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Trump Kept Gold Club World Cup Trophy for Himself So FIFA Had to Give the Winners a Replica (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-kept-gold-club-world-cup-trophy-for-himself-so-fifa-had-to-give-the-winners-a-replica/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p101#a250714p101

“Our parents kept us carefully isolated - from birth - from even witnessing examples of other children being disrespectful, and even the faintest disobedience gets slapped out of you starting as a baby.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/aella/p/the-joy-is-not-optional…

I went for a ride, and 5 miles in the chain sort of got "stuck"... it didn't come off, but I had to pedal backwards a few seconds and then forwards, and it seemed to be okay again...
But then it started shifting on its own as I kept riding. It's always been a poor shifter, sometimes it can be difficult to get it to change gears, and sometimes it changes gears on its own...

I kept wondering what does this whole "af" thing mean, that people here keep going on about. It finally dawned on me that they're talking about autofocus!

Secret 'scorecard' kept by White House to grade companies' loyalty to Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-loyalty-2673887663/

Donald Trump’s economy went charging off a cliff
after his April 2 “Liberation Day” tariffs, which
—despite endless tweaks, revisions, abrupt extensions, and equally abrupt reversals
—are gradually settling into a new status quo
in which the costs of global trade are far higher than before.
But we’re just starting to feel the true impact of that status quo.
-- Because until recently, a series of ameliorating factors have kept things looking artificially norm…

Trump’s Tariff Pain Is Knocking at Your Door
The stopgap measures that have so far protected consumers from feeling the effects of tariffs are nearly at an end.

from my link log —
PostgreSQL replication slots: preventing WAL bloat and other production issues.
https://www.morling.dev/blog/mastering-postgres-replication-slots/
saved 2025-07-08

Anyone who follows me has probably gathered that I've become a fan of Discourse after running a few Discourse instances. They are currently requesting feedback.
I was pleased to see that they used a survey vendor that appears to have meaningful a11y — I didn't look for aria labels so I won't speak to that, but what I did notice is that there is explicitly-labeled support for keyboard-only interaction on every page, and I really appreciated that thoughtfulness.

Koumas certainly ran a lot, but he seemed often disconnected from the trio of midfielders. Difficult task. He wasn't bad, but he just wasn't particularly impactful.
Nallo was solid. The commentators speculated that either he or Stephenson might be loaned out and the other kept for first team depth. If so, I think Nallo stays.
Doak is a terminator. "[He] Doesn’t Feel Pity, Or Remorse, Or Fear, And It Absolutely Will Not Stop, Ever, Until [we score]!" Rumors are a…

today i cycled along a dried up stream. found a couple pools of water remaining. loadsa white butterflies drinking from the bank. and a gret fat dragonfly that kept fucking off every time i pointed my camera at it. i was there for ages but could not get a shot. i could just imagine - "NO PICTURES you scrawny ol' bastard, fuck off" so i rode around for a hour or so, came back and finally got this shot. ha ha
🦟

this makes me so happy, if only lebron kept posting these

You and me both, dude.
Excerpt from "A Talk with Philip Glass," Musicworks : No. 13 (Fall 1980), https://www.canadiana.ca/view/mw.00001_13/9

Competitive fires rage for Mahomes https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/aug/14/competitive-fires-rage-for-mahomes/

After 15 full days in the new house, I think it's time to close off this year-long thread. Some closure on past commentary:
- for the 1st in our lives, we are debt free. Took us nearly 70 years, but we know how incredibly fortunate we are.
- we've dumped our net proceeds from #Downsizing into investments to make sure we aren't tempted to spend it foolishly.
- we kept some funds to fix some issues, including furnace & A/C, water filtration, electrical, eavestroughs, etc.
- my daughter and I are once again fighting galactic aliens online so you can rest easy.
- we've only been to the beach twice, for very short visits, as things have been hectic. Hopefully, we can enjoy that part of our neighborhood as we get into August.
Here is a short video of our 1st walk through just a few minutes before the movers arrived.
#Moving

Interval Walking Training
or “Japanese walking,”
is getting renewed attention after going viral on TikTok.
Nearly 20 years ago a team led by Hiroshi Nose and other researchers from Japan published a study that found that
middle-aged and older people who did high-intensity interval walking had lower blood pressure, stronger thigh muscles, and better aerobic capacity than walkers the same age who kept a more moderate, continuous pace.

In the study, the volunteers…

Just 30 minutes a day of ‘Japanese walking’ may help you get in shape
People are rediscovering interval walking training (IWT), a technique that can help you get fit in 30 minutes a day.

this looks pretty bad for Phil Ginsburg tbh
https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/phil-ginsburg-parks-alliance-drew-becher-crane-cove-port-of-s-f/

One call could’ve saved S.F. millions. Nobody picked up the phone.
Rec and Park GM Phil Ginsburg knew his nonprofit ally the Parks Alliance was in trouble, and kept quiet. Whose interests was he serving?

Solar cells on cattle holding pens seems like a great idea! Probably tons of buildings and farms that would be fine with solar cells on top.
I'm no (food) scientist but I am a lot more confident that it doesn't pose a risk to the food source. But I'm less confident of growing crops under solar cells or solar cells floating on aquatic farms. Likely need significant maintenance over the years to prevent leaching and it's always hard for politicians to fix old instead of …

Satellites are closer than you think: A near field MIMO approach for Ground stations
Rohith Reddy Vennam, Luke Wilson, Ish Kumar Jain, Dinesh Bharadia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09374

Satellites are closer than you think: A near field MIMO approach for Ground stations
The rapid growth of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations has revolutionized broadband access, earth observation, and direct-to-device connectivity. However, the expansion of ground station infrastructure has not kept pace, creating a critical bottleneck in satellite-to-ground backhaul capacity. Traditional parabolic dish antennas, though effective for geostationary (GEO) satellites, are ill-suited for dense, fastmoving LEO networks due to mechanical steering delays and their inability…

In 73/74 my first job was in a car accessory shop and paint factors, for the magnificent sum of £10.50 a week.
One of its few attractions was that it also sold 8 track music and for weeks I'd play "Holland" by The Beach Boys.
It may not be the strongest album but it kept me warm.
#Music

Good for someone to finally tracks those cancelled condo projects. It’s surprising hard to track because while we hear of new condo approvals and consultations, when they cancel something it’s being kept mostly private.

Rams' Matthew Stafford sits out practice on Monday despite anticipated return https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-matthew-stafford-sits-out-practice-on-monday-despite-anticipated-return

Surface Current Optimization and Coil-Cutting Algorithms for Stage-Two Stellarator Optimization
Dario Panici, Rory Conlin, Rahul Gaur, Daniel W. Dudt, Yigit Gunsur Elmacioglu, Matt Landreman, Todd Elder, Nadav Snir, Itay Gissis, Yasha Nikulshin, Egemen Kolemen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09321

Surface Current Optimization and Coil-Cutting Algorithms for Stage-Two Stellarator Optimization
Stellarator optimization often takes a two-stage approach, where in the first stage the boundary is varied in order to optimize for some physics metrics, while in the second stage the boundary is kept fixed and coils are sought to generate a magnetic field that can recreate the desired stellarator. Past literature dealing with this stage lacks details on the coil cutting procedure and the mathematical and physical properties of the surface current potential which dictates it. In this work, some…

at public records in #brooklyn, dreamy/loopy chamber #jazz for a summer's eve in bitchin' quad sound by johnson/wilkes/uhlmann, which (i kept thinking) would probably get somewhat lost if played outdoors on a summer's eve. perhaps the best room for pure listening in

Slightly irritated. I went into a DIY store to buy fine concrete. I asked a couple of questions. The shop assistant kept turning to my husband, who stood up for me and kept insisting it was my project.
My husband was even more annoyed than I was when we left, bless his heart. I was actually less annoyed when he showed the clerk, “this is not OK, you do not treat women like this”.
Perhaps the clerk will remember that the next time he gets a female customer. I hope.

This is a phenomenal article about how Israel got (and has kept) its nuclear arms program.
History is wild, I had no idea about any of this.
https://mastodon.social/@religiousryan/115001494909536798

Mysterious Crime Spree Targeted National Guard Equipment Stashes
https://www.wired.com/story/mysterious-crime-spree-targeted-national-guard-equipment-stashes/

Mysterious Crime Spree Targeted National Guard Equipment Stashes
A string of US armory break-ins, kept quiet by authorities for months, points to a growing security crisis—and signs of an inside job.

Grr wanted to add a vagrant freebsd machine but It kept not adding ssh keys. password config did not work. While the fedora base ismage worked.
What do you use to run FreeBSD VMs on linux?
#freebsd #vm

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
BLAKE: You have a woman prisoner here called Avalon. Where is she being kept?
GUARD: All prisoners are being held in the main detention block. [Chevner scouts ahead to the nearest corridor junction.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/279 B7B2

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.

Someone stopped me today to tell me she owned the same shirt and that it’s finally mayo and tomato season. That’s lunch sorted!
Also her dog was great but kept trying to eat my AirPod as a treat!
https://bsgeneralstore.com/products/the-tomato-sandwich-t-shirt

The Tomato Sandwich T-shirt

Voting Republican means voting for lower wages. I mean, why pay America's workers when you can enrich billionaires, amirite? 🙄
From: @…
https://www.

The Intellectualist (@the_intellectualist_official) on Threads
In 2025, 21 states—mostly Democrat-led—raised their minimum wage, while 20 Republican-led states kept the $7.25 federal rate. Washington leads at $16.66, followed by California ($16.50) and Connecticut ($15.69), highlighting sharp political and regional divides.

v-representability on a one-dimensional torus at elevated temperatures
Sarina M. Sutter, Markus Penz, Michael Ruggenthaler, Robert van Leeuwen, Klaas J. H. Giesbertz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07784

v-representability on a one-dimensional torus at elevated temperatures
We extend a previous result [Sutter et al., J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 57, 475202 (2024)] to give an explicit form of the set of $v$-representable densities on the one-dimensional torus with any fixed number of particles in contact with a heat bath at finite temperature. The particle interaction has to satisfy some mild assumptions but is kept entirely general otherwise. For densities, we consider the Sobolev space $H^1$ and exploit the convexity of the functionals. This leads to a broader set of…

wind splitting seconds on this cornflower stalk last year. I did not change anything between these pictures, nor did much time pass, I just kept pressing the shutter as the wind kept moving the branches of the birch tree in whose half-shadow I was standing
#photography #bloomScrolling

Cowboys rookie Donovan Ezeiruaku optimistic about contract talks https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-rookie-donovan-ezeiruaku-optimistic-about-contract-talks

I first read "Mother Earth, Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson around 15 years ago. It included a visit to the Telegraph Museum (now PK Porthcurno Museum of Global Communications) at Porthcurno in Cornwall, and I finally got to go there. One of the things that Stephenson describes is a collection of faulty cables. And its still on display.

Source: Figma considered a higher IPO price, but its CEO wanted to bring on board certain long-term institutional shareholders and signed off on $33 per share (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

I finally got rid of the old bed I’d kept since moving in, so the room feels pretty empty right now.
I’m in the process of reorganizing everything and plan to turn this space into my own anarchist sanctuary.
Soon, I’ll add a bookshelf and more anarchist art to the wall, right next to the communist hammer and sickle symbol.
#Declutter

The real question is why is a fucking sociopath allowed to teach a class at a university? Oh, it’s Stanford. As you were. https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113022749498944409

I sold off my starting ship, the shuttle...anyway...the simple way to manage ships distracts me a lot, ie. I would like to filter out "ships kept as mementos" but since it groups everything together I guess, selling is the only way to not be distracted by groups of ships you have for this and another purpose...
oh well!
I'm still around Aldhibain capturing various low level spaceships...but now I'm gonna capture some that will do the fighting for me

🏗️ Tear it down they said... but he kept on building
(looks like China has an answer to the Watts Towers!)
#buildings #housing #china

Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.
Defying demolition orders, a Chinese man turned his home into a rickety 11-story tower. Now tourists are coming.

'Given that the average electric drill is in use for just 15 minutes each year, and is kept in storage for the rest of the time, it’s clear that many household items don’t really need to be owned at all' - @alexjgnana https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.

@…
"𠉧… subscribe to Microsoft 365. This, in turn, means their data and meta-information will be kept in a US-based datacenter. …"
I'm as sure as I can be that my (organisational) data is _not_ kept in a US-based data centre.
@…

@… Not really sure. The best thing about Seth was that he had pretty much one message and he kept phrasing it in many, many different ways to drive the point home.
The message is, in short: good marketing and strategy is about identifying the “smallest viable audience”, focusing on their needs, and ignoring everyone else.
This sums it up too, but the blog …

So if you were following my blog here the new handle is:
@…
Dunno if the rename kept all followers intact.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11477668…

Treatment-Effect Estimation in Complex Designs under a Parallel-trends Assumption
Cl\'ement de Chaisemartin, Xavier D'Haultf{\oe}uille
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07808 h…

Treatment-Effect Estimation in Complex Designs under a Parallel-trends Assumption
This paper considers the identification of dynamic treatment effects with panel data, in complex designs where the treatment may not be binary and may not be absorbing. We first show that under no-anticipation and parallel-trends assumptions, we can identify event-study effects comparing outcomes under the actual treatment path and under the status-quo path where all units would have kept their period-one treatment throughout the panel. Those effects can be helpful to evaluate ex-post the polic…

"My experiences of connection with God and others in the church have kept me coming back. I am hoping against hope that the 21st century church can be an experiential community for the future, a place that more and more people can turn to for a mysterious experience of eternal resonance."
—S. Slade Hogan ’22 S.T.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections, which asks whether Christianity is losing its religion.

Multiscale Microscopy via Automation: Dual Magnification ESEM Imaging by Frame Alternation
Maurits Vuijk, Johannes Zeininger, Luis Sandoval, G\"unther Rupprechter, Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, Karsten Reuter, Thomas Lunkenbein, Christoph Scheurer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06523

Multiscale Microscopy via Automation: Dual Magnification ESEM Imaging by Frame Alternation
In Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM) experiments, the acquisition parameters are generally kept constant throughout the collection of a data set. This limits data collection to one data set at a time, and frequent human interaction is required to maintain the image quality. Here, we use a custom-designed automation interface to minimize such supervision and allow for the collection of multiple interlaced data sets simultaneously. The oscillatory modes of an example catalytic sys…

It’s been awhile since I did a “fast as I can” cemetery ride and I was amazed at my average speed. I kept it going on the streets a bit more to do 8 miles total.
#biking #bikeTooter #mke

Jim Croce wrote:
Movin' me down the highway,
Rollin' me down the highway,
Movin' ahead so life won't pass me by...I got a name...and I carry it with me like my daddy did, but I'm livin' the dream that he kept hid.
He had a song. Now we have it.
#MusicIsTheBest #Music

Something was off with the keyboard, and I noticed the cursor kept jumping to the left end after every key stroke.
It was surprisingly difficult to enter my password the wrong way around.
Restarted computer, seems to work now again.

#WritersCoffeeClub 1 Aug: Why are you writing your current work?
Because as the world has felt like it’s gotten darker and more hopeless in recent months, this project has become a lifeline of joy, hope, and love.
Doing this work and trying to do it well has kept me from spiraling. It keeps me sane. It gives happiness to days that otherwise sink me into pits of despair.
Gosh I know that sounds dramatic but sincerely my fragile mental health is holding on to writing this novel like a lifeline.

Inward and Outward Spillover Effects of One Unit's Treatment on Network Neighbors under Partial Interference
Fei Fang, Edoardo M Airoldi, Laura Forastiere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06615

Inward and Outward Spillover Effects of One Unit's Treatment on Network Neighbors under Partial Interference
In settings where interference is present, direct effects are commonly defined as the average effect of a unit's treatment on their own outcome while fixing the treatment status or probability among interfering units, and spillover effects measure the average effect of a change in the latter while the individual's treatment status is kept fixed. Here, we define the average causal effect of a unit's treatment status on the outcome of their network neighbors, while fixing the treatment probabilit…

Ted Cruz Kept Sightseeing as Desperate Rescue Crews Searched for Missing Kids in Texas Floods (The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-was-vacationing-in-europe-as-emergency-crews-desperately-searched-for-texas-flood-survivors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p78#a250707p78

Interviewing candidates on-line for a job today.
One candidate kept having "network issues" every time a question was asked, so there were long pauses before every answer.
I pasted one of our questions into ChatGPT. The answer that came from the candidate was an almost perfect match.
They didn't get the job.

MLB has removed the #reverseboycott Oakland Athletics game from its streaming archive as an effort to hide it. This fact hit the news, so now people are remembering it again—or learning about it anew.

Let’s All Talk About The ‘Reverse Boycott’ Oakland A’s Game That MLB Is Trying To Memory-Hole
I’ve been an MLB.TV evangelist for some time now. My deep love for the game of baseball has led me to subscribe to baseball’s streaming service, still probably the best in sports, for o…

i'm getting increasingly intolerant of people who call cryptocurrencies a scam because they're basically the only way to pay for stuff that's not captured by christofascists https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/114907994076068205

Macroscopic entanglement between localized domain walls inside a cavity
Rahul Gupta, Huaiyang Yuan, Himadri Shekhar Dhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03450 https://

Macroscopic entanglement between localized domain walls inside a cavity
We present a scheme for generating stable and tunable entanglement between two localized Bloch domain walls in nanomagnetic strips kept inside a chiral optical cavity. The entanglement is mediated by the effective optomechanical interaction between the cavity photons and the two macroscopic, collective modes of the pinned domain walls. By controlling the pinning potential and optical driving frequency, the robust, steady-state entanglement between the two macroscopic domain walls can survive be…

You ever read the Declaration of Independance and wonder if Trump is working off it like a checklist? I mean, there's a lot that just couldn't apply but some of it...
"For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:"
"For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:"
Huh, pretty familiar. And when folks protest that last one?
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."
I mean, I have *a lot* of issues with that document and many others but it's interesting to see how this all rhymes.
#50501movement #NoKingsDay #Trump #ICE

The Kyiv Independent crosses 20,000 paying members, up from 17,500 in May, with ~70% of its revenue coming from readers, and has no plans to add a paywall (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/how-kyiv-independent-reac…

How the Kyiv Independent reached 20,000 paying members — with no paywall
Horizontal connections and membership community have kept subscriber churn for the English-language publication under 2%.

The vacated rule, meant to go into effect on 14 July, would have covered all forms of negative option marketing
– programs that allow sellers to interpret customer inaction as acceptance of subscriptions,
often leading to unintended charges.
The FTC’s original 1973 rule only covered limited forms of these practices.
It would have also stopped businesses from forcing customers through lengthy chat sessions with agents or creating other barriers to cancellation.
The…

Western leaders starting to speak up - now more images show up of people in Gaza dying from hunger - knew all along this would be the consequence of Israel shutting off food and water supply. They ignored and suppressed protests in their own countries and kept defending Israel's actions. Shame. https://share.google/HzXCTaQqJOsrwU…

Suffering in Gaza is indefensible, says Keir Starmer
The prime minister warns of a "humanitarian catastrophe" ahead of emergency talks with France and Germany.

Raiders GM John Spytek Drops Truth Bomb on Tom Brady Relationship https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-gm-john-spytek-truth-bomb-tom-brady-relationship/?adt_ei=[email]

Hadn't noticed until today, but earlier this year the original Cuckoo Sandbox's domain name (cuckoosandbox dot org), that is still linked from the GitHub repo, seems to have fallen under the control of a sports betting operation. The new domain name holder seems to have kept some semblance of the original About page.

I kept the gray colour it came with but switched to a softer and less plasticy looking leather strap.
It works but may get grubby, really fast.
#WristCheck

In-Memory Non-Binary LDPC Decoding
Oscar Ferraz, Vitor Silva, Gabriel Falcao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03567 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03567

In-Memory Non-Binary LDPC Decoding
Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are an important feature of several communication and storage applications, offering a flexible and effective method for error correction. These codes are computationally complex and require the exploitation of parallel processing to meet real-time constraints. As advancements in arithmetic and logic unit technology allowed for higher performance of computing systems, memory technology has not kept the same pace of development, creating a data movement bott…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06307 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Model Predictive Control is Almost Optimal for Restless Bandit
We consider the discrete time infinite horizon average reward restless markovian bandit (RMAB) problem. We propose a \emph{model predictive control} based non-stationary policy with a rolling computational horizon $τ$. At each time-slot, this policy solves a $τ$ horizon linear program whose first control value is kept as a control for the RMAB. Our solution requires minimal assumptions and quantifies the loss in optimality in terms of $τ$ and the number of arms, $N$. We show that its sub-opt…

Anyone doing zabbix and ansible? I got the connection working, but when trying to add a host to the server I kept getting "Template not found". So I removed the templates and I got "Hostgroup not found". So I removed the hostgroup and got this, so I guess i HAVE to have something. But why is it not finding them? Quoted or not quoted, no difference. #ansible

I approve of this kind of petty
https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/114802478680868615

Control Signaling for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How Many Bits are Needed?
Anders Enqvist, \"Ozlem Tu\u{g}fe Demir, Cicek Cavdar, Emil Bj\"ornson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03929

Control Signaling for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How Many Bits are Needed?
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can greatly improve the signal quality of future communication systems by reflecting transmitted signals toward the receiver. However, even when the base station (BS) has perfect channel knowledge and can compute the optimal RIS phase-shift configuration, implementing this configuration requires feedback signaling over a control channel from the BS to the RIS. This feedback must be kept minimal, as it is transmitted wirelessly every time the channel ch…

Seven episodes into “Foundation” and I’m mostly only watching it now to see how much farther astray it goes. Curious if season 1 even gets past its wildly variant version of chapter two of the first book.
At least unlike “I, Robot” this one kept names and starting plot.

Our new corporate owners' IT rules have changed the #retentionpolicy on Microsoft #Teams. Instead of years, now two months.
I relish screams of "oh no the IMPORTANT FILE is gone!" - I kept telling people `Teams/Slack/Discord/Matrix is NOT a document repository! Stop storing important shit i…

Lazy bugger. Kept using FF sync for bookmarks et al. Works ok.
But, still ties to Mozzie.
Install LibreWolf. Offers, upon request, to import bookmarks et al from Vivaldi.
All good, including favicons.
I am too old to learn. Let's hope I don't forget 😜

I discovered Ozzy via radio (and my dad had the first Sabbath record) but my wife discovered Ozzy in a different way. When she was younger, she was searching for 'Crazy' by Britney, but 'Crazy Train' came up, and she was like, 'what's this', and listened to it. She liked it, made it the custom ringtone for her mom's phone number, and kept it as that (it still is). 😂 She later heard the early Sabbath stuff and loved it, of course.

How to Dress and Undress your Home
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/06/dressing-and-undressing-the-home/

How to Dress and Undress your Home
Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.

Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of False Positives in Algorithmic Travel Surveillance
Alina Wernick, Alan Medlar, Sofia S\"oderholm, Dorota G{\l}owacka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00218

Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of False Positives in Algorithmic Travel Surveillance
International air travel is highly surveilled. While surveillance is deemed necessary for law enforcement to prevent and detect terrorism and other serious crimes, even the most accurate algorithmic mass surveillance systems produce high numbers of false positives. Despite the potential impact of false positives on the fundamental rights of millions of passengers, algorithmic travel surveillance is lawful in the EU. However, as the system's processing practices and accuracy are kept secret by l…

Wet run, 6 miles, kept it under 9 minute mile on a new route up north (barely!). Found an abandoned farm house too, very lovely route. All but 200 feet were paved, mostly gravel and water, as former logging roads go 😆
Knee pain on my right afterward, forgot to bring the brace with on this trip, unfortunately. We’ll see how the rest of the week goes 🤞 Air quality tanks tomorrow too, winds coming from the north 😕

Strange. Tried out the new Cosmic spin of #fedora42 and it just wouldn’t connect to Wi-Fi. Kept rejecting my password. Switched to KDE Plasma Mobile and it worked fine. Odd that the DE would cause errors like that.

I couldn’t sleep. My brain kept spinning: I brush my teeth at night. Then I don’t eat, I don’t drink, I just sleep. Nothing goes in my mouth. So why, when I wake up, do I brush my teeth again? I already did it! Nothing changed. It’s like someone decided mornings need a repeat, but my mouth is just as clean as before.
Sometimes I wonder, who decided this? Why do we all just do it, like it’s written in the sky or something? I like the feeling of brushing but not the taste of toothpaste, …

Where NFL Execs And Coaches Rank Las Vegas Raiders EDGE Maxx Crosby https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/09/nfl-execs-coaches-rank-las-vegas-raiders-maxx-crosby/

Cowboys-Rams observations: What we saw from George Pickens, Davante Adams and more https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6537818/2025/08/06/cowboys-rams-joint-practice-observations/

I remember thinking somewhere around the mid seventies that Springsteen and the E Street Band, was like a version of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy.
But Phil Lynott did it with a lot less verses.
And this was from this side of the Atlantic, it took a long while to appreciate Springsteen more, perhaps 30 years longer.
Maybe because I kept Van Morrison (another Irishman), so close from the early 70's.
And then again watching this 75 gig on BBC 2 I'm mostly thinkin…

Ravens RB Keaton Mitchell: I feel like I'm better than before 2023 knee injury https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-rb-keaton-mitchell-i-feel-like-i-m-better-than-before-2023-knee-injury

#WordWeavers May 29
Have you ever doubted you'd finish a draft? If so, what kept you going?
All the time.
I finish what I start, I'm stubborn like that. Stupidly stubborn, one might say even. It is not a virtue, I can tell you.

@… @… Oh, and a million podcasts, but if I’m going to pick one, it’s No Such Thing As A Fish, which has kept me sane for over a decade.

was looking for some #ozzy to jam & wound up revisiting the amazing (dio-era) tape of black sabbath fans rioting in milwaukee, 1980. mad respect to the taper who kept recording through this. absolute hero! https://www.youtube.…

The IRS is rescinding layoffs at its civil rights office, an early target in its plans to slash its total headcount.
IRS Commissioner Billy Long, in a memo obtained by Federal News Network, told employees in the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance that the agency is “reversing” reduction-in-force notices they received in April.

IRS rescinds layoffs at civil rights office, an early target of workforce cuts
The IRS sent RIF notices to nearly 80% of staff at the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, but kept layoffs on hold after a recent Supreme Court ruling.

The Worst-Kept Secret of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Yair Rosenberg/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/07/trump-gaza-mistakes/683651/?gift=Y5UOGK3oJJO3esRHvDP7oTneQ3j2vMlYV4y8YyZ7RaQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p103#a250724p103

#WordWeavers May 29
Have you ever doubted you'd finish a draft? If so, what kept you going?
All the time.
I finish what I start, I'm stubborn like that. Stupidly stubborn, one might say even. It is not a virtue, I can tell you.

Dolphins' pass rush trio of Bradley Chubb, Jaelan Phillips, Chop Robinson ready for 'race' to QB https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-bradley-chubb-jaelan-phillips-chop-robinson-race-to-quarterback

Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The system
-- spearheaded by an administration that has already freely shared highly personal data about Americans in ways that have tested legal bounds
-- could put patients’ desires for more convenience at their doctor’s office on a collision course with their expectations that their medical information be kept private.
“There are enormous ethical and legal concerns,”
…

Trump administration announces new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The Trump administration is pushing for Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies. This initiative aims to make accessing health records and monitoring wellness easier. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is expected to discuss this at an event with leaders from companies like Google and Amazon. The system will focus on diabetes, weight management, and digital tools for patient check-ins. While officials say patients must opt in and data will be secure,…

Days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid shots would be removed from the federal immunization schedule for children,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated advice that largely countered Mr. Kennedy’s new policy.
The agency kept Covid shots on the schedule for healthy children 6 months to 17 years old, -- but added a new condition.
Children and their caregivers will be able to get the vaccines in consultation with a doctor…

CDC Issues New Advice on Covid Vaccines for Children That Contradicted RFK Jr.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the vaccine would no longer appear on the childhood immunization schedule. C.D.C.’s update counters his policy.

Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh, Michigan officials named in lawsuit tied to Matt Weiss hacking case

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/charger

Buccaneers WR Tez Johnson holds friendly 'grudges' with college rivals, calls out Ohio State's Jeremiah Smith

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/new…

Trump’s “two weeks” statement was just one aspect of a broader effort at political and military misdirection that took place over eight chaotic days,
from the first Israeli strikes against Iran to the moment when a fleet of B-2 stealth bombers took off
Trump seemed almost gleeful in telling reporters that he could make a decision “one second before it’s due,
because things change, especially with war.”
All the while, Trump was making blustery statements indicating he…

How Trump Decided to Strike Iran
When Israel began its assault on Iran, President Trump kept his distance. But within days he was on a path that led to an extensive bombing mission aided by political and military ruses.