2026-04-07 18:18:04
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ratboys:
🎵 Burn It Down
#Ratboys
https://ratboys.bandcamp.com/track/burn-it-down
https://open.spotify.com/track/1XRzX7BOyUOfsLmKFxP8EI
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ratboys:
🎵 Burn It Down
#Ratboys
https://ratboys.bandcamp.com/track/burn-it-down
https://open.spotify.com/track/1XRzX7BOyUOfsLmKFxP8EI
Last week, while debugging a SwiftUI performance issue, I was running instruments and found that my profiles were plagued with noise.
Godot while idling was using so much CPU time that it was skipping entire frames while rendering.
I set out to fix those, 0.5% here, 0.5 there, and the Godot Editor (and Xogot) no longer skip frames.
People had been complaining that Godot would burn your battery in an hour if you left it idling, it no longer does.
Details:
A free site uses live weather data to flag pavement that will burn your dog's paws
Type in your city, or share your location, and the site reads current weather conditions to rate concrete sidewalks, asphalt streets, sand, and artificial turf as safe, caution, or avoid right now.
https://pawmometer.com/
I have to say I find it weird how people who would usually defend stuff like Burp as "legitimate dual use tools" are now criticizing Anthropic for building a dual-use tool and at least trying to mitigate the harms.
I mean sure, it might just be marketing, or a shakedown of software- and exploit developers alike to get them to burn tokens, or an evil plan to make the world less secure, or something. Might all be the case.
I personally tend to believe that most people are…
"Reducing aircraft soot might not actually reduce the climate effects of contrails"
#Aviation #Emissions #Climate
Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo instead of the CEO in August 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-cfo-diverge-ipo-timing
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Ancient Methods:
🎵 Burn the Frame (feat. Night In Athens)
#AncientMethods
U.S. burns through precision munitions, air defense interceptors in Iran (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/04/us-iran-air-defense-missile-burn-rate/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzcyNjAwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzczOTc5MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzI2MDA0MDAsImp0aSI6IjkzYmE2ZTBhLTQxN2QtNGFjNy1hZjQzLTg0YzAxMmI5MzRhMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI2LzAzLzA0L3VzLWlyYW4tYWlyLWRlZmVuc2UtbWlzc2lsZS1idXJuLXJhdGUvIn0.7zWgUB1BYS0MWnUoBZZrchKWdOg-lbA4Tq2LPqQXhW8
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p44#a260304p44
Happy Easter to all who celebrate. I was at a bonfire yesterday, a tradition in my home area. The bonfires are supposed to burn away winter and scare off evil spirits and potentially also witches. This fire looks very much like a witch's hat 🔥
#Easter #HappyEaster
"Humans burn themselves—and survive burns—with a frequency likely much greater than any other animal. Most animals avoid fire completely, while in contrast, humans live alongside fire and most humans will experience minor burns throughout their lives."
Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests
I read someone's post about their job where Agentic AI use is tracked for performance reviews, so they’re now dumping every question they can into the LLM just to pad their metrics and burn as many tokens as they can in the process.
All I can say is... I think maybe a lot of people have had the same idea. 😇
#AgenticAI
In addition to the obvious travesty here of turning curriculum into marketing material for a specific industry (and an investment bubble industry at that!), there’s a larger principle here:
It’s a terrible idea to let politicians set curricular mandates. Even the well-meaning ones crash and burn. This sets off that alarm bell for me.
2/
Author of Careless People gagged by Meta. Let the company burn. Actual link (paywalled): https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people-meta-nrffdfpmf
Russian TV threatens to burn Europe: SOLOVYOV's nuclear ultimatums and plans to strike BRITAIN: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/russian-tv-threatens-to-burn.html
After a successful 5 minutes 55 seconds Translunar Injection Burn the daily #ArtemisII press conference should come at the bottom of the hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Pq35gm4qA
Datini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history
Listening to this podcast series, it occurs to me that the US oil industry's ambition to pump every last barrel of fossil hydrocarbon meshes very well with the #Maga millennialist yearning for the apocalypse. After all, if it is your religious duty to bring about the end of the world, what does it matter if you burn down all of God's creation?
Supreme Court considers case involving FBI operative ready to burn everyone - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/01/craig-monteilh-fbi-aclu-supreme-court-00805402
87 homes had been destroyed as of Thursday by wildfires sweeping across parts of Georgia.
The two largest wildfires in southern Georgia have burned tens of thousands of acres combined.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/georgi…
Een krant. Twee koppen.
Een ingezonden brief en het commentaar van de Volkskrant
Ingezonden brief:
Waarom steeds meer jonge vrouwen opbranden? We hebben werkplekken masculien ingericht | Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/waarom-steeds-meer-jonge-vrouwen-opbranden-we-hebben-werkplekken-masculien-ingericht~b39a6088/
Commentaar Volkskrant:
Burn-out bij vrouwen wijst op te veel keuzestress in prestatiesamenleving | Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/burn-out-bij-vrouwen-wijst-op-te-veel-keuzestress-in-prestatiesamenleving~bd631054/
Samen een giftige cocktail voor de hele samenleving.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Kacey Musgraves:
🎵 Slow Burn
#KaceyMusgraves
https://juicebox914.bandcamp.com/track/kacey-musgraves-slow-burn-jbx-retouch
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ET9kf9riLETWs9lePUEAI
Keyboard testing *without* the token burn!
Bookmarklet from 2018 to focus interactives:
https://adrianroselli.com/bookmarklets#FocusInteractives
Or use Scott’s:
Logged forests burn more severely than old growth, Tasmanian study finds #Tasmania
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Fred again..; Jamie T:
🎵 Lights Burn Dimmer
#NowPlaying #Fredagain;JamieT
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://eskibeatz.bandcamp.com/track/fred-again-jamie-t-lights-burn-dimmer-eskibeatz-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2kH5fiDaoj2Tn4hBRXSYjQ
Small Artemis plushie from #SailorMoon over there 🥹
@… https://
Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion
https://ift.tt/EQv0hHD
In a provocative article titled Digging Wells While Houses Burn (2006), David Gordon White argues…
via Input 4 RELCFP
The First Thing They Burn: Why War Always Comes for Beauty
When the Mongol army sacked Baghdad in 1258, they did not stop at killing the Caliph. They threw the contents of the House of Wisdom into the Tigris. Manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and poetry turned the river black with ink for days. Killing people was not enough. What those people had made, what they had thought and dreamed and rendered into form, that had to be annihilated too.
wonder if he would even burn https://www.themonastery.org/blog/why-some-catholics-want-peter-thiel-burned-at-the-stake
The best view from the #ArtemisII mission so far came at noon UTC today when a solar-wing-mounted camera broastcast this view of Earth some 70,000 km away next to the ESM engines for a while. The Orion and the ESM are on their way back to perigee now - and around 23:45 UTC the trans-lunar injection burn is expected.
Breathtaking.
"NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn"
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/
Think about how expensive Uber has become. Now look at this chart (sorry; borrowed it from Reddit; assuming it’s not completely wrong), and draw the simplest conclusion about how much this LLM stuff is going to cost when you’re not getting a handout to subsidize it.
Heck, if a straight line is too hard for you, just ask the LLM.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@petrillic/116479413863131044
Hogwarts must burn so trans people can flourish!
RE: https://kafeneio.social/@casey/116488216648463560
Genocidal Israeli monsters murdered Leena’s father three days ago.
If you want to help their family, Casey has a video on what you can do.
Also, fuck Israel. May it burn.
"“Can AI do this task?” is a useful starting point for thinking about how it might impact employment, but it is an ambiguous signal that forms only one part of a large and complex picture" -- John Burn-Murdoch
FT: https://www.ft.com/content/f55c4eba-6e10-4
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Hollis:
🎵 Burn Burn
#Hollis
@… Obviously I don’t have anywhere near the same context as you do, but just the little amount I’ve been exposed by watching Japanese and Korean TV makes me… laugh? But in a sad way.
“What if you don’t get married!?!”
Yes. What if?
What? The world is going to burn down?
Please tell me, “what” great danger you might imagine will come of that.
…
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@aramba/116447762544964723
New super awesome biz model just dropped: Motivational agents (to motivate other agents to burn more tokens)
The more I zoom into ORMs, the more I’m convinced you need to be a lot smarter to operate them correctly and deterministically than you need to be to write some SQL and map rows on structs/classes.
Case in point, I wrote myself a package to make transaction management explicit and when adding SQLAlchemy ORM support: holy autobegin, Batman!
Add `autobegin=False` to your sessionmaker/Session and watch your app burn.
In 2024, Europe spent circa €375 billion on imports of fossil fuels. [consumptive: burn it, and only CO2 remains]
In stark contrast, investment in renewable power and grids remains comparatively low: Europe spent €100 billion on those in 2025. [delivering clean energy for decades, and avoiding CO2]
🔥 Triggering self-combustion in fat cells for weight loss
#medicine
Donald Trump hates clean energy.
Obviously, the president hates lots of things:
Immigrants, the media, NATO, and sound monetary policy, to name just a few.
But of all Trump’s many grievances, none is quite so petty and pathological as his loathing of wind energy.
The attacks on solar panels and electric cars can be chalked up to his belief in the holy gospel of hydrocarbons.
-- But the windmill thing is personal.
Independent journalist Philip Bump traces …
"Save 100% on Nocturnal on Steam"
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1634080/Nocturnal/
oh wow artist GloomyPunks rebooted his brutal slow burn social horror webcomic CatGirl https://xcancel.com/gloomypunks/status/2025737511247458370
So.. I have a theory that burned-out coders prefer AI coding agents. Because at the point of burn-out (and beyond), you just stop giving a fuck. You might still like and enjoy your craft, but when it comes to your job (whether that's proprietary or free software), you just want to get through the day and get it done. And if an LLM helps you accomplish that, regardless of ethics or maintainability or boring button-mashing, so be it.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Dream Nails:
🎵 The Spirit Does Not Burn
#DreamNails
https://open.spotify.com/track/6UDUZ4njadK1vCKaWlbtOD
If Claude is so good at generating code, why does the desktop Claude app (on MacOS) make my machine burn with the intensity of a thousand suns?
"I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life, to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see... so what do I sacrifice? EVERYTHING!"
▶️ Star Wars: Andor Main Theme | EPIC VERSION (Season 2 Soundtrack Tribute)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WXJTDneceg
Future headline?
Trump orders Hogsbreath to convert US Navy ships to burn coal.
Yesterday on our bike ride we almost got a sun burn and two weeks ago I was snowshoeing in the mountains! It's wild 😉
Today we have light rain, so I'm not sure if I want to get out for some activity or let it be a true #silentSunday .
Some background and video of the snowshoe-day can be found here:
You're on your own, you're dodgy and you have money to burn
Yesterday I received 9 more photos from Fatali which I’m allowed to share on my blog "blog.watzmann.social". Thank you very much for that. The digital versions of these photos, while serving as examples of the superiority of the Cibachrome process, can only hint at their perfection. However, you can only truly appreciate the quality of these images if you’ve seen the Cibachrome prints with your own eyes.
Since I saw the theme of "Smoking" for tune Tuesday there is a song in my head but I can't remember who's song this is.
It a New Wave song (I think) and the lyrics go like "Burn me up I'm a cigarette"
Help me! It's probably obvious but my brain is freezing.
@… @…
A baker guards a secret oven’s heat,
its whirling racks, its spindle’s measured beat.
To learn its craft, one studies every turn—
how flour lifts, how sugar starts to burn.
Describe the method, line b…
Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Radiohead:
🎵 Burn The Witch
#NowPlaying #Radiohead
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
Why would you want Anthropic and OpenAI running the trainings for genAI for your developers? They are directly incentivized to maximize token burn.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Tarrus Riley:
🎵 Burning Desire
#TarrusRiley
https://peckingsrecords.com/track/burning-desire
https://open.spotify.com/track/7cFbAwj08BeDAZ9JH1NOrn
"I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see.
So what do I sacrifice?
EVERYTHING!"
Yeah, we're at that point.
▶️ Star Wars: Andor Main Theme | EPIC VERSION (Season 2 Tribute)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WX…
Ukrainian FLAMINGO reached St. Petersburg as elite RF divisions burn near Kursk!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/14/ukrainian-flamingo-reached-st-petersburg.html
Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/academia/ethics/2026/02/18/digging-wells-burning-houses/
RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116410509649501869
I think it might be time to burn it all to the ground.
Digging Wells While Houses Burn: Academic Responsibility and the Study of Religion https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/academia/ethics/2026/02/18/digging-wells-burning-houses/
Of course Trump is killing off libraries & museums: He wants every voter as ignorant as his base. And GOP Congress will let him burn it all to the ground.
You did this to yourselves, Trump voters.
▶️ Trump’s budget would gut local libraries and museums. Congress is not on board. | News From The States
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
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
In the era of #LLM psychosis, it's important to emphasize that it is fine to talk to yourself.
Your own brain is entirely capable of being a sounding board. It can provide a second and a third opinion. It can look at things from another person's perspective. It can simulate complete complex interactions. And it can do all that in the privacy of your own head, with no extra energy cost. And it can give you a deeper understanding of yourself.
You don't need chatbots for that. You don't need to lean on their nazi owners. You don't need to pay for them, you don't need to share the intimate details of your life, you don't need to burn the planet in the process. You won't get hurt accidentally, you won't get abused or blackmailed. And your brain won't leave you helpless when someone suddenly decides helping you isn't profitable.
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Kacey Musgraves:
🎵 Slow Burn
#KaceyMusgraves
https://juicebox914.bandcamp.com/track/kacey-musgraves-slow-burn-jbx-retouch
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ET9kf9riLETWs9lePUEAI
Drinking water at risk long after wildfires, study warns #environment
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Hildegard Of Bingen (1098-1179), Bill Taylor, Guy Sigsworth, Stevie Wishart, Emily Burn, Clemmie Franks, Emily Levy, Victoria Couper, Jocelyn West, Vivien Ellis & Sinfonye:
🎵 O Frondens Virga (tutti)
#BillTaylor
Trump wants regime change in Iran.
You know what would be a useful tool?
A US-run Farsi-language news outlet broadcasting into Iran.
We had one of those, but last year Trump sent Kari Lake to burn it to the ground.
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/judge-rul
god I just wasted 5 minutes of my life watching Anubis burn my time and my CPU power mining nothing just to verify that I'm a human so I can access git.kernel.org
Anubis does nothing but fuck people with slower/older devices over and is an awful solution to the AI scraping problem
#anubis #verification
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Goat Girl:
🎵 Burn The Stake
#GoatGirl
https://open.spotify.com/track/17x7w9sXOZFiTZcbtVIax7
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
HEALTH:
🎵 BURN THE CANDLES
#HEALTH
https://youwillloveeachother.bandcamp.com/track/burn-the-candles
https://open.spotify.com/track/008XFP2RlbYymbD3oS7Z7f
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
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 KEXP's #MiddayShow
Yppah feat. Anomie Belle:
🎵 Film Burn
#Yppah #AnomieBelle
https://yppahmusic.bandcamp.com/track/film-burn-feat-anomie-belle
https://open.spotify.com/track/56fonqFGvKsBMLc3ngRuH8
OMG... Bondi stepped right into that one. 😜
Rep. Balint (D-VE):
“This is not a game, Secretary!”
AG Bondi:
“I’m Attorney General”
Rep. Balint:
“My apologies, I couldn’t tell”
#PamBondi #beccabalint
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
TRAITRS:
🎵 Burn In Heaven
#TRAITRS
https://traitrs.bandcamp.com/album/burn-in-heaven
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JouCwLvnyyKE58ZYJqdxQ
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Hildegard Of Bingen (1098-1179), Emily Burn, Clemmie Franks, Emily Levy, Victoria Couper, Jocelyn West, Vivien Ellis & Stevie Wishart:
🎵 O Frondens Virga (solo)
#HildegardOfBingen10981179 #EmilyBurn #ClemmieFranks
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Carmilla Sioux:
🎵 If You Dare, I Burn
#CarmillaSioux
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Ragana:
🎵 Burning Structures
#Ragana
https://ragana.bandcamp.com/track/burning-structures
https://open.spotify.com/track/1msUGuYo3AkNobmKhYD5je
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
🎵 Down Boy
#NowPlaying #YeahYeahYeahs
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Dream Nails:
🎵 The Spirit Does Not Burn
#DreamNails
https://open.spotify.com/track/6UDUZ4njadK1vCKaWlbtOD
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Web Web:
🎵 Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
#NowPlaying #WebWeb
#newRelease 🆕 album
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Maara:
🎵 Burn Up
#Maara
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://maara.bandcamp.com/track/burn-up
https://open.spotify.com/track/7IDM2o1fXjqfipwjRFf8Dv
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Goat:
🎵 Let It Burn (edit)
#Goat
https://goat.bandcamp.com/album/let-it-burn
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Mtygyf5dpRo8nYTzDFqi2
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Peter Alexander Jobson:
🎵 Burn The Ration Books of Love (6 Music Session, 22 Nov 2024) (feat. Guy Garvey)
#PeterAlexanderJobson
https://open.spotify.com/track/5oPIdB8tYO0AMeRWPcA3tM
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Dream Nails:
🎵 The Spirit Does Not Burn
#DreamNails
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/6UDUZ4njadK1vCKaWlbtOD