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The best Drake Maye cards to collect: A wide array of rookies and where to find his autographs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7030076/2026/02/08/drake-maye-best-rookie-cards-patriots/

The reason for these prices isn't because this tape is amazing (though it would be amazing for actual recording as far as tapes are concerned), it is people who collect tapes like others do stamps or coins; and this one is very rare as it was very expensive back in the day.

"Disable your mobile advertising ID (see instructions for iPhone/Android). Apple and Google assign unique advertising IDs to each of their phones. Location data brokers use these advertising IDs to stitch together the information they collect about you from different apps."
https://www.…

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.
The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sloan:
🎵 Collect Yourself
#Sloan
https://open.spotify.com/track/6UgnA2gjgCG59mewDtCT5p

Xoople, which is developing a satellite constellation to collect earth data for training AI models, raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to $225M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/06/spains-xoople-rais…

Spain's Xoople raises $130 million Series B to map the Earth for AI | TechCrunch
The company is also announcing a deal with L3Harris to build the sensors for Xoople's spacecraft.

LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000 Chrome extensions, collects data.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linkedin-secretly-scans-for-6-000-plus-chrome-extensions-collects-data/

LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data
A new report dubbed "BrowserGate" warns that Microsoft's LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript scripts on its website to scan visitors' browsers for installed extensions and collect device data.

Even with everything going on, we still need people to collect seeds, and to plant them. Even if that's all we can do. That's still a thing we can do.

🪺 Nest-building birds help disperse cotton further than wind, study suggests
#birds

Nest-building birds help disperse cotton further than wind, study suggests
Birds play a larger role in the dispersal of wild cotton than previously assumed. This is shown by a study in the journal Oikos, carried out in southern Africa. Researchers discovered that birds actively collect wild cotton as nesting material and in doing so move seeds over distances of more than a kilometer. Cotton fibers were long seen as something that evolved to disperse seeds by wind, but birds also take them to their nests and in this way help disperse the seeds much further.

Trump Administration Considers Action Requiring Banks to Collect Citizenship Information (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-considers-action-requiring-banks-to-collect-citizenship-info-8e26f6d2?st=XHPK2b&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p64#a260224p64

Anybody know which company this is?
A former infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey admitted to hacking and extorting the company to try and collect $750,000 in Bitcoin, officials said.
https://www.

I had to collect surveillance videos from various of private houses and businesses a lot recently.
I came across a variety of NVRs many of which were a challenge for my nerves and mental health.
Example 1:
Exporting a 15 minute sequence of 2 cameras. After 1.5 hrs the status display switched from 0% to 1%.
Example 2:
This specific NVR allowed only to set a starting time for the export. The end time was chosen _randomly_ by the NVR itself. Sometimes 2 minutes, so…

'Fair Share' outpaces other revenues
The Fair Share surtax is a 4% tax on annual income above $1 million in Massachusetts,
which was approved by voters in 2022
The funds are dedicated to public education and transportation.
As of 2026, it has generated over $2.3 billion for these purposes.
The new forecast from the Executive Office of Administration and Finance anticipates that the Commonwealth will collect a total of $44.9 billion in revenue this year,…

'Fair Share' Millionaire Tax Continues to Exceed Expectations - Streetsblog Massachusetts
The Commonwealth's budget office expects that Fair Share tax collections will be $300 million higher in fiscal year 2027.

Been working on a blog post idea about how the 'old', real, more simple web is still around, usable, fuck the big corpo garbage web, and so on. Been seeing other great pieces on it, gathering ideas, wanna reference them, etc. Wanna collect all of them and say something intelligent about it but wow it's gonna take a while to collect it all and write it up 😂 But be assured, it's on its way eventually. Hopefully sooner than later. I want it to be almost like a brief, simple road…

Good news. Got a collect call from "Bob Wehadababyitsaboy".
#goodNews #celebration #announcement

I will likely initiate an account transfer soon. Ideally, you won't need to do anything besides waiting for my new account to collect you.

For conference organization, I would be lost without SwitchDrive—and without my colleague!
Me: We need something to store and edit all admin things
Colleague: I'll create a SwitchDrive folder
Me: And how do we collect those videos?
C: Here’s your SwitchDrive folder
Me: And also for sharing research school material?
C: SwitchDrive
tbc
Really, #SwitchDrive

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas: whatchutalkinbout?
On one miserable, rainy evening, with a bit of a cold, and with an hour and a half spare before I had to go and collect Nicholas from Scouts, I wanted to do something substantial; cross something off my "to do" list. I could have put up the hooks in the utility room that have sat there for several months. I could have rearranged the loft to get the Christmas decorations properly put away.

Should I Switch From #Git to #Jujutsu
https://etodd.io/2025/10/02/should-i-switch-from-gi…

"The Trump administration had options for offloading contraceptives once destined for Africa, a newly obtained memo shows. Instead, it has let them collect dust and go bad.
How U.S.A.I.D. Birth Control Meant for Africa Was Ruined - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/world/europe/usaid-contraception-birth-control-belgium-africa.html

"Kill baby Hitler" is bullshit.
If I could go back in time, I'd leave baby Hitler alone, poor child. I'd rather make sure that Adolfchen does not go on to become Hitler.
Should I fail, I'd make sure he does not get to collect a bunch of other pariahs and psychos but rather goes on to become just another guy with racist ideas.
It takes a village to raise an *evil* child as well, you know.
And now we're all raising so many, so fucking many evil…

Browns QB Shedeur Sanders graduates from University of Colorado Boulder https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-qb-shedeur-sanders-graduates-from-university-of-colorado-boulder

A NOAA ‘Hurricane Hunter’ crew flew out of Portland International Airport to collect storm data for six weeks.
Scientists say they now have a better picture of how atmospheric rivers work.
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/04/19/pdx-hurrica…

‘Hurricane Hunter’ crew spent 6 weeks at PDX, studying atmospheric rivers
A NOAA “Hurricane Hunter” crew flew out of Portland International Airport to collect storm data for six weeks. Scientists say they now have a better picture of how atmospheric rivers work.

The FTC says it won't enforce COPPA against companies using age verification tools as long as they use the collected data only to verify a user's age (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/ftc-says-it-wont-enforce-coppa-age-verification

FTC says it won’t enforce COPPA against proper use of age verification tools
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued a policy statement advising industry that it will not bring enforcement actions against website and online service providers who collect, use and share personal data using age verification technologies.

I'm sorry to say that I actually wrote it:
"The pinnacle of enshittification, or Large Language Models"
#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

This becomes especially interesting when you understand the history of the church as a quasi-revolutionary organization. One could describe early church history as a mostly-successful attempt to overthrow the Roman empire. I say mostly successful because, in the end, the Roman state mutated the church for it's own ends and basically pulled a Lenin.
The early church was a religion of women and slaves that set up alternative institutions. See, the Roman economic system basically ran through the temples. Temples were basically the banks of their day (thus money changers in the temples and all that). So when the church set up their own institutions, they were actually attacking the economic system of the Roman empire. *That* is why the empire tried to destroy them. The Romans didn't really care about the gods. They would just mutate their beliefs to pull other pagans in. No, it wasn't about the gods. The Christian were fucking with the money.
The whole church as an institution was about dual power, and Paul (one of the early founders of the church) was central to organizing this into a political machine that could actually threaten the dominant order. One could argue that he saw the potential of the church, and used it to solidify his own power.
It all basically worked, right up until Constantine figured out how to flip the whole thing against the most radical elements. He had his people collect up different books of the Bible and modify them in such a way that it favored Rome. The trick here was to highlight the existing antisemitic threads of early church, and destroy the anti-Roman ones. Anti-authoritarian sects were killed as heretics, and centralized sects became aligned under the church.
This strategy of controlling internal dissent probably feels quite familiar. It's basically how the US works.
But this whole time, during the whole lead up to this, Christianity was illegal and it was continuing to grow as a system of dual power. When Romanism merged with Christianity, it created the most authoritarian institution in human history that brutally destroyed all opposition. Even still, several hundred years later it's power broke.
Today Liberalism has separated banking and the church, and has created the illusion of separation of church and state. But the same dual power strategy that allowed the first church to gain enough power to merge with the Roman power structure have now allowed Christian Nationalism to fully merge with Americanism into the Christian Fascism we see today...

Downloading all my old Gmail attachments using this great Python script tool
https://github.com/mjseeley/Gmail-Attachment-Downloader
Finding some great old photos, but also realising how much digital crap we collect!

Trump administration considers requiring banks to collect citizenship information (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/24/trump-banks-citizenship-status/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p113#a260224p113

I created a new repo/tool today to evaluate and collect the rapidly changing tooling configurations that everyone is trying to figure out (using statistical experimental design) I used Claude/Gastown to both make it and operate it and have some initial comparison data on opus/sonnet and Python/TS/Go etc. for a small test. I’d be happy for some github stars if people think it could be useful.

GitHub - adrianco/retort: Platform Evolution Engine. Distill the best from the combinatorial mess.
Platform Evolution Engine. Distill the best from the combinatorial mess. - adrianco/retort

FTC says it won’t enforce COPPA against proper use of age verification tools https://therecord.media/ftc-says-it-wont-enforce-coppa-age-verification

A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated (Rachel Scharf/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-major-labels-win-music-piracy-lawsu…

Spotify & the Major Labels Won a $322M Court Order Against Music Pirates. Will They Be Able to Collect?
Spotify and the three major label groups have been awarded $322 million in a music piracy lawsuit against the pirate library Anna’s Archive.

»ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says:
Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.«
Discord wants to collect the data from you for "security" in order to evaluate you via ID. Now this, this shows how insecure data hunger is, especially in the age of BigTech.
🤷

ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

Phase 1: Collect underpants
Phase 2: AI
Phase 3: Profit

»Harvest now, decrypt later« – That is, why you don't want to collect and store unnecessary data "just in case".

Following federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.

Gaia-GIC-1 - An Evolving Catastrophic #Planetesimal Collision Candidate: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae3ddc -> UW astronomers collect rare evidence of two planets colliding: https://www.washington.edu/news/2026/03/11/uw-astronomers-spot-planet-collision-evidence/

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116309995909754491
According to Polymarket, Cuba is due for a US strike sooner than later,
and many thousands are waiting for the blood to be spilled so they can collect.

ProxyFL: A Proxy-Guided Framework for Federated Semi-Supervised Learning
Duowen Chen, Yan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21078
arXiv:2602.21078v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated Semi-Supervised Learning (FSSL) aims to collaboratively train a global model across clients by leveraging partially-annotated local data in a privacy-preserving manner. In FSSL, data heterogeneity is a challenging issue, which exists both across clients and within clients. External heterogeneity refers to the data distribution discrepancy across different clients, while internal heterogeneity represents the mismatch between labeled and unlabeled data within clients. Most FSSL methods typically design fixed or dynamic parameter aggregation strategies to collect client knowledge on the server (external) and / or filter out low-confidence unlabeled samples to reduce mistakes in local client (internal). But, the former is hard to precisely fit the ideal global distribution via direct weights, and the latter results in fewer data participation into FL training. To this end, we propose a proxy-guided framework called ProxyFL that focuses on simultaneously mitigating external and internal heterogeneity via a unified proxy. I.e., we consider the learnable weights of classifier as proxy to simulate the category distribution both locally and globally. For external, we explicitly optimize global proxy against outliers instead of direct weights; for internal, we re-include the discarded samples into training by a positive-negative proxy pool to mitigate the impact of potentially-incorrect pseudo-labels. Insight experiments & theoretical analysis show our significant performance and convergence in FSSL.
toXiv_bot_toot

The discussion around "age verification" in systemd/XDG has been largely focused against the California law. But honestly, there's a much deeper problem there.
Firstly, the data collected. The question initially asked is "are you at least 18 years old?" However, that's not the data collected. In fact, the data collected is not even the age — it's the full birth date. It's a perfect example of collecting more data than you need, and a sensitive information too, and sharing it with any application that asks.
Secondly, the extended goal of "parental controls" used as a justification to collect more data. When you think about it, you realize how bad this is: it isn't the case of asking the user about their birth date (with the assumption that a kid will enter a fake date to workaround the limitations). It is effectively a tool for *parents* to impose restrictions on their children, which means that they are more likely to enter the real date to ensure that these restrictions work. And given how popular sharenting is today, do you really think they'd come up with a fake birth date that happens to roughly match their child's age?
This is simply irresponsible.
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922

Anybody who wants to package together MegaSquirt for the engine and a drop-in PLC/μC board to control the basis vehicle functions of popular tractors and combines can basically collect infinity billion dollars a year for the rest of time. You might lose stuff like humidity measurement, auto set/fan control, yield mapping, etc. at the start, and I'm sure a lot of people will bawl about losing autosteer. ArduPilot for that? The hydraulics should just remain hydraulics, and Ferguson never n…

@… I'm on a work call so I'm not going to formally raise a ticket (yet) but my normal solid internet connection is getting like a 50% packet loss. Is there a general problem in the Winchester area or do I need to collect some diagnostics etc?

Privacy-focused MVNO Cape raised a $100M Series C at a $900M valuation, and says its revenue grew from $4.5M in 2024 to $37M in 2025 (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/19/ex-p…

This Ex-Palantir Exec Built A $900 Million Privacy-First Cell Network
Cape cofounder and CEO John Doyle is seeing rapid revenue growth for his cell network, which deletes call logs and doesn’t collect social security numbers like AT&T and Verizon do.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureaucrats are reportedly planning to use specialty facial recognition glasses to collect data on Americans in real time,
independent journalist Ken Klippenstein revealed.
Financial statements viewed by Klippenstein point to the development of a facial recognition platform modeled after commercially available AI smart glasses,
like Meta’s widely-panned“pervert glasses.” ICE’s in-house model, it seems,
will allow agents to monitor vi…

Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time
Newly leaked documents revealed the existence of the government's in-house facial recognition platform, coming soon to an ICE agent near you.

A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated (Rachel Scharf/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-major-labels-win-music-piracy-lawsu…

Spotify & the Major Labels Won a $322M Court Order Against Music Pirates. Will They Be Able to Collect?
Spotify and the three major label groups have been awarded $322 million in a music piracy lawsuit against the pirate library Anna’s Archive.

#IT #AI #kek

I was previously unaware of the ZA/UM / ally corp collab
https://atelier.zaumstudio.com/collections/thealters

The Alters

The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide
to cease processing passport applications,
-- disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on
and that has run smoothly for years.
The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall,
informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport Acceptance Fac…

US State Department halts passport services at nonprofit libraries
The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service. In late fall, the agency started sending cease and desist orders, which take effect on Feb. 13. It says these libraries cannot collect and keep passport processing fees under federal rules. Librarians say the service has worked for years and residents still call every day. Members of Congress from several states pushed back in a letter to Secretary of State Marc…

After being refused board on the flight two weeks ago, Hanne’s mother had to fly back to Britain without her daughter, collect her school books and a laptop and bring them to Copenhagen where she can home school.
In a further setback, officials at the Passport Office told her father they would cancel Hanne’s passport application made weeks ago because they now knew Hanne was overseas. She would have to start again with an application from outside the country.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/19/uk-schoolgirl-stranded-denmark-dual-national-rules?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Like the Hayabusa2 mission,
which explored and returned samples from an asteroid,
#MMX will investigate the Martian moons -- and return a sample from Phobos to Earth.
The mission is scheduled for launch in JFY 2026, followed by an approximately five year journey for the round-trip to the Martian sphere and exploration of the system.
MMX aims to collect more than 10g of material from P…