
2025-06-12 15:46:35
After a couple of years of writing Rust for fun, writing Haskell feels like cheating.
After a couple of years of writing Rust for fun, writing Haskell feels like cheating.
'Shoot a couple, the rest will go home': Far-right groups are sharing scary messages ahead of 'No Kings' protests (Rhian Lubin/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-protests-no-kings-far-right-b2769812.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p146#a250613p146
'Shoot a couple': MAGA activists call for violence against 'No Kings' protesters - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/maga-activists-violence-protesters/
A Berny green, flieger - type b style watch, with a green dial.
Yes, it looks similar to a certain Seiko with this dial color and the four o'clock crown but, that watch too steals 90 % of it's design from classic fliegers, so I'm ok with it. 😆
Plus it has a couple of things extra I wanted. Titanium case, sapphire crystal, no logo or extraneous text on the face (like classic fliegers) and it features a "mecha-quartz" (quartz accuracy but the second hand is m…
OH:
> Sounds harmless. Will likely have bad second order effects.
Feels like the tagline for the last couple decades
TIL: Egg Oiling
https://australyear.blogspot.com/2008/05/re-oiling.html
Why are NFL rookie holdouts so rare now? Explaining Shemar Stewart's issue with Bengals https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6422583/2025/06/13/nfl-rookie-holdouts-shemar-stewart/
Extremist's Advice for 'No Kings' Protests: 'Shoot a Couple, the Rest Will Go Home ' (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/no-kings-protest-proud-boys-df066df0?st=93NAgP&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p144#a250613p144
Just before the Kennedy Center's opening night performance of the musical "Les Miserables,"
Donald and Melania Trump stood to be recognized.
They were met with a loud chorus of boos.
Video of the moment shows the boos mixed with some cheering,
Some Trump supporters in the audience shouted "USA" chants in an attempt to drown out the booing.
In addition to the First Couple, both JD Vance and Usha Vance were also in attendance
Semi-anonymous Internet friend relationships must be so weird to people who aren't used to the culture.
Example 1: guy I've known on IRC for probably ten years and I consider a fairly good friend, I have his personal phone number, we talk quite often.
But I only know roughly what city he's in and his first name. He's in my phone as [first name] [irc handle].
Example 2: Catgirl I've known for a couple of years, she's been to my house, I've been to…
Eventually they stopped being a fun couple and became just a couple.
i have a big surprise waiting for you in the next couple of days 🧐😳
Stay frosty: "Accounts associated with extremist groups are sharing detailed information about protest organizers, including names and where they work"
‘Shoot a couple, the rest will go home’: Far-right groups are sharing scary messages ahead of ‘No Kings’ protests | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-protests-no-kings-far-right-b2769812.html
Vortex-magnetic competition and regime transitions in antiparallel flux tubes
Weiyu Shen, Rodolfo Ostilla-M\'onico, Xiaojue Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10648
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14322 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…
Breakfast scramble: sautéed yellow onion with two chopped sausages, 2 whisked eggs. Seasoned with “Chophouse Meats Cajun Seasoning with Jalapeño.” Topped with Mild Pace Picante sauce.
I picked up this seasoning at “Price Chopper” when I was in Manhattan, Kansas a couple weeks ago.
#CookWithWes
Gosh, I hate to undercut in any way all those press reports about how the Trump cyber EO demolishes the cyber initiatives of Biden and Obama, but with a couple of exceptions it doesn't.
“I’m pleased to see that there’s a lot of consistency between what was in the last administration’s order and what they’re going forward with,” Caitlin Clarke, a former senior cyber leader on the National Security Council and now a senior director for cybersecurity services at Venable LLP, told CSO.…
Kind of amazing that you can dot a couple of messages like this around the internet https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu/114188134015638878
and then end up with ~40 lovely people hanging out with their computers in the middle of nowhere, what a great thing
@…
I stumbled over "pointed sets" a couple decades ago, and my friend Andras Kornai said that coincidentally he was using them very profitably in his research. (He's a mathematical linguist; I don't recall if you two ever met online.)
I know their definition is pretty trivial, but have you ever had occasion to nonetheles…
If you want to help people in #academia who are maybe less fortunate than you, who have less famous supervisors, or work at less prestigious universities, here's one simple thing you can do:
Do proper literature research.
That means complete forward and backward snowballing from a decent seed set. Find everything that is relevant to your paper and cite it. Budget a couple of full…
When I searched for these hashtags, only WillfulStupidity showed a couple of results.
Here is a remembrance of a better day:
#WillfulStupidity < SelflessGrace
#StubbornIgnorance < GratefulConsideration
And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.
In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.
At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding
#SlyStone was a good lifelong pal of one of my late friends, and the stories I could tell... but we'll skip those for now :)
I was gifted a rare DVD archive of all the footage Sly had collected a couple decades ago... and I posted some excerpts online, like this performance at The Metromedia West broadcast facility in #Hollywood
I’ve been trying to “vibe code” a couple of things over the last few days, but I had to fall back on using my brain (like a sucker!).
I should keep some of this coding knowledge knocking around a little longer before cat videos and memes fill those parts of my brain.
My vibe must be off :P
#today should be working on my research, but have allowed myself to be distracted by a couple of pleasing things.
Will summon courage to do some admin and write to banks and regulators this evening.
@… Haha. Well it’s a long story involving an ex-colleague from Croatia while we both lived and worked in Ireland. He got me hooked.
I got a couple of bottles two years ago when visiting the family back in Denmark Poland.
Check in yesterday on Southwest. C14/17 or so. Spend a couple upgraded boarding credits. A02/09 or so. Stand by for an earlier flight. Get confirmed an hour before the flight with C44/45. Gate check bags because there's no way they'll make it into the overhead that late. C14/17. Get on the plane and there's a windows-middle pair in row 8, which isn't much worse than we would've gotten with the upgraded boarding. Fair enough.
The research collective I'm a member of had a great couple of days of meetings this week. We could all use more colleagues we truly want to spend time working with.
I've read this story a couple of times, though it's been many years. It's maybe not the first King story I'd have thought of making a movie from. And Mark Hamill as the Major? interesting choice.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10374610/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
"For a couple o' pins," says Troll, and grins,
"I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins.
A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet!
I'll try my teeth on thee now.
Hee now! See now!
I'm tired o' gnawing old bones and skins;
I've a mind to dine on thee now."
But just as he thought his dinner was caught,
He found his hands had hold of naught.
Before he could mind, Tom slipped behing
And gave him the …
Joe Milton putting in the work with Dallas Cowboys wide receivers https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/joe-milton-putting-in-work-dallas-cowboys-wide-receivers
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12075 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepp…
'It's been a couple months': Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers reveals he's married https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45481936/aaron-rodgers-pittsburgh-steelers-announces-marriage
Remember the Nancy Mace hoo-ha scare of a couple of months ago? What a time that was!
Addressing tokens dynamic generation, propagation, storage and renewal to secure the GlideinWMS pilot based jobs and system
Bruno Moreira Coimbra, Marco Mambelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07379
I’ve read a lot of horrible news this last couple of years but this is maybe the worst? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-magazine/.premi…
swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers
For this week's #MusicWomenWednesday, something with some real female RAGE. For the last couple days since it came out, I've been thoroughly enjoying Kitchener, Ontario's hardcore quintet BODY MINUS HEAD's debut LP 'An Exercise in Self-Sufficiency'. The whole band is tight and solid, but vocalist Alexandra Garvin really shines on this one. Her screams are unreal, and at …
After spending way too much time looking at schematics and datasheets of the components of a cheap eInk display I finally understand what’s going on.
Once I make a couple tweaks my toy project battery should last for multiple months. Good enough!
„This loss of income cannot be explained by women's career paths or their exit from the workforce. Nor can it be explained by the very real constraints imposed by the birth of a child.
Not only do heterosexual men not experience any loss of income related to the birth of a child, which might be explained by mothers still being primarily responsible for childcare, but the same is true for both fathers in a same-sex couple.“
Menopause leads to an av. 10% loss in income
A couple of folks said I should replace the pop-over email signup form on my blog with a much more subtle inline signup form at the top of the page. So! If you'd like to reward the more user-friendly design with your patronage and support (it's free, I only ask for your attention), you can sign up to get my new posts in your inbox just by sharing your email address. I won't spam you or sell your email, and don't post too often.
Meta's Anduril deal shows how much has changed in the past couple of years in Silicon Valley, where developing war tech was once considered a hard red line (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles
Natura Urbana VIII 🏡
城市自然 VIII 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
Any #SailfishOS users out here know how to make #StreetComplete usable again by either disabling the any-audio-interrupting plop sounds or teaching SailfishOS to just keep playing audio if another app makes sound?
It's June, so I've got my Javastation off the shelf for the first time in a couple of decades. This is a Javastation Krups, with 100MHz sparc, sold as a diskless workstation. I never realised it had a PPP ROM boot in! Anyway, I should get on and set up networking and a boot server.
(Note: the plastic on the clips on the doors is fragile, 2 just pinged off on me)
#retrocomputing
So it finally happened: episode 11 of season 7 of #TheRookie jumped the shark. On the day the LAPD takes an interest on going undercover on public transport, a couple of baddies enter the bus with a bomb strapped to their chest asking for a 100 million. What are the odds? And the episode is called 'Speed', that is not being subtle but jackhammering it in. Oh well, it was fun while i…
Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of better phrasing, on “capitalism’s side”. First for a range of high-growth Silicon Valley software companies and their ilk; latterly directly in venture capital focused on climate change technology startups, aka “Climate Tech” or “Impact Investing.”
What's the current status with Linux and high DPI monitors? Last time I was messing around it was a bit if a nightmare with my computer. Has it improved over the last couple years?
Here's Willow Defebaugh, a trans woman, talking about JK Rowling. Listen for just a couple of minutes. It's worth it.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Planet: Critical: Beyond Separation | Willow Defebaugh
Starting from: 00:38:45
Episode webpage:
Looks like Doug Ford is brave enough to give an opening date for the Eglinton LRT so it might actually be happening soon.
https://www.cp24.com/news/2025/06/03/eglinton-lrt-on-track-to-open-by-september-doug-ford-says/
Windows 11's WSL 2 now officially has support from Arch #Linux
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11s-wsl…
Raiders Defensive Triplets Ranked https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-maxx-crosby-elandon-roverts-jakorian-bennett
Updating my CloudNativePG Clusters to postgresql:17.5 broke wal archiving to my Ceph S3 Object Store. Here's a new blog post describing the fix:
https://www.beyondwatts.com/posts/debugging-barman-xamzcontents…
Confusing episode. Let me clear it all up.
The world is sinking into the doubt needed to rescue Omega, remember, and The Doctor is falling with a balcony that's separated from the building.
How does he get out of that?
Well, saved by a literal magic door that pops out of nowhere, leading back to the time hotel. 🤨
Anita, who he spent a year with once a couple of Christmases ago, has been popping around the Doctor's entire long life, peeping on him with the Daleks and stuff. Trying to find him on the Earth's last day. Today.
And now he's rescued, today turns into a groundhog day. Same day over and over again. 😆
There's another woman that's been stalking him through time lately, Mrs Flood. She was following him everywhere, but she had Xmas off she reckons, so didn't see the Time Hotel bit. Thus the element of surprise in the deus ex machina rescue. 😀
The Doctor is broken free of the wish spell now anyway, popped his conditioning, and can use the time hotel's door to recall Unit and break them all out of the wish too.
The Rani pops in to say hi and explain her plans. 😝
How did the Rani survive the end of the Timelords? She flipped her DNA to sidestep the genetic bomb apparently? Well that makes no sense, but nor does anything else so no time to ponder.
The end of the Time Lords made them all Barons... No, made them barren. There can be no more children of the time-lords.
She's popping Omega back out of the underworld for his DNA because the timelords are all barren and she wants to recreate Galifrey.
But wait a minute: Poppy is the Doctor's kid in wish world! So she should have Timelord DNA too! Maybe that could work?
No. The Rani is a nazi, don't like the kid's contaminated blood. She's got human all over her DNA. Eww.
Rani pops off back to her Bone Palace, and makes the bone beasts attack.
The Doctor explains that the Giant dinosaur skeletons are beasts that pop in to clean up the world when there's a reality flux, and the Rani has turned them on Unit HQ.
So the UNIT HQ turns into some kinda ship? Like the Crimson Permanent Insurance. Lol. It's blasting lasers at the bone beasts and turning around, and has a steering wheel like pirate ship now. 🤣
During the battle, the Doctor pops out to take a ride on the sky-bike, looking like something from Flash Gordon, and crashes into the Bone Palace.
Too late though! Omega is pretty much here now. He's a giant boney CGI zombie, become his own legend. Looks great but doesn't really seem like Omega, who ought to be held together by pure will.
Omega eats the Rani! One of the Ranis anyway. Mrs Flood avoids being eaten. She pops off with the time bracelet. "So much for the Two Rani's. It's a goodnight from me!" as she disappears off into time. Great gag. 😁
The Doctor just shoots Omega to get him back into his box. Pops a rifle off the wall. The Vindicator has apparently also got a built in laser as well as locator beacons. So that's handy. The Doctor doesn't use guns but some of his devices work like one. 🔫
So all is well! The day is saved and the wish is over and baby Poppy survives in a time box! 🍻
They're going to take the space baby off to do space adventures. Ruby is jealous of seeing The Doctor and Belinda vibing like that, as they plan a life in space with the space baby. Aww. Poor Ruby. 😭
But then Poppy pops off! Disappears entirely, and everyone other than Ruby forgets. Ruby remembers because she's disappeared from time herself in the past they say.
Okay: to save his child and on Ruby's word alone, the Doctor will sacrifice himself to turn reality one degree.
He goes off to commit suicide by Regeneration, but Thirteen is here! She's popped out of her timeline to stop him! Or maybe to help, with a motivational chat instead. Gives him a pep talk then pops back off again.
The Doctor zaps reality with his Tardis, dying but holding off on the actual regeneration for a few moments to go check on the kid.
The kid is safe! But isn't his own kid any more. Poppy has popped all her Timelord DNA and is just all human now. Poppy's pop isn't the doc, it's someone called Richie.
And Belinda has been so keen to get home all this time in order to get back to her Baby! Who isn't a timelord, and definitely didn't exist until she was wished into being.
This may not be the most ethical action The Doctor has ever taken: To bend the whole universe in order to recreate a baby that was accidentally wished into being out of nothing. Twisting time to give a child to a nurse who didn't previously have a child, or even remember the wish. Then it's not even the same child that disappeared, coz this one is all human. 🤷
But the doc is popping off to regenerate with Joy in the stars, and... Turns blonde: "oh. Hello?" 🤯
It's Rose! Billie Piper is back? Fantastic!
Is Rose doing a David Tennant Impression there?
Billie playing the Doctor, doing a Tennant impression as Bad Wolf? Amazing. Can't wait.
#doctorWho
5 Things You Might Not Know About Me
- I have flown on “Air Force One.” Not technically, since it the president was not aboard, but while working for the White House Military Office I flew on the plane on a couple test flights.
- I spent many Thanksgivings beating John Dower https://curiouscat.com/books/dower
Marie made biscuits, bacon egg tea coffee. Therapy day! Probably going to a couple things tonight. The busy part of the week is almost here! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/ynozeBuDnMWGPigdA
There’s a new museum on Naoshima Island! This NYT article also describes the many other museums and exhibits installed there.
This is the “art island” that Lynn and I visited a couple months ago. Looks like we’ll have to go back! This time we’ll know to book rooms way in advance (and to stay longer than two nights).
🎁 link
We inherited an Asian plum tree with our house. For the first couple of years, it produced nothing. Last year it started producing some tart plums, perfect for jams. This year looks to be a bumper crop. This was just my first 30 minutes of harvesting from what I could reach on the ground! #gardening
My regular Monday contribution at Balloon Juice
#birds #birdphotography
https://
Slow progress the last couple days because I've been going into the office for work and the commute is eating up my time I'd otherwise spend on such things.
But now it's the weekend and the switch engine board is coming together nicely.
Still have 514 nets to route - mostly the supervisor, line card management buses, and power supply but also some other odds and ends like the FPGA JTAG and part of the SPI flash.
Also I have to get the tach/PWM signals from the m…
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Well I saw a couple of complaints about today's wordle before I started, which is part of what prompted my 4th guess, and I have to say I sorta agree.
Getting a lot of new old followers in the last couple of days; have you finally accepted me in your circles or did something happen with a sciency mastodon server? 👀
I have been trying to find some Chili Rasboras for my new 16 gallon nanotank since before I even got the tank. They've been out of stock everywhere. I even signed up for text notifications on a couple of sites and when I got the text I was in the middle of a meeting, and by the time I escaped, they were out of stock again.
I went to a meeting of the Colorado Aquarium Society tonight and managed to snag six in the auction.
Here's a terrible picture of them being drip acclimated.
@… #rasbora
Saving or Destroying the Universe with Axion-Like Particles
Anne Mareike Galda, Matthias Neubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06426 https://
I *finally* got around to writing up a few words about my trip earlier this year to Algeria and Tunisia.
#algeria
Nothing to see here. Just a couple of good ol' boys having a sword fight.
@… @… Not really, there are a bunch of blockchain companies using it and a few banks, but unfortunately, most of them are not investing in making it better.
Facebook were using it for a while in a couple of teams, but I…
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00780 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a
Cavity QED with molecular defects coupled to to a photonic crystal cavity
Christian M. Lange, Arya D. Keni, Ishita Agarwal, Emma Daggett, Adhyyan S. Mansukhani, Ankit Kundu, Benjamin Cerjan, Libai Huang, Jonathan D. Hood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01917
Here are a couple of springtime pictures with small associated stories. It’s a thrill to find something positive to write about: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/27/Happy-Colors
swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers
Rams LB Jared Verse thinks he left 'around 10 sacks on the field' in rookie year: 'That's not happening no more' https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-lb-jared-verse-thinks-he-left-around-10-sacks-on-the-field-in-rookie…
In summary then: Pop goes the timeline.
Madness. So many lose ends, so much barely making sense. Great epic adventure though.
So farewell then to Nchuti. He has been great, sad to see him go. Probably he left because who knows if there'll even be a show next year. Actors can't be refusing work to be on a series that might not even happen.
Except Billie I guess? Maybe she's not otherwise busy.
No more episodes till maybe xmas 2026 they say? Or maybe some specials next year? Please god we don't have to wait until spring 2027 to know what's happening here?!
Meanwhile the fans are all like, "oh it says 'and introducing' instead of 'as the doctor'". Heh. They want it to be a switcheroo of some kind and she's not really The Doctor, but I want to see Billie's Tennant impression for at least a three year stretch.
She's likely just be staring in a couple of specials in the gap to a proper new season I'd expect. Probably regenerate again before there's a full series. Excited to see her David Tenant impression though. 😆
Stalled on getting MSFS 2024 to run, but did clean off the desk a bit. Not the best case scenario, but figured a nice lazy Saturday just relaxing would work out well.
#desktop
On the train to Barcelona for @… ! Having already spent a couple of days surrounded by live coders in a Peak District retreat I've got this weird thing where I keep seeing live coders just walking around everywhere who turn out to be lookalikes
I'll be involved with a paper about choreographic notation for robots with @…
She does so. She does so let us shit on the rug.
- a couple of doggy daycare doggies trying to pull a fast one on the substitute doggy daycare lady
Wow, #pythonPoetry v2 sure introduced many breaking changes. They outsourced `poetry shell` (a very important and IMHO core command for entering a shell with the virtual environment activated) into a plugin (wtf 🤨) that you need to provide separately.
That poetry can't pin itself bit me quite a couple of times with the v2 transition. They also changed the behaviour of the -C flag (r…
we’ve been home for about six weeks and are getting the travel itch again so we’re looking at apartments in paris for a month or so next spring, maybe also finally get to puglia for a week or two, also need to spend a few weeks in stockholm with the grandkids and want to tuck a visit to helsinki (on the baltic queen!) into that, so … a couple months? i’m not sure i want to be away that long 🤔.
What to watch in Raiders’ 3rd week of OTAs: Is TE ready to break out? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/what-to-watch-in-raiders-3rd-week-of-otas-is-te-ready-to-break-out-3380889/
'He's probably irreplaceable': Lions call for rapid growth after Ragnow retirement https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45459583/detroit-lions-offensive-line-frank-ragnow
Do you want to see me perform in an Improv show?
You can you know. You can do it in Shoreditch in London in the UK on Sunday.
Dunno what the show will be about, obviously. Some short games, couple of longer stories. But we need YOU there to tell us what it's about.
What else in London is free? Nothing, that's what.
#improv #liveShow #london
The difference between an ATM and your dad is that an ATM doesn't bitch and moan when you try to get a couple of dollars out of it.
Finished the SFP28 carrier board. Still waiting on final design review before I send it out to OSHPark, but it's done-enough that I could export a STEP and pull into the enclosure model.
Placement of all the front panel stuff is pretty definite at this point, the power supply and PDU are likely to move.
Logic board hasn't even started schematic capture yet.
There will probably be at least a couple of fans but I haven't figured out where or how many yet.
What is Happening With the Raiders' Offensive Line in OTAs? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-alex-cappa-jackson-powers-johnson-dj-glaze-pete-carroll
Mike Macdonald: 'Crazy' to ask if Sam Darnold will be Seahawks starting QB https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-macdonald-crazy-to-ask-if-sam-darnold-will-be-seahawks-starting-qb