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Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

Was genau stimmt mit diesen „Journalisten“ nicht?
#Framing #Ukraine #Krieg

I think this is an anti-capitalist framing that fails to really engage with intersectional feminism. (Now, please call me out if I'm wrong on this, because I'm still figuring a lot of shit out but...) Racism, misogyny, transphobia, and other forms of bigotry are not distractions that allow capitalist exploitation. They are interlocking systems, of which capitalist exploitation is a part.
The standard framing fails to engage with *what power is.* Impoverishing communities is not the goal. The goal is power. The goal is to create more coercive relationships, which interlock with all the other forms of coercion.
When you understand what the #Epstein class was doing, when you understand the way he specifically leveraged transphobia, misogyny, and economic power *together* as part of his sex trafficking, you realize there's actually something else going on here.
The anti-capitalist framing misses one of the the most important opportunities we have in this moment: the ability to permanently tie this structure to the natural repulsion we all feel towards coercion (especially as it manifests as sexual violence against children).

Stop framing it as a law to ban social media for under 16s when what it is is a law to require everyone over the age of 16 to hand over their ID before they are allowed on the internet.
"Social media ban for under 16s" doesn't sound like it will affect adults. It will.

Scientists warn UK biodiversity report may distort evidence with security framing #UnitedKingdom

Scientists warn UK biodiversity report may distort evidence with security framing
Scientists have warned that a new UK Government report on global biodiversity loss and national security risks distorting evidence and driving ineffective policy by framing ecological degradation and its impacts on migration as a security threat. The report, "Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security," was published in early 2026 and argues that accelerating biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse pose mounting security threats to the UK.

One of the hazards of photographing a much-photographed thing is that, after careful consideration of viewpoint, composition and framing, you take exactly the same pictures as everyone else who has carefully considered viewpoint, composition and framing.
Here are two photographs I took of the Atlas Fountain at Castle Howard, along with the two illustrations from its Wikipedia entry. Years apart in time, inches apart in space.

What if the next global arms race isn’t about nukes — but AI systems that can autonomously find and exploit software vulnerabilities at machine speed?
Check out my latest CSO piece that explores the narrowing US-China AI gap and the unsettling implications if China develops its own “Mythos”-class cyber AI.
Thanks to Gal Tal-Hochberg of Beacon Security for his help in framing this issue.

What happens when China’s AI catches up to Mythos?
As Washington and Beijing meet this week, the gap between American and Chinese AI is narrowing — and the technology that could destabilize the world’s digital infrastructure is leaking out with potential cyber Cold War implications.

Hoe de overheid de luchtruimherziening verkoopt: framing als strategie | SchipholWatch
#schipholwatch #luchtvaart

Framing an empirical story about numbers (in effect) as a culture war is a bonkers starting point anyway.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5ebaazqa3ghohwlelj7jmt5o/post/3mnm4uybpz22n

Dave Mathieson (@tinydbass.bsky.social)
"In the culture wars, there is no space for the middle ground" is a weird framing. There is plenty of middle ground, which is what many other countries occupy where they balance data centers against electricity capacity, prices and emissions. The government have chosen to make us a huge outlier. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Greenspot nightshade, Solanum douglasii, at Sepulveda Basin this spring
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Im Gebäudemodernisierungsgesetz ist nun plötzlich die Forderung nach klimaNEUTRALEN Heizsystemen ab 2045 verschwunden. Dort wird jetzt von klimafreundlichen Gasen (und auch Öl!) gesprochen. Was bitte soll das sein?
Das ist ein Framing und damit Lobbying der Öl- und Gaswirtschaft - mit freundlichen Grüßen. Leider sind in der vergangenen Woche da viele Medien darauf reingefallen und haben diese verschleiernden Parolen benutzt, statt eine faktenbasierte Sprache zu nutzen.

As Christians around the world celebrate Easter Sunday,
we go to Palestine to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac,
pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramallah and director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice,
located in the city of Jesus Christ’s birth.
This year’s Easter preparations come against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran,
which many Christian nationalists in the U.S., including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
are framing in ext…

“Two Versions of Christianity”: Pope Leo Calls for Peace as U.S. Uses Religion to Justify Iran War
As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Easter Sunday, we go to Palestine to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac, pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramallah and director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice, located in the city of Jesus Christ’s birth. This year’s Easter preparations come against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, which many Christian nationalists in the U.S., including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, are framing in extremist religious terms. R…

Klimapolitik wird¹ als Kulturkampf inszeniert.
Das heißt auch, die Lösung eines² Sachproblems ist in diesem Diskurs nachrangig.
Solang wir das nicht verstehen, glauben in der Sache argumentieren zu können, rennen wir gegen eine Gummiwand. Wir brauchen Strategien, das Framing als kulturelle Frage³ aufzubrechen. Solange es ein Ingroup/Outgroup, d.h. „wir“ gegen „die“ bleibt, können Sachargumente nur wirken, wenn sie diese Grenze unterlaufen. Erst wenn die Wärmepumpe nicht mehr Symb…

“How may the compulsive programmer be distinguished from a merely dedicated, hard-working professional programmer? First, by the fact that the ordinary professional programmer addresses himself to the problem to be solved, whereas the compulsive programmer sees the problem mainly as an opportunity to interact with the computer. The ordinary computer programmer will usually discuss both his substantive and his technical programming problem with others. He will generally do lengthy preparatory work, such as writing and flow diagramming, before beginning work with the computer itself. His sessions with the computer may be comparatively short. He may even let others do the actual console work. He develops his program slowly and systematically. When something doesn't work, he may spend considerable time away from the computer, framing careful hypotheses to account for the malfunction and designing crucial experiments to test them. Again, he may leave the actual running of the computer to others. He is able, while waiting for results from the computer, to attend to other aspects of his work, such as documenting what he has already done. When he has finally composed the program he set out to produce, he is able to complete a sensible description of it and to turn his attention to other things. The professional regards programming as a means toward an end, not as an end in itself. His satisfaction comes from having solved a substantive problem, not from having bent a computer to his will.”
—Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976

Ja, schade, @…. Erstmal Bürgerinitiativen für die eigene Agenda vereinnahmen und dann gereizt ad-hominem auf Kritik reagiren. "tech-solutionistisch" ist wahrscheinlich der Gegenentwurf zu "irgendein abwertendes Framing deiner Wahl" oder ach was weiß ich...

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“Prompt Engineering” is the wrong language framing. It’s really “dialectical design.”

I wanna jump one more time on the whole "distraction" framing, because this is a point that needs to be hammered home (and I need a reminder to write something longer).
Attacks on trans youth are not a distraction from other types of coercion, they are central to it. Attacks on trans youth come from a conceptualization of children as property, which is literally patriarchy in the Roman sense of the legal objectification all people who share a household as belonging to a man. This legal structure, Roman slave law, continues to be the root of property rights and therefore the foundation of capitalism.
But colonialism also extends from it through the infantalization of colonized people as a justification for oppression. This can also be turned inward again manifesting as the justification for police (that is, some people "can't handle themselves and need external authority to act right").
The #Epstein stuff isn't some weird thing that rich people get away with, it's core to how wealth works. Money isn't useful by itself, it's a proxy for power. One manifestation of power is being able to violate laws that constrain others (this is the "freedom of the monarch" that Graeber talks about in Dawn of Everything). The war in Iran, especially the threats of nuclear weapons and genocide is not a distraction from the #EpsteinFiles, but rather a manifestation of the same thing.
Power must be demonstrated to affirm that it is real. War is a demonstration power. Violating the law without consequences is a demonstration of power. The most taboo things are using nuclear weapons and child sexual abuse. He has already done one of those, and he is going to do everything he can to do the other.
These are not distractions, these are all manifestations of the underlying thing that we need to fight. But we need to make sure we're fighting it as a single thing. We have to tie these things together, because if we do not then we risk reproducing the same thing again but worse.

We've been out a bit. We hiked up the #wallberg near #tegernsee.
First half was without snow, second half was snowy. But as it is a very frequented route, it wasn't a problem at all. Near the top there were really a lot of people (thanks to the rope way 🚡).
Together with brig…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116337385332834177
And even this: It's not a _purpose of genAI_, it's a _purpose of using genAI this way_. There are people doing this, and even this framing struggles to keep them in focus because of the effect. It's super effective way to wash accountability.
There's a reason I bang the 'these are tools' drum. Tools have users and operators. There are people with names and addresses who are doing this.

This goes to the quilter tomorrow. The biggest one I've done and no way I could quilt it myself. Near impossible for me to even get it kinda square (Hint: Its not) Moss kept walking on it and it kept sliding on the floor. Pattern is Big Island Sky by Whole Circle Studios #quilting

“Mike Johnson, House Republican extremists, and Donald Trump are why people missed their flights on Saturday.”
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3mi6bs2svuk26

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
This “lawmakers remain at a stalemate” framing is all over the place and is so bad. While technically accurate, it’s misleading and a disservice to readers. If Senate Rs, Senate Ds, & House Ds agree to something, but House Rs keep that deal from getting to Trump, the framing should reflect that.

Warum #TaxTheRich zu kurz gedacht ist:

Disclaimer: nix dagegen Reichen was wegzunehmen, so generell
1. "the Rich", der Fokus auf Reiche oder Überreiche blendet halt komplett aus, wie es ersal zu diesem Reichtum kommt. Die Grünen haben auch gar kein Interesse das in Frage zu stellen. Die haben kein Problem mit der Profitmacherei an sich solange es nicht "maß…

Getting it right (or not) in camera
Rather than framing it as absolute stance about the role of (post)processing in photography, I'd consider "getting it right in camera" to be more a question of aspiration (in the moment), of balance (in process) and even more so a question of framing one's own intention, style and interpretation of photography as discipline, a question where one draws the line, if any, around photography as a sub-field within the much larger space of visual media/exp…

"Native apps are bad at rendering text" is interesting framing. Web browsers are native apps, after all, and they're great at rendering web text. Native PDF viewers are great at rendering PDF text. And native rich text editors are great at RTF text—with rulers containing tab stops, etc.
(Back in the '90s, I built parsers and renderers for all three of these: OmniWeb on AppKit, OmniPDF on AppKit, and RTF text for Java.)
The very real, hard problem is round-trippi…

Each week, Metacurity offers our subscribers a run-down of the top infosec-related long reads we couldn't get to in the daily crush of news.
This week's selection covers
--France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches,
--AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio,
--Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle,
-- Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention,
--Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety an…

Losing control of the systems meant to secure society - Best infosec long reads 5/23/26
France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches, AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio, Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle, Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention, Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety and accountability

#silentSunday #elkOfMastodon
Elderly bull elk relaxing. October 2014

"When every student in a class processes information through the same language model, they are learning to reason through the same system. This introduces a new threat vector on the developing mind.
The model's statistical biases become the student's default framing. The model's reasoning structure becomes the student's reasoning structure. LLMs homogenize not just language but also perspective and reasoning strategies. "

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.
Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

I am excited about this weird climbing plant waking up again after the winter and framing one of my windows with its leaves. Hello, friend.

Enjoying the framing of Le Carré's Agent Running in the Field, where it's clear from the beginning that the main character has already confessed his sins to 'the Office'.
I did pause reading once I saw how it might all end in calamity, but I'm glad I picked it back up #Bookstodon #LeCarré #AmReading

A structural reduction for the symmetric hit problem in four variables
Dang Vo Phuc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.02626 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.02626
arXiv:2606.02626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Let $\mathcal{A}$ be the mod $2$ Steenrod algebra, and $P(n) = \mathbb{F}_2[x_1, \dots, x_n]$ be the polynomial algebra viewed as an unstable module over $\mathcal{A}$. The symmetric hit conjecture asks whether the symmetrization of a hit monomial in $P(n)$ is always hit in the symmetric invariant subalgebra $B(n) = P(n)^{\Sigma_n}$. While resolved for $n \leq 3$, the case $n=4$ presents significant obstructions due to combinatorial complexity, orbit cancellations intrinsically tied to $\Sigma_4$-stabilizers, and the emergence of strongly spike-free survivor modules. This paper introduces a conditional structural reduction to overcome these obstructions in the domain where the numerical weight satisfies $\mu(d) \leq 4$. By integrating Walker-Wood duality with a new $\Sigma_4$-stabilizer parity analysis, we reduce the global conjecture to localized algebraic conditions: a symmetric lower-spike reduction and a strengthened four-row digital-engineering hypothesis. Assuming these inputs, the conjecture follows by lexicographic induction on the column-sum and row-sum sequences of the binary exponent matrices.
Our approach isolates the four-variable repeated-row anomaly into exact local identities, utilizing global Steenrod-kernel functionals lifted from local spike-free quotients to detect potential survivor elements. Finally, we provide explicit monomial-level computations in degrees $8$, $12$, and $14$, explicitly illustrating the stabilizer mechanism in practice and framing the precise algebraic identities required for a future unconditional proof.
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Mohammad Javad Zarif’s new Foreign Affairs essay is being read as a peace overture.
It is better understood as an attempt to convert Iran’s battlefield losses into a narrow U.S.-Iran bargain:
nuclear limits and maritime access in exchange for sanctions relief and regional reintegration.
Beneath the triumphalist framing lies an offer to cap enrichment below 3.67 percent, ratify the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Additional Protocol, transfer all enriched material to…

How Iran Should End the War
A deal Tehran could take.

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@… Der USA droht ein zweites Vietnam? Sie drohen in eine Falle zu laufen?
Das kann nun wirklich niemand wollen. Das schlimmste am Vietnamkrieg, war ja auch, nachdem die US-Armee das Land flächendeckend zerbombt haben, sie trotzdem verloren haben.
Welchen Knoten im Kopf muss man eigentlich für so ein Framing haben

This Earth Day, I'm grateful for the many different ways I get to encounter the living world, from wild landscapes to manicured gardens, from trees by the sidewalk to protected green spaces
Mt Roosevelt over Snow Lake; the Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum; a robin in New Haven; a lupine at Sepulveda Basin
#naturalist

Just to be clear, this comes from Simon(e) Weil not from my head. I heard this framing mentioned in a podcast once and it feels absolutely intuitive.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@samiamsam/116459688263848899
Rights are things you defend with guns. If you don't have guns, are not organized enough to defend them, or are unwilling to "go that far," then you don't have rights.
But I ultimately challenge the logic of "rights." The entire framing of "rights" is somewhat individualist though. Once you have the power to assert your rights, you really have no reason to support others... Which is exactly the situation we're in now.
I actually think it's worth throwing out entirely. Instead, I like the concept of "obligations." We all owe obligations to each other by way of all of our existences being intertwined. You can ignore your obligations, just like you can ignore any debt, but you can't really escape them.
They also don't require anything to exist. They exist on their own. You choose to act on those obligations or not, which again comes back to what you're willing to do... But from a different angle, and for *others* not for yourself.

Framing the Possibility Space for Technosignature Searches
Jacob Haqq-Misra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17741 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.17741