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Analyst floats wild George Pickens trade idea for Dallas Cowboys https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/analyst-floats-wild-george-pickens-trade-idea-for-dallas-cowboys

Book Chapter in Civility Unbound
The idea of civility is predicated on a well-structured society that has norms that should benefit everyone. This essay questions whether such a society exists in the United States and whether what we call “civility” is simply a euphemism for “control.”
https://

I guess not every idea in the marketplace of ideas gets legs

A Sneaky-Good Draft Idea for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-sneaky-good-draft-idea

US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening (Chris McGuire/Council on Foreign Relations)
https://www.cfr.org/article/chinas-ai-chip…

"We also found that the evidence presented for examples of climate benefit, regardless of AI type, tend to be weak whether from companies or organisations like the IEA. The potential benefits are overstated, in surprising and significant ways."
(Original title: NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax)
https://

"I am the programming equivalent of a home cook."
I have talked about it for programming and making, this idea that it can be for personal enrichment, and even mental health, and always thinking about the things you produce in a capitalist/consumer context can be... not great.
https://www.robinsloan.com/…

OK, so. As if the Trump regime hadn’t already dumped enough of their shit on us here in Minneapolis…there’s now talk about them sending •active duty military• to invade (“protect”) our city.
Maybe this is bluster. Maybe this is testing the waters. We have no idea how real these plans are, or if or when this would actually happen. I don’t think the regime does either. Regardless, we take this threat seriously: they’re stupid enough they just might do it. This nightmare could get worse.
1/

Looking for a CSIO (Chief Stop It Officer) position for my next career move. The organization comes to me with some wacky idea, and after much consideration, I say, "No, Stop It!” and we all go back to doing normal-ass work.
Send only serious offers my way.
Update: For a bit extra, I'll squirt your department leads with a water spray bottle.

such a fun label & will pretty much check out anything they put out, but as a non-londoner i had no idea about their main activity as promoters. https://social.lol/@thetonearm/116217980473411117

These are 3 distinct things. Related but distinct:
- The Idea of a Country
- The people of a Country
- The State running the Country

'Maybe DHS Was a Bad Idea' (Nick Miroff/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/dhs-homeland-security-ice-minnesota/685657/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p16#a260117p16

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115914632838313229
“Let’s all dream together to make more unthinkable outcomes reality,”
-- Jared Kushner,
who has long floated an idea of promoting waterfront real estate in Gaza,
wrote Friday on X.

I need to get to the drug store, and I just realized that my nephew's idea of shoveling enough to get my car out isn't the same as mine.

Present thought
Mastodon's the right model. But to be truly *useful* politcally - the Bluesky/Mastodonian idea of "we will make our safe space over here" might be pleasant for many and that's fine
But they're not healthy for useful political discourse, which is often ugly, but generates the necessary talk.
The discussions I'm seeing on Twitter/threads e.g. left v. liberal are finally getting "good." (among others)

NBCU and AMC Theatres strike a deal to bring live coverage of the Milan-Cortina Olympics to 150 AMC locations in the US between February 6 and February 22 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Steelers owner on rebuild: 'I don't like that word' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47611046/steelers-owner-art-rooney-ii-dismisses-idea-rebuild-new-hc

My indiekit blogroll plugin now supports feeding a blogroll page/widget from OPML URL, OPML FILE, Microsub and Feedland
the first two are a given, but the microsub source basically reuse the already subscribed feed from my indiekit microsub implementation and display them as blogroll items and Feedland is more or less the same idea but the source here is a feedland server providing the dynamic OPML input.

The EU is considering a two-step EU membership for Ukraine.
The first step/level would allow Ukraine to gain access to the EU market, subsidies, and development funds.
Not everyone is keen on the idea though:
https://unn.ua/en/news/eu-de…

What? Catering to a known liar and cheat's ego might not be a good idea? How can that be?
Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/18/emb…

What? Catering to a known liar and cheat's ego might not be a good idea? How can that be?
Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/18/emb…

RE: https://theforkiverse.com/@kissinglass/116245405130959789
What a wonderful idea!

A woman calling out the patriarchal system and rape culture... in 1771 London.
This was a great episode of #WhatsHerName podcast, and Catherine Jemmat's memoir is so old that you can read the full scanned version on the Internet Archive from the New York Library.

The EleMenTs Series Is Complete: A Young Adult Fantasy Trilogy
Twenty years ago, I began imagining a story about three disabled teenage girls who discover they possess elemental powers. The idea stayed with me, growing and changing as I grew and changed, waiting for the right moment to be told. That moment has arrived. The EleMenTs Series is complete, and all three novels are now available.

Comedian Gianmarco Soresi on psychopaths.
#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromTheOtherSite

so this password manager paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058 starts with:
> We examine the extent to which security against a fully malicious server holds true for three leading vendors who make the Zero Knowledge Encryption claim: Bitwarden, LastPass and Dashlane
with

EDIT: solved, see answers
--
sorry to bother you, but I'm wondering:
Is there a better way to find past conversations with another user?
I mean written interactions in posts, or the so-called DMs.
Maybe a filter reply notifications by user or date? Or a search for username word?
I can't find some info a mutual gave me, while we were commenting a post I can't remember, and my only idea is going through all my reply notifications
Thanks!
#AskFedi

This makes me so twitchy. This patient status page, served over HTTP and not HTTPS, has the credentials as query parameters. Such shocking op sec in a healthcare environment, both as a deployed solution and a commercial product.
We know the username, have a head start on the password (with a good idea of the encoding), and the presence of a “user privileges” tab [not pictured] suggests the account has more permissions than necessary.
Dear god. 🤦

Bengals trade idea lands Cowboys DT recently acquired in blockbuster trade for cheap https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/cincinnati-bengals/news/bengals-trade-idea-cowboys-dt-recently-acquired-trade-ch…

This is not a bad idea for a safety test
https://youtu.be/ovKw6YjqSfM

RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/116079747512052698
I’ve got an idea about what else we can send into orbit.

before anyone says Elon's cancer-inducing data center in Tennessee is "conservatives getting what they deserve", remember that it's in *Memphis*, Tennessee, a large city with a 60% BIPOC and mostly politically liberal population, in general the privileged *never* get what they deserve and the the idea that they do is used to divide the working class against the supposed "backwards" populations who "deserve" right-wing policies

OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/15/former-…

Here's the song/idea that Boots based his upcoming movie 'I Love Boosters' on.
https://youtu.be/geY-ydeYb4M
This record (Pick a Bigger Weapon) came out in 2006- this year is its 20th anniversary. So cool that now, 20 years later, Boots gets this movie out. You can hear the inspiration her…

Vietare cose ad altre persone è facile
L'Australia ha adottato misure per obbligare le aziende di social media a impedire ai minori di 16 anni di avere un account, e si parla sempre di seguire l'esempio del Regno Unito. Oggi voglio spiegare brevemente perché ritengo che sia una cattiva idea.
https://

Strikes run on pizza.
Turns out they also can begin to end on them.
Several pies, in fact, arrived on North Shore Drive on the brisk Tuesday that was Oct. 18, 2022,
when the strikers first walked out of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom
because the PG had violated federal labor law.
The workers said they would not go back to their jobs until their employer followed the rules.
They had no idea it would take three years
and become the nation’s lon…

RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/116078142963705558
Jeepers. I had no idea this had been made public yet. I don't know if I will be able to stomach watching it.

So far I don't care for how I have activityPub integrated in to #tvmarks. It tried to be a full activityPub app but I think I just want to oauth with mastodon/bluesky and make post updates to the authed account.
I guess maybe this will mess up the idea of being able to reply to a post and it shows up on the website as a comment? I'm not sure, but I'm thinking about it.

Might it be an idea to get regime change in America, too?

Today's #HamRadio project was making elevated radials for an HF vertical. I have a 25' whip, a JPC-12, and some random parts I made. My idea is to have more efficient elevated radials, but unlike ground-coupled radials, elevated radials need to be tuned.
I thought this would take me 1–2 hours.
It took about 5 hours.
When you have ground-coupled radials, you have only o…

@sparrow@mstdn.games I thought about it but didn’t like the idea of custom clients for everything. I have too many systems.

"Plaid Cymru plans to share wind farm profits with local people – here’s how that idea has been tried elsewhere"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales

"The arc of history bends towards justice."
- literally propaganda levels of distortion
- justice for whom?
- are you still talking about that weird Greeks -> Romans -> (white) Europeans -> American colonizers inconsistently ethnocentric idea of history?
"The arc of history bends towards material and sociological configurations which have long-term stability."
- true by definition
- highlights value of millennia-old indigenous sociological configurations and knowledge systems that are still around and which could reasonably outlast the current millennium-young self-destructive necropolitical mess
- applicable at any timescale of interest
- hard to say
Unfortunately, "nuclear wasteland" and "Venus" are both material configurations which have long-term stability, but history offers plenty of other options; not every human gets cancer.
#anarchism

Book Chapter in Civility Unbound
The idea of civility is predicated on a well-structured society that has norms that should benefit everyone. This essay questions whether such a society exists in the United States and whether what we call “civility” is simply a euphemism for “control.”
https://

Earwigs are among those animals that suffer from a kind of reputational inertia: once an idea lodges itself in cultural memory, it is hard to dislodge, even when it is wrong. The name carries a superstition - the medieval belief that these insects crawl into human ears. There is no evidence for this, and never has been. Earwigs are no more interested in ears than they are in theology or municipal planning.
Biologically, earwigs belong to the order Dermaptera, a name derived from Greek …

Idea: an AI assistant called "Grawk" that only responds with crow sounds

@…

I try to be as transparent as possible on the website. 😊 The idea is to help people in Sweden find other Sweden-related accounts on the Fediverse.

The intent is to make it easier for people to find interesting people to follow when they are new to the Fediverse.

Anyone can add themselves, so it's 100% v…

Recently, the tagging with #abcde doesn't work anymore. It calls #eyeD3 but it doesn't set the tags because of missing quotes in the call. I'm using the "newest" version on fedora which is from 2019.
Any idea how that happens?

The computer inside a keyboard idea is back and I love it. https://bookofadamz.com/ces-the-hp-eliteboard-g1a-next-gen-ai-pc-is-an-old-idea-resurrected-beautifully/

I've a better idea.
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
Davey advocates what the Western consensus deplored in Iran.
Double standards
UK must build own nuclear missiles to end US reliance, says Ed Davey - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0dz1k0rr4o…

Campus is closed* but the Faculty Club is open. I suspect this gets close to many of my colleagues' idea of perfection: a university without students.
*due to snow

RE: #PhanpySocialDev

And there it is. The end of Democracy. Because our Congress & Supreme Court failed us. But most of all, the voters.
☑️ 'Dictator' Trump floats idea of canceling midterm elections
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dictator-trump-floats-ide…

Commenting on this video @… made in Wisconsin about farmers standing up for immigrants against ICE and the whole MAGA project
The idea of a white Upper Midwest had to be forced into existence
The people who tried to record the folk music of the Upper Midwest in the 1930s for the Library of Congress never publicly released the records because th…

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.

What's that? I've published a new article on my website?
All other writing has been on hold until I finished it, but my data review of 2025 is finally done 😅 🎉
I have absolutely no idea if it will be of interest to anyone else, but I love these posts. And this year's was using **even more** of my own, home-grown data, captured directly via the very site it now lives on 😁
#IndieWeb #YearInReview #DigitalHomesteading

million dollar tribute act idea, yours for free: cover solo jonathan richman songs in the style of the (original) modern lovers.

Oh look, tax cheats. #epstein

No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had
was had by someone before you.

Stavo pensando di dare una mano ai creatori di Uriel poi sono andato in bagno e ho scoperto che non era cioccolata! Che idea!

Latest Coaching Rumor Is Concerning News for Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/coaching-search-rumors-kevin-stefanksi/

Found a real-world difference between Claude Haiku 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5 today. As an experiment, I posed a question to it that I had gotten wrong a couple years ago. The question requires knowledge of TLS protocol details and thinking through their implications. Sonnet 4.5 caught the trap immediately (faster than I did back when I had the idea), Haiku 4.5 missed it, even when explicitly asked to think about the details of the TLS protocol.
So, yeah, it's not just differences in abstr…

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

Conversation at the commercial gas storage operator's office:
- Boss, I have a business idea!
- What's that?
- We can fill up our storage this coming summer at €49.81 per MWh, and then sell the gas next winter for €47.46!
- Umm, no.

This air quality sensor breakout board from Adafruit just measured the PM 2.5 AQI as 59 outside my front door (which isn't that great), but it matches exactly what AirNow.gov is currently reporting.
The AirNow.gov numbers are based on multiple sensors and modeling, so I really had no idea how close they would be.
Now I have to figure out a way to use the board that doesn't require taking my laptop outside.

Q&A with The Atlantic's Liz Bruenig on her hypothetical creative nonfiction measles essay, writing in second person, persuading parents about vaccines, and more (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-atla

Tillis Rejects Idea for Clearing Path to Warsh Fed Confirmation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-12/tillis-rejects-idea-for-clearing-path-to-warsh-fed-confirmation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p86#a260212p86

@… Thanks for the feedback!
Great idea to use Jinja! I’ve considered using a macro processor (e.g., m4) for similar tasks, but who wants to write m4 macros!? A template engine is a much better idea.

@… Thanks for the feedback!
Great idea to use Jinja! I’ve considered using a macro processor (e.g., m4) for similar tasks, but who wants to write m4 macros!? A template engine is a much better idea.

Amazing how a demonstrably bad idea can still pull in massive funding.
SpaceX's orbiting data center is one such idea. Space isn't "cold", it's a vacuum, the same thing that makes high-performance insulated tumblers work so well. In orbit, shedding heat will be a bigger problem than any faced on earth, such as supplying electricity.
#SpaceX

RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/115899211758268451
If you’re in any way surprised by this you clearly have no idea who Jimmy Wales actually is.

{annotater}: Annotate package load calls, so we can have an idea of the overall purpose of the libraries we’re loading: #rstats

I haven't written about it because I have no idea how to write about it. NATO arming against the United States?! The US threatening what some have called the longest period without "global war" since the fall of the Roman empire? Cruel was bad enough; do we need stupid too?

#Swift Concurrency as a call-out feature makes my inner engineer happy.
(Also, super interesting idea; shared with me by @… )
https://…

This gives me an idea for a new Olympic event...
"Love in a cold climate: Winter Olympic village runs out of condoms after three days"
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/13/winter-olympic-vi…

Two screenshots of the lock screen on my iPhone 17 Pro whose difference confounds me. In one the contrast is good and I can read the numbers on the pad, but the time and battery status are hidden. In the other, the key pad is pretty much invisible but I can see the time and battery. I have no idea how to trigger the contrastier one; it just sometimes does this.
Is this phenomenon known? Explicable? It's as if the new UI is sometimes ashamed to show how unreadable it is and compensates before hiding again.
Somebody made this happen. Any idea why?

@… @… Yes. Jonathan himself being one of them.
What’s your idea of serious action? Pushing our government representatives by repeatedly calling them, emailing them, and protesting in front of them, sure sounds like serious actio…

"Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation"
Of course they are. "AI" people are Blockchain people and they'd love to force people into money that _they_ control
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-compute

The idea that the shape of our solar system is rare is very interesting.
#space

Projecting Cowboys alignment in 3, 4-man fronts show needs not yet met https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/17/texas-two-step-dallas-cowboys-linemen-fit-christian-parke…

Just finished "The Phantom Scientist" by Robin Cousin, translated into English by Edward Gauvin. It's a book I really enjoyed, although of course being an academic computer scientist it pushes a lot of my buttons. The idea of an "Institute" fated to descend into chaos, a systems expert tasked with slowing that process, and researchers whose results are a bit too effective for their own good is a catnip setting for me, and the points about epistemology although somewhat diluted are quite nice.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea.
“Trump called me down to the Oval Office,”
John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian.
💥“He said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy #Greenland.”
It was an extraordinary proposal.
And it originated from a longtime friend of the president who would go …

Didn't all the idiots vote for Trump because "he tells it like it is"? He's telling you that he's taking over the media, he's telling you that he started a war that he has no idea how to finish, he's telling you that he wants to rig elections, he's telling you that he hates veterans and reports any absolutely anyone whom he considers "not loyal", he's telling you that he's an autocrat. And yet somehow they still don't hear him?

It's interesting to see folks starting to argue that humans should NOT be in the loop for AI workflows. Even whole companies are built around the idea.
From a software creation and library author perspective, does that mean we should start building SDKs for AIs to consume rather than other developers? In that case, verbosity, parameter explosion, and simple, composable methods make more sense than rationalizing what a person might expect to be obvious.

I was watching a YouTube video this morning where somebody was talking about a coffee app where you (the user) search for roasters in your area that you like and it shows you nearby coffee shops that use that roaster. You can then get a list of coffee's that you can buy from that coffee shop. It also has a journaling aspect to help you figure out what your favorites are. I kind of liked that idea.

Transcript: Can Trump's Thugs Be Reined In? These Dems Have an Idea. (New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/205109/transcript-can-trump-thugs-reined-in-dems-idea
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p42#a260109p42

Trade Idea Has Raiders Land $110 Million WR

Iran:
Arab nations in the region have already urged Trump not to attack Iran, an idea he has been discussing since early this month as the government there cracked down on protests engulfing the country.
Israel’s leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has also asked Trump to postpone any attack on Iran, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.
Israeli and Arab officials fear Iran would retaliate by striking their countries

I was ready to enjoy the idea of this but hate the song... but this works.
GWAR cover “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan by The A.V. Club
#music

Austin-based webAI, which is building AI models that run locally on devices, raised "high double-digit" millions in a Series A at a $2.5B pre-money valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/webai-sovereign-cloud-unicorn

Trump will do anything to grab power and prepare for dictatorial rule
He now floats the idea of U.S. boots on the ground in Mexico
"to fight drug cartels",
once again reinforcing his complete disregard for the concept of state sovereignty.
According to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Trump has been pushing for
"the participation of U.S. forces” even though Mexico says it’s not necessary.
Nonetheless, The New York Times has reported that…

Flipping the No. 1 pick for a new D-line in 3-round Raiders mock draft https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/16/flipping-the-no-1-pick-for-a-new-d-line-in-3-round-raiders-mock-draft/

A good mother just goes by intuition and witchcraft
while her children die of diseases we thought had been eliminated a generation ago.
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3mcig3frdn72y

'Dictator' Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections (Sarah Ewall-Wice/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dictator-trump-floats-idea-of-canceling-midterm-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p121#a260106p121

Report: Cowboys 'probably not going there' with 2x-Pro Bowler; still seeking LB help https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/10/cowboys-steelers-lb-patrick-q…

I feel like we are witnessing the #moronification of government.
Add violence/genocide and not too different from the Khmer Rouge
-- Kendyl Hanks
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.

The New York Times reported that
Meta is considering adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses.
According to an internal Meta document,
the company may launch the product
“during a dynamic political environment
where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us
would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
This is a bad idea that Meta should abandon.
If adopted and released to the public,
it would …

"We don’t really think about our future – we remember it",
said Dr Hal Hershfield, who studies how humans think about time and how that influences our emotions and behaviors.
When we daydream or envision ourselves at a later point, we essentially create a memory.
We then use these memories to construct our ideas about the future.
This process is called “episodic future thinking”;
it supports our decision-making, emotional regulation and ability to p…

On TikTok and Instagram, young people are diving into the joys of Chinese culture – from drinking hot water to playing mahjong – all under the banner of “Chinamaxxing”.
On the Chinese internet, however, the US is losing its decades-long grip on soft power, and is instead being replaced by a darker trend: "the kill line".
The kill line is a dangerous place to be.
In gaming, the term refers to the point at which a player’s strength is so depleted that one more blo…