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Games Done Quick: Speedrunning-Event kommt zur Gamescom 2026
Bei „Games Done Quick“ nutzen Speedrunner jeden Trick, um Spiele so flott wie möglich durchzuspielen. Auf der Gamescom kann man dieses Jahr live zuschauen.

Games Done Quick: Speedrunning-Event kommt zur Gamescom 2026
Bei „Games Done Quick“ nutzen Speedrunner jeden Trick, um Spiele so flott wie möglich durchzuspielen. Auf der Gamescom kann man dieses Jahr live zuschauen.

Video: Go inside the Indianapolis restaurant where NFL deals get done https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7076065/2026/02/28/nfl-st-elmo-steak-house-video/

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/116482535505420647
Kudos for the incredible parody of Mastodon culture here, well done! Seemed almost plausible on first read.

I think a thing most people do not understand about chatbots is HOW SIMPLE THE UNDERLYING MODELS are.
It's really just statistics of how close words are to each other in a huge ass amount of written text, with a sprinkle of classification and labeling (done by humans).
And then it autocompletes your prompt. That's it, that's really all there is to it.

Three major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House.
An annual report from V-Dem, an institute at Sweden's University of Gothenburg, concluded democracy had deteriorated so much in the U.S. that it lowered the country's democracy ranking from 20th to 51st out of 179 countries.
The U.S. landed between Slovakia and Greece.
Meanwhile, Bright Line Watch, which surveys …

This is the first time I've done a grocery shop on an acoustic bike with the trailer on since before #Covid. Wish me luck getting back up the hill!
#BikeTooter

Took a look at the ngscopeclient "fall time" filter since it's the next in line alphabetically for some refactoring and decided hey, the inner loop is pretty simple let's try GPUing it.
But first I wanted to get a baseline run time for 50M points (790 ms).
Aaand found numerical stability issues. So I need to fix the algorithm before I optimize it.
This is why we use int64's for time values in all new code, not float32 or even (as done here) float64.

any other synonyms or are we done now
#Monsterdon

Along those lines, I'm gonna take my own advice and work on some writing. Just finished sewing my pants, gonna switch to writing after kids are in bed tomorrow.
I've been in a writing group and I got some great feedback on a couple of things I wrote. I'll probably re-publish with updates soon. Also gonna try to finish another project I've had in my head for a bit, we'll see how it goes.
Good luck to everyone, see you all when I'm done.

This Home Assistant thing is a real rabbit hole. I thought I'd just learn something like "a new Docker container", a couple of days of learning and I'd be done. My ass! HA is a freaking Swiss Army knife: I can automate even the damn toaster, and HA will help me create a new scene for it.
If you don't hear from me in the coming weeks, it's because there's no cell service at the bottom of the rabbit hole. Wish me good luck.

The interesting point to consider before buying any new stuff: how much PITA it would be to sell it away if I decide to move.
I feel I unlocked a superpower against impulsive buying and consumptionism in general, but whether it stays with me once I’m done moving is yet to be seen.

We saw the final performance of the 50th season of Opera Roanoke, the Sunday matinee showing of Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel”.
Well done, but I will confess that I don’t love through-composition as a style. Give me number opera with big standout arias.
Here’s to 50 more years of Opera Roanoke. 🥂🎭
https://

Ah previous me...I see you've decided to make this rewrite more difficult because you got _clever_ and I decided to keep backward compatibility. Thought that the `ffmpeg` module would be the biggest pain in the ass, but I was completely wrong. The `mkvmerge` part is coming along and I'm hoping to have it done today or tomorrow. Things progress.
#matroska

Me leaving work, knowing that that the work is not done, but they forced me into the office and I need to catch my bus:

RE: https://floss.social/@daz/116487055719336580
Software can sometimes just be done!

Thank you to @… for this review of 'Habitations'. 🙏 It's always interesting how people home in on (sorry - couldn’t resist, given the themes 😜) very different aspects of what you've done; here, I was surprised to read chaos in the album being emphasised. The line between friction and familiarity seems thinner the longer you sit with a sound.

Quotes from @… : “Plan the learning. Not the solution. Not less planning. Different planning.
The question isn’t “How do we plan less?”, but “What are we actually trying to plan?”
Plan the learning: decide upfront what you need to understand, how you’ll find out, and what you’ll do with what you discover.”
—
We’ve been doing Q2 planning, and folks want estimates on when projects can be completed while we don’t even know yet what our options might be, let alone what an appropriate solution is.
I’ve been trying to focus on what to do next that will move us forward, and only give estimates for that.
But I can only estimate what I’ve done before, or can abstract from previous similar activities. Doing work breakdowns for very near horizons helps, but that develops over time. I can’t estimate past what’s visible to me now.
https://medium.com/thrivve-partners/you-cant-plan-your-way-to-discovery-0798f2797852

California AG Rob Bonta says Paramount-WBD "is not a done deal" as CA DOJ "has an open investigation" and the companies haven't "cleared regulatory scrutiny" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.holl…

California Attorney General Plants Flag on Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: “Not a Done Deal”
If the Justice Department and foreign regulators approves the deal, it'll be up to state attorneys general to challenge the merger.

Me: I really need to launch the things I’m building with Kitten¹ this year.
Also me: You know what would be sweet? If I added an introspection API to make working with the Kitten Shell (REPL)² easier.
(It is going to be sweet though. Prototyping it in the REPL now and I’ll record a little demo when I’m done and it’s released. It’s going to make examining and affecting the state of the client from the server interactively even easier.)
¹

I realized I never showed my office on the Fediverse. I get much more work done than with all the distractions at home. (Also, yes, that is a Mac Mini running Ubuntu.)

3 burning questions hanging over Cowboys as offseason workouts begin https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/29/cowboys-offseason-workouts-three-questions/89836521007/

Even if ICE CBP presence in the Twin Cities goes back to pre-Dec levels (which to be clear it •has not• yet done), we will be living with this for a long time. The world will be moving on, the national press will forget about us no doubt, but we’ll be living with this.
Nobody here thinks we’re done. But a lot of us are cautiously hopeful that we are now entering a time where this is some room for repairing and rebuilding.
Cautiously hopeful. But vigilant.
/end

I feel like—from all sides—this case is The Big Moment for SCOTUS.
Have they completely abdicated or is there any semblance of separation of powers and rule of law?
If they side with Trump it feels like a death knell of sorts.
... If we aren’t there already.
-- Kendyl Hanks
https://

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
NEW: The birthright citizenship arguments will show what Donald Trump has done to the United States. Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship is at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The case will test his anti-immigrant authoritarian project — and the court. Today, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/birthright-citizenship-arguments-preview

Justice was not done here.
"Federal prosecutors accused Mr. Jaynes and Mr. Meany of falsifying records to make it appear as if Ms. Taylor had a connection to criminal activity, charges that might have resulted in a lengthy prison sentence. Neither was present at the shooting. No drugs were found in the no-knock raid on Ms. Taylor’s home."
Judge Agrees to Drop Charges Against Officers in Breonna Taylor’s Death - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/politics/judge-agrees-to-drop-charges-against-officers-in-breonna-taylors-death.html

I have no doubt the US can do several rounds of strikes and probably/hopefully Iran can't do anything meaningful striking back. But if the strikes are done, what's next... Hoping Iranian protestors take over government?
#iran #usa

3 Moves Las Vegas Raiders Could Make Post-Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-3-moves-could-make-post-draft

'Not a done deal': Johnson stays mum as House GOP steams over DHS deal (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/27/congress/mike-johnson-dhs-funding-backlash-00848022
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p74#a260327p74

Well done, San Diego.
Join the resistance on March 28th.
#resist #nokings

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/116303595184912272
He was so eager to become like his idol Vladimir. Now he is stuck in an endless senseless war aswell. Well done Dumbald. 🤡

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/116299916004934596
There is a much simpler solution: the US and Israel should cease their attacks on Iran and offer payment for the damages done in exchange for an open Strait.
The rest of the world should demand th…

Big Tech Should Pay for What It Has Done to Us
"The truth is, it’s hard for profit-motivated companies to decide to make less money. So we can raise the cost of bad behavior. It worked with smoking. You can still smoke, but it could cost $15 a pack and you often can’t find a place where it’s allowed these days."

Opinion | Big Tech Should Pay for What It Has Done to Us
We are beginning an era where the social-media companies are finally held accountable for their harm.

I'm going to have to disagree. You should know not to get "smart" appliances at this point. Your fridge with a touch screen is going to show you ads, your vacuum with 'smart' features is going to stop working when the company shuts off its servers, and your wifi-enabled oven is going to do abusive stuff if you put it online. Which this genius did.

Scilla forbesii and Anemone nemorosa is currently trying to take over the garden.
Lawn mower stays put until they're done.
I'd rather have tall grass, lots of flowers, and happy bees than a trimmed lawn, no flowers, and hungry bees.

Okay, RPM Challenge is done. I made a terrible album aptly titled "Space Farts" which you probably do not want to listen to.
I made it for me, so if anyone else listens, cool... and if not, that's okay too.
https://peteprodoehl.bandcamp.com/album/space-farts

Even forgotten, good work lasts forever
“Creating, yet not possessing, Working, yet not taking credit.
Work is done, then forgotten. Therefore it lasts forever.” Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching verse 2 https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-

Joey Aguilar shifts focus to NFL, done pursuing eligibility case for seventh college season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7075919/2026/02/27/joey-aguilar-tennessee-ncaa-eligibility-nfl/

This is how my weekends usually go:
- Get the laundry done
- Get the dishes done
- Get the dogs to the dog wash
- Get the groceries done for the week
- Do something that brings you joy
I'm always surprised when I get to that fifth item successfully.

Overheard at the office: "I'm overwhelmed. They want ETA to completion to share with stakeholders on my next project, when I haven't even started it, and my current project has taken longer than expected. Meanwhile I'm being asked to sign off on something that I don't' think was done correctly. Retirement is looking good."
#OfficeWorkerGripes

Whoa, what has the #Kreutz comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) done now?!? Photometry from images by the outer corona observing satellite constellation PUNCH - by Thomas Lehmann; https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/35106 - shows a sudden increase in coma brightness ... whatever that means for the apparently quite fragile nucleus. PUNCH can follow the comet closer to the Sun than ground-based observers who will lose sight by month's end.

Since I am now kinda through with the "#gender" erasure process, I've done a writeup on it and created a repo - would be glad if other people could share how it works for their country:
https://codeberg.org/qaf/gem
Feedback is very welcome, should any of the wording offend you.

gem
Gender Erasure Movement

I wanted to quickly make a printable inventory sheet, so I started messing around in Canva to see what I could make in there. But everything in there was so complex, over-done, way more that what I needed.
So I went and just did a search for 'product inventory sheet' or something, found a good looking one that a site had, opened the .jpg of the small preview in the browser, increased it to 200%, ditched the margins, printed to PDF, and I have a great looking, CLEAN, simple inve…

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@TransitionShow/116290798322955589
Major media coverage of the enormous damage that's been done to the Gulf oil & gas infrastructure is still way behind the reality, ever distracted by Trump's efforts to jawbo…

Ow crap it's already done:

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

And at the top bit of it was the dado rail, a protrusion intended to stop chair backs damaging walls. https://noc.social/@todayilearned/116300222658624819

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL the lower part of the wall, when covered or decorated e.g. with wooden panels, is called dado. This used to be done to hide stains and mold resulting from damp walls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dado_(architecture) #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1s4ydy4/til_the_lower_part_of_the_wall_when_covered_or/

Welp, that was non-trivial, but I've just managed to upgrade one of my Peertube instances from 7.3.0 -> 8.0.2 (includes an upgrade from PostgreSQL 13 -> 17)! Very impressive bit of kit, this! Well done Framasoft and friends!

And we’re on! Welcome address done, and Anne Pasek kicks us off with a keynote on a world after the #AI bubble. @aepa@Aepasek@scholar.social 🏆
How to give justice to the material troubles that arise once data center infrastructure moves on? What do our fears & desires do?
We are given zines!!

Following NFL Draft, Raiders Look to Raise Roster Floor https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-following-nfl-draft-look-raise-roster-floor

'Not a done deal': California vows 'vigorous' review of Paramount-Warner Bros takeover (Coral Murphy Marcos/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/california-paramount-warner-bros
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p119#a260227p119

Signal is on my dads phone but he doesn't know it's on his phone and I can't find it on his phone. I'm stumped and confused. Play store says it's installed, but can't find it anywhere.
Apparently you can hide apps in Samsung's Android? No idea how to do so. Certainly nobody has done so on purpose. On finding the list of hidden apps I find unhiding them didn't even work.
Apparently you have to scroll down to a hidden 'done' button.

As a chemist, I've been impressed by the improvements in environmental quality and related health benefits, thanks in large part to the EPA's diligence.
That is changing for the much worse:
The Environmental Protection Agency’s core mission is to protect human health and the environment. But in just one year, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has done the complete opposite. He has carried out the wishes of polluters and unleashed a destructive and dangerous agenda that guts pro…

Enough is enough. EPA’s Zeldin must go.
Use your voice and tell this administration that we deserve better than poisoned air and water, more cancer and asthma, and worsening climate disasters. We expect our elected leaders to protect our health, communities, and planet.

As a chemist, I've been impressed by the improvements in environmental quality and related health benefits, thanks in large part to the EPA's diligence.
That is changing for the much worse:
The Environmental Protection Agency’s core mission is to protect human health and the environment. But in just one year, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has done the complete opposite. He has carried out the wishes of polluters and unleashed a destructive and dangerous agenda that guts pro…

Enough is enough. EPA’s Zeldin must go.
Use your voice and tell this administration that we deserve better than poisoned air and water, more cancer and asthma, and worsening climate disasters. We expect our elected leaders to protect our health, communities, and planet.

Time to kick back and relax a few hours. Upgrade done. Our sanity checks passed.
We were told it should all work and we don't need to do anything. Me when I see should? TEST and prove it.

"The AG alleges that the stores would raise the prices on items leading up to when they were announced for the sales, when a customers gets an addition item for free, and drop prices down when the sales were done."
Albertsons sued by WA Attorney General for alleged deceptive prices
https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2026/04/27/albertsons-safeway-sued-by-wa-attorney-general-for-alleged-deceptive-prices/89823299007/

Morning run is done ✅ (#running)
This lounge chair is, where you’ll finde me for the rest of the day.

love to run into ai slop when trying to block ai slop
what have they done to github

The Book Lives Three Times: How Seneca Got Reading Wrong by Getting It Right
You finish writing a book and the manuscript sits there, cooling on the screen like bread pulled from an oven. It is done. It is no longer yours. This is the part no one tells you about authorship: the moment the final sentence locks into place, the book begins its first death, because it has stopped being a living negotiation between you and the language and has become, instead, a fixed…

The Book Lives Three Times: How Seneca Got Reading Wrong by Getting It Right | David Boles, Blogs
You finish writing a book and the manuscript sits there, cooling on the screen like bread pulled from an oven. It is done. It is no longer yours. This is the part no one tells you about authorship:…

What's best
BEFORE
Take an hour to write a script, run it, take 5 minutes to validate the results. Done
NOW
Take 5 minutes to write a prompt, run it, take an hour to validate the results. Done.

Kind of intrigued by this.
https://www.subwoofer-builder.com/qrdude.htm
https://www.

Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools, including metered paywalls, letting creators host webinars for up to 10,000 people, AI analytics, and more (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/beehiiv-rolls-ou…

Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools, including webinars and customizable paywalls | TechCrunch
Beehiiv is clearly done being just a newsletter platform based on today's launch of a new webinar feature, customizable paywalls, and more.

Trying to decide if I should spend €150 on a used Pixel 8a 128GB to load GrapheneOS on, or just hope that the pressure campaign against Google succeeds and they back down. I can't really afford to lose access to all the activated apps on this 8a, and anyway I'll need a device with an attested OEM OS image around to participate in society after Ireland gets done ramming through British-style draconian Internet regulation and ID requirements.

I don’t care who says it happened, it’s LIBEL!
@… has never had a “list everything” event by choice. I have used their services since the beginning and I would have noticed.
No, I’m not going to point at the latest instance of that defamation. But wherever you see someone claiming that you can’t trust Spamhaus because of them having done that, kno…

OK so that's today's round of hardware maintenance done, box rebooted, and got all of my stuff set up about the way I left off.
And now I have the Xeon 4310 and 128GB of DDR4 3200 RDIMMs available.
Still pending:
* (blocked until new heatsink arrives) Swap VM server Xeon 5310 for the other 8362
* See if that lets me use the other 128GB of RAM on the VM server, if not troubleshoot further
* See if I can possibly squeeze another pcie passthrough GPU in the VM…

@… we’ve* all done this, I think
*I… I have done this: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight/issues/93

The offenses of Trump’s second-term cabinet members tend to be ones of loyalty or sycophancy,
rarely of independent thought.
Whatever damage the secretaries inflict on their country or their reputations is done on the president’s orders and on his behalf.
In Trump’s first term, sacrificing cabinet members meant firing them, or pushing them to resign.
In the second term, it means keeping them in the job for as long as those shields retain even marginal power.
Th…

Opinion | Trump’s Shields Are Down
Personnel once meant policy; now it means flattery.

With deal done, Aubrey’s goal: Make my next kick https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/with-deal-done-aubrey-s-goal-make-my-next-kick

Raiders' Biggest Remaining Needs After Draft—What’s Still Missing https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-biggest-remaining-needs-after-draft-what-still-missing

That doesn’t mean we’re done with them, not Minneapolis and not the rest of the county. It means they’re changing strategies.
What strategy? Probably something less visible, less likely to be filmed. (I’m worried about prisons, meat packing plants, farms, rural areas.) And probably something that doesn’t go into force until Congress caves and funds DHS.
Who knows what exactly. But there’s still a crap ton of ICE agents in MN — and just today, folks saw a mysterious military-looking caravan barreling across the city.
8/

Casey is really smart. And yeah, May 10th is major. #ticktock
▶️ Kawhi Leonard Is Done After This
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YbWR8W_32zE&si=8MBz9AJ0M828wCmx…

How does an NFL player decide to retire? 'I'm not done' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47985245/how-does-nfl-player-decide-retire-im-not-done-stories-second-chances

'Not a done deal': Democrats start to sweat over Virginia's redistricting referendum (Adam Edelman/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/not-done-deal-democrats-start-sweat-virginias-redistricting-referendum-rcna263726
http://www.memeorandum.com/260322/p14#a260322p14

"Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter prohibits states from using military force against the territorial integrity or political independence of another state, except in self-defence or with UN Security Council authorisation, a principle long understood as central to international order.
None of these legal thresholds were met in the case of the strikes on Iran."

Iran today, Africa tomorrow
What is being done to Iran today could be done to Africa tomorrow. Africa must reject this illegal war.

I convinced this rock to confess to the stoning of Moctezuma, something that it couldn't have done due to its location on the wrong continent.
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/23/chatgpt-ai-false-confession-interrogation-crime/

ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed
A renown criminologist’s experiment with ChatGPT demonstrates the destructive power of police to elicit false confessions.

Also, it is now officially TOO HOT to haul timber out of the wood. In April.
16.5°C at 55°N, 4°W #ClimateDiary
Mind you, I should have done this in January while the ground was hard and frosty, and I didn't, so my bad.

“We have done everything”: Ukraine’s EU membership talks expected to start in June, Zelenskyy says - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/26/ukraines-eu-membership-talks-expected-to-start-in-june-zelenskyy/

Ok, today is server upgrade day. I've already done updates on about a third of my VPSs. Then it's updates to 4 MailCows. I may be some time.

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@TransitionShow/116290798322955589
Want to understand how much damage has been done to the global oil & gas system and how it will affect you? Then check out our deep dive in this FREE episode!

With deal done, Aubrey’s goal: Make my next kick https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/with-deal-done-aubrey-s-goal-make-my-next-kick

I've mentioned it before, and I'm sure I will again, but, as much as there's a reason why I reject Christianity, there were also a lot of good things. Churches have governing bodies (with varying degrees of democratic representation) that guide the ministry (preaching and actions) as well as managing logistics (building maintenance, accounting, etc). This provides opportunities for self-governed collective action.
Quakers are the most radical in terms of this, and are basically anarchists. Quaker circles often meet at people's houses and can be as small as 3 people. There is often no leadership. A Quaker service could easily just be everyone sitting in a circle and someone talking at one point.
I grew up in a Presbyterian church, and one of my first jobs (at 11 or 12) was landscaping there. Within the church there were a lot of different trades, which meant that you could volunteer time and learn basically any kind of maintenance. Basically everything that needed to be done was done in-house. This also meant that if you needed a plumber, an electrician, etc, that you could pick one from within the church.
I remember painting the church, learning how to paint, with a bunch of other members of the congregation at a work party. I also remember being volunteered for child care during choir. There were a few rooms around that were used for different things, such as music practice. But these rooms could be made available for any type of community activity. This can actually include community organizing. In fact, Seattle GDC was offered an occasional space for organizing in a church (we didn't take it, but appreciated the offer), and that same church hosted a lot of other community events. I actually went to a queer relationships skills class once hosted in a church, which was great.
What I'm saying is that churches often act as a kind of parallel society up-to-and-including acting as dual power structures....

Progress! Sorted out a bunch of permissions issues and I'm now able to (over SSH) clone a template VM on the mac mini and launch it.
Now to set up a script to actually run the test suite.
I've written more bash than any other language the last week or so and I don't like it lol. But it had to be done...

How many times must I tell #microsoft no? I have said NO several times before and it is still NO!
After taxes are done I will upgrade this machine to #mxlinux

Trump wants to shutter FEMA.
Will Markwayne Mullin get it done?
The new Homeland Security chief has pledged to move on from the Kristi Noem era.
But as hurricane season looms, the disaster agency is still in disarray
https://grist.org/extreme-weather/mark

Trump wants to shutter FEMA. Will Markwayne Mullin get it done?
The new Homeland Security chief has pledged to move on from the Kristi Noem era. But as hurricane season looms, FEMA is still in disarray.

Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 and using Work IQ to ground actions in organizational data (Charles Lamanna/Microsoft 365 Blog)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-

Copilot Cowork: A new way of getting work done | Microsoft 365 Blog
Copilot Cowork turns intent into action across Microsoft 365—automating tasks, coordinating workflows, and keeping you in control. See how.

Fuck! The pain is so intense I had to go lie in bed with two heating pads. I was lying flat on my back trying to assemble USB controllers but I could only get a few done. 😩

Things have been a •lot• quieter in Minneapolis the last 5 days. There have been only a handful of kidnappings. (“Only a handful of kidnappings!” Words I can’t believe I’m actually saying….) Some days 1. Some days 0. (0 known, anyway.)
Things are •much• quieter. I am doing things I’ve been neglecting for weeks, months. I am posting about programming again.
And…not “but!”…and—
Nobody here, nobody, thinks we’re done with ICE and CBP.
1/

me: "hey [8yo] are you done wrapping the present?"
8yo: *dances around*
8yo: "mm"
me: "hey [8yo] are you done wrapping the present?"
14yo: "which stickers are mine?"
me: "hey [8yo] are you done wrapping the present?"
8yo: "Over here with mine. Don't touch mine, though."
me: "HEY [8yo] ARE YOU DONE WRAPPING THE PRESENT??"
8yo: *dances some more*
me: "Okay, I'…

Vibe coding provides a tantalizing answer in that situation: maybe it’s too varied to •abstract•, but not too varied to •plagiarize• and call it good.
This is something subtly different from abstraction. It’s not “do this in the standard way.” Instead, it’s “just rip off whatever other people are doing right now.”
A lot of people really want that — and tbh, a lot of them are not wrong to want it. I personally love the craft of programming, but let’s face it, a lot of software out there just needs to look like everything else and be done with it.

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

Iran said it is done dealing with the two emissaries Donald Trump has tasked with leading negotiations in the Middle East.
The country, which Trump began striking over three weeks ago, is not keen on any more attempts at negotiations with Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East,
Steve Witkoff, or Trump’s son-in-law,
Jared Kushner, both of whom were leading the nuclear negotiations with Iran before the war.
Iran now says it will only engage in negotiations with Vice Pr…

Iran Gives Trump an Ultimatum on JD Vance
Iranian officials are refusing to talk to Trump’s top negotiators.

NFL combine records: Who has fastest 40-yard dash in combine history? Who has done most bench press reps?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-combine-records-fastes…

We asked 2,300 Americans about the best and worst things Trump has done. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2026/trump-best-worst-poll-immigration/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p110#a260224p110

This cruelty is being done in our name.
Shame on this administration. Shame.
13,000 third country deportees so far.
Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier,
but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame. 13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

My 4yo is drawing Hatsune Miku (not my interpretation, she said it was miku)
What have we done?

How does an almost 85-year-old Bob Dylan navigate his days?

He does what he has always done:
He plays.
He hits the road.
He does not fill massive arenas like the Rolling Stones or Bruce Springsteen.
He has no Eagles-style residency at Las Vegas’s Sphere.
You will not see him in the Super Bowl halftime show.
Dylan plays in Dothan, Alabama;
in Tyler, Texas;
in Shakopee, Minnesota.
He plays the towns that make up the America he has been …

Bob Dylan will come to you
And you don't have to be rich or live in a big city to see him.