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Buy this to support an artist today #art

This kind of thing is wonderful, but practically useless for many people who do most of their browsing on their phone.
I abandoned my “forgetfulness” extension because I realised that I’d still be tracked where I click most of my random links.
I wish we had open phones. https://mastodon.social/@nixCr…

From the abandoned Nazi fortress in Los Angeles, to today’s Hollywood executives, to the history of the United States and all of Western Civilization, my new article:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/tinpot-in-tinseltown/

Tinpot in Tinseltown
from the abandoned Nazi fortress in Los Angeles, to today’s Hollywood executives, to the history of the United States and all of Western Civilization When I heard a rumor there was an abandoned Nazi bunker in Los Angeles, I had to find out more. I looked into it, and

“The working class abandoned the Democratic Party, primarily because the Democratic Party abandoned the working class.”
✅ Control of the Senate Could Be Decided in Maine. This Oyster Farmer Is Vying to Unseat Susan Collins. – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20…

Control of the Senate could be decided in Maine. This oyster farmer is vying to unseat Susan Collins
Marine and Army veteran Graham Platner dives into one of the most closely watched races of 2026.

🚂 How to repurpose abandoned railway tracks: Two projects explore driverless electric mini-trains
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-08-23/how-to-repurpose-abandoned-railway-tracks-tw…

How to repurpose abandoned railway tracks: Two projects explore driverless electric mini-trains
Autonomous rail vehicles with few seats could connect low-demand destinations at a very low cost, although Spanish legislation poses a stumbling block

"‘Brownfields can be rich habitats’: the abandoned oil refinery where wildlife now thrives"
#Wildlife #Environment

Madrileños say no to #genocide
The final stage of the Vuelta a Espana has been abandoned after pro-Palestinian protesters entered part of the course in the centre of Madrid.
Vuelta a Espana: Final stage abandoned because of pro-Palestinian protests in Madrid - BBC Sport

Vuelta a Espana: Final stage abandoned because of pro-Palestinian protests in Madrid
The final stage of the Vuelta a Espana is abandoned after pro-Palestinian protesters enter the course in the centre of Madrid.

Inside xAI's chaotic summer: Musk reorganized xAI on the fly, researchers left over concerns it abandoned science in favor of attention-grabbing products, more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t…

Elon Musk Has Focused on xAI Since Leaving Washington
Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to match the runaway success of OpenAI. The result was chaos.

New Mexico’s Billion-Dollar Oilfield Orphans #NewMexico

New Mexico’s Billion-Dollar Oilfield Orphans
A recent report says abandoned oil infrastructure could cost the state up to $1.6 billion in coming years. This is how.

Republicans in Congress Shift to Backing Ukraine, Matching Trump’s Reversal
After years pressing to end U.S. aid to Ukraine,
many Republicans have abandoned that position now that President Trump is supporting the country against Russian aggression
https://…

Republicans in Congress Shift to Backing Ukraine, Matching Trump’s Reversal
After years pressing to end U.S. aid to Ukraine, many Republicans have abandoned that position now that President Trump is supporting the country against Russian aggression.

A selection of pictures from yesterday
#iceland #reykjavik

Who wants to go squat an abandoned oil rig? I'm dead serious. Sign up below

It's 2025. If your library still doesn't have types in it (parameter, return, and property), I assume it's abandoned and I should not use it.
There are no exceptions to this statement. Not typing your PHP code in 2025 is irresponsible. No, docblocks are not good enough.
#PHP

"As a collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers, Moms 4 Housing organizes to reclaim vacant property warehoused by investors. In 2020, another group of mothers began squatting in vacant foreclosed properties owned by Philadelphia’s Housing Authority (PHA)." ❤️‍🔥
https://rosalux.nyc/self-help-housing/

Oof. Ellen Meiksins Wood, writing in 1995:

Candace Owens, Abandoned By Trump, Is Just Really Upset Right Now
https://www.wonkette.com/p/candace-owens-abandoned-by-trump

About 10 years ago I was going to make an IOT stapler that would track how many times you stapled. It was going to have a USB cable and Arduino and send data to a web page.
I was going to do this because it would have been fucking ridiculous but I abandoned the project because real life is always more ridiculous than any joke you can come up with.

Should think about what to do with all those data centers once the “AI” bubble pops.
At least abandoned shopping malls have this sort of urban exploration meets time capsule appeal.
Abandoned data centers will presumably just be very boring empty husks.

Luminate: Apple TV has all but abandoned animated shows, ordering just six animated series in 2024, a 60% drop compared to 15 orders each in 2022 and 2023 (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

Where Did All the Apple TV+ Animation Go?
Even with its 'Peanuts' rights, the Apple SVOD service has seemingly all but abandoned cartoons.

"Abandoned Queensland coal borehole found to be emitting 10,000 cars’ worth of greenhouse gas"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

Abandoned Police Station
Baywatch Nights 2x09 - Night Whispers
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

Ok so this piece of proprietary abandoned bricked hardware has a fucking sd card hidden inside it but no UART? Damn :(

Timba found an abandoned baby mouse, & I am now a mouse mama. Apparently. If you need me, I’ll be putting a warm nest together for li’l Pip. #MiceOfMastodon

Some @… vibes.

🥠China's abandoned buildings draw urban explorers despite risks
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/06/asia-pacific/china-abandoned-buildings/
🆓

China's abandoned buildings draw urban explorers despite risks
Urban exploration is growing in popularity in China, where a yearslong property sector crisis has left many cities dotted with empty buildings.

Who could've guessed?
https://ni.hil.ist/@mu/114840348453639236

ICE leaves cars abandoned, lawn mowers running when it arrests workers: A new push to secure property (Salvador Hernandez/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-08/ice-abandonded-items
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p134#a250708p134

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

In his op ed in the WaPo,
Jay Bhattacharya has shown that he should not be taken seriously. He’s DEFINITELY not a real scientist.
If people don’t like science should we ignore the potential it has?
That’s not how it works.
Science doesn’t care about your feelings.
https://

There was once a machine that told you "you want this" and "this is good." It said, "there can be no better system and it's foolish to try to build one." That machine has long since failed to function. Now you choke on fumes as it is consumed by the wild flames of an abandoned cause.
That machine could not possibly work anymore because the evidence of it's falsehood has become too overwhelming.
No, only abject terror now can keep you from plotting your escape, from creating an alternative. No, the illusion has long since broken. All that's left now is triggering fight, flight, freeze as hard as possible. Most will be paralyzed, and those who fight can be used as an excuse to escalate the terror.
These are the final stages of a dying sun, expanding and consuming it's children before the final supernova.
There is no longer a stable system, no longer a system with a future. All that remains is the spectacle that hopes to distract you long enough that you too can be consumed, that it may sustain itself a few moments longer.

Wow, the Toot! app — which seemed like it was abandoned — might get some updates. https://mastodon.social/@tootapp/115174639224533492

Listening to the Ukrainian music from the abandoned WordPress site that's used as a C2 by the malware attached to a phishing mail I just got sent.

... as it turns out the folks from R5 were knocking on my door just as I was setting up this shot: here's my new photo backpack and my new water bottle.
They had a bunch of abandoned water bottles at the Catherwood Library so I asked the clerk: "I work for an organization founded by Elmo Roper, can I have the bottle with Elmo?" and they gave it to me.
#sliceoflife…

"""
Customarily, the honour of having liberated hysteria from the ancient myths about a displacement of the uterus goes to Le Pois and Willis. Jean Liebaud, translating or rather adapting Marinello’s work for the seventeenth century, still accepted (with a small number of caveats) the idea of a spontaneous movement of the womb. If it moved, it was “to be more at ease; not that this came about through prudence, nor was it a conscious decision or an animal stimulus, but by a natural instinct, to safeguard health and to have the pleasure of something delectable.” The idea that it could change its place and move around the body, bringing convulsions and spasms everywhere it travelled, had been abandoned, for it was now taken to be ‘tightly held in place’ by the cervix, ligaments, vessels and the sheath of the peritoneum; yet in some senses it could change its location. “The womb therefore, even though it is tightly fixed to the parts that we have described and cannot easily change its place, still manages to roam, making strange, petulant movements around the woman’s body. These diverse movements include ascensions and descents, convulsions, wanderings and prolapses. It can wander up to the liver, spleen, diaphragm, stomach, chest, heart, lung, throat and head.” Physicians of the classical age are more or less unanimous in refusing this explanation.
[…] Yet these analyses were not sufficient to break the theme of an essential link between hysteria and the womb. But the link is now conceived in different terms. It is no longer considered to be the trajectory of a real displacement through the body, but rather a sort of mute propagation through the paths of the organism and its functional proximities. It cannot be said that the seat of the malady has become the brain, nor that thanks to Willis a psychological explanation of hysteria was now possible. But the brain does take on the role of a relay that distributes a malady whose origins are visceral, and the womb brings it on just as the other viscera do. Up until the end of the eighteenth century, and Pinel, the uterus and the womb are still present in the pathology of hysteria, but thanks to a privileged diffusion by the humours and nerves, not because of any particular prestige of their nature.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Republicans have abandoned their promise to protect rural America
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5498512-gop-betrayal-rural-healthcare/

I switched to Kubuntu with root-on-ZFS:
― https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1lr4ayi/switched/
FreeBSD is not entirely abandoned:
―

16550. 4GL. A6. AAL5. ATH0. BITNET. CLNS. dBASE. DTE/DCE. ismap. LATA. PL/C. QEMM. Telenet. VLSM. WAIS. wuarchive. Zmodem...
So much dead, forgotten, and abandoned tech terms taking up limited brain space. Just dusting a few into the fedisphere.

On the final day of #BeaverWeek, we focus on Beaver Rescue efforts. Many organizations across Canada care for injured Beavers, abandoned kits, or bonded pairs that have to be relocated. Here is a list of recognized Beaver rescue organizations (worldwide) in case you're feeling generous and looking for a charitable organization to support.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://martinezbeavers.org/beaver-friendly-organizations/

Why, when Republicans attempt to draw district lines such that they choose their voters and get severely overrepresented in the legislature is it “We’re just taking advantage of the rules as they exist.”? But when the Democrats choose to represent the interest of their constituents and not show up, preventing, UNDER THE RULES, a vote to pass this redistricting, they have abandoned or forfeited their offices?
#UsPol

This is exactly what I was afraid of when #laravel took VC money.
https://hachyderm.io/@j3j5/114784445289560905

I love it when bands play in these abandoned warehouse settings. This is from a place operated by The state51 Conspiracy in London.
#music #uk
https://www.

A Scalable Machine Learning Pipeline for Building Footprint Detection in Historical Maps
Annemarie McCarthy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03564 https://arxiv.…

A Scalable Machine Learning Pipeline for Building Footprint Detection in Historical Maps
Historical maps offer a valuable lens through which to study past landscapes and settlement patterns. While prior research has leveraged machine learning based techniques to extract building footprints from historical maps, such approaches have largely focused on urban areas and tend to be computationally intensive. This presents a challenge for research questions requiring analysis across extensive rural regions, such as verifying historical census data or locating abandoned settlements. In th…

temporarily healed by neil young & the chrome hearts at jones beach, GA pit abandoned to post-hurricane high tides & return of venue's old moat. windswept mix in balcony, birds dislodged from stage roof flocking during loud tunes. 1st "long walk home" since '89 & "singer without a song" since '13.

So Carney tries to force AC employees back to work after less than 12 hours. Every day, he shows the Liberal Party has abandoned working people, and Carney is just the latest. Trudeau’s government didn’t care either.
“Steven Tufts, associate professor and labour geographer at York University, says Air Canada has become dependent on the federal government to solve its labour-relations issues.
He mentioned last year's dispute between the airline and the pilots' union. Air Canada asked for the government to be ready to step in before the two sides reached a tentative agreement in September 2024.”
#canpoli #cdnpoli #union #cupe #solidarity

i enjoy whenever one of those accounts that just post articles like some sort of liberal ai aggregator finds me and starts liking the most unexpected posts. proof that even they are actual humans???

#TomLehrer, mathematician and singer-songwriter known for colorful satire, dies at 97
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/tom-lehr

Friday Links 25-17
This week I enjoyed the post about dealing with abandoned EV charger hardware and of course, the video about the TI 99/4A.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/08/friday-links-25-17.html

Friday Links 25-17
This week I enjoyed the post about dealing with abandoned EV charger hardware and of course, the video about the TI 99/4A.  Leadership Nobod...

In 2001, California state regulators proposed a safety rule
to remove abandoned power lines, which could potentially ignite wildfires.
However, under pressure from utilities like Southern California Edison,
the rule was revised in 2005 to allow these lines to remain
until deemed "permanently abandoned" by executives

Clinton’s Endorsement of Cuomo Is Grotesque but Predictable https://jacobin.com/2025/06/cuomo-clinton-endorsement-mayoral-election/

Clinton’s Endorsement of Cuomo Is Grotesque but Predictable
Bill Clinton’s last-minute endorsement of Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s mayoral race is all too fitting: both men represent the corporate Democratic establishment, opposed by socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, that has abandoned the working class.

Wet run, 6 miles, kept it under 9 minute mile on a new route up north (barely!). Found an abandoned farm house too, very lovely route. All but 200 feet were paved, mostly gravel and water, as former logging roads go 😆
Knee pain on my right afterward, forgot to bring the brace with on this trip, unfortunately. We’ll see how the rest of the week goes 🤞 Air quality tanks tomorrow too, winds coming from the north 😕

Want a journal (or anything else with this art)? Check this out: #art

Stochastic forest transition model dynamics and parameter estimation via deep learning
Satoshi Kumabe, Tianyu Song, Ton Viet Ta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21486 https://

Stochastic forest transition model dynamics and parameter estimation via deep learning
Forest transitions, characterized by dynamic shifts between forest, agricultural, and abandoned lands, are complex phenomena. This study developed a stochastic differential equation model to capture the intricate dynamics of these transitions. We established the existence of global positive solutions for the model and conducted numerical analyses to assess the impact of model parameters on deforestation incentives. To address the challenge of parameter estimation, we proposed a novel deep learn…

"Peatland Rewilding: Finnish Community Turns Abandoned Mine into Vibrant Bird Sanctuary"
#Finland #Peatland #Environment

Peatland Rewilding: Finnish Community Turns Abandoned Mine into Vibrant Bird Sanctuary | Happy Eco News
Finland's peatland rewilding project transforms former mining wasteland into a wildlife sanctuary, home to over 190 bird species. A local community action project creates a carbon-storing wetland ecosystem within one year.

Ousted vaccine panel members say rigorous science is being abandoned (Mike Stobbe/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/vaccine-committee-cdc-7a81bdbc08b3cca7db18e884e27df666
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p157#a250730p157

Is there a way to get hardware accelerated #VP9 support on #Skylake era #intel CPUs? Best I can tell, there's an abandoned Intel-hybrid driver with partial support that Intel doesn't want to bring…

How music criticism lost its edge: since the 2010s, outlets like Pitchfork have abandoned extremely low scores, and critics face harassment for negative reviews (Kelefa Sanneh/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/how-music-…

How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge
Reviews of rock, pop, and other music have generally become more positive, Kelefa Sanneh writes, looking at outlets including Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, the Village Voice, and YouTube.

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

Ugh is Feditext abandoned?
#Feditext

The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new concentration camp deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have cynically dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”
The facility, at an abandoned airport, will have an initial capacity of about 3,000 detainees, DeSantis said.
The center was built in eight days and features more than 200 security cameras,
28,000-plus feet of barbed wire and 400 security personnel

First immigration detainees arrive at Florida center in the Everglades
The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Florida Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier said on social media Wednesday that “hundreds” of immigration detainees were to arrive at the center. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis says the facility will have a capacity of about 3,000 detainees when fully operational. The center was built in eight days and features more than 200 security ca…

Grafitti-covered bridge in Monkey Run near sunset when the creek is in shadow but some of the surrounding hills are still illuminated.
#photo #photography #wideangle

#SanFrancisco #nightclub owner quietly acquires 99 yr old abandoned downtown #Oakland bldg that most recently hosted homeless & illegal #raves

I don’t suppose there are any good and complete iOS apps for fedi right?
I know there’s the #Feditext

"Turning closed coal mines into solar farms could power a country the size of Germany, report finds"
#Germany #CoalMine #SolarPower

Report reveals huge solar power potential of abandoned coal mines
“The same ground that powered the industrial era can help power the climate solutions we now urgently need,” analysts say of the 300 GW solution.

Had the opportunity to visit a most fascinating solar #observatory Thursday in #Switzerland near #Arosa, the Astrophysikalisches Observatorium #Tschuggen (AOT) which #MaxWaldmeier had built in 1939, which was abandoned in 1980 and which amateur astronomers are now bringing back to the state just at that time: Here are the original Kern #coronagraph and another one from #Zeiss (with a huge spectrograph) it's sitting on. See https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10230945670040155 for a picture album, with links to the background in the first comment.