Tootfinder

GitHub is broken again today. Instead of the work you planned to do, why not read my (recent, relevant) post on how we got here? (if you missed it last week)
https://seancoates.com/blogs/how-we-got-here

"Saving Tangible Media for Tomorrow: A Reflection from Natalie Nemes" @ The Signal
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/07/natalie-nemes/
"When I tell people that I intern at the Library of Congress reformatting obsolete media such as CDs, DVDs, and flopp…

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Admiring an old slide deck from Ben O'Steen @… when he was Tech Lead at BL Labs. From typical research quests to patterns in working with open data: explore first, then transition into investigation and completion mode

I've noticed access to fsf.org and gnu.org through Tor (e.g., torify, onion browser) is unreliable. As in the connection is often refused.
I'm not sure if this is a recent change at the content end, perhaps due to this: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/blocking…

Who Is Jesus to You? Cecile Mentor Interviews the Christian Philosopher Andreas Saugstad
By Cecile Mentor in collaboration with Andreas Saugstad Andreas Saugstad is a Norwegian thinker who connects Christian mysticism, everyday experience, and philosophy in a personal way....

Who Is Jesus to You? Cecile Mentor Interviews the Christian Philosopher Andreas Saugstad | David Boles, Blogs
By Cecile Mentor in collaboration with Andreas Saugstad Andreas Saugstad is a Norwegian thinker who connects Christian mysticism, everyday experience, and philosophy in a personal way. At the heart…

#NowPlaying I know very little about this album except Walter Sons was a professor of musicology in Germany who organized ensembles (of students?) to perform his compositions called “Glasmusik”. Over the years, I’ve collected a few albums of drones made from rubbing, bowing, or scraping glass and I guess you could say it’s become an obsession. Came across this during the heyday of music blogs in…

from my link log —
How to copy files to an Xteink X3 by making it pretend to be a printer.
https://nishantjosh.dev/blogs/how-to-build-a-fking-printer/
saved 2026-09-09

How to build a f**king printer · Nishant Joshi
If you're giving me e-paper, I'm going to make an e-printer.

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

It’s 2026 and I’m running a #BBS like it’s 1991.
#yulbbs on here b…

Sigh, another piece from the LSE that takes as unproblematic the question of economic growth.
Why do people know no better?
Net zero and growth go hand in hand | LSE British Politics https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/net-zero-and-growth-go-hand-in-…

Alpamayo 2 Super, Nvidia's frontier open reasoning model for robotaxis and AVs, is now available for commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 license (Jessica Soares/NVIDIA)
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/alpamayo-2-super-open-model-now-available/

NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super, the Frontier Open Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Vehicles, Now Available for Commercial Use
Open commercial licensing, benchmark‑leading reasoning and inspectable decisions bring autonomous vehicles, including robotaxis, closer to production and widescale deployment.

➡️ feedle: Search RSS Feeds from Blogs and Podcasts
#bookmarks

feedle: Search and Discover Quality RSS Feeds from Thousands of Blogs and Podcasts
A search engine for blogs and podcasts, where every search is an RSS feed.

NASA’s #Dragonfly is starting to look less like a collection of spacecraft parts and more like the rotorcraft that will fly across the surface of Titan, Saturn’s hazy moon: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/dragonfly/2026/07/09/nasas-dragonfly-clears-key-tests-as-titan-rotorcraft-takes-shape/ - the mission reached a major milestone on June 29, when the Dragonfly team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, delivered the nearly 13-foot-long fuselage for the next phase of spacecraft integration ahead of schedule.

Good piece by Sean Goedecke, and I agree-
'Blog about things you don't understand yet': #blogs

Blog about things you don't understand yet

Wow, what a shame that they're going out of business.
I read the whole post on their site detailing what happened, and I just feel for this.
https://www.tomboytoes.com/blogs/news/tomboy-toes-is-closing

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

A different but related problem: in #DnD, hit dice measure both physical endurance and offensive combat ability. A large but otherwise docile foe can punch easily through armour to deliver its trivial damage repeatedly.
#ttrpg #osr

This article is utter nonsense. The planning system does not prevent building.
1) The NPPF has a presumption for sustainable development, where 'sustainable' is nothing of the sort.
2) Sure councils can refuse planning applications but a) if they are the sponsors, why would they, and b) if they do then the planning inspectorate / Secretary of State will overturn the decision.
/contd.

Without radical planning reform, Burnham cannot build the houses he’s promising | LSE British Politics
Governments keep promising more houses, and keep failing to build them. If Burnham is to keep his promise, there needs to be a radical reform to planning rules.

Era uma vez um blogue sobre literatura fantšstica relacionada com o Algarve que estava alojado nos blogues do Sapo.
O endereço era (e contunuarš a ser, durante algum tempo) https://fantasticoalgarve.blogs.sapo.pt/
Pois bem, agora estš no Wordpress, em

As far as I can tell, United Airlines doesn't have any public #IPv6 space.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networkin

How United Airlines solved IP exhaustion with Private NAT Gateway | Amazon Web Services
United Airlines, a major U.S. airline headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, moves over 181 million passengers annually across a global route network. When severe weather grounds flights or air traffic control issues cascade across the network, United Airlines needs every system to scale instantly, rebooking passengers, reassigning crews, reprocessing flight data. But with hundreds of AWS […]

Behind the Blog: With Blogs Like These, Who Needs a Private Jet https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-with-blogs-like-these-who-needs-a-private-jet/

Acabo de descubrir que existe un buscador que muestra sólo resultados de blogs y pšginas por el estilo. Su "Acerca de" es toda una declaración de intenciones y amor por la #smolweb https://wiby.me/about/

Did some work on the website:
- optional dark mode
- new post: https://seancoates.com/blogs/how-we-got-here
- soft launched: Hire Me https://

Voyager 2 and its twin launched in 1977, Voyager 1, rely on a form of nuclear battery known as a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that uses the heat produced by the decay of plutonium.
But the supply of plutonium on each probe drops at about four watts a year on each spacecraft.
To keep the probe running on this dwindling power supply, engineers recently reduced Voyager 2's power requirements by turning off a few non-science devices
and using "lower-power alte…

NASA Engineers Help Prolong Voyager 2’s Science Mission
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have successfully freed up power on Voyager 2, extending how long the spacecraft can continue to do

The Great Wargaming Survey 2026
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/blogs/great-wargaming-survey-blog-wss-magazine/the-great-wargaming-survey-2026 took me 5 minutes to fill. Great easy to win prizes, sharing for…

The Great Wargaming Survey 2026
It's August, so there is another edition of the Great Wargaming Survey. For the thirteenth time (uh-oh) wargamers worldwide are invited to share their opinions and experiences so we can all learn about ourselves. Compared to previous editions, there are some very familiar questions, a few new ones, a few questions that

Every know and then, I get a little bit tired
Of listening to the sound of my tears
(turn around)
Every now and then, I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by
(turn around, bright eyes)
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart
(turn around, bright eyes)
Forever's gonna start tonight

S07E06 - "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Jim Steinman and Bonnie Tyler
Turn around... every now and then I get a little lonely and the snare is sounding smallTurn around... every now and then I get a little bit tired of listening to the sound of sleigh bellsTurn around... every now and then I get a little bit nervous that the cannons will not fireTurn around......every now and then Kirk d

➡️ Ye Olde Blogroll - Because blogs are the soul of the web
#bookmarks

Ye Olde Blogroll - Because blogs are the soul of the web
You are viewing a humanly curated list fine personal & independent blogs and sites that are updated regularly. No algorithms ever!

Omdia expects a 22% YoY drop in global smartphone shipments priced below $400 for 2026 amid soaring DRAM and NAND costs; Q1 memory costs were ~60% of materials (Zaker Li/Omdia)
https://omdia.tech.informa.com/blogs/2

With less than two months until the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace #Roman Space Telescope, engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing the observatory for its trip to space: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/07/09/nasas-roman-launch-preparations-proceed/ - inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians used large cranes to carefully lift Roman and place it onto a specialized work platform, known as the Pantheon.

So, all the posts millions of us have done on blogs and Wikipedia and Reddit, you're gonna scrape those and then get a dodgy autocorrect to repeat that data back for us.
But we'll have to pay for it and it'll be wrong???
AND it'll increase pollution AND raise all tech prices?
SIGN ME UP!

Begging for My Mother: Find A Grave and the Strangers Who Collect Our Dead
This morning I signed into Find A Grave to update my mother's memorial and discovered that I no longer manage her page....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/14/begg

Begging for My Mother: Find A Grave and the Strangers Who Collect Our Dead | David Boles, Blogs
This morning I signed into Find A Grave to update my mother’s memorial and discovered that I no longer manage her page. No email warned me. Nothing in my account records the change. Six famil…

I've done a wee experimental feed aggregator for #Gaza #blogs here:
https://www.journeyman.cc/~simon/tmp/gazab

Democracy rally planned for anniversary of MLK-led March on Washington (Finya Swai/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5970187-defend-vote-march-washington/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p86#a260715p86

"For the Benefit of Humankind:” The Library of Congress and AI for Libraries, Archives and Museums"
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/06/library-of-congress-and-ai4lam/

The more time I spend on Bluesky or Mastodon, the fewer personal blogs I read via RSS.
The more personal blogs I read, the less time I spend on Bluesky or Mastodon.
How about you?

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

I like Cory Doctorow's blogs and also this one,
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/supplemental-income/
But he is wrong in one of the first sentences in my view.
"As a technology, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not e…

A great example of optical music recognition (OMR) used to convert old sheet music into digital formats that could then be played through synthesisers: Bringing Forgotten Music Back to Life with Optical Music Recognition https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/22/br

Relevant für alle, die noblogs.org-Blogs haben:
"On August 28, 2026, someone managed to gain access to the noblogs.org platform as a privileged user, exploiting a vulnerability in the software we use to provide the platform.
The access lasted for about two hours, during which the homepage of noblogs.org was changed, and we cannot rule out that the attacker may have had access to the users’ database (...)"

Blogs und Newsseiten, die beim Scrollen automagisch neue Beiträge nachladen (ja, auch auf Artikelseiten: „Lesen Sie passend zum Thema:…“). Und das Impressum am Ende der Seite verlinken. Zefix! 🤡 #uxfromhell

Both of my blogs are offline at the moment, The ISP is working on them: dcscience.net and OneMol.org.uk should be back soon.

Looking for recommendations for blogs with RSS feeds that cover American independent comics. I stopped going to the comic book shop on the regular and I've fallen out of touch.

The Name You Cannot Give Yourself
Every semester it happens by the second week. A student in ASL 1, bright and eager and already half in love with the language, waits until the room empties and asks me for a sign name....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/13/the-name-…

The Name You Cannot Give Yourself | David Boles, Blogs
Every semester it happens by the second week. A student in ASL 1, bright and eager and already half in love with the language, waits until the room empties and asks me for a sign name. The asking i…

Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning (Skild AI)
https://www.skild.ai/blogs/s1

Introducing S1: In-Context Learning for Robotics
S1 is our flagship robotic foundation model, built from the ground up as an in-context learner: show it a single video demonstration of a task, seen or unseen, short or long-horizon, and it executes with no fine-tuning or post-training.

Israel is really running the playbook of the 1700s and 1800s US genocide of Native Americans, step by step, against Palestinians today— letting paramilitary settlers attack and occupy and then intervening militarily on the side of the settlers.
https://electronicintifada.net/bl…

Antichrist-Theologie, Anti-Demokratie-Blogs, Eugenik-Manifeste und ein rassistischer Geburtenkult: Das Netzwerk um Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Marc Andreessen und Elon Musk hat System – und reicht bis zu Jens Spahn. Mein Blick auf die Ideologie hinter den Schlagzeilen. #TechBros #Demokratie

Wir bauen Kemnat in Luanti nach dank Blockalot Zum Abschluss des Schuljahrs haben sich Eltern gewünscht, dass die Kinder auf einem separaten Server nur für sich weiterspielen können. Dies lässt sich am einfachsten mit Blockalot realisieren, einem Projekt des LMZ Baden-Württemberg. Lehrkräfte können sich dort einen Account klicken und bis zu drei Klassenzimmer anlegen. Neben vorbereiteten Lernwelten Vollständiger Beitrag:

The Voice Goes Off: Writing My Half of Back to Willowbrook
On the first day of my classes at New York University, the voice goes off. I stand at the front of the room and I do not speak, and no one else will speak for the rest of the semester, because the language my students have come to learn does not live in the throat....

The Voice Goes Off: Writing My Half of Back to Willowbrook | David Boles, Blogs
On the first day of my classes at New York University, the voice goes off. I stand at the front of the room and I do not speak, and no one else will speak for the rest of the semester, because the …

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Nachdem Austeritätspolitik im Vereinigten Königreich unnötiges Leid verursacht hat (siehe Link), hatte ich nicht erwartet nur kurze Zeit später "sozialdemokratische" Austeritätspolitik zu erleben.
#SPD #Austerität

The cost of austerity: How UK public spending cuts led to 190,000 excess deaths - LSE Inequalities
Austerity measures (2010-19) cost the average Briton nearly 1/2 a year in life expectancy. Regional disparities widened and 190,000 excess deaths occurred.

Aus usern die eigene blogs, tutorials und webseiten bauten, wurden süchtige konsument*innen. Danke #marktwirtschaft.
#DankeGeld

Die UB der Seton Hall University in den USA hat einen LibGuide für die Fußball-WM zusammengestellt: https://blogs.shu.edu/libraries/2026/06/world-cup-soccer-championship-library-guide/

Eine sehr schöne Sache an der nun von den USA als terroristisch deklarierten Blog-Plattform noblogs.org ist, dass diese Blogs direkt mit dem Fediverse verbunden werden können, durch das Plug-In ActivityPub.
So könnt Ihr meinem (inzwischen sehr trägen) Blog annalist hier direkt folgen und direkt von hier aus auch dort kommentieren:
@…
…

A live blog of Apple's "Surprise and Shine" event, where new iPhone 18 Pro, Apple's first foldable phone, new Apple Watches, and AirPods are expected (The Verge)

iPhone 18 live blog: On the ground at Apple’s biggest event
The Verge’s ground crew live blogs the iPhone event from Apple Park. Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, is expected to announce a foldable iPhone, Apple Watches, and more.

As a result of exquisite planning by our orbital dynamics team, brilliant execution by the operations team, and a precise launch from SpaceX, the #Roman space telescope has fuel for at least 22 years of potential science operations: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/09/14/fuel-savings-double-potential-lifetime-for-nasas-roman-mission/ - the added life (10 years were required) comes from the first mid-course correction’s accuracy, extra fuel added prior to launch, and anticipated results from Roman’s upcoming second mid-course correction and orbital insertion.

Outline of a Christian Political Philosophical Theology
I defend a position in political thought that I call Christian anarcho-socialist liberalism. The idea is to create a Christian political philosophical theology that integrates the best elements from socialism, liberalism and anarchism....
https://

Outline of a Christian Political Philosophical Theology | David Boles, Blogs
I defend a position in political thought that I call Christian anarcho-socialist liberalism. The idea is to create a Christian political philosophical theology that integrates the best elements fro…

guten morgen! könntest Du vielleicht Deinen bluesky-account nach mastodon "bridgen", damit man Dir auch hier folgen kann? https://fed.brid.gy/docs#
hab grad erst gemerkt, dass ich Dich leider aus den augen verloren habe, weil der RSS-feed Deines blogs zzt. einen fehler wirft aufgrund der blog-überarbe…

Fab news from LC in 'New OCR Reprocessing Software and Datasets Portal for Chronicling America' - NDNP-Open-OCR is a 'highly accurate, cost-effective, scalable OCR reprocessing solution that uses advanced layout detection to improve text quality' https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/0

@… got me good, today.
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W / RP2350 64*64 LED panel. Embedded #Swift.
Here’s AC432 setting up for landing at YUL.
Project:

Customers making a Frontier Transformation benefit from:
▫️ automating manual processes
▫️ faster & tighter cybersecurity
▫️ improved customer engagement
✅ Looking back on Microsoft’s FY26: From AI experimentation to #Frontier Transformation
#Microsoft #ai

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Die KI-Sau wird wieder durchs Dorf getrieben. Bzw. das Thema "KI in Blogs". 🙄

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

A/I was possible to target because it's big. It's an easy target. Big centralized organizations are easy to target. What's much harder to target are small organizations.
The federal government has managed to take down hundreds of local antifascist groups, police accountability blogs, and small community projects. They were able to do that because they could pick one big target and knock it out.
It was also *foreign*. The FTO list only works *outside the US*. There's no legal mechanism right now to target US nationals operating in the US with similar sanctions. They had a tool, and they used it.
You have to make them work for it. There are only so many agents available for this work, and only so much time. If they had to take out 10 or 100 US hosting collectives instead of one Italian one, this would not have happened.
But there is an economy of scale working here....

A new US rule to restrict student visas will hurt the US economy | PIIE
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2026/new-us-rule-restrict-student-visas-will-hurt-us-economy

Regression to the mean can explain saturation of #geomagneticStorms: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10757-4 -> Risks of solar storms may be underestimated warn researchers / New NASA Study Says Possibly No Limit to Solar Storm Effects: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/risks-of-solar-storms-may-be-underestimated-warn-researchers / https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/07/15/new-nasa-study-says-possibly-no-limit-to-solar-storm-effects/

New on #blog: pkgbump: from a dumb tool to an irreplaceable helper
#Gentoo developer. It shouldn’t then be surprising that it is the one most asking for some kind of automation, and that the #pkgbump script would be one of the first scripts to become a part of the mgorny-dev-scripts package.
Today’s pkgbump have come a long way from the trivial script of its first iteration. The most recent versions finally feature the feature I desired for a long time: version manipulation. This also made it possible for the script to become a complete version bumping tool rather than just a part of a larger workflow. In this post, I’d like to shortly tell the story behind the changes, and demonstrate the new options.
"""
#packaging

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-secure-ai-alliance/

➡️ A search engine in 80 lines of Python
https://www.alexmolas.com/2024/02/05/a-search-engine-in-80-lines.html
(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Swimming the Author
England tested witches with water. The suspect was bound, right thumb to left toe, looped to a rope, and lowered into the village pond....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/03/swimming-the-author/

Swimming the Author | David Boles, Blogs
England tested witches with water. The suspect was bound, right thumb to left toe, looped to a rope, and lowered into the village pond. Pure water was believed to refuse the devil’s servant, …

NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face (Jensen Huang/NVIDIA)
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260903/p49#a260903p49

I find it amusing that those low quality top $count funny image blogs from the before COVID years ago have greatly increased in value.
They are completely AI free!
Anyway, here's some explosions with cats:

Sachsen-Anhalt hat gewählt – ist Merz zur Tagesordnung übergegangen, wie gewohnt? Sieben Blogs ordnen ein, was das für unsere Republik bedeutet, wo die Verantwortung liegt und was jetzt zu tun ist, um unsere Demokratie zu verteidigen. #NoAfD #SachsenAnhalt #Demokratie
http://stefanpfeiffer.blog/2026/09/09/sachsen-anhalt-die-blogschau/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

The Wound as Diploma
A transcript arrived this week: five signs of "traumatic intelligence," clipped from a video and passed along as science....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/02/the-wound-as-diploma/

The Wound as Diploma | David Boles, Blogs
A transcript arrived this week: five signs of “traumatic intelligence,” clipped from a video and passed along as science. The research record tells a different story, and the difference…

Trump's new tariffs over forced labor are unlikely to survive a court challenge | PIIE
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2026/trumps-new-tariffs-over-forced-labor-are-unlikely-survive-court

Mel Gibson: Watch the Hands
On Saturday, August 29, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Mel Gibson walked out from behind a curtain to begin a retrospective Q&A at Fan Expo Canada, the sprawling annual gathering billed as Canada's largest comics and gaming event and the third-largest pop culture draw in North America....

Mel Gibson: Watch the Hands | David Boles, Blogs
On Saturday, August 29, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Mel Gibson walked out from behind a curtain to begin a retrospective Q&A at Fan Expo Canada, the sprawling annual gathering bille…

Expanding Mars’ lithologic diversity - discovery of a garnet-bearing clast in NWA 8171: #Mars: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/scientists-discover-new-rock-type-on-mars

Trump calls Tiger Woods plea deal 'very fair' (Mira Bhakta/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/6067509-trump-tiger-woods-dui-plea-fair/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260902/p121#a260902p121

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Six Hundred Million Breaths
The first inhale, the last exhale, and the enormous unexamined middle. A human being spends nine months underwater and then, in a single violent second, becomes an air-breathing animal....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/01/six-hundred-million-…

Six Hundred Million Breaths | David Boles, Blogs
The first inhale, the last exhale, and the enormous unexamined middle. A human being spends nine months underwater and then, in a single violent second, becomes an air-breathing animal. We tend to …

Nach der Wahl in Sachsen-Anhalt: Die Blogschau - Sachsen-Anhalt hat gewählt, Merz ist zur Tagesordnung übergegangen – wie gewohnt. Sieben Blogs sind da schon weiter: @…, @…, @…, @…, dazu Weichelt, Lorenzo & Peter Lohren. #NoAfD #SachsenAnhalt #Demokratie https://stefanpfeiffer.blog/2026/09/09/sachsen-anhalt-die-blogschau/

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

I won’t touch #DnD5e anymore, but I do feel for the upcoming #Encyclopedia’s #authors.
#WotC’s parent company,

Between this and the masturbating Uncle Sam, sounds like Freedom 250 put on a great show (yes, being sarcastic)
Great American State Fair concert featuring Vanilla ICE canceled due to weather
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5943888-vanilla-ice-freedom-250-trump-rally-concert-canceled-weather/

Weinsprache – Nicht so süffig im Abgang?
Seit einiger Zeit beschäftige ich mich etwas intensiver mit Wein. Getrunken habe ich ihn immer gerne, aber nun schaue ich schon mal im Web nach, lese Blogs wie den von Michael Liebert und dortige Weinbesprechungen, bin Mitglied in 1-2 Communities wie 13Grad, baue mir eine Twitter-Liste auf und kaufe mir das ein oder andere Weinbuch wie Carsten Sebastian Henns 111 Deutsche Weine, die man getrunken haben muss oder auch seine…
http://stefanpfeiffer.blog/2012/08/23/weinsprache-nicht-so-suffig-im-abgang/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Take Your Children Offline NOW: Twenty-One Years Later
In July of 2005, I published Take Your Children Offline NOW on this blog, and the comments arrived in two distinct waves....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/21/take-your-children-offline-now-…

Take Your Children Offline NOW: Twenty-One Years Later | David Boles, Blogs
In July of 2005, I published Take Your Children Offline NOW on this blog, and the comments arrived in two distinct waves. The first wave came from parents who said the article forced them to think,…

With Tango the final of the four #Cluster satellites has reentered, the blog https://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2026/08/30/final-cluster-reentries-live-blog/ has just reported. Earlier observing the demise of Samba: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris/Samba_s_fiery_farewell_recorded. And an article: https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/09/01/esas-cluster-quartet-prepares-for-its-final-tango/5293619

'**UPDATE 7:30 PM**: Now NPR says their thinking has “evolved” on the issue, and they will use the proper pronouns when referring to Manning. Good for them for finally coming around to decency.'
UPDATE 5 PM: Scott Simon on Twitter says NPR will refer to Chelsea Manning by her name. No word about the pronouns yet:'
NPR Says It Will Continue to Refer to Chelsea Manning as "He" Until Her Gender Is "Actually Physically" Changed
https://www.thestranger.com/blogs/npr-says-it-will-continue-to-refer-to-chelsea-manning-as-he-until-her-gender-is-actually-physically-changed-17577998/

At 16:02 UTC Monday #Roman began an approximately 3-minute mid-course correction burn to adjust its trajectory toward its final orbit: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/08/31/nasas-roman-completes-first-mid-course-correction-burn/ - it’s the first of two planned orbit adjustments to keep Roman on course for the second Lagrange point, L2 (the other, if needed, is planned for later this week, and Roman’s orbital insertion will take place approximately 100 days post-launch); once in orbit around L2, Roman will only require periodic station-keeping burns roughly every 28 days.

Stabilizing efforts for the #Katalyst #Swift-servicing #LINK spacecraft with its ion engine are making progress - now it sounds like the mission could be salvaged after all: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/katalyst-space_over-the-last-48-hours-the-katalyst-team-activity-7488722727298818048-mApL and https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/07/31/efforts-continue-to-stabilize-link-spacecraft-for-nasas-swift-boost/

NASA’s Neil Gehrels #Swift Observatory has resumed operating two of its three science instruments, following the scaling back of a commercial mission that would have boosted it to a higher orbital altitude: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/08/28/nasas-swift-restarts-science-observations/ - that mission is now focused on demonstrating rendezvous technologies for in-space servicing.

Antichrist-Theologie, Anti-Demokratie-Blogs, Eugenik-Manifeste und ein rassistischer Geburtenkult: Das Netzwerk um Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Marc Andreessen und Elon Musk hat System – und reicht bis zu Jens Spahn. Mein Blick auf die Ideologie hinter den Schlagzeilen. #TechBros #Demokratie #Musk
http://stefanpfeiffer.blog/2026/08/27/das-netzwerk-hinter-den-tech-bros-ideologie-statt-zufall/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

There goes the Nancy Grace #Roman Space Telescope! Deployment as seen from the Falcon Heavy's upper stage; minutes later the spacecraft - now on its way to the L2 - was power-positive. Cool pictures of the launch against the rising Sun: https://x.com/asherbphotos/status/2094026337988338082 and https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/08/30/nasas-roman-space-telescope-launches/ and https://x.com/_MaxQ_/status/2094026950691979414

During commissioning, the #Katalyst team encountered a series of technical issues related to attitude control of the LINK spacecraft to raise the orbit of #Swift: #LINK spacecraft has been in a multi-axis spin, causing a temporary loss of communications and subsequent bus reset.