2026-05-04 18:42:53
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…
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…
Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern
Barring any last minute bug reports or problems, I plan to push the latest changes to #LeftWordle to production tomorrow, Sat July 4, at about 16:00 UTC, noon EDT. This will make it identical to the current version hosted at https://staging.left-wordle.co…
Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old lawyer turned doctoral student, is the latest candidate to rise from the party's left flank and boot establishment-backed candidates.
That includes two self-described democratic socialists and a progressive who won their Democratic primaries in New York last week.
Kiros' victory adds to a nascent but clear uprising, stirred by frustration among some voters, that has vexed party leadership.
Colorado's 1st Congressional District covers t…
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What a morning and long day it was last week! Was already out & about for 3 hours when I got to this place, earlier mostly taking hundreds of images of the nearby (~500m away) Breslauer Hut and vicinity during sunrise... The first large (and loud) group of people already got up at 4AM, getting ready for climbing Wildspitze, another group left an hour later, as did I. Maintenance/repair works on the hut continued at 08:30, taking lots more pictures to document, interviewin…
Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern
Trump says he doesn't know whether the $1.8 billion payout fund is dead (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/03/trump-blames-radical-left-judge-demise-payout-fund/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p5#a260604p5
Jim Schwartz on why he left the Browns: 'A forced marriage isn't going to work' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7328818/2026/06/03/jim-schwartz-browns-head-coach-departure/
Left exact monoidal localizations from tidy maps
Mathieu Anel, Georg Biedermann, Eric Finster, Andr\'e Joyal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04263 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.04263 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04263
arXiv:2606.04263v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We put Goodwillie's calculus of functors and Weiss' orthogonal calculus in a unified framework. We do so in two ways. On the one hand, the relevant categories are all symmetric monoidal and controlled by their compact objects. We introduce the notion of tidy map as a means to generate symmetric monoidal localizations in this setting. These localizations are always left exact. Then we show that both the Goodwillie and Weiss towers are generated by such maps. On the other hand, the relevant categories are also topoi, for which there is a general theory of completion towers of left exact localizations. We had shown in a previous work that the Goodwillie tower is an instance a such a tower. We show here that the Weiss tower is a completion tower as well, and therefore that the general theory applies to orthogonal calculus.
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Viel Spaß mit den KI-Agenten
„It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder.“
Claude-powered AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’
https…
A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/01/2026/c-suite-exodus-at-boston-dynamics
Cowboys Confirm 2-Man Competition at Left Tackle: 'We're Going to Make Tyler Earn it' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-competition-left-tackle-tyler-guyton-nate-thomas
I wonder if Wallace Shawn’s political views were shaped by his role as The Nagus on DS9.
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/wallace-shawn-socialism-theater-class
Wondering why the left is split in SF’s Congressional race to replace Nancy Pelosi? This is by far the best overview I’ve seen: https://jacobin.com/2026/06/sf-congress-election-chan-chakrabarti
Three siblings were found by a station guard as they wandered around Barcelona’s Estació de França in 1984.
They carried no luggage or ID.
The oldest of them (Ramón) was five.
They had been driven there by a man they knew only as Denis.
He had left, ostensibly to buy them sweets, and never returned.
No adults came forward to claim them so they found themselves in the Spanish childcare system.
At this point, the mystery deepened.
As one carer rec…
Just thinking about the political discussion going on here these days... Seems to me we need better labels. 'Right' in English has the unfortunate connotation of 'correct', and 'Left' the connotation (but perhaps only among the better read) of 'sinister'... I think new terms without that baggage are required. I propose that the Left<->Right spectrum be replaced by the Nobel<->Ignoble spectrum, which is more objective accurate in any case.
I left the house nine and a half hours ago. I am extremely tired and glad that I didn't find poop on the floor.
"Trump, I think, is sort of nearing, you know, Bush 43 numbers on approval; he left office at 32%. Two serious polls have [Trump] at 33%. This is the third. The country has sort of logged back in, taken the measure of the second term, and said, thank you, no."
On Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone discusses Trump's growing unpopularity among right-wing radio callers | Media Matters for America
https://www.mediamatters.org/ms-now-msnbc/deadline-white-house-angelo-carusone-discusses-trumps-growing-unpopularity-among-right
AstraZeneca pulls critical breast cancer and endometriosis drug Zoladex from [Australian] shelves - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-04/breast-cancer-endometriosis-drug-zoladex-discontinued/106726158 - what…
That said, this is fucking hilarious and does remind me of the 90's where you just login to some unattended chat server and take over because they left it open to the internet with the default creds:
https://github.com/cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max?tab=readme-ov-file
Also — two days.
https://bsky.app/profile/lflegal.bsky.social/post/3ml2enyfjp22t
That post points to endorsements at
Being sick for 3 weeks, I feel like I lost a month of my life. Like, March just kind of disappeared and I'm not at all ready for summer.
Also, my kids are now sick again and my wife just left for a 2 week work trip, if I get sick again I'm going to absolutely lose my shit.
A look at nonprofit VTDigger, which has been operating at a loss since 2022 and is seeking its third EIC in just over a year after tough union negotiations (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/02/business/vtdigger-departu…
Tyler Guyton reacts to Cowboys opening up left tackle competition https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-guyton-reacts-to-cowboys-opening-up-left-tackle-competition
What if Andy Burnham loses? "Whatever happens, Labour is turning left."
I'm not at all sure that I agree with the optimism of this analysis, but it is an interesting read anyway.
FT £: https://www.ft.com/content/680cbe3f-c067-411f-b7dd-cf461e9e664d
FreeBSD bug 100782 – [keyboard] Default keymap to support ALT Left, ALT Right console switching
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100782
@…
Last week our bathroom mat with the golden retriever type fur but in teal stripes instead of gold started folding its corners like starfish arms and shunting itself around the floor that was under the original floor till those cheap tiles came loose and we had to tear it up. We haven't opened the door in a while and we're lucky cuz it can only fit an inch of its edge under. There's one window in there we left open to let the constant toilet smell out but its pretty inaccessible f…
Today we welcomed Dr. Ramanuj Banerjee, Counselor for Science and Technology at the Indian Embassy in Germany, and representatives from Göttingen International at the University of Göttingen to MPS. It was a wonderful opportunity to present our research and discuss collaborations between scientists from India, Göttingen, and within the Max Planck Society. Thank you very much for visiting!!!
In the photo, from left to right: Netra Bhandari (Director of the India Office, University of Gö…
Almost exact repeat of April 4, 1976 winter storm in the #Fargo #Moorhead area: April 4, 2026 (left); news report in Forum newspaper from 50 years ago (right). #Minnesota
Socialdemokraterna är med i The Onion! https://theonion.com/black-neighborhood-demolished-to-make-room-for-nothing-in-particular/
At #ARVO2026, Wednesday May 6: The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device (SSD) for the blind evokes stronger visual cortex activity than a tongue display unit (TDU), for both early blind and late blind people https://mas.…
We had family visiting for a few days last week, including a one year old boy who is very fond of dogs. Izzy is a cautious rescue dog, but she warmed up to the toddler. After about two days, the toddler would walk up to Izzy and bend over so his face was close to Izzy and she would give him a kiss. When they left after four days, I think Izzy was sad to see him go. #DogsofMastodon
My #3dprintingwaste box arrived so I was finally able to sort out my overflowing wastebasket. I left a bunch of the #filamentpoop just because its harder to make sure the PLA and PETG ones are separated. While paying £54 for the privilege of
Happy Monday everyone. 🌻 If you're already struggling, here is a friendly reminder.
It's all about the stories you use to make sense of the world. 🤗
Have a great start to the new week.
#DailyAppreciation #FriendlyReminder
Primaries are tomorrow, #Tennessee!
(Please don’t DM me if your voter registration is messed up, images are from a third-party social post)
#TN #Vote
RE: https://corteximplant.com/@revengeday/116851393348321146
Everyone should read this 🧵.
A) it's a dismaying loss for the music community and
B) Mastodon has a toxic left wing element, and this is one person's reaction to it.
Dak Prescott will only go as far as his left tackle situation allows https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-dak-prescott-left-tackle-tyler-guyton-training-camp/21ee840cbbae83574ef5…
Obama judge clears left-wing group to fly ominous flag aimed at Trump on his own turf (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-judge-clears-left-wing-group-fly-ominous-flag-aimed-trump-his-own-turf
http://www.memeorandum.com/260602/p91#a260602p91
Long ago, before air conditioning, I left a half-full cup of coffee in my office over the weekend, and when I came in on Sunday it did this for real as I went to empty it out. Polymerization!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rjxIqbLqLdY
First-order Schwartian derivative and some classes of univalent functions
Milutin Obradovic, Nikola Tuneski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03433 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03433 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.03433
arXiv:2606.03433v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper we give estimate of $|S'_{f}(0)|$, where $S_{f}(z)= \left(\frac{f''(z)}{f'(z)}\right)'-\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{f''(z)}{f'(z)}\right)^{2}$ is the Schwartian derivative, and $f$ belongs to different classes of functions univalent in the open unit disc $\ID$.
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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 402660 nodes and 69679427 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://
Urban Spirit II 👻
城市魂 II 👻
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Kolton Miller's Leadership Going Long Way in Raiders' New System https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-kolton-miller-leadership-going-long-way-new-system
BTW I’m still angry that nobody told me that left recursion in recursive descent parsers generated from PEGs was a solved problem
#programming
Life After I Left
A space where women share their real stories, including the struggles, the triumphs, and the moments that created change...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/life-after-i-left/
And don't forget to weaponize your pond. Mosquitoes in my yard have left approximately 1000 egg rafts in mine this spring. And because each raft has 100s of eggs the number of larvae that end up dying is considerable. #mosquitoes #pond #ponds
#goodmorning today my morning walk is to the train for commute. It has cooled down and we got some long awaited rain.
Yesterday afternoon I even started cutting videos from our vacation. More to come soon.
Enjoy your day!
New long term photography project: Timefade — prints and animations documenting alpine places and their changes over decades or a century.
First place completed: Breslauer Hütte and the glaciers of the Gurgler Range. Two images from the same location, separated by 103 years: 1923 and 2026.
The hut was built in 1882 and has undergone several restorations and extensions. The major peaks from left to right: Großer Ramolkogel, Hinterer Spiegelkogel, Firmisanschneide, Schalfkogel, all…
Fanatics, you’ve got 19.5 hours left to take advantage of 50% off everything at @… in celebration of Lawrence English’s birthday. Use the code 50on50. Pass it on. https://room40.bandcamp.com/
Not a whole lot left. #Wordle
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Pet Shop Boys:
🎵 Left to My Own Devices
#PetShopBoys
https://retrovese.bandcamp.com/track/pet-shop-boys-left-to-my-own-devices-remixverse
https://open.spotify.com/track/4bwXQApS6ZupSiwUa4otmQ
Cowboys Still Have Big Offensive Question Mark After NFL Draft https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/left-tackle-tyler-guyton-drew-shelton/
Tucker Carlson said he left the GOP because of the administration’s fervent support of Israel and the trajectory of the Iran war.
But he was vague about ideas for a third party’s platform, though he said he would not be a candidate himself.
Building a third party is not a new idea
— many have attempted to do it,
and third-party candidates do successfully run on local and national ballots.
It’s important work, proponents told NOTUS,
but gaining power outs…
Starmer does the dirty on Burnham.
Commits an extra £4.7bn on weapons.
£47bn on new nuclear submarines
£13bn on a new nuclear warhead
£1.7bn on nuclear fuels.
£1bn for 12 Lockheed Martin F-35A jets capable of carrying nuclear bombs
£8.6bn on new fighter aircraft and £1.1bn to keep existing Typhoons in service until the 2040s.
£5bn more on drones.
Do you feel safer now?
Burnham left with £4.7bn bill for Starmer’s new defence investment plan
Eagles LT Jordan Mailata relieved after A.J. Brown trade: It sounds terrible, but 'thank God it's over' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-jordan-mailata-aj-brown-trade-thank-god-its-over
Shipping Firms Left Guessing by Confusion in Strait of Hormuz (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/business/trump-hormuz-shipping-companies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f1A.Hksl.j1mz9l07k22f&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p84#a260504p84
Dak Prescott has one Cowboys question still waiting for an answer https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dak-prescott-cowboys-left-tackle-concern/ea79f2f05f7564508cd1e2e6
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 402660 nodes and 69679427 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://
Sources: after Trump nixed an AI EO on May 21, US officials are navigating internal strife and chaotic talks; early model access was the most contentious issue (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-white-house-is-at-war-with-itself-over-ai-regulation/
#LeftWordle - one thing to check out on the staging version, you can do ?date=2026-07-01, for example, at the end of the url and solve tomorrow's puzzle a little earlier. https://staging.left-wordle.com?date=2
Left exact monoidal localizations from tidy maps
Mathieu Anel, Georg Biedermann, Eric Finster, Andr\'e Joyal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04263 https://a…
Blake could barely make a living illustrating other people’s work, and it left no time for his own art.
He yearned for a different technique that could achieve the same result in less time and with less toil.
No such technique existed.
So he invented it.
Rather than cut the shapes onto the plates with his sharp steel burin, he painted directly onto the copper with a quill or brush dipped in acid-resistant varnish, then bathed the plates in acid, which stripped a layer …
A Day Or Two At The Museum I🏛️
博物馆的一两天 I🏛️
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The Raiders built Maxx Crosby a real defense: Now it has to show https://raiderramble.com/2026/05/02/the-raiders-built-maxx-crosby-a-real-defense-now-it-has-to-show/
Dems went safe in swing seats -- and hard left in some blue ones (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/03/democrats-future-what-we-learned-primaries-00947987
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p6#a260603p6
49ers LT Trent Williams believes 2027 season will 'probably' be his last https://www.nfl.com/news/49ers-lt-trent-williams-believes-2027-season-will-probably-be-his-last
The neoconservatives,
who dominated the Pentagon and the White House after 9/11
believed the US could use force to remake the Middle East,
and their project left us with two enduring concepts that still shape American military power and politics today:
creative chaos and strategic deception.
These are the intellectual doctrines of neoconservatism,
an ideology that bears constant re-examination.
Legacy One: Creative chaos
The intellectual arch…
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 402660 nodes and 69679427 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://
Note: this post is aimed at sighted people.
Are eye saccades causative or merely passive exploratory in visual mental imagery? Does your mental imagery feel more vivid or vision-like if you let your eyes scan from left to right along with the sound scan in this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVugtxWmW4E
Cowboys' Left Tackle Competition Could Emerge During Offseason Program https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-left-tackle-competition-could-emerge-offseason-program
The Resistant Wall 🧱
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A novice climber was rescued
after surviving a 1,500ft fall down California’s Mount Shasta on Sunday, officials said.
The woman, 31, was attempting to ascend the mountain along the Left of Heart variation of the popular Avalanche Gulch route
alongside two other novice climbers at an elevation of about 13,000ft
when she fell.
She suffered a suspected ankle fracture and “additional injuries consistent with the significant fall,”
but she was found alert and i…
Russell Wilson joins CBS Sports' The NFL Today pregame show
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/russell-wilson-cbs-sports-nfl/
Jets QB Geno Smith Hit With Strong Statement After Raiders Exit https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jets-geno-smith-strong-statement-exit/
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
Some #LeftWordle enhancements:
these are currently in https://staging.left-wordle.com. They will make it to production hopefully by week’s end. I’ll announce here the intended cutover date / time for prod.
Everyone with a checkbook understands how to get what they want from Donald Trump
-- and that is to pay him.
When he owned a hotel in Washington, the place was constantly booked during his presidency.
As soon as he left office in 2021, the vacancy sign turned on.
Memberships in his tacky golf resorts increase, as well as the fees, while he’s president.
After he leaves office, they drop off.
Since re-entering office in January 2025, Trump has made huge bus…
Seahawks QB Sam Darnold: Not much of a 'transition' under new OC Brian Fleury https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-qb-sam-darnold-not-much-of-a-transition-under-new-oc-brian-fleury
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…
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Offseason checklist for all 32 NFL teams: What did the draft cross off and what's left to do? https://www.nfl.com/news/offseason-checklist-for-all-32-nfl-teams-what-did-the-draft-cross-off-and-what-s-left-to-do
Left-wing Democratic primary wins pose a test for a Jeffries speakership
There are warning signs for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries,
-- who already faces frustration from the Democratic base that he is not fighting back hard enough against Trump.
If Democrats win only a narrow majority in the heavily gerrymandered chamber in November,
it will give each vote outsize importance
and Jeffries critics more opportunities to influence policy.
Two of the thr…
Billionaires Tax Closer To California Ballot--Here's Who Has Already Left (Mary Whitfill Roeloffs/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/04/27/billionaires-tax-closer-to-california-ballot-heres-who-has-already-left/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p117#a260427p117
Cowboys’ Brian Schottenheimer Delivers Blunt Challenge to Struggling Starter https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brian-schottenheimer-tyler-guyton/
Cowboys 1st-Round Pick Facing ‘Do-or-Die’ Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-guyton-do-or-die-offseason/
Cowboys Named Landing Spot for Ex-Pro Bowl Left Tackle Amid Uninspiring Competition https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-landing-spot-ex-pro-bowl-left-tackle-uninspiring-competition
Cowboys Named Landing Spot for Ex-Pro Bowl Left Tackle Amid Uninspiring Competition https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-landing-spot-ex-pro-bowl-left-tackle-uninspiring-competition
Cowboys' Left Tackle Competition Isn't Much of a Battle Going Into Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-left-tackle-competition-isnt-much-of-battle-training-camp