@cdarwin@c.imState Rep Angie Nixon,
who is running in the Democratic primary for US Senate,
had a preliminary court hearing in Leon County Wednesday,
related to her May arrest for staging a sit-in outside
Governor Ron DeSantis’ office.
A trial date for Nixon was set for the week of Sept. 21.
Nixon was arrested on May 15,
after sitting in the governor’s capitol office for several hours,
protesting new Congressional district maps passed by Florida lawmakers.…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialThe GGNRA Superintendent, David Smith, is having one of his public Office Hours at the Presidio Visitor Center tomorrow to talk about the NPS commemoration of America's 250th birthday. (And answer other park related questions,).
11am - noon, Sat, June 19
Presidio Visitors Center, 210 Lincoln Blvd, San Francisco,
If you're a fan of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, this is a good chance to meet the Superintendent, hear about what's happening, and ask qu…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialThe GGNRA Superintendent, David Smith, is having one of his public Office Hours at the Presidio Visitor Center tomorrow to talk about the NPS commemoration of America's 250th birthday. (And answer other park related questions,).
11am - noon, Sat, June 19
Presidio Visitors Center, 210 Lincoln Blvd, San Francisco,
If you're a fan of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, this is a good chance to meet the Superintendent, hear about what's happening, and ask qu…
@buercher@tooting.chNolan has already been established as the rare director who can get people to buy a ticket on the strength of his name. As the follow-up to “Oppenheimer,” a somber period piece about the father of the atomic bomb, “The Odyssey” is further proof that Nolan can get butts in seats no matter the genre. Who else could turn a sword-and-sandal adventure that’s R-rated, nearly three hours long and isn’t a sequel into populist fare?
https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/odyssey-box-office-christopher-nolan-1236816035/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $1B, vs. $966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/pinterest-pins-q1-earnings-report-2026.html…
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toBolt awake this morning at 6:15am and could NOT get back to sleep. Try as I might to drag my feet through the usual routine, I still found myself at work at 7:45am which is hecka-early; usually I'm rocking up at the office at 9...9:30ish.
So now it's 10 to 10am, and it feels like I've been here for hours and I want to eat my lunch. I have been productive so far, so that's nice, but everything else about this I hate very much.
@shriramk@mastodon.socialTo make it easier esp. for junior folks (students, postdocs, jr faculty) to talk to me, I'm trying a new thing: open office hours at conferences! Come find me at PLDI 2026, using the public calendar linked to the page below. Please feel free to reshare!
https://cs.brown.edu/people/sk/Contact
@hex@kolektiva.socialI had a weird dream where I was talking to someone at some kind of ceremony, I think a funeral, where I had timidly painted my face with clay as part of some ritual. This person was talking about how far society has come while our brains have not caught up.
Imagine if your ancient cave dwelling ancestors were dropped into this world of cars, office hours, budgets, climate change, and AI. They would be absolutely freaking out and struggling to understand things all the time... Just like you are now.
Society teaches us to suppress these emotions. You're supposed to be OK with giant metal boxes flying around you in rumbling stampedes, but you feel it in unexplained anxiety. You're supposed to just fit your life into tight little bounds that ignore weather and season, but you feel it in more unexplained anxiety and depression. We are all part of something so big and complicated we can't make sense of it, we cannot possibly comprehend it all, it is simply too much to fully grasp the implications of our individual actions within global capitalism. Should we be surprised by our urge to simply destroy it, by the anger and desire to simply "smash" something far more complex than can be met with simple violence?
Some part of my brain was trying to remind me to be compassionate to myself. Perhaps that reminder can be useful to you as well.
@cdarwin@c.imJD Vance, the US vice-president, has blamed the murder of the British teenager Henry Nowak on mass migration,
hours after Prime Minister Keir Starmer rejected the US government’s claim that there was “two-tier policing” in the UK.
The senior Republican politician weighed into the case of the murdered 18-year-old,
claiming in a post on X that Nowak would be alive
“if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred …
@paulwermer@sfba.socialIf you use the GGNRA areas (see map link below), here's a chance to meet NPS Superintendent David Smith at "Office Hours with the Superintendent" at 11 - noon Sat, May 16 at the Presidio Visitor Center (210 Lincoln Blvd in the Presidio)
This meeting's focus is Park safety (but I suspect there'll be opportunity to ask about other items.
I've been luck to hear the Superintendent speak -and am impressed. if you care about the local National Parks, this is…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialIf you use the GGNRA areas (see map link below), here's a chance to meet NPS Superintendent David Smith at "Office Hours with the Superintendent" at 11 - noon Sat, May 16 at the Presidio Visitor Center (210 Lincoln Blvd in the Presidio)
This meeting's focus is Park safety (but I suspect there'll be opportunity to ask about other items.
I've been luck to hear the Superintendent speak -and am impressed. if you care about the local National Parks, this is…
