2026-03-27 09:42:03
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/…
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/…
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-
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
Gorton and Denton - a rough vote analysis.
Green vote gain (10,200) was 2,000 short of Lib/Left reductions
Reform vote gain (5400) 3250 more than Tory reduction.
Suggests broadly that Greens got the Lib/Left votes and Reform the Tory ones, but some Labour went to Reform.
However the stay at homes likely to have been different population each time, with Greens mobilising former abstentions and Labour having more abstensions this time.
Very similar turnout 2024 and 2…
> 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
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
Tennessee death row prisoner
Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday
after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein
in a botched execution attempt that left Carruthers suffering and in pain for over an hour.
Nashville reporter Steven Hale attended the execution and describes his and fellow witnesses’ confusion as they heard the sounds of what Carruthers’s attorneys are calling “torture.”
Per Tennessee’s lethal i…
So many things left to discover.
So few lives left.
💙💙🤍🤍🤍
Cosplay Runway: Spaceman, Chicken and Videographer with exoframe that supports his camera
#photo #photography #cosplay
❝Here’s a thought experiment: what happens if you just... put a computer on the internet and wait?❞ https://arman-bd.hashnode.dev/i-left-port-22-open-on-the-internet-for-54-days-here-s-who-showed-up
Coming to Knowledge:ORIGINALS on Thursday April 16 at 9PM and available for streaming on that date.
E.J.Hughes only wanted to be left alone to paint. He made hundreds of paintings in his 70 year career and lived long enough to hear on the telephone that one of his paintings fetched over $1m in his lifetime. Not many humans have that experience!
I was lucky enough to be invited to a preview at Emily Carr Uni - and I am very glad we went. Hughes was one of a kind!
I left port 22 open behind my double NAT and nothing happened :thonking:
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
Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-cofounder-ross-nordeen-lea…
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
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 draft left no doubt: GM John Spytek's stamp is on this Raiders roster https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7233266/2026/04/27/raiders-gm-john-spytek-roster-rebuild/
If you are new to organised left-wing politics, pick a flavour of revolutionary socialism.
This is my fave, it may not be yours but it's a great place to start learning what *you* believe or don't believe in.
https://marxist.com/manifesto-of-the-r
36.3 kWh solar output yesterday, another new record. Breaking records left and right as the weather gets nicer and the days longer.
Nowhere near enough to offset my 167 kWh daily consumption, of course, but I still managed to export 0.6 kWh of overproduction at peak.
“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
EyeBrain: Left and Right Brain Lateralization Activity Classification Through Pupil Diameter and Fixation Duration
Ko Watanabe, Pooja Pol, Nicolas Gro{\ss}mann, Shoya Ishimaru, Andreas Dengel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23562 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.23562 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.23562
arXiv:2604.23562v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The relationship between brain lateralization and cognitive functions is well-documented. The left hemisphere primarily handles tasks such as language and arithmetic, while the right hemisphere is involved in creative activities like drawing and music perception. Eye-tracking technology has shown the potential to reveal cognitive states by measuring ocular metrics such as pupil diameter and fixation duration. However, the ability to distinguish lateralized brain activity using these ocular metrics remains underexplored. Here, we demonstrate that pupil diameter and fixation duration can effectively classify left and right brain hemisphere activities. We obtained a considerably high classification performance, with an F1 score of 0.894. The results suggest that ocular metrics are robust indicators of lateralized brain activity and can be applied in cognitive monitoring and neurorehabilitation. Our future work expands on this by integrating these methods into real-time applications EyeBrain, potentially broadening their use across various cognitive and neurological domains.
toXiv_bot_toot
DHS: More Than 1,000 TSA Officers Have Left Since Shutdown | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/tsa-shutdown-officer-exits/2026/04/27/id/1254400/
Aphrodite keeps her backside nice and callipygous while threatening her son Eros with her chancla...
A beautiful #BumDayMonday to y'all.
#GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite
The planets #Jupiter (left) and #Venus and the #Gemini stars Pollux and Castor above them this evening - with the Sun 10° below and 10° above the horizon - from Bochum, Germany: exactly two weeks before the planets are closest to each other. (In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_w5MOP0yxo a one-hour documentary about this conjunction, from Austria.)
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
nobody:
absolutely no one:
me: "oh yeah, mommy's going to be mad that I left a bike shifter in bed"
14yo: 👀
Wäre ich 20 Jahre gesünder, wären deren Partys sicher reizvoll für mich.
https://sachsentrance.com/
Ich bin über das Interview …
I’ve ordered a refurbed pixel 8a as a stopgap, and will just miss things when I’ve left it somewhere around the house I guess! Hopefully some better options will show up at some point.
Mind you I had the iPhone mini for years and useful notifications on that are not allowed, presumably because they ruin the aesthetic. That never stopped being annoying.
Giant armadillo, mastodon, sloth fossils found in flooded Texas cave #fossils
Die Klimaforscherin Kate Marvel hat ihren Posten bei der US-Raumfahrtbehörde #NASA aufgegeben und begründet dies mit politischen Eingriffen in die #Klimaforschung.
Seit dem Amtsantritt von Präsident #Trump
Next week, the grad students and I will be discussing Don Wright's biography of my forebear at the University of Toronto and English Canada's national historian, Donald Creighton. It's an expertly crafted book that, while sympathetic to the famously cantankerous Creighton, doesn't pull its punches. It tells us much about how the academic discipline of history developed alongside a certain strain of conservative nationalism through the middle decades of 20th-century Canada.
For #footpathfriday I'm sharing this one again. It's really one of our most liked trails.
Even though it doesn't gain a lot of elevation, the path along the shore of the lake is all I like:
narrow, pretty nature like, absolutely great views, bends along the shores so that you don't see too far, and mountains all around ... what else would you need 🙂
Late in 2024, Elon Musk endorsed Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland. We document that after this, Tesla sales rose by up to 30 percent in right-leaning districts relative to left-leaning ones [..] Divestment in second-hand markets shows no partisan differences, consistent with resale requiring a larger identity cost from Tesla’s image shock than non-purchase. Our lower bound-estimate for the overall loss in Tesla sales is [..] worth at least €241 million."
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.
The split between the left-Hegelians and the right-Hegelians was eventually resolved at six-month-long seminar called The Battle of Stalingrad.
— Richard Rorty supposedly said something like this at a point in time that nobody remembers
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/
Mannnnnn I wanna drawwwww so fuckin baaaad but there's no heckin timeeeeeee (and when there's time I have no strength left :neofox_woozy:)
After more than a year on @… I haven't received any reminder to renew my financial contribution. Is this normal? Is renewal simply left to members' own initiative?
My question on #Loomio :
The font and colors are subject to change, (though I'm kind of digging the dark blue), but the next portion of the Warlock project is coming together! This will serve as the public documentation and information site for the project, for folks not wanting to solely use Github. Still a lot of work to do, but making good progress on it.
OH, and the screenshot is being generated by the following "code"
::: section .showcase
::: .blocks-2
::: .block
# Warlock Ne…
Urban Illusions and Fallacies II 🏙️
城市的幻影和谬误 II 🏙️
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200 (6x7)
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Looks like (unsurprisingly) I have to look to Poland for inspiration, once again. Some loonies there have managed to supercharge and twin-turbocharge the BMW M73 V12. The scarcity of the M73B54 and difficulty cracking the ECUs has left a lot of untapped potential in these engines for 30 years. https://engineswapdepot.com/?p=108361&
“The would-be Trump assassin this time was active on Bluesky, which is an incubator for left-wing insanity.” A real comment, from a real national radio host.
Less than a week left to submit a talk to #id24: https://inclusivedesign24.org/2026/
The call for presentations closes on 31 May 2026.
The event is 24 September 2026, which is far enough away to block out y…
If you haven't heard @… speak yet, check out his recent talk at @…. After a nice history of devices created to be assistive tech, he argues against designing for a mythical "average" person or even a set of sample disabled individuals—ins…
Top climate scientist leaves NASA, because telling the truth there has become difficult. Sad.
Looking forward to hear from you in a new position, Kate!
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/climate/kate-marvel-nasa-resign.html
Three U.S. senators have called for an overhaul of federal agents’ use of
tear gas and pepper spray,
citing a ProPublica investigation that found at least 79 children were left screaming, coughing or hurt by these chemicals during Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Lawmakers said the findings showed more restrictions are needed to avoid injuring bystanders
— including children
— with chemical munitions.
Such weapons were designed to combat rioters and …
🇺🇦 #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
from my link log —
Removing the AUICGP instruction from CHERIoT RISC V.
https://cheriot.org/isa/toolchain/2026/03/23/removing-auicgp.html
saved 2026-04-25
I’m mean come on now, everyone knows ballrooms prevent assassinations. It’s not law enforcement, it’s not a protective details, it’s certainly not policies and laws that rule a country effectively and remove all motive for assassination: it’s ballrooms.
If you just ignore the huge number of assassinated political figures through history that _had_ ballrooms, then like no one left who got assassinated ever had a ballroom.
🔫❌🪩🕺🏻
That’s just common sense. 😳 /s
As a Trot, you never know who distrusts you more: anarchists or other Trots who are now in a different splinter from the same tendency you both used to be in.
But I celebrate this. Where would the left be if we weren't so busy fighting each other?
I can hear the billionaires chuckling far away.
#FotoVorschlag: Natur in der Stadt
Photo Suggestion: Nature in the city
Cow parsnip, a large native herb in the carrot family, growing along a trail in Mount Sutro Open Space, San Francisco.
President Trump lashed out at Norah O'Donnell in a 60 Minutes interview after she read a portion of a manifesto left by the WHCD shooting suspect (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/trump-white-house-correspondents-dinn…
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…
'Dirty Tricks' Operation Behind GOP-Aligned Super PAC With a Progressive-Sounding Name Exposed | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lead-left-super-pac
Checked in on the solar stats after a week of nice weather when I wasn't home.
Total 1.1 MWH production YTD.
146 kWh in January but this is lower than the normal number since the array was down for a week or two between commissioning and final inspection.
393 kWh in February, the first full month of operation.
574 kWh in March to date and there's still a few days left, good chance I'll hit 600.
Best day so far was last Sunday the 22nd with 34.9 kWh o…
“We need a strong centrist party!”
So a party that’s politically to the left of both Republicans and Democrats?
Waffles picked up his first Rally Novice qualifying score this morning!
#dogs #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/
Jayden Daniels: Last season left 'bitter taste' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48893736/commanders-hope-new-offensive-system-help-jayden-daniels
Three doctors gathered and told the couple that the longer Waldorf’s cervix remained open and her uterus exposed to bacteria,
the higher her risk of developing a life-threatening infection.
The standard of care, they explained, would be to quickly empty her womb.
But they couldn’t do that, one doctor said apologetically, sighing deeply.
The baby still had a detectable heartbeat, and stopping it would run afoul of a state abortion ban that snapped into place after the…
Police Used Flock to Give a Man a Traffic Ticket #privacy
Harman Switch Azure First Impression 🥰
哈曼Switch Azure第一印象 🥰
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Harman Switch Azure
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Trump’s likely casus belli for an attack on Iran
– which would be the largest US intervention since the Iraq war
– is fraught with contradictions,
and his top advisers have been left to cover for him as the White House makes the case for intervention.
In his State of the Union address this week, Trump alleged that Iran posed a direct threat to the US
and that the country was “working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America”.
But…
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…
Raiders GM John Spytek on nixed Maxx Crosby deal: 'We welcome him like he never left' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7150361/2026/03/26/maxx-crosby-raiders-gm-john-spytek/
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…
Finally another fun #sunset from Bochum, Germany, today: with the sunspot groups (1)4446 in the upper left, 4444 and 4447 below and 4443 just above the trees - see https://spaceweather.com/images2026/25may26/hmi1898.gif for orientation - easily visible. Bridgecam near max. optical digital zoom.
I was told today that "capitalism" or, more accurately, German "Kapitalismus" is a leftist "Kampfbegriff", essentially an idiological term to influence public opinion, as I understand it.
I have never even thought about capitalism as something other than a normal word meaning a specific thing. Of course, people have different attitudes towards capitalism itself. Left-leaning people would regard it as negative.
German Mastodonians, am I completely off…
Raiders GM John Spytek on nixed Maxx Crosby deal: 'We welcome him like he never left' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7150361/2026/03/26/maxx-crosby-raiders-gm-john-spytek/
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
Harvard № 13 Chandler Piggé and Cornell № 23 DJ Nix scrambled for the ball with Harvard № 12 Dutch Dowdell (6'6" !) following close behind
#photo #photography #sports
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
Mundane Things VII🌀
普通物件 VII 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
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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…
Tyreek Hill is the WR1 the Raiders need following the NFL draft https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/04/26/free-agent-wr-tyreek-hill-raiders-need-following-2026-nfl-draft/898…
#GiftLink
Opinion | Yale report shows academia moderating. Democrats stay left. - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/4u7EfzN
Two attempts to simply extrapolate the brightness of #Kreutz comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) from what happened in the past few weeks, from all visual observations reported to COBS (left) and from all CCD observations of the past month which would have the brightness climb a bit faster. But as the previous post in the thread has shown even in the geometrically preferred southern hemisphere MAPS is lost in twilight from about March 30 to April 7 - and even in the optimistic model the comet has reached only 6th magnitude when it is lost and is down again to 5th when it is recovered: unless something drastic would happen *all* hope for an interesting show rests on a possible post-perihelion dust tail. Good luck ...
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
Raiders GM Spytek speaks for first time since Maxx Crosby trade fiasco https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/26/john-spytek-maxx-crosby-trade-raiders/89339822007/
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/
They left Congress in disgrace. Taxpayers could still pay their pensions. (Anna Liss-Roy/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/26/congress-pensions-swalwell-gonzales/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260426/p25#a260426p25
A bona fide financial crisis has not broken out since the US housing meltdown of 2007.
Even the Covid pandemic and subsequent upsurge in inflation didn’t lead to financial upheaval.
The jitters produced by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023 were soon forgotten.
Given this stability, it might take some effort to convince financial markets that another big one is around the corner.
But it is.
Financial markets and their regulating governments may believe …
On Tuesday famed climate scientist Kate Marvel joined the more than 10,000 people with PhDs in science, engineering and mathematics who, according to Science, are reported to have left the U.S. federal workforce since
Donald Trump took office in January.
Marvel resigned from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS), where she studied climate change and its effects on Earth’s systems. In her resignation letter, she wrote that “the decision to leave was not an easy one.”…
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…