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A federal judge ruled on Thursday that Donald Trump illegally deployed the California national guard to suppress protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles
and ordered the force to be returned to the control of the state governor, Gavin Newsom.
The order by the US district judge Charles Breyer will not take effect until noon on Friday,
but it marked a stinging defeat for the Trump administration that is sure to touch off a pitched legal battle destined for the US supr…

Why I hate forums that lack threading?
Because it make it hard to see who is replying to whom.
Take this screenshot for example. Is the third message show a reply to the second of the first?
For the forth message it's a bit clearer from context, but still easy to get wrong.

I’m back to trying the #PuzzlePraise hashtag when I reply to the puzzle results of a fellow puzzler.
In my mind, this is kind of a reverse discovery tool. I, like many mutual follows, prefer to comment on the puzzles of others. No matter how unoriginal or rote it may seem, it just feels like more of a connection to me.
So, if you’re annoyed by all the back and forth that you see by v…

from my link log —
Histogramming bytes with positional popcount, GF2P8AFFINEQB edition.
http://bitmath.blogspot.com/2024/11/histogramming-bytes-with-positional.html
saved 2024-11-10

Histogramming bytes with positional popcount (GF2P8AFFINEQB edition)
A while ago, after some back and forth on twitter/X with @corsix , I dropped some implementation of byte histogramming without explaini...

lmao this is incredibly endearing #NYCMayoralRace

10 Questions With Michael Blake
Michael Blake, a former state lawmaker who is running for mayor of New York City, visited The New York Times for an interview.

Geniuses, all of them. https://apnews.com/video/fort-bragg-back-and-forth-has-consequences-for-some-local-businesses-2b35edf86f324436a63840a6137d919f

Fort Bragg back and forth has consequences for some local businesses
Ralph Rodriguez can be forgiven for feeling like a pawn. He chose to name his pawn and gun store after Fort Liberty, and is having to spend thousands to rebrand after the Army changed the installation back to Fort Bragg.

I'm surprised there isn't already a jq interpreter embedded in Forth.
I think you could get pretty far, implementing web services with that.
*adds one more project to the "Things I'll Never Do" list*

Good advice by @… on using phrases like "increase by X #percent" and so forth in a way that people can follow:
Comparing #Numbers Badly

Aaron Donald challenges Jared Verse to 'old man workout' as Rams stars exchange playful jabs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-d

Feedstack: Layering Structured Representations over Unstructured Feedback to Scaffold Human AI Conversation
Hannah Vy Nguyen, Yu-Chun Grace Yen, Omar Shakir, Hang Huynh, Sebastian Gutierrez, June A. Smith, Sheila Jimenez, Salma Abdelgelil, Stephen MacNeil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03052…

Feedstack: Layering Structured Representations over Unstructured Feedback to Scaffold Human AI Conversation
Many conversational user interfaces facilitate linear conversations with turn-based dialogue, similar to face-to-face conversations between people. However, digital conversations can afford more than simple back-and-forth; they can be layered with interaction techniques and structured representations that scaffold exploration, reflection, and shared understanding between users and AI systems. We introduce Feedstack, a speculative interface that augments feedback conversations with layered affor…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
ALIEN: [Her robes start blowing as if a breeze had sprung up] I thought you were the clever one. You're a fool, like Tarrant. The pain Tarrant is experiencing ... visualize that pain and much more. [Shot of Cally tossing her head back and forth.] You're as close to death as you have ever been. Think about human death, Avon. Irrevocable…

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Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

George Pickens claims he 'forced' trade from Steelers during spat with fan https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/george-pickens-claims-he-forced-trade-pittsburgh-steelers-during-spat-fan

"And once in a great while, someone will light a lantern—or even two—that will shine forth for democratic principles that are under siege, and set the world ablaze."
This is one Heather Cox Richardson's better than the normally great essays.
#History
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-18-2025

Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…

Sonnet 134 - CXXXIV
So now I have confessed that he is thine,
And I my self am mortgaged to thy will,
Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine
Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:
But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
For thou art covetous, and he is kind;
He learned but surety-like to write for me,
Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.
The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
Thou usurer, that put'st forth …

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~2 weeks ago, I got an unsolicited email that someone was trying to log into my Roblox account, which was created in 2008 and I think never used since. I just finished the account deletion process which involved contacting support, doing identity verification (which was certainly not used to sign up way back then!) and going back forth a few times. Kind of crazy, especially for an account which never had any sort of payment info attached to it.