
2025-07-04 20:37:41
Empire does what it wants: how Russia appropriated the Ukrainian Cossacks #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/empire-does-what-it-wants.html
Empire does what it wants: how Russia appropriated the Ukrainian Cossacks #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/empire-does-what-it-wants.html
This is a delightful segment on RNZ (nights with Emile Donovan) talking about 'perfect pitch'... https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018993777/shower-thoughts-what-is-perfect-pitch
Dreaming is more than what happens while you sleep
#dreams #inspiration
https://…
Mailbag: What cities would you expand NFL to? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-what-cities-would-you-expand-nfl-to
What To Expect When You're Injecting
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
What we learned at Eagles OTAs: Beware of Jalen Hurts' deep ball; Vic Fangio spills the tea about the defense
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…
There have been many instances documented, do a damn web search.
But forget that for a moment: What I’m doing is the same as what Netanyahu is doing? My opposing genocide is the same as a fucker perpetrating genocide?
Fuck you, Alfred.
Get some fucking perspective. https://mastodon.social/@amsz…
And by “prevent crime,” what they mean is AI will be able to automatically yell at homeless people to move along! Innovation!
https://mastodon.social/@eff/114626708912715793
No Kings: What the Fourth of July Really Means
https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/no-kings-what-the-fourth-of-july?r=yzqcr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
What Is Centrism? -- "Let me start by saying I don't know the answer to that question." (Hamilton Nolan/How Things Work)
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-is-centrism
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p52#a250605p52
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Buzzcocks:
🎵 What Do I Get?
#Buzzcocks
https://sirch.bandcamp.com/track/what-do-i-get-buzzcocks-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3v9uq9UG16LyC43gqZz4ua
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post
What if #Alberta really did vote to #separate?
https://theconversation.com/what-if-alberta-really-did-vote-to-separate-257214
What Would “Good” AI Look Like?
#ai #aiethics
https://anildash.com/2025/05/01/what-w
What sickens me is that he always gets what he wants.
He wanted a big wasteful parade and got one.
He wanted to pave over the Rose Garden: done.
Build tent cities to detain immigrants; done in a week.
Add a couple trillion to the debt; done.
We are being bulldozed flatter than that rose garden.
-- Donna Hook
Finally finished the VSC8512 writeup! Ended up being just a biiiit longer than I had expected but there was a lot to talk about.
I still want to refactor my code a bit to be cleaner and more OO, what I have now is a bit quick-and-dirty, but it works.
https://serd.es/2025/07/04/Switch-proj
#WritersCoffeeClub June 4: Do you consider writing work? Would you consider writing your life's work?
Work, as in something that requires effort, that I take seriously - yes.
Money is beside the point.
Writing is what I do, what I love, and what I want. Is that "life's work"? I don't know, that's for someone else to decide once I'm gone.
from my link log —
Prequal: Load is not what you should balance.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi24/presentation/wydrowski
saved 2024-12-15
Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
JENNA: Just coming into detector range.
VILA: They're too far off to be sure. They could be meteors.
JENNA: They're ships.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/395 B7B3
"What birds can teach us about repurposing waste"
#Birds #Animals
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-birds-r…
"So, I climbed to the top of the pyramid of pain - now what?"
An interesting Human Layer Kill Chain framework.
#threatintel #threatintelligence
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Do Role-Playing Agents Practice What They Preach? Belief-Behavior Consistency in LLM-Based Simulations of Human Trust
Amogh Mannekote, Adam Davies, Guohao Li, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, ChengXiang Zhai, Bonnie J Dorr, Francesco Pinto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02197
“Welcome to our homely den.
What care we for pain or sorrow?
Eat and drink and merry be.
None can tell what brings tomorrow.
Schottische with our Ursa Major,
With our Ursa Minor glide;
Ride the grizzly, kiss the young cubs —
Then shall peace with thee abide.”
Source is the Native Sons of the Golden West newsletter.
The autopen is what the president uses to quickly and easily sign multiple documents. The autopenis is what Melania calls her vibrator. They are not the same thing.
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.
Nintendo says it didn't send any Switch 2 review units to outlets as "important features and updates" will only be available via an update on its June 5 launch (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)
https://www.
Mailbag: What cities would you expand NFL to? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-what-cities-would-you-expand-nfl-to
"What Stroustrup wanted was apparently what a lot of people wanted: a language that provided OOP features, such as those offered by Smalltalk, but compiled into binaries that would execute as fast as an executable written in C.
The solution Stroustrup adopted was not to adopt the Smalltalk model, but instead to take inspiration from fellow Scandinavians and to bolt ideas borrowed from Simula into C."
I realize people have differing priorities & everyone's fighting their own war... but FFS, how does a family accidentally leave their dog behind when they move homes?
✅ Gen Z Couple Excited To Get Keys to New Home—Then They See What's Inside - Newsweek
https://www.
England's water crisis needs more than just new reservoirs—here's what will help #England
Effective Explanations for Belief-Desire-Intention Robots: When and What to Explain
Cong Wang, Roberto Calandra, Verena Kl\"os
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02016
The VIIRS-DNB radiance product is insufficient to assess the effect of “cool pavement” materials on nighttime radiances of treated areas: #LightPollution
The Emergency Management and Response (EMR) ISAC has been shuttered.
https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/emr-isac-shuts-down-what-now
I built a free tool to help students compare the energy/water use of AI tasks—like a 3-sec video gen or 500-word GPT reply—to everyday ones like Netflix, Google, or cloud storage. Try it at https://what-uses-more.com
Adjust variables like prompt complexity or the energy source and climate of local …
My wife currently messages me the increasing number of noise sources at home:
Chainsaw to cut bushes, roadworks with jackhammer and rock cutting saw, and now the garbage truck beeping while reversing in our road.
I get a play-by-play description of what keeps her from sleeping in, and I'm torn between laughing, emphasizing and thinking "What happens if she goes all Michael Douglas in Falling Down?"
That’ll age well, I’m sure. https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/politics-oeaorfqgz/-/a-MX2g0TyGS_6HtzoJBJonqQ:a:3199692-/0
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/trump-spending-bill-conservatives-law
“But a sugar-high won’t be sustained, it will do real damage, & often what comes next is the crash. The longer-term health of our economy, American famili…
Allotmenteer friends, at this time of the year when my plot is looking pretty full, I think I should have planned better what I planted. What do you prioritise on: high value crops, varieties you cannot gain the shops or just easy to grow? #allotment #GrowYourOwn
Agent's Take: What extensions could look like for Garrett Wilson, Aidan Hutchinson, other 2022 first-rounders
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/…
Avengers: Infinity War, Losing an Election, and What Comes After
https://ift.tt/UJj5qBY
By Matthew Brake “I know what it’s like to lose. To feel so desperately that you’re right, yet to…
via Input 4 RELCFP
What to watch in Raiders’ 3rd week of OTAs: Is TE ready to break out? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/what-to-watch-in-raiders-3rd-week-of-otas-is-te-ready-to-break-out-3380889/
What is SMB? @… has these fantastic storyboards explaining key parts of the project. I suppose more wil be added later too.
https://polarres.github.io/Storyboards/smb
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21677 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…
This is what a real President sounds like. Unlike the current occupant of the White House, President Barack Obama showed care and respect for all Americans—not just one political party. Happy 4th of July! : r/usa
https://www.reddit.com/r/usa/comments/1lru8pa/this_is_what_a_real_president_sounds_like_unlike/
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?
"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."
What They Forgot to Teach You About R: #rstats
@… what
What I’d give to be in Josh Johnson’s head rn 😁🍿
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what a time to be alive
Russian weapons failing: what's behind it and how the frontline Is shifting | Front News: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/russian-weapons-failing-whats-behind.html
The Revolution Has Arrived: What the Current State of Large Language Models in Education Implies for the Future
Russell Beale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02180
I wonder what people do with all that time they save by writing "UR" instead of "you are"?
Running cars on E-Fuels, made with CO2 from the air and green Hydrogen?🚗⛽🌿⚡
E-Fuels, so the story goes, could allow using existing cars and infrastructure like gas stations. However, E-Fuels are extremely inefficient.
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and the Chilean company HIF inaugurated the Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile's windy Magallanes region, which turns CO2 and Hydrogen into Methanol and small amounts of Gasoline. How's it going? 🧵
The essence of cinema. 🎞️
#cinema #film #cinemastodon
If I compare Flickr from 15 years ago to Instagram from today it's like what the fuck happened?
I don’t love my country. I love what my country once stood for. Or more precisely, what I thought my country once stood for. I proudly served my country for 9 years in the US Navy. I hope my country returns quickly to embrace many of the values I thought it stood for.
I’m committed to do what I can to move my country in that direction. I feel tired, and helpless, but, as of today, not yet hopeless.
(Countries and companies aren’t entitled to unconditional love)
Turns out the human mind sees what it wants to see, not what you actually see
https://bgr.com/science/turns-out-the-human-mind-sees-what-it-wants-to-see-not-what-you-actually-s…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Charif Megarbane:
🎵 What Happened Next
#CharifMegarbane
https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/track/what-happened-next
https://open.spotify.com/track/5oJPWE3I3IA4FaTGrm0hUN
Here we are, in another moment rife with apocalyptic intensity, in a city trying to hold the line against the president it birthed through a shattering of democratic traditions and constitutional breaches.
Still, I can’t help but wonder what will put an end to this nostalgic moment.
We got a glimpse of what that might look like during New York’s Democratic mayoral primary on June 24, when the 33-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani crushed the former governor Andrew Cuomo. …
Fantasy projections for Colston Loveland, Tyler Warren, other rookie TEs; what history says to expect Year 1
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…
Safe. Everywhere. Always. | A Canberra Community Survey
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSrRIhL9NhacbREQUPvZ-KN7VN15VelwkoXwIHFCDLq4qgHg/viewform
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.
What Neuroscience Can Teach AI About Learning in Continuously Changing Environments
Daniel Durstewitz, Bruno Averbeck, Georgia Koppe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02103
Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DORIAN: Exactly.
AVON: You really are insane, aren't you?
DORIAN: By now I probably would be.
AVON: If it wasn't for this mysterious room.
DORIAN: And what it contains.
SOOLIN: [Enters] And what might that be, Dorian?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/467…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Main Source:
🎵 What You Need
#MainSource
https://wildpitchrecords.bandcamp.com/track/what-you-need
https://open.spotify.com/track/0gipURw795MnJ4l589Oris
Again, learn from Turkey, because Trump sure is. Erdoğan did the same thing, cleaning out the ranks… and he’s managed to cling onto power for decades because of it. https://infosec.exchange/@Nonya_Bidniss/114797134888601938
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.
It follows comments mad…
What’s in Trump’s major tax bill? Extended cuts, deportations and more
Donald Trump’s sweeping legislation boosts the wealthy, funds a border wall and risks $3tn deficit before his term ends
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/what-is-in-bi…
❝We humans are stability-seeking creatures. Getting accustomed to what used to seem unthinkable can feel like an accomplishment. And when the unthinkable recedes at least a bit…it’s easy to mistake it for proof that the dark times are ending.
But these comparatively small victories don’t alter the direction of our transformation — they don’t even slow it down measurably — even while they appeal to our deep need to normalize.…And so just when we most need to act — while there is indeed room for action and some momentum to the resistance — we tend to be lulled into complacency by the sense of relief on the one hand and boredom on the other.❞
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/opinion/trump-danger-normalization-shock.html
After the whole "I asked ChatGPT" as talk opener I've recently seen a lot of "Look, my kids are using AI to build their own games and that's beautiful" stuff in presentations.
Makes me sad that instead of wanting kids to learn how to build something they get taught to accept what the kinda-passable code generator craps out. What they learn is not how to conceptualize or build something, what they learn is that shit comes from nowhere if you just match your e…
What Saquon Barkley's retirement talk means for his fantasy football stock https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6402615/2025/06/04/saquon-barkley-retirement-dynasty-fantasy-football/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Smiths:
🎵 What Difference Does It Make?
#TheSmiths
https://gaudimusic.bandcamp.com/track/what-difference-does-it-make
https://open.spotify.com/track/3rzYUfyzdZW96cHXnGn1xI
Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
JENNA: Gola, don't kill him, please. [Vila is heard shrieking protests off stage]
GOLA: We'll see, we'll see.
[THE DUNGEONS - Blake hides as Vila is dragged in.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/362 B7B4
With Aaron Rodgers, the Steelers risk doing exactly what they said they wouldn't https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6221842/2025/06/05/aaron-rodgers-steelers-free-agent-signing/
Vance is tipping their hand here: what the Trump regime •really• wants in the Big Ugly Bill is a white supremacist secret police, under its direct control, with the size and budget of a nation-state military, for use against Americans.
“Ignore the other stuff,” he says. “This is what matters to us.”
https://c.im/@cdarwin/114781524556773462
Reddit now lets users hide posting and commenting history on their profile via a Content and Activity setting, as part of a new "Curate your profile" section (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/redd
Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
ARBITER: Who speaks for the Federation?
MORAG: I do.
ARBITER: Who speaks for the accused?
VARON: I do.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/204 B7B2
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president?
#FourthOfJuly
-- Mrs Betty Bowers
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Fever Ray:
🎵 What They Call Us
#FeverRay
https://feverray.bandcamp.com/album/what-they-call-us
https://open.spotify.com/track/60u9zGVY5OwPlZc9IJW5Cg
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
BLAKE: Kemp, Wardin, Tober, missing in the constellation of 61 Cygnii, seven hundred years ago.
WILER: May I continue?
BELLFRIAR: Sorry.
[Mortuary]
https://blake.torpi…
I’m well out of my depth here: my historical knowledge to speak to the issues is thin; my cultural knowledge is almost nonexistent. Reading that Standing Together site, seeing how they’ve crafted what they write, I see just how much nuance and awareness I •don’t• have.
I’m grateful to the people who’ve helped me learn, and who’ve pointed me to these resources — in this case @… and @…. Sometimes the Internet really is good for something.
/end
What the last 5 years of the NFL Draft tells us about college football recruiting https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6402371/2025/06/05/nfl-draft-college-football-recruiting-2/
Series D, Episode 08 - Games
SOOLIN: Do you think they planned that explosion?
AVON: Not this time. This was just a happy accident. But now the Federation is aware of the potential of Feldon power systems. Orac?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/5 B7B5
AOC:
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase.
It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play.
And people are disappearing.
That is…terrifying. Beyond terrifying. I’m sure I would not have prepared for this, or expected it, or even imagined it if I were staying there.
We are going to have to reset a whole lot of our expectations about what kind of weather is probable, pretty much everywhere on Earth. And we’re going to have to •keep• resetting them for as long as we keep changing the climate.
https://mastodon.world/@weathermatrix/114796979505937177
What could actually change in Lions' offense with John Morton as offensive coordinator?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/what-co
John Ruskin said: 'There is No Wealth but Life.'
What I had to do was find and explore new ways of seeing it.
Once I did, I never felt alone.
Cultivating alternative ways of experiencing the world has completely changed my life;
it helped me overcome anxiety and depression, opened up a world of possibility and led me to a new career in photography.
-- Andy Marshall
The Scotsman who helped the Eagles perfect the tush push: 'Nobody else is doing what I do' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6390145/2025/06/05/richie-gray-interview-tush-push-nfl/
NO KINGS ACT: Presidents shall not be entitled to any immunity. Let's finish what we started 250 years ago!
Sign the petition:
https://risingdems.org/l
How to bet Los Angeles Chargers in 2025: Super Bowl odds, win total, props, best bets and what to know
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-to-