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Alright, the internet is all too much right now. I'm gonna take a break for a bit and work on some projects. I have some organizing to do and some bugs to find.
The horrible things in the world don't change what we have to do. Our work is and has always been the same. They may make it easier to get other folks on board, they may make it more obvious that we were right all along, but they don't change our job.
We will do our work of building community, supporting each other, and creating the world we want to see. It will take as long as it takes to do. None of the news changes any of that. So I'm gonna take my break and hopefully come back after I've gotten some of that shit done.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Remember that when you start to feel guilty about taking a breath.

Hello, CSS folk -- she's unlikely to get an answer to this question on BSky:

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
BLAKE: Orac's prediction still hasn't come into effect. I am trying to find some reason why he was wrong.
AVON: Have you found what you want?
BLAKE: No.
https://blake.torpid…

I wouldn't used to post about such activities, because obviously it can come across a certain way - but I stumbled on these old photos of a Grace Jones gig setup - and thought maybe people would find it interesting.
The idea was to do a one-off very different sound, and we stripped down some of her classics. My "station" is in the first photo, her son played percussion, Dave Okumu guitar, and Ivor handled the bass (see Moog lol) and was also triggering other samples.

One year into Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown,
construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters.
Hospitals in West Virginia have lost out on doctors and nurses who were planning to come from overseas.
A neighborhood soccer league in Memphis cannot field enough teams because immigrant children have stopped showing up.
America is closing its doors to the world,
sealing the border,
squeezing the legal avenues to entry
and sending n…

What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration
The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt in hospitals and soccer leagues and on Main Streets across the country, with hints of what’s to come.

Running Backs For Raiders to Consider in NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-running-backs-consider-in-draft

At this point, if you don't find AI tools useful for code generation, that's a skill issue.
(The issue is that you are an actually competent programmer who knows how to do things like abstract boilerplate code into a helper function or practice test-driven development, and therefore you recognize the AI tool "assistance" as a net productivity loss. If you aren't good enough on your own that AI slows you down, the "speedup" you'll experience can only come at a crippling quality cost, which you might not even be able to recognize until it's too late.)
#AI #LLMs #VibeCoding

Steps to greatly advance the state of the art in any relatively obscure field:
1) Find a bunch of autistic nerds whose special interests broadly overlap with said field
2) Put them in contact and let them share ideas or, better yet, lab space
3) Buy them whatever they ask for
4) Wait and see what they come up with. Excitement guaranteed, you just have no idea exactly what kind.

The ibis are steadily encroaching further into suburbia. They moved into the adjacent suburb a couple of years ago, today they are in mine. I'm now awaiting the day I come out to find one sitting on the bird feeder awaiting breakfast!
#Suburbia #Canberra

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: For the past year now, I've been collecting all the information I could find. With Orac's help, I now know more about Control than anyone outside the senior echelon of the Federation. I think I can destroy it. [Avon claps slowly.] I'm not going to minimize the danger. It's a high-risk operation. That is why I'm not going to ask any of you to come with me.
GAN: You think you could do it without us?

The BBC running damage control on its own broadcast is wild to witness. The most egregious part of the affair to me is that no one from BAFTA or the BBC even bothered to apologize to Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo when they got off the stage, let alone tell *them* what was going to be done about it. There was no effort to bring the three people involved together for resolution at the time of the incident, nothing.
But the other part of this that just grates on me with every article is the BBC trying to defend itself by saying “that another racial slur had been edited out of the broadcast.”
#BBC #BAFTA #Racism #FreePalestine #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #misinformation #disinformation #complicity
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165835

"Terrible things are happening outside.
Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.
Families are torn apart.
Men, women, and children are separated.
Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."
- Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

#Wordle 1,673 2/6*
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 <1% of 228,347 (5)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 27% of 66
WordleBot
Skill 81/99
Luck 92/99
Took a long time to find any word that fit so I went with it. The other 4 words were reasonable also but did not come to mind (well, one was a little questionable in it's spelling for an answer, NYT thought so too)