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NFL Pro Bowl sleepers: Ten overlooked players quietly having standout 2025 seasons https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-pro-bowl-sleepers-ten-overlooked-players-quietly-having-standout-2025-seasons

Having a roomba (not actually a roomba, it's a neato botvac; you know, the *other* robot vacuum company that went bankrupt) sometimes feels a bit like having a dog.
*weird loud noises*
me: "Ugh, what did you eat?"
*roomba beeps as I pause it*
me: "A zip tie? No! Drop it. DROP IT."

Source: Rams' Lake out after elbow surgery https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47025263/source-rams-quentin-lake-having-elbow-surgery

I'm glad I saved plenty of older cat videos and memes, now that AI is poisoning the sacred cat media.
I hate having to intensely scrutinize all the newer stuff. 😾

factorio engineer is having a stroke (2025, colorized) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E59ppowIbbU

CNN poll: Democrats are deeply motivated for the midterms despite having dismal views of party leaders (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/18/politics/cnn-poll-democrats-are-deeply-motivated-for-the-midterms-despite-having-dismal-views-of-party-leaders
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p56#a260118p56

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115917100220206490
And having said that, I just got two perfectly-decent Quamina PRs that were minor optimizations suggested by Claude.
Guy who sent them said he’d to tossed out a couple other really idiotic ones, and th…

Boston-based Neurable, which builds an OS for brain-computer interfaces, raised a $35M Series A led by Spectrum Moonshot Fund, bringing its total raised to $65M (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/12/19/neurable-r…

"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
—Kurt Russell
#acting #coaching #inspiration

wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 103068 nodes and 312837 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigrap…

Having just watched #Jaws for the first time in ages, I was stunned by the famous opening sequence ... but not by its cinematography or acting or editing - but by the never-ending chain of in-your-face #continuity errors in lighting once the girl enters the water: one moment we have a low Sun and a red sky, then we have the Sun near the zenith (with a day for night effect) then low again and so on, for several cycles.
Now #Spielberg, is there supposed to be some hidden message here? Well, there isn't.
(Once it's day, fortunately, this problem is gone, and a great movie unfolds, still fresh after 50 years. And I know, you shouldn't mess with a masterpiece, but Lucas added characters to Star Wars IV, and Cameron corrected a wrong star pattern in Titanic, so may be Spielberg could just, for an anniversary special edition ... o.k., I shut up. ;-)

Wilderness 4WDing is a 'hobby' no one should be allowed to have. It's simply wasteful and destructive. It's like having the hobby of demolishing other people's buildings. It's just stupid. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/nati…

Trump confirms his derogatory comment about certain
"shithole countries" made during a meeting on immigration
Almost eight years ago, Donald Trump denied having used the word "shitholes", or "shit" in Spanish, to describe certain African countries during a meeting on immigration in the Oval Office.
Well, he just admitted that he did
-- FactCheck

Today was talking about how bike share economics are wacky and we should make more infrastructure so just having your own bike is obviously better. Precise technical opinions of LED lighting. And the human experience of being ignored as a homeless person.

First steps towards #Codeberg
https://dev.to/tkuenneth/first-steps-towards-codeberg-48hl

I ended up having to have my little buddy put to sleep, yesterday. 😥 🐈

Thank you all for 3,000 followers on here! Here’s a photo of Danny to celebrate the occasion ☺️
3 years into being part of Mastodon, I continue to be impressed with how wonderful the people here are and how much this social network actually FEELS social. People replying to one another, having conversations, learning things, sharing moments of joy, making friends.
Mastodon brought my business clients, helped me gain confidence in my own voice, freed me from dependence on big tech and algorithms, rekindled my interests, introduced me to incredible people and projects, and served as a source of hope in humanity in the times when cynicism and nihilism felt all but inevitable.
I love our little corner of the internet, and am so glad that it’s still here despite everyone who professed it was doomed to fade into irrelevance.
Thank you to everyone reading these words for being here on the Fedi. The world is a little better thanks to your choice to support an independent web.

HarperCollins UK drops children's author and comedian David Walliams following allegations of inappropriate behavior toward young women (Paul Glynn/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev8p7d0gmgo

When did having a LinkedIn presence (mostly flaunting one's cheekbones) actually outweigh publishing good academic papers?

”My argument is that the current structure of public conversation has the same effect on human cognition that a botnet has on a web server. It's simply exhausting you. And an exhausted mind defaults to heuristics and tribal allegiances, aka whatever position allows it to conserve the most cognitive energy.”

”What I do know is that the feeling of being overwhelmed, of never being able to keep up, of having strong opinions about everything and confident understanding of nothing, is n…

Still having issues with a 3D print, already cleaned printer, lubed vertical screws, used IPA on chrome and carbon rods, thoroughly cleaned build plate, cold pulled nozzle, dried filament… I think it might be this specific batch of filament having issues

what is it with public bathrooms and having the worst, most awkward “modern” skins ever

@… having been queer-bashed, I do have more than a few thoughts about things such as homophobia, prejudice, equality, equity, and DEI.
The four paragraphs below are from a mid-November post in Reddit, <

Bloody macOS 26 installed itself whilst I was having lunch

Dear people of Brazil, I'd like to apologise for our chancellor, a man of wealth and no taste with a virtually endless list of shortcomings.
I know it's frustrating having to deal with his BS, we have to do it every day over here. And consider also how good you have it: at least you can call him what he clearly, indulgently and unapologetically is without any fear of punishment.

South Africa considers site near African penguin colony for third nuclear power plant https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/south-africa-considers-site-near-african-penguin-colony-for-third-nuclear-pow…

Who Exactly Is Having a “Crisis of Masculinity”? | Dame Magazine
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/12/16/who-exactly-is-having-a-crisis-of-masculinity/

There is a a very mushy line between education and indoctrination in the UK's approach to religious education. We've had problems ourselves with one of my kids RE teacher declaring that fossils are fake and that the big bang made no sense. I'm perfectly fine with the education part, especially given how important religion is in so many peoples lives. Having knowledge of the basic precepts and practices is an important part of understanding and empathising with others.

No deja muy tranquilo que una persona con este razonamiento esté en la jefatura de cualquier gobierno, menos aún en uno con armas nucleares y que estš rodeado de advenedizos y lameculos https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mj5h6johygkjaoo3dg5q23lm/post/3mcr3a3wqq22f…

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
VILA: You're in charge now, are you?
AVON: Can you think of anyone more suitable? Yourself, perhaps? [Exits]
VILA: And why not? [Shouts after Avon] I'm as good as you are. [Sotto voce] Better probably.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/177<…

f you've been having trouble with Grist plus Firefox 145: Firefox released a bugfix version 145.0.1, https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/145.0.1/releasenotes/ - so if you had to downgrade to get Grist working, you can now upgrade again.

Caelen Carson carving his way forward for Cowboys: 'I feel like I'm back' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/caelen-carson-carving-his-way-forward-for-cowboys-i-feel-like-i-m-back

I urge men — and everyone of a privileged identity — to read the Reddit post in the OP.
We’re the ones who need to hear about these experiences. We’re the ones who need to start learning to recognize it sooner, recognize it at a distance. We’re the ones who need to start sharing notes, sharing warnings, and having our colleagues’ backs.
5/

Jack Bech, Aidan O'Connell using NFL's My Cause My Cleats to pay homage to their brothers https://www.raiders.com/news/jack-bech-aidan-o-connell-nfl-my-cause-my-cleats-pay-homage-to-their-brothers

Waffles having a birthday gelato!
@… #dogs #miami

Exactly one year before Dr King was assassinated, on 4 April 1967,
he gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside church in New York City.
More than 3,000 people were in attendance.
At the time, King had come under intense fire for having renounced the Vietnam war;
his outspokenness put him at odds with Lyndon Johnson,
who felt King should have been indebted to him for his efforts in pushing through civil rights legislation.
It also put King at …

"People should not "blindly trust" everything AI tools tell them, the boss of Google's parent company Alphabet told the BBC.
In an exclusive interview, chief executive Sundar Pichai said that AI models are "prone to errors" and urged people to use them alongside other tools.
Mr Pichai said it highlighted the importance of having a rich information ecosystem, rather than solely relying on AI technology."

years wasted arguing about so-called 'free speech' when in reality that concept was just a tool brought up by some people trying to get away with having said something racist

considering making a new gods teacup as the 1 year anniversary of it approaches. despite my resistance to the idea of this beast having any type of about page, it did make a bit more pronounced splash than other things ive made in the last year, and i dont expect to have anything meaty to show of detondev.com 2 anytime soon lmao

Veganism, a thread 🧵:
Having gone vegan, I genuinely struggle now to square vegetarians' love of animals with the realities of the dairy and egg industries. For context, I grew up vegetarian and went vegan about 5 years ago now, but I realized the inherent moral tension back in college (I just wanted to do some research to ensure I wasn't losing nutrition and stuff, more on that later).
1/?

No love for colleagues who drag themselves into the office despite clearly having a cold.

Went to see Rob Manuel doing his @… show.
The very first one. And my opinions are officially so great I won the very first prize. A jar of his queen themed Maam-olade.
Mostly for provoking Doctor Who discussions and having head-shaving mistakes evident I suspect.
It was a fun night in a tiny pub with mostly old grey gen-Xers agreeing with each other about trivial things and laughing.
Excellent stuff. Nice to see you again Rob. Good times were had.

⚖️ Weight loss alone not enough to boost men's fertility
#medicine <…

For Now.
There’s a glitch in the model here because Disney or whoever can easily mix original work with AI-created work in such a way that the amalgamated works are protected. AI isn’t copylefted: it doesn’t infect works that it is linked to. @…

bob dylan, having a totally normal one & posting excerpts from what purports to be a forthcoming science fiction novel to his instagram (though doesn't exactly say who wrote it or when it might be forthcoming). https://www.instagram.com/p/DTnwybFEXwi/

#cloudflare having "5 neins" availability
#clownflare

Having a day off, and fortunately not running anything that has a Cloudflare frontend.

For some reason I've been banned (without ever interacting or having been in the room)
```
conduwuit_core::matrix::state_res::event_auth:sender cannot join as they are banned from the room
```
#matrix

Is ts tuff on cloudflare dot com 🥀
#CloudflareDown #Cloudflare

I might be the minority here but I feel like if Firefox shipped with AI shit enabled but a huge "DISABLE AI" button you could press to turn it off... I might be okay with that.
If the alternative is (almost) every other browser having AI and no way to turn it off, is a "DISABLE AI" button a win?
It would let the people who care disable it. People who don't care could also disable it, we just need to tell them how and why they should.
1/n

For everyone already sworn into this 119th Congress,
there was no excuse.
There is no excuse.
The refusal to act,
to even start to pound the drum for Trump's impeachment,
is an abdication of their own declared duty to the nation
and destructive in and of itself.

So I’ve got a new gig of sorts. I’ll be a volunteer photographer for the city parks system. The task will be to take pics of folks participating in various programs in the parks and natural areas run by other volunteers, to try and capture that attendees are having fun, especially the kids. The difficulty level is that I’ve never liked photographing people. Go out of my way to keep them out of shots. I’ve done a couple events now, and still just feel intrusive. Hope it gets easier.

Is anyone using Packer and VMware and Rocky Linux? I'm having an issue with Rocky 10 and the packer boot. Using the example boot command here https://docs.rockylinux.org/10/guides/automation/templates-automation-packer-vsphere/ I end up with a …

The joys of working on an open source project that interfaces to obscure, sometimes obsolete hardware: regression testing is almost impossible.
Sure, we can catch regressions in the GUI easily. But if a big fix to a driver breaks things for a different scope supported by that driver, there's no way to test without having one of those scopes around to validate things against.
And there's way too many models of instrument out there for building any kind of CI cluster to be …

Apologising to the sick astronaut, but this made me laugh for about a half an hour #IYKYK

A recurring issue:
Source of Truth vs Point of Truth with many-system setups.
Imagine having separate
- issue tracking (e.g. JIRA)
- time tracking (e.g. Toggl)
- development tracking (e.g. GitLab)
- daily team sync (e.g. Confluence)
- weekly sync with stakeholders (...)
Without diligent manual labor or a lot of handcrafted automation, those keep getting out of sync.

I don't think advert is having the effect it wants when it says I can *save* £700 on *a* phone. I think that covers what I've paid for every phone I've ever bought? With plenty of change.

What Wine Are We Having Today Ray?
Two old schoolmates share a mystery bottle of wine and have a yarn about old and new topics...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-wine-are-we-having-today-ray/

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Having watched the first two episodes, the standouts IMO were Nus Braka (Paul Giamatti), SAM (Kerrice Brooks), Lura Thok (Gina Yashere), and Jett Reno (Tig Notaro).
I fear that, like #StarTrekDiscovery, #StarfleetAcademy’s strong, female captain may be its least interesting character. H…

can I stop having diarrhea please I got shit to do today other than shit

People should have a damn place to live, food to eat, and clothes to wear without having to bleed for it.
But no, capitalism makes you pay just to exist, turning human needs into profit and calling it freedom.
#Socialism #Capitalism

at the moment, everyone having a phone camera is good evidence for reality. you can have multiple angles of the same moment and check them for consistency. it's hard to synthesize that, because gen-AI is bad at continuity.
I expect this to change within 5y. it's expensive to get continuity in high-res video of a 3d scene, but it's achievable.
people will keep trying prompt-to-video, but that will never work as well as prompt-to-scene-file-to-renderer.

It doesn't count if its your own mom.
Thanks mom!

Linux kernel tooling update message included an unsurprising, but noteworthy lament about the state of #SMTP:
"We're increasingly having to deal with the degradation of the SMTP support by
all commercial companies: [...]"

....Huh.
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-avoid-listening-to-radiohead/

Konstantin Ryabitsev, an admin of kernel.org infrastructure, reported on increasing difficulties they are having with SMTP deliveries.
"major hosts are increasingly not interested in getting mail from anyone who isn't also a major mail service provider"
"With lore and public-inbox, we *are* in the process of moving away from
relying on the increasingly unreliable SMTP layer"

Cowboys Again Indicate Good News on Trevon Diggs https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-again-indicate-good-news-on-trevon-diggs/

Oh wow, I just got hold of #GreenMan tickets (Aug next year) for our group having given up! My credit card is a bit melty, but whatevs...

My takeaways from the bincode situation:
* Assume good intentions (while verifying), never dox (duh).
* Normalize having a non-empty .mailmap in repostiories so that name changes can be done less intrusively without calling attention.
* When doing a full-tree rebase, provide a simple text along with it that gives a filter-branch-or-so command that converts an old history into a bit-identical new one (where the old name/data can sit in a nonspecific regexp).

Jack Bech, Aidan O'Connell using NFL's My Cause My Cleats to pay homage to their brothers https://www.raiders.com/news/jack-bech-aidan-o-connell-nfl-my-cause-my-cleats-pay-homage-to-their-brothers

What a waste. This is on the players. Dom needs to bury the PK. Konate cannot get the damn yips and shut down mentally (again). Non penalty xG was 2.16 to 0.33, Burnley having cleared two off the line.
Players need to finish, sure, but it’s the mental mistakes that cost 2 points.
Cruel sport, sometimes.
#LFC

Hope whoever wanted copies of that scrape Anna's Archive did of Spotify (reminder: Spotify began with pirated files, pays artists little to nothing, and funds military tech) has grabbed it already or is grabbing it now.
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-ord

“I never considered what would come after creation.
And having reached the edge of the earth, there was no horizon left.
The achievement felt unnatural.
Void of meaning.
And this troubled me so.”
#Frankenstein https://

Let's begin by quoting, in full, a letter that the president of the United States of America sent yesterday to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr StŸre.
The text was forwarded by the White House National Security Council to ambassadors in Washington, and was clearly intended to be widely shared.
Here it is:
"Dear Jonas:
Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to …

I miss the limits. Forces concise communication. Long posts/threads should be a post on your site. https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115733189272793078

Comix Zone: comically hard
I love the concept, of being pulled into a comic and having to battle through the panels. Having the world shaped by your own hand, and then having enemies drawn in by your enemy is a work of genius. Choosing paths, having to jump across or down past the borders of the picture, is a really engaging mechanic. It looks stunning too, with large sprites which have been drawn full of character and incredibly colourful.

There’s not single shred of evidence, not an iota of a glimpse of a possibly of maybe LLM’s having any sort of even the remotest flicker of thinking.
Claiming that AGI will emerge from them is like saying a horse will spontaneously form if you just roll enough marbles down the hill.

having an all stone fruit meal today

Did you know there are 13 active former No. 1 picks in the NFL? We examine them all https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47250685/former-nfl-number-1-picks-current-nfl-matthew-stafford-myles-garrett-jadeveon-clowney<…

Now officially shopping for an organization, ideally in Canada but absolutely out of US jurisdiction (Europe OK), to provide Web & DNS support. We have a few mostly-dormant WordPress blogs and static sites, a bunch of identity-supporting DNS records, and that's about it. Nothing very high-traffic, should be an easy ask. Would prefer something that demonstrates resilience and stability by having been around a few years.

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: I don't know you.
DAYNA: -space drive. Why it doesn't look anything like as sophisticated as the prototype you were working on at the academy, but that's only to be expected having to work under these conditions.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/358

The Real Reason Pete Carroll Still Believes in Geno Smith https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-real-reason-pete-carroll-still-believes-geno-smith

I think if you’re worth more than say $5 million you should get some sort of “congrats, you won” badge and then you should be banned from owning businesses or having political office for the rest of your life.
Maybe also ban from social media for good measure.

Grumbling yet again at t-mobile 5G having a weird nonstandard MTU that breaks things unpredictably

Sources: Apple is in preliminary talks with India's CG Semi, which offers chip assembly and testing services, to assemble and package chips for the iPhone (Dia Rekhi/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.

though there was that one sunday where he was playing a song where the singer had a thick accent & the chorus was "jah no dead" & my blurry morning brain thought they were singing my last name & i was having a stroke or something. #nyc #radio

A look at Webtoon's IP partnerships, as it struggles to gain traction in the US, which only accounts for ~10% of its sales despite having 155M MAUs globally (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)

Raiders Get Honest Words on Pete Carroll, Geno Smith’s Future https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-geno-smith-honest-words/?adt_ei=[email]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115890020177162654
Imagine having one of those beautiful old houses, in what appears to be a very nice neighbourhood, and having the federal government ruin everything by sending in their goon brigade.

Steelers' Watt at hospital having lung evaluated https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47278047/steelers-tj-watt-hospital-having-lung-evaluated

Config write completion TLPs are now going out the wire but have bogus hard coded dummy CRCs. Almost there!

A movie that is forever burned into my brain is Conspiracy (2001), which is a recreation of the Wannsee conference, were the Nazis decided to kill all Jews is Europe.
The banality of it while they haggle about questions of "legality" and having turf wars while they plan one of the biggest genocides in history is suffocating.
A very timely movie right now if you can stomach it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(2001_film)

Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is "a collection of public fora" and social interaction isn't its "sole purpose" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-leg…

Please please please let the new CEO have taste and not be afraid of having fun

DK Metcalf (stomach) spends night in Baltimore https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47245853/steelers-metcalf-spends-night-baltimore-having-stomach-pain

I really despise having to live through the fall of an empire, entirely brought on by decadence, greed, blind hate and indifference to human suffering.
And there's still tons of "centrists" who think this is "just politics", despite their children having to grow up in a hellscape.