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Have you ever seen an apple with two stems?

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Two wildfires are burning at or near the North Rim, known
as the White Sage Fire
and the Dragon Bravo Fire.
The latter is the one that destroyed the lodge and other structures.
The park initially was managing it as a controlled burn
but then shifted to suppression as it rapidly grew to 7.8 square miles (20 square kilometers) because of hot temperatures,
low humidity and wind, fire officials said.
No injuries have been reported.
Millions of peo…

A historic Grand Canyon lodge has been destroyed by wildfire, park official says
The Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging inside the park at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames, park Superintendent Ed Keable told park residents, staff and others in a meeting Sunday morning. He said the visitor center, the gas station, a waste water treatment plant, an administrative building and some employee housing were among the 50 to 80 structures lost.

I rode 11.8 miles today. Went to Firefly Grove Park in Wauwatosa where they have a pump track and talked to two of the guys using it.
One really wanted me to try, and offered his bike as well, but after riding there uphill most of the way for 4 miles I said "I'll just watch you guys!" so I did.
I did ride on the smaller part of the track, and I can see the appeal, with the right bike.

The #SummerExhibition at London's Royal Academy of Art is particularly good this year.
My memorable piece is Frances Disley's We Are More ( A community of colours sourced from along the Mersey Estuary).
#Pigments

Ich bin über diesen Artikel gestolpert weil jemand (im Bluesky) gesagt hat, er sei der am Deutschsten Artikel überhaupt. 😄 Auf jeden Fall, interessant!
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/warum-afd-abgeordnete-oefter-lachen-als-…

Warum AfD-Abgeordnete öfter lachen als andere
Worüber jemand lacht, zeigt, wer er wirklich ist. Wir haben nachgezählt: Im Bundestag lacht keine Fraktion so oft wie die AfD.

Die ePetition 180407 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Jugendstrafrecht mit dem Titel
Anwendung des Erwachsenenstrafrechts für Personen ab Vollendung des 18. Lebensjahres
kann bis zum Dienstag 15. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, für Personen ab Vollendung des 18. Lebensjahres das Erwachsenenstrafrecht anzuwenden.
und wird begründet
Wer voll geschäftsfähig ist, soll auch für seine Taten voll verantwortlich sein.…

SGPMIL: Sparse Gaussian Process Multiple Instance Learning
Andreas Lolos, Stergios Christodoulidis, Maria Vakalopoulou, Jose Dolz, Aris Moustakas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08711 …

SGPMIL: Sparse Gaussian Process Multiple Instance Learning
Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) offers a natural solution for settings where only coarse, bag-level labels are available, without having access to instance-level annotations. This is usually the case in digital pathology, which consists of gigapixel sized images. While deterministic attention-based MIL approaches achieve strong bag-level performance, they often overlook the uncertainty inherent in instance relevance. In this paper, we address the lack of uncertainty quantification in instance-…

#PamelaAnderson #JonLindstrom
Season 4 Episode 14 "Coronado Del Soul: part 1"
#RandomBaywatch

At a local supermarket yesterday. Someone had decided to do the MAGA-esque thing of the massive-jeep/truck/thing-with-flag-hanging-off-the-back…except instead of a US flag, it was for the Democratic Republic of Congo. 🇨🇩

Have you ever seen an apple with two stems?

Google DeepMind Just Changed Hurricane Forecasting Forever With New AI Model (VentureBeat, 11 June 2025)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-deepmind-just-changed-hurricane-forecasting-forever-with-new-ai-model/

Google DeepMind just changed hurricane forecasting forever with new AI model
Google DeepMind launches Weather Lab platform for AI hurricane forecasting, showing improved accuracy in early tests with U.S. National Hurricane Center partnership.

So sehen die #Schwalbe #Hurricane nach ungefähr 1000 km aus.
Ich muss sagen, ich bin nicht unzufrieden. Haben einen sehr guten Geradeauslauf und rollen bei maximal-Druck auch wirklich ähnlich hervorragend wie der

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
Alice P. Curtin, Shion Andrew, Sunil Simha, Alice Cai, Kenzie Nimmo, Shami Chatterjee, Amanda M. Cook, Fengqiu Adam Dong, Yuxin Dong, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Wen-fai Fong, Emmanuel Fonseca, Jason W. T. Hessels, Ronniy C. Joseph, Victoria Kaspi, Calvin Leung, Robert Main, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Ryan Mckinven, Daniele Michilli, Mason Ng, Ayush Pandhi, Aaron B. Pearlman, Ziggy Pleunis, Mawson W. Sammons, K…

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
On 2024 December 28, CHIME/FRB detected the thus-far non-repeating FRB 20241228A with a real-time signal-to-noise ratio of $>50$. Approximately 112~s later, the X-ray Telescope onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was on source, the fastest follow-up to-date of a non-repeating FRB (Tohuvavohu et al. in prep.). Using CHIME/FRB and two of the three CHIME/FRB Outriggers, we obtained a Very Long Baseline Interferometry localization for FRB 20241228A with a 1$σ$ confidence ellipse of 11$^{\pr…

Umfrage an die SPD-Mitglieder: Gibt es irgendeine Schurkerei, bei der Ihr nicht mitmachen würdet?

All three nodes are installed. The "server room" is an absolute mess, but figured I'd snap a picture of the back of the minirack. I'll be cleaning up tomorrow, but for now: we are 100% back online here. Migrations work, iSCSI works...well, everything works. Very happy with how this has turned out thus far.
#minirack

Over Hoorspelen.eu - @…
https://www.hoorspelen.eu/overige/over.html
Vanaf nu dus via Mastodon te volgen.
Ooit volgde ik op Tw…

@… perdu ?

Ich bin über diesen Artikel gestolpert weil jemand (im Bluesky) gesagt hat, er sei der am Deutschsten Artikel überhaupt. 😄 Auf jeden Fall, interessant!
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/warum-afd-abgeordnete-oefter-lachen-als-…

Warum AfD-Abgeordnete öfter lachen als andere
Worüber jemand lacht, zeigt, wer er wirklich ist. Wir haben nachgezählt: Im Bundestag lacht keine Fraktion so oft wie die AfD.

lmao this is incredibly endearing #NYCMayoralRace

10 Questions With Michael Blake
Michael Blake, a former state lawmaker who is running for mayor of New York City, visited The New York Times for an interview.

Heute vor 27 Jahren: Am 11. Juni 1998 löste eine Fehlauslösung des Sprühsystems im #Kernkraftwerk #Belleville eine automatische #Reaktorabschaltung aus. Dabei klemmte ein Steuereleme…

8 Light writer Taylor Keazirian argues in favor of maintaining a set of "living" documents as part of software development project efforts. Common misconceptions about software documentation are addressed and refuted with insights on what a minimal technical set of documents for a software project should look like.
"Mastering Technical Documentation"

Mastering Technical Documentation | 8th Light
Technical documentation is an essential part of successful software development teams. Learn actionable strategies to create clear, maintainable, and effective docs. Boost efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and empower your team.

Assessing the Impact of Refactoring Energy-Inefficient Code Patterns on Software Sustainability: An Industry Case Study
Rohit Mehra, Priyavanshi Pathania, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Sanjay Podder, Adam P. Burden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09370

Assessing the Impact of Refactoring Energy-Inefficient Code Patterns on Software Sustainability: An Industry Case Study
Advances in technologies like artificial intelligence and metaverse have led to a proliferation of software systems in business and everyday life. With this widespread penetration, the carbon emissions of software are rapidly growing as well, thereby negatively impacting the long-term sustainability of our environment. Hence, optimizing software from a sustainability standpoint becomes more crucial than ever. We believe that the adoption of automated tools that can identify energy-inefficient p…

Following the election of Robert Prevost as the new Pope today, YDS asked professor Teresa Berger for perspective. Teresa Berger is Professor of Liturgical Studies and Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology.
Here is our brief exchange:
https://divinity.yale.edu/news/new-pop

I've been listening to a podcast by the German public broadcaster ​ARD about the end of the world. Every episode had a different topic and one was about AI. It was mostly sourced from an interview with a youtuber but one idea is now stuck in my head: what if AI doesn't launch nukes but develops into an all-powerful actor whose aims are not aligned with those of human survival? Do we have a precedent?
Yes. There are such super-human and quasi-immortal beings here on earth today…

I decided to stack all the books that I'd never give up or throw away. It's a 2x3m wall floor to ceiling, full of silly books that I loved as a kid, tattered dictionaries, science, literature, history, curiosities, and even boring stuff that I've been translating through the years. It's a book cave!

📢 Putin schlägt direkte Verhandlungen mit der Ukraine vor
Russlands Präsident Putin hat direkte Verhandlungen mit der Ukraine über eine Waffenruhe vorgeschlagen. Diese sollten am 15. Mai in Istanbul stattfinden. Er wolle darüber morgen mit dem türkischen Präsidenten Erdogan sprechen. Es liege jetzt an der Ukraine, ob sie dem zustimme, betonte Putin bei einer Pressekonferenz. Mehr Informationen in Kürze auf tagesschau.de.
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Putin schlägt direkte Verhandlungen mit der Ukraine vor
Russlands Präsident Putin hat direkte Verhandlungen mit der Ukraine über eine Waffenruhe vorgeschlagen. Diese sollten am 15. Mai in Istanbul stattfinden. Er wolle darüber morgen mit dem türkischen Präsidenten Erdogan sprechen. Es liege jetzt an der Ukraine, ob sie dem zustimme, betonte Putin bei einer Pressekonferenz.

Cometi um conto praticamente inofensivo.
#kindle

Inamigo meu, um conto IVUC – Brogue do Cassano
Cometi um conto. Um retorno a personagens que se tornaram parte da família. Lançado exclusivamente como ebook Amazon Kindle, Inamigo Meu – Um conto IVUC é, antes de tudo, uma festa com brigadeiro e refrigerante. Uma celebração ao que me fez um apaixonado por ficção científica. Não foram os magníficos clássicos do gênero, que mais […]

Forsyth Park, Savannah

Erstes Wochenende der #Maiwoche in #osnabruck
Wer glaubt, dass mehr Mülleimer mehr Sauberkeit bringen, der glaubt auch, dass 🍋-Falter 🍋 🍋 falten.
Dieses Jahr stehen die Menschen genauso knietief im #mull

An #infosec drama, in two screenshots.

Was, Julia Klöckner ungeeignet als Bundetagspräsidentin?!

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
GAN: Is she bluffing?
AVON: She's not bluffing, is she, Travis?
TRAVIS: Do something reckless and find out.
AVON: Well now, I might just blow your head off.
BLAKE: How would you like to die, too, Supreme Commander?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/474

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SRE Weekly Issue #474 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-474/

Ha enfin, apres tous les articles sur les politiques qui veulent serrer la visse sécuritaire avec des mesures qui existent déjŠ ou complètement Š coté de la plaque; un article qui parle de choses vraiment interessantes :
https://www.

Me waiting in the call for @… (I refuse to actually stand up for our standup before she arrives)

BREAKING: Trump Judges Strike Down Alabama Congressional Map for Violating Voting Rights Act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCtcyh1QnU&ab_channel=DemocracyDocket

Diese #Erpel enteten bei #Erkner herum. Aber was war das für ein #Gewässer? Es war die Wanderung von erkner nach Hangelsberg auf dem 66-Seen-Wanderweg.
Übrigens,

Inselspaziergang...
#Langeoog

@… @…
screenshot of the relevant portion

Girl's basketball players from the GIAC entry to the Ithaca Festival Parade
#photo #photography #ithaca #ithacafestival

Time to cut the garlic scape
#gardening #BloomScrolling

BREAKING: Trump Judges Strike Down Alabama Congressional Map for Violating Voting Rights Act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCtcyh1QnU&ab_channel=DemocracyDocket

Nixos mag die meiste Zeit nerven, aber wenn Du aus merkwürdigen Gründen mal schnell Ansible 2.11 brauchst, dann ist es für Dich da.

Ende des Liveblogs
Damit schließen wir den Liveblog für heute und danken für Ihr Interesse.
📑 https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-ukraine-donnerstag-474.html?at_medium=mastodon&a…

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++Ukraine meldet einen Toten durch Drohnenangriffe ++
Die Ukraine meldet einen Toten durch russische Drohnen in der Region Sumy. Russland hat nach eigenen Angaben mehrere ukrainische Drohnen abgeschossen.

#Football
S11E13 "The Stalker"
#BaywatchHawaii #RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

memories of the dead at riverbend, part 1. [6/10]

Kammerdämmer

Optimizing RAG Pipelines for Arabic: A Systematic Analysis of Core Components
Jumana Alsubhi, Mohammad D. Alahmadi, Ahmed Alhusayni, Ibrahim Aldailami, Israa Hamdine, Ahmad Shabana, Yazeed Iskandar, Suhayb Khayyat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06339

Optimizing RAG Pipelines for Arabic: A Systematic Analysis of Core Components
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful architecture for combining the precision of retrieval systems with the fluency of large language models. While several studies have investigated RAG pipelines for high-resource languages, the optimization of RAG components for Arabic remains underexplored. This study presents a comprehensive empirical evaluation of state-of-the-art RAG components-including chunking strategies, embedding models, rerankers, and language models-across …

Reconstruction of Noise from Dynamical Mode Decomposition in Quantum Systems
Adva Baratz, Loris Maria Cangemi, Assaf Hamo, Sivan Refaely-Abramson, Amikam Levy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05797

Reconstruction of Noise from Dynamical Mode Decomposition in Quantum Systems
Noise fundamentally limits the performance of quantum systems by degrading coherence and reducing control fidelity. Characterizing this noise is essential for improving measurement accuracy, understanding environmental interactions, and designing effective control strategies. However, extracting its spectral characteristics and associated dephasing times from limited experimental data remains a key challenge. Here, we introduce a data-driven framework based on Dynamical Mode Decomposition (DM…

I finally finished the blogpost including some new photos and a short video (!!) from my hike last Saturday.
To me it was a really really gorgeous day!
Read the story here: https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/getting-up-early-for-the-mountains/
(a…

https[:]//bsky.app/profile/pulsarbird.bsky.social/post/3lk7g4ll3f225
#ShamelesslyStolenFromBlueSky

If there's one thing that life has taught me about alarmist left-wing crackpots it's that they are consistently right about basically everything.

Maryland DOT launches new policy of quick-fix road diets with paint & plastic "bollards" after initial test projects work well. Approach is try it for 6-9 months and see if it works in place of long studies.
https://www.

Maryland plans more ‘quick build’ road safety changes, citing success across state
Planners have a menu of traffic calming measures to consider for each site.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10290 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Runtime Analysis of the SMS-EMOA for Many-Objective Optimization
This paper conducts the first rigorous runtime analysis of the SMS-EMOA for many-objective optimization. To this aim, we first propose a many-objective counterpart of the bi-objective OJZJ benchmark. We prove that SMS-EMOA computes the full Pareto front of this benchmark in an expected number of $O(μM n^k)$ iterations, where $n$ denotes the problem size (length of the bit-string representation), $k$ the gap size (a difficulty parameter of the problem), $M=(2n/m-2k+3)^{m/2}$ the size of the Par…

Ich habe in der Nacht auf den 524. Tag in #Siegen durch den andauernden #Regen ziemlich gut geschlafen.
Das ist aber schon das Beste, dass ich über Siegen an der #Sieg sagen kann.
Ich glaube, ich war no…

When the playground is empty and it's not raining, I have to take advantage of it. Okay, I did scare off three teens who were sitting at the picnic table behind me, though I told them I'd be gone soon and they didn't have to go on my account. I like my form from the third rep on; not so much the first two.
#seniorfitness

Probabilistic thresholds of turbulence decay in transitional shear flows
Daniel Mor\'on, Alberto Vela-Mart\'in, Marc Avila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06918

Probabilistic thresholds of turbulence decay in transitional shear flows
Linearly stable shear flows first transition to turbulence in the form of localised patches. At low Reynolds numbers, these turbulent patches tend to suddenly decay, following a memoryless process typical of rare events. How far in advance their decay can be forecasted is still unknown. We perform massive ensembles of simulations of pipe flow and a reduced order model of shear flows (Moehlis et al. 2004) and determine the first moment in time at which decay becomes fully predictable, subject to…

The fun of migrating from the #helm #terraform v2 to v3 provider. Everything gets a #hug 🤣

#Großwärmepumpen können ganze Städte mit klimafreundlicher #Fernwärme versorgen.
Anlagen wie in #Mannheim,

Wärmepumpen XXL: Wie sie ganze Städte versorgen sollen
Die Wärmepumpe kann eine Alternative zu fossilen Heizungen im Altbau sein, wenn bestimmte Bedingungen erfüllt sind, wie große Heizkörper und ausreichende Isolierung.

Leaders We Deserve
invests in candidates who reflect our generation and its values
matching them with the resources they need to run strong campaigns,
win, and change the face of power.
Think EMILYs List for young, progressive courageous candidates.
Leaders We Deserve invests in young people, knocks down these barriers, and elects more young people to office.

About Us | Leaders We Deserve
Young Progressive candidates face systemic barriers. At every level of government, the average politician is older than the average American. Our political system is stacked against young people – in favor of those who are older, …

When the playground is empty and it's not raining, I have to take advantage of it. Okay, I did scare off three teens who were sitting at the picnic table behind me, though I told them I'd be gone soon and they didn't have to go on my account. I like my form from the third rep on; not so much the first two.
#seniorfitness

Witzig ja auch, daß "Merz macht jemand fertig" so viel bedeutet wie "aus Merz Mund schießt eine gewaltige Kotfontäne wie weiland auf dem legendären Badewannenbild auf rotten.com, direkt ins Gesicht der anderen Person". Das ist zwar eklig, beeindruckt aber nur seine Clique aus Koprokraten und den Koprophagenkult, der sich an seinen Körperöffnungen festgesaugt hat.

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
TARRANT: She wasn't exactly gentle with me. [Harmon and a guard enter]
GUARD: What happened?
TARRANT: He went for a gun. He wasn't going to chance taking the voice test.
KLEGG: There are no weapons on him, he's unarmed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/57

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#SimmoneMackinnon #BrandyLedford #StacyKamano
S10E07 "Risk to Death"
#BaywatchHawaii

Gibt es hier eigentlich irgendwo einen zuverlässigen Kanal, der über anstehende Demonstrationen informiert?

word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
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@… peut-on utiliser les données osm pour creer des fond de cartes destinés Š l’animation/ film (par exemple documentaires) ?

Darf ein Gericht sich eigentlich zum eigenen Urteil nochmal näher erklären, etwa in der Form: "Nein, das bezieht sich nicht auf einen Einzelfall, Du wertloser Nichtsnutz, sondern gilt ganz allgemein"?

Der Liveblog vom Donnerstag zum Nachlesen
Die Ukraine meldet einen Toten durch russische Drohnen in der Region Sumy. Russland hat nach eigenen Angaben mehrere ukrainische Drohnen abgeschossen.
🔗 https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++Ukraine meldet einen Toten durch Drohnenangriffe ++
Die Ukraine meldet einen Toten durch russische Drohnen in der Region Sumy. Russland hat nach eigenen Angaben mehrere ukrainische Drohnen abgeschossen.

Alle Polizist*innen, die weiterhin Zurückweisungen an der Grenze durchführen, handeln aus freien Stücken und wider besseres Wissen falsch.

My latest public writing addresses the German Constitutional Protection Office's finding of right-extremism in the AfD party. There is also a German version of my post.
#politics #AfD #Germany

Validating viewpoints by popularity
Response to supporters of Germany's AfD party

Vielleicht können wir uns ja zunächst mal auf ein unstrittiges "All Cops Obeying Dobrindt Are Bastards" (ACODAB) einigen und dann weitersehen?

I'm a #language fiend too. Lasswell taps into a big sore point for me as well. If you read this, stay away from the comment section. You'll go nuts!
Opinion | The phrase ‘begs the question’ is begging for oblivion - The Washington Post

This common phrase is widely misused. Is it worth salvaging?
When a phrase has been misused into uselessness, maybe avoiding it is the best policy.

Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
AVON: Internal? [Opens comm link.] Tarrant, what have you got up there apart from yourself, a half-wit and a corpse?
TARRANT: [V.O. over comm.] A box. [Shot changes to Tarrant on Scorpio.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/194 B7B5

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My latest public writing addresses the German Constitutional Protection Office's finding of right-extremism in the AfD party. There is also a German version of my post.
#politics #AfD #Germany

Validating viewpoints by popularity
Response to supporters of Germany's AfD party

I'm a #language fiend too. Lasswell taps into a big sore point for me as well. If you read this, stay away from the comment section. You'll go nuts!
Opinion | The phrase ‘begs the question’ is begging for oblivion - The Washington Post

This common phrase is widely misused. Is it worth salvaging?
When a phrase has been misused into uselessness, maybe avoiding it is the best policy.

Russland meldet Einnahme dreier Ortschaften
Russische Streitkräfte haben nach eigenen Angaben drei weitere Ortschaften in der Ukraine eingenommen. Die Truppen hätten die Kontrolle über die Siedlung Stroivka in der ukrainischen Region Charkiw sowie die Ortschaften Schewtschenko Persche und Hnatiwka in der Region Donezk übernommen, teilt das Verteidigungsministerium mit.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++Ukraine meldet einen Toten durch Drohnenangriffe ++
Die Ukraine meldet einen Toten durch russische Drohnen in der Region Sumy. Russland hat nach eigenen Angaben mehrere ukrainische Drohnen abgeschossen.

Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
KEILLER: Your friend, Vila, he wants no part in this?
SOOLIN: He doesn't trust you, Keiller. He thinks it's a trap.
KEILLER: Suspicious.
AVON: And frequently right. How much further?
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‘He’s Trying to Colonize This Community’: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Take Over This Texas Town - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/02/elon-musk-spacex-texas-starship-00317693

‘He’s Trying to Colonize This Community’: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Take Over This Texas Town - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/02/elon-musk-spacex-texas-starship-00317693

@…
Hoo je crois que c’est un représentant de cette espèce qui est venu se cogner dans mon appartement, récemment et c’est retrouvé les 6 fers en l’air.
(Je l’ai remis dehors)

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-oklahoma-religious-charter-school-arguments?r=e32bm&utm_campaign=post&amp…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school
A ruling for Oklahoma's charter school board would further increase the role of religion in public life — and change public education in America.

Nice climb up the grade over Breckenheim past Wildsachsen to Bremthal, then back—woosh!—down to Auringen, through Medenbach, and across the multi-use recreation paths to Nordenstadt (home). Taunus foothills, greater Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.
#seniorfitness #nogym

I tend to watch Supreme Court rulings, given my old life in the law biz. I'm surprised at the way the ruling split on the just published FELICIANO v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION case:
Reversed and remanded.
 Gorsuch, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Sotomayor, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Alito, Kagan, and Jackson, JJ., joined.

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-oklahoma-religious-charter-school-arguments?r=e32bm&utm_campaign=post&amp…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school
A ruling for Oklahoma's charter school board would further increase the role of religion in public life — and change public education in America.

Nice climb up the grade over Breckenheim past Wildsachsen to Bremthal, then back—woosh!—down to Auringen, through Medenbach, and across the multi-use recreation paths to Nordenstadt (home). Taunus foothills, greater Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.
#seniorfitness #nogym

I tend to watch Supreme Court rulings, given my old life in the law biz. I'm surprised at the way the ruling split on the just published FELICIANO v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION case:
Reversed and remanded.
 Gorsuch, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Sotomayor, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Alito, Kagan, and Jackson, JJ., joined.

“Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another.” ― Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations #quote

“We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S.” | NYT Opinion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXR9PByA9SY&ab_channel=TheNewYorkTimes

“Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another.” ― Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations #quote

“We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S.” | NYT Opinion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXR9PByA9SY&ab_channel=TheNewYorkTimes

This is incredibly exciting!
Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist https://behavioralscientist.org/is-it-all-a-fluke-lessons-from-playing-god-…

Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist
It’s easy to believe that small, chance moments don’t make a material difference on our lives and societies. But a long-running evolution experiment suggests that life’s course may come down to the random details.

This is incredibly exciting!
Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist https://behavioralscientist.org/is-it-all-a-fluke-lessons-from-playing-god-…

Is It All a Fluke? Lessons From Playing God in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment - by Brian Klaas - Behavioral Scientist
It’s easy to believe that small, chance moments don’t make a material difference on our lives and societies. But a long-running evolution experiment suggests that life’s course may come down to the random details.

Terrific podcast, in my view. Check it out.
#Trump’s Not in Charge. This is who Really is.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LIx2lxMccXs&si=l2ai-d-Irr0e18sp

Terrific podcast, in my view. Check it out.
#Trump’s Not in Charge. This is who Really is.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LIx2lxMccXs&si=l2ai-d-Irr0e18sp

Tonight our pop-jazz choir, Sing'n'Swing, had its first public concert in two years. We changed choir directors about a year-and-a-half ago. The concert went well. I sang a small solo, which also went well. A number of people told me I killed it. I took that as a good thing. 😃 Here's a post-concert photo.

Tonight our pop-jazz choir, Sing'n'Swing, had its first public concert in two years. We changed choir directors about a year-and-a-half ago. The concert went well. I sang a small solo, which also went well. A number of people told me I killed it. I took that as a good thing. 😃 Here's a post-concert photo.

I just hit a #calisthenics goal: 100 decline push-ups in one set. I started training this level of difficulty—30-cm elevation at the feet, (ersatz) parallettes to facilitate full range of motion—last September after reaching previous targets. Two sets of 100 are coming!