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Liebe Freunde des gepflegten Alteisens: Morgen und Samstag widmet das Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe anderthalb Tage der Connection Machine, ein massiv paralleles System von Thinking Machines, entwickelt ab Anfang der 1980er Jahre. Auf der Veranstaltung »Visionäre KI: Das vergessene Erbe der Connection Machine« kommen u. a. auch Entwickler und Designer "von damals" zu Wort. Zur Veranstaltung gibt es einen Live-Stream:

Visionäre KI: Das vergessene Erbe der Connection Machine

Check out today's super-packed Metacurity for the most critical cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Intellexa chief accuses Greek government of cover-up after conviction overturned
--Trivy breach cascades into LiteLLM compromise as attackers hijack CI/CD
--Russian national sentenced to two years in connection with BitPaymer botnet,
--Cyberattacks in Poland more than doubled last year,
--HackerOne employee data exposed in third-party attack…

Intellexa chief accuses Greek government of cover-up after conviction overturned
Trivy breach cascades into LiteLLM compromise as attackers hijack CI/CD and bury evidence, Russian national sentenced to two years in connection with BitPaymer botnet, Cyberattacks in Poland more than doubled last year, HackerOne employee data exposed in third-party attack, much more

In case you want to understand your TLS clients in depth from Node.js, there's a new v2 release of read-tls-client-hello now live: https://github.com/httptoolkit/read-tls-client-hello
Also now supported on

GitHub - httptoolkit/read-tls-client-hello: A pure-JS module to read TLS client hello data and calculate TLS fingerprints from an incoming socket connection.
A pure-JS module to read TLS client hello data and calculate TLS fingerprints from an incoming socket connection. - httptoolkit/read-tls-client-hello

Ofgem has launched a wide-ranging review to reform grid connection processes in response to a surge in datacentre demand, proposing stricter entry requirements and new models to accelerate electricity capacity delivery.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ofge…

Ofgem launches sweeping review of grid connections as datacentre demand surges
Ofgem has launched a wide-ranging review to reform grid connection processes in response to a surge in datacentre demand, proposing stricter entry requirements and new ...

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

After a few iterations of 3d printed prototyping I have an external enclosure for my ThunderScope PCIe prototype to enable future testing without being too dangerously exposed to shorts from random tools and cables on the bench.
And to more firmly secure the card in the slot so it doesn't wobble around when I'm mating and unmating cables.
ProtoPasta ESD CF-PLA on a friend's printer.

The FBI
-- at the direction of Director Kash Patel
-- has fired at least a half-dozen agents tied to the 2022 search of Donald Trump's home in Florida,
six people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
Three of the sources said at least 10 employees overall were dismissed,
-- from support personnel to agents and supervisors.

Kash Patel fires at least 6 FBI agents tied to Mar-a-Lago search
The dismissals come as the FBI director said his phone records were obtained by authorities during the Biden administration in connection with Trump probes.

Do you want to look up a Swiss train connection directly on your terminal, no browser needed?
Necrom4 has written a TUI for SBB
#bahnbubble

Judge orders Greenpeace to pay an expected $345M in connection with oil pipeline protest case (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5756476-greenpeace-dakota-access-oil-pipeline/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p54#a260226p54

The error of my life

Прикольно, мне пришло фишинговое письмо "New device just logged in your GitHub!", которое выглядит максимально похоже на настоящее.
Что было бы, если бы я прошла по ссылке?

Human trafficking. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o2s7e2iusv5jd5gcykzbxms4/post/3mddituuijc2s

My government offers public subsidies for buying computers and laptops. That’s great, right? I’ve been able to use a modern laptop for the first time in years. After buying a laptop with that subsidy, I received an email informing me that the antivirus connection couldn’t be detected.
- Yeah, so? I don’t need antivirus software. I use GNU/Linux and common sense, and that’s been enough for two decades.
- Yeah, but you have to install Windows 11 Pro and this antivirus so we don’t pe…

📉 Reduces token consumption by 99%! From ~47,000 tokens to ~400 tokens when using 6 MCP servers with 60 tools - massive savings for AI agent workflows
⚡ Connection pooling with lazy-spawn daemon featuring 60s idle timeout for optimal performance - no manual start/stop needed
🎛️ Tool filtering via allowedTools and disabledTools config to control which tools are available - supports glob patterns like read_* or *file*

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Kermit the Frog:
🎵 The Rainbow Connection
#KermittheFrog
https://annereburn.bandcamp.com/track/rainbow-connection-kermit-the-frog-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ndrCvG64F2SzBGVyhdfF1

from my link log —
pgagroal: a high-performance connection pool for PostgreSQL.
https://github.com/agroal/pgagroal
saved 2020-01-29 https://dotat.at/…

GitHub - pgagroal/pgagroal: High-performance connection pool for PostgreSQL
High-performance connection pool for PostgreSQL. Contribute to pgagroal/pgagroal development by creating an account on GitHub.

Hey #fedihelp :)
I'm tinkering with #nextcloud in my #homelab a bit.
Just tried to get AppAPI running with Docker Socket Proxy.
I can register the daemon but the test d…

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

A federal appeals court on Friday turned down an extraordinary request from the Justice Department to force a judge to issue arrest warrants for journalist #Don #Lemon, and four other people in connection with a church protest in Minneapolis last week.
The department’s unusual petition, which was unsealed on Saturday alo…

Appeals Court Rejects Justice Dept. Push for Arrest Warrant for Don Lemon
The department had made an extraordinary request for the appeals court to force a judge to issue warrants for Mr. Lemon and four other people in connection with a church protest in Minneapolis.

Does it affect computers that can share an Ethernet Internet connection wirelessly?

Eagles, NFL free agents who may follow DC Christian Parker to Cowboys https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/22/eagles-nfl-free-agents-christian-parker-connection-cowboys/8830380…

Вопрос к гуру #Python и #SQLite: что вы передаете в функции, Cursor или Connection? Какие плюсы и минусы, или нет никакой разницы?
Если нужно коммитить, то насколько странно делать это через cur.connection.commit()?

@… @… transmission is reporting a Connection failed error, but it seems to be working anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The dbcooper package turns a database connection into a collection of functions. #rstats #database

Does Order Matter : Connecting The Law of Robustness to Robust Generalization
Himadri Mandal, Vishnu Varadarajan, Jaee Ponde, Aritra Das, Mihir More, Debayan Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20971
arXiv:2602.20971v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Bubeck and Sellke (2021) pose as an open problem the connection between the law of robustness and robust generalization. The law of robustness states that overparameterization is necessary for models to interpolate robustly; in particular, robust interpolation requires the learned function to be Lipschitz. Robust generalization asks whether small robust training loss implies small robust test loss. We resolve this problem by explicitly connecting the two for arbitrary data distributions. Specifically, we introduce a nontrivial notion of robust generalization error and convert it into a lower bound on the expected Rademacher complexity of the induced robust loss class. Our bounds recover the $\Omega(n^{1/d})$ regime of Wu et al.\ (2023) and show that, up to constants, robust generalization does not change the order of the Lipschitz constant required for smooth interpolation. We conduct experiments to probe the predicted scaling with dataset size and model capacity, testing whether empirical behavior aligns more closely with the predictions of Bubeck and Sellke (2021) or Wu et al.\ (2023). For MNIST, we find that the lower-bound Lipschitz constant scales on the order predicted by Wu et al.\ (2023). Informally, to obtain low robust generalization error, the Lipschitz constant must lie in a range that we bound, and the allowable perturbation radius is linked to the Lipschitz scale.
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🥳 New Kitten¹ Release
• Fixes: Page infinitely refreshes if class does not extend `kitten.Page`
Kitten now shows a helpful error message for this authoring error.
(The issue was due to the page getting rendered without the necessary scaffolding provided by the base class for maintaining the web socket connection,. leading to Kitten thinking the socket connection had failed and triggering a reload to reestablish it.)
Full changelog of today’s updates:

app/CHANGELOG.md at main
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

I've renamed my web browser project from SWB to Sunstone.
The sunstone was a translucent mineral prized by Viking navigators because it had a natural property that polarized light, making it possible to see through the haze and find the sun on a hazy day - quite common in the North Atlantic. I liked the connection to a primitive navigation tool.
Some code progress:
- Downloads are displayed in a grid form inside a popup menu with a progress bar
- I've added a (n…

Should I do signal connection in Godot with drag and drop?

Five people were arrested following hundreds of investigative hours following 💥 the shooting of Judge Steven Meyer and his wife, Kimberly, in Lafayette Indiana
on Jan. 18.
Both victims were in a stable condition following the attack,
which happened around 2:17 p.m.
The judge was injured on an arm, his wife on her hip.
Raylen Ferguson, 38, from Lexington, Kentucky;
Thomas Moss, 43, from Lafayette
and Blake Smith, 32, from Lafayette,
were all ar…

5 arrested in connection with shooting of Indiana judge and his wife
Police have arrested five people as part of a multi-state investigation into the shooting of an Indiana judge and his wife while they were at home on Sunday

Information from my (Dutch) grid operator Stedin: if you would like to upgrade your 1x25A (one-phase) connection to a 3x25A (three-phase) connection, that'll be €495.59.
And then "Oh wait, if we need to replace the connection cable we may add €1,786.82 to the bill"...
And no info on how to find out.

Connection for Fernando Mendoza, Raiders' Brady is Clear https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-connection-for-fernando-mendoza-brady-clear

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

every day is #RedSquirrelAppreciationDay, aber heute ganz besonders. :)
https://calendaroftheday.com/1463-squirrel-appreciation-day.html

the charming species icons of https://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com

The Great Migration — #mentalhealth

Trust and the Flock: What Geese Teach Us About Collective Leadership and Sustainable Action
Inspired by the migration of geese, this essay explores trust, connection, and distributed leadership in times of change. Sustainable impact doesn’t come from doing everything—it comes from knowing your place in the flock and leading together with purpose.

"Hungary adds 1.1 GW of solar in 2025"
#Hungary #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Hungary adds 1.1 GW of solar in 2025
Hungary deployed over 1 GW of solar for the third consecutive year in 2025, driven largely by grid-scale solar additions. There are concerns momentum could slow in the coming years due to no new connection permits for large-scale projects authorized over the last three years.

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social With Graphene, I get kicked off the internet. Other Android devices work perfectly with Wi-Fi, but Graphene suddenly can't access any IP addresses. After rebooting, it works for a few seconds, then stops again. I've been experiencing this for months, but now, for the first time, an app is showing me an error message: In Obtainium: "ClientException with SocketException: Connection reset by peer (OS Error: Connection reset by peer, errno = 104), address = ... , port …

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social With Graphene, I get kicked off the internet. Other Android devices work perfectly with Wi-Fi, but Graphene suddenly can't access any IP addresses. After rebooting, it works for a few seconds, then stops again. I've been experiencing this for months, but now, for the first time, an app is showing me an error message: In Obtainium: "ClientException with SocketException: Connection reset by peer (OS Error: Connection reset by peer, errno = 104), address = ... , port …

"I have always believed in deeds, not words."
As the ongoing Russian attacks keep crippling our infrastructure (as seen from a cold unpowered home with a failing cell connection), I am left with few options. One of them, ruminating before sleep on a strange recurring phenomenon. If not careful, we become what we fight.
We're not infallible. It's the values we keep, the tradeoffs we make to succeed that shape us.
Be vigilant. Watch yourself.
And stay sa…

Cuba developed the first vaccine for Meningitis B, in 1989. It was available to other countries in the late 90s. The UK didn't adopt it until much later.
All Cuban children are vaccinated against Meningitis B and C, among other diseases.
That's the humanitarian country Trump/USA is destroying.
https://www.

I don't like to use my phone for music, because
A: I'm an audiophile and need a wired connection,
B: I need my phone's battery to last all day
C: I don't have a big data bundle so I can't stream music.
...Okay and D: I'm a data hoarder and have more than a terabyte of music.
🧵 2/2

Filings: WBD projects CNN will generate $1.8B in revenue and $600M in adjusted EBITDA for FY 2026; docs show CNN had revenue of $2.2B in 2021 and $1.8B in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

CNN’s Financial Projections Revealed: News Giant to Hit $1.8 Billion in 2026 Revenue
Warner Bros. Discovery is revealing financial details in connection with its planned spinout of Discovery Global.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Elastica:
🎵 Connection
#NowPlaying #Elastica
https://mrlckmshp.bandcamp.com/track/wirestica-three-girl-connection-wire-three-girl-rhumba-vs-elastica-connection
https://open.spotify.com/track/53LZqMzQEnjBkFXPqOq0cD

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

NFL to look into Tisch's Epstein files connection https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47809616/nfl-look-giants-co-owner-tisch-epstein-files-connection

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Cowboys Could Lose Coach to Dolphins After Jeff Hafley Hire https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/steve-shimko-qb-coach-dolphins-jeff-hafley-connection/

internet connection hiccups at the State House again

ALMA and JWST Identification of Faint Dusty Star-forming Galaxies up to z ∼ 8 and Their Connection with Other Galaxy Populations: #galaxies almost 13 billion years old, helping to revise the history of the universe: https://www.umass.edu/news/article/international-team-astronomers-led-umass-amherst-may-have-just-found-one-missing-links

Grids aren’t ‘full’; we simply lack the tools to utilise the available capacity.
One such tool is allowing higher capacity at night: in the Dutch province of Overijssel, Flexible Connection Agreements provide an additional 135 MW of capacity for charging up to 2,000 HDVs.
https://

Blokstroom biedt ruimte in de nacht voor private laadinfrastructuur - Logistics Overijssel
Enexis heeft voor de provincie Overijssel 135 megawatt gevonden voor ‘blokstroom’, voldoende om ruim 2000 elektrische vrachtwagens op te laden.

Today I peeled away the already wrecked metal casing of the Samsung BAR USB drive, noticed that the actual USB thing really is just the µSD-card sized blue insert inside the metal case, plugged it into a USB port, wondered why it didn't show up, took it out and burned the hell out of my fingers, because it was HOT 😂, destroyed the little sucker with pliers and tossed it. 🗑️
I wonder if it was broken before or if they actually used the metal casing for some electrical connection? 🤔

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Elastica:
🎵 Connection
#Elastica
https://mrlckmshp.bandcamp.com/track/wirestica-three-girl-connection-wire-three-girl-rhumba-vs-elastica-connection
https://open.spotify.com/track/53LZqMzQEnjBkFXPqOq0cD

Yesterday I finished "The Other Side of Tomorrow" written by Tina Cho and illustrated by Deb JJ Lee. Lee's "In Limbo" was an excellent graphic memoir, and this similarly has wonderful art, although I didn't make the connection until checking the authors after reading to the end.
This book is a realistic fictional account of two childrens' escape from North Korea via China, Laos, and ultimately Thailand where they could declare themselves refugees at a US embassy and get sponsored to live in America. Along the way they're helped by various members of the Asian Underground Railroad. I'll avoid spoilers but yet definitely encounter difficulties along the way.
The ending definitely hits different now (while also accentuating my disgust with the current US regime). Like "Libertad" that I also finished recently, the "escape to the US at the end" plot line is going to become less prevalent going forward, although Libertad involved a good measure of complexity around that point.
I was a bit disappointed in one of the later plot points where a different and more-real-world-probable turn of events could have served as a better message for society, with the "lucky" outcome as written reinforcing regressive notions of family, and as an ex-Christian the Christian elements of the story made me feel a way. I'm an agnostic, not an atheist though, and can respect the idea that those willing to risk torture and death for their faith have every right to stand by it and take inspiration from it. Most (very valid) critiques of big western Church institutions just don't apply to underground churches in northern China who are helping people escape the horrors of deep fascism.
Overall a really good book.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

"TectoTalks" focus on Fold-and-thrust belts and orogens in seismic reflection data #geophysics #geology

🔄 Full duplex bidirectional streaming enables client and server to send continuous data streams simultaneously over a single persistent connection - real-time agentic workflows without application-level synchronization
🛡️ Enterprise-grade security built-in: mutual TLS for Zero Trust architectures, native JWT/OAuth authentication hooks, method-level authorization for least privilege principle

Does anybody have a connection at Signal who could receive some urgent app design feedback? The app has several very specific problems / limitations / design quirks that are causing major headaches for neighbor groups trying to communicate here in Minneapolis.
(I’ll eventually try to write up some feedback through normal channels so it can go through the normal user feedback pipeline — but I’m sure any fixes that arrive that way will arrive far too late to be useful to us, so I’m not even bothering now. If there’s any chance of having some issues prioritized, I’d sure appreciate it.)
[ETA: I already tagged Mer__edith, but I’m sure she’s far too busy and her mentions are far too crowded for her to give this attention]

Raiders Issued Strong NFL Draft Take Involving Omar Cooper Jr. https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/nfl-draft-take-omar-cooper-jr/

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 178 nodes and 1248 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

Running legacy services directly on a public IP is a mess in 2026.
I've got a toy project listening on :23 (Telnet) and :22 (SSH), on a public IP. I've only shared this information with a few friends. Scanners are finding it.
I had to put a “enter nnnn at the prompt" on the Telnet port.
Tonight's new abuse: one SSH connection but MANY session channels within that connection, probing for accounts (on a system that is not serving login/shell on this ssh port)…

Trails To Freedom: Guided Meditations
Offers home based meditations designed to bring both horse and human into a deeper state of presents, calm, and connection. Created by Kim Daley...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/trails-to-fre…

I'm running Home Assistant on my raspi and have one ethernet and one wifi connection to my FritzBox. HA is showing
LAN: IPv4 addr ...4 and IPv6 addr [::2].
WLAN: IPv4 addr ...5 and IPv6 addr [::3].
But my FritzBox is showing them as
LAN: IPv4 addr ...5 and IPv6 addr [::2].
WLAN: IPv4 addr ...4 and IPv6 addr [::3].
Eh what? I'm a bit puzzled. HA is using stable privacy extension.

"Looking at the connection between #capitalism and oxygen"
He's right. So long as there's any fuel left and any oxygen left, capitalism will continue to burn everything in its path — until there's nothing left
Drilled: Drilling Deep: John Vaillant on the Climate-Fire Nexus
Episode webpage:

"The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect."
https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-

The Last Days Of Social Media
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

France is ditching American tech. When will Canada? - The Globe and Mail (@…)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-france-is-ditching-american-tech-when-will-canada/
Archive https://archive.ph/sBmHK
With gag orders you will find out when it is to late.
And us gouvernement is already using it's power to close foreign accounts at US companies.
From several ICJ judges the accounts at US companies are closed. No Microsoft, no banking.
And a little earlier closing the account of a Dutch bank with connection to Russia made it go bankrupt over night.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Elastica:
🎵 Connection
#Elastica
https://mrlckmshp.bandcamp.com/track/wirestica-three-girl-connection-wire-three-girl-rhumba-vs-elastica-connection
https://open.spotify.com/track/53LZqMzQEnjBkFXPqOq0cD

Cowboys will interview fired head coach with connection to division rival for DC job https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-interview-fired-head-coach-connection-division-r…

Test equipment never ceases to amaze me with the new and creative ways it can break what should be a straightforward API.
Today's enemy is the Agilent DSO-X 2000 series... I just merged a pull request that increases the connection timeout for the Agilent driver, because this scope (verified with netcat) has a hang of about ten seconds after you connect to TCP 5025 before it will send *any* responses to commands.
Once this wait elapses, it works fine. I'm guessing it just …

Cuba developed the first vaccine for Meningitis B, in 1989. It was available to other countries in the late 90s. The UK didn't adopt it until much later.
All Cuban children are vaccinated against Meningitis B and C, among other diseases.
That's the humanitarian country Trump/USA is destroying.
https://www.

Iranian Intelligence Agent Convicted of Terrorism and Murder for Hire in Connection with Foiled Plot to Assassinate U.S. Politicians and Government Officials (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/iranian-intelligence-agent-convicted-terrorism-and-murder-hire-connection-foiled-plot
http://www.memeorandum.com/260306/p128#a260306p128

Pollinators of Privilege — https://www.brichapman.com/p/pollinators-of-privilege?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

Privilege as Pollination: Rethinking Power, Responsibility, and Leadership
Privilege isn’t a problem to erase—it’s a resource to redistribute. This essay explores how to turn privilege into pollination, and power into connection.

The dramatic transition of the extreme Red #Supergiant WOH G64 to a Yellow Hypergiant: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19329 - this 2024 paper, already mentioned by me in connection with other observations of that star in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-24-11-2024/ ("Die enge zirkumstellare Umgebung des Roten Überriesen WOH G64 ..."), has now been formally published: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02789-7.epdf?sharing_token=7UR_XvTAZerqnMHPRyA0LtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0N7FejDObMF3AkHA10E71tuouxDX6yP8bM1QCFKGVVZLl8bT37LMadR8u4ukhACilFI60-Zxl0e00Bc0v3qXkG29yIQr7uTE0sd644q7We4d6ay5Tblhxc-UABROlAnuDs=

Jesse Minter says Ravens job was 'the one I wanted,' aims to build connection with Lamar Jackson https://www.nfl.com/news/jesse-minter-says-ravens-job-was-the-one-i-wanted-aims-to-build-connection-with-lamar-jackson

Kennt ihr eigentlich die Fernsehserie „Halt and Catch Fire“? Falls nein: unbedingte Empfehlung, insbesondere auch für Menschen, die sich für Computer- und Hackergeschichte interessieren: https://www.sceneandheardnu.com/content/halt-and-catch-fire

TV’s Best Drama You’ve Probably Never Heard Of — Scene+Heard
This piece contains spoilers for Halt and Catch Fire. Halt and Catch Fire is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. During quarantine, I binged all four seasons in a week and was immediately struck by its themes of human connection — the desire for it, the difficulty that inevitably comes wi

Korea's Fair Trade Commission is threatening to shut down Coupang's business altogether in connection with a massive data breach.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20260114/suspension-of-coupang-feasible-scena…

Suspension of Coupang feasible scenario, experts say
As the head of the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) reiterates warnings of a possible business suspension for Coupang over its massive data breach, expe...

Running legacy services directly on a public IP is a mess in 2026.
I've got a toy project listening on :23 (Telnet) and :22 (SSH), on a public IP. I've only shared this information with a few friends. Scanners are finding it.
I had to put a “enter nnnn at the prompt" on the Telnet port.
Tonight's new abuse: one SSH connection but MANY session channels within that connection, probing for accounts (on a system that is not serving login/shell on this ssh port)…

All of this is just to say that "no gods, no masters" lacks the nuance we need to meet this time, for those who still embrace it.
I feel like there's an essay that needs to come out of this wondering text, but to some degree I'm also just processing my own severed connection to my ancestors (both pagan and Jewish) and to the communities I wish I had...

The Trump administration has increasingly deported people
– including refugees
– to countries with which they have little or no connection,
often placing their lives in danger.
For years, Bhutan had refused to repatriate Bhutanese refugees,
and no public repatriation agreement between the two countries exists,
according to Aisa Villarosa, an attorney with the Asian Law Caucus, also involved in
ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation tie…

Just finished "Song of A Blackbird" by Maria van Lieshout. It's an excellent and extremely timely historical fiction graphic novel about rediscovering a family connection that was severed by war, and the Dutch Resistance figures under Nazi occupation who saved many lives, in some cases at the cost of their own.
Despite being fiction, it's very closely grounded in historical facts, and the inclusion of photographs within the illustrations is really cool.
Now is an interesting time to be thinking about the fates of Nazis, collaborators, their victims, and the resistance, as well as how we remember them all. I especially liked the section at the end about the real historical figures and their fates. So "fascinating" that none of the Nazis were executed or died in prison (mostly they did serve long terms before their release), even those who oversaw mass killings and deportations to concentration camps. I'm a prison abolitionist and not a fan of state capital punishment, so on *some* level this seems like an outcome I should be happy about, but I somehow doubt that the state was this lenient for all prisoners during this time period...
#AmReading #ReadingNow

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Raiders have strong connection to wide receiver at NFL Combine https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/03/raiders-have-strong-connection-to-wide-receiver-at-nfl-combine/889575…

Mum To Mum With Doctor Tash
Honest, heart-centred conversations about raising emotionally healthy kids, one connection at a time...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mum-to-mum/

Former Victoria Secret CEO denies connection to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/18/les-wexner-jeffrey-epstein-files-00786674
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p84#a260218p84

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 168 nodes and 423 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Charles Webster & The South African Connection:
🎵 Free
#CharlesWebster #TheSouthAfricanConnection

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Nonviolent Communication for Activists — https://www.brichapman.com/p/nonviolent-communication-for-activism?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

Nonviolent Communication for Activists: Speaking the Language of Connection
Activism isn’t just about resistance—it’s about connection. Learn how Nonviolent Communication can help build more sustainable, compassionate movements.

A grand jury in Washington
refused Tuesday to indict Democratic lawmakers
in connection with a video in which they urged U.S. military members to resist “illegal orders,”
according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Justice Department opened an investigation into the video
featuring Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin and four other Democratic lawmakers
urging U.S. service members to follow established military protocols
and reject …

Grand jury refuses to indict lawmakers over military orders video
A grand jury in Washington has refused to indict Democratic lawmakers in connection with a video in which they urged U.S. military members to resist “illegal orders,” according to a person familiar with the matter. The Justice Department opened an investigation into the video featuring Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin and four other Democratic lawmakers urging U.S. service members to follow established military protocols and reject orders they believe to be unlawful. All the l…

Federal agents arrest 2 more in connection to Minnesota church storming (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-agents-arrest-2-more-connection-minnesota-church-storming
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p61#a260202p61

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Kermit the Frog:
🎵 The Rainbow Connection
#KermittheFrog
https://annereburn.bandcamp.com/track/rainbow-connection-kermit-the-frog-cover

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Kermit the Frog:
🎵 The Rainbow Connection
#KermittheFrog
https://annereburn.bandcamp.com/track/rainbow-connection-kermit-the-frog-cover

Former CNN journalist Don Lemon arrested in connection with Minnesota protest (Associated Press)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/don-lemon-arrested-connection-minnesota-protest-sources/story?id=129699476
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p75#a260130p75

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Kermit the Frog:
🎵 The Rainbow Connection
#KermittheFrog
https://annereburn.bandcamp.com/track/rainbow-connection-kermit-the-frog-cover

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata