Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic limited the release of its latest model Mythos to select companies and organizations (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/anthropic-apple-microsoft-europe-left-in-the-…
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…
Rep. Harriet Hageman insists that there is no racism on the right
and that the Aryan Nation, Nazis, and KKK are all "far-left groups"
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/rep-harriet-hageman-insists-there-no-racism-right…
Entering the canyon
(Half an hour earlier we were sitting and basking in the sun at the top of those cliffs on the left...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
A few pencil sketches I made of our cat Loki. Trying to get into drawing with almost no experience, and I love how even on this small example, sketching the same object three times already shows some immediate progress. :blobcatnomcookie:
#caturday #cat
The existence of Israel is a manifestation of European antisemitism, both historically justifying the project of Zionism and European governments continuing to fund Israel instead of addressing the core role of antisemitism in maintaining (at least) the conservative elements of the neoliberal order.
If antisemitism props up Israel, then a core part of dismantling Israel (and thus saving the lives of Palestinians) is addressing European antisemitism. There are Israeli Jews who would leave if they felt safe to do so. There are Jews demanding Israel be armed, because they don't feel safe anywhere else.
Protest, boycott, take whatever action you feel is appropriate. There is a limit to your ability to convince governments to stop funding genocide, but you can learn about antisemitism and you can work to fight it, especially within "The Left." You can learn to distinguish between legitimate critiques of Israel, and antisemitic ones, and you can stand and call out antisemitic ones.
Honestly, this is some of the easy work that I think a lot of people don't consider even doing, don't even realize it is a thing that can be done.
I'm talking to Israeli folks who identify as being on the Left. It's hard because they've been through a lot of propaganda. Israel is a cult that terrorizes its members. This is important work that can have a huge impact, because it focuses on dismantling the networks of support that reinforce what's happening now.
Meanwhile, I still run into wild things like "Rothschild" conspiracy theories among people who identify with the idea of supporting Palestinians.
Not only can you support the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people while opposing antisemitism, but you must actually do both in order to do either. They are exactly the same fight, and anything short of both is thrashing against oneself.
#LeftWordle fans:
I have a page up at https://left-wordle.com/retire-words.html that contains my approximation of the current NYT Wordle's answer list.
If you're interested in …
I was on Drivetime on RTÉ Radio One yesterday discussing the main points of my campaign.
Working people are being crushed with the cost of living and housing crises.
We need to:
• Ban evictions
• Ban short-term lets
• Build a state run construction company
• Price caps and fuel and energy
• Defend our neutrality
• Full sanctions on Israel
Vote Denman Rooke no. 1 and then transfer Left to the other candidates in the Vote Left Transfer Left…
foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Sure the Fediverse is cool, but have you ever pulled up next to a Cybertruck, flipped off the driver, and then made a right turn and left them stuck at the light?
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s abrupt exit from the race for California governor
— then his announcement he would leave Congress
— left his rivals scrambling to lock down his former supporters in a crowded contest with no clear leader,
injecting more turmoil into the campaign to lead the nation’s most populous state.
Swalwell’s decision to suspend his campaign Sunday followed allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman twice,
including when she worked for him…
It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an
exercise for the reader. :-) -- Larry Wall in <7448@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
My stickers arrived for AccessU.
See you next month?
All assembled, new GPU and fans in.
As usual 5 minute POST times, one of the things I like least about server hardware. Plus actual hypervisor boot on top of that.
The GPU i swapped was a dual slot but lived in the left most slot on the mobo so i have an empty back panel port that I can eventually put a fan card in to try and suck more heat out.
The BMC does not like my 80mm fans, i need to figure out how to set the RPM thresholds so it doesn't think they're failed…
According to Twig, the tastiest part of the laptop is the upper-left corner of the display.
At some point I will find out whether an LCD with bite marks from a cat will continue functioning..
After less than two minutes watching the by-election coverage, voilŠ, we've got a talking head attacking Avi Lewis (who's apparently so far left that the only thing after him is a cliff). Serious people.
#cdnpoli
Just a little one and a half hour walk nearby before it was supposed to be raining (and rugby starts).
It was a nice walk and good to be out. Strangely, my old GPS device refused to get a location despite having lots of satellites. Just 10min before coming back (after a couple of restarts and taking the batteries out and back in) it worked.
Fortunately, I only had it with me to test if my heart rate monitor also connects to it.
I am currently sitting in the Helsinki Library Oodi, and the plane that should take me from Helsinki to Copenhagen and Zurich (yes, the same plane) hasn't left Munich yet, it's delayed 1.5 hours. And it still needs to fly to Copenhagen and then Helsinki!
...
I think I'll get another book... #airtravel
We have one of those Alexa "Show" units - a small one and less than three years old.
It was bad from the outset - lots of bad code. It couldn't remember daytime from nighttime settings. But we left it, just rebooting it every few days.
Last night it went nutz again, showing bright photos of el cheato all night.
It will meet Mr. E-Cycle tomorrow.
irked by the slightly off-center capri sun
⚠️ 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝐼 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑!
If you're around #ithaca or #cornell I am taking individual and group portraits with trees -- if you want one 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 -- contact me!
#photo
If I didn't have the experience to know better, and if I was a new user of the AWS Console, I'd swear that the performance of their cloud offering is terrible.
It's just really slow/heavy browser code, plus WAY too many requests, but that *must* make a bad impression on new-to-AWS folks. (…if there are any of those left? maybe that's the problem…)
my favorite stones record ... by far!
#rollingstones #vinyl #nowplaying
Marbled Godwit (according to Merlin) walking along the shoreline. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM_1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 #bolsachicaecologicalreserve #godwit
New „waste a day by just clicking around“ game has dropped. Like the paperclip maximizer. This one is pokemon but just with numbers. Like you’re stripping away the cutesy cartoon and are left with the underlying math and addiction. https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/116575726554458393…
Cross To The Other Side V ❎
去向另一边 V ❎
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky C200
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116218901693650936
As much as this policy is a darling of the left I just want everyone to imagine what happens when everyone is dependent upon UBI and the government turns into some kind of fascist dystopia
RE: https://aus.social/@jhaue/116393820486614886
If you are not absolutely abhorred by Israel, there’s no humanity left in you whatsoever.
Summary:
A colossal ancient impact may have reshaped the Moon far more deeply than scientists once realized.
By analyzing rare lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s largest crater,
researchers found unusual chemical fingerprints pointing to extreme heat and material loss caused by a giant impact.
The collision likely stripped away volatile elements,
reshaped volcanic activity,
and left a lasting chemical signature deep belo…
The nice thing when reading old #books is, you sometimes find things the owners left in them.
Today I found a very thin chocolate wrapping. It was from "Victor Schmidt & Söhne" (Victor Schmidt & Sons). A sweets company founded ~1850 in Vienna. The wrapping may be waiting for ~120-130yrs in the book (because the book is that old) and it told me something about the previo…
Hospital appointments are kind of frustrating, I’m in with the consultant for 6-7mins, but I left home at 12.30 and didn’t get back until 4. That’s the travelling and waiting time. Also, this particular appointment could have easily been done over the phone, which they often are.
Bad news from Kerala.
But it's happened before and the left will be back.
India loses its last left-wing government after five decades | Politics News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/4/in…
57 countries just formed a bold new climate coalition in Colombia, creating the first global framework explicitly designed to phase out coal, oil, and gas—with fossil fuel interests left out of the room. They're building roadmaps for clean energy transitions and reforming finance systems to accelerate progress.
ht…
the poor will start eating the rich if they have nothing left to eat. boy, am i hungry
Whew! Finish another phase and committed before #Claude crashed.
Do you think that the folks that work at #Anthropic are logging in to Codex now to fix Claude Code?
Every social media platform I'm on (Twitter, Threads, Bluesky) I'm seeing a very necessary and solid level of tough-but-important conversations and fights. about the clashes between (Far?) Leftism and real Black folks who actually participate in politics*
Except here. Same ol same ol do-nothing far-left type stuff except also WITHOUT the "good but ugly" fights
(*Yes, I'm aware I'm being harsh here, but I don't have better terminology and its importa…
I'm trying out a new mosquito-control contraption made by Ortho. It features a landing pad laced with powderized, lethal fungus spores (Beauveria bassiana) that can be transferred via tarsi to standing water elsewhere in the yard or in your neighbors' yards. The water in the container also has an insecticide (pyriproxyfen) to kill any larvae that might develop from eggs left by females. It's the home version of the expensive In2Care trap that can only be purchased by licensed pest-control folks. #mosquitoes #ortho #in2care
I should do some work with Authentik, but I keep getting sidetracked to find out where the default background for the SSO page is coming from
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/blob/main/web/src/assets/images/flow_background.jpg
duolingo been doing some wild worldbuilding lately
I'm looking for 12 testers using Play Store for an Android app I built with Claude AI:
Widekey Keyboard. Each key holds two characters. Tap once for the left, tap twice quickly for the right. (No autocorrect, no word prediction, no swipe typing.)
Intended for people who find standard touch keyboards on small screens imprecise.
Free, no ads, no data collection, Apache 2.0 open source.
Please send me a DM with your Android account email if you're interested.
Either my understanding of #Bidi is off, or Jordan Police screw up their Bidi
RT: twitter.com/Police_Jo/status/2031410145427616135 #RTL
Work in progress website mockup. Not sure if I'll ever get to finishing this or turning it into code, but I always enjoy working on web design stuff :)
This is probably the worst joke I've seen, and I am crying.
#memes #funny #comic
Follie Follie II🍁
叶啊叶 II🍁
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Sources: Jensen Huang was left out of President Trump's China trip to avoid unwanted scrutiny and awkward conversations about the sale of Nvidia chips to China (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/12/2026/nvidia-snubb…
bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 13919 nodes and 746316 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://
The scale of Orbšn’s defeat has left Moscow with little choice but to acknowledge the loss of a key partner in Europe.
“Hungary made its choice. We respect that choice,” Russian Foreign Minister Peskov said on Monday.
“We were never friends with Orbšn,” said Peskov,
adding that Moscow remained open to dialogue and to building good, mutually beneficial relations with Budapest.
Moscow appears to be playing down the loss of a key ally in Europe,
striking a tone rem…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116564460359464986
Uhh.. vote in June. In the primaries. Figure out what you need to do to vote in the primaries, and vote for people who are running to the left of your incumbents. If enough people do that, it will mak…
As of a month ago, half of xAI’s founding team of 12 individuals had resigned.
As of today, that number has grown to nine, meaning that a mere three are left, as Bloomberg points out.
In the face of it all, Musk is admitting that the company is in deep trouble
— and in need of a deep overhaul
https://…
bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 13919 nodes and 746316 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://
A college instructor I know sent me photos of a notebook a student left in class. The student had scrawled "AI IS SATAN!!!" multiple times.
Yes, "AI IS SATAN!!!"
#AI #NoAI #FuckAI…
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
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
China could emerge a winner from Trump’s global energy shock
The disruption caused by the war on Iran may reveal that years China spent preparing for a global energy crisis have left the country and its economy better positioned than most to endure a long-term hike in the cost of oil and gas.
Through massive stockpiles of crude oil,
an aggressive push into electric vehicles
and huge investments into coal, renewable power and battery storage,
Beijing has worked …
Chicago-based restaurant software startup Chowbus raised an $81M Series E led by Prysm Capital and Left Lane Capital; it focuses primarily on Asian restaurants (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/03/11/chowbus-series-e-asian-re…
U.S. seems 'on a path' to deploying ground troops in Iran,
Senator Blumenthal says after classified briefing
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he is "dissatisfied and angry" after a classified briefing Tuesday.
"I am left with more questions than answers, especially about the cost of the war," Blumenthal told reporters after the briefing before the Senate Armed Services Committee
The Trump administration is taking its targeting of its political enemies to new levels.
Last summer in Texas, a noise demo that escalated has led to
nine people being convicted of federal charges,
including “material aid for terrorism.”
The so-called “North Texas antifa cell” has raised concerns on the left about future prosecutions
In 1405, Admiral Zheng set off from China with the greatest armada in history,
leading three hundred magnificent ships on a thirty year odyssey to distant lands as far afield as Africa.
Later that century, Columbus landed in the New World with three barely seaworthy boats.
Zheng’s armada, for all its grandeur, left virtually no imprint on the world
-- while Columbus changed the entire course of history.
Why?
The Patterning Instinct provides a new answer to…
A North Carolina man who says federal immigration agents shattered his truck window,
forcibly removed him from his vehicle,
and left him “bleeding and in pain”
has filed a $1.25 million damages claim against the federal government.
Willy Wender Aceituno, a U.S. citizen,
says he was stopped twice on November 15, 2025, while walking into a restaurant parking lot to pick up breakfast before work,
according to a court filing reviewed by Newsweek.
Aceitun…
Canada’s left-leaning
New Democratic Party (NDP)
has elected a new leader,
someone whose campaign drew comparisons to the politics and style of U.S. figures like
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani.
On March 29, the NDP elected
Avi Lewis on the first round of balloting
with 55 percent of the vote in his first successful political campaign.
The NDP was decimated in the April 2025 federal election.
Former leader Jag…
Government argues ICE facility protest was actually left-wing terrorist plot
The prosecutor displayed photos on a courtroom television of evidence seized from the garage of defendants on trial for alleged involvement in a radical left-wing conspiracy:
Photocopiers, a bookbinding machine and leaflets called “zines.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn Smith asked the FBI agent on the witness stand to identify the evidence.
Special Agent Morris Boatner said he had found the…