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
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
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
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.
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…
Never thought I'd ever be on Team Netflix for anything ever but here we are.
Stop watching CBS/Paramount.
▶️ Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory” - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-po…
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
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:
…
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
#censorship
@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.…
"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…
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.
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"
I just dont think me now has anything in common with me yesterday
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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.
from my link log —
Writing an async runtime in Rust.
https://michaelhelvey.dev/posts/rust_async_runtime
saved 2026-02-03 https://
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
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…
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
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…
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.
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/
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.»
💔 💔 💔
(it’s not cliffhanger or anything tho; season 2 concludes all important storylines)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/palm-royale-canceled-apple-tv-1236739175/
#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…
😅😂🤣
https://zread.ai/
Sure, I don't have anything better to do 👍
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
You don't have to leave your Zellij session, or install anything, to share it across CGNAT! All you need to do is run:
```
ssh -R 80:localhost:8082 demo.sandhole.com.br
```
And thanks to Sandhole (https://sandhole.com.br), you get your own (temporary) HTTPS subdomain with zero config!
"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/
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?
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…
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
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. 🤷🏻♂️
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!]
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.
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.…
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.
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.
"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.
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. 🙄
85gCO2/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/
Towards simpler #btrfs raid setup with #disko:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/btrfs-ra
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!
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,”…
131gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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
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…
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
216gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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.
213gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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 😉
"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.
🧵
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…
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…
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/
218gCO2/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
177gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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…
87gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
100gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
169gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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
70gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
163gCO2/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