Tootfinder

Kremlin brags about US jets escorting Putin’s plane after Alaska summit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/kremlin-brags-about-us-jets.html

Microsoft begins testing a Windows 11 feature for sharing the entire desktop with Copilot Vision; it requires first entering a special mode in the Copilot app (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.

Microsoft begins testing sharing your desktop with Copilot on Windows 11 — allows AI to view and chat about what's on your screen
First announced earlier this year, sharing your desktop with Copilot on Windows 11 is now in testing with insiders across all preview channels.

Azerbaijan talks about aiding Ukraine #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/azerbaijan-talks-about-aiding-ukraine.html

I see @… has a similar reaction about a study that says something we want to hear.
Re that second remark, “The *point* of AI is to make cognitive abilities irrelevant,” well, that’s the thing that’s up for debate right now. Making cognitive abilities (and thus labor, and people) irrelevant is very much the marketing pitch of the hype bubble. That pitch is about cost cutting, and about fear and intimidation — an intoxicating, investor-frothing mixture of fantasy and terror.
It’s not the only vision of AI, however.
https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/114693869134389025

Me acabo de enterar de que Proxmox 9.0 estš disponible ya. La base es Debian 13, que también salió hace poco.
Voy a revisar el procedimiento para actualizar mi servidor en los próximos días
https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details…

I was incredibly excited about seeing Wu-Tang's last-ever show at the Garden tonight (with Run the Jewels opening, no less!), so I thought it was a perfect time to tell the story of when I got to see the last time all 9 members performed together on one stage — complete with footage of an on-the-run Old Dirty Bastard bursting onto the stage to everyone’s surprise: …

Exit the Wu
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Trevon Diggs drops bombshell about possible return in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/trevon-diggs-drops-bombshell-about-possible-return-in-2025

Online IAB workshop on IP address geolocation to be held in December 2025. Submissions due October 3. https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/ipgeows/about/

RIP, Mark Snow: listen to the composer talk about scoring X-Files and more
https://cdm.link/rip-mark-snow/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/music

RIP, Mark Snow: listen to the composer talk about scoring X-Files and more - CDM Create Digital Music
Mark Snow, the mind-bogglingly prolific composer behind scores for Blue Bloods, Smallville, and the X-Files has died at age 78. From TV to film to games, Snow's take on electronic music scoring has left a mark on many of us. Here he is talking about his take on music, and some reflections on that unforgettable X-Files score.

Dan Quinn shuts down questions about Deebo Samuel's speed: 'He's one of the fastest players on the team'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…

The Bob and Diane Fund seeks submissions from visual storytellers on stories about Alzheimer's Disease or dementia.
Theme: #Alzheimer or #dementia
Close on September 21, 2025

The Bob and Diane Fund 2025
All About Photo.com | Photography Contest: 'The Bob and Diane Fund 2025' by The Bob and Diane Fund.

Dr. Oz Is Out Here Lying About 'Lazy' Medicaid Recipients Again
https://www.wonkette.com/p/dr-oz-is-out-here-lying-about-lazy

«So we can see that opposing fascism will require a solidary with hundreds of different sides against the sole murderous one. Perhaps that one murderous side will experience this solidarity as "polarization," but we don't need to agree with them about that, or "agree to disagree" about it. In fact, it is our moral imperative to disagree with them about that.»
https://www.the-reframe.com/be-bolder-not-a-boulder/

2/2 I continued blogging Alberniweather and on FB and Twitter but I gradually removed my personal self from Facebook and eventually during the Pandemic, I decided the Facebook environment was just too toxic even for weather stuff and I shut down my page and left Facebook completely.
The impact on traffic to Alberniweather.ca and its prominence in the community was, and still is, significant.
I have diehard followers, many who have become friends over the years, I still get the odd call from media, or even the public about random weather things.
I have good connections with a few folks at Environment Canada (though their staff have become thinner and more transient :(
and major events still get spikes of local traffic but I since about 2022, and after I removed myself from Twitter that year, I don’t blog nearly as much. I would do a few posts in a week, and then go months without posting. I just got out of the habit I guess.
But I am still interested in the weather. I still feel like Alberniweather is a useful service for people in my community. I still feel a willing obligation to inform people about the weather and I believe I am trusted to do so by the public and local leaders. I’ve never made any money at it, I sold ad space on the website for a few years but it wasn’t worth the hassle and I didn’t feel comfortable taking the money when I was councillor. I have had some generous spontaneous donations at times.
But mainly I do it because it’s interesting, and I hope it is useful for people especially when people are looking for information during a major event.
The highest traffic I have ever had on Alberniweather pre-FB exit was the local Dog Mountain forest fire in 2015.
post-FB exit: the #underwoodfire
People want easy access to reliable local, trusted, information.
Large media orgs have mostly given up on this.
I am grateful we still have an active local newspaper and radio and that both trust me and I trust them.
@… @…

EgoPrivacy: What Your First-Person Camera Says About You?
Yijiang Li, Genpei Zhang, Jiacheng Cheng, Yi Li, Xiaojun Shan, Dashan Gao, Jiancheng Lyu, Yuan Li, Ning Bi, Nuno Vasconcelos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12258

EgoPrivacy: What Your First-Person Camera Says About You?
While the rapid proliferation of wearable cameras has raised significant concerns about egocentric video privacy, prior work has largely overlooked the unique privacy threats posed to the camera wearer. This work investigates the core question: How much privacy information about the camera wearer can be inferred from their first-person view videos? We introduce EgoPrivacy, the first large-scale benchmark for the comprehensive evaluation of privacy risks in egocentric vision. EgoPrivacy covers t…

Padilla warns about what happens "when cameras are not there" after removal from Noem event (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/padilla-warns-about-what-happens-when-cameras-are-not-there-after-removal-from-noem-event/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p69#a250615p69

Time for another round of critical AI weekend reading:
Crashing hard: why talking about bubbles obscures the real social cost of overinvesting into “Artificial Intelligence”
Aline Blankertz (@…)

Crashing hard: why talking about bubbles obscures the real social cost of overinvesting into “Artificial Intelligence”
More and more commentators talk about and warn of an “AI bubble”, and everybody seems to congratulate each other on being such a smart financial analyst. BUT: A bubble pops and you are left with air and maybe a splash of soap somewhere on the floor. A fairly clean affair. This kind of investor speak

'A 10' — Trump gushes about meeting with Putin after Alaska summit fails to win ceasefire in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/a-trump-gushes-about-meeting.html

My first #podcast appearance has finally gone live. SAP's "The Open Source Way" is a regular podcast looking at various #floss projects. This week Karsten talks to Helge and myself about #qemu,…

The Open Source Way - QEMU
In this episode, Karsten Hohage talks about QEMU with Helge Dellar, SAP and Alex Bennée, Linaro. They talk about what is QEMU and how it helps the software ecosystem.  

#PGP bzw. genauer #OpenPGP gibt es in verschiedenen Standards:
- RFC 2440
- RFC 4880
- RFC 9580 und
- LibrePGP
Johannes Roth und Falko Strenzke haben die Unterschiede zwischen den wichtigsten Standards herausgearbeitet:

You may've seen @… 's post about mails he gets about CRA compliance from large companies asking him to answer all kinds of questions. I just saw a similar one to the maintainer of another important FOSS library. The kicker: The company uses a version from 2000. (Yes, no typo, 25 years old. I think it has some unfixed vulnerabilities.)

As we learn about the finer details of the "Cafe Americano" (which, supposedly, isn't just "coffee"), we learn about preferences between "espresso first" vs "hot water first"
@… : "this is audiophile levels of bullshit"
me: "if you drink it from a mug with a gold rim, the thin laye…

From a comment: “@…: well things must be at their worst because the art is so good right now”
via @mimsymars@threads.net

Let’s just for a second – purely hypothetical, of course – suppose there was a podcast where some random guy talks to people from the web community about their personal websites and what they’re curious and passionate about.
Who would you love to see as a guest? 🤔

"Lurie’s silence on the ICE invasion of his city is damning. It’s also depressing.
"Rather than show some public backbone against ICE, Lurie is posting like someone who just found out about getting TikTok famous in the year of our lord 2025. The mayor is chasing micro-trends and linking up with celebrities."
htt…

Reasoning about Medical Triage Optimization with Logic Programming
Jaikrishna Manojkumar Patil, Adam Chapman, Richard Knuszka, John Chapman, Paulo Shakarian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10781

Reasoning about Medical Triage Optimization with Logic Programming
We present a logic programming framework that orchestrates multiple variants of an optimization problem and reasons about their results to support high-stakes medical decision-making. The logic programming layer coordinates the construction and evaluation of multiple optimization formulations, translating solutions into logical facts that support further symbolic reasoning and ensure efficient resource allocation-specifically targeting the "right patient, right platform, right escort, right tim…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Tracy Chapman:
🎵 Talking About a Revolution
#TracyChapman
https://fleesh.bandcamp.com/track/talking-about-a-revolution-feat-lisa-n-tracy-chapman
https://open.spotify.com/track/0YMFcrMtBowDdD5bPz0cgy

About morbid thriftiness (Autism Spectrum Condition)
As you may have noticed, I am morbidly thrifty. Usually I don't buy stuff that I don't need — and if I decide that I actually need something, I am going to ponder about it for a while, look for value products, and for the best price. And with some luck, I'm going to decide I don't need it that bad after all.
One reason for that is probably how I was raised. My parents taught me to be thrifty, so I have to be. It doesn't matter that, from retrospective, I see that their thriftiness was applied rather arbitrarily to some spendings and not others, or that perhaps they were greedy — spending less on individual things so that they could buy more. Well, I can't delude myself like that, so I have to be thrifty for real. And when I fail, when I pay too much, when I get cheated — I feel quite bad about it.
The other reason is that I keep worrying about my future. It doesn't matter how rich I may end up — I'll keep worrying that I'll run out of money in the future. Perhaps I'll lose a job and won't be able to find anything for a long time, Perhaps something terrible will happen and I'm going to need to pay a lot suddenly.
Another thing is that I easily get attached to objects. Well, it's easier to be thrifty when you really don't want to replace stuff. Over time you also learn to avoid getting new stuff at all, since the more stuff you have, the more stuff may break and need to be thrown away.
Finally, there's my environmental responsibility. I admit that I don't do enough — but at least the things I can do, I do.
[EDIT: and yes, I feel bad about how expensive my new phone was, even though it's of much higher quality than the last one. Also, I got a worse deal because I waited too long.]
#ActuallyAutistic

from my link log —
Bazel’s original sins.
https://fzakaria.com/2025/06/22/bazel-s-original-sins
saved 2025-06-24 https://

Does anybody know anything about this news site?
https://www.europesays.com
I've never seen a website before that doesn't have an "About us" section.
It also has a UK bot that just RTs all of the toots from @…

Me (to myself): Get in to work early this morning, with no messing about on the way in. Just 'a to b', fast and efficient!
Also me: [Leaves very late, grabs a unicycle and proceeds to cycling in via the following route]
🤷
https://www.strava.com/activities/14824892

Evaluating the Ability of Large Language Models to Reason about Cardinal Directions, Revisited
Anthony G Cohn, Robert E Blackwell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12059

Evaluating the Ability of Large Language Models to Reason about Cardinal Directions, Revisited
We investigate the abilities of 28 Large language Models (LLMs) to reason about cardinal directions (CDs) using a benchmark generated from a set of templates, extensively testing an LLM's ability to determine the correct CD given a particular scenario. The templates allow for a number of degrees of variation such as means of locomotion of the agent involved, and whether set in the first, second or third person. Even the newer Large Reasoning Models are unable to reliably determine the correct C…

Some excellent talks in #DH2025 LP-07 on 'What Happens When "Hacking" Becomes Easy? Teaching Python in 2025'
Filipa (?): 'A claim about abundance in the future is often a disguised claim about scarcity in the present'
Patrick: 'what do we do when our students can reach for a 'not learning' button? Things that could have been done at home may need …

Professor of Rock tells a great story about what "Under the Milky Way" by The Church is all about at around 9:00...

▶️ UPDATE-Now the POWERS That Be are ERASING My VIEWS-Plus MY MOST PLAYED SONGS
https://youtube.com/live/l8ZBRAmRUXI?si=_SnjmDrYUa8NwbXw…

The Thing quadrant of the Fantastic Four tie-in pizza is Italian Sausage and Bacon, to reflect Ben Grimm's jewish heritage?
https://gizmodo.com/i-have-questions-about-the-official-fantastic-four-pizza-2000616477

I Have Questions About the Official 'Fantastic Four' Pizza
The food tie-ins with Marvel's next movie offer some very curious choices.

Hello!
I have a happy favour to ask.
Last year, I had a US intern working with us and she now is looking for help that you- good reader of this account- could give.
(She needs academic survey participants)
Check out her flyer below, click the link, and please RT
http…

Research Study on Data Privacy and Collective Redress
A researcher at University College Dublin wants to conduct anonymous interviews to learn about why you would or would not participate in a legal action to rectify a data protection violation. This information can be used to help nonprofit organizations better represent you when organizations violate your data protection rights. Provide your email to receive more information. All personally identifiable information will be deleted following completion of the study.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Eyedress:
🎵 Something About You (feat. Dent May)
#NowPlaying #Eyedress
https://lowshmusic.bandcamp.com/track/eyedress-something-about-you-lowsh-dnb-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6RiiSy9GzSwiyDEJDiMuKe

It struck me recently that, for all the hype, in the 18 months since I first wrote about AI agents I’ve yet to see one ‘in the wild’.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2025/where-are-all-the-ai-agents

Where are all the AI agents?
It struck me recently that, for all the hype, in the 18 months since I first wrote about them I’ve yet to see an AI agent in the wild.

Full Canadian Transportation Agency decisions were #public, but legislative changes made most #confidential
https://www.…

Moving from #SpringBoot to #Quarkus by @…

The 21 Worst Things About the Worst Movie of the Year, ‘War of the Worlds’ https://flip.it/2eHWai
I don’t know — this kinda makes me want to see it…

The 21 Worst Things About the Worst Movie of the Year, ‘War of the Worlds’
Everyone involved should be embarrassed, including me for watching this

Sensitive details about Trump-Putin summit revealed in discarded government documents, NPR reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/sensitive-details-about-trumpputin-summit.html

Further Evidence on a Controversial Topic about Human-Based Experiments: Professionals vs. Students
Simone Romano, Francesco Paolo Sferratore, Giuseppe Scanniello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11597

Further Evidence on a Controversial Topic about Human-Based Experiments: Professionals vs. Students
Most Software Engineering (SE) human-based controlled experiments rely on students as participants, raising concerns about their external validity. Specifically, the realism of results obtained from students and their applicability to the software industry remains in question. In this short paper, we bring further evidence on this controversial point. To do so, we compare 62 students and 42 software professionals on a bug-fixing task on the same Java program. The students were enrolled in a Bac…

👉 Ihr könnt euch noch für die nächste Veranstaltung der Reihe "Social-Media-Daten: Show & Tell - Rechtsextremismus- und Demokratieforschung (3)" anmelden!
📅 Das Event findet diesen Freitag, 20.06., 14 Uhr statt und wird gestaltet von Prof. Dr. Julia Bee (Bochum), Dr. Elena Pilipets (Siegen) und Stephen Albrecht.
➡️ Registrierungslink:

I’m deep into a biography of Chuck Berry and I’ve been whining to friends and family for a week about how hopelessly thorough it is. Now the stories about his endless philandering and unrestrained sexual harassment and his reputation as an uncooperative, miserable bastard are adding up and I’m wishing I had chosen to read his autobiography instead.

Hamish McKenzie says WaPo approached Substack about hosting its writers, and there has been a "change in mindset" of traditional media about the platform (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature - Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature -

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature
Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature

Odd, I tried to get him and everyone else at Diem25 on the fediverse years ago but 🤷‍♂️
https://ar.al/notes/farewell-not-goodbye/
Do as I say, not as I do, I guess.

I've finished my deadcoding pass on the #linux kernel; 139 insertions( ), 21936 deletions(-) on Linus's tree, there's another 2300 that are/have been in -next, and I've got about another 30 patches that have been posted but I need to prod the maintainers more; so it _might_ hit 25kloc removed. Which sounds a lot until you realise it's only about 0.06% of the kernel.
So p…

Las Vegas Raiders Superstar Opens Up About Online Abuse Towards Him, Girlfriend https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/brock-bowers-verbal-abuse-towards-girlfriend/?adt_ei=[email]

NLP Meets the World: Toward Improving Conversations With the Public About Natural Language Processing Research
Shomir Wilson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10559

NLP Meets the World: Toward Improving Conversations With the Public About Natural Language Processing Research
Recent developments in large language models (LLMs) have been accompanied by rapidly growing public interest in natural language processing (NLP). This attention is reflected by major news venues, which sometimes invite NLP researchers to share their knowledge and views with a wide audience. Recognizing the opportunities of the present, for both the research field and for individual researchers, this paper shares recommendations for communicating with a general audience about LLMs' capabilities…

Now I’m on my way to FrOSCon. On Sunday at 3 p.m., I will give a talk there on the democratisation of digital maps with Protomaps.
https://cusy.io/en/about/events/20th-froscon.html
@…

JFC, he’s so fcking pathetic. Why doesn’t he just make up a NEW! BIGGER! MOST BEAUTIFUL! MOST AMAZING! peace prize ever and award it to himself, ffs?
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-called-norway-finance-minister-ask-abou…

Trump cold-called Norwegian minister to ask about Nobel Peace Prize
American president angles for top diplomatic award while world watches his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Null is problematic, but why? Let's see why, and let that guide us to new alternatives. #PHP
https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/much-ado-about-null

TIL about https://ground.news - not sure what to think tbh.

Ground News
Top Stories from around you and around the world. Compare how different news publishers frame the same news

Dallas Cowboys CB DaRon Bland is about to see his price tag go through the roof https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cowboys-cb-daron-bland-is-about-to-see-his-price-tag-go-through-the-roof

🤠 Overconfident conspiracy theorists: Many unaware their beliefs are on the fringe
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-overconfident-conspiracy-theorists-unaware-beliefs.html

Overconfident conspiracy theorists: Many unaware their beliefs are on the fringe
Overconfidence is a hallmark trait of people who believe in conspiracies, and they also significantly overestimate how much others agree with them, Cornell psychology researchers have found. The study indicates that belief in conspiracies may be less about a person's needs and motivations and more about their failure to recognize that they might be wrong.

What’s your claim to fame that nobody who knows you knows about?
I’m an internationally exhibited media artist.

For those who care about that kind of stuff: The Mailing List Presale Code for the upcoming Deftones EU tour already works.

Trump Completely Serious About Rigging Elections, Not Pretending To Hide It
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-completely-serious-about-rigging

Some free commonsense advice for Democrats about winning back men (Bernard Goldberg/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5350036-some-free-commonsense-advice-for-democrats-about-winning-back-men/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p53#a250615p53

Trump’s New Appointee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics Boasted About Hitler’s Favorite Ship ‘in All His Glory’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-new-appointee-ej-antoni-boasted-about-hitlers-favorite-shi…

Trump’s New Appointee Boasted About Hitler’s Favorite Ship ‘in All His Glory’
E.J. Antoni seems to have no issue sitting in front of the Nazi warship while being interviewed.

What are we talking about when we discuss the Born-Oppenheimer approximation?
Olimpia Lombardi, Sebastian Fortin, Juan Camilo Martinez Gonzalez, Hernan Lucas Accorinti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12223

What are we talking about when we discuss the Born-Oppenheimer approximation?
Nick Huggett, James Ladyman, and Karim Thebault (HLT) have presented a comprehensive article examining the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation (BOA). Their central objective is to challenge our position on the matter-namely, that the BOA incorporates a classical assumption incompatible with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. In contrast, HLT contend that the BOA involves no such classical assumption and, as a result, supports the view that chemistry can be reduced to physics. The purpose of this …

Continuing the discussion on "The inconvenient truth about flocks" by Chen et al
Hugues Chat\'e, Alexandre Solon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13437

Continuing the discussion on "The inconvenient truth about flocks" by Chen et al
We hereby reply concisely and hopefully clearly to the ongoing claims of incorrectness made by Chen et al. about our work on two-dimensional flocks.

People I Care About #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2022/people-i-care-about

People I Care About
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

How an editor uncovered the "largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia's history" that promoted obscure composer David Woodard with entries in 335 languages (Nate Anderson/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025…

Dedicated volunteer exposes “single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia’s history”
Ten years of work to boost one man’s reputation.

3 out of 7 recommended news stories are about Trump failing.
I would be happier about it if it did not imply Putin was winning. This is bad for everyone, but especially Ukraine.
Trump’s ego, fealty, and idiocy is going to destroy the world if Europe, the Global South, and other democratic nations don’t take the reins from the USA.
#russiaukrainewar #russia #ukraine

This is about racist Fat Nixon "Making America White Again", not 'immigration' policy.
Asians Americans: If you think this is about illegal immigration... wait 'til they come for us.
☑️ Fact-checking Over 12,000 of Trump’s Quotes About Immigrants
https://www.

Fact-checking Trump's Quotes About Immigrants
Trump repeats false and misleading claims on immigration, an analysis of 12,000 statements shows.

from my link log —
Rustls server-side performance.
https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-server-perf/
saved 2025-05-16 …

Rustls Server-Side Performance
In past years, the Rustls project has been happy to receive substantial investments from the ISRG. One of our goals has been to improve performance without compromising on safety. We last posted about our performance improvements in October of 2024, and we're back to talk about another round of improvements. What is Rustls? Rustls is a memory safe TLS implementation with a focus on performance. It is production ready and used in a wide range of applications.

A lot of the design work that goes into programming languages and tools is about prompting developers to •think about meaning•: tests, types, scope, compile errors, runtime errors — all about •preventing code from running• in the presence of an expectation/reality mismatch.
I’m always on high alert for tools that promise to speed development by letting developers skip the thinking.
5/

Sounds like code, if you ask me (I think she's his handler)
Melania Trump pens letter to Putin raising concerns about children
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5456305-melania-trump-pens-letter-to-putin-raising-concerns-about-children/

Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, whose books helped shape the philosophical conversation about human intelligence and AI, passed away on July 18 at age 88 (Michael S. Rosenwald/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/science…

Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature - Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature -

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature
Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature

Folks designing digital experiences: think about how this can translate to what you’re making.
#design #accessibility #a11y

'He definitely has an arm': Five things we know about J.J. McCarthy as he preps to be Vikings' starting QB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45523859/nfl-minnesota-vikings-jj-mccarthy-quarterback

Melania Trump wrote letter to Putin about kidnapped Ukrainian children, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/melania-trump-wrote-letter-to.html

The White House effort to claw back $9.4 billion of already allocated government spending faces a critical vote in the Senate this week.
Some Republicans have concerns about the cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting
as the clock ticks to Friday’s deadline to approve or modify the Trump administration plan.

Republicans face deadline to claw back funding for foreign aid and public media
The White House effort to cut back $9.4 billion of already allocated government spending faces a critical vote in the Senate this week. Some Republicans have concerns about the cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting as the clock ticks to Friday’s deadline to approve or modify the Trump administration plan. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins reports.

"In the hands of Islamophobes and pro-Israel flunkies, 'taqiyya' has served as a useful term to dismiss not only criticism, but the growing avalanche of inconvenient facts."
**The Truth About Taqiyya and the Concealment of Genocide**
https://zeteo.com/p/the-truth-about-taqiyya-and-the-concealment

1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/

Joe Milton's play must give Cowboys legitimate concerns about backup QB https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6558211/2025/08/17/cowboys-joe-milton-backup-qb-ravens/

U.S. Department of Education Opens Foreign Funding Investigation into the University of Michigan (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-opens-foreign-funding-investigation-university-of-michigan
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p6#a250716p6

Smash-and-grab thieves in Seattle made off with an estimated $2m in diamonds, luxury watches, gold and other items in a daring midday jewelry store robbery that took just about 90 seconds, police said on Friday.
Video from the west Seattle store’s surveillance cameras shows four masked suspects shattering the locked glass front door with hammers and then ransacking six display cases on Thursday.
One display held about $750,000 worth in Rolex watches, police said in a statement, and…

Capitalism ❤️ genocide
“If you say one more word about Palestine, we will null the contract.”
#israel

Bradley Chubb: Dolphins 'were lying' about culture change last year https://www.nfl.com/news/bradley-chubb-dolphins-were-lying-about-culture-change-last-year

from my link log —
Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise / Perlin noise.
https://blog.pkh.me/p/42-sharing-everything-i-could-understand-about-gradient-noise.html
saved 2025-06-06

It does say something about the sheer magnitude of the No Kings protests that we could for a moment believe the photo was in fact from yesterday.

'The game is about to change' — Republican Senator Graham says he expects influx of US weapons shipments to Ukraine, ahead of Trump's 'major' announcement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/the-game-is-about-to.html

Odell Beckham Jr. says he's 'had conversations' with Aaron Rodgers about joining Steelers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/odell-b…

Russia denies reports about Putin's alleged secret push for Iran nuclear deal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/russia-denies-reports-about-putins.html

A look at Chinese firm Hailanyun's $223M undersea data center, about six miles offshore from Shanghai, which uses tech pioneered by Microsoft's Project Natick (You Xiaoying/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chi…

China Powers AI Boom with Undersea Data Centers
China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool

A gunman shot at the CDC, killing an officer.
Trump hasn’t said a word.
Things Donald Trump talked about publicly this week:
Sylvester Stallone’s body,
the $200 million ballroom he wants to build at the White House,
receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
not receiving a Kennedy Center lifetime achievement award
and taking over the police force in the nation’s capital.

Something Trump hasn’t talked about:
a gunman, upset by c…

A gunman shot at the CDC, killing an officer. Trump hasn’t said a word.
Trump has said nothing about the police officer killed by a gunman who shot at the CDC, an example of how selective he can be amid his daily torrent of words.

Ukrainian troops advance in Sumy oblast, General Staff says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/ukrainian-troops-advance-in-sumy.html

The Ukrainian voices left out of Trump-Putin meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/15/the-ukrainian-voices-left-out.html

Patriot missiles bound for Ukraine already being shipped, Trump says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/patriot-missiles-bound-for-ukraine.html

Slovakia's Fico praises Putin-Trump summit, repeats Kremlin propaganda: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/slovakias-fico-praises-putintrump-summit.html

Lukashenko boasts about the "Oreshnik," but it won't save him from drones #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/lukashenko-boasts-about-the-oreshnik.html