2026-03-07 00:11:29
The Powerful Never Stop Anything Voluntarily - The Concho Observer
https://conchoobserver.com/powerful-never-stop-anything-voluntarily/
The Powerful Never Stop Anything Voluntarily - The Concho Observer
https://conchoobserver.com/powerful-never-stop-anything-voluntarily/
I want a high quality metal fidget toy. It keeps me from opening a browser tab the second I have to wait for anything to load.
I want it to be somewhat precisely manufactured and made out of safe materials, preferrably metal.
I know about https://lautie.com, but I was wondering if there was anything decent inbe…
OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code "to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/
My fellow people of the United States, if I have anything to teach from what Minneapolis just lived through, it is this:
Nobody is coming to save us.
Not Congress. Not the courts. Not the ICC or the EU or NATO. Not the generals or the rank and file. Not the press. Not the markets. Not the elections. Not some mythical version of “The People” that materializes out of nowhere as some messianic external force.
We’re it. We’re all we’ve got. If we don’t stop fascism from completely engulfing the US, then nobody stops it.
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💔 💔 💔
(it’s not cliffhanger or anything tho; season 2 concludes all important storylines)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/palm-royale-canceled-apple-tv-1236739175/
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto
undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
-- Max Beerbohm, "Mainly on the Air"
Is there anything better than watching some poor dude flailing as he's hitting on some random woman? "I really like your shirt, it's such a cool vibe" "it's my work uniform."
I either winced or laughed at that, I can't remember.
[I don't know if he ultimately succeeded in getting her number, but always remember that this is what the apps have taken away from us!]
I just dont think me now has anything in common with me yesterday
Helping in defense against attacks from Iran should be the maximum that Europe does, no involvement in any actions against Iran, on or above it's territory or anything like that. We need maximum resources for security on our own continent and for the war against Russia. It would be typical Trump to first destroy Iran and then ask Europe to clean up his mess...
#iran
Doctor John Gartner,
the co-founder of “Duty To Warn”
noted Trump went to war on “impulse.”
He continued, Trump “didn’t bring along any allies, he didn’t prevent any evidence, he didn’t prepare the American people. He didn’t do anything.”
And the reason—per Dr. Gartner—is more alarming than you think.
It’s not just because Trump views himself as a king who doesn’t need to get his “subjects” (you and I) on board.
Rather, as Dr. Gartner opined, “He’s not th…
Pedro Sšnchez: No to war
It is naive to think that escalating conflict in #Iran will lead to anything good, writes Spain’s prime minister.
A powerful statement.
Every EU country should agree with this.
https://archive.vn/V5gMx
I'm so confused I've tried to find any persistent state across de-embed filter invocations and i *think* I've cleared everything out.
If i blow away the fft plan i get no output which is weird and needs further investigation (something not being initialized until the second filter execution or something?).
Wiping all of the VkBuffer's i could find had no effect. I tried adding submits after each shader in case of anything strange happening in command buffers wrt b…
I think I remember a commercial where Buzz Aldrin is walking around and shouting "MOOOOOOOOON!" but I can't remember much about it and I can't find it.
Anyone else remember anything like this?
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
Podcast transcript with Nilay Patel and Liz Lopatto, on why prediction market players want to be seen not as gambling but as news, incentivizing insider trading (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/889177/pred…
Perfect timing for the March for Billionaires tomorrow, which lists Bezos as one of the good ones.
https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/116026776153656984
from my link log —
Reducing Raspberry Pi 5's power consumption by 140x.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/reducing-raspberry-pi-5s-power-consumption-140x
saved 2023-11-07
We are a nation in discontent.
So I suggest that all of us schedule at least one evening at a local live theatre performance of some kind (but *not* some Broadway revival.)
Live performers on a stage emotionally interact with the audience in ways that are far beyond anything that TV or film can do.
Live stage is a dying art form - but it is one that we really need, if not for entertainment then for the way it teaches us to listen to others and effectively communicate with t…
If knock out voting postings on Mastodon taught me anything, then it's that I'm an outlier and everybody else is wrong.
70gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
I guess it's time to filter out any mentions of Bandcamp for today if I want to eat anything this month.
A few months after handing in my thesis and receiving my Master of Science degree in 2022, ChatGPT was released. Essentially, nothing about how I solve problems has changed since then, but I had to continuously observe the brain drain around me. It's weird how the majority of people suddenly treat anything an LLM spits out as truth while I stick to good old search engines (with the additional hurdle of now having to filter LLM garbage from my search results).
SLEEP BETTER!
Three tips to improve your sleep:
- Go to bed 30 minutes earlier than usual on weekdays instead of sleeping in at the weekend 🛏️
- Expose yourself to bright light in the morning as much as possible, be it outdoor or indoors light 💡☀️
- Spend at least 20 minutes in restorative activity daily: reading, nature, music, anything you want, no goals, just restore 📖🌳♫
From a newsletter "Eight weeks to a healthier you" by
Towards simpler #btrfs raid setup with #disko:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/btrfs-ra
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: No, no, it's just we don't get offered galaxies every day of the week.
EGRORIAN: Pinder, prepare the demonstration. [To Avon] Do you know anything about tachyons?
https://blake…
HMRC made a mistake a while ago have sent me some money, lol. So I would like to get some music this Bandcamp Friday. There's already been good threads / boosts here - but anyone have any further recommendations? Anything fresh is welcome!
I'm just mentioning that because I don't know any other model that did that in the past; all others just answered based on their knowledge without calculating anything 😉
I need to stop having anything exotic and just use the most bog-standard common shit out there. Any time I have cool, exotic shit, I also end up with cool, exotic problems I have to fix without any precedent for solutions and and cool, exotic repair bills I get to pay when stuff breaks.
"How about images of UK military equipment accompanied by the song Money for Nothing? Is that anything?"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/06/keir-starmer-accused-of-mimicking-trump-with-middle…
Drew Brees would be a Hall of Famer anywhere, but in New Orleans, he’s one of a kind https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7024397/2026/02/06/drew-brees-hall-of-fame-saints/
Just listened to the last pod by @… . Bill, Majid, Eric and sometimes Leo (also of @… 🥳) just have a nice and meandering conversation about basically anything that pops up, not just tech. Took me comfortably along the Ha…
Even knowing that trying to decipher anything Dear Leader says or thinks or does is a fool's game, I can't help thinking that there's some kind of deep psychological connection between his obsession with all things gold and the notorious golden shower pee tapes. 🤷🏻♂️
Partner: I get Pink Floyd and The Who confused.
Me: But… how!? They don’t sound anything alike. They’re both British, but… how?
Partner: I know they’re totally different, but in middle school there was this kid who always wore either a Pink Floyd shirt or a The Who shirt, so ever since then my brain confuses the two.
Me: Brains are weird.
Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.
And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
🧵
Back in 2003, in the heady early years of the blogosphere, I would read, link to, and comment on Juan Cole’s @…’s excellent blog.
It’s still here, and still required reading for anything to do with the Middle East.
https://www.juancole.com/2026/03/shock-either-bradblog.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
I have never really been a collector of anything. Maybe music for a while, back in the MP3 era, twenty years ago. Other than that, there was never something I felt passionate enough to collect, at least not in real life, not physical objects.
I never truly understood the collectors around me. To me, collecting always felt like a burden. Something you had to carry, move, store, maintain.
And yet, today, I realized something.…
87gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
The next non-insane president-elect of the United States. Literaly anything he decides to say will win him the election. The easiest run in the US history, considering the scariest part that it will drive Trump into a world-destruct mode - if Trump manages to stay in office in the next three years ->
Governor Gavin Newsom on Relationship with Trump, People Badmouthing CA & "Gov Gav" Has a Surprise!
Prescott willing to do anything to keep George Pickens on the Cowboys https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/03/dak-prescott-willing-get-involved-to-help…
My latest content filter is to ignore/delete anything with "maxxing" in it, and to mute/block any writers who use it, because you know for sure they are lazy-ass clickbait merchants. 🙄
😅😂🤣
https://zread.ai/
Sure, I don't have anything better to do 👍
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I hereby release the contents of this thread under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
Please credit to:
Paul Cantrell
innig.net
Please let me know if you do anything cool with it.
Stay warm, stay strong.
So, rumours are that Windows 12 will be subscription based and AI focused. Lol. I... I hope I don't have to use it for anything at all ever in my life.
Any other #SanFrancisco folks out there who know something about this? I haven't seen anything about it around town, just on BlueSky: https://marchforbillionaires.org/
Why is it the case that we can't copy text anymore on the phone? You used to be able to hold and select to copy, but "hold" doesn't do anything now, half of the time. I think this mostly happens in apps, like Rightmove or Outlook. Is this just me? Is there a trick to make it good again?
#PhoneProblems
from my link log —
Writing an async runtime in Rust.
https://michaelhelvey.dev/posts/rust_async_runtime
saved 2026-02-03 https://
Blanche: I never heard Trump say Bondi exit 'had anything to do with the Epstein files' (Sarah Davis/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5814564-todd-blanche-pam-bondi-doj-epstein-files/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p116#a260403p116
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JarvisCockersSomedayService
The Clean:
🎵 Anything Could Happen
#TheClean
https://theclean.bandcamp.com/track/anything-could-happen
https://open.spotify.com/track/31EQDVnk5iktBbweRhIIJn
I don't get the "I failed to fact-check what the LLM generated when I was doing research/collating information for my article I am writing as a professional journalist" excuse.
First and most obviously, how about not using LLMs for this—because it is well established that they don't actually work for research, summarizing or collating data (that needs to be accurate).
But also: you need to fact-check anything and anyone as a journalist. It's not an optional thing to do, it's literally _what you do as a journalist_. You journal facts. It's like a cook forgetting to boil the pasta and serving it uncooked.
GrapheneOS update no.1:
I'm sure my phone is much more secure without any fucking software on it, which was clearly the objective of these design decisions. In fact, why don't I smash it with a hammer and throw it in the pond? That'll be even safer. Perhaps I could even install OpenVMS first just to make sure nobody will be able to do anything with the remains. After all, the real purpose of a device is to be unusable by anyone, because that is the most secure possible post…
95gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Anybody know anything about vebinet<dot>com? stella_reed from there seems to be a bot-like creature. Joined mar. 22. Earliest posts read like AI free verse. Goes on with demoralising, (partly unsourced) media-quotes .
#FediMod #FediAdmin
Sorry not sorry but I’ll be over here doing anything but wallowing in a cognitively offloaded prison of my own making https://defector.com/go-ahead-and-use-ai-it-will-only-help-me-dominate-you
Next Bandcamp Friday is this upcoming Friday - March 6. I've been grabbing a thing or two since the last one in because I couldn't wait for a few things.. But I do love giving artists all the money, and I'll be grabbing at least a thing or two on Friday. Have plans to grab anything of your own?
https://isitbandcampfriday.com
honestly, i don't want to hear anything about artemis or little finder guy
In Gaziantep round when I was 8 I briefly had an old ipod and as a present mom bought me an itunes album with 100 different instrumental only video game songs but she didnt know anything it was actually all 90s sounding midi covers of the original songs and they deleted it off my ipod after looking up what "resident evil" was
i learned later the one for metal gear solid 3 main theme wasnt actually that, it was some whole other shit that genuinely had a strong melody. dont kno…
Just received word third hand that the PANYNJ is searching all cars going into the Newark airport terminal C parking lot. The reporter did not see anything one way or the other at other terminals.
#terrorism #ewr #panynj
And this is partly how it happens: 'Clarivate...defines anything that doesn't appear in [their] indexes as either non-existing, or "non-scholarly" ... Neither academia nor the tech industry are short on hubris, but even in that context, "anything not listed in our proprietary databases isn't credible" is a pretty eyebrow-raising claim.' @…
Happy "Don't believe anything you read online" day, er, year to those that celebrate!
Every morning I wake up and check the obits. Keep getting disappointed that a certain felon didn't stroke out from screaming at anything to distract us from the files of his fellow pedo.
I suspect I have a better chance of winning the lottery first.
If it’s helpful to hear from someone who has seen nearly half a century of news events: if you cannot do anything about them, you can choose not to give them your attention.
It is OK not to let unsolvable horrors into your domestic mental circle.
Know of them happening, but it’s OK not to live them.
So #GitHub Actions only lets me rerun all jobs, all failed jobs or a single job — not a subset of jobs. On top of that, if I rerun anything, I can't do anything until it finishes, and I can't cancel a single job without cancelling everything. Truly great UX.
So now I have to choose between either starting a few very long-running jobs one by one, and waiting for every one to finish before manually starting the next one, or starting all failed jobs, including a bunch of jobs that will rerun unnecessarily.
100gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Gustavo Petro of Colombia and Donald Trump have had a tense relationship
that escalated into threats by Mr. Trump,
before easing.
Anything could happen at their Feb. 3 meeting.
The meeting between the two presidents
— arranged after Trump threatened Mr. Petro with military action
— is meant to de-escalate tensions, diplomats said.
It is also meant to address topics such as “the fight against transnational organized crime, especially on the border,”…
163gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Any other #SanFrancisco folks out there who know something about this? I haven't seen anything about it around town, just on BlueSky: https://marchforbillionaires.org/
2026 Super Bowl coin toss odds: Has heads won more than tails? Is tails on a run? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7021478/2026/02/05/super-bowl-coin-toss-betting-odds-heads-tails/
"Anything for the white dress": Jake Ferguson's fiancée, Haley Cavinder, drops looksmaxxing snippets as "countdown begins" for wedding with Cowboys TE https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/anything-w
Reinstalled Slackware today on the NUC, after installing KDE on Alpine on the laptop. This time I used the 'generic' Slackware Current iso, not a liveslak. For me this will be the way forward, since it allows me to build the system exactly how I want it, from scratch. Prune anything I want. And then add the great Slackeroni repo from @… to get MangoWC and N…
169gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
165gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Did anything in the FBI Epstein files revive the old "u/maxwellhill" / "u/anutensil" rumours on Reddit?
Trump says US munition stockpiles mean wars can be fought 'forever'
In a late night post on Truth Social, Donald Trump said that the US munition stockpiles “at the medium and upper medium grade” have “never been higher or better”.
He added that the US has a “virtually unlimited supply of these weapons”, meaning that
💥 “wars can be fought ‘forever’”.
This comes after Trump said that the US-Israel war on Iran could go beyond the four to five weeks that the admini…
From punchline to Super Bowl contender: Why Sam Darnold's resiliency is his ultimate superpower https://www.nfl.com/news/from-punchline-to-super-bowl-contender-why-sam-darnold-s-resiliency-is-his-ultimate-superpower…
256gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
161gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
As tear gas engulfed the protest witnesses recalled hearing six loud bangs;
a video posted on social media recorded eight,
as well as countless smaller pops.
At least eight arcs of smoke flew far over people’s heads,
as though aimed at the back of the crowd.
“I know they would do anything,
that they would hurt people,
that they’ve murdered people and shot them in the back 10 times,”
said Cassie Broeker, a Portland resident who came to protes…
…everyone there was white. •Everyone•. This particular park would usually be more white than not, but…this was weird.
There’s officially a city prohibition on ICE setting foot in city parks, but who knows what that’s worth? Those bastards will do anything if they think they can get away with it. And they’ll grab people right off the streets if they’re falling behind quota for the day. Who’d risk that?
ICE had apparently succeeded turning the park into all-white world they dreamed of. It was…creepy.
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Trump’s from-the-gut decision-making,
combined with Iran’s resilient ability to close shipping lanes and wreak damage on Gulf energy production,
means that the range of possibilities for this war is still staggeringly broad.
New forecasts come out continuously.
Most scenarios go from bad to very bad — and much worse.
It’s difficult to rule anything out.
The markets so far have embraced the merely bad predictions
— which, under the current circumstanc…
78gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
199gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Trump might invade Iran because he can’t think of anything else to do.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/boots-on-the-ground-because-idk-why
71gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
179gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
173gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
175gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
87gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
132gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2