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Ravens GM Eric DeCosta wants to extend WR Zay Flowers, 'optimistic' deal gets done https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-gm-eric-decosta-wants-to-extend-wr-zay-flowers-optimistic-deal-gets-done

Sony Music Publishing completes its acquisition of the full music rights portfolio of Recognition Music Group, backed by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/d…

Done deal: Sony Music Publishing completes acquisition of Recognition Music Group’s catalog
Sony Music Publishing already administered the Recognition catalog before completing the acquisition.

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #2: Bulk imports done right — taming the indexers
Every Shopware developer has been here: you push 50,000 products through the Sync API and the import crawls. The writes themselves are fast. What kills you is everything that happens after each write — inheritance updates, cheapest price calculation, search keyword generation, category denormalization. Shopware calls all of this "indexing", and by default it runs synchronously, per request,…

Games Done Quick: Speedrunning-Marathon spendet 2,4 Millionen US-Dollar
Die Speedrunning-Marathon-Woche „Summer Games Done Quick“ ist beendet: Die Teilnehmer sammelten 2.408.701 US-Dollar für Ärzte ohne Grenzen.

Games Done Quick: Speedrunning-Marathon spendet 2,4 Millionen US-Dollar
Die Speedrunning-Marathon-Woche „Summer Games Done Quick“ ist beendet: Die Teilnehmer sammelten 2.408.701 US-Dollar für Ärzte ohne Grenzen.

In the 8 hours we've been childless so far, I have: Played videogames, done some house chores I've put off for weeks, written a basic React webapp, learned about a new technology (Knative), inventoried our freezer, watched a movie, and taken a bath.
That's more than I get done in a week, easily.
The power has been unleashed.

Almost done with the STM32L431 / Trion T20 SoM.
* Single 3.3V supply
* 80 MHz Cortex-M4, 256 kB flash, 64 kB SRAM, 37 MCU GPIOs
* 19K FPGA LEs, 1 Mbit block RAM, 36 multipliers, 20 FPGA GPIOs
* 16 MHz MEMS oscillator for FPGA
* Internal LDOs for generating all low-voltage rails
* 32 Mbit SPI flash for FPGA, bitstream is only 5.5 Mbits so room for multiple images user data
* SPI bus between FPGA and MCU (not quad)
* 8 ICs, all WLCSP
* 45 passive…

They said it couldn’t be done.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zdduilknsuqlql34lkbf5ge5/post/3mqnaaisb6c2u

Simon McGarr (@tupped.bsky.social)
Goth Sunflower.

They have done similar stuff with warehouse workers in the past:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-under-fire-for-software-that-recommends-firing-workers/

Just worked with an #acting #coaching client who is new to acting. For a take on the first scene they've done, I asked them to change one physical thing they were doing. That take, from the first sentence suddenly had a different life behind it. So good to see.

Twig says it's sleep-on-hoomin time, not be-productive-and-get-errands-done time. Who am I to argue?

I'm pulling an outdated Windows 10 machine up to current specs. It hasn't been updated in many years.
It'll probably take many more years before Windows Update completes the updates.
I cannot even begin to understand how the Windows updating process continues to be this horrifically stupid. It has been like this forever and never seems to improve.
We're installing the 2025 feature release! Think you're done? Lulz. Hold on while we download Mystery random…

I love working with Nick. I've worked with him for a very long time, and couldn't recommend him highly enough.
I would also love to continue working with Nick. If you've got a project for us (or just for him), reach out! https://sloan.host/@nick/117112429900657125

Former Buccaneers Coach Jon Gruden Isn’t Done Yet https://www.si.com/nfl/buccaneers/onsi/former-buccaneers-coach-jon-gruden-isnt-done-yet-2026

DOGE’s work is done.
But where are its records?
The Department of Government Efficiency has quietly ended its formal mission,
leaving behind the most transformative restructuring of the federal government in a generation
— and little public accounting of its actions.
The “most transparent administration in history” is using a twofold strategy in an attempt to ensure no DOGE records ever see the light of day.

DOGE is formally done. Where are its records?
Plus: The State Department’s records shell game

“Do you think emojis will ever become part of formal language? Are we going to see emojis in laws or letters from the pension fund?” - Emojis are mainly used in informal language, because (or that’s why?) one of their main functions is to signal closeness, familiarity and a lack of hierarchy between the conversation participants. This is also the reason why a lack of emojis from a personal chat message may trigger questions like “what have I done?!”, because it could signal that the friendly relationship is disturbed. So I think emojis wouldn’t be used in legal code. But in official letters, maybe! I once received an email from a university administrator with a ☺️ and I appreciated it a lot.
#emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

#NowPlaying Been a minute since I’ve done one of these! #CDFriday with this recently remastered trilogy of cavernously dark ambient albums from Drift, a short-lived project by Gabriele Giuliani aka Dead Body Love. Kudos to

This is incredibly important.
Computers (writ large) have historically been tools that help humans solve problems which do not intrinsically demand computers but need complex computation (possibly including text transformation!) which humans cannot do as well or as fast.
The fact that we have grown a subculture of people who only really know computers has led to the situation where “computer-people” disregard other issues & the concerns of everyone else.

Working an unusual pattern of days this week and I can't decide if I like it. On the one hand I'm not knackered but on the other I don't get my usual block of four days off when I put my non-archaeology head on. I'm switching between states more which isn't always easy. Anyway, it means more chores get done during the week as I have the beans. Sparky is very confused but that's not unusual, love him. Tails takes it all in her stride as usual.

Life with a 3D printer (Bambu Labs X2D) has weirdly reconfigured my life in ways I hadn't predicted. Now I calculate it so I can have a final print done at bedtime and then run a huge overnight print, such as Gridfinity containers.

https://qr.ae/pFC6Ee

Should the UK government follow Australia's lead and ban children under 16 from social media?
Ben Curthoys's answer: I think for a law to be a good law it must be necessary, effective, and proportionate. That is, there is something that needs to be done that only a new law will achieve, the law will actually achieve the result it is supposed to, and the cost of complying with and enforci...

#qemu's Google Summer of Code (#gsoc) projects have wrapped up and there is a summary #blogpost for those who want to see what was done. More details can be found by following the links to the individual write ups. Congrats to this years students:

"If you haven't done anything wrong, you've got nothing to worry about." #deflock
https://therecord.media/dc-police-union-opposes-flock-camera…

Flock camera use by internal affairs unit puts DC police at odds with officers’ union
Washington, D.C.'s police department has used information from Flock cameras for misconduct investigations, prompting a formal complaint from its officers' union.

"I've come to believe that quality software is not about how many features something has or how quickly it is built but rather how cared for it is by the designers, developers, and product people who work on it." From "I'm done using AI" by @…:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Thee Sacred Souls:
🎵 Easier Said Than Done
#TheeSacredSouls
https://djbeset.bandcamp.com/track/snoh-aalegra-x-thee-sacred-souls-whoa-besets-easier-said-than-done-blend
https://open.spotify.com/track/4zIeRcsaho6lZuaXEYR1y3

This week on #ProFed: emoji reactions are done. By far the biggest rabbit hole yet - the kind with Monty Python killer rabbits and three dragons inside: FEP-c0e0, Pleroma and Misskey, all disagreeing with each other.
1/4

I have to remember when building new systems I've never done before, to take regular snapshots so I dont have to blow everything away and start from scratch again. Speaking of, anyone installed Mailman3 on a RHEL based system? All the offical docs talk about is Debian (and apt), plus my venv understanding is weak so I messed that up to.

@… @… I'm not surprised... There is only so much developers (and their free time) and so many different nice enhancements that could be done, many important to more people.
So the first in the line to be solved are probably critical bugs, t…

Will Grier's Cowboys Story May Not Be Over https://insidethestar.com/will-griers-cowboys-story-may-not-be-over

The TV series that followed s bunch of kids from age 7, 14, 21, 28 etc, is about to wrap up (for real this time) at age 70 — “70 Up”
The director who managed the episodes through ages 14 to 63 died since then, and this time the (surviving) participants get to pass judgement on him and the series.
#7up #70up

70 Up review – a deeply moving conclusion for the 63-year-long TV experiment
The landmark documentary series looked like it was done for good – until one participant was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Asif Kapadia takes the helm for its most elegaic, thoughtful outing ever

I think the demo board firmware is getting close to... I won't say done, there is always more things I can pack in there, but "good enough to show off at an event".
I've got:
* NRZ PRBS7/31
* 2D-PAM3 PRBS-31
* 1000baseX (no packet generation yet that's my last big TODO)
* QSGMII (also no packet generation yet)
* 100baseTX (working packet generation)
* Various clock/pulse outputs
* UART
* SPI / SPI flash
* Serial RGB LED…

It’s official, I’m signed up to be an Election Judge come November. I’ve done it before. It’s fun. A huge % of CO voters do it by mail, but there are always voting ctrs open on Nov 2 for anyone wanting to vote in person. There’s always somebody registering and voting for the first time, like a newly sworn in citizen. (We ought to give them a big Texas Roadhouse YEEHAW!, but maybe that’s just me.) It may be too late where you are this time around, but I

Work is super-busy right now with a lot of projects going on...
Do you know what will *not* help?
AI.
Do you know what will help?
Focusing and prioritizing tasks. Getting shit done. Doing high-quality work we can be proud of.
#NoAI #FuckAI

Got a lot done today - fixed the aircon and probably will not need it tonight as its been cooler and there has been a lovely breeze all day!

Transfer of Giants ownership shares 'done,' Tisch Blodgett says https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49952859/tisch-blodgett-transfer-giants-ownership-shares-done

The four stages of moussaka. And it's not even its final form!
A recipe using two different ovens and a pan may not have been a good idea in this heat but well now it's done. A final trip in the oven and I'll be good.
#food #cooking

Not just because I use claude all day to code (I resisted for over a year) but I do think the general vibe of "If I see someone who uses AI in 1 way I dislike I will invalidate everything they have ever done" will not get a very good outcome for anyone.

okay, #wanderer community. As far as I see, I can (bulk) import GPX files and via strava sync. All cool!
But the tracks are imported as tracks and not activities - okay.
Via the API this should be fixable in hindsight after an upload, shouldn't it? Like "add an activity for each uploaded track if there isn't an activity for the upload date"? Hasn't someone done …

from my link log —
New Ansible data validation module(s).
https://blog.ipspace.net/2021/03/ansible-validation.html
saved 2021-03-05 https://

New Ansible Data Validation Module(s) « ipSpace.net blog
A few months ago I described how you could use JSON Schema to validate your automation data models, host/group variable files, or even Ansible inventory file. I had to use a weird toolchain to get it done – either ansible-inventory to build a complete data model from various inventory sources, or yq to convert YAML to JSON… and just for the giggles jsonschema CLI command requires the JSON input to reside in a file, so you have to use a temporary file to get the job done.

The damage that #bigotry has done to both individuals and this country keeps showing up. Funny how the supposedly "libertarian" #FederalistSociety so happily supports #ReligiousBigotry

The trans CIA official ousted by Trump: ‘We’re a government crippled by its own decisions’
Julia Curlee, a former senior CIA officer, speaks on Trump administration’s purge of national security staff, attacks on DEI and failures in Iran war

The damage that #bigotry has done to both individuals and this country keeps showing up. Funny how the supposedly "libertarian" #FederalistSociety so happily supports #ReligiousBigotry

The trans CIA official ousted by Trump: ‘We’re a government crippled by its own decisions’
Julia Curlee, a former senior CIA officer, speaks on Trump administration’s purge of national security staff, attacks on DEI and failures in Iran war

“Untied States" [sic] is a good Freudian slip, these days.
https://gizmodo.com/a-feature-that-makes-your-phone-data-self-destruct-in-authorities-hands-may-soon-have-its-day-in-court-2000790831…

A Feature That Makes Your Phone Data Self-Destruct in Authorities’ Hands May Soon Have Its Day in Court
The defendant, an Atlanta area activist, denies having done it. But is it even illegal?

One area where SwiftTerm (and my apps based on it) always lacked was the IO handling.
Plus, I had a very primitive understanding of processing cost, figured “read/parse on the main thread, draw on a timer” which was ok-ish.
But Ghostty’s IO model,
recent explanations and discoveries from Mitchell Hashimoto are outstanding.
I am almost done incorporating them.

Esta é ótima para encerrar o dia:
♫"Come by the hills to the land where legend remains
Where stories of old stir the heart and may yet come again
Where the past has been lost and the future is still to be won
And cares of tomorrow must wait till the day is done."♫
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H89Exiidw…

I highly recommend Saturnata Modular's YouTube channel and Patreon. Satrunata makes fantastic YouTube videos with VCVRack. The Patreon has more and explains
how they are done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_arkoaY9Iw

The thing I hate about working in the #JavaScript space is bit-rot. My #ClojureScript swinging needle meter demo, written in 2017, still works, but I can no longer compile it from source.
Probably this won't take too long to fix, but it is work which should not have to be done.
…

Speaker Johnson says Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety and AI companies should take responsibility to ensure the safety of their products (Donica Phifer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/13/ai-safety-congress-law-mike-johnson

Johnson calls for AI solutions but says Congress won't take the lead
We have to "resist Congress jumping in and imposing some sort of emergency moratorium. It's got to be done right," Johnson said.

Cabo Verde Airlines has done a fine job repainting its tailplane to feature the Cabo Verde football team! Spotted yesterday in Providence airport. The body text reads "Cabo Verde na copa" (Cape Verde in the World Cup).

Just back from traveling in Scotland for a couple of weeks, and this time I went without a computer - Just Lightroom Mobile on iPad. I encountered a bunch of caveats and ended up writing this guide at Framespotting for people who want to try the same - you'll want to plan and practice to make this work well! Sorry about the dorky Gemini illustration.

On the Road with Lightroom and iPad
Want to travel with just Lightroom Mobile on iPad, and no computer? It can be done but there are caveats! Here's everything I learned about making the process as smooth as possible.

Jerry Jones Dropped Massive Hint Before Next Cowboys Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jerry-jones-dropped-massive-hint-cowboys-game/

Logged in to Twitter to retrieve these worthy images from a poster session long ago:
#teleportation #commute #biking

With all the suspicion going on for weeks,
if McConnell had the ability to call in to Fox News and talk for 5 minutes
he would have done so.
Which means he cannot do so.
Why not ask Beshear or Schumer to come say hi?
I call BS.
He’s on a ventilator or deceased.
-- @wolfeman44
https://…

Michael Wolfe (@wolfeman44.bsky.social)
With all the suspicion going on for weeks, if McConnell had the ability to call in to Fox News and talk for 5 minutes he would have done so. Which means he cannot do so. Why not ask Beshear or Schumer to come say hi? I call BS. He’s on a ventilator or deceased.

What advice would you give to a perfectionnist with tendancy to procrastination to actually get things done? 👀
(Especially interested in tried and tested tips)
Feel free to boost around!
#Perfectionism #Procrastination

Love to hear percussion :-)
https://musician.social/@soulexpress/117091777830745527

I'm watching Adolescence 1x01 "Episode 1" #Adolescence

Episode 1
Police break down the door of the Millers' family home. Teenage Jamie is arrested and taken in for questioning but insists he's done nothing wrong.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Emily Nenni:
🎵 What Have I Done Wrong
#EmilyNenni
https://emilynenni.bandcamp.com/track/what-have-i-done-wrong
https://open.spotify.com/track/4XPNKwVQ7UUdjrX303a09G

@… I did two small home chores (A binding door and a cooktop that needed cleaning) today that I haven’t done for weeks.
Thanks to you!

https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@wrog/116755896874528089
stupid version was 60 lines
30 days later, the insane version is ~900 lines of m4 = 2000 lines of shell script (after m4sh has done its bulletproofing)...
...not counting 600 lines of "semi-literate…

Next time answer is no we will not treat this like a regular release when it is an emergency release. Program fixes should be treated as an emergency fix, not a full-blown production release. There is a documented process for this, but I guess it is for 'political reasons' not to go that route.
Also, I will refuse to have an emergency release done on the same day as a production/UA release. Stress levels are climbing.

Haven't been able to do as many movies lately but I've done a few, enough for a #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday this week. Worldbreaker I saw a week or two ago, it got criticism but it wasn't bad. Little Brother was hilarious, and I'm now over half done with Evil Dead Burn, I'v…

#Flock - the continuing saga highlighting the real perils of a #SurveillanceState. The fact that you haven't done anything illegal? Well, you irritated a friend of a (Select one: LEO, FlockTechnician, DA Office investigator, some random person who has hacking skills)
San Jose officer fir…

San Jose officer fired for misusing Flock camera database in domestic abuse case
Police officer shared location of a woman with his relative who is accused of abusing woman

#Flock - the continuing saga highlighting the real perils of a #SurveillanceState. The fact that you haven't done anything illegal? Well, you irritated a friend of a (Select one: LEO, FlockTechnician, DA Office investigator, some random person who has hacking skills)
San Jose officer fir…

San Jose officer fired for misusing Flock camera database in domestic abuse case
Police officer shared location of a woman with his relative who is accused of abusing woman

Ukraine update from Dylan Combelick: confronting ignorance with truth and receipts.
Share the friend link and make MAGA cry: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-august-13-94c354ca9f2d?sk=e8d8d905962ef9134d14b0c4c8…

Ukraine Update August 13
2026 — China Shows Russia How It's Done — We’re Really Sh-ing Ourselves

Cowboys Pressed to Jump at $20 Million Trade Option https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-pressed-kristian-fulton-trade-option/

"If you want what I owe you, you're going to have to sue me."
"John Baron calling on behalf of Mr. Trump."
"Thank you for your attention to this matter."
And all the blatant lies. Yes, he did everything he's done as President, back when he was in the USFL.

▶️ One Man’s Ego vs. the NFL: Donald #Trump and the demise of the

Shit - could have done without that alert just when I am rebooting my Mac because something in't working right!
Well it works!
#ukalert

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman has argued that Congress
“should do a little more” to help wealthy Americans.
The six-term congressman, 71, a Donald Trump loyalist,
spoke up for neglected U.S. elites Thursday during a panel discussion on the economy in Troy, Michigan, with that state’s GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. John James, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and other officials.
As the conversation pivoted to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, passed in J…

House Republican says Congress ‘should do a little more’ for the rich
Wisconsin’s Glenn Grothman, up for re-election in November, says he believes more should be done to support America’s wealthiest citizens

[OT] (LinkedIn) I'm completely done with LLMs in the enterprise #AI…

I’m completely done with LLMs in the enterprise
Step 39 of a 40 step workflow My writing is not for everyone. I am not going for major views and clickthroughs because I’m writing about running agentic AI at scale, for people running agentic AI at scale, or trying to anyway.

More `zig` fun: more modules, more problems...however, after some banging my head against a wall I've started getting data broken out from the MBR structure into the relevant parts. Lots of allocator calls, had to add a `deinit` to the struct to ensure that there weren't any leaks...overall it gets the job done even if it looks more complicated than it needs to be. I'm officially at the "know enough to be slightly dangerous".

@… Ok, I know the bug and we fixed it within 24 hours, so you probably did not need to do any of that FWIW. 😉
Also, just so you are aware /opt/vivaldi/update-widevine has not existed since 2021, so your rm command would not have done anything to that.
Also If you ever want to disable the update-ffmpeg from being called on startup for some reason (like this) just …

"Conversations became focused on how to integrate AI into the software that the customers used. I was watching it spread like a virus throughout that organization, while I continued programming away as I had for the decades before, writing tests and building features, and largely enjoying the work.
...
I didn't, and I still don't, see the need for working faster. I really like what Cal Newport encourages in his book Slow Productivity: work at a natural pace."

I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

lol @ gruber forgetting rule number one:
if you want it done right, do it yourself.
(thread is more eloquent than i am, addresses the text, &c.) https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/117111278095986201

✅ Weekly errands done (our trailer was quite packed this time)
✅ Physical exercise after an office day
✅ Avoided afterwork traffic jams
✅ Fresh air
✅ Saved fuel / car cost
✅ Got some Interested looks from ppl around 😀
If you wonder if buying such a trailer pays off. I would say: absolutely!
Especially the exercise is priceless!
#cycling

Well apparently "[Burnham] added that in the 'longer term' the government would look at potentially banning the single-use grills during summer months."
Obviously nothing can be done about it while Parliament is on holiday.
In previously administrations announcing a Minister for Drought seemed be the answer...

"David Rothkopf wrote: 'The man who cowered hiding from the Iranians in a catering truck and who has personally done more to increase Iran’s strategic influence than anyone in its own government ever has, is now blathering nonsense via social media. The world sees him more as an impotent fool today than ever before.'"
htt…

August 12, 2026
In Minnesota yesterday, close Trump ally Mike Lindell, the former chief executive officer of MyPillow, lost the Republican primary for governor to Republican state house speaker Lisa Demuth.

@… David Allen's "Getting Things Done" is helpful in this regard:
1) if it can be done in 2 minutes, just do it
2) If not, record it in a system you trust, and that you review regularly
The idea is that tabs, unrecorded tasks and so on are "open loops" that clutter your mind's limited short-term memory and cause lossage a…

Ooh, that's getting there.... This is a BBC B captured with the RGB wired directly to a PICO GPIO and advertising USB video; now hmm, wtf is it backwards. (It's yellow because I ahem need to put the blue pin in the right place). I've not properly done sync yet and it's not bad!

Cowboys Targeting Former First-Round CB After Von Miller News https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dallas-cowboys-adoree-jackson-von-miller/

The Trump administration is preparing to send a U.S. taxpayer-funded,
$3 billion package of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel,
the biggest transfer of such weapons in recent years
despite the administration’s supposed commitment to maintaining ceasefire agreements across several of Israel’s war fronts.
The package includes 60,000 bombs, split between
MK-84s, BLU-117s, and I-2000 “bunker buster” weapons.
The transfer is being done through the Foreign Military Fina…

Report: Trump Transferring $3B Worth of Bombs to Israel, Funded by US Taxpayers
The administration has also notified Congress of a $5 billion sale of bombs to Saudi Arabia.

How US federal AI policy has gone from implausibly libertarian to increasingly draconian and opaque, and how to fix it, including using independent auditors (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)
https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/what-should-be-done

What Should Be Done
How to get past improvised model licensing

#ScribesAndMakers 13/08: Our next featured creator turned a short story into a novel. Have you ever done that, or the reverse?
I have, yes. It's a more than usually unpublishable novel, and it's of uneven quality, but I like it. It started off with someone else's short story that I really didn't like; I rewrote the plot of it as a short story of my own which I thoug…

from my link log —
New Ansible data validation module(s).
https://blog.ipspace.net/2021/03/ansible-validation.html
saved 2021-03-05 https://

New Ansible Data Validation Module(s) « ipSpace.net blog
A few months ago I described how you could use JSON Schema to validate your automation data models, host/group variable files, or even Ansible inventory file. I had to use a weird toolchain to get it done – either ansible-inventory to build a complete data model from various inventory sources, or yq to convert YAML to JSON… and just for the giggles jsonschema CLI command requires the JSON input to reside in a file, so you have to use a temporary file to get the job done.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jorja Smith:
🎵 What’s Done Is Done
#JorjaSmith
https://open.spotify.com/track/5W1gRMS6kU0AVzcQSobcD1

Amazon found a way to not be held accountable for any terrible thing they've done to you.
Making sure that a judge or a jury of your peers won't enter into it seems like a ploy by a company about to really screw us
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2

Giants HC John Harbaugh: Odell Beckham has done enough to make 'an NFL roster' https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-hc-john-harbaugh-odell-beckham-has-done-enough-to-make-an-nfl-roster

Sundar Pichai says Gemini has hit 1B MAUs, the company's fastest-growing product ever and its 14th product to hit the 1B-user mark (Sundar Pichai/@sundarpichai)
https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2087222656819241292

Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) on X
1B+ people are now using @Geminiapp every month to spark new ideas and get things done. It’s our fastest growing product ever, and our 14th to hit the 1B-user mark. Kudos to @JoshWoodward & the entire Gemini team, and thank you to everyone who has been on this journey with us -

America was never meant to be a place where a president brags about helping “his” states and punishing the ones that didn’t vote for him.
Yet Donald Trump has done exactly that
— loudly, proudly, and repeatedly.
And if you want proof that the Electoral College has twisted our politics into a tribal map of red vs. blue,
you don’t need a political science textbook.
You just need to listen to Trump’s own words.
Because when a president starts treating dis…

Well, my years-long streak of 100% BGA yield wasn't going to last forever. It looks like I had two pins on the STM32H7 fail open on one of the scope demo boards I made last weekend, perhaps due to insufficient flux, too rapid a thermal ramp, or not enough time above liquidus.
Easily fixed by squirting a bit of flux under the chip and running a second oven cycle (although I then had to swap a few non-reflowable pin headers that I had put on thinking I was done with high-temp process…

This remarkable essay documents the direct personal responsibility of Steve Baker, Sajid Javid, and Rishi Sunak for the global financial crash of 2008. Of course, they all personally profited hugely from it.
Baker, of course, was later the architect of the hard Brexit deal.
If we had sent them all to prison, as any rational state would have done, #Brexit would probably never have happen…

The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain
The absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Thee Sacred Souls:
🎵 Easier Said Than Done
#TheeSacredSouls
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With deal done, Lions' Gibbs moves focus to field https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49554890/lions-gibbs-relieved-deal-done-moves-focus-field

“Christian Castro, of…[ICE]…was taken into custody 11 days after Minneapolis prosecutors charged him w/assault & falsely reporting a crime in…Jan. 14 nonfatal shooting…”
DHS OIG “…said its agents were not involved in or present for Castro’s apprehension, denying the [Minneapolis prosecutor]’s claims…” because DHS Inspector General wanted to be crystal clear: they’ve done nothing in 6 months to generally inspect accusations of their officer’s illegal behavior.

ICE officer Christian Castro is arrested in Texas over Minneapolis immigration crackdown shooting
A federal immigration agent wanted in the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s Minnesota crackdown has been arrested in Texas. Authorities say Christian Castro, of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, was taken into custody on Friday, 11 days after Minneapolis prosecutors charged him with assault and falsely reporting a crime in the Jan. 14 nonfatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said it located the 52-yea…

It wouldn't shock me IF ... for NFL Week 1: Tua one-and-done as QB1, Patrick Mahomes under siege on 'MNF'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/it-wouldnt-shock-me-if-for-nfl-week-1/

Sensing political danger,
Trump wrapped up the novel two-day event in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday
with a pitch that critics are likely to say smacked of desperation:
“You gotta do me the biggest favour you’ve ever done me.
You’ve gotta do this for me.
You’ve got to pretend I’m on the ticket.
I’m on the ticket! I’m on the ticket! He’s on the ticket!
Pretend I’m on the ticket because this is going to turn out to be one of the most important elections.”

‘I’m on the ticket’: Trump implores Republicans to vote in November at unusual midterm convention
The president demonised Democrats in an attempt to wangle votes in midterms despite backlash over Iran war

“He’s been there, done that, seen it all,” Bryan Lee, his spokesman, said.
That is to say, he was jaded.
Yet there is jaded, and then there is a man of means willing to empty his wallet for the momentary thrill of dousing hundreds of strangers with expensive wine.
The final cost for the liquid alone
(125 bottles of Perrier Jouet Grand Brut,
50 bottles of Dom Pérignon Brut Luminus
and five bottles of Dos Hombres Blanco tequila)
amounted to $226,000 an…

She Makes the Impossible Happen for Her Ultrarich Clients
Olivia Ferney grew up a child of schoolteachers in Ontario. Now she’s an expert in private jets, luxury cabanas and champagne-soaked revels.

JD Vance just used Charlie Kirk as his vehicle to implore voters who may disagree with Trump administration policies not to abandon the party in key congressional races this November.
“Charlie hated war. That was his view. Now, of course, there are people who love what we’ve done and people who don’t,” Vance said, referring to the ongoing conflict in Iran that has caused prices across the country to spike.
(while passing over the bigotry, corrupt self-dealing, extra judicial murd…

Trump doubles down on pledge of $5,000 payments if his party retains control of Congress on second night of convention – as it happened
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This week, Reform UK leader Nigel Forage set out his plans
to resign as the MP for Clacton and stand again for his seat,
following a scandal over undeclared gifts, including £5m from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne,
which is being investigated by the parliamentary standards commissioner.
His intention, he has said, is to be judged by his constituents rather than “the establishment”,
arguing that he has done no wrong and that the probe is a “p…

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