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Today my overly-optimistic cousin said "This is the absolute best time to be alive" and I said "Well, I would argue that 2024 was much better than right now..."
#USPOL

I blame my parents.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Prince:
🎵 Rock and Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives in Minneapolis)
#Prince

Track star to Panthers RB to Canadian Olympic flag football? Chuba Hubbard keeps dream alive https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45498715/nfl-carolina-panthers-chuba-hubbard-olympics-flag-football-track

If anybody had any doubts about the endurance of motorcycle jackets as a sartorial choice I can confirm they are still alive in the wild #Provincetown

I do love the 'Nanas with all my heart, but god help us all they went to Stock Aitken & Waterman with Venus and said "do for this what you did for Dead Or Alive".
And SAW did what they were asked to, and thus the SAW Doom Years began. #TOTP

National and Political correspondent Jacob Soboroff shares his latest reporting on the fight behind the scenes to keep FEMA alive ahead of hurricane season. 
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/inside-the-scramble-to-…

Inside the scramble to keep FEMA alive ahead of hurricane season
NBC News National and Political correspondent Jacob Soboroff shares his latest reporting on the fight behind the scenes to keep FEMA alive ahead of hurricane season. 

I guess I sort of understand those people who don’t like it when it’s winter and super cold outside.
(Only sort of!)
#hot #heatwave #burning

Democrats demand proof that Andry Hernšndez Romero is alive
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/11/democrats-demand-proof-that-deported-gay-asylum-seeker-andry-hernandez-romero-is-still-alive/

Remember the #Cohen brothers #film "The Mann Who Wasn't There"?
Here is such a good writeup about the #emotion

I continue my practice of writing back to posts on social media. Also its antidote: writing back to works of art served up at random. It’s a little like surfing, taking the waves as they come. It’s a little like dancing. It’s one way to reclaim my attention, one way to stay alive to the present.
https://

More Fresh Hells & A Few Heavens
Brief responses to social media posts (hells) and random paintings (heavens).

LLMs the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are the Yang to the Semantic Web Project's Yin.
We now have a solution to the final hurdle—visualization.
Years of Linked Data work now come alive. I explain this, with demonstrations, in a new newsletter post.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/semant...
#MCP

Those who are alive today because they received vaccinations, breathed clean air, drank clean water... don't know that is why they are alive.
And all those hundreds of thousands of USA citizens that will die due to this administration killing life saving health care programs and life saving environmental and food safety policy won't know they died due to who we chose to elect. But they will still be dead.

Minnesota suspected assassin Vance Boelter captured alive after intense manhunt for fatal shooting of Dem pol, spouse (Nicholas McEntyre/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/15/us-news/minnesota-suspected-assassin-vance-luther-boelter-captured-by-police-after-allegedly-killing-rep-hortman-and-injuring-sen-hoffman/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p1#a250616p1

Brain-dead mother. Brain-damaged fetus. No hope for either. So torture their family by keeping both alive until the at-least horribly disabled baby can be delivered and then suffer for months or years with their brain damage. This is what "pro-life" means...
https://www.newsweek.co…

Abortion Law Forces Doctors to Keep Pregnant Brain Dead Woman Alive
"This decision should've been left to us," said the mother of a woman who is pregnant and has been brain dead for over 90 consecutive days.

«Alive in the Catacombs», el registro de Queens of the Stone Age en vivo en las catacumbas de París disponible a partir de hoy en streaming.
https://open.spotify.com/album/7nK5VZwBPj31tqMJEpcsfV

"What I'm optimizing for isn't growth... reach, or influence. I'm chasing connection[...]spending my days on things that bring me alive."
"It's about...signals that something genuinely MATTERED to one or more humans...private replies saying they've never felt so seen or understood." Rob Hardy
To fellow #writers

Oh, interesting. After two days and two nights powered down in the cradle, on the third day it is risen!
Strange.
Maybe whatever controls the charging can drain from the battery even when it's at zero until even that bit of battery is also at zero and then that forces the firmware controlling the charging to reset?
Anyway. It seems to be alive again and now starts charging when put in the cradle properly.
So I guess it's back!

#pineTime #smartWatch

When Trump tweets out to say that Khamenei is definitely still alive, part of me wonders if there's some kind of misdirection at play?

To encourage a mental flow state, I listen to 'zone music'. Whenever I have to concentrate, I turn this music on.
The songs below are also a Pomodoro 25min so it's break time when the song ends.
✅ INFO: Maintaining focus w/ “Music to Code By”
https://kurtsh.com/2015/05/05/i…

INFO: Maintaining focus w/ “Music to Code By”
Totally off topic, but it relates to a few posts I made 5-10 years ago.  INFOMANIA. ALIVE & WELL. One of my interests is the study of “Infomania”, a syndrome described by Hewlett Packard R…

This is the vision of computing that still lives closest to my heart, and one I try against all odds to keep alive in my own various spheres of work.

"…give a formerly flat character some _single defining trait_, obsession, or problem to deal with. Just this one weird-yet-relatable thing. And suddenly, this character and the scenes they were in would come alive."
- Tony Tost
https://practical.substack.com/p/the-m

The Mark of the One-Note Character
not everyone should be well-rounded

Some U.S. astronomy is still alive ... the first of five press conferences from the #AAS246 meeting in Alaska is now streaming on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6sPNlpIurg - see https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/press-kit#Mon_am for the topics.

I am still alive, but it's been a hectic several weeks and I've not been both idle and online together.
It started with joy as my eldest graduated from high school -- one of several valedictorians. We are, of course, immensely proud. Parties and celebrations were our constant companions.
Then, off to Indianapolis, to be with my dad and stepmom, providing aid and care while he underwent two successful surgical procedures. The recovery has not been as linear as I'd like…

Estoy de meter a la IA con calzador en todo... Hasta el pepino. Sí, es muy útil, puede ayudar mucho en muchos aspectos, pero esto ya se estš yendo de madre.
@… https://mastodon.social…

Well, duh - Elon (age 53) will still be alive (preserved by drugs, perhaps) while FFOTUS (age 78) is decomposing in a box. Musk has time on his side.
"Who holds the cards in Trump vs. Musk?"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/repu…

Who holds the cards in Trump vs. Musk? Trump, but …
It remains to be seen whether President Donald Trump and Elon Musk can patch things up after their ugly break-up this week – as many around them are hoping.

Minnesota Sen. John Hoffman's wife shares update after shooting: "We are incredibly lucky to be alive" (Riley Moser/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-yvette-hoffman-minnesota-shooting-message/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p78#a250615p78

2025 Chiefs game-by-game predictions: Can they keep the dynasty alive? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/predicting-chiefs-2025-season-game-by-game

Yes, yes, yes, yes, @…! 👏
“For now, I’m planning on continuing to roll up my sleeves. I want to make things because I’m human and alive. I want to go on journeys and grow. I’m not always looking for an easy path, I want the friction. Because if I give up the journey, what am I really making? What do I actually learn?”

Let me introduce you to Nera, the youngest of three siblings. They all turned 1 year old on May 31st. Their mother one day in late April arrived here homeless (we asked intensively throughout the neighbourhood) and already pregnant. All four of them are alive and healthy and still live in our property. #caturday

Für die breite Verwendung von #KI, speziell im Kontext #Schule, muss sichergestellt sein, dass #LLMs user:innen nicht zu selbstgefährdendem Verhalten animieren.
Das Nonprofit Transluce arbeitet an verschie…

Surfacing Pathological Behaviors in Language Models
We train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to craft realistic natural-language prompts that elicit specified behaviors in frontier open-weight models (Llama 3.1/4, Qwen 2.5, and DeepSeek-V3), using a proposed variational lower bound to guide the search.

TIL that the guy who invented chicken teriyaki is a) still alive, b) still cooking, c) in Seattle. And that it is considered Seattle’s signature cuisine.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G-3ueYwf0MQ

Taylor Swift is the most business-savvy artist alive, reacquiring her music by driving negotiations between major music groups, streamers, and social networks (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

the cat shat itself at 10pm last night and rubbed her damn ass all over the place before we noticed.
Behaved like being skinned alive when we tried to clean up its butt.
Then cleaned up the mess she left behind left right and center.
Had only two pairs of rubber gloves left when 'Operation Shitbutt' started.
Was fun. Not.
#cats

rant on software dev practices
What is it with P5js and virtually all its ecosystem (like Q5js) that, still today, didn't manage to _properly_ package their libraries to be distributed and used via package managers?
Same with their insistence to push global resources and state everywhere... and of course virtually not documenting any of the truly delicate details, just the trivial stuff that could be auto-discovered by relying on auto-complete tools.
I kind of understand wanting to keep the vanilla experience alive, making it "easy" for novices... but that shouldn't be at odds with more "professionalized" production pipelines, at least *not that much*.
For example, with Q5js:
- The NPM packages could be mentioned in their documentation (they are not, even though they are official)
- The NPM packages could define proper exports (same for the JS modules themselves), not forcing us to rely on relative paths to files in node_modules... 🤦
- Globals could be at least namespaced... of course, it would be much, much better if they didn't exist at all.
I'm writing this in 2025, not 1993... and I'm... "triggered".
At this point I'll have to check if I have any other neuro-condition beyond ADHD that makes me "obsessed" with technical flaws, because it seems to be a "me problem" when either virtually nobody sees that as a huge collection of fatal design flaws... or they see it and don't care at all.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Beres Hammond:
🎵 I'm Alive
#BeresHammond
https://vprecordsofficial.bandcamp.com/track/im-alive
https://open.spotify.com/track/7GV9Bct0nekBgYLmZQsNGh

Folks at EPA and NOAA are still keeping critical services alive.
#fire #WildFire maps can be found here:
https://fire.airnow.gov/
Today: a huge smoke plume over central Canada/ with attendant low air quality over Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Most of the US is good to moderate (until those plumes head south).

"How farmers are becoming unexpected heroes in the bird migration crisis"
#Birds #Farming #Agriculture

How farmers are becoming unexpected heroes in the bird migration crisis
Across the Americas, rice and crawfish farmers are helping keep migrating birds alive by transforming their land into makeshift wetlands.Lela Nargi reports for Knowable Magazine.In short:Bird populations like ducks, cranes, and sandpipers are plummeting as wetlands vanish due to climate change and d...

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Peter Doherty:
🎵 Felt Better Alive
#NowPlaying #PeterDoherty
https://open.spotify.com/track/0sPQgw8MafItfkGU4t0yWC

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12417 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfi…

Fees in AMMs: A quantitative study
In the ever evolving landscape of decentralized finance automated market makers (AMMs) play a key role: they provide a market place for trading assets in a decentralized manner. For so-called bluechip pairs, arbitrage activity provides a major part of the revenue generation of AMMs but also a major source of loss due to the so-called 'informed orderflow'. Finding ways to minimize those losses while still keeping uninformed trading activity alive is a major problem in the field. In this paper we…

Happy Pride 2025 Y’all!
#Pride2025

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
AFTER LONDON:
🎵 Alive
#AFTERLONDON
https://afterlondon.bandcamp.com/track/alive
https://open.spotify.com/track/5x1CgoiSVHwrm8R9klsxB6

What an amazing example of dedication to a craft and a community that works to keep it alive as it has an important social function!
«The Last Inca Rope Bridge, Q’eswachaka, Is Rebuilt Yearly»
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/last-inca-rope-bridge-qeswachaka-tradition

Tesla Takedown Alive and Well, Just Ask Elon : Indybay
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/06/08/18877113.php

Once the NFL's most intimidating defender, James Harrison isn't the James Harrison you remember https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6344442/2025/06/12/james-harrison-steelers-fatherhood/

Went for a wander through the woods and heathland around Eyeworth pond in the New Forest yesterday. Even at 10 in the morning the birdsong was stunning: mostly song thrush, wren, blackcap, chaffinch. A single common redstart was my 1st of the year (male, singing), and at least 2 cuckoos, 1 seen in flight. Also 2 common lizards darted away into the bracken. Crab apples in bloom and alive with droning bees.

Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It's Wrong To Burn Children Alive
https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/sorry-if-this-is-antisemitic

The return of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes in the theaters was NOT on my bingo card. 😁
✅ 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes' Reboot In Works With David Koechner, More
https://deadline.com/2025/06/attack-of-the-killer-tomatoe…

‘Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence’: Cult Classic Reborn With David Koechner, Eric Roberts, Dan Bakkedahl, John Astin & More
EXCLUSIVE: Never, ever think of holding a Z-grade movie franchise down. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is alive again in a fifth movie, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, from filmmaker David Ferino. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence is billed as “pitting the eternal power of nature against A.I.’s best and brightest.” […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
アヴちゃん:
🎵 Stayin Alive
#アヴちゃん

The more time goes on, the more conflicted I get about #AI. (or, more specifically, generative AI. I like causal AI a fair bit)
On one hand, I hate so much about it:
the needless environmental and electronic parts waste, the impact on labor, the monopolistic nature of main organizations driving it, the endless conversations about AGI and other absurdly utopian (or dystopian) futures, the widespread theft of IP and human work, the devaluation of labor and craft… so much of it is not okay at all.
On the other hand, I kinda get it?
I like to test software for myself, so I've been dipping my toes into some popular AI tools over the past couple of years. I have a paid subscription to ChatGPT (which I don’t feel great about, I know), and I have found genuine utility in it.
More so, I feel so conflicted when I talk to people I respect and who I think are very smart and creative and they tell me how in love they are with all of these AI tools, about the complex workflows they build, about their experiments with agentic AI and integrations... These people seem so excited, so alive, so joyous about the things that this technology allows them to do. They often wouldn't have had the skills / knowledge / financial capital to do some of those things with human efforts alone. And now I see them coding their own tools, doing complex data analysis, trying creative experiments with graphics / text / video...
And I feel like a total jerk going "BUT ACTUALLY THIS IS UNETHICAL AND INEFFICIENT AND YOU SHOULD STOP IT BECAUSE AI SUCKS".
The technology behind all these gen AI models does have real utility, and it has kicked off a lot of creativity from people who wouldn't have dabbled in those kinds of projects otherwise.
So I don't know how to feel. Because I can't let go of the guilt and the real problems and the awareness of how much empty hype there is.
#technology #artificialintelligence #genAI #ChatGPT

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03976 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfi…

A theoretical framework for fees in AMMs
In the ever evolving landscape of decentralized finance automated market makers (AMMs) play a key role: they provide a market place for trading assets in a decentralized manner. For so-called bluechip pairs, arbitrage activity provides a major part of the revenue generation of AMMs but also a major source of loss due to the so-called informed orderflow. Finding ways to minimize those losses while still keeping uninformed trading activity alive is a major problem in the field. In this paper we w…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Peter Doherty:
🎵 Felt Better Alive
#NowPlaying #PeterDoherty
https://open.spotify.com/track/0sPQgw8MafItfkGU4t0yWC

What an amazing example of dedication to a craft and a community that works to keep it alive as it has an important social function!
«The Last Inca Rope Bridge, Q’eswachaka, Is Rebuilt Yearly»
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/last-inca-rope-bridge-qeswachaka-tradition

Trump’s Pardon Attorney Mulls Clemency for Fake Electors—Dead or Alive – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/ed-martin-fake-electors-pardons-donald-trump/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
His Name Is Alive:
🎵 Universal Frequencies (Beech Boys)
#HisNameIsAlive
https://open.spotify.com/track/3dIJKREpnqYYeBUp8S4f3A

uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.

Steelers DB, West Virginia alum Beanie Bishop disrespects Pitt logo following recent practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

🕸️ #AI #webdev #vibecoding Google’s AI Is Burying the Web Alive (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html?utm_source=tldrwebdev).