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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

Boots on the Ground Because Idk Why Not 🤷‍♂️
Trump might invade Iran because he can’t think of anything else to do.

Like I’ve used computers for maybe 8 hours today and literally none of what I did had anything to do with “AI”.
No matter how much the tech industry wants to feed us their generative excrement, it’s simply at most some other tool that some people use.
Just get fucked with this “it’s magical!” shit.

Has anybody ever heard of anything like this?
"Allen told officers he was targeted by what he described as a 'hacker group' and received emails identifying shoppers he was instructed to let leave without paying, the report said. He claimed the senders threatened to release nude photos of him online if he did not comply."
Savannah Best Buy employee says 'hacker group' blackmailed him into theft ring scheme

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Much-needed action by the IETF: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9945.html
Tl;dr: Sand has historically been thrown in the gears by disruptive assholes, and the remediation process was ultra-heavyweight and slow.
Axiom: Anything public-facing requires investment in moderation guardra…

Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
-- Larry Wall in <199702271735.JAA04048@wall.org>

This cheeky little bugger was watching me eat chicken. Bird meat. And rather than being scared or anything, he's just sitting barely arms length from me waiting for me to drop a piece.

I have no doubt the US can do several rounds of strikes and probably/hopefully Iran can't do anything meaningful striking back. But if the strikes are done, what's next... Hoping Iranian protestors take over government?
#iran #usa

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.' @…

Der Westen der #USA erlebt 2026 eine historische #Schnee-Dürre.
In vielen Flusseinzugsgebieten liegt die #Schneedecke teils unter 50 Prozent des langjährigen Mittels.

2026’s historic snow drought brings worries about water, wildfires and the future in the West
The 2026 water year has been anything but ordinary. In fact, its snow drought has few parallels in recent history.

@… Absolutely, technical merit doesn’t have anything to do with it.

@… Absolutely, technical merit doesn’t have anything to do with it.

This afternoon, the students in our History internship program are presenting the projects they've been working on since September. As expected, it's been great. The event always makes me a little jealous - I never got to do anything like this as an undergrad.

Genoa also has terrific food. We toured the Mercato Orientale Genova, a very impressive food market that puts anything in the US to shame. I also found some street food snacks on my walk back to the ship. The focaccia was particularly good, stuffed with some creamy salty cheese. Probably prescinsêua or maybe stracchino.

Oceanic Mafia
Adam from Audacity Charters and Matty the podcast guru dive into everything and anything fishing — raw, irreverent, and full of laughs...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/oceanic-mafia/

96gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

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"A woman was watching from her porch. Someone ran up and addressed her: “Ma’am, we’re out here defending the neighborhood against ICE. We need barricade materials. Is there anything in your yard you wouldn’t mind parting with?” She nodded urgently and showed them to her backyard, offering a flower bed, an old couch, and a lawn chair. Three people helped to carry these out and add them to the barricades."

Minneapolis Responds to the Murder of Alex Pretti
On Saturday, January 24, an ICE agent murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. In response, people drove ICE and Minneapolis police out of the neighborhood.

I just ordered 3 WiFi routers for supposed delivery tomorrow, according to Amazon.
Let’s see if they arrive…
There’s a reason for this, but I am ashamed to say it. (That’s a pop culture reference… )
It’s not JUST that I wasn’t sure how long I could get anything to replace my antique devices. The last straw was so fucking stupid. I’m punishing myself by overbuying.

I couldn't go to #VCF #Montreal last weekend because I was away. Did any of you go? How was it? (Despite it being way down in St-Jean, not in Montreal…)
Haven't heard anything at all. Worth going if they do it again next year?

I've wandered away from Mastodon for a while. (Been mostly at LinkedIn and Bluesky.) But now I'm wandering back. Apologies if I've not responded to anyone about anything.

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: [To Zen] So stop being pedantic, and give us the facts.
ZEN: The planet is located at course zero degrees, two thousand spacials. [Zen shows a perfectly blank viewscreen.]
TARRANT: [O.O.V.] We don't see anything.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/70

How Sam Darnold rewarded those who never doubted: 'We'd do anything for him' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6998603/2026/01/26/sam-darnold-seahawks-super-bowl-rams/

“So you have TikTok just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza … And this is why so many of us can’t have a sane conversation with younger Jews because anything that we try to say to them, they are hearing it through this wall of carnage. So I want to give data and information and facts and arguments and they are just seeing in their minds carnage and I sound obscene.”
– Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz
“They trust their own eyes and…

Wall of Carnage Gazans, Olive Trees and Mosques
In the small town of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, where I live, during Israel’s destruction of the Gaza Strip, a Democratic Party activist hung a flag of the state of Israel across the way from the only grocery store in town -- so that almost every member of the community would see it.

"Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right."
-- Donald Norman
https://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html

Do LLMs make *anything* better? But they seem like the ultimate genie that we now can't put back in the bottle.
#LLM

Apple Watch users - have you noticed anything useful or helpful in the new WatchOS 26.4?
(Installing now and just wondering if there will be any value.)

wish there was a "fuck this guy and never allow them to report anything again” option
(c.f. https://blog.yossarian.net/2022/12/28/ReDoS-vulnerabilities-and-misaligned-incentives)

If you’re using anything below macOS / iOS 26, you should update asap, because of Darksword

Didn't think I'd have anything for this week's #ThursdayFiveList theme of #BloomsEverywhere, but they keep coming to me, so here they are.
Ween - Push th' Little Daisies

For years, I’ve been looking for a way to edit embedded metadata in Emacs and didn’t find anything. So I wrote my own thing. Before starting to clean up the code and write documentation, I just searched again.
And found this: https://github.com/misohena/el-xmp
In the screenshot, el-xmp in the up…

Hyman is so committed to his drift Pipeline that even when the treatments he promoted on his podcast almost got him killed.
He kept his silence because he would rather see his audience and even himself hurt then say anything that undermines his bottom line.
Why are the Wellness Elite Getting Sepsis? | Mark Hyman and Jordan Peterson https://www.

153gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

I'm going through some coins that my grandpa apparently collected. From what I can figure out, this is likely a copy of a 1776 "Fugio Dollar". There is a visible seam running around the edge, meaning that it was cast instead of struck. I wonder what (if anything) it is worth. The weight doesn't feel right. I'm guessing that it is made of pewter or something.
#Coins #CoinCollecting

Remember anything at Forbes•com/sites is paid content, not journalism. These articles are often wrong (as first quote shows) and have an agenda (as in second quote).
“Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2

Any one remember when #wsocial was going to "fix social media"? A lesson: don't announce a product if you don't have anything to show.

My TrueNAS computer (HP Z420) is beeping non-stop. The TrueNAS interface doesn’t show anything wrong, I’ve rebooted and it’s still beeping. (Maybe I should try a shutdown?)
I don’t know enough about PC hardware to know what’s going on…
#truenas #selfhosted

How Do I Stop a Sneeze? | Rachel Bilson Asks Hank Anything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a64tcJp-FmU

There are Helen Keller truthers? Wtf, people will truth about anything these days

t took only a few minutesbefore everyone in the church knew that another person had been shot.
I was sitting with Trygve Olsen, a big man in a wool hat and puffy vest,
who lifted his phone to show me a text with the news.
It was his 50th birthday, and one of the coldest days of the year.
I asked him whether he was doing anything special to celebrate.
“What should I be doing?” he replied.
“Should I sit at home and open presents?
This is where I’m supp…

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

I was intrigued and moving my head like "really?" when read the headline "Scan Finds Presence of Nuclear Fuel in 3I/ATLAS". Then, I started reading the article until the 3rd word: "Astronomist Avi Loeb". No need to read anything else.

The Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators...
...to advance their immoral agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
Original post: https://

I see a lot of people pushing to avoid libraries that use AI. We're soon going to need to figure out how we even define that, since it's not always obvious if a PR is AI-assisted.
We're going to need standards for "organic code." Which is... yeah, GFL with getting devs to agree on anything.
#Programming

Gosh, 'ya think watching Meta lose a large liability lawsuit had anything to do with this?

190gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
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Mailbag: Pickens negotiating with other teams? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-pickens-negotiating-with-other-teams

QRP Labs is running a Hamvention special for US customers to hopefully reduce shipping costs, if FDIM or Hamvention delivery, or USPS from Ohio during Hamvention, works for you. This includes anything in their store, including radios (assembled or kit), parts, and the Morserino M32 Pocket. (Obligatory disclaimer: I'm just a customer, no stake in this...)

Brave Browser (@…) hasn't posted anything since August 2025. Did we bully the cryptobro homophonic browser off Mastodon?
Don't know, but I hope so :3 :8bitrainbow:

I find it perplexing that after 5 and a bit years of Trump in the Whitehouse that the media don't treat anything he says as a lie by default until and unless they corroborate the details via other less tainted sources. His pronouncements seem less about manifesting the result he wants and more about manipulating the markets to grow his own wealth.

Jason Mantzoukas on Ask Hank Anything is my next 90 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuuyCOnuBDA

I just saw an unironic post from an anti-Trump Jewish Zionist (self-described) quoting from Leviticus saying we should not stand idly by while the blood of our neighbor is spilled.
I'm interested in how they square that with the torrent of Palestinian blood being spilled by the state they explicitly claim to support.
Not doing a quote-post or anything b/c I don't want a pile-on, but uh...weird.

I built a #bot that posts 10 new German words once per day: @…
The bot uses a few RSS feeds of German news media to look for new words.
'New' means that they're not on a list of approx. 39 million old words and have not yet been discovered by the bot itself. More info in the bot's bio. ... and please feel free to ask me anything.
#linguistics

The Zeroing of Knowledge: When Everything Is Known, What Remains Worth Learning?
Knowledge used to be expensive. It cost years of apprenticeship, tuition in the tens of thousands, decades of practice, and, more than anything, the brutal currency of time. A physician spent twelve years beyond high school before being trusted to cut into a human body. A lawyer spent seven years and a bar exam before being permitted to argue before a judge.

The Zeroing of Knowledge: When Everything Is Known, What Remains Worth Learning? | David Boles, Blogs
Knowledge used to be expensive. It cost years of apprenticeship, tuition in the tens of thousands, decades of practice, and, more than anything, the brutal currency of time. A physician spent twelv…

@karlailona@mastodon.social Nice! Javascript scares me a little; there's so much to it!
I fell into shell scripting (Bash specifically) which slowly morphed into Python. Comfortable with scripts, but very new/beginner-ish to Python. C (and by extension Rust) has really piqued my interest, but I haven't done anything more than a "Hello world"! 😅
Please do post a link when you're ready to share, I'd love to see it! (And I'm sure many others would as well…

For years, I’ve been looking for a way to edit embedded metadata in Emacs and didn’t find anything. So I wrote my own thing. Before starting to clean up the code and write documentation, I just searched again.
And found this: https://github.com/misohena/el-xmp
In the screenshot, el-xmp in the up…

For years, I’ve been looking for a way to edit embedded metadata in Emacs and didn’t find anything. So I wrote my own thing. Before starting to clean up the code and write documentation, I just searched again.
And found this: https://github.com/misohena/el-xmp
In the screenshot, el-xmp in the up…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@RedwoodSec/116296044404537823
This is so not on people's radar but it's important.
Anything currently secured with public key cryptography may well be broken in the next 5-10 years.
If you have personal data that will still need to be private in that time frame associated with your Firefox Sync account, well...
(I haven't reviewed how it uses PK crypto, and symmetric keys are AFAIK still fine, but this is the sort of thing...)

186gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

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You should block every single account who says stuff like "nothing can be done".
These people are either plants/bots or just outright defeatist—they can't and won't contribute anything valuable and should be shunned.

275gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

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if you're not hitting something with a hammer you're not maxxing anything.

The Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators - to advance their agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
Original post: https://bsky.app/pro…

@… I agree. And it’s all so obvious, the stupidity, arrogance, brazen corruption, the complete disregard for anything and anyone that doesn’t serve their own interests.

@… I agree. And it’s all so obvious, the stupidity, arrogance, brazen corruption, the complete disregard for anything and anyone that doesn’t serve their own interests.

274gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Mailbag: Pickens negotiating with other teams? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-pickens-negotiating-with-other-teams

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116134660420505516
So I grew up somewhere never needing an ID for anything, other than a driving license when I was very occasionally driving a car. I wasn’t carrying an ID every day until I was in my 30s.
It’s a relatively new thing that travel, buying certain things, alcohol consumption etc requires a photo ID.
All of this surveillance and privacy-invasive shit (make people carry around the address where they live, wtf?) has been pressed into existence to “protect the children” and in the name of “fighting criminals”.
It’s all bullshit and we should end requiring it.

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
DAYNA: They've still got to control it all.
AVON: The computer controls it. They don't need to do anything. And, in evolutionary terms, what you don't need, you lose.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/445 B7B5

Back in 1992 or so there was a cat that would hang around the Fang Gang House in Madison and I called the cat "Claude" (because it's like "Clawed") and Milt call the cat "Mr. Roarke" but I thought that was a dumb name so I made a trading card for the cat with the name "Claude" on it.
I'll never name anything Claude (or "Clawed") again.

230gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
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I'll be at DistrictCon tomorrow if anybody wants to talk about anything. Hit me up.
https://www.districtcon.org/

The endgame is simple: Satisfy #Trump's racist constituents.
They literally don't care about anything else. Not healthcare, not groceries, not even taxes.
☑️ Republican governor questions goal of Trump immigration crackdown: ‘What is the endgame?’

Probably better than anything HP sells https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/710950.stm

According to the Daily Beast,
Donald Trump sets up camp in the family living quarters
and Melania is sequestered to a tower, kind of like a modern-day Rapunzel
https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/melanias-bizarre…

Melania's bizarre living conditions finally revealed as she goes to extreme lengths to avoid Donald
The Trumps may share the same home, but they don't necessarily cross paths, if Melania has anything to say about it.

watched the first Jujutsu Kaisen episodes and didn't care for it. Do you think anything changes in the series that would change my mind?
#anime

Even if you're a prompting god, an LLM savant or otherwise an accomplished machine whisperer—
—it will inflate prices you have to pay for stuff too; computers, phones, hosting, Internet service, software, and generally anything with chips in it (or made in e.g. in a factory that uses stuff with chips in it) and any services that are provided by or are facilitated by something with chips in it.
(This means all goods and services).

123gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

88gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
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94gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
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91gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
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PSA because I saw another thread about social media data harvesting:
Anything you put on the Internet is public, forever.
No ifs or buts.

57gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
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73gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

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178gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

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87gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

100gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

201gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.