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“Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol is dead”
https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/
Given the statements from

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work.
Today we have more information than any civilization in history.
But aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private …

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked

Our taxes are paying for the invasion of Venezuela.
Congress has abandoned the power to control expenditures.
So, how long are we going to keep paying for El Cheato to ravish our nation and other nations?

Oh, look at that! Pressure works — and i knew my fellow Minnesotans would be on the job, but I didn’t know just how fast!
cc @…
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/lawmaker-says-plan-for-ice-detention-center-in-shakopee-has-been-abandoned

The Most Important Code Is the #Code No One Owns
https://techyall.com/blog/the-most-important-code-is-the-code-no-one-owns

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol is dead (J. Dale Shoemaker/Investigative Post)
https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p93#a260225p93

The remains of our endless meetings (via @…).

Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a Rohingya refugee from Burma,
was nearly blind and spoke no English.
He was dropped off by agents in Buffalo on the other side of town from his home.
His family was not notified of his release.
Police are investigating his death
https://www.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

I wish I could find myself more consistent with my blog to be honest.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked

Excel didn’t kill accountants; it gave them better tools. Yet, with AI, we’ve abandoned this logic in favor of a collective fantasy. We’re treating a sophisticated calculator as a human replacement rather than a human multiplier.
https://www.…

The Shared Delusion: Both doomers and dreamers assume current technology leads to AGI. They’re both wrong
Excel didn’t kill accountants; it gave them better tools. Yet, with AI, we’ve abandoned this logic in favor of a collective fantasy. We’re treating a sophisticated calculator as a human replacement rather than a human multiplier. The reason for this shift is the "2-to-5-year" horizon. For decades,

I just released a new alpha release of ScanTailor Spectre, my fork of #diybookscanner software ScanTailor. It's vibe coded in Claude, so if that bothers you, don't download it.
https://

Release ScanTailor Spectre 2.0a10 · abandoned-industries/scantailor-spectre
Changes in v2.0a10 UI Improvements Hide batch processing button for Export filter (it only has the "Export to PDF" button) Code Quality & Stability Fix thread race condition in BackgroundExecuto...

"Abandoned oil refineries are becoming unlikely havens for wildlife"
#Wildlife #Environment

Abandoned oil refineries are becoming unlikely havens for wildlife
From southeast England to California, decommissioned oil refineries are being reclaimed by nature, prompting calls to protect them

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jtk/114378253611506206
I have to assume he or whoever is responsible for the site has abandoned it, but someone is paying to keep the name and site running. Even more gambling links have since been injected throughout various pag…

US startup seeks to reclaim Twitter trademarks 'abandoned' by Musk’s X
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/us-startup-seeks-to-reclaim-twitter-trademarks-abandoned-by-musk-s-x/ar-AA1RXPdy
…

#ACAB, combined with #FuckICE. https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/

Oh sweet memory. This is where I spend 3 years during my apprenticeship at SIEMENS-Nixdorf. Sad to see this place being abandoned
https://www.radiohochstift.de/aktionen/lokale-aktionen-und…

Tradition in Scherben: Verwüstetes Nixdorf-Gebäude vor Zwangsversteigerung
Vandalismus, Lost Place, Zwangsversteigerung? Entdeckt hier die Geschichte des Nixdorf-Gebäudes Paderborn, ihre aktuelle Lage und Zukunftspläne.

‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?
#klimaatverandering https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/27/alps-france-skiing-snow-warming-resorts-closing-ceuze-landscape?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTy4y3VDpS0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "Abandoned suitcases are becoming a growing issue at Narita Airport, where nearly 900 pieces of luggage have already been collected this fiscal year—about nine times more than four years ago. Police say around 10% of the bags are empty, suggesting intentional disposal, with storage and disposal costs ultimately borne by taxpayers. The problem extends beyond airports to train stations and public spaces, often linked to travelers avoiding disposal fees after shopping. In response, Narita Airport is testing solutions such as clothing compression machines to help travelers save space and avoid buying new luggage. Retailers and repair businesses are also encouraging reuse through free take-back and resale programs, aiming to reduce waste and promote more sustainable travel habits."
49 likes, 0 comments - japandaily_jp on January 21, 2026: "Abandoned suitcases are becoming a growing issue at Narita Airport, where nearly 900 pieces of luggage have already been collected this fiscal year—about nine times more than four years ago. Police say around 10% of the bags are empty, suggesting intentional disposal, with storage and disposal costs ultimately borne by taxpayers. The problem extends beyond airports to train stations and public spaces, often linked to travelers avoid…

Not the first thought that comes to mind, but this is an #environmental problem, not just about skiing or a local economy:
"Ropes once used to mark out the piste hang in tatters and bits of plastic are falling off a pylon. The old sheds at each end of the ski lifts often still contain transformers, asbestos, motor oils and greases. Over time, these substances seep into the soil and…

Not the first thought that comes to mind, but this is an #environmental problem, not just about skiing or a local economy:
"Ropes once used to mark out the piste hang in tatters and bits of plastic are falling off a pylon. The old sheds at each end of the ski lifts often still contain transformers, asbestos, motor oils and greases. Over time, these substances seep into the soil and…

An interview with Audrey Cooper, EIC of The Baltimore Banner, on local news decline, growing regionally, paywalls, experimenting with AI, and more (Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories

The Baltimore Banner enters a new year — and a new chapter — with a new editor-in-chief
Local journalism is shrinking in much of the country — but The Baltimore Banner is moving in the opposite direction. In just two years, the nonprofit newsroom has grown into Maryland’s largest reporting operation, expanded beyond Baltimore, and built a fast-growing base of paying subscribers. Now, with their new editor-in-chief, Audrey Cooper, at the helm, The Banner is doubling down on a belief that many in the industry have quietly abandoned: scale still matters. In this wide-ranging conv…

“Tahoe is the worst user interface update in the history of the Mac. Every change is either wrongheaded, poorly executed, or both. The Mac remains usable only because of Tahoe’s lack of ambition: it mostly alters the appearance and metrics of interface elements rather than making fundamental changes to the structure of the Mac UI. ....The bad ideas embodied in Tahoe reveal an Apple design team that has abandoned the most basic principles of human-computer interaction.”
—John Siracusa

‘It’s a catastrophe’: Wellington rages as millions of litres of raw sewage pour into ocean https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/wellington-raw-sewage-leak-spill-water-new-zealand

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
BLAKE: [V.O.] It's only a couple of years since it was abandoned. Under terms of the interplanetary mining agreement the company was bound by law to leave fuel and other...
VILA: Blake, you alright?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/272 B7…

"The crew was hungry, the crew was angry, and we tried to survive only day-by-day."
"Back in 2016, 20 ships were abandoned around the world, according to the ITF. In 2025 the number had ballooned to 410, with 6,223 merchant seamen falling victim. Both of those figures for last year were up by almost a third on 2024."
https://www.…

The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers
A growing number of tankers and other commercial vessels are being ditched by their owners.

Sudan: Stop the stoning!
One woman is a mother of 9. Her husband says one isn’t his. The other woman’s husband abandoned her after she gave birth to their first baby – 7 years ago. Now he’s back and accusing her of adultery.
For these ‘crimes’, courts sentenced them to a cruel and painful death by stoning – after a sham trial where the women didn’t even have lawyers.
Sign the petition

Two mothers could be stoned to death.
Sham trials. Coerced confessions. And a sentence of stoning! One million of us spoke up to help overturn a similar case – sign now to do it again.

Suspicions in the crypto community point to AI-supported hackers carrying out a concentrated campaign to steal around $5 million in old and sometimes abandoned DeFi projects.
Is an AI hacker targeting old DeFi projects in $5M spree?
https://protos.com/is-an-ai-hacker-tar

Is an AI hacker targeting old DeFi projects in $5M spree?
Old Ribbon Finance, Yearn Finance and Rari Capital contracts were hacked. Are attackers using AI to scan for missed opportunities in DeFi?

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

There’s this place we walk by pretty regularly that’s semi-abandoned. The owner replaces parts when they fall off and there are lights at night, but the front and back have been left to return to nature. This chunk of land is worth ~$2.5M Canadian, so an odd situation. Anyhow, I enjoy watching the progress of the informal small-scale rewilding.
#Photography

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Magic Castles:
🎵 Abandoned Mansions
#MagicCastles
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://themagiccastles.bandcamp.com/track/abandoned-mansions
https://open.spotify.com/track/2tjtnRSjX2tXdKAqJfYsUE

Rep. Joaquin Castro: In many ways the Dilley detention center has gotten worse since my visit 3 weeks ago. They’re hiding pregnant Women from me (they aren't getting good medical care). They also abandoned a Mom & her 2-month-old Baby with bronchitis, across the border in Mexico.
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1rbwb0a

Cautiously looking forward to the Steam Frame. A wearable Linux (not Android) system that I don't have to personally invent the entire user interface for would be a very helpful addition to my life. So many broken prototypes, abandoned attempts, and false starts on my shelf. Wearable-spatial is short on paradigms.

It's not even annoying anymore. As usual, the open-source gods have stepped in and support these abandoned hardware products. The difference this time is one of the lines of abandoned hardware products launched a little over 3 years ago, and the other isn't obsolete within the scope of the usecase.
I'm Annoyed At AMD's Latest Radeon Blunder - Hardware Unboxed

For today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent here's a tiny tool we have used in our pipeline: pyRenamer is a simple app to rename/renumber a bunch of files.
Unfortunately it's pretty much an abandoned fork of a Python 2 app that has been abandoned for even longer ago. It still works and for renumbering there's no easier solution at hand. But for file name search & replace …

What we know is circumstantial for the most part, but we DO know this:
that on October 23rd, he formally abandoned fluxus-influenced deconstructivist cyberfeminist html4 net art forever, signing onto the ranks of the BigTop Anthropomorphic Circus under the new identity of Aypo da Chimpboy, the name that would catapult him to international Tiktok stardom, universal splendor, launch a unique signature line of Jeffree Star lip scrubs and accompanying chiffon bathing products, and spawn en…

Finally put together type stubs for an old (last release 2017!) python library I've been depending on for years. And now wondering whether it would have been easier to just contribute types to the library directly. I thought it abandoned but then the maintainer responded up on an unrelated ticket.
(Though there's no CI infra actually working anymore. Makes testing contributions painful. Wonder whether building that first would be worthwhile & welcome...)
#python #packaging

Five months after the Trump administration stripped $8 billion in U.S. foreign aid from the world,
a Sudanese National Army helicopter bombed a hospital, pharmacy and market in a remote village of South Sudan known as Old Fangak.
Situated in a deep pocket of grassy swampland formed by floodwaters from the Nile that haven’t receded for five years thanks to climate change,
Old Fangak was home to thousands of internally displaced South Sudanese women and children
— inclu…

Trump Cut Their Lifeline. Months Later, They're Still Fighting Like Hell To Survive.
A small organization powered by the people who need it most has found a way to save lives abandoned by the Trump administration.

Frederick McKinley "Casey" Jones was a man we should all know about. He was a self-taught genius--though his parents abandoned him at 12. He ran away from his orphanage at 17.
He had 60 patents to his name, though he probably should have had more. The refrigeration units he invented for trains and trucks, ALONE, should have guaranteed him lasting fame!

Sources and US tax lawyers: the IRS's planned audit of private equity and VC firms is faltering under President Trump, as many senior leaders leave the agency (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/business/irs-private…

Push to Audit Private Equity and Venture Capital Falters Under Trump
Specialists have left the I.R.S. and audits have been abandoned since the president returned to office.

Some City Some Nature 🏙️🪾
一些城一些自然 🏙️🪾
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

I love old instrument panels, esp those with that specific green they are enamelled with. This one is from @…

Looks like the AI4LAM community has entirely abandoned twitter - not a single FF2025 tweet that I could see (having finally remembered that you can search with sites like xcancel)

The malice and hatred that Darth #Trump pours out over the murdered #RobReiner and his wife undoubtedly reveal him to be an immoral, unempathetic psychopath/sociopath.
His remarks also raise questions about his mental state.
Poor US-America.
🤢

How many times do these situations have to happen before government stops hanging out at the the lobbyist's cocktail party and actually does its job regulating companies and protecting citizens?
“If the airline is unable to re-book a passenger on its own or partner airlines departing within 48 hours of the original departure time, they have to buy the passenger’s seat ticket on the next available flight of any carrier. And that means including competitors. That’s what the law says, that’s what WestJet has to do. The problem is that WestJet is flouting the law. WestJet treats the law as if it was just friendly recommendations.”
#Canada #CanPoli #WestJet #Airlines #PassengerRights #CdnPoli #Liberal #Mexico #PuertoVallarta
https://globalnews.ca/news/11708764/ghosted-canadians-stranded-puerto-vallarta-abandoned-westjet/

So the Canada - China trade deal just announced is interesting, particularly regarding Electric Vehicles. It was primarily about restoring our agricultural trade with China by allowing their EVs to access our market. But it will likely, despite the limited amount that will hit our shores, jumpstart the EV market in Canada. Cars that are feature rich and cost less, like the one reviewed in the YT video linked below, will push current manufacturers in Canada to up their game.
Doug Ford abandoned his Captain Canada persona and selfishly attacked the deal because of potential impact on Ontario's auto industry. Part of his statement demanded that the Federal government cancel their Electric Vehicle mandates because it was too costly for manufacturers to build them. I think Toyota and Honda, long time Canadian partners, may be concerned about the deal, but U.S. manufacturers are abandoning EVs and Canada. Hey Doug, I thought we were Open for Business?
#CanPoli #GlobalTrade
https://youtu.be/Mb6H7trzMfI

#CFP: SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE KYOTO SCHOOL 2026 (1-12 June 2026)
https://ift.tt/GnuHSEI
DESCRIPTION While major Western philosophical movements in the 20th century looked upon claims to…
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#CFP: SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE KYOTO SCHOOL 2026 (1-12 June 2026)
DESCRIPTION While major Western philosophical movements in the 20th century looked upon claims to absolute knowledge with deep suspicion, the Kyoto School never abandoned philosophy's sacred vocation to know the absolute. Against the dominant disposition to look upon contradiction as an obstacle to absolute knowledge, the Kyoto School recognizes contradiction as the key to unlocking the secrets of absolute totality. The Summer School will engage with major thinkers of the Kyoto School on totali…

An abandoned railroad bridge covered with grafitti inside the Monkey Run Natural Area
#photo #photography #creek #water

«LLMs are cliché machines, trained on a resilient human weakness for generating maximum content with minimum effort.»
Bingo.
Unfortunately, this too hits the nail on the head: «Bad art is something human beings love to do, in vast numbers. It’s part of who we are, and when abandoned by inspiration we trust in the same methods we’ve programmed into LLMs.»

Sure, AI can ‘do’ writing. But memoir? Not so much | Aeon Essays
As AI’s endless clichés continue to encroach on human art, the true uniqueness of our creativity is becoming ever clearer

Inside the Collapse of Confidence in the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vgas-inside-collapse-confidence

In which I build Unicode character tables and fail to serialize large automata, “Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go“:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/14/Unicode-Properties
(And in which I find myself sliding into the

other day, parents visited macedonian couple we befriended on their own instead of inviting them over cuz of insecurity abt what a shithole it is over here.
returning home, the car got stuck on a nearby hill cuz of snow, so they just hopped out and abandoned it. then a neighbor or somebody cleared the snow with his tools and they brought it back eventually.

Paul’s Patented 3 out of 2 Post™:
This grab-and-run strategy explains a lot of the incidents you hear about. ICE’s targeting strategy here is mostly chaotic and opportunistic. They can’t actually try to identify an undocumented immigrant, or even an •immigrant• at all, based on any kind of real evidence. They are mostly just running around trying to catch a brown-enough-skinned person in a vulnerable moment. Bully cowards.
This is one reason why you hear about them grabbing random people out of cars, grabbing US citizens, leaving a car sitting in the middle of the street, leaving kids abandoned in the car, chasing down a random person and then suddenly dispersing. They •know• it’s all disorganized, but they’re desperate to get in and out fast — and they have to hit those quotas somehow.
3/2

If you’re vide-coding MVPs (or pre-MVPs?) that you have no intention of taking further and instead releasing them as proofs of concept and moving on to your next soon-to-be-abandoned MVP, understand that you’re a patsy. A shill.
You’re suggesting the LLM is up to the task when you’re really admitting it failed and you’re too lazy to take it further.
Less critical folks won’t understand that and shitty managers pre-disposed to justifying their sunk costs will reference it as a win…

The world might look bleak at the moment, but at least this rave is still happening.
"Illegal New Year's rave in La Sénia with nearly 1,000 attendees continues"
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/new-years-rave-la-seni…

Illegal New Year's rave in La Sénia with nearly 1,000 attendees continues
Local authorities are monitoring the abandoned industrial site, hoping the party ends soon without incidents

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Foster Neville:
🎵 Voices from an Abandoned Village
#FosterNeville
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/track/voices-from-an-abandoned-village
https://open.spotify.com/track/10URs0YGPszrBu8y0Whf3E

Husky seen wandering abandoned on the streets after its owners were disappeared by fascist paramilitary invaders. (Watts, CA - 2/15/26)
Source:
#ice

ICE has used the "Mobile Fortify" facial recognition app to identify immigrants and citizens alike
💥over 100,000 times, by one estimate.
❌It wasn't built to work like that
—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.
https://www.…

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity/

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.

«LLMs are cliché machines, trained on a resilient human weakness for generating maximum content with minimum effort.»
Bingo.
Unfortunately, this too hits the nail on the head: «Bad art is something human beings love to do, in vast numbers. It’s part of who we are, and when abandoned by inspiration we trust in the same methods we’ve programmed into LLMs.»

James O'Toole / The Rise and Fall of Confession in America (recording on YouTube/link below)
https://ift.tt/O1acgJN
Treaties and Empire Seminar Series: Trần Thị Xuân (Hamburg University) - Interpreters and Foreign…
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The way he’s threading the needle of talking about the ICE / local police interactions is fascinating: his line is that Mpls Police being called to deal with ICE (e.g. “there’s an abductee’s abandoned car” or 911 call “omg ICE is at my door”) is an unlawful federal commandeering of local police resources.
I say fascinating because that line of argument has legs regardless of whether police helped ICE or pushed back against ICE, whether the police did the right thing or the wrong thing in any given encounter.

♨️ The UK Is Transforming Coal Mines Into Geothermal Hubs
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-UK-Is-Transforming-Coal-Mines-Into-Geothermal-Hubs.html

The UK Is Transforming Coal Mines Into Geothermal Hubs
The U.K. is repurposing abandoned coal mines into geothermal heating systems, with early projects showing the technology could supply clean, low-cost heat to up to 25% of the country's homes.

LLMs hallucinate? Groundbreaking discovery: a statistical model works statistically. 😉 It’s the ultimate tech irony. We abandoned GOFAI because manual rules couldn't handle the messiness of reality. We moved to the 'bottom-up' statistical approach, only to find ourselves frantically retrofitting those same rules onto a black box to stop it from hallucinating.

This account reminds me of the cute app SoundForest. I think it has been abandoned but it still exists on the Apple AppStore.
https://soundforestapp.itch.io/soundforest

When Lee and Yang suggested there's a fundamental difference between left and right, Pauli wrote:
"Ich glaube aber nicht, daß der Herrgott ein schwacher Linkshänder ist."
(I do not believe that the Lord is a weak left-hander.)
Two days later, Wu's experiment showed that Lee and Yang were correct!
-- @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social

Jacopo Bertolotti (@jacopobertolotti.com)
There is a infinite number of stories about Pauli being horrible to other (especially younger) Physicists. His word carried a lot of weight, so people were either psychologically crushed, or abandoned promising research lines just because he liked to be a assh@le.

ZOR filters: fast and smaller than fuse filters
Antoine Limasset
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03525 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.03525 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.03525
arXiv:2602.03525v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Probabilistic membership filters support fast approximate membership queries with a controlled false-positive probability $\varepsilon$ and are widely used across storage, analytics, networking, and bioinformatics \cite{chang2008bigtable,dayan2018optimalbloom,broder2004network,harris2020improved,marchet2023scalable,chikhi2025logan,hernandez2025reindeer2}. In the static setting, state-of-the-art designs such as XOR and fuse filters achieve low overhead and very fast queries, but their peeling-based construction succeeds only with high probability, which complicates deterministic builds \cite{graf2020xor,graf2022binary,ulrich2023taxor}.
We introduce \emph{ZOR filters}, a deterministic continuation of XOR/fuse filters that guarantees construction termination while preserving the same XOR-based query mechanism. ZOR replaces restart-on-failure with deterministic peeling that abandons a small fraction of keys, and restores false-positive-only semantics by storing the remainder in a compact auxiliary structure. In our experiments, the abandoned fraction drops below $1\%$ for moderate arity (e.g., $N\ge 5$), so the auxiliary handles a negligible fraction of keys. As a result, ZOR filters can achieve overhead within $1\%$ of the information-theoretic lower bound $\log_2(1/\varepsilon)$ while retaining fuse-like query performance; the additional cost is concentrated on negative queries due to the auxiliary check. Our current prototype builds several-fold slower than highly optimized fuse builders because it maintains explicit incidence information during deterministic peeling; closing this optimisation gap is an engineering target.
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