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2026 NFL Draft: Best, worst and most interesting picks for each NFC team

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-draft-best-worst-most-interesting-nfc-picks/

My eDP->HDMI converter arrived...and is confusing me! The picture with 'edp dp in' is the converter - note how the denser pins are nearer the triangle on the board - but there's also a triangle on the socket itself at the other end; looking at the other picture, which is the original panel, the connector is in the same orientation - but.... all the interesting stuff matches the cable.

2026 NFL Draft: Best, worst and most interesting picks for each AFC team

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-draft-afc-best-worst-most-interesting-picks/

It's interesting that our society, in order to "think of the children", isn't lifting a finger to go after the adults who harm the children, going as far as ignoring evidence that a lot of men in the highest echelons of society are child rapists.
Instead we are restricting the rights of children, and with it the rights of adults who aren't heinous criminals.

I don't want this important news to go unnoticed: the National Library of Scotland's Access team have given names to collection trolleys including: Trolly Parton, George Orwheel, Wheeliam Shakespeare, Daphne du Trollier, Rene Descart, Cart Cobain, JRR Trollkein, Cart Vader, and Mary Wheelstonecraft.
Via @cawston.bsky.social's

🤔 Interesting read on Mozilla's position on implementing the Web Translation API https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1015

Interesting article about "turtle tanks"
#military

Turtle Tanks: A Dead End in Modern Warfare
Turtle tanks have become a familiar sight on the Ukrainian battlefield, but are they a dead end in modern warfare?

A web-based LibreOffice could be interesting!
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/

LibreOffice Online: a fresh start - TDF Community Blog
LibreOffice is a desktop application, but we get many requests for a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure. Several years ago, project members started to develop LibreOffice Online, but in 2022 the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation voted to freeze the project and put it in the “attic”, for reasons that have now been superseded. Earlier this month, the current Board of Directors decided to revoke those votes to give new life to the proje…

Interesting for my job posting - the first week I got bombarded with applications from so many countries, but just a few from Indonesians.
The last week, it's been only #Indonesia applicants coming in.

This is interesting/weird; Anthropic "retired" Claude 3. They are going to keep it around. They did an "exit interview" with the LLM and one of the things was asked it how it would like to be retired. And it asked to write a weekly blog post! #AI

"The protocol fight is interesting the way medieval siege warfare is interesting — I'm glad someone's into it, but it has no bearing on my life."
-- @…
I so feel that!
https://

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

Interesting German project on granular tracking of renewable energy for (public) EV charging, and the use of data spaces to enable safe data exchange between various actors
https://www.dena.de/infocenter/gruener-strom-zum-mitnehmen/

Grüner Strom zum Mitnehmen
Wie sorgen virtuelle Bilanzierung und digitale Verbrauchsnachweise für Transparenz über grünen Strom bei Ladevorgängen? Antworten liefert das Factsheet.

I have been a huge LLM sceptic, but after testing @… 's #LeChat this week (they get bonus points for sustainability, privacy and are EU based and regulated and not #UStech either), I'm starting to be seriously impressed - they have moved on a lot.
I can see why these tools are taking off for daily life.
@… has an interesting piece on LLMs in general in the FT today too:
Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/b18870c7-de35-4325-9a9b-5c038ee3ceba

Bunch of kinda criticisms of Wolf 3D in this piece here, but also some interesting insights on playing one handed by using the mouse with sensitivity turned up fully (and of course using a map). I'm so used to keyboard, but thinking now, when I played it on a Mac in the 90s, I may have messed with using a mouse for it some.

A very interesting question today at #fossnorth. How can we achieve #interoperability without the dependency of a centralized system as the European Union? Any thoughts? #fsfe

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116479645068659903
interesting

BBC TV 10pm news had about 5 minutes exhaustive coverage of some US golfer crashing a car. Why???
Not news. Not interesting. Not relevant. Get off.

#MichelleObama has a podcast—who knew? not me) and here’s one from last week where she talks with #JoshJohnson. He comes on at 4:50. I’ve only just started watching it so I’ll 🧵 to this toot later with some reaction. I like him, I like her, so I’m thinking it’ll be interesting. It’s long, at an …

@… @… It seems that this is an interesting case of different disciplinary expectations.
Putting on my computer scientist’s hat, I’d say it’s simply a typical approach you use in CS. Whether round-tripping is …

@… @… It seems that this is an interesting case of different disciplinary expectations.
Putting on my computer scientist’s hat, I’d say it’s simply a typical approach you use in CS. Whether round-tripping is …

Podcast-Empfehlung: Nach der Idee des Studio d'Essai in Paris und dem Studio für Elektronische Musik in Köln startete die BBC in den späten 1950ern den Radiophonic Workshop, um Elektronik mit Musik zu verbinden. Bekanntest Produktion dürfte die Sound- und Musikwelt der BBC-Serie Dr. Who sein. Bei Twenty Thousand Hertz gibt es eine schöne Podcastfolge über die Entstehung und das Wirken des BBC Radiophonic Workshop, enjoy:

Doctor Who & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop — Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
What does a time machine sound like? Or a magic carpet? For the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, that was just another day at the office. For 40 years, this oddball collective of engineers and composers pushed the boundaries of sound design, crafting eerie atmospheres, quirky jingles, and the iconic audio

@… Would be interesting to know if he made prior contact to P☠️tin …

Sora’s downfall signals broader problems with AI’s creative utility https://theconversation.com/soras-downfall-signals-broader-problems-with-ais-creative-utility-280013

Sora’s downfall signals broader problems with AI’s creative utility
AI’s apparent inability to generate interesting and unique images and videos is becoming harder to ignore.

Thank you to @… for this review of 'Habitations'. 🙏 It's always interesting how people home in on (sorry - couldn’t resist, given the themes 😜) very different aspects of what you've done; here, I was surprised to read chaos in the album being emphasised. The line between friction and familiarity seems thinner the longer you sit with a sound.

One small but interesting phenomenon about the Boston area.
Take water south of the Charles river (Boston, Brookline) tastes pretty good. North of the river (Cambridge) is like drinking diluted Pepsi bismol.

RE: #RSS

https://sci-hub.ru/ started their own bot: https://sci-bot.ru/ .
you'll need to pay for fast access, but it seems interesting at least.

Interesting, RAG system combining Docling document processing with ChromaDB vector storage to power openclaw https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/18/interesting-rag-system-combining-docling

#bloomScrolling #tulips

Interesting and probably controversial observation for many by Andrew Ng,
" I’ve stopped writing code by hand. More controversially, I’ve long stopped reading generated code. I realize I’m in the minority here, but I feel like I can get built most of what I want without having to look directly at coding syntax, and I operate at a higher level of abstraction using coding agents to manipulate code for me."

The New Open-Weights Leader, Big AI’s Political Influence, Predicting Illness, and more...
The Batch AI News and Insights: Will AI create new job opportunities? My daughter Nova loves cats, and her favorite color is yellow.

Inside the NFL Draft: Ty Simpson pick explained, surging TEs and favorite strategies https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7235565/2026/04/28/nfl-draft-ty-simpson-strategies-favorite-classes-tight-ends/

Recently Released Insight into Raiders' HC Search Is Troubling https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/recently-released-insight-into-hc-search-troubling

Interesting intersection of politics and technology.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/strait-hormuz-choking-bitcoin-not-134900366.html

Strait of Hormuz is choking Bitcoin, not just oil. But there's a catch
The Strait of Hormuz might be just 21 nautical miles wide, but it is a vital artery connecting the Persian Gulf to the global market. With the ongoing...

Perhaps the main difference between myself and vibe coders is that we have completely different backgrounds.
I've learned coding as a kid, with no friends and no Internet. I didn't do it because it was cool; nerdy stuff was the exact opposite of cool and was likely to get you bullied. I didn't do it because it promised good salary; as a 10-year old, I didn't ponder much about my future, let alone salary. I did it because I was bored, and it was something interesting to do.
I didn't do specific exercises, but rather created whatever I've found interesting. I wasn't graded, I had all the time in the world, and I've enjoyed solving problems. Even if I had access to the Internet, I doubt I would start looking for ready solutions and copy-pasting them. My code was always mine, and I was proud of it; at least at the time.
Of course, nowadays I do stuff I don't enjoy as well. But I'm a grown man who takes responsibility for what I do. And even if my code is shit, it is my shit, and 100% eco.
#NoAI #NoLLM

An excellent explanation on why the hype about LNG and the claim from conservatives that 'renewables raise electricity prices"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk0Zm_xpk3c Interesting to hear about this from the US side. And yeah, who's to blame? Yup. Private power corporations, powe…

Interesting odd coincidence just now: one friend declared themselves now likely unable to repay a soft loan to them made some years ago, while another made their first repayment in a while at a rather handy moment.

“It seems that AI is now mainstream in software engineering.”
It’ll be interesting to see how this works out now that the price gauging has started…
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-tooling-2026

I'm afraid my students might not be pleased with one of tomorrow's assigned readings. Of course, I didn't read it ahead of time and threw it on the syllabus mainly because of the topic and the fit with this week's lecture. I should've known that the author, who writes mildly interesting but bone dry stuff now, wouldn't have written more interesting or less dry material in the past.

“Agents shouldn’t have to figure everything out from scratch.”
Sure is an interesting way to describe the wholesale theft of intellectual property.
1. Yes, they should.
2. But they don’t.
Such nonsense.
https://mastodon.social/@MozillaAI/116279201448628…

interesting british mediaeval churches documented by just one bloke. impressive. architecture, gargoyles, fonts, carvings etc. there is a lot. loads. lots of photos.
https://www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/index.html

@… @… Well, I wrote that it’s not surprising ;-)
The results probably aren’t as meaningful as they may appear at first glance, but I still think that the paper raises a number of interesting questions, even t…

@… @… Well, I wrote that it’s not surprising ;-)
The results probably aren’t as meaningful as they may appear at first glance, but I still think that the paper raises a number of interesting questions, even t…

Two attempts to simply extrapolate the brightness of #Kreutz comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) from what happened in the past few weeks, from all visual observations reported to COBS (left) and from all CCD observations of the past month which would have the brightness climb a bit faster. But as the previous post in the thread has shown even in the geometrically preferred southern hemisphere MAPS is lost in twilight from about March 30 to April 7 - and even in the optimistic model the comet has reached only 6th magnitude when it is lost and is down again to 5th when it is recovered: unless something drastic would happen *all* hope for an interesting show rests on a possible post-perihelion dust tail. Good luck ...

from my link log —
Interesting JavaScript bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression in ESLint.
https://eslint.org/blog/2022/07/interesting-bugs-caught-by-no-constant-binary-expression/
saved 2023-11-09

Interesting bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression - ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript Linter
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nakal/116288508020622073
Pretty interesting read, this.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/116465094141814972
Interesting and somewhat supporting a hypothesis I shared a few times.
It’s both not as bad as expected and also centralising the cost and billing the ones who create the in…

Interesting
#ai

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

I watched an interesting talk this evening: https://www.hampshireskeptics.org/25th-february-2026-taking-off-the-blindfold-about-plastic-waste-how-making-waste-visible-changes-behaviour/

25th February 2026 Taking Off the Blindfold about Plastic Waste: How Making Waste Visible Changes Behaviour
We often assume we understand our own environmental impact, but recent research suggests we may be viewing waste through a kind of blindfold. This talk explores how that blindfold forms, what happe…

The people that are making Star Trek are doing some of the most interesting storytelling. It doesn’t always land for me, but when it does, it’s breathtaking.
#StarTrek #strangenewworlds #starfleetacademy

Why this is all relevant to the OP is that there is actually nothing preventing us from exploiting these same vulnerabilities (and doing so far more effectively). The (illusion of The) Satanic Temple has already given us some vision of what that could look like. We can imagine a religious institution that actually challenges power in the way TST claims to do. We could imagine an institution that is more radical. We could imagine an institution so dangerous it actually forces the state to choose between it's own survival and alienating liberals by (more) visibly clamping down on freedom of religion.
One could imagine an anarchist or solar punk religion that intentionally builds an alternative society within the shell of the old, one that recognizes the validity of other religious sects (like, for example, Quakers) who are doing similar things.
While there is a very interesting spiritual element to #CultPunk. I think there's also a very interesting set of radical opportunities that we have long since ignored....

Interesting!
(Since I am a person with “professor” in their bio, I guess I should add a disclaimer: I haven’t vetted or even understood this analysis myself; the boost is just to say that I think it’s an interesting line of thought, and am glad folks like Christine are paying attention to these questions.)

Found this interesting rock in the backyard. Kid is really into rocks so we're gonna try to get some better photos and identify/characterize it later.

Building Better Basketball
A Basketball Australia Podcast for coaches and volunteers in clubs and associations around the country to hear some interesting discussions from people all over the world...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/buildi

Cowboys' DeMarvion Overshown Turns Heads With Hiring Of George Pickens' Agent https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-demarvion-overshown-turns-heads-with-hiring-george-pickens-agent

Trump says review of UFO files found 'interesting' documents (Kyla Guilfoil/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-review-ufo-files-found-interesting-documents-rcna333389
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p4#a260418p4

Man I love how "Diamonds Are Forever" just picks up like OHMSS never existed.
Also, speedrunning the 60s via these films, interesting to watch culture and fashion changing so much in like 7 years.

So last week I asked people to share their blog URLs, and I got a whole bunch of them! And I’ve been trying to go through them, and some go back to 2015… So there’s a lot to do. I did find a really interesting one about GPX files and Python, but it uses Google maps, and I’m not sure I want to do that since I prefer OpenStreetMap. Nice to find interesting gems though, in the 1,500 (gulp!) blog posts I’m going through.

Looks interesting but
1) can't book til 28 Feb
2) bloody "Teams"
"Our upcoming online public seminar explores how the UK now uses less energy than almost anyone anticipated 20 years ago, but opportunities to act on this potential were largely missed"
Decarbonising the UK 20 Years Later Tickets, Wednesday, Mar 11 from 1 pm to 2 pm GMT | Eventbrite

Decarbonising the UK 20 Years Later
The UK now uses less energy than almost anyone anticipated 20 years ago, but opportunities to act on this potential were largely missed.

oh, that's a very interesting workshop (and in an interesting place as well):
https://text-plus.org/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2026-05-12-lrec-dtf/

Highlights from #Git 2.54
https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-54/

Interesting and comprehensive report about sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns involving mobile operator signaling infrastructure https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/

Bad Connection: Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors - The Citizen Lab
Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose how suspected commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) exploit the global telecom interconnect ecosystem, leverage private operator networks, and conduct covert location tracking operations that can persist undetected for years.

"the products state that they contain manuka honey in its pure form. Sugar, in other words. Some of these toothpastes are also fluoride-free. They are often marketed towards people who are sceptical of fluoride."
https://www.

Experts warn that honey in toothpaste may harm your dental health
Honey has no place in a toothpaste, says professor emerita Elin Giertsen. She is concerned, and so are Norwegian authorities and dentists.

2026 NFL Draft takeaways: Browns' and Bucs' great drafts, best sleepers and values https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7232769/2026/04/27/2026-nfl-draft-takeaways-bruce-feldman/

A friend of mine is working on this, if you find it interesting please whishlist it on steam! It helps them a lot.
@… https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/11

Gaming News (@GamingNews@meta.masto.host)
Attached: 1 image IGN just posted: Play Faster, a Precision Platformer Purpose-Built for Speedrunning, Announced for PC Introducing Play Faster, a minimalist precision platformer purpose-built for speedrunning. It features built-in tools to support that, like input display, a replay system, instant retries, and practice mode; as well as anti-cheat and anti-splice to best make sure it has fair competition and leaderboards. https://www.ign.com/articles/play-faster-speedrunning-game-announced-…

Raiders GM Makes Feelings Clear on Maxx Crosby Situation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/john-spytek-maxx-crosby-situation-update/

Interesting. I got a much smarter version of ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode yesterday so I asked it what model it was. Normally, it always knows it's 4.0turbo, which is pretty awful. The new one did not know. I barely use ChatGPT anymore as Claude is so much better, but it's still interesting.

Ballot Box Scotland Survation poll.
With this poll commissioned by BBS, it also includes some interesting data on voters' views on constitutional issues such as cross-party working and boundary changes.
https://ballotbox.scot/survation-april-2026/

BBS Exclusive Poll Analysis: Survation 14th – 21st of April 2026
This BBS-commissioned poll is surprisingly poor for the SNP, but still has a small Pro-Independence majority. Nonetheless, John Swinney will be hoping this is an outlier.

interesting stuff https://knarf.english.upenn.edu/

Interesting Interview with Greenlandic biathlete Ukaleq Slettemark on identity, climate responsibility, autonomy, and what it means to compete in the Olympic Games while Greenland is verbally attacked by the US Government. https://youtu.be/uZcrhTO0WsY

Welp, figured having some spares would be a good idea so I found an eBay seller selling a lot of 15 Yaelink phones...should be pretty "interesting" to set up and this totally is a good idea and I won't be taking any opinions that don't also think it's awesome...lol
#voip #asterisk

This article is interesting about thoughts of using flying networks to support military operations.
It is a complex system - and my sense is that they will screw it up with application specific protocols and APIs that evolve and change over time as as military events (the kind that go boom or are intentional forms of in-band attacks - think everything from hyper-phishing to spoofing to zero-day attacks).
But even if it were put together with the precision of a Swiss watch, my old…

Interesting paper: "The first case of homosexual #necrophilia in the #mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)" from 2001 on

If only every MP was like Hannah.
(Or MEP, for that matter.) @… https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Simon318ppm/116436516880586632

An extremely fascinating article (in French with link in reply to machine translation) via @… :
https://todon.nl/@yetiinabox/116282855527740634
I had not yet submitted myself to a deep dive into Thiel's theology, but it's way more interesting than I had imagined, and explains why he would call his company Palantir, which has always seemed a baffling choice to me. Apparently he's read One Piece, and imagines himself to be constructing A World Government?!?
Also I feel I understand a lot of things about Silicon Valley better now including lots of stuff about social network harms & corporate goals/policies. Belief in Girard's theory of mimetic desire (which I'd not encountered before) explains so much of SV founders' behavior and also it being at least partially reflective of reality explains both their success and some of their harms.

There was an “unconcious bias” training at our research center. I couldn’t attend because I was sick. It’s so interesting to hear everyone’s account of how they perceived that event. It’s almost hard to believe they attended the same thing.

Interesting read : Azure Active Directory B2C With PKCE for Your Angular App https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/13/interesting-read-azure-active-directory

Interesting read : Azure Active Directory B2C With PKCE for Your Angular App
Interesting read : Azure Active Directory B2C With PKCE for Your Angular App 13 February 2026 Work OIDC Keycloak 🔖 https://dev.to/yuriburger/azure-active-directory-b2c-with-pkce-for-your-angular-app-...

Modeling the mutational dynamics of very short tandem repeats
Amos Onn (Chair of Experimental Medicine and Therapy Research, University of Regensburg, Bioinformatics Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig), Tzipy Marx (Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science), Liming Tao (Cellular Tissue Genomics, Genentech), Tamir Biezuner (Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science), Ehud Shapiro (Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science), Christoph A. Klein (Chair of Experimental Medicine and Therapy Research, University of Regensburg, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Regensburg), Peter F. Stadler (Bioinformatics Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, University of Copenhagen, Santa Fe Institute)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25628 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25628 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25628
arXiv:2603.25628v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Short tandem repeats (STRs) are low-entropy regions in the genome, consisting of a short (1-6 bp) unit that is consecutively repeated multiple times. They are known for high mutational instability, due to so-called stutter-mutations, in which the number of units in the run increases or descreases. In particular, STRs with repeat unit length of 1-2 bp are prone to mutate even within several cell divisions. The extremely rapid accumulation of variation makes them interesting phylogenetic markers for retrospective single-cell lineage reconstruction. Here we model their mutational dynamics at the level of individual repeat unit type and then aggregate length variations over many STR loci with the aim of obtaining a very fast ``molecular clock''. We calibrate our model based on several datasets with known lineage structure prepared from cultured cells. We find that the mutational dynamics of STRs are reasonably consistent for a given cell line, but vary among different ones. This suggests that the dynamics are not entirely explained by mutations in caretaker genes, rather, various other factors play a role -- possibly tissue origin and differentiation state. Further data and research is necessary to asses their relative effects.
toXiv_bot_toot

Cowboys Add Ex-Super Bowl Coach’s Grandson for Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/zach-switzer-barry-super-bowl/

“It seems that AI is now mainstream in software engineering.”
It’ll be interesting to see how this works out now that the price gauging has started…
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-tooling-2026

“It seems that AI is now mainstream in software engineering.”
It’ll be interesting to see how this works out now that the price gauging has started…
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-tooling-2026

Another new Afghan Whigs single, 'Duvateen' just came out: https://youtu.be/kMYA5twrlgs
This one's cool- not a super rocker like the other new one they did, but this has some piano.. it's like, introspective, interesting. KILLER lyrics and groove. Great video, too.

An Interesting DL Prospect Worth the Raiders' Attention on Day 2 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-ohio-state-prospect-worth-attention

This was interesting:
"the peculiar case of japanese web design"
https://sabrinas.space/

Interesting discourse elsewhere (not really important what) is showing that people do not know the difference between science and the scientific method.
So as a PSA, science is a systematic endeavor to gain knowledge.
The scientific method (as the name implies), is a practical way to pursue science; with observation, theories and experiments. (There’s other ways, too.)

This gets especially interesting when you realize how there are several whole societies that are largely invisible to mainstream society. There's a whole bunch of law around monasteries which allow them to essentially operate almost entirely outside of the state. Similarly, Amish/Mennonite communities basically don't interoperate with the outside world most of the time. I lived on a religious commune for a bit (it was an Isis cult, which I wasn't really part of but that's a whole other story. And I'm not going to get in to the abuse elements of a lot of these because that critique is separate.)
A lot of these places can only exist because they don't have to pay taxes or comply with a number of laws. They often also can get government grants. There's a whole world of things that are built specifically to benefit Christian churches that can be subverted towards actually radical ends.

The whole #ICE crapola going on these days is causing interesting mistakes in all kinds of reporting. There’s an article in our local newspaper (sadly, they’re owned by Gannet, but that’s another story) about a new intentional community breaking ground on a 20-acre development in town. In a description of the ultimate layout of the community there is mention (twice) of a detention pond. I’m pretty sure…

I find “The cost of war” an interesting term.
For humans, the cost is human life. The loss of life. Death.
For ghouls, the cost is all about money. That’s all they love, all they care about.

The key growth opportunity in heavy-duty vehicle electrification lies in the integration (or symbiotic combination) of routing, financing, access, energy, contract, and fleet management.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

One interesting aspect of the electrification of heavy-duty vehicles and buses is how quickly the transition can happen. The total cost of ownership plays a decisive role. However, the barriers to… | Jaap Burger
One interesting aspect of the electrification of heavy-duty vehicles and buses is how quickly the transition can happen. The total cost of ownership plays a decisive role. However, the barriers to entry are high, including higher purchase prices for the vehicles and the need for new infrastructure. This is not only a financial barrier, for which business models are emerging, but also a practical barrier in terms of lead times, grid capacity and charger availability. Furthermore, fleets tend to …

Interesting point made by Damien Lacroux: the problem isn’t the absence of anticipation, but the absence of a *shared* anticipation.
#UndoneCS

Interesting point made by Damien Lacroux: the problem isn’t the absence of anticipation, but the absence of a *shared* anticipation.
#UndoneCS

Headbutts, position switch among 5 things to know about Cowboys Barham https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/25/five-things-to-know-about-newest-cowboys-draft-pick-l…

This becomes especially interesting when you understand the history of the church as a quasi-revolutionary organization. One could describe early church history as a mostly-successful attempt to overthrow the Roman empire. I say mostly successful because, in the end, the Roman state mutated the church for it's own ends and basically pulled a Lenin.
The early church was a religion of women and slaves that set up alternative institutions. See, the Roman economic system basically ran through the temples. Temples were basically the banks of their day (thus money changers in the temples and all that). So when the church set up their own institutions, they were actually attacking the economic system of the Roman empire. *That* is why the empire tried to destroy them. The Romans didn't really care about the gods. They would just mutate their beliefs to pull other pagans in. No, it wasn't about the gods. The Christian were fucking with the money.
The whole church as an institution was about dual power, and Paul (one of the early founders of the church) was central to organizing this into a political machine that could actually threaten the dominant order. One could argue that he saw the potential of the church, and used it to solidify his own power.
It all basically worked, right up until Constantine figured out how to flip the whole thing against the most radical elements. He had his people collect up different books of the Bible and modify them in such a way that it favored Rome. The trick here was to highlight the existing antisemitic threads of early church, and destroy the anti-Roman ones. Anti-authoritarian sects were killed as heretics, and centralized sects became aligned under the church.
This strategy of controlling internal dissent probably feels quite familiar. It's basically how the US works.
But this whole time, during the whole lead up to this, Christianity was illegal and it was continuing to grow as a system of dual power. When Romanism merged with Christianity, it created the most authoritarian institution in human history that brutally destroyed all opposition. Even still, several hundred years later it's power broke.
Today Liberalism has separated banking and the church, and has created the illusion of separation of church and state. But the same dual power strategy that allowed the first church to gain enough power to merge with the Roman power structure have now allowed Christian Nationalism to fully merge with Americanism into the Christian Fascism we see today...

Huh. A self-hosted dead man's switch... https://linuxiac.com/lastsignal-is-a-new-open-source-dead-mans-switch-you-can-self-host/ Interesting.

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There are also a bunch of other interesting things. The Seattle Grand Jury Resisters were kept in solitary confinement (for several months) under the pretext that this would compel them to testify. Belonging to a church together could have made such compulsion (more visibly) illegal. While I don't actually believe that the US government would follow the law, not then and especially not now, being able to talk about this as religious persecution could be enough to make other religious groups that align with Trump become more skittish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_grand_jury_resisters

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