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So I had a crazy idea... I want to try the "Pay What You Want" thing again when selling art, but offer people who can't decide on an amount a chance to "spin the wheel" and then decide if they want to pay the amount they spin.
It would be between $5 and $35 or something.
Is that too crazy or could it work?
I could always let them decide to walk away and not go through with the sale or something.

Raiders decide to make surprising move at wide receiver https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_decide_to_make_surprising_move_at_wide_receiver/s1_17313_40101346

Raiders decide to make surprising move at wide receiver
The Las Vegas Raiders decided to part ways with slot receiver Hunter Renfrow after five seasons. The former fifth-round pick is expected to be released on Wednesday, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. Hunter Renfrow was slated to make $11.882 million in 2024, but nothing of that was guaranteed — so that amount is what the Raiders are expected to save against the salary cap if the team applies the post-June 1st designation. His cap hit would be $13.718 million. In order to apply the post…

Antonio Pierce declines to talk claim Raiders flipped coin to decide on drafting Brock Bowers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5484654/2024/05/10/raiders-antonio-pierce-coin-toss-draft/

Antonio Pierce declines to talk claim Raiders flipped coin to decide on drafting Brock Bowers
Pierce denied the story to former NFL player and ESPN commentator Ryan Clark on Thursday.

These reactions make me worry that this Federal Circuit decision will push more patent owners to use #ScheduleA litigation instead of APEX:
https://www.law360.com/articles/18356…

Patent Owners Face Risks In Amazon Program After Ruling - Law360
The Federal Circuit ruled earlier this month that a company alleging patent infringement through Amazon's patent evaluation program must face a declaratory judgment suit in the accused infringer's home state. The holding creates a risk for patent owners who may rethink using the program, attorneys told Law360.

"The Council of the Cones Convenes to Decide the Fate of the Blaspheming Tree"
Price: $788,301.11

Supreme Court to weigh if Jan. 6 rioters can be charged with obstruction
In the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors had to decide what charges to bring against hundreds of participants in the pro-Trump mob that disrupted the certification of a presidential election for the first time in U.S. history.

In more than 350 cases, they included a federal charge that carries a hefty 🔸20-year maximum penalty 🔸and is part of a law enacted after the exp…

Supreme Court to weigh if Jan. 6 rioters can be charged with obstruction
The justices on Tuesday will hear argument on whether prosecutors improperly stretched the law by charging hundreds with obstruction of an official proceeding.

Democrats Hold Leads in 4 Crucial Races That Could Decide Senate Control (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/politics/democrats-senate-battleground-poll.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/240513/p3#a240513p3

Watching „Constellation“ on Apple TV (no spoilers in this post)
pro:
- scifi with a really cool female lead
- Noomi Rapace
- The astronaut stuff is super ultra realistic
- it’s new and different
Contra:
- it can’t decide wether it wants to be in the horror genre or not which is annoying
- it’s so slooooow. Everything is so drawn out!!

Where the Glasgow Embedded code of conduct avoids this is by being broad strokes, and pretty clear about who the project is run by. It's much more constitutional in nature, and by being vague about the specific problems but specific in who will care and act on them, it's much easier to build a coherent group around, and the specific issues they care about are much more likely to have a unified response. It's much harder to weaponize because there's a who embedded with the what: it's not up to argument whether something "counts" or not. The core group of people who made the project are going to decide and they’re not going to put up with any anti-trans rhetoric in this case. They're gonna be okay on racism, if not perfect. You can see how it'll land if there's conflict, and the conflict is largely going to be technical _or_ social , but not both. This is way easier to deal with.

I notice that despite large companies at this point just constantly committing crimes, the police aren't stealing *their* shit. https://mastodon.world/@maddad/112430825655500892

Unless Willis’ hearing is 'an episode of Divorce Court' — she won’t be disqualified: ex-federal prosecutor - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/willis-wont-be-disqualified/

Unless Willis’ hearing is 'an episode of Divorce Court' — she won’t be disqualified: ex-federal prosecutor
Ahead of the Thursday, February 15 evidentiary hearing expected to decide whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' romantic ties to her fellow prosecutor will disqualify them from Donald Trump's racketeering case, The Daily Beast's Shan Wu argues "the hearing is unlikely to yield any enl...

A friend just sent me an e-transfer and the security question was `Best RUSH album` and I had to think a minute *Do they mean the actual best Rush album, what a horribly subjective answer* or do they mean *the worst Rush album from a non-Rush fan perspective*?
The answer of course was `RollTheBones` so Ill let you decide how legitimate that question is. #rush

Creatures in your coffee?
#Afrique

Creatures in your coffee? - Didier J. MARY (blog)
What can you see in your coffee cup? Africa? A giraffe? Or sea creatures? Well, in any case, I need some coffee first and I'll decide later...

I'm seeing Why the Future of AI Should be Open at SXSW GO 2024. See this session at https://schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP146177

epinions_trust: Epinions trust network (2003)
A who-trusts-whom online social network of the general consumer review site Epinions.com. Members can decide whether to "trust" each other. These trust relationships are combined with review ratings to determine which reviews are shown to the user.
This network has 75888 nodes and 508837 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09982 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csPL_…

ACPO: AI-Enabled Compiler-Driven Program Optimization
The key to performance optimization of a program is to decide correctly when a certain transformation should be applied by a compiler. This is an ideal opportunity to apply machine-learning models to speed up the tuning process; while this realization has been around since the late 90s, only recent advancements in ML enabled a practical application of ML to compilers as an end-to-end framework. This paper presents ACPO: \textbf{\underline{A}}I-Enabled \textbf{\underline{C}}ompiler-driven \tex…

Perennial Semantic Data Terms of Use for Decentralized Web
Rui Zhao, Jun Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07587 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Perennial Semantic Data Terms of Use for Decentralized Web
In today's digital landscape, the Web has become increasingly centralized, raising concerns about user privacy violations. Decentralized Web architectures, such as Solid, offer a promising solution by empowering users with better control over their data in their personal `Pods'. However, a significant challenge remains: users must navigate numerous applications to decide which application can be trusted with access to their data Pods. This often involves reading lengthy and complex Terms of Use…

Two POS
https://x.com/dom_lucre/status/1767356138029260892?s=61

Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) on X
🔥🚨EXCLUSIVE: On November 21, 1998, Hillary Clinton took George Soros to Haiti to review the infrastructure, culture and population of Haitian communities to help him to decide where he wanted to invest his money. Today Haitians are blaming George Soros and Hillary Clinton for…

I notice that despite large companies at this point just constantly committing crimes, the police aren't stealing *their* shit. https://mastodon.world/@maddad/112430825655500892

56 percent in new poll willing to see Trump disqualified from ballots in all or some states | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4405201-56-in-new-poll-willing-to-see-trump-disqualified-…

56 percent in new poll willing to see Trump disqualified from ballots in all or some states
A majority of Americans in a new survey say they would support the Supreme Court either disqualifying former President Trump from presidential ballots across the country or letting states decide whether to include him on their ballots. Nearly one-third — 30 percent — of respondents in the ABC News/Ipsos survey said they think the justices…

We should never take democracy for granted. Use your vote. Or others will decide for you: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/08/we-should-never.html

Hill: Did Raiders really flip a coin to decide 1st-round pick? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/adam-hill/hill-did-raiders-really-flip-a-coin-to-decide-1st-round-pick-3049506/…

Hill: Did Raiders really flip a coin to decide 1st-round pick?
A draft pick’s claim that he missed out on going to the Raiders because of a coin toss has drawn far more attention than it ever needed — unless it’s true.

Generalized paths and cycles in semicomplete multipartite digraphs
J{\o}rgen Bang-Jensen, Yun Wang, Anders Yeo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07597 https://

Generalized paths and cycles in semicomplete multipartite digraphs
It is well-known and easy to show that even the following version of the directed travelling salesman problem is NP-complete: Given a strongly connected complete digraph $D=(V,A)$, a cost function $w: A\rightarrow \{0,1\}$ and a natural number $K$; decide whether $D$ has a directed Hamiltonian cycle of cost at most $K$. We study the following variant of this problem for $\{0,1\}$-weighted semicomplete digraphs where the set of arcs which have cost 1 form a collection of vertex-disjoint complete…

https://civio.es/novedades/2024/05/08/la-audiencia-nacional-vuelve-a-rechazar-abrir-el-codigo-fuente-que-decide-quien-recibe-el-bono-social/

La Audiencia Nacional vuelve a rechazar abrir el código fuente del programa que decide quién recibe el bono social
Una nueva sentencia da por bueno un informe del Gobierno que afirma, entre otras cosas, que conocer el código de BOSCO nos permitiría atacar sus sistemas, minar criptomonedas y hasta acceder a los datos de la Agencia Tributaria

Here's what Dak Prescott's next contract would look like if the Cowboys decide to extend him https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/heres_what_dak_prescotts_next_contract_would_…

Here's what Dak Prescott's next contract would look like if the Cowboys decide to extend him
Once widely expected, the Dallas Cowboys and owner Jerry Jones made a bold decision this offseason to not extend star quarterback Dak Prescott. Instead they made a small adjustment by converting his $5 million roster bonus this year into a signing bonus and reducing his salary cap charge by $4 million. Consequently, the Cowboys are on the hook for a $55 million salary cap hit this year with another $40 million dead cap charge in 2025. Prescott is coming off of a season where his success was onl…

Shining Light on Periodic Dominating Sets in Bounded-Treewidth Graphs
Jakob Greilhuber, Philipp Schepper, Philip Wellnitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07524 …

Shining Light on Periodic Dominating Sets in Bounded-Treewidth Graphs
For the vertex selection problem $(σ,ρ)$-DomSet one is given two fixed sets $σ$ and $ρ$ of integers and the task is to decide whether we can select vertices of the input graph, such that, for every selected vertex, the number of selected neighbors is in $σ$ and, for every unselected vertex, the number of selected neighbors is in $ρ$. This framework covers Independent Set and Dominating Set for example. We investigate the case when $σ$ and $ρ$ are periodic sets with the same period $m\…

Really respect Oakland for this:
“Hanson said she shrugged. "It's your responsibility to decide where you're going to play baseball," she said. "We pick up trash and we do cops and we care about economic development, but it's not our responsibility to house you."”

Inside the meetings that officially moved the A's from Oakland to Sacramento - ESPN
The divorce always seemed inevitable. But even the Athletics' final week in Oakland had plenty of twists and turns.

One of the challenges early Google had to deal with was sites changing what data they provided based on the user agent. Basically, if Google then SEO spam.
Granted, it was easy to spot that because the data being consumed and processed could be checked.
I wonder if that's equally true for LLM crawlers, which don't use the same check system, because Move Fast & Dumb Things?
Like, if I just fed them "Rutabaga, rutabaga" whenever they decide to crawl my …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06297 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Determinants of successful disease control through voluntary quarantine dynamics on social networks
In the wake of epidemics, quarantine measures are typically recommended by health authorities or governments to help control the spread of the disease. Compared with mandatory quarantine, voluntary quarantine offers individuals the liberty to decide whether to isolate themselves in case of infection exposure, driven by their personal assessment of the trade-off between economic loss and health risks as well as their own sense of social responsibility and concern for public health. To better und…

Perennial Semantic Data Terms of Use for Decentralized Web
Rui Zhao, Jun Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07587 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Perennial Semantic Data Terms of Use for Decentralized Web
In today's digital landscape, the Web has become increasingly centralized, raising concerns about user privacy violations. Decentralized Web architectures, such as Solid, offer a promising solution by empowering users with better control over their data in their personal `Pods'. However, a significant challenge remains: users must navigate numerous applications to decide which application can be trusted with access to their data Pods. This often involves reading lengthy and complex Terms of Use…

better world dice for when you can't decide:
1. add good thing to world
2. remove bad thing from world
3. modify bad thing to be better
4. mitigate damage of bad thing
5. decouple bad thing more / split it
6. enhance/strengthen/couple good thing
roll dice.
(yes, some methods are better than others. tackle whatever you can)

Some people like to point out that the providers of free services have no obligations towards you, and therefore they can terminate the service at any time, for any reason.
For some reason, they seem to be missing that paid service providers can do precisely the same. And they usually have a sufficient number of loopholes in their terms of service to get away with it. The best you can hope is refund that in no way covers your problems.
"But they're relying on your money!" Sure. Unless they're not getting enough, and they decide the service's not affordable. Or they're getting more than enough, and they decide they don't need money from this particular user.
#AntiCapitalism

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14178 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

A Distributed Conductance Tester Without Global Information Collection
We propose a simple and time-optimal algorithm for property testing a graph for its conductance in the CONGEST model. Our algorithm takes only $O(\log n)$ rounds of communication (which is known to be optimal), and consists of simply running multiple random walks of $O(\log n)$ length from a certain number of random sources, at the end of which nodes can decide if the underlying network is a good conductor or far from it. Unlike previous algorithms, no aggregation is required even with a smalle…

I'm attending Northeast Arizona Native Organizing Campaign's event, “Meet Cardzilla! Virtual Event” - sign up now to join me! #NativeVoteAZ #BlueWaveRising

Meet Cardzilla! Virtual Event · Northeast Arizona Native Organizing Campaign
We're excited to see you this Saturday for a virtual event on Zoom to meet Cardzilla! Our expert team will give you a tour of Cardzilla, and a chance to ask our team your questions. Cardzilla lets you download the same Northeast Arizona Native Democrats postcard addresses and scripts you know and love, and you even get a weekly newsletter with inspirations from the field, just like you do now. Plus, you can get addresses any time, day or night, any day of the week; and, you decide exactly how…

"Combustion engine: Engineers/market will decide, not politicians"
Quite a difference whether engineers (once a combustion expert, always a...) or 'market' decide what comes next. Or maybe not. The (world) market moves. Politicians can force their industries' luck, or give them leeway to perish.

The key policy changes centre-right EPP made in its final manifesto
The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) made two key policy changes in its final EU elections manifes

EU Parliament refuses decision on budget until members commit more Patriots to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/11/eu-parliament-refuses.html

This is a very significant moment in Internet history.
Private finance is now eying big Fediverse apps and servers with greedy rubbing of hands
- surely there are millions of dollars to be made with this approach?
Yes, there are. And it's a problem,
but it may be a controllable problem,
especially if people in positions of power or influence recognise this.
Things are already dividing into private big money backers versus ordinary folks.
Both…

Billionaire Platform Society and You
A time will shortly be upon us when we must decide, make a choice about how we might want our interweb to look and be in the near future and beyond. I think...

Shōgun 1x08 "Abyss of Life" ★★★★★★★★★★ #Shogun

Shōgun 1x08 "Abyss of Life"
Toranaga's defeated clan moves to Edo and awaits their fate. Blackthorne must decide who he fights for - the lord who has turned his back on him, or the ambition that brought him to Japan in the first place.

I don't really want to distribute articles unless they carry significance, importance, and perhaps rarity. This means that archiving software hardly makes sense, but then who is to decide whether keeping a copy of, say, The Great Gatsby is more important than an original copy of Linux 1.0? How can I possibly decide what to allow and what must be left out?
How can I narrow my scope? How can I decide what can stay and what must go?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04966 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Aerial Base Station Placement via Propagation Radio Maps
The deployment of aerial base stations (ABSs) on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents a promising solution for extending cellular connectivity to areas where terrestrial infrastructure is overloaded, damaged, or absent. A pivotal challenge in this domain is to decide the locations of a set of ABSs to effectively serve ground-based users. Most existing approaches oversimplify this problem by assuming that the channel gain between two points is a function of solely distance and, sometimes, al…

Antonio Pierce declines to talk claim Raiders flipped coin to decide on drafting Brock Bowers https://theathletic.com/5484654/2024/05/10/raiders-antonio-pierce-coin-toss-draft/

Antonio Pierce declines to talk claim Raiders flipped coin to decide on drafting Brock Bowers
Pierce denied the story to former NFL player and ESPN commentator Ryan Clark on Thursday.

I couldn't get NewDisk to work properly. It would behave just like I remembered from 2002 or would go back to track 1 or track 18 and spend some time (up to 5 seconds!) there. You can clearly see from this code that I had no idea what I was doing.
Which command to send - plain CBM DOS Init? It's not sufficient -- after disk change the drive would return ID mismatch error (not in VICE!). So maybe INQUIRE DISK or QUERY DISK? That worked, but GEOS calls NewDisk a lot...

Yeah, it’s these kind of complications that made me decide that LASIK is not “for me” even though the vision in one of my eyes is pretty bad (both are corrected), I can live with it. https://mstdn.social/@MatthewChat/112404984819210716

Google, Yahoo, Perplexity, and other search companies are working on understanding user intent to decide whether to show generative AI answers or just links (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/will-search-be-generative-ai-or-blue…

Will Search Be Generative AI or Blue Links? Actually, It’s Both.
The real search battle isn’t gen AI vs. links, it’s when to show each format.

White House staffers got Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), a friend of Biden’s and graduate of Yale Divinity School, on the phone. “Chris, it’s Joe,” the president said. “I need you to put your divinity school hat on for a minute and just tell me — do you think this is the right thing? Should we go ahead?”

That one last phone call Joe Biden always needs to make
When he must decide a high-stakes issue, the president hears out his top aides — then picks up the phone and calls a politician.

I had an idea for a talk and I can't decide if it's awful or delightful.
Would you go to a talk at a tech conference entitled:
"Carly Rae Jepsen, #3DPrinting, and the future of #OpenSource"
(CRJ would not be played during said talk to preserve sanity)

Transnistria will ask to be annexed by Russia on a special congress on Feb 28th. This could be pure trolling by pro-russian forces there or a pretext for something more serious, although i can't see, looking on the map, how Russia could invade there.

Un așa-zis congres al pretinșilor deputați de toate nivelurile de la Tiraspol va decide să adrese Moscovei un apel de anexare a regiunii transnistrene la Rusia
Un congres al deputaţilor de toate nivelurile este programat la Tiraspol pentru 28 februarie, a scris opozantul transnistrean Ghennadi Ciorba pe reţelele de socializare. El a menționat faptul că pe 29 februarie președintele rus, Vladimir Putin, i se va adresa Adunării federale de la Moscova, scrie Infotag.md.

I can't decide if this movie has a pretty bad script or is pretty good improv.

Retail investors, who hold 40% of Disney stock, may decide the Disney-Peltz proxy fight, which is expected to be one of the most expensive in history (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/business/media/disney-shareholders-prox…

As Disney Fights Nelson Peltz, Small Shareholders Loom Large
Individuals hold as much as 40 percent of the company’s shares, and they may decide a proxy battle that is one of the most expensive in history.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10541 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Modular 3D Interface Design for Accessible VR Applications
Designed with an accessible first design approach, the presented paper describes how exploiting humans proprioception ability in 3D space can result in a more natural interaction experience when using a 3D graphical user interface in a virtual environment. The modularity of the designed interface empowers the user to decide where they want to place interface elements in 3D space allowing for a highly customizable experience, both in the context of the player and the virtual space. Drawing inspi…

5 guard targets for Cowboys in free agency if they decide to move Tyler Smith to LT https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/5_guard_targets_for_cowboys_in_free_agency_if_they_decide_to_move_tyl…

5 guard targets for Cowboys in free agency if they decide to move Tyler Smith to LT
The Dallas Cowboys need to reconfigure their offensive line in 2024 and urgently so following recent reports on them being unlikely to bring back Tyron Smith at left tackle for next season. Such a decision, which is highly questionable for many reasons, sets up the question of who will start at left tackle? Since the answer might already be on the roster in the shape of Tyler Smith, who played left guard in 2023, that answer could automatically become who starts at guard if the young Smith is i…

It's satisfying when you tidy up all your self-hosted instances of some complex package... I've got 5 instances of NextCloud upgraded to the latest point release, 27.1.7, passing all internal configuration checks, and earning a security rating of "A " (using https://scan.nextcloud.com/

Hmm... I was going to try to live-post the #SCOTUS oral arguments about #NetChoice today... but I **don't know the voices of the US Supreme Court justices**, and the live stream is *audio*-only.
There will be transcripts later, which will be helpful.
In the meantime, though, I don…

@…
How do you think the SC will decide on Trump's immunity claims? That's coming up soon isn't it?

better world dice for when you can't decide:
1. add good thing to world
2. remove bad thing from world
3. modify bad thing to be better
4. mitigate damage of bad thing
5. decouple bad thing more / split it
6. enhance/strengthen/couple good thing
roll dice.
(yes, some methods are better than others. tackle whatever you can)

For my friends that have e-readers, what size is ideal? Do any of you own a Boox?
Trying to decide between a “phone” form factor (6.3" x 3.1"/6 oz) and a tablet (6.1" x 5.4"/7 oz). The former can fit in a pocket. Any advice?

minor =/= child
puberty ends your childhood between 9 and 13 years of age.
laws decide when you stop being a minor.
There is no relationship between these two things.

When is a rant not a rant? When I decide to listen closely. I'LL decide when it's a rant, and then scroll on. Someone else will engage and reply. Then it wasn't JUST a rant.
#ScrollOnBuddy #HowCanIScroll #WhenTheMeaningsGo

epinions_trust: Epinions trust network (2003)
A who-trusts-whom online social network of the general consumer review site Epinions.com. Members can decide whether to "trust" each other. These trust relationships are combined with review ratings to determine which reviews are shown to the user.
This network has 75888 nodes and 508837 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The unanimous decision of the US Supreme Court that only Congress can decide who is on a Federal ballot makes sense, so I understand the decision.
However, I *do* very much love the dissenting opinion taking the majority to task for going “beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming President”.
Donald Trump called “Oathbreaking Insurrectionist” by the US Supreme Court. I like that alot.

Folks,
If you like Guppe Groups, let me remind you at the same time a year ago they were about to close the project due to insufficient funding.
These days their financial situation exceeds declared minimums, but I'm not sure if it stays that way past the anniversary of their previous call for help (for example, I treated yearly membership as one-time donation because OpenCollective doesn't know the concept of one-time tip).
So I'm leaving this link here.
…

Guppe Groups Platform Co-op - Open Collective
The social groups app for Mastodon and the Fediverse where supporters decide what features to develop - brought to you by Immers Space

This is why I want Australia to join the EU. Besides we're already eligible to compete in Eurovision.
#QT - https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112194773928292…

European Commission (@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image 📞🇪🇺 New upgrade available... From 7 March, the designated gatekeepers – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft – must comply with all obligations in the Digital Markets Act. These changes give you control of your: 📱 data: decide freely how your data is used 📱 phone: choose your default apps, browsers and search engines 📱 apps: install the apps you want and remove pre-installed apps Learn more → https://europa.eu/!7YNvdp #Dig…

If I asked J to list off my personal failings we'd be here some time but omg getting her to plan anything is a struggle. 2 weeks ago I left her with a list of things to make decisions about by the time I got back. Spoke today and of the biggest one:
"yeah I think so"
"so I'll book it tomorrow then"
"I'll have to think about it"
"and the thing we're doing in 2 days time?
"I need to decide what time we'll…

"Maine environmental regulators [will vote today] to decide whether the state will join a growing number of states adopting new standards designed to grow the use of electric vehicles.
"The rules, which originated in California, would require an increasing percentage of new light-duty vehicles to be zero emission vehicles every year. The new standards would start with 51% in 2028 and grow to 82% by 2032."

Maine to decide on stricter electric vehicle standards
Maine environmental regulators are set to decide whether the state will join a growing number of states adopting new standards designed to grow the use of electric vehicles. The rules originated in California and would require an increasing percentage of new light-duty vehicles to be zero emission vehicles every year. The new standards would start with 51% and grow to 82% by 2032. The Maine Board of Environmental Protection is set to vote on the proposal on Wednesday in a vote that has been ant…

Both heroes and mediocrities will decide the fate of Ukraine (Alexander J. Motyl/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4501655-both-heroes-and-mediocrities-will-decide-the-fate-of-ukraine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240301/p57#a240301p57

From Translink
Newly upgraded Phibbs Exchange opens for customers
Overhauled exchange provides better safety, capacity, and convenience
A newly upgraded Phibbs Exchange opens today for customers – providing more space, improved lighting, and better shelter for North Shore transit customers. The overhaul modernizes the space, improves access to and from the exchange, expands capacity, and improves safety.
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If you're unsure if #NixOS is worth a switch, read my thread from https://graz.social/@publicvoit/112197919942153866 & decide whether or not those questions would relate to …

#NoContextBrits
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Antonio Pierce declines to talk claim Raiders flipped coin to decide on drafting Brock Bowers https://theathletic.com/5484654/2024/05/10/raiders-antonio-pierce-coin-toss-draft/

Antonio Pierce declines to talk claim Raiders flipped coin to decide on drafting Brock Bowers
Pierce denied the story to former NFL player and ESPN commentator Ryan Clark on Thursday.

epinions_trust: Epinions trust network (2003)
A who-trusts-whom online social network of the general consumer review site Epinions.com. Members can decide whether to "trust" each other. These trust relationships are combined with review ratings to determine which reviews are shown to the user.
This network has 75888 nodes and 508837 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Yeah, it’s these kind of complications that made me decide that LASIK is not “for me” even though the vision in one of my eyes is pretty bad (both are corrected), I can live with it. https://mstdn.social/@MatthewChat/112404984819210716

Also, next eclipse over San Francisco is December 31, 2252, so you know it's going to be raining that day.
Looks like I may decide to skip that one.
https://www.almanac.com/total-solar-eclipses-how-often-do-they-happen

I can't decide if this movie has a pretty bad script or is pretty good improv.

Both heroes and mediocrities will decide the fate of Ukraine (Alexander J. Motyl/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4501655-both-heroes-and-mediocrities-will-decide-the-fate-of-ukraine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240301/p57#a240301p57

Dallas Cowboys Decide Extending Quarterback For 2025 Too Expensive And Not Worth It https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_decide_extending_quarterback_for_2025_too_expensive_an…

Dallas Cowboys Decide Extending Quarterback For 2025 Too Expensive And Not Worth It
The Dallas Cowboys entered the offseason with three contracts they knew would be major topics. The Cowboys have CeeDee Lamb, Dak Prescott, and Micah Parsons, who all want deals before their first snap in December. The situation with Prescott doesn’t seem likely to be resolved before the regular season. The Cowboys could have a dire situation at the position after a move they made on Wednesday afternoon. According to Todd Archer with ESPN, the Cowboys declined to pick up Trey Lance’s fifth-y…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03709 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

Portable, heterogeneous ensemble workflows at scale using libEnsemble
libEnsemble is a Python-based toolkit for running dynamic ensembles, developed as part of the DOE Exascale Computing Project. The toolkit utilizes a unique generator--simulator--allocator paradigm, where generators produce input for simulators, simulators evaluate those inputs, and allocators decide whether and when a simulator or generator should be called. The generator steers the ensemble based on simulation results. libEnsemble communicates between a manager and workers. Flexibility is pr…

#Consequences of a really stupid decision:
‘Five-alarm fire’: NBC execs will meet to decide McDaniel ‘fate’ after massive backlash - Raw Story
https://www.

‘Five-alarm fire’: NBC execs will meet to decide McDaniel ‘fate’ after massive backlash
On day five of the massive public and internal outrage over NBC News' hiring of Ronna McDaniel, who spread false claims about election fraud and allegedly conspired with the Trump campaign to attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, NBC News executives will meet to discuss the decision an...

For my friends that have e-readers, what size is ideal? Do any of you own a Boox?
Trying to decide between a “phone” form factor (6.3" x 3.1"/6 oz) and a tablet (6.1" x 5.4"/7 oz). The former can fit in a pocket. Any advice?

The unanimous decision of the US Supreme Court that only Congress can decide who is on a Federal ballot makes sense, so I understand the decision.
However, I *do* very much love the dissenting opinion taking the majority to task for going “beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming President”.
Donald Trump called “Oathbreaking Insurrectionist” by the US Supreme Court. I like that alot.

For all the memos and briefings, presidents are profoundly alone in making these decisions, and in that moment of truth, they rely on those whom life has taught them to trust.
For Biden, that means people who have braved the campaign trail.
For Trump, that means Vladimir Putin

That one last phone call Joe Biden always needs to make
When he must decide a high-stakes issue, the president hears out his top aides — then picks up the phone and calls a politician.

"Maine environmental regulators [will vote today] to decide whether the state will join a growing number of states adopting new standards designed to grow the use of electric vehicles.
"The rules, which originated in California, would require an increasing percentage of new light-duty vehicles to be zero emission vehicles every year. The new standards would start with 51% in 2028 and grow to 82% by 2032."

Maine to decide on stricter electric vehicle standards
Maine environmental regulators are set to decide whether the state will join a growing number of states adopting new standards designed to grow the use of electric vehicles. The rules originated in California and would require an increasing percentage of new light-duty vehicles to be zero emission vehicles every year. The new standards would start with 51% and grow to 82% by 2032. The Maine Board of Environmental Protection is set to vote on the proposal on Wednesday in a vote that has been ant…

epinions_trust: Epinions trust network (2003)
A who-trusts-whom online social network of the general consumer review site Epinions.com. Members can decide whether to "trust" each other. These trust relationships are combined with review ratings to determine which reviews are shown to the user.
This network has 75888 nodes and 508837 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Neal Katyal on Twitter: "Judge Cannon just rejected Trump's bogus Presidential Records Act defense, but only for now. She has (weirdly and pointedly) refused to actually decide the issue, despite Jack Smith's warning that double jeopardy would then apply. I think Smith has no choice but to go to the 11th… https://t.co/JcQzqOCJEl…

Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) on X
Judge Cannon just rejected Trump's bogus Presidential Records Act defense, but only for now. She has (weirdly and pointedly) refused to actually decide the issue, despite Jack Smith's warning that double jeopardy would then apply. I think Smith has no choice but to go to the 11th…

House Speaker Mike Johnson survives vote to oust him from leadership
The House overwhelmingly voted to kill a move by Republican hard-liners aimed at removing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.),
saving an unlikely leader of an unruly House six months after GOP lawmakers moved to oust his predecessor.

Only 11 Republicans supported the move to “table” a measure by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.),
while 196 Republicans embraced keeping Johnson in the speaker’s job.

House Speaker Mike Johnson survives vote to oust him from leadership
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) officially filed her motion Monday to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as leader of the House, starting a two-day clock for lawmakers to decide his fate.

epinions_trust: Epinions trust network (2003)
A who-trusts-whom online social network of the general consumer review site Epinions.com. Members can decide whether to "trust" each other. These trust relationships are combined with review ratings to determine which reviews are shown to the user.
This network has 75888 nodes and 508837 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

House Speaker Mike Johnson survives vote to oust him from leadership
The House overwhelmingly voted to kill a move by Republican hard-liners aimed at removing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.),
saving an unlikely leader of an unruly House six months after GOP lawmakers moved to oust his predecessor.

Only 11 Republicans supported the move to “table” a measure by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.),
while 196 Republicans embraced keeping Johnson in the speaker’s job.

House Speaker Mike Johnson survives vote to oust him from leadership
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) officially filed her motion Monday to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as leader of the House, starting a two-day clock for lawmakers to decide his fate.

Supreme Court to decide if Biden administration can regulate 'ghost guns' (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-decide-biden-administration-can-regulate-ghost-guns-rcna147065
http://www.memeorandum.com/240422/p26#a240422p26

Pick Fit: Safety fits for every Cowboys draft pick https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pick-fit-safety-fits-for-every-cowboys-draft-pick

Pick Fit: Safety fits for every Cowboys draft pick
The safety position doesn’t need a whole lot of addressing in the draft, but if the Cowboys decide to swing on one to place into Mike Zimmer’s defense, these players could make sense at each of Dallas’ seven picks.

Clarence Thomas to decide if #Trump has immunity for the coup attempt his own wife planned - Boing Boing
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/29/clarence-thom…

Clarence Thomas to decide if Trump has immunity for the coup attempt his own wife planned
Investigate the controversy surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas's role in deciding Donald Trump's immunity in light of the January 6th events planned by his wife.

Raiders HC slightly changes tone on 'coin toss' story https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_hc_slightly_changes_tone_on_coin_toss_story/s1_13132_40348227

Raiders HC slightly changes tone on 'coin toss' story
One day after definitively dismissing rumors that his team used a coin flip to choose its first-round pick last month, Las Vegas Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce wouldn't touch the topic on Friday. During a Tuesday appearance on "The Next Round" podcast, Detroit Lions first-round pick Terrion Arnold claimed that Pierce called him after the draft.  Arnold said the coach told him that they had a "coin toss" to decide between selecting the Alabama product and Georgia tight end Brock Bowers. Las …

Rightwing activists ramp up drive to hand-count ballots
If more localities decide to try hand-counting in the November election, results could be inaccurate, untrustworthy or delayed, fostering more distrust in elections.
In places that opt not to hand-count, supporters of the practice could use this choice as a reason to question or refuse to sign off on certification.
Either way, it raises the risk of throwing the 2024 election into chaos.
“It just gives additional…

Dallas Cowboys Looking To Poach Packers’ Star Running Back https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_looking_to_poach_packers_star_running_back/s1_17150_40087221

Dallas Cowboys Looking To Poach Packers’ Star Running Back
The Dallas Cowboys might find themselves in a fortunate position if the Green Bay Packers decide to part ways with Aaron Jones this NFL offseason, their standout running back, due to financial constraints. The Packers, who are currently struggling with salary cap issues, have been attempting to renegotiate Jones’s salary to a lower figure for the second consecutive year. Failure to agree may lead the Packers to release Jones. This potential move could open a golden opportunity for the Cowboys…

Liz Cheney on Twitter: "Delaying the #Jan6 trial suppresses critical evidence that Americans deserve to hear. Donald #Trump attempted to overturn an election and seize power. Our justice system must be able to bring him to trial before the next election. SCOTUS should decide this case promptly." …

Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) on X
Delaying the January 6 trial suppresses critical evidence that Americans deserve to hear. Donald Trump attempted to overturn an election and seize power. Our justice system must be able to bring him to trial before the next election. SCOTUS should decide this case promptly.

Voters in car-centric L.A. approve Measure HLA to make room on streets for bikes, buses
Backers of a citizen-sponsored ballot initiative that forces Los Angeles to add hundreds of miles of bike and bus lanes — to make streets safer for pedestrians and bicyclists — declared victory on Wednesday.
Measure HLA was leading by a wide margin, according to semifinal results released by the Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk on Wednesday.

Will Measure HLA pass? Voters to decide on election day
The citizen-sponsored ballot measure, aimed at making streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians, is opposed by firefighters.

Alexey Navanly's message to the world "if they decide to kill me," and what his wife wants people to do now (Tucker Reals/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexey-navanly-message-if-they-decide-to-kill-me-and-wife-yulia-message-now/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240216/p30#a240216p30

Newsom’s Prop 1 holds narrow lead in California primary
“Prop. 1 rights a historic wrong.”
About 181,000 people statewide, including 75,000 in Los Angeles County, are homeless, according to 2023 counts.
As much as 82% of unhoused individuals have experienced a serious mental health condition, and nearly two-thirds have at some point regularly used illicit drugs, according to a recent survey by UC San Francisco.
Arguing that the status quo isn’t working, Newsom has pu…

Will California voters pass Newsom's Prop. 1 on election day?
California voters in the primary election decide the fate of Proposition 1, which Gov. Gavin Newsom has championed to address mental health and homelessness.

Trump slow to invest in states that could decide election as some in GOP fear 'skeleton' campaign | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/republican-presidential-election-trump-battleground-comm…

Trump slow to invest in states that could decide election as some in GOP fear 'skeleton' campaign
Donald Trump’s political operation was widely praised for its professionalism and effectiveness throughout the Republican nomination fight. But Trump has been slow to pivot toward the general election in the weeks since executing a hostile takeover of the GOP's political machinery. In fact, Trump's team has rolled back plans under the previous regime to add hundreds of staff and dozens of minority-outreach centers across the country. For now, Trump’s Republican Party has little general elec…