"You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg."
(Original title: The only taboo left is copyright infringement)
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-on…
I have a major new feature for Left Wordle. I am testing the ability to sync settings and game history between devices. This feature is very much beta at this time and everything is subject to change.
My goal is to get as many people testing this as possible to identify any bugs that might cause problems once released. If you have time, please give it a try. Instructions here:
I of course goofed and left out the explanation of Lorentz Contraction from the obvious place in Part 3 where I should have talked about it.
So I've slotted it in here:
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/71271.html#hrel3_lorentz
along with a new diagram to make super…
„One tactic of fascism is to shift the scales of political alignment: centrists become stalwarts of the radical left; moms become ‚domestic terrorists.‘ Everyone with a whistle becomes antifa. And actually, that last part is correct—or at least it should be. A general strike has been called for Friday, January 23. With luck, thousands of Minnesotans will join in on what many further left are already doing: stopping business as usual and withdrawing their consent from fascism. Among many thin…
Hilarious: Waymo is hiring gig workers to properly close doors that departing passengers left ajar.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/video/fmc-y09p76dz29u3k7k0
I made 6 more shirts.
They’re based on the disability pride flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_flag
I added a WCAG principle to each stripe, plus a bonus principle.
Also sans stripes, with the words still angled and in the stripe colors.
Sale still runn…
The vOICe web app now supports optional right-left-scanning: https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm?r2l Right-to-left scanning can be useful when visually reading Hebrew or Arabic print. You may have to run the web app twice because of browser caching while upda…
Marcus Elliot Quintet feat. Dwight Adams at Blue Llama
#jazz
“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”
- Solar energy
- Libraries
- Trains
- Vibrators
- Guillotines
Super disappointed that this was left undisclosed: https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b
I don’t see how you can build a VC-supported free product without slipping into the Torment Nexus which is to say AdTech.
I do believe the Bluesky people really do want…
It's kinda weird how the "The left hates technology (because AI)" mostly come from people whose experience with tech is on the level of vibecoding and the "left" they criticize consists to a significant part of people who've been actually building and maintaining systems for decades.
Maybe hands-on experience leads to different results then just "idea vibing"?
There are still reasonable people out there, like Pope #Leo XIV.
"Pope #Leo XIV will not be joining US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” the Vatican’s top diplomat said Tuesday, adding that the United Nations should be left to handle crisis situations. "
@… can I offer you a rotated left arrow key in these trying times
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps
NaN pizza with left 0xdeadbeef
The Department of Justice and Attorney General Pam Bondi have struggled to replace attorneys
after a mass exodus of recent resignations, retirements and buyouts, an analyst said on Thursday.
https://www.
There's a town in Wisconsin trying to rename a road "Charlie Kirk Way" or some such bullshit.
If it passes I hope people give directions like this:
"Yea, okay, so just shoot down Charlie Kirk until you see the Kwik Trip then take a right and the Culver's is on the left."
https://www.
In #Knysna, Südafrika, drohen in wenigen Tagen die #Wasserhähne trocken zu bleiben.
Der #Akkerkloof-Damm ist nur noch zu 15 Prozent gefüllt. Jahrzehntelange Versäumnisse bei
This graph show why I don't like to use the "right" and "left" words to describes politic opinion anymore...
Encouraging move for (pluralistic) left unity in Spain. Just what's left of Podemos (as usual, but maybe just for now) staying out.
Los partidos de Sumar hacen guiños al plan de Gabriel Rufišn: IU también acudirš al acto con Emilio Delgado
https://www.
2 days ago, I had a shelf (and the contents of it, which included literal ROCKS due to a kids' "rock painting kit") fall on me. It left a nice bloody cut right next to my eye, and I haven't repaired the shelf yet because I'm petty enough to hold grudges against inanimate fuckin' objects.
8 minutes left. Canada playing tight defense and trying to not give the U.S. any openings.
My repaired mitral valve is getting a stress test...
Double trouble today: bulletproof coffee on the left, orangespresso on the right.
#tasskaff #coffee
I loved this movie. I loved E1 & E2 but this one was playful & my son will love it... and most importantly, it left the door wide open for E4!
▶️ Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025) Official Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-E3lMRx7HRQ&si=huPIB2I7f0C-oqFw…
Let's get a new hashtag going - #ArchivalCoffeeRings.
These are from a letter written in January 1831, though I suspect a clerk in the receiving office - the Canadian Indian Department - left the stains. Also, I am probably undercutting the hashtag as I create it - these are more likely tea than coffee rings.
My Story: From Ethiopia To Australia የኔ ታሪክ፤ ከኢትዮጵያ እስከ አውስትራሊያ
This project aims to reflect on why Ethiopian-Australians left their homeland, how they went through life in exile in different countries, and the challenges and opportunities they faced in resettlement in their second country, Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory:
Vintage Mo! Curler to the top left corner. I LOVE to see it.
I will invade the pitch if they rule this off.
🇪🇬 👑
"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."
(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)
https://
Present thought
Mastodon's the right model. But to be truly *useful* politcally - the Bluesky/Mastodonian idea of "we will make our safe space over here" might be pleasant for many and that's fine
But they're not healthy for useful political discourse, which is often ugly, but generates the necessary talk.
The discussions I'm seeing on Twitter/threads e.g. left v. liberal are finally getting "good." (among others)
I’ve seen a few breathless “BlueSky gave ICE.gov a _verified_ account!!” Posts on here, so lemme try and clear things up a little:
Personally, I think Bluesky should’ve left things with self verification, like the way the Fediverse handles things, but this is not them publicly approving of ICE (and fuck ICE, obviously) https://
Last night, I left the Seestar running when I went to bed. Four and half hours of observations later, I have this image of the Heart Nebula.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Nebula
This week’s #ThursdayFiveList—courtesy of @…—is #ForeignAffairs: songs in a tongue that isn’t my own.
1. Adriano Celentano, “Prisencolinensinainciusol”—
Neville demonstrates the classic 3-paw-stack technique. (And is sporting a smart new spring haircut.)
Has your favorite album vanished from the music streaming service of choice again? I highly recommend ripping your CDs and making them available through @… with the @… app; it really works great on iOS & macOS!
Pixie had the whole bed to sit on. No, the whole house. Where did she choose to sit? On my jumper. #caturday
Juvenile Western Gull. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 PRO MC14. #moonstonebeach #cambriacalifornia #seagull
Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
VILA: That's almost exactly what I'd say. Did you get a good look at his face?
DAYNA: How does he do it?
TARRANT: It's something to do with that. [Points to black box.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/424 B7B3
It's Boxster roof prep day tomorrow, so I spent a few minutes during lunchtime to mask off the windows and near bits of bodywork.
I'm hoping that having left it in the garage for a few days, the roof has dried sufficiently after the wash.
#boxster #porsche
:neodog_stretch_down:
:neodog_stretch_dr::neodog_stretch_h::neodog_stretch_h::neodog_stretch_left:
🦵🦵🦵🦵
Tonight, we will have a few printed copies of the paper we will discuss next week at @…. If there are any left when you get here, you can have one. The link to the paper is below, and the Papers Club Edition will take place on January 25th.
Tonight’s edition of Tech Pizza Monday is a regular edition. 6 PM, Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W. You have a week fr…
Scott Myers, the head of Snap's AR glasses subsidiary Specs, leaves after six years; sources say Myers left after a "blow-up" with Evan Spiegel over strategy (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/figmas-answer-to-the-ai-software
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116093031199752230
Don’t get left behind in having your confidential emails sloppified
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps
Urban Demons 👻
城市鬼魂 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Right now is the ideal time for people with positions on the left end of the Overton Window to find offices to run for wearing a big blue D.
Anything. School board. State leg. County clerk. Sheriff.
If you want a real Left party in the US, the only serious strategy is to do to the Dems what the Fash have done to the GOP. Be the party. In the US, it really can be that simple.
“Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel. He will always bear a scar, needlessly inflicted by you.
You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
Trump promised Iranians the U.S. would rescue them.
They were betrayed.
Reeling from a crackdown on protesters in Iran that left thousands dead,
Iranians are now grappling with feelings of betrayal, confusion and uncertainty
after Donald Trump repeatedly promised to intervene on their behalf
and then declined to do so.
Some Iranians said in interviews that Trump’s words of support had added to their determination to resist the Iranian government
aft…
Someone left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach, FL. The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to a suspect's home.
Source:
#politics
He's right about the customs union. But rejoining the EU would not be on the same terms we had when we left it. A generally bad and distracting idea.
Schengen, on the other hand would be worth considering.
Sadiq Khan says Labour should pledge to rejoin EU - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62g2…
I loved this movie. I loved E1 & E2 but this one was playful & my son will love it... and most importantly, it left the door wide open for E4!
▶️ Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025) Official Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-E3lMRx7HRQ&si=huPIB2I7f0C-oqFw…
I gave the entire class an extension until 11:59 tonight, the last possible minute they can submit course work without going through the troublesome (and expensive) process of petitioning the registrar's office for permission to submit late. Half still have not turned anything in with just over 2 hours left on the clock. I'm starting to get nervous.
Just a quick “Thank You” to the folks who recommended the show “Deadloch” (Amazon Prime)
We started watching season 1 last week and last night my wife was like ”oh good, season 2 starts tomorrow!” (We’ve 2 eps left)
“Imagine a (queer) Fargo mixed w/Letterkenny set in Australia”
Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
VILA: But I'll be seeing you and Bar again, won't I?
ZEE: That's not allowed, I'm afraid.
BARR: Zee and I have work to do.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/387 B7B4
Ramón and Luis are part of a group composed of family and friends of the defendants in a controversial federal criminal case alleging that a dozen protesters—who took part in a July 4, 2025, protest outside the Prairieland Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Alvarado during which one protester allegedly shot a police officer—and seven others are members of an organized “North Texas antifa terror cell,” as described in federal complaints and press releases.
In …
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Natalie Jane Hill:
🎵 Never Left Me
#NowPlaying #NatalieJaneHill
https://nataliejanehill.bandcamp.com/track/never-left-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mYV6uf5S0ChjFoLJWUJHI
Schon gewusst❓
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Different Corners XI ▶️
不同的角落 XI ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
It’s not hard to see why ICE has expanded its reach beyond the Twin Cities.
The qualities that have hindered ICE’s operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul
— density and walkability; a large, almost exclusively left-of-center population
— are absent here.
In Minneapolis, I saw patrollers on nearly every street corner.
It’s easy to gather for protests or come together to organize a mutual aid network.
The sidewalks in Lakeville were deserted, as were the broa…
Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had "pretty much sold out" its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue (Muhammad Zuhair/Wccftech)
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out…
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
JARVIK: And so are you. But when was the last time you felt the warmth of the Earth's sun on your naked back? Or lifted your face to the heavens, and laughed with the joy of being alive? How long since you wept at the death of a friend? [Pause.] Doesn't mean a thing to you, does it, Madam President? You've surrounded your…
The Trump administration purged the State Department of its oil and gas experts last year,
-- prior to launching its war on Iran,
--including people who would be responsible for examining scenarios related to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
By the time the layoffs were over,
the only people left in the energy bureau were people specializing in critical minerals and clean energy,
the administration said in a notification to Congress at the time.
The pe…
En attendant Godot 🤡
等待戈多 🤡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
VILA: [To Jenna] They haven't got him.
PATROL LEADER: Silence!!
GOLA: [To Travis] You know These people?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/115 B7B5
According to Chile’s CONAF forestry agency, firefighters were battling 24 active fires across the country as of Sunday morning,
with the largest being in the regions of Ñuble and Bío Bío,
where the government declared the emergency.
The regions are about 500 km south of the capital, Santiago.
“In light of the serious ongoing wildfires, I have decided to declare a state of catastrophe in the regions of Ñuble and Bio Bío. All resources are available,” Boric said on a p…
Five members of xAI's 12-person founding team have now left the company, with four of the departures coming in just the last year (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/nearly-half-of-xais-founding-team-has-now-left-th…
Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
JUSTIN: Well, there's no need. I've developed painless brain grafts for the others. All Og needs is psycho instruction.
DAYNA: You're so rational about it all.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/243 B7B4
Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
TARRANT: [Consults his bracelet] Paraflame Five. It's lethal, get out!
[Comm room. Dayna and Zeeona watch as Tarrant checks around the door frame with a handheld scanner.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/400 B7B2
Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein spent hundreds of thousands on a campaign to manipulate Google search results and sanitize his Wikipedia, after his 2009 release (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-online.html
Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
DASTOR: The Liberator, madam. Tele-sentry stations report an approach course for Lypterion. Tarrant is coming here.
SERVALAN: I know that. When will he arrive?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/173 B7B3
Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
CALLY: [Returning.] Blake, I think I've found enough for everybody.
BLAKE: Oh good, at least the others will be all right.
ENSOR: Well, I'm ready, shall we get started?
BLAKE: Well, wait a minute. There is something else.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/290
Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
KAYN: Oh, yes, sorry. One thing I will say for the Federation, when they decide to do a thing, they do it. [Blake and Kayn exit.]
VILA: I didn't like the sound of that much.
AVON: One of the many faces of neutrality.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/395…