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CHUVASHIA ON FIRE: UKRAINIAN SANCTIONS BURN #RUSSIA Vlog 1180: War in #Ukraine
Another russian oil pumping station was shut down by…

Burn baby burn!
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/entertainment/english/trumps-own-supporters-are-burning-maga-hats-epstein-list-is-the-reason-why/videoshow/122370627…

Trump's Own Supporters Are Burning MAGA Hats & 'Epstein List' Is The Reason Why
U.S. President Donald Trump comes under fire amid Epstein case backlash. MAGA loyalists call for burning iconic 'Make America Great Again' caps. Trump's own support base turns against him as anger over 'Epstein Files' grows. Department of Justice (DOJ) has claimed Epstein did not maintain a 'client list'. This was despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi about 'a list on my table'. Bondi raised expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists. But then came DOJ's findin…

Just read this post by @… on an optimistic AGI future, and while it had some interesting and worthwhile ideas, it's also in my opinion dangerously misguided, and plays into the current AGI hype in a harmful way.
https://social.coop/@eloquence/114940607434005478
My criticisms include:
- Current LLM technology has many layers, but the biggest most capable models are all tied to corporate datacenters and require inordinate amounts of every and water use to run. Trying to use these tools to bring about a post-scarcity economy will burn up the planet. We urgently need more-capable but also vastly more efficient AI technologies if we want to use AI for a post-scarcity economy, and we are *not* nearly on the verge of this despite what the big companies pushing LLMs want us to think.
- I can see that permacommons.org claims a small level of expenses on AI equates to low climate impact. However, given current deep subsidies on place by the big companies to attract users, that isn't a great assumption. The fact that their FAQ dodges the question about which AI systems they use isn't a great look.
- These systems are not free in the same way that Wikipedia or open-source software is. To run your own model you need a data harvesting & cleaning operation that costs millions of dollars minimum, and then you need millions of dollars worth of storage & compute to train & host the models. Right now, big corporations are trying to compete for market share by heavily subsidizing these things, but it you go along with that, you become dependent on them, and you'll be screwed when they jack up the price to a profitable level later. I'd love to see open dataset initiatives SBD the like, and there are some of these things, but not enough yet, and many of the initiatives focus on one problem while ignoring others (fine for research but not the basis for a society yet).
- Between the environmental impacts, the horrible labor conditions and undercompensation of data workers who filter the big datasets, and the impacts of both AI scrapers and AI commons pollution, the developers of the most popular & effective LLMs have a lot of answer for. This project only really mentions environmental impacts, which makes me think that they're not serious about ethics, which in turn makes me distrustful of the whole enterprise.
- Their language also ends up encouraging AI use broadly while totally ignoring several entire classes of harm, so they're effectively contributing to AI hype, especially with such casual talk of AGI and robotics as if embodied AGI were just around the corner. To be clear about this point: we are several breakthroughs away from AGI under the most optimistic assumptions, and giving the impression that those will happen soon plays directly into the hands of the Sam Altmans of the world who are trying to make money off the impression of impending huge advances in AI capabilities. Adding to the AI hype is irresponsible.
- I've got a more philosophical criticism that I'll post about separately.
I do think that the idea of using AI & other software tools, possibly along with robotics and funded by many local cooperatives, in order to make businesses obsolete before they can do the same to all workers, is a good one. Get your local library to buy a knitting machine alongside their 3D printer.
Lately I've felt too busy criticizing AI to really sit down and think about what I do want the future to look like, even though I'm a big proponent of positive visions for the future as a force multiplier for criticism, and this article is inspiring to me in that regard, even if the specific project doesn't seem like a good one.

Spent time today helping a VAR upgrade from one support appliance to another. Not my job but I get sucked into these things. While racking the new one I found an unknown box in the rack. "What is this?" "Oh, thats <vendor>'s box. We stopped using them years ago." Cue me finding a Ubuntu 16.04 box STILL ON OUR NETWORK FROM A VAR WE DON'T USE. Keep in mind, these are the same folks that run around screaming about security. Some days I really want to just wa…

Microsoft extends dominance of carbon removal market: Big tech group’s dealmaking spans investments in projects that burn or bury waste
https://www.ft.com/content/9ed59c61-7d10-44f7-91ce-2c34b12f411b
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GWI: Time spent on social media globally peaked in 2022 and is steadily declining; North America is the exception, with usage up 15% in 2024 compared to Europe (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a0724dd9-0346-4df3-80f5-d6572c93a863
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If you think the fact it's "digital" will stop me burning my ID card in protest then you can think again!
Phones burn up nicely if you get them right.
They recently decided that company directors have to prove their digital ID. My company turnover is like 500 quid but I'm still a director of it.
So I had to prove my digital ID.
To do this, I had to take my driving license to a post office.
Which means it's no more secure than the driving license I already had, surely?
Wonder if I can sell a digital ID on the black market and then keep getting a new one.
#digitalID #ukpol #creepingAuthoritarianism

The Sony PVM-9044Q came in and initial testing looks great so far. I have the NES connected via Y/C In (a.k.a. S-Video) and the image quality is outstanding. There is some tube burn-in which is noticeable but pretty minor overall, nothing that will get in the way of playing games at all. Overall geometry looks good, doesn't really need a ton of correction.
#retrogaming

Bubble, Bubble, AI's Rumble: Why Global Financial Regulatory Incident Reporting is Our Shield Against Systemic Stumbles
Anchal Gupta, Gleb Pappyshev, James T Kwok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26150

Bubble, Bubble, AI's Rumble: Why Global Financial Regulatory Incident Reporting is Our Shield Against Systemic Stumbles
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble." As Shakespeare's witches foretold chaos through cryptic prophecies, modern capital markets grapple with systemic risks concealed by opaque AI systems. According to IMF, the August 5, 2024, plunge in Japanese and U.S. equities can be linked to algorithmic trading yet ab-sent from existing AI incidents database exemplifies this transparency crisis. Current AI incident databases, reliant on crowdsourcing or news scraping, systematic…

A new finding demonstrates the brutal carbon math of AI video: a 6-second clip can burn 4x the energy of a 3-second one. I’ve updated the What Uses More digital footprint calculator to show why “just a bit longer” gets disproportionately expensive.
https://www.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Dominique Fils-Aimé:
🎵 Or Let It Burn / Our Roots Run Deep
#DominiqueFilsAimé
https://singwithmi.bandcamp.com/track/or-let-it-burn
https://open.spotify.com/track/1yvhVYBpqKkSTKcmpHW71b

@… I think it’s supposed to be the opposite of “conservative”. Conservatives want to conserve the status quo, progressives want to change it (in any direction). It was never a useful label on its own, but now people call themselves “conservative” even if they want to burn down the existing government and replace it with a kitten on a stick, so… totally useless now.

Random burning of the Euclidean lattice
Guillaume Blanc, Alice Contat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02562 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02562

Random burning of the Euclidean lattice
The burning number of a graph is the minimal number of steps that are needed to burn all of its vertices, with the following burning procedure: at each step, one can choose a point to set on fire, and the fire propagates constantly at unit speed along the edges of the graph. In this paper, we consider two natural random burning procedures in the discrete Euclidean torus $\mathbb{T}_n^d$, in which the points that we set on fire at each step are random variables. Our main result deals with the ca…

https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-order-flag-burning-4628d588350db4f6baf10ae1d91f49c1
To be honest, I don't want to burn a flag. I don't believe that liberals should let MAGA get away with appropriating national symbo…

I'm still a bit upset that the people with basically all the money in the world have decided to burn a huge chunk of the global economy, and potentially kill billions of people and end complex human society, because someone invented math that could flirt with people who, despite having basically all of the world's money and the ability to kill billions of people and end complex human society, are the most incompetent and pathetic fucking losers on the planet.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Olhz2JXrll8

Trees in the tropics cool more, burn less: For fire suppression and cooling, location is everything https://phys.org/news/2025-08-trees-tropics-cool-suppression-cooling.html

Trees in the tropics cool more, burn less: For fire suppression and cooling, location is everything
More trees will cool the climate and suppress fires, but mainly if planted in the tropics, according to a new UC Riverside study.

It’s just after 9 am. I’m never usually in bed this late. Still can’t burn the candle at both ends, and that’s become more so as I’ve gotten older. For me, it’s a working Sunday, which I detest. Anyway, onwards and upwards!

The new 35-cm offset at the feet is a challenge. This is my fourth week at this level. (I do declines on Sundays.) I upped the ante after hitting my goal of two sets of 100 or more at a 29½-cm offset. So, the challenge continues. I turn 70 four months from today. I think I'll have two sets of 100 or more of these before then.
The parallettes add range of motion and make things tougher still. Try 'em! You'll feel the burn.

Just a reminder:
You don't owe *anyone* the time and energy it takes you to type a reply.
You are not a free encylopaedia.
You have limited time and energy, don't waste it on sealions, trolls and other associated fuckwits.
Block freely, throw out blocks like confetti at a wedding. Engage with good faith arguments but even then, only if you feel like it.
Don't let social media drain you, burn you out.

NASA is facing backlash after reportedly being ordered to destroy a fully operational satellite that plays a crucial role in monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere.
Imagine a perfectly good, high-tech spacecraft gathering invaluable data on carbon dioxide
– a key player in climate change
– only to be sent hurtling back into our atmosphere to burn up.
This isn’t the plot of a sci-fi movie;
It’s the reality for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite.

NASA ordered to destroy fully functional carbon-monitoring satellite despite its vital climate data contributions : "This is illegal" - African In Space
NASA is facing backlash after reportedly being ordered to destroy a fully operational satellite that plays a crucial role in monitoring the Earth’s

The Ethereum Foundation pauses its grants program, which awarded $3M to 100 projects since 2018, to rethink its spending strategy and reduce its burn rate (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/368804/ethereum-founda…

burn it all down
https://archive.is/tR3PX

From a comment: “@…: well things must be at their worst because the art is so good right now”
via @mimsymars@threads.net

Tip of the Day:
Never fry bacon in the nude.
[Correction: always fry bacon in the nude; you'll learn not to burn it]

I expect the world to burn before #Trump actually prays re: White House statements over the shooting in Minneapolis.
I'd pay good money to see him on his knees repentant though

Back to poking at the solder cross section test sample.
Initial findings:
1) I should have sanded them more by hand prior to embedding. There's a LOT of material to burn through. I've probably worn out 5-10 P180 sanding disks so far and am not even at the PTHs on the main region of interest yet.
2) The samples are quite a bit off level. I need to figure out a better way to fixture them in the embedding mold so they don't tip forward.
I'll keep on polis…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
🎵 Down Boy
#NowPlaying #YeahYeahYeahs
https://bobostertag.bandcamp.com/track/go-to-it-boy-burn-it-down-yeah-tears-on-the-sand-in-the-fierce-companionship-of-thirst-burns-like-fire-heat-rises
https://open.spotify.com/track/60dhkkPtuzMGOdYgLJIpQD

If you burn fossil fuels (and have no plan to migrate to an EV & heatpump or similar), plus you buy a lot of plastic (made from fossil fuel) and acrylic/polyester clothing - well I hate to break it to you, but you cannot make up for this by being a vegan or re-posting toots from a Kindness to Animals NGO.
Those animals you want to be nice to require a clean world with a normal climate in order to survive (incidentally, so do we).

More than 343,000 hectares (848,000 acres) of land – the equivalent of nearly half a million football pitches [or a suare with sides 58.6 km long] – have been destroyed this year in Spain, setting a new national record, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS)
Wildfires rage across Spain and Portugal as record area of land burned | Climate News | Al Jazeera

Wildfires rage across Spain and Portugal as record area of land burned
Wildfires in Spain and Portugal burn record land and force evacuations as heatwave and drought spur the flames.

Microsoft Azure/Cloud/AD considered harmful (twice, again)...
Context: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115220941705031025 and

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Hibou:
🎵 Resolve to Burn
#Hibou
https://hibouband.bandcamp.com/track/resolve-to-burn-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/612TazCkf4idA4HndmEAAp

Sonnet 104 - CIV
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold,
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Radiohead:
🎵 Burn The Witch
#Radiohead
https://hlc999.bandcamp.com/track/radiohead-burn-the-witch-hlc-synthwave
https://open.spotify.com/track/3DpuYpzkvUWXbmzCm6pfzR

#malaphors #humor #comedy

Burning games on strong path products
Sally Ambrose, Evan Angelone, Jacob Chen, Daniel Ma, Arturo Ortiz San Miguel, Wraven Watanabe, Stephen Whitcomb, Shanghao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20572

Burning games on strong path products
Burning and cooling are diffusion processes on graphs in which burned (or cooled) vertices spread to their neighbors with a new source picked at discrete time steps. In burning, the one tries to burn the graph as fast as possible, while in cooling one wants to delay cooling as long as possible. We consider $d$-fold strong products of paths, which generalize king graphs. The propagation of these graphs is radial, and models local spread of contagion in an arbitrary number of dimensions. We red…

Man who burned flag near the White House says ‘it was my right as a citizen’ - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/27/flag-burn-arrest-trump-order/

Cowboys Embattled Backup QB Torches His Haters With 8-Word Burn https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/joe-milton-critics-throwing/?adt_ei=[email]

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
VILA: I don't see anything special.
AVON: It's in the wrong place.
BLAKE: Exactly. The explosion's in the forward section. Now, you thought it was a neutron burn out but that's nowhere near the engine housing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/22…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Radiohead:
🎵 Burn The Witch
#Radiohead
https://hlc999.bandcamp.com/track/radiohead-burn-the-witch-hlc-synthwave
https://open.spotify.com/track/3DpuYpzkvUWXbmzCm6pfzR

How much of my children's future is AI going to burn up? That depends on how much we feed the hype beast. *That* is why "don't use AI at all without mentioning the drawbacks & a very good reason" is my stance (and I'm an AI researcher, technically).
Local models that run on your laptop: acceptable if produced by ethical means (including data sourcing & compensation for data filtering) & training costs are mitigated. Are such models way worse than the huge datacenter-scale models? Yes, for now. Deal with it.
ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, even DeepSeek: get out. You're feeding the beast that is consuming my kids' future. Heck, even talking up these models or about how "everyone is using them so it's okay" or about "they're not going away" I'd feeding the beast even if you don't touch them.
I wish it weren't like this, because the capabilities of the big models are cool even once you cut past the hype.
#AI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Gap Band:
🎵 Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)
#TheGapBand
https://djsouthernguy88.bandcamp.com/track/the-gap-band-burn-rubber-on-me-slowed-chopped-by-dj-southern-guy
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Q1NvoaU74oZrh5ETMIWfL

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Radiohead:
🎵 Burn The Witch
#NowPlaying #Radiohead
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Went to see a Hoopla improv show at The Bell, a mix of half a dozen different groups doing different thin
gs. "Shuffle improv" were basing their scenes on a shuffled playlist built by the audience on the way in
and an interesting format from a improv-as-a-second-language group chatting about their experiences in a
foreign land and basing their scenes off it. The group called "twelve people" only had six but were good
chaotic fun.
Lots of stuff about cooking and food.
I found myself pondering optimum size for an improve group. In general the larger groups seemed more fun to me, with the exception of three-person "burn the script" who did excellent work. More than eight wouldn't fit in the tiny stage at that venue. In rehearsal I like to have the group split in half and perform for each other. Hard to do that with fewer than six. Still up in the air if our group will get off the ground or not. More people does mean more calendar clashes even if it makes for a cheaper-per-person room hire.
Everyone has instagram pages, which are no use to me. Won't link or visit there. Interesting that nobody has a Twitter profile any more and of course nobody seems to have just a damned website which still strikes me as madness. Imagine not wanting to own your own space on the web?
#improv #london

Is anybody else very sensitive to acidic flavors?
Like, most hot sauces just taste like slightly vinegar with a side of burn to me (and thus aren't particularly pleasant to eat), i can't taste the pepper at all.
Every store bought Asian sauce in a jar (and some frozen ones) tastes predominantly of vinegar to me. I've found exactly one frozen orange shrimp sauce that actually tastes sweet and orangey like restaurant sauce does, rather than just like acid. I assume this…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
George Riley:
🎵 Slow
#GeorgeRiley
https://kingcarter.bandcamp.com/track/slow-burn-feat-george-riley
https://open.spotify.com/track/5cgavvXYEt36Rjzk2ROhbB

Cowboys fan burns Micah Parsons jersey — how Steelers' T.J. Watt played a role in trade https://steelerswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/steelers/2025/08/29/steelers-cowboys-tj-watt-micah-parsons/85893657007/…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Dining Dead:
🎵 Burn Your Dinner
#DiningDead
https://wearediningdead.bandcamp.com/track/burn-your-dinner
https://open.spotify.com/track/7p7ZWyzSXbsGHvJ7WOQo7q

"Heat pumps can help clean up factories — and save lives"
#HeatPumps #Energy
https://www.

Heat pumps can help clean up factories — and save lives
Americans could save $1.1 trillion in public health costs by replacing thousands of industrial boilers that burn gas, oil, and other fuels nationwide.

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

After being informed his heat shield may have come loose,
John Glenn held steadfast in the face of real uncertainty,
-- as he observes the retro pack burn up outside his window,
illuminating the cabin in an orange glow,
during re-entry on February 20, 1962.
"This is Friendship Seven. I think the pack just let go ...
A real fireball outside! ...
Great chunks of that retro pack breaking off all the way through!"
-- Credit: NASA / And…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
The Gap Band:
🎵 Burn Rubber On Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)
#TheGapBand
https://djsouthernguy88.bandcamp.com/track/the-gap-band-burn-rubber-on-me-slowed-chopped-by-dj-southern-guy
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Q1NvoaU74oZrh5ETMIWfL

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Toadies:
🎵 I Burn
#Toadies
https://theslobbies.bandcamp.com/track/i-burn
https://open.spotify.com/track/62Cx8FoIXlP9Oaj9OuLbSU

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
ShrapKnel:
🎵 Cold Burn (feat. Curly Castro & PremRock)
#ShrapKnel
https://shrapknel.bandcamp.com/track/cold-burn
https://open.spotify.com/track/6bJDEH1wV0g08YAUPjOuiR

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
ShrapKnel:
🎵 Cold Burn (feat. Curly Castro & PremRock)
#ShrapKnel
https://shrapknel.bandcamp.com/track/cold-burn
https://open.spotify.com/track/6bJDEH1wV0g08YAUPjOuiR

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Mortimer & Paris La Mont:
🎵 Burn It To the Ground
#Mortimer #ParisLaMont
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://mortimerofficial.bandcamp.com/track/burn-it-to-the-ground
https://open.spotify.com/track/5AeNzsPgqpZcAYRTdfLRYj

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Disclosure:
🎵 When A Fire Starts To Burn
#Disclosure
https://nathandalton.bandcamp.com/track/disclosure-when-a-fire-starts-to-burn-nathan-dalton-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SU92PvmDTowaZGmo5oI82

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Disclosure:
🎵 When A Fire Starts To Burn
#Disclosure
https://nathandalton.bandcamp.com/track/disclosure-when-a-fire-starts-to-burn-nathan-dalton-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SU92PvmDTowaZGmo5oI82