2026-02-25 18:35:59
Got spring crocuses if you want ’em: #Photography
Got spring crocuses if you want ’em: #Photography
Enjoying #RobbieBurns night
📍 Timbertrain Coffee Roasters - Depot
Cafe · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Boxing Week on sale coffee, and a little peaceful time with me and a cappuccino.
#BeaconBits https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/po…
The F Word – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/01/25/the-f-word-3/
Zooi ... Maar weer eens Kodi uit de kast gehaald in combinatie met deze app uit de F-droid collectie.
Werkt lekker makkelijk.
Gewoon 'delen naar...' en klaar.
(Na aapassen instellingen)
🙂🙂
PlayOnDlna
#Fdroid #PlayOnDlna #Kodi
A report from down in the photography trenches in Minneapolis: https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/6336791578/john-abernathy-pierre-lavie-protest-photographers-ice-minneapolis-thrown-leica
The FTC and FCC are engaging in a hostile takeover of the marketplace of ideas by treating editorial decisions as fraud and conditioning mergers on news content (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/opinion
Oh, das Filmarchiv hat gerade online Otto Schenks Verfilmung von Schnitzlers "Reigen" (1973) im Angebot. #film
https://www.filmarchiv.at/de/filmarchiv-on/video/f…
NDAWN, the #NorthDakota mesonet, shows temperatures from Minnesota across North Dakota into Montana from -29 F (-33 C) to relatively warm -10 F (-23 C) tonight.
I don’t regret my vote, based on my options during the election, but I am extremely disappointed in his policies. Likely killed my future Liberal votes.
Sure would love a strong NDP.
#CanPoli
https://mstdn.ca/@A…
Seahawks Outlast Rams in Thrilling N.F.C. Championship https://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/football/100000010668159/seahawks-outlast-rams-in-thrilling-nfc-championship.html
Trumpland Grades His Epstein Cover-Up an 'F-Minus' (Zeteo)
https://zeteo.com/p/trump-epstein-cover-up-f-minus
http://www.memeorandum.com/251223/p114#a251223p114
My semi-regular rant...
I have auto-play video turned off. Stop with the F*****G games with HTML5 and scripts to get around that. I have nuked sites that don't respect my wishes there. If I am interested in watching I will click play.
Stop doing those popups saying I have an ad blocker and you won't show your site unless I turn it off.
1. How do you know I am running a blocker unless you are running intrusive scripts?
2. F OFF I will ignore you and go e…
Amazon may be in fairly big legal trouble here: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-bu…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
RÜFÜS DU SOL:
🎵 Innerbloom
#NowPlaying #RÜFÜSDUSOL
https://relyve.bandcamp.com/track/relyve-vs-r-f-s-du-sol-innerbloom-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/77kMHM0D2MgGTjoL2308Lm
"S.F.’s Union Square comeback is taking shape — despite two major question marks"
Somehow neither of them is the complete lack of bike parking anywhere near the block-wide 7-story Macy's. Biking to and around Union Square sucks.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/…
TIL about a real thing called the Shai-Hulud Compromise; and all i can say is
These F'in People
https://www.wiz.io/blog/shai-hulud-2-0-ongoing-supply-chain-attack
Gregor Macdonald's “Cold Eye Earth” is an excellent big-picture newsletter on energy trends and why it’s so freaking difficult to reduce global emissions. There are grounds for optimism, but still… https://www.coldeye.earth?r=wabr
I am about to fly across the country in a bit, and I think I’m going to play Last Epoch the whole way.
It’s an Action RPG that has a fully offline mode. https://lastepoch.com
DIU fighters are advancing on the southern PLAZDRAM #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/26/diu-fighters-are-advancing-on.html
Four timesteps from the final 7 seconds before #Venus vanished behind a distant roof structure today: each image 1/3.2 second at f/2.8 and ISO 400 with maximum digital zoom yielding an equivalent focal length of abou 3 meters, pictures in full resolution and cropped, no further processing. The spectral #dispersion is clearly visible; unfortunately Venus 'hit' the structure from the side, so cutting off the red and leaving only the green/blue upper part as in #AtmosphericalOptics
Have you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1
Ogni vin fŠ alegria se'l se beve in conpagnia.
#veneto
Le F-35, le talon d’Achille des alliés face Š Trump:
"En cas de conflit au Groenland, les États-Unis pourraient en effet décider de rendre les F-35 du Danemark et de leurs alliés inopérants ou presque, en suspendant les mises Š jour des données de vol. Certaines capacités, liées notamment au système d’armement, pourraient également être totalement ou partiellement inhibées."
Hey, FTC is appealing the Meta (Facebook/Insta/WhatsApp) antitrust case: https://apnews.com/article/ftc-meta-appeal-antitrust-752463c7783ba14b00b686fe0c933f88
(Disclosure: I’m an expert witness for FTC in this litigation.)
I'm sorry, *what*
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/basis-for-delay-compensation/113020/2
> Ardour’s latency delay compensation was the subject of a Ph.D thesis.
And somehow this is the first I'm hearing about this. Completely unpretentious…
Why doesn’t logrotate work on Ubuntu?
#Sysadminnery
(half-serious... I support 1 Ubuntu 20 LTS machine with a high-abuse web server and periodically need to run logrotate -F /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 by hand because it really doesn't work… I’m likely to figurer it out... )
🏗️ 597-Foot Photo Elevator in Bali Torn Down After Outcry From Locals
https://petapixel.com/2025/11/25/597-foot-photo-elevator-in-bali-torn-down-after-outcry-from-locals/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Dmitry Shostakovich, Boris Giltburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Vasily Petrenko:
🎵 Piano Concerto no.2 in F major Op.102 (2nd mvt)
#DmitryShostakovich
https://open.spotify.com/track/6abGTZlnGCxDLU0UWdetaA
Uusi EU-kysely: Enemmistö suomalaisista kannattaa turkistarhauksen täyskieltoa https://animalia.fi/2026/02/23/uusi-eu-kysely-enemmisto-suomalaisista-kannattaa-turkistarhauksen-tayskieltoa/
Le trafic est ralenti entre Biblio. F.Mitterrand et Pont de RungisOrly dans les 2 sens.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : incident affectant la voiedans le secteur de Pont de Rungis.
🤖 26/01 21:51
Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb, tied for NFL lead in drops, has easy fix: 'I need to catch the f---ing ball'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-ceedee-lamb-…
Of course, my crappy dishwasher decided to die right before the biggest food day of the year... one last "f*ck you" on its way out
The Guardian wants to hear from British dual nationals who've not been permitted to board flight, ferry or train.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/25/british-dual-nationals-have-you-been-prevented-from-t…
@… this is a different kind of shape but a related theme of what is and isn’t necessary by @…
Substrates and algae
…
The f_ fascists are talking about the “illegal alien” they murdered.
#ice
Patel Fires F.B.I. Personnel Tied to Inquiry Into Trump and Classified Records - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/patel-fbi-firings-trump-classified-records.html
Patel Ousts F.B.I. Personnel Tied to Inquiry Into Trump's Retained Classified Records (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/patel-fbi-firings-trump-classified-records.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p136#a260225p136
My mom @anne.onbowen.ca found a German stuffed turkey recipe that we cooked together today (Germans celebrate on Christmas Eve).
It turned out really nice.
https://recipe.exchange/recipes/01KD9R9K5XFP4FK32D10Y7SCSG
Informatiepagina cyberincident | Odido
#odido
Yay, in spite of #Mercury having dropped to 1.25 mag. and more clouds than yesterday here it is again, together with low #Venus, 1/2 hour ago this evening from #Bochum, Germany: two images 3 minutes apart, with solar depressions of 8°40' and 9°10', resp., Mercury at 5.3 and 4.8 and Venus at 1.3 and 0.9 degrees elevation, both 1/4 second at f/2.8 and ISO 800. Saturn was also detected again, much higher and way out of the frame.
Senate Democrats launch an investigation into the FCC and Paramount's "partisan censorship scheme" over blocking Stephen Colbert's interview with James Talarico (Ed Pilkington/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/…
The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-<…
About to get on the plane to #LaraconEU, can't wait to meet my #laravel and #statamic friends and meet some new people!
🪤 France Bets on Carbon Capture as North Sea Rivals Surge Ahead
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/France-Bets-on-Carbon-Capture-as-North-Sea-Rivals-Surge-Ahead.html
IBM crashes because we’re gonna YOLO a replacement for banking and credit-card back-ends, replacing billions of lines of COBOL with vibe code. Uh…
https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ibm-crashes-11-as-anthropic-threatens-cobol-empire
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Gershwin's Piano Concerto and Dvořšk's 'New World' Symphony
The German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern in Dvořšk's Ninth Symphony, and Rudolf Buchbinder is the soloist in Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nlb3
Le trafic est perturbé entre Massy-Palaiseau et Biblio. F.Mitterrand dans les 2 sens.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : incident affectant la voie.
🤖 26/01 17:43
#F35
Rappel :
"L’annulation du contrat avec Lockheed Martin est possible. Le Portugal, par exemple, a finalement décidé de renoncer aux F-35 au profit d’alternatives européennes."
Trump Is Turning the F.C.C. and F.T.C. Against Free Expression (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/opinion/fcc-ftc-free-speech-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p68#a260224p68
I’m London ON for some family health stuff.
We ended up at The Bombay Vibes https://thebombayvibes.ca - in a little strip mall next to / inside of an indian grocery store.
I had panj puri for the first time, aloo tikki chaat, samosas, and paneer tikka masala with rice and garlic naan.
Very good!
Taking action against AI harms - Anil Dash
https://anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action-ai-harms/
What Anil said.
WSJ slams Trump for pardoning man who illegally voted for him twice - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/wsj-trump-voter-fraud/
Northern Ireland's police and the Metropolitan police admit to unlawfully obtaining BBC correspondent Vincent Kearney's communications data to identify sources (Harry Davies/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/f
Great to see @evelyn.northsky.team presenting @transrights.northsky.social
Very inspiring! https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m5ymfjikp22k
RE: https://mastodon.social/@emilylowan/115959504834441195
She's got several good points, notably including the fact that the food biz is highly monopolized; the only big grocery store in walking distance for our family is one of Jimmy's.
I think we all owe a vote of thanks to the courageous and resourceful folk who are capturing the video of the MAGA murderers.
#USpol
Welcome to the American Winter (Robert F. Worth/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p93#a260125p93
Best wishes! https://boris.bandcamp.com/track/last-christmas
Democrats in four states seek to bar ICE employees from future civil service jobs (Chris Stein/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/democrats-bar-ice-employees-civil-service-jobs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p64#a260226p64
Moods.
“Make me a webpage that feels like West Coast rain, fog and the cry of a Raven in the mist”
zebra-spin.exe.xyz:8000 https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3maquda4e5c2d
RE: #CanPoli
Ouch. What smells like a combination of corruption, arrogance, and ignorance in Vancouver civic staff around planning for False Creek South. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/17/Vancouver-Handling-False-Cre…
Investigation urged into immigration practices of company owned by Maga donors (Stephanie Kirchgaessner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/wisconsin-official-uline-investigation-maga-donors
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p64#a260225p64
I've signed up for this. Work worth doing: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/23/got-ideas-for-growing-the-open-social-web-bring-them/
Florida child vaccine push faces bipartisan opposition, pediatrician worries (Arek Sarkissian/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/florida-child-vaccine-bipartisan-opposition-pediatrician-worries-00798548
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p33#a260226p33
RE: https://social.cloudron.io/@cloudron/115952505679195672
WOOHOO! Self hosted Grist, an open source Airtable / FileMaker type app, just got packaged for @…
Federal judge rejects government's request to search Washington Post reporter's devices (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/24/federal-judge-rejects-governments-request-to-search-washington-post-reporters-devices-00797070
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p133#a260224p133
Is “Resonant Computing” malleable software with a positive ideology applied?
I still haven’t found an umbrella term that captures Causal Islands, Ink & Switch, and similar vibes.
Shades of DWeb principles too.
I’ll keep hosting events that point us in this direction.
Mike Masnick https://
Fox host says the "normal" Minneapolis residents she knows are "very embarrassed" about the protests (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/fox-host-says-normal-minneapolis-residents-she-knows-are-very-embarrassed-about
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p45#a260125p45
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116126973234897750
Gotta say, some of the comments on this one had me snorting out loud.
It took a year, but Quamina now has a full regular-expression capability, so I released 2.0.0. #Golang
Poll on Trump State of the Union finds most want to hear about economy and say admin. hasn't explained Iran policy (Anthony Salvanto/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-state-of-the-union-opinion-poll-economy-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p121#a260224p121
My Mac is running hot, apparently because “WindowServer” is locked on 47% of one CPU permanently. Known bug?
[Update: Turned out to be a random open-source app.]
#macos
@… Merry Christmas!
Great post by @wesleyfinck.org on interop w/out sharing Lexicons notes.wesleyfinck.org/3maq3h26ook2h
1) Lexicon mapping: @kipclip.com using community bookmarks lexicon, mapping to a Semble card.
2) Activities: other record types displayed, a bsky post with a link and a @monomarks.at bookmark. https://bsky.app/…
Foggy evening, late. #Photography
📍 Kita no Donburi
Restaurant · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
★★★★☆
Back in Vancouver and doing a last office day. Taking it slow.
Haven’t had sushi in like a month. My favourite take out place is closed so getting a big sushi combo.
#BeaconBits <…
Railway is technically a PaaS (like Heroku). “serverless” because you don’t have to maintain the operating system. They have evolved buildpacks to Railpacks which will create containers on the fly.
OR you can use it as a Docker host
They are hosting their own bare metal servers. Recommended!
https://…
Hey, Denmark is a monarchy. Get His Maj Frederik, who’s a good-looking dude, to offer the orange one a Royal Duchy that comes with a cool golden crown or something like that if he’ll shut up about Greenland. Orange guy loves royalty.
https://www.kongehuset.dk/en/the-royal-family/…
This: For Many Cash-Strapped Americans, ‘Basic Living Has Become a Burden’
The issue feels more important to me than the next 5 issues put together. Permanent widespread financial stress continued 1% enrichment, an explosion waiting to happen. Not just in the US, but the US is unique in its insane health-care economics. I think a political program that eliminated the threat of medical bankruptcy would be a ticket to victory.
RE: https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glnews_mirror/115946045641192336
Let's do this for the whole country. The monarchy is *so* past its sell-by date.
Running pre-Christmas errands, a relative who likes cannabis wanted to stop at the dispo. I strolled in too, and at the checkout counter I noticed a sign about Tuesdays. Couldn’t resist, told the relative to consider this part of their Christmas present and pulled out my credit card.
Just so I could say I got the Senior Citizens discount on a bag of weed.
Best of the season to everyone.
What a charming story.
Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/heated-rivalry-rachel-reid-hockey-romance.html
“What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism. These days, that’s almost always a story worth telling.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/18/Humanist-Plumbing
Here’s an interesting little curio. Was hanging at a friend's place and the conversation wandered to ancient times; when she was 16, an upstate-New-York girl, she took off with a carload of friends and went to Woodstock. She pulled out an original program, dropped from a helicopter near stage-front, and her ticket, uncanceled because by the time they got there the systems had broken down.
Green light.
#photography
What computer programmers look like; Ada Lovelace in 1843. https://petapixel.com/2026/01/16/only-known-daguerreotype-photos-of-computer-pioneer-ada-lovelace-join-uk-national-portrait-gallery-collection/…
Today’s eye candy, remarkable underwater photos: #photography
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116115276691858677
And with that, @… blocked me.
Life is weird sometimes.
This is some deeply weird and troubling shit. #GenAI
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/
We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combo of AWS, OVH, and DO to @…, see https://fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit based in Canada and with no US dependencies. Already fe…
Reading Yegge’s rant and the much shorter and more polished https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real (“AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it”), I keep coming back to this, which I published in 2020 and is sort of at the center of my thinking about everything: