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Roofers Repair 78-year-old Widower’s Roof for Free After Scammers Left Him with a Big Hole https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/roofers-repair-78-year-old-widowers-roof-for-free-after-scammers-left-him-with-a-big-hole/

Roofers Repair 78-year-old Widower's Roof for Free After Scammers Left Him with a Big Hole
The man said he felt "pressured" into accepting, and before he knew it, the bill rose to 8-times that amount.

Snow surveys taking place across the American west this week are offering a grim prognosis,
after a historically warm winter and searing March temperatures left the critical snowpack at record-low levels across the region.
Experts warned that even as the heat begins to subside, the stunning pace of melt-off over the past month has left key basins in uncharted territory for the dry seasons ahead.
Though there’s still potential for more snow in the forecast, experts said it wi…

Left pushes wealth tax as litmus test for 2028 Dems (Holly Otterbein/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/29/left-wing-democrats-wealth-tax-2028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260329/p56#a260329p56

The Raiders' Offseason Plan Has Left No Stone Unturned https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-offseason-plan-has-left-no-stone-unturned

In writing a piece on the Anthropic ban, which I struggled to keep to 2,000 words, I left out an analysis of how other tech companies, including Huawei and Kaspersky, have done just fine despite their US bans.
Yesterday, Kaspersky announced it hit record revenues
https…

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

People left with cancer linked to Johnson & Johnson talcum powder 'dying every three days', High Court hears | #DailyMail
https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-15778489/cancer-Johnson-Johnson-baby-talcum-powder.html
📸 2 screenshots from the longer arricle
(Via @… )

They Left for the School Bus. ICE Picked Them Up Instead. - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/NIiYL

New solar generation record again for today... 67.5 kWh produced, 158.8 consumed, 16.4 exported, for net import of 91.3 kWh.
There's one day left in the month still, but it's looking pretty good compared to March:
* 0.73 -> 1.2 MWh production
* 5.0 -> 4.5 MWh demand (maybe this is from less heating? I don't have any instrumentation on my heat pump right now so no easy way to break down heating demand, but it pulls ~5 kW when it's running)
* 10.3 -&g…

River bend (2026)
This stretch of the river Lech with its many swampy banks and bends always reminds me of North American wilderness...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Just ordered stickers to bring to AccessU.

If someone comes to me today preaching about “post-quantum” security issues, I’ll remind them of the current state of security: the npm ecosystem gets abused daily, CI pipelines run left and right with full access to cloud services, so-called security devices like F5 and Ivanti are exposed (and compromised) to the internet, mailboxes get compromised just to change an IBAN in a PDF, and a simple phone call is still enough to get someone to hand over an MFA code.
But yes, by all means, l…

Both the SF Congress race and the California gubernatorial have this weird dynamic where the viable candidate with the most-left platform is an ultra-rich person self-funding their campaign. I don't like it, but nor do I like that the alternatives — the candidates of relatively humble origins — are selling out *to* ultra-rich people. It seems like a symptom of our new gilded age.

Prospect CEO Mark Beard steps down after three years to join Ireland's Business Post as CEO; EIC Alan Rusbridger left in January, replaced by Philip Collins (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

Prospect CEO Mark Beard leaving to join Ireland's Business Post
Mark Beard is stepping down as chief executive (CEO) of current affairs magazine Prospect after three years.

I receive tons of applications that use the same CV template: Brief header with contact info and circular photo on the left hand side, brief paragraph "About me", then structured info. PDF metadata say it’s LaTeX generated, but I assume its created by a popular platform. Any idea what this is? LinkedIn?

from my link log —
Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: electrical grid operating policies left Spain at risk.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/final-analysis-of-2025-iberian-blackout-policies-left-spain-at-risk/…

Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
Too much hardware was allowed to disconnect right at the edge of normal conditions.

Waffles.

Colombia leftist faces pro-Trump rival in presidential election runoff
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w2xvwq8g9o
Could go either way.
"Paloma Valencia, the moderate conservative who finished in third place on less than 7%, has since endorsed [far right] De L…

Colombia leftist faces pro-Trump rival in presidential election runoff
Left-wing senator Iván Cepeda will face Trump admirer Abelardo de la Espriella at the final ballot on 21 June.

I hope he left his iPhone at home. Because, you know, Nazis.
#IronSky https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116331494329173157

Starting a day with severe depression is a matter of looking at a pile of problems all of which seem insuperable, picking one, breaking it into smaller problems which still seem insuperable, tackling them one by one slowly. In the sure and certain knowledge that the problem probably really was insuperable and sooner or later you will be stopped by a subtask you cannot complete... And that will have to be left as an insuperable problem for the next day. Rinse and repeat.

No Kings! this Saturday left me with the question: would the real Donald Trump have called me a "furry"?
#photo #photography #nokings

Ask Sweden to Ban Fur Farms #AnimalRights

Ask Sweden to Ban Fur Farms
Dead and dying animals are left to rot in their cages on Swedish fur farms.

For complex reasons I had to replace the window ledge in our garage; so I used some of the tiles I had left over from when I did our front step a few years ago; conveniently they just fit nicely. Worked great.

Join us TODAY for a fly book launch. “Staying with the Planet” is a sci-fi story about ecological troubles of our modern universities.
⏰ 2pm CET
📍 RUSTlab RUB, or Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/RUSTlab
👇Find more info about the event and book (open access, y’all!) on the RUSTlab website.

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/

"Plastic washing at recycling plants can spike phthalates in wastewater, study suggests"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Plastic washing at recycling plants can spike phthalates in wastewater, study suggests
Potentially harmful chemicals can contaminate untreated water used in recycling plants to clean plastics before they're processed into new products, according to a new study by an Iowa State University research group. Researchers from Iowa State's Polymer and Food Protection Consortium tested common industrial plastic-washing practices and found that some methods left the wash water with high levels of two types of phthalates—a class of widely used additives linked to cancer risks and hormone…

"I can't protect you, Lio."
Wouldn't it be interesting to know how Krennic & Partagaz knew each other?
#StarWars #Andor had so many wonderful hidden backstories left to be told. 😁
▶️ Partagaz and Krennic | Andor Season 2

Morning all! Happy May Morning. #MorrisDance #MayMorning #Folk

#LeftWordle
Would you like to track streaks and stats in Left Wordle across multiple devices?
Would you use a Passkey for this purpose? Passkeys would allow users to stay anonymous (or provide an email for recovery if desired), and they wouldn’t require sensitive info (passwords) to be stored on the server.
The option to play and store data in your browser, the way it works toda…

What Are Passkeys? What Is a Passkey? Passkey Authentication Explained
Discover passkeys: passwordless authentication using public key cryptography and biometrics. Learn how they work, their benefits, and who's adopting them.

#SilentSunday

This is what they took from us
#ThisIsWhatTheyTookFromUS

#throwbackthursday

This is the weirdest combination of thumbnails I have ever seen on Netflix 😁
#netflix

Unf*ck your feet! 👣
#photography #sandals #running

> Part of the crypto grift was telling people to "Have Fun Staying Poor". That weaponisation of FOMO was an insidious way to get people to drop their scepticism.
>
> I feel the same way about the current crop of AI tools.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok

I've just walked to B&Q for paint colour cards and it's a surprisingly scenic route.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Alt-J:
🎵 Left Hand Free
#NowPlaying #AltJ
https://open.spotify.com/track/5qJqzpNdEbt92roedFwoDR

If anyone knows of any available positions please let them know.
(They’re not proud of having worked at Google; quite the opposite, they left due to their ethical concerns about one of the worst surveillance capitalists in the world and a company, furthermore, that is complicit in genocide.)
https://

I spent an enjoyable day moseying around the Sperrins today.
On everything from empty swooping A-roads, to single-track, lunar-landscape, high-numbered B-roads which left reminders on the undertray, it was a smashing chance to be out alone* in the countryside with the roof down and a chance to clear the head.
Must do again sometime (though would really like to take Bob next time)
* occasional flocks of sheep and many tractors, not withstanding

I continue to marvel and be enraged by the audacity of this administration. Trump created the legislative standoff that left TSA agents without pay. And now he wants credit for solving it?
https://abc7.com/post/what-know-trumps-…

Speedability of computably approximable reals and their approximations
George Barmpalias, Nan Fang, Wolfgang Merkle, Ivan Titov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.26484 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.26484
arXiv:2603.26484v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: An approximation of a real is a sequence of rational numbers that converges to the real. An approximation is left-c.e. if it is computable and nondecreasing and is d.c.e. if it is computable and has bounded variation. A real is computably approximable if it has some computable approximation, and left-c.e. and d.c.e. reals are defined accordingly.
An approximation $\{a_s\}_{s \in \omega}$ is speedable if there exists a nondecreasing computable function $f$ such that the approximation $\{a_{f(s)}\}_{s \in \omega}$ converges in a certain formal sense faster than $\{a_s\}_{s \in \omega}$. This leads to various notions of speedability for reals, e.g., one may require for a computably approximable real that either all or some of its approximations of a specific type are speedable.
Merkle and Titov established the equivalence of several speedability notions for left-c.e. reals that are defined in terms of left-c.e. approximations. We extend these results to d.c.e. reals and d.c.e. approximations, and we prove that in this setting, being speedable is equivalent to not being Martin-L\"{o}f random. Finally, we demonstrate that every computably approximable real has a computable approximation that is speedable.
toXiv_bot_toot

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 poll, which included responses from nearly 4,000 college students, found that about two-thirds of all students said that their professors encouraged students to share their views “even if it makes others uncomfortable.”

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…

> “I tried every way I could think of to call for help using the options the app showed, but the phone line wouldn’t go through, and when I pressed the SOS button it told me it was unavailable. So then what exactly is the SOS for?”
[Developer voice] Actually user telemetry shows that people almost never use emergency features in the app, so we removed the functionality and left the UI as a placebo button.

Robotaxi Outage in China Leaves Passengers Stranded on Highways
A suspected system failure froze Baidu’s robotaxis across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes.

In a pair of rulings yesterday, a federal judge dealt two blows to Trump’s stewardship of the Kennedy Center, which he took over last year:
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ordered the removal within two weeks of Trump’s name from the institution,
which Congress established as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy in 1964,
and he partially granted a preliminary injunction, saying that the center had to halt plans to close.
“There is no evidence that th…

Trump Hasn’t Left Much Kennedy Center to Stay Open
It may or may not close. Trump says he’ll abandon it. And the fight isn’t over.

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/

European Left Party: A Double Boost - Europa Blog
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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…

thinking abt this carel willink. its just liminal space pics from a century ago. the emptiness of this public space left this one german guy uneasy 100 years ago. what's your favorite historical archive of this feeling

My annual update to my 2012 post, “W3C CSS Odor Module Released”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2012/04/w3c-css-odor-module-released.html#Update09
That’s it. That’s all I got new for today.

W3C CSS Odor Module Released
The web was always a visual medium, but with the addition of sound and video it has locked up two human senses. With development of specifications and techniques around vibration, the internet you “feel” is getting closer, too. That leaves only a couple senses left to cover Ever since the…

I do not use Ubuntu as a personal distro, however I have a couple of test machines with it on.
Whenever I have to use it I remember why I do not use it. Just tried to do-release-upgrade and it quickly fell apart and left me with a system that prints this when I try and run apt
apt: symbol lookup error: apt: undefined symbol: _ZN3APT6Solver14InternalCliWhyB5cxx11ER11pkgDepCacheN8pkgCache11PkgIteratorEb, version APTPKG_7.0
P.S. To be clear. I am ranting. I am not looking for …

This wasn’t a headline I expected to read, but it kinda makes sense. Connie Chan has been milquetoast in her criticism of Israel compared to Saikat. She supports the Block the Bombs Act, but conspicuously left open the option of supporting so-called “defensive” aid like Iron Dome. Makes sense AIPAC would want the general election to be her and Wiener, not Saikat and Wiener.

Super PAC Network Backing Connie Chan Received Hundreds of Thousands from AIPAC
AIPAC’s United Democracy Project, along with its offshoot DMFI, has funneled money to a network of Super PACs now backing the San Francisco supervisor.

Homicide ruling made in death of nearly blind refugee whom Border Patrol left at a doughnut shop (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-new-york-refugee-death-482894a96ba31b8945f4186f823c38d2
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p84#a260401p84

I see nothing has changed in Vienna (I left in 2012).
I'm missing Café Central in this Sachertorte review though.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/mar/29/perfect-sachertorte-cake-vienna-austria

At CPAC, FCC Chair Brendan Carr boasted "Trump is winning", citing PBS and NPR defunding and the departures of Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, Stephen Colbert, and others (Kathryn Wilkens/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-

‘Trump Is Winning’: FCC Chair Boasts He’s Remaking the Media by Pushing Out Left-Leaning ...
During a Friday CPAC appearance, FCC Chair Brendan Carr bragged that he's remaking the media by pushing out left-leaning figures, declaring, " Trump is winning."

Red River of the North at Fargo-Moorhead, (left) and Grand Forks-East Grand Forks (right). The river delineates the border between #NorthDakota and #Minnesota

"All right, the president and yourself have been, had such courage in terms of doing things that past presidents, past treasury secretaries would not do. I mean, it's countless and because, I mean, if we're continuing to spend all this money on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, we won't have any money left to spend on anything else, right?"
Bartiromo Wants To Destroy Social Security To Pay For Forever Wars | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/05/bartiromo-wants-destroy-social-security

Burgers, branding and generosity: How Fernando Mendoza left an Indiana legacy https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/burgers-branding-and-generosity-how-fernando-mendoza-left-an-indiana-legacy-3731078/…

Writing an ERWC-Style Module: Choosing Texts
I have written four ERWC modules and substantially revised several more. Most of my own modules turned out to be about full-length works, including Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, George Orwell’s 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Writing a module around a novel is an interesting, complex, and time-consuming task. I will take that up later.

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.

Avi Lewis Is the New Leader of Canada’s NDP https://jacobin.com/2026/03/avi-lewis-canada-ndp-election/

Avi Lewis Is the New Leader of Canada’s NDP
Avi Lewis will lead an NDP in dire straits — but also one with a strategic opening to the left of the Liberals, whose posture against Donald Trump has reshaped the political terrain.

Pink Flowering tree at Corner of Crescent: part of a series in my old 'Soviet Camera' style; I still can't get over how this April most of my photos have people in them and last April it was the other way around

Watched a pedestrian who had the right of way to cross at a crosswalk wave on a driver who was turning left across traffic. Driver, who had been waiting, started to go and almost flattened a bicyclist and then almost got flattened by a bus.
Pedestrian took zero notice of the chaos he created. 🤦‍♂️

I left port 22 open behind my double NAT and nothing happened :thonking:

I sure do love when a package delivery company leaves your package at the wrong (business) address on a Saturday after 5pm.

I tried to write something up to talk about an idea, but it didn't quite work. I have a lot more I need to put into it. But I want to get an idea out, and, after talking with a person who pointed out some of the flaws in what I wrote, I think I can maybe write down the kernel of the idea here.
An acquaintance of mine did a deep dive on Operational Art and wrote his thesis (which prompted an earlier set of posts and an article I wrote for my professional-ish blog) on the intersection of the OODA loop and critical philosophy. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Kilcullen's Three Pillars model (after watching Andrewism's wonderful video) and Beer's VSM. The TL;DR of it is that there's a much better insurgency model. Of course, the insurgency model also works for a bunch of other things, because cybernetics lets you do all kinds of cool abstraction like that.
So as I was reading the essay of a comrade the other day, that model popped back into my head and I'm going to try to share what I can of it.
When colonizers came to the Salish region, they saw what they believed to be an untouched wilderness. They failed to see the ways in which Salish people tended the land. Indigenous fire practices were common on the northwest coast, and the suppression of those practices remains a problem. There is an interrelationship between an environment and the systems within it. Systems, like people, animals, and cultures, adapt to the environment. In doing so, those systems will also change the environment.
Social technology was invisible, so colonizers defaulted to either some kind of Rousseauvian or Malthusian model of these people. They were not, for the colonizers, people who had developed advanced social technologies to live in harmony with their world. They were, rather, people in "a state of nature."
The European influenced left continues to draw this Rousseauvian model, which continues through a lot of Anarchist revolutionary thought. European anarchists were heavily influenced by observations and theories around the behavior of indigenous people. The remnants of this thought still exist in the idea that the system must only be destroyed for us to be free.
This is the same obliviousness to social technology, that social technology actually exists, often informs both early colonizers and modern radicals.
It is through this obliviousness that we fail to recognize how capitalism is a social technology that is managed into existence and maintained, and how changes in the environment can threaten institutions that have become over-adapted to a specific version of that environment.
We can extend Kilcullen's metaphor of a "conflict ecosystem" through cybernetics into a much more rich model, populated by viable systems. The ecosystem itself has a fitness function, which drives adaptation within the environment. But all actors in the environment also affect it. Some try to manage the environment. Revolutions are often over who manages a social ecosystem, over who controls the social technology and what it does.
Once we see this dynamic at play, calls of "riot" and "revolution" make a whole lot less sense. Rather, the question becomes, "how do we change the ecosystem in such a way that it cannot be 'managed' at all?"
Graeber/Wengrow talked about Turtle Island indigenous social technologies in Dawn of Everything, such as the system of moieties and clans described in the book. So I have a good reading list as I think through this model, but I hope the "ecosystem" model is helpful (if not completely fleshed out).
I'd be interested in any critiques or thoughts to help develop this idea more.

Even without the computer, I thought about what I could make that computer do when I got back, scribbling out BASIC programs in the back seat with pencil on paper.
I was entranced by the empowering possibilities of that early "bicycle for the mind"—a feeling that has never left me.
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#tombTuesday #MementoMori

Inglewood is remaking itself in real time.
Over the past years, billions of dollars have flowed into the stadiums, infrastructure, and entertainment development
as the city of nearly 103,000 markets itself as Los Angeles’s sports hub.
Major streets are freshly paved and lined with new digital billboards that remind Arnold of the contours of the World Cup trophy.
“This is the city of the future,” says Arnold, pointing to a bulldozer leveling dirt on a lot across from …

🇺🇦 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

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

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

Not sure how I missed this crazy story...
Exclusive: Anthropic left details of an unreleased model, invite-only CEO retreat, sitting in an unsecured data trove in a significant security lapse
https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/anthrop

Exclusive: Anthropic left details of an unreleased model, invite-only CEO retreat, sitting in an unsecured data trove in a significant security lapse
Anthropic stored information about an upcoming model, draft blog posts, and other private information in an unsecured, publicly-searchable data lake

So many things left to discover.
So few lives left.
💙💙🤍🤍🤍

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/

European Left Party: A Double Boost - Europa Blog
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Hoher Ifen (2023)
One of the most unique and geologically interesting and layered mountains in the Northern Alps, including the extremely karst Gottesacker (aka God's Acre, aka Cemetery) plateau with deep caves... one of the areas I'm hoping to explore further this year...
#MountainMonday

#shitPost #shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Lions GM Brad Holmes open to moving star RT Penei Sewell to LT: 'You always have that flexibility' https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-gm-brad-holmes-open-moving-penei-sewell-left-ackle-you-always-have-that-flexibility

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

Would you have have guessed that Diarmaid MacCulloch would be speaking to a capacity audience in #StPaulCathedral yesterday on #WilliamTyndale? Celebrating 500 years since #Tyndale's tra…

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

The most important, efficacious, & sizeable faction on the left is plain old "normie Dems", or whatever condescending term you prefer.
They're the ones doing the actual work.
But they are largely ignored by media, because they're organized & led by women.
https://skywriter.blue/@vol…

“To waste what little bandwidth we have left – when 750 million people worldwide lack access to electricity – assisting some of the richest men ever to hone their plagiarism bots would be a historic idiocy that future generations are unlikely to forgive today’s leaders for.”
#StochasticParrots
#LLMs

don’t get left behind

Cosplay Runway: Spaceman, Chicken and Videographer with exoframe that supports his camera
#photo #photography #cosplay

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…

European Left: “We must Europeanise our successes” - Europa Blog
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DHS confirms that Lewandowski left the department along with Noem (Eric Bazail-Eimil/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/27/dhs-lewandowski-left-with-noem-00849313
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p131#a260327p131

WATCH: Trump's Own Words Prove HE Is the Source of Most Violent Rhetoric, Not the Left
https://zeteo.com/p/watch-trumps-own-words-prove-he-is

Got a diagonal panorama of this redwood tree growing sideways in Reinhardt Redwood Park, Oakland, CA. Turn your phone about 30 degrees left to experience it properly.

Raiders Get Big Maxx Crosby Prediction After Keyron Crawford Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-prediction-keyron-crawford/

It’s coming. One week. 6 May.
I contributed a chapter on accessibility overlays, but the other 33 make it worth it.
“Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech”
https://AccessibilityEthics.org/

House and Senate Republicans have identified the enemy
— and it is one another.
A meltdown in relations between the two G.O.P.-led chambers caused the embarrassing collapse on Friday of a Senate-passed proposal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security before lawmakers raced out of town on a two-week recess.
It left no clear path for resolving the crisis that has led to airport chaos and workers without paychecks.
And with President Trump seemingly cheering on the…

G.O.P. Rift Leaves Congress With No Clear Path to End the Shutdown
The deadlock that left the Department of Homeland Security shuttered highlighted Republican divisions that are flaring ahead of the midterm elections.

Predicting the Dallas Cowboys' 2026-27 Season: What Are Their Chances of Success? https://insidethestar.com/predicting-the-dallas-cowboys-2026-27-season-what-are-their-chances-of-success

#ThickTrunkTuesday: Reinhardt Redwood Park, Oakland, CA

The Blood on Their Hands: How the Left's Rhetoric Murdered Charlie Kirk and Keeps Targeting Trump (Greg Young/American Greatness)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/29/the-blood-on-their-hands-how-the-lefts-rhetoric-murdered-charlie-kirk-and-keeps-targeting-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p46#a260429p46

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…

Barney Frank, entering hospice care, embarks on a final act: Taking on the left (Jasper Goodman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/barney-frank-hospice-democrats-00897112
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p123#a260428p123

“you aren't talented enough to be relevant with the truth” is brutal
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AOC destroys Ana Kasparian. So great to see it.