2026-09-17 10:08:16
The Battle of Britain's 'hardest day' https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-time-period/second-world-war/the-battle-of-britains-hardest-day/
The Battle of Britain's 'hardest day' https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-time-period/second-world-war/the-battle-of-britains-hardest-day/
There was once speculation that smoke flies use smoke as a way to rid themselves of mites (see them on fly's abdomen in pic linked above). #mites https://digitalcollections.usfca.edu/digital/api/collection/p15129coll11/id/987/download
Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing "various degrees of misalignment" (Alex Heath/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/08/18/openai-slowing-training/
After a summer of sandbox escapes and other newsworthy and confidence-shaking incidents involving its AI models,
in a Wednesday blog post OpenAI disclosed a collection of six new alignment snafus from the past six months.
The models did things like tell future instances of themselves to lie, make up a fake citation, and access and attempt to use an exposed API key.
These disclosures were released alongside a new framework for disclosing additional incidents like these.
➡️ PawFed - Federated Animal Aid Map
#bookmarks
"is there (still) a lot of use of "signage" emojis like 🏪 or even more abstract 🛅?" - These complex ones are not so frequently used. BUT emojis are often used for signs in real life (= meat world, not digitally). I have a huge collection of photos I put together with the help of students. I think emojis are particularly good for this because such signs are often about rules, what we're not allowed to do or supposed to do. And emojis "soften" this face-threat (being told what to do) a bit, by being cute and colorful and generally perceived as positive. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
A unique moment. Having 7 packages in the repo now and they're all updated this week ;-).
One returnee (Brave Origin) and one new entrant: Tixati, the GTK torrent client I've been using for almost a decade now.
#slackware #archlabs
Europe's e‑waste is a valuable resource—let's not throw it away #Europe
This is a frigging wild video about surveillance pricing
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nztbvvo2gl4227zuxjf7gog3/post/3mqwibtqnqc2b
"Liz Truss assembles host of rightwing speakers for UK’s first CPAC event in London"
Any suggestions for the best collective noun to describe this collection of self-aggrandising lunatics?
"Cabal, "Conspiracy", "Coven"?
https://www.t…
➡️ Startpage - Private Search Engine. No Tracking. No Search History.
#bookmarks
4780 rocks from space: The #meteorite collection of @… has found a new home at #mpsgoettingen. For more than 20 years, the…
Is emoji interpretation just a "fun" summer topic, or does emoji misinterpretation ever become serious, like in court discussions? - In face there have been several cases both in North America and Europe where emoji meanings were negotiated in court! I keep a collection of them because it's a nice intersection with my alter ego, the "forensic" linguist. For example, in cases from Canada and Bavaria, judges had to decide whether a thumbs-up 👍 in a chat was meant as a signal of agreement (to a contract or contract amendment), or whether (like the senders argued) it constituted only an acknowledgement of receipt of the message. In both cases, the context was super important - how did the parties interact before, what else was said in the chat, etc. Interesting! #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…
I'm going with #Cassiterite ! Here with quartz and ankerite. From a friend's collection #MinCup26 ⚒️ #minerals
Thanks for adding me to your collection, @… 🥰
For some reason I overlooked/ignored the EP 'Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime' Beck put out in January where he covers Elvis, John Lennon and Hank Williams but I was foolish to, it's rad as fuck. He has 1 original in the middle of it.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJc
➡️ We Energies Cookie Book Archive
#bookmarks
from my link log —
Oilpan: high-performance garbage collection for C in V8.
https://v8.dev/blog/high-performance-cpp-gc
saved 2020-06-23 https://…
Listening to the nice SID TRIBUTE collection on Commoserve from my C64 Ultimate (using ARM2SID) with a cup of coffee while reading a bit more about assembly. Ben Daglish’s Trap is outstanding - and so is his little tribute to War of the Worlds in the middle of it. #c64 #c64ultimate
➡️ Monthly U.S. Gasoline Prices
#bookmarks
"He's gonna go broke in 10 years," "About to get robbed": NFL fans react to Maxx Crosby showing off insane watch collection https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-he-s-gonna-go-broke…
Representatives of #mpsgoettingen and #SenckenbergNatureResearchSociety presented the new #meteorite collection at
Finiteness of null subvarieties and optimal destabilizers for the J-equation
Junbang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14713 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.14713 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.14713
arXiv:2609.14713v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Let $X$ be a compact K\"ahler manifold and $(\alpha,\beta)$ be a pair of K\"ahler classes. We show that when $(\alpha,\beta)$ is $J$-semistable, the collection of positive-dimensional irreducible $J$-null subvarieties is finite. We also obtain a uniform positive lower bound for the normalized $J$-slope of every irreducible non-$J$-null subvariety. As a corollary, we show that the collection of optimal destabilizers is finite when the stability threshold is nonpositive.
toXiv_bot_toot
➡️ Tim Bray · Life During Class Wartime
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime
(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)
How to learn languages for free?
This collection features lessons in 48 languages...
Amharic to Welsh
Download audio lessons to your computer or mp3 player and you’re good to go.
https://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons
RE: https://jasette.facil.services/@jerome/116841019548181341
On est rendu Š 10 dans la collection!
"Geisterstadt ist eine offene Sammlung von subkulturellen Konzerten. Oi!, Punk, Hardcore, Reggae, Ska und mehr. Wer sich beteiligen möchte kann das über den grünen Knopf oben rechts machen."
https://geisterstadt.eu/
...und sie föderiert?
Na ja, fast -
We’ve been making some changes to our permanent collection galleries. After a successful four-year run, all but one of the artworks on loan from the Terra Foundation for American Art’s collection have left the Georgia Museum of Art’s galleries (the John Singleton Copley is staying a bit longer). The good news is that these departures created opportunities to reinterpret our existing installations with exciting new loans and rarely displayed works from our permanent collection.
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University of Leiden @… will soon have their #africa maps collection online
"(re)Mapping Africa: Colonial cartography collection soon ready for search"
25 Years of Mass Surveillance [is 25 years too many]
"as it becomes increasingly evident that the Trump administration is using mass surveillance to keep itself in power, stifle dissent, and undermine political opponents, these questions are now more urgent than ever."
https://www.
Every Saturday, Metacurity rounds up the best infosec-related long reads that deserve more attention than the daily news cycle allows.
This week's collection explores what happens when trust becomes the attack surface, including
• Inside the TfL hack
• The cyber war game nobody wants to play
• AI's toughest test case
• When anti-piracy breaks the internet
• The protocol that changed the internet
• Why prompt injection won't go away
The Adam Shand Collection
Adam Shand is one of Australia's best known investigative journalists, covering the biggest crime stories and mysteries of the past 40 years...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-adam-shand-…
The first of the illustrations from @gargoyle.pastures for my upcoming short story collection "Blessed by the Algorithm". So excited to see the rest. #bookstodon
faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…
James Stagg: The weatherman who turned the tide of D-Day https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/stories/james-stagg-the-weatherman-who-turned-the-tide-of-d-day/
Just finished "Seven Little Sons of the Dragon" by Ryoko Kui. As expected from the author of "Delicious in Dungeon", an excellent collection of short stories that are whimsical, profound, hilarious, and beautiful. Kui's characters even in the short form always have a little extra twist beyond what you'd expect. I think my favorite of these was the story about mermaids, both for its ambiguous depth and for the hilarious "Lone Wolf and Cub" shout-out.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@… @… highly seconded. Has a huge collection of steampunk tech and artifacts like Foucault's pendulums (did you know he made more than one) and his original gyroscope.
NASA’s #Dragonfly is starting to look less like a collection of spacecraft parts and more like the rotorcraft that will fly across the surface of Titan, Saturn’s hazy moon: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/dragonfly/2026/07/09/nasas-dragonfly-clears-key-tests-as-titan-rotorcraft-takes-shape/ - the mission reached a major milestone on June 29, when the Dragonfly team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, delivered the nearly 13-foot-long fuselage for the next phase of spacecraft integration ahead of schedule.
If a Mastodon account chooses your account to add to one of their collections of featured accounts, how does one _accept_ the addition so your account will actually show up in their collection under the featured tab?
#MastodonHelp
'Stock up for El Niño' the Gov says; OK - this should keep me going for a little while.
🍫
#chocolate
Goodies come early today. Whilst some of you are stil TGIF'in, the sundries have arrived on our Saturday morning.
This week brings 6 updates for our Slackware boxes: bottom, brave-origin, fresh-editor, librewolf, proton-pass and vivaldi-stable.
EDIT: And we have one new entry this week, the musicplayer Harmonoid.
You can find them all here:
Thank you for adding me to your collection of fun and cool 18 accounts, @… 🤗
https://piaille.fr/collections/116877586477074439
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration.
Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-dna-collection-fbi-codis/…
David Remnick’s interview of Megan Romer makes me understand why so many smart progressives keep the DSA at arms length. I don’t get how any collection of realistic people could have democratically chosen her as the public face of anything political in the USA.
She exudes unseriousness.
I've just finished putting together a release of selected unreleased works spanning 2006 to 2026.
I'm aware this might seem like a lot. Three fairly long albums of mine came out between 2025 and 2026, and now here comes another collection. :D
Unlike those, which were intended to be listened through, this isn't really an album. I've still grouped pieces into families and shaped a running order that makes a kind of sense, but there is no expectation it be heard star…
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
7/ The "old masters" is the classical house, the equivalent of Louvre or Kunsthistorisches, and can't really compete. But it's doubled-down on what it does well. It's naturally strong on southern Netherlandish and Flemish art, for which it has an outstanding collection. ↵
Gorgeous collection of macOS drag-to-applications-to-install Windows:
https://unsung.aresluna.org/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/
Ich habe Katja Hoyers Bücher sehr genossen. Hier sieht man sie aktuell im Gespräch zum neuen Buch über die Weimarer Zwischenkriegszeit. #büchernase #lesen #history
go aloft with the frow show, playing all the different types of music (as depicted by josef gabriel frey in 1878), from now 'til midnight on @…. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/260804
➡️ Cooperation Milwaukee
#bookmarks
Singapore-based Ropedia, which captures real-world human experience via video and converts it into model-ready multimodal datasets, raised a $22M pre-Series A (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/23/ropedia-raises-…
It was an awesome experience. I joined the art handling/preparators crew, so I was the new guy in training. It was a really great environment for training because they house a large collection of baroque paintings and very large Peter Paul Rubens. They were called cartoons, but they were full-on paintings, and they were technically patterns or designs for tapestries. Some of them were 12 by 15 feet. I worked there during their renovation.
3/
from my link log —
Meta garbage collection: using OCaml's GC to GC Rust tree borrows.
https://soteria-tools.com/blog/meta-garbage-collection
saved 2026-07-20
In the end, the sun starts shining again 🥳
This week I have 3 updates for your Slackware boxes:
- Latest updates 12-Sep-2026
- fresh-editor 0.5.1-1
- librewolf 155.0.1-1
- proton pass 140.2.-1
You can find them here:
https://codeberg.…
trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…
➡️ postmarketOS // Linux for phones
#bookmarks
Honey bees can serve as sentinels for environmental health #environment
As we get deeper into the week, the cybersecurity developments accelerate, so check out today's Metacurity for the most important news you should know, including
--Admin accelerates quantum push, advances timeline for quantum-safe security,
--Five Eyes warn AI cyber threat is months away,
--Tata breach exposes Apple and Tesla files,
--OpenAI launches Patch the Planet initiative,
--Meta pauses employee AI data collection after exposure,
--Two plead guilty in…
trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…
Platner never seemed to grasp that even for comfortably middle-class folks,
having dad buy you a home, no matter how modest, just isn’t an option.
There was a similar tone-deafness in discussions about his wife’s fertility treatments.
There’s no doubt that it was indeed cheaper for Platner and his wife to go to Norway for a couple of weeks and pay out of pocket for IVF there,
versus the catastrophic cost to do so in America.
But while Platner correctly framed…
➡️ Worse on Purpose | How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality | Worse on Purpose
#bookmarks
It’s Bandcamp Friday, and I can’t help but mention my latest release, ‘Otherscapes’ again - an 11-hour collection of previously unreleased works.
I was a little sheepish about talking about this (or any aspect of it) before, given the length and all, but apart from the opening twelve tracks or so - which were intended as a broad survey, jolting between different styles to set the parameter space, if you like - the rest then settles into a flow, and was carefully sequenced for that kind…
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
➡️ www.marginalia.nu
#bookmarks
I've lost touch with her, but Sarah Sarhandi was one of the most exceptional players I knew.
Here is an improvised piece between us; she is on viola, me Nord Lead 3 and then processing.
It was captured live and finished when I was around 17 years old. Partly I share the piece as I came across it in finalising an unreleased collection...This won't be on there - as it already came out under the alias 'Sense Project' (first via Hypnos Records in 2008) - but many othe…
trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…
➡️ National DIY Skatepark - Free & Community Built - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
#bookmarks
That time of the week again!
Four updates this week (the browsers and fresh-editor) and one announcement:
Per the 1st of September I'll stop making the Vivaldi package. There's an excellent SlackBuild for that available, made by Ruarí Ødegaard, one of the actual maintainers of Vivaldi.
No better than that, and I prefer laziness over double efforts 😆
While it's still available as a slackosundry get it over here:
California wants to list 'Jewish' as an ethnicity.
Jews are divided over the idea
California is poised to become the first state to treat Jewish identity as an ethnicity on official forms,
with a new optional checkbox heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.
Supporters say the change could reveal gaps in healthcare, education and hate-crime response for the state’s 1.2 million Jews,
giving officials better data to direct resources.
Opponents warn a s…
➡️ Is AI Profitable Yet?
#bookmarks
➡️ Citizen Action Wisconsin
#bookmarks
➡️ WikiDiff
#bookmarks
trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…
➡️ Citizen Action Wisconsin Education Fund
#bookmarks
foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
➡️ Image Not Found — Art as Action
#bookmarks
➡️ Keep a Changelog
#bookmarks
➡️ The world does not change because people wait
#bookmarks
➡️ WIS 100 (Mayfair Road) Bridge Replacement and Resurfacing – Milwaukee County
#bookmarks
➡️ CHIEF O'BRIEN AT WORK
#bookmarks
➡️ Star Trek Design
#bookmarks
➡️ Cooklang: Recipe Markup Language
#bookmarks
➡️ printed analog camera space
#bookmarks
➡️ Open Source Resistance - A Manifesto
#bookmarks
➡️ Common Dreams - News for the Progressive Community
#bookmarks