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Oh YAML *wtf*
I thought until now YAML is more or less fixed and clearly defined but apparently not. Do you know all the possible effects unknown to me?
🤬 #yaml

ohyaml.wtf | YAML Quiz
YAML is known to be nobody's friend and almost everyone's enemy. Try this to see if it's your friend or foe!

Somebody (maybe it was Erin? can’t remember) proposed that we should have a menu of governance structures just as we currently have a menu of OSS licenses, crafted with the same care and granted the same importance, so that somebody looking to share code can:
- communicate very clearly where they are on that continuum from “Here’s some cool code, maybe it’s useful” to “There is solid, sustainable human infra behind this code,” and
- get guidance and support so that, as their project grows, it moves smoothly along that continuum of governance.
7/

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Any journalist or news organization sanctioned under this policy should immediately sue
-- they will win,
and be lauded as a defender of free speech
The Trump administration unveiled a new, clearly unconstitutional, crackdown Friday on journalists at the Pentagon,
saying it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information
— even unclassified
— that hasn’t been expre…

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.

Well, it’s public: Mayor Lurie has announced that he’s letting Uber and Lyft onto car-free Market Street along with Waymo, something he has no authority to do. The Transportation Code clearly doesn’t allow it. These companies are treating our billionaire mayor as above the law. #sfPol

Great piece by Nik Suresh from last year, 'I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again'
"I started working as a data scientist in 2019, and by 2021 I had realized that while the field was large, it was also largely fraudulent. Most of the leaders that I was working with clearly had not gotten as far as reading about it for thirty minutes despite insisting that things like, I dunno, the next five years of a ten thousand person non-tech organization should be entir…

'Clearly 1:0 to Putin' — European officials react to Alaska Summit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/clearly-to-putin-european-officials.html

I have often been unhappy that the line type in a #ggplot2 legend is not clearly visible. Today, I found a simple solution: simply use
theme(legend.key.width = unit(1, "cm"))
Replace 1 with any other value that you like (not too small, of course!).
#rstats

The 35-day old baby who starved to death in Gaza was clearly a Hamas terrorist. Anyone who says otherwise is antisemitic.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/weeks-old-baby-dies-of-starvation-in-gaza-hospital-amid-ongoing…

Weeks-old baby dies of starvation in Gaza hospital during ongoing blockade
Medical sources also report 116 killed across Gaza, including 38 desperate residents seeking food at GHF site.

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: Right. Bring it directly over the skull. No, that won't do. You'll have to use the radio sensor. Good, that's much better. Yes, there it is. There's the limiter implant, you can see it quite clearly. Give me the side view. Good. Yes, it's in the sub four section all right. Now let's take a look at the limiter itself. Close focus, slowly.
JENNA: Well, there's nothing wrong with the connectors.

“A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk”
“People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.”
A chilling read about an absolutely galling failure of the most basic bioethical concerns. The process around circulatory death donation is clearly broken and requires reform and better oversight. It’s ghoulish in its present state.

A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk
People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.

I've probably mentioned that I'm working on switching #Gentoo from our half-broken eselect-ldso logic to #FlexiBLAS. This also involves a transition period where both setups would be supported.
A good thing is that the switch is ABI-compatible with the previous state (or at least it's supposed to be — we're working with upstream on fixing function coverage). Since libblas.so, liblapack.so and the rest are replaced by symlinks, programs that link to them will simply start using FlexiBLAS. So far, so good.
Unfortunately, switching the other way doesn't work as well. Stuff newly built against our libblas.so & co. symlinks naturally reads FlexiBLAS's SONAME from them, and links to libflexiblas directly. So should you decide to switch back, some packages will stay linked to FlexiBLAS and will need to rebuilt.
In order to avoid this, I would have to replace the symlinks with wrapper libraries, having libblas.so.3 and so on SONAMEs, and linking to libflexiblas. Unfortunately, a dummy wrapper isn't going to work — the linker will complain about using indirect symbols from libflexiblas.so. So I would probably have to "reexport" their symbols somehow, and ideally split into appropriate libraries, so that `-Wl,--as-needed` wouldn't drop some of them. But how to do that?
Well, let's look at the existing logic for eselect-ldso — clearly both BLIS and OpenBLAS create some wrappers. So I've spent some time investigating upstream Makefiles, and literally couldn't find the respective targets. I mean, these are quite complex Makefiles, but I'm grepping hard and can't find even a partial match.
As it turns out, these Makefile targets are added by Gentoo-specific patches. And these patches are just horrible. In case of OpenBLAS, they create the wrapper libraries by linking all the relevant .o files from OpenBLAS build, plus the shared OpenBLAS library. So the OpenBLAS symbols relevant to each interface end up duplicated in libblas.so, liblapack.so, etc., and apparently the symbols needed by them are taken from libopenblas.so. The individual interface libraries aren't even linked to one another, so they expose their own duplicate symbols, but use the implementation from OpenBLAS instead.
BLIS is even worse — the patch is simply creating libblas.so and libcblas.so, using all BLIS objects directly, plus symbol visibility to hide symbols irrelevant to the library. So yes, libblis.so, libblas.so and libcblas.so are roughly three separate copies of the same library, differing only in symbol visibility. And of course libcblas.so doesn't use libblas.so.
Truly #GSoC quality.

Urban Meyer questions whether NFL should suspend Chargers' Jim Harbaugh over Michigan sign-stealing scandal

https://www.cbssports.com/col…

Spot the kitty

Former Browns Pro Bowler without a job clearly deserves a training camp invite https://fansided.com/nfl/former-browns-pro-bowler-without-a-job-clearly-deserves-a-training-camp-invite

Towards LLM-generated explanations for Component-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering Systems
Dennis Schiese, Aleksandr Perevalov, Andreas Both
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14553

Towards LLM-generated explanations for Component-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering Systems
Over time, software systems have reached a level of complexity that makes it difficult for their developers and users to explain particular decisions made by them. In this paper, we focus on the explainability of component-based systems for Question Answering (QA). These components often conduct processes driven by AI methods, in which behavior and decisions cannot be clearly explained or justified, s.t., even for QA experts interpreting the executed process and its results is hard. To address …

Hach, damals, als man noch Bücher lesen und genießen konnte, ohne ständig mit Politik und Ideologie konfrontiert zu werden ...

Principles and Reasons Behind Automated Vehicle Decisions in Ethically Ambiguous Everyday Scenarios
Lucas Elbert Suryana, Simeon Calvert, Arkady Zgonnikov, Bart van Arem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13837

Principles and Reasons Behind Automated Vehicle Decisions in Ethically Ambiguous Everyday Scenarios
Automated vehicles (AVs) increasingly encounter ethically ambiguous situations in everyday driving--scenarios involving conflicting human interests and lacking clearly optimal courses of action. While existing ethical models often focus on rare, high-stakes dilemmas (e.g., crash avoidance or trolley problems), routine decisions such as overtaking cyclists or navigating social interactions remain underexplored. This study addresses that gap by applying the tracking condition of Meaningful Human …

Label Uncertainty for Ultrasound Segmentation
Malini Shivaram, Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare, Laura Hutchins, Jacob Duplantis, Thomas Deiss, Thales Nogueira Gomes, Thong Tran, Keyur H. Patel, Thomas H Fox, Amita Krishnan, Deva Ramanan, Bennett DeBoisblanc, Ricardo Rodriguez, John Galeotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15635

Label Uncertainty for Ultrasound Segmentation
In medical imaging, inter-observer variability among radiologists often introduces label uncertainty, particularly in modalities where visual interpretation is subjective. Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a prime example-it frequently presents a mixture of highly ambiguous regions and clearly discernible structures, making consistent annotation challenging even for experienced clinicians. In this work, we introduce a novel approach to both labeling and training AI models using expert-supplied, per-pixe…

To be clear, none of this is to say "this is definitely fake evidence." People talk in really strange ways when they're under stress. People are weirder than you think. Reality is weirder than you think. I don't think this is clearly "this is fabricated."
But I don't just trust it by default, especially when it lines up really well with what the administration wants.

Clearly at least the vandals (aka drivers) knew about it.
'Public should have been told about North Yorkshire speed camera'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg57gle8l1o
> The fixed camera on the A64, near Malton, was vandalised hours before it was due to be…

Cables are clearly conscious, sinister, and spite us by doing things like this on purpose.

It's funny how people asking for someone's gender when the information they need is pronouns. Whoever came up with the term XY problem clearly chose a suitable name.

Handy Relation Between Binary Black Hole Merger Times and Host Galaxy Properties
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Department of Physics, Fisk University, Nashville, TN), Fazeel Khan (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Center for Astrophysics and Space Science), Isaiah Williams (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), Jaelyn Roth (Department of Physics and Astronomy, …

Handy Relation Between Binary Black Hole Merger Times and Host Galaxy Properties
Over the past 15 years, the evidence has clearly demonstrated that massive black hole (MBH) binary merger timescales depend strongly on the structural and kinematic properties of their host galaxy. Stellar density, gas content, shape and kinematics all play a role, combining in non-linear ways to effect the evolution of the binary. The binary properties themselves, such as eccentricity, mass ratio, and orbital plane, all matter as well. This makes it nontrivial to estimate accurate cosmological…

SPHEREx Discovery of Strong Water Ice Absorption and an Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in 3I/ATLAS
C. M. Lisse, Y. P. Bach, S. Bryan, B. P. Crill, A. Cukierman, O. Dor\'e, B. Fabinsky, A. Faisst, P. M. Korngut, G. Melnick, Z. Rustamkulov, V. Tolls, M. Werner, M. L. Sitko, C. Champagne, M. Connelley, J. P. Emery, B. Yang, the SPHEREx Science Team
https://

SPHEREx Discovery of Strong Water Ice Absorption and an Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in 3I/ATLAS
In mid-August 2025, 0.75-5.0 micron SPHEREx imaging spectrophotometric and ancillary NASA-IRTF SpeX 0.7-2.5 micron low-resolution spectral observations of Interstellar Object 3I ATLAS were obtained. The combined spectrophotometry is dominated by features due to water ice absorption and CO2 gas emission. A bright, 3 arcmin radius CO2 gas coma was clearly resolved, corresponding to Qgas,CO2 = 9.4 x 10{^26} molec/sec. From the SPHEREx photometry, we put conservative, preliminary 3sigma upper limit…

Officials from various European countries took to social media to share their reactions following the Alaska summit.
"Putin got his red carpet treatment with Trump, Trump got nothing,"
German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger wrote on X.
"As was to be feared: no ceasefire, no peace. No real progress
— clearly 1:0 for Putin
— no new sanctions.
For the Ukrainians: nothing.
For Europe: deeply disappointing."
During the post-summit …

'Clearly 1:0 to Putin' — European officials react to Alaska Summit
"Putin got his red carpet treatment with Trump, Trump got nothing. ... For the Ukrainians: nothing. For Europe: deeply disappointing."

Cowboys' Micah Parsons reposts JJ Watt's tweet questioning Jerry Jones throwing shade at star linebacker

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys

Scotland, it seems, does not like the #OnlineSafetyAct. I've long been interested in opinion maps on which the England/Scotland border is clearly defined, but this one surprises even me.
#ScotPol

it annoys me when news headlines refer to a government agency as taking a horrific action when it is clearly the work of the unconstitutional attackers of that agency, like saying the "EPA" is shredding environmental protections, but without an institutional opposition that is willing to defend these agencies and hire the ousted administrators to speak on behalf of the "real" agency, i don't see why i should care anymore.

Reifenberg Theorem for Locally Finitely Almost Splitting Sets
Jiaqi Zang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14805 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14805

Reifenberg Theorem for Locally Finitely Almost Splitting Sets
The well-known Reifenberg theorem states that if a subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ can be well approximated by $k$-planes at every point and every scale, then it is biHölder homeomorphic to a $k$-disk. This article concerns a subset $S$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ which can be approximated by at most $N$ parallel $k$ planes at each point and scale. As a subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ such an $S$ may be quite degenerate; $S$ may clearly not be homeomorphic to a disk, and indeed we will see may not be homeomorphic to …

Clearly, an attempt to tap the infinite low carbon energy created from Steve Jobs spinning in his grave…
https://mastodon.social/@verge/115219405596725827

Dez Bryant envisions big things for one Raiders rookie wide receiver https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/dez-bryant-envisions-big-things-raiders-rookie-wide-receiver/7ef8c9553d26…

Lavrov you Bolshevik bastard.
Wearing a USSR shirt (CCCP is Cyrillic for USSR) to the Alaska meeting with potus means the U.S. should join the International Criminal Court (ICC) just to refer you to it.
What’s next, ya gonna bring breadlines back to Moscow?
h/t @…
@…

Too many inconvenient truths coming from that.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/nasas-acting-chie…

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.

@… FWIW When my wife gave birth, the hospital clearly stated that they had a 2 person maximum in the room. So even if the wife gave in, this dude probably just can’t get what he wants, and needs to deal with that.

The year is 2027.
Google: "Should we remove HTML from the web platform?
You know it's kind of old and we have barely any resources to keep it running, and there's chatbots anyway."
People: "What?!"
Google: "Well, clearly you don't have anything to say." [deletes code]

The folks in Battle River-Crowfoot have the chance to do the funniest thing ever. . . .
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/17/opinion/pierre-poilievre-safe-seat-byelection-alberta

Pierre Poilievre’s safe seat isn’t so safe after all
The Conservative leader clearly thinks the byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot is going to be a cakewalk. His opponents have other ideas.

Enhancing Multi-Agent Debate System Performance via Confidence Expression
Zijie Lin, Bryan Hooi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14034 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Enhancing Multi-Agent Debate System Performance via Confidence Expression
Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. Recent research has introduced Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) systems, which leverage multiple LLMs to simulate human debate and thereby improve task performance. However, while some LLMs may possess superior knowledge or reasoning capabilities for specific tasks, they often struggle to clearly communicate this advantage during debates, in part due to a lack of confidence expression. Moreove…

“Tellingly, the defendants do not dispute that the Act prohibits the executive branch from imposing extra-statutory policy-based conditions on the Endowment's funding, Yet record evidence clearly shows that the defendants are withholding funding for impermissible policy reasons.”
Trump-appointed judge does the right thing, and DOGE damage lives on
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/16/2338306/-Trump-appointed-judge-does-the-right-thing-and-DOGE-damage-lives-on?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main

Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site:
Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to.
Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity.
When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected.
And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers…

Little Red Dots as Direct-collapse Black Hole Nurseries
Elia Cenci, Melanie Habouzit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14897 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14897

Little Red Dots as Direct-collapse Black Hole Nurseries
The James Webb Space Telescope recently uncovered a population of massive black holes (BHs) in the first billion years after the Big Bang. Among these high-redshift BH candidates, observations have identified a class of active galactic nuclei candidates, dubbed Little Red Dots (LRDs), with extraordinarily compact gas reservoirs and peculiar spectral features. LRDs clearly emerge at redshift z<8 and their abundance declines by z<5. Recent theoretical studies have explored the link between LRDs a…

Can Multimodal LLMs See Materials Clearly? A Multimodal Benchmark on Materials Characterization
Zhengzhao Lai, Youbin Zheng, Zhenyang Cai, Haonan Lyu, Jinpu Yang, Hongqing Liang, Yan Hu, Benyou Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09307

Can Multimodal LLMs See Materials Clearly? A Multimodal Benchmark on Materials Characterization
Materials characterization is fundamental to acquiring materials information, revealing the processing-microstructure-property relationships that guide material design and optimization. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently shown promise in generative and predictive tasks within materials science, their capacity to understand real-world characterization imaging data remains underexplored. To bridge this gap, we present MatCha, the first benchmark for materials characteriz…

i was put in charge of three grandchildren for a few hours yesterday so we headed straight to ben & jerry's to split a milkshake, then explored the state theater (and even sneaked into a movie but later got thrown out for horsing around on the escalator), then i gave a nickel tour of angell/mason/haven halls, then they chased squirrels on the diag which took longer than you might think, then we looked in all the windows in nickels arcade. it all went slowly and well.

To state the obvious: this is bland stuff, clearly protected by the 1A and so very far within the bounds of what a non-authoritarian FCC would allow that it’s just comical. Kimmel is about as controversial as a goldfish here. They aren’t serious about it being a problem; the whole •point• is that it’s obviously •not• a problem.
They are using something extremely benign to test the waters of government repression of speech, to see just how much they can get away with — and ABC caved like 3rd-grade toothpick bridge.

Perplexity's unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a marketing stunt and strategic signaling amid Google's antitrust uncertainty (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/i-offer-to-buy-jupiter/

Perplexity's Perplexing and Positively PR Offer to Buy Chrome
Why not offer a quadrillion dollars?

every single AI-for-coding experiment i've conducted ended up the same way: it was clearly faster, even if only a little bit, to do the same thing without the LLM in the middle https://mastodon.social/@janl@narrativ.es/115014692424751266

Dez Bryant envisions big things for one Raiders rookie wide receiver https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/dez-bryant-envisions-big-things-raiders-rookie-wide-receiver/7ef8c9553d26…

Likelihood confidence intervals for misspecified Cox models
Yongwu Shao, Xu Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11851

Likelihood confidence intervals for misspecified Cox models
The robust Wald confidence interval (CI) for the Cox model is commonly used when the model may be misspecified or when weights are applied. However it can perform poorly when there are few events in one or both treatment groups, as may occur when the event of interest is rare or when the experimental arm is highly efficacious. For instance, if we artificially remove events (assuming more events are unfavorable) from the experimental group, the resulting upper CI may increase. This is clearly co…

Watching GitHub PR update emails roll in on a Sunday morning for my former job's repo that I was sole developer on. Manager is clearly trying to vibe code some update but it's breaking.
Although I don't have org access anymore my account is still in the approvers group so I'm getting emails
#softwaredevelopment

Today's cup of flat white #coffee. The latte art clearly still needs more practice, but the coffee is already better than what my frother and mokka pot delivered before.
#FlatWhite

@… I can't understand why OAPs holding up signs are in jail, but Yaxley-Lennon is out continuing to cause trouble.
The OAPs weren't violent, but he has shown clearly that he is.
cc @…

The worst people, having discovered the killer probably came from their ranks, now have to fall back to their oldest tactic — canceling. It’s clearly their strongest play (they invented it, successfully blamed the tactic on everyone else, and are getting traction with it again now).

Right-Wing Activists Urge Followers to Expose Those Celebrating Charlie Kirk Killing
The widespread and fast-moving campaign has already resulted in lost jobs, suspensions and internal investigations, heightening tensions online between supporters and detractors of Charlie Kirk.

Das Trolley-Problem scheint dir abgehoben und viel zu abstrakt?
Nun, die Ethik hat sich auch schon ausführlich überlegt, wie ein autonomes Auto sich denn in Extrem-Gefahren­situationen verhalten soll¹, und auch das wirkt eher sehr abgehoben und unrealistisch. Was nicht diskutiert wurde, ist die in der Praxis implementierte Lösung: Autopilot schaltet sich Millisekunden vor dem Aufprall aus, um nicht schuld zu sein.²
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Top 12 NFL RBs of 1975: Where Bills' O.J. Simpson and Steelers' Franco Harris rank on iconic list of backs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/top-12-

In Brazil, the rule of law clearly and unambiguously classified the coup as a #coup and put Jair #Bolsonaro behind bars for 27 years.
Why didn't the #UnitedStates manage to do the same when the then and …

I still don't understand how the Atleti goal was allowed to stand. Griezemann was clearly an influence on the play in an offside decision. Might have even screened Alisson.
#LFC

This 'investigation' into Comey and Brennan is clearly meant only as a distraction from the #Epstein debacle, trying to keep Trump's supporters from burning their #MAGA hats.

Trump day 170-171: Trump opens investigation into former FBI and CIA directors, wants to take over DC and NY administration, Grok becomes MechaHitler, lights on 24/7 at Alligator Alcatraz, maggots in food and Gor turns out to be Russian - Reporters Online
New decisions from Trump, and new fallout. An overview of day 170 and 171.

Academics can be viciously funny.
I recently published a journal article. One of the reviewers didn't much care for it. Alongside the obvious critique that I clearly hadn't read enough of my own work, Reviewer 2 didn't like me quoting a certain text, having misread what I thought was an obvious reference to a classic text as insulting one of the people at the center of my article. The editor agreed with me enough to put an illustration of the classic text on the issue's…

Quasiparticle Interference in LiFeAs: Signature of Inelastic Tunneling through Spin Fluctuations
Shun Chi, Carolina A. Marques, Walter N. Hardy, Ruixing Liang, Pinder Dosanjh, Doug A. Bonn, Sarah A. Burke, Peter Wahl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11755

Quasiparticle Interference in LiFeAs: Signature of Inelastic Tunneling through Spin Fluctuations
Quasi-particle interference (QPI) is a powerful tool to characterize the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in unconventional superconductors, by mapping the spatial dependence of elastic tunneling of electrons between the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope and a sample. Here, we consider the influence of inelastic tunneling on quasi-particle interference, exemplarily for the iron-based superconductor LiFeAs. We clearly observe replica features in both experimental QPI maps and…

"The Conservative party has collectively decided that the threat of Farage is best met by copying him, so the idea that Badenoch could act towards Jenrick the way Heath did to Powell seems impossible. More extraordinary is that the Labour government is also under the misapprehension that the best way to combat Farage is to sound like him, a mistake that will seem incomprehensible in a few years time."
Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite

Solar power is growing exponentially in Africa
https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2025/09/1-solar-power-growth-exponential-africa.htm

Solar power is growing exponentially in Africa
An inflection point in Africa's adoption of solar energy is now clearly visible, driven by record imports and rapid expansion across dozens of countries on the continent.

Geert Wilders posted an islamophic image in a tweet a few days ago and is now being sued for it.
The thing is, the image is clearly AI generated. This means that the prompt for it is still around somewhere.
Under US discovery, that prompt would certainly be made public; possibly in the Dutch system as well.
This suggests some interesting possibilities. First, if Wilders made the image himself, his language in the prompt may have been more candid than his public persona.

Extreme right follower of an extreme right guy shoots another extreme right guy
Media: clearly this is a radical left trans guy

TL;DR: what if nationalism, not anarchy, is futile?
Since I had the pleasure of seeing the "what would anarchists do against a warlord?" argument again in my timeline, I'll present again my extremely simple proposed solution:
Convince the followers of the warlord that they're better off joining you in freedom, then kill or exile the warlord once they're alone or vastly outnumbered.
Remember that even in our own historical moment where nothing close to large-scale free society has existed in living memory, the warlord's promise of "help me oppress others and you'll be richly rewarded" is a lie that many understand is historically a bad bet. Many, many people currently take that bet, for a variety of reasons, and they're enough to coerce through fear an even larger number of others. But although we imagine, just as the medieval peasants might have imagined of monarchy, that such a structure is both the natural order of things and much too strong to possibly fail, in reality it takes an enormous amount of energy, coordination, and luck for these structures to persist! Nations crumble every day, and none has survived more than a couple *hundred* years, compared to pre-nation societies which persisted for *tends of thousands of years* if not more. I'm this bubbling froth of hierarchies, the notion that hierarchy is inevitable is certainly popular, but since there's clearly a bit of an ulterior motive to make (and teach) that claim, I'm not sure we should trust it.
So what I believe could form the preconditions for future anarchist societies to avoid the "warlord problem" is merely: a widespread common sense belief that letting anyone else have authority over you is morally suspect. Given such a belief, a warlord will have a hard time building any following at all, and their opponents will have an easy time getting their supporters to defect. In fact, we're already partway there, relative to the situation a couple hundred years ago. At that time, someone could claim "you need to obey my orders and fight and die for me because the Queen was my mother" and that was actually a quite successful strategy. Nowadays, this strategy is only still working in a few isolated places, and the idea that one could *start a new monarchy* or even resurrect a defunct one seems absurd. So why can't that same transformation from "this is just how the world works" to "haha, how did anyone ever believe *that*? also happen to nationalism in general? I don't see an obvious reason why not.
Now I think one popular counterargument to this is: if you think non-state societies can win out with these tactics, why didn't they work for American tribes in the face of the European colonizers? (Or insert your favorite example of colonialism here.) I think I can imagine a variety of reasons, from the fact that many of those societies didn't try this tactic (and/or were hierarchical themselves), to the impacts of disease weakening those societies pre-contact, to the fact that with much-greater communication and education possibilities it might work better now, to the fact that most of those tribes are *still* around, and a future in which they persist longer than the colonist ideologies actually seems likely to me, despite the fact that so much cultural destruction has taken place. In fact, if the modern day descendants of the colonized tribes sow the seeds of a future society free of colonialism, that's the ultimate demonstration of the futility of hierarchical domination (I just read "Theory of Water" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson).
I guess the TL;DR on this is: what if nationalism is actually as futile as monarchy, and we're just unfortunately living in the brief period during which it is ascendant?

The students that will be starting university in fall have been using #GenAI successfully (as in: they got their diplomas) for years. Why should they start questioning this now? What would be the incentive?
In the context of formal education, the primary incentive for most people (who are not intrinsically motived) is obtaining the degree. So, “encouraging reflection” will clearly not be en…

The students that will be starting university in fall have been using #GenAI successfully (as in: they got their diplomas) for years. Why should they start questioning this now? What would be the incentive?
In the context of formal education, the primary incentive for most people (who are not intrinsically motived) is obtaining the degree. So, “encouraging reflection” will clearly not be en…

This is a public service announcement for all the dollar-store Sherlock Holmes’s out there who clearly have nothing better to do than to concoct conspiracy theories about people from Gaza on the fediverse who are faced with genocide and famine:
Stop.
Have some humanity.
Case in point, do not do what Daniel (@helmet91@mastodon.social) is doing here:

🧠 People with more life experience see and digest everyday 'events' more clearly, research finds
#brain

People with more life experience see and digest everyday 'events' more clearly, research finds
Research by Royal Holloway has found people with a varied social life mentally put their daily experiences into small "events," compared to more isolated people who see their world as one-long stretch.

Electricity in international comparison - Future technologies in power generation
Axel Kleidon, Harald Lesch, Russ Conser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14365 https://

Electricity in international comparison - Future technologies in power generation
Which technologies are currently booming in power generation? The answer can clearly be seen in the trends in global electricity generation data. Analysing this data using the theory of diffusion of innovations reveals how photovoltaics and wind power are gaining ground worldwide. Other technologies - especially coal and nuclear power - are being displaced, with Germany playing a pioneering role.

Just wondering when an european "Linkedin" will start or if there is already one available? We clearly can't trust a US company with all our personal data, relations, employers etc. ?
#linkedin #eu #privacy

Why Cooperation Beats Competition If You Design It Right
We praise competition because it slings us awake, but the quiet truth is that cooperation does the heavy lifting. It stitches days together, forges talent into reliability, and turns cleverness into outcomes you can touch. You see it most clearly where failure costs blood or bread. Think of the night shift in a busy hospital: rounds, handoffs, an attending who catches what a resident almost missed because the…

Why Cooperation Beats Competition If You Design It Right | David Boles, Blogs
We praise competition because it slings us awake, but the quiet truth is that cooperation does the heavy lifting. It stitches days together, forges talent into reliability, and turns cleverness int…

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Johnny Nash:
🎵 I Can See Clearly Now
#NowPlaying #JohnnyNash
https://djaf.bandcamp.com/track/johnny-nash-i-can-see-clearly-now-djaf-reggae-remix-102
https://open.spotify.com/track/5NrV5IwDOFcXHHUFTB8BUy

Heartbreaking.
“This essentially says the United States is no longer your ally, that the United States doesn’t see clearly beyond the rhetoric of your regime,”
https://www.

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

I keep seeing pull requests clearly generated by LLMs, but what’s really awkward is their inability to create separate branches and PRs for each fix, even after asking the contributor multiple times.
Can we conclude that git is still out of reach for LLMs to really understand?
#git #llm

High-pressure electronic states in semiconductors studied by infrared spectroscopy: metallization and band gap tuning in Mg$_2$Si, InAs and InSb
Hidekazu Okamura, Haruna Okazaki, Katsunori Marugaku, Subin Lee, Tomoki Yoneda, Haruhiko Udono, Yoshihisa Mori, Mitsuhiko Maesato, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Yuka Ikemoto, Taro Moriwaki
https://arxiv.org/a…

High-pressure electronic states in semiconductors studied by infrared spectroscopy: metallization and band gap tuning in Mg$_2$Si, InAs and InSb
In this article, a brief introduction is first given on infrared studies of materials at high pressures using a diamond anvil cell. Then, our recent results of high-pressure infrared studies are described for Mg$_2$Si, InAs, and InSb. For Mg$_2$Si, pressure-induced metallization at pressures near 10 GPa were clearly demonstrated for both carrier-doped and undoped Mg$_2$Si by large increases of reflectivity. For InAs and InSb, their band gap ($E_g$) increased rapidly and almost linearly with pre…

Clearly every death in Texas is due to Joe Biden not mandating that every county have flood warning sirens and refusing to make them the top priority in the Infrastucture Bill.
And with that bit of absurdity, I am muting various related words for a week. The stupidity is too damn thick.

The fascist coalition was never going to hold. It couldn't. Fascists want everyone to be exactly the same. That's their whole thing. Leftists want diversity, so we can actually form coalitions. Fascists will always reach a point where they have to kill all the other fascists who aren't exactly like them.
Project 2025 betrayed this. It wasn't consistent. It was a jumble of different ideas that couldn't actually be implemented together. Someone gets left out. The Groypers haven't been getting what they want. Things have been moving too slowly for them. So now we get to see what happens. If they keep accelating, Trump could be forced to choose between cracking down on the far right (and destroying his coalition completely) or letting his people get killed. I hope that's a choice he has to make.
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While Rome burns, go build things that help people and get other people involved in it. The way we win is by not getting involved in that mess, but rather just clearly demonstrating that we can make things better.

Dak Prescott was clearly best player on field for Dallas Cowboys in loss vs. Eagles https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dak-prescott-was-clearly-best-player-dallas-cowboys-loss-vs-eagles

Micah Parsons contract: Cowboys players 'clearly frustrated' with Jerry Jones, 'distracted' ahead of season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

@helmet91@mastodon.social You are spreading a crackpot conspiracy theory based on your amateur forensics and harming actual people who are facing genocide and famine.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Since you clearly have no intention to stop, I am blocking you. And I suggest anyone with a conscience does the same.

Dem Congresswomen Demand ICE Agents Clearly Identify Themselves Amid Wave of Imposter Assaults | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-democrats-ice-agents

Clearly a work in progress. Lots of promise, but very disjointed while chemistry is built, fitness is gained, and adaptations to a faster and more physical league are happening. It's a lot of roster changes.
The defense look shaky, but often they were put in bad positions by turnovers with too many players committed. Outside backs and midfielders.
Thrilled for Chiesa to get one. Happy for Mo to continue the opening day streak.
Ekitike is my MOTM. He already looks comfor…

Oh, you think the dress is your ally, but you merely bought the dress. I was born in it, molded by it.

Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy
emphasized his desire to end NASA's focus on studying the Earth and understanding how the planet's surface and atmosphere are changing.
This shift has been a priority of the Trump Administration at other federal agencies.
https://…

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.

"Volume Two: Thank You For Your Patience" is one of my recent favorite albums. Milwaukee's the Beat Index clearly had a blast making "an album of on-hold music for automated phone systems." You really need to listen to the whole album - it's sonically on point, damn catchy, and brutally funny (the endlessly repeating tri-tone at the end of the full album "Telesthesia Mix" makes me wanna cry every time).
"Caught in a Lie (Hotline Mix)" (20…

If you want to make the case against political violence, start by saying clearly that Charlie Kirk was a miserable sack of shit who promoted bigotry and religious hatred and helped organized a violent coup attempt whose goal was to end democracy in the US in order to establish a white supremacist ethnostate. Say that the world is better without him in it.
•Then• make your argument that even in his case — even a person whose death improves the world — even •then• political violence is a bad strategy.
A/2

probably the most insidious thing that "AI" can do to an internet community is by making everyone play a game of trying to figure out if this person, who posts something clearly wrong, is just a beginner who's learning or another chatgpt user here to waste your time

Transforming Questions and Documents for Semantically Aligned Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Seokgi Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09755 https://arxiv.org/…

Transforming Questions and Documents for Semantically Aligned Retrieval-Augmented Generation
We introduce a novel retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework tailored for multihop question answering. First, our system uses large language model (LLM) to decompose complex multihop questions into a sequence of single-hop subquestions that guide document retrieval. This decomposition mitigates the ambiguity inherent in multi-hop queries by clearly targeting distinct knowledge facets. Second, instead of embedding raw or chunked documents directly, we generate answerable questions from ea…

@… Did you… read the post?
OP clearly found the same acronym, and is asking for actual *context*.
@… @…

Trump clearly got booed during the national anthem at the U.S. Open,
but ABC “conveniently” cut to commercial when he hit the scoreboard.
And why does he salute the anthem like a dictator
instead of putting his hand over his chest like every other American?
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonlin…

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
Trump clearly got booed during the national anthem at the U.S. Open, but ABC “conveniently” cut to commercial when he hit the scoreboard. And why does he salute the anthem like a dictator instead of putting his hand over his chest like every other American?

Whatever this cat got caught doing, they were obviously framed. They'll happily do it again, but they're clearly innocent! Just look at them :3

As a survivor of the type of stochastic terrorism that people like Charlie Kirk carry out, and also a survivor of gun violence, I've had a bit to think about.
I still understand the anger, the frustration, that leads someone to snap. I'll always have compassion, if also paired with some frustration, for the person who shot me and her husband. That makes sense to me. I refused to testify because it never made sense to punish a tool who acted out of ignorance.
What doesn't make as much sense to me are the upper class grifters, the stochastic terrorists, who turn a profit of off setting people like that up to kill. I always wanted to see people like that, people who were clearly profiting off of bringing evil into the world, held accountable.
But the way I always want to see them held accountable, is by being forced to live in a world where everyone is free. Charlie Kirk got out easy, and that is a bit sad. He should have had to suffer through our victory. He should have had to watch the fall of Western Civilization, the collapse of all the things he held dear, all the things he tried to uphold. I wish that he had lived long enough to understand the suffering he inflicted on the world. He should have lived long enough to have to do real work, to have to figure out how to feed himself, house himself, in a world that has no market for the hate that he brings.
As much as I had rather that he starved, I would never shed a tear for the opening of a new public urinal.
Rest in piss. Charlie Kirk.

Cowboys Encouraged To Cut 4th Year Run Game ‘Liability’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/damone-clark-encouraged-cut-run-liability/?adt_ei=[email]

In case anyone needs a laugh tonight, here’s me wearing a chicken hat.
You’re welcome.
(There are some stores I clearly should not be allowed in.)
🐣

“While on the White House roof, President Trump told reporters he was ‘trying to build’ nuclear missiles, then pointed upward and mimed a launch toward the sky.”
But potus’ mind is clearly not broken 🤦‍♂️
via @aaronparnas.bsky.social
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/bre

'Nowhere all-time:' Randy Moss says Tyreek Hill hasn't reached that plateau among NFL's best receivers ever

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

Cowboys depth at edge rusher may be envy of all other NFL teams if they can fit all on 53 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/03/edge-rusher-is-clearly-cow…

People clearly feed the #turtles around here because buddy here saw me and swam directly on over. If a #turtle can leave in a huff, this one did. I had nothing to offer but a smile. 😊
Some kind of pond slider perhaps?

The royal peets (paw feet)

Trump and his officials are waging a war on electricity infrastructure.
This campaign is primarily driven by their opposition to the solar and wind farms that they associate with their foils, the Democrats.
Even as electricity has clearly become more important to the economy
— and even as the country’s biggest technology firms strive to secure any spare electron for their new metropolis-size data centers
— Trump and his team have begun a regulatory coup to smother n…

Opinion | Trump Is Destroying the Future of America to Own the Libs
Smothering electric vehicles might have been a regrettable mistake for a Republican to make 10 years ago. Today, it is economic idiocy.

Data collected by Mauna Loa from 1958 onward let us clearly see the evidence of climate change for the first time.
The station samples the air and measures global CO₂ levels.
Charles Keeling and his successors used this data to produce the famous Keeling curve – a graph showing carbon dioxide levels increasing year after year.
But this precious record is in peril.
Donald Trump has decided to defund the observatory recording the data -- as well as the widespread US gre…

Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down
Cutting data climate collection – as the Trump administration is now trying to do – is like breaking a thermometer to avoid knowing you’ve got a fever.