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Beatles, The:
🎵 A Day In The Life
#NowPlaying #Beatles #The
https://lennonviadinhe.bandcamp.com/track/a-day-in-the-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hKRSZhUGEhKU6aNSPBACZ

Iran's internet blackout, which costs an estimated $80M per day in economic damage, is dividing its military and civilian government, which opposes the measure (Patrick Sykes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A day in the life of an enshittificator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

I went on a #randomlibrarywalk the other day and found this book on #aerialphotography I especially love the pigeon photo with the pigeon's wings in the photo. (Shouldn't the pigeon get a photo credit too?) Also, my contribution to

🔱 The Accidental Discovery of the Most Valuable Shipwreck in History
#ocean

The Accidental Discovery of the Most Valuable Shipwreck in History
Roger Dooley’s quest, the one that would come to consume him and indeed to define his life, began in Seville, on a typically torrid day in July 1984. The thirty-nine-year-old archaeologist left his…

A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?si=qMt9tQ7fZHp4TX28

Getting back into training. Yay!
This past week I did a resilience session after not exercising consistently in a long time, and my normal work day ended up being one of the best I've had. My body felt relaxed and my mind sharp and focussed. I really feel we're made for intensity, or at least I enjoy it. Find what works for you, personally small group training with knowledgeable coaches that instruct has been life changing. I can be a workhorse if I'm told what to do. A dre…

India-based Ultrahuman launches the $479 Ring Pro, available for pre-order globally, excluding the US, after the ITC ruled in favor of Oura in a patent dispute (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/ultr…

Ultrahuman bets on redesigned smart ring to win back U.S. market after Oura dispute | TechCrunch
Ultrahuman’s Ring Pro promises 15-day battery life and a $479 price tag as the wearables maker expands its health-tech push.

Sometimes I feel that I could have my introduction much better. So I'll leave another piece here, and maybe one day I'll be able to find it again and use somewhere…
I'm a radical. I believe that every human has a right to dignity in life. Yes, even these people who allegedly "are too lazy to work".
I believe that everyone deserves safety, that nobody should be cold or starve, that everybody should be able to use a toilet or wash themselves, have access to healthcare and public transportation.
I think that restricting access to drinking water and toilets is a crime against humanity. The latter is also plain stupid, because it only leads to people using other places as toilets.
I'm so tired of the postsoviet labor cult (a kind of Polish thing). Seeing labor as a value in itself. Everyone must work, and it doesn't matter whether the work is actually beneficial, or outright harmful.
And last of all, I can't tolerate smokers. There is no excuse to harm yourself and everyone around you, just to satisfy your stupid addiction. And I'm also talking of all the random people who breathe all the toxins because smokers think they deserve to smoke everywhere, all the time.

Day Five in the Improv Narrative house, and we're in the format I like most really. A few instructive games in the first half and a couple of longer narrative stories in the second half.
The island game was supposed to teach something about not deliberately getting obstructive.
A scene where your players are told they are on one island and must end up at some point all on the other one the other side of the stage.
Set a scene, make some characters, but nobody said it was supposed to be difficult to get from one island to the other.
Yet barriers are deliberately thrown up, actually imaginary barriers since the whole thing is imaginary after all. Why should there be sharks or a quest for a boat or the sea deep and cold.
You can just wade across. You can just have a boat. You can just levitate yourself over with your hive mind psychic abilities.
Unsure about this.
There must be conflict and peril and challenges which are mastered in a story, you can't set up a hero's quest only to have the hero just happen to have a holy grail in the stationary cupboard. Already got one you see. Use it for storing pens.
Still. Finding the crowbar doesn't have to be a quest. There can just be one in the boot. Don't let things get bogged down in difficulty.
Watched a story about a lazy fellow falling into a life of crime and villainy because of his tardiness and fulfilling his teacher's prophecy that he would indeed end up as a criminal if he didn't buck up his ideas. Good repeated themes of characters making lists of his failures and nice stage-focus work when everyone was on stage at once.
Played a preacher organizing a wedding in a story about friends running a hotel.
Fun to have Reverend Priest finding sin everywhere again. Easy wipe-off sin in this case. We may have come to an end too early. Perhaps not enough obstructions put in the way. 😆
#improv #london #hooplaImpro

En Route To Fellaria
(This is just a tiny fragment, but it was one of the most memorable days and places I had a chance to visit in 2025... Surreal not just because of the many colors and textures at this time of year [late September], but also the vastness and traces of processes so much larger & older than life...)
#MountainMonday

This whole thread is such a joy to read, about migrating away from big tech and taking back control of a digital life. #TechSovereignty #TechEmpowerment
#DanmarkSkifter

The Opt-Out Project
This is a user-friendly guide to retrieving your digital life from the Tech Giants.
In a post per day over three weeks,
I'll walk you through a process for changing your digital habits and services to set you up for success in 2025 and beyond.
https://www.

Happy International Women's day — I'm currently in Luxemburg and will participate in the women's march with ~5000 participants expected. The political party déi Lénk has achieved a historic win in making abortion a right just this week!
Still, there's lots to do: Luxemburg's minister of defense will participate in this protest, despite her version of feminism being that black women can now be in the military too. A larger action to protest white, western “feminism” is planned.
N…

Been another eventful week around the "new" house. Got the shed built. What a pain in the ass metal sheds are. This one was no different. Shout-out to whoever decided it was a great idea to plastic wrap every painted panel like they were PC case panels. I hope you stub a pinky toe every other day for the rest of your life.
With that done, next task was to put up the shelf frames I brought with me. Was able to get 3 shelves cut out of the former back porch ramp plywood. Got 3…

Amplify Utah - Voices: I built my life in Utah. Now the government wants me gone. https://amplifyutah.org/point-of-view/voices-i-built-my-life-in-utah-now-the-government-wants-me-gone

Voices: I built my life in Utah. Now the government wants me gone.
Utah benefits every day from immigrants like me who work, study and contribute.

🌱 Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity, climate resilience under pressure
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-fast-trees-forests-future-biodiversity.html

Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity, climate resilience under pressure
Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils, regulate water cycles, and supply resources that humans rely on—from timber and food to recreation and shade on a hot day.

If you think #vibecoding is fine, let me ask you a single question: would you use a medical device whose software was vibecoded? And by "medical device" I mean something where a bug could literally kill you.
If you answered "oh, gawd, no!" then consider that anytime you use an #LLM to contribute to or develop an #OpenSource project, there's a chance that this code will end up powering such a device. And even if it doesn't, you're setting a trend, and it will be even more likely that the software used by these devices will be vibecoded.
I have type 1 #diabetes. I also lead a physically active life. This is both a blessing and a curse. My doctors keep suggesting Constant Glucose Monitoring systems and insulin pumps to me. And I do realize that such hardware would likely improve my blood glucose, and definitely make my life much easier (especially with a closed loop system).
So why do my fingertips look like crap, and I keep using a glucometer and insulin pens? Because I don't want to risk my life to an unnecessarily complex technology.
Admittedly, I occasionally get things wrong and suffer consequences. Or I suspect I got them wrong and worry. Or meet an unexpected situation and need to figure out a way out. Or even accept having elevated glucose levels (as in nearing 200 mg/dl) because there's just no way to safely fit insulin doses on a particular day.
But still, I prefer having control and risking my own mistakes to a device that could suddenly start pumping insulin because of a bug. And that was even before the story of the application that stripped the decimal point and gave people ten times the dose. Or the one about CGMs giving wrong high glucose alerts. Or the whole vibecoding fancy.
Back then, I could have considered such a device. Now, I'm more worried than ever. And honestly, I'm hoping that relatively simple glucometers will remain available. To think that my worst fear used to be of a mechanical fault…
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex
where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as being served contaminated food,
with children and parents at times finding worms in their meals.
Lights are reportedly left on for 24 hours a day.
South Texas Family Residential Center, in the town of #Dilley a few dozen miles from …

“I Have Never Felt So Much Fear”: Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley, TX
A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as being served contaminated food, with children and parents at times finding worms in their meals. Lights are reportedly left on for 24 hours a day. South Texas Family Residential Center, in the town of Dilley a few dozen miles from the southern border with Mexico, detains an estimated 3,500 people, more than half of them children. “I have never …

Warming winters lead to more nitrate pollution in the drinking water near farms #environment …

Warming winters lead to more nitrate pollution in the drinking water near farms
When pollution gets bad enough in the rivers supplying Iowa's largest city with drinking water, it costs Des Moines around $16,000 a day to run a special system to filter out dangerous nitrates. It's a fact of life in the agriculture-dependent state—and climate change is making the water quality problem even worse.

I have now chanced upon the latest big thread that people have been subtooting about for the last day or so. It has made my life no better than before I read it.
Here's a picture of Charley cat sitting on a chair that she has recently decided she likes. She always makes my life better.
#subtoot #cat

Good Morning #Canada
On this day in 2012 Leonard Cohen releases "Old Ideas", an album that becomes No.1 in 10 countries. It easy to forget just how big an impact Cohen made in music from the late 60s through to this album. Many fans were introduced to his music via his song "Hallelujah". Cohen first released it on his 1984 album Various Positions, though it gained massive popularity through covers by artists like Jeff Buckley and K.D. Lang. He had an incredible journey, starting as a poet, enjoying stardom in the 70s, retiring to a monastery in the 90s, and having to tour later in life to rebuild his fortune after suffering embezzlement by his agent.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianLegends
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen

Maxx Crosby calls himself ‘Raider for Life’ in emotional video after trade https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/maxx-crosby-calls-himself-raider-for-life-in-emotional-video-after-trade-3716437/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Beatles:
🎵 A Day in the Life
#TheBeatles
https://lennonviadinhe.bandcamp.com/track/a-day-in-the-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hKRSZhUGEhKU6aNSPBACZ

I cannot remember seeing any errors on #giphy

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator - Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

This came in via #B3ta but hilariously it recalls one of my first generative compositions from well-before the computer era, my submission to some CBC call for composers and done the old-fashioned way, graph paper and pencil, I used Conway's Live the same way, but on tablature for classical guitar.
It was a bitch to play and I didn't win any award, but in late-70's CBC 'classical' sensibilities, I submitted it as a lark, although I was serious. Well, mostly: the second section of Conway's Life for Guitar used a starting pattern that would last the duration, but was then CONSTRAINED by a musical rules of harmony using Jerome Kern's All The Things You Are to assassinate non-conforming tones and indeed, as expected, I found the notion of Harmony to be highly toxic. No one likes a composer with a sense of humour 😆
So far as I know, no recordings of my entry exist, the score is likely somewhere in the bottom of my notorious trunk so hated every moving day.
Conway's Life Music
https://vovanz.github.io/conways-life-music/

Apparently last week's improv class, which I missed, did indeed talk about a story spine, a template I first heard from a Pixar story course:
Once upon a time there was... And every day they would.. Until one day... And because of that... (repeat 'because' till end)...
And this week was concentrating mostly on the first bits: Playing out some scenes introducing characters, setting up their normal routine.
The nature of improv can be tricky here. Things spiral out of control quite fast. Things start happening immediately, without time to build that normal routine which you then break.
Take for instance the scene tonight at an airport. Lady rushes in: "Get me on a place as far away from here as possible, right now".
Its a great offer, but hardly a normal routine for a person. Can you really have a person whose daily routine is to fly to the furthest place they can get to immediately?
Perhaps a flashback to their normal routine then? Or perhaps make the staff the protagonist and their daily routine is to deal with crazy customers.
Character is key in the early scenes of a narrative really. Get the audience to identify with a protagonist. Who are these people, how do they know each other and what's their normal life like?
#improv #hooplaImpro #london

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
The Beatles:
🎵 A Day in the Life
#TheBeatles
https://lennonviadinhe.bandcamp.com/track/a-day-in-the-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hKRSZhUGEhKU6aNSPBACZ

Good Morning #Canada
Canadian inventors have vastly improved every day life. Consider the innovations that global citizens are now thankful for: the telephone, basketball, snowmobiles, Imax movies, hockey, canoes, bras, insulin, zippers, paint rollers, athletic support, and poutine. Sorry we're so awesome.
Now an invention by a Dartmouth emergency physician in 2022 has made it easier for emergency rooms to safely remove rings from fingers. Previously doctors and nurses would have relied on tools from hardware stores with all the scary moments a patient could experience. "You might want to look away while I do this...". A serendipitous meeting at a medical tradeshow will likely give the invention an added boost.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianInventions
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dartmouth-doctor-ring-rescue-medical-drama-the-pitt-hbo-9.7126246

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator - YouTube #b3ta
via Norwegian Consumer Council
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ