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The Eglinton Crosstown finally opened yesterday. How did it take to travel 19km across Toronto? About 16 years....
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/we-rode-the-whole-length-of-the-eglinton-crosstown-on-opening-day-heres-how-long-it-took/

Well, we finally have conclusive evidence that there’s a squirrel living in the owl house I made for my wife
Little sucker has to squirm to get in, looks like.😂
I guess they figure that means nothing bigger than them can get in there
Y’know…except maybe an owl so I guess we’ll see what happens

@… well, it _works_ (`bundleDependencies: ["js-yaml"]`) but it feels a bit icky 😅

is wikipedia’s “skin” setting supposed to have any effect? everything looks the same whatever i choose
(tiny font size, page cannot be zoomed to less than 110% screen width)

"We are all capable of the change we seek, and we must not let the distractions of unyielding thoughts—'I can’t, I shouldn’t, or someone else will do it'—lead us into a place of complacency."
—Living Village resident Sheena Lefaye Crews ’28 M.Div. writing in the new issue of Reflections in her piece "A Villager’s Dream of Sustainable Faith."

@… for clarity, here's a screenshot of FreeBSD Installer set to install a minimal base system (without base).

I find something profound in recursive descent parsing, both the idea of it and the coding of it. For me it's one of the more beautiful things in mathematics, let alone computing.

Good Morning #Canada
Here in beautiful Belle Ewart the temp is -22°C, feeling like -31°C with the wind. But it's a dry cold....
Out west they are struggling with double digit temperatures on the plus side. Edmonton's winter festival organizers are making snow, protecting ice blocks and praying for plunging temps to save their skating rink. The unseasonable weather has impacted events throughput Alberta. The Banff and Lake Louise ice carving festival, Art of Ice, had to take down sculptures because they weren't safe. They were similarly impacted last year. The World’s Longest Hockey Game (WLHG) got underway last Thursday and players are dealing with slushy conditions while golf driving ranges are packed with eager duffers.
I'd gladly make the sacrifice and swap weather conditions with our fellow Canucks out west. It would be a burden that I'd gladly carry.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Weather
https://youtu.be/W59Pi5S-Vic

Wii Fit is so fun!!

The case for John Brooks awarding this soft penalty for Everton is so much thinner than the one HE overlooked on VAR for Wirtz at Arsenal. If this is a penalty, then that absolutely was.
I think he’s still sore about Klopp defiantly celebrating a late goal in his face as the fourth official. The one that did Klopp’s hamstring. 😂
#LFC

It's a wrap #foodporn #wrapped2025

Cassie, the 13 year old floof owned by my daughter, had a tough week. She spent a full day at the vet for teeth cleaning and has spent 2 days recovering from the anesthetic. She's not looking too pleased right now.
#CatsOfMastadon #Caturday

Overskriftsgåte: Hva betyr dette? At i tillegg til alt som er nytt, er det noe som er nytt? #AvisaOslo

This is more Communist than anything Xi or Putin does or says
Trump:
All United State Defense Contractors, and the Defense Industry as a whole, BEWARE:
Defense Contractors are currently issuing massive Dividends to their Shareholders and massive Stock Buybacks, at the expense ano detriment of investing in Plants and Equipment.
This situation will no longer be allowed or tolerated!
Until they do so,
no Executive should be allowed to make in excess of $5 M…

For #tongueouttuesday, an echidna with its long sticky warm tongue out.

I will confess that out of morbid curiosity, I'd find it interesting to watch the entire process of someone generating a novel using AI. I feel like the prompt would end up being as long as a decent synopsis.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026…

Can AI Chatbots Write Emotionally Rich Romance Books?
The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board.

I think this is progress.
I fixed the typoed atu_unr_limit and now the ATU is working, translating accesses to the 0x1000_0000 AXI space to configuration reads and writes in the PCIe bus.
But the data is always zero. I'm trying to write 0x41410000 to the BAR and it comes out as zeroes, and while the protocol analyzer shows me successfully reading 1327:1c5c which is the VID/PID of my test SSD, it comes out as zero on the AXI side.

Dis zeigt einmal mehr klar auf, was KI für eine Belastung ist:
»Memphis leidet unter starker Luftverschmutzung, große Fabriken stoßen gesundheitsgefährdende Schadstoffe aus. Schon vor zehn Jahren ist die Krebsrate hier viermal höher als im US-Durchschnitt. Das neue xAI-Rechenzentrum von Elon Musk verschärft nun die Lage und treibt zudem die Stromkosten dramatisch in die Höhe.«
— auf @…

"Ich will leben und saubere Luft": Krebsgeplagte Stadt legt sich mit "Energievampir" Musk an
Memphis leidet unter starker Luftverschmutzung, große Fabriken stoßen gesundheitsgefährdende Schadstoffe aus. Schon vor zehn Jahren ist die Krebsrate hier viermal höher als im US-Durchschnitt. Das neue xAI-Rechenzentrum von Elon Musk verschärft nun die Lage und treibt zudem die Stromkosten dramatisch in die Höhe.

@…
At the neighborhood party you may be asked to wear a name tag with your first name. The initial contact and conversation is more relaxed as no one wants to talk about their work. Your neighbors want to know how you feel about that ungodly reno going on down the street, share stories about your kids, and swap anecdotes about pets. Definitely cats... lots of cat sharing. It's a community where no one is selling, no one is recording data, and there's no unfathomable app pushing conversations into your group. The goal is to go home feeling closer to your community and more empathy for its members.

Only one day left in the first work week of 2026, so don't miss today's Metacurity for a concise run-down of the top infosec developments you should know, including
--Salt Typhoon infiltrated US House China Committee, other committees, sources,
--TX court enjoins Samsung from using or selling consumer data,
--FCC exempts some Chinese tech at Pentagon's request,
--Man accused of stealing Snapchat access codes for 600 women for university coach,
--Ni8ma…

Salt Typhoon infiltrated US House China Committee, other committees, sources
TX court enjoins Samsung from using or selling consumer data, FCC exempts some Chinese tech at Pentagon's request, Man accused of stealing Snapchat access codes for 600 women for Northeastern Univ. coach, Ni8mare flaw allows takeover of N8N workflow automation platform, much more

I don’t suppose there are any Wii Fit U mods that bring back the missing minigames from Wii Fit Plus right?
I guess they chose only the ones they thought were the best ones to bring back which is fair enough I guess, but some of the ones I like are missing
I’d be very cool if they kept everything from Wii Fit Plus, PLUS the new ones in U
(don’t really wanna get plus on wii mode bc then it’ll be two separate games and leaderboards and stuff, and then I probably won’t want to switch between both modes during a playtime and also I’d probably forget to switch for minigames that are available in both places)
#WiiU

@…
At the corporate event everyone is wearing a name tag with your title and the company you work for. Guests are circling each other trying to read the name tag and see if you're interesting enough to talk to. Almost no one is there to simply socialize. They are trying to sell you something, sway your opinion, or add your details to their records for future use. In the background the conference has a software app that allows attendees to track and target each other. The goal is to add as many people as possible to your network, or insert yourself into their contact list. It's rare to make a new friend.

Had sooooo much fun at Placeholder Club last night!
Wore my Goober avatar for a change :neofox_happy:
#VRChat #VR #VRC

And lastly the mess at the end. Anthony Taylor really flubbed it. Konate ends up with the same disciplinary result as Martinelli?!? Jesus comes and retaliates on Konate, knocking Taylor's yellow card out of his hands and he gets... nothing?
Martinelli, the man who played dead within two minutes of coming on, is upset about a player on the ground? "The lad doth protest too much, methinks."
Throws the ball on a downed player, puts a knee into him, and then pushes him?…

My employer insists that already-installed virus protectors be removed and replaced by MS Defender. It took a serious IT expert 60 minutes to do just my laptop. He says they have 4000 to do.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/116025421547573109
@…
I'm late to this conversation and then I had to read through the responses to see what I could add. Most of the points, good and bad, are contained in the replies. So I tried to apply an analogy using the experience of similar but different events.
The difference between having an account on social media platforms from the tech bros (X, BlueSky, Threads) versus participating on Mastodon is like two different types of cocktail parties. One is closer to a corporate event like those held at industry conferences. The other is a neighborhood get-together at someone's house.

Der internationale #Handel mit #Weißspitzenhochseehaien und #Walhaien ist künftig verboten.
Die

Beschluss der Weltartenkonferenz: Handel mit Haien erstmals verboten
Wer Weißspitzenhochseehaie oder Walhaie verkauft, macht sich künftig strafbar: Die Weltartenkonferenz stellt den Handel mit manchen Hai-Arten erstmals unter Strafe.

Spotify lowers monetization eligibility for video podcasters to three episodes, 2,000 consumption hours, and 1,000 engaged audience members over a 30-day period (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/07/spotify-lowers-monetization-t…

Spotify lowers monetization threshold for video podcasts | TechCrunch
Spotify is dropping the minimum episode requirement to three, minimum consumption hours to 2,000, and engaged audience member threshold to 1,000 over the last 30 days.

When i don't have time to read all the posts in a Mastodon list, i now use a Gemini App (made in Google AI Studio) to quickly make a summary and overview of the highlights, shared links etc.
Mastodon lists are a great way to organize your Mastodonfeed by the way.
#mastodonlists #AI

*me staring at this having no idea where to categorize myself* 😂 https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/115998255721026083

#TheEND

It wouldn't be a proper #LFC match without me once yelling at my TV to "call the penalty, you cowards!" Graeme Le Saux suggesting "Wirtz's leg actually came into Trossard" had me apoplectic.
Trossard already being on a yellow does not excuse a body check with no touch on the ball.
Ah, but the touch was heavy? So was the touch on Konate's penalty vs Leeds. In …

Ich gebe ja zu, ich bin nicht oft in #Zürich-Nord und kenne mich dort nicht gut aus. Wohin also macht man einen #Sonntagsspaziergang bei diesem kalten Wetter?
Die im Sommer eingeweihte #Einhausung

Megan Gooch and Amy Warner May on survey results - what staff want their CEO to know about AI, and what they're not telling their CEO! #ff2025

OpenAI says 40M Americans turn to ChatGPT daily for health information, per an analysis of anonymized interactions, seeing it as an "ally" for health care (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/05/chatgpt-openai-health-insurance-aca

Exclusive: 40 million Americans turn to ChatGPT for health care
OpenAI's new report shows how chatbots can help navigate health care.

Mein heutiger #sonnenaufgang am #Brombachsee (gesendet noch in der liegenden Position) #Wohnmobil am See

According to linkedin Kailen Sheridan is still the skyblue goalie.
#nwsl #gothamFC

hiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…

Just a reminder for everyone on social media; you can’t choose your legacy. https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116001855549385937

Szoboszlai is back to MOTM performances. I thought he was absolutely terrific. With Gravenberch as his backstop and Wirtz and Bradley floating around in triangular support, he was able to keep #LFC in possession and deny Arsenal a lot of possession.
Frimpong is so ridiculously fast and can certainly dribble, but the question is the final ball. It does make you want to see him on the right and Ngu…

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 07-01-2026 03:00
Temperatur: (min: -3,9C) -3,8C (max: -2,2C)
Feuchte: 94%
Luftdruck: 1014,8 hPa (langsam fallend)
Windrichtung: 178 Grad
W…

"Norway’s Deep Sea Mining Ban Strengthens Global Movement for Ocean Protection"
#Norway #Oceans #Environment

Norway's Deep Sea Mining Ban Strengthens Global Movement for Ocean Protection | Happy Eco News
Norway's deep sea mining ban will protect Arctic waters until 2029 after environmental pressure and green party negotiations. The decision ends public funding for mineral mapping and strengthens global resistance to ocean floor extraction. Over 40 countries now support pausing deep sea mining while recycling alternatives could provide needed minerals without environmental destruction.

I have prompted Google Gemini (with Nano Banana engine) to generate the image of historical Jesus by using scientific data on him and ignoring iconography
Here, we see a typical wandering preacher from Galilee of the first years AD. This is a plausible image of how the real Jesus might look like
https://

Georgy Kurakin (@georgykurakin.bsky.social)
I have prompted Google Gemini (with Nano Banana engine) to generate the image of historical Jesus by using scientific data on him and ignoring iconography 🧪✝️ Here, we see a typical wandering preacher from Galilee of the first years AD. This is a plausible image of how the real Jesus might look like

0:0 gegen Leipzig: Punkt gesichert und die Zu-Null-Serie in der Bundesliga hält! 💪 Ein faires Ergebnis, auch wenn der Honorat-Treffer ärgerlich war.
Fokus jetzt: DFB-Pokal gegen St. Pauli! 🏆
Achtung, Falle! Die größte Gefahr ist, den Gegner nach dem jüngsten 3:0 zu unterschätzen.
Was ist euer Tipp für das Pokalspiel? 👇
#BMG

I'm really happy to see @… receive the 2025 Rails Luminary Award! 🎉
He’s done so much for the Rails ecosystem and the broader Ruby community.
He's always humble, thoughtful, and full of positive energy.
And I think that he never sleeps. 😅
Feels great to know that people like him are part of our community.
Huge congrats, Marco!…

by accident i stumbled on this review by the #NSA on Bruce Schneiers "Applied Crypto" book from long ago.

@… I've used Joplin for a while and really like it.

while (true) {
   purr
}

Given the defensive and set piece struggles LFC have had and going up a team that excels at set pieces and pressuring defenses... I'm delighted with the result.
Arsenal, like Newcastle in MW1, completely lost their heads and almost gave the game away. I actually believe that Slot, a man who's been under the threat of being sacked, outcoached Arteta.
If Frimpong could place a final pass, or if John Brooks wasn't asleep on VAR duty to see Trossard drop Wirtz in the box,…

Neuer Frankfurt #Tatort
Bevor die Hoffnung stirbt, ist der Informant tot | taz.de
https://taz.de/Neuer-Frankfurt-Tatort/!6129869/
> Vermisste werden gesucht im Frankfurt…

Meooooow

Saw Zootopia 2 today because sure why not. I must say, the computer rendering of fur has come a long long way since Jim Kajiya's teddy bear.
How is Jim these days?

Had to time-shift the match.
The change to the diamond 4-4-2 provided some needed stability. It is a more conservative setup from Slot, who prefers a more aggressive shape and ultimately wants to allow his attacking midfield to be able to freely rotate and drift into spaces, causing overloads, vacancies, and defensive confusion.
But when a team is in a rut and needs to stop the bleeding, the old standard works. Everyone knows a 4-4-2 and confusion in duties is largely eliminated.…

CES 2026: self-driving truck company Kodiak partners with Bosch to develop a hardware and software system to turn standard semi-trucks into autonomous vehicles (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/kodiak-taps-bosch-to-scale-…

Kodiak taps Bosch to scale its self-driving truck tech | TechCrunch
There is no timeline for when these systems will become available. But once they do, Kodiak could bring its tech to more trucks, faster.

So you know how keyboards in VR are a pain in the ass?
Maybe Tacoma’s method for text input is actually a good option for VR, sign language. I don’t really know sign language and I know they differ between languages, but for hand tracking headsets gestures seem like a way better text input than most VR keyboards out there

bison: Bison dominance
Dominance relations among a group of American bisons in the National Bison Range in Moiese Montana, observed in 1972.
This network has 26 nodes and 314 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/bison
Ridiculogram:

Several folks asked about day/night. These were both made at roughly mid-day a few seconds apart.

@…
Cinnamon and MATE should be fine. System sounds are audible on FreeBSD 15.0-RC4.
VirtualBox host: Kubuntu.
@…
#FreeBSD

Good Morning #Canada
It's a brisk -23°C this morning but the infallible #Weather app is telling me that we will be -5°C or warmer over the next few weeks. Break out the shorts, Spring has arrived.
In preparation for the big thaw, I think we need a semi-regular series on the top 25 rivers in Canada. Why top 25? Hey, it's my account, my nonsensical rules. We'll count down to #1 in terms of length because size matters.
Today an honourable mention, the St. Lawrence River, commonly referred to as the St. Lawrence Seaway. Although one of the most recognizable rivers in eastern Canada, and one that drains the largest watershed on the planet, it doesn't make it into the top 50 longest rivers in the country.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Geography #CanadaRivers
https://youtu.be/IjKoi1_ZCQk

Two screenshots of the lock screen on my iPhone 17 Pro whose difference confounds me. In one the contrast is good and I can read the numbers on the pad, but the time and battery status are hidden. In the other, the key pad is pretty much invisible but I can see the time and battery. I have no idea how to trigger the contrastier one; it just sometimes does this.
Is this phenomenon known? Explicable? It's as if the new UI is sometimes ashamed to show how unreadable it is and compensates before hiding again.
Somebody made this happen. Any idea why?

@… Great story!

Chinese automotive chipmaker Black Sesame says its Huashan A2000 chip passed the US Commerce and Defense Departments' "relevant reviews" for global sales (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3338742/<…

Chinese chipmaker Black Sesame’s Huashan A2000 clears US review hurdle
The chip has passed relevant reviews following nearly a year of technical clarifications and communications with US authorities.

The Austrian National Soccer Team has been Selected to Stay in Goleta,
and Practice at UCSB
The European team,
Österreichische Fußballnationalmannschaft,
will stay at The Ritz-Carlton Bacara in Goleta California
and practice at UC Santa Barbara’s Harder Stadium in June
…

Austrian National Soccer Team Selected to Stay in Goleta, Practice at UCSB
The Good Land will say “willkommen” or welcome to the Austrian National Soccer Team this summer for the 2026 World Cup.  The European team,

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/restore-fully-free-and-open-access

I have to time-shift today's match, which might be a mercy!
Having seen the lineups, allow me to say up front that I wish Slot would have started Jones over Mac Allister.
#LFC

@… colder than a well digger’s rear end.

Sources: Fluidstack, an AI cloud provider that is aiding Google's effort to expand access to its TPUs, is in talks to raise $700M led by Situational Awareness (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-cloud-pr…

AI Cloud Provider Aiding Google’s Chip Push Is in Talks to Raise $700 Million
Fluidstack, a cloud provider aiding Google’s AI chip push, is in talks to raise more than $700 million in new financing, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. A one-year-old investment fund started by ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner is in talks to lead the financing, one ...

Finished reading "So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin" by Steve Martin and Adam Gopnik.
Gopnik interviews his friend Martin in intimate conversations about his multifaceted career: magic, comedy, film, novels, banjo, and art collecting.
Martin emerges as a true renaissance man, applying analytical rigor across diverse art forms. Focused explorations rather than exhaustive biography, their friendship creates genuine reflection.
5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin
Steve Martin is more candid than he’s ever been about h…

Irked because my watch showed 7.5 km (not that I was looking at it desperately or anything…) 😉
An afternoon meeting prevented my running in daylight on the greenway, so I headed over to one of the high schools to use their track. (My favorite track at the middle school is still all torn apart for some sort of culvert work. 😤)
One end is all pine trees and the fragrant smell each lap was lovely.
4/1 minute run/walk intervals for 7.46 km in 57:43, average pace of 7:44/km.

@… Yes, I heard that helicopter and pulled an app to see what it was. Very odd. (As an aside, helicopters now fill me with dread.)

A thread about my use of AI in coding through 2025. Expecting similar results in 2026.

As Spock would say, "fascinating".

Finished "The Memory Collectors" by Dete Meserve.
A company has developed technology to transport your consciousness into your past, but only for one hour and without any precision as to when. Some go to see a lost loved one. Others to briefly escape the pain of future traumas.
Four strangers find themselves marooned on the same day and begin to discover a connection.
Strong start but devolves into an all too neat saccharine finish.
3/5 ⭐⭐⭐

The Memory Collectors
Four strangers time travel to the past and find themsel…

Got in a late afternoon run on the same stretch of the greenway. The weather feels like it’s early spring, which is both nice and disconcerting at the same time.
7.75 km in 58:26 via 4/1 minute run/walk intervals, with an average pace of 7:32/km
#Running

This is the year of the set piece. A big part of Arsenal winning close games is their ability to conjure a moment when other parts of the attack are misfiring. Long throws back in vogue as well.
#LFC are near the bottom of the league on both sides. Can’t defend them and can’t score them.
Watching back the tying goal is an agony. Zonal marking can absolutely work, but it hasn’t at all for LF…

Everyone focused on the amount spent on Wirtz & Isak, but the real story was the last minute jilting from Crystal Palace on Guehi while having sold Quansah to afford offensive firepower. Any stability whatsoever on defense would have the team in such a better place. Is that now 3 or 4 games with points dropped in stoppage time?
It’s not just Konate, but he’s a massive liability. Gomez should start instead, at least temporarily, but now Bradley’s suspension means more disruption.

I don’t know what to say. We are terrible on set pieces. Just terrible.
Here is a place where I think it’s absolutely fair to lambast Slot.
#LFC

Ten minutes plus stoppage time for Konate to blow the lead.
#LFC

Gorgeous dummy by Mac Allister and the man who has carried this insipid squad all year finishes beautifully.
#LFC

My kingdom for competent defending. Asking unseriously if Konate is match fixing.
#LFC

It’s #LFC so we round up all VAR reviews. It’s not corrections of clear and obvious errors, but rather adjudication from afar.
Ridiculous.

Brace from Ekitike! Hiuge energy to win back the ball and Bradley delivers a peach of a ball in.
#LFC

Ekitike!!!! What a calm and collected finish.
#LFC

Gakpo has shown you can drive on the Leeds defense from the left side, so the second half screams for bringing on Ngumoha or Chiesa. Both can play incredibly directly.
Gakpo is a lightning rod for criticism while the side is struggling, which i think is a bit unfair, but there are some nuggets of truth in it. His decision making is inconsistent and his chemistry with Kerkez nonexistent.
Otherwise a mostly good half. Not enough shots, but fewer from outside the box which is good.<…

Gakpo does so many things right, but his mistakes are killing good chances.
#LFC

Good cross in from Gakpo, but the better choice was to feed the completely undefended Kerkez underlap into the box.
#LFC

Unlucky on the deflection and unlucky on the crossbar just before. Good spell of minutes for #LFC here.

What a wild finish! Beating that late press was so impressive, as Arsenal are a terrific pressing team. Deserved by Villa. 👏
#AVLARS #fedifc

Partly bright and sunny, but fully cold and with generous amounts of wind. “Brisk” doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Still, I am a freak and love this weather. It felt good to be out moving. #TeamShorts of course.
Walked briefly twice to bring my HR down a bit and then stopped to mug at this beautiful Great Blue Heron looking for their lunch. 🐟