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Why believe in Tyler Shough, Malik Willis and other unlikely playoff starters? https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47402594/fantasy-football-start-sit-add-week-17

Here's your first look at the GÉANT Security Days 2026 programme!
What to expect:
🔹 Interactive sessions, including Capture the Flag challenges
🔹 Case studies and operational insights from the global NREN and higher education community
🔹 Deep dives into large-scale crisis exercises
And that’s just the start!
📌 Explore the preliminary programme and secure your spot:

Raiders Get Big Maxx Crosby Update Amid John Spytek Message https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-update-john-spytek-message/

Cowboys on Pickens contract: 'We love him, want him here' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-on-pickens-contract-we-love-him-want-him-here

15,000 people singing to call on ICE to leave their jobs!
🎵🎵🎵
Oh-h-h, It's okay to change your mind,
Show us your courage,
Leave this behind,
It's okay to change your mind,
And you can join us,
Join us here any time
🎵🎵🎵
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVEuV1hkvjG/

Singers on Instagram: "15,000 people singing to call on ICE to: quit your jobs! Show your courage! Lay down your weapons! Leave this behind! 🧊 Singing with Brandi Carlile was awesome - but what we’re really about is taking it to the streets. Join us for our National Weekend of Action Feb. 28 / March 1 by find your local group at tinyurl.com/groupslistSR (linked in bio) and contact them directly to join an action near you. ⭐️ We sing to protect and care for our communities in the face of rising authoritarianism. Always and forever we say: ABOLISH ICE. Who in your life can you start a conversation with about abolishing ICE? Send them this video and invite them to join you at a Singing Resistance action near you! 💌 Song: Annie Schlaefer It’s okay to change your mind Show us your courage Leave this behind It’s okay to change your mind And you can join us Join us here anytime"
31K likes, 307 comments - singingresistance on February 22, 2026: "15,000 people singing to call on ICE to: quit your jobs! Show your courage! Lay down your weapons! Leave this behind! 🧊 Singing with Brandi Carlile was awesome - but what we’re really about is taking it to the streets. Join us for our National Weekend of Action Feb. 28 / March 1 by find your local group at tinyurl.com/groupslistSR (linked in bio) and contact them directly to join an action near you. ⭐️ We sing to prot…

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

Believe in Tyler Shough, Malik Willis and other unlikely playoff starters https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47402594/fantasy-football-start-sit-add-week-17

Cowboys on Pickens contract: 'We love him, want him here' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-on-pickens-contract-we-love-him-want-him-here

Today, Wikipedia turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future and support them as they start to demand fair support from the AI companies that are profiting off of the community. There's no better example than Wikipedia of the web we make together.

Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

It’s not supposed to start snowing until Saturday morning but the bucket trucks are queuing up already.
Most are from out of state, here on emergency assistance. That they assemble in advance like buzzards, tells you how crap our grid is and how lucrative these storms will be.

Is Brock Bowers playing today? Why Raiders TE is off to slow start in Week 16 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/brock-bowers-playing-today-why-raiders-slow-start-week-16/fbaa464e7…

Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.

I updated the initial Kitten course based on our first lesson with @… and your feedback here. So now we start with no tooling except for your default terminal app and Kitten and it serves as a gentle introduction to the command line and gets to you seeing your first web page in your web browser far more quickly.

Here is a metaphor that might be helpful in understanding immature tech trends.
When you have a leak in your plumbing, that's a problem that can be fixed. You can find the leak, replace the pipe, and the problem is solved.
When you learn to ride a bike, falling over is a different class of problem. The first times you fall off constantly. Then as you start to get the hang of it, you fall off 1 in 10 times, then 1 in a 100, and so on.
You minimize the problem, but it n…

The comic / graphic novel will be ending soon and then the wait for the final Netflix movie will start. #Heartstopper 🏳️‍🌈
#LGBTQ #AliceOseman

Working on improving error reporting in ngscopeclient rather than having filters simply silently produce no output, or log to stdout, when something goes wrong.
Here's my current WIP: the block that has problems displays a warning icon and summary title up top, then you can mouse over it to see more detailed error information.
Thoughts? Anything I should change before I start working on adding this sort of feedback to more filter blocks?

For #mountainmonday AND #monochromeMonday , here's the start (well and end) of my hike the weekend before last.
Usually I'm not a fan of photographing roads, but this one made a nice line over the saddle and into the fog so I just gave it a try.
And heck was it c…

Slowly getting into a rhythm to start the day with doing a print each morning, each time still tweaking either negatives, concentrations and/or durations of different processing stages to adjust tones/hues... A new adventure with some back and forth each time!
This print is of Langkofel / Sassolungo, one of my favourite mountain massifs, just such interesting features and so many dear memories, here seen from the east (around half and hour before sunset)...

Good Morning #Canada
It's a balmy -22°C here in beautiful Belle Ewart Ontario. Apparently, with the wind chill, it would feel like -26°C if I were to stupidly wander outside. Now before you start reporting colder temperatures in your area - it ain't a competition people - let's remember our country's coldest day in history.
Canada's coldest recorded temperature was a staggering -63°C in Snag, Yukon on February 3, 1947. The temperature was so extreme it broke thermometers and made Snag famous for the record for North America's coldest spot, caused by stalled Siberian air. Other extremely cold locations included Fort Vermilion, AB (-60.6°C) and Old Crow, YT (-59.4°C). Nobody was tonguing steel poles that day.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Weather
https://www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canada/coldest-day-in-canadian-history/

Bandwagon.fm — Better Social for Musicians. Connect to Your Fans on the Fediverse
Bandwagon is 100% open source, so nobody can lock you in to their platform. Start here, then you'll be able to migrate your account or self-host your Bandwagon data anywhere.
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Football's already back, plus the weirdest Olympic stories https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7066351/2026/02/24/nfl-scouting-combine-storylines-the-pulse/

Air Quality Index: Cats

In early February there were more than 750 families,
nearly half of them including children,
as well as some 370 single adult women
being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.
It is just one of many immigration centers across the country,
but the only one holding families.
Since the start of the Trump administration, the number of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention has skyrocketed,
-- increasing sixf…

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.

If the Earth is Space Australia, what happens when the aliens start transporting all their convicts here?

Time to let go of the EasyAwesome Vol. 05 Playlist and start the next one.
( Previous volumes here: #EasyAwesomePlaylist )
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?lis

You know what really sucks about being raised in Polish culture? You learn to always expect criticism and sarcasm.
Someone tells you a compliment? In the best case, you feel uneasy about it. In the worst, you start suspecting it was veiled sarcasm.
Once I've read here a suggestion to compliment strangers. I don't know if I'll ever be able to do that. I'd keep worrying that I may be misunderstood, either as being sarcastic or as expecting something.
#Poland #ActuallyAutistic

Although the next "Talk Like a Pirate Day" is not until Sept 19, 2026, we here in the US of A can start talking pirate-talk immediately.
Why?
Because the US has become a pirate nation, robbing other nations of their lands, assets, and governments.
trump ain't no Dread Pirate Roberts - he's more on par with Cap'n Dumbo Lardbutt - but he is no less a pirate than the famed Blackbeard and has probably killed more people than Blackbeard ever did.

Love it when I start writing a brief post to blab out here, and it starts becoming a list of ideas, and I quickly realize a blog post needs to happen 🔥
#writing #blogs #blogging

Want to break into climate work but don't know where to start? Terra.do's Learning for Action fellowship might be your answer.
This 12-week program goes deep on real-world climate solutions—beyond just clean energy. You'll learn the science, explore diverse solutions, and connect with a global community, all while working full-time (6-10 hrs/week).
Financial aid available.

Answering Your LFA Questions
Terra.do's Learning for Action fellowship (LFA) is our flagship 12-week course. Here, we'll answer some common questions about the program.

Musk makes another totally unrealistic plan. And let‘s not forget the strategy shift here: originally it was the moon, then it was Mars, now it‘s the moon again. With a rocket which still is in development.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/…

So there has been a school shooting in British Columbia - and I guess since I spent so much time living and working in the states, I forgot that these are horrifying and traumatizing events - which may just be down to the coverage in the media in the US versus Canada.
That's not to say that the coverage here has been good - quite the opposite in fact - but I will get to that at the moment.
I will qualify this in that I will freely admit that I have no expertise in either mass …

How to watch 2026 HBCU Legacy Bowl: Start time, broadcast info, players to know https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7061295/2026/02/21/hbcu-legacy-bowl-2026-how-to-watch/

@… You misspelled tar.
Here left me help you out
There are more of course, and I could not even be bothered to start on extraction. 😜

2026 World Cup Matches in Dallas: Start Times, Dates, Locations https://www.foxsports.com/stories/soccer/2026-world-cup-matches-dallas-start-times-dates-locations

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116075863404835077
I feel like I just need to sit down and start reading ollama source to actually understand how everything comes together. Like, what is the mechanism by which these trigger? Is it embedded in the statistical model or in another area?
I know there's a mechanic for special trigger words or objects because that's one of the vectors for RCE if you use an untrusted model. I'm betting that's the same here.
If it's just a string comparison then it's hypothetically possible to get those strings out of a black box with a timing attack, but the number of interactions would probably be cost prohibitive.

Just fixed an interesting and subtle shader performance bug.
Here I'm trying to recover a clock from a PAM-3 signal which consists of two consecutive filter blocks: the PAM edge detector (find level crossings and interpolate, accounting for the fact that the threshold changes depending on start/end symbol), and then the CDR PLL proper.
If you're not familiar with NSight Systems especially on complex multithreaded applications, there's a lot going on here even though I…

At the start of the year, I began a list of all the #movies I’ve watched in 2025. I realised I have a huge list of #films I want to watch, but I just stumble through the medium at random, paying little attention to them as they go by. I hoped this list might change that. In reverse chronological order, here are my…

Okay, getting an early start on preparing for the JoCo cruise in the beginning of 2027 (assuming the world is still here). The overall setup will be the RetroTINK 4K (already owned), a nice 4K OLED portable monitor, and a sturdy MiSTer. I'm excited to see if the RetroTINK 4K works its magic on the portable monitor...even more excited to see if I can get back into running _Castlevania: Symphony of the Night_. We'll see.

Most English poems
I read on the Internet
Are just sentences
That don’t rhyme. How come?
(Not to deride the very cute xmas poem here but serious question. Do I have a bad sample size? Is this rhyming just for song lyrics and rap now? Or was non-rhyming poetry always bigger in English than in other languages?) https://

Welcome to #TextModeTuesday! For the next few weeks I'll be posting some projects & experiments related to this just spontaneously made up hashtag. If you've got something related to interesting text-based art/experiments, patterns, ASCII-art, ANSI-art etc. please share — the more, the merrier...
To start with, here's an experiment from a few years ago to demonstrat…

For #footpathfriday , here's a nice path I'd say.
This is taken from a bike&hike right after the bike-part and thus the start of a very nice autumn hike last year. When I took this photo, I didn't know - and not even expect how well the rest of the day would be 🙂
Enjoy
#mountains

What time does Super Bowl 2026 start today? Kickoff, halftime, pregame schedule for Seahawks vs. Patriots

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2026-start-time-k…

Mailbag: Will defensive assistants be kept? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-will-defensive-assistants-be-kept

How to watch Raiders vs. Chiefs on Sunday: Start time, schedule, streaming, odds https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/how-to-watch-raiders-vs-chiefs-on-sunday-start-time-schedule-streaming-odds-3603419/

Want to break into climate work but don't know where to start? Terra.do's Learning for Action fellowship might be your answer.
This 12-week program covers clean energy, climate policy, and other key solutions—all designed to fit around your full-time job (6-10 hours/week). You'll learn from industry pros, build your network, and join graduates who've successfully landed climate careers.
Financial aid available for those ready to make a difference.

Answering Your LFA Questions
Terra.do's Learning for Action fellowship (LFA) is our flagship 12-week course. Here, we'll answer some common questions about the program.

The race is on to succeed Gavin Newsom,
the California governor with presidential ambitions
whose terms runs out next year
– and it’s already a crowded field.
More than 95 candidates have so far submitted paperwork
indicating their intention to run,
though the official filing period doesn’t start until 9 February.
The field looks wide open,
with polling yet to indicate a clear frontrunner
and nearly half of voters describing their prefere…

What time does Super Bowl 2026 start today? Kickoff, halftime, pregame schedule for Seahawks vs. Patriots

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2026-start-time-k…

Time to start $dayjob work so this is it for today.
But here's 100baseTX decoding, eye pattern, eye measurements, bathtub curve, jitter histogram, and more.
Running in real time on the full 1 GB/s (1 Gsps, 2x 500 Msps differential legs) ADC firehose off a ThunderScope, on a 2080 Ti.
As far as I know this is an industry first.

Mailbag: Will defensive assistants be kept? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-will-defensive-assistants-be-kept

Is Tre Tucker playing today? Why Raiders WR is off to slow start in Week 17 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/tre-tucker-playing-today-why-raiders-slow-start-week-17/183551bd24a2215…

Is CeeDee Lamb playing tonight? Why Cowboys WR is off to slow start in Week 14 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/ceedee-lamb-playing-tonight-why-cowboys-slow-start-week-14/ae2909014797…

Philip Rivers will start again for Colts in Week 16 against 49ers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/phillip-rivers-starting-quarterback-49ers/

Here's the blogpost for my first #winter hike last weekend. It was good to start with a quick & small tour to refresh some of the basics. Now I feel prepared for some larger tours.
(I think I really want another plugin to display the photos. This one doesn't play well with the use of alt-texts *sigh*)

In this account, participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their experiences,
explore the threat represented by the development of Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a political police,
and propose a strategy for how the rapid response networks could rise to the challenge and contribute to revolutionary social change.
To learn more about the rapid response chat structure, start here.

Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities
The rapid response networks people organize to defend their communities have undergone a whirlwind evolution to keep up with ever-shifting ICE tactics.

Is David Montgomery playing tonight? Why Lions RB is off to quiet start in Week 14 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/detroit-lions/news/david-montgomery-playing-tonight-why-lions-quiet-start-week-14/15…

Cowboys vs Giants, NFL Week 18: Start time, live stream, TV channel https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-giants-nfl-week-18-start-time-live-stream-tv-channel

"Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, and Brothers need to show the battle lines are drawn, and stand together to fight for the future of victims.
Is protesting the answer? I dont know. But we’ve got to start somewhere.
To all survivors and those protesting. We stand with you in solidarity and know the fight is not over!"
-- It takes incredible courage to face down the sexual predators who have abused you.
Which is why WC, in this broken year, has selected a broken …

2025 in Review: WC’s Person of the Year
In what passes for tradition here at Wickersham’s Conscience, we spend the last week of each year thinking about the year that is ending, and making our wishes for the coming year. This is the four…

Cowboys vs Lions, NFL Week 14: Start time, live stream, TV channel https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-lions-nfl-week-14-start-time-live-stream-tv-channel

Cowboys vs Lions, NFL Week 14: Start time, live stream, TV channel https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-lions-nfl-week-14-start-time-live-stream-tv-channel

Apparently last week's improv class, which I missed, did indeed talk about a story spine, a template I first heard from a Pixar story course:
Once upon a time there was... And every day they would.. Until one day... And because of that... (repeat 'because' till end)...
And this week was concentrating mostly on the first bits: Playing out some scenes introducing characters, setting up their normal routine.
The nature of improv can be tricky here. Things spiral out of control quite fast. Things start happening immediately, without time to build that normal routine which you then break.
Take for instance the scene tonight at an airport. Lady rushes in: "Get me on a place as far away from here as possible, right now".
Its a great offer, but hardly a normal routine for a person. Can you really have a person whose daily routine is to fly to the furthest place they can get to immediately?
Perhaps a flashback to their normal routine then? Or perhaps make the staff the protagonist and their daily routine is to deal with crazy customers.
Character is key in the early scenes of a narrative really. Get the audience to identify with a protagonist. Who are these people, how do they know each other and what's their normal life like?
#improv #hooplaImpro #london

How to watch Super Bowl 2026 halftime show featuring Bad Bunny https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7022792/2026/02/08/super-bowl-halftime-show-2026-bad-bunny/

Cardinals' firing of Jonathan Gannon says more about them than the head coach https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6943463/2026/01/05/cardinals-jonathan-gannon-fired-arizona-nfl/

The NFL playoff bracket is set, plus Black Monday news https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6939473/2026/01/05/nfl-playoff-bracket-the-pulse/