU-TV. “It caught everyone off guard.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s…
Liebe Community,
wir freuen uns sehr, Euch ab morgen auf unserem #NFDI4Culture Community Plenary in #Mainz begrüßen zu dürfen!
Ebenso freuen wir uns, einander persönlich wiederzusehen und gemeinsam mit Euch den erfolgreichen Abschluss unserer 1. Förderphase zu feiern. 🎊 💃 🕺
Findet mi…
@… An excellent answer to a good question!
@… An excellent answer to a good question!
This Wednesday, 24 September 2025 at 14:30, our Professor Luca Aiello @… will give his inaugural lecture in Auditorium 0 at the IT University in Copenhagen!
https:/…
Take it to the fridge! 🥪
#ListeningClub
Falls sich jemand wundert, wie das bei uns gestern so war: Die Erdvertiefung für die Feuerstelle unter dem Dreibein war mit Wasser gefüllt; ein 5-10 cm tiefer Teich.
Von eigentlichen Schäden habe ich nichts gehört.
https://www.srf.ch/meteo/meteo-stories/zwi
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Michael Nesmith:
🎵 Tomorrow & Me
#MichaelNesmith
https://open.spotify.com/track/2WdBmsK3O69NafB323jxya
How? This is disaster prep. Imagine the US is collapsing (because it is). What do you need to do to keep yourself and your community safe when things shut down for 24 hours, 48, 72? What do you do when the government leaves and never comes back? Build that.
This isn't bunker and beans shit either. We all die if we try to live alone. The only way to survive is together. Once you build the thing that keeps you and your friends alive, expand... Go bigger.... Organize with more people.
That's a clear and actionable strategy that beats the hell out of "vote for the lesser of two evils until everything is evil."
Study of 2.4 million children:
"Acetaminophen [#paracetamol] use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of #autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to familial c…
"Ohio Bill Would Require Watermarks on AI Imagery"
How exactly does a state enforce this? 🤔 "...it could place restrictions on a consumer's legal uses of a product, or it could place restrictions on what type of functions a producer's product can actually produce."
http…
Cool, der @… lässt im gesamten Stadtgebiet den Verkehr von Privatpersonen automatisiert zählen. Die Daten stehen dann öffentlich zur Verfügung.
https://berlin.adfc.de/artikel/berlin-
@… so random idea: do you think your tdr tamper sensor could be used to key a puf? Like wrapping keys in a device with a tdr derived key so the response changes and the key becomes garbage if you mess with it
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good friday to you
In Orwell's "1984," there is a character named Emmanuel Goldstein who is the object of a daily "Two Minutes Hate" ritual. Goldstein is a fiction, created by the state to focus anger away from itself: a scapegoat. We don't quite have such a figure today ((George Soros is as close as they can get)) but we have entire classes of people defined as evil, and a media machine that broadcasts hate 24 hours a day.
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Nº 23 Linebacker Alexei DiDonato takes the ball away from Navy's Quarterback Nº 9 Rhett Sypult -- in the second half the Big Red's defense took advantage of many Navy mistakes; see more shots on my Behance https://www.behance.net/gallery/235091711/Sprint-Foot…
Warum bin ich eigentlich noch nicht selbst drauf gekommen, dass selbstgemachter Tee in kalt mein Lieblingsgetränk ist?
Hoy se cumplen 11 años de la retirada de la propuesta de reforma de la ley del aborto y la dimisión del ministro de interior que la quiso imponer, Ruíz Gallardón, después de la presión social que so llevo a cabo en las calles. https://elpais.com/politica/2014/09/24/actuali…
Também se aplica a fascistas que vão a manifestações de imigrantes ver se algum lhes dš um murro nos cornos.
https://mstdn.ca/@Rasta/115242458800439093
The elite Crimean resort of Foros is under attack, while Ukraine presents “Toloka”: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/22/the-elite-crimean-resort-of.html
"A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates to embrace the technology, few are seeing it create real value. [...] In collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, our research team at BetterUp Labs has identified one possible reason: Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."
"Unlike this mental outsourc…
ミックススパイスだねえ
Happy #Equinox to all who celebrate ❤️
Here in the Northern Hemisphere, days will be shorter than the nights, Autumn begins and brings us the months with the most abundance of fruit and vegetables. This is the time of year when deities like Demeter and Dionysos were praised with harvest festivals. Persephone either returns or descends to the underworld, depending on the interpretation.
Moment, man hat sich bei einer Zeitplanung auf Elon Musk verlassen? 😆 https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/115251550648167949
Voters Report Rising Climate Impacts and Strongly Support Making Polluters Pay
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/9/15/voters-report-rising-climate-impacts-and-strongly-support-making-polluters-pay
I should leave. I'm supposed to be at work in 2 minutes.
#BinaryWatch #WristCheck
Mag je de democratie verdedigen met niet-democratische middelen, en zo ja, waar vecht je dan nog voor? | @…
https://www.
#3GoodThings
The pudding chomeur (the best!) our friends brought over for dessert last night.
Our bumper crop of mint and anise hyssop. So much tea to look forward to this winter!
Glorious late summer/early fall weather.
Tell Me Over Tea
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,102,570 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/22/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
W niedzielę też spotkało mnie coś nowego. Mój pociąg był opóźniony dlatego, że pociąg #PKP #InterCity był opóźniony. A tamten pociąg najwyraźniej był opóźniony, bo kierownik pociągu postanowił usunąć z niego podróżnego… za trzymanie butów na siedzeniu.
A prawdziwy absurd tkwi w tym, że według relacji rzec…
A trans friend of mine just sent me engagement ring photos and I am so happy for her!
Nice #ListeningClub reflection after a week that included 32 hours notice to disassemble my apartment as part of the rehab of our building
These will be my windows for the next two years
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Told Slant:
🎵 Tsunami
#ToldSlant
https://toldslant.bandcamp.com/track/tsunami
https://open.spotify.com/track/22x4lkdkffnzl65ORg9rQs
On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html
detroit michigan is in the eastern time zone
"Syndicalism is a method of industrial organization which goes away from all the traditional conceptions of authority and government, of capitalism and the State. While communism, in abolishing individual capitalism, creates a worse monster in its place in the form of the economic state, syndicalism leaves all the patterns of administration which in the past have resulted only in the oppression and exploitation of man by man, and sets out to build an organizational form based on the nat…
A teraz coś z upalnej niedzieli.
Ja: martwię się od wczoraj, że dwie małe butelki wody to za mało na ten upał.
Także ja: właśnie uświadamiam sobie, że mogłem po prostu wziąć trzecią…
Niedawno przypadkiem pacnąłem w #OpenCamera tę ikonkę z symbolem aparatu i plusika, co jakoś nigdy mnie nie zainteresowała, i odkryłem, że pozwala przełączać pomiędzy różnymi obiektywami! Przede wszystkim, pozwala korzystać z "ultra szerokiego" obiektywu, który nadaje się do zdjęć z bliska, jak na przykład Ru na mojej klacie.
Wygląda na to, że Open Camera domyślnie samo przełącza p…
Dalszy ciąg repostowania.
Typy od klawiatury: "QWERTY cię spowalnia! Zmień układ klawiatury, żeby pisać szybciej!"
Kot na moich kolanach, blokujący mi ramiona: "Spoko."