2026-03-11 11:06:37
🇺🇦 #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
🇺🇦 #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
"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…
This particular athlete is more impressive than anything I saw at the Super Bowl or Olympics so far: #dogsofmastodon
@… if drowning pool has taught us anything it is to never let the bodies hit the floor
The Trump regime desperately, desperately wants the situation in Minneapolis / St. Paul to explode. Anything sand in the gears that helps prevent that from happening is a godsend — and this lawsuit certainly is sand in the gears.
I can't think of anything good to say about Andrew Hoggard. So I won't say anything at all. 🙃
More on why trusting AI to decide literally anything is a horrible idea.
https://www.randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the-are-you-sure-problem-why-your-ai-keeps-changing-its-mind/
I've always made it a solemn practice to never drink anything stronger
than tequila before breakfast.
-- R. Nesson
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…
European countries should make very clear, what the government of Greenland says:
"Greenland says it cannot accept US takeover ‘under any circumstances’" , a clear red line must be drawn. If Trump doesn't listen we can create an economic armaggedon for him (and also for ourselves sadly). But if you don't stand for something you will go for anything...
I need to send off a backup of jws.social today and then I probably won't post anything new to @… until after the migration to the new host.
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?
I sure hope Mamdani does something about NYC's fucked up public school system, because our kids' 2E school just raised tuition to *$105k* per year. This is not an elite prep school or anything fancy, this is just an elementary/middle school that does things for kids on the spectrum that public schools were already supposed to be doing (as dictated by their IEPs).
This, as much as anything else, is why I went Mac. https://digipres.club/@foone/116054096345781110
The second #PSLV launch in a row has ended in failure, at almost the same time during the burn of the 3rd stage as the last one: https://x.com/Dillonshrop06/status/2010579794191401168 - so far ISRO hasn't explained anything.
203gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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…
I’m will get sister’s Kindle too, they don’t use theirs, and it’s a newer model with a better e-ink display than mine. I read a lot of anarchist theory on my jailbroken Kindle.
Technically, a jailbroken Kindle can even run Linux, but for me, it is more just so I can free it from Amazon’s walled garden than anything else.
#Kindle
How awesome are public broadcasting productions? Just watched some episodes of BBC Sherlock Holmes forth the hundreds time. It's still magic. Same goes for several productions of the German public broadcasters like "Der Tatortreiniger" or "Doppelhaushälfte". Those are so much better than anything the private producers usually come up with...
Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
AVALON: I won't help you. You can't force me to help you.
TRAVIS: Don't be naive. I can force you to do anything. It isn't necessary, though. You're already helping me. Just by being here you've set in motion a chain of events that's been absolutely predetermined.
https://
I'm currently working through a ridiculous pile of paperwork that has accumulated over the last turbulent months (handing in #PhD, birth of K2, etc.)
#Paperless, a good scanner (Epson ES-580W), and these¹ little ASN-QR-code stickers make digitization of anything paper a bliss!
¹
People who believe in magic sky fairies shouldn’t be in charge of anything, let alone nuclear weapons.
The Powerful Never Stop Anything Voluntarily - The Concho Observer
https://conchoobserver.com/powerful-never-stop-anything-voluntarily/
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?
I survived the first formal exercise class I've ever been to: a trial session of Reformer Pilates.
I don't think I actually reformed anything really, but did spend a lot of time breathing the wrong way.
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/
"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.
I'm off for a few days of remote field work away from the Wasa research station here in Antarctica.
Try not to break or lose anything while I'm gone. Like NATO.
Or Greenland.
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.
Cowboys to play the first NFL game in Rio de Janeiro in 2026 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-to-play-the-first-nfl-game-in-rio-de-janeiro-in-2026
🇺🇦 #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
Hmmm. #ATmosphereConf wrapped, is this anything?
@olof-loves-ai.bsky.social will you join us in Vancouver in March? Would love to have you submit to the CFP: news.atmosphereconf.org/3m6z2b7ovyk2i
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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…
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/…
RE: https://mastodon.online/@jchyip/116059031767089232
I certainly have NO TRUST in anything this administration says.
Some skepticism is something I have long thought wise. But this administration is so extreme and so consistently lies and breaks th…
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…
I'm following 706 people and I really should figure out how to remove anyone who don't actually post anything anymore.
From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched https://www.404media.co/flock-ice-surveillance-technology-reddit-ama/
101gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@… So sorry. Just so know that there are lots of men who support you and feel no need to explain anything to you.
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.
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.
The US military has always had a massive global advantage against enemies by having bases all over the world. There are bases in every NATO country. This would appear to be a powerful threat to anyone willing to oppose American hegemon, and under normal conditions it would be.
But a lot of those kids serving on those bases joined, not because they love America but, because they needed a ticket out of poverty. They joined for the education, for the money, maybe a bit for the adventure, but, more than anything, to escape the ghetto or podunk backwater that trapped them. Under normal times, this is the best deal they could expect. Maybe they risk their lives, usually they sit around being bored for a few years, and they get to come out with respect and paid college.
But what they are being offered is normal in most of the countries they're stationed in. Free healthcare, cheap or free education, is just what citizens in a lot of countries have come to expect. If the US attacked a NATO country, how many would snap up citizenship if they were given a chance to defect? Bonus points for taking some hardware with you, I'm sure.
But there are some who love their country. There are some patriotic Americans on those bases. Some of them joined specifically to protect the US from all enemies, foreign *and* domestic. Given a chance to fulfill that oath or violate international law, what happens?
There are a good number of former military folks too who now are unsafe in the countries they served, who would do just about anything for citizenship in any EU country and almost any NATO ally. Some of those folks know things they swore an oath to never share, but the country they swore an oath to has betrayed them. Today there's no value in leaking those secrets, but in a war between the US and NATO allies things would be different. Some of those former military folks still believe in their oath, and know exactly who the real enemy is. What happens when there's a real threat of war, when they can use their knowledge to fulfill that oath to protect the US against those domestic threats?
There are a bunch of civilian tech workers who have become targets of the regime. Some of them had clearance, or know about the skeletons in the closet. They know about critical infrastructure, classified systems, all sorts of things that would be extremely valuable to an opponent. But the opponents of the US have always been a frightening *other*, never familiar societies these folks look up to, have visited, have thought about moving to, are trying to escape to.
All I'm saying here is that invading Venezuela and kidnapping the president has a very different calculus than does attacking Greenland. I don't know if Trump or his people are able to understand that, but if he and his folks aren't then I hope European leaders are. But more than that, I hope it never comes down to finding out.
But perhaps we should all think about what we would do to make sure things ended quickly if American leadership ever made such an incredible mistake.
Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration? https://news.keckmedicine.org/can-a-retinal-implant-reverse-macular-degeneration/ using a stem cell-derived patch. A Phase IIb randomized, multicenter trial of subretinal CPCB-RPE1 in advanced dry AMD …
And the press conference is over.
I’m really glad to hear this news. I keep saying that we cannot and must not rely on or wait for the law or politicians to save us. However, both are important cogs in this system — and anything that offers a moment of respite is desperately needed right now, whether that’s an emergency injunction or the Trump regime faltering while they try to avoid one.
Tom Mulcair: "Trump doesn't get the joke about the ‘Donroe Doctrine’”
.... but does Tom get the joke about his relevance to anything at all?
#canPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/tom-mulcair-trump-doesnt-get-the-joke-about-the-donroe-doctrine/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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/…
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'.
@… Found an old XP laptop I got from a relative, and found some programs on it, and wondering if you need samples for anything. We've got Final Draft 6, Jasc Paint Shop Photo Album 4, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 Dell Edition w/ Animation Studio 3, Memorex exPressit Label Design Studio, Office XP, Sonic DLA & RecordNow!, and WordPerfect Office 11.
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.
212gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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. ;(
@… thanks for telling me that I haven't read anything.
Any more insults?
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/
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…
from my link log —
Writing an async runtime in Rust.
https://michaelhelvey.dev/posts/rust_async_runtime
saved 2026-02-03 https://
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
212gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115873537569365720
Oh, and in Norway I can legally change my gender, not that it really matters. If anything, it just proves how pointless the whole gender thing is to begin with.
There’s no option for t…
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
156gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
We should track down whomever decided streaming TV apps need to block taking a screenshot. They need to know a couple things:
1) Sharing screenshots generates interest, which means money for streamers & IP holders alike.
2) You know what doesn’t stop me from making a screenshot? Pirated media.
Do you even gain anything from stopping screenshots?
#Netflix
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…
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…
"Did the Upper Great Highway closure make Sunset neighborhood streets less safe? Supervisor Alan Wong claimed it did at a January 8, 2026 press conference, citing a simple year-over-year map comparison of crash data. But my analysis, using the same DataSF crash data with rigorous statistical controls, finds no evidence to support that claim, and if anything, the data suggest the opposite."
168gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Typical american thinking, anything can be bought, it is so pathetic... $10,000 to $100,000 per person is not even that much for giving up freedom , healthcare, cheap education etcetera
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-…
Had a long talk with Elder Spawn this morning and I’m a bit at a loss for trying to be the wise old Dad…
She got tailspun by Covid, she has chronic health issues, & she hasn’t responded to her friends for a couple months. One of them who’s local here called me as they were on the verge of calling the Las Vegas PD to ask for a wellness check.
She does not let my call go to VM. She’s in no emergent danger. She’s stuck. Doesn’t feel safe doing anything that she understands as an…
164gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
For example, with “AI” hypers will tell you that you’ll be “unemployable” and “get left behind” while doomers say “it will kill us all”.
Imagine them saying this about hammers.
It’s self-evident why they do this: you can’t sustain hype based on objectively looking at a thing that’s just not all that useful—and anything that’s overwhelmingly actually useful doesn’t need hype to be sustained.
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
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
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-…
212gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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.
214gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
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240gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
216gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
187gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2