2026-03-10 22:55:28
I can't think of anything good to say about Andrew Hoggard. So I won't say anything at all. 🙃
I can't think of anything good to say about Andrew Hoggard. So I won't say anything at all. 🙃
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Wolf Parade:
🎵 I'll Believe in Anything
#WolfParade
https://wolfparade.bandcamp.com/track/ill-believe-in-anything
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zxikeAavSLQVGocbK2nau
People who believe in magic sky fairies shouldn’t be in charge of anything, let alone nuclear weapons.
"The #Labour party won one third of the votes (34%) in an election in which under two thirds (60%) of the electorate voted. Only one in five (20.4%) registered electors in Britain support this government. It has no mandate to do anything. If it tries to do anything radical, then, as Thatcher did with the poll tax, it will find the difference between Westminster games and real politics.
T…
"What if you could just make a movie?"
My dude you can pick up your phone right now and just make a movie. The reason why you don't doesn't have anything to do with technology.
Sam Altman reflects on the attack on his house, OpenAI's success, personal regrets, and advocates for de-escalating rhetoric and tactics in the AI industry (Sam Altman)
https://blog.samaltman.com/2279512
@… if drowning pool has taught us anything it is to never let the bodies hit the floor
Iran-US talks: no deal reached. One of the key sticking points was the US refusal to agree anything on halting the Israeli attacks in Lebanon.
https://aje.news/x545rk
This. I try to remember to explicitly name my •experience• for my students, in contrast to any seeming brilliance, as the source of anything I do or say that impresses them.
“Brilliance” says “Are you good enough?” “Experience” says “Keep showing up, and stick with it through all the struggles.”
https://scholar.social/@pence/116204098936436353
I've always made it a solemn practice to never drink anything stronger
than tequila before breakfast.
-- R. Nesson
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Wolf Parade:
🎵 I'll Believe in Anything
#WolfParade
https://wolfparade.bandcamp.com/track/ill-believe-in-anything
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zxikeAavSLQVGocbK2nau
The thing that is eroding Trump's power more than anything right now is his connection to Epstein. Everything in "the Epstein files" is absolutely toxic to the entire structure of power... the *exact* structures we want to dismantle.
The right has seized on this, but their analysis is just cartoon antisemitism and poor misdirection. They have managed to highlight this thing that unifies so many problems, so many struggles and experiences of oppression, at the same time. The fact that we haven't yet permanently tied his name to the entirety of capitalism and transmisogyny represents an utter failure of anarchists to pay fucking attention.
The White House is running as fast as it can from regime change and even faster from its demand for “unconditional surrender”.
Trump wants to be done because the conflict is getting too messy,
Gulf allies are certainly privately asking WTAF Trump’s plan is
and more than anything else Trump is realizing that he is triggering what has been the most reliable presidency killer in American politics for more than half a century:
spiking gas prices.
On gas prices, Tr…
Does anyone know anything about abtr.co ? It is possibly managing NHS login, or is a scam. it is a GoDaddy site (i.e. USA based) with minimal information available.
'I don't know anything about it': Trump denies involvement in DOJ's Fed subpoenas (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-denies-involvement-doj-fed-subpoena-jerome-powell-rcna253526
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p79#a260111p79
This sucks, but I don’t think any organized constituency is going to fight it so it’s as good as law. Coming to SF: more businesses where you can’t buy anything without being added to their email list for the rest of your life.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-cash…
Since this year I have massive trouble accessing anything hosted on AWS during the evening hours like these.
My ISP is Deutsche Telekom AG (AS3320) and it looks like the only route to AWS (AS16509) leads through Cogent (AS174). MTR is showing more than 30% packet loss through Cogent to an AWS target.
I know peering between DTAG and Cogent has been historically bad, but I never noticed issues until now. What happened? Do any BGP nerds know more?
This, as much as anything else, is why I went Mac. https://digipres.club/@foone/116054096345781110
Jury deliberations began Friday in the Live Nation antitrust trial, after state attorneys general continued to pursue the case even as the US DOJ settled (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/arts/music/live-nation-ant…
am i the only academic in the world who is too ... shy? ... to post their CV ?
(i'd post anything for love but i won't post that ha ha)
90gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
The Powerful Never Stop Anything Voluntarily - The Concho Observer
https://conchoobserver.com/powerful-never-stop-anything-voluntarily/
If you are phasing out old hardware where users could remotely run VMs for testing purposes, there is ALWAYS that one user that
a) has been using their VM in prod for years
b) doesn't reply to any message about decommissioning sent to all users
c) doesn't install updates, patches, hotfixes or anything "because I have it just the way I like it"
d) will raise all hell when you shut down the machine
e) insists that you hot-migrate their VM to the new i…
RE LB: “Double Opt-In” isn’t really double. It’s 2-factor. Or mutual handshake, if you prefer. You ask to subscribe an address, and the sender emails you a request to confirm that before they send anything else.
There ARE other ways to handle subscriptions ethically, but they ALL include a mechanism confirmingin a reliable way that the user knows what they are asking for and is in control of the subscribed address.
As someone who was born just a couple years before the Fall of Saigon and who remembers very well the quagmire of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, I can’t understand how anyone older than me can be anything but appalled at the war with Venezuela in 2026, especially with what appears to be no concrete plan on how they are going to achieve success. Have you idiots learned nothing from these painful lessons?
Utter insanity. Complete disregard for anything or anyone else on the planet or in the sky.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/climate/space-mirror-satellite-solar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SFA.mLor.YQZzOBNKM3YW&smid=url-share
With the 2026 NFL league year officially arriving, there's a new clear-cut Super Bowl favorite
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2027-super-bowl-favorite-rams/
Day 9 of not being able to listen to anything but Angine de Poitrine ✋🔺🤚
(Vinyls are preordered 😁)
#adp #anginedepoitrine #dalmatiansOnAcid
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116377687987470957
It’s amazing how many people feel the urge to reply to this when I didn’t ask for help with anything whatsoever with irrelevant and frankly bad takes like “just buy real books!”
My own little experiment for you to try:
Open Facebook. (You won’t hear me say that often!)
Scroll. You don’t have to read anything. Just scroll.
Every once in a while, click on an ad — but not the top ad. Make it the second in the list on the side, or one far down your feed. You can open it in a background tab and then close the tab. Tell the model it didn’t •quite• get you right — but you’re engaged, it just needs to drift a little further from who it thinks you are.
Wait for the ads to update. Repeat. And repeat. Watch the model degrade.
To this day, Facebook thinks I’m a gun owner who wants testosterone supplements.
Jury deliberations began Friday in the Live Nation antitrust trial, after state attorneys general continued to pursue the case even as the US DOJ settled (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/arts/music/live-nation-ant…
Maybe it's just not the right time to start using @… ; current/legacy version has its issues, beta version has its issues; not getting anything done this way. ;(
Machine Learning techniques are upending multiple scientific fields. Operational 5-day forecasting of air quality in 1 minute in this paper from Chinese researchers.
This is awesome work with very clear public health implications.
EDIT for clarity: I am.not suggesting LLMs have anything to do with this work, but many people hear AI and imagine LLMs. And many of them.are perhaps rightly sceptical of AI as a result.
But AI or ML techniques can be useful for lots of things, not just chatbots. And we should probably invest more in those.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10234-y
Companies keep shit you need to know from them purposefully obtuse in hopes you'll give up and not contact them about anything.
Ravens surprise trade for Raiders edge Maxx Crosby becomes historic stunner https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7108727/2026/03/11/ravens-surprise-trade-for-raiders-edge-maxx-crosby-becomes-historic-stunner/…
Never believe anything until these people denies it.
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/116376919463578270
An Irish man who has been held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for five months
despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record
says he fears for his life and has appealed for help from Ireland’s government.
Seamus Culleton said conditions at his detention centre in Texas were akin to “torture”
and that the atmosphere was volatile.
“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff.
They’re capable of anything.”
Speakin…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Ezra Furman:
🎵 Anything Can Happen
#EzraFurman
https://ezrafurman.bandcamp.com/track/anything-can-happen-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1hTqVPKCqGiA3fm61L4hs0
Attempting to use arch, btw, in a VM for the first time (to set up a ngscopeclient CI builder).
Coming from Debian... wow this is not a noob distro lol. So far I've had to manually partition the disk in a shell, configure everything from the keymap to the time zone by editing config files or creating symlinks. There's no top level install tool as far as I can tell.
And grub didn't auto detect anything so now I have I think a fully installed system but I'm stuck in…
Related, do you know if anyone is currently working on such a project? I haven't followed @… closely for a while, but I'm not aware of anything beyond the blog and I'm not aware of other groups doing similar work.
As a teen I fell off the other side if this damn dam... It had pipes sticking out every few feet and I bounced off of every one of 'em on the way down. Amazingly I did not break anything.
By-the-way, this photo shows the downstream side - the concrete apron is used in many films (such as in the film clip - Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Official Trailer - below after the photo.)
I drove past just the other day and low and behold there was yet another film crew filming someth…
The problem is if Discord go to hell, I will be back at the beginning fighting against my player who would really want us to play using Facebook Messenger.
Discord was the best I could do. Anything open-source is doomed to fail.
87gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched https://www.404media.co/flock-ice-surveillance-technology-reddit-ama/
@… trepanning please.
A firm no to anything experimental.
Updated my free-for-dev Contributing Guide, Code of Conduct, Readme, PR templates, Added AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md that tells bots not to contribute.
Still you get daily fuckers like this who just drive by dump their projects on 100s (or exactly 100 in this case) lists with no regard for list polilcies.
Now just closing without even any discussion anything that even looks like LLM generated.
I have a theory that being a too-many-tabs person correlates strongly with how many captchas you see. So if you have 300 tabs open, and then you need to restart your browser and recover your tabs, your computer is hitting a whole bunch of cloudflare (or whatever centralized captcha org) sites at once which raises suspicions. And orgs like cloudflare probably track IP address reputations, almost like blacklists.
Is this on track? Is there anything out on the 'net that might bac…
Trying yet another Apple TV show, and I'm out.
"Smoke". Slow; story just meanders with no build towards anything. Watched E3 and literally have no idea how it moves anything forward. Stilted, unlikeable characters, for whom I feel nothing. And the most obnoxious, unnaturally heavy color grade I recall seeing for this type of show. Imagine a character drama with a John Wick grade. All the highlights are orange, the rest green. Bizarre choice.
Oh, poor babies. Thank goodness thousands of Brown people aren’t dying or anything.
Get bent. @… https://connectop.us/@CharlieMcHenry/11637690…
I’d like to hear what precisely the Gov and the Mayor think they’re going to do — and not just •hear•; I want to •see• it happening.
I’d like the teachers’ union and parent groups like Minneapolis Families for Public Schools discuss what they want on this front, and start making good demands.
Maybe this is already happening…but if so, I haven’t heard anything about it yet.
11/
Imagine in what kind of "great atmosphere" the negotiations between the US and Iran will take place. The US attacked during earlier negotiations, killed several levels of Iranian leadership, their family etc... Two weeks will not be enough to accomplish anything meaningful I think 🤔 without even mentioning the fact that there is disagreement about how Lebanon is part of the current ceasefire. Trump's idea about quickly reaching a deal is pure fiction.
Ravens surprise trade for Raiders edge Maxx Crosby becomes historic stunner https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7108727/2026/03/11/ravens-surprise-trade-for-raiders-edge-maxx-crosby-becomes-historic-stunner/…
Amateur diplomat time: I think what Australia is trying to do Schrödinger's support for Trump's (Netanyahu's) war on Iran.
We've almost always gone to war if USA asks. But Trump's *hated* here, so we're helping UAE instead. We've said no boots on the ground, so we're helping with planes/surveillance equipment.
Makes sense, we've recently signed an FTA & Emirates is a key transport link from here to Europe. Trump can't call Albo a 'loser' like Spain & the Australian media can't roast him for 'not doing anything'.
149gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
The history of the term "anarchist" is itself adversarial. Those who embraced it did so intending to engage with it as controversy, so I feel like I'm not too out of line with this history in using my socialization of being comfortable while being adversarial, and my social license as a cis dude to just say some random shit for attention, to draw that attention back to this whole subject.
Since this post did get some attention, I'm gonna link back to the one that prompted it (and tag @…, who I think is the author, for a heads up if there's anything to add):
https://immerautonom.noblogs.org/the-elephant-in-the-room/
I think I have said some useful things in my post, or at least repeated things others have been saying for years in a useful way, but this post is really the thing to look at (again, if you didn't miss it like I did) and think. There was definitely a time when I would have fallen for that whole hoax, and maybe even have struggled to argue against the things being highlighted. But it's clear that there is still a problem, and I hope repeating these things in my dude voice catches the attention of some folks who might have otherwise missed it... And I hope my adversarial approach doesn't pull focus away from the self-reflection that needs to happen.
Men are the problem here. Men need to fix this. Men are responsible for looking at some of this really horrible shit and acknowledging that we've all been part of the system that makes them possible and have an obligation to destroy that system.
I think what helps in arguing with friends and family members is realizing that you don't have the pandering ideologically set far right influencer in front of you, but just a regular human being, even though they may on a surface level peddle the same beliefs.
The far right has been in the offense more than anything, people will have heard of certain obvious far right talking points, yet do not have a consolidated ideological opinion from which that point emerges, but rather …
Konate with the Joel Matip probing run forward, which makes me happy. Sadly, Ekitike cannot/does not do anything with it.
#LFC
I've questioned my city's designation as a "UNESCO City of Music" a few times, and seeing that two of the nominees for "best live music venue" in the local music awards are 50km out of town (to the south and to the northeast, respectively) doesn't do anything to help.
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
#censorship
«A chatbot says “I’m sorry” flawlessly yet has no capacity for regret, repair, or change. It admits mistakes without loss. It expresses care without losing anything. It uses the language of care without having anything at risk. These utterances are fluent. And they train users to accept moral language divorced from consequence. The result is a quiet recalibration of norms. Apologies become costless. Responsibility becomes theatrical. Care becomes simulation.»
@13a@mastodon.social
And my question is - given the limited resources (people, materials, equipment) is MEER the best use of those resources, or do we end up with a "sunk cost" related problem :"well we've invested a lot of money here, and temps are down so we don't need to do anything else."
(I'm a chemist, worked in industry & the latter is a known problem; since retiring I have been engaged in advocacy and have seen how politicians respon.…
@13a@mastodon.social
And my question is - given the limited resources (people, materials, equipment) is MEER the best use of those resources, or do we end up with a "sunk cost" related problem :"well we've invested a lot of money here, and temps are down so we don't need to do anything else."
(I'm a chemist, worked in industry & the latter is a known problem; since retiring I have been engaged in advocacy and have seen how politicians respon.…
from my link log —
Writing an async runtime in Rust.
https://michaelhelvey.dev/posts/rust_async_runtime
saved 2026-02-03 https://
133gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
91gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Binance
—Whose Founder,
Changpeng Zhao,
Was Pardoned by Trump
—Now Holds 87% Of Trump’s Stablecoin
(roughly $4.7 billion of the $5.4 billion total)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2026/02/09/trump-stablecoi…
I remember Dunblane shootings happening as clear as anything, I did not know that 2 opposing politicians, both with links to the town, were witness to the crime scene directly afterwards. I imagine this was key to get the legislation banning hand guns through.
Perhaps the US could learn from this approach when it comes to school shootings?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9m8zmxe25o
"The Hunting Party" promo has Kelsey Grammer playing a narcisstic psychopath actor & wow, if you know anything about Grammer's LA reputation, NBC nailed it.
☑️ Kelsey Grammer praises Donald Trump as 'maybe the greatest' president
https://www.
102gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
GCVE will be at hackathon.lu - April 14th and 15th, 2026
So if you want to work on all the cool stuff around vulnerability management, federated publication of vulnerability information, analytics, and anything related to vulnerabilities, join us.
#gcve #opensource
100gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
So Trump lost this war with Iran he started and the rest of the world pays the price. Freedom of navigation has been given up in Hormuz, we pay a million per vessel. Iran has a very strong negotiating position, will play for time , acquire weapons, reinforce/rebuild, surpress the Iranian people, I am forgetting anything?
#trump
This lunatic… this idiot son of modern-day barbarians is proclaiming that his morally-vacuous plastic-trinket empire is going to commit genocide and what’s the rest of the world doing? Anything? Where are the condemnations? Where are the sanctions? Where’s the mass mobilisation against this Fourth Reich?
212gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
214gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
We knew, but the proof is nice.
"Apple just proved that AI models cannot do math. Not advanced math. Grade school math. The kind a 10-year-old solves"
The guess-the-next-words machines don’t actually understand anything.
https://nitter.poast.org/heynavtoor/st
212gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
The most important thing to understand about the “madman theory” of foreign policy
is that it was designed by losers for losers.
The world first heard of the madman theoryfrom a 1978 memoir by Richard Nixon’s former chief of staff H. R. Haldeman.
According to Haldeman, Nixon said:
“I want the North Vietnamese to believe I’ve reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war.”
Faced with an otherwise hopeless war in Vietnam, Nixon would pretend to be cra…
212gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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216gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2