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Well, that's another gate hung. It has to be said Icarus isn't impressed. #Crofting #TheJoyOfCrofting

Three gates on hinges and stock proof. One wooden gate loaded up to be relocated. This feels like a useful afternoon's work.
#Crofting
#TheJoyOfCrofting

From that observer who was taken yesterday, shared here with permission, because we could all use a good laugh. (Note: Whipple is the fed bldg that’s ICE’s MSP HQ)
❝So here’s my story about returning to the world…
When they let you out of Whipple, they give you back your personal effects (minus your phone). And just send you out the front door with whatever you were wearing when you came in.
So I’m walking out the front door of Whipple, probably looking like an ice agent coming off shift, and pulling all of my random shit out of my bag/dropping it in the snowbank, etc.… And I can hear the protesters at the gate, taunting me… “oh did you drop your phone, you piece of shit?” “You’re TERRIBLE!” “Fucking Nazi!” And I was just loving it, actually. But when I got closer and used my big voice “You assholes are barking up the wrong tree…. These MF’ers just released me!” The crowd went absolutely crazy.❞

O, no i jeszcze na koniec poniedziałku Cosmic Gate mi się wziął i rozpadł. Meh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L2St4X-WUk

And what of it if I made a full blown relational logic based database to make a recursive inventory Š la "Baldur's Gate 3"!
That is also what they did, so I am allowed to make a stupidly gigantic heap of hashtables to implement something that could very well be done with a couple of OOP style classes

Ski jumping rocked by ‘penis-gate’ claims athletes manipulated genitals for aerodynamic edge
https://nypost.com/2026/01/17/world-news/ski…

Ski jumping rocked by 'penis-gate' claims athletes manipulated genitals for aerodynamic edge
The alleged trick involves artificially enlarging the genital area before official measurements by using substances such as hyaluronic acid.

HBO will die Geschichte von „Baldur’s Gate 3“ als Serie fortsetzen
HBO produziert eine D&D-Serie mit Figuren aus „Baldur’s Gate 3“. Serienschöpfer Craig Mazin hat den Rollenspiel-Hit fast 1000 Stunden lang gespielt.

None of the age verification options are perfect in terms of protecting information, providing access to everyone, and safely handling sensitive data.
That’s just some of the reasons that EFF is against age-gating mandates,
-- and is working to stop and overturn them across the United States and around the world.
http…

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF opposes all forms of age verification mandates. Head to EFF.org/Age to explore our resources and...

This lovely late late Christmas present arrived today. My wife discovered it when clearing some stuff out. It's very touching.

Different Corners X ▶️
不同的角落 X ▶️
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🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
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got hit by a wave of slop prs last week so i guess it’s time to buckle down and spend my morning…
writing an ai policy
this looks-legitimate-but-trash slop reminds me of corporate phishing tests
the biggest tragedy for me is that i’ve spent A LOT of time and energy to encourage contributions to my projects and now i have to spend TBD energy on gate-keeping

D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits, a developer of error-corrected gate-model technology, for $550M, with $300M in stock and the rest in cash (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/d-wave-quantum-agrees-to…

D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits for $550 million to boost gate-model development
D-Wave’s crashing the gate.

Troops are mocking Air Force gate guards over a new rule: 'You sound like a Walmart greeter' - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-changes-how-gate-guards-greet-people-frustrating-troops-2026-2

Welcome to San Francisco, where Oceanview has no ocean view, Golden Gate Avenue doesn't go to Golden Gate Bridge or Park, Front Street doesn't front anything, Main Street isn't a main street, and the Sunset is too foggy to see the sunset.
https://mastodon.social/@jef/116078846

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Horace Andy:
🎵 Zion Gate
#HoraceAndy
https://dynamikerecords.bandcamp.com/album/zion-gate-horace-andy-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4WgJze6jJdHA7rg4vTGSt9

EU-Safety-Gate: 4671 Produktwarnungen in nur einem Jahr
Seit 2020 haben sich die Warnmeldungen im EU-Portal für Produktwarnungen mehr als verdoppelt. Vor allem Kosmetik, Spielzeug und Elektronik bereiten Sorgen.
http…

"US court approves Amazon acquisition of 1.2 GW Oregon solar project"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower

US court approves Amazon acquisition of 1.2 GW Oregon solar project
A US bankruptcy court approved Amazon’s purchase of the 1.2 GW Sunstone solar and battery storage project in Oregon from bankrupt developer Pine Gate Renewables.

En attendant Godot 🤡
等待戈多 🤡
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🧬 Golden Gate method enables fully-synthetic engineering of therapeutically relevant bacteriophages
#molbio

Golden Gate method enables fully-synthetic engineering of therapeutically relevant bacteriophages
Bacteriophages have been used therapeutically to treat infectious bacterial diseases for over a century. As antibiotic-resistant infections increasingly threaten public health, interest in bacteriophages as therapeutics has seen a resurgence. However, the field remains largely limited to naturally occurring strains, as laborious strain engineering techniques have limited the pace of discovery and the creation of tailored therapeutic strains.

I don’t know how they do it, but Icelandair is always at the furthest possible gate at LHR and it’s always a different gate. It’s like this airport is a Tardis, somehow.

Scottish engineer and inventor,
James Watt
was born on this day
19 January 1736
"I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street – had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking about the engine at the time and had gone as far as the Herd’s house when the idea came into my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication was made between the cyl…

Thony Christie (@rmathematicus.bsky.social)
The 18th-century, Scottish, engineer and inventor, James Watt was born 19 January 1736 #histsci #histtech https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/a-twelve-year-flash-of-genius/

Yesterday I finished "A First Time for Everything" by Dan Santant. A lovely autobiographical graphic novel about a summer foreign exchange trip between middle and high school with plenty of awkwardness but also some romance.
It perfectly captures the state of an awkward but also self-aware pre-teen/young teenager, and the various international escapades depicted are both hilarious and touching. Also fascinating to read about international travel circa 1989, which in many ways was comparable to stuff I remember from late in the 90s: parents seeing you off at the gate; expected to navigate a foreign city with just a map, etc.
A really fun book.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Baldur's Gate geht als TV Serie weiter
https://deadline.com/2026/02/baldurs-gate-3-tv-show-craig-mazin-hbo-1236710583/
Craig Mazin (The Last of Us) wird eine HBO-Serie entwickeln, die nach dem Ende von BG3 mit neuen Charakteren (und aus de…

I somehow made it door-to-gate from SF to SFO in under a half hour just now?

To keep nefarious cuties like @… out, we added additional security to our locks!

So I'm thinking about what to use as the guts of the gen2 reworkctf board.
I want a BGA of relatively large (0.8 or 1 mm) pitch to allow practicing of BGA site rework without being 11/10 difficulty level right out of the gate.
The STM32H750XBH6 is $12.39 at digikey in single units, sub $10 in higher volume, although currently sold out until April (I have enough on the shelf to prototype with), 0.8mm depopulated 265-BGA.
The cheapest Xilinx part in a 1mm FTGB196 is the X…

No, not bringing the extinct dire wolf back from extinction, but just resurrecting an old 3D VRML scene that I created back in 1999 as training material for use with The vOICe for Windows' active window client sonification for the blind.
Visit https://www.artificialvision.com/vrmlscene.h…

Seems painfully obvious that, whatever you think about #genai code, anyone using it is heading for a code-review logjam. Assuming that the org requires code review; if yours doesn’t, nothing I can say will help you. Anyhow, Rishi Baldawa writes smart stuff about the problem and possible ways forward, in ˚The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck”:

The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck
AI tools are flooding PR queues and the instinct everywhere is to call review the bottleneck. I think that’s the wrong question. The reviewer is the last sync point before production changes. The goal shouldn’t be how to remove the gate, but how to make it cheaper to operate.

Lionsgate has sold its South Asian and Southeast Asian streaming operation Lionsgate Play to Rohit Jain, the executive who built the service over eight years (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/lionsgate-play-streaming-…

Lionsgate Sells Asian Streaming Service Lionsgate Play to Rohit Jain
Lionsgate sells streaming service Lionsgate Play across South Asia and Southeast Asia to Rohit Jain, who led the platform for eight years.

A Quest to add a website or phone or opening_hours sounds great, but maybe not for a leisure=dog_park? It's just a fenced bit of grass & woodchips with a gate??
#openstreetmap #gomap

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115878124474622281
I guess Americans need to have a reinforced "gate" at the entrance to their homes, with proper locks on them now - not to keep thieves out, but to keep "police" out.

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115878124474622281
I can't help wondering if the person wearing the hoodie had been female, that the LICE agent would have shot her right through the goddamn gate.

The coolest marathon in America is in full effect! The Los Angeles Marathon is 70F & runs thru:
✅ World Champion Dodgers Stadium
✅ Grauman's Chinese Theater, Chinatown Dragon Gate & Little Tokyo
✅ Hollywood Walk-of-Fame & Capitol Records Tower off Hollywood Blvd
...
(1/2)
#LAmarathon

@… @… @… I think relative color would change the browser support minimums, if you gate it v…

I would encourage Filipinos worldwide not to gate keep & judge the accents of Perlah, Princess & Trinity on The Pitt. I've known immigrants who lost their ability to speak in <2 years, others who still have an accent after 20 years, & others who seamlessly switch between English & their Filipino language(s) in the middle of a sentence even after 20 years. Fluency is prismatic not a binary switch :-) Of course it's not just Filipinos! It happens to German, French sp…

Хочеться простого поньського, а не оце ось все
by fuyugi (#art #MLP

Right! After, frankly, way too much work, I once again have a garden gate which opens properly and easily both ways, and which closes and latches properly and easily. I don't love the galvanised steel gatepost, but it should not need to be replaced again in my lifetime.
#TheJoyOfCrofting
#Crofting

After stumble out of gate in 2025, Crooks wants 'to do it all' in '26 https://www.mlb.com/news/jimmy-crooks-expects-improvements-in-2026

Just watched the weirdest Metro turnstile jumpers ever. A couple, wearing what looked to be very nice coats, carrying coffee. He slowly climbed one of the machines and calmly walked over the gate, then grabbed his coffee and helped her get over the gate as well.

Future Portrait Of A Billionaire's House...
Ozymandias, only an inscription and the views remain...
(From our snowy and icy morning walk yesterday... Hohenfreyberg, built & expanded between 1418-1608, burnt down (sacrificed) in 1646. Same fate for the other ruin on the neighboring hill (last image), which belonged to the father and also got destroyed previously (in 1525) by farmers of the surrounding villages...)

How journalism co-ops Defector, Hell Gate, Aftermath, Coyote, Sequencer, and Range practice horizontal governance, structure their newsrooms, manage ads, more (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalism-coops-seem-utop…

Journalism coops seem utopian. What’s it like working in one?
"If I was less self-directed, I'd probably be freaking out."

Different Corners VIII ▶️
不同的角落 VIII ▶️
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First out of the gate
Opportunistic horse tail
Rampant on the field.
#dailyhaikuprompt - horse tail
#haiku
#poem

Got a bit ranty on a chat thread elsewhere yesterday when some were arguing for social media age-gates and the like.
Summarized here into a blog post.
The Age-Gate Rant
The kids are not okay, and lots of people seem to think it’s the kid’s phones and social media that’s doing it so lets simply ban kids from social media.
Simple!
Only: it doesn’t sound very simple to me.

Edited Collection: Baldur’s Gate 3: Literary and Philosophical Influences
https://ift.tt/5TRzUEp
updated: Wednesday, December 31, 2025 - 5:33pmfull name / name of organization: Bridget Dolan / Old…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Some City Some Nature III 🏙️🪾
一些城一些自然 III 🏙️🪾
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High-bandwidth frequency domain multiplexed readout of transition-edge sensors for neutrinoless double beta decay searches
M. Adami\v{c} (McGill,LBNL), M. Beretta (UCB,INFN), J. Camilleri (LBNL,Virginia Tech), C. Capelli (LBNL,Zurich U.), M. A. Dobbs (McGill), T. Elleflot (LBNL), B. K. Fujikawa (LBNL), Yu. G. Kolomensky (LBNL,UCB), D. Mayer (MIT), J. Montgomery (McGill), V. Novosad (ANL), A. M. Sindhwad (UCB), V. Singh (UCB), G. Smecher (t0.technology), A. Suzuki (LBNL), B. Welliver (UCB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23106 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.23106 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.23106
arXiv:2601.23106v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The next-generation of cryogenic neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments require increasingly fast readout in order to improve background discrimination. These experiments, operated as cryogenic calorimeters at $\sim$10 mK, are usually read out by high-impedance neutron transmutation doped (NTD) thermistors, which provide good energy resolution, but are limited by $\sim$1 ms response times. Superconducting detectors, such as transition-edge sensors (TESs) with a time resolution of $\sim$100 $\mu$s, offer superior timing performance over NTD semiconductor bolometers. To make this technology viable for an application to a thousand or more channels, multiplexed readout is necessary in order to minimize the thermal load and radioactive contamination induced by the readout. Frequency-domain multiplexing readout (fMux) for TESs, previously developed at Berkeley Lab and McGill University, is currently in use for mm-wave telescopes with detector sampling rates in the order of 100 Hz. We demonstrate a new readout system, based on the McGill/Berkeley digital fMux readout, to satisfy the higher bandwidth and noise requirements of the next generation of TES-instrumented cryogenic calorimeters. The new readout samples detectors at 156 kHz, three orders of magnitude faster than its cosmology-oriented predecessor. Each multiplexing readout module comprises ten superconducting resonators in the MHz range and a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), interfaced to high-bandwidth field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based electronics for digital signal processing and low-latency feedback.
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Not to mention that banning under 18s means identifying every user: A government ID required to access the internet.
How about if I’m posting in a chat for an environmental protest group, or an anti-capitalist group, or against genocide, or in a queer support group in a country with laws against homosexuality? Should they have my Government ID attached as proof of age?
An age-gate is asking for an internet licence and a single unified monitored ID across the whole internet. It’s dystopian surveillance-state authoritarianism. It is not desirable, even if it were possible, which it isn’t given black markets in stolen ID etc.

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Donald Scott Smith, Canadian rock bassist for Loverboy, born OTD in 1955 in Winnipeg Manitoba. Unfortunately tragedy struck on November 30, 2000, when Smith was sailing his 36-foot boat Sea Major near the Golden Gate Bridge. A 25-to-35-foot wave swept him overboard and his body was never recovered.
A short post this morning as the wife and I are taking the #GOTrain into Toronto to attend the auto show. Apparently McLaren has some new vehicles that might interest me.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Weekend #TGIF
https://youtu.be/dsgBpsNPQ50

On the Side 🆓
在边缘
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None of these surveillance companies trying to break your kid’s brains would exist if we hadn’t made it illegal to reverse engineer their manipulative crappy software and produce compatible none-manipulative clones.
But they have been granted legal monopoly, so they can do what they like.
If you want a law to protect internet users it isn’t
“Force them to consent before you spy on them”
or
“age-gate chat forums”,
No. The real solutions are more like:
“Buying and selling data about an individual is illegal and punishable by years in jail and a penalty of 2x yearly profit”
or
“Advertising must be based on the content of the page context not the tracking of the individual”.
If a legal intervention is warranted then we don’t want a system where website operators have to pick between a list of monopoly providers to hand over their data to and force them all to spy on their users to age-check.
We want companies to be explicitly allowed to reverse engineer and reproduce other company’s proprietary access methods, to increase competition and end these rentier monopolies that allow them to push their manipulative phone apps.
End the DMCA and the similar laws which they campaigned for to prevent competition. It’s those laws which give the corporations the power to push their algorithms and limit alternatives.

But the idea here is to keep kids safe!
No: the idea is to assign identity to every user and try to monitor and control the internet though corporate means.
That’s the only reason we’re talking seriously about the laws that government and capital are trying to pass.
That lobbying money is not being spent to protect kids.
The Epstine-class oligarchs doing this don’t give a damn about your children’s safety let alone some useless counter productive methods of ensuring it.
I don’t trust the government with totalitarian power nor the companies they would employ to run their age-gate for them, nor the companies currently running social media.
They are the ones running the algorithms that are pushing propaganda at your kids right now.

On the Side II 🆓
在边缘 II 🆓
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Can’t we just have age-proving tokens that prove age not ID?
Nope.
If such tokens exist I’d be pretty tempted to sell them to teenagers myself, and I’m not even trying to get the teenagers into bed.
If the age-proof methods prove who you are, they are dystopian surveillance systems and an advertising corporation’s dream.
If they do not prove who you are, they are sellable on the black markets in exchange for whatever teenagers have that grown ups want.
There is no way you can identify children in order to treat their accounts differently without creating a massive database of all internet users which is an identity-theft honey-pot, and is already leading to constant leaks of user data from terrible companies.
Those companies promising they can do the impossible and age-gate the internet are the very ones profiting from abuse and internet surveillance already.
They are the ones feeding your kids sexist racist right wing propaganda and depression from their algorithms then using the money to bribe politicians to entrench their position.

Urban Demons VI 👻
城市鬼魂 VI 👻
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