All European leaders will praise Trump tomorrow but that is all theater. Inside, with doors closed all those European leaders will be much harder to bully then Zelensky alone.
#geopolitics #trump #zelensky
"What @Sec_Noem isn't telling you is that this guy in the video is a U.S. citizen named Joe Botello. They smashed in the doors, dragged him and his roommates out in handcuffs, then posted a video online suggesting he was a criminal"
'OMG!' Expert torches DHS for trashing innocent US citizen as 'criminal illegal alien' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/dhs-raid/
Remember how in the old days social media involved taking a girl into a Telephone booth and getting all jiggy late at night,
Good way to clone humans..
#socialMedia
This ferry was designed for cars, not SUVs.
Doors close, doors open. Companies are needing to hire folks to fix their vibed code. If you thought debugging your own code was a drag, just wait. https://boingboing.net/2025/09/11/humans-fixing-bad-vibe-code-for-good-money.html
I am very happy to announce that our big architecture paper for the Digidow project on distributed digital identity systems with biometric authentication for physical interaction is now online on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10185.
While it can't have all the details, it summarizes the main de…
Other than the obvious, some of the more annoying things about a hip replacement are that I won't be able to go to AlvegoRoot's play for Doors Open or the return of Nuit Blanche this weekend.
Ceist agus Craic for Catherine!
Table Quiz this Wed Sept 17th at Massimo Bar Galway, doors at 7pm
€10 per person.
All funds raised will go directly to the Catherine Connolly TD Presidential Campaign.
Link to register - bígí linn!
https://shorturl.at/VOItx
An Architecture for Distributed Digital Identities in the Physical World
Ren\'e Mayrhofer, Michael Roland, Tobias H\"oller, Philipp Hofer, Mario Lins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10185
Curtain rod pulling off the wall seems to suggest that I should hang my headphones elsewhere.
Well, the doors to the cat litter box room are always open, so I suppose they will suffice for now.
After having looked at eIDAS and the dutch implementation of digital identity, it is very interesting to read this paper, a proposal that tries to improve on various aspects from eiDAS.
"An Architecture for Distributed Digital Identities in the Physical World"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10185
Ceist agus Craic for Catherine!
Table Quiz this Wed Sept 17th at Massimo Bar Galway, doors at 7pm
€10 per person.
All funds raised will go directly to the Catherine Connolly TD Presidential Campaign.
Link to register - bígí linn!
https://shorturl.at/VOItx
It looks like the details for this year's Doors Open Milwaukee are available.
"Historic Milwaukee members can purchase tickets beginning September 3. Tickets are available to the general public beginning September 10."
#Milwaukee #MKE #DoorsOpen
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
AVON: We'll need to blast the door. That will alert the guards before we've even started.
VILA: [To Avon] Listen fingers, computers are yours, doors are mine. Right?
BLAKE: You can open it?
htt…
@… Just curious: Does 4.4 create any work or open any doors for Phanpy?
Behind Closed Doors
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
"But to me the most extraordinary thing about it is that body. The entire back of the car from the front of the doors rearward including the roof is a single piece of carbon because, as Mallock puts it, ‘I hate shut lines’. It is a vast work of art yet weighs just 19kg.
‘What if you damage it?’ I ask. ‘On balance it’s probably better if you don’t,’ he says."
via:
Should I break in? I mean I think this bicycle is being held against it's will and wants to taste the open road.
How does this car pass a safety inspection? I mean, maybe the no-doors thing is ok, but no wing mirrors?
The #Chicago Tribune Tower 100 year anniversary. Excerpt from Sunday's Tribune story.
more #sliceoflife while I develop my good photos... A side view of my fabulous 1979 Thunderbird which is already a celebrity at our gas station even if it can't win a drag race against our Honda Fit
#photo
Apache Solr 9.8 introduces the LLM module, opening the doors to end-to-end natural language query support through vector-backed semantic search (K Nearest Neighbors). At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Alessandro Benedetti discussed the open-source contributions from both an indexing and query perspective, as well as what's next for Solr in terms of Large Language Model integration.
Watch the full session here:
27°C (80°F) today, the warmest I've seen it in Ireland. The house remained at 18°C (64°F) downstairs with the doors open and obviously without air conditioning. Something to be said for a metre of stone on each side.
Russ & Daughters which has been on New York's Lower East Side for 114 years is about the size of a subway car.
"Russ & Daughters for me was a literal mom and pop. Because it was my mom and pop," says Niki Russ Federman,
who is a fourth generation co-owner of the family business.
"As a kid, I would wait at the doors for the produce delivery guys to come, and they would wheel in with their handcarts. They had sacks, 50 pound sacks of onions, carrots…
China's World AI Conference struck a stark contrast to Trump's America-first, regulation-light vision, focusing instead on global cooperation for AI safety (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-artificial-intelligence-policy-laws-race/
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Welp, that’s a first: I had to actually break the glass in case of fire.
This evening, I used a fire extinguisher on a brush fire that had started near a house just three doors down from our beach rental. The owners weren’t home, and if it hadn’t been stopped, it easily could’ve taken the house with it.
Neighbors came running, the kids were thrilled by the whole thing, and I’m still kind of buzzing.
@… @… Oh, nice. I use Hover and am quite happy with them, but I’m playing with the idea of moving away from a US-based company and to a Swiss or EU one. (I like the idea of being able to go and bang on the doors of a place in Zürich if someth…
On The Road - Train to Xi’An 🚞
在路上 - 去西安的火车 🚞
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
When women on the train are talking about their children staying up late, then themselves having to get up, turn the lights off and lock the doors behind them, and you're realize you're in the same situation… except, in your case it's the parents staying up late.
Clearly we need the police or ice to be at the doors of schools to summarily execute by gunshot the kids as they arrive to school the first day of the school year. This denies school shooters targets and satiates the police for at least five minutes. It is win-win.
Additionally, think of what we’ll save in school expenses for every subsequent year of school. This really is a no brainer. No common sense gun control laws needed.
/s
“You just don’t go knocking on people’s doors,” one neighbor said.
Gun nuts peddling the fantasy of "protecting your home" have made this country a hellscape. No kid should be shot for ringing a doorbell.
https://www.khou.com/artic…
Open the pod bay doors, please HAL
As ever, white guy = "troubled mentally ill loner." And not, as this fuck was, an open Nazi.
THIS CHILD WAS MURDERED BY A WHITE SUPREMACIST.
If he'd been brown, the police have kicked in the doors of anyone he vaguely knew.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyrg6
I recently briefly heard about the Indian rural telephone exchanges (RAX), which appear to go back all the way to electromechanical switches. They (C-DOT) even built a V5.2 Access Network called AN-RAX. Started to collect some documents at https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetwork…
The Ports of New York Winery looks like it was part of the set for a cowboy movie
#photo #photography #buildings #ithaca
Text-to-Layout: A Generative Workflow for Drafting Architectural Floor Plans Using LLMs
Jayakrishna Duggempudi, Lu Gao, Ahmed Senouci, Zhe Han, Yunpeng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00543
Took the new #nightjet yesterday from Vienna > Amersfoort. Very new train, but still with a number of teething issues. An on-board technician tried to solve e.g. sliding doors that wouldn’t open. Some problems couldn’t be fixed (one cabin’s keycard didn’t work, person was moved to a free cabin, my neighbour’s cabin wouldn’t properly lock).
Huge delay (170 minutes) - that I partly expect…
Tech companies think that, if they make products *look* futuristic, you will think that they are actually innovating. In reality what we get is not "Star Trek communicators inspired cell phones" but "every experience with your computer is going to be like begging HAL to open the pod bay doors" except less evil and more frustrating.
Wednesday’s discovery exposes a key weakness of the public key infrastructure that’s responsible for ensuring trust of the entire Internet.
Despite being the only thing ensuring that gmail.com, bankofamerica.com or any other website is controlled by the entity claiming ownership,
the entire system can collapse with a single point of failure.
The Certificate Authority ecosystem is a castle with many doors:
the failure of one CA can cause the security of the whole cast…
"Objective-C is a West Coast language. Objective-C is a hippie. You throw stuff at it and it just trusts you. “Peace maaaaaannn… if you say this is an NSArray I believe you…” and it leans back in its armchair, smoking weed, listening to Marley, Floyd, Doors, or Janis, looking at you with deep eyes, telling you stories about Buddhism and how important is ecology, and that tonight they are going to a retreat in the beach to pray for Yemanjš and the salvation of dolphins."
Totally normal night:
1. Scratching the cat.
2. The first continuous sleep, ending with a #nightmare. I've dreamt that my first return train was delayed, and I'm likely to be stuck in Głogów. On top of that, the train looked looked like a nightmare contraption, with a sequence of cubic compartments with no seats, and weirdly shaped holes in the walls instead of doors.
3. Toilet.
4. Checking blood sugar, just in case.
5. Looking for a spot in the bed that's free of sweat.
6. Scratching the cat.
7. A series of nightmares. The most interesting one was about getting up in the morning, in middle of a gale. The mains voltage was so low I couldn't turn the lights on, and instead of getting myself ready to go out, I was trying hard to measure it, helping myself with a flashlight.
My working theory is that these are side effects of my current medication. One week to go.
I had the BEST time recording with @catherine_ashton_critical of Critical Info this morning! (Not, I must say, in an Oodie but Remy needed a walk 😉 ) We talked about end of life doulas, advance planning, grief, inclusive death care, and why a pet's death can be just as devastating as a human's.
Catherine's work is extraordinary and high-calibre, I encourage you to follow her if you don't already.
What are your weekend plans??!
Family (well 3/4 of us) traveled to Staunton for the day for lunch, some wandering, and chiefly to see an adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” at the intimate Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA.
Fantastic performance. It’s a great story anyway, but this take on it added some humor. Never overdone, which is a difficult thing to do. Deserved standing ovation at the end. 👏
CM2LoD3: Reconstructing LoD3 Building Models Using Semantic Conflict Maps
Franz Hanke, Antonia Bieringer, Olaf Wysocki, Boris Jutzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15672 https://
OH GOD, THEY'RE ARMING THE DOORS
I KNEW THIS WAS AMERICAN AIRLINES, BUT I UNDERESTIMATED THE IMPLICATIONS
I really like this idea.
"Originally a faded turquoise, the bus is now vibrant orange with a cream-colored roof, the color scheme used by The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company. Its windows and doors have been repaired, with two awning-style service windows installed to give waitstaff easy access."
#Milwaukee #MCTS #Bus
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: Spread out and find the armoury. Jenna?
JENNA: What?
BLAKE: Let's find the computer room.
[Switch to Raiker and Artix]
RAIKER: All the doors are open!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/316 B7B2
Protect your privacy – Start now with Signal
Autocracies always implement broad surveillance methods in order to identify and punish resistance. Surveillance can take many forms including the capture of your social media posts and email, monitoring your connections to web sites, and preventing the use of private communications through encryption back-doors and other means.
Take action now to create ways to communicate privately with your family, friends and colleague…
Metal Polluted White Dwarfs with 21 {\mu}m IR excesses from JWST/MIRI: Planets or Dust?
John H. Debes, Sabrina Poulsen, Ashley Messier, Susan E. Mullally, Katherine Thibault, Lo\"ic Albert, Misty Cracraft, \'Erika Le Bourdais, Patrick Dufour, Tom Barclay, J. J. Hermes, Mukremin Kilic, David Lafreni\`ere, Fergal Mullally, William Reach, Elisa Quintana
Lately I've started being mischievous towards normals who have the perceptiveness of an average smartphone user.
When I'm in an Elf II from Koleje Wielkopolskie and I happen to be the first person at the doors, I push the door opening button early. Then I just stand there and wait for the doors to open, while people behind me start panicking that nobody's pushing the button.
Of course it's highlighted as already pressed the whole time.
#rail
Time-optimal Asynchronous Minimal Vertex Covering by Myopic Robots
Saswata Jana, Subhajit Pramanick, Adri Bhattacharya, Partha Sarathi Mandal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14247 ht…
Two videos have surfaced shedding light on what is happening behind closed doors at a New York federal building -- where people are being confined after being seized by officers on their way out of immigration court on the 12th floor, with the footage offering a rare look inside a controversial and closely guarded space that is part of Donald Trump’s anti-immigration crackdown.
The filming, shared by the New York Immigration Coalition(NYIC), captures one of several rooms at 26 Federal …
Thanks to noise reduction I got this shot of a hyperactive cat cooped up in a dark basement
#caturday #cats #photo #photography
Underground ⤵️
地下 ⤵️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ERA 100, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
Take the right seat on the train, and you have two jobs already:
1. Telling people that the toilet is occupied, because the lock isn't reliable.
2. Telling people that exterior doors are broken, because they don't see the warning pasted on the door.
#rail
Take action in your community to help save Medicaid.
If you’re in a swing district or state, use our simple Neighbor2Neighbor tool to get a list of like-minded neighbors,
knock on their doors and talk to them about stopping the monstrous GOP megabill:
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Urban Diaspora III 🎈
城市放逐 III 🎈
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
“What’s happening in NYC is a loud message to those in the Dem establishment who still cling to old politics, recite focus-grouped talking points, and are too afraid to say what needs to be said.” It was a campaign that triangulated ground game, digital style and policy substance. Mamdani was a shoe leather candidate who put himself all over the city, talked to countless voters, projected optimism without sounding preachy and had thousands of volunteers knocking on doors.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-election-democrats?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I was shocked to find a pickup truck parked in front of the new firehouse in Collegetown, I was hoping to get a picture of some smiling firefighters, but...
#photo #photography #ithaca
№ 2 Jaylon O'Neal of the Ithaca Bombers guards № 55 Aidan Rodgers of the Hobart William Smith Statemen at Ben Light Gymnasium on Jan 31, 2025
#photo #photography #sports
Interior of the fourth floor of the new CS building
#cornell #photo #photography #buildings
Workmen finishing the first floor of the new computer science building
#photo #photography #building #architecture