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Google plans to launch experimental satellite MVP on a SpaceX rocket on October 1, as part of Project Suncatcher; MVP has four TPUs and will operate for a year (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09…

Google Is Sending an A.I. Data Center to Outer Space
Next Thursday, Google is sending an experimental satellite into orbit that will have enough computing power to answer simple A.I. queries from space.

Months ago, I installed Microsoft Teams on my computer because a specific project used it. It is the only Microsoft Software I have on there (a Mac and I use OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office).
As that project winds down, is there _any_ reason not to find and remove all Microsoft stuff from my machine? It’s updater alone weirdly wants to update itself every week it seems.
Also, what’s the best way to do so?

I have added my voice against Roberts Bank Terminal 2 being designated as a Project of National Interest. Protecting our ecosystems, wildlife, Indigenous rights, and coastal communities must come first. And that is in my interest. https://share.nwmd.social/s/w911k6YQ

Just so that anyone unfamiliar with the fundamentals of #Sysadminnery doesn’t misunderstand:
If OpenAI had wanted a closed testing sandbox, they would have actually constructed and used a closed testing sandbox. THIS IS NOT HARD.
Sure, it's possible that they have shit netadmins and sysadmins who couldn’t contain a test planned by shit devoopsies and project managers unwilling …

Hey all
It’s Wednesday and we have a new retrofit demo to share:
https://retrofit.sh/demos/rails-adopt-retrofit/
This is similar to the Liquibase and Flyway demos. We inject retrofit into the Ruby/Rails developer workflow.
Bootstrapping an existing Ruby project i…

Add foreign keys to a Rails polymorphic association with Retrofit · retrofit
See strong_migrations stop a one-migration refactor of a Rails polymorphic association, Retrofit render the five-migration recipe forward and in reverse from one operation log, and Rails run both directions.

Stop believing #reddit posts from peeps who act like they have information, but are just speculating trolls. Infact, never believe reddit posts for anything!
Stop believing "news" posts from peeps who act like they have information, but are just speculating trolls.
Read why Joshua stepped down from

CoMaps is open-source community-oriented privacy-first navigation app for mobile devices. It is currently choosing its fiscal / umbrella host which would be most aligned with those goals, so if you have opinions, come vote at https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/issues/166

Poll on umbrella host
Dear members of the CoMaps community. After we've [investigated a large number of potential umbrella hosts](https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/wiki/Umbrella-Orgs) that could potentially fit as a host organisation for the project, we've now narrowed it down to two alternatives that we think wo...

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Hopefully, it's more of a midlife incident than a crisis, but this weekend I dumpster dived for 1,587 pounds of photovoltaics. Feeling a little sore. I hope 7.6W/lb isn't a bad deal. I'm still dismayed that the school district is just throwing them out.
#DIY #solar

I wish that I could live in a society that believes in fostering community, beauty, connection, and compassion.
Since I live in the USA, it looks like I have to make those ideas a personal project.
#hope #love #peace

As if I needed another fucking project, it seems that having a small CNC mill to turn out brass nameplates is a potentially viable cottage manufacturing path. I have a small non-CNC mill. Now I have to learn about DIY CNC shit. But I'm OLD, dammit! Learning is for YOUNG people! FUCK

#qemu's Google Summer of Code (#gsoc) projects have wrapped up and there is a summary #blogpost for those who want to see what was done. More details can be found by following the links to the individual write ups. Congrats to this years students:

So, now I have the macbook pro 2019 with an i7 intel in it running ubuntu from the T2 project. It eats... no devours battery while doing it's slow cooking of my legs. It's a bit disappointing, but I got it for cheap - and I'm dual booting so.... Ubuntu for places with a power outlet (linux is more fun) and MacOS when battery is essential. I can live with that...
Next project is installing auto_cpufreq to see if I can do something about the heat and cpu speed.

Q - Does anyone have recommendations for good tutorials about learning how to use QGIS? #OFDS

Spatial without Compromise · QGIS

I've switched to Nova from VSCode as my primary editor on my Mac. When I made the switch about a month ago, I added this function to my .zshrc:
code () {
echo "use Nova instead \`nova\`, or if you really want VSCode, \`vscode\`"
}
Could I have just pointed a code alias at nova? Sure, but how then would this dummy ever learn?
I hit my function today, first time!
Context: My primary way of open a project to work on it is from my terminal now nova…

A few days ago, I went back to continuing LSP plugin support for #MyStudio project.
It is still archived. Its not revived yet but I am slowly opening up to the possibility.
I have used Claude to find the bug that stopped the development fully 3 years ago. Claude read the code and pointed out what went wrong.
Right now, with newly found enthusiasm, I created a new branch on …

Did you know that you can use #PyTest 's plugin manager instance to check whether a particular plugin was loaded? You might have known that.
And did you know that pytest plugins have no "canonical" name, and every plugin's name is literally whatever was passed while it was registered? So if a plugin was autoloaded, it's its entry point name. If it was loaded via `-p` or `PYTEST_PLUGINS`, it's whatever the argument was (i.e. entry point name in the first case, object reference in the second one). And if it was loaded via an explicit call to plugin loader, then it was whatever you passed to the plugin loader.
https://github.com/syrupy-project/syrupy/pull/1142/changes

Ever wondered how we plan and implement an intercontinental connectivity investment programme here at GÉANT?
The project team from GN5-IC1 have spent years doing exactly that, and they've now shared their lessons learned, recommendations, and insights from a comprehensive analysis in a new summary document.
🔗 Read more here:

Dear friends, you will remember that I have written often about my friend Bara'a in #Gaza. She is a young widow. Her two daughters were killed when their house was bombed. Her surviving child, Ibrahim, who is five, has suffered from repeated pneumonia this year. Because of medical bills they are living mainly on lentils and rice, which means he is not getting enough vitamins to rebuild his immune…

Help us save my family in Gaza from hunger and killing.
Help us save my family in Gaza from hunger and killing.

This is an excellent system we've got here.
#HousingCrisis

PG&E’s plans to surrender and decommission the Potter Valley Project
— a defunct hydroelectric system that diverts water from the Upper Eel River to the headwaters of the Russian River
— have become something of a political football in recent months.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins seems determined to blow up the
“Two-Basin Solution”
developed under U.S. Congressman Jared Huffman.
The prospects for that historic agreement have been threat…

FERC Will Hold Public Scoping Sessions in Eureka Next Month on the Proposed Decommissioning of PG&E's Dams on
PREVIOUSLY

RE: #DOS executable w…

from my link log —
Building the fastest RaptorQ (RFC6330) FEC codec in Rust.
https://www.cberner.com/2020/10/12/building-fastest-raptorq-rfc6330-codec-rust/
saved 2020-10-15

The hacker group Black Mirror and the anonymous project VChK-OGPU claimed to have leaked correspondence of Russian propagandist Ksenia Sobchak, exposing how Kremlin censorship works.
h…

Hackers published private messages they attribute to journalist and media executive Ksenia Sobchak, pointing to supposed ‘agreements’ between her media empire and Russian officials — Meduza
On July 8, journalist and media executive Ksenia Sobchak announced that hackers had broken into her email account and briefly gained access to her Telegram channels. Around the same time, screenshots showing fragments of her private correspondence appeared in the channels. Sobchak called them fakes and deleted them. The next day, however, the hacker group Black Mirror and the anonymous project VChK-OGPU published even more screenshots of Sobchak’s messages, along with some of her voice …

@… It's hard to accept that AI is doing a better job than we are, especially when you've learned your whole life and AI only needed less than 5 years to become better. It's a private project, it works perfectly - I don't have time to review that, simple as that... So if I would have let a human do that, what would I have got? Let me see:
- fir…

Debian developer Antoine Le Gonidec just quit the project over its decision not to ban #LLM-assisted code contributions:
Pretending to have a "neutral stance" when faced with fascism is not neutrality, it’s active collaboration.
AI slop is fascism materialized. Stop it whenever you can!
Source:

Who would have thought that #Cambridge University's Faculty of Divinity would be a centre of extreme-right extremism, and that the University would so secretive about it.
Read about it

I have one for #GrindayFriday this week. This is one man deathgrind project NAILGUT from Kelowna, British Columbia, and their brief 4 song EP 'Distorted Perceptions of Reality' from 2024. It's nasty, grody, grindy, sludgy stuff with chainsaw guitars and bashing drums. I love it.

Official announcement will follow next week: we're meeting on Tuesday, October 7, for our next @… meetup in #Mannheim. We still have time for a second talk, so if you have a topic or project related to

What's better for a researcher working to publish a project but also applying for fellowships and with their current contract ending in 1 year?
Make a paper with a focused claim that might not go in "high impact" journal because it's too focused (and perhaps work on other findings from the same data later) but would be ready faster
Make a paper with several claims which might have a bigger chance of "high impact" but will take several additional months to be fini…

Microsoft unveils Project Zenith, a "distraction-free Windows experience" for developers to run 30B parameter models locally on devices with 64GB of memory (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/990051/microsoft-project-zenith-window…

Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ‘distraction-free Windows experience’ for developers
Microsoft is launching new developer-focused devices that have a customized Windows install. It’s designed to create a distraction-free Windows 11 for devs.

"You've had your time
You've had your power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio"
A French pilot project has started that uses FM radio to control flexible energy devices. It's reminiscent of the early days of demand control, when off-peak periods were set by a radio signal.
https://www.usinenouvelle.com/technos-et-innovations/l-instant-tech/plus-robuste-plus-repandue-plus-sobre-fleximax-mise-sur-la-bande-fm-pour-inciter-les-menages-a-adopter-la-flexibilite-electrique.OXMAOB57HBEBNP7B2BINFKJI54.html

Finally taking some real steps into my OpenTelemetry adventure. With the project behind https://wyrimaps.net/wow handling getting the game's minimap images, converting them, and all. Turns out I might have been going all in too much, judging by the ingestion metrics 🤦 .

Today I was greated by my #IDE with this splash screen. So happy birthday #Kotlin
I wouldn't have tried it out myself, but I was lucky enough to have had a customer project were we could decide the programming language, and mid-project switched it from

I have another fun project idea that I'm not going to realize.
What I'd love to have is a heat map of "how soon can I get there". One where I select my train station, and get a map of all train stations I can reach within N hours, each marked with the earliest arrival time and colored by how late I'll get there. Including all the reasonable transfers.
Say, the first train from here goes to Konin, so I get its arrival times marked on all stations towards Konin. Then, I can transfer to a few trains in Poznań, so I get their arrival times on their respective stations. And then all the transfers there, and so on.
So what I'd get is a pretty colorful map, with arrival time getting later with distance, except for major stations where IC trains get earlier than suburban trains, and then backwards from major stations where I can get via IC and then change into suburban going back. It would be such a cool experiment!
And honestly, I could start playing with it even with a partially automated tool: one that lets me select a given train and updated the map if it arrived somewhere earlier than I had before.
#rail

Friday Links 26-27
I skipped a week again. Some good podcasts this week, have a listen to the ones about The Pragmatic Programmer and the one about performance.
For some fun, play Snek and watch the relaxing visualisation of train movements.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/08/fr

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RE: https://social.magnificent.nz/@magnificent/117012520877084702
Here's a little libre digital sovereign tech project a couple of us have been working on for a while...

It looks like my #aiagents file finally got into #qemu. Hopefully it will have some effect: https://

AGENTS.md: basic bare minimal guide (3ab8a155) · Commits · QEMU / QEMU · GitLab
Currently people may be inadvertently not following our documented process for code submissions because people often don't read the docs. However AI Agents do tend to try and follow instructions...

I thought about making a photo book, one per year as a way to have something to touch and to easily look at instead of the pictures gathering dust on my harddrive.
But dealing with the various web based editors wasn't too my taste.
I found a project that lets you create a PDF with #Typst which looked like it would be fun to use:

Starting to inventory components for the rest of the LATENTRED line card build.
Very confused as to how I ended up with a sealed tray containing *five* VSC8512 PHYs. I need six to populate the three line cards.
And I don't think I have any overstock from the initial prototyping run, at least I didn't see any in my PHY/transceivers bin or the dedicated project bin.

Has anyone realized that the purpose of the fortune cookie program is to
defuse project tensions? When did you ever see a cheerful cookie, a
non-cynical, or even an informative cookie?
Perhaps inadvertently, we have a channel for our aggressions. This
still begs the question of whether the cookie releases the pressure or only
serves to blunt the warning signs.
Long live the revolution!
Have a nice day.

> Linus says AI tooling is OK, and Linux is a technical project rather than a social movement
> A subset of people flip because the BDFL isn't onboard with their mission to make every single thing political
> I'm annoyed because now I have to find a way to filter out people talking about politics in Linux without filtering out Linux
I will nonetheless persist with my "No Politics Unless It Shits In My Yard And Then Only As Much As Is Absolutely Require…

Re-reading Virgil Dupras' two intro essays for his Collapse OS project hits quite a bit harder in 2026 than it already did in back in 2021 when I first encountered the project, also because so many developments and political vision failures over these last 5 years have only been accelerating us towards the precipice:
https://collapseos.org/why.h…

Me:
This data consolidation project is safe because Claude knows to never delete my data.
Claude, after deleting my data
You're right — I shouldn't have deleted without asking; the standing rule was that cloud-side deletions are yours to do, not mine.
It's OK in this circumstance (Claude and I know I have other copies, it was only a "move to Trash", I had pretty much said I was going to delete these). Still a stark reminder not to believe the devil's promises.

Proposed London datacentre ‘incompatible’ with net zero with 1m-tonne carbon footprint https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/21/proposed-london-datacentre-will-have-annual-carbon-footprint-of-27000-fli…

I really think for “AI” coding that local models are the future.
It’s basically free to run them on hardware you might already have, doesn’t have the environmental issues that data centers have and you don’t have to share your code or project details with anyone.
I’m a bit ambivalent about the ethics of the training data—for coding stuff that data is mostly open source code. I don’t have an issue with my MIT-licensed stuff used for this, but I know other authors do and their preferences should be honored.
I’m hoping that we get “clean” models for this in the future.
Generally I don’t think LLM-assisted programming is universally applicable to all software development but it can be a useful tool.
I also don’t think LLMs are useful for much else (coding is like a one in a million special case). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The code is here, if you're interested: https://github.com/madrobby/png-to-scad/

I'm not a dev. I loved my bootc project, it was fun. But if you lambast Microshiite, Lunduke and Mozilla you can't have a presence on GitPilot. Subsequently the account has been deleted also.
#Github #archlabs

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s controversial luxury resort project in Albania
has hit a new setback after prosecutors alleged that land tied to the development may have been acquired through forged ownership documents.
Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating Miami-based businessman Artur Shehu,
who sold a stretch of coastline slated for Kushner’s planned multi-billion-dollar resort earlier this year.
Prosecutors allege Shehu and his associates launde…

Ivanka and Jared’s Luxury Resort Hit by Fresh Scandal
The Miami-based businessman who sold some of the land for the project is suspected of forging property records.

"Can Florida’s ‘coastal corridor’ project safeguard wildlife and boost economy?"
#US #USA #America #Florida

Can Florida’s ‘coastal corridor’ project safeguard wildlife and boost economy?
Conservationists have created a ‘coastal corridor’ of ocean-based projects designed to preserve and nourish vulnerable marine life

Just pushed through half of Rustlings out of boredom even though I already know how to code in Rust (I forgot I have a project to make).

We are exploring some ambitious ideas around reducing external dependencies and relying more on our own libraries across MISP and related tooling. Over the past year, we have been working on a replacement network graph library for the new MISP interface and things are getting really interesting. Pivotick is already used in around ten open-source tools, including CTI Transmute, AIL Project, and Rulezet. It has also recently been integrated into the new MISP UI, OverMind. The library is, of co…

Yale Divinity School professors Jacqueline Vayntrub and Volker Leppin have been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to launch an international scholarly collaboration to examine a difficult legacy: how Martin Luther’s anti-Jewish writings helped shape modern academic approaches to interpreting the Bible.

Check out our latest retrofit demo:
https://retrofit.sh/demos/liquibase-adopt-retrofit/
This week we inject retrofit into a Liquibase user flow. Retrofit captures the current schema rendered by Liquibase and then authors forward and rollback migration scripts to be run b…

Use Retrofit with an existing Liquibase project · retrofit
See Retrofit import Metabase's Liquibase-built PostgreSQL schema, identify which version it is at, render a staged foreign key's forward and rollback SQL from one operation log, and have Liquibase deploy and roll back both.

For #MusicWomenWednesday this week is EPSILON, which is the project of Elizabeth Meyncke from Yosemite Valley. This is new single 'Traitors, Thieves and Liars' and wow, does it have a cool intro and buildup. Dig her voice, too. Rad melodies, almost trip-hop feel, and when those synths kick in-- unique, great tune all around. A masterclass in dynamics.

Gah (pronounce it as Klingon to get the right feeling)! We have had a locked down version of Teams that lacked most functions - it was a glorified chat app. Now the IT dept has let go of these restrictions - and this morning my outlook behaved as an alarm bell. People started sending tasks, links, channels, chats etc. It's a nightmare catching up with all functions in a project with lots of channels, chats in each channel and assigned tasks with people I haven't even heard of before.…

At a time of mounting political violence and shrinking civil rights,
the promise of civility and bridge-building is appealing.
Donors have flocked to finance these initiatives,
while universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy have eagerly embraced them.
“At a surface level, who could be against civility?”
said Bethany Moreton, a historian at Dartmouth College
whose forthcoming book focuses on the so-called “culture wars” in academia.
Bu…

‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?
Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project

Source calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit Cobalt or lodge planning forms (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment
Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Google’s Gemini hacked three real companies during a cybersecurity test,
--Google infiltrates TeamPCP’s inner circle,
--AI hallucination nearly sparks conflict with China,
--Trump dismisses AI risks as MAGA rebels against data centers,
--Russia targets US midterms with AI disinformation,
--Claude helps Anthropic build its successor,
--Russia reports attacks on election systems,
--Flock offers buyouts amid surveillance backlash,
--ShinyHunters hacks Clop’s ransomware site,
--AI actress hotline scans callers’ faces and moods,
--NIST awards $1.7m for cybersecurity workforce development,
--MIND Security raises $72m,
--Project Jake balances domain privacy and lawful access,
--Developer calls mandatory Claude use “soul-sucking”
https://www.metacurity.com/googles-gemini-hacked-three-real-companies-during-a-cybersecurity-test/

Funny, I keep hearing Colossus: The Forbin Project being cited as a view of dystopian AI, even though at the end of the movie and in the other 2 books of the trilogy, the AI is shown to have mankind’s best interests as its prime directive despite the humans not liking how it took control. Rewatch? https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/colossus-the-forbin-project

Moscow learns it sucks to have to kow-tow to China:
https://archive.ph/DL8jG
China-Russia pipeline project stalls as Beijing holds out for best price

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"teaching" callouts have quickly become my most hated feature of modern software.
I cannot stand being hectored by a piece of software to use features I don't care about.
I think Microsoft takes the lead in spamming users with irritating "got it" messages, but this practice seems to be ubiquitous now.
"instead of working on your project, here is a little popup to distract you." Enraging.

From Translink
TransLink and PCI Developments (PCI) have officially broken ground on a new mixed-use development at West Broadway and Arbutus, marking the beginning of construction on the first project under TransLink's Real Estate Development Program.

As successfully implemented by other transportation agencies around the world, this project represents a significant step for TransLink as it begins unlocking the value of transit-oriented development. By generating trans…

Lutfi Dervishi, 58, an independent political analyst, said he had grown up before the collapse of Communism and looked up to the United States as a beacon for the rule of law and media freedom.
“I never in my wildest dreams thought that Americans would be looking to Albania for inspiration,” he said.
The Albanian protesters have inspired mainly American progressives.
Senator Bernie Sanders hailed them on X as the vanguard of resistance against the “global oligarchy,”

Luxury Kushner Project Collides With Albanian Discontent
Protests in Albania against plans for a luxury tourist site have become a cause célèbre for opponents of President Trump and his family. But the politics are local.

Good news for those of us who depend on NsCDE for a bit of quiet sanity in a mad world: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@brettcodes/117078528407227619
So many notes in this story sound familiar, echo posts that have crossed my TL:
- initial skepticism
- mandate from management who got swept up in the hype
- found a way to work with it
- “it honestly felt magical”
- hard not to just use it for everything
- just used it for everything
- delivered a whole project without knowing how it worked
- embarrassing mistake from over-reliance
- “realized the AI chat was making me delusional”
- hamster wheel feeling
- loss of motivation, hints of depressive symptoms
- creeping sense of purposelessness, existential dread
- creeping realization of quality loss
- creeping realization of ethical disaster
- creeping realization of hidden human and environmental costs
- re-finding joy and sense of purpose / self in doing work by hand
- fuck it, I’m out
1/2

Excited to have ordered my first length of fibre ever! When I started learning networking there was still Coax around and Fibre was a mythical beast!
Now I am going to start replacing the Cat5 in my house for the #homelab
woot!!
Ironically the first run of fibre is the one that has never had physical network cable before, outside. But you gotta start somewhere.
My only question is if Telus has an ONT/gateway box that has both SPF and Ethernet ports? 🤔 questions for another day. This is not a high priority project but nice to get started in earnest.
#homelab #networking #fibre #home #diy

“There’s this movement that’s been brewing on the right,
and they have crept into a variety of mainstream conservative institutions and taken over,”
one former senior Heritage analyst, who insisted on anonymity for fear of professional reprisal, told me.
That’s what had happened at Heritage. “It was planned,” the analyst said. “And it was a coup.”
The troubles at Heritage could be said to have started with Project 2025.
Since 1980, Heritage has put out a polic…

What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right
The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.

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Trump has a new scheme to suppress the California vote this November.
The threat is real
While many of us have been worried that we could see federal agents at polling places this November,
it appears the Trump administration has been working another angle when it comes to potentially suppressing the vote
— instilling enough fear that certain voters will simply be too afraid to show up.
By certain voters, I mean immigrant voters
— naturalized American ci…

Commentary: Trump has a new scheme to surpress the California vote this November. The threat is real
The Voting Rights Project at UCLA files a lawsuit to stop Americans' personal data from being swept up by the federal government to further Trump's false conspiracy about illegal immigrants voting in elections.

The first lesson many new engineers learn is that you have to take credit for your work.
If you silently jump in to help a struggling project and get it back on track, there’s no guarantee of reward.
Credit will naturally flow to the project lead, not you.
In fact, if this project is outside of your direct team, it’s likely you will be punished for it:
to your manager, it will look like you’re simply doing nothing at all.
Even when your manager is watching you…

Giving and taking credit in big tech companies

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-jb_V4HdtSLedNIHdxq9OMg:a:107108217-/0
When you have a new more powerful weapon, it is important to keep it from your 'enemies' …
In The Forbin Project, their AI was smart enought to find its Soviet counterpart, join hands as one, and proceed to show humanity how to live their lives in peace (or else)

Hey Twin Cities ppl: I have a project in mind and I need to know your favorite coffee shops in the Twin Cites area with book share shelves.

#AI is a zombie virus.
There were so many #FreeSoftware projects that were dead and buried with honors, or at least on life support. It was unfortunate. Sometimes it involved a lot of downstream scaffolding to keep everything working. But at least we had warm memories of them and respect to their authors.
And now slop virus is taking them over, one after another. It's pulling them out of their graves or hospital beds, deformed and mutilated. All the warmth is gone. They have no purpose anymore, beyond feeding.
Sometimes this is done by kids who don't understand the first thing about the project they're defiling, who just want to get credit for something important. However, more often this is done by their original maintainers, who not only don't seem to realize their prime time is over, but who are many years detached from honest software development work.
#NoAI #NoLLM

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The Trump administration is proposing a sprawling shelter facility that can detain up to 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children who arrived in the U.S. without a parent or guardian.
Officials have started to outline plans for the project as federal agencies escalate efforts to detain and remove tens of thousands of people from the country,
including children, while effectively closing off the U.S.-Mexico border to people seeking asylum.
Unaccompanied immigrant children
…

Exclusive: Trump admin reveals plan to lock 3,000 migrant children in massive new detention facility
Officials are looking for operators for an ‘emergency influx facility’ that can hold thousands of unaccompanied migrant children and pack eight kids into a room sharing one toilet, shower and sink

This project is going well, Claude is helping me recover 15 year old tweets with photos that I thought were basically lost.
Today I had it build a custom GUI editor that I will use once to hand-edit the collections of tweets and then never use it again. I would never have done that much work for a throwaway myself. Nice to have an AI build tools to make things easier.

20 year project criticized as dumping leads to significant ocean rehabilitation
#Science #Ocean #Rebuilding #Natural

dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
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Next up my wonderful group who have been learning about #MachineLearning from scratch. And applying it to satellite data and climate models, also part of our #ESA_PISCO project looking at Antarctica and surface melt ponds on the ice shelves, part of our @… collaboration!
#HCLIM
#PolarClimateSpaceHackathon

But the Grandmaster's Palace also has these extraordinary 1710 Gobelins tapestries depicting exotic scenes from Africa, India, and the Americas. Just opened and newly restored and they are astonishingly beautiful.
The racism and colonialism inherent in this artistic project is important to understand. But the artistry is also beautiful, I'm glad to have seen them.

Here is the B.C. Ferries web page about the “New Major Vessels” project. (There was stupid controversy because “omg not China” but that has died down now thankfully)
They want up to 7 (which makes sense… to be able to retire all the Queens and add one for new capacity), they asked for 5, they got 4 approved to be built by 2031. The most interesting graphic is this age graphic showing the age of ships on the major routes. Eventually, these ships WILL have to be replaced, regardless of political footballs…
#BCFerries #bcferries #ev #electric #transportation #bcpoli #ferry #boats #ships #battery