2026-07-17 10:00:21
NPR announces a $1M restricted gift to the Public Media Bridge Fund to provide direct grants to eligible NPR Member organizations facing sustainability issues (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/15/g-s1-143398/n…
Nero’s Bridge emerges from Tiber River amid water crisis
The remains of an ancient bridge have emerged in Rome’s Tiber River, near St. Peter’s Basilica, as weeks with virtually no rain caused water levels to plunge.
The span — known as Nero’s Bridge, named for the former Roman emperor — once connected Rome’s city center with the Tiber’s right bank.
The Tiber’s flow has fallen below 2,825 cubic feet per second, about half the historic average for the month of July, according…
@… Ich hab Dir was vom heute mitgebracht und war für Dich Baustelle kucken. Wir haben in Zürich eine Alubrücke über die Limmat zusammengebaut, von Swiss Alu Bridge. Am linken Ende standen zwei und haben das Element festgehalten, mit Helm und Handy und Schutzweste und Schwimmweste. Zwischendurch machte es „Platsch💦“, die alten Frauen machten „huch!“, der Ingenieur …
On my way to the #IETF #hackathon. This time, my focus will be on #EDHOC (key establishment for devices with tiny footprints, trying out the Lakers implementation of the PSK draft) and
found another abandoned bridge today. very steep, deep railway cutting.
#abandoned #bridge
The Gates Foundation pledges $1B over two years to expand global access to AI and use it to tackle social inequalities; Gates says "we can harness AI for good" (Claire Moses/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/technology/bill-gate…
Today I made a little bike tour from Amsterdam out to Broek in Waterland and back.
Not pictured: the goats, sheep, cattle, chickens, cats, ducks and fruit trees along the way. (It's a framing region.)
#Nederland
Everett Road covered bridge. The wife and I just celebrated two years of marriage by going to see Billy Idol at Blossom last night, stayed in a campground in the national park and then did some exploring this morning. This was a nice and peaceful spot. It's also one of the most accessible sites in the park, with a short paved walk from the parking lot to the bridge.
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#CuyahogaValleyNationalPark
Thank you Canada! A moment of Gratitude.
A new Canada-US bridge opened that will be less congested and less expensive. The Canadians paid for building it ($6.4billion) and endured getting jerked around right before opening.
Thank you, Canada!
Gordie Howe Bridge! https://www.…
One of the big benefits of my homebrew ILA IP, BTW, is that it works just fine with any clocking relationship between the debug-bridge clock and the capture domain clock.
For some reason that I do not understand - I don't even know how I would implement such a restriction - the Vivado ILA does not work if the capture-domain clock is too slow. It needs to be at least 2x, IIRC, the JTAG TCK frequency.
So if you're running JTAG at say 30 MHz and you want to capture in a 20 …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tacocat:
🎵 Bridge to Hawaii
#Tacocat
https://tacocat.bandcamp.com/track/bridge-to-hawaii
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RgUzbBzDYimNWvEbkQPIQ
Dunno if it has any use-case but I decided to bridge my Eurosky account to the Fediverse ( @… ) and my Mastodon account to the Atmosphere ( @kazushusora.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy ) ^^
> likes my post
> gets bridge request
> blocks me
> i try to reach out to them
> "don't drag me into your drama"
> blocks my *bridged* account as well
what is this strategy called? https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7tiia
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
I’m really impressed by how flush the bridge hinge is while closed, yet the bridge does also open #Lego
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BRIDGE-STIM 2027: Probing sensorimotor circuits and perception across species with microstimulation workshop, Pittsburgh, May 17-19, 2027 #BCI
The Bay Area bridge remains burned as Maxx Crosby, 49ers rumors rage on https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/03/the-bay-area-bridge-remains-burned-as-maxx-crosby-49ers-rumors-rage-on/
"Before he died, an Idaho truck driver worked to turn an old bridge into a wildlife overpass. Now it's a lifeline for animals"
#Nature #Environment
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Pearl Jam (30) Aerosmith (23) Killing Joke (17) Queen (17) Alter Bridge (15). #myweekcounted 285 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…
I just learned about the Laguna Garzón Bridge in Uruguay and it's pretty cool!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Garzón_Bridge
(Also, one of my neighbors is from Uruguay so I'm sort of interested in learning more about it.)
We saw some geese with a cute gosling 🐤, went up the hill to enjoy the view, and did a little pedal boat tour across the lake.
Plus, we discovered a "Flüsterbrücke" ("whisper bridge"):
https://www.dortmund.de/themen/freizeit-un…
I want to throw companies who force login via emailed timed codes over a bridge. If they only have a username/e-mail field without a password field ready right away, I want to light them on fire. If they offer the option to add TOTP 2FA but still do the previous two, I want to crush them in one of those things for compacting trash. Kickstarter would be a little burning cube falling from a bridge, incidentally.
Put a sticker on my #bass. Might be read by some as "Never Slap" but it says #neverslop. I will neither be slapping, though. (Bought it from https://www.
If you want a real nightmare, this article details how AI data centres big nuclear are working together in right wing America.
From an energy specialist publication.
https://www.powermag.co…
Invisible Chasm Ⅲ (2026)
(From where I was standing, there's a 400 meter drop in between, a (hidden) suspension bridge crossing the canyon and the path then continuing almost vertically through the crags of the exposed bedrock on the opposite side...)
#InvisibleChasm #TextureTuesday
We saw the Donmouth otters playing yesterday. I don't have a photo to share, I am sorry; but as I was walking over the new bridge near Tillydrone I saw first one, then another, joyously pootling around in the long river grass. There was an older person walking towards me from the other side and I used my best overacting skills to point dramatically down into the water. She looked a bit alarmed, then turned to look over the rail and down into the water, and just stayed there happily watch…
C'est pour ce genre de chose que je fais tourner des services TOR (Snowflake proxy, relay, bridge).
En Iran, la répression écrase la société civile
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/artic
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #LateJunction
中川裕貴:
🎵 Upper and Under the Bridge
#中川裕貴
https://open.spotify.com/track/5A2JK4uQfqkwD7oENF5FmB
What to know about the temporary Medicare GLP-1 Bridge program (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5931336-medicare-glp1-bridge-program/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p2#a260621p2
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kelela & PinkPantheress:
🎵 the bridge
#Kelela #PinkPantheress
https://kelela.bandcamp.com/track/the-bridge-2
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kelela:
🎵 The Bridge
#NowPlaying #Kelela
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Og22Djtd18AVqNgijpLsX
Friday night beers are the best beers. NZ Red IPA from local brewery, Bridge Road at the Woolhouse. #CraftBeer
4:41 PM: AlertSeattle (SDOT): The Ballard Bridge is closed to all traffic due to mechanical issues. Use alternative routes.
5:13 PM: AlertSeattle-DOT: The major traffic disruption on the Ballard Bridge has cleared, and all lanes across the bridge are back open.
did they just put some fucking duct tape on it or
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Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli.
First-hand reports of the irony of Crimea...
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and help the world learn of the truth on the ground in Ukraine: https://medium.com/@giorgioprovincia…
from bike, earlier.
#footpathFriday
“Star Trek has always been ‘woke’. You just grew up to be a bad person.”
https://beige.party/@Lana/116761091408269490
There are people criticizing the plans to bring passenger trains to #Poznań's cargo bypass line.
Well, I for one definitely want to ride a train through this bridge. According to the internets: 2 km long, 10–15 metres above the ground.
Also, I definitely don't want to walk the walkway there. Never.
#rail
Mal ein neues Wallpaper für den Desktop und das Iconset (Papirus) gewechselt.
#LinuxMint #Desktop #Icons
On Bridging Mixture Distributions
Pierre Del Moral, Ajay Jasra, Ke Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13383 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13383 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13383
arXiv:2608.13383v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this article we consider bridging between two mixture probability measures. In particular, given access to a Markov kernel between two component distributions, we provide a general mechanism to generate samples from one mixture to the other. Associated to a given reference and extended state space, we prove entropic optimality of this approach. In order to use this idea one needs to know the underlying mixtures and the Markov kernel, which is seldom available, and so we consider the case of Gaussian mixtures and Schr\"odinger Bridges. We prove a general $2-$Wasserstein continuity bound between the exact bridge and one that is approximated, based on $\epsilon-$covariance inflation, and these rely on a novel continuity analysis of perturbed Riccati maps. We apply our results in the context of bridging mixtures of Gaussians, single Gaussians and empirical estimators of the Gaussian parameters and the Monge map. For mixtures of Gaussians, when the parameters are estimated using the Expectation-Maxmization algorithm, the upper-bound on the $2-$Wasserstein distance between the true and approximated bridges is, under assumptions and with probability at least $1-10N^{-1}$, $\mathcal{O}\big(\big[\big(\tfrac{d\log N}{N}\big)^{1/2}\left\{1 \big(\tfrac{d\log N}{N}\right)^{1/2}(\epsilon^{-2} 1)\big\} \epsilon^2\big]\big) $
and for the other two cases, in expectation, $\mathcal{O}\left(d\left\{\tfrac{1 \epsilon^{-2}}{1 N} \epsilon^2\right\}\right)$, where $d,N\in\mathbb{N}$ is the dimension of the Gaussian and the number of empirical samples respectively. We also investigate our bounds numerically.
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In the UK, Grade I is the highest listing of exceptional buildings deserving of special protection (St. Paul's, York Minster, Blenheim, Clifton Bridge, etc.); only 2.5% of listed buildings are Grade I.
One of them, believe it or not, is this bike shed.
https://historicengland.o…
Sonny Rollins Bridge
#SonnyRollins #botd
https://vimeo.com/237846484
Mark Carney thought he was "selling a bridge" to poor stupid Donald Trump. Welp, looks like we're the ones who got sold down the river.
Seems all of Donald's deals go bad for him…. except with Canada. Nice work banker guy, nice work.
"the agreement makes no mention of Canada’s interest expenses or debt payments related to the bridge.... Under the original deal, Canada paid the entire C$6.4 billion ($4.6 billion) construction cost on the condition that it would collect all the toll revenue until it was repaid.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #TheAmericanFascist #Grift #Corruption
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/carney-s-gordie-howe-bridge-deal-splits-50-of-net-revenue-for-15-years?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NDMwNTEyOCwiZXhwIjoxNzg0OTA5OTI4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSUJIRzNLSUpIOTQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzNTk2NzdDODA0QTY0N0JGQTZDQTdEMzgzM0VCNjRCQSJ9.sH1woMeKVF9PJBMLZFt8RjXKFa4rKGf-5siuR2xMKY8
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom:
🎵 Be the bridge
#PandaBear #SonicBoom
https://pandabearmusic.bandcamp.com/track/be-the-bridge
🔌 The Bridge makes a single outbound #WebSocket connection — no inbound ports, no VPN, no firewall rules. Works behind #NAT, inside #Docker, on headless servers. Your code and workspaces never lea…
"10 Tips for Goal-Oriented Science Communication" @ De Gruyter Communications
https://blog.degruyter.com/10-tips-for-goal-oriented-science-communication/
"Building a bridge between science and society takes more than passion – it take…
Burghley cross-country day. Always a fun day out, and good exercise for the spectators as well as the horses. #Eventing #horsesofmastodon
Was walking over the bridge into Georgetown when I realized it was too damn hot/too much sun to walk back. Went to Foggy Bottom and got on a nice cool Metro.
Sweated through my watch band, shirt, shorts, and hat. Shoes only survivor. So far.
The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes were patched (The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/defi/2026-09-
There's a fundamental clash between the granularity of digitised items online and traditional archival records. Delivering Archives and Digital Objects: a Conceptual Model (DadoCM) is an interesting proposal to bridge that gap https://dadocm.github.io/
Die Website meiner Lokalzeitung, für deren Inhalte ich zahle, ist durch Werbung so unbenutzbar, dass ich mir ein Modul für RSS-Bridge gebaut habe, weil ich sonst hätte kündigen müssen und die Inhalte nicht mehr hätte lesen können. Für das Sterben des Lokaljournalismus sorgen die Verlage schon schön selbst.
#FLZ
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Ghuraba:
🎵 Hammersmith Bridge
#Ghuraba
https://ghuraba.bandcamp.com/track/hammersmith-bridge
https://open.spotify.com/track/2BAAAfxNoMhyiVclDB4rwG
#SilentSunday On the river Nidd near Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire. #northyorkshire #NYorks
ComicCaster liefert Comic-Strips via RSS. Das ist schon sehr nett, wenn man es nicht gerade selber z.B. via RSS Bridge machen will. Allerdings natürlich von Drittanbietern...
#rss
#silentsunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
Bear Lake. October 2014
Automatically describe data and models as text using the {report} package. #rstats
Why, oh why, Lord, are innocent children like these never at my poker table?
Apparently, Cornyn and Tillis are planning to cruise into their
Trump-induced retirement as
co-owners of the Brooklyn Bridge.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/bl
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Aretha Franklin:
🎵 Bridge Over Troubled Water
#ArethaFranklin
https://roomautobahn.bandcamp.com/track/sampled-bridge-over-troubled-water
https://open.spotify.com/track/5YD86vWLu1YqR818b1GADO
Reading in front of the Forth Bridge.
#SilentSunday #Scotland
Thinking about making a suite of FPGA (and i guess potentially ASIC) debug IPs that integrate with ngscopeclient. In part because Efinix's debug tools are... Suboptimal.
The flow will be ADIv5 esque but not exclusively JTAG/SWD centric.
At a high level my concept is to root with a bridge from various external interfaces (starting with UART) to APB. The bridge will offer commands for 32 bit read and write, getting some kind of id code / version, and querying the base address o…
"About 40M squirrels are killed by drivers each year. So this city created the world's first-ever 'squirrel bridge'"
#Squirrels #Animals
here is another disused bridge i found earlier this week.
#bridge
We have two #Intel patients at @… for today:
An older HP laptop, Ivy Bridge based, to get @…, and another laptop, Nehalem based, to …
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kelela:
🎵 the bridge (feat. PinkPantheress)
#NowPlaying #Kelela
https://open.spotify.com/track/1PpODh3GDSFoG7EGOekVu2
🆕 v2.5 adds task cancellation from the UI, user-input delivery on permission prompts, persistent session resume across Bridge restarts & follow-up files for all providers. Licensed under Elastic License 2.0
🌐 https://github.com/ctrlnode-ai/ctrlnode
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…
New US-Canada bridge to open after delay (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/10/new-us-canada-bridge-to-open-after-delay-00993883
http://www.memeorandum.com/260710/p115#a260710p115
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"Watch an orangutan swing over a busy road via canopy bridge: 'We have watched and waited for this moment'"
#Orangutan #Animals
earlier on a disused bridge:
#bloomScrolling #silentSunday
Sources: ByteDance has secured a $29.6B loan in Asia's second-largest USD-denominated borrowing this year, behind SoftBank's $40B bridge loan signed in March (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom:
🎵 Be the bridge
#PandaBear #SonicBoom
https://pandabearmusic.bandcamp.com/track/be-the-bridge
Trump threatened retribution against Iran again in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.
“From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kelela & PinkPantheress:
🎵 the bridge
#Kelela #PinkPantheress
https://kelela.bandcamp.com/track/the-bridge-2
And another open FPGA debug IP joins my rapidly growing suite.
These are all portable systemverilog and will run on anything, but the immediate motivation is making up for Efinix's rather lackluster debug tools.
The general concept is basically "CoreSight / ADIv5 for FPGAs". You have a generic transport (so far only UART is implemented) that provides read/write access to an internal APB bus with debug IPs hanging off it.
The debug bridge points to a ROM table …
🎛️ #CTRLNODE is an #opensource remote orchestration platform for #AIcodingagents. Install the Bridge binary on any machine — laptop, VPS, CI box — and dispatch tasks, schedule routin…
Sources: TSMC is developing advanced AI chip packaging tech, internally called "EMIB-like", similar to Intel's Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge technique (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tsmc-d…
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On the same day, a Florida airport and a Tennessee bridge are renamed after Trump (Kyla Guilfoil/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/palm-beach-international-airport-tennessee-bridge-renamed-rcna353784
http://www.memeorandum.com/260710/p4#a260710p4
At a time of mounting political violence and shrinking civil rights,
the promise of civility and bridge-building is appealing.
Donors have flocked to finance these initiatives,
while universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy have eagerly embraced them.
“At a surface level, who could be against civility?”
said Bethany Moreton, a historian at Dartmouth College
whose forthcoming book focuses on the so-called “culture wars” in academia.
Bu…
Initializing...
Resetting debug bus...
Debug bridge ID: APB_
Debug ROM address: 0x40000000
[0] type = 4750494f (GPIO) at 0x40000400
Good progress - I'm able to read and write 32-bit APB registers over the debug UART, find a ROM table describing the locations of debug IPs on the bus, and print out the descriptors.
This is running on a Ti375 but should be portable to basically any FPGA.
The next step will be to bring up a SCPI server …
"This first-of-its-kind wildlife overpass crosses a 6-lane highway. People can walk across it, too"
#Animals #Environment
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RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117193356126835760
The other interesting thing here is the sentencing.
You can get 30 days for shutting down over 3% of US oil imports for a day.
Or 4 years for being on a video call talking about blocking a bridge for 2 days (…
today i went to this wild old victorian bridge that crosses over a railway.
#footpathFriday
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kelela & PinkPantheress:
🎵 the bridge
#Kelela #PinkPantheress
https://kelela.bandcamp.com/track/the-bridge-2
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Chastity Belt:
🎵 I‐90 Bridge
#ChastityBelt
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uH3TDTG66pej7ri12oUMv