2026-08-24 17:44:09
Camden Brown shows game-changing consistency: 'I'm doing what I gotta do' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/camden-brown-shows-game-changing-consistency-i-m-doing-what-i-gotta-do
Camden Brown shows game-changing consistency: 'I'm doing what I gotta do' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/camden-brown-shows-game-changing-consistency-i-m-doing-what-i-gotta-do
Bereft of ideas, obsessed with GDP growth, the Labour right can only suggest turning on the workers.
Their usual playbook.
Andy Burnham not doing enough to boost growth, says former business secretary - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9zrzzmez7j5o
History doesn't need to absolve me, reality is already doing that.
Most documents we encounter in the course of doing our work are somewhere between middling to terrible. A few years ago, I wrote "Make Better Documents", a simple set of guidelines for making presentations, reports, etc.
Now, I've turned that set of suggestions into a Better Documents skills.md file, an agent skill for those who use LLMs to help review documents. Naturally, it’s 100% free & open source, so I'd love for you to give it a try & let me know what y…
Tranquillity. Slackware xfce, running on that 63 USD potato. And doing just fine! It'll be the base for all my tilers (and for the sundries as well).
#slackware
Raiders special teams doing special things early in the season https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-special-teams-doing-special-things-early-in-the-season-3890336/
"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
#acting #coaching #inspiration
yesterday while doing our errands , a woman approached me in a shop "we do know each other - and we do not know each other".
Turns out we follow each other since ~10 years on instagram and have occasional conversations, live in the same city are both hiking and cycling (ok, she's ways fitter) and always said "yeah maybe we meet somewhere in town, would be a funny coincident" .. and just 10 years later, this coincidence happened.
Ex-Tal'Shiar agent: "Now I think about a Klingon in an apron and I think it is doing me neurological damage."
#StarTrekAdventures
You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.
Congress isn’t working. Literally.
There have been few times in history when Congress has been more hated.
And your legislators are doing little to address that
— including working in Washington
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20
Today’s NYT #crossword does something I’ve never seen in years of doing them. Sneaky, but cute.
Conference travel is coming up next week so last call for anyone interested in some kind of get-together in .nl - or suggesting fun things for me to do while I'm there.
I'll be traveling most of Monday then doing conference things in Gouda during business hours Tues-Thurs (but free after unless conference goers want to join me for dinner).
Fri/Sat i will be staying in Den Haag and have a wide-open schedule. Planning to visit RevSpace at some point subject to peoples' …
@… Yeah, they love doing this in Lausanne…
@… Yeah, they love doing this in Lausanne…
Talking Cyber Security
Hear about data breaches, cyber news, how security personnel tick, how to answer questions at an interview, lessons learnt while doing the security role, how security people network, how they succeed etc...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/…
If "Don't post on X" is too high of a bar for some people, I do worry what it says about their commitment to not doing a bunch of much much worse things when that time comes.
It's not even about X in and of itself, it's about how it's the *lowest* possible effort thing you could do: Not going to a website.
If that feels like a high bar... I mean, I just want you to know, in case you haven't read a history book lately, the bar to what you'll need …
Something I spend most of my day doing. #Wordle
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Re: #Kiteworks, once again a bullet dodged. Customer suggested it some time ago and I talked them down to plain old scp into a VM doing nothing else. They REALLY didn’t need a pricy overly fancy black box.
I think no one does. I’m weird.
My wife & I last night at 2:30am
*blaring music sounds and high pitched screeching noises*
W: what’s that squealing sound? It’s been going on for 5m straight
Me: they’re drifting/doing donuts
W: gotta be stolen car, who would do that to their tires?
M: you haven’t known many car people have you?
Right, that's a bunch of #libreoffice patches merged for the big memory usage bug I've been working on for a while; the original one was using ~10G and is now under 2G, and the BIG one is down from 185G to 45G.
So I've closed the 10yr old bug that complained about the 10G case crashing; onto just doing stuff on the big one.
I've got some ideas left - not sure how fa…
Camden Brown shows game-changing consistency: 'I'm doing what I gotta do' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/camden-brown-shows-game-changing-consistency-i-m-doing-what-i-gotta-do
RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117329100531227330
Meta is doing great work with their Muse thingy. Is there a aiisgoinggreat.com?
LaFleur on Packers' offensive woes: 'I don't know what we're doing well' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50025463/lafleur-loss-answers-packers-offensive-woes
Fun time for the #linux laptop. Doing a snapshot (#mxsnapshot) of my complete system. Later I will do a bootable USB stick and label it. If something goes wrong I have the ability to restore the system. I also will have to test it out to make sure that it does work.
Next weekend it will be time to do a complete backup of all documents to an external USB drive for the laptop and the mi…
"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
#acting #coaching #inspiration
It's kinda funny how I'm once again doing something for work that oddly overlaps with my hobby stuff. 🤫
Paul Volcker, who navigated the Fed through one of the worst bouts of inflation in the 1970s and 1980s,
told Kevin Warsh, then a governor, that the central bank’s job boiled down to two primary responsibilities.
The first was getting interest rates “about right.”
The second was to “make sure you look like you know what you’re doing.”
Those duties are top of mind as Mr. Warsh prepares for his first address as chairman to the world’s leading economic policymakers in Jac…
This is a fun one. I have a Debian box with a FTDI USB-UART dongle on it that is connected to an FPGA board that runs a UART receiver which displays
When I open the UART in "screen" and press keys, everything works as intended.
But when I try to send a few bytes manually by doing "echo -ne \xaa > /dev/ttyUSB7", this also works... but a few hundred ms after the "echo" command finishes, a mysterious 0x13 byte appears. Any idea WTF is happening?
So #Revolut #PayWithSmile.
Nope. Besides the privacy aspect and potential for false positives over a population of millions, there is also the problem that sometimes it will not recognise you and the person at the till will ask you to try again and you end up doing a weirdo smile …
The #Government of Israel is doing its best to incite violence - in this case violating a long standing practice that respected a #Muslim holy site. And this is intentional, as they know from past experience that this triggers violent responses.
Israeli security minister joins Jewish extremists as …
The #Government of Israel is doing its best to incite violence - in this case violating a long standing practice that respected a #Muslim holy site. And this is intentional, as they know from past experience that this triggers violent responses.
Israeli security minister joins Jewish extremists as …
Yeah, seems like that's what tech companies are doing, so far:
#USpol
RE: https://toad.social/@grumpybozo/117305186772703060
I can scratch my back again. I didn’t even realize that I was doing the thing that I couldn’t this morning until the itch was over.
I think that this indicates that I will not be needing rotator c…
Reading @…'s book got me back in the lab doing experiments to measure the speed a signal travels through a 100-ft coaxial cable.
In this low-quality setup with a 47-ohm resistor on a breadboard, I got 203.2 x 10^6 m/s, or about 68% of the speed of light.
In a better setup using a proper 50-ohm BNC impedance adapter, I got 229.2 x 10^6 m/s, or ab…
#Artillery have been doing thrash the proper way since 1982. No nonsense, no apologies, just riffs. This week we let them have their way with our eardrums, and honestly, we'd do it again.
Check it out and see what we had to say about the song and the band behind it. Don't forget to follow us for more curated song picks from across the epic world of
I Can See the Babies
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Whenever I see a person, my mind automatically conjures up an image of them as a baby. It's not really voluntary, nor is it the same as other mental imagery. More like I'm hallucinating a visual echo of their past self, floating in my vision near where I see the person. As if they were haunted and I could see the ghost.
It's all in my head, I'm pretty sure, and the babies aren't necessarily accurate. I checked once with a friend, and the baby I saw had curly hair even though all their baby pictures were bald. After seeing those pictures, my baby image of them changed, too, to match the pictures. So that's why... That's why I'm pretty sure...
But the babies are real, you know? I mean, my images of them might not be right, but all the people I see *were* babies. It's not like one of those stupid prophecy loopholes like "everyone was born of woman", you see, it's a true universal, no exceptions. And these hallucinations won't let me forget about that. Ever.
I tried to play a videogame once, one of those FPS games. My friends were all playing and they needed one more for their group. They didn't know about... this. I told them I didn't think I could do it, but I didn't want to tell them why, so they badgered me into it. I thought maybe I could handle it, I mean the characters were basically cartoons, right? But... well, I think I dissociated a bit and then threw up. Even if they were cartoons, all those babies, shooting and killing and dying, again and again. It's... it's not like the babies got injured, even, or played out exactly what the characters were doing. The babies just kinda floated around doing baby things, and they sort of faded out when their character died. No, what's overwhelming is the knowledge, the constant reminder, of everyone's former innocence.
The worst part, you know, the most horrible thing, is not just the innocence, it's the gap. Like, if you were to force me to watch a torture scene, I would hate seeing the victim, but it's the torturer that scares me. Everybody knows that horrible things happen to innocent people. We're all forced to think about that from time to time. But the thing almost nobody thinks about as much as me, is how innocent babies *become* monsters. How there's a hurricane of hurt and fear and apathy and indoctrination and hatred and prejudice and complicity out there that sucks in babies and twists them into racists and abusers and "business leaders" and soldiers and all sorts of people who hurt and kill others. The worst are the ones who take pleasure in that hurting, because the babies for sure don't. Like, how did that happen? And most people don't think about it, because they just label that person as "bad" and don't think about it any deeper. But you can't do that when you can see the baby right there. The baby isn't bad. The person might be, I'm not trying to say everyone's an angel or people don't deserve to reap what they sow. But the baby wasn't! Something between then and now went wrong, horribly wrong, and now you're stuck with a person that hurts others, and you need a drastic intervention just to stop them, let alone prevent them from doing that stuff again and change their future behavior. But you can *see*, or at least, I can see, that there was always some earlier point, some missed opportunity, where some much easier intervention could have headed the whole thing off. None of those babies are destined to turn into monsters, and that's the gap. The gap between the little baby that was and the monster in front of you on the screen or in real life.
Anyways that's it. That's my statement. I'm not a pacifist or anything, but I think you can see why I can't do it, I just can't. You can lock me up or punish me or whatever, but there's just no way you're gonna put a gun in my hands and give me an order and I'll just follow it, because I can see the babies.
#Microfiction
@… @… it was never safe to begin with. Trump is doing us a favor by making this impossible to ignore, just as he has inadvertently become the greatest salesman for EVs.
Elon Musk will blame delayed regulatory approval when not doing the first Neuralink Blindsight brain implant in a blind human in 2026. ChatGPT: "Yes—more precisely, Musk has already laid the rhetorical groundwork for that explanation." https://chatgpt.com/share/6a8b0631-870
This is the reason for the “copyright” strike I received on my FAIR USE Youtubepoop. This is not how #copyright works. #youtube #youtuber
Tiny plastics in drinking water may be making dangerous bacteria stronger #environment
Oh, also they were doing some filming near the bar on the Friday evening. Kris Marshall and Sally Bretton and a small crew of film-makers doing some shots for a "Beyond Paradise" episode.
So I guess there was a fictional murder at the festival this weekend? Guess that'll air next year. Might possibly be in the shot where he's saying "Come on" and walking down though the crowd.
Wonder how the reputation of the festival will change if it has a fictional murder there on the TV?
Probably they'll use a fake festival name I guess.
I never met Pete Brosius, although I know a number of his students. He was a brilliant critical ecological anthropologist whose work in Sarawak stubbornly refused to romanticise the indigenous forest peoples there. Through that refusal he made it possible to actually understand how they created exceptionally biodiverse landscapes and in so doing created the foundations for the work of Jan Salick and others, including myself.
From the outside, it’s hard not to assume the vast majority of Americans are fine with what Trump is doing when there are absolutely no protests against him for weeks and months, regardless of what he and his administration is doing.
The midterms are not going to fix anything. He has shown he does not care about being reprimanded or impeached.
Either people force him out through protest, or this continues on with worse and worse behaviour by him and impacts on the USA and the World.
#uspoli #canpoli #nokings
RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/117132546974367520
Cue doing absolutely jack shit about it in 3… 2…
If money is made up, anyways and holds no real value..
Why are we doing this to ourselves?
Time to buy maple syrup when doing groceries today
Things I've learned from Busta Rhymes:
1. that I should always be turning his music up
2. that if you keep it raunchy, everything will remain raw
3. the importance of doing it to death
4. to keep one's eyes on meaty asses getting meatier
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I'ma escape my shitty parents to somewhere in-or-around Chicago in October. I'm a zoomer "artist", currently-closeted trans woman, who's only firm resume credential for getting hired is working at a retirement place cafe for roughly 1.75 years.
I'm doing a lot for the first time to make this happen. Abstract online research about a place I've never physically been's starting to give me psychosis. I'm making this public for the first tim…
WTF! 🤣 🍆 #FuckTrump #NotMyPresident #USPol
IHIP News: WTF? Pete Hegseth CAUGHT Doing WHAT to US Soldiers...?! Milit...
This incite in to what my ubuntu system is doing that would have taken hours of time to research if I ever could have learned it at all had I not used an LLM. I'll continue to caveat that LLMs have many many things about them that are bad on multiple levels.
Using LLMs to fix system problems is doing something I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
#ai
#084 Keep on doing the (seemingly insignificant) thing you do https://diagramclub.substack.com/p/084-keep-on-doing-the-seemingly-insignificant
RE: https://mastodon.social/@markhurst/117309676915338033
and, in turn, i will be doing my best to distract
@… so…
It's doing a kind of neutrally-buoyant drizzle out there, like an aggressive fog. Miserable weather, without being cold or stormy.
A generation of PMs made a career out of copying ideas from other apps they've seen into their own app. Today, AI (which has seen every app) can do this 100x faster than any of them.
The only problem is that doing this was always pointless
This week's issue of the Product Picnic newsletter breaks down this problem and surfaces some tools for thinking in workflows (or just plain thinking) rather than worrying about atomic features.
Last week I did an "Art Yoga" walk with Allison Rawlings who gave me a cute little kit for doing watercolors on the go -- it's like Plein-air but not fussy and not French!
https://www.teachingithacawellness.com/
No idea what we're doing here. 😅
Intrigued by workmen doing work things along the sidewalk of our street frontage, I went outside to see (they're laying neighborhood fibre).
My several decades older neighbour was also out there. Nodding towards the (entirely non-caucasian) work crew out of earshot, he says "Couldn't they find any real #Canadians to do this work?"
"They ARE
#PhDCongratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Sanghita Chandra of the IMPRS Solar System School successfully defended her thesis “Interpreting Solar Spicules using Synthetic Diagnostics from 3D Radiative Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations” at the @…
It certainly is very chilling.
The UK State closes ranks to defend the indefensible.
Palestine Action barrister’s prosecution criticised as ‘chilling’ | UK news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j
South Korea reopens a program letting AI talent fulfill their military obligations by doing research in corporate labs instead of conventional military service (Jo He-rim/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10879596
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117147286542192447
As long as the U.S. Secretary of Education is doing things like thinking AI (artificial intelligence) is A1 (steak sauce) [true story], perhaps we should not take anything they say as wise, tr…
At a liquor store, bar, or casino, getting carded is part of the cost of entry.
Now the internet is carding people, too
—and the companies doing the carding are cashing in.
New laws and platform rules are pushing games, social platforms, AIproducts, and adult sites to replace birthday boxes
(the fields where you enter your DOB)
with identity checks.
What was once a compliance tool for sellers in age-restricted industries is becoming infrastructure for the i…
Wow, didn't know they were doing a Golden Axe show. Don't know what to think of it after watching the trailer here. Of course I'm gonna check it out, though. All 10 episodes hit Paramount on September 16.
https://youtu.be/sStbBtfGaLA
Folks, am I real? @… https://infosec.exchange/@Epic_Null/116913940973597376
Once again back to working creating conformance testing for our network clients.
Such a fiendishly hard problem running unmodified client code on a real network stack with fault injection and capturing in order to do assertion based testing to see all implement the spec correctly.
And same time creating a 3rd interpretation of the spec and then doing adversarial testing against the server.
How Few Things (Currently) Set in Stone for Kubiak's Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-few-things-currently-set-stone-kubiak
IFR: ~7,000 autonomous humanoids were sold globally in 2025 for industrial and professional use, with many bought for research instead of doing productive work (Toby Sterling/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/humanoid-robot-sale…
Well, the release went in without any issues. On Monday a quick check with the client and if no problems then an email to everyone. Thanking the developers and testers for doing a good job.
Then for me to update the status report and put a copy in the next working group meeting folder for management to review.
Say what you will do.
Do what you say.
PROVE IT.
"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."
—James Dean
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Last night when K duty was left to SWMBO and Eldest Spawn, they had difficulty with K’s chair not tilting up after he was strapped in.
I’d been having some of that but was not afraid of just doing it fast enough to get past resistance. SWMBO was sure it was just finally permanently broken. A replacement chair is in process, since this one is 6 years old.
Nothing a simple wipe of the tilt rails with a wet washcloth couldn’t solve. Had I known that I would have done it 2 weeks a…
More than half of Americans disapprove of how the Supreme Court is doing its job,
while 46 percent believe that the court is ruling on Trump’s policies based on ideology rather than the law,
according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.
The approval numbers, gathered this month, are among the court’s lowest in recent memory
and reflect an ongoing trend of Americans viewing the court’s decisions as partisan.
In the term that ended in June, the high court gave the …
Ah we are doing why I open source?
I do it for 2 reasons. What I learn while doing it. What skills I practice while doing it. That’s it.
The skill I practise most is of product design and product building. Often in infra space - I don’t open source my non infra work.
The things I learn is the tools, languages and patterns of architecture and product design.
NFL Catchup: A Big Extension In Dallas, And What Is Aaron Rodgers Doing In Practice? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-catchup-big-extension-dallas-what-aaron-rodgers-doing-practice
RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/116942297332156781
What were US soldiers doing in Jordan? It’s very far from the US. Maybe US soldiers should stay home where they belong.
Spent the entire day trying to troubleshoot what I was doing wrong with a LFSR scrambler on an 8b/10b coded serial link. Tried all kinds of bit ordering tweaks, MSB to LSB swaps, etc to try and get the incoming data to make sense and got nowhere.
Five minutes ago I realized I had the polarity on my differential probe backwards. Applied a negation filter to the signal in ngscopeclient and it's making a ton more sense.
Every so often we get to see a politician who achieves the otherwise unimaginable.
-- Who accomplishes something no one thought to accomplish, because they dreamt something no one thought was possible.
We saw it with Obama in 2008, winning the Democratic nomination over the sure bet of Hillary Clinton, and then winning the presidency.
We saw it with AOC in 2018 who organized so effectively that it left Joe Crowley’s head spinning, before winning in a historic upset.
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Vantora, formerly UP.Labs, which builds AI-native startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers, raised $100M from Silversmith Capital Partners (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/a-sta…
"People…suffering while…people w/…power to change it argue…Children…falling asleep to…bombs. Parents…wondering whether they can keep…people they love alive. People w/disabilities…watching…hard-won protections…dismantled piece by piece. Older adults…wondering whether dignity has become too expensive to protect. Families…carrying burdens that grow heavier while those w/…power…keep finding new excuses…Communities are paying…price while power protects itself."
Trump praises ICE following killings:
'Doing a great job'
The felon-president called for traffic stops to resume, despite the administration ordering the agency to pause them on Tuesday
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/poli
Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins believes humanity's long war on parasites may be doing more harm than good.
In his new book, he argues that stripping the body of these organisms entirely could weaken, rather than protect, human immunity,
challenging decades of public health messaging built around eliminating parasites at all costs.
Martins has built his career studying the creatures most people overlook or actively avoid.
He grew up in biodiversity-rich western K…
"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it.
I can’t name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out."
-- Mitchell Hashimoto, of HashiCorp and Ghostty fame
For years Natalie Harp has only been a minor character in the Trump Cinematic Universe.
But all that changed this week when Jon Ossoff, a Democratic senator and possible 2028 presidential contender,
accused Trump in a campaign speech of wanting to “build his ballroom and travel with Natalie” instead of doing his job.
The remark triggered a tsunami of online speculation about the precise nature of the relationship
and a furious backlash.
On Monday Trump lashed ou…
Trump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…