What does money machine eat?
It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and,
above all, it eats creativity.
It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
-- William S. Burroughs
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1352864
Reconstruction of the cold-blooded execution of Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis:
"..while Mr. Pretti is on his knees and restrained, the agent standing directly above him appears to fire one shot at Mr. Pretti at close range. He immediately fires three additional shots."
https://www.
Urban Demons VII 👻
城市鬼魂 VII 👻
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
Note that none of the complaints above are about the much-maligned transparency effects (which I have turned off). This is just basic, ground-level 2D design stuff that even this not-a-real-designer rando can pick apart.
The flagship product of one of the wealthiest companies on earth. Seriously.
No Screens
#poetry #poetrycommunity Another morning poem that started as a half-waking image. Today, I am in core reality.No screens, just sunlight, air, and greeneryOn a hill above the reservoir.An ocean sparkles to the south. I amThe center of perspective. I command The view. I …
Dell reports Q4 revenue up 39% YoY to $33.4B, vs. $31.73B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 10% after hours (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/dell-forecasts-fiscal-2…
This is not, in fact, a great turnstile. None of these perform any counting nor prevent a person from going through in the wrong direction. Somebody needs a refund.
Tectonic Wall
A pretty famous geotope in the Allgäuer Alps with extreme folds and layering. The hundreds of meters thick top layer of mostly Dolomite belongs to the Lech valley thrust sheet (215 million years old) which got pushed above the Allgäu sheet below (190 million years old, here mostly covered by overgrown talus fields) and Radiolarite from the Ruhpolding formation even further below (160 million years old and originally 2000 meter below sea level — hard to imagine!).
It's been a while so it felt like it was "time" for this one again.
#WristCheck
No, there is no magnificent 'planetary parade' in the evening right now as the internet shouts from everywhere but on the other hand there is also more to see than just Jupiter high in the sky - as I could confirm Wednesday from Bochum, Germany, at 51.5°N, #Venus is already a bright if rather low evening star while #Saturn and #Mercury could still be spotted above her: see https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid027a6qUBbjXPf96BtzV89HNTcEA8Z2y9gorSCns8sTzS3nTFUpngTXwagopfUAw6Ngl for more pictures and hard numbers!
Morning run is done ✅ (#running)
This lounge chair is, where you’ll finde me for the rest of the day.
We’ve lived here since 1989 and this is the worst snow to shovel I’ve encountered. We only got about 6 inches of snow, but it was followed by at least an inch of sleet. Temperatures are not supposed to get above freezing all week. My adult son came by (he lives elsewhere in DC and had to take his partner to the airport) and he and I managed to clear our steps and sidewalk. Had to use a gardening shovel with a square end to break the worst of the ice. Took us an hour. Then we helped a neighbo…
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, vs. $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sus
Arts and Architecture Students Sell Dragon Day T-Shirts Out in Front of Milstein Hall -- Dragon Day, No Kings and the Skunk Cabbage Run will make a big weekend which will be cold enough for my winter phase
#photo #photography
This is what the market-led policies of Fine Gael and Fianna Fšil have given us. They've put the profits of landlords and investment funds above ordinary people.
That's why I've decided to run in the Galway West by-election. It's time we had a radical shift in housing policy that puts people first.
• Ban Evictions
• Freeze and Reduce Rents
• Build a State Construction Company to deliver quality homes and jobs at the scale we need
This made it through multiple levels and multiple rounds of design and marketing approval.
At no point did anyone stop and think?
Really? This is the design we're going with?
Not one person who had any rudimentary internet skills.
Not one hero in one meeting had even the one ounce of temerity or one gram of courage to stand up and say
HEY - THE HAND ON THE LEFT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING A RING.
thinking of James C. Scott
#photography #fall #nofilter
make up your fucking mind
And here is my published dissertation @…, about quantifying the natural CO2 exhaust at the Starzach site in Southwest Germany (my result: ~10t/d):
http://hdl.handle.net/10900/176213…
Snowflake reports Q4 product revenue up 30% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.18B est., and forecasts Q1 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/snowflake-expects-annual-p…
Please take a moment to study this horrifying screenshot.
Ask:
- What here is negative space?
- What is information-bearing space?
- What space is neither of the above: usefully conveys no information, but adds visual noise?
And…wtf is that horizontal gray bar doing there?!
The latest in our climate chaos theatre: Arctic ice melting in January!
@… on Bluesky:
SUMMER IN WINTER IN GREENLAND
Crazy Temperatures tonight up to 9C (above summer average), persisting during the day.
24 stations at low elevations out of 31 above freezing today.
Kitsissorsuit is chasing the WORLD RECORD of the highest monthly…
The price of silver smashed through the $90 mark Wednesday morning
for the first time in weeks
as the metal recoups gains it lost after a late January crash,
though the precious metal remains far from the record highs it previously hit above $120.
KEY FACTS
The price of silver is $90.68 as of 9:25 a.m. EST, up nearly 4% but down slightly from a high of $91.18 reached earlier in the morning.
Höllental ❤️
(Named after the hellish canyon section at the bottom of this most amazing valley, a section with tunnels and waterfalls which made the valley impassible during winter months (even still now) and the only way in & out is via a very narrow path along the rocks higher up...)
#FootpathFriday
My #silentsunday... Do you know that? You're lazy but you also know that you want some physical activity?
The weather wasn't motivating either. But I finally did one of my standard loops. It was indeed silent as there were almost no people out today.
No more than an occasional "hi". Besides that, no talking, nothing but a fox 🦊 in the distance on a field.
Missed the first peak of tonight's show because I was busy showing my wife from the front steps and didn't get my camera set up, lol.
Got a few nice shots from the park before it slowed down too much but got cold and didn't want to be out too late. If it picks up again I might pop outside.
Eighteen Musicians.
[But the emcee explained that these days the music is usually played with 19 so that 18 above is nominal.]
#music
“What’s your favorite…”
Let me just stop you right there;
I do, in fact, have favorite movies, books, scenes, comics, games; many of them!
I will NEVER be able to answer the above question, because the second you ask it/I read it, my mind goes completely fucking blank as they all vie for 1st
This is exactly the thing I wonder about. Was it shoved through over internal objections? Was it many teams’ separate good work stuck together too hastily? Was it the wrong kind of pressure from above, or bad taste from below, or what?
It’s frustrating because as a dev I catch glimpses of all the really fantastic engineering work folks at Apple are doing •inside• the box, and they’re feeling very little love for it right now because the •outside•is so clunky.
https://sfba.social/@scm/116296203532915798
It is not fun to live right above a meth lab.
Ask any #Canadian .
As Russia's war against Ukraine enters its fifth year,
the economy that sustains it has been transformed in ways that will be difficult
—perhaps impossible
—to reverse without another crisis.
Westerners keep waiting for the Russian economy to collapse.
It won’t. -- But nor will it recover.
It has entered what mountaineers call the death zone:
the altitude above 8,000 metres at which the human body consumes itself faster than it can be repaired…
Counterflow around a cylinder
Matheus P. Severino, Leandro F. Souza, Elmer M. Gennaro, Daniel Rodr\'iguez, Fernando F. Fachini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22022 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22022 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22022
arXiv:2602.22022v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The incompressible flow around a circular cylinder, positioned at the center of an unconfined planar counterflow, is studied by means of numerical solutions of the conservation equations and linear stability analysis. The flow is completely defined by the Reynolds number ($\Rey$) -- based on the cylinder radius, the strain rate defining the counterflow, and the kinematic viscosity. For very low values of $\Rey$, the flow is steady, two-dimensional, and fully attached to the cylinder wall. Increasing $\Rey$ above $\Rey_s \approx 16.86$, the flow separates, giving rise to two symmetric, counter-rotating recirculation regions on each side of the cylinder. Further increasing $\Rey$ leads to a progressive enlargement of the recirculation regions and the appearance of multiple recirculation centers, akin to Moffatt eddies. However, the convective acceleration imposed by the counterflow limits their size. An oscillatory mode becomes linearly unstable for $\Rey_{c} \approx 4146$. This mode gives rise to a sinuous meandering of the wake flow, on each side of the cylinder, being analogous to the well-known von K\'arm\'an instability. The frequency of this mode is directly proportional to the strain rate defining the counterflow.
toXiv_bot_toot
"Polling across 36 nations by the Pew Research Center found that 84% see economic inequality as a big problem, and 86% see the political influence of the rich as a major cause of it. In 33 of these nations, a majority believe their country’s economic system needs either “major changes” or “complete reform”. In the UK, a YouGov poll revealed, 75% support a wealth tax on fortunes above £10m, while only 13% oppose it."
Spring is near! Today, when I left the house before being awake the sun was already up
!B
Record all mastered! On to licensing covers, getting ISRCs, finishing artwork and liner notes, credits, making sure nobody's left off the acknowledgements. Did all the recording and mixing in-house, but still lots of other expenses, so doing a kickstarter to recover what we can. Final decision is to call it "Dulcetta." Sweet little coda. Been a long journey w the #leukemia inter…
Morgan Stanley: UK companies reported that AI led to 8% net job losses over the past 12 months, above Japan's 7%, Germany's 4%, Australia's 2%; the US added 2% (Irina Anghel/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
The cover of this week's edition of Science..
The details say it all - everything that Trump's shadow touches is broken.
https://www.science.org/
Let's do what we can to preserve science (which is an international endeavour) and support our US colleagues until the US gets rid of Trump!
Honestly obviously the Goldblum one above is a joke edit, but the Apple commercials from that time are so nice. Especially compared to the garbage shown on streaming platforms today.
https://youtu.be/83nS4EGKU04
Still, there are some other things Hypercard did we’d do well to study, even with full-scale tools. Off the top of my head:
- It richly rewarded unguided exploration. Unsuccessful experimentation had a way of leading to paths forward, not just dead ends.
- Much of it worked by direct manipulation: if you want the thing there, you put the thing there. (Unity and Godot both sort of kind of do some descendant of this, but not with the same discoverability and transparency.)
- There was a rich library of good starting points, modifiable examples.
- An empty but functioning new project had essentially zero boilerplate. You didn’t have to have 15 files and hundreds of lines of code to get a blank page.
- Its UI made it easy-ish for newcomers to ask “What can I do with this thing here?” Modern autocomplete and inline docs kind of sort of approximate this, but in practice only for people who already have tool expertise.
- HyperTalk (the programming language) is tricky to write (it’s a p-lang), but it’s remarkably easy to read. You can peer at it with very limited knowledge and make educated guesses about its semantics, and those guesses will be mostly correct. (HyperTalk syntax tends to get the most attention when people talk about this, I think at the expense of the other things above.)
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, vs. $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/nvidia-…
National job stereotypes need updating
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/01/22/national-job-stereotypes-need-updating
Archive https://archive.ph/Y1ZuB
'According to newly released data, the PIGS have, perhaps for the first time, a lower unemployment rate than Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland and Denmark (see chart 2). In Greece joblessness is just 8.2%; hoteliers are complaining about labour shortages. By contrast, Finnish unemployment recently rose above 10% for the first time since the 1990s.'
Via Matt Steinglass
@mattsteinglass.bsky.social
Big New Crane Between Gates Hall and the Construction Site that used to be Phillips Hall and will be part of Duffield Someday
#photo #photography #crane
The cold and wet can get annoying at times but the views here never get old #pnw
For #Caturday, Cubone sits above all and surveys his dominion
#cats #CatsOfMastodon
Still one of the best views of the town. #northumberland #berwickupontweed
Probably not the official motto of the #WEF. But well-done. #nokings
Heron and reeds. #silentsunday
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/115812989227244456
Background to the above:
1/ last year's change to the software status page for TrueNAS
2/ <
Some City Some Nature III 🏙️
一些城一些自然 III 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Cornell Gen AI Club poses by their sign at the club fair -- and unlike other photos in this series I got the background right!
#photo
For today's #MountainMonday I want to share this view again that we had when we were hiking through this beautiful forest.
More about it here:
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/reflect…
Student with Pogo Stick poses under the flags at Cornell's Club Fair at Barton Hall
#photo #photography #cornell
My kids have had the last week off of school and it's looking like they'll have a snow day on Monday, too.
Just slowly losing my mind over here.. (also way behind on work)
Do(n't) look down...
(View down into Oytal from a precarious section of the ridge path near Laufbacher Eck & Schneck, late October 2021)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
⚠️ Product may shrink when wet.
Student mans booth for the Cornell Development in Games club -- last year I was in a team which won the "Player's choice" award at their Gam Jam!
#photo
RE: https://mastodon.social/@baraa1998/115934078414694476
Bara'a isn't the only single parent sleeping in the wreckage of a totally inadequate tent just above the waterline on the beach in Gaza tonight. Ibrahim isn't the only sick child.
BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-22/bitgo-is-said-to-price-us…
Jack Smith said in his opening remarks before the House judiciary committee:
“No one should be above the law in this country,
and the law required that he be held to account, So that is what I did.”
Smith’s appearance came with the risk of sore loser Trump and his MAGa thugs on Capitol Hill
poised to seize on any admissions or misstatements that could be used as a basis to
refer him for investigation by the justice department,
which Trump has demanded for y…
Students table for the Big Red Buddies who volunteer to help Head Start
#photo
Some City Some Nature II 🏙️
一些城一些自然 II 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
'Blick von oben' #fotovorschlag 'view from above'
When I saw the topic, I wasn't sure wether I should post a mountin photo or not. But as I have seen so many others doing so, I decided to also post this "view from above" from ~3 months ago when I went to this mountain and enjoyed not only the silence but also the view.
Enjoy!
Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 7.3% YoY to ~$17B, narrowly above est., its slowest growth since 2023, as EV sales failed to make up for slumping smartphone demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/…
Anybody have a non emergency service contact for Puget Sound Energy? They have a contact to report outages and downed wires but not lower priority issues.
We've pretty definitively figured out what's going on at my friends' place: intermittent brownouts on one of the two 120V phases affecting the entire house but not neighbors. Waveforms show glitches in the sine right above and below the zero crossing consistent with series arcing. And it happens more often in windy weathe…
Sometimes, people with a large audience let it go to their heads. When they are shitty, they feel the need to justify it with fancy rhetoric because they're above the rest of us.
We all take shortcuts, we all cheat on the diet, we all hit the snooze button for another 5 mins of sleep, we all do the thing we think we can get away with (and then feel guilty about it later) because no one was looking. We're human. Sometimes you've just gotta be honest and own up and say "…
Meeting the sublime
(A brief moment when the heavens briefly opened first for light, then for epic rain showers... Above Kandersteg, 2019)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
Some photos from today's hike in the mountains. To escape the fog.
It was very very icy at the bottom. And I was super happy to have my micro spikes.
The way up was pretty calm. Right the #silentsunday I had desired. At the summit there were a bit too many people and I didn't see proper motives. So I just enjoyed the view and the really warm temperature.
On the wa…
Stock market hits all-time high as Dow closes above 50,000
The U.S. stock market ended a bumpy week with a bang,
as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 50,000 for the first time.
The Dow crossed the threshold
— an important psychological barrier
— earlier Friday before retreating
and then surging again to close at 50,115.67.
That was a jump of 2.47 percent, more than 1,200 points for the day.
The rally extended to the S&P 500 and the …
Urban Demons 👻
城市鬼魂 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
The Olympics poking above Bainbridge Island and low lying clouds, seen from Seattle
#pnw
Different Corners XI ▶️
不同的角落 XI ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Here’s roughly what I told my US Senators:
“I am a resident of Minneapolis, which for the last 6 weeks has been a kind of hell. I am begging you, begging you, to do everything in your power to •stop funding this hell•.
The Department of Homeland Security has become a dangerous rogue organization. Dangerous! The correct amount of funding for the DHS under its current leadership — yes, you heard me, the •entire• DHS — is zero. ZERO.
I consider every dollar above that to be a concession. Fight.”
After 35 years of serving in the Navy,
I was removed from my position by Pete Hegseth without reason.
I never went back to the Pentagon or wore the uniform again.
I’ve spent my entire life in service to our country,
always putting the mission and the people above myself.
But when I was forced out, I had a choice:
go out quietly, or 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨.
I’m running for Congress in South Carolina’s first district
-- because we need a lead…
SMIC reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to $2.49B, above est., net profit up 61% YoY to $172.85M, above $139.5M est., and 2025 revenue of $9.33B, above 2024's $8.03B (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busin…
Update on the thread above:
I’m not seeing this pattern anymore; the sharp boundaries no longer show up where you look at where ICE is hurting people. It now has more of the feeling you’d expect it to have if they were targeting people based on race, instead of based on political boundaries. Whatever pattern I was noticing above, real or imagined, it doesn’t hold now.
Rocks on Threshold of Atlantic Ocean
#photo #photography #landscape #ocean
💓 Are We Really Training at the Desired Intensity? Concurrent Validity of 16 Commercial Photoplethysmography-Based Heart Rate Monitors
#heart
eBay reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $3B, vs. $2.87B est., GMV up 10% to $21.2B, and forecasts Q1 profit above estimates; EBAY jumps 6% after hours (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/eb…
Cadence shares closed up 7.6% on Wednesday after the chip design company reported Q4 revenue up ~6% to $1.44B and adjusted EPS of $1.99, both above estimates (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/cadence-design-systems-stock-earnings-ai-chip.h…