TIL that today (the half-hour left on the West Coast) in the Mayan Long Count is 13.0.13.8.1. What’s cool is that someone has wired up the Wikipedia page about “Mesoamerican Long Count calendar” to say what today is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamer
The Supreme Court ‘s conservative majority on Monday
sounded skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.
A ruling, likely to come by late June, that bars counting ballots arriving after Election Day
would send officials scrambling in 14 states and the District of Columbia, just a few months before the 2026 midterm congressional elections to change their ballot rules.
A guide to Andy Burnham
1) Broadly principled and well meaning.
2) Seduced by growthist thinking despite encouraging some green initiatives. Result, those initiatives are highly compromised and too small scale to count. Examples, i) Building on green space, ii) failure to enact effective measures to restrict private motoring - all carrots no sticks.
3) A tendency to associate with 'celebrities'.
/Contd
Andy Burnham seeks permission to stand in by-election
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#satire #potus45
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Count Downs:
🎵 Funky Teesha
#CountDowns
Neat ideas for navigating threaded comments & new comments highlighting. I kinda thought of this but really wonder about its usefulness.
- If there's too much nesting of comments, the sidebar space won't be enough
- It shows "[INT] [NAME]" where INT = vote count. Higher count is probably more read-worthy?
- Per-day filter for new comments highlighting is probably too broad in scope if the conversation is too active.
- Sidebar won't appear on sma…
Both Ends Count! Just How Good are LLM Agents at "Text-to-Big SQL"?
Germ\'an T. Eizaguirre, Lars Tissen, Marc S\'anchez-Artigas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21480
Supreme Court Likely to Divide Closely in Watson over Whether States May Count Ballots Received after Election Day in Federal Elections; Key Justices Don't Tip Hands (Rick Hasen/Election Law Blog)
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=155013
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p69#a260323p69
From the comments: “World leaders now know that Trump’s word means nothing and that no member of his administration can be trusted. They also know that even if 2028 ends the current nightmare, America will always be just four years away from electing someone of his ilk. For that reason, they should count this as a permanent rupture.”
Opinion | We Don’t Need Greenland. We Need Allies. - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/OAzIw
@… I count two posts in /r/freebsd – not a ton there.
@… @…
To ChatGPT: Draw a plot of effective visual resolution as a function of penetrating electrode count using the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant approach for up to 16,000 penetrating wire electrodes in V1. https://chatgpt.com/share/6970cd96-60f4-8004-8b95-5fb1f3d58cf8 At …
RE: #AffordableHousing problem, he has also presented policy suggestions to government. Not sure they listened but they should have.
Let's increase his follower count so more of us are educated on this important issue. Smash that follow button and boost him to your followers.
#MastodonCanada #EconomicPolicy
One Year of Trump:
The Time to Act Is Now,
While We Still Can.
We can’t count on change being brought about by elections when we can’t count on elections.
We can’t count on the freedoms & resources we enjoy today to still be available to us tomorrow
https://www.
"After running through terminal count for the #ArtemisII wet dress rehearsal, the launch team paused the clock at T-33 seconds in the countdown," says https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/19/live-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal-coverage/: "Teams are now reconfiguring and replenishing the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen systems, in order to recycle back to the T-10 minute mark and perform another run of terminal count. [...] The entire recycle process lasts approximately 60 to 90 minutes."
If you look at it's history you can count on Russian intelligence services to do everything they can to increase the violence and polarisation in France, using the existing anger and unrest to the max...
#hybridwarfare #russia
@… So we're not talking containers perse, we're talking user-facing services on the LXC host. Yeah, ok then, my count is significantly lower.
Got AH running on my cluster and use a node selector to get it on nodes that have the right hardware connected. Same with my ADS-B set up, two nodes has an RTL-SDR connected to them so the ultrafeeder pod can …
#silentSunday #elkOfMastodon
Elderly bull elk relaxing. October 2014
😂 Only those who has done maps stuff knows this (tho’ not the hydrogen atom part)
S01e02
Starfleet Academy is a weird show. I'm trying to not watch it as a startrek show to give it more a chance.
This show is much easier to compare to Lower Decks and Prodigy then other shows IMHO.
Which makes it more clear the show is too loose. The script just need way more polish and pace to make ever scene and line count. Main kids characters should be more involved and adults less involved. I know too little about these characters.
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.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph
IBM closes its $11B deal for data streaming company Confluent, unveiled last December; CEO Arvind Krishna expects IBM to maintain its head count over five years (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/ibm-closes
To Elon Musk's xAI: Draw a plot of effective visual resolution as a function of penetrating electrode count using the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant approach for up to 16,000 penetrating wire electrodes in V1. At 16,000: N x N = 36.5 x 36.5 https://x.com/i/grok/share/72bac4fcff5
I read this piece this morning ... it is worth reading..
The headline is misleading.
"Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done"
The "Everyone" here is more about other countries than about every human.
But that is a useful view because it highlights how trump has become an overt danger to all other countries.
The thought that crossed my mind was this: The leaders and people of those countries now have solid grounds to consider trump an e…
"Federal sex-crimes prosecutor Marie Villafaña repeatedly urged her boss, Alexander Acosta, then U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, to pursue a 60-count indictment against Jeffrey Epstein in 2007, but Acosta dismissed her requests."
Ex-Trump official once shut down 60-count federal indictment against Epstein: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/epstein-2676467249/
Man, would it kill Bluesky to increase their character count limit to the standard 500? The 300 limit mark feels like a remnant of their initial intentions to open up Twitter, but now it looks like they are trying to wall up their own little garden.
Looking around on my desk and I think I count about 15 separate physical media formats, I may have a problem
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco,
a Republican running for Governor of California, has
💥seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials,
❌ saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy.
County elections officials have disputed Bianco's claims
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, called Bianco’s move unprecedented and says it is designed to sow distrust in elections
https://furry.engineer/@notthatdelta/115906156652610253
More than 10 times the vote count and the trend continues.
96% no, 4% yes, 5,229 votes.
ht…
"It’s a matter now of humanity getting to the point where it’s now qualifying to make some of its own decisions in relation to its own information. That’s why we’ve come to a new moment of integrity."
#buckminsterfuller
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/only-integrity-is-going-to-count/
Hey, Denmark is a monarchy. Get His Maj Frederik, who’s a good-looking dude, to offer the orange one a Royal Duchy that comes with a cool golden crown or something like that if he’ll shut up about Greenland. Orange guy loves royalty.
https://www.kongehuset.dk/en/the-royal-family/…
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.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph
From the always interesting http://wordsmith.org:
You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (16 Mar 1929-1993)
One pattern you can always count on: if you ever explain a technology by describing how the human and social aspects matter more than the obscure technical details, a certain cohort of dudes who are inept at socialization will lash out about their insecurities by trying to condescend. Who here thinks I wrote ~5000 words on Markdown but I don’t know what plain text files are?
Really good overview of plans to help Joshua trees survive climate change on National Geographic, with some description of a project I'd only heard rumored, which might aaaaalmost count as what we call assisted migration
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environ…
I enjoy LLMs the most when they are augmenting my existing skillset. I've lost count of how many demo APIs I've built with FastAPI for workshops but Claude built this one, configured it for deployment to Railway (a first for me), wrote the mildly amusing sample data I wanted, and switched to Scalar for docs with no fuss.
While I carry on with content I actually wanted to cover without getting bogged down in the details of the demo that's only there to let the attendees try some skills!
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#satire #potus45
I have built from source vim and Macvim thousands of times (really). I can count on my fingers the times the build has failed.
Every time I have been able to build Emacs from source on macOS has been reason to celebrate. As most of the time it fails.
According to my fact-based feelings, cats count in hexadecimal
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Polymarket and Kalshi count Donald Trump Jr. as an adviser, and Trump Media plans to launch Truth Predict, raising ethical questions during Trump's second term (Sharon LaFraniere/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/donald-…
What is “social media”?
What do you actually want to ban?
Does Github count?
Does an anorexia-support forum count?
Does a queer-support forum count?
Does the schools own homework-submission system count?
Does Whatsapp, which the kids use to talk to family and to bully each other?
How about Telegram that the kids use to talk to their drug dealers?
How is it different?
Are we really saying nobody under 18 can watch youtube, and expecting that to make life better for those kids rather than worse?
How are you going to define ‘social media’ such that you’ll ban the harm you think you see without also banning any chance of support for a person looking to learn to program, or cope with their abusive parents, or seek advice about being anorexic or queer?
Is it really a good idea to attach a label to every child account for all the websites they visit? You want the kids to all have a big “Child” tag on them as they wonder the net? Might that not increase rather than decrease their vulnerability?
A Swiss canton has suspended its pilot of electronic voting after failing to count 2,048 votes cast in national referendums held on March 8.
Basel-Stadt announced the problem with its e-voting pilot, open to about 10,300 locals living abroad and 30 people with disabilities, last Friday afternoon.
It encouraged participants to deliver a paper vote to the town hall or use a polling station but admitted this would not be possible for many.
By the close of polling on Sunday, its …
Following federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.
Yeeha! This would be one heck of a route leak:
... but presumably just some local CIDR Report breakage. :-) Reaching out to Geoff.
I just installed `asncounter`[1] by @… (blog post[2]) to get a glimpse who is accessing one of my servers. Turns out, 99% of the traffic originates from just two ASNs in Brazil: Mega Tele Informatica and R3 Telecom. I'm in Germany, my server is in Germany (I believe, it's a Hetzner root server).
I guess I could safely block these ASNs. The only thi…
Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
SERVALAN: GREATER?
[Landing module]
AVON: Self-defence. Some animals bristle out their fur to frighten their enemies. But that doesn't count for much in the dark.
VILA: So what does Sopron do?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/601…
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
fly_larva — Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`, `'ad'`, `'da'`, `'dd'`), and synapse count.
My #silentsunday.. I only had a chat with two guys at the summit and one guy a bit below.
Besides that... 4-5h silence. If we don't count the minutes I was following the activities of a woodpecker a couple of meters away from me 😊
It took me really efforts to get out. But - as usual - it was worth it.
So there has been a school shooting in British Columbia - and I guess since I spent so much time living and working in the states, I forgot that these are horrifying and traumatizing events - which may just be down to the coverage in the media in the US versus Canada.
That's not to say that the coverage here has been good - quite the opposite in fact - but I will get to that at the moment.
I will qualify this in that I will freely admit that I have no expertise in either mass …
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is a leading Republican candidate for California governor,
has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last November's election
and is investigating whether they were fraudulently counted.
"This investigation is simple:
Physically count the ballots and compare that result with the total votes recorded,"
Bianco said at a news conference Friday.
The unusual probe drew a sharp rebuke from California Attorn…
All the little things #PhanpySocialDev
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
fly_larva — Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`, `'ad'`, `'da'`, `'dd'`), and synapse count.
I’m fully convinced that when the Mars landing nears they’ll first send a ship full of South Asian workers to prep the landing site and construct buildings and won’t make them count as first humans on Mars
I would like to thank my arms for always being by my side, my legs for always supporting me, and finally my fingers because I can always count on them.
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Count down to trump calling her "Renee Nicole Bad"
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.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph
Donald Trump does not think strategically.
Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally.
He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later.
He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places.
He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions.
He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong.
Instead, he acts on whim and …
webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 334 nodes and 32988 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…
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.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph
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This is a joke, not a threat: rescind the warrant.
#satire #potus45
Sources: US considers limiting Chinese companies to 75K Nvidia H200 chips each, less than half of what some want to buy; AMD MI325 chips also count toward a cap (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02…
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.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph
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.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph
A Slew of Interesting #Amicus Briefs Filed in Support of Mississippi's Argument That It Can Count Timely Postmarked Ballots Arriving After Election Day in #SCOTUS Watson Case - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=153773
webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 434 nodes and 30462 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…
webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 300 nodes and 1155 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…
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.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph
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.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph
webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 348 nodes and 33250 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…
webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 348 nodes and 33250 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…