No Fishing.
The Robbinetts Arm of the Nottingham Canal near Cossall, February 2026
#blackandphotography #bnw #monochrome #documentingplace

Die Grafik ging gestern von @… and die Wahlkämpfer #Hagel und #Özdemir, die die sexistische Äußerungen Hagels als Schnee von gestern runterspielen, ohne Empathie …

Good Read:
https://brandur.org/second-wave-api-first

The Second Wave of the API-first Economy
APIs were meant to make the web programmable and interoperable. A combination of revenue chasing, security concern, and abuse reversed the trend for a decade as walls went up instead of down. Today, LLMs are changing the equation. People want agents that act on their behalf, and the services that ship APIs will have a decisive edge over those that don’t.

RE: #tazlab26 @…

«ECA #Digital — Linux Distributionen reagieren mit #Blockade'n in Brasilien:
Mehrere #Linux Projekte reagieren derzeit auf ein neues Gesetz in

ECA Digital: Linux Distributionen reagieren mit Blockaden in Brasilien - fosstopia
Technik-Blog für Linux, Unix, Open Source, Cloud Computing, Nachhaltigkeit und Co.

I light of tonight's events I was reminded that there is reason to believe that President Warren Harding was poisoned, in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, by his wife.
(BTW, I once worked on a play - Camping with Henry and Tom - that had Warren Harding as one of the lead characters.)

Power loom built by T. Larmuth & Co., in Manchester, around 1860 - now at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.
> "By the early 19th century, new machines like this power loom could make cloth more quickly and cheaply than people. Groups of angry handloom weavers raided cotton mills at night. They burnt and broke power looms to protest against the new technology."
This aspect of the Industrial Revolution is now being breathlessly repeated by those who s…

when the disability causes someone to not have the ability

On the WV1 window vac: Review - Is the WV1 better than wiping windows down with a cloth? - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-WV1-window-vac.html

On the WV1 window vac: Review
Is the WV1 better than wiping windows down with a cloth?

Worn out after a visit to the vet. They didn't even poke him! I'm reluctant to wake him for supper. #dogsofmastodon #dogs

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Vorsorge für den Ernstfall: Was in den Notfallordner gehört.
Ein #Unfall oder eine plötzliche Erkrankung können dazu führen, dass man keine eigenen Entscheidungen mehr treffen kann. Doch wer kümmert sich dann um wichtige Angelegenheiten?
Ein #Notfallordner

Vorsorge für den Ernstfall: Was in den Notfallordner gehört
Keine Überraschungen im Ernstfall: So erstellst du einen Notfallordner mit allen wichtigen Vollmachten, Verfügungen und finanziellen Regelungen.

I just counted the number of candidates running in the California "jungle" primary - all parties, all candidates, one election and the top two, and only the top two, move onto the general election in November.
The number: 61 candidates.
That's less than the 130 or so who ran a few decades ago, but it is still a long list. And some of the candidate names seem fabricated.
(The R-party candidates have a strong chance of taking those two top positions and locking…

First weekend of spring, but dreaming of autumn...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Mayoral appointee is only D4 candidate not to oppose mayor’s tax cut on rich real estate investors.
Great answers from the others. Greco and Gee are the ones I’m most aligned with overall, but on this question Lee and Chow are strong too—all 4 defending the will of the voters to put this money toward affordable housing. Love to see it

Meet the District 4 candidates: Should S.F. cut real estate transfer tax?
Mayor Lurie says the BUILD Act will incentivize more housing construction. All but one of District 4 supervisor candidates are against it.

LinkedIn names COO Daniel Shapero as its new CEO, succeeding Ryan Roslansky, who will retain his position as EVP at Microsoft (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/22/microsofts-linkedin-makes-executive-daniel-shapero-its-new-ceo…

Microsoft's LinkedIn names longtime exec Dan Shapero its new CEO
Microsoft said Daniel Shapero will be the new CEO of LinkedIn, reporting to Ryan Roslansky, who held the job since 2020 and now has added responsibility.

Ever have a morning where the playlist required Portishead's "Dummy" followed immediately by Mazzy Star's "So Tonight I Might See"? Well I am. IYKYK #music

Tithonia flower. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #flower #tithonia

I fear the US has taken yet another step towards making this a song about the US rather than Italy or Spain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYyI4vmds5o

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 24-04-2026 01:30
Temperatur: (min: 5,7C) 5,9C (max: 7,0C)
Feuchte: 94%
Luftdruck: 1020,0 hPa (gleichbleibend)
Windrichtung: 295 Grad
Windg…

This is a great
@… on #NYC 311 system. @… you should give it a listen

Service Request #1: What Happens When I Call 311?
Podcast Episode · 99% Invisible · March 17 · Bonus · 35m

"wINdoWs jUst wOrkS"
Windows suddenly can't find the external monitor, and the settings dialog freezes.
#TimjanGrumpsOnComputers

«Zwei Drittel der Sicherheitsvorfälle lassen sich auf Schwachstellen im Zusammenhang mit Identitäten zurückführen»
Eigentlich nichts Neues aber immer noch sind in Firmen 2FA und MFA noch nicht oder sehr selten aktuell so wie BitLocker an sich nicht wirklich sicher.
🔓

Zwei Drittel der Sicherheitsvorfälle lassen sich auf Schwachstellen im Zusammenhang mit Identitäten zurückführen
Sophos stellt seinen neuen Active-Adversary-Report 2026 vor, der die Ergebnisse aus der Analyse von weit mehr als 600 realen Cyberangriffen präsentiert.

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Vorsorge für den Ernstfall: Was in den Notfallordner gehört.
Ein #Unfall oder eine plötzliche Erkrankung können dazu führen, dass man keine eigenen Entscheidungen mehr treffen kann. Doch wer kümmert sich dann um wichtige Angelegenheiten?
Ein #Notfallordner

Vorsorge für den Ernstfall: Was in den Notfallordner gehört
Keine Überraschungen im Ernstfall: So erstellst du einen Notfallordner mit allen wichtigen Vollmachten, Verfügungen und finanziellen Regelungen.

#Tamane will be launching her first solo single

@… - I like that elephant image on your profile page!!
I recently read something recently about a Mughal emperor who paraded his several wives about, each on a different elephant.

Heute doch noch #rausgeschafft, wenn auch erst im Dunkeln und auch nur zum Einkaufen kurz vor Ladenschluß. Dafür gibt's beim #Frostpendeln¹ 1.75km für die in unserem Team "Falträder" sehr unterrepräsentierte Kategorie "Besorgungen".
Und ich liebe den klassischen

EIN JAHR OHNE LORENZ A.

Dieses Wochenende jährt sich der Mord von Lorenz A. durch die Polizei das erste Mal. Deshalb gehen wir gemeinsam auf die Straße und demonstrieren, erinnern, kämpfen! 🚩
🗓️ 19. April 2026
🕑 14:00 Uhr
📍 Pferdemarkt, Oldenburg
Folgt :insta: @gerechtigkeit_fuer_lorenz für mehr Infos 🚩

Schön, #museumdigital außerhalb der #GLAM-Bubble im engeren Sinn neben der @… als "nationales Portal" erwähnt zu sehen: zwei recht unterschiedlich…

Gestern hat es im von der Heydt Wald am Holzweiher im Saarland gebrannt. Nur zur Übung. Vor Ort konnte ich tolle Impressionen für meinen Podcast @… über zunehmende Vegetationsbrände in Zeiten des Klimawandels einfangen. Läuft übrigens ab 30.6. im SWR und überall, wo es Podcasts gibt.
Lasst nichts anbrennen bis dahin.

For anyone in central Oklahoma in search of some family entertainment, I highly suggest the Vernardos circus in North OKC. They are here for one more week. A really great special circus experience for one and all.

Nechce nekdo svezt? ;)

Strategische Ölreserven freigeben, Tankrabatt diskutieren, Preiserhöhungen deckeln – Hauptsache, bloß nicht über die eigentliche Lösung reden. 🫠
Zum Kommentar: #spritpreise

Slipping under the radar..
"Trump Is Going After Birth Control. Here’s Why."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/04/25/birth-control-maha-abortion-trump-00889738

Trump Is Going After Birth Control. Here’s Why.
Contraception was politically untouchable — until now.

Dricker ikapp nu när jag till slut fick leverans av fläderlikör. Förra veckans French Blonde, grymt god 👌 Istället för citronbitter fick det bli angostura lite citron… 🍸 #Drinkklubben

A U.S. district judge in Oregon said he will vacate a declaration made late last year by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/judge-…

Judge will rule against Kennedy’s declaration on gender-affirming care
A U.S. district judge said he will vacate a declaration by Kennedy that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care. 

Web spec folks, I'm confused by WebIDL
As a mostly JS developer I'm confused by WebIDL. It seems like WebIDL's ability to define the types of JavaScript objects is substantially more limited than TypeScript or other user-land type systems. I assume that if TS or another system were unambiguously superior, it would have already been adopted by groups in this space
What makes WebIDL preferable?

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Vorsorge für den Ernstfall: Was in den Notfallordner gehört.
Ein #Unfall oder eine plötzliche Erkrankung können dazu führen, dass man keine eigenen Entscheidungen mehr treffen kann. Doch wer kümmert sich dann um wichtige Angelegenheiten?
Ein #Notfallordner

Vorsorge für den Ernstfall: Was in den Notfallordner gehört
Keine Überraschungen im Ernstfall: So erstellst du einen Notfallordner mit allen wichtigen Vollmachten, Verfügungen und finanziellen Regelungen.

While El cheato fills the oval office with gold, paints the reflecting pool blue, tears down the east wing, and builds giant arches we should change his music from "Hail to the Chief" to the Benny Hill tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw6hRE-R_90

Pontiac by Lyle Lovett is the best country album of the 1980s. Change my mind. ;)

We were just discussing how bad are some (most?) of the trump judicial appointees.
But there is a legacy of D's appointing some rather questionable judges. (And I won't get into Biden as a Senator approving C. Thomas' appointment to SCOTUS - I can not and will not forgive Biden for that.)
For example:
I just discovered that an awful professor that I had back in law school - 1970's - is still a sitting judge, appointed by President Carter. This professor wa…

WTF...
Wife listening in to the city council meeting's public comments while we're eating dinner, and I've never, ever heard such a bunch of pretend-left Nazis.
Fuck.

Back in the day - gee now I sound like an old geezer - we would put high-foam detergent into fountains (like the Mulholland fountain near Griffith Park in LA or the descending fountain at UCLA), or we would add sugar or fertilizers to still pools (in order to create a rapid growth of pond scum).
I foresee something like that happening to el cheato's new-blue painted reflecting pool on the mall.
What a disgrace, what a moron, what a vandal, and what grossly poor taste - all bu…

Trump’s changes to Reflecting Pool worry preservationists, locals
Some warned that the president’s blue-tinted resurfacing would distort the experience for visitors and make the national symbol resemble a “large lap pool.”

Today I finished my #StarTrek #TNG #Lego.
Very pleased with it!

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 25-02-2026 13:50
Temperatur: (min: -0,2C) 12,5C (max: 12,7C)
Feuchte: 80%
Luftdruck: 1022,4 hPa (gleichbleibend)
Windrichtung: 311 Grad
Wi…

El Cheato just pushed hard on the gas pedal on our national race to become a third tier country, somewhere on par with Turkmenistan. (Actually I anticipate that our role in the world will fall to be approximately the same as Brazil - a significant country, with some good tech abilities, but essentially a bystander with lots of nuclear weapons.)
"Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s governing body"

Ihr glaubt, euer Chef kann sich widersprechen? Wartet, bis ihr das hier lest. 💀 Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes versichert, dass sein Unternehmen nicht der Philosophie folge, Menschen durch KI zu ersetzen. Im gleichen Atemzug kündigt er aber an, 1600 Mitarbeiter zu entlassen.
Zum Artikel:

St. Catherine's Churchyard, Cossall, Nottinghamshire
#documentaryphotography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome

I don't know what has changed - although I have a suspicion that it is a reaction by other countries against el cheato's tariff nonsense - but I am observing a significant uptick in the amount and detail of documentation needed in order to export products from the US to foreign countries.

Here is another in the line of "Corporations are people" line of rubbish logic...
When will the nonesense that corporations get civil rights from the Constitution be repaired (see my proposal, "Redressing the Distortion of Elections and Political Speech by Corporations", 2nd URL below.)
One may ask - when will AI systems get those same "rights"?
"US justice department steps in on behalf of xAI in Colorado regulation case"

My iphone decided that I needed to hear this (again)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BqiKbz-ZxA

Once again we have evidence that humans are not an intelligent species...
Tin-foil hat mentality abounds.
"Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash"
https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-solar-farms-health-con…

Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash
Across the U.S., critics are pressuring public officials to stop or stall new solar projects, often citing unfounded health concerns.

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 26-04-2026 10:30
Temperatur: (min: 2,2C) 10,2C (max: 10,9C)
Feuchte: 66%
Luftdruck: 1024,7 hPa (langsam steigend)
Windrichtung: 311 Grad
W…

Costco... Also known as "in for a penny, in for a pound".

California D party governor candidates, please get a clue!!!! All but two you you need to drop out immediately else the R's will sweep the jungle primary and move to the General election and there won't be a single D candidate on the November ballot.
Pick straws, roll dice, arm wrestle, do a dance off - just do *something* to winnow you down to two.
And do it NOW - by this weekend.

California Democrats are proof positive that humans are not an intelligent species.
Here in Calif we have a unique primary system - a single primary for *all* parties. The top two move onto the general election, the rest are out of the game.
So here we have two R's splitting a smaller part of the electorate and a dozen D's splitting a larger part.
The result is that it is likely that the two R's will get larger vote counts than any of the dozen D's. Thus *o…

I am looking to hear from textual scholars who are editing the work of an author who could be considered ‘problematic’ within a 21C context for their views on gender, sexuality and race. My own case study is the British modernist writer Wyndham Lewis. What place can or should these views have in the scholarly edition that is traditionally focused on composition, publication and reception history?
#textualscholarship

We know that the present administration is dumber than a pile of rocks. But this ban on foreign made consumer "routers" takes a special cake of its own.
This policy fails to understand that a "router" is a prettied-up computer, often using standard PC X86-64 or ARM architecture, with some wifi and ethernet interfaces. Like all computers, it is an empty box until software is added. And like all computers it can be programmed to do may things, only one of which is …

Oh goodie! I just got to tix to see Hiromi Uehara at the Kuumbwa!
(The Kuumbwa is a great venue - we usually end up about an arms length from the performers.)
#jazz

As far back as 2011 I posited the idea of each state enacting laws over the corporations chartered on that state's laws as a means to restrict the effect of the Citizens United decision.
I have been glad to see that idea grow into The Montana Plan and now this piece and possible action in California.
(Note that this state by state approach will probably leave "corporate havens" by states that want to reap the benefits of attracting corporations to move their incorpo…

How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All
The Golden State has an opportunity to save American democracy from big corporate money

Trump screws the youger generation out of Medicare benefits....
"In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A"
https://fortune.com/2026/02/23/how-trump-wiped…

In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A
The CBO estimates that benefit reductions would start at 8% in 2040 and steadily climb to a 10% cut by 2056.

The Feds keep saying "We did not" or "We will not" buy this or that empty warehouse for use as an ICE prison.
What they are hiding is that in order for a warehouse to be an ICE/CBP prison that the warehouse need not be "owned" by the Feds.
Rather the warehouse could be bought by a maga-friend, like Elon or Ellison etc and then leased to the government.
The Feds would not bey lying when they say they are not buying the warehouse. But they will …

ICE is quietly buying warehouses for its detention expansion
At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers. Communities are objecting to mass detentions and raising concerns that the facilities could strain water supplies and other services while reducing local tax revenue. In many cases, mayors, county commissioners, governors and members of Congress learned about ICE’s ambitions only after the agency bought or leased spac…

Beeston Canal, Nottingham, January 2026
#photography #documentingplace #documentingspace #uktopographic

I won't be wasting my time watching the state of the union.
What is likely, however, is that during his "speech" trump is likely to make more money via his illegal grafts and scams than the typical US citizen makes in a lifetime.
It is certainly true that most $Billionaires will make more in those 2 hours than the average American family makes during their lives.

Got the latest Firefox and immediately turned off AI.

This is just plain wrong. Blocking what amounts to a civil rights violation by the Feds on the grounds of sovereign immunity, especially given that the US Post Office no longer is as deeply part of the Federal government as it once was, is just plain wrong.
"Supreme Court rules the Postal Service can’t be sued, even when mail is intentionally not delivered"

Supreme Court says US Postal Service can't be sued
A divided Supreme Court has ruled that Americans can’t sue the U.S. Postal Service, even when employees deliberately refuse to deliver mail. By a 5-4 vote Tuesday, the justices ruled against Texas landlord Lebene Konan, who alleges her mail was intentionally withheld for two years. Konan is Black and claims racial prejudice played a role in postal employees’ actions. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his majority opinions the federal law that generally shields the Postal Service from lawsuit…

I wonder if Bessent knows that the word "fulsome" has more than one meaning. In particularly, one of its meanings is "particularly bad", or as the M-Webster dictionary puts it "aesthetically, morally, or generally offensive"
"Bessent: Greenland deal is ‘much more fulsome’ for the US"

Bessent: Greenland deal is ‘much more fulsome’ for the US
The treasury secretary defended the deal as more than what's in place now.

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@ngaylinn/116176596337509618
Interesting thread on Image Generation.
My conclusion: it's not machines becoming more intelligent but humans being gullible.

St. Catherine's Churchyard, Cossall, Nottinghamshire
#documentaryphotography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome

Willoughby Almshouses, Cossall, Nottinghamshire
#documentaryphotography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome

Saw a rather good production of "Come From Away" this evening by Theatreworks in Mountain View, California.
I don't know how long it is running, but it is worth seeing.

This headline suggests to me that we really ought to change things so that it is TACO Monday. The Iranian's well understand that Trump Always Chickens Out.
"Oil Prices Tumble and Stocks Rise as Trump Backs Off Threats to Iran Infrastructure"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/…

Oil Prices Tumble and Stocks Rise as Trump Backs Off Threats to Iran Infrastructure
Investors braced for a fourth week of market turmoil caused by the war in the Middle East

Now that the FCC has banned foreign made routers...
I wonder if they realize that pretty much every mobile phone that can support tethering has routing capability?
And many cars similarly provide routing access/NAT/firewall function to support passengers inside the vehicle.
Pretty much any laptop - running Windoz or MacOS or Linux or Freebsd - can be quickly turned into a "router".
This FCC panic reminds me of the days when the Feds were induced to try to bl…

Hush-A-Phone Corp. v. United States - Wikipedia

Aileen screws the public again... (Especially now that she has grounds to believe that El Cheato will appoint her to SCOTUS to replace the apparently retiring Alito.)
"US judge permanently blocks release of report on Trump documents case"
https://www.

This looks like fun... Looks like tix are $15
"How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera"
https://news.ucsc.edu/2026/02/questions-that-matter-lessons-on-the-good-life-from-a-star-trek-opera-i…

Questions that Matter: Lessons on the good life from a Star Trek opera-in-progress
For the past decade, an eclectic group of professors, staff members, and show-business professionals has been working hard to bring a Star Trek opera to vibrant life. Now, they are inviting the public to delve more deeply into the philosophical heart of their interstellar project. Their talk, “How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera,” challenges the audience to consider a deceptively simple question: What do we need to lead a fulfilling life?

Now here's a platform I could vote for!!
https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1529375/story_image/TMW2026-02-26colorXL.jpg

I ride a (legal) e-bike and I approve of this move by the Orange County (Calif) DA.
Every day, every hour, I see kids, without license, without insurance, and seemingly without sense, riding illegally powered e-motorcycles that masquerade as e-bicycles, at greatly excessive speeds and ignoring even the most basic rules of the road.
(We have a real e-motorcycle company in our area - Zero Motorcycles - those are serious machines that are not the ad-hoc devices that these kids are r…

OC mother charged after teen son hits 81-year-old while riding e-motorcycle
An Aliso Viejo mother is facing felony charges after her 14-year-old son crashed into an 81-year-old man while riding an electric motorcycle, authorities said.

This judge's decision is, to my mind, moldy rubbish - and I hope the appeals courts feel the same way.
The judge threw out Virginia's redistricting (election just yesterday) - on the grounds of the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution.
The clause:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; …

This article is interesting about thoughts of using flying networks to support military operations.
It is a complex system - and my sense is that they will screw it up with application specific protocols and APIs that evolve and change over time as as military events (the kind that go boom or are intentional forms of in-band attacks - think everything from hyper-phishing to spoofing to zero-day attacks).
But even if it were put together with the precision of a Swiss watch, my old…

More on Alexa - When I'm build up a new computer (which I often do several times a day) I begin in the BIOS by setting the time to GMT.
So I usually say "Alexa what's the GMT?"
Old Alexa would promptly give me an answer.
New Alexa takes about five seconds of deep (and probably power consuming) thinking and then tells me the meaning of GMT.
Then I yell that I want the time in GMT and, after that five second pause, tells me the GMT time (but not the …

Every now and then I feel I must post this most wonderful cover...
Sharon Jones was taken from us far too soon.
"This land is your land"
https://youtu.be/XMbBdNEjaFk?t=38

I have never lived very far (often walking distance) from the Pacific Ocean.
Many inland places beautiful and calm - places like western Nebraska, northern Arizona and New Mexico, the forests of New England [particularly after a summer rain] are all wonderful.
I was surprised discovering the upper Mississippi (Lake Pepin) northward. The rivers of western Pennsylvania and West Virginia are a joy in the spring. It is easy to understand why Martha Graham and Aaron Copland titled t…

I had not heard that the US military is cooperating with the small-reactor companies (run by people like Thiel and Andreeson - gee where have we heard those names before?) to transport the prototypes of these small nuclear reactors by air.
Indeed one such flight has occurred (carrying the large pieces of the reactor on a C17.)
Now, I am a supporter of new reactor technology as a way to provide CO2 free baseline power sources until such time as we can go full solar/wind/tidal etc…

DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator
In its rush to boost nuclear energy, the Trump administration is rapidly rewriting rules to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry. “The safety culture is under threat,” a former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.

I certainly have not noticed any effects from the partial shutdown of DHS.
So I propose that we keep DHS shut down, unfunded, until we se some ill impacts, if every.

I just discovered that Freebsd 14.3 won't boot on may newest machine - because Freebsd isn't sufficiently "Secure Boot" signed.
(Fedora Linux 43 booted up just fine.)
I would have thought that the Freebsd folks would have nudged a proper signing key out of Microsoft by now.
So to boot Freebsd (14.3) I had to disable Secure Boot in the Setup.

In the last couple of days I have had two different types of NUC sized computers, both with Intel x86-64 processors (of different generations) that refuse to put out a video signal via HDMI to an LG 4K monitor.
If I switch to Display port (either via a true DP interface on the NUC or via a USB4==>DP cable) things work just fine.
Weird.

I have every reason to stand with the SPLC and to suspect that this Federal move is an attempt to quash an organization that annoys many maga-klan members.
"Justice Department hits Southern Poverty Law Center with criminal charges"
https://www.

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on charges that it fraudulently paid informants in extremist groups
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging the civil rights organization has engaged in financial crimes.

I remember reading cases of "wrongful birth" in which children sued their parents for withholding care (or using voodoo "natural' style medication) resulting in the child being damaged for life.
Seems like that notion - child's rights vs parents - ought to be expanded.
"It’s not just vaccines — parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns"

New parents are shunning proven preventive care for their infants in effort to be 'natural'
Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other safe and routine care for babies. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that refusals of vitamin K shots rose steeply between 2017 and 2024. Those shots can prevent potentially deadly bleeding. A subsequent research review found that U.S. parents who declined vitamin K shots were 90 times more likel…

Well now, if Musky-boy is willing to pay TSA then there is no hurry to fund DHS is there?
"Elon Musk offers to cover TSA agents’ pay"
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/21/trump-ice-tsa-dhs.html

Trump threatens to deploy ICE agents to airports if DHS shutdown doesn't end, while Elon Musk offers to cover TSA agents' pay
President Trump claimed ICE agents handling airport security would arrest immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.

It is Saturday and systemd and network manager still suck.

Yes, I have seen the Weavers, live...
Marching To Pretoria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka1-2pcFxTU

Still my choice for our song when the time comes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYyI4vmds5o

I see nothing in the US Constitution that blocks Presidents N 1 et seq from revoking Pardons and Commutations made by Presidents N and before.
Now, many will claim that historically pardons/commutations are a one-way ratchet. But I would answer that that such a belief is merely inertia because the question has never been clearly faced, much less clearly answered.
It seems to me that when we (if ever) get to begin reconstructing the US after trump that we will have to face some s…

Looks like Hyundai's latest over-the-air update broke Apple Car Play.

FYI - Iron Man cheated investors, a jury says he did.
"Elon Musk misled Twitter investors ahead of $44 billion acquisition, jury says"
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/20/elon-musk-determined-to-be-liable-for-misleading-twit…

Elon Musk misled Twitter investors ahead of $44 billion acquisition, jury says
Elon Musk was sued in late 2022 after completing his acquisition of Twitter, which he later renamed X.

Still playing with the new Alexa Echo Show.
The new Alexa is interesting. But it it ensconced in a device that has code that must have been written by a kangaroo trying Vibe coding. (It's predecessor device was also awful.)
The thing does not understand day vs night, at least not consistently. It insists on alternating between being totally dark and then blasting images of El Cheato at 3am at maximum brightness. It can not remember its clock format. Even if you block all …

So, now the nutz are thinking of invading and occupying Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export terminal.
I wonder if the nutz - cheato and baby bibi - recognize that they have placed Iran in a life-and-death situation.
And when faced with national death Iran may well choose to destroy the facilities on the island and the undersea pipelines leading to the island.
Iran knows that the main issue on the mind of many isn't the war itself - we are, after all, a country made…

Despite the news about Caesar Chavez, I remain a strong supporter of unions and farm workers.