Anyone have thoughts on dropping Ubuntu 22.04 support in the ngscopeclient CI build moving forward since 26.04 is coming out very soon?
We won't be actively going out of our way to break 22.04 (i.e. adding a dependency not available there) but it will no longer be routinely tested.
The main reason is some Vulkan packaging issues that require special handling for 22.10 and older, the CI scripts will be a lot simpler if I can just forget that (the documentation mentions the nec…

Trump’s narrow support among the public has vanished.
Despite his aggressive attacks on the press, his administration continues to leak like a sieve
and what is discovered in those leaks is reported, however unfavorable it may be to him.
Heavy-handed attempts are met with social revolts, ranging from mass protests to grand juries to consumer boycotts.
Ordinary American citizens are filming, berating, and obstructing masked ICE thugs,
often not as a matter of …

We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.

This resonates: «Generative models are fundamentally cliche machines. If you ask AI to write a film script, it will produce an average film script masterfully. If you ask it to write an essay, it will produce an average essay masterfully.
Once upon a time, mastery of the banal was adequate for writers. It was enough to prove that you were capable of writing. But that skill has no purpose any more – it can be automated. Skill will be found in the purpose of the work. What can you alone …

"Your login failed. We will not tell you why, or what field is in error. But if you submit bad data 3 times, we'll block you for the next 30 minutes so you can randomly guess again."
Seriously??? This was already understood to be fire-worthy bad design in the bloody 1990s! HOW does such a page still exist? Even on a government site, this is shockingly incompetent.

Reading about Windows 12 and only getting more convinced that we should move away from this OS.
https://tech4gamers.com/windows-12-reportedly-relasing-2026-modular-ai-focused-os/

Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS
Reports suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to launch Windows 12 this year, which will be a modular and AI-focused OS.

We didn't have a rule for this on #GardenStateSocial but I'm making it official on our server rules.
We will not allow accounts for companies that are not based in New Jersey.
I was already blocking account that signed up for this purpose. When you ban them and allow the email notification to be send they often auto respond claiming to have followed all the rules…

Parts of this bill seem poorly thought out. I like this:
"Slow Streets Speed Limits. Cities that have already adopted a slow streets program would gain the authority to set lower speed limits on those streets by ordinance or resolution, without having to first conduct an engineering and traffic survey, a process that can be time-consuming and costly."
Then again, we could road-diet slow streets to reduce the design speed today if we had political will.

Buffy Wicks Pushes Legislation to Cut Red Tape for Transformational Bicycle and Pedestrian Projects - Streetsblog California
AB 1976 would impact a lot of projects including pedestrian malls, neighborhood greenways, safe routes to schools projects, and more.

ICE: Finally, here comes warmer weather, soon it will be above freezing and all this crud will melt and we can drive at freeway speeds on every tiny side street like we keep trying to
MSP: *snrk*
ICE: what
MSP: nothing
ICE: WHAT
MSP: nothing
MSP: …
MSP: …*(potholes)*…
ICE: What? Why are you whispering? What did you just say???
MSP: Nothing!
ICE: <glares>
MSP: “Assholes.” We called you assholes
ICE: …OK then
MSP: hehe *snrk*

First they added AI to the browser without asking anyone if they wanted this.
first backslash
So they said "but you can disable it through the change of boolean values of godzillion registry keys with absurd names in about:config".
another backslash ensue
So they said "We made it opt-out"
another backslash ensue
So they say "ok there will be a killswitch"
Ok. Not so bad this time.
But can we stop saying they "listen to their users". They don'…

So where do we think the Mission Accomplished banner will be displayed this time? Four Seasons Total Landscaping?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/116337752352385821
So... I assume we'll be renaming all the towns/streets/schools named after saints? And that Montréal will be taking down the giant crucifix from the mountain? And that Easter, Good Friday, C…

I kinda like living among lions (mountain lions). I wish we heard (or saw) them more often. We have plenty of deer for them to eat.
(We have had mountain lions come right up to our front door, and we have heard them - they sound like a cross between a human baby crying and a domestic cat.)
There also used to be bears - both black and brown (grizzle) around here. The black bears have returned to the mountains south of us, so maybe they will return here.
It is reported tha…

Big cats, bigger protections: Santa Cruz County mountain lions now listed as threatened
Mountain lions in Santa Cruz County recently gained new protections under the California Endangered Species Act after years as candidates for listing. Protecting six distinct puma populations around the state is a win for many dedicated researchers, but the move heightens the concerns about potential land-use and livestock impacts for developers, ranchers and farmers.

A great explanation of how we got here and where things will go based on history.
The Iran War Expert: I Simulated The Iran War for 20 Years. Here’s What Happens Next https://youtu.be/xcXfcXJvMXg?si=amnfNSPJGY4eCsHl

I don't think allies under or overestimated Trump. They are regular people who don't know what to do with a 6 foot 4 child who is unpredictable, willful and uncontrollable. Will he throw a tantrum in public today? Will he torture the dog? Will he pretend to be friends with the new kid and then call him names and throw mud? Will he be all sweet and behave and eat all his dinner and then poop in the corner? Time out we yell and he laughs in our face. How to deal with that?

A clear detection of #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) on the morning of March 2 "despite the 99% illuminated Moon, morning twilight and the comet at an altitude of 4.2 degrees": https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/34974 -> "The fact that the comet is showing this much detail under such bad conditions with such bad equipment and software bodes well for what we expect will be a very nice comet in the next few months."

Good morning, Fediverse. ☕
Please keep in mind that today will be another day on which we are going to succeed in not going entirely mad, probably.
#DailyAppreciation #Movies #AnimatedGIFs

drag, the upcoming أحمد [AHMED] shows in #nyc got cancelled (with no mention of rescheduling). https://www.fouroneoneprojects.org/events/ahmed

Vote Left Transfer Left.
Having a cup of tea and a chat together to see how we can continue collaboration for the Galway West By-election like we did on Catherine Connolly's presidential election.
The momentum built during Catherine's campaign will live on. We must keep this as a left seat. And with a Vote Left Transfer Left campaign, we think that can be a reality.

2026 NFL schedule reveal: Tracking the international games with Commanders and Jaguars both headed to London

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nf

Peyton Manning's 2013 success will never be repeated https://insidethestar.com/peyton-mannings-2013-success-will-never-be-repeated

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

2026 NFL Mock Draft: Edge Rushers Dominate Top 5; Mahomes, Jackson, Allen Get New WRs https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-mock-draft-edge-rushers-dominate-top-5-mahomes-jackson-allen-get-new-wr

The Guardian: A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this, by Simon Tisdal.
If you want an extract from that article:
"Despite all the hate-mongering, mutual ignorance and disinformation, the vast majority of Americans and Iranians are on the same side. Their common foe is tyranny. Their leaders are the problem. There is no need for this fight."

A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this
We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Oh, in other news, Wheel Variants (formerly PEP 817) is being split into smaller PEPs that will be easier to comprehend. The draft of the first split part, PEP 825, titled "Wheel Variants: Package Format" has been merged. We'd appreciate your feedback!
#Python #packaging

Emdash, CloudFlare's "spiritual successor to WordPress" has been released.
Some of my findings
* Install/onboarding for non-technical users is simply not present (They will need hosting with Node.JS or deploy on CF.
* No ability to install plugins via ACP (Has to be through a config file)
* No theming options? (Might just be the 'playground' that it might not be on)
* Basic WYSIWYG editor
To me, it is like the old versions of

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS with modern security, running plugins in sandboxed Worker isolates.

This will be over at some point. Trump is mortal, at least as far as we can tell. He's mortal and he's old. At some point he'll have had one too many aneurysms and they won't be able to Weekend At Bernie's that motherfucker around anymore. (Come to think of it, "mother" is probably not the right word.)
But what happens next? Does everyone go back to brunch and let the fash respawn? Or do we end this machine before it gets better?

hi everyone,
today, as CEO of vnc resolver, i have came to tell you that we are selling out to palantir. everyone will be required to verify their age using PERSONA ONLY in order to use vnc resolver to comply with California law. thank you and glory to netanyahu

Selten hat der Song so gut gepasst, wie zu den jetzigen Zeiten.
"Greed and jealousy, each equal, all your days now dark"
"Monsters rule your world, are you too scared to understand?"
"We put our faith in maniacs, the triumph of the will
We kill for money, wealth and lust, for this we should be damned
We are disease upon the world, brotherhood of man"

One day, these sons of bitches are going to get what’s coming to them. That day, I will be shedding zero tears. I just hope they don’t take the rest of us down with them. And if we keep being complicit and allowing them to act with impunity, I’m afraid that’s exactly what’s going to happen.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn5ge95q6y7t…

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed in US-Israel attack - follow live
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps has vowed a "devastating" retaliation following the supreme leader's death.

Here’s something from an 11 year old blog post. (Folio.olio) I guess we were worried about paparazzi back then. But they might be useful these days too, to counter facial and body movement ID detection.

Epiploke merch tour ! Lucy (heavy lifting) I (yaxu) will be infecting algoraves and toplap nodes with our from-scratch live coded bangers in
27 April - Folklore London
28 April - Lambdasonic Ghent algorave
29 April - Koproductions Labor Dortmund (with @…)
30 April - TOPLAP Karlsruhe
2 May - Lyon algorave
To celebrate we …

Not April Fool: okay, I think that clinches my vote for Chakrabarti over Chan unless there are major surprises. You can't be mealy-mouthed on enabling a genocidal regime. (Of course, Wiener is much worse on this issue, and I will vote for Chan in the general if it's those two who advance.)
https://

Okay I know everyone hates this article but there's a nugget of truth in it. One of the possible futures we can gun for is this.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
Make things. Make _personal scale_ things. The tools help bridge the truly high barriers we've managed to put in in the tech industry.
This will have a lot of problems! We don't have collective knowledge for this yet / again. The people with Sysadmin Mindset have been burned out or subsumed into the Cloud Computing machine.
But there's a chance here to take the web better places. We should take it.
(If you're worried about everything turning into paying to rent access to a digital landlord, I have bad news about where we've been since 2012.)

We came home relatively late, but as the forecast says it will be -28°C by morning, I set fire to the fireplace anyway. At 23:59 surface of the heat-retaining fireplace has just started to get warm.

Katherine Rundell betont im Kontext der 'reading crisis' die Bedeutung von Schulbibliotheken und Schulbibliothekar:innen: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/feb/23/will-we-ever-read-books-again-podcast

Save important peat moss in Greater Manchester.
Trafford Council is applying for planning permission for the Carrington Relief Road, and we have until 27 February to object.
The Carrington Relief Road will cause harm to Carrington Moss, a 335 hectare peat moss, which Natural England considers to be an irreplaceable habitat. It will also damage or totally destroy 40 hectares of productive agricultural land, and increase traffic,.
Take action::

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's OpenAI investment will be "the largest investment we've ever made", after a report said plans to invest $100B in OpenAI stalled (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Hey cool, flowers to myself: Starting this week, I will be Acting Professor at Ruhr-University #Bochum holding the chair of Anthropology of Knowledge.
This will be for the summer term and lots of fun, esp. in teaching controversy mapping, reading extraction, and discussing post-socialist economies.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116144776295217687
Well tomorrow will be the absolutely last resort to fix that iMac Pro, trying to install macOS from thumb drive
Internet recovery is failing, possibly because the SSD isn’t partitioned right (which is hinted at that while it boots into target disk mode I don’t see any disk when connected to it).
We shall see…

We can be quite sure that Trump will not support NATO if Russia does some limited incursion or landgrab in the Baltics (eg Narva scenario) , dangerous times.
#trump #russia #baltics

Even if ICE CBP presence in the Twin Cities goes back to pre-Dec levels (which to be clear it •has not• yet done), we will be living with this for a long time. The world will be moving on, the national press will forget about us no doubt, but we’ll be living with this.
Nobody here thinks we’re done. But a lot of us are cautiously hopeful that we are now entering a time where this is some room for repairing and rebuilding.
Cautiously hopeful. But vigilant.
/end

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116325225619574607
IDK, somehow that’s not how I imagined “people will loose their jobs due to AI” to play out. I guess we have to go through the “lay off people to be able to pay for AI” phase before we can enter the…

2026 NFL Mock Draft: Edge Rushers Dominate Top 5; Mahomes, Jackson, Allen Get New WRs https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-mock-draft-edge-rushers-dominate-top-5-mahomes-jackson-allen-get-new-wr

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: It is a calculated risk. Remember, we've got one foolproof factor: the teleport. Even if they do attack, we can still get out. We will have failed, but at least we'll be alive.
GAN: It's still a big risk.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/280

I just came across "On encule le monde" by Les Guignols.
"We are the world" will never be the same anymore.

As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

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

Quotes from @… : “Plan the learning. Not the solution. Not less planning. Different planning.
The question isn’t “How do we plan less?”, but “What are we actually trying to plan?”
Plan the learning: decide upfront what you need to understand, how you’ll find out, and what you’ll do with what you discover.”
—
We’ve been doing Q2 planning, and folks want estimates on when projects can be completed while we don’t even know yet what our options might be, let alone what an appropriate solution is.
I’ve been trying to focus on what to do next that will move us forward, and only give estimates for that.
But I can only estimate what I’ve done before, or can abstract from previous similar activities. Doing work breakdowns for very near horizons helps, but that develops over time. I can’t estimate past what’s visible to me now.
https://medium.com/thrivve-partners/you-cant-plan-your-way-to-discovery-0798f2797852

In a staff meeting, Bari Weiss says CBS News will be "toast" if it clings to its broadcast audience and will put a "huge emphasis on scoops...scoops of ideas" (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne…

Bari Weiss Unveils Sweeping Vision: “I Am Here to Make CBS News Fit for Purpose in the 21st Century”
Weiss rallied the troops and outlined her vision at an all-hands meeting Tuesday morning, naming a lineup of new contributors: "Our strategy until now has been to cling to the audience that remains on broadcast television. If we stick to that strategy we're toast."

So "Up next is a commemorative gold coin – worth exactly $1 – featuring Trump"-
With gold at 4500/oz, or about $130/g, and a density of 19.3 g/cc, we're looking at 0.0004cc for metal alone. (A penny, much lower density metal, is 2 g)
If it's gold, it'll be even smaller than his hands. To be large enough to be seen, it's either less than 0.007 g gold in 2 g of an alloy, well under 1K - calling that gold is a fraud (Perfect coinage! .And if it'…

So "Up next is a commemorative gold coin – worth exactly $1 – featuring Trump"-
With gold at 4500/oz, or about $130/g, and a density of 19.3 g/cc, we're looking at 0.0004cc for metal alone. (A penny, much lower density metal, is 2 g)
If it's gold, it'll be even smaller than his hands. To be large enough to be seen, it's either less than 0.007 g gold in 2 g of an alloy, well under 1K - calling that gold is a fraud (Perfect coinage! .And if it'…

FAFO-ing in the iOS app Loopy Pro, which is what I use to create midi controls on the iPad. Here I have used an XY controller widget to control delay mix/feedback.
We will see how fiddly that is in the heat of battle, but if it works I might do the same with reverb mix/decay.
The joke might be on me however; in iPadOS26 grabbing anything near the edge will resize the app 🤣😩

RE: #EngineeringBiology will be right at the heart of the #CircularEconomy ♻️, and we sustain society only if we are near-💯 circular 💚...
so here's another hit from #EdinburghUni Centre for Engineering Biology.🍞🍞🍞 -> H2
#UKRI

Daring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves
#USpol

The Names They Call Themselves
*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.

AI is McDonald’s. That Will Be Good, Bad, and Catalytic for Civil Rights Advocacy. | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/ai-is-mcdonalds-that-will-be-good-bad-and-catalytic-for-civil-rights-advocacy

AI is McDonald’s. That Will Be Good, Bad, and Catalytic for Civil Rights Advocacy.
The current trajectory of AI may have similar effects on how people engage with computers as fast food has on how we engage with eating, writes David Brody.

How the Raiders Will Add by Subtracting https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-must-take-advantage-of-this-update-geno-smith-market

Houston, we have a problem. While editing our new episode, I noticed, that my voice was distorted beyond repair. We can't use that recording, and therefore we have nothing to publish tomorrow. I'm every sorry about that.
We'll record a new episode this week, that will be publish next Tuesday, the 10th or march. After only three episodes we still lack experience. Therefore this beginner mistake happened.
Stay tuned for our thoughts on AI and software development next w…

Mstdn.ca has cancelled their state of the instance.
It was supposed to happen Sunday.
An email had been sent Saturday morning as a reminder so it looks like circumstances have changed between the reminder and the cancellation late tonight
A future date will be shared eventually
https://news.ms…

From the comments: “World leaders now know that Trump’s word means nothing and that no member of his administration can be trusted. They also know that even if 2028 ends the current nightmare, America will always be just four years away from electing someone of his ilk. For that reason, they should count this as a permanent rupture.”
Opinion | We Don’t Need Greenland. We Need Allies. - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/OAzIw

Screen, Match, and Cache: A Training-Free Causality-Consistent Reference Frame Framework for Human Animation
Jianan Wang, Nailei Hei, Li He, Huanzhen Wang, Aoxing Li, Haofen Wang, Yan Wang, Wenqiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22160 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22160 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22160
arXiv:2601.22160v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Human animation aims to generate temporally coherent and visually consistent videos over long sequences, yet modeling long-range dependencies while preserving frame quality remains challenging. Inspired by the human ability to leverage past observations for interpreting ongoing actions, we propose FrameCache, a training-free three-stage framework consisting of Screen, Cache, and Match. In the Screen stage, a multi-dimensional, quality-aware mechanism with adaptive thresholds dynamically selects informative frames; the Cache stage maintains a reference pool using a dynamic replacement-hit strategy, preserving both diversity and relevance; and the Match stage extracts behavioral features to perform motion-consistent reference matching for coherent animation guidance. Extensive experiments on standard benchmarks demonstrate that FrameCache consistently improves temporal coherence and visual stability while integrating seamlessly with diverse baselines. Despite these encouraging results, further analysis reveals that its effectiveness depends on baseline temporal reasoning and real-synthetic consistency, motivating future work on compatibility conditions and adaptive cache mechanisms. Code will be made publicly available.
toXiv_bot_toot

The entire economy of any nation is built on huge, heaving titties and as soon as we all can admit that, the world will be a better place

In October last year, US chip giant Qualcomm acquired Italian open source electronics and software pioneer Arduino. Not everyone was happy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2026/arduino-ceo-we-will-always-be-open-source

Arduino CEO: We will always be open source
In October last year, US chip giant Qualcomm acquired Italian open source electronics and software pioneer Arduino. Not everyone was happy.

I was hoping to be able to participate in Saturday's #NoKings Rally locally. Sadly, my knee rehab is not progressing as I’d hoped it would, so I’ll be cheering from the sidelines.
My wife will drive me past the demonstration in Smyrna and we will toot the horn gleefully, smile, and give thumbs up to the many people exercising their rights to protest non violently.

The Feds keep saying "We did not" or "We will not" buy this or that empty warehouse for use as an ICE prison.
What they are hiding is that in order for a warehouse to be an ICE/CBP prison that the warehouse need not be "owned" by the Feds.
Rather the warehouse could be bought by a maga-friend, like Elon or Ellison etc and then leased to the government.
The Feds would not bey lying when they say they are not buying the warehouse. But they will …

ICE is quietly buying warehouses for its detention expansion
At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers. Communities are objecting to mass detentions and raising concerns that the facilities could strain water supplies and other services while reducing local tax revenue. In many cases, mayors, county commissioners, governors and members of Congress learned about ICE’s ambitions only after the agency bought or leased spac…

We recently switched to a different trash & recycle pickup company, one that was mandated by the town govt. They’re generally pretty good, but the bin we were given for trash is only just big enough to hold 1 week’s worth of trash. Usually that’s fine, but now I’ve got more stuff than will fit in it, like a Christmas wreath, and a large potted poinsettia that’s on its last legs, and more in that vein. I may be forced to toss these in someone’s yard after dark some night.

News - The Supreme Court Will Weigh in On #BigOil’s Favorite Defense Against Climate Liability Lawsuits | Drilled
“Is the idea that we wouldn’t be able to have these products without this legal immunity, because of the harm they cause? Then maybe we need to rethink that.”
#ClimateLiability
#ClimateCrisis
https://drilled.media/news/scotus-boulder

This is as good a time as any for a thought experiment.
You're in Nazi Germany. You know about the camps, you know what they do, you see the ash fall, you smell it. People who resist alone are killed, some are sent to the camps too. You're afraid to even talk to people about it for fear that they'll turn you in.
You think back to when the camps were being built. You had all the warning signs, but you didn't know how to interpret them. You could believe it would happen. You thought you'd have a chance to vote him out. You thought there might be another way. You thought maybe things would turn out differently if you just sat tight, kept your head down, kept yourself safe.
You see a family being dragged from their home. You know they will be killed. You want to fight, not just for them but for yourself. You opposed Hitler, and at any point you know you could be on the list... Even if you do nothing.
You wish you could rise up, shoot the SS, open the gates, fight it all. You know you aren't alone, but you don't know how to connect with the people who want the same thing.
Using the knowledge we have now, what should you have done in the preceding months and years to connect, to build a community that would open up all paths of resistance?
There were people who resisted. We know it wasn't enough.
Gun laws in Nazi Germany were very similar to US laws in that Nazis were largely free to own guns and everyone else was not. Unlike the US, where "others" have historically controlled using the fear that they might be randomly executed, Germany did codify it. Red flag laws were one more step in the US towards that codification, and there will be more.
When Nazis were taking away those guns, the social networks didn't exist to make resistance possible for most folks. But some Jews were able to resist.
It wasn't the guns that made the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising possible, though they definitely helped. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was made possible by labor organizing in the precessing years.
If there were more uprisings like that, the Holocaust could have been stopped if not prevented. Social networks make resistance possible. Guns are only useful tools to resist authoritarianism *after* you build a community able to support that resistance, and they are only one of many tools made useful by that community.
Getting guns is easy, and not always necessary. Building community is hard. Guns won't keep you safe. Community will.
Single acts of resistance may slow the machine down, but to actually bring down a monster you need to be able to attack more than once. You need a society of resistance. If you are afraid now, build that. Talk to people while it's still safe to do so. Ask them where their red line is. Talk to neighbors. Figure out your network.
Take the steps you need now to keep your neighbors safe, to keep yourself safe.
#USPol

"Even if #OpenAI was run by decent, ethical, friendly, trustworthy people (which would then of course make them not work on the products OpenAI has, but it’s just a thought experiment) their products would need to be criticized for what they are and what they do." — @…

Acting ethical in an imperfect world
Live is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

Irgendwie der Soundtrack dieser Tage:
You'll be back, time will tell
You'll remember that I served you well
Oceans rise, empires fall
We have seen each other through it all
And when push comes to shove
I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love
[…]
So don't throw away this thing we had
'Cause when push comes to shove
I will kill your friends and family
To remind you of my love
You'll be bac…

What will people do when AI can handle most current white-collar tasks?
I don't know.
And that's the whole point.
Nobody knew what displaced agricultural workers would do, either,
-- until they did it.
The absence of a visible next chapter isn't evidence that there won't be one.
It's evidence that we're bad at predicting what humans will invent when constraints shift.

Everything is awesome (why I'm an optimist)
February is the month the internet decided we're all going to die. In the span of about two weeks, Matt Shumer's Something Big is Happening racked up over 80 million views on X with its breathless comparison of AI to the early days of COVID, telling his non-tech friends and

I am thrilled to be back at FOSDEM. It is a fantastic opportunity to meet with the open source community and connect with fellow developers at such a great conference!
Please join me this Saturday in the FOSS on Mobile devroom. I will be presenting the technical evolution of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, demonstrating how we achieved full mainline support—from power management to the Adreno GPU—running on actual product hardware.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Saturday, 18:30…

"A year of upstream energy abundance lies in store in 2026"
https://www.rystadenergy.com/news/12-predictions-for-2026-in-energy
OK, this prediction didn't age too well. Useful numbers inside though!

Expectations and realities: 12 predictions for the year ahead in energy
As we head into another year and gaze into our crystal ball, geopolitics, market volatility and policy repercussions will be key drivers shaping the global energy industry. As the energy transition advances, albeit at a slower pace than in some previous years, opportunities will unfold alongside increasing complexity, including the role of new energies in meeting growing power demand from data centers.

I’m so glad we have military strategy being developed by a guy picked for being white…
At least he’s honest/capable enough to understand that it’s not a sure or even likely success. His predecessor likely would know the answer (it will be a disaster.) @…

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
“As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine has been drafting military options for potentially striking Iran…In a Situation Room meeting last week about plans for Iran that went three times longer than scheduled, Caine was unable to predict what the result of a regime change operation would be…” https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/politics/caine-iran-hegseth-trump

Due to inclement weather, we will be sleeping all year

:bear:

Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive".
And no one in the media said a thing.
☑️ Musk Endorsed White Nationalism | Religion Dispatches
https://religiondispatches.org/2026/01/09/musk-endorsed-white-nationalism…

Musk Endorsed White Nationalism
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while White men hold a collective majority, then they will be 1000x times [sic] more hostile and cruel when they are a majority over whites. White solidarity is the only way to survive. Again, because so many are insistent that “retweet does not equal endorsement,” it’s important to note that Mu…

I explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.

While working through another last rites slew, I was thinking that back in the day there were a number of developers who believed they should add a lot of packages to #Gentoo, in the name of giving users a choice. Like, they were projects whose sole purpose of existence seemed to be to find every piece of software that roughly fit a specific topic, get it to build and package it for Gentoo.
Of course, the long-term effect of that is that there's a lot of unmaintained, often broken packages. "The choice" doesn't really work. Sure, users have a lot of packages to choose from — but they have to actually figure out which of these packages are actually useful (if any).
A few years ago attempting to remove packages also faced some verbal opposition. You shouldn't remove unmaintained or outdated packages, because they still work. You shouldn't remove packages that sometimes fail to build, because some flag combinations still work. You shouldn't remove packages that don't build at all, because the user can visit Forums and find some workaround to make them build 🤦. Or they'll have an ebuild handy to start working on it. And anyway, you shouldn't be removing stuff at all, but fixing it instead.
Sometimes the arguments were straight dishonest too: people literally said we need more packages to lure new users in. Like, it didn't matter to them that the packages didn't really work and that the people trying to use them will get a nasty surprise. They wanted people to say "hey, Gentoo has this software we need, let's start using Gentoo".

Just got these messages from @seengoals@mastodon.social, one of the members of Gaza Verified, basically accusing me of running a fundraiser for Gaza and keeping the proceeds (I have no fundraiser on any fundraising site anywhere) and extorting me to share his fundraiser or he’ll apparently go public with it.
So here’s what’s going to happening instead: Nabil has been removed Gaza Verified (

Good to see employees from Google and OpenAI speaking out.
"The Pentagon is negotiating with Google and OpenAI to try to get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused."
#AI

We Will Not Be Divided
Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

The next major national action of this movement is not just going to be another protest,” Ezra Levin said.
“It is a tactical escalation... It is an economic show of force, inspired by Minnesota’s own day of truth and action.”
“On May 1, on May Day,
we are saying,
‘No business as usual,’” he said.
“No work, no school, no shopping.
We’re going to show up and say we’re putting workers over billionaires and kings"

Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: 'No work, no school'
Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, said on Saturday that a nationwide general strike is being planned for May 1 that will be modeled on the day of action residents of Minnesota organized in January against the brutality carried out by federal immigration enforcement officials.Appearing at the fl...

House Rep. Rosa DeLauro (from CT) says:
❝I understand that many of my Democratic colleagues may be dissatisfied with any bill that funds ICE. …[But]… The Homeland Security funding bill is more than just ICE. If we allow a lapse in funding, TSA agents will be forced to work without pay, FEMA assistance could be delayed, and the US Coast Guard will be adversely affected….❞
And I am saying stop ICE if you have to ••shut down every airport in the country•• to do it.
That is the message I want Congress to hear. That serious. This is Trump starting a civil war.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/democrats-ice-funding-bill

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
SERVALAN: Good. That will be all for the moment.
[Scene - the forest on the planet's surface]
LOM: We will rest.
VILA: Much further to go?
LOM: Not far. [to Mall] Scout the ground ahead. [To Vila] The hunters are out.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/165

"Hero? No! We're pirates! I love heroes but I don't wanna be one! Do you know what heroes are? Say there is a chunk of meat. Pirates will have a banquet and eat it but heroes will share it with other people. I want all the meat!"
Monkey D. Luffy, One Piece, ep. 554.
#quote #OnePiece

Donald Trump’s decision to order airstrikes against Iran
will hinge in part on the judgment of Trump’s special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner,
about whether Tehran is stalling over a deal to relinquish its capacity to produce nuclear weapons,
according to people familiar with the matter
How did we get so lucky?

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
AVON: We will do nothing to counter the force acting upon the Liberator. We then plot the Liberator's course on the main battle computer flight predictor to see exactly how she is behaving. Once we understand how the force is operating we may be some way toward defeating it.
TARRANT: Strange. The Liberator's following a curve. Traction beams produce straight-line motion. Zen, I want a prediction of the Liberator's course based …

pause for voice over: "They did not, in fact, live to get it right."
Asymmetric warfare requires a different type of society. Old order will not survive because it cannot. It will adapt, but the adaptation can only go so far.
Cybernetics predicts that it will be impossible for the old society to adapt because it cannot possibly develop the level of complexity needed to respond to the increasingly complex environment.
Rather, *we,* the rebellion, will continue to live this day over and over again until *we* evolve to produce a level of complexity that cannot be managed by an oppressive system.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116122409126446401
For here’s the most important bit of news in all this - if we win these twelve races the House will flip - period.
So we need to be all in now, and give these great candidates the early resources that will allow the…

Pressure on Senators •is working•. Previously head-in-sand centrist Senators are actually coming out to vote against ICE funding. Their positions are still weak and insufficient, and more need to cave to pressure — but they are visibly buckling.
Again, we should not and must not wait on elected officials to save us — they will not — but we can and should deploy pressure on them as a strategic tool in moments when that can be useful.
Now is such a moment. KEEP IT UP.
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If I were to give a prize for the most disruptive workflow change of my life, it will be probably `less` changing home/end key behavior from scrolling to top/bottom (something which I do *all the time*) to disabling line wrapping and scrolling left/right (something I never do).
It's like XKCD#1172, except it's "we've decided spacebar heating is so cool, we've removed all other spacebar functions".
#Gentoo #Linux

Retired Army Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson said that President Trump would be “smart” to “declare victory” in the conflict against Iran and “go home.”
“Well, this war will end whenever Donald Trump says it’s going to end, whenever he decides to declare victory.
And if he was smart, he’d declare victory today and go home,
because this is not going well.
We have a more radicalized regime in place now,” Anderson told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room.”
“The […

Nothing has changed. -- Yet.
But we stand on the edge of inevitable economic cataclysm, such as not seen in our lifetimes.
It’s an odd, hold-your-breath moment,
waiting for what the International Energy Agency (IEA) says is now certain to happen:
an energy crisis so critical it will be the equivalent of the two oil crises in 1973 and 1979 and Russia’s 2022 full invasion of Ukraine, put together.
The IEA says it’s already too late to prevent this impending ener…

Of course, economic pressure isn't the only tool we have. Diversity of tactics is critical. I'm not going to tell anyone not to throw buckets of screws into the parking lots and driveways of ICE facilities or blockading facilities with burning dumpstes. Even if i don't promote those types of tactics, we should all STFU if we see people doing them. We all have a place. There are things we can all do. Everything is on the table and it should be, because ICE agents will intimidate you, steal your car, and even murder you for just filming them.
You can cower in fear, or you can stand up and fight with everything you have. Which or those do you want to remember yourself doing?

I've mentioned it before, and I'm sure I will again, but, as much as there's a reason why I reject Christianity, there were also a lot of good things. Churches have governing bodies (with varying degrees of democratic representation) that guide the ministry (preaching and actions) as well as managing logistics (building maintenance, accounting, etc). This provides opportunities for self-governed collective action.
Quakers are the most radical in terms of this, and are basically anarchists. Quaker circles often meet at people's houses and can be as small as 3 people. There is often no leadership. A Quaker service could easily just be everyone sitting in a circle and someone talking at one point.
I grew up in a Presbyterian church, and one of my first jobs (at 11 or 12) was landscaping there. Within the church there were a lot of different trades, which meant that you could volunteer time and learn basically any kind of maintenance. Basically everything that needed to be done was done in-house. This also meant that if you needed a plumber, an electrician, etc, that you could pick one from within the church.
I remember painting the church, learning how to paint, with a bunch of other members of the congregation at a work party. I also remember being volunteered for child care during choir. There were a few rooms around that were used for different things, such as music practice. But these rooms could be made available for any type of community activity. This can actually include community organizing. In fact, Seattle GDC was offered an occasional space for organizing in a church (we didn't take it, but appreciated the offer), and that same church hosted a lot of other community events. I actually went to a queer relationships skills class once hosted in a church, which was great.
What I'm saying is that churches often act as a kind of parallel society up-to-and-including acting as dual power structures....

Let me just start with Kharg Island.
We can put troops on there. We can air mobile them in. We could land them by boat.
I guess the comment I have about Kharg is, I’m not sure what the significance is of putting troops there.
It’s only about 20 miles off the coast of Iran. So you’re definitely under the threat of their weapon systems.
You’d be very, very vulnerable there.
And I don’t know that it would give us any particular tactical advantage that we don’t…

What Boots On The Ground In Iran Could Entail According To Former CENTCOM Commander
Joseph Votel offers insights on securing Iran's uranium, seizing Kharg Island, dwindling stocks of missile interceptors, and how long Epic Fury will last.

I sit in the sun and watch my children sift through the sand for green and amber (sometimes clear, white, or even blue) gems. Anywhere in the world you will find them, on any beach, the detritus of humans. Shardes of broken bottles, neglectfully thrown, turned by the waves into tiny magical treasures.
As our world shatters, I wonder what parts of it will be polished in the churning chaos that we may, with such childish joy, discover in a new and wondrous form.

This will be the easiest way to go after this administration once it's over.
It will be the equivalent of getting Capone for tax evasion.
But it will be enough, especially if we can sweep the funders with them.
https://bsky.app/profile/bloomberg.com/post/3mcid2hfs…

Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com)
Donald Trump’s social-media empire is muscling into Wall Street, entering the $14 trillion US ETF market with five new “Made in America” funds. https://bloom.bg/3NLRx4V

In my head I'm just replacing "counter insurgency" with "horse cavalry."
"We're going to keep learning how to leverage horse cavalry against machine guns and tanks until we get it right."
No. No you will not. You will keep trying until you learn the hard way that it can't be done.