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Forget America First
—Under Trump,
It's Corporations First
Big corporations donated heavily
to Trump’s inaugural fund.
Just a few months later,
federal cases against them are being dropped
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump

Forget America First—Under Trump, It's Corporations First
Big corporations donated heavily to Trump’s inaugural fund. Just a few months later, federal cases against them are being dropped.

Buy it Now, Track Me Later: Attacking User Privacy via Wi-Fi AP Online Auctions
Steven Su, Erik Rye, Robert Beverly, Dave Levin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13052

Buy it Now, Track Me Later: Attacking User Privacy via Wi-Fi AP Online Auctions
Static and hard-coded layer-two network identifiers are well known to present security vulnerabilities and endanger user privacy. In this work, we introduce a new privacy attack against Wi-Fi access points listed on secondhand marketplaces. Specifically, we demonstrate the ability to remotely gather a large quantity of layer-two Wi-Fi identifiers by programmatically querying the eBay marketplace and applying state-of-the-art computer vision techniques to extract IEEE 802.11 BSSIDs from the sell…

At Cannes, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube plans to integrate Google's most advanced AI video generation tool, Veo 3, into YouTube Shorts later this summer (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform
The Veo 3 video generator is capable of creating both videos and sound based on text prompts, with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan saying the "AI technology will push the limits of human creativity."

Who's who in Ukraine's government after its first full wartime reshuffle: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/whos-who-in-ukraines-government.html

Wild looking game 'Time Flies' coming to PC & consoles later this month. You experience the life of a fly and can do all kinds of things.
The game's website is pretty cool: https://timeflies.buzz
And here's the trailer:

Time Flies – A game about our limited time in this world.
Coming July 31st to PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and computers. A game by Michael Frei and Raphaël Munoz, produced by Playables.

Me: “Cool, new #dotnet #oss library, let me read the docs"
** Five minutes later **
Me: “These docs are all ChatGPT-generated, and half the methods and examples are hallucinated. I'm out.”

Hey, Inoreader, you seriously running hot with notifications about what I saved to read later. You need to calm down, buddy!

At Cannes, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube plans to integrate Google's most advanced AI video generation tool, Veo 3, into YouTube Shorts later this summer (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform
The Veo 3 video generator is capable of creating both videos and sound based on text prompts, with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan saying the "AI technology will push the limits of human creativity."

The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru

heise | Pocket verabschiedet sich: Sieben Read-It-Later-Alternativen vorgestellt
Mozilla beendet seinen Read-Later-Dienst Pocket. Wir testen die Alternativen und zeigen, wie Sie Ihre Daten retten und in einen neuen Dienst importieren.

@… I tried Element earlier this year and gave up because I could not read half of the messages in my group chat.
I found out later that the group chat admin lost access at some point and is still unable to get it back.

SFMTA board is hearing Mayor Lurie’s mass displacement plan to banish working-poor, mostly Latino families living in RVs from the city.
Here’s the “refuge permit” designed as window dressing to make liberals feel ok about this. Notice to get one, you have to “agree to accept offer of… interim… housing,” ie agree to be displaced a little later anyway. 💩
#sfpol

Pulp - Spike Island (live on Later with Jools)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BygudvVijU

Many people have this sense that the price of books is primarily linked to the cost of materials, manufacture, & distribution. But the majority of the cost of publishing books are in the labor leading up to the 1st copy: editorial & editorial production work, before any reproduction in whatever format. Addition labor happens later, for marketing. When you buy a book, you’re mainly paying for these kinds of labor.
From: @…

#OTD 11 jaar geleden kwam de Russische agressie ook naar Nederland. De MH17 werd door een Russische luchtdoelraket neergeschoten, 298 mensen kwamen om het leven.
Ik herinner me nog de eerste teletekstmelding, maar wat mij vooral is bijgebleven is (weken later) het dagelijkse ritueel van het overbrengen van de slachtoffers. Deze video is door iemand anders gemaakt op de plek waar ik ook een aan…

i was put in charge of three grandchildren for a few hours yesterday so we headed straight to ben & jerry's to split a milkshake, then explored the state theater (and even sneaked into a movie but later got thrown out for horsing around on the escalator), then i gave a nickel tour of angell/mason/haven halls, then they chased squirrels on the diag which took longer than you might think, then we looked in all the windows in nickels arcade. it all went slowly and well.

Hurray. @… have a new book coming out:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-books/accessible-ux-research/

Quality Printed Books on Front-End, Design, UX, Accessibility — Smashing Magazine
Make your UX research inclusive. Learn how to recruit, plan, and design with disabled participants in mind. Print shipping in August 2025. eBook available for download later this summer. Written by Dr. Michele A. Williams. Cover art by Espen Brunborg.

Calm down…
Despite the obnoxious footers you sometimes see on email written by the silly, no one can obligate you to protect data that they sent to you without some sort of contract. Maybe if you’re an employee, you have made an explicit agreement to protect your employer’s data. Maybe there is an implied agreement to protect information of your employer’s business partners. But there is NO blanket duty of care for email sent to you any more than there is for snail mail.

Forty years ago I moved to Scotland and tried to read the classic “A Scots Quair” by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. It’s written in a variant of Scots that aimed to be accessible to English readers. I had the Scots dictionary by my side and was looking up words constantly until I gave up. A few years later (with some more experience of hearing Scots spoken) I read it without the dictionary and, while I was occasionally guessing at words from context, I went with the flow and loved it.
Like mos…

So there's this new "#eDoręczenia" (~ "eDelivery") system that's supposed to replace the previous "ePUAP" system for exchanging signed messages between citizens and offices. I've finally had the opportunity of testing it today, and I have to say, it's magic.
So I wrote the message, attached the ~300 KiB attachment and clicked "Send". Now a status bar appeared on top, saying (in translation):
> Sending message, it can take up to 20 minutes!
Roughly two minutes later the status bar disappeared and I got a blank new message form. So I go into "sent", nothing there. I go into "drafts", there's my message, apparently listed with "delivery data". I click it, click "send" again — the same bar appears, but after a few seconds I'm back to the list. I click "sent", it's finally sent. Magic!
#Poland

“Family values do not stop south of the Rio Grande,” he told the crowd. “Why do you think they are here? It’s because they love their family. You and I would do the same thing if we were in their position.”
Guess who said that? Answer below
https://ww…

77-year-old poem explains protestors' ICE anger
Later set to music, Guthrie’s ode decries the dehumanization of immigrants that we’re seeing today

“Family values do not stop south of the Rio Grande,” he told the crowd. “Why do you think they are here? It’s because they love their family. You and I would do the same thing if we were in their position.”
Guess who said that? Answer below
https://ww…

77-year-old poem explains protestors' ICE anger
Later set to music, Guthrie’s ode decries the dehumanization of immigrants that we’re seeing today

Remember working on their early website and socials - great show.
Heather Ewart reflects on the tough road to Back Roads success - ABC News https://share.google/8XHCttXqe84T9Rpo0

Heather Ewart reflects on the tough road to Back Roads success
Heather Ewart was a powerhouse political reporter when she was asked to create a show about regional Australia. A decade later, and with her final season going to air, Ewart admits that getting the idea off the ground was no easy feat.

And the award for the #VHS cover I still remember 35 years later goes to the 1986 #horror #movie April Fool's Day.

I’ve been visiting mom since yesterday. I’ll go back home tomorrow and then my brother will be arriving later in the week.
Mom is still very confused. For part of today I think I was my uncle Frank. She’s also unsteady on her feet and chafing at restrictions not to get out of bed or a wheelchair without staff assistance. If anything, this is worse than before her trip to the hospital last week. 
1/2

“Move fast and break things.”
The things:
- Human rights
- Our habitat
- Democracy
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital

Feature-based analysis of oral narratives from Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Emma Sharratt, Annelien Smith, Retief Louw, Daleen Klop, Febe de Wet, Herman Kamper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13164

Feature-based analysis of oral narratives from Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Oral narrative skills are strong predictors of later literacy development. This study examines the features of oral narratives from children who were identified by experts as requiring intervention. Using simple machine learning methods, we analyse recorded stories from four- and five-year-old Afrikaans- and isiXhosa-speaking children. Consistent with prior research, we identify lexical diversity (unique words) and length-based features (mean utterance length) as indicators of typical developme…

Buy it Now, Track Me Later: Attacking User Privacy via Wi-Fi AP Online Auctions
Steven Su, Erik Rye, Robert Beverly, Dave Levin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13052

Buy it Now, Track Me Later: Attacking User Privacy via Wi-Fi AP Online Auctions
Static and hard-coded layer-two network identifiers are well known to present security vulnerabilities and endanger user privacy. In this work, we introduce a new privacy attack against Wi-Fi access points listed on secondhand marketplaces. Specifically, we demonstrate the ability to remotely gather a large quantity of layer-two Wi-Fi identifiers by programmatically querying the eBay marketplace and applying state-of-the-art computer vision techniques to extract IEEE 802.11 BSSIDs from the sell…

Klarna launches a $40/month unlimited mobile plan in the US via a partnership with telecom services startup Gigs, following similar offerings by Revolut and N26 (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/klarna-ceo-outlines-plan-to…

Klarna CEO wants to turn the platform into a 'super app' with AI
The buy now, pay later giant's IPO may be on hold — but its business strategy remains the same, according to CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski.

Imagine you're president, and someone in prison awaiting trial had dirt on you, dies suspiciously. Then ~6 years later people clamor for info you'd kill to suppress to be released anyway.
Might make you post: people should "not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about."
Rough Tuesday for Dopey McGropey.
His post from 3 days ago:

Donald J. Trump: "What’s going on with my “boys” and, in some cases, “gals?” They’re all going...
What’s going on with my “boys” and, in some cases, “gals?” They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and “selfish people” are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, …

Donald Trump urged Iranians to evacuate Tehran,
citing what he said was the country's rejection of a deal to curb nuclear weapons development.
Trump was due to leave the Group of Seven summit in Canada later on Monday -- a day early -- due to the Middle East situation, the White House said.
Fox News reported Trump would convene his National Security Council.

Hamilton decompositions of regular tripartite tournaments
Francesco Di Braccio, Joanna Lada, Viresh Patel, Yani Pehova, Jozef Skokan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12460

Hamilton decompositions of regular tripartite tournaments
Kühn and Osthus conjectured in 2013 that regular tripartite tournaments are decomposable into Hamilton cycles. Somewhat surprisingly, Granet gave a simple counterexample to this conjecture almost 10 years later. In this paper, we show that the conjecture of Kühn and Osthus nevertheless holds in an approximate sense, by proving that every regular tripartite tournament admits an approximate decomposition into Hamilton cycles. We also study Hamilton cycle packings of directed graphs in the same …

I have not had nearly enough sleep tonight, but lying awake fretting is not productive. If I can't sleep, I'm better doing something useful now, and trying to find time to sleep later.

La versión final de android 16 estš lista y puede que salga entre hoy y mañana.
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/10/android-16-will-officially-launch-later-today/

Rookie Mistakes: Measuring Software Quality in Student Projects to Guide Educational Enhancement
Marco De Luca, Sergio Di Martino, Sergio Di Meglio, Anna Rita Fasolino, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace, Porfirio Tramontana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12488

Rookie Mistakes: Measuring Software Quality in Student Projects to Guide Educational Enhancement
When teaching Programming and Software Engineering in Bachelor's Degree programs, the emphasis on creating functional software projects often overshadows the focus on software quality, a trend that aligns with ACM curricula recommendations. Software Engineering courses are typically introduced later in the curriculum, and can generally allocate only limited time to quality-related topics, leaving educators with the challenge of deciding which quality aspects to prioritize. In this decision, the…

Netflix says Netflix House, its in-person experience offering interactive activities, will open in Philadelphia and Dallas in late 2025 and in Las Vegas in 2027 (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts…

Sneak peek inside the Netflix House retail locations
Netflix will open two retail locations in the Philadelphia and Dallas areas later this year. On Tuesday, the streamer said a third location will open in Las Vegas in 2027.

Israhell, obviously very disappointed that they still haven't succeeded in starting WWIII, just bombed Damascus (including the presidential palace).
broadcasted on live TV ...

Forget ransomware - most firms think quantum computing is the biggest security risk to come: Quantum computers will break modern encryption sooner or later.
🔓 https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/for

Forget ransomware - most firms think quantum computing is the biggest security risk to come
Quantum computers will break modern encryption sooner or later

her: (adorable cat drawing)
me: cute
her, 5 seconds later: i want someone to have my skull

Product idea announcement:
Securing your company's most important digital assets of the 21st century: [productA] transforms your most valued AI prompts into blockchain-secured NFTs.
(Yes, I feel dirty to have come up with such an idea. But I won't be the only one coming up with such 💩, and by posting it I can later tell people "See? ProductB is just plagiarism!". I don't have any plans to make such a product. If your moral code allows you to do it to exploit …

Bias reduction method for prior event rate ratio, with application to emergency department visit rates in patients with advanced cancer
Xiangmei Ma, Chetna Malhotra, Eric Andrew Finkelstein, Yin Bun Cheung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11861

Bias reduction method for prior event rate ratio, with application to emergency department visit rates in patients with advanced cancer
Objectives: Prior event rate ratio (PERR) is a promising approach to control confounding in observational and real-world evidence research. One of its assumptions is that occurrence of outcome events does not influence later event rate, or in other words, absence of 'event dependence'. This study proposes, evaluates and illustrates a bias reduction method when this assumption is violated. Study Design and Setting: We propose the conditional frailty method for implementation of PERR in the prese…

Solche Nachrichten machen Hoffnung
https://www.euronews.com/2025/06/16/german-court-sentences-syrian-torture-doctor-to-life-imprisonment

German court sentences Syrian torture doctor to life imprisonment
Alaa M was found guilty of crimes committed at military hospitals in Syria at the start of the country's civil war. The 40-year-old later moved to Germany, where he worked as an orthopaedic surgeon.

I just realized Minecon 2015 is now more than 10 years ago.
That event would, in one of those crazy ways that life goes, result in me interviewing for a job at Google a month later in August of 2015.
The decade that followed, has truly been something.

20 years later, full circle. ⭕️ https://bonn.social/@Sascha/114686955069707737

I've almost certainly got frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) so my GP sent me for an X-ray to rule out anything more serious. I went to West Middlesex University Hospital this morning, to their walk-in clinical imaging dept. There were about 21 people ahead of me. I was warned it might be an hour's wait. They actually saw me around 25 minutes later.
Thanks NHS!

I'm impressed with designers that create flat packed furniture. Crafting a jigsaw puzzle of wood and hardware that assembles into fashionable and sturdy furniture ranks right up there with aerospace engineering.
And then there's this. A shoe cabinet that my wife ordered to fit in our sunroom to hide our hideous footwear that we slip on when we go in the backyard. It came in 18 pieces, plus 8 separate tiny bags of hardware and minimal instructions. Two hours of assembly later, it's virtually the same size in volume as the shipping carton it arrived in. I know there are reasons why it's not shipped complete, but it's still a little irritating.
#things_that_make_me_go_hmmm

"Dieser Artikel stellt einige Alternativen zum eingestellten #Pocket vor, von minimalistischen Lesehilfen bis zu neuen Apps mit mal mehr, mal weniger nützlichen KI-Funktionen. Außerdem erklären wir, wie Sie Ihren wertvollen Datenschatz von #Mozilla bergen und diesen in Ihre neue Lieblings-Read-L…

Google to release development tools for Android XR glasses later this year https://skarredghost.com/2025/06/12/android-xr-smartglasses-dev-tools/

Google to release development tools for Android XR glasses later this year
Discover the announcements of Google related to the development tools for AR glasses and smartglasses at AWE 2025.

Later, I'll be giving a talk at #IANLS25 on some quantitative analyses of Latin book prodcution in Germany (and Italy in part) from 1500 through 1800. Slides, code and data can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15878272

woody guthrie's sole (& stark af) recording of "deportee," from 1951-1952, written a few years earlier. martin hoffman wrote the more familiar music later. from the cool new demos collection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlr-Rj9VwA
incidentally (or not), these demos exist…

Real Non-Commutative Convexity I
David P. Blecher, Caleb McClure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13512 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13512

Real Non-Commutative Convexity I
We initiate the theory of real noncommutative convex sets, following the recent and profound complex case developed by Davidson and Kennedy. The present paper focuses on the real case of the topics from the first several sections of their profound memoir.. Later results will be discussed in a future paper. We give many foundational structural results for real operator systems and their associated noncommutative (nc) convex sets, and elucidate how the complexification interacts with the basic co…

comment:
A superfluous element of a source program included so the
programmer can remember what the hell it was he was doing
six months later. Only the weak-minded need them, according
to those who think they aren't.

I... got scammed.
By https://firstpressgames.com .
I wanted to buy a birthday present, and I didn't expect this company to be so problematic.
One month later without getting anything from them, nor responses to my messages... and it crosses my mind that I should have checked online reviews for that e-commerce business before buying anything... and there you go: 1.4 stars out of 5 (no one gave more than 2 stars).
The few reviews that gave 2 stars are something like this, YEARS of delay: https://gamepad.club/@vny/110691909210001220
All of the public reviews use the word scam in one or another language, no exceptions.
Then I checked their social accounts, and... of course, they blocked comments everywhere, to avoid the possibility of angry people popping up and pointing to their shady behavior.

Automatically assessing oral narratives of Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
R. Louw (Stellenbosch University), E. Sharratt (Stellenbosch University), F. de Wet (Stellenbosch University), C. Jacobs (Stellenbosch University), A. Smith (Stellenbosch University), H. Kamper (Stellenbosch University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13205

Automatically assessing oral narratives of Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Developing narrative and comprehension skills in early childhood is critical for later literacy. However, teachers in large preschool classrooms struggle to accurately identify students who require intervention. We present a system for automatically assessing oral narratives of preschool children in Afrikaans and isiXhosa. The system uses automatic speech recognition followed by a machine learning scoring model to predict narrative and comprehension scores. For scoring predicted transcripts, we…

Die Bilder und Videos von den #NoKing Protesten haben mir übrigens Hoffnung gemacht.
https://omfg.town/@dansinker/114690663638438881
Gesehen habe ich sie auf imgur.…

there's definitely weapons of mass destruction in this middle eastern country this time and it isn't just a justification for war that later turns out to be fabricated like the other dozen times

Called him a fascist, he said “proud of it”
Best photo of the car we managed to get
He was filming something, clearly intends to post it later

Built a NAS recently to act as a gateway/NFS storage for a couple proxmox nodes for a small business.
The proxmox nodes are stateless only ever storing VMs on the NFS share. The idea was 100% data redundancy, not so much uptime redundancy.
I'm already scheming to upgrade the link between the NAS and the proxmox nodes with at least a 10g SPF direct attach solution later. 2.5G is enough for now.

Quantum Advantage in Storage and Retrieval of Isometry Channels
Satoshi Yoshida, Jisho Miyazaki, Mio Murao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10784 https://…

Quantum Advantage in Storage and Retrieval of Isometry Channels
Storage and retrieval refer to the task of encoding a quantum channel $Λ$ into a quantum state, known as the program state, such that the channel can later be retrieved. This task is closely related to quantum channel estimation, where multiple queries to $Λ$ are used to prepare a quantum state $ϕ_Λ$ that encodes information about the channel. The channel can then be retrieved by measuring $ϕ_Λ$, following a measure-and-prepare strategy. In this work, we analyze the asymptotic performance…

Bans Are Driving Up Later Abortions
https://jessica.substack.com/p/bans-are-driving-up-later-abortions

Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen: Sand, Wind and Inference
Michael S{\o}rensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14389 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14…

Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen: Sand, Wind and Inference
This paper reviews Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen's research in the first decades of his career. The focus is on topics that he kept returning to throughout his scientific life, and on papers that he built on in later important contributions. First his early contributions to the foundations of statistical inference are reviewed with focus on conditional inference and exponential families, two topics in which he had a lifelong interest. The second half of the paper reviews his research on wind blow…

@…
https://berlin.askapunk.de/event/the-observers-klavo

The Observers + Klavo
Portland attack incoming. First The Observers (later known as Red Dons) tour in almost 20 years.

You know you've been together too long when you book your covid shots in on your anniversary. 🤦‍♀️
But I did check and we are planning on going to lunch afterwards.
We've been together since we were 22. I have absolutely no idea how that happened - it wasn't planned. But here we are - 41 years later. Bloody hell!
#Anniversary

Former Browns Pro Bowler without a job clearly deserves a training camp invite https://fansided.com/nfl/former-browns-pro-bowler-without-a-job-clearly-deserves-a-training-camp-invite

For others who may be curious about #publicmobile i liked the opening of this recent review, basically, it depends…
https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/03/15/public-mobile-review-three-months-later/

One of the problems with vibe coding is that the hardest part of software engineering is not writing the code, rather it's *choosing* what to code, and designing the system (and, later on, maintaining the code/operations/etc)
The barriers and investment cost to writing code is itself a *desirable* aspect of software engineering because it forces you to make careful, good choices before you invest in building something
Because the majority of the time spent writing, say, curl,…

React to This (RTT): A Nonverbal Turing Test for Embodied AI
Chuxuan Zhang, Yasaman Etesam, Angelica Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10812 https://

React to This (RTT): A Nonverbal Turing Test for Embodied AI
We propose an approach to test embodied AI agents for interaction awareness and believability, particularly in scenarios where humans push them to their limits. Turing introduced the Imitation Game as a way to explore the question: "Can machines think?" The Total Turing Test later expanded this concept beyond purely verbal communication, incorporating perceptual and physical interaction. Building on this, we propose a new guiding question: "Can machines react?" and introduce the React to This (…

Undecidability of Translational Tiling of the Plane with Orthogonally Convex Polyominoes
Chao Yang, Zhujun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12726 https://

Undecidability of Translational Tiling of the Plane with Orthogonally Convex Polyominoes
The first undecidability result on the tiling is the undecidability of translational tiling of the plane with Wang tiles, where there is an additional color matching requirement. Later, researchers obtained several undecidability results on translational tiling problems where the tilings are subject to the geometric shapes of the tiles only. However, all these results are proved by constructing tiles with extremely concave shapes. It is natural to ask: can we obtain undecidability results of tr…

B.C. cyclist's clever Strava drawings:
"Perfect intersection' of art, fitness and road rash
When B.C.'s Janine Strong got into road cycling in 2019, she had no idea it would lead her down the path of Strava art: the creation of massive GPS-tracked sketches around the world."
See Ya later Alligator
#stava

Hoe lang nog?
(Had m gister geïnstalleerd)
Of vind de app mn beveiliging van DDG niet fijn?

The 13yo "was forced to" make a zine in school. This is what he came up with.
(I'll edit for alt text later; recommended alt text appreciated!)

Camp Mystic's leader got a 'life threatening' flood alert. They evacuated an hour later. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2025/camp-mystic-alerts-texas-floods/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUyNDY1NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUzODQ3OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTI0NjU2MDAsImp0aSI6ImEzNGQ1YmI0LTU3MGEtNDhiNi05MjgxLTc2OWE5MTQ0N2FjNyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb24vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyNS9jYW1wLW15c3RpYy1hbGVydHMtdGV4YXMtZmxvb2RzLyJ9.93Km1lh5WJveP02Liqa4tIDowgypIqujlKs8ktfMlEI&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p55#a250714p55

TL;DR:🧵
Today I lost 2 hours because TypeORM ESM NestJS is a fragile combo when it comes to migrations.
No migration:status.
No ESM-compatible CLI.
No schema awareness.
Class name must match filename (with timestamp!).
So I wrote my own migration-status.ts script to compare database state with the migration folder.
Lesson: if you need INSERT INTO "schema"."table", don’t forget the schema.
ORMs give you boilerplate — and tra…

Day#10 Migrations vs Developer: A story of friction
Today was supposed to be a calm day. I just wanted to add a single value to a lookup table using a TypeORM migration. Two hours later, I ...

Looong train ride, and a very long EV drive later and we have arrived in the Alps.
It's 20C and raining.
⛈️🌦️🌧️☔
We may have been too successful in escaping the current European #Heatwave.
😅

Cowboys first-year HC Brian Schottenheimer on his late father, Marty: 'I know he's proud; I miss him like crazy' https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-first-year-hc-brian-schottenheimer-on-his-la…

Sources: Meta's talks with Scale AI started in mid-April, with Zuckerberg floating a $5B investment in early May, which Alexandr Wang later countered with $20B (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-agreed-pay…

Meta Agreed to Pay up for Scale AI but Then Wanted More for Its Money
The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in mid-April about a potentially industry-shaking deal. Zuckerberg wanted Wang to join Meta and was willing to pay billions of dollars to ...

It seems like, again, just following the plain logic of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence (which, again, I do not subscribe to), that every law passed under Trump, every supreme court justice appointment by Trump, every supreme court ruling by Trump appointed justices, all the illegal firing, etc, must all, necessarily, be null and void.
And if not following from the insurrection act, or from the oath of office, then following from the Declaration of Independence itself. The logic here being that a constitution is a contract between the people and their government, which the later upholds in order to maintain its legal status. The violation of said laws by the government violates "consent of the governed" (which, again, I have issues with the concept entirely but we're just going to ignore that) and therefore nullifies the authority of that government, granting " the right of the people to alter or to abolish it."
That seems a lot like the hard reset some folks have been looking for. Given that existing flaws allowed this state to be reached, it would also be necessary for the true authority to correct those mistakes before assuming authority that derives from these principles.
Now, personally, I don't subscribe to any of this logic but it's interesting to explore, as an outsider, where the logic goes.

Probing Non-Minimal Dark Sectors via the 21 cm Line at Cosmic Dawn
Federico Cima, Francesco D'Eramo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10664 https://

Probing Non-Minimal Dark Sectors via the 21 cm Line at Cosmic Dawn
Observations of the hydrogen hyperfine transition through the 21 cm line near the end of the cosmic dark ages provide unique opportunities to probe new physics. In this work, we investigate the potential of the sky-averaged 21 cm signal to constrain metastable particles produced in the early universe that decay at later times, thereby modifying the thermal and ionization history of the intergalactic medium. The study begins by extending previous analyses of decaying dark matter (DM), incorporat…

From user #10 to ever join the slack to now, 10 years later, 76k members and more every day #macadmins
I used to hand out business cards asking people to join 😆

Yesterday, I watched "The Match" (승부), a movie that is now available on streaming platforms after it ran in cinemas in March. It tells the story of two Korean Go players who were both considered best in the world at some point: Cho Hun-hyun and Lee Chang-ho, a master and a student who later overtook the master. Side note: Lee Chang-ho was later followed by Lee Sedol as the world's best player who was then followed by AlphaGo. 1/2

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17707 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csOS_…

vNV-Heap: An Ownership-Based Virtually Non-Volatile Heap for Embedded Systems
The Internet of Batteryless Things might revolutionize our understanding of connected devices by harvesting required operational energy from the environment. These systems come with the system-software challenge that the intermittently powered IoT devices have to checkpoint their state in non-volatile memory to later resume with this state when sufficient energy is available. The scarce energy resources demand that only modified data is persisted before a power failure, which requires precise m…

Watching the Live Aid concert and it’s amazing how many of the artists I can still recognize forty years later. Memory is weird.

Built a NAS recently to act as a gateway/NFS storage for a couple proxmox nodes for a small business.
The proxmox nodes are stateless only ever storing VMs on the NFS share. The idea was 100% data redundancy, not so much uptime redundancy.
I'm already scheming to upgrade the link between the NAS and the proxmox nodes with at least a 10g SPF direct attach solution later. 2.5G is enough for now.

Made provisions and updated license restrictions for The vOICe web app to ensure that in case of political turmoil it can be revived at a later stage even if all its websites or even the whole Internet Archive would go down https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice2.htm…

One thing Newsom has shown is key to effectively deal with Trump & the MAGA propaganda machine:
You must respond immediately & call out the lies.
You can’t wait until hours/days later, then answer in a press conference, statement, scripted speech.
All Dems should learn from it.
https://

Apple says COO Jeff Williams will retire later this year, and Sabih Khan, Apple's SVP of Operations, will take over much of his role later this month (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/08/apple-says-coo-jeff-william…

Apple says COO Jeff Williams will retire from company later this year
Apple said Jeff Williams, the company's COO, will take on a new role overseeing the company's design team along with the Apple Watch and health initiatives.

Tom Petty's 'Square One' was on The Bear in episode 8, I always forget how much I love that song. The things that guy could do with just a guitar and voice- damn. Magical. And then Strange Currencies later on in the episode. A lot of great and sometimes really unique musical choices on the show in general.
#TheBear #TV

Me: I want to make a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich but I don’t have any mayonnaise.
Literally two minutes later, I have made some excellent mayo. People should make more mayo at home. Kenji’s method is practically fool proof.
https://www.seriouseats.com/two-minute-mayonnaise

Two-Minute Mayonnaise Recipe
Using an immersion blender, you end up with a cup full of creamy, perfectly emulsified, real-deal, better-than-anything-you-can-buy mayonnaise.

"The survey’s findings contradict conservative media narratives about transition regret, which suggest that large volumes of trans people detransition because they later regret their transition as a mistake. The survey found that only a small number of people detransition, and the decision is largely due to external factors."
**Largest-ever survey of #trans people reveals the real reason trans people detransition** - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/largest-ever-survey-of-trans-people-reveals-the-real-reason-trans-people-detransition/

Characterization of matchable sets and subspaces via Dyson transforms
Mohsen Aliabadi, Jozsef Losonczy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10937 https://

Characterization of matchable sets and subspaces via Dyson transforms
A matching from a finite subset $A$ of an abelian group $G$ to another subset $B$ is a bijection $f : A \to B$ such that $a f(a) \notin A$ for all $a \in A$. The study of matchings began in the 1990s and was motivated by a conjecture of E. K. Wakeford on canonical forms for homogeneous polynomials. The theory was later extended to the linear-algebraic setting of vector subspaces over field extensions, and then to matroids. In this paper, we investigate the existence and structure of matchings i…

Android 16 review: live updates and Advanced Protection are nice, but features like desktop mode and Material 3 Expressive design won't come until later in 2025 (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/an…

Android 16 is here, but the cool stuff is coming later
Android 16 arrives with a few new goodies, but the big changes are still cooking.

Cynthia Santiago, an attorney in Southern California, won her high school presidential class race the same year Stephen Miller,
the current White House Deputy Chief of Staff,
lost the class speaker race.
More than 20 years later, Santiago is trying to fight Miller’s mass deportation efforts.
Santiago, the daughter of immigrants, has been working to defend immigrants’ rights since 2012.
But having gone to school with Miller, watching his rise to prominence in P…

She beat Stephen Miller in the race for high school class president. Now she’s fighting his deportation efforts
California attorney is fighting Miller’s mass deportation efforts by working as an immigration lawyer

A look at DeepSeek's impact on the AI model race and market share landscape, roughly 150 days after DeepSeek R1 shook stock markets and the Western AI world (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/07/03/deepseek-debrief-128-days-later/

DeepSeek Debrief: >128 Days Later 
SemiAnalysis is hiring an analyst in New York City for Core Research, our world class research product for the finance industry. Please apply here It’s been a bit over 150 days since the launc…

Henry Clay Frick was a union buster

In 1892, he hired hundreds of Pinkerton detectives
— a private army of thugs with guns
— to quell a strike against a Pennsylvania steel mill.
Ten men were killed, dozens injured, and the situation became so inflamed that the state militia was called in to break the workers’ resistance.
Frick, who made a fortune supplying the coal derivative known as coke
to Andrew Carnegie’s steel company, where Frick later served…

At the Frick, a grand Gilded Age collection shows its intimate side
A five-year, $220-million expansions has transformed the Frick, without changing anything fundamental to the experience.

Apple says its design team will report to Tim Cook after Jeff Williams retires; Williams was overseeing the team following Evans Hankey's departure in 2023 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/08/apple-design-team-tim-cook/

Apple design team to start reporting directly to Tim Cook later this year - 9to5Mac
Apple today announced that COO Jeff Williams will retire later this year, with Sabih Khan set to assume the COO...

The Trump administration has shifted from bureaucratic threats to armed suppression of political opponents.
By beginning with vulnerable groups who have less legal standing and social capital to resist repression,
the Trump administration is making a strategic choice, hoping to provoke less public outcry
and then use these precedents of repression later against a broader population.
This is a textbook example of democratic backsliding, similar to what we have witnesse…

Military Crackdown on LA Protests Portends Further Erosion of Everyone’s Rights
Governments at all levels from both parties have paved the way to an authoritarian response to dissent.

Google plans to shut down Android's Instant Apps, which let users launch apps without installing them, later this year citing low usage and engagement (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/686573/google-android-instant-apps-shutdow…

Google is shutting down Android Instant Apps over ‘low’ usage
The installation-free Android Instant Apps will no longer be supported after December 2025.

Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/

Coinbase (COIN), Shopify (SHOP) Partner to Enable USDC Payments on Base for Merchants Worldwide
The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.