Elaine Chao’s China Trip Just Days After McConnell’s Health Emergency Sparks New Questions
As Sen. Mitch McConnell remains hospitalized following a serious medical emergency,
a separate development involving his wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao,
has ignited fresh questions in Washington.
Just three days after McConnell was rushed from his Washington, D.C., home to the hospital,
Chao appeared in Beijing for a meeting with Chinese Vice President H…
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 148 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
Ageless With Roz
This is a podcast for curious minds, introducing you to remarkable people, fresh ideas and inspiring conversations that encourage lifelong learning, active living and a richer more connected life...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/ageles…
The cat litter experiment was successful. I covered the shoes in it for the night*, took them out the next day and the stench was gone. I wasn't able to get it out by washing and scrubbing multiple times.
* For the record, I've used a fresh bag of cat litter.
Cat litter has a few advantages over, say, baking soda: it's easily available in large quantities, it's easy to pour out afterwards, and you can put it in the litter box afterwards.
#LifeHack
Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward: 'revelations “opened a window on how the super-rich corrupt our political parties”
'Ms Millward said we have a “real opportunity” to “clean up our politics,” referring to an amendment put forward by the Greens to the Representation of the People Bill, which would ban political donations from corporations.'
Unions crash Reform Party conference as Farage’s inner circle suspended in fresh donations scandal
I have lived with cats almost my entire life but I do not believe that I have EVER had “expensive“ cat toys
Our cats current favorite toy is a stick wrapped in twine, every time we dig it out from out of the couch, he comes running. 😂
He ignores about half the actual “cat toys” we have
https://
🌐 Three browser modes cover real scenarios: chrome reuses local Chrome login state via profile import or CDP attach, stealth privacy mode gives a fresh fingerprint per session for login-free scraping, and stealth fixed identity keeps a stable fingerprint plus stable IP for logged-in accounts
⚡ Zero-interference concurrency: cross-browser parallel runs keep cookies, fingerprints and proxies independent, while same-browser multi-session shares login state without tasks blocking each othe…
Cracking few days bike packing around Normandy before the Barfleur ferry service stops running between Poole and Cherbourg. Amazing weather, friendly people and awesome food
#biketooter #cycling #bike
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 86 nodes and 353 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
Another week has passed. Time to pass on the updates. This week fresh-editor and librewolf get updated. You can find them and more at:
#slackware
Who cares about SI/PI conferences or sightseeing or hackerspace visits?
This is why you come to Gouda lol.
Fresh coffee beans are absolutely delicious. (very much ripe grape-ish character... EXTREMELY SWEET).
-- @…
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2
LLM Token Expenditure Index: average cost per million tokens has fallen to 97 cents, part of a sharp months-long decline since hitting a high of $2.07 on May 28 (Alex Harring/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/ai-token-prices-lows.html
When Donald Trump once again backed down from a threatened military escalation against Tehran,
he offered fresh fodder to the narrative Iranian officials are eager to promote:
They are not the ones who fear war
— Mr. Trump is.
Iran’s leadership believes it has found the world’s Achilles’ heel.
With the help of regional militia allies, Tehran spent the past week underscoring
its ability to threaten several of the world’s most critical energy facilities and …
Let's remind ourselves that last year's fresh idea is today's cliche.
-- Austen Briggs
Sonnet 104 - CIV
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold,
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,…
#totp Still sounds fresh to me!
Trump faces fresh blowback over human 'binkie' Natalie Harp — from voters - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/natalie-harp-voters-trump/
Each morning offers fresh opportunities for growth, guiding us closer to our goals. Whether pursuing a healthier lifestyle or reigniting an old passion, it's never too late to start. Let's seize today with determination and vigor! Unlock your potential and embrace new beginnings. #CarpeDiem #NewBeginnings
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Deichkind:
🎵 Fresh ist vorne
#NowPlaying #Deichkind
"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Will Smith:
🎵 The Fresh Prince of Bel‐Air
#WillSmith
The Quiet Place (2024)
(Actually only half true. More up close, glaciers are full of the most amazing sounds... yet from this distance, higher up, all you can hear is the wind and your own breath/heartbeat...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
I miss vultures, donkeys, and proper mountains as part of my daily life. Also figs, vines, and fresh citrus.
Fresh bar tape is definitely a fresh morning job
#cycling #biketooter #bike
#Carney calls #Trump's fresh tariffs a 'miscalculation' after trade talks collapse.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has said a fresh wave of US tariffs on Canada is a "miscalculation" designed to "hurt and divide us", after trade talks broke down late on Fr…
last night's frow show archive just below via @…, featuring fresh #jazz, noise, noise jazz, pedal steel, live byrds '67, newly surfaced '69 kinks, & obviously some dolly (including her reading "the little engine that could" played over some jazz noise).
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 97 nodes and 538 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
Yesterday we did our weekly errands again with our bicycle trolley. Works like a charm.
We select routes off major roads, have some chat along the way, see what's going on in town, physical exercise, fresh air, no fuel cost, no traffic jam.
And even car drivers are very friendly to us as well.
So as I've been droning on about, I'm doing lots of painting in the house. Next is the dining room. I have to live with the wood chip wallpaper but it's currently clinical white. I was all set to go with a sage tone to complement the fabulous orange dining chairs but I'm now leaning towards a fresh lemony colour as it's such a light sunny room. Current light is very Mum, a crystal drop arrangement which will be going. Instead I am totally in love with these.
Slackosundries freshly baked!
A lot of updates this week and ProtonPass as a new addition!
Go get them for your Slackware install as long as supplies last 😎
- Updates 01-Aug-2026
- bottom 0.14.7-1
- brave-origin 1.93.129-1
- filen 3.0.53
- fresh-editor 0.4.6-1
- librewolf 153.0.1-1
- proton pass 1.38.1-1
- vivaldi 8.1.4087.61-1
I let my bike video backlog get a little large, just got around to uploading some nice ones from the previous winter.
vimeo.com/1221325337
vimeo.com/1221325448
I need to alt-something these, they are minutes long. One is riding on the protected bike lane between cut snow banks along Beacon Street in Cambridge (I think it is Cambridge, could be Somerville, geography is not my strength). Lots of snow, it is white.
The other is riding clock wise around Fresh Pond on th…
Evaluation-Recording Contamination in Learned Nano-Quadrotor Dynamics: A Fresh-Seed Audit
David Shulman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18482 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18482 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18482
arXiv:2607.18482v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Learned flight-dynamics models are often trained on short windows extracted from longer recordings. Randomly splitting these windows can place dependent samples from the same physical flight in both training and evaluation sets. We audit this issue using a fixed snapshot of the NanoBench Crazyflie 2.1 dataset. The experiment holds evaluation flights, rollout starts, training-window count, validation data, and optimization budget fixed. In the contaminated protocol, [LeakagePercent] percent of a recording-disjoint training set is replaced with windows from evaluation recordings, while both arms use the same clean validation set. We compare a world-coordinate delta multilayer perceptron with a relative-coordinate control across [NumSeeds] fresh training seeds and [NumEvalFlights] complete evaluation recordings. The primary endpoint is failure-aware position RMSE over 1-second rollouts, analyzed with paired crossed recording-by-seed inference. Contamination lowers apparent world-model error by 12.1 percent, from 0.299 m to 0.262 m, but the predeclared 95 percent confidence interval for contaminated minus disjoint error is -0.0735 to 0.0011 m. Because the interval crosses zero, the confirmatory result is negative. Secondary horizons and the relative-coordinate model show similar trends, but no coordinate-representation interaction is supported. Reliable leakage assessment therefore requires recording-level splits, failure-aware rollouts, replication across fresh seeds, and inference over both recordings and optimization seeds.
toXiv_bot_toot
Vent-Axia Lo-Carbon Tempra single-room MHRV: Review - Learn how our retrofit Tempra MHRV helps keep humidity down in the kitchen and the air fresh, even when drying laundry in winter. #frugal #cutCarbon -
The US military has resumed its campaign of bombing
alleged drug-trafficking vessels
after a two-month pause in a campaign that many legal experts and human rights groups believe
constitutes a murder spree.
In a Monday social media post,
US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said it carried out a
“lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes”
in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday.
Two people were killed a…
How Australia Works
Presented by L-FRESH The LION, the series combines real-life stories and clear explanations to explore Australia's three levels of government, the roles of Parliament, government and the courts, how laws are made and changed, and how people can have a say...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://w…
Sonnet 003 - III
Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time that face should form another;
Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lov…
“The government’s indictment, which contains a typo (“Untied States Code”), accuses Tunick of allegedly providing a passcode to border agents that caused the phone to “delete the digital contents,” prior to the device being seized.”
Untied indeed.
https://…
Fresh new test prints of a scene from our morning walk, just before the incoming thunderstorm cut it short...
(The difference here is 10 vs 12 seconds of exposure. Gonna do a proper 10x8" silver gelatin print tonight)
#Darkroom #DarkroomPrint
'Farbe: Blau (kein Himmel)' #FotoVorschlag
Color blue (no sky)
Wow thanks to #immich search, I found a photo that I didn't know I took.. A lot of years ago.
#FlowersOfMastodon
Sources: Temporal is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the open-source orchestration platform developer a ~$500M raise at a $12B valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/a…
Why on earth do people buy old bottles of wine when they can get a
fresh one for a quarter of the price?
🧩 For tree 4 builds a plan file fixes interfaces, file ownership and naming before fan-out, every leaf and branch gets its own gates file, and each leaf runs as a fresh subagent
📊 A controlled test measured 1.6-3.9x more effort and 4-10 self-found defects fixed before delivery; depth 6 cost only 1.0-1.5x depth 3, so the old 2^(N-1) math was dropped
Cyclospora outbreak expands to nine US states, health officials say....
Taylor farms will kill you eventually ....
Taylor Farms is an American-founded fresh produce producer headquartered in Salinas, California, that operates globally with major processing facilities across the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Western Europe.
RE: https://heads.social/@livetapes/117289310725095013
fresh bajas, bitchin' soundboard/audience mix, with a couple of new jams.
From the basement of the Sandusky library, page 29 of the book Sandusky of To-Day proclaims the town to be the
“largest fresh water fish market in the world”.
Two pages later, an image of the lake whitefish, referred to as “Sandusky’s pride”, takes up the entire page.
But the book was published in 1888.
Lake whitefish was a delicacy in this part of North America for centuries.
Indigenous communities centered their lives and traditions on the fish.
By the …
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 155 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
Yep, there we have it! The repo has been updated and all is well. Included are nice new tools like fresh-editor, rio-terminal, the yazi filemanager and nushell, just to spice up that learning curve 😜 Also included some themes, fonts and walls to start off nicely themed. Go get your mango on FreeBSD!
#freebsd
Shoalhaven YouthLocal
Each week a bunch of young people talk hot topics, local places, local history and interview local personalities, giving residents a fresh look at their hometowns...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/shoalh
Trump prepares fresh tariffs on dozens of countries, FT reports
Donald Trump is poised to unleash fresh tariffs on dozens of countries
as soon as this week, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday,
with his temporary 10% global tariff scheduled to expire on Friday.
The FT said the most immediate new duties are expected to be on a par with the 10% tariffs currently in place,
but the administration was also working on other investigations that could gran…
TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says TSMC will use its new $100B US commitment, announced last week, to expand its Arizona capacity amid a "multi-year demand mega trend" (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/tsmc-arizona-fab-capacity-ai-chip-demand.h…
"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 49 nodes and 110 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
Sonnet 107 - CVII
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured,
And the sad augurs mock their own presage;
Incertainties now crown themselves assured,
And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Now with the drops of this most balmy time,
My love looks fresh, and Death…
The River Bothy
head on over
Sitting on the North Bank of the Berriedale River, just off the A9 and the NC500 route, The River Bothy is a little pocket of happiness where we serve the very best quality fresh food, drinks and cakes in a characterful and relaxing setting
‘The biggest threat is the president’
Election fears in Arizona as Trump sows fresh doubts
Experts warn election denialism could bubble up again in November,
despite truce in bitter power struggle
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 49 nodes and 110 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching
In the weekly kerfuffle we have 5 updates, this time bottom, brave-origin, fresh-editor, librewolf and vivaldi go one up.
#slackware #librewolf #brave-origin
Prime Minister Mark #Carney has said a fresh wave of US tariffs on Canada is a "miscalculation" designed to "hurt and divide us", after trade talks collapsed late on Friday.
"They asked too much and they offered too little," Carney told Canadians on Saturday morning, adding the country was now in a trade "war" after being hit with punishing new US dut…
Oil and gas prices jumped,
stock markets slid
and government bond yields rose after the US and Iran traded fresh strikes
and Donald Trump said the shaky ceasefire was “over”.
Brent crude, the global benchmark, climbed 5% to $77.86 a barrel.
In stock markets, the UK’s FTSE 100 fell 1%, or 110 points, to 10,556 while Germany’s Dax tumbled 1.6% and Spain’s Ibex lost 2%.
Speaking at a NATO summit in Ankara, Trump also said he was cutting off trade with Spain ov…
Yep. Slackware is outdated. Or is it?
Hyprland 0.56.2, Ghostty, Fresh editor, DankMaterialShell and Zen browser. Enuff said.
#slackware #hyprland
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 58 nodes and 126 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
Donald Trump’s move to impose a fresh round of #tariffs on more than 80 countries has drawn criticism from both Democratic politicians and his own allies.
Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative, announced that the Trump administration “is imposing tariffs on more than 80 countries for their failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced l…
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s controversial luxury resort project in Albania
has hit a new setback after prosecutors alleged that land tied to the development may have been acquired through forged ownership documents.
Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating Miami-based businessman Artur Shehu,
who sold a stretch of coastline slated for Kushner’s planned multi-billion-dollar resort earlier this year.
Prosecutors allege Shehu and his associates launde…
The New Canadian Tariffs
take aim at big industries,
like aluminum and steel,
in addition to smaller ones located in states with closely watched midterm elections
The Canadian tariffs were designed to protect domestic companies hit by a fresh set of hefty U.S. tariffs
and to sting Donald Trump and his Republican Party
as they head into a difficult midterm election in November
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 78 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American
for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone,
according to an indictment and media reports.
This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password built into a phone’s software.
According to The Guardian, which covered the story earlier this …
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 49 nodes and 110 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
“If u iz at dis borin wimbledore final lookin 2 get grand slammed, I iz here wif de hookup.”
The offer was from Ali G, real name Alistair Leslie Graham, AKA the malapropism-dropping home counties wide boy played by Sacha Baron Cohen,
kitted out for the occasion in trademark skullcap and gold chain, plus custom Wimbledon jacket, traditional crossed rackets replaced with cannabis leaves.
Security released him without penalty, but the reprimand was captured on scores of smartph…
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 98 nodes and 629 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
Infrastructure that civilians rely on for survival is not generally considered a legitimate military target,
and striking it could be considered a war crime.
But the attacks on water resources are especially concerning in the Gulf region:
Most nations there lack widespread access to fresh water and rely heavily on hundreds of desalination plants -- complex operations where repairs can be difficult and time-consuming.
Desalination plants produce 90 percent of Kuwait’s…
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