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Here's what trading for Maxx Crosby could cost the Dallas Cowboys https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/here-s-what-trading-for-maxx-crosby-could-cost-the-dallas-cowboys

Oh, never mind, here he is. Good.
Probably just delayed because so many people were out thanks to being raptured up into the heavens.
Even the very late parcel is here, so all the electrical stuff needed by the electrician next week is here too. Phew.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.” | Lawfare
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here

LinkedIn is like, "Linux Engineer - <random small company> High experience match!"
And then when you click on the link, it's all "<random small company> is here to rise above the ordinary. The work we do here goes far beyond day-to-day projects - we protect the US defense industry with our automated, efficient mass killing machines. Huge growth opportunity and career growth in the Genocide Industry!"

Zarah Sultana, on #UKLabour under #Starmer.
"Here is a party that wants to impose cuts on some of the most marginalised people in our society in order to please investors. Here is a party that, for the first time in British history, is criminalising a non-violent activist group, using the most …

Zarah Sultana, The Alternative — Sidecar
On Britain’s new left party—3.

det här är inte bara oartigt, det är också en bortkastad möjlighet för dattafolk på masto att tjäna pengar genom att organisera och sälja sådant själv https://eldritch.cafe/@sinituulia/115413601370821317

Hidden 'type 1.5' diabetes affects millions of adults. Here's how to spot it | BBC Science Focus Magazine
https://flip.it/JXM5mI

You can read it here! https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09/mode/2up

Immigrants with special deportation protections are facing detainment across the country,
as the Trump administration continues its aggressive mass deportation campaign. 
Home is Here -- a coalition of advocates for immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, status-- has documented a pattern of immigration agents targeting DACA recipients.
At least 18 DACA recipients are detained, according to a Home is Here tracker. 
So far, Home is Here has pi…

Agent's Take: Hold-in fatigue? Here are some options for teams to utilize when dealing with contract disputes

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agent…

Anyone here got any experience with a Boox Note 4C?
I'm kinda itching to upgrade to a color version from my Note Air 3.

git commit -m "ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Oh boy, here I go makin' bugs again."

To fediverse admins:
If you see an attempt to create a copy of a Gaza Verified member’s account on your server, without having heard from me first, please suspend it and get in touch with me if you can.
I have asked the Gaza Verified members not to migrate their accounts without telling me first so I can reach out to one of our friendly server admins (…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." (Anna Bower/Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p126#a251020p126

We are taking Xogot for a spin on M-based Macs using Mac Catalyst.
You can download now from TestFlight, or you can sign up here: https://beta.xogot.com

some good insight here into how (I try) to navigate conflicts on social media (which can be very confusing to folks that are very accustomed to shouting and being shouted at): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omc37TvHN74

(Just to be clear: My implication here is not that tearing down buildings — even historic ones, even the White House — is the same as harming human beings or depriving them of their civil rights. The implication is that it’s the same fascism that drives both those things.)

ChatGPT Atlas will feature an agent mode to let ChatGPT take actions; clicking a search link will show a split-screen with the webpage and a ChatGPT transcript (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

OpenAI’s AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is here
ChatGPT is the “beating heart of Atlas,” according to employees on the livestream.

OK Docker aficionados: newbie here.
I have a container running that claims it is listening on port 1935 (it's based on this #Docker #Help #AskMastodon

We are a very digital society in Denmark, this is generally a very good things, but not when the banks decide we *must* use Google to log in to our accounts...
Absolutely agree with @… here
#TechSovreignty #privacy
https://jyllands-posten.dk/debat/breve/ECE18376402/du-er-tvunget-til-at-tillade-google-at-overvaage-og-saelge-dig/

Managed to dig out my cardboard eclipse glasses from last years total eclipse in the US. Had a great view! Lovely morning here in Ōtautahi!

Cool that @… got mentioned here. @… and @… too

Just made a back to school collection on my Threadless store to suggest stuff I think people should get for the students in their lives, or themselves. So basically some shameless self promotion.
Enjoy: https://davidaugust.threadless.com/collections/back-to-school…

Shop the Back to School Collection on David August's Artist Shop | Featuring custom t-shirts, prints, and more
Whether you're heading to class, or just want to learn stuff this year, here's some inspiration by me.

Idk what it says about me that my first thought was “this would be terrible for vampires”
(The proposal here is to put satellites that reflect the sun so someone could have custom sunlight over their house at night… very silly)
https://mas.to/@dmacphee/115418055122136038

Just a few days left of my NYTimes sub which I will not be renewing, so here's a gift article about people's relationship with Pynchon, with a bit from @… in it:

Lisa Simpson and Other Fans of Thomas Pynchon on the Writer’s Most Memorable Scenes
With the famously private novelist enjoying a (private) moment in the sun, we reached out to die-hard fans who’ve tuned in to the zaniness all along.

here in france and belgium, we have a very traditional way of making comics, this style is known as franco-belgian comics

Here is what inspired the #Golang APIs:
https://youtu.be/PuYPOC-gCGA
Now you can dial!

Any reading recommendations for a small collective looking to move from google dependency to self-hosting?
We're collecting some resources here:
https://doc.patternclub.org/s/QCwRlvO1A#

It's the final day of NFL preseason. Here's the watch info, odds for Saturday's 10 games https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6569865/2025/08/23/nfl-preseason-saturday-espn-unlimited-odds-how-to-watch/

3°C this morning. Winter Is Coming Here!
#Brrr

"I’m a legal refugee in Britain. So why am I always being treated like a criminal?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/21/refugee-syria-treated-like-criminal-britain

omg _get out of here_

Here's the cover from a really great book of short stories, from 2010, named "Shadow Show".
The stories, written by a wide variety of top-notch authors, such as Margaret Atwood and Harlan Ellison, each celebrate Ray Bradbury's life and writing.
(The book cover art is by Tom Gauld--I found it searching online for Gauld's cartoons.)
#Writing

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/115253514107520318
Not sure why the Secret Service's YouTube is not showing up here but you can find it in the announcement.

It's a bit chilly out here, this morning.

I have to update my take on iOS 26: going from “meh” to “I really like it”! The redesign is a lot more thoughtful than the outrage-hungry takesmen wanted you to believe. This might be a good time to introspct whom not to boost in the future.
(My understanding is that macOS 26.0 is indeed pretty buggy, so I’m waiting for the .1 here. We really need an Apple CEO who knows the Mac exists.)

I guess it is time for a sequel to Sinclair Lewis' play (and book) "It Can't Happen Here"
The title of the sequel is obvious:
"It Did Happen Here"
(Sinclair Lewis deserves a revival - his book Elmer Gantry is spot on-point about today's "prosperity gospel" preachers. And Babbit - along with Stegner's Crossing To Safety - targets those who forget to live their own lives.)

It Can't Happen Here - Wikipedia

Pushing "AI" upon employees in the name of efficiency, even when the tools don't really work, is
- transparently wrong
- brutal
- tacky, and
- necessary to take seriously
anyway, here's the state of the East Wing right now, for no particular reason
https://journa.host/@w7voa/115…

Steve Herman (@w7voa@journa.host)
Attached: 1 image East Wing ballroom construction at the White House “will be near it but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of.” - President Trump, July 31, 2025

"Personal blogs show the passion you have for your topic, how it gives you joy and wanting to share it with others. If it sparks joy in you it’s likely to spark joy in me simply because you shared it."
https://nothingoriginalhere.com/posts/

Personal blogs are the best, I love yours and I’ll try and tell you why - Nothing Original Here
A favourite thing to do on a Sunday morning is to make a coffee and then sit catching up on the part of my rss feed containing personal blogs. I...

"The Art of a Good #Poster" by @… https://errantscience.com/blog/2…

Sadly the live feed from New Zealand of the partial #SolarEclipse was lost a while ago (with the image frozen, now removed) - here is what the eclipse would have looked like moments ago at maximum phase in Dunedin, from the real-time simulation https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/new-zealand/dunedin?iso=20250921

Xilinx XC6SLX25 (Samsung 45nm) from a previous decap run that I had to come back and finish because it was still stuck to the substrate.
A few light scratches in top passivation. These big BGAs need a lot of handling to peel back layers of fiberglass so acid can get in, which increases damage risk. Using fuming nitric usually you don't need that but I don't want it in my house :P
You can't see a whole lot here except the GTP. But if you compare this to the abstracted …

Want to learn more about artist Rachel Hayes' huge, colorful textile creations? Watch her artist's talk here: #RachelHayes

@… I think the Northern Europeans and their offshoots (USA, etc.) are the exceptions here. Most Asians would turf the kids out of their beds for a guest.

here's today's incredible safety card baby courtesy of Southwest

from my link log —
The CRISPR baby scandal gets worse by the day.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/15-worrying-things-about-crispr-babies-scandal/577234/
saved 2018-12-09

15 Worrying Things About the CRISPR Babies Scandal
The alleged creation of the world's first gene-edited infants was full of technical errors and ethical blunders. Here are the 15 most damning details.

📉 Here's what I think about Curtis Yarvin
#politics

I used ChatGPT a lot when reading those Whitman Calamus poems. Here's everything it has remembered about me from those conversations. Its memory of me has been very useful, particularly that I want "Engagement with queer subtext when it’s plausibly present."

Oh the irony!
Wes Streeting suggesting that Donald Trump is wrong to stop prescribing paracetamol (as we know it here) without any evidence it is causing harm is EXACTLY WHAT HE IS DOING by stopping prescribing of puberty suppressing drugs in children experiencing gender incongruence. Literally, exactly the same - no evidence, just politics.
#ukpolitics

Wes Streeting Slams Donald Trump Over Claim Paracetamol Use Linked To Autism
The health secretary told pregnant women not to "pay any attention whatsoever" to the US president. Wes Streeting has slammed Donald Trump’s claim …

The creator of Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) books, Edward Packard, penned a short book called "Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years", available for download for free here:
https://edwardpackard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Nine-T…

Китайский классический роман "Троецарствие" невозможно читать, не обращаясь время от времени к базе данных персонажей. Их там почти тысяча.
Для сравнения, в "Войне и мире" их "всего" 559.
https://kongming.net/encyclopedia/directory/Novel

National Geographic: Your brain shrinks with age. Here's why music may be a key to reversing it https://www.nationalgeographic.com/health/article/brain-atrophy-music-neuroplasticity-limitless Learning to see with sound?

Your brain shrinks after 40. Learning a musical instrument can reverse it.
Experts say the more we challenge our brains as we age, the more resilient it becomes—and “learning a new instrument is a full-brain workout.”

From here

I've had too many arguments that go like this.
Someone: A says that Y is true.
Me: Actually A doesn't say that.
Someone: Here are all the reasons why Y is true.
Me: Well yes, I agree that Y is true but I don't think A said that.
Someone: Then why are you arguing?
It seems many people have a difficult time grasping that disagreeing with a point, a piece of evidence or assumptions is not the same as disagreeing with the conclusion.
But why argu…

@… And here I was *finally* starting to think I could stop asking “It has CarPlay right?” every time I rent a car, because these days they all do.
@…

5 handstand push-ups in each of two sets! Here's set two, after a full meal. This is a 2-set record, beating last week's 9. (I do these on Wednesdays most weeks, typically two sets.)
#seniorfitness #nogym

“If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come — you heard it here first — when the curves of research and development in artificial intelligence, molecular biology and robotics all converge.”
– Thomas Pynchon [writing in 1984]

Sergey Shulubin wurde am Strand in Constanța das Fahrrad geklaut. Das ist mies!
#tcrno11 #tcrno11cap104

The latest uv release (0.8.13) introduced the experimental uv format. It calls Ruff’s formatter to automatically style your code: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/15017. And you can use [tool.ruff] for both entry points.

Add an experimental `uv format` command by zanieb · Pull Request #15017 · astral-sh/uv
As a frontend to Ruff's formatter. There are some interesting choices here, some of which may just be temporary: We pin a default version of Ruff, so uv format is stable for a given uv version...

Does anyone here _not_ skip the titles after the first episode?

Here's one very concrete bunch of adverse health effects of microplastics
https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-may-be-tied-to-vascular-dementia-cases-review-finds

Microplastics May Be Tied to Vascular Dementia Cases, Review Finds
Vascular dementia is caused by blood flow issues in the brain: it's one of the most common types of dementia, but not as well researched or understood as others.

Guess who Alec Baldwin had on his podcast.
Listen to the episode and hear YDS student Andrea Barton Reeves '26 M.A.R. discuss her work ensuring accessibility to services and support for thousands of Connecticut residents, and how she remains grounded in her values of transparency, integrity, and service to others. #WeAreCalled

Department of Social Services Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves on Connecticut’s Future
Podcast Episode · Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin · 10/21/2025 · 43m

Mining companies leave many Queensland farmers’ land barren and broken. When they go belly up who pays for rehabilitation? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/14/farming-land-mining-companies-who-p…

If you're in #Utah and wondering about our own gerrymandering case against the #utgop, here's the current situation:

Not even the illuminati world elite empire can get email to work in 2025.
(full plain text too big for description so can be found here: https://paste.debian.net/plainh/b09d35f5 )

Posting this here for others with #LongCovid.
One of the things I've done this year is rule out potential other causes of my symptoms (imaging, blood work, neurological testing). This, in addition to treating symptoms as best I can (insomnia, brain fog, joint pain, double vision, tinnitus, hearing loss, etc.).
This fall, I wrapped up with neurology (I didn't want to, a…

I have loved having my own space here, but it’s time to retire this for a time. Currently on Bluesky more (for now) and keeping the domain name so this can return. @… - if you want to follow there from here :)

Renner's NFL Draft preseason WR rankings: Here's the catch; finding a true first-round talent might be a reach

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…

Zionism is, and always has been, a genocidal, settler colonial project.
It is the justification for and the ideology behind the literal genocide that is being committed by Israel right now, at this very moment, against the Palestinian people. A genocide that is being live streamed in posts here and elsewhere by its victims.
To equate all Jews with Zionism, as Zionists do – in other words, to state that all Jews are genocidal settler-colonialists – is antisemitic.
(Equally, …

As a legal journalist covering the Justice Department,
I had never encountered anything quite like my exchange with Lindsey Halligan. Neither had my editor.
Over the last several days, he and I spoke with multiple former federal officials and journalists who cover the justice system.
None could recall a similar instance in which a sitting U.S. attorney reached out to chastise a reporter about matters concerning grand jury testimony in an active case.
After I reach…

People out there really going “it’s not the problem of the Rails core team”.
WHO’S PROBLEM IS IT THEN???
Jesus fucking Christ, show at least a semblance of a spine and responsibility in leadership roles.
We’re talking fucking computer code versus the dignity and lives of people here.

Here's where Jerry Jones says Parsons' agent told him to place Cowboys' contract offer https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/21/cowboys-jones-speaks-on-derail…

@… @… good tip, I am already using Arq backup here, I just want to see how big the backup folder is without downloading it 😅

Here is a sketch of #security issues in a typical #PC-alike #boot flow. 💾
The red squiggly bits are paths of uncertainty. 🤨
Coming from the

We recorded our @… radio show not realising that resonance FM is on a summer break. So we uploaded it here please have a listen! https://www.

You used to work here. Want to do the same job for half? Inside the rise of 'boomerang' job offers
https://qz.com/boomerang-job-offers-pay-cuts

Don't Cry for Me, Argentina. Here's $40B Trump's Giving You. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-cry-for-me-argentina-heres-40b-trump-america-first-moo
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p38#a251022p38

Micah Parsons timeline: With Cowboys star in limbo, here's how contract talks with Jerry Jones broke down

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/micah-p

Birdcage is an arcade style vertical scrolling shootemup coming to PC/consoles soon. From this trailer, it looks DAMN great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LNE0Go79zo
You can wishlist it on Steam here:

The webcast #SolarEclipse is underway and has a feed from Dunedin, New Zealand where the partially eclipsed Sun will rise in a few minutes - meanwhile here is the eclipse already underway as seen by SUVI on the geostationary weather satellite GOES-19 at 17 nm wavelength, from https://www.facebook.com/SolarHam/posts/pfbid0LKUaGuBPo11nHtuHdfYmto1SRd1HFkrrGXVznc36AaxAfiAhHiDTAeoJwXZFnkpFl

Google searches for "cancel Disney Plus" & "cancel Hulu" spiked & suddenly, we can all watch the return of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" tomorrow, Tues, Sept 22nd!
▶️ Disney Reinstates Jimmy Kimmel | The Rapture Is Here | Trump's Border Czar
https://youtube.com/watch?v=…

I don't think I posted any running photos from the Thom B Trail Runs this May 17th in Hammond Hill State Forest; here's one of the faster runners -- this time I didn't get hypothermia or sunburn or anything
#photo #photography

Here's the KoolAid
https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DQE0YZ6CYg0

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Mike Johnson: "Suddenly now, they've somehow convinced themselves that the Epstein files will be damaging to President Trump and Republicans in some way that they've imagined, and so they feign outrage."

Lions kicker almost breaks NFL record on 67-yard field goal try: Here's how close Jake Bates came to making it

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/li…

I really like the food here in #Paris.
Yesterday, I had mapo tofu at 好好.
Today I'm having 紅燒牛肉麵 at 西北疯.

I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It's Happening Here. (David Pressman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/hungary-viktor-orban.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p33#a250723p33

JB Pritzker here.
Let me cut to the chase:
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆
— 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙩.
They’ve already got a Republican governor in New Hampshire,
and they’re betting they can flip the Senate seat next.
If they win in New Hampshire, our chances of taking back the Senate vanish.
𝗪𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻.
Chris Pappas is a proven fighter for working families — taking on pharmaceuti…

Chris Pappas for Senate | Official Campaign Website
New Hampshire deserves a Senator grounded in the people, places, and values of this state – that’s Chris Pappas.

Alright folks, we hacked something up here - enjoy! 🥳✨🏳️‍🌈👩‍💻🦀
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DI5-nbO4oDk
We have created a little menu for the TP-Link M7350 routers, or rather, for something coming up. 🤫

Based on the current congressional map, Inside Elections rates 64 House seats nationwide as being at least somewhat competitive, with a dozen considered toss-ups.
The Cook Political Report,another gold-plated handicapper, rates 72 seats competitive or having the potential to be so, with 18 toss-ups.
Both agree that two of those coin-flip races are in California, where Democrats Adam Gray and Derek Tran are fighting to hang onto seats they narrowly won in, respectively, the Central…

Barabak: Here's why the redistricting fight is raging. And why it may be moot
The partisan passions suggest control of the House will be decided next year by just a few seats, one way or the other. But that's typically not the case.

Columbia University trustees removed control of the student disciplinary process from the University Senate,
with the trustees taking control themselves of the process through the provost’s office.
The intent was to make sure that any student guilty of violating university regulations during an anti-genocide protest would be severely punished.
One goal is to make sure that students engaged in such protest are removed from the university and can’t do it again.
Anot…

The Situation at Columbia XVIII
When I first started writing here about what was going on at Columbia, part of the motivation was that I didn’t understand myself a lot of what was happening, especially the actions of the tr…

“They haven’t given us food, they haven’t given us medicine. We’re cold. There are people who’ve been here for 10, 15 days inside. We’re just waiting.”
Concerns about what goes on inside the federal building had been growing.
Advocates, attorneys and immigrants themselves have described the 10th floor as overcrowded, with no beds, showers, or adequate access to food or healthcare.
“Ice is kidnapping so many people from New York’s immigration courts that they had to create a …

From a story in today’s Wall Street Journal about Woody Allen and his new novel:

Though he’s already at work on a second novel, he rarely reads fiction—“I feel like I’m wasting time.”
More often he reads philosophy and books by physicists.
“I keep thinking I’m going to learn something of deep value that’s going to make me feel better in life,” he says.
“It never does.”

Two Number Theory Items (and Woody Allen)
James Douglas Boyd has recently spent a lot of time interacting with Mochizuki and others at RIMS working in anabelian geometry. Material from interviews he conducted are available here (Mochizuki …

Cyber security is an ever-evolving battle that we can never win.
The reason is simple -- and scary:
Virtually no one actually knows what is running on their computer at this very moment.
Gary Ruddell created a series of videos that are both entertaining and professionally made.
His website provides insight in cyber security and includes articles, a newsletter and also workshops for those who are interested in a career in cyber.
Here's one of his videos.
…

Mission: Impossible - Cyber Security
Signals Intelligence, intelligence services, espionage, cryptology, cipher machines and its history from WW2, over the Cold World era, to date.

In July, agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE,
approached a group of children playing baseball in Manhattan’s Riverside Park.
The agents began asking the kids where they’re from and who their parents are,
their coach, Youman Wilder, toldthe local ABC News affiliate.
Wilder, the founder of the Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy, decided to intervene.
“I told my kids to walk to the back of the [batting] cages, right here,
and I said they’…

Don’t Let ICE’s Legal Abuses Stop You From Asserting Your Rights, Advocates Say
“We need to use every tool at our disposal to protect and empower our communities,” one immigrant justice advocate said.

Despite some polls showing the public would blame the party in power for a shutdown this fall, Trump is betting that he can frame the public debate around Democrats’ demands — and their readiness to risk the type of shutdown that many of them have opposed in the past.
A senior White House official told Semafor that in the administration’s view, “the aggressor ultimately is blamed by the American public for a shutdown.”
“And what you’re seeing here with the Democrats is, they have…

Why Trump welcomes this government shutdown fight
The president has already gotten everything he wants from the Republican Congress.