Tootfinder

I was thinking about making/sewing my own bag but I got stuck on the closure because I kept thinking about zippers... but that's the beauty of a roll top bag, all you need is a buckle!
Heck, I could probably just 3D print one. (Though they also seem to be really cheap to just purchase them.)
#maker #DIY

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.

ICE kept most offices open in shutdown -- but not the one inspecting detention centers (Douglas MacMillan/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/07/ice-detention-centers-oversight-shutdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p51#a251007p51

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.

Oh hey, good things do happen even in the darkest times. Yarvin is taking about fleeing the country.
The thinks that Trump's fascism is failing (which it is) and tha Trump is incapable of doing what it takes to actually hold power. He's afraid of vengeance, which is honestly unlikely given how completely useless the democrats actually are. But I'm glad he's afraid. I hope he runs away to Russia, gets drafted and deployed to Ukraine, and eats a drone.
I also hope he can somehow convince Thiel to be afraid, but I think that's unlikely.
The fact is that if Trump fails, which I think he will (and Yarvin thinks it could be soon), it won't be because of Democratic leadership. It will be because of antifascist organizing and community resistence. We will have, once again, kept ourselves safe while the DNC argued over how much of their values they should abandon and how much of the left to sacrifice to "get votes."
#USPol

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Romeo Void:
🎵 Undercover Kept
#RomeoVoid
https://open.spotify.com/track/4qeMwXTaMc3vlIN4SQQmQe

Estrogen? Hot drinks will suffice!
"""
Naturally, cold water cooled. For that reason it was used in mania and frenzy, sicknesses of heat where the spirits were in ebullition, solids tightened and liquids were heated to the point of evaporation, leaving the brain of the patient ‘dry and brittle’, as anatomists regularly demonstrated. Reasonably enough Boissieu includes cold water among his list of refreshing cures: baths were the foremost ‘antiphlogistic’, purifying the body of any excessive igneous particles to be found there. Taken as a drink, it was a ‘dilutive procastinant’ that diminished the resistance of fluids to the action of solids, thereby indirectly lowering the general heat of the body.
But it was also said that cold water brought heat and that hot water cooled. Such at least was the thesis defended by Darut. Cold baths chased the blood from the periphery of the body and pushed it ‘with increased vigour towards the heart’. As the heart was the seat of natural heat, the blood was warmed there, all the more so as “the heart, which struggles alone against all the other parts, makes renewed efforts to expel the blood and overcome capillary resistance. What results is a greater intensity of circulation, the division of the blood, the fluidity of the humours, the destruction of congestions, an increase in the strength of the natural heat, of the appetite of the digestive forces, and the activity of the body and the mind.” A symmetrical paradox operated regarding hot baths: blood was attracted to the extremities of the body, as were the humours, sweat, and all forms of liquid, both beneficial and harmful. The vital centres were therefore deserted, the heart slowed and the organism thus began to cool down. This fact was confirmed by the ‘fainting, lipothymia… weakness, nonchalance, lassitude, and lack of vigour’ that generally accompanied excessive bathing with hot water.
But there was more. So great was the polyvalence of water, so great was its aptitude to submit itself to the qualities that it carried, that it sometimes lost its efficacy as a liquid and acted as a desiccant instead. Water could Prevent dampness. In part, this was the old principle of similia similibus, but in another sense, and by the intermediary of a visible mechanism. For some, it was cold water that brought dryness, as heat kept water humid. Heat dilated the pores of the organism, distended its membranes, and allowed humidity to impregnate them as a secondary effect. Liquids made their way through heat. For that reason, the hot drinks so widely used in the seventeenth century risked becoming a danger, and those who took too many risked relaxation, general dampness and a weakness of the whole organism. As these were traits commonly associated with the feminine body, as opposed to the dry, virile solidity of the male, the abuse of hot drinks could lead to a general feminisation of the human race: “Not without reason, the reproach is made to the majority of men that they have softened and degenerated, taking on the habits and inclinations of women – the only thing lacking is a physical resemblance. The abuse of humectants could accelerate the metamorphosis, and render the two sexes almost identical both physically and morally. Woe betide the human race if this prejudice ever spreads to the masses: there will be no more labourers, artisans or soldiers, as they will have lost the strength and vigour necessary for their profession.” [Pressavin]
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

I've been thinking about what "home" means for my next album (which Evel will kindly put out in a few months.) Rather than resist this pull, there seems to be a weird desire to inhabit an "alternate history" or "paths not taken" - what if late-Romantic classical music hadn’t taken the turns it did, but moved on in a world with the tools we have now?
Or what if certain quieter musical tendencies of the 80s kept going, or weren't subsumed and neutral…

Adaptive Memory Momentum via a Model-Based Framework for Deep Learning Optimization
Kristi Topollai, Anna Choromanska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04988 https://

Adaptive Memory Momentum via a Model-Based Framework for Deep Learning Optimization
The vast majority of modern deep learning models are trained with momentum-based first-order optimizers. The momentum term governs the optimizer's memory by determining how much each past gradient contributes to the current convergence direction. Fundamental momentum methods, such as Nesterov Accelerated Gradient and the Heavy Ball method, as well as more recent optimizers such as AdamW and Lion, all rely on the momentum coefficient that is customarily set to $β= 0.9$ and kept constant during …

K-Cups? Pods? Cowboys Schottenheimer leaned on a.m. staff meets to survive 4 backup OL https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/07/schottenheimer-explains-coaching-strategy-…

Optimal Variance and Covariance Estimation under Differential Privacy in the Add-Remove Model and Beyond
Shokichi Takakura, Seng Pei Liew, Satoshi Hasegawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04919

Optimal Variance and Covariance Estimation under Differential Privacy in the Add-Remove Model and Beyond
In this paper, we study the problem of estimating the variance and covariance of datasets under differential privacy in the add-remove model. While estimation in the swap model has been extensively studied in the literature, the add-remove model remains less explored and more challenging, as the dataset size must also be kept private. To address this issue, we develop efficient mechanisms for variance and covariance estimation based on the \emph{Bézier mechanism}, a novel moment-release framew…

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…

Watched #AvatarTheWayOfWater for the first time. Impressive visuals, loved some of the shots, would love to see it again on the big screen.
Story-wise, I kept waiting for there to be a moment where the father realizes that his toxic drill Sargent parenting style might not be ideal, but… that never really happened? Or happened so quickly that I missed it in the last few minute…

A federal judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration initiative that would have kept immigrant children in custody after their 18th birthdays, preventing their transfer to adult detention centers that advocates said were planned for this weekend.
Under federal law, unaccompanied minors are housed in facilities overseen by the office of refugee resettlement,
which operates under the Department of Health and Human Services, not Ice.
On Saturday, US district judge Rud…

The MacBookPro disaster is complete, more or less.
The problem: after installing macos 26.0.1 the MBP failed to reboot successfully. It kept going to the apple logo and the progress bar stopped, and eventually the mac went to Recovery Mode.
Tried:
1. re-install macos Tahoe - no luck.
2. reset NVRAM
3. reset SMC
4. re-install from Time Machine backup on NAS. Took 44 hours.
1/3

from my link log —
fs_usage: see filesystem activity on Mac OS X.
https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/fs-usage
saved 2025-07-10 htt…

Using fs_usage to see what files a process is using
Today I wanted to figure out where the vercel CLI tool on my Mac kept its authentication tokens.

@… 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 …

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…

Was removing some snails from the greenhouse. Opened skylight to fling them over the fence (into an uncultivated garden) and the window collapsed on my head! No injury as I was wearing a cap and the glass didn't break. Mortice joint had rotted through. Greenhouse was quite old when we arrived 40 years ago and I keep replacing bits.
Luckily I'd kept a partially rotten roof spar so was able to cut it down, using the sound part and joint it to fit.
Never throw anything that …

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

Jets' Wilson: Haven't talked to Rodgers since exit https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46159556/jets-garrett-wilson-talked-aaron-rodgers-exit

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…

Why Cowboys kept Jaydon Blue inactive for weeks to start his rookie NFL season https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/why-cowboys-jaydon-blue-inactive-weeks-start-rookie-nfl-season/19f7…

⏰ The town that rebelled against the crypto farm that kept it awake for six months
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-31/the-town-that-rebelled-against-the-crypto-farm-that-kept-it-awake-f…

The town that rebelled against the crypto farm that kept it awake for six months
Paraguay has become a paradise for cheap energy, and communities like Santa Lucía de Villarrica are suffering from its dark side

#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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Johnny Burnette and the Rock ’n’ Roll Trio:
🎵 The Train Kept A Rollin
#JohnnyBurnetteandtheRocknRollTrio
https://famousflames.bandcamp.com/track/the-train-kept-a-rollin
https://open.spotify.com/track/7s8spWIA65WP6vG18bXDP1

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.

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.

I should have kept my mouth shut when I went to my neighbourhood internet provider to pay the monthly fee, but I asked the hypothetical how much it would cost to upgrade from my 10 years old 100-Mbps limit. They immediately upgraded me to 500 Mbps, correcting the monthly fee to minus €0,50 🤯
There goes my secret deterrent against going off the rails with playing all the video games. You might've noticed it's kind of a problem 😑

June 2024 I installed #veeam B&R on my #foreniscs workstation because I had to tinker with some of this stuff... never touched it ever since
But it kept sleeping as a time-bomb on my workstation...
Today.. out of nowhere ... as I was writing a report, clicking through XWF and …

'I got one more ring from it': Travis Kelce talks engagement to Taylor Swift in Brazil https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46157151/kansas-city-chiefs-travis-kelce-talks-taylor-swift-engagement-brazil

This post covers things I've also felt about Hugo for ages, poster child for something that should just be left alone already.
https://commaok.xyz/post/on_hugo/

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%.

Criteria for Credible AI-assisted Carbon Footprinting Systems: The Cases of Mapping and Lifecycle Modeling
Shaena Ulissi, Andrew Dumit, P. James Joyce, Krishna Rao, Steven Watson, Sangwon Suh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00240

Criteria for Credible AI-assisted Carbon Footprinting Systems: The Cases of Mapping and Lifecycle Modeling
As organizations face increasing pressure to understand their corporate and products' carbon footprints, artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted calculation systems for footprinting are proliferating, but with widely varying levels of rigor and transparency. Standards and guidance have not kept pace with the technology; evaluation datasets are nascent; and statistical approaches to uncertainty analysis are not yet practical to apply to scaled systems. We present a set of criteria to validate AI-a…

Trying to make limoncello at home for the first time. (We use a lot of lemons in our cooking, and I kept thinking, "Geez, what can I do with the leftover lemons?!?")

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

Report: Batted pass that hit skycam in Cowboys-Jets game should have been do-over https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/05/cowboys-jets-skycam-batted-pass-missed-do-over/86542220007/…

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

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.

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.

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.

I Stolenly Swear That I Am Up to (No) Good: Design and Evaluation of Model Stealing Attacks
Daryna Oliynyk, Rudolf Mayer, Kathrin Grosse, Andreas Rauber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21654

I Stolenly Swear That I Am Up to (No) Good: Design and Evaluation of Model Stealing Attacks
Model stealing attacks endanger the confidentiality of machine learning models offered as a service. Although these models are kept secret, a malicious party can query a model to label data samples and train their own substitute model, violating intellectual property. While novel attacks in the field are continually being published, their design and evaluations are not standardised, making it challenging to compare prior works and assess progress in the field. This paper is the first to address…

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Sir Isaac Brock (1769 - 1812), who kept Canada from becom8ng the 51st state. Technically, we would have become the 19th at that time if the U.S. didn't retreat so frequently. Brock was the military commander and administrator of Upper Canada when the War of 1812 commenced. His early capture of Fort Mackinac, forcing the total surrender of American troops, was a rallying cry for Canada and took away USA military momentum. His actions in that victory were considered rash, and his next rash decision cost him his life at the battle of Queenston Heights.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-isaac-brock

🏗️ 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.

I bought a pair of SSDs for home. I put them in my btrfs filesystem (mirrored data). One of them kept throwing corruption warnings (which btrfs repaired):
BTRFS info (device sdh): read error corrected: ino 0 off 18526171987968 (dev /dev/sdh sector 238168896)
Thousands of those, all over the device.
I removed that device again.

Cowboys offense has kept it 'vanilla' all preseason; here's what to expect when Dak Prescott starts to cook

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/co…

Caltech says it built the world's largest neutral-atom quantum computer, with 6,100 qubits, 13 second coherence, 10x longer than the past, and 99.98% accuracy (Jason Nelson/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/341716/caltech-builds-worlds-largest-neutral-atom…

Caltech Builds World’s Largest Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer
Researchers kept more than 6,000 qubits coherent while operating with 99.98% accuracy. Here's why that matters for quantum computing.

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/

“(Text messages of top DHS officials) are records that must be preserved and kept because they are created in the course of conducting government business,” said Chioma Chukwu, executive director of American Oversight, speaking with The New York Times."
‘That’s not how it works’: Trump’s DHS admits to major 'violation' of federal law - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/dhs-law-breaking/

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.…

I thought suffering kept things interesting. How funny
that I called it love and the whole time it was pain.
--Ada Limón,
from the poem "Calling Things What They Are",
from the book "The Hurting Kind"
#Poetry

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

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.

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.

Even with several improvements, Raiders need to find a way to 'not make it so hard on ourselves' https://www.raiders.com/news/even-with-several-improvements-raiders-need-to-find-a-way-to-not-make-it-so-hard-on-ourse…

"Hitler personally had more German generals executed than all the Allies combined managed to kill during the entire war. That’s not micromanagement; that’s murder as a management style."
Very interesting thread!
https://infosec.exchange/@masek/115266663243424953

severely disappointed that tom cruise didn't go to space in the newest mission impossible. they kept going underground and i shouted at the television that that's the wrong way. do it, nasa

"Plastics: All around us and inside us"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Plastics: All around us and inside us
Plastic is one of the most remarkable materials ever created. It's cheap, lightweight and endlessly versatile. It can be shaped into anything from shopping bags to lifesaving tools in hospitals, and it's clean, safe and can be sterilized. Depending on its purpose, it can be used just once—for example, in medical settings where hygiene is critical—or kept in service for years.

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 😕

A bit of a pain with phone number change. The wife doesn't need the landline and wants a simple cell phone and a basic plan and disconnect the phone. It will work out for me as it will save us about $60 a month. Building a list of who to contact and I kept the moving checklist with that info.

Wow! The tightest of angles beats Berger near side and looks to be the winner.
It must be said that the German back line was not well organized after the turnover and because they're gassed, they kept Bonmati onside and allowed the turn. Fatigue, surely.
#GERESP #EURO2025

Brian Schottenheimer Sends Bold Message on Cowboys’ Dak Prescott https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brian-schottenheimer-dak-prescott-jets-win/?adt_ei=[email]

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
TARRANT: Listen, Orac, what about the disease epidemic Cally's talking about.
ORAC: It's a high probability that because Auron has had a policy of neutrality and isolation, the planet has now been kept completely free of all disease for more than three decades.
https://blake.tor…

Just got my first Sleep Score after updating to watchOS 26. It says I got a “High” quality sleep last night. In reality my sleep was awful; kept waking up and couldn’t fall back asleep. Not a good first impression.

On Sunday, group chats around the capital lit up with a 31-tweet-long thread by a crypto investor named Adam Cochran alleging that Trump was in ill health.
This morning, the press corps was kept about 100 yards from the president.
The speculation wasn’t helped by a series of strange answers J.D. Vance gave in a USA Today interview last week,
where he said he was ready to be president if needed:
“I've gotten a lot of good on-the-job training over the last 200 day…

It’s time to have a serious conversation about Trump’s health
Six questions worth digging into more.

Now that I've moved to Saint Martin, I'm finding that much local news coverage and P2P commerce happens on Facebook. While I've kept my old FB account, I haven't used in it years.
Can anyone point me to resources on how to use FB while withholding as much of my data as possible?

If you like hard dictatorships, that is.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/travel-4habctqcz/-/a-THFEbJ7TRSO8zgmFoYMzqw:a:89340020-/0

Why Turkmenistan is one of Central Asia’s best-kept secrets
For travellers keen on venturing beyond the familiar, Turkmenistan offers a unique land rooted in ancient nomadic traditions, Silk Road history and …

What I kept drawing. #Wordle
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Really silly dream
I had a really silly #dream recently. I dreamt that my CFL broke. Or more specifically, it kept trying to turn out, successive parts of it were lighting up, then it all went off and tried again. And it looked like it had a bunch of cuts across it, and around these cuts little thunder sparks started appearing, like some kind of STALKER-like anomaly.
I finally flipped the switch, but the anomaly remained, and I wanted to get rid of it in case the sparks could jump onto my hardware and damage something. So I threw a metal bowl towards it, supposing the thunder would jump onto it. While it was flying near the anomaly, it slowed down and started turning back like a boomerang. On top of that, pieces of cat food (don't ask me why I threw a full bowl) were getting out of it and staying in the air levitating. When the bowl reached the floor and started turning again, Mr Ek came close to it and started levitating himself; he was sitting a few centimeters above the floor.
In the middle of all this, I've figured out I should record it. I took a bunch of photos with my phone, before I managed to switch to recording video.
Once I've recorded the fascinating flying bowls and levitating cat food, I needed to go back to discharging the thing. I threw a second metal bowl, and that one started levitating as well. I've figured out that's stupid, and I've found some big ass hammer with a metal end and a wooden handle. I held the end near the lamp to charge it, then tried to find something to discharge it to. I've tried some small stuff like the door handle, but obviously that wasn't sufficient. Finally, I've figured out to use the electricity box, since it is grounded. I held the hammer to it, watching sparks light the semi-darkness; I've recorded that as well.
And that's how much of it I remember.

Keystone Kash Kept Kirk Arrest Secret So Trump Could Spill on Fox (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/keystone-kash-kept-kirk-arrest-secret-so-trump-could-spill-on-fox/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p96#a250912p96

Ethics Statements in AI Music Papers: The Effective and the Ineffective
Julia Barnett, Patrick O'Reilly, Jason Brent Smith, Annie Chu, Bryan Pardo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25496

Ethics Statements in AI Music Papers: The Effective and the Ineffective
While research in AI methods for music generation and analysis has grown in scope and impact, AI researchers' engagement with the ethical consequences of this work has not kept pace. To encourage such engagement, many publication venues have introduced optional or required ethics statements for AI research papers. Though some authors use these ethics statements to critically engage with the broader implications of their research, we find that the majority of ethics statements in the AI music li…

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,…

Malik Nabers injury update: 'Minor back problem' has kept Giants star out of practice, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/malik-n

#Amazon has kept pushing back the date when they say they will enable CDK CLI anonymous telemetry collection. Current enable date is Oct 1, 2025.
Lots of comments suggesting it should be an opt-in, not opt-out.
https://git…

❗ NOTICE: CDK CLI will begin to collect anonymous telemetry data on or after Oct 1st, 2025 · Issue #34892 · aws/aws-cdk
Status In-Progress. Doc page on CLI Telemetry: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/cli-telemetry.html Last communication on 8/29/25: Hi all, I'm updating the launch date on this thread to say ...

Source: Panthers' Hubbard not expected to play https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46475548/source-panthers-rb-hubbard-not-expected-play-vs-dolphins

Chiesa is easily the MOTM. Was the engine carrying this sluggish team all day, with two brilliant assists to show for it.
Nice to get Isak's account opened up. Would have been nice to see Ekitike continue to perform, and he did, but for the shocking lack of awareness leading to the second yelllow.
Gomez really had a Jekyll & Hyde night... solid out of possession, monstrous with it. He wasn't alone, as the turnovers kept Southampton in the game. Endo was both brilliant…

Happy SysAdmin Day everyone! Here is a head scratcher. Website kept serving the default new site page. Even when I made a new index.html file. So I made a test.html and got Forbidden. Error log says "client denied by server configuration: /var/www/newwebsite/test.html" Not directory permissions and not selinux. So I made /var/www/newweb2 and moved the files over. Voila, working. Both test.htnl and new index.html. I'm leaving it alone because it's working and it's Friday…

Today's ride into work was something. If I ride fast in the morning I take the Menomonee River Parkway but ride on the street going about 25mph. I saw a guy on the Oak Leaf Trail with a motorcycle helmet and "motocross style dirt bike" ebike. He was probably going 20mph but kept slowing down to pass people walking. Seemed like he should have been on the road with me. I was beating him on speed since I was on the road free of pedestrians.
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While many of the US CITIZENS detained have immediately declared their U.S. citizenship to officers,
they have routinely been ignored,
according to interviews with the men, their lawyers and court documents.
In some cases they have been handcuffed,
kept in holding cells and immigration facilities overnight,
and in at least two cases held without access to a lawyer or even a phone call.
How many U.S. citizens have been swept up in the Trump administration’s…

‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet
As immigration agents take a more aggressive approach, they have stopped and in some cases detained American citizens.

kept the eye on the prize 🏈 | @AmericanAirlines #DallasCowboys #NFL #football #Turpin

Blue States That Sued Kept Most CDC Grants, While Red States Feel Brunt of Trump Clawbacks (KFF Health News)
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-grant-trump-clawbacks-blue-red-state-comparison/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p23#a250826p23

Let's be honest. I've been a strong supporter of #OpenPGP (or #PGP in general) for a long time. And I still can't think of any real alternative that exists right now. And I kept believing it's not "that hard" — but it doesn't seem like it's getting any easier. The big problem with standards like that are tools.
#WebOfTrust is hard, and impractical for a lot of people. It doesn't really help how many tools implement trust. I mean, I sometimes receive encrypted mail via #EvolutionMail — and Evolution makes it really hard for me to reply encrypted without permanently trusting the sender!
The whole SKS keyserver mess doesn't help PGP at all. Nowadays finding someone's key is often hard. If you're lucky, WKD will work. If you're not, you're up for searching a bunch of keyservers, GitHub, or perhaps random websites. And it definitely doesn't help that some of these may hold expired keys, with people uploading their new key only to a subset of them or forgetting to do it.
On top of that, we have interoperability issues. Definitely doesn't speak well when GnuPG can't import keys from popular keyservers over lack of UIDs. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Now with diverging OpenPGP standards around the corner, we're a step ahead from true interoperability problems. Just imagine convincing someone to use OpenPGP, only to tell them afterwards that they've used non-portable tool / settings, and their key doesn't work for you.
That's really not how you advocate for #encryption.

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

Shooting at Chiefs facility kept quiet at behest of team, president says https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6567768/2025/08/21/chiefs-shooting-andy-reid-team-facility/

Giants-Chargers: Jaxson Dart guides N.Y. to first win, plus 6 takeaways https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6670537/2025/09/28/giants-chargers-takeaways-result-jaxson-dart/

Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn't Kept Text Message Data Since April (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/homeland-security-foia-text-messages.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gU8.UfXb.c-AvPIJVGYrl&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p40#a250823p40

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

Don’t forget these 5: PAT block changed it all https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/don-t-forget-these-5-pat-block-changed-it-all

Long after this moron is dead
History will will remember the cowards who kept quiet and let this to go on
https://bsky.app/profile/bopeep-burton.bsky.social/post/3ljdaesk3vk2e

Don’t forget these 5: PAT block changed it all https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/don-t-forget-these-5-pat-block-changed-it-all

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

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/new…

A painful Sunday across sports, from NFL to MLB to golf https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6672152/2025/09/29/nfl-ravens-mlb-mets-ryder-cup-the-pulse/

Cowboys coaches 'dunk contest' kicks off Week 2 of training camp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-coaches-dunk-contest-kicks-off-week-2-training-camp

Schottenheimer confirms Joe Milton as Cowboys’ backup QB, but search remains open https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/27/schottenheimer-on-milton-it-wasnt-perfect-but-we-…

Mailbag: Can Eberflus avoid a slow start? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-can-eberflus-avoid-a-slow-start

Mailbag: Can Eberflus avoid a slow start? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-can-eberflus-avoid-a-slow-start