2026-04-25 05:45:59
Politicians say left-wing professors push their views. New poll shows students don’t see it that way - The Hechinger Report https://hechingerreport.org/politicians-left-wing-professors-students-poll/
Politicians say left-wing professors push their views. New poll shows students don’t see it that way - The Hechinger Report https://hechingerreport.org/politicians-left-wing-professors-students-poll/
The idea of Vote Left, Transfer Left was pretty strongly adhered to in Dublin Central as the count went on.
What happened was that the voters didn’t consider SF to be left.
The SF candidate’s big transfer moments came from Steenson and Hutch.
Dallas Cowboys' Slick NFL Draft Trade Left Steelers Embarrassed https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-slick-nfl-draft-trade-left-pittsburgh-steelers-embarrassed
Key financing measure for Brooklyn waterfront overhaul left out of state budget (Janaki Chadha/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/23/key-financing-measure-for-brooklyn-waterfront-overhaul-left-out-of-state-budget-00934745
http://www.memeorandum.com/260523/p22#a260523p22
Hawaii is coming to grips with the extensive damage left by the worst flooding the islands have seen in more than 20 years.
Over the weekend, heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago,
forcing thousands on the North Shore of Oahu to evacuate before more evacuations for parts of the island of Maui.
The rains lifted houses and cars, inundated farms, swept through grocery stores and left a thick layer of mud in streets, homes and ga…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Azure Amber:
🎵 Left for Dead
#AzureAmber
https://azureamber.bandcamp.com/track/left-for-dead
https://open.spotify.com/track/3vpf50ofm2eT2tV6Z9fSkR
European Left Party: A Double Boost. The European Left Party’s practical value is measured by whether the decisions taken in Brussels lead to concrete action. By Uwe Sattler.
https://europa.blog/en/european-left-party-a-double-boost/
10 draftable prospects left on Day 3 from Cowboys 30, local visits https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/25/10-draftable-prospects-left-on-day-3-from-cowboys-30-local-vis…
“We need a strong centrist party!”
So a party that’s politically to the left of both Republicans and Democrats?
OpenAI hires Arvind KC as chief people officer, replacing Julia Villagra who left in August 2025; KC has held senior roles at Roblox, Google, Palantir, and Meta (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
"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
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 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Yesterday was February 24th and I thought "Maybe I should record an album for the RPM Challenge" so I might be doing that? I mean, I still have a few days left...
Dear Zoom,
In what world would you think I would want an “AI Companion” panel *taking up almost half the application screen*? And that apparently *I cannot turn off* in the application settings itself… and instead have to login to the Zoom website to go into the settings *there* to turn off this panel?
This is the kind of behavior toward users that is turning people off to all things related to #AI
I just got so mad at something Past Me left for Future Me to deal with that I had to sit there for a few minutes and *stew*. Like, wtf dude - you (I) know better!
Kellenspitze (2025)
(latest 8x6" Kallitype print from last night)
This mountain is the tallest peak in the Tannheimer Alps, here seen from a narrow ridge path in the north east. It was a fabulous warm day with so many mountain flowers in full bloom and clouds forming/drifting between the passes and nearby peaks, later developing into a heavy thunderstorm (thankfully only when I was already descending again...)
The BBC names ex-Google executive Matt Brittin as its next director general, replacing Tim Davie, as the BBC negotiates its funding; Brittin left Google in 2025 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar
A split between near Nazis and plain fascists is welcome, so long as it prevents a far right victory.
And it's usually the left that is faction-ridden.
Elon Musk retweet signals rightwing split that could help Andy Burnham in Makerfield | Byelections | The Guardian
https://www…
Repeatedly sprayed the dog.
San Diego parents seek $800K from USPS over pepper spray exposure they say left children with asthma | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/san-diego-parents-seek-800k-from-usps-over-pepper-spray-exposure-they-say-left-children-with-asthma/
Why so serious?
These classical guys are so, so serious. The dude at the far left almost (ALMOST!) cracks a smile here and there, but the rest of them? Nah.
This is to be played with a smile or four. Sigh.
#music #PinkPanther
@… Of course they mean like, 1 inch left of the Republicans.
Racist, fascist, capitalist assholes.
But like, you don’t say it out loud.
Record all mastered! On to licensing covers, getting ISRCs, finishing artwork and liner notes, credits, making sure nobody's left off the acknowledgements. Did all the recording and mixing in-house, but still lots of other expenses, so doing a kickstarter to recover what we can. Final decision is to call it "Dulcetta." Sweet little coda. Been a long journey w the #leukemia inter…
Pair dressed for much worse weather than we got last Saturday at the Fairy Fest
#photo #photography #fairyfestival
I've long wanted to write something about the Nazi musician Tom MacDonald, whose recent song “Pray for the Left” was so outlandish that people enjoyed it for thinking it was a parody of itself. In that idea, I began rewriting the lyrics of that song, thinking I might some day make a cover but from the perspective of the left, that's what this post is about, tell me what you think:
Don't Pray For The Left Lyrics
[Verse 1]
We always said that Ch…
Just pulled the @… card on #WikiGacha 🤣 #noxp
RE: #degrowth makes it into a leading UK left-wing magazine. Expect more.
Also a nice feature on pion…
Now, what? Can’t I sleep in the sunbeam in peace?
#Mastodog #DogsOfMastodon
European Left Party: A Double Boost. The European Left Party’s practical value is measured by whether the decisions taken in Brussels lead to concrete action. By Uwe Sattler.
https://europa.blog/en/european-left-party-a-double-boost/
It's that time of year again as I start getting everything ready for the Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition. Upgraded the switch in the VoIP (Cisco SG300 24-port PoE -> Cisco C1000-48P-4G-L 48-port PoE), got everything configured which took far, far too long, then started verifying that all of the phones would boot and call each other. I still have a ton of phones to go and label, but the hard part is done. The annoying part is the only part left...lol
Woodborough Hall (Gedling, Nottinghamshire), August 2025
#photography #documenaryphotography #documentingplace #documentingspace
The Story of the Two Towers III 📖
双塔故事 III 📖
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Harman RED (6x7)
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This Old Geezer was found shouting at the Clouds last month, a certain patch was suddenly left out of Bakkeby's Flexipatch? One that I absolutely need?
Found out today that I called it switchtotag (which isn't to be found anywhere), whereas the actual name is switchtag (which is included).
Larry knows where I'm heading tomorrow 🐮 !
#gentoo
Where Left and Right Both Go Wrong on Crime (Keith Humphreys/Washington Monthly)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/23/where-left-and-right-both-go-wrong-on-criminal-justice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p13#a260323p13
Just finished "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" by Becky Chambers. Overall it's good but I also have some Thoughts.
First, it was very pleasant to finally read some non-trite utopian solarpunk after having read stuff like Octavia Butler recently. Both hope and despair can be poisonous on their own IMO, so getting some balance in is nice. It's definitely a very valuable thing to be able to lay out an actually desirable and in many ways imaginable future given our grim present. Chambers is no LeGuin though. I'll probably be reading more of her work and maybe she fleshes out these ideas elsewhere, but at least in this book there is no focus on either how the transition to a better society could happen nor on how the better society holds up in the face of adverse events and inclinations. Compare LeGuin's "The Dispossessed" or N. K. Jemisin's short story "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" and it feels like there's something important missing from Chambers' portrait of a future society. Of course, maybe the point is to make a cozy book, in which case fine, there's certainly a place for such things, and I can look for deeper inspiration elsewhere.
The second big thought I had was that Chambers' worldview seems not well-informed by certain indigenous perspectives, and this creates some contradictions. For example, (minor spoilers) when Dex enters the wilderness there's a whole bit about understanding humankind's place in nature and how human settlements are what we're used to but they're only a brief interruption of the vast untouched wilderness. Along the same lines, much of the world is intentionally left untouched by humans as a way to keep it pristine and natural. Later however, a character makes the point that humans *are* animals. The indigenous perspective that I appreciate would agree with that, and would further question the value in distinguishing between human influence on ecosystems and influences that others have. More sharply, one might observe that there's a bigger difference between how different kinds of humans relate to and influence their environments than between how less-disruptive humans and various animals do the same: the strip-mine-operator vs. migrant tribesperson impact difference is probably much greater than the migrant tribesperson vs. beaver gap, for example. Rather than talking about limiting human disruption, then, as if all human-environment interactions are disruptive and must be minimized, we could/should be talking about how to create human societies that have beneficial relationships with their environments and acknowledging that we actually have many positive examples of that, both historical and contemporary. Chambers' utopia is a "humans dominate nature but restrain themselves so that their disruptions are minimal and thus nature can thrive" vision, but what I'd even more like to see would be a "humans study old ways and make new ones so that they can interact positively with ecosystems again" vision, including some of "here are the places that sometimes breaks down but also the patterns and institutions that ensure repair of those breakdowns and thus long-term sustainability."
Final big thought: Chambers' utopia is too homogenous for my tastes. Of course it's hard enough and valuable work dreaming up and sharing any utopia and Chambers' transcends triteness in a number of ways, so this criticism is a bit rude. But the single shared religion, lack of mention of conflicts around shared decisions, especially historical society-defining ones, and nagging questions like "what about the people indigenous to the now-uninhabited lands?" and "what about the indigenous peoples who weren't part of the factory-building societies?" leave me wishing for more nuance in this direction.
All in all: a good book, and I'm criticizing out of a place of appreciation, not scorn. I've got there sequel out from the library as well and will probably detour to a few other books but get to it pretty soon.
Sadly I don't remember who, but I got this one because of a recommendation on here, so thanks if you're someone who recommended it!
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
"Denman Rooke has been selected as the People Before Profit candidate to contest the by-election in Galway West.
He is a long-time activist campaigning on issues of worker’s rights, trade unions, anti-racism, climate action, cost of living, and housing."
https://www.
Three gates on hinges and stock proof. One wooden gate loaded up to be relocated. This feels like a useful afternoon's work.
#Crofting
#TheJoyOfCrofting
Lynch believes 49ers, Williams 'on the same page' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48026679/john-lynch-believes-49ers-trent-williams-all-same-page-optimistic-deal
Europe's dependence on US companies in tech and finance is in no small part its own fault after overregulation left European businesses too weak to compete (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/04/2
Paris has just elected another bike-friendly mayor!
After Anne Hidalgo transformed the city, her PS-colleague Emmanuel Grégoire takes over, beating former right-wing minister Rachida Dati by a large margin.
https://f24.my/BojB
How to make me hate your website?
Move the page scroll bar slightly to the left, as that breaks "move mouse cursor to the right of the screen blindly, hit button, move mouse downwards".
Looking at you, #gitlab[1] (where I need the scroll bar often, as the pages for issues are really long, so using the scroll wheel is not really a option.
[1] see for example
Todd Blanche wants to be attorney general
– and he’s going all in on Trump’s retaliation agenda to prove it
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/25/todd-blanche-attorney-general?CMP=Share_iOSApp_…
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 used the recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction (using cooked.wiki) and they turned out great!
Nice crispy tops, though I had about half of the brown sugar/cinnamon mix left, as it seemed like way too much.
I didn't have sour cream or plain yogurt but I did have blueberry yogurt, so that seemed appropriate. I used oat milk because that's all we have in the house.
I normally do not use liners but I did this time.
woah. he's back.
I left YouTube two years ago. Time to come back. by Tom Scott
#youtube
Some interesting data on lab power consumption / energy efficiency: shut down the microscope bench workstation yesterday evening while troubleshooting some stuff and left it down overnight.
This is a Xeon 8362, 128GB of RAM, and a (small) nvidia card, for reference.
Looks like it was idling around ~100W, or ~2.5% of my total consumption. Not nothing, but also not huge compared to e.g. the T&M equipment or some of the bigger iron.
But good to have some actual measured da…
NFL Draft 2026 best available players for Las Vegas Raiders: Elijah Sarratt, Malik Muhammad https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7224081/2026/04/25/raiders-2026-nfl-draft-best-available-players/
European Left: “We must Europeanise our successes.” Walter Baier, President of the Party of the European Left, on the opportunities and challenges facing progressive politics in Europe. By Uwe Sattler.
https://europa.blog/en/european-left-we-must-europeanise-our-succe…
Tomorrow we're discussing policing in my "History of Here" course. We'll start in the 19th and continue through the turn of the 21st century. A key event: the killing of Michael Wade Lawson, a Black 17 year-old from #Mississauga, #Ontario, shot in the back by Peel Regional Police. Four years lat…
Alright, attempt #3 at watching Sinners.
The first time I got about a minute in before my kid fell asleep. I figured it would take her much longer, so I shut the movie & left.
The second time, kids were asleep and I was waiting for my wife to get home. I figured she'd be at least 45 mins, but I got 5 mins into it & she opened up the door.
This time, I'm sick, kids are asleep, & I have literally no other responsibilities other than staying awake until pro…
🇺🇦 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
Launched 48 years ago, NASA’s space probes #Voyager 1 and 2 are still exploring – and have long left the #SolarSystem. Learn more on Astronomy Day, March 28th, 7 PM, in public talk by #mpsgoettingen
In the last 4 hours I managed get both the founder/owner and the CEO of my ISP to curse in all caps in a chat with me (not at me, though!)
Still a few hours left til midnight. 😏
If the far right defines what tolerance is, I'm happy being the “intolerant” left.
UPS driver left my new phone…
…on top of my trash can.
wtf
Donald Trump says he told top U.S. envoys not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran,
telling Fox News that ″they can call us anytime they want.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Pakistan on Saturday evening, two Pakistani officials told The Associated Press.
Trump said Thursday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah by three weeks after talks at the White House.
The meeting was the second high-lev…
Tua Tagovailoa on Falcons QB battle with Michael Penix: 'I am no stranger to competition' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7143533/2026/03/24/tua-tagovailoa-falcons-michael-penix-qb-competition/
Kash Patel's Olympics Schedule Left Plenty of Time for Leisure (Glenn Thrush/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/us/politics/kash-patel-fbi-olympics-milan.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p140#a260224p140
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 67963 nodes and 3710420 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://…
Urban Demons VI 👻
城市鬼魂 VI 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
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This 4/20, Remember The Cannabis Prisoners Legalization Left Behind | High Times
https://hightimes.com/activism/this-4-20-remember-the-cannabis-prisoners-legalization-left-behind/
Mike Reid, who served as chief science officer for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, has quit the position because the State Department is considering withholding assistance from people with HIV in Zambia to push the country into signing a favorable critical-minerals deal with the U.S. (hand to ear as if getting an update) I’m now hearing: the United States is the bad guys.
Why Ravens Reportedly Pulled out of Maxx Crosby Trade with Raiders https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/why-ravens-reportedly-pulled-out-maxx-crosby-trade-raiders
If you haven't voted yet and you live in Galway City or Connemara (Galway West constituency), you still have a little over an hour to get your vote in!
Talk to your friends and family and make sure you all get your vote in. Every vote matters.
Vote Left Transfer Left.
"Grégoire, who ran in Paris for a united grouping of Socialists, Greens and other parties on the centre left"
Interesting, and probably accurate characterisation of the PCF!
‘Absolute moral rigour’: new Paris mayor Emmanuel Grégoire’s ideals face stern test | Paris | The Guardian
https://www.
Kyle Shanahan on Trent Williams' contract standoff: 'We love Trent too much and eventually that will work out' https://www.nfl.com/news/kyle-shanahan-on-trent-williams-contract-standoff-we-love-trent-to…
Sources: DeepSeek is fundraising to keep its researchers, some of whom have left for rivals whose valuations have soared; it is targeting a $20B valuation (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f7c65d8e-aed1-4767-9ea3-9715cb8a24e0
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 10336 nodes and 353160 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://
City Silhouettes V 🏙️
城市轮廓线 V 🏙️
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400 (6x7)
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Micah Parsons had one thing to say after Cowboys draft Caleb Downs https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/micah-parsons-had-one-thing-say-after-cowboys-draft-caleb-downs/574164bc97ce0…
Dead Cadillac Lyriq EV Leaves Baby Locked In Car
Luckily the baby was retrieved from the SUV unharmed,
but the owners were left with a $1,000 bill for a key fob replacement after using the emergency access.
https://www.jalopnik.com/2126583/dead-cadilla…
Hollywood Brown has 'a lot left to prove' in Philly, looks forward to playing with Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown https://www.nfl.com/news/hollywood-brown-a-lot-left-to-prove-eagles-jalen-hurts-aj-brown
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…
The Senate will go on recess without voting on a reconciliation bill tied to the Department of Justice's $1.8 billion weaponization fund, according to reports on Thursday.
PunchBowl News reported that Sen. John Thune (R-ND) told senators the bill would be left unfinished while the lawmakers returned home for the Memorial Day holiday.
"House is expected to follow suit soon," Sherman wrote in a post on X.
9 best remaining players at Cowboys' positions of need on Day 3 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/25/9-best-remaining-players-at-cowboys-positions-of-need-on-day-3/8…
'It has undermined whatever credibility the DNC had left': Dems fret over chair after autopsy (Lisa Kashinsky/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/23/dems-fret-over-chair-after-autopsy-00934813
http://www.memeorandum.com/260523/p17#a260523p17
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/
Report: Steelers furious with Cowboys over trade to let Eagles snatch WR Makai Lemon https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/24/cowboys-steelers-reportedly-furi…
The Economist:
It is just possible that the president has given up hope that Republicans will retain their paper-thin majority in the House.
Recognising he has little time left,
he may well be playing for glory,
and his own pleasure
https://bsky.app/profile/economist.com
Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
More Moms Deported:
An exclusive data analysis found Trump has deported moms of U.S. citizens at four times the rate of his predecessor.
Left Stranded:
Because American-born kids can’t legally join their parents in immigration detention, some end up with friends or strangers when their parents are detained or deported.
New Directive:
Trump administration officials revised a document advi…
The S.P.L.C. defines a hate group as an organization that
“has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics,” according to its website.
The indictment appears to fit within the Trump administration’s pattern of using the Justice Department to punish its political adversaries.
The S.P.L.C. has certainly been adversarial toward the president:
In an article last year, Margaret Huang, who was then the…
Donald Trump signaled he is open to a $5 billion funding cut for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
-- if the Senate passes the SAVE America Act, along with other amendments.
“I don’t think we should make any deal with the Crazy, Country Destroying, Radical Left Democrats unless, and until, they Vote with Republicans to pass ‘THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,'”
Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday night.
“It is far more important than anything else we are doing in the …