2026-01-06 00:27:47
GM John Spytek Offers Genuine Hope at the Franchise’s Darkest Hour https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/gm-john-spytek-offers-genuine-hope-franchise-s-darkest-hour-las-vegas
GM John Spytek Offers Genuine Hope at the Franchise’s Darkest Hour https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/gm-john-spytek-offers-genuine-hope-franchise-s-darkest-hour-las-vegas
Maine was the first state to abolish parole. Incarcerated Mainers, advocates hope to bring it back. | News From The States
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/maine-was-first-state-abolish-parole-incarcerated-mainers-advocates-hope-bring-it-back
"What a privilege to collaborate with microbes and chicken manure. What a relief to recognize that the call to healing and life is a call to all creation. We do not work alone!"
—Nathan T. Stucky, Director of the Farminary project at Princeton, in his piece for the new issue of the YDS journal Reflections
2025 NFL playoff picture: One reason for hope for seven teams on the bubble, including Cowboys, Chiefs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-playoff-picture-reasons-for-hope-…
Cowboys hope to escape Lions’ den with their playoff lives https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-hope-to-escape-lions-den-with-their-playoff-lives
In the spirit of #FOSDEM2026 being sponsored by Google, I hope HackerTrain is brought to you by Ryanair.
#google #surveillanceCapitalism
In an attempt to embody what have recently been described as “male virtues” I’ve unsubscribed from the NYT. There’s still good material in their product but I don’t need to have my day ruined by clicking on the wrong “Opinion” link.
PS1: It’s now easy to unsub.
PS2: No, I’m not serious about “male virtues”, it was a lowlight in a piece I’m not gonna link to or mention the title of, don’t want to ruin anyone else’s day.
PS3: My hope that there still exist reasonable conservat…
I hope this snow goes away soon, I'm getting dangerously low on soy sauce 🍚
#CMOM Since the Canada/Finland women's hockey game was postponed due to mass 🤮 on the Fin team (hope they recover soon!) I'm into mixed doubles Curling.
Canada currently up 5-1 on the home team!
#Olympics #Canada
https://gem.cbc.ca/curling-canada-vs-italy-mixed-doubles-round-robin-30048?autoplay=1
I'm reading PhD applications today - a moment that's always a mix of hope and a feeling of futility. Some applications aren't great but many are seriously fantastic. Of course, this means that more than one strong candidate with an excellent file and an exciting project won't get in.
Finally home!! 🏠 This was quite an adventure and now everyone is very tired…. I hope we are able to get up tomorrow 😴
And since I’ve tested a bunch of hotels in Amsterdam recently: I can give tips! The last one was really nice
"You conservatives tried to kill woke, only for it to mount an impressive comeback," he added. "I hope that leaves you triggered, and I hope no one offers you sympathy for it."
'It's coming for you': Analyst reveals 'terrible news for red America' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/it-s-coming-for-you-analyst-reveals-terrible-news-for-red-america/
I'm reading "Lab Girl" by Hope Jahren and it's both fascinating and beautifully written. Usually I wait until I'm done to post a review, but I wanted to share this excellent excerpt as a teaser:
"So how to combine a liter of fluid with active agents, customized according to the patient's weight and status, while keeping everything sterile? If this is for the ER or the ICU, we have about ten minutes to make it happen. Fortunately for the patient, there is a sleep-starved teenager apprenticed to a chain-smoking barmaid in the basement who is ready for action."
#AmReading #ReadingNow
"Norway postpones deep-sea mining activities for four years"
#Norway #Environment #Oceans
RE: https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-UpcnzfOtQmWB9klzUwUsPg:a:3807498986-/0
I really hope he gets rid of Tisch after taking office.
I just learned that Frank Gehry passed away. 😔
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/design/frank-gehry-dead.html
One of his buildings that I hope to visit is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 🇪🇸. I looked at the list of buildings he designed and the only o…
OK, also hier ist die Geschichte hinter dem Tofu Jizo (scroll down to "Tofu Bean Curd Jizo at Tofuku-in Temple"). Zur Verehrungspraxis: "Nowadays people come here to rub the hand or arm of the Jizo statue, with the hope to heal their own wounds and get rid of pain."
https://
“[Plaintiff, disability #pensioner Kathy] Pope said she had contacted more than 45 legal firms in the hope of enlisting legal representation [against #mining #billionaire
"When we ask who is a part of building this new world, we must understand that WE ALL ARE. "
—A. Kazimir Brown ’19 M.Div., writing in the new issue of Reflections, focused on "A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet." https://
I hope this world is just a dream.
Colonial nations didn't stop colonialism because they became moral. They stopped because it was untenable. The advancement of asymmetric warfare made it impossible to maintain colonial holdings and those empires crumbled.
The answer was neoliberalism and soft power. Trump had annihilated the financial systems that held that fragile order in place.
#Venezuela will probably end up trying to teach Trump the lesson everyone else learned in the 20th century, but since he's incapable of learning it may very well teach him the lesson Afghanistan taught the USSR.
We'll see how it goes.
It's still possible that we could end up with the US interfering so much that the only people left able to defend space are anarchists. South and Central America actually has some really interesting and advanced anarchist tendencies, so fucking with that could absolutely blow up in Trump (and every other authoritarian's) face.
I hope that the Venezuelan people can take advantage of the situation to get rid of both a shitty dictator and the shitty colonizers who want to replace him.
For fans of #Steam games where you can build -really- broken mechanics like Balatro or Slay the Spire (#deckbuilders, #roguelikes, etc. - "Make the numbers go UP!"), LOOTPLOT has been *extremely* satisfying for me
It's like: "what if Incredible Machine, but Ballionaire" - you randomly get access to a bunch of items that each have their own mechanics and trigger/play off each other, which you build out on a grid - but the grid itself can be manipulated by the items. Some of the interactions are absolutely wild.
Plays a little rough on CrossOver - I think the dynamic scaling plays havoc with texture calculation - but is still enjoyable all the same. (It's written in LÖVE - I really hope the author releases a macOS build!)
The sale price of $3.49 is crazy good for the enjoyment value I've gotten out of it
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3057190/LOOTPLOT/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Carter Burwell:
🎵 Good Fortune "Visions of the Hope Your Life Promises"
#CarterBurwell
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Gp1Q53eMkKjaaXUEjE73n
#infosec annoyance of the day - I use a tool for work that requires me to put in a rolling one-time code for 2fa, and doesn't show the code as I'm typing it.
That would be ok, except if I switch apps to copy the code so I can paste it in, it usually forces me to re-enter my username and password, then even though I'm in the 30 second validity window, it refuses the code.
So I have to wait till the 30 seconds roll over, copy the code, switch to the tool, re-enter my username/password, hope it doesn't take so long to negotiate with the back end that the code in my clipboard expires, then finally paste the code.
Conveniently I only have to do it multiple times a day, every work day.
Biggest Super Bowl turning point in each of the first 59: Seahawks hope to avoid past history vs. Patriots
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-turning-point-seahawk…
Since the release of my last two albums, I have been working on a new album, due out with Evel Records in January. As we move into the new year, I felt to share one of its tracks - 'Geometry of Birds' - ahead of time.
I hope you enjoy. 🙏
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F…
WTF?
New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies - Futurism https://apple.news/ANMU3h3V2QBKWcilOP4_LLw
Had some onboarding-talks in the recent weeks and realized, that people dont't read about topics anymore.
They want to do stuff hands-on and wonder about "missing" guardrails.
So I wrote this "how to get into Mastodon if all you know is Facebook" blog-post in the shortest way I could.
(DE version pending...)
Also, a quick update for those of you who contributed to @…’s evacuation campaign.
While we were originally expectingt his to happen by the end of November, there was a delay due to a change of policy at the Italian government but we hope to bring you good news on this front shortly.
We won’t be sharing actual dates prior to the evacuation for Joy…
@… @… Hey Phil, hope you're doing well- really enjoying the recent content from the VGHF.
George Pickens has 'hope for the best' in contract talks, 'would love to' stay with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/george-pickens-has-hope-for-the-best-in-contract-talks-would-love-to-stay-with-co…
⚡️I hope America will be able to stop the attacks on the energy sector, – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/i-hope-america-will-be.html
Miles Rapoport, the co-chairman of Crimson Courage, an alumni group that has urged Harvard to resist any deal that compromises its academic freedom,
said Trump and his White House were “completely unreliable negotiating partners.”
“I hope this strengthens Harvard’s resolve to not make a deal with an administration that is so ready to go nuclear at any moment,” Mr. Rapoport said.
Ryan Enos, a government professor at Harvard, said Trump’s shifting demands seemed to show he wa…
I have an intentionally annoying Admin Notice with bullet points set up for this WP-powered backend I'm writing and I hope to fucking god it's effective.
Can we just impeach Schumer and replace him with someone with a functioning spine?
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mbkarl2hd72f
(And yes, I'm aware that impeachment doesn't apply to congress. Screw the particulars, the point stands.)
I really hope that guy leaving apple doesn’t hamper Liquid Glass adoption and doesn’t bring that disgusting flat design back…
This John Catsimatidis guy can just F right off. If he cared so much about the birds he could have sent trucks to have them taken away... of course.. good luck with US Border agents letting birds in that have been exposed to Avian Flu and have an active CFIA cull order on them.
I feel bad for the people who feel so connected to the birds themselves. Some people simply won't understand and I feel sympathy for them. But the owners of the ranch have always known better and they have used this to raise money and increase their profile.
And now we get the crocodile tears as the adults have finally taken over.
I hope this is the last we ever hear about Universal Ostrich.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394
(E.B. White writes about Hope, to a man who has lost faith in humanity.)
Dear Mr. Nadeau:
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.
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#Hope
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Yumi Zouma:
🎵 Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
#YumiZouma
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://yumizouma.bandcamp.com/track/cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die
https://open.spotify.com/track/7blTIi1ljRoxpjxfD1a7l7
I'm anticipating a lot of grief in 2026 after a hard end to 2025, so I'm not looking forward to the many January conversations about everything to look forward to in 2026
You can't skip processing grief and jump straight into hope. The grief will consume you and turn into despair, or you'll internalize and repress the trauma and metabolize it into despair via a different path.
Or, I don't know, maybe some people can grieve and hope at the same time, but I know…
In some kind of record, I have moved 1247 steps today. I usually walk around more when I'm working from home, but there's literally nowhere to go and I have been writing a paper all day... Hope the storm dies down soon.
George Pickens has 'hope for the best' in contract talks, 'would love to' stay with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/george-pickens-has-hope-for-the-best-in-contract-talks-would-love-to-stay-with-co…
"American democracy is too weak and fragile "
Just MULL over those words.
Sure doesn't square with all the hubris of The concept of America as a "shining city on a hill" — a beacon of hope, #democracy, and freedom— does it.
Wake up #America you are hea…
Welp, this is heart breaking. Brewer’s Art was so good for so long. What a shame. I hope Volker finds a way to make sure staff are taken care of.
https://www.prismnews.com/news/mount-vernon-brewpub-the-brewers-art-permanently-closes-afte…
#ThursdayFiveList this week is about #hope, and I thought five would be tough to find, but it ended up being easier than I thought..
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
https://
#CommonplaceNotes https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/12/commonplace-book-supply-chains-hope-cool.html supply chains, hope, cool. thanks
Erstmal nur ein Entwurf.
Denke wenn das halbwegs steht, gibts auch noch Titelbild und Übersetzung.
https://burningbecks.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/mastodon-onboarding-cookbook/
Let's hope this works. Then it would be an easy fix for the bloody IKEA Nävlinge LED Lamp that breaks too easily at the clamp.
Model: https://www.printables.com/model/321152-ikea-navlinge-lamp-clamp-repair
How Ashton Jeanty Can Finish Disappointing Rookie Season with Hope https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-can-finish-disappointing-rookie-season-hope
Sad for all those accounts on #MedMastodon after the server disappeared. I hope this make it even more clear that #mastodon needs way to let users own the data and allow it to be easily ported between servers.
People don't feel safe on small servers or often don't understand…
Michael and Susan Dell say they will deposit $250 in individual investment accounts for 25M kids, totaling $6.25B, comparing the gift to Dell's direct model (Nicholas Kulish/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/business/dell-children-trump-acco…
I hope that the members of said list step on LEGO bricks every day
To look at the bright side: I sincerely hope world leaders today are waking up to what some of us always knew about the Trump presidency.
It’s not a fucking game, political norms will not save you, get your shit together and be ready for this to get real for you.
It’s been real for us for a while.
Just released! The new issue of the Divinity School journal, Reflections. The theme is: "A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet." #ecotheology #sustainability #creationcare
"Although Ecosia is a not-for-profit, they seem to be re-enacting the for-profit erosion of human knowledge and the active murder of the open web currently being orchestrated by Google and the other tech giants."
(Original title: Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech)
https://
2025 NFL playoffs: Reason for hope for seven bubble teams entering Week 14 https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-playoffs-reason-for-hope-for-seven-bubble-teams-entering-week-14
Rare court victory against Israeli West Bank settlement offers Palestinians some hope | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/12/24/victory-against-israeli…
Bangladesh's fragile ecosystems are drowning in plastic waste—but there's hope on the horizon.
BRAC is launching an innovative project that turns single-use plastic into raw materials, creating jobs while cleaning up critical areas like the Sundarbans and Cox's Bazar. Early success means it could roll out nationwide soon.
Here is a powerful essay on death and dying. I hope my time is far off, but I hope I approach it well.
https://www.thefp.com/p/death-is-nothing-to-be-feared or archived at
Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
VILA: Stay here? Alone? [to himself] I hope. It's getting dark.
[Cally's cabin. Cally is lying on the bed.] Voice: Cally? Cally, are you listening to me? I know you can hear me now, fully. You heard only a suggestion of my voice before, yet you responded. You obeyed me almost from the beginning, Cally. A telepath. Rare. A wonderful find, wonderfully vulnerable. [Vision of Cally in the green robes, kneeling.] Cally, you've been so lon…
"Love, fear, anger and hope: how emotions influence climate action"
#Climate #ClimateChange
#DearLazyWeb: A while back someone posted a screen cap of Google getting confused between Voyager's "The Doctor" and "Doctor Who."
I'm writing something up about LLMs and I'd really like to reference it. I'm gonna go through my boosts and hope I can find it, but could anyone with it handy save me a few hours of data spelunking?
Edit: @… found it. Awesome. lol!
What Raiders' Pete Carroll Has at Stake https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-pete-carroll-has-at-stake
"The relationship between power, poverty, inequality, and lack of political participation is mirrored in the damage to the natural world. They cannot be divorced from each other."
—Yale School of the Environment professor Gerald Torres ’77 J.D. writing in the new issue of Reflections https://
Eatman: Calendar changed; the defense did not https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/eatman-calendar-changed-the-defense-did-not
"Healing of the Ozone Layer Shows Power of Science and Global Unity"
#OzoneLayer #Climate #ClimateChange
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115657487228785905
i hope the facebook UI gets suddenly blurry as well.
Unusual GenAI application: Snarky answers to shitty emails.
#genAI
After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year,
Popular Rebellions Offer Hope
Elections,
labor,
mutual aid, and
local organizing wins in 2025
point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
In 2026, we the people can build power
and we can win significant victories if we:
🔸Show up for the most vulnerable in the face of federal government attacks and neglect;
🔸Push back on racism and misogyny, and support inclusivity;
🔸Call …
The Betrayal of Ukraine: Peace, Power, and the Price of Electricity
How Farage, Musk, Thiel and the Trumps hope to profit from the surrender of Ukraine
https://www.theangrydogs.com/p/the-betrayal-of-ukraine-peace-power
Eatman: Calendar changed; the defense did not https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/eatman-calendar-changed-the-defense-did-not
Why the Raiders Hope Next HC Hire Erases Previous Memories https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-hope-next-hc-hire-erases-previous-memories
> “almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off,” including the entire video team
Capitalism, working as designed.
Oh, you thought it was about making shiny, fun things for you play with? Oh, my sweet, summer child, no… capitalism is about fuck you.
Why?
Because. @…
Cowboys Playoff Chances Updated After Devastating Loss https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/playoff-chances-updated-lions-devastating-loss/?adt_ei=[email]
Raiders DC: If Travis Kelce's last game 'I hope it's a terrible game' https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/01/raiders-dc-patrick-gra…
"I volunteer in a repair cafe: we can help you learn to fix your broken Christmas gift"
#Christmas #RepairCafe
Cowboys hope to continue win streaks on Thanksgiving Day https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-hope-to-continue-win-streaks-on-thanksgiving-day/
The Raiders’ Rebuild Pitch: Hope, Hype, or Hallucination? https://raiderramble.com/2025/11/29/the-raiders-rebuild-pitch-hope-hype-or-hallucination/
What the Raiders Hope Santa Claus Brings Them This Christmas https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-hope-santa-claus-brings-this-christmas
Cowboys hope to continue win streaks on Thanksgiving Day https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-hope-to-continue-win-streaks-on-thanksgiving-day
Woodson, Witten among 2026 NFL Hall of Fame finalists https://insidethestar.com/woodson-witten-among-2026-nfl-hall-of-fame-finalists