2025-12-20 00:15:45
Noem’s review leaves $900M waiting at FEMA
https://thehill.com/newsletters/energy-environment/5657900-noems-review-leaves-900m-waiting-at-fema/
Noem’s review leaves $900M waiting at FEMA
https://thehill.com/newsletters/energy-environment/5657900-noems-review-leaves-900m-waiting-at-fema/
Buccaneers WR Mike Evans leaves Monday night game vs. Lions with concussion/shoulder injury https://www.nfl.com/news/buccaneers-wr-mike-evans-leaves-monday-night-game-vs-lions-with-concussion-shoulder-injury
Congress leaves town until 2026 with no health care deal, forcing premium hikes (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-leaves-town-2026-no-health-care-deal-forcing-premium-hikes-rcna249817
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p8#a251220p8
NS International Railways tries to make international rail travel even harder. Screenshot by my daughter, travelling from Barcelona to Rotterdam today. The app is informing her that the train from Paris to Rotterdam leaves on the same platform at Gare du Lyon where the train from Barcelona arrives. Not really. It leaves from a different station (Gare du Nord), about half an hour away by RER city train. 🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦
For more than three years, I’ve lived with long COVID.
The dizziness never leaves.
I can’t drive more than half an hour without starting to get nauseous.
Any strenuous activity — mental or physical — leaves me with post-exertional malaise that feels like a hangover the next day.
I’ve learned to adapt and find gratitude for many things, but life remains an exhausting calculus of rationing energy across work, chores, and my kids.
I am only one of over an estimated …
City Random Manners ✴️
城市随机行为 ✴️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Raiders' Maxx Crosby leaves game after low block by Chiefs' Noah Gray https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/raiders-maxx-crosby-leaves-game-after-low-block-by-chiefs-noah-gray
Hey all, there are some photos from a hike in the #schwarzwald
Actually we thought that it would just take us less than an hour - but it wasn't simply a straight walk :-D
It was raining from time to time - which was indeed pretty cool. A) there was noone around except us and B) the colors were often just insane. Fully saturated green, the brown from the wood - and sometimes…
Mike Evans injury: Bucs star WR tweaks hamstring, leaves game against Jets
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/mike-evans-injury-bucs-star-wr-tweaks-hamstring…
Deep in the primeval forest of, um, Burnaby, BC.
#Photography
#silentSunday
Reflection
It leaves open the question, which actor is not cooperating with attempts at mediation?
Feinstein, Driscoll, Winter: 'disappointment' over Your Party feud
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/09/20/your-party-winter-driscoll-feinstein/
Taking The Red Carpet Path.
(Not often that I find myself in a place exuding such intense natural positive/friendly energy [and beautiful scents]...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography
I often think it is a disservice that climate change activism has focused on suffering and changes "over there" - our natural environment and cultural life will be as impoverished just as much by loss of familiar species and traditions as the Inuit hunting narwhal or Pacific Islanders forced to retreat from their coastlines.
https://mastodon.scot/@Kerplunk/115241857960561419
Kerplunk@mastodon.scot - @…
We will not just mourn the Beech, the wonderful white lady of the Forest, the Birch is also suffering badly.
No more collecting birch sap in the spring,
making syrup or sugar, no tea from leaves and bark, no bark for starting fires, making knife handles, boxes book covers ornaments. No more wood to make a traditional Kuksa (cup) bowls and toys. No making Birch tar or pitch, no forests in the north where Chaga and many other mushrooms to grow.
I mourn the loss of every tree.
Let me convince you to grow anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum). The flowers, which looked nicer last week (and on the plants I just harvested), are bright purple and are favorite of bees. But, IMHO, the leaves are the best part of the plant. Used fresh or dried they add a sweet anise flavor to black tea and they make really great ice cream too (akin to mint).
#gardening
49ers DE Bosa exits in 1st half with knee injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46339481/san-francisco-49ers-de-nick-bosa-leaves-knee-injury
‘Green’ energy transition leaves a dirty trail in the Philippines’ nickel belt https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/green-energy-transition-leaves-a-dirty-trail-in-the-philippines-nickel-belt/
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties (The Harvard Crimson)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/20/summers-leaves-teaching-at-harvard/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p161#a251119p161
Oops, #Terraform datasources cannot contain write-only attributes, which means you cannot use a sensitive value in a secure way when configuring a datasource... Which leaves us with ephemeral resources which are not always what we want or passing the sensitive value to the provider (assuming the provider can take that value and pass it along to the datasource), which is not always possible...…
Every Fall I shake my fist at the guy who, back in the ‘40s, planted ( or left in place?) the majestic soaring silver maples that ring my home.
They are named for the way they look at this time of year, when the leaves curl and show their grey undersides.
The name oversells the look.
Meanwhile, the rest of my block is doing the red/orange/yellow display of other sorts of less-indigenous maple (and other trees. )
The ripple effects of the federal raid have spread to at least a half dozen small businesses in the counties surrounding the metaplant, according to an investigation by The Current GA.
https://thecurrentga.org/2025/10/14/ice-raid-leaves-…
Jeep software update bricks vehicles, leaves owners stranded
https://www.thestack.technology/jeep-software-update-bricks-vehicles-leaves-owners-stranded/
Be good and lick out your bowl 👌
These hang in GrünerlŸkka, Oslo 🇳🇴
"Bowl" is an ancient Greek slang term for the vulva, and "licking out the bowl" is a euphemism for cunnilingus. 👅
#FannyFriday #vulva
Leaves, turning red to indicate they're in mortal danger: "Ugh we're dying!"
Humans: "Wow, lovely fall colors!"
OpenAI's chief communications officer Hannah Wong will leave in January; Wong joined in 2021 and led PR during Sam Altman's brief ouster and return in 2023 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-communications-officer-hannah-…
Cowboys’ Schottenheimer Leaves No Doubt on CeeDee Lamb Return https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brian-schottenheimer-leaves-ceedee-lamb-return/?adt_ei=[email]
My train leaves in five hours.
As a consequence, I am completely unable to do anything useful.
#silentSunday
White tail deer. May 2018
Panthers QB Young leaves game with ankle injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46650691/panthers-qb-bryce-young-leaves-game-vs-jets-ankle-injury
That's how our hike at the #mummelsee started ... and how it was when we were up there. - But the walk was quite okay.
We checked the rain radar and decided to go back down rather quickly. We leveraged our rain gear and it did not disappoint us! 🙂
So we didn't see the area atop - the so called
Impact of a transient neonatal visual deprivation on the development of the ventral occipito-temporal cortex in humans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65468-7 "while EVC is permanently affected by early deprivation, categorical coding in VOTC shows resilience"; <…
I have... I had the bad habit of going to bed late every day, but a year ago I adopted an abandoned kitten who now has very strict schedules: at midnight, it's time to sleep. As I write these words, I have to move him away from the keyboard, which he only leaves if I go to bed. He stays with me for a while and then leaves.
I thought adults made these kinds of decisions.
Entrance to the Summerland Farm Preserve -- along the route the Fingerlakes trail takes from Rt 79 to the top of the overlooking hill to the south
#photo #photography #outdoors
Frosty fingers touch
The delicate leaves and grapes
Withering on the vine.
#dailyhaikuprompt - withering
#haiku
#poem
Russian mass drone attack leaves Sumy without power: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/08/russian-mass-drone-attack-leaves.html
Moody Urbanity - Manmade Confinements ⛑️
情绪化城市 - 人造禁锢 ⛑️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Chargers RB Najee Harris leaves with non-contact injury vs. Broncos https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6649685/2025/09/21/najee-harris-injury-chargers-broncos/
Despite her close alignment with Donald Trump,
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
has yet to secure the president's endorsement over other Republican candidates vying for the GOP nomination for New York governor.
The lack of support has left Stefanik's allies puzzled,
particularly given Trump's previous nomination of her as UN ambassador and her status as a prominent House ally.
According to Politico, the race to challenge Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is considered …
Autumn colors in the Japanese garden at the Seattle Arboretum this past weekend
#naturalist #photography
The Summerhall complex has been such a focus for linking art and science in #Edinburgh, usually on a shoestring budget, but many thanks due to Robert McDowell et al. since 2011.
Now disaggregation seems to be underway for the collections that were hosted there, like the Artiscience Library and the Demarco archive ... HT @…
At least the brewery and the distillery are keeping up traditional science practices 😉, like the only bar with gin on tap.
➡️ https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/15/a-cultural-evacuation-the-demarco-archive-leaves-scotland/
Cyberattack leaves Jaguar Land Rover short of £680 million https://therecord.media/jaguar-land-rover-quarterly-loss-cyberattack
Security — A data breach at analytics giant Mixpanel leaves a lot of open questions
A cybersecurity incident at analytics provider Mixpanel announced just hours before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend could set a new standard for how not to announce a data breach.
📍 https://
#OTD: 13 years ago, I visited the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart.
It is one of Germany's temples to “das Auto”. Architectural gems, this one is by UN Studio.
“Survival is sometimes just squeak, squeak, squeak until the menace gets bored and leaves.”
I can't even begin to explain what I'm writing at the moment. There are hamsters, bodyless Voices, and hobnobs. The security chief is hiding under a rug, the manager is missing their clipboard, and someone is hosting a breathing class in the basement again.
It will be even less comprehensible if I try to explain. But I suppose it's a good sign that I laugh myself to tears when I…
#AskFedi #gardening
Back in the spring, I planted some old seeds in pots: spinach, parsley, rocket, iirc. All spring and summer, nothing happened, so I thought they were too old - "oh well, it was worth a try". And I think I must have taken out my wooden labels at that point, because I can't find them now.
But now there are some leaves growing in the pots.
Can any "real gardeners" identify this? Is it just a random arrival or might it be one of my sown seeds making a late appearance? Is it edible?
Usually digital signs on campus are broken half the time, but the signs in the new Computing and Information Science building knock my socks off -- that's a statue of Ezra Cornell
#photo #photography #cornell
Last photos from that day in the #schwarzwald . We were pretty surprised when we came to the part shown in the last photo. The #moss was so thick there - like a real carpet! I've never seen such before. I found it pretty hard to get a photo that pays the situation justice. I hope it works for …
A new, seemingly not yet publicly disclosed U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean
has left survivors for the first time, reports say.
Reuters, citing a U.S. official, reported that the U.S. bombed what they claim is a drug trade-related vessel on Thursday.
However, unlike the military’s previous five strikes, which were publicly disclosed by officials, the attack did not kill all of the people on board, the source said.
Other news outlets confirmed that the strike had …
In a report, the G20's Financial Stability Board says regulators are in the early stages of tracking risks posed to the financial system by AI's rapid adoption (Laura Noonan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Support Indigenous Land Defender Marcos Aguilar’s Family
(original: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSFUcy_jKU7 by zapatistasolidaritynetwork)
On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his anc
And so it continues: US anti-fascism expert leaves country day after being blocked from flying to Spain.
No matter how many peace deals a Western leader states to broker, if you don't respect human rights you don't deserve the #NobelPeacePrice
#AntiFa
#icfpsplash25 Journal of Functional Programming leaves Cambridge University Press and becomes "scientist owned".
I think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.
Every week, Metacurity delivers our free and paid subscribers a run-down of the top infosec-related long reads we didn't have time for during the daily crush of cyber news.
This week's selection covers
--Massive surveillance in Mexico City leaves crime high,
--Workplace surveillance can harm workers,
--Machine learning privacy attacks are less effective in reality than they are in theory,
--LLMs produce more secure code when trained on flaw-free code,
Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
VILA: Dayna. Dayna. [follows the path Dayna has taken. He leaves Orac and the binoculars on the ground in the snow.] Dayna.
[Planet Terminal. Exterior. Avon finds Tarrant lying face down in the snow, unconscious. Avon walks over and nudges Tarrant with his boot. Tarrant stirs.]
https://blake.torpidi…
Cowboys vs. Vikings final Week 15 injury report leaves Dallas at a disadvantage https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-vikings-final-week-15-injury-report-leaves-disadvantage
I just saw the leaf vacuum truck go by. I should probably do the leaves this morning.
Yellow maples, not many leaves left.
#Photography #Autumn
Myers leaves ESPN, joins Harris-led sports group https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/46615461/bob-myers-leaves-espn-joins-harris-blitzer-group-president-sports
Maybe this whole AI era is a mash-up of Terminator meets Brewster’s Millions.
Sam Altman (Brewster) is sent back in time to start such a laughably bad AI hype cycle that it effectively changes the course of human history, steering us away from our doom.
Through his efforts, what could have been a human-eradicating AI leaves us with hallucinations, weird sex bots, AI avatars of our dead loved ones, and AI-powered toys telling children to hurt themselves.
Would love to explain to an early Enlightenment thinker that we have made sand tell pretty lies and ice cream is now hot
https://people.com/tyra-banks-leaves-the-internet-perplexed-with-new-hot-ice-cream-product-11825853
Rake most of the leaves
But leave some in snug corners
For nesting insects.
#dailyhaikuprompt - rake
#haiku
#poem
Darkness descends: Russia leaves cities without power – new wave of terror: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/03/darkness-descends-russia-leaves-cities.html
Good morning! . Sneakers aren't the right footwear any more at -5°C. That's what my toes tell me.
#goodmorning #morningwalk #bayern
Cowboys vs. Vikings final Week 15 injury report leaves Dallas at a disadvantage https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-vikings-final-week-15-injury-report-leaves-disadvantage
‘That Is Going Way Too Far!!’: Pam Bondi’s Unhinged Threat to ‘Look at Everything They Said’ Leaves Critics Stunned, Calling Her a Danger Who Must Be Stopped
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/12/08/pam-bondis-unhinged-threat-to-look-at-everything-leaves-critics-stunned/
Titans WR Ridley leaves game with ankle injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46989376/titans-wr-calvin-ridley-leaves-game-ankle-injury
If it were not for the mundane responsibilities of my life that cannot be shirked, I would be attending this one.
Incidentally, #Baldwin is a *small* town. <1k people embedded in public forest. Just west of the historic Idlewild resort area. I expect that it would be a marginally less vehemently white crowd than in most similarly rural areas. And the leaves have got to be spectacularly col…
Metropolitana VII - 🆙 🆙 🆙
城 VII - 🆙 🆙 🆙
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Approach to Rockefeller Hall, the Physical Sciences Building and Baker Hall in the fall
#photo #photography #landscape
In Kyrgyzstan, world's largest natural walnut forest thins away #Kyrgyzstan
Exclusive: In a first, US strike in Caribbean leaves survivors, US official says (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-carries-out-new-strike-caribbean-there-are-survivors-us-official-says-2025-10-16/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p165#a251016p165
A northern mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos, perched along the canal trail in New Haven, Connecticut
#naturalist
A late Day of Hermes and #BumDayMonday post 🐏
"I see him there at the oars of his little boat in the lake, the ferryman of the dead, Charon, with his hand upon the oar and he calls me now."
Euripides, Alcestis 252
🏛 #Hermes takes the soul of a dead woman to Charon, Att…
The Trump administration launches US Tech Force to recruit ~1,000 staffers from Apple, Meta, xAI, and others for two-year stints to modernize the government (Natalie Alms/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/tru…
Ukraine war latest live: Drone strike leaves Russian oil terminal in Crimea burning, 16 tanks damaged: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/15/ukraine-war-latest-live-drone.html
RE: Portland:
Baby Goebbels leaves out which president appointed judge - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/10/04/baby-goebbels-leaves-out-which-president-appointed-judge/
Another happy runner at the Pinnacles, the high point of the Danby State Forest which is one of those rare places in southern Tompkins County where you almost have a commanding view
#photo #photography #forest
Jerry Jones leaves door open for Cowboys trades before NFL deadline https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jerry-jones-leaves-door-open-dallas-cowboys-trades-before-nfl-deadline
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/14/cyber-attacks-rise-in-past-year-uk-security-agency-says
Cyber-attacks rise by 50% in past year, UK security agency says
Welcome back - been busy the last days with meeting friends etc 🙂
But I wanted to show some more #photos from the #Lotharsteig in the #nationalparkschwarzwald . Different from …
The vivid colour
Of the leaves in fall change once
The leaves have fallen.
#dailyhaikuprompt - vivid
#haiku
#poem
Pictures of the mess ICE made
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' - Chicago Sun-Times
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated
🍄 Mushrooms may have been part of early human diets: Primate study explores who eats what, and when
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-mushrooms-early-human-diets-primate.html
Jake Ferguson injury update leaves Cowboys TE's Week 15 status in serious doubt https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jake-ferguson-injury-update-cowboys-week-15-status-serious-d…
Packers' Micah Parsons leaves vs. Broncos with non-contact knee injury https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6889517/2025/12/14/micah-parsons-injury-left-knee-packers/
Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb leaves Thursday night game vs. Lions with concussion https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-wr-ceedee-lamb-leaves-thursday-night-game-vs-lions-with-concussion
Omarion Hampton injury update: Chargers' star rookie RB leaves game against Commanders with ankle injury
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/omarion…
WR McCloud leaves Falcons for 'private' matter https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46628761/falcons-send-wr-ray-ray-mccloud-iii-home-vs-49ers
Rams WR Puka Nacua leaves game vs. Ravens with foot injury https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6711132/2025/10/12/rams-puka-nacua-injury-ravens/
Puka Nacua injury update: Rams star WR leaves game vs. Ravens with foot injury, listed as questionable
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/puka-nacua-injury-update-rams-wr-foot-vs-rav…