@cdarwin@c.imOn Friday, Trump’s border czar,
Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles
to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.
“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what?
We are already mobilizing.
We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,”
Homan told Fox News.
California Governor Gavin Newsom respo…
@kevin@social.losno.coGot suspended for 24 hours from #Bluesky for telling a transphobic (and potentially a nonce) "journalist" to end his life :neocat_thonk:
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotH'mmm... My @forgejo instance has been hit very hard last night by AI crawlers, including from
* https://openai.com/gptbot (125,467 hits in 24 hours)
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@candide@vis.socialToday is #BandcampFriday! (thank you @… for the reminder: https://ravenati…
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deToday, I learned that the founder of the #SimpleX messenger is a #ClimateChange-denying #Covid conspiracy-theorist, anti-vaxxer and
@timfoster@mastodon.socialQuite enjoying this so far - Richard Williams, 24 Hours 100 Years Of Le Mans.
So far, I've made it to the 50s. Stories of derring-do, mid-pit stop champagne and large Cognacs to get you going. In the words of Smith and Sniff, "It was a different time."
@pre@boing.worldOn the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie
@theodric@social.linux.pizza\o/
@arXiv_eessAS_bot@mastoxiv.pageHiFiTTS-2: A Large-Scale High Bandwidth Speech Dataset
Ryan Langman, Xuesong Yang, Paarth Neekhara, Shehzeen Hussain, Edresson Casanova, Evelina Bakhturina, Jason Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04152
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.socialOrdis et tablettes Š l'école:
"Le gouvernement régional de Madrid a dévoilé des plans visant Š limiter l'utilisation des ordinateurs et des tablettes dans les écoles primaires Š un maximum de deux heures par semaine afin de lutter contre « les risques associés Š l'utilisation précoce, intensive et inappropriée des technologies de l'information »."
@earlofedgecombe@mstdn.socialGood morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialChanced upon a very small fascist protest in Buchanan St today. Had a great few hours engaging with the very much larger counter protest. The joy, music and dancing was all on one side, and met some lovely people.
@sebobo@neos.socialPlayer the #oblivionremastered version yesterday for a few hours. It brought back soo many great memories of how I setup a room with my brother all those years ago with a Xbox and a beamer to play the game for many hours.
Everything looked so amazing back then and the remaster does well at transporting a similar feeling. Though the game world is sometimes a bit bare when one looks …
@comex@mas.toClaude Plays Pokemon has restarted with Claude 4.
So far (~24 hours in) it seems pretty similar to the old one; it's currently wandering around Viridian Forest. But supposedly, internal tests showed it doing somewhat better. I don't know how much of that is due to the model and how much is the improved harness.
Improved harness info:
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
On May 27, 1957, at 6:00 a.m., the CHUM radio station (1050 AM) increased power from 1,000 watts to 2,500 watts and switched from a daytime station to 24 hours. At that same moment, radios all over Toronto started playing Elvis Presley singing “All Shook Up” as the "New CHUM" became Canada’s first Top 50 music format. The station launched hundreds of careers and introduced new music to young and old alike.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MusicHistory
https://chumtribute.com/chumtribute-history.html
@jtk@infosec.exchangemaha -another rfk jr thing presumably
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/114557815478728541
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaI was never one for noting the pagecounts of books. My measurements were usually "about one third done". Doing ebooks means that I think of a progress as percentages and length in hours.
For most of this year I read books that were over 25 hours long and am now in the three hour range.
Of course this is distorted. Reading during the day is usually quicker and if I fall asleep before turning off the e-reader (which happens a lot) the estimates get thrown off by the idle …
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaOrthodox Nickelback makes a lot more sense if you've been in the room with me for the last two hours
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social
@arXiv_astrophEP_bot@mastoxiv.pageContinuous helium absorption from the leading and trailing tails of WASP-107b
Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy, Yann Carteret, Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Jared Splinter, Dhvani Doshi, Michael Radica, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Romain Allart, Vincent Bourrier, Nicolas B. Cowan, David Lafreni\`ere, Lo\"ic Albert, Lisa Dang, Ray Jayawardhana, Doug Johnstone, Lisa Kaltenegger, Adam B. Langeveld, Stefan Pelletier, Jason F. Rowe, Pierre-Alexis Roy, Jake Taylor, Jake D. Turner
@ToneMilazzo@mastodon.cloudWe're in the last 24 hours of The King in Giallo Kickstarter.
A one-shot adventure for Fate where your players try to stop this billionaire's plan to destroy the world.
If they find that sort of thing relatable...
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c…
