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Joey Porter Jr. embraces fresh start with Cowboys after feeling 'disrespected' by Steelers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/joey-porter-jr-embraces-fresh-start-cowboys…

Broderick Jones 'pumped' for fresh start with Cowboys, reunion with George Pickens https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/broderick-jones-pumped-for-fresh-start-with-cowboys-reunion-with-george-pickens

Gosh, I just can't imagine why no one wants to be at Trump's classless party:
▫️ Embarrassingly weak D-list entertainment
▫️ Shoddy exhibits with low participation
▫️ Record temps & pea-soup humidity
▫️ Green reflecting pool, pretentious ballroom, laughably fake arch & constant reminders of how badly the worst president in US history has screwed up America...
▶️ Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation

Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation
With only three days until the holiday, the administration is struggling to generate good buzz for the occasion.

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

Broderick Jones 'pumped' for fresh start with Cowboys, reunion with George Pickens https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/broderick-jones-pumped-for-fresh-start-with-cowboys-reunion-with-george-pickens

Gosh, I just can't imagine why no one wants to be at Trump's classless party:
▫️ Embarrassingly weak D-list entertainment
▫️ Shoddy exhibits with low participation
▫️ Record temps & pea-soup humidity
▫️ Green reflecting pool, pretentious ballroom, laughably fake arch & constant reminders of how badly the worst president in US history has screwed up America...
▶️ Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation

Trump’s Melting State Fair Hit With Fresh Humiliation
With only three days until the holiday, the administration is struggling to generate good buzz for the occasion.

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

AI token prices are hitting new record lows
A closely followed measure of artificial intelligence token prices touched fresh lows.

Who cares about SI/PI conferences or sightseeing or hackerspace visits?
This is why you come to Gouda lol.

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,…

'I'm a Cowboy': Porter hopes to make debut for Dallas on Sunday https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50079466/joey-porter-happy-fresh-start-cowboys-eyes-sunday-debut

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

Maxx Crosby doesn't need every snap to leave his mark https://www.raiders.com/news/maxx-crosby-doesn-t-need-every-snap-to-leave-his-mark

BBC Media Tech, responsible for services like iPlayer, announces £37M in savings, including cutting 110 staff, after delivering £42M of cuts earlier this year (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/bbc-tech-teams-cuts-110-compulsory-layoffs-12…

BBC Tech Teams Hit With Fresh $50M Round Of Cuts, Including 110 Compulsory Layoffs
BBC Media Tech, the division that powers iPlayer, has announced a fresh £37 million ($50M) round of savings following £42M of cuts earlier this year.

Fresh bar tape is definitely a fresh morning job
#cycling #biketooter #bike

Let's remind ourselves that last year's fresh idea is today's cliche.
-- Austen Briggs

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 …

The Great Lakes’ most emblematic fish could be consigned to history books
A delicacy for centuries and a key part of Native tradition, the lake whitefish has seen its population crash. Researchers know why … but stopping it is another matter

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

Steelers to trade Joey Porter Jr. to Cowboys for 2028 second-round pick and 2027 sixth-rounder

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-joey-porter-jr-traded-to-cowboys/

"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

Dude should just call himself Babs… @… https://awful.systems/comment/12487932

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.

#SilentSunday

U.S. military launches fresh strikes in the Strait of Hormuz (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/01/hormuz-centcom-strikes-trump-iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/260901/p160#a260901p160

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).

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Deichkind:
🎵 Fresh ist vorne
#NowPlaying #Deichkind

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…

#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…

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.

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…

‘Lawless killing spree at sea resumes’ as US announces fresh boat bombings
With the latest two casualties, the Trump administration’s boat bombing spree has now claimed the lives of at least 223 people.

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.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Fresh from Nicole McCabe and Savannah Harris
Soweto is back with another hour of the best in jazz from the UK and around the world, and Anthony Joseph has a third poetry-focused record to share for 4/4.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031q53

RE: #Milwaukee that closed down in 2012 because they wanted to offer fresh groceries (meats, produce, etc) and it “has deed restrictions that prohibit Walmart from adding a supermarket use” (https://archive.jsonline.com/business/walmart-will-close-northridge-area-store-l243qnl-138901429.html). Now, a remanufacturer of automatic transmissions for cars and trucks uses that building. There was also a Pick n’ Save 0.3 miles from that until 2015. Menards bought the building to turn it into a self-storage place.
Food deserts suck.

Check out today's packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Authorities seize KillSec leak site, identify 16-year-old as suspected leader,
--FTC probes OpenAI and Anthropic over AI harm claims,
--AI agents probe government sites and evade sandbox restrictions,
--Google gives cyber defenders first access to Gemini 4 Argon,
--Sandboxing alone won’t stop AI agents from causing harm,
--ShinyHunters site goes dark after FBI ultimatum expires,
--Chinese hackers impersonate AI experts to steal policy insiders’ emails,
--OpenAI defends safeguards amid fresh agent escape revelations,
--543k exposed GitHub credentials still work,
--Malicious custom GPTs steer users into ClickFix attacks,
--CISA warns MikroTik flaw lets attackers gain root with one request,
--Vulnerability disclosures double as AI speeds exploitation,
--Hackers steal personal data from Arizona court system,
--Shinhan Bank breach exposes 25k customers’ data,
--Paragon CEO says spyware firm can’t monitor customer misuse,
--Alex Stamos joins Cognition as chief security officer,
--Armadin raises $255.5m for autonomous hacker swarms,
--South Dakota makes Cybersecurity Awareness Month official,
--Brazil’s spy agency confirms US and Russian election interference,
--Women’s share of UK cyber workforce falls to 16%,
--Restored federal cyber aid arrives too late for some election preparations
https://www.metacurity.com/authorities-seize-killsec-leak-site-identify-16-year-old-as-suspected-leader/

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…

🧩 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

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

from my link log —
Textbook review: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-09-21-concurrency-textbook/
saved 2026-09-21

Textbook review: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
Here are my thoughts on the free online textbook Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? by Paul E. McKenney, author of the Linux kernel’s RCU synchronization mechanism. I read a lot of this textbook, got my fill, and probably won’t read more of it in the near future so wanted to write this review while it is all still fresh. Set & Setting Here I’ll talk about the mindset/life phase and physical setting I was in when I started reading this textbook. This might …

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 -

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

I know how fortunate I am to live in a spot where there are three different farmers markets within a ~10 minute drive, each on a different day of the week. It is definitely the time to take advantage of that.

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…

Not a view, exactly, but still a view. Fresh install today, hot off the press. Got myself a HP EliteOne 800 G5 for... basically nothing, so I couldn't really turn it down.

London-based European Technology Network, a TBPN-like show livestreaming 5x a week on YouTube and X, raised a $1.6M seed round from Axel Springer and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/euro

Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot | TechCrunch
On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet.

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

@… I'm hearing amazing things over on Bsky about Kaladar Market, 2455 Kaladar
Avenue, (local fresh fruits and vegetables all grown in Canada, except the citrus). Do you know it?

So, I can't eat any fresh greens when I #travel home to #America next week?
This is the type of advice I used to get when traveling to places like #India or

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…

Trump announces new tariffs on generic drugs to take effect in 2028 – as it happened
This live blog is now closed.

I saw toy story 5 because reasons and realized the "age verification" laws aren't just a surveillance device to help authoritarian governments find troublemakers.
They're also a convenient way for predators to find fresh, age-certified victims where their parents will trust no predator can be.
Win-win for evil!

“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://…

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

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

Draft snub fresh on Jermod McCoy’s mind ahead of Raiders debut https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/draft-snub-fresh-on-jermod-mccoys-mind-ahead-of-raiders-debut-3861994/

Millions of Europeans struggle with another wave of extreme heat #Europe

Europe swelters under fresh wave of extreme heat
Millions of people across Europe—particularly in France, Italy, Spain and Britain—baked through a new wave of extreme temperatures Thursday as the continent's latest heat wave picked up.

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

Rams' Sean McVay says he won't 'play the victim card' after controversial call vs. Broncos https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7641760/2026/09/28/sean-mcvay-rams-penalty-loss-broncos/

'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

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

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.

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?

Cowboys to Open Preseason in Seattle With Fresh Energy https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-to-open-preseason-in-seattle-with-fresh-energy

RE: https://heads.social/@livetapes/117289310725095013
fresh bajas, bitchin' soundboard/audience mix, with a couple of new jams.

from my link log —
The smell of rain: how Aussie scientists invented a new word in 1964.
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2015/March/the-smell-of-rain-how-our-scientists-invented-a-new-word
saved 20…

‘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

‘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

U.S. Retaliates Against Iran for Tuesday's Surprise Attack (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-vows-to-retaliate-against-iran-with-very-hard-round-of-fresh-strikes-2f45f993?st=MPbFwb
http://www.memeorandum.com/260730/p39#a260730p39

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

This is just ridiculously SMART!
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/heat-pumps/worlds-oldest-cheddar-maker-heat-pumps

World’s oldest cheddar-maker slashes energy bills with novel heat pumps
Innovative tech from U.K.-based Arkaya Energy cools fresh milk and redirects the resulting heat, saving Barber’s Farmhouse Cheesemakers more than $90,000…

Report links Raiders to disgruntled two-time Pro Bowler, SB Champ https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/27/report-links-raiders-to-disgruntled-two-time-pro-bowler-sb-champ/

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…

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…

TSMC is accelerating Arizona factory buildout to capitalize on AI 'megatrend,' CFO says
Speaking in an exclusive interview with CNBC, TSMC's Wendell Huang said the fresh investment comes on the back of robust customer demand.

Titans to curtail Jeffery Simmons' snaps to keep star DT fresh for key moments https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-to-curtail-jeffery-simmons-snaps-to-keep-star-dt-fresh-for-key-moments

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

"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

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…

Oil prices jump over 5% after Trump suggests ceasefire with Iran has ended following fresh US strikes – as it happened
Brent crude spikes to a daily high of $79.26, gas prices rise, stock markets slide and government bond yields surge on inflation and rate hike fears

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

Ugh, the poor quality of air in my seaside Highland town. Sitting reading in a room with the window open just a crack "for fresh air" - when I noticed an unpleasant metal twinge in the air, so had to close the window and blast the air purifier until the smell was gone.
Happens far too often, and the locals have zero awareness about the effects of air pollution on health.

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…

Trump’s new tariffs ‘a sales tax that will make life harder for Americans’, say Democrats – US politics live
Even some Republicans apparently expressing concern over measures against 85 countries

Cowboys Headlines: Dak embraces pressure, Guyton's fresh start begins https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/18/cowboys-headlines-dak-unfazed-by-pressure-guyton-faces-rea…

"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

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

Yep. Slackware is outdated. Or is it?
Hyprland 0.56.2, Ghostty, Fresh editor, DankMaterialShell and Zen browser. Enuff said.
#slackware #hyprland

Sonnet 001 - I
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And onl…

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 …

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

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

Titans' fresh start produces one of their most embarrassing losses yet

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/titans-loss-to-jets-cam-ward-robert-saleh/

“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…

Prince William? David Cameron? JD Vance? Celebrities brace – and Staines celebrates – ahead of new Ali G film
Sacha Baron Cohen’s doofus voice of yoof has been making fresh mischief with new film Who Iz I? But who will he catch out this time? And what does his fictional hometown make of his return?

Steelers' Joey Porter Jr. 'definitely' sees himself playing for Pittsburgh in 2026

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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…

Ivanka and Jared’s Luxury Resort Hit by Fresh Scandal
The Miami-based businessman who sold some of the land for the project is suspected of forging property records.

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

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

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…

Water Plants Under Fire in the Gulf Are Crucial to Civilians
Several days of airstrikes have hit water and energy plants in Kuwait, a nation that relies on desalination for 90 percent of its drinking water.

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

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

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…

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 questio…

US gas prices this month are so far the highest ever recorded for August
as peace talks between the US and Iran have stalled and Donald Trump launched fresh threats against Oman.
The national average price of gas was $4.06 per gallon on Monday,
according to data from AAA,
$0.05 higher than last week
and $1 more expensive than a year ago.
In California and Hawaii, averages hit about $5.50 a gallon.

US gas prices reach highest ever recorded for August amid stalled talks with Iran
Energy prices have been high since the US-Israel war with Iran began and the strait of Hormuz was blocked