"Silicon Valley’s era of innovation is over. This is their villain era. The era of the con. Having bled themselves dry of ideas, and all sense of moral decency, they’re now attempting to bleed us dry of our own humanity."
(Original title: How to keep sea-monkeys alive)
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Looks like prices will be going up again.
US Urges China to Prevent Iran From Shutting Down Strait of Hormuz, Key Trade Route https://ground.news/article/us-urges-china-to-keep-iran-from-shutting-key-trade-route
They say AI is here but I keep getting alerts for sports games I don't care about.
What an amazing example of dedication to a craft and a community that works to keep it alive as it has an important social function!
«The Last Inca Rope Bridge, Q’eswachaka, Is Rebuilt Yearly»
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/last-inca-rope-bridge-qeswachaka-tradition
"Trump demanded that energy producers keep down oil prices following US military strikes on Iran"
Trump Warns Against Rising Oil Prices Following Iran Attack | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/trump-warns-against-rising-oil-prices-following-iran-attack
#NowPlaying this Sunday needed some death metal. I keep thinking about Mortiferum so today I broke out their 2021 masterpiece Preserved in Torment.
https://mortiferum.bandcamp.com/album/
He's useless, really. I keep him around to scratch an itch.
Fear is the primary tool the fascist uses to obtain and retain power.
So keep an eye on your neighbor, he might be part of a sleeper cell.
Electrolyzers, machines that split water and separate hydrogen from oxygen, are emerging as the new battleground in green technology between the EU and China.
Can the EU stay competitive?
https://www.dw.com/en/can-the-eu-keep-up-wit…
History keeps repeating, dictators keep pulling each-other's strings.
"In interviews for a book about his Middle East peace efforts, Trump, according to its author, used an expletive to describe the embattled prime minister — “Fuck him,” he reportedly said — and accused Netanyahu of disloyalty."
I hope all the folks who thought Turnip would keep the USA out of foreign wars are happy with their choice today.
The dude admitted real-time he felt no immediate urgency to act upon Iran. This is an undeclared act of war. Where is Congress?
#USPol #POTUS47
It can be hard to keep up with crucial news at the University of Florida because of the minimal communication from the administration. To make it easier for folks to keep up I'm starting
@index@ufwatch.org to provide short summaries of key news items with links to the sources.
https://ufwatch.org/uf-watch-keep-up-with-crucial-news-about-the-university-of-florida/
If that's helpful to you can keep up using:
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BlueSky: @ufwatch.bsky.social
Newsletter/Website: ufwatch.org
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From the BC Green Party
Premier David Eby is seriously considering a fossil fuel megaproject that would sell out BC’s energy future to Donald Trump’s corporate allies.
The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline is backed by MAGA-linked billionaires and would transport fracked gas across Northern BC to a new LNG terminal.
Eby himself once said that we can’t keep building fossil fuel projects and still meet our climate goals. So why is his government even considering t…
I don't think we should always have to include the "upswing" in struggles we share
When you're in the shit of it & all you hear is upswing, you can feel more alone—that you need to "suck it up/be positive." And I find that toxic
Still, I have BIG feelings about sharing my suck with so little upswing
...cause I'm a hypocritical asshole when it comes to myself🙃
Full thought:
Indiana fans are going to learn what Warriors fans sadly learned the last few years: you can't win if you keep conceding turnovers, no matter how good you are. Eventually you run out of time.
Everyone who might have to deal with the consequences of a Trump decision should probably bookmark this article or print it out and keep a physical copy.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/psychologist-how-to-stop-trump-narcissist_n_6…
What do y’all do with the Nintendo Switch when you get the Switch 2? Sell it? Put it in storage?
Switch 2 will presumably play most of the Switch 1 games but local multiplayer across generations will not work easily, I guess? Why would I keep it in any capacity?
This weekend I listened to the 'How to Age Up' podcast on climate change. A lot of good observations for how parents can help their children process the daily news cycle and manage their anxiety about the future.
Turns out one effective strategy is one I keep hearing from so many different sources - you build community. Building community makes communities more resilient. Building community makes you feel less alone - so you can help do the work to combat climate change/racism/…
Regular videos on PeerTube resuming soon, my iPad is now back with a working camera (for real this time, I tested it). Keep an eye out! @…
Regular videos on PeerTube resuming soon, my iPad is now back with a working camera (for real this time, I tested it). Keep an eye out! @…
What an amazing example of dedication to a craft and a community that works to keep it alive as it has an important social function!
«The Last Inca Rope Bridge, Q’eswachaka, Is Rebuilt Yearly»
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/last-inca-rope-bridge-qeswachaka-tradition
So you have lots of questions then, do you? Keep them coming! That was a talk on Mars, many more talks still coming: https://www.goettinger-nacht-des-wissens.de/nach-format/vortrag/
@…
MIT researchers unveil Self-Adapting LLMs, a framework that enables LLMs to keep improving by generating their own training data based on the input received (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/this-ai-model-never-stops-learning/
“I just couldn’t cut people. And that’s what we should have done,” Tomelden says of the minimum-wage-related pressures that ultimately forced his hand to close the restaurant on Sunday. “I thought things would change.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/202…
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
BLAKE: That is Docholli's case he's carrying.
CALLY: Are you sure?
BLAKE: Let's go. Keep in the shadows.
[In the loading bay.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Jermaine Jackson:
🎵 Keep Your Fingers Crossed
#JermaineJackson
Sonnet 076 - LXXVI
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O! know sweet love I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;…
Campaigners vow to keep up fight against Assisted Dying Bill as it clears House of Commons.
‘People will lose their lives who do not need to’ | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/people-will-lose-their-lives-who-do-not-nee…
Thanks to you, we’ve raised €5134 ! Our goal: €12,439 to keep pushing this legal battle forward. Thank you for your generosity! 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/donate
FINCH EYE: The Optical and Optomechanical Design of a GRISM-based SWIR Hyperspectral Imaging Payload for a 3U CubeSat
Iliya Shofman, Mario Ghio Neto, Theaswanth Ganesh, Kenya He, Aidan Armstrong, Ksenya Narkevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17480
Contra Karp: the way you keep people safe is by making EVERYONE feel safe.
Scared people make themselves enemies. If you make people scared, they will be your enemy FOR THAT. If you make them feel safe, they will cease to be your enemy, or at least cease to pursue the enmity.
If you spend your life trying to make your adversaries afraid of you, you’ll never be safe.
I gave in to temptation and decided to watch a couple of Murderbot episodes.
Being a responsible person I resolved to ration the rest out over the next 3 weeks. This would ensure that I could keep watching a couple of episodes every week as the final 3 episodes were released.
Great plan. In theory. But what did I do? I binged all of the 7 available episodes tonight!
☠️📺🤖🤦♀️
#Murderbot
KEEP CALM
and
SUBMIT #EECONF
Call for papers
#ExpressionEngine
For several years now, every new #Google release has made other search engines, like @… a bit more appealing. I really can't understand why people still keep their emails and stuff there.
Someone's gonna commit First Degree Glitter with Intent to Sparkle.
#USpol #ice #glitter
On Thursday evening, the night of Juneteenth, Donald Trump took to Truth Social with a classic “old man yells at cloud” complaint:
Americans get too much time off work.
“Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed,” he wrote.
“It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
For good measure, he also opined that workers themselves agreed with him on this.
The presi…
Have a great weekend, and remember, you won't become less intelligent as long as you work alongside AI, keep learning, questioning, and not just blindly trusting everything ☮️ 🌞
Maria Montessori:
❝Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.❞
❝We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.❞
9/
I've never written a novel or any other intensely-plotted work of fiction, but anyone who has read or watched it played a lot of stories can probably also recognize that some authors just aren't good at endings. They're great at setting things in motion, at keeping the twists and turns coming, at the soap opera style of drama. But they just don't have the craft necessary to tie things together into a satisfying conclusion. I imagine it's much harder than the process of getting things going out keeping them moving, since you both have to wind down all the various threads you've spun up and balance satisfaction with believability.
I just finished Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi, and it has a bad ending. The beginning is fine, the middle has plenty of drama to keep you wanting to see what happens, but the ending is murky, unsatisfying, and manages neither veracity nor satisfaction (even discounting the biggest next step that might reasonably have been left there to make room for a sequel).
Given the other issues with the book, from poor politics, to inauthentic characters, to a techno-optimism that feels as bitter in this moment as it is far from the mark in its predictions, I can't recommended it, despite having read through to the end.
#AmReading
As you ford life's rivers, keep your knees bent and face upstream so you can better see what's coming at you. But as you crawl life's ductworks, face downwind and keep your mouth shut lest you suck in dust-bunnies.
#NaturalPhilosophy #Strife and
Last boost: I personally never paid for a ringtone. At first my philosophy was https://xkcd.com/479/ but now I keep my phone mostly silent most of the time.
Q&A with Yoshua Bengio on his nonprofit LawZero focusing on AI safety, its research direction, risks of increasingly capable and autonomous AI systems, and more (Sigal Samuel/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/417087/ai-safety-yoshua-bengio-lawze…
"Libxml2’s solo maintainer drops embargoed security fixes, highlighting the burden on unpaid volunteers who keep critical open source software secure."
https://socket.dev/blog/libxml2-maintainer-ends-embargoed-vulnerability-reports
Sometimes you work on a case where the suspect is so incredible unsympathetic to you - who represents everything you can imagine in terms of despicable character traits - you just keep digging and digging and digging in the suspects devices data to find the evidence you already know is not there.
It happens once or maybe twice a year but ...gosh... this guy...
#DigitalForensics
INTERESTINGLY, if I keep my eyes open while I am drying my face, even though I cannot see anything at all, somehow my body is able to be satisfied with that amount of input, and keep me stable and steady. The moment I close my eyes, I get wobbly. Open them even if I cannot see, and I am fine. Cool, huh? (END)
TIL that #Python's strptime can't handle unix timestamps, wtf... 😑
time.strptime("1750420325","%s")
ValueError: 's' is a bad directive
(Yes, I know there's datetime.fromtimestamp, but here I'd much prefer to keep everything with %Y %m %d et al. due to reasons)
Only on Mirlo: How To Rise and Keep Rising
#NewMusic #FolkSongs
https://mirlo.sp…
I have so many cool friends that I barely keep up with cause I'm AWFUL at replying to DMs and/or timezone differences make shit haaaard to hang out and I hate it :neofox_cry:
Ai ai ai ai… It’s all about AI! They are forcing you to use it, even if you don’t want to.
I always say, “If it’s too much in your face, they can leave me alone and keep it.”
#ai
#tech
#privacy
I keep thinking about how great the #speedracer movie was.
Just received a friend request on Facebook by someone named Peter Waldmeier.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.waldmeier.865
He seemed such a nice person, I think he is a model in a Scandinavian country.
When I asked him why he was sending me a friend request he go…
"Son of the people, chains oppress you,
and that injustice cannot keep going;
if your existence is a world of sorrow,
death would be preferable before becoming a slave.
These bourgeoisie, way too selfish,
they despise the world,
They will be swept away by the anarchists, To the strong shout of freedom!"
—
"I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people, Henry. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built up my hatreds over the years, little by little... I can't keep doing this on my own... with these, umm... people."
Just want to say, to everyone with the bad takes on generative AI:
Keep it up!
Discrediting and disgracing yourself is a real public service in these trying times
Fantastic comment in a question at the BRAID event: "there's too much focus on 'are you ready for AI, and not enough on 'is AI ready for your business and society'"💯💯💯
I keep saying we don't yet have the AI we deserve - yes, we need to challenge and question it, actively shape it!
#ResponsibleAI
Federal funding ensures that your local public radio and TV stations can continue to give you access to
-- essential educational, local, and cultural programming;
-- trustworthy, in-depth news;
-- and emergency and community-based services.
Here are three things you can do today to keep public media strong.
#1 Call Congress: Save Public Media Funding
Urge your Senators to vote against clawing back public media funding
I’ve been scanning through NUGET, and consulting firms have figured out they can get quality backlinks by publishing some bespoke “dev kit” that no one will use.
It’s exacerbated by the package sprawl and “separation of concerns” style solutions that plague .NET, so their DevKit sprawls over 100 packages.
Keep pushing new versions every few minutes to keep those “recently updated” pages showing your corporate logos.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Federal Judge Blocks Efforts to Keep International Students Out of Harvard (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/20/us/trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p103#a250620p103
Just disable apparmor/selinux, boot mitigations=off, and run everything as root. I've lost too many months of my life fighting bullshit trying to keep me safe from myself on isolated, ephemeral systems. I need to get stuff done, not navigate some robo-bureaucracy!
EU would require €241-286 billion investment to keep its nuclear power capacity roughly at today's level, draft shows. It would increase from 97 now to 109 GW by 2050; that's 12%, sharply reducing its share of growing overall electricity demand.
Ahh can't find the post any more.
Anyways: if you want to support @… 's video and keep some load off her #peertube server:
Keep the browser open after watching the video. The peer-to-peer system helps to distribute traffic.
I just saw that I d…
New @… post on the Florida DOGE audit of the state universities:
https://ufwatch.org/florida-doge-audit-of-state-universities/
You can keep up with more important news for University of Florida folks via:
Mastodon/Fediverse: @…
BlueSky: @ufwatch.bsky.social
Newsletter/Website: ufwatch.org
RSS: ufwatch.org/rss
When I'm outside, I like to keep moving. I'd be a nice morsel for a bird of prey.
More Montessori:
❝Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.❞
And here’s a kicker:
❝Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.❞
Put that last thought in the context of arts and education being deeply intertwined, and oligarchy seeking to dismantle both, and…well….
/end
Sending all my love and femme energy to the beautiful LGBTQIA community. 🏳️🌈💖
You inspire me every single day, keep shining, keep slaying, and keep being your authentic selves! 🏳️⚧️✨
Together, we’re unstoppable. 🌈💪
#TransAlly #LGBTQIA
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"UnitedHealth Group’s investors were profiting from its high denial rates. Now, they’re suing to ensure that doesn’t change."
Wall Street to Insurers: Keep Denying Care | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-06-07/wall-street-insurers-keep-denying-care
These #MusicVideos are only on PeerTube: “How to Rise and Keep Rising” #folksong preview
https://
Risky Medications: The FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to continue sending drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants that the agency had banned.
Troubled Factories: The medications came mostly from plants in India where inspectors found contaminated drugs, filthy labs and falsified records.
FDA Secrecy: The agency did not proactively inform the public when drugs were exempted from import bans, and it did not routinely test the medications …