2026-05-21 18:22:14
U.S. national debt officially hits
$39 trillion
—adding approximately $5 billion a day since October
https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/us-national-debt-officially-hits-39-trillion-milestone/
U.S. national debt officially hits
$39 trillion
—adding approximately $5 billion a day since October
https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/us-national-debt-officially-hits-39-trillion-milestone/
Another long day at the polls yesterday. Arrived 5:50 am, left at 9:10 pm (polls open 7 to 7). 704 ballots cast at my precinct. Steady all day. I don’t think anyone waited more than 5 minutes to check in.
Unfortunately, GA is one of the very few states that requires runoffs in races where nobody got 50.0001% or more of votes in a given race, so we’ll do this all again in 4 weeks.
Still an important job and I’m happy to do my part.
5/20/26☀️ AM: ... With less than 24 weeks until Election Day ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/52026-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p5#a260520p5
Memorial Day sale features $13 Tees and up to 40% off everything else in my Threadless shop.
Starts today and runs through May 26 at 5 PM CT.
(A bonus round is also included with extended deals through June 2 at 5 PM CT.)
Get stuff here: https://
Cowboys Trade Pitch Lands $22.5 Million Tackling Machine https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/trade-pitch-inside-linebacker-blake-cashman/
Just finished the last but one blog post from our vacation. As it's raining, I might just start the last one during the day ...
btw there's also a short peertube video embedded.
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/pretzfe
Anthropic says Fable 5 has invisible safeguards that use prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT to limit its effectiveness for frontier LLM development (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-rele…
Five good things instead of three today:
1. Passed mid term project review with flying colours, technical officer proclaimed himself "impressed" (phew).
2. Visited super cool facility at DTU and learned a lot about measuring sunlight. Hopefully the start of some interesting new collaborations
3. Took my 2 wonderful teens out for vegan hotpot dinner in Vesterbro to celebrate end of their exams.
4. Lay out in garden listening to the blackbirds and identified 5 separate bee species within 10 mins
5. Tea and TV on the sofa with aforementioned teens just relaxing.
Perfect day really.
#threegoodthings
Forget about sleeping, though :D
Drinking 5 Cups of Coffee a Day Could Reduce Heart Risk - Slashdot
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/07/21/0053206/drinking-5-cups-of-coffee-a-day-could-reduce-heart-risk
Never a dull day in cybersecurity, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Anthropic restores Fable 5 and Mythos 5, launches Sonnet 5,
--China's Mythos rival fuels AI arms race,
--Taiwan probes claimed PChome hack,
--Alberta voter leak sparks lawsuit,
--Hackers breach DHS sharing network,
--Apple privacy feature exposes emails,
--Adobe fixes critical ColdFusion bugs,
--Crypto thieves…
Hot damn, new NAS can burst, old one would do 100 - 170 items on average - max. The new one just boosted to 5 - 10 times that. Seen it write up to 200MB/s back to it. Measures in place to keep Raspberry Pi nodes in the thermal safe zone even kicked in. They did 1.8TB in 9 hours, old NAS would need the full day to handle this much traffic.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Radio3Breakfast
- Tom McKinney’s Coastal Adventure: Day 5
From Aldeburgh Beach to Snape Maltings, Tom traces landscapes that shaped composer Benjamin Britten. At his home, The Red House, James Baillieu plays his piano.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xfmv
Based on the number of McAfee scam emails I get each day, I have approximately 5,738 subscriptions.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Hit My Head All Day (6 Music Session, 5 Jan 2026)
#DryCleaning
https://open.spotify.com/track/0quJpknjZo8gMmwzMhiHb3
Beautiful sunny day and another solar generation record, 82 kWh produced (21.4 exported).
It's not midnight yet so I don't have daily consumption yet but I've burned 121.5 so far; assuming the same rate of consumption I'll end up around 139.
Which would put me at 59% of the day's energy consumption being locally sourced. Not bad.
Cerebras co-founders CEO Andrew Feldman and CTO Sean Lie own stakes worth $3.2B and $1.7B, respectively, representing about 5.5% and 3% of the company (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/cerebras-ipo-mints-two-billionaire…
Trump’s problem-plagued effort to revamp the landmark reflecting pool has stretched well past his initial goal of having the Pool ready by July 4 for the nation’s 250th birthday.
The president at first suggested his renovations would cost $1.5 million, but the bill ballooned to more than $16 million by June.
Trump had said the repairs would last a century, but within days of the project’s initial completion last month, the water was beset by an algae bloom and pieces of the new coa…
After 17 years of construction (the plan was 4.5 years), 2 years of commissioning, and a few months of operation, France's new #nuclear power plant Flamanville 3 is now getting ready for the replacement of its reactor head. It will be out of operation for a year.
Check out my #TiledWords stats
🔥 5 day streak
🏆 Longest streak: 34 days
✅ 206 puzzles completed
🐇 Fastest: "Oil" in 2 minutes, 1 second
🐢 Slowest: "Sea" in 37 minutes, 54 seconds
http…
Cybersecurity is, as they say, moving at machine speed, so don't leave for the weekend until you check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Canvas chaos: ShinyHunters breach throws schools into disarray
--Firefox bug fixes soar after using Mythos,
--Virginia man found guilty of destroying government databases,
--OpenAI rolls out GPT 5.5 to vetted cyber defenders,
--PCPJack steals cloud creds while remov…
2026 NFL Draft: Pick-by-pick analysis for Rounds 4-5 https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-pick-by-pick-analysis-for-rounds-4-5
The WA News Guild, representing workers at four McClatchy papers, held a one-day strike over wages and AI protection; Boise's Idaho Statesman also had a walkout (Dalton Day/KING-TV)
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/w
5 Storylines to Watch in Thanksgiving Eagles-Cowboys Matchup on FOX https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/eagles-cowboys-meet-up-thanksgiving-fox-5-storylines
Looks as if Apple Music’s skewing kinda punk this #MondayRandom10. Not complaining or anything, though: it’s a good day for it.
1. Weezer—“In the Garage”
2. Hawkwind—“Motorhead”
3. Static-X—“Love Dump”
4. Spermbirds—“Another Dead Friendship”
5. Storm Weather Shanty Choir—“Leave Her, Johnny”
6. The Jim Carroll Band—“People Who Died”
7. Argatu’—“La Cosit”
…
Am Sonntag findet wieder eine Di.Day Veranstaltung in Templin statt. Diesmal geht's um Linux auf Windows Rechnern installieren, und OS-Alternativen die man schon auf Windows nutzen kann.
https://termine.uckermark.social/events/a0a42fe4-543f-4722-a823-8a2943f…
Reigns #14 · 1/5
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⚡ 2 day streak
https://reigns.app
#DavidHasselhoff #RebeccaCarlton #RebekahCarltonLuff
Season 5 Episode 15 "Seize The Day"
The team had braved temperatures of -40C on the sea ice
to drill holes and pump 50,000 tonnes of ocean water up on to its surface.
It froze almost immediately,
thickening the
1.5-metre-deep ice by about 50cm, according to new measurements.
That has protected the ice, at the start of the melt season at least,
and is an early sign that one day, perhaps, it may be possible to refreeze a significant part of the Arctic.
The ice-thickening process gets a …
Ah, 5/4. The perfect day to put on Stereolab's "Percolator"
New solar generation record again for today... 67.5 kWh produced, 158.8 consumed, 16.4 exported, for net import of 91.3 kWh.
There's one day left in the month still, but it's looking pretty good compared to March:
* 0.73 -> 1.2 MWh production
* 5.0 -> 4.5 MWh demand (maybe this is from less heating? I don't have any instrumentation on my heat pump right now so no easy way to break down heating demand, but it pulls ~5 kW when it's running)
* 10.3 -&g…
Another day, another annoying #Apple bug. My Apple Watch running 26.5 is unable to clear the notification stack. That's, like, not annoying at all. Not even one bit. I suppose it beats my older Apple Watch with zero apps installed and no media transferred (and a recent complete reset) which keeps saying I need to uninstall applications to install an update. Can I have a nice Linux watch wit…
While I _am_ WFH, noone seems to be in the office or online at all. "Where the heck is everyone?".... "oh _riiiight_." Dang.
Oh well. Might actully get some stuff done.
#canadaday #longweekend #holiday
I think, I should retire from this, I don't guess I'll have another day that good.
www.maptap.gg July 10
93🏆 100🎯 97🔥 100🎯 96🔥
Final score: 975
1. x: 4,497 pts, 158 km, 21 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 4,997 pts, 1 km, 17 sec, 0 steps
3.x: 3,617 pts, 483 km, 45 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 4,127 pts, 286 km, 1 min, 9 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 2,952 pts, 786 km, 43 sec, 0 steps
Total: 20,190 pts, 1,714 km, 3 min, 15 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1136 — 48,329/50,00…
Yikes, today's Metacurity email will surely get clipped by Gmail because it's so packed with cyber and infosec-related AI news you need to know, including
--AI watch: AI companies are building digital workers and attackers may benefit too,
--Interpol fraud crackdown nets 5,800 arrests and $293m,
--Fake Brazilian police station discovered in African scam operation,
--Mystery zero-day broker tied to convicted fraudsters,
--AssuranceAmerica breach exposes 6.…
If you thought you would be missing the Tour de France in the UK this year. Highlights will be on Channel 5, but all stages of the race will be shown live on S4C at 2pm every day, with a highlights programme every night. Follow all the action on S4C, S4C Clic, BBC iPlayer and S4C’s YouTube. #TourDeFrance #LeTour
woah! After I walked a tiny part of the Via Alpina today I just learned that this is a 2000km long distance trail. I thought it would be some north/south transalp ... I was a bit wrong
#viaAlpina
Last fall I got depressed driving home one day because of all the trees being ripped out along Lisbon Avenue as they rebuild it, add traffic circles, bike lanes, and other improvements.
I was excited for the bike lanes but sad for the trees. (A lot of them were pretty tall.)
Well, today I went down Lisbon and they are planting a *ton* of trees. They're maybe 5 to 7 feet tall, but it's a start.
You plant trees for the future.
Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.
#WhichYear 5/2/26
4233 pts (top 49%)
5.2 avg. years off
1️⃣ 1️⃣ ⚪ 7️⃣ 🎯
https://whichyr.com
ICE sustains 2,000 arrests per day place for five days in distributed effort across the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/ice-immigrant-arrests-surge.html?unloc…
Tyree Wilson: Five Things to Know about new Saints edge https://www.neworleanssaints.com/news/tyreee-wilson-edge-saints-roster-2026-5-things-to-know
Combining #towelday and 5.25 day (OK, so that's american dates, but I've not got any 25⅛" floppies).
#retrocomputing
This was basically my day today.
- Get the wee one fed and dressed.
- While husband drives the wee one to 3yo preschool, I catch a bus to go to 10am movie screening with friend.
- During the movie, my phone was on silent but... received a call from CYF, a text from CYF, texts from the wee one's mother, email from CYF, email from preschool re Covid exposure (movie was approx 2.5 hours).
- Come straight home to do some work.
- Fill out 10 page carer assessment f…
Top 5 Remaining Player Fits for Cowboys on Day 3 of 2026 NFL draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/top-5-remaining-player-fits-dallas-cowboys-on-day-3-of-2026-nfl-draft
Another day, another hairpin turn in the world of Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
The weekend was all about war,
and Trump insisting Iran had not yet “paid a big enough price”.
Tuesday was Project Freedom,
styled as a grand “humanitarian gesture” to allow trapped ships and their crews to escape the Gulf,
but also aimed at weakening Iran’s chokehold on the strait of Hormuz.
By the early hours of Wednesday we were back to peace.
The president announced:…
June 6 is a national day of action to de-ICE Citizens Bank
While most major banks have cut ties with CoreCivic and The GEO Group, Citizens Bank is deepening its financial support for these companies, which are already holding more than half of the immigrants currently in ICE detention across the country.
Even as it publicly touts its commitment to “strengthening our communities,” Citizens Bank has played a key role in helping GEO and CoreCivic access more than $2.5 billion in fin…
"Get an electric car" they said
"You'll save so much money" they said
Every fucking bit of solar generation we have presently ends up in the car, and this is peak season, so we're just paying the electric company for all the house load rather than being practically off grid. House battery (22kWh) now at 5% SoC after a day of bright sunshine, even throttling the van to a 6A230V charge.
Better get those extra 10 panels installed.
2 laps, 5 miles... nothing more riveting than the Oscar Mayer Wienie 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Go Seattle Dog!
#oscarmayer #racing
#pastpuzzle en-327
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https://www.pastpuzzle.com
Am Sonntag den 3.5. laden wir dich und alle Freunde von dir zum #DiDay in der Willy-Brandt-Allee 30, München ein!
A field next to our village used to be home to 5 pairs of Northern Lapwings (kieviten). About 10 years ago, they disappeared, as in most of the farmland in the central Netherlands.
This year, we were very happy to see 1 pair in the field again, making their stunt flights and calling day and night.
But..
#JaasonSimmons #YasmineBleeth
Season 5 Episode 15 "Seize The Day"
#RandomBaywatch
My wife likes to sleep in on days off. I tend to wake up the same time every day. Earlier sometimes if I’m at work by five, but otherwise, naturally, around 5.30 - 6.00 am. If I sleep later, it’s never beyond 7 am unless I’m unwell. Anyway, I leave her sleeping unless we’re going out somewhere.
Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections.
In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted,
as long as they were postmarked by then.
Although a “rare victory for voting rights,” the conservative justices’ assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud
— a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for
— is “very disturbing…
Letter: the US lifts its block on Mythos 5, allowing Anthropic to release it to more than 100 US institutions; sources: talks about Fable 5 are ongoing (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/27/2026/us-releases-powerful-anthro…
JAX-SCM v1.0: a modern atmospheric single-column model for boundary layer research
Maximilian Pierzyna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24544 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.24544 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.24544
arXiv:2605.24544v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present JAX-SCM v1.0, an open-source atmospheric single-column model for boundary layer research, implemented in Python using the JAX computing library. The model solves for horizontal wind, potential temperature, and specific humidity, combined with prognostic turbulent kinetic energy and turbulent statistics parameterized by the Mellor-Yamada-Nakanishi-Niino level-2.5 (MYNN-2.5) turbulence closure. We verify the implementation against three well-established benchmark cases covering neutral (turbulent Ekman layer), stable (GABLS1), and convective (Wangara Day 33) conditions. Close agreement with reference solutions is demonstrated across all regimes. By building on JAX, the model benefits from just-in-time compilation and native GPU support. While JAX-SCM is not yet fully differentiable, basing it on JAX also lays the foundation for future integration with machine learning components. The model is designed for simplicity and modularity, lowering the barrier to entry for users and developers alike.
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#JaasonSimmons #YasmineBleeth
Season 5 Episode 15 "Seize The Day"
#RandomBaywatch
I seriously don't know, please help me: For what do data centers need so much fresh water?
OK, cooling, sure. But why don't they condensate that water again? You don't need to fill cooling water in your car all day either? Is this leakage? 5 million gallons per day per datacenter? Can't be true.
I tried to google this but it's terrible. Nobody explains this basic fact. I find only massive fearmongering, e.g.
https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption
The scientific approach is to find a solution, not scare.
Two officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021,
have filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the creation of a
$1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund".
Former Capitol Police officer
Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department officer
Daniel Hodges are bringing the lawsuit because the fund could be used to compensate the Capitol rioters who attacked them and their colleagues.
Both officers say they have faced continuous credible threa…
#DavidHasselhoff #RebeccaCarlton #RebekahCarltonLuff
Season 5 Episode 15 "Seize The Day"
Go ahead, pack for a 5-day visit to this city. Make it all fit in a Spirit Airlines carry-on. ✈️🫤
#weather #climateChange #travel #packing #challenge
Hot Dog
Season 5 Episode 15 "Seize The Day"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #Yamaha
#JaasonSimmons
Season 5 Episode 17 "Father's Day"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch
Hey Canadians. If you’re experiencing troublesome weather this Canada Day, you should sign this petition, and if you have already signed, thank you, please share it!
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) plays a critical role in protecting Canadians through weather forecasting, severe weather warnings, climate monitoring and scientific research;
Canada is experiencing increasingly frequent and severe weather and climate related events, including wildfires, floods, atmospheric rivers, hurricanes, heat waves, winter storms and derechos;
Weather radar research, observation stations, Weatheradio services and frontline meteorological staff are essential public safety tools, particularly for rural, remote and Indigenous communities;
Recent and proposed reductions to ECCC staffing, research capacity, and public weather services risk weakening Canada’s ability to predict, monitor, and respond to dangerous weather events;
Reliable weather forecasting and climate science are vital to emergency preparedness, transportation safety, agriculture, marine operations and public confidence; and
Canadians deserve a strong, modern and fully supported public weather service.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to
1. Reverse cuts to Environment and Climate Change Canada that impact weather forecasting, meteorological research and climate science;
2. Restore and maintain Weatheradio and other accessible public alert systems;
3. Protect and expand weather observation and climate monitoring stations across Canada;
4. Ensure adequate staffing and long-term funding for ECCC programs, scientists, meteorologists and technical experts; and
5. Recognize weather forecasting and climate monitoring as essential public safety infrastructure.
#canada #canadaDay #climateChange #e7465 #RestoreECCC #climateEmergency #weather #wxtooter #eccc