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frost

Damn, I know that corner. I go by there regularly. I know people who used to live in the apartment building in the background. I used to walk over there in college to buy Ben & Jerry’s at the SA.
I still can’t get over how surreal it is to have this happening…here. Where I am. Again. https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115879839506446165

You can share this with your asshole "conservative" relatives
If you have "conservative" friends for the love of fuck block me you fucking freak
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters

This shitwipe is in my city right now. And his presence is part of the escalation strategy: the right is desperately trying to get themselves a martyr here. Everything he and his ilk do is taunting, inflammatory, inciting.
https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115884803797676959

Of course this only matters for certain styles of games. Not every game needs ray tracing to look the part.
If you are a game developer: first decide how the game should look and only after decide which rendering technique is best.

As with the Ottawa truckers thing, I think we are expected to suspect videos like this are all funded fabrications and the channel itself a Russian asset?
🚨BREAKING: ICE SHOOTS AND KILLS WOMAN in Minneapolis
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LnfiWmX_mTE&si=7IUL_7h9EUnHTVJ1

NOSZ KURWA MAĆ
https://101010.pl/@rzeczpospolita/115865243014764130

As the Red Army was pushing into Berlin, Hitler tried to order the destruction of German Industry. It was not simply to prevent the allies from continuing, but also to punish the German people for failing him. The film Downfall portrays him believing that the German people had shown themselves to be weak and that they deserved to die.
Trump has always had some Hitler energy. It's been reported multiple times that he keeps a collection of Hitler speeches by his bed. As he threatens Greenland, everyone wants to jump to compare that to Poland. The thing is, he doesn't have Hitler 1939 energy. He has Hitler 1945 energy.
Everyone knows he's a pedophile and a rapist. He's a loser and he'll do anything to distract from that. He would literally start WWIII if he thought it would give him a few more days. He's a coward who's afraid to face what he's done. But he's a coward with nuclear weapons.
I just hope the people around him value their life more than they are loyal to him.

Okay that was a good reveal though.

The #EU reached a complicated compromise on the regulation of biotech #crops last Thursday. This is a significant step, from negotiations under the Danish presidency 🇩🇰. The proposal still needs to be ratified by the Council and @…, though both were already participating to reach this stage.
There's a lot of detail of course but one key biological aspect is that varieties with the smallest, so-called NGT-1 changes would no longer be regulated under GMO rules, and would be labelled for marketing as seeds but not their products thereafter. Not so for NGT-2.
➡️ https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/12/04/new-genomic-techniques-council-and-parliament-strike-deal-to-boost-the-competitiveness-and-sustainability-of-our-food-systems/

My controversial take on "AI" ray tracing helpers are that it's a really good idea.
First some background: keep in mind that machine learning tecnologies excell at tasks that have a high reward for success and a small cost for failure. In this case getting most of the rays right improve performance, at the cost of some few rays being shot in nothing.
Secondly, light rays are way too many in real life to be simulated in their entirety, so using some statistics to approximate the lighting model makes a lot of sense here. Plus at the lower quantum scale even phisicists use statistic to explain this stuff, so it's not that irrealistic either.
Finally the source data for this stuff is entirely other games, so ethically sourcing the training data set should not be a concern here.
Here, technology can be good or bad. It's not the tech, it's the use of the tech by the people (but that I mean oligarchic corporations) that makes them good or bad.

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chimp

Why is it finally ready now after ten years of being a barely functional input-only android app?
A few weeks ago I saw #vibeCoding #shakespeare

Est-ce que madame Dittli n'épouserait pas monsieur Maudet ?
Ils ont quelques points communs 🤭

I think putting the `y` coordinate first in the Point struct and using a BTreeMap/BTreeSet (which is sorted by the key) was quite neat. It allowed me to query ranges (i.e. rows) efficiently without the need to keep the whole grid in memory.

Gewisse, ansonsten sehr meinungsstarke Bubbles, sind dann doch recht wortkarg bezüglich des Amnesty International-Berichts über den 7. Oktober und die Verbrechen von Hamas und anderen islamistisch-terroristischen Gruppen.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/politics-h8vn14lnz/-/a-37h34EkjStO7-TyRJwWj1g:a:3199720-/0
No evidence, but an oddly high suicide count.

They’re trying to make her fill the same role Data and Spock and and Dax and the Doctor do in various ways, but so not as well as most of them.

The first paragraphs of this article are big news (I think?? IANAL): the FBI tried to shut MN out of the investigation of ICE’s murder of Renee Good, which almost certainly is the start of a cover-up. Minnesota initially threw up its hands and said “well that sucks.”
Today we learn that Minnesota and Hennepin County are still gathering evidence themselves, apparently independently of the FBI. My hope is that this is in pursuit of state charges, in defiance of the Trump-controlled FBI.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/09/minnesota-begins-collecting-evidence-into-ice-shooting-following-ousting-by-feds/

Hearing a lot of people saying that Trump can't profit from his raid because it takes years to build an oil extraction drilling system and refinery and mines. His term will be over! His life may already be at it's end!
But of course you can get credit based on expectation of future gains, plus the bribes don't take decades to mature to full production! The bribes start right away!

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hr verlässt Social-Media-Plattform X: Der Hessische Rundfunk wird die Social-Media-Plattform X künftig nicht mehr nutzen. Das hat die hr-Programmdirektion entschieden. #hesssenschau
#X #SocialMedia

Dobra, przez tego @… obczajam o co dzisiaj chodzi z Legią Warszawa.
Ekstraklasę (kiedyś I ligę) śledziłem ostatni raz pod koniec lat 90. i kopara mi opadła na widok Motoru Lublin w Ekstraklasie.
I to oczko wyżej od Legii XD
#pilkanozna #football #legia

This would be SO MUCH BETTER if Sam was just a human being weird and human.

Die Zeit hat einen Liveblog zu den Protesten im #Iran. https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2026-01/proteste-iran-teheran-tote-liveblog

The headline "The Bundeswehr is now investigating, with the help of local police, who could be behind the theft." can have two syntactic structures:
1. The Bundeswehr, with the help of local police, is investigating who (= interrogative pronoun) is behind the theft.
2. The Bundeswehr is investigating (the theft), with the help of local police, who (= relative pronoun) are the persons who might be behind the theft.
#linguistics #ambiguity

Defenestration

OMG THIS EPISODE IS SO ANNOYING.
Also: I see and even appreciate what they're trying to do here but UGH.
Sam is a _completely alien_ entity being played for ~autistic and human here.

What punishment would coax programmers to expand their fucking elided text? FFS.
Pick one:
Th…
Th…
Th…
What POSSIBLE excuse is there for this ubiquitous bad practice? Is it taught in the schools this way?
Some describe me as calm, and I say oh yeah? give me five minutes alone with 21st century software.

The best coverage I’m seeing right now is from MPR News, who have more details incoming. I’m going to let them take it from here and sign off a bit for my own mental health:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/07/shooting-south-minneapolis-ice-agents-federal-operation
Please be warned that there are a few graphic details in that coverage. Please take care of your mental health, too.

Solidarität mit den Protesten im Iran! Das Regime muss fallen. Das Regime wird fallen. #IranProtests #Iran https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2026-01/menschenrechtler-ngo-tote-proteste-iran-gxe

ahead
yeah, chosen and submitted without thinking!

The details I do have:
- Opting not to post location here; I don’t think that’s helpful
- Folks on the scene think it was a community member who was shot; definitely was not an agent
- Agents pulled guns on a doctor who attempted to administer first aid
- Conflicting reports on how many people hit and their condition
- There is video
Just grim.

Epstein’s messages give us a glimpse, one we were never meant to see, of a shadowy world of international espionage, deregulated finance, far-right politics, eugenicist race science, information warfare, and unfathomably intricate human trafficking networks.
https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

Hummm. Wonder if the UK will have to support the USA invading Venezuela because it's a member of Nato?
Or if we'll just support it because we also want western oil companies to have access to those oil fields?
Or maybe we'll sanction the USA like we sanctioned Russia for their illegal invasion?
No? Why is everyone laughing?
Anyway. These days it's cool to invade other countries and kidnap their presidents to steal their oil it seems. Even though the oil needs to stay in the ground.
🙄
#war #venezuela

Media outlets confirm (see replies) but don’t have any more details than I do on exactly what happened.
Awful news.

I’m now hearing word that ICE just killed somebody in Minneapolis. I have no solid details. I’ll post more when I hear more info that is verified and sharable.
UPDATE: Word is someone •shot• by ICE, not just e.g. injured by their dangerous and reckless driving. Again, this is all rumors flying between neighbors for now.

bleak

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/post/3mebyh5lyb22j

7 TPS officers, retired officer charged in police corruption, organized crime investigation
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/02/05/toronto-police-service-officers-arrested-project-south-organized-crime/

If it ends up with a whole storyline about Klingons making home it’d be amazing though. But I bet this is more of a very special episode sort of deal. Cultural quandary of the week.

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carom

Really this was the first episode that felt like trek. Still stupid compressed and stupidly high stakes but so much better.

shock

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below

gloat