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Sources: Kate Phillips, the BBC's director of unscripted, will replace Charlotte Moore as the BBC's Chief Content Officer; Moore announced her exit in February (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-conte…

BBC Content Chief: Kate Phillips Set To Replace Charlotte Moore In Top Job
The BBC content chief job has gone to Kate Phillips, who replaces Charlotte Moore and will lead the corporation's TV, radio and sport output.

Sega is discontinuing support for 9 retro games that were ported to iOS and Android years ago -they've made them all free and removed in-app purchases. I just grabbed Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe Classics, Super Monkey Ball - check out the list here and grab them in the app stores asap before they disappear, there's Streets of Rage and Sonic too, etc:

Download these now free retro mobile games before Sega removes them
Sega is discontinuing nine more retro games on iOS and Android, but you can now download them for free until they’re gone.

So what I learned from the recent Google outage, is how much of a cirklejerk "big tech" actually is.
Google did a fucky wucky... Which caused Cloudflare to go belly up, Shopify to go belly up, Spotify to go belly up...
Imagine having given *one* company having so much power that, if they make a mistake somewhere, half the internet is gone.
So if you self-host, make sure to see how your dependency chain is.
How much places can make a mistake that can knock you …

The left #JoyCon of my #Switch2 drifted, as I noticed while playing with two players. I was surprised and wanted to check the calibration. While exploring the settings, I found a menu item to update the controllers. I did that and the drift was gone. Very relieved.

Mailbag: Which veteran could surprise us? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-which-veteran-could-surprise-us

Looks like Linux 6.15 does away with the 'Processor Family' submenu and replaces it with a simple vendor select option (which I hope doesn't greatly reduce ability to optimise for a given target). The more-uarches patch will not apply because the whole section is just gone!

Okay, I hadn't exactly expected waking up to the news that CVEs are gone.

Trash panda update: they're not gone but seem to be starting to learn we don't like them. The super soaker is the weapon of choice - they hate it but it doesn't do any permanent damage.
I had one pop out in broad daylight earlier and pummeled it with the super soaker until it climbed up a tree out of range.
Another one showed up after dark and froze when I walked out the back door, maybe it thought I couldn't see it?
It thought wrong.
EDIT: The one in…

⚠️ Please BE AWARE that there is a chance that if you transfer your save file from Switch to Switch 2, you may lose it. This person lost 20 years of data that they'd had since their Game Boy Advance. Totally brutal. It's a huge gamble, and to me, might not be worth it if you really value your save data.

'There's nothing I can do. I don't even know if I wanna play anymore' — Pokémon fan left devastated after '20 years worth of data' lost in Switch to Switch 2 transfer
‘My Scarlet save file is gone,’ sobs gamer. They say no error messages popped up during their Friday the 13th transfer attempt.

Mailbag: Which veteran could surprise us? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-which-veteran-could-surprise-us

Gone But Not Forgotten: Musicians We Lost in 2025 https://www.billboard.com/photos/musicians-who-died-2025-1235881159/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/music…

Gone But Not Forgotten: Musicians We Lost in 2025
Musicians who died in 2025 include Marianne Faithfull, Garth Hudson, John Sykes, Sam Moore and more.

Pete Carroll Offers More Faith vs. Hope to Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/pete-carroll-las-vegas-josh-mcdaniels-antonio-pierce

Am running across occasional uses of the phrases “Mastodon tweet” and “Bluesky tweet”. Hmm… I think that’s OK. Twitter is irretrievably gone so let’s memorialize it in a short, pleasant, instantly-understandable new idiom.

with the bar for safe bike infrastructure as low as it is, it's hard to strike the right balance after a project between "hooray! it's so much better!" and "this, that, and the other thing still suck."
Streetsblog SF often errs on the latter side... I'm happier than ever with #ValenciaStreet, but their critiques are not wrong.

SFMTA Leaves Valencia Bike Lanes Unfinished - Streetsblog San Francisco
The center-running lane is long gone and some finishing touches are coming to the parking-protected section from 15th to 23rd, but the lack of concrete infrastructure remains problematic. And then there's the last four blocks from 23rd to Cesar Chavez, which is still just a striped lane wedged between parked cars and moving traffic.

Cynthia Santiago, an attorney in Southern California, won her high school presidential class race the same year Stephen Miller,
the current White House Deputy Chief of Staff,
lost the class speaker race.
More than 20 years later, Santiago is trying to fight Miller’s mass deportation efforts.
Santiago, the daughter of immigrants, has been working to defend immigrants’ rights since 2012.
But having gone to school with Miller, watching his rise to prominence in P…

She beat Stephen Miller in the race for high school class president. Now she’s fighting his deportation efforts
California attorney is fighting Miller’s mass deportation efforts by working as an immigration lawyer

No worries people, the good news is Hegseth on Defense means it is the weakest departement ever. But shall we stop with the whole "NATO Act", it is clearly gone... Also a small detail, there is no need for a contingency plan because the US already has a large base and military in Greenland. But it fits with Hegseth's absolute stupidity.
"Hegseth says the Pentagon has contingency plans to invade Greenland if necessary"

Pam Ayres
At last, we have a cure for all!
Ailments large and ailments small,
Good health is not beyond my reach,
If I inject myself with bleach.
Radiant, I’ll prance along,
Every trace of limescale gone,
With disinfectant as my friend,
Like him,
I’m clean around the bend.

Musk Isn't "Gone" -- and Tech Fascism Is Running Rampant (Dave Troy/America 2.0)
https://america2.news/musk-isnt-gone-and-tech-fascism-is-running-rampant/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p1#a250603p1

lmao "the dork web" https://kolektiva.social/@franklinlopez/114672562818500830

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1kPW5MGxQQ
It's done. America is gone. Law dos not apply there anymore.
And no-one is acting against it.

Marina Hyde is a brilliant columnist:
Imagine owning the world’s premier shitposting platform – in fact, having spent $44bn on it, specifically so that your magic mirror would tell you each day that you were the fairest shitposter of all – and then shuffling sheepishly on to your own pixels to mumble something about having gone “too far” with your hurty words.

So farewell then Pinetime Watch 🪦.
It isn't showing any signs of charging. even after a completely-flat battery reset. Last hope gone.
Now nobody at all is running my custom software I think, and I have no way to fix the bugs.
Could replace it, but I'm not really paying any attention to the things it measures anyway. Heartrate is too unreliable to be useful and steps seems likely to be counting my leg-jiggles since I tend to hit 10,000 most days without trying or leaving the flat.
The software which tracks my time and mood is probably better running on the phone really. Easier to add notes and detail. Can't really input text from a watch. Location data can be added in ways the watch couldn't.
So back to not wearing a watch at all I think. Who needs it now we all carry pocket watches with internet and telephony.
#pineTime #smartWatch

Lil Kalish: "A New Orleans family traveled to Chicago 3x in two years. An Alabama mom took her son to Spain. These are the lengths families of trans youth have gone for gender-affirming care after state bans. SCOTUS is expected to rule on whether these bans can stay in place. www.huffpost.com/entry/this-s..." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:egn4tb6zejhdgbr4ey464vsk/post/3lregvpv3dc2i

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pixies:
🎵 Monkey Gone To Heaven
#NowPlaying #Pixies
https://situationsmke.bandcamp.com/track/pixies-monkey-gone-to-heaven
https://open.spotify.com/track/6BT7qiDY4A5tOyklohjQuW

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Steve Christensen:
🎵 Before It's Gone
#SteveChristensen
https://stevechristensen.bandcamp.com/track/before-its-gone

F*ck me my water bill has gone up by 37.4% in the last 14 months. How did that happen? And I don’t get to switch providers, I just have to suck it up. WTaF?
#water #utilities #publicutilities

benches have gone up at bus stops around the Mission and parts south. thanks https://sfbabc.org !! everybody deserves comfort and dignity while waiting for the bus

Protest on Saturday, June 14th.
"They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights & slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings."
✅ No Kings - National Protests
https://www.nokings.org/

My turn for the baby lurgy. Had to cancel tonight's and tomorrow's plans including spending time with my friend who's here for a few days from country Victoria. Have gone to bed. Going to take it easy tomorrow so hopefully better by Friday. Not happy, Jan. 😠

Yes, the only video game I play is #Warframe!
MR 26 – Wisp Is Love, Wisp Is Live
Ballas is dead, Margulis’s mercy, Lotus’s final kiss.
But Kaya Velasco? She is eternal.
Ballas gone, but she outlives sentient beings.
BALLAS DEAD, NOT KAYA! 😘 💋
I don’t care if she’s code and pixels, my heart’s got no patch notes!
They can’t stop me from loving a digital …

I find myself thinking about a long-lost friend a lot lately. Sometime in the late 90s, we both accepted that our friendship had run its course. I had come to embrace fairly low-key socialism and he was increasingly angry about the media's "liberal bias." The common ground we had once shared was gone. I imagine him cheering now, even as I recall his father, a deeply conservative Marine colonel, remarking that only authoritarian regimes used the military against their own citize…

6 time zones, ~340,000,000 people, ~3,800,000 square miles.
Only 1.2 million sworn law enforcement officers, and only 2.86 million US military personnel, including active duty, National Guard, and Reserves.
Martial law is likely not feasible nationwide. Simply cannot be accomplished even if all LEOs and soldiers were eager to try.
They want to accomplish what 80 years ago was tough (could have gone either way) only in a place with ~21 times the space and ~7 times the peo…

Am I stupid or are the "Security Options" for "securely" erasing (with single/multipass overriding) storage media like SD cards in the macOS "Disk Utility" app completely gone?

"I wrote in October that billionaires should resist cozying up to authoritarians: while it can feel as if they are reducing risks to themselves and their businesses, surrendering to a corrupt system is just as likely to endanger them. Musk is the first to learn this lesson, but I suspect he will not be the last."
Let's see.

SFMTA is adding left turns back to Valencia at 17th, 21st and 23rd streets with a new phase, which will cut down on time for pedestrian and bike crossings. The word is that Mayor Lurie directly ordered this. Signal modifications are very expensive and that money could have gone to safety or transit priority.
Seems small, but it's wasteful and adds to the "death by a thousand cuts" for Transit First in Lurie's SF.

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
SERVALAN: What has gone wrong?
COMMANDER: [On viewscreen] Liberator is still firing. I'm retreating out of range. All ships take evasion course. I repeat, all ships disengage.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/461 B7B4

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The clocks have gone forward and we can cycle in the light in the evenings again! Read my blog:#mtb

Calamus 27 O love!
Odd little poem. On the surface it's a celebration of reinvention, of metaphorically dying and leaving your corpse behind, "always living". I don't find it particularly compelling but it's a mood.
I can't honestly find a particularly gay reading here. Broadly speaking maybe, "coming out" is a kind of reinvention gay people do, leaving our old closeted persona dead and gone. I wouldn't argue Whitman is talking about that though.
One odd thing is the 1860 poem starts "O love!", but there's no love mentioned in the rest of the text. Whitman removed this line in later versions. So who or what is the love referring to?

It's gone

Source: ~1,000 people have left the CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750 taking a buyout, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/cisa-staff-layoffs-resignations-trump-cuts…

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
Trump wanted to cut 1,000 people. They're already gone.

gone fishin'

Well, now it's going out of hands: Remember how the flag emojis disappeared from my website and I tried to find an explanation?
Now they're gone from #Bluesky on the web for me. Anyone else seeing this? 👇🏼

Happy & Glorious: Coronation art exhibition goes on show https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/happy-glorious-coronation-art-exhibition-goes-on-show/

Happy & Glorious: Coronation art exhibition goes on show - The National Archives
Stunning new artwork commissioned by the Government Art Collection to mark the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla has gone on show in our Happy & Glorious exhibition. The free exhibition includes work by artists from across the UK created in response to the Coronation on 6 May 2023. For the […]

Very efficient: running Reichstag moment and Kristallnacht reenactment all in one day instead of months apart
I really had hoped the situation would have calmed down over night, just to wake up reading about Trump having setup everything to burn down his country completely—and then gone golfing
#USPol #WTF

"""
"[…] Wanting a man got me into awful troubles more than once. But wanting to get married, never! No, no. None of that for me."
"Why not?" Tenar demanded.
Taken aback, Moss said simply, "Why, what man'd marry a witch?" And then, with a sidelong chewing motion of her jaw, like a sheep shifting its cud, “And what witch’d marry a man?"
They split rushes.
"What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously.
As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I’ve thought on it. Often I’ve thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man’s in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. “It’s hard and strong, that shell, and it’s all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that’s all. That’s all there is. It’s all him and nothing else, inside."
Tenar pondered awhile and finally asked, "But if he's a wizard—"
"Then it's all his power, inside. His power’s himself, see. That’s how it is with him. And that’s all. When his power goes, he’s gone. Empty." She cracked the unseen walnut and tossed the shells away. “Nothing."
"And a woman, then?"
"Oh, well, dearie, a woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark." Moss’s eyes shone with a weird brightness in their red rims and her voice sang like an instrument. “I go back into the dark! Before the moon I was. No one knows, no one knows, no one can say what I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?"
"""
(Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu)

When the playground is empty and it's not raining, I have to take advantage of it. Okay, I did scare off three teens who were sitting at the picnic table behind me, though I told them I'd be gone soon and they didn't have to go on my account. I like my form from the third rep on; not so much the first two.
#seniorfitness

from my link log —
Beating the kCTF PoW with AVX512IFMA for $51k.
https://anemato.de/blog/kctf-vdf
saved 2025-05-31 https://dotat…

The Klamath has long been my favorite river in California (and a bit of Oregon.)
A week ago I was at the mouth of the Klamath in Redwood National Park/Prairie Creek State park.
I'm glad the Coho salmon are returning to the Klamath so quickly (of all the varieties of salmon, Coho is my favorite. The creek behind my house once supported Coho, but they are essentially gone, although there are occasional reports.)

@… I think something's gone wrong with your PeerTube instance! I want to boost your Fediverse video from my account here but it's not letting me and throwing a bunch of errors. Is the instance overloaded?

I just cancelled our Netflix account. One more US service gone. Next up: Cloudflare.

Oh, and now we have gone to hoping that Trump listens to Tucker Carlson.

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/cisa-staff-layoffs-resignations-trump-cuts

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
Trump wanted to cut 1,000 people. They're already gone.

Greenfields
When it's gone, it's gone.
The most objected to planning proposal in Bury's history - Manchester Evening News

The most objected to planning proposal in Bury's history
More than 1,000 comments have been officially registered on plans for 275 homes on green fields in Walshaw, with the vast majority objecting to the application

As the LA protests roll on, social media creators have at times outnumbered the traditional press corps at rallies, playing an outsized role in sharing media (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/la-protests-influen…

Los Angeles Protests Amplified by Influencers and Online Creators
Creators such as Cam Higby, who is conservative, have sometimes outnumbered traditional media outlets at the immigration protests. Their posts have gone viral.

Congratulations to all the "Elon's reign of terror is over" article writers from last week, great jorb
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/

‘Big Balls’ Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee
The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul.

Gone with the Wind: JWST-MIRI Unveils a Strong Outflow from the Quiescent Stellar-Mass Black Hole A0620-00
Zihao Zuo, Gabriele Cugno, Joseph Michail, Elena Gallo, David M. Russell, Richard M. Plotkin, Fan Zou, M. Cristina Baglio, Piergiorgio Casella, Fraser J. Cowie, Rob Fender, Poshak Gandhi, Sera Markoff, Federico Vincentelli, Fraser Lewis, Jon M. Miller, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Alexandra Veledina

Gone with the Wind: JWST-MIRI Unveils a Strong Outflow from the Quiescent Stellar-Mass Black Hole A0620-00
We present new observations of the black hole X-ray binary A0620-00 using the Mid-Infrared Instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope, during a state where the X-ray luminosity is 9 orders of magnitude below Eddington, and coordinated with radio, near-infrared and optical observations. The goal is to understand the nature of the excess mid-infrared (MIR) emission originally detected by Spitzer red-ward of 8 $μ$m. The stellar-subtracted MIR spectrum is well-modeled by a power law with a spect…

Weird. That loudly decentralised social media network has all gone down at once.
Amazing levels of coincidence.

Let's goooo! https://mstdn.social/@play4agile/114394245507313408

Quite rich for someone that just sold his business for 6 billion to OpenAI
« When I first moved here I came because it was characterized by people who genuinely saw that their purpose was in service to humanity, to inspire people and help people create. I don't feel that way about this place right now. »
https://

Worst-to-first rankings: Which teams could skyrocket to the top of their divisions? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45391110/2025-nfl-season-worst-first-division-odds-predictions

#WritersCoffeeClub June 4: Do you consider writing work? Would you consider writing your life's work?
Work, as in something that requires effort, that I take seriously - yes.
Money is beside the point.
Writing is what I do, what I love, and what I want. Is that "life's work"? I don't know, that's for someone else to decide once I'm gone.

What do the #Trump|ist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the #MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. Benjamin Braun and Cédric Durand about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline.

In America, we don’t do kings
They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.
On June 14th, we rise up.
https://www.nokings.org/

No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
#RUSSIA IS GONE: NEW WEAPONS & BLACK SEA FLEET DEFEAT IN CRIMEA Vlog 1060: War in Ukraine
The Russian #BlackSea

When someone has gone
Grief is residual love
With nowhere to go.
#dailyhaikuprompt - grief
#haiku
#poem

When the playground is empty and it's not raining, I have to take advantage of it. Okay, I did scare off three teens who were sitting at the picnic table behind me, though I told them I'd be gone soon and they didn't have to go on my account. I like my form from the third rep on; not so much the first two.
#seniorfitness

Beyond just predicting words, LLMs interpolate meaning between data points, as in the recent phenomenon of AI explaining fake idioms like "you can’t lick a badger twice." The danger is that made-up "truths" will fuel future models
https://www.

CYCLING FANS: I learned in the most round-about way that Florence has a museum I would have gone to any of the past three days when it was open, if I'd known it exited! The "Museo del ciclismo Gino Bartali". (Do I even need to translate?) #Italy25

In just one week we have gone from desperately wanting Elon to disappear forever to desperately hoping Donald will take his calls as soon as possible and listen to him.

Anyway, i'm not sure if anyone is keeping score but the raccoons certainly aren't gone so we'll definitely be careful about letting the kid play in the yard for a bit.
In the meantime, I have a switch logic board to lay out and plenty of $dayjob stuff to do.

I've gone through exactly what Ellen Pompeo did at LAX. I was headed to Italy & the TSA detected something on my shoes. Sirens went off & before I could say anything, I got detained.
A guy with military gear & a rifle appears & I got to play 20 Qs for an hour. I'm showing my plane ticket, itinerary, passport, driver's license, business card, Academy of Magical Arts membership card, Disney D23 card... not kidding.
Almost missed by flight. A tad unsett…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Simple Plan:
🎵 When I'm Gone
#SimplePlan
https://open.spotify.com/track/518x7yFVDLkbOWNH0SOe9p

Anyone have good suggestions on CompTiA network plus classes on YouTube? (or cheap online like Udemy or something). Since we have gone to Cisco phones, the phone people need to know way more about networking than they do presently. I was thinking a Network would get them the basics, and let the network folks off the hook for dealing with things that annoy them. (Like telecom people) The usual budget cuts are preventing me sending anyone to a class, and these folks are not 'read the manu…

Wee one had gone home to his mam this afternoon. Out of the last 10 day he was here for eight of them. So husband and I decided to celebrate with a leisurely roundabout walk with a plan to have coffee on the way back.
Well, we were almost at the cafe when we saw a big gorgeously ecstatic dog bounding up to us. We then heard a man, who we couldn't see, calling the dog back. Man came out of a house and dog eagerly started following us so we stopped and waited.
Every time the m…

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
GAN: [Turns and sees Sinofar and Giroc] Blake, we've got company. [When the others look, they have gone] They were here! Two women, watching us. There's nowhere they could have gone.
JENNA: So where are they now?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/73…

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Where have the trees gone ?
I have been traveling on the Delhi - Dehradun highway since college. For the last decade I have been driving on that road.
New roads are coming up. Faster travel time.
Earlier the road sides had trees. They provide shade in the extreme summers. Now there is nothing but a paved road. You cannot even get off it as it's a highway if you wanted to stop.
I am wondering what is the impact of this ? Already the heat is increasing year on ye…

FDA significantly limits COVID-19 vaccine recommendations. Well, #COVID19 IS gone! Isn't it??
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/fda-significantly-limits-covid-19-vaccine-recommendations

"The American elites of the past 20 years have called their foremost principle freedom, but what they meant was impunity. That’s what the original slave masters built: a world where they could do whatever they wanted to whomever they wanted, without consequences. That’s what the techlords dream of today."

Let's goooo! https://mstdn.social/@play4agile/114394245507313408

I've never written a novel or any other intensely-plotted work of fiction, but anyone who has read or watched it played a lot of stories can probably also recognize that some authors just aren't good at endings. They're great at setting things in motion, at keeping the twists and turns coming, at the soap opera style of drama. But they just don't have the craft necessary to tie things together into a satisfying conclusion. I imagine it's much harder than the process of getting things going out keeping them moving, since you both have to wind down all the various threads you've spun up and balance satisfaction with believability.
I just finished Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi, and it has a bad ending. The beginning is fine, the middle has plenty of drama to keep you wanting to see what happens, but the ending is murky, unsatisfying, and manages neither veracity nor satisfaction (even discounting the biggest next step that might reasonably have been left there to make room for a sequel).
Given the other issues with the book, from poor politics, to inauthentic characters, to a techno-optimism that feels as bitter in this moment as it is far from the mark in its predictions, I can't recommended it, despite having read through to the end.
#AmReading

Blimey. That's gone fast.
I guess I'd better start editing some videos then... 😁
#fediverse
If we get to the €35000 target this week, I promise to post a couple of new #Greenland  #science vids on my @tilvids channel.  @icesheets_climate
Who else is in? 8 days to go.
#bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

Interesting piece, especially when taken in conjunction with FFOTUS' crazy tariff wars.
"How America Lost Control of the Seas"
Of course, as with many things that have gone wrong in the US, it begins with Ronnie Reagan.
https://www.theatlantic.…

How America Lost Control of the Seas
Thanks to decades of misguided policy choices, the U.S. has an astonishing lack of maritime capacity.

Current location: Grand Hotel - Torquay

Following up on the post about old #Windows installations, we have this one about floppy disks. Or as some people know them, the "Save" icon.
…

Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks
The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, so why do some people still love using them?

I've gone mouseless for about 2 weeks and it is awesome.

Theories on why we forget our childhoods #science

Why we forget our childhoods
Childhood amnesia makes the memories formed before age 7 a blur. Scientists are trying to figure out why and if they're gone forever.

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
GAN: [Turns and sees Sinofar and Giroc] Blake, we've got company. [When the others look, they have gone] They were here! Two women, watching us. There's nowhere they could have gone.
JENNA: So where are they now?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/73…

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Cooling our old house in summer. This house was built in 1940 so it has gone through all the stages and types of heating you can probably imagine.
We installed a ductless ("air source") heat pump a few years back. This was a revelation after 15 years of "window management" and fans to keep a lid on the intense heat of the Alberni Valley.
It has made a wonderful difference both for cheaper heating in winter and newfound cooling potential in summer. We only could get one big enough for two of three floors.
So basement and main floor have a register like this.
Today, on the first official hot day of summer it is:
Outside temp: 33°C
Top Floor (windows open, fans on): 30°C
Main Floor (windows closed HP set to 23°C): 25°C
Basement (HP set to 23): I would estimate 23°C
We also have a hybrid HP/Electric hot water tank in the basement that I have blowing its outlet air into the room for summer to help keep the temperature down in the basement.
#home #energyefficiency #heatpumps #electric #portalberni

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London Choral Sinfonia & Michael Waldron:
🎵 Summer is gone for chorus [4-part]
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#Facebook front office grabbed great publicity from its bold #billion dollar public #pledge to help solve the #BayArea

Here’s where the money Meta spent on its $1 billion pledge for affordable housing has gone
Executives at Facebook’s parent company in 2022 stopped committing funding to the initiative, slowing progress.