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/
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.
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?
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 …
Why those gorgeous shots from Artemis are courtesy of a 10-year-old Nikon camera, rather than anything shipped since then: https://petapixel.com/2026/04/06/the-10-year-old-nikon-d5-dslr-really-is-the-best-camera-for-artemis-ii/
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
I’ve seen a lot of posts from afar to the effect of “Why aren’t people in Minneapolis / the US doing anything?? When will they take action???”
…and, well, running with the metaphor from that thread, I guess maybe they’re looking at the top of the bread and wondering why it’s not golden brown already.
I want you to know, I want the world to know: never in my life, not even after the murder of George Floyd, have I seen the amount of sustained daily action I’ve seen here these last few weeks.
Not that we should *ever* want war for oil (or anything else) but perhaps there can be a positive outcome?
“Jacinta Peperkamp is among a growing cohort of people who are relying on their bike due to eye-watering fuel costs. “We haven’t used our car since fuel prices went crazy,” the single mother of two says.”
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"
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
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!]
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
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 am so sorry for those who cannot find anything to eat better than the dogshit in Fascist boot treads. @… https://types.pl/@krismicinski/116189695831443587
Perfect timing for the March for Billionaires tomorrow, which lists Bezos as one of the good ones.
https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/116026776153656984
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…
95gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
If you can, go watch "It Was Just An Accident". It's good (albeit a little slow) and will stay with you long after the credits rolled. Can't say I've watched anything similar yet.
https://letterboxd.com/njamster/film/it-was-just-an-accident/
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Not sure if this would be to any tastes, but I’ve never shared anything here from artistic residencies or such. This was done with German conceptual artist Kristina Buch and is quite fun, actually. Possibly.
https://youtu.be/IaUnkaryXyw?si=LtxxWIW8OPeSu__P
About it:
…
"Except for viewers in the US"
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Early info coming out on the latest Anthropic model seem to indicate that the model will make another huge jump in AI capabilities. Just look at these scores. INSANE
I "code" everyday pretty much but it's been mostly just asking to do stuff and adjusting the output. I am sure I could just walk away and not adjust anything and be fine but I still find the current models to be too verbose sometimes, or still make a silly shortcut or decision. I am assuming after this, it wi…
"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…
To all those worthwhile bloggers on Substack (yes, there are still): do you want to be associated with this platform? I have already abstained from reading anything that's published there some time ago. Time to take your scribbles somewhere else?
https://www.
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/
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
💔 💔 💔
(it’s not cliffhanger or anything tho; season 2 concludes all important storylines)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/palm-royale-canceled-apple-tv-1236739175/
I just dont think me now has anything in common with me yesterday
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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…
from my link log —
Writing an async runtime in Rust.
https://michaelhelvey.dev/posts/rust_async_runtime
saved 2026-02-03 https://
Wondering what everyone is gonna get caught up in so the response to the latest actual honest-to-god crimes being committed by ICE doesn't result in anything substantive.
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
First Stefanski, then Harbaugh. I genuinely don't understand anything in the NFL.
☑️ John Harbaugh fired: Here are the NFL teams making changes in 2026 - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2026-01-…
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?
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…
If knock out voting postings on Mastodon taught me anything, then it's that I'm an outlier and everybody else is wrong.
82gCO2/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).
No, really, my feeling for people who believe that they are not engage in promoting Fascism when using LLMs like ChatGPT and Clause and Grok is pure pity. I can’t even be angry with them any more when it is clear that if those LLMs are good for anything, it is breaking people’s connections to reality.
«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.»
Towards simpler #btrfs raid setup with #disko:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/btrfs-ra
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. 🤷🏻♂️
#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.
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
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…
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.…
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…
82gCO2/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!
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. 🙄
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.
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 —
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
100gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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.
7/
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,”…
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.
😅😂🤣
https://zread.ai/
Sure, I don't have anything better to do 👍
256gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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…
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…
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…
216gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
"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
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.
🧵
213gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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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…
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…
70gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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