2026-04-17 11:40:16
The Belgian Party of Labour shows how to successfully build a left-wing political movement. By Jürgen Klute.
https://europa.blog/en/the-belgian-party-of-labour-shows-how-to-successfully-build-a-left-wing-political-movement/
The Belgian Party of Labour shows how to successfully build a left-wing political movement. By Jürgen Klute.
https://europa.blog/en/the-belgian-party-of-labour-shows-how-to-successfully-build-a-left-wing-political-movement/
Why (and how) UPS trucks (almost) never turn left.
The policy started in the 1970s and is implemented by a dedicated software since 2004.
Its impact on workers’ political opinions remains unknown. ☺️
https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/world/ups-trucks-no-left-turns
I've noticed how people who are 'left' in their politics are happy to identify themselves that way. People on the 'right', however, seldom identify themselves that way, as it tends to reflect poorly on them - 'right' connotes selfish, bigoted, greedy, mean, cold, ignorant, religious, pragmatic rather than principled... I propose we adopt new terms for the political spectrum rather than 'left'<->'right', namely 'noble'<->'ign…
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Tornado Wallace:
🎵 Left at Sunset
#TornadoWallace
https://tornadowallace.bandcamp.com/album/left-at-sunset
https://open.spotify.com/track/7igsV6G1m9raV4mY1UqlEy
To some extent, Mohamed Hussein knew he was preparing to enter the lion’s den.
But he made the decision to attend the Republican Party of Texas Convention
to confirm for himself that he had a place in the GOP,
even as members of the party have railed for months about the urgency of ending Sharia Law and the so-called “Islamification” of Texas.
What he found was a party that didn’t want him.
He arrived with hope but left in tears after being told explicitly that …
Barney Frank's Second Coming Out (James Kirchick/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/barney-frank-book-left-trans-rights/687192/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p35#a260517p35
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-…
After reading the article from The Ditch in relation to the Greens’ Galway West by-election candidate Niall Murphy and due to my own loose affiliation through a Vote Left Transfer Left campaign that he is also involved in, I felt a statement must be made.
The Ditch have highlighted the shares he purchased in his employer, Cisco, a company that is directly partnered with the Israeli government and assists Israeli military operations in Gaza.
1/3
What's left from SCOTUS, and when to expect it
https://www.lawdork.com/p/whats-left-from-scotus
Added Power Grips (pedal straps) to my wife's #Brompton. Not going to say it's my nicest work, but I'm hopeful that it'll hold. I only drilled holes through the plastic reflectors; the metal is all intact. I can change that later if needed. #BikeTooter
"DB will let you down. It will also, more often than the internet would have you believe, deliver you eight hours of clean uninterrupted thinking time at 250 km/h across a country, drop you within walking distance of your next meeting, and occasionally reroute you down the left bank of the Rhine at golden hour as an apology. The trick is to plan for the first and enjoy the second.'
The most useful hints I've ever seen for our summer holiday planning...
https://blog.hofstede.it/a-field-manual-for-three-years-on-deutsche-bahn/
"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting
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Thundercat:
🎵 What Is Left to Say
#Thundercat
https://thundercat.bandcamp.com/track/what-is-left-to-say-feat-the-lemon-twigs
https://open.spotify.com/track/3enDijqNJTZuAQpj1Jm6q6
Der Duft von Sonnenuntergang und Blüten
Das auf dem Foto war heute einer der „schlimmeren“ Radwege - einmal quer durch Montpellier, vom Süden in den Norden und weiter bis Jacou. Wir sind fast durchgängig wie in Kopenhagen auf geschützten Radwegen inklusive geschützter Kreisverkehre geradelt, haben ein bisschen navigiert, und unterhalten, die Aussichten genossen und einen genossen hier und jetzt zu radeln.
Schon stark was Montpellier, Copenhagenize und 3M hier geschaffen haben und …
A #waymo in front of me just signaled right then changed lanes to the left.
Sooo safe! Robots never make mistakes! 🫠
Sources: Ramtin Arablouei, co-host and cofounder of NPR podcast Throughline, left the network after it opened an investigation into his workplace conduct (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/business/media/npr-pod…
Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
Habt ihr eure Ferien schon (um)geplant?
Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head tells the AP https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-europe-jet-fuel-flight-cancellations-birol-6e67fafd493861b3858de554…
»Align to page«. And then the object snaps on either 0.07cm or -0.02cm off the left page border. Microsoft Office, enterprise grade software. #uxfromhell
In this key by-election, it is essential to defeat Reform Ltd. That means putting aside reservations about Burnham.
Other left parties, in this case, must stand aside
Andy Burnham faces perilous race to win Makerfield byelection, allies say | Labour | The Guardian
htt…
<heart breaking heart breaking heart breaking> 😢
▶️ No One Could Get Near Her…Then Someone Left This Comment
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oSQu58vw4jQ&si=RJe-jiaRoiLL22mN
Cowboys $96 Million Star Makes Feelings Clear on Position Change https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-smith-left-tackle-guyton/
I got quite a few photos Tuesday for which I didn't give somebody a token but I am prioritizing portraits for processing since I know people are waiting for them; here is a wide angle of the four season garden in the ILR courtyard with a class discussing outdoors
#photo #photography
Are you planning flying in the coming months? Consider train...
"The executive director of the International Energy Agency, said there would be flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies from the Middle East were not restored within the coming weeks.
KLM, part of the Air France-KLM group, said on Thursday it would cut 160 flights in the coming month because of high kerosene jet fuel prices."
Propaganda of the deed generally does the opposite of what it's supposed to do: it alienates rather than activates, destroying the movement it comes from. Until it doesn't. Until it actually sparks a revolution.
But there is a prerequisite for a successful revolution. That is an alternative system to pivot into as the old one collapses. That alternative is *far more dangerous* than any one-off action, up to and including literally killing a king or an emperor.
People will eventually rise up. That's just a matter of time. The question is what's left after everything gets burned down. That's a far more important question than, "is it happening?" It's happening (sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly), what's next?
Hierarchy manifests complexity beyond its ability to manage. We're seeing that now, we will see it more. Distributed authority is more stable. Build a distributed society within the burned out warehouse of the hierarchical one.
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E.J.Hughes only wanted to be left alone to paint. He made hundreds of paintings in his 70 year career and lived long enough to hear on the telephone that one of his paintings fetched over $1m in his lifetime. Not many humans have that experience!
#BCArtist
This article has the merit of showing that academics don’t have to adopt genAI uncritically, but it treats the uncritical adoption as the default, portraying those that take a more reflective approach as “refusing to use generative AI.”
Shouldn’t the burden of proof be on the AI advocates? And shouldn’t academics’ arguments go beyond regurgitating the companies’ advertising and trite claims of “it’s the future, use it or you’ll get left behind”?
This article has the merit of showing that academics don’t have to adopt genAI uncritically, but it treats the uncritical adoption as the default, portraying those that take a more reflective approach as “refusing to use generative AI.”
Shouldn’t the burden of proof be on the AI advocates? And shouldn’t academics’ arguments go beyond regurgitating the companies’ advertising and trite claims of “it’s the future, use it or you’ll get left behind”?
This article has the merit of showing that academics don’t have to adopt genAI uncritically, but it treats the uncritical adoption as the default, portraying those that take a more reflective approach as “refusing to use generative AI.”
Shouldn’t the burden of proof be on the AI advocates? And shouldn’t academics’ arguments go beyond regurgitating the companies’ advertising and trite claims of “it’s the future, use it or you’ll get left behind”?
Finally, Volkswagen is launching a V2G tariff in Germany. It is now scheduled for launch in Q4 2026.
Although Volkswagen was the first German car manufacturer to release bidirectional charging functionality in their vehicles, they are now behind BMW, Mercedes and Ford (whose EVs use VW technology) in terms of announcing an actual charger and tariff bundle.
Wonderfully grown-up from Ken Loach about Your Party https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/17/ken-loach-your-party-infighting-jeremy-corbyn-zarah-sultana but the @…
It's funny to me how yes I was like "Tomorrow I need to do X and then Y and afterwards I should do Z, if there is any spare time left" and today I just stare into the void while trying to remember what I wanted to do.
(It's actually not funny, it's hella annoying 🫠)
Kinda related to #Gentoo, so cool" or "they stopped using it, so sad". And I'm like, "why should we care?"
Do they donate money to Gentoo? They don't. And if they did, it would probably come with obligations making this not worth it.
Do they contribute back? Rarely, and if they do, they are unreliable. They benefit more than we do. They just want to dump the packages they need, quickly duct taped together, so that we would maintain them going forward. Their employees rarely reveal that they're paid to do this, and if they do, it's not so they'd be held to higher standards, but to emphasize their importance: "you must placate us."
Well, sometimes they hire Gentoo developers. It's nice that these developers get some gratification for their work, especially if they're able to continue contributing on work time. But in the end, company priorities win. We are either left with loads of new packages with no maintainer and unclear significance, or a Google employee who appeared every once in a while to dump a bunch of ChromeOS patches and never bothered handling the fallout.
So, sorry, but I'd rather care for volunteers who want to make Gentoo better, than companies who see some profit incentive in it.
PS. I'm probably focusing too much on the negative aspects, and we likely had some positive interactions that are far less known and usually don't meet with such fanfare.
#FreeSoftware
Cleveland Browns 2026 NFL Draft odds: Clear priorities at wide receiver, left tackle at No. 6 pick
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/cle
We are fucked.
#AMOC #ClimateChange
#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 …
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某种物质 IV 🧪
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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…
A profile of Hany Farid, the world's leading deepfake expert, who recently left the Bay Area for Vermont.
"I can’t stand this place anymore... These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d
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?
If you are a middle aged man and need to feel better about your mid-life dad bod, just pull out some Super8mm film of you as a rolly-polly baby. lol
Checking some 8mm film I was given recently by my dad (left). A full viewing and eventual recording/digitizing will be required at some point soon!
This would be from spring or summer 1978.
#Family #8mm #film
Europe has “maybe six weeks or so” of remaining jet fuel supplies,
the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging interview,
warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.
IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of what he called
“the largest energy crisis we have ever faced,”
stemming from the pinch-off of oil, gas and other vital suppl…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116755666523818234
I went to see it last night with my son. I left the movie thinking that this might have worked 10-20 years ago, but not today. It was a good movie, I guess. Nothing I'd want to see again.
Trump Calls Xi a 'Friend.' But He Left China Without Any Breakthroughs. (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/world/europe/trump-xi-china-summit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260516/p38#a260516p38
Joey Ramone passed away on this day (April 15) in 2001. Joey no longer walks Earth (and Dee Dee and Johnny are no longer with us either), but the unreal music he and they left behind is immortal, and it will fucking blast and rip forever. It still blows my mind I was briefly on Earth at the same time as this man, this legend, Jeffrey Hyman.
Here's a writeup Ultimate Classic Rock put up today on Joey and the Ramones for the 25th anniversary of his passing:
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The Avalanches:
🎵 Since I Left You
#TheAvalanches
https://telephonemaison.bandcamp.com/track/the-avalanches-since-i-left-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DgFCys3XMrWZDngu1CrRy
Wow. The UMich president’s job is cursed. Last one left to take a job that didn’t end up hiring him, his replacement has a brain tumor that will prevent his taking the position.
My Sakura strategy this year was to look for people who were taking pictures and ask "would you like a group portrait?"
#photo #photography #flowers
Ray drops a VERY sobering look at Xbox's business. In 2018, Xbox acquired dozens of studios to create compelling games to drive Xbox & Xbox Game Pass.
After 8yrs, what have they got to show for it?
Now you know why they're cutting game studios left & right.
▶️ What is going on at Xbox today?? - Xbox Ready
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
from my link log —
Async Rust never left the MVP state.
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/async-rust-never-left-the-mvp-state
saved 2026-05-04
Sources: 50 researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex…
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
NO RESERVES LEFT: ONLY RUSSIAN’S MONEY Vlog 1394: War in #Ukraine
The head of the russian Central Bank #ElviraNabiullina …
#SoundSpace: What and where through sound https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772363.3798944 CHI EA '26
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…
Me: *visits company website ➼ looks at product ➼ likes product ➼ buys product*
Company: Thanks for buying our product! Here’s your confirmation and receipt!
Also company: Hey! You left something in your basket!
Later: Here’s your shipping details!
Later still: Please come back and buy the thing!
So, there's a class action lawsuit against google involving people who used an android mobile device between 2017 to present. The settlement says there's approximately 100 million members, and they could divide 135 million after lawyer fees. Lawyer fees can be up to 29.5% of the settlement plus reimbursement up to 750,000. Stay with me here. The case has been going on for 6 years, lawyers unpaid. So, assuming they are paid the whole 29.5%, there leaves approximately 94 million left. …
OMG, someone actually went ahead and filed that as a bug! (Well, three years ago)
Ho mia Zamenhof, iu vere registris tion kiel cimon! (Nu, antaŭ tri jaroj)
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/55
One of the hazards of photographing a much-photographed thing is that, after careful consideration of viewpoint, composition and framing, you take exactly the same pictures as everyone else who has carefully considered viewpoint, composition and framing.
Here are two photographs I took of the Atlas Fountain at Castle Howard, along with the two illustrations from its Wikipedia entry. Years apart in time, inches apart in space.
RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116747852738754635
Interesting and thought-provoking read! I left seeing the problem but just being teased about the author’s view of possible solutions (apparently a series of posts will be written…).
It’s definitely worth th…
AP Exclusive: Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head warns (John Leicester/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-europe-jet-fuel-flight-cancellations-birol-6e67fafd493861b3858de5548aa77703
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p93#a260416p93
Nate Thomas opens up about Cowboys' open competition at left tackle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/nate-thomas-opens-up-about-cowboys-open-competition-at-left-tackle
One of my favorite cherry trees on campus next to the A.D. White House garden with a student and family -- taken with the Laowa 9mm
#photo #photography #flowers
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Left Cross:
🎵 The Blood of Mars
#LeftCross
https://open.spotify.com/track/1i6d9KAcg7EA60bWIwJlk9
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…
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…
Which one of these BGA fanouts is better?
Both are the same nominal trace/space, both are skew matched by the time you get to the vertical "home run" area heading towards the connector.
But TDR of the first one wasn't that great. Let's see if the second one is any better when the simulation finishes...
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…
Nate Thomas opens up about Cowboys' open competition at left tackle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/nate-thomas-opens-up-about-cowboys-open-competition-at-left-tackle
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Woods:
🎵 Moving to the Left
#Woods
https://open.spotify.com/track/74NCGV3sWtLtub4p4b1BRe
It's bad enough that normies do it, but it's awful when a cybersecurity company does.
"Through its investigation, law enforcement also found that General Informatics had been using the same username and password for its remote access tool across its clientele."
https://www…
These boys are up to something very cool...
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@KROMAPUNK/116744860152357968
https://
Giants signing DT D.J. Reader to help fill vacancy left by Dexter Lawrence https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-signing-dt-d-j-reader-to-help-fill-vacancy-left-by-dexter-lawrence
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…
Nithya Raman has "a master’s degree in urban planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" - I'd vote for her
Incumbent LA Mayor Karen Bass will face a challenge from the left in November | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/incumbent-la-mayor-karen-bass-will-face-a-challenge-from-the-left-in-november/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fred again..:
🎵 Last 1s Left
#Fredagain
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
They were all sitting unprotected at public URLs, with no password or access control of any sort.
If I sent you a link, you could have looked at someone’s passport.
“We have to do something about it as fast as possible, because people will find this and resell it.
It will do damage,”
Sammy Azdoufal told me in May.
Azdoufal is the security researcher who used Claude Code…
Jacob Rodriguez Gushes Over Christian Parker, Dallas Cowboys Staff Ahead Of NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/jacob-rodriguez-gushes-over-christian-parker-dallas-cowboys-staff-nfl-draft
A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears. (Renzo Downey/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/texas-republican-party-convention-muslims-sharia-law/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260615/p90#a260615p90
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Thundercat:
🎵 You Left Without Saying Goodbye
#Thundercat
https://thundercat.bandcamp.com/track/you-left-without-saying-goodbye
https://open.spotify.com/track/52EW9hDF3NLRRlrDziCmrG
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…
Sundar Pichai faced a walkout at his Stanford commencement speech, as 100 students left amid chants of "Free, free Palestine" over Google's ties with Israel (Zain Khan/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/14/us-ne…
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…
This is the kind of unity we need to see among left-of-center candidates—everyone not on the billionaires' team. Like Saikat, I'll support Connie in the general election. I won't hide my disagreements with her, but fortunately most of them are much less relevant to federal office.
https://
Trump Officials Push Allies to Pursue Antifa and Far Left as Terrorist Threats (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/politics/trump-administration-far-left-terrorism-groups.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.qFVy.SYiCDA5Ee-Wi&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p64#a260410p64
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…
The Left is Good Governing Itself into Obscurity (Brian Tyler Cohen)
https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/the-left-is-good-governing-itself
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p40#a260509p40
'Mild panic will set in soon': GOP donors left to wonder about Trump's $300 million war chest (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/09/mild-panic-will-set-in-soon-gop-donors-left-to-wonder-about-trumps-300-million-war-chest-00913096
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p16#a260509p16