2025-12-24 05:01:41
If you’re white enough to move with privilege, you can help by making an extra point of being out and about, keeping your eyes open, and carrying a whistle.
Some lovely succinct instructions I heard today if you see ICE: don’t be violent, don’t be silent.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart:
🎵 A Teenager in Love
#ThePainsofBeingPureatHeart
https://thepainsofbeingpureatheart.bandcamp.com/track/a-teenager-in-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/5JMur5IZCCWUdFFRt7ekbf
🌞 Dual use of land for solar energy production and cultivation found feasible in Finland
... few people realize what a win agrivoltaics are for farmers and the environment!
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-dual-solar-energy-production-cultivation.ht…
Robert Saleh wants to be a head coach again -- but isn't desperate after 49ers return https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47384999/is-san-francisco-49ers-robert-saleh-open-being-head-coach-again-2026
New open-access paper: Degrowth is popular in the US and UK!
The label "degrowth" is not, but the policy substance is. "Ecosocialism" or "well-being economy" were labels that got better reactions.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/<…
Oof, fuck microsoft.
But also, there's no reason to use permissive licenses any more. "Open source" has taken over the world. We no longer have to work with billion-dollar companies in order to get our stuff used. Now we need to protect ourselves from being taken advantage of by them.
https://
OpenAI forms the Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, with eight experts to help guide OpenAI's work on ChatGPT and Sora (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/open-ai-expert-council-safety-ftc.html
Last week Lord Murray of Blidworth made a good point about the Open Justice principle being applied to immigration/asylum decisions, especially since people read reports that suggest things like "has a cat" and "doesn't like foreign chicken nuggets" are cited as definitive reasons, without the press/public being able to interrogate those claims.
(A point made *minutes* after the chicken nuggets story was repeated in the debate.)
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STM32MP2 bringup progress: I have a "FSBL" (really my whole firmware) image booting from QSPI flash, doing some very low level init, then hanging before it starts the UART.
But it's able to open up debug access without needing ST's wrapper. I hard code a few pointers for SFRs that I don't have structs for but it's enough that I can get gdb attached and the code isn't TOO ugly.
Now I need to figure out why Timer::Sleep() is being derpy in BSP_InitUART…
🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Being Special
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
https://pamparecords.bandcamp.com/album/being-special-pampa029
https://open.spotify.com/track/5XAoSMs4PY590w0QOhKAnC
"Although Ecosia is a not-for-profit, they seem to be re-enacting the for-profit erosion of human knowledge and the active murder of the open web currently being orchestrated by Google and the other tech giants."
(Original title: Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech)
https://
We’re grateful to Elon Musk for proving once again
why the world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms
and log on to a better way of being online.
The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodon.
Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society.
The term "digital sovereignty" means that an institution has autonomy and control over the critical…
Great to see @… running with #ProtocolsForPublishers
Chad is a huge open protocols advocate, and fortunately he's not completely engineering brained and has been spending time at the Internet Governance Forum and other important venues that are m…
MeshCore is opensource
The foundation of MeshCore is developed primarily by a single developer who is incredibly hardworking, dedicated and idealistic about keeping everything he does fully open. The firmware and protocol specification are completely open, allowing anyone to create a client app or perform security audits on the device firmware implementation. Just hop over to the meshcore-dev github repo and have a look. There are also open source command line, python and javascript cl…
Took an RSA test today and the handbooks weren't there, teacher filled the time with conversations about ChatGPT "being open-source" and that the under-16s ban is gonna be fine, I think I deserve the license after going through 6 and a half hours of that.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter:
🎵 Forever, I've Been Being Born
#JesseSykes #TheSweetHereafter
https://jessesykesandthesweethereafter.bandcamp.com/track/gentle-chaperone
https://open.spotify.com/track/2XbGMMtS3wTNpaQhdM4i80
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The Human League:
🎵 Being Boiled
#TheHumanLeague
https://laag.bandcamp.com/track/being-boiled-the-human-league
https://open.spotify.com/track/6fbeOOv9u5JQwZx4pyW4mY
VR as a "Drop-In" Well-being Tool for Knowledge Workers
Sophia Ppali, Haris Psallidopoulos, Marios Constantinides, Fotis Liarokapis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02836 ht…
Here's how things are going in nazi America. Cause America in general may be still far from being nazi, but parts of it are right there already.
https://www.threads.com/@barbaraj.sobel/post/DQtnPSeEX8p
We’re grateful to Elon Musk for proving once again
why the world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms
and log on to a better way of being online.
The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodon.
Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society.
The term "digital sovereignty" means that an institution has autonomy and control over the critical…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter:
🎵 Forever, I've Been Being Born
#JesseSykes #TheSweetHereafter
https://jessesykesandthesweethereafter.bandcamp.com/track/gentle-chaperone
https://open.spotify.com/track/2XbGMMtS3wTNpaQhdM4i80
Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol
Car brains everywhere: "In June 1935 he was knocked off his bicycle on an open stretch of road south of London, ... "
Es war ein Autofahrer und kein himmlischer Hammerschlag aus dem Nichts!
#motornormativity #guardian
another case of AGPLv3 being used extractively! https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742d469462e1561c776f88ca7a1f26816d69e2
MobiLLM: An Agentic AI Framework for Closed-Loop Threat Mitigation in 6G Open RANs
Prakhar Sharma, Haohuang Wen, Vinod Yegneswaran, Ashish Gehani, Phillip Porras, Zhiqiang Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21634
«The tech industry is being taken over by merchants of services, and the Open Source community is starting to depend on them. We've seen this coming, with GitHub being a startup, bought by Microsoft which is now pushing AI. They are the means of production.»
And FLOSS would be doing well to divest from the industrial-owened means of production sooner rather than later.
What AI is doing to developers - (not) my ideas
https://notmyidea.org/what-ai-is-doing-to-developers.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Wet Leg:
🎵 Being In Love
#WetLeg
https://wetleg.bandcamp.com/track/being-in-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/4VBE0mwU8Nmm8hiqfCe4Ve
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[…] Paradoxically, the more a population grew, the more precious it became, as it offered a supply of cheap labour, and by lowering costs allowed a greater expansion of production and trade. In this infinitely open labour market, the ‘fundamental price’, which for Turgot meant a subsistence level for workers, and the price determined by supply and demand ended up as the same thing. A country was all the more commercially competitive for having at its disposal the virtual wealth that a large population represented.
Confinement was therefore a clumsy error, and an economic one at that: there was no sense in trying to suppress poverty by taking it out of the economic circuit and providing for a poor population by charitable means. To do that was merely to hide poverty, and suppress an important section of the population, which was always a given wealth. Rather than helping the poor escape their provisionally indigent situation, charity condemned them to it, and dangerously so, by putting a brake on the labour market in a period of crisis. What was required was to palliate the high cost of products with cheaper labour, and to make up for their scarcity by a new industrial and agricultural effort. The only reasonable remedy was to reinsert the population in the circuit of production, being sure to place labour in areas where manpower was most scarce. The use of paupers, vagabonds, exiles and émigrés of any description was one of the secrets of wealth in the competition between nations. […]
Confinement was to be criticised because of the effects it had on the labour market, but also because like all other traditional forms of charity, it constituted a dangerous form of finance. As had been the case in the Middle Ages, the classical era had constantly attempted to look after the needs of the poor by a system of foundations. This implied that a section of the land capital and revenues were out of circulation. In a definitive manner too, as the concern was to avoid the commercialisation of assistance to the poor, so judicial measures had been taken to ensure that this wealth never went back into circulation. But as time passed, their usefulness diminished: the economic situation changed, and so did the nature of poverty.
«Society does not always have the same needs. The nature and distribution of property, the divisions between the different orders of the people, opinions, customs, the occupations of the majority of the population, the climate itself, diseases and all the other accidents of human life are in constant change. New needs come into being, and old ones disappear.» [Turgot, Encyclopédie]
The definitive character of a foundation was in contradiction with the variable and changing nature of the accidental needs to which it was designed to respond. The wealth that it immobilised was never put back into circulation, but more wealth was to be created as new needs appeared. The result was that the proportion of funds and revenues removed from circulation constantly increased, while that of production fell in consequence. The only possible result was increased poverty, and a need for more foundations. The process could continue indefinitely, and the fear was that one day ‘the ever increasing number of foundations might absorb all private funds and all private property’. When closely examined, classical forms of assistance were a cause of poverty, bringing a progressive immobilisation that was like the slow death of productive wealth:
«If all the men who have ever lived had been given a tomb, sooner or later some of those sterile monuments would have been dug up in order to find land to cultivate, and it would have become necessary to stir the ashes of the dead in order to feed the living.» [Turgot, Lettre Š Trudaine sur le Limousin]
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants | Brennan Center for Justice
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/ice-wants-go-after-dissenters-well-immigrants
Is it really foss?
Where Projects are Evaluated — To see if they're as free and open source as advertised. The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth.
This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.
💻 https://isitreallyfoss.com
"Emma Graves, 44, was evading police in Rockstar’s open world classic when a car being chased by police crashed into the wall of her flat on Thornhill Road, Armley, just inches from where she was playing her PlayStation."
Sometimes I had "5 stars wanted" level in GTA, but it never escalated that badly.😂
Opponent Shaping in LLM Agents
Marta Emili Garcia Segura, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08255 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08255
PUBLICATION> open access, Damien Keown "Well-Being in Theravada Buddhism" 3rd edition
https://ift.tt/8qsSlZB
Contention Vol. 7, Issue 1 Dear Colleague, The new issue of Contention has…
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If you have a problem with secureblue being open and honest, we’re not the same.
"secureblue is for those whose first priority is using Linux, and second priority is security. secureblue does not claim to be the most secure option available on the desktop. We are limited in that regard by the current state of desktop Linux standardization, tooling, and upstream security development. What we aim for instead is to be the most secure option for those who already intend to use Linux. …
The Browser Company says AI browser Dia is "now open to everyone on macOS" without an invite, Dia's first time being widely available since its June launch (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/797436/dia-browser-available-mac
The answer to "the AI systems that corporate overlords push everywhere are shit" is not "so we need open source AI".
These systems are shit cause they structurally are. They are just being shoved everywhere to reduce labor power. "Open source AI" (if that even existed) is not changing that.
ICE has purchased “a smorgasbord of spy technology: social media monitoring, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools, and more … the government openly says it will use [these] capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions [including] anti-ICE protesters.”
#ICE #protest
Homebrew removing support for `--no-quarantine` for casks
#homebrew
Do you have the ability to write code for Apple platforms? Do you know what MDM / device management is? Do you understand what Compliance is? Do you care about being able to use a Mac or iPad or iPhone for work or school?
Does the idea of dealing with the bugs that can crop up from things like "this needs to be reliably managed like a server, but a human randomly sleeps it mid-process and when it wakes up it's in a different country!" sound interesting to you?
If so - come be my direct co-worker!
Need to be able to be based in/work within the US, but the team itself is fully remote. Multiple positions open.
Feel free to DM me with questions
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200628824-0836/software-engineer-test-infrastructure
Learning about this flute was what put me on the path of considering how closely intertwined the creation of art is with our very humanity (and our closest evolutionary relatives like Neandertals). I have come to the conclusion that that the drive to create art is one of the defining characteristics of being human, and the drive to create also drives our technological advances.
#ArtsPedagogy
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Being Dead:
🎵 Godzilla Rises
#BeingDead
https://beingdead.bandcamp.com/track/godzilla-rises
https://open.spotify.com/track/7bPEDBxCNc6wqD2AhL771h
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TIL why I can't access release files from open-source projects on GitHub anymore.
It seems that the IP for release-assets.githubusercontent.com got added to ipthreat.net list:
https://ipthreat.net/ip/185.199.111.133
Malware is actually being distributed via GitHub, but the majorit…
Read every embarrassing thing about felon trump into the congressional record.
Make it a weekly night event on the floor for cspan and advertise it.
Make a bingo game out of it.
Read off the court transcripts trump and his ilk.
Enjoy yourselves while you do this.
Bullies hate being mocked.
If the GNP (Grand Nazi Party) wants to stop you, make them own the chamber 24/7.
Tell them you will stop making them own the space when they start to push bac…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jen Cloher:
🎵 Being Human
#NowPlaying #JenCloher
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
Even before "AI", there was a retreat into the more private digital spaces, like closed instant messaging groups etc to avoid spam/bots/surveillance etc. But the drastically increased rate at which our public online commons are being polluted, thanks to "AI" slop will just accelerate this retreat.
It's really sad to see the open, weird web disappear like that, even if I understand the reasons why.
PUBLICATION> open access, Damien Keown "Well-Being in Theravada Buddhism" 3rd edition
https://ift.tt/azqgQCN
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
via Input 4 RELCFP
False Discovery Rate Control via Bayesian Mirror Statistic
Marco Molinari, Magne Thoresen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00875 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00875…
Two things are worth noticing right now:
1. The military brass *did not* respond well to Trump and Hegseth.
2. The deployment to #Portland keeps getting delayed.
The military will never say "no" to the president (unless he's literally ordering them to open fire on unarmed civilians or something equally obviously illegal). But there are ways to not comply that don't necessarily involve refusal. Brass showing that they aren't aligned with Trump may weaken his billionaire backers, who might be realizing now that weak dictators who can't lead their militaries tend to get toppled... and their oligarch-backers tend to end up against walls.
If folks being ordered to send troops to #PDX don't want to comply, delaying until the there's an initial response from the lawsuit would be basically impossible to detect. The deployment to LA went far too fast, running into logistical challenges like troops sleeping on the floor. The delays we've already seen could indicate either a more careful approach or quiet resistance.
Trump will continue to escalate at every chance he gets. I would be surprised if PDX didn't give him a fight. I doubt the troops will become more interested in serving a guy who's stabbed them in the back and wasted their time at every opportunity.
It is still possible troops just won't deploy. Trump will make something up about how just the threat of an intervention was enough to make things safe or something like that. If we see that, it's 100% the military telling him to kick rocks because he's not competent enough to know when to back down.
Honestly, I think Trump wants revenge for the resistance PDX put up at the end of his last term. Any backing down from that is absolutely a big loss for him.
Non-fibered strongly quasipositive links and tightness
Isacco Nonino, Miguel Orbegozo Rodriguez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26183 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…
Browns open 21-day practice window for Watson https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47189848/browns-qb-deshaun-watson-return-practice-achilles-injury
You’ll still get your social security and Medicare.
Flights will keep going, but with unpaid and possibly limited staff.
Most parks will remain open, but will probably be under-maintained.
Smithsonian museums and the National zoo are open through at least 6 October.
Federal workers are the hardest hit, withmany being unpaid or furloughed.
Consumer protections, which have already been hit hard by cuts, are at risk of incapacity.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Andrew Gold:
🎵 Thank You for Being a Friend
#AndrewGold
https://classicaldestruction.bandcamp.com/track/andrew-gold-thank-you-for-being-a-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/6zo7fVRNHZGZDeQK6rWwL6
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
DEVO:
🎵 Through Being Cool
#DEVO
https://comatonse.bandcamp.com/track/through-being-cool
https://open.spotify.com/track/5kfLpp8PYsTRVImqoJ64KZ
Debating NFL Week 9 overreactions -- and what they mean for the trade deadline https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46819456/nfl-week-9-overreactions-surprises-fantasy-trade-deadline-chris-olave-saints-dolphins…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pet Shop Boys:
🎵 Being Boring
#NowPlaying #PetShopBoys
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Salin:
🎵 Being Here
#Salin
#Spotify
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart:
🎵 Laid
#ThePainsofBeingPureatHeart
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JBhtS8zMP6QZFdSCzRjUa
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
The Human League:
🎵 Being Boiled
#TheHumanLeague
https://laag.bandcamp.com/track/being-boiled-the-human-league
https://open.spotify.com/track/6rlRrK9tCZnoVTAk4te7AT
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Audioasis
Well Being:
🎵 Pleasure Garden (Adapt 2 The Culture Mix)
#WellBeing
https://wellbeing.bandcamp.com/album/pleasure-garden
https://open.spotify.com/track/1wQs4KCJvdzPFsG2v3NekD
You may (or may not) recall the #Freenode takeover mess. However, thanks to #IRC being an open and widely supported protocol, many projects migrated to #LiberaChat with as little disruption as possible.
Good news is, your walled garden is unlikely to suffer the fate of Freenode — because it already is there, from day one. What are you going to do when your project suddenly gets banned and you lose access to everything — including all the data that you shouldn't have kept there in the first place? Of course, come up with some corporate bullshit of "join us on our illustrious journey to the next walled garden, and don't forget to install another 200 MiB privacy nightmare app not to be excluded from our community".
#Discord
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Phoenix:
🎵 Everything Is Everything
#Phoenix
https://aiphoenix.bandcamp.com/album/hey-now-being-here-is-everything
https://open.spotify.com/track/3pzJXZ1PW3l3B69PoTx5lC
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter:
🎵 Forever, I’ve Been Being Born
#JesseSykes #TheSweetHereafter
https://jessesykesandthesweethereafter.bandcamp.com/track/gentle-chaperone
https://open.spotify.com/track/2XbGMMtS3wTNpaQhdM4i80
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1r22YroTqfHn6X0RvVg67f
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Ess Whiteley:
🎵 Music for Moving & Being
#EssWhiteley
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/track/music-for-moving-being
https://open.spotify.com/track/6li0w5Ex3Bb0WDEu5GPTD9
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Phoenix:
🎵 Everything Is Everything
#Phoenix
https://aiphoenix.bandcamp.com/album/hey-now-being-here-is-everything
https://open.spotify.com/track/3pzJXZ1PW3l3B69PoTx5lC
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Matt Berry:
🎵 Are You Being Served?
#MattBerry
https://open.spotify.com/track/4XjBQysZA0R5TQYnKXcv0i
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
The Beta Band:
🎵 Human Being
#TheBetaBand
https://open.spotify.com/track/54dx2aVq7izoiA1IDIxt4T
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter:
🎵 Forever, I've Been Being Born
#JesseSykes #TheSweetHereafter
https://jessesykesandthesweethereafter.bandcamp.com/track/gentle-chaperone
https://open.spotify.com/track/2XbGMMtS3wTNpaQhdM4i80