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Q&A with Lesley Stahl on the pressures at CBS News and 60 Minutes, Trump's lawsuit and likely settlement, Shari Redstone, Bill Owens stepping down, and more (David Remnick/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/podcas…

Trump’s Playbook to Cripple “60 Minutes” and the Press
On The New Yorker Radio Hour, the “60 Minutes” correspondent reflects on the loss of journalistic integrity that a settlement of the President’s twenty-billion-dollar lawsuit would likely entail.

So i just threw together a first iteration of the switch engine PCB schematic in one crazed allnighter (thanks non 24 hour sleep schedules lol, its 0900 and I'm almost ready for bed).
It's missing some details like mounting holes and such, plus a few odds and ends like a 2.5V LDO and level shifter on the rs232 console, but I think it's 80% or so done. Lots of copy paste from kup-lulz and lcbringup which was of course the intent, those projects were intended to de-risk the s…

In Poland’s golden hour, a looming threat to Europe’s unity
Across Europe’s newest economic powerhouse,
where living standards have leapfrogged Japan’s and are on course to surpass Spain’s and Israel’s,
incomes are surging, shops are buzzing and borders are secure
— at least for now.

Poland, once a dreary outback in Cold War communism’s slough of despond, is now in Europe’s first rank in economic, diplomatic, military and political terms.
Situated in Cent…

In Poland’s golden hour, a looming threat to Europe’s unity
A nation is torn between its democratic promise and the pull of authoritarian politics.

I know an academic who does the same thing. He schedules a 3-4 hour online research meeting from time to time, but he really uses the slot to run a #TTRPG session for us.
His field of study isn’t TTRPGs. https://masto…

the year is 2025 there are TWO (2) types of videos on YouTube: adults obsessing over kids movies (8 hour long video essay) & political analysis (30 second infotainment)

Damn, using the UK's visa app to read a passport chip via NFC is a pretty extreme exercise in frustration. Got locked out twice (on the backend by UK servers, not the app itself!) in my attempts, each with an hour wait to be unlocked.

Lovely day in Canberra today - we went for a bit of a suburban amble and a coffee stop this afternoon before the wee one descends upon us again. He was here from Sunday to Wednesday night and he's due back in an hour or so (another unplanned visit). We love him but a 2 year old in the house for days at a time is exhausting for us 60 year olds. 😍😩😍

Okay, I see some progress here... 💪
My #reddit summarizer is now also able to summarize #youtube videos 📺
... tested with a 3,5-hour livestream 😏
Below the summary, you can ask questions if you have any 🤔
These are also saved in the database 💽

Time is short — submit to #ID24 today (or tomorrow, or I guess maybe Saturday):
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/
Submission window closes 31 May.
Then block out your calendar for ID24 on …

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

Staying an hour extra at work doesn't seem to help. What did help was to get on the bike to head home. I hadn't even ridden half a mile when I figured out what I had done wrong and had been beating my head against all afternoon.

Damn, using the UK's visa app to read a passport chip via NFC is a pretty extreme exercise in frustration. Got locked out twice (on the backend by UK servers, not the app itself!) in my attempts, each with an hour wait to be unlocked.

Check out my walk on Strava.
https://www.strava.com/activities/14629716750

Stroll through the Zoo | Strava
View Falko Zurell's walk on 29. Mai 2025 | Strava

And finally SpaceX's own #Starship flight test 9 webcast has begun: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWXMRAXmKQ - with the confirmation that launch will be tried right at the beginning of the 1-hour window from 23:30 UTC.

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Some lineless art of my otter sona Jay!
I'm an hour and 30 minutes late for my timezone, but it is what it is.
I love this lil guy, I should make more art of him 🦦
#Art #DigitalArt #FurryArt

Field Diary 2025
I very rarely have time to write a proper field diary, our time in the field is usually extremely hectic and filled with 12-18 hour working days that blend seamlessly together. I suspect this week is also going to be busy, but Nature has offered an olive branch in the shape of an early break-up of the sea ice, so I'm taking a moment to write a few things down.
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/

#WritersCoffeeClub 5/27. What is a ‘load-bearing’ part of your non-writerly life that makes writing possible for you?
I have a limited amount of energy and my family comes first, and then obligations that I have to take care of. Work is necessary, not optional.
The time I have left is my spare time. We all have that, an hour or two when we're free.
During that time,…

This forum thread has a telling evolution, starting from "about ten minutes" for #Ubuntu 12.10 and "an hour maybe two" by 20.04? 🤣
system installation - How long should installing Ubuntu take? - Ask Ubuntu
https://askubuntu.com/questions/230134/how-long-should-installing-ubuntu-take

Boggles my mind that I can, on a whim, take a day trip to see my favorite building in the world at a great price with several fast trains *per hour*. (Why on a whim? Because I never even considered it, based on the map.) Italian rail is quite something. #Italy25

Agreed, great series about the enshittification
https://famichiki.jp/@lazysupper/114551206200705897

Listening to farmers telling us how difficult farming is on Woman’s Hour. I don’t doubt that it’s hard work, but if it’s making you ill, maybe do something else?
And quit your whinging about #inheritancetax - even the few farmers that do qualify will only pay half the rate that non-farmers do.
#farming

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Morning-Hour
#MakeABookLate #HashTagGames

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21527 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

VietASR: Achieving Industry-level Vietnamese ASR with 50-hour labeled data and Large-Scale Speech Pretraining
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has made remarkable progress but heavily relies on large-scale labeled data, which is scarce for low-resource languages like Vietnamese. While existing systems such as Whisper, USM, and MMS achieve promising performance, their efficacy remains inadequate in terms of training costs, latency, and accessibility. To address these issues, we propose VietASR, a novel ASR training pipeline that leverages vast amounts of unlabeled data and a small set of labeled data.…

I'm only 41 years into this life and today I remind myself yet again:
I can only live in the now and I cannot control the future from here.
In 5 mins or an hour, and certainly by tomorrow I'll be telling myself this again.
I'm a slow learner and I have a slight suspicion I'll still be telling myself this 40 years from now.
#mentalhealth #today

#WritersCoffeeClub 5/27. What is a ‘load-bearing’ part of your non-writerly life that makes writing possible for you?
I have a limited amount of energy and my family comes first, and then obligations that I have to take care of. Work is necessary, not optional.
The time I have left is my spare time. We all have that, an hour or two when we're free.
During that time,…

Clear skies, golden hour, park #tree barely coming into leaf.
#ThickTrunkTuesday

This is the first time it ever happened. Just browsing around GitHub I exceeded a "secondary rate limit".

Vibing out with synthwave beats while the 3D printer works its magic! ✨ Today's epic 13-hour project: a Vietnam Style Bonsai Pot. Tune in on Twitch! #3DPrint

Blue hour in the colourful town.
#streetphotography #Hanoi

Join Jason Neiffer and I at the top of the hour (9pm ET / 8pm CT / 7pm MT / 6pm PT) for #edtechSR Episode 351!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFioI0_mtbk

This video is both hilarious and way too accurate
Lord Dread is no match for Donald Trump! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
https://youtu.be/dTAp7Uhqa-M?si=xGxEdzvqbIRZqnt7

This week instead of a playlist with random rock/metal stuff, I'm working on Progressive Metal playlists. :blobkeyboard:
First one has:
- "Tiara" by "Seventh Wonder"
- "The Waking Hour" by "Age of Artemis"
- "Secret Garden" by "Angra"
- "V: The New Mythology Suite" by "Symphony X"
- "Contingent" by "Pyramaze"
(no Dream Theater, sorry!)
YT Music: …

I 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 …

True story time, from about 8 years ago.
After work, I joined few co-workers for happy hour. I had 1 or 2 alcoholic drinks, then cut myself off and drank soda rest of the night, for many reasons including I wanted to be 100% sober to drive home.
One guy was rude, insisted I keep drinking, said I was ruining the fun.
Kids, be your own person. Be stubborn. Don't let someone pressure you into doing something you don't want to do. No means no.
1/x

I had the opportunity to deliver a 1.5-hour session at @… on the topic of "Transport Modelling at SBB", as part of the course "Introduction to Transportation Systems". As an external expert from the industry, I shared insights over three chapters:
1️⃣ Data for Transport Modelling
2️⃣ Modelling Landscape at SBB and in Switzerland
3️⃣ SI…

This is our cats’ hedgehog. We never actually see them play with it, but it moves around the house all the time. Nearly every morning, after the first hour or two of my work day, I mysteriously find this little guy in the kitchen.

Had a day off and did a 4 hour ride on the VA capital trail. Went much further than I planned. The forever punchline is the hill that leads to my house.... I always end up having to walk it.
#bike #BikeTooter

Over the last few months, I have filtered out most USA news, so I have basically a minimal knowledge of what is happening in that part of the world. To be honest, it's great! The same goes for tech, I work long 12-hour days and weekends as a sysadmin, and the last thing I want to see after those days is tech stuff. So, I read tech news through newsletters sent to an email address I only use for that purpose.
It’s making my life more relaxed not to care about what is happening on ot…

This is our cats’ hedgehog. We never actually see them play with it, but it moves around the house all the time. Nearly every morning, after the first hour or two of my work day, I mysteriously find this little guy in the kitchen.

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorjjning #Sunrise #NYC

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC