Tonight's mild nightmare: I was at an event. Introduction session. Most people already knew each other. Me and my companion were there for the first time. People kept going off topic. I carefully prepared my sentences and adjusted them several times. Shortly before it would have been my turn, the time was up and everyone walked away. I woke up.
The combination of how much energy it took me to find the right words, the tension while waiting and then realizing that it was all for not…
“What if the physics of the very system itself – not the misguided politics, not the disingenuous pledges, but the underlying energy imbalance of the planet – has shifted in a way our models haven’t quite kept pace with?”
Maybe someone should tell policymakers that even the risk managers are alarmed by now.
https://www.youtube.…
When and if archeology is done on this society, they'll be puzzled, as I am, by the prodigious number of chickens kept, slaughtered, processed, eaten.
Surely it must be a religion, or part of the cult that led to the end of that 'civilisation'.
Greggs launches chicken version of sausage and vegan rolls in 'iconic trilogy' | ITV News
Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0ggkr2g77o
Welcome back, Artemis II crew. I wouldn’t have judged you had you just kept going.
Trump said Thursday he should be involved in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader
as the U.S. and Israel hammered the country for a sixth day.
Iran kept up its retaliatory attacks on Israel, American bases and countries around the region.
Speaking to American news website Axios,
Trump ruled out Mojtaba Khamenei,
a front-runner to replace his father,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
who was killed in the opening strikes of the war.
Trump’s comments were…
2/ People kept on telling lofty to just buy loftyassist, or license it, or "do what they do" but lofty stayed slow in that front and focused on other things. Until LLMs became good enough that they trusted their business people to start making code changes with it.
Right away you started to see small changes go out at rapid pace. Some of them look exactly what loftyassist has, and I am not surprised by it at all. The main guy doing these changes absolutely loves loftyassist.
Driving from Milwaukee to Johnson Creek yesterday, I rolled into the charging station with under five miles of range remaining. I kept asking myself why? Was it the new tires? Was it battery degradation? Was it the weather? I'm pretty sure that it was the wind. Driving from Johnson Creek to Milwaukee, I had absolutely no problem.
Apple is adding video support to its podcasting apps — that’s great. But the way it’s doing so might jeopardize the openness that’s kept podcasting from getting enshittified like every other form of media. It’s not too late for them to fix this. https://anildash.com/2026/02/28/apple-vid…
It was outside the United States that the dissonance struck most deeply.
I remember sitting on high-speed trains that glided so fast and silently they seemed to erase distance itself,
watching wind farms cross the horizon like silent fleets.
In country after country
— places far smaller and, on paper, far poorer than ours
— I kept asking the same question:
how could they manage to build what we could not?
Why did the richest nation on earth feel like…
This is as good a time as any for a thought experiment.
You're in Nazi Germany. You know about the camps, you know what they do, you see the ash fall, you smell it. People who resist alone are killed, some are sent to the camps too. You're afraid to even talk to people about it for fear that they'll turn you in.
You think back to when the camps were being built. You had all the warning signs, but you didn't know how to interpret them. You could believe it would happen. You thought you'd have a chance to vote him out. You thought there might be another way. You thought maybe things would turn out differently if you just sat tight, kept your head down, kept yourself safe.
You see a family being dragged from their home. You know they will be killed. You want to fight, not just for them but for yourself. You opposed Hitler, and at any point you know you could be on the list... Even if you do nothing.
You wish you could rise up, shoot the SS, open the gates, fight it all. You know you aren't alone, but you don't know how to connect with the people who want the same thing.
Using the knowledge we have now, what should you have done in the preceding months and years to connect, to build a community that would open up all paths of resistance?
There were people who resisted. We know it wasn't enough.
Gun laws in Nazi Germany were very similar to US laws in that Nazis were largely free to own guns and everyone else was not. Unlike the US, where "others" have historically controlled using the fear that they might be randomly executed, Germany did codify it. Red flag laws were one more step in the US towards that codification, and there will be more.
When Nazis were taking away those guns, the social networks didn't exist to make resistance possible for most folks. But some Jews were able to resist.
It wasn't the guns that made the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising possible, though they definitely helped. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was made possible by labor organizing in the precessing years.
If there were more uprisings like that, the Holocaust could have been stopped if not prevented. Social networks make resistance possible. Guns are only useful tools to resist authoritarianism *after* you build a community able to support that resistance, and they are only one of many tools made useful by that community.
Getting guns is easy, and not always necessary. Building community is hard. Guns won't keep you safe. Community will.
Single acts of resistance may slow the machine down, but to actually bring down a monster you need to be able to attack more than once. You need a society of resistance. If you are afraid now, build that. Talk to people while it's still safe to do so. Ask them where their red line is. Talk to neighbors. Figure out your network.
Take the steps you need now to keep your neighbors safe, to keep yourself safe.
#USPol
I'm now in "journal won't let me submit without having all data uploaded but data is 2Petabytes and zenodo won't let me" territory...
https://mastodon.social/@hvanleeuwen/116501179941239972
hvanleeuwen@mastodon.social - @neuronakaya the idea that scientists ‘don’t want you to know a fact’ is statistically incompatible with their behavior
they publish ~2.5m papers/yr, upload 200k preprints, make >3m figures, and generate so many supplements that journals added file‑size limits because people kept submitting appendices the size of small video games
i once heard of 14gb of raw data uploaded ‘in case someone might care.’
I’ll be honest, kept thinking the Artemis launch was an April Fools Joke. Actually excited to hear we are going back to the moon even if it’s just orbiting it.
#NowPlaying ❝He didn’t say a lot, actually, at the beginning. He just kept listening. And then 25, 30 minutes later, you know, suddenly, he… went back to his desk and pulled out a paper called, “The Pattern and Effectiveness of Forager Allocation Among Flower Patches by Honeybee Colonies.”❞
This week's project has been migrating the #theme of my #blog. I kept the old one too long and I felt like a snake having to shed a new skin. Hope you like it!
#Ghost
A pack of dogs being kept by a Southern California grandmother has killed her daughter and injured her grandson in an attack, authorities said.
Emily Panuco, 26, of Parker, Ariz., on Friday visited her mother’s home in Big River, a California town along the Colorado River, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
One of her mother’s dogs had recently had puppies, which were in a cardboard box near the front door, the release said.
When Panuco’s 5…
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@mwb/116476124401887839
it's happening huh
I've kept silent for a long time b/c I hate throwing fellow maintainers under the bus, but the situation around httpx 2 (which is developed in private and has a focus on adding a …
Investigators have discovered that the European Commission bowed to the demands of Big Tech lobbyists that the environmental impact of individual datacentres be kept out of the public eye.
https://www.…
I don't often go to the movies, but being able to share #projecthailmary with my wife and son was awesome. Some differences with the book, yes, but I didn't hate them. It had all of the same emotional impact as the book, and they kept the ending intact. Highly recommended.
Hyman is so committed to his drift Pipeline that even when the treatments he promoted on his podcast almost got him killed.
He kept his silence because he would rather see his audience and even himself hurt then say anything that undermines his bottom line.
Why are the Wellness Elite Getting Sepsis? | Mark Hyman and Jordan Peterson https://www.
Noem faced Republican criticism
Republicans largely kept the focus on the large numbers of migrants who came into the country under former President Joe Biden,
portraying Noem as the leader of a cleanup effort of the former administration’s mess.
But she did come under some harsh questioning by members of her own party.
Senator Tillis, who called on Noem to resign following the shootings in Minneapolis, criticized her for erroneously arresting American citizens, for…
Caught this sign while someone was resting it on the ground. Still kept the shot because . . . how could I not share this? #nokings
Our goalie was so good all game. Kept us in it. That was the only one that looked weak. But USA had the majority of the play through the game. We were so close.
We are so proud of all of you.
😢🇨🇦
#HNOM #Canada #Olympics
"Justice Roberts delivered a key decision in the 2019 case Rucho v. Common Cause. Roberts siding with conservatives on a 5-4 decision seven years ago kept constitutional limits away from partisan gerrymandering"
John Roberts' landmark 2019 decision just backfired spectacularly on GOP: legal analysts - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/virginia-2676813108/
From The Conversation
Israel wants to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. But should it have nuclear weapons itself?
Israel’s avowed goal in the Middle East war is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Yet, the double standard associated with this is hardly sustainable in the long run.
The worst-kept secret in the world of nuclear politics is that Israel possesses a formidable arsenal of nuclear weapons.
RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116109430224379547
A fun thing to think about: Where are all the Singularity people with solar?
There’s this whole pseudoscientific subculture organized around the one epistemological premise of “lines that go up will go up forever,” when in reality trends change and curves level off. And now here’s this one thing where people keep stubbornly predicting that it will level off and in fact the line (on a log scale) •has• kept going up far more consistently than predicted…. So why aren’t all the Effective Altruism people saying stuff like “In the future solar cells will save trillions of lives, so it doesn’t matter how many oil executives we kill in the present?”
An Ohio man is the first convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing real and AI-generated explicit images of 10 victims (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
Groundhog day. #totp
"A guest-singer from Spain, for the producer's previous project Nakatomi, kept repeatedly singing "venga" in their songs, which means "come" in Spanish. This led to the name 'Vengaboys' as their following project. So yes, Vengaboys actually means "Comeboys".
RE: https://mastodon.social/@matt_birchler/116470623708806109
Don't know if this is weird, but I have literally never taken and kept one
It's wild how the best-kept secret in video is HDTV antennas. The quality is wildly better than streaming or cable, and it's free after the $50 antenna purchase.
Somehow 2026 feels like all that mandatory cognitive bias awareness training should maybe have been kept going (with regular repeats/refreshers, much like first aid training) instead of being phased out in most places... (not just talking about tech/AI, but there it's especially dire)
#TheStateOfIt
To put it more succinctly: when you remove the thing that kept them there (coding! Shaping software!), they can finally see there is rot everywhere.
And I mourn *that* every day.
Trump broke the promise that he made dozens of times while campaigning:
to stop the Ukraine-Russia war in 24 hours.
Trump has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
but has yet to establish a peace deal.
As the fourth anniversary of Russia’s attack approached, delegations from both sides met in Geneva for U.S. brokered-talks in mid-February
but did not reach a resolution.
About 31% of Trump's campaign promis…
One moth can be an outlier, two moths in a few days are a call to action.
I secured all the usual culprits, went through all the cupboards. Flours and grains are in sealed containers. I don't really have any wool in the house any more. The moths kept coming.
Of course they were thriving in the one place I had not checked closely, the hemp seeds powder bag.
i've almost entirely given up on #baseball because of the many stupid rules changes, but howie rose is what kept me coming back. i've often said that i don't actually follow baseball or even the #mets; i listen to howie rose talk about baseball & the mets. what a radio hero.
The Station Across Town: A Lincoln Boyhood, the Federation I Did Not Watch, and the Second Half of a Television Diptych
When I was sixteen, I had a television show called Kidding Around on KOLN/KGIN-TV in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was 1981. I was a teenager hosting a teenager-aimed program on a commercial CBS affiliate, three blocks of which I have no doubt were paid for by advertising for Pepsi and Levi's and the Lincoln car dealerships that kept American local television…
Emotionally brutal poem. Don't read it if you are feeling fragile today.
Orbšn's defeat is good news for Ukraine: the EU's €90 billion loan, which Orbšn kept blocking despite having approved it, can now soon be made available!
RE: https://ohai.social/@asokel/116441242710635738
he drank a few drops. and he had to be held down kicking and screaming. afterwards he kept going on about how "you could've killed me. i could've DIED."
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
The equinox has returned, so let's talk spring phytoplankton blooms. Temperature and light has increased to create stratification (warm water layer floats over a denser one). Algae is kept near the surface, growing quickly without sinking into the depths. This is the Sverdrup (1953) Critical Depth Hypothesis.
Dr. David Shull at Western Washington Univ…
The Damned - Not Like Everybody Else (Full Album) 2026
Been listening to this album and enjoying it more than I expected. It's nice hearing these voices in a contemporary setting. Anyone know how their other recent albums are? So many! I've not kept up. I just wanted to check out these covers, but now i'm like these guys are still really good!
#music
I just had a thought. I have talked to techies who kept their old shop on their resume despite being laid off because "you can't have a gap on your resume." Instead of doing that, just put that you are working for "a stealth-mode startup".
Who are they? I can't tell you. They are in stealth-mode.
Can I get the HR contact to verify employment? I can't. They are in stealth-mode.
What are you doing for them? I can't tell you.
I was one of Mega's earliest users, back when it still offered 50 GB for free. I've kept my account active just for this reason, and now I'm going to start using it.
For now, I'm syncing all my photos and videos to my Mega cloud using rsync. This way, I'm following the common-sense rule of keeping one copy locally (via Duplicati) and another remotely.
#backup
So, after some deliberation and a few beers I decided to actually put all of the package build stuff into a Forgejo pipeline. Still very weird to me that I need to install `nodejs` to use things like `actions/upload-artifact`, but right now it's working pretty well. Did have to rebuild the runner because it kept running out of disk space.
#forgejo
When Macintosh was introduced as "the computer for the rest of us"—sporting its bright six-color Apple logo—what really caught my attention was the huge stack of Xeroxed "Inside Macintosh" developer manuals: kept in a three-ringed binder at the University's computer center, filled with loads of Pascal APIs. And when Steve introduced the NeXT cube with its stack of API manuals, I was entranced. My life has revolved around the platform ever since.
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Thanks to AI working on realising a long time wish to have a proper high quality map app for my waypoints and travel logs that I kept for like decades.
Nice little SaaS tool - multi user, public profiles, private maps, custom made public maps etc
I dont know anything at all about web development so this is a case of no other option and really loving this.
Have a working iOS app also to do tagging on the go etc, very happy with this.
Imagine the world had we kept this form factor instead of miniature USB thumb drives and SD cards that get misplaced all the time.
Imagine the satisfying click whenever you insert such a cartridge.
People would mod their spring-loaded drives so ejecting would look like a toaster… https://mastodon.social/@256/116251252…
Good friends think of you even if you haven't kept touch as much as you should when it's time to order a side of beef.
Friends, I need to go out on a limb here, that IPv8 thing getting passed around way too much... this is not a design you should consider serious.
I don't think it should take reading past the abstract to feel that way, but if you kept going to the part that says:
r.r.r.r -- 32-bit ASN Routing Prefix
n.n.n.n -- 32-bit Host Address (identical semantics to IPv4)
and haven't LOL'd by then, please select your reward from any one or more of the options in IETF RF…
Had to time-shift my watching of the match, but I knew the result long beforehand. Far less stressful that way, but I HATE not being able to see it live.
Everton played well, their energy hard to match. Beto going out with a probable concussion torpedoed any real hope of claiming all three points. The commentators kept suggesting Ibou should be pulled for hazy decision making, but I didn't see it that way at all. I was critical of his effort on one play late, but otherwise he was g…
I remember one of my jobs where we had a company building an internal system for us and I kept sending emails to the team telling them ways I could break their software...
And they got annoyed...
And my boss told me to cool it, and "give them a chance!"
But my thought was since they gave (some of) us a system to test, should they not be informed of all the ways it could break?
(And no, there was no bug reporting system.)
I know many on here do not like Reddit. I mostly am on it for a few forums that do not exist or are dead on here.
And some light reading. I love to browse the Writing Prompts.
Go down to the post beginning with
The scream was not a sound Alton had ever heard a human being make.
On an email thread with some UW folks talking about meeting locations and "Sieg Hall" (https://www.washington.edu/classroom/SIG) was mentioned.
I kept on doing a double take thinking it said "Sieg Heil"
Progress pics, feat the two holes this caused in my table lmao
I kept them in the plastic holder thingy exactly to protect the table (and to make it easier to hold in place), didn’t think it’d go right through it without me even noticing lmao
(I stopped drilling as soon as it went through the CPUs, so this says something about the quality of my table lmao)
Make sure to wear a mask while doing this, wouldn’t want to breathe in PCB dust!
"As Karen got to know the guards at the NW ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “**Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain** – the guards told me that,” Karen says."
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
10-Apr I started some turbocider (SG1.120, practically syrup) on bread yeast. Today it was at 1.056 (8.4% ABV), and had stopped fermenting, and was still sickly sweet. Pity, because I've managed 13% out of Lidl bread yeast before! I racked it off into two fermenters and added Angel Red yeast to one (which typically yields 13% in 3 days if kept hot) and Mangrove Jack's Mead Yeast to t'other (good for 18%, but more slowly).
I'm happy paying for good wine, but I'm not …
Frequency-Dependent Magnetic modulation of deposition morphology
S. K. Saroj, P. K. Panigrahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21789 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21789 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21789
arXiv:2602.21789v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach for magnetic modulation of deposition morphology in an evaporating ferrofluid droplet. The magnetic field strength and ferrofluid concentration are kept unchanged, while the actuation frequencies are varied from 0.016 Hz to 5 Hz. In the absence of a magnetic field, a coffee-ring formation is observed and consistent with previous studies\cite{deegan1997capillary,deegan2000contact,saroj2019drying}. The application of a time-dependent magnetic field significantly modifies the deposition morphology. The periodic magnetic field induces the formation of multiple concentric rings during evaporation. The number of rings initially increases with increasing actuation frequency of the electromagnet. However, beyond a critical actuation frequency ($f_c = 0.2\,\text{Hz}$), the number of rings decreases. At higher actuation frequencies, magnetic particles preferentially deposit in the central region of the droplet, resulting in suppression of the coffee-ring effect. Additionally, the thickness of the inner rings and the ring spacing decrease with increasing actuation frequency up to critical actuation frequency. The transition from multi-ring formation to coffee-ring suppression is governed by the competition among magnetic forcing, capillary flow, and particle diffusion. The underlying physical mechanisms responsible for droplet dynamics and deposition morphology under periodic magnetic fields are evaluated using scaling arguments. The results demonstrate that diffusive particle transport plays a dominant role in determining the deposition pattern. A non-dimensional magnetic switching number, based on the magnetic perturbation timescale, is introduced as a control parameter to characterize the frequency-dependent deposition behavior.
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stupid question:
What is the actual obstacle to being able to run Linux on a cellphone (i.e., and be able to use it as a cellphone)?
Is there some crucial interop spec that's being kept proprietary/secret?
Or is it there some particular software component that's encumbered by patents and so there can't be a free version of it?
Some weird licensing structure that the operating companies have been able to enforce (and the EU hasn't gotten around to say…
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
Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski,
fed up with being kept in the dark on combat operations,
is quietly drafting legislation that would force Congress to take a potentially explosive vote
on whether to formally authorize using military force against Iran.
Such a move signals deep fractures within GOP ranks just months before midterms.
"Ms. Murkowski described the move on Thursday as an act of desperation
to try to put some parameters around the o…
Trump kept out of the room during operation to find downed pilots in Iran after ‘screaming’ at aides for hours, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-screamed-aides-missing-pilots-iran-b2960603.html
Anyone have issues with audio sync when using the HDMI out of an M4 MBP?? Tried to send video to a TV with 2 different normal HDMI cables (that I know work) and audio sync was a couple seconds off, with audio stuttering/glitching throughout, and it kept getting worse until it was over 10s behind.
It's basically unusable. I'm super pissed because it fucked up a potentially very important screening.
Corrupt Judge permanently bars DoJ from releasing Jack Smith's report on Trump documents
In a ruling on Monday, US federal judge #Aileen #Cannon permanently prohibited the justice department from releasing a report put together by former special counsel Jack Smith related to classified documents Trump kept at Mar…
Aaron Beggs was on target for a personal best
but took the decision to stop and help Ajay instead.
As many other runners kept going, he and another athlete, Robson De Oliveira, stepped in to lift the stricken competitor and carry him over the finish line.
Despite stopping to help, Aaron managed to complete the marathon in two hours and 44 minutes
Let's do Democracy
If enough of us write/email/phone/scream outside our congressional Rep's offices to IMPEACH TRUMP
or face voter outrage leading to being voted out,
and kept it up,
we could regain our democracy
-- @…
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is suggesting that a recent report on President Donald Trump’s involvement in the Situation Room (or lack thereof) during the extraction of U.S. military airmen in Iran should prompt his cabinet members to consider removing him from office.
The Wall Street Journal report in question details that Trump, upon learning that the two airmen’s plane had been shot down, reportedly screamed at his aides for many hours and was later kept from r…
United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta went public with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following a NYT investigation.
Huerta said she kept the secret because, “I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.”
https://w…
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