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“On Monday, two hanging deaths were reported in Mississippi, one in Vicksburg and another on the campus of Delta State University.”
So…Mississippi may still be lynching folks. And patel, potus, and governor tate reeves have nothing to say about it.
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The office tonight.
No edits—I love what the camera saw.
Was a funny gig: meant to be a public show in the park next door, but got moved in here due to weather. Totally different crowd than we expected, so we had to change up the set list, and with a fill-in bass player, too... he did great though.
It was fun having to focus on technical accuracy since the crowd was doing nothing but watching and listening (no dance floor, not an event unrelated to us)!

"Let’s be honest,
an idea of 30 percent tariff rate is effectively prohibitive to the mutual trade,”
Maros Sefcovic, the European Union’s trade commissioner, told reporters in Brussels on Monday.
“The current uncertainty caused by unjustified tariffs cannot persist indefinitely,” he added.

Companies in Europe Are Frozen as Tariff Uncertainty Drags On
After European Union leaders said they would keep negotiating instead of immediately retaliating against President Trump’s latest threat, businesses remain unable to develop long-term plans.

Laura Rutledge elevated to ESPN's lead 'Monday Night Football' broadcast team https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6548706/2025/08/12/laura-rutledge-espn-nfl-monday-night-football/

Native-AI Empowered Scalable Architectures and Solutions for Future Non-Terrestrial Networks: An Overview
Jikang Deng, Fizza Hassan, Hui Zhou, Saad Al-Ahmadi, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Daniel B. Da Costa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11935

Native-AI Empowered Scalable Architectures and Solutions for Future Non-Terrestrial Networks: An Overview
As the path toward 6G networks is being charted, the emerging applications have motivated evolutions of network architectures to realize the efficient, reliable, and flexible wireless networks. Among the potential architectures, the non-terrestrial network (NTN) and open radio access network (ORAN) have received increasing interest from both academia and industry. Although the deployment of NTNs ensures coverage, enhances spectral efficiency, and improves the resilience of wireless networks. Th…

Subtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.

I randomly bought this book in a quirky bookshop in Copenhagen for the sole reason that it said all the wrong things right on the cover.
(Sales: the single most important profession. NLP™: not natural language processing but neuro-linguistic programming. Meta: the Meta Model™ and Meta Publications™.)
I just started reading it and boy oh boy, I was not disappointed. It's outrageously hilarious.
"Persuasion engineering".

Persuasion engineering by Richard Bandler | Open Library
Persuasion engineering by Richard Bandler, unknown edition,

AOL announced that it will discontinue its dial-up internet service next month,
marking the end of a 34-year offering that is synonymous with the early days of the internet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/business/aol-dial-up-i…

AOL Will End Its Dial-Up Internet Service (Yes, It’s Still Operating)
The company said the service, synonymous with the early days of the internet, will be discontinued on Sept. 30.

Die Begründung, man wolle denjenigen gegenüber fair sein, "die jeden Morgen aufstehen", bedient das Narrativ, #Bürgergeldempfänger seien leistungsunwillig.
Das fördert eine #Stigmatisierung von

Bas kündigt mehr Sanktionen an: Bericht: Regierung will Bürgergeld-Nullrunde im nächsten Jahr
Derzeit erhalten Singles im Bürgergeld 561 Euro pro Monat ausgezahlt. Laut einem Medienbericht soll dies auch im kommenden Jahr so bleiben. Die Arbeitsministerin möchte zudem Verschärfungen bei der Sozialleistung auf den Weg bringen.

For nearly 40 years
the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program,
a special federal court system,
has compensated Americans who prove they were harmed by vaccines while also protecting the manufacturers from litigation.
Now Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to overhaul the program, saying he will make it more efficient and speedier for Americans seeking payment.
He said in a social media post last month that the vaccine court had “devolved into a morass of i…

Kennedy’s Next Target: the Federal Vaccine Court
The system for compensating people injured by vaccines needs significant reform. But the health secretary could alter it in ways that ultimately reduce vaccine access for everyone.