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From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
UKRAINE DESTROYS #RUSSIA’S SHIELD IN CRIMEA Vlog 1159: War in #Ukraine
BREAKING - “Soon we can expect Ukrainian aircraft over the s…

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I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 7th 2025) in less than 16 minutes
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

"it wouldn't be the macarena unless someone were two beats off"
"You know me. 2.7 beats."

Nicht mehr lange bis zum #Schulschachkongress. Hier siehst du schon mal, welche Workshops dich am Samstag erwarten. Melde dich hier an: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/termi

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
#ROSNEFT'S LARGEST REFINERY IN RYAZAN STOPPED AFTER PRECISE STRIKES Vlog 1158: War in #Ukraine

I've got a new favourite email consent blurb

Der #Vielfaltskongress steht an!!!!! Er dient dazu gemeinsame Projekte kennenzulernen und sich weiterzuentwickeln. Das Ziel ist die Bekämpfung der gruppenbezogenen Menschenfeindlichkeit und Vorureile im Schachsport.
Interesse die Vielfalt im Schachsport zu verbessern und mit anderen Schachfreunden an der Zukunft des Schachs zu arbeiten?
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Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#RebrandWebsitesOrTech

Not posting the usual quota of photographs today because I'm developing photos from a race this morning -- here's a pond from Oakley Corners State Forest and this time the auto-focus worked
#photo #photography

Why do the D's in Congress talk about "negotiating" the continuing resolution and ending the federal shutdown?
What is there to talk about?
From the D perspective should not the health care demands be a non-negotiable red line?
Personally I don't believe the D's should worry whether the shutdown extends until the end of el-cheeto's terms. Cheeto will ignore any negotiated limits or obligations and will simply declare "emergencies" and ta…

Der #Buchfink ist ein leicht zu erkennender Vogel, vor allem durch seinen melodischen Gesang während der Brutzeit. Ihr könnt Euch die Tonaufnahme dazu anhören. Die Vögel sind in Europa, West- und Zentralasien sowie Nordafrika beheimatet und bevorzugen Laub- und Mischwälder, Parks und Gärten. Infos zu Aussehen und Brutverhalten findest Du im Artikel. 🐦🌳🎶

Buchfink (Fringilla coelebs): Leicht zu erkennen am Gesang
Entdecke den Buchfink: Merkmale, Verbreitung, Lebensraum und Gesang des beliebten Singvogels in Europa.

High-Fidelity Synthetic ECG Generation via Mel-Spectrogram Informed Diffusion Training
Zhuoyi Huang, Nutan Sahoo, Anamika Kumari, Girish Kumar, Kexuan Cai, Shixing Cao, Yue Kang, Tian Xia, Somya Chatterjee, Nicholas Hausman, Aidan Jay, Eric S. Rosenthal, Soundar Srinivasan, Sadid Hasan, Alex Fedorov, Sulaiman Vesal, Soundar Srinivasan, Sadid Hasan, Alex Fedorov, Sulaiman Vesal

High-Fidelity Synthetic ECG Generation via Mel-Spectrogram Informed Diffusion Training
The development of machine learning for cardiac care is severely hampered by privacy restrictions on sharing real patient electrocardiogram (ECG) data. Although generative AI offers a promising solution, the real-world use of existing model-synthesized ECGs is limited by persistent gaps in trustworthiness and clinical utility. In this work, we address two major shortcomings of current generative ECG methods: insufficient morphological fidelity and the inability to generate personalized, patient…

First of the Autumn Wine

Der Saal für den Vortrag von Prof. Falcke @… ist jetzt schon überfüllt. Und was prangt vorne?
#mastodon handle

Current comparator for both AC and DC ratio measurements with 10-8-level accuracy
Hidekazu Muramatsu, Yuta Kainuma, Hiromitsu Kato, Norihiko Sakamoto, Tatsuji Yamada, Chiharu Urano, Hiroshi Abe, Shinobu Onoda, Takeshi Ohshima, Yuji Hatano, Mutsuko Hatano, Nobu-Hisa Kaneko, Yasutaka Amagai, Takayuki Iwasaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05140

Current comparator for both AC and DC ratio measurements with 10-8-level accuracy
Accurate measurements of alternating current (AC) and direct current(DC) ratios are fundamental to electric power metrology. However, conventional current comparators for AC and DC typically rely on distinct technologies-electromagnetic induction for AC and superconducting quantum interference devices for DC. This technological divide leads to a fragmented and complex traceability system. Bridging this gap is critical for developing unified current standards that meet the demands of emerging po…

When we can't dehoard, when we can't fix our homes on demand, there can be a lot of different reasons for that, none of which are laziness. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-193-laziness-is-a-myth/

I generally like FreeBSD. But when it comes to their system of effectively erasing prior versions of packages at the end of the "supported" period - well then I hate FreeBSD with a purple passion.
Just a few days back the 14.2 version feel out of "support". Until then I could install pre-built packages. Today I cannot.
(They say "build 'em from the ports source" - well that means rebuilding tool chains - which is a hell of infinite regression be…

mens sana in domo pura

Something a house guest from Côte d'Ivoire taught us:
https://www.196flavors.com/ivory-coast-kedjenou/
I have sometimes added harissa on top to get it a little bit more spicy. That might not be traditional, I don't think?

Hybrid Matrix Factorization Based Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation System
Hao Chen, Wenming Ma, Zihao Chu, Mingqi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05115 https://

Hybrid Matrix Factorization Based Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation System
In recent years, methods that combine contrastive learning with graph neural networks have emerged to address the challenges of recommendation systems, demonstrating powerful performance and playing a significant role in this domain. Contrastive learning primarily tackles the issue of data sparsity by employing data augmentation strategies, effectively alleviating this problem and showing promising results. Although existing research has achieved favorable outcomes, most current graph contrasti…

Lost broadband, 4g access is spotty, lots of trees down on the roads, and it's a matter of time before the electricity goes too, but our house had a near miss!
#beingthankful

Dang, Lego just keeps getting better and better.

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
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UKRAINIAN DISRUPTOR STRATEGY: #RUSSIA DEFEAT ON ALL FRONTS Vlog 1157: War in Ukraine
#Ukraine managed to destroy Russian …

Berlin führt über das Saarland mit 3,5 Brettpunkten zu 0,5.
#dlm25

💪 The Anxiety Plaguing Male Fiction Writers
http://www.vulture.com/article/jordan-castro-muscle-man-review.html
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Men Don’t Read Fiction Anymore: How Male Writers Respond
A recent batch of books including Jordan Castro’s ‘Muscle Man’; Sebastian Castillo’s ‘Fresh, Life’; and Tony Tulathimutte’s ‘Rejection’ try to speak to the disaffected male reader.

Replaced article(s) found for math.AC. https://arxiv.org/list/math.AC/new
[1/1]:
- Finiteness of homological dimensions of Ext modules
Kaito Kimura
https://

Dear The Internet.
I am possessed by a sudden desire to hear "His Name Is Andrew"
https://youtu.be/KYtcrBGsn7Y?si=2fyExkG2_FZ92R4x
performed in the style of Alien Sex Fiend.

So, El Cheeto says he is having a "war" with cities.
If it's war then doesn't the city have the right to defend itself, with force if it chooses to do so?

Did you know that there is a statistically significant correlation between not getting shot, and dying of cancer?
I guess gun control must cause cancer huh.

NRW 2 ist kurz davor zu gewinnen. Zwischenstand 3,5 zu 2,5. Hamburg 1 hält noch dagegen aber ob sie den NRWlern Einhalt gebieten können ist fraglich.
#dlm25

de Winter is as frosty as his drawing streak.
oder zu deutsch:
Winter verliert statt wie bisher zu remisieren
#dlm25

"The Bookloader"

Stereotypical gangsters always have interesting middle names - like "Jack the fang Jackson" or "Fred Lips Smith"
So, in the tradition of gangster middle names, we ought to have some for the maga-criminals
Christie "Big Lips" Noem
Stephen "Baldy" Miller
Pam "Schtupless" Bondi
Karoline "Liar" Leavitt
etc.

Durch das Remis von Adrien Rodriguez mit Michael Kopylov steht das Treppchen im IM-Turnier.
Sieger: Floryan Eugene
Platz 2: Adrien Rodriguez
Platz 3: Michael Kopylov
Wir gratulieren!
#dlm25

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.AC. https://arxiv.org/list/math.AC/new
[1/1]:
- A Higgs category for the cluster variety of triples of flags
Bernhard Keller, Miantao Liu

I spotted the Pleiades and Orion last night (or actually at about 3am this morning.) That means (for us in the Northern Hemisphere) that winter is approaching.

Wir gratulieren GM Vladimir Baklan zum Sieg des GM-Turniers! Er darf damit 300 € mit nach Hause nehmen.
#dlm25

The cheeto-klan is trying to create pressure so that the D's cave and approve the continuing resolution to fund the government.
This is an example of that pressure...
But it is not sufficient, not even close, to consider opening up the treasury for a raid by the trumpies.
Keep the government closed!!

Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned amid government shutdown
The Hollywood Burbank Airport's air traffic control tower is temporarily unmanned and flights are delayed Monday afternoon due to staffing shortages amid the ongoing government shutdown, according to the FAA

5 Züge dauerte das Drama zwischen Baklan und Pajeken. Es endete in einem herzzereißenden Friedensschluss.
Rodriguez und Kopylov nahmen sich immerhin die Zeit um 12 Züge auszuhalten.
#dlm25

DIel etzte Runde der diesjährigen DLM hat begonnen. In wenigen Sekunden setzt auch die Liveübertragung ein.
In 15 Minuten wird dann die letzte Runde der Normenturniere angepfiffen.
#dlm25

As huge companies, giant universities, and $billionaire race to kiss the orange ass, I increasing am losing faith that existing legal, Constitutional, or peaceful procedures are going to end our national nightmare.

Associated primes of powers of edge ideals of edge-weighted trees
Jiaxin Li, Tran Nam Trung, Guangjun Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04774 https://arxiv.or…

Associated primes of powers of edge ideals of edge-weighted trees
In this paper, we give a complete description of the associated primes of each power of the edge ideal of an increasing weighted tree.

Die Deutsche Schulschachstiftung in Zusammenarbeit mit der DSJ richtet erneut die Deutsche Lehrermeisterschaft aus. Wir laden alle Lehrerinnen und Lehrer herzlich ein. Die anmeldung ist nur noch bis zum 1.11.2025 möglich. Jetzt anmelden unter: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/termine…

I have a question about the following:
Space-X satellites are relatively low orbit - they go around the world, their radio/signal footprint on the ground goes around the world with them.
So how does a single country, the US, issue "license" for radio spectrum that apply outside of the US geographic borders?
"SpaceX buys wireless spectrum from EchoStar in $17 billion deal"

Thanks for the... Instructions.

Der Abbau läuft, die Vorbereitungen für die Siegerehrung ebenso. Aufbruchstimung liegt in der Luft! Wir stellen an dieser Stelle die Berichterstattung ein. Es war uns wie jedes Jahr eine Freude.
Den Abschlussbericht der Normenturniere könnt ihr schon jetzt hier finden:
https://www.

Why do people link to comicsands.com? It is a website that is has more trackers than a golden stag on opening day of the hunting season.
My "privacy badger" and Ublock Origin plug-ins turn bright red should I visit that web site.

Euler characteristic of a mixed Koszul complex and the index of vector fields
Achim Hennings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04681 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04…

Euler characteristic of a mixed Koszul complex and the index of vector fields
A three-term complex of free modules over a local ring determines a mixed Koszul complex, whose Euler characteristic can be expressed by mixed multiplicities. As an application, we offer a simple formula for the index of a holomorphic vector field at an isolated complete intersection singularity.

Putin may demand the return of Alaska.
(Putin will, of course, return the $7.2 million that Seward paid for Alaska.)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/trump-putin-meeting

Trump says he’ll meet Putin in Alaska next week
President Donald Trump said he’ll be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska after earlier in the day previewing terms of a potential peace deal to end the war in Ukraine that could include “some swapping of territories.”

Huckabee ain't no christian.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/08/mike-huckabee-gaza-dresden-00499711

I would be happy if the AI industry actually had to pay authors for their work in accumulating ideas and knowledge and expressing them via their copyrighted works (registered copyright or not.)
The AI industry is whining "we are so big, we need to violate the law, we need to steal the work of others without even the pretense of compensating them, oh woe are we, oh woe are we".
There is a gap in our laws of copyright. Copyright covers expression, patents cover ideas. B…

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Eine IM-Norm und Spannung auf dem Podium dazu steht auch noch eine Runde vor Schluss der DLM der Ländermeister 2025 fest. Bleibt auf dem Laufenden, lest die Tagesberichte!
DLM: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/news/2025/dlm-runde-6-der…

So Ms Collagen, alias Kristi Noem, is offended that South Park made fun of her posing for the camera to display her artificially inflated face and other body parts.
I seem to remember that Noem likes arresting, detaining, and deporting people simply because of their skin tone.

Die letzte Partie der Begegnung Württemberg - NRW 1 ist beendet. NRW gewinnt 6 zu 2 und hat damit einen 3 Punkte Vorsprung auf den nächsten Verfolger. Damit darf sich NRW eine Runde vor Schluss Deutscher Ländermeister 2025 nennen. Wir gratulieren!

So FFOTUS wants to spend our tax money building a palace ballroom with enough golden gilt to make even Louis XV barf.
That palatial ballroom will effectively replace the entire East Wing of the US White House.
The East Wing - the E. Wing for short.
Given the proclivities of our rapist president perhaps that 'E' should be repurposed to so we can call that ballroom:
The Epstein Memorial Ball Room.

Aufgrund der Vielzahl an Partien der DLM finden sich hier noch einige Langspieler weshalb wir noch keine finalen Ergebnisse haben. Bisher:
WÜR - NRW 1 1,5:5,5
BAY - SAC 3:3
RLP - S-A 3:5
BAD - BER 4,5:3,5
SHO - NDS 4:4
HES - NED 6,5:1,5
NRW 2 - THÜ 4,5:2,5
MVP - HAM 1 3,5:4,5
SAA - HAM 2 5:2
#dlm25

By-the-way, it is clear that we are experiencing the end of Democracy and rise of Dictatorship in the US.
We have long observed the rise of large corporations as a class of privileged nobility.
And now we are watching the onset of governance by artificial "intelligence".
Perhaps we will resume democracy, but unless we change our ground rules - such as our Constitution - the power of corporations and, now, AI's will remain a serious problem.
So I will men…

Während der Mittagspause sind in den Normenturneiren viele Entscheidungen gefallen. Wir fassen zusammen:
GM-Turnier:
Wachinger - Colbow 1:0
Gschnitzer - Baklan 1/2:1/2
Meshkovs - Parvanyan 1:0
Pajeken - Martin 1/2:1/2
Kantans - de Winter 1/2:1/2
IM-Turnier:
Ngo - Kopylov 1/2:1/2
Rodriguez - Nothnagel 1:0
Tschernatsch - Stork 0:1
Hartge - Carlstedt 1/2:1/2
Garner - Eugene 1/2:1/2

Two trump-appointed judges on a three judge panel declares that federal goons and lawyers are exempt from and need not obey judicial orders.
One more giant step towards dictatorship.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-depor

Appeals court tosses contempt finding against Trump in prison deportations
A split appeals court panel is tossing out a judge’s contempt finding against President Donald Trump’s administration in a case over deportations to an El Salvador prison. The Friday decision comes after planes carrying Venezuelan migrants landed at the prison even after U.S District Judge James E. Boasberg said in court they must return to the United States. Boasberg had found probable cause to believe Trump administration officials rushed deportees out of the country before they could cha…

Hamburg 1 hat sich unsere Worte zu Herzen genommen und zum 4,5 verwandelt.
#dlm25

So, el trombino anaranjado wants to use the US military to do law enforcement against anything that he labels as a terrorist organization.
Apart from the violation of US Federal law and the enormous power that can come from aiming the US military at anything el-presidente slaps a label on, we certainly have a very large, well funded terrorist organization in the US: ICE. It's leaders - named Miller and Noem - should be taken into custody immediately.
Consider if el-cheeto we…

Wachinger hat einen Springer in die Königsstellung von Colbow investiert und belohnt sich mit einem bombastischen Angriff. Colbow steht nicht mal mehr nur wackelig sondern ist schon am fallen.
#dlm25

IPv4 prices seem to have come down recently. But it is still much better than when I sold a /16 I sold a few years back.
I still can't believe that the Interop company - a for-profit corporation - simply gave away a /8. I don't think the officers/directors knew the value of the asset they gave away.
I've been prediction that the net will fragment into distinct IP address spaces - many full 32-bit IPv4 and many full 128-bit IPv6 spaces connected by application level …

Hamburg 1 und das Saarland halten ihre Nase kurz vor die Zeilgerade. 3,5 Punkte haben sie schon, nun muss noch ein Gegner umfallen und sie gehen mit 2 Mannschaftspunkten raus.
#dlm25

If stripped of euphemisms and put into relevant historical context the headline of the attached story would read:
"Israel to proceed with final solution for Gaza, Netanyahu says"
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/07/netanyahu-israel-occupy-gaz…

Israel to proceed with plan to occupy entire Gaza Strip, Netanyahu says
The Israeli Security Cabinet will vote today to approve the highly controversial plan.

Es regnet neben dicken Tropfen auch Siege. Hessen hat sich noch einen halben Brettpunkt mehr gesichert und steht damit bei 4,5. Sachsen-Anhalt hat 5 BP und NRW 2 führt 4 zu 1 gegen Thüringen.
Besonders spannend ist es gerade zwischen Berlin und Baden 2,5 - 2,5.
#dlm25

This is an interesting news report.
I would add that if this report is even partially accurate we may see a massive temporary decline in beef/meat prices as dairy farmers "reduce" their herds in the face of diminished demand for milk products.
By-the-way, Devin Nunes - yes that Devin Nunes, now head of trump's failing social network/crypto-bank - is a diary farmer in some state or another.

Einschlag auf b2 in die Königsstellung und eine Vielzahl an Drohungen lassen Johannes Tschernatsch im IM-Turnier verzweifeln. Somit steht Oliver Stork jetzt bei 2,5 aus 7.
#dlm25

My wife calls el-presidente "the coin operated president". And to prove the point, here is an example of our coin-in-the-slot president in action, an action that shows how a small "donation" can result in a $billion payout of taxpayer money.
https://www.ny…

Trump Delayed a Medicare Change After Health Companies’ Donations
The president posted talking points provided by one firm that donated millions, and his administration delayed a change on coverage of pricey bandages that could have hurt the company.

Sachsen-Anhalt und NRW 1 haben einen Blick auf das Ergebniskärtchen vom Saarland geworfen und befanden das Ergebnis für nachahmenswert.
#dlm25

Why would the trumpies want to put a reactor on the moon?
Wouldn't it be more in keeping with the maga-mind's "big beautiful clean coal" message to build a coal powered power plant on the moon?
That would really show the Russians and Chinese who is boss of the moon!

Die Hesse kommen. 4 zu 0 Führung gegen die Niederländer bedeuten vermutlich bei noch 4 laufenden Partien volle Mannschaftspunkte.
Währendessen freut sich auch das Saarland über beste Aussichten. 3 zu 0 Führung über Hamburg 2.
#dlm25

I wonder how long before people adopt delay tactics? For instance , just suppose that every time a box truck, like the one in the article below, enters a Home Depot someone runs up and slides a cable tie or bit of wire through the door latches to prevent the door from being opened from the inside? (The driver could still get out, and remove the cable tie or wire and open the door - but that would let people see the driver and would take maybe 30 to 90 seconds.)

GM Baklan baut dank Kurzremis seine Führung im GM-Turnier aus. Der Haken an der Geschichte, gleichzeitig bietet er ambitionierten Spielern die Chance mit einem vollen Punkt was wettzumachen.
#dlm25

Wer in der Nähe von Oer-Erkenschwick wohnt ist herzlichst dazu eingeladen Taschentücher vorbeizubringen. Die Virenlast steigt und steigt.
#dlm25

Den Bericht zu den Runden 5 und 6 der DLM findet ihr jetzt online:
https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/news/2025/tag-der-deutschen-einheit-dlm-runde-4-und-5/
Als Feature heute Nationalspielerin Josefine Safarli als Kommentatorin ei…

Den Bericht zu den Normenturnieren könnt ihr schon jetzt hier lesen:
https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/news/2025/gm-und-im-normenturniere-runde-5-und-6/
Währendessen laufen noch die letzten Partien der DLM-Runde.

Zwei schnelle Remis im IM-Turnier besiegeln den Tag für Kopylov, Garner, Stork und Rodriguez. Letzterer befindet sich auf der Zielgeraden zur IM-Norm während Erstgenannter weiter um die Preisplätze spielen wird.
#dlm25

Is your mailbox or PO box often filled to its limit (or beyond) by ULINE catalogs and promo mailings?
Do you wonder at the increasing cost of US Postal service, especially, for anything thicker than an few pages or an SD card (USB flash drives are too thick and get bumped into the parcel post price range)?
Are you tired of brand-R $billionaires complain of welfare queens and government giveaways to the "woke".
Well, meet Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, owners of UL…

ULINE - Shipping Boxes, Shipping Supplies, Packaging Materials, Packing Supplies
Uline stocks over 43,000 shipping boxes, packing materials, warehouse supplies, material handling and more. Same day shipping for cardboard boxes, plastic bags, janitorial, retail and shipping supplies.

I am beginning to wonder.
Who will be our Paul Revere who rides forth and tells us "The ICE are coming, the ICE are coming." Or "One if by black maria, two if by black hawk."?
And, I am sure it is coming, who will fire the next "shot heard around the world"?
Where will be our next Lexington and Concord? Will it be Chicago, LA, Portland, or somewhere else?
This is not a joke. The acts of our president and his krazy-klan are an invasion.…

This is an example of why our class action systems must be changed.
Class actions are good things for certain kinds of cases.
But many lawyers have found them to be a lucrative way to generate prodigious fees (while leaving the victims with only paltry amounts.)
Here's a case where the law imposed a terrible, and unjust, penalty on many small businesses. Like in many class actions the defendants settled, despite having a meritful defense. But did that settlement money…

If we are not terrified yet, then take a look at this...
https://apnews.com/article/national-conservativism-conference-schmitt-a27e3b489dcf768dbebfc927f5e4a1d0

National conservatism is reshaping the Republican Party
National conservatism is reshaping the Republican Party in President Donald Trump’s second term. This week, its leaders gathered in Washington to celebrate their rise and lay out their next steps. Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt delivered a speech titled “What is an American?” in which he criticized some legal immigration and declared, “America doesn’t belong to them — it belongs to us.” The conference featured top Trump officials, GOP lawmakers and right-wing figures. Panels focused o…

So, instead of DoD we now have DoW.
Gives new meaning to the "Dow Jones Index".
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/05/pentagon-officials-department-of-war-anger-confusion-00548367

Your word of the day:
"Caesarism"
Yup, it calls for a revival of the government approach of Julius, Augustus, Nero, and Caligula.
And it is becoming the policy of our country's R-party and our countries orange colored wannabe emperor.
It is an espoused plank of the "National Conservative" movement who are meeting in DC, with many MAGA gov't officials not only in attendance, but as speakers.

Amy Coney Barret seems to have forgotten the first three words of the US Constitution, "We the People".
Clearly SCOTUS now is nothing but opinion poll - in which the opinions and biases of a gang of five overturns and overrules our Constitution, our principles, and our citizens.
"Amy Coney Barrett says supreme court rulings are ‘not opinion polls’"

I have "legacy" blocks of IPv4 addresses - straight from Jon Postel, granted circa 1990-1995.
These have *never* been subject to ARIN or any other RIR.
Now that I want to transfer them to someone else ARIN wants me to pay ARIN $500 to "evaluate" the transfer.
Huh?
$500? That's extortionate and bears no relation to the work that ARIN will do (almost none) to move the whois entry from my name to my intended transferee.
I've seen ICANN …

If the US library of Congress can't take the effort to assure that the Constitution is accurately published then what are we to think about the accuracy of "warrants" and "evidence" used by ICE?

ICE seems to have become the chosen employer of Proud Boyz and the rest of the wannabe SS groups.
"Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/proud-boys-militia-groups-t…

Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?
The Trump administration has left them with little to do.

Although this story focuses on el-presidente it should be noted that this is also the work of Elon Musk.
Personally I am skeptical of the claims that "big balls" was defending a woman. My guess is that he is an incel who may have only the most distant conception (pun intended) of women.
"Trump threatens to ‘federalize’ DC after attack on Doge staffer"

One might think that Microsoft's storage of the actual contents (not just the meta-data) all phone calls from Gaza and the West Bank might violate both US and EU privacy laws.
The US might ignore this, but I suspect the EU could use the GDPR to levy very large, punitive fines on Microsoft.
"‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians"

We are a stupid species.... Here is my county government trying to create a Rube Goldberg class blockchain based system to deal with a problem that could be solved by printed lists of paper
The crypto/blockchain mindset certainly contains a big element of "if all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail".
(By-the-way, our county government is dumb in other dimensions - for year the emergency response command center was in a basement next to, and and *below…

Santa Cruz County quietly abandons blockchain program once touted as bleeding edge
Santa Cruz County has shelved its ambitious blockchain wallet project after two years, citing complexity and low public adoption. Officials now plan to pursue simpler digital tools they say are better suited to resident needs.

Hiroshima - 80 years ago, today.

Overall the media consolidation described below is beyond four alarm fire levels.
E. Musk is dangerous to society, but Musk acts like an addled kid who read too much bad Sci-fi. Ellison doesn't have those positive qualities - he is much like the killer car, Christine, in the Steven King novel.
My first experience with Ellison's Oracle was back around 1980 or '81 when Oracle people came to our company and more than asked, they ordered us, to make sure that their produ…

This billionaire Trump ally and his son are building an unprecedented media empire
Larry and David Ellison’s holdings span movies, TV networks, CBS and soon a stake in TikTok, in a paradigm-shifting portfolio with huge influence.