2026-07-19 00:24:25
Cowboys’ left tackle battle could change the entire 2026 season https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-left-tackle-battle-could-change-entire-2026-season/4be97e235f9581ed27a36d5d
Cowboys’ left tackle battle could change the entire 2026 season https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-left-tackle-battle-could-change-entire-2026-season/4be97e235f9581ed27a36d5d
San Diego mosque where mass shooting left 3 dead has controversial history -- including ties to 9/11 hijackers (Doree Lewak/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/18/us-news/san-diego-mosque-where-mass-shooting-left-3-dead-has-controversial-history-including-ties-to-9-11-hijackers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p46#a260519p46
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
Wife left the car unlocked, #meshstatic unit stolen (Heltec v4, they left the mount though).
Battery died, but I'll see if they're smart and dumb enough to plug it in within range of my network - probably not though 😄
Dallas Cowboys Make Interesting Left Tackle Change Worth Monitoring at Minicamp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-make-left-tackle-change-worth-monitoring-minicamp
Secretary of State Marco Rubio
and top White House adviser Stephen Miller
are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations.
The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit
“on the resurgence of political terrorism,”
where Miller described the LEFT as
“enemies of civilization”
and described efforts to
“disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.”
Rubio …
"World Cup tickets are crazy expensive, so this airline built a campaign around it"
https://www.famouscampaigns.com/2026/05/world-cup-tickets-are-crazy-expensive-so-this-airline-built-a-campaign-around-it/
left a workout video running on loop and went to eat pizza #AgenticExercise
Milan-based legal AI company Lexroom raised a €42.9M Series B led by Left Lane, after raising a €16M Series A in September 2025, taking total funding to €62.7M (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/itali…
It’s Monday morning. Three days left to work this week. Then a long weekend off. Going to be busy though. Final garage clearout on Thursday, and then waste collection coming on Friday. It will be good to have a cleared-out garage, and front yard too! The only thing left will be how to get rid of all the old paint.
Good $DEITY, is there anyone left in the United States who can remember what actual food tastes like?
Yes, I am subtooting.
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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…
Lotus club #Autocross at Salinas airport today. Lots of fun with friends but I left the Lotus at home and took our Taycan to give it a work out. Very fast but the weight was too much for street tires. Best time was an afternoon fun run with four of us in the car…
I’m about to board a train again. This time it goes through the left side of the country, so there will be no usable internet.
A delicious treat to sweeten this #Monday: the bum of Perseus, sculpted by Benvenuto Cellini ca. 1545–1554 CE.
#BumDayMonday
#RenaissanceArt
So much has happened in cyberworld since Friday, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Leaders warn that AI bug hunting outpaces humanity’s ability to defend systems,
--Malware strain Fast16 sabotaged nuclear weapons development years before Stuxnet surfaced,
--Grafana Labs rejected hackers' extortion demand,
--DeFi protocol Verus lost nearly $12m in ongoing exploit,
'Einsamkeit' #FotoVorschlag 'loneliness'
I took this photo end of dezember last year on a foggy day at a nearby hill when this person came along.
I hardly ever include people in my shots but I somehow feel a loneliness when I see this photo. So I thought it might be a good fit.
Sometimes academics can have a bad idea.
https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116595784587511044
Cowboys may have already settled crucial left tackle competition https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-tyler-guyton-minicamp-left-tackle-depth/fb1b90fea6ff257438ca20a9
A #waymo in front of me just signaled right then changed lanes to the left.
Sooo safe! Robots never make mistakes! 🫠
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…
A year ago, my sister cooked the engine in her car and because she was still paying the note on it, she just left it in my parents' back yard. I'm thinking about grabbing a screwdriver, a jump pack, and my headphones and driving over there to see if I can get it started. I'm curious if the brakes are rusted shut.
My son stands on guardrail by overlook of open end of Alton Bay, part of New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee
#photo #photography #lake
@… dude, what desk?
I see approximately 4"² free, to the left of the keyboard 😉
Still don't know what's happening with the wee one. There was a MEETING today but we haven't heard the results yet. I am leaving for Civic in an hour, and husband was planning to drop my friend and me off at the nearest Rapid bus stop before making his way north to pick up the wee one from preschool. Left a message at CYF explaining our movements and that we need to know what's been decided (if anything) but haven't heard anything yet. Interesting times.
New NERDS publication on right-wing votes and bike network delays
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/07/17/new-nerds-publication-on-right-wing-votes-and-bike-network-delays/
(LinkedIn) In a review of 55 cases of cortical blindness, vivid imagery was repeatedly preserved despite complete or near-complete bilateral V1 damage. When imagery was impaired, lesions extended beyond V1, often into ventral temporal cortex. https://www.
IMPRS doctoral researcher Meghna Dutta and her colleagues happily presenting their posters with possible Master thesis projects at the CIDAS market place on Göttingen Campus today. Meghna made a great poster, and the group is thrilled by all the exciting discussions they are having with students!
#GWDG #CIDAS
What's left from SCOTUS, and when to expect it
https://www.lawdork.com/p/whats-left-from-scotus
Playing some Gunvalkyrie for a gameclub. It is quite a bizarre game - but the most bizarre thing is the early 3D controls. Thankfully, you can remap them on a modern Xbox, so my dash button is now A instead of L3 and Y is flipped for right stick camera so left stick doesn’t do regular while right stick does flight mode. It was a rough combo. Slight tweaks to controls would have made this game so much better out of the box.
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
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Woods:
🎵 Moving to the Left
#Woods
https://open.spotify.com/track/74NCGV3sWtLtub4p4b1BRe
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Avalanches:
🎵 Since I Left You
#NowPlaying #TheAvalanches
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DgFCys3XMrWZDngu1CrRy
Worried about the "violent rhetoric of the left", while the US government releases an image of what it would look like if they nuked Ireland, presumably to convey a threat.
Sonnet 048 - XLVIII
How careful was I when I took my way,
Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,
That to my use it might unused stay
From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!
But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
Most worthy comfort, now my greatest grief,
Thou best of dearest, and mine only care,
Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.
Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,
Save where thou art not, though I feel t…
You might be in Finland when you see that someone has left their mobile phones to the café table to mark the table as taken.
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…
Cowboys Urged to Sign 140-Game Starter Amid Looming Concern https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-guyton-left-tackle-taylor-decker/
Emmanuel Pelletier made some excellent accessibility docs for Grist https://support.getgrist.com/accessibility/
“Trump is trying to pay his way out of the war he started,” wrote New York-based political activist Melanie D’Arrigo
Critics were quick to note the irony in the plan reportedly being considered by Trump, who has frequently accused former President Barack Obama of giving Iran “$150 billion in cash,” an inaccurate claim referring to the “high-end estimate” of Iranian funds that were unfrozen after the lifting of sanctions,
much like what the Trump administration is reportedly consi…
On Website Technicals (2019-08) - Tech updates: maybe lazy, spatial coverage and Google Maps, goodbye JSON, long path wrapped, podcasts, links out and left float. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-27.html
The tiny group (1)4489 now center left during Thursday's Bochum #sunset - later timesteps in https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mqsbwv6ctk2k
Independents and 2024 non-voters have swung back left (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-19-indies-nonvoters-turned-on-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p20#a260519p20
Moving from one social media platform to another shows how unimportant you are.
This just came to my mind today when I posted one photo in my Instagram story where usually about 50-80 ppl watch it.
And after repeatedly telling that I'm moving away, almost noone followed. It was the same when I left Twitter.
Having followers doesn't mean having their loyalty. Even though it would just be one app install..
Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
For the #Housemarque and #Returnal sickos out there:
1. I named my personal Mac “Helios”
2. Find My now gives me ‘“Helios” left behind’ notifications
#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 …
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
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”?
After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-aft…
Two girls running in Hammond Hill State Forest last Saturday at the Thom B Trail Runs
#photo #photography #running #sports
A happy, explorative trip in the sun! 🌞 🌼
(Only interrupted every 40m by a high-risk, life-or-death situation, where anytime an #SUV could have exited and crushed her. 🤷 )
#urbanplanning #parenting
"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
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 @…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fred again..:
🎵 Last 1s Left
#Fredagain
No.7) Who is the Week 1 starting left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/no-7-who-is-the-week-1-starting-left-tackle
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
Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying
“anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as
indicators of radical left violence.
Called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7,
it’s being referred to as “NSPM-7” by administration insiders.
“This is the first time in American history that there is an
all-of-government effort to dismantle left wing terrorism,”
Trump’s homeland security advisor Stephen Miller said,
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 …
"President #Trump lost. The war he waged against Iran promises to conclude in a humbling whimper with the signing of a cease-fire agreement later this week. The United States is left weaker—diminished militarily, strategically, economically, and perhaps morally." THE ATLANTIC
I remember speaking to someone who, maybe a decade ago, worked at a ride share app company.
They left shortly after a meeting in which the company was looking at ways to slow cities from investing in their public transport.
On its face a business or technology might not be objectionable, but there's an inevitability to the direction that investment demands.
No.7) Who is the Week 1 starting left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/no-7-who-is-the-week-1-starting-left-tackle
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Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/star-google-ai-researcher-shazeer-j…
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
Here's @… with an extraordinary story of honesty and community solidarity from within #Gaza
The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos
after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely flunked the assignment.
As local outlet AZFamily reported, students and families at the Phoenix-area school were left disoriented when the names being read over the ceremony’s loudspeakers failed to match those of the students actually walking across the stage.
The names displayed on the ceremony’s jumbotron were also…
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…
When I was first learning to write,
my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror.
Being left-handed, I was imitating the hand strokes of my right-handed teachers instead of reversing their strokes to replicate the letters.
I gradually got the hang of writing in the correct direction, but it still feels natural for me to mirror-write.
I have a mirror-written childhood diary. Leonardo da Vinci, another lefty, did that too
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
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Left Cross:
🎵 The Blood of Mars
#LeftCross
https://open.spotify.com/track/1i6d9KAcg7EA60bWIwJlk9
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 …
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…
Cowboys Called Out for ‘Competition’ at Key Position https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-guyton-competition-position/
Stephen Miller railed:
“The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy.
The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred.
The leftist looks at a perfect family with a perfect life and a perfect job and a perfect kid and goes to church every Sunday.”
Miller also dismissed concerns about civil rights abuses by the administration.
“One of the hallmarks of leftwing violence and te…
Cowboys Center Out For the Season After Neck Surgery https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/matt-hennessy-season-over-neck-injury/
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…
Cowboys ‘Competition’ Called Into Question as Training Camp Looms https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-competition-called-into-question-as-training-camp-looms/
Databento, which sells financial data feeds, raised a $97M Series B led by NEA, taking its total funding to $127M, and says it is "profitable every month" (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortu…
Cowboys Sign Former Raiders Starting Edge Rusher https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/charles-snowden-signed-defensive-end/
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…
Cowboys $96 Million Star Makes Feelings Clear on Position Change https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-smith-left-tackle-guyton/
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…
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
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