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JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) #JavaScript

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

Empire does what it wants: how Russia appropriated the Ukrainian Cossacks #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/empire-does-what-it-wants.html

Pay it forward.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/pay-it-forward

#ACAB #FTP #NYPD https://

Calamus 23 This moment as I sit alone
A promise of global unity, Whitman sharing his adulation for men in other countries.
I guess this is an antidote to Whitman's nationalism? His celebrations of America seem sweet and sincere but they are very American-centric. Here he's explicitly saying men of other lands can be just as wise, beautiful, or benevolent as American men. It seems unusual that he feels he has to say it explicitly.
As for the queer reading, his conclusion is
I know we should be brethren and lovers
There's that word, "lovers". It's so brash it's hard to understand. It seems uncharacteristically direct even understanding Whitman as a gay poet. Maybe this is some 19th century romantic language, mixing what feels very gay in with a more general celebration of brotherhood? Or maybe it is literally what it says, Whitman eroticizing international men.

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/openai-chatgpt-north-korean-it-workers
OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud

OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud
OpenAI blocked accounts used to create resumes that are likely tied to the long-running scam.

It's time for the #EV industry to hold itself to a higher standard when it comes to roaming. You can't have your cake and eat it. Make the cake bigger!
https://www.linkedin.com/…

I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop… | Jaap Burger
I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop pretending roaming works and start holding the ecosystem to a higher standard? As a fossil in this industry, I remember how EV roaming took off 15 years ago – it was a no-brainer from a user perspective and a logical step to ensure that the EV charging market could grow, benefiting everyone in the sector. As an early electric car driver eager to travel abroad, I spent a lot of time getting the right passes for local n…

Totoro spoilers
Re the quoted post from @…:
The very first time I saw My Neighbor Totoro, it was because a friend cajoled me into attending the student anime club’s showing with absolutely no context whatsoever except “you •have• to see this movie, Paul.” I had no idea what genre it was. I had no idea that it was a movie considered suitable for kids. The last anime I’d seen was IIRC Ghost in the Shell; I was ready for anything.
When Mei went missing, I thought, “omg, is this a tragedy? I think this story is a tragedy!” The whole time they were looking for her, I was absolutely terrified. I thought for sure they’d found her sandal. I still tear up when they find her now, on every rewatching.
I’m so glad for that first viewing. It’s a much better movie that way. When you’re expecting an innocent movie about cute forest plushies, you see that. But when you see that it could be a tragedy — the mother’s shadowy illness, the lost child — it hits hard. https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/114792748619083661

"Meanwhile, others see signs of success. That code (actually from 2006) is still there because, well, it is still there, because its authors did not get distracted by the shiny shiny and get bogged down in another rewrite, because as manufacturers and markets came and went, the Java runtime was still there, and the bytecode could still execute."

Async Rust: When to Use It and When to Avoid It
“Asynchronous” (often abbreviated as “async”) is a widely used term in computer science, but its meaning varies depending on the context. […]
🦀 https://fmoya.dev/posts/async-rust/

Filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 court order requiring it to preserve all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, arguing it poses a risk to users' privacy (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
OpenAI defends privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users.

My JS Krups is resisting netbooting. I see it doing a DHCP discover, and I see Kea responding with an offer, but then it just sends another Discover. Hmph. I can get to the serial console and doing boot net from there doesn't help; none of the keyboard shortcuts for network diag etc seem to work (except the one that displays the help for it...). So I took the flash SIM out and now it boots to Net rather than flash by default; alas with the same DHCP behaviour. Time to try isc-dhcp.…

Wait, what?! Doch nicht COSMO! 😱 Meinetwegen können sie jeden anderen Sender abschaffen. (Naja, fast.) Okay, jetzt’s zählt’s: #saveCOSMOradio https://innn.it/savecosmoradio

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O'Reilly: GenAI has adopted a colonialist business model.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timo3_proud-of-the-cloudflare-team-working-to-build-activity-7345899260506271745-mlHS

If you want to understand why O'Reilly is a supporter of this announcement, and want to ask both me and Matthew Prince about it, join our July 14 conversation on Live with Tim O'Reilly. | Tim O'Reilly
If you want to understand why O'Reilly is a supporter of this announcement, and want to ask both me and Matthew Prince about it, join our July 14 conversation on Live with Tim O'Reilly. AI has adopted colonialism as its business model: Extract resources from others and use it to enrich yourself and your customers at the expense of those whose resources you have taken, without giving much back. It's high time we started developing new mechanisms to enable content monetization for creators, not …

It makes me really happy to see that already more than 1.5k people watched my talk from last month’s @… on YouTube! 🥳🙏 I take it as a sign that it was useful to many of you and that real-world, independent conferences are still valuable and relevant – just like the long tail of YouTube when it comes to the visibility and impact of conferences. I’m so glad I can con…

I may need to get back to doing illustrations again since it's been about a year that I took a break...
Hand drawn stuff (even if digitally) might be the future of human art with all this AI bullshit going on.
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/projects/illustrations/

Illustrations
In March 2024 I started doing sketches on an iPad using Procreate and an Apple Pencil. As of writing this it's May 2024 and I'm still doing it. I'll try to keep this page updated with new illustrations as they are completed. Each illustration links to a page with more info about it, and some [...]

FPGA people: how cursed is it if I scramble TX/RX lanes of my transceivers so that e.g. TX lane 0 and RX lane 1 go to a single SFP28?
They're separate clock domains anyway, separate PLL taps. I'm not using the CPLL so that's no factor.
It feels wrong, but I can't think of any reason why it would be? (I've done this before and it worked fine but that was with hacky breakout to SMA setups, not by design on a PCB)

A wildfire in a wilderness area of central California exploded in size as dry, hot weather Thursday raised the fire risk for large portions of the state ahead of the July Fourth holiday.
The #MadreFire became California’s largest blaze so far this year, ripping through grasslands after breaking out Wednesday in southeastern San Luis Obispo County.
It swiftly grew to more than 82 square miles (…

California's largest blaze this year explodes in size as hot weather raises wildfire risk statewide
A wildfire in a wilderness area of central California has exploded in size. Dry, hot weather is raising the fire risk for large portions of the state ahead of the July Fourth holiday. The Madre Fire is California’s largest blaze so far this year. It ripped through grasslands after breaking out Wednesday in southeastern San Luis Obispo County. It swiftly grew to more than 82 square miles. It was just 10% contained Thursday evening. Evacuation orders and warnings are in place for tiny communiti…

Good stuff for Mac Users. I’ve used it forever. Really handy, and it works well.
#Software #Mac #MacOS

St. Clair Software (@stclairsoft@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Default Folder X 6.1.6 is out! It includes a Focus filter to automatically switch folder sets when you activate a macOS Focus. It's also faster in file dialogs and fixes issues with keyboard shortcuts, Finder-click, keyboard focus and making new folders. https://www.stclairsoft.com/blog/2025/05/13/default-folder-x-6-1-6-automatically-swap-favorites-and-default-folders-when-you-switch-macos-focus-modes

I’m quoted here regarding the ethics in not disclosing to students and defense contractors that their information may have been leaked in an Indiana University data breach. Still no word of a third party investigator being engaged. Dear Internet, do your thing.
https://www.

Administrator says IU will never explain IT security breach publicly
For more than three weeks, Indiana University websites have been down, disrupting and frustrating the university community.

Here is where we picnicked last spring near Comfort Texas along the bank of the now flooding Guadalupe river.
(This location is a few miles downriver from Camp Mystic which is being mentioned and shown in the news.)
It seemed like a nice little river/creek - it is utterly astounding to see the videos being posted of it raging.

Also just been watching a kōtare out the window. I startled it by walking past the window and then saw it sitting on a nearby street light. It then flew down and ate a few things off the rain slick road... worms, I'm guessing. Gorgeous to see its blue and gold highlights flitting around.

Este fin de semana elegimos ver una película solo porque había unos discos de vinilo en el póster. «The Greatest Hits» (2024, Dir. Ned Benson) resultó ser una comedia/drama romšntica sorpresivamente entretenida y con buena música. Excelente servicio para una peli de domingo.
3½★ https://boxd.it/9SsH1F

Also, this is misleading.
In this case, the post was not removed by its author. It's just a Bluesky account that restricts its visibility outside the BSky network, which means it can't be bridged.
So, yeah, it's a good start, but it needs tweaking.
#Mastodon #QuotePosting

Had no idea it was happening.
Some of it is an hotel which is great to see but if the rest is built with very small condo sizes it will be a hard sell on the current market.
#condos #Toronto

I wish it was coming. They will simply show it in a video.
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/114627287109071234

9to5Mac (@9to5Mac@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image iOS 26 is coming next week: Here’s everything we know https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/04/ios-26-features-release-date/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Popcorn time.

I may or may not load #ICEBlock. I’m unclear on the validity of the privacy claims and don’t have the time to dive into it deeply...
However, I found it amusing that someone complained about it wanting “Always On" location services. Clearly someone not getting the point that it is meant to *ALERT you when ICE is nearby. Not to tell you only when you ask.

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

Generative AI, Copyright, and Market Harm – Copyhype https://www.copyhype.com/2025/05/generative-ai-copyright-and-market-harm/?utm_source=dlvr.it&ut…

My bignum implementation is broken, but how broken is it? Understanding how it comes to be broken is the first stage towards fixing it.
( 10000000000000000000 10000000000000000000)
prints the same value as
(* 2 10000000000000000000)
which is
1,553,255,926,290,448,384
It's the wrong value, but... is it the arithmetic that's wrong? I've been stuck on this for a very long time, but I begin to think that it's not.
The reader is failin…

I would say that's about it so far. I'm pretty happy with it overall, have supported the development, and use it every day with no issue. The initial setup took me some time as a newbie, but the PiMyLife blog really helped.
I love how many different apps I can connect my server to, how configurable it is, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the future holds for Navidrome. The dev also seems pretty nice and responsive.

This month's newsletter/digest is on it's way to all the amazing lovely peaceful protestors who want it in the email box.
The rest of your terrorist sympathizers who should be arrested can read it here:
#newsletter #digest

An analysis of 61 settlements signed by Channel 4 staff who left amid employment disputes between 2017 and 2021 shows it paid out ~£5M and all but two had NDAs (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/channel-4-denies-using-nda-zelda-pe…

Channel 4 Says It Doesn’t Use NDAs, But Documents Reveal Company Is Curbing Free Speech Of Aggrieved Ex-Employees
Channel 4 described itself as the "defender of free speech," but documents reveal it is restricting what former staffers can say about the company.

@… Nailed it. :-p
It would be nice if the companies who are making a lot of money using it would invest back.
(Some do, of course.)

I will try to make it - it is today:
https://mas.wrong.tools/@crystalvisits/114593299739628516

Crystal Huff (they/them) (@crystalvisits@wrong.tools)
Attached: 1 image I'm looking forward to this book talk next week! Copaganda: how the police and media manipulate our news. Wednesday, 6/4 at 6:30 pm at Connexion in Somerville, MA. #MApoli #Somerpoli #policing #politics #SomervilleMA

Titans' Calvin Ridley says Cam Ward has that 'f--- it' mentality that quarterbacks need

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/titans-

Google Calendar: I found an event in my calendar for this Thursday, without a title or description, but a specific time (12:20-13:05). It is my private calendar, so I know I created it. So I am probably going to miss something this Thursday, but I don't know what.
What I found interesting is that when I asked Gemini it was able to tell me when I *created* that event, a piece of metadata that is not visible in the Google Calendar UX in any way.

It's interesting how the "I use AI and it's great and the future" blog posts have escaped LinkedIn and now just pour fire on an overheated discourse.
Question is a bit: Why now?

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Unpopular opinion:
Stop talking about how Black Women vote and start talking about how Black *People* vote.
It's better to be UNITED here; and while it's true we are slightly worse at it -- still -- If everyone voted like Black *Men* we'd be also doing perfectly well.
#blackmastodon

'[T]the standard it proposes has no fixed boundaries. No definition of danger. No threshold for entry. No requirement that the belief be verified, or even verifiable. If the court adopts it, ICE will will be one of the many law enforcement agencies not needing a warrant. It will only need a justification. A welfare call. A safety tip. A closed door. A silence misread or claimed as threat.'
The Supreme Court might turbocharge ICE more than Trump’s big bill.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/supreme-court-ice-trump-big-bill-deportations.html

I'm nervous but looking forward to it. (For non-Australians, this small town writing festival is one of the bigger ones in Australia). Should be a lot of fun. We're kicking it off on the main stage. #permaculture #writing

1. Notice that your cap has gotten a second color (read: you scratched something on your head).
2. Wash it in the train, then hold in your hand since it's wet now.
3. Realize it's so hot that putting a wet cap on is a good idea.

from my link log —
Crossness pumping station: seduced by symmetry.
https://www.anthonybaines.co.uk/blog/2021/9/2/crossness-pumping-station-seduced-by-symmetry
saved 2025-05-15

Crossness Pumping Station: seduced by symmetry — Anthony Baines Photography
Last week, I was lucky enough to visit the Crossness Pumping Station in South-East London . It is variously known as the "Cathedral in the Marshes" or, more bluntly, the "Cathedral of Sewage". It is a former Victorian sewage pumping station, opened in 1865; it continued to ope

House passes Big Beautiful Bill Act, sending it to Trump after bruising struggle (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/03/us-news/house-passes-big-beautiful-bill-act-sending-it-to-trump-after-bruising-struggle/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p100#a250703p100

Uninstalled the NHS App. I dunno but there’s something about Wes Streeting getting his dirty little paws on it that makes me be a little wary.
If I need to use it, I’ll use it purely via the web, at https://www.nhsapp.service.nhs.uk/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Avalanches:
🎵 Frontier Psychiatrist
#TheAvalanches
https://seesfu.bandcamp.com/track/protip-if-youre-looking-for-the-australian-version-of-sily-make-sure-it-says-tonight-may-have-to-last-me-all-my-life-on-the-back-or-it-might-be-the-shitty-fucked-up-version-w-bad-frontier-psychia
https://open.spotify.com/track/4WVUtbd7CL38fVdIQVN3fk

Dear „fundamental Christians“, for you the proof that the climate catastrophe is men made is easy:
• God said to Noah: “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” (Gen 9, 13)
• You are fighting rainbows, calling them and those who praise it evil.
• So you cut the contract that was sealed between us.
• Therefore there will be flood – and worse. One does not cut the gay ribbon between yourself and God.
• It i…

Der vielfältigste und migrantischste Radiosender Deutschlands ist in Gefahr!
Werde jetzt mit uns laut, um COSMO zu retten!
https://innn.it/savecosmoradio
COSMO ist ARD-weit das einzige Radioprojekt, das konsequent mehrsprachig arbeitet, migrantische und queere Perspektiven redaktio…

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New twist in bank investigator scam impersonating Ottawa Police
https://flip.it/IDkh9f

Französische Regierung bietet 410 Mio. € für Teile von Atos, um Kontrolle über sicherheitsrelevante Technologien zu sichern
Gekauft werden Bereiche der Sparte „Advanced Computing“, nicht aber die KI-Abteilung Vision AI. #Handelsblatt #IT

["Overture" for Cats (2019) plays in the background]

Silicon Graphics Likes It Hot - Washington Technology
#throwbackthursday

Happy #Pride, ya'll.

Naturalist fedi: what the heck is this sound??
I think it’s an animal. It was coming from under a deck. Merlin does not identify it as a bird. A rodent of some kind, maybe…? Anyone recognize it?

"Mary Maxwell Gates, Bill’s mother, was appointed to the board of directors of the national United Way in 1980. And guess who else was in that committee? The late John Opel, president, chairman, and CEO of…, you guessed it, IBM, between 1974 and 1986."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/gary-

My TrueNAS server is reporting one of the disks I got just two months ago with "CRITICAL: 10 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors" which seems bad...
It's a WD disk and there should be a two year warranty on it, so I may need to look into replacing it.
Self hosting really is Tamagotchi for Nerds.
#truenas

The uncertainty over federal Medicaid funding appears to have claimed its first victim in Nebraska.
Community Hospital in McCook announced Wednesday that it will close Curtis Medical Center in Curtis,
winding down its services over the next several months.
"Unfortunately, the current financial environment,
👉driven by anticipated federal budget cuts to Medicaid,
has made it impossible for us to continue operating all of our services,
many of which have…

Southwest Nebraska hospital announces plans to close, blames uncertainty over funding
Community Hospital in McCook announced Wednesday that it will close Curtis Medical Center in Curtis, winding down its services over the next several months.

Release, release, release https://muz4now.com/2025/release-release-release/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/The muse is present&utm_medium=mastod…

Release, release, release
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Ethernet nerds: Does this section from 802.3-2022 actually require that you be able to read the currently negotiated speed and duplex state back from this register, or only write to force a specific speed?
Every PHY I've ever seen except the VSC8512 lets you read back the actual operating conditions, but reading the spec it seems that there's not actually a mandate that this capability be there.
The register is defined as readable but it's not well defined whether it …

I wish RSS/Atom had opt-in CSS.
I appreciate that I can effectively download a website and read it whenever I want, but so many websites I read are quite pretty.
I’d love it if they showed up just as pretty in my feed reader, with the option to toggle it per feed.

When my wife and I are watching things, we're always amused at how many characters in TV shows and movies are named Tommy or Billy. These are obviously fairly common names, but the amount of times we've noticed it in all kinds of different shows like X-Files, SVU etc is so often that it's comical-- it's bizarre. And sometimes in episodes right next to each other in a season. Just a ton of fictional guys out there with these two names across age groups, all over popular cultur…

Green Bay Packers DL Kenny Clark says he played through 2024 foot injury: 'It was a tough year for me'

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

Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging it accessed Reddit 100K times after saying it had stopped; Reddit has reached formal licensing deals with OpenAI and Google (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/reddit-lawsuit-anthropic-ai-3b9624dd

Man Who Tried To Lawlessly Do Congress' Job For It Criticizes 'Pork-Filled' Bill (Nicole Lafond/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/man-who-tried-to-lawlessly-do-congress-job-for-it-criticizes-pork-filled-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p5#a250604p5

I have deconstructed the temporary half arsed shoddy micro-campervan conversion.
Emptied it out, ready for the professionals to do the fully arsed non-shoddy permanent conversion over the next couple of weeks.
The fridge and the chair remain in the back but not tied down at all.
The chair I might leave at my mums as a better sofa-bed for me to sleep on when there, and maybe spend the night with them before dropping the van off. They live much closer than me to the drop off point.
He said he might be able to use the fridge.
My job was so shoddy it was already starting to fall apart so will be good to have it done properly.

There was an older lady in the train sitting across from us who was literally opening up a bottle of cough syrup and chugging it. We were wearing masks, she was not.
Perfect timing for our visit: https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/114628380231359490

Denis - The COVID info guy - (@DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social)
Attached: 1 image 🇬🇧 UK: Doctors call for return of face masks after new COVID strain reaches UK. In the UK, cases of the new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 have been reported. WHO is monitoring due to its rapid spread and possible resistance to prior infection or vaccination. Source: https://archive.md/DTVHw @auscovid19@a.gup.pe

@… Hi, I got iocaine running and am looking to use it within Caddy. The docs say "This section is slightly out of date: it is no longer required that the reverse proxy do the bot detection, iocaine can do that itself. This documentation will be updated in the next few days to reflect that."
Any link to where I can have iocaine do t…

Finished "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway last night. For me, it was a gripping and absolutely delightful read. I can recognize that I'm absolutely unequipped to judge whether it authentically reflects the experiences of many or few of the people whose situations are similar to the protagonists', but I find myself fervently hopeful for the former, even as I recognize such hopes in the part of people like me can be part of ultimately harmful publishing selection feedback loops. (If anyone reading this happens to have read the book and found it distasteful, I'd love to hear that.) Notwithstanding my probably overcautious uncertainty, I'll definitely be seeking out more books by Benway. At the very least, I really enjoyed her little joining and framing metaphors, and the pacing and plot construction were good, with lots of nicely interwoven implications arising through the buildup, and an ending that left me satisfied (albeit, I'm an inveterate optimist, YMMV).
#AmReading

The U.S. military B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the coordinated strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House
-- but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.
The White House confirmed to Military.com that those involved in the mission, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, were invited to the White House's July 4 celebration.
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Pilots Who Conducted Iran Strikes Invited to White House on July 4, Raising Security Concerns
The B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House, but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.

MSPs back new powers supporting Gaelic and Scots https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyzll5m2j1o?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Signs of Hope&utm_medium=masto…

MSPs back new powers supporting Gaelic and Scots
The Scottish Languages Bill would see both recognised as official languages.

to no one's great surprise, the nyt continues to suck https://bsky.app/profile/capitolhunters.bsky.social/post/3lt4dmcwiic23

capitolhunters (@capitolhunters.bsky.social)
The point here isn't to beat up on Jordan Lasker. It's to ask how the NYT called a white supremacist hack an "academic" when his only academic work of note was so awful that its ethical and scientific awfulness was a national scandal. No one even Googled. No one fact-checked this story AT ALL. 5/

Starlink-Alternative: Telekom beteiligt sich am EU-Satellitenprojekt IRIS²
Um unabhängiger von US-Konzernen zu werden, plant die Europäische Union ein eigenständiges Satellitennetz. Die Deutsche Telekom liefert die IT-Infrastruktur.

Bears' DJ Moore shares poor body language directive from Ben Johnson: 'Don't put it on film'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bears-d

@… @… Not really, there are a bunch of blockchain companies using it and a few banks, but unfortunately, most of them are not investing in making it better.
Facebook were using it for a while in a couple of teams, but I…

Microsoft says it didn't cut services to the International Criminal Court, after an AP report in May said it "cancelled" the email of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan (Sam Clark/Politico)
https://www.po…

Microsoft didn’t cut services to International Criminal Court, its president says
Chief prosecutor’s email issues have spurred fears in Europe that Trump could trigger a “kill switch” through U.S. tech giants abroad.

"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand."
"Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing, not seeing. It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives."

Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

Can't park there, mate. #BanCars

WhatIsNewYork
Shoutout to the bus driver for holding the car up! How does this keep happening?? #whatisnewyork

Free cinematic sound libraries for Kontakt | Native Instruments Blog https://blog.native-instruments.com/free-cinematic-sound-libraries/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm…

Free cinematic sound libraries for Kontakt | Native Instruments Blog
Write pro-sounding movie scores for free. Explore the 15 best free libraries for cinematic sound, from orchestras to epic synths and more.

Bears' DJ Moore has had conversations with Ben Johnson about WR's body language: 'Just don't do it' https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-dj-moore-has-had-conversations-with-ben-johnson-about-wr-s-body…

The EU says it has no plans to pause the implementation of the AI Act, after Meta, Google, Mistral, ASML, and others urged it to delay the rules by years (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/artif

"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @…:
"But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost."

The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

2025 NFL OTA takeaways: Travis Hunter displays inhuman ball skills, Cam Ward 'f--- it mentality' embraced

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/20…

The all-new Moog Messenger: a tour with synth legend Erik Norlander of Moog https://cdm.link/moog-messenger-with-e

The all-new Moog Messenger: a tour with synth legend Erik Norlander of Moog - CDM Create Digital Music
Moog Messenger is something new. Because that's the first major product entirely developed under new owners inMusic*, that might make you nervous. But this synth is full of surprises—and could be the Moog synth your rig has been missing. Moog's Erik Norlander, Director of Keyboard Product Development, walked us through the synth. I think it might wind up being his biggest hit since the Alesis Andromeda.

Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media (Brian O'Donovan/RTÉ)
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0704/1521746-meta-eu/

Meta backs EU digital majority age
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has said it supports proposals for a common digital majority age across EU member states.

lol! Hochul actually just sent this out in an email blast.
We truly are on the cutting edge of the 1950s.

iVerify says it found the first evidence of an active spyware campaign targeting iPhones in the US and the EU; Apple fixed a flaw, but says it wasn't exploited (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/spyware-iphones-apple-iverify

Researchers uncover possible iPhone spyware campaign inside U.S.
This would be the first evidence of a spyware campaign targeting iPhones in the United States.

I drink maybe like 4 times per year, but today's bill passage warranted a beer. This country's government is the fucking worst.

Oh the irony of this free airport wifi forcing me to watch an ad for Chrome.. in order for me to get online so that I can release a Debian security update for Chromium.

...maybe CNN should stay out of the fucking NYC Mayoral race?

"This is a Piccadilly line train to Cockfosters"
The 13yo giggles every at. Single. Stop. when that announcement is made.

lmao he doored a DEA douche
https://mastodon.online/@universalhub/114628300809735286

Ugghhhhh https://urbanists.social/@enobacon/114628927949380555

London making me feel right at home with bags of trash on the street. 😏

Lol taking pics of bollards with @… @… and security showed up to question us.
(London)

#ACAB #FTP #NYPD

Almost Every NYPD Cop Charged with Excessive Force During the George Floyd Protests Escaped Serious Punishment
A review by THE CITY reveals that only five cops cited in the most extreme cases substantiated by the CCRB received significant discipline, and that 10 disciplinary cases still haven’t been resolved after half a decade.

It's amazing to me that people continue to look back at 2024 and angrily blame muslims,non-voters, & leftists for the overwhelming win by Trump. It must be nice to be able to completely ignore reality and learn nothing.
https://www.

Behind Trump’s 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition
Pew Research Center’s in-depth study of its survey respondents who voted in the 2024 election examines turnout, voting patterns and demographics.

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