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.

The Department of Homeland Security was caught lying Thursday about ⚠️ abandoning a blind refugee who was later found dead on the street.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed that the Tim Hortons in Buffalo
where federal agents left Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a 56-year-old Burmese refugee who was blind and spoke no English,
was “determined to be a warm, safe location near his last known address.”
Video footage reviewed by The Washington Post, however, showed t…

DHS Caught Lying About Blind Refugee Agents Left to Die in Buffalo
Shah Alam was blind and spoke no English. He was found dead five days after Border Patrol agents left him outside a closed coffee shop at night.

Disbar Them All: The Only Accountability Left For Trump’s Lawyers - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/01/disbar-them-all-the-only-accountability-left-for-trumps-lawyers/

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

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

This made it through multiple levels and multiple rounds of design and marketing approval.
At no point did anyone stop and think?
Really? This is the design we're going with?
Not one person who had any rudimentary internet skills.
Not one hero in one meeting had even the one ounce of temerity or one gram of courage to stand up and say
HEY - THE HAND ON THE LEFT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING A RING.

🇺🇦 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

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."

Arianna Pera @… defends her PhD: The Language of Collective Action in the Social Web
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/02/27/ariann

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!

Thanks to another anonymous pledge via private mention, we’re up to $405/month with just $195 left to go :)
I’m going to go to bed now but I’ll update you again in the morning if any pledges come in during the night.
Thank you all so much; we’re getting close :)
💕 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116130113

President Trump calls Anthropic a "radical left, woke company" and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/anthropic-pentagon-supply-chain-risk-claude

Pentagon blacklists Anthropic, labels AI company "supply chain risk"
The penalty is usually reserved for companies from adversarial countries, like China's Huawei.

With the US on the brink of war with Iran, Fox's biggest stars are more focused on the left being mean to the US men's hockey team (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/us-brink-war-iran-foxs-biggest-stars-are-more-focused-left-being-mean-us-mens-hockey-team
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p66#a260227p66

The People Left Behind by the Metaverse https://www.404media.co/the-people-left-behind-by-the-metaverse/

:update:

3 options to help Cowboys plug hole left when $30M free agent walked https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/26/new-options-dallas-could-…

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

Manifesto of the Revolutionary Communist International
The following is the text of the Manifesto of the Revolutionary Communist International which, following an exhaustive discussion, was approved by a unanimous v

Clear message from the Trump regime to European clients* dependent on US tech companies: those will be brought under control.
*) like the Dutch tax authority preparing to outsource all of its VAT collection.

German schedule.
Arriving at a subway station, sub just left
Next sub: in 10min🙄
I look right and left
Next sub in 15min. 🤔
A minute later: sub comes along 😍
Inside: departure in min 🤔
A minute later: we depart 😳👍

OK so that's today's round of hardware maintenance done, box rebooted, and got all of my stuff set up about the way I left off.
And now I have the Xeon 4310 and 128GB of DDR4 3200 RDIMMs available.
Still pending:
* (blocked until new heatsink arrives) Swap VM server Xeon 5310 for the other 8362
* See if that lets me use the other 128GB of RAM on the VM server, if not troubleshoot further
* See if I can possibly squeeze another pcie passthrough GPU in the VM…

Filing: The Trade Desk CFO Alexander Kayyal has left after only six months in the role; longtime executive Tahnil Davis will become the interim CFO (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/the-trade-desks-cfo-is-out-after-just-6-months-on-t…

The Trade Desk’s CFO Is Out After Just 6 Months on the Job
Outgoing finance chief, Alex Kayyal, served at The Trade Desk for nearly six months and will remain on the company’s board through its 2026 annual shareholder meeting.

Giants shrouded in mystery, just like the year ahead...
(Also, it's the last #SilentSunday of this year, hope you enjoyed my selection of 52 images... Analog & digital prints will be available soon!)
#LandscapePhotography

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

Kate Marvel, Prominent Climate Scientist, Resigns From NASA
Kate Marvel, a well-known author, joins an estimated 95,000 people who have left federal science agencies since President Trump returned to the White House.

@… love your Clacks! Left a bunch of "Nett hier. Aber waren Sie schon mal in Ankh-Morpork? Stickers" on top of it as a token if my appreciation. #39c3 #Discworld

#ICE73 just left Offenburg, and we’re still on time!
#UndoneCS

#ICE73 just left Offenburg, and we’re still on time!
#UndoneCS

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.

The app will disclose the user’s location once they have left the U.S. and run a liveness detection on the selfie photo.

Stafford mum on future as Rams left reeling in loss https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47731346/matthew-stafford-mum-future-rams-left-reeling-loss

(LinkedIn) Romina Nejad, former clinical trials lead at Neuralink, has left Neuralink to join Salma Health as vice president clinical research https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7432841671396040704/

LinkedIn | Romina Nejad
I’m excited to share that I’ve joined Salma Health as Vice President of Clinical Research. We’re building a new kind of brain health system — one that is connected, precise, and designed around the whole person. In close partnership with providers and researchers, our goal is to deliver more accurate diagnoses, personalized treatment plans, and truly coordinated care for even the most complex patients. This is just the beginning, and I’m proud to be part of a team working to build …

It seems like an odd choice for this piece to not note that James Cameron is not a US citizen (he's Canadian and withdrew his application for US citizenship decades ago).
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/23/james-cameron-left-…

‘Everybody’s at each other’s throats’: James Cameron says he has left the US permanently
Avatar director, who moved to New Zealand after the Covid pandemic says he will soon be a citizen of a country where people ‘are, for the most part, sane’

Rose Hips in the winter with falling precipitation somewhere between snow and rain
#photo #photography #rose #bloomscrolling

Im using case_when() quite a lot, case_match() is new to me: #rstats

A general vectorised switch() — case_match
This function allows you to vectorise multiple switch() statements. Each case is evaluated sequentially and the first match for each element determines the corresponding value in the output vector. If no cases match, the .default is used. case_match() is an R equivalent of the SQL "simple" CASE WHEN statement. Connection to case_when() While case_when() uses logical expressions on the left-hand side of the formula, case_match() uses values to match against .x with. The following two statement…

RE: #Apple has left, but the whole thing with #Microsoft handing over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI shows that these companies are not out for your best interests **AT ALL**. They will throw you under the bus in an instant if they can make a buck from it.

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BEK: What for? There's nothing left there.
BLAKE: Well, it's your territory. At least you know who you're fighting now.
BEK: What have I got left to fight for?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/648 B7B2

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

Wow. "... let the facts lead in this case". In this case. Not as a matter of course, of course.
"As for President Trump, he has said that he wants to let the investigation continue and let the facts lead in this case.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-mill

Stephen Miller Iced Out of Trump’s DHS Cleanup
The president’s closest adviser was left out in the cold.

Why Myroslava, Nastia left Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/why-myroslava-nastia-left-kyiv.html

Massive win for the Green party in the Gorton and Denton by-election; not even close in the end:
Hannah Spencer (Green Party): 14,980 Matt Goodwin (Reform UK): 10,578
Angeliki Stogia (Labour Party): 9,364
Hopefully the UK government will now realise it needs to tack hard to the left. Chasing after Farage's xenophobic votes is a losing proposition.

New Green MP says 'we can win anywhere' as Starmer vows to 'keep fighting' after by-election loss
Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old plumber, wins the Gorton and Denton by-election, with Reform coming in second and Labour in third.

California Gull. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California,USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 PRO MC14 #moonstonebeach #cambriacalifornia #seagull

Of course, the elephant in the room here is probably this: why are cars given preference by governments? Because cars are used by the rich. Public transport, especially in the American continent, is considered to be for the poor. And helping the poor reeks a bit too left-wing.

Police Used Flock to Give a Man a Traffic Ticket #privacy

Police Used Flock to Give a Man a Traffic Ticket
“CAPTURED ON FLOCK CAMERA 31 MM 1 HOLDING PHONE IN LEFT HAND.”

Should I ever get bored with my geekventures, there's always emacs in org-mode left to learn.
1/1
Re:brevity @…
#geekhaiku #microblog

Sources: two members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team, Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak, left the startup and have been working at Meta for a few weeks (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/thinking-machines-lab-loses-2-fo…

Thinking Machines Lab loses 2 founding members to Meta
Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, sees key members depart to Meta, highlighting talent retention challenges.

"En el caso de las izquierdas, hay algunas izquierdas que cuando se trata de Cuba miran para otro lado sin entender que Cuba tiene muchas funciones en la batalla cultural de las izquierdas del hemisferio occidental."
"In the case of the left, there are certain left sections that, when Cuba comes up, look the other way, without understanding that Cuba has multiple functions in the cultural battle of the Western hemisphere left."
Iramis R. Cšrdenas:

Iramis R. Cárdenas: “Cuba podría negociar reformas económicas, pero no cambios políticos bajo presiones”
En un contexto de bloqueo energético asfixiante, este investigador del Instituto de Filosofía de Cuba y profesor de la Universidad de la Habana, aporta algunas claves para dilucidar el futuro más cercano de la isla.

My short story, "Doctor Vex Gets Her Revenge," received another rejection. That's part of the process. But the magazine said they said they received 7000 submissions. If that magazine has 7000 readers I'll cut off my left arm.
I'm convinced there are more people writing new fiction, than reading it.

I just updated my reading guide, “Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” again!
I want it to be a curated path from beginner-friendly intros to deeper theory and real-world examples, enjoy!
Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wu…

Harman Switch Azure First Impression 🥰
哈曼Switch Azure第一印象 🥰
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Harman Switch Azure
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite

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

Was editing and noticed that if you rotate-left "those" you get "ethos". Was curious how many of these are in English. Big dicts have a lot of junk, and most endings in "s" are for plurals. Here's a good list of rotwords.

Eric Adams' sour grapes leave bitter taste for Mamdani (Joe Anuta/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/how-mamdani-is-dealing-with-a-trap-left-by-eric-adams-00746795
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p11#a260127p11

Some 10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs last year
as Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce.
That exodus was only 3% of the 335,192 federal workers who exited last year
but represents 14% of the total number of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or health fields employed at the end of 2024 as then-President Joe Biden prepared to leave office.
The numbers come from employment da…

"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

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...

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/

Take this job…

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.

Cowboys' special teams need one thing: To be left alone https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-special-teams-need-one-thing-to-be-left-alone

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…

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 🙂

Tether launches USAT, a US-regulated stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, marking the company's direct return to the US market that it left in 2018 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Students man a booth for CUSLAR: The Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations, a group I was involved when I first came to Ithaca in 1993
#photo

Over half a million left Kyiv in January amid Russia's energy blitz, mayor Klitschko says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/over-half-a-million-left.html

California Scrub Jay, lurking in the shadows. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #huntingtonlibrary #bird #birds…

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…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
DAYNA: Since you know all that, why ask me?
SERVALAN: Tell me about Justin.
DAYNA: Justin? Who's he? [The chair reacts. Servalan pushes a pain button. Dayna screams.]
https://bla…

The US right wing in 2025: The left's hateful rhetoric is getting people killed.
The US right wing in 2026: This podcaster is pure evil, a literal demon who deserves to go to hell.

RE: https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg/116135511410328428
RDIMM stands for Right DIMM, and LRDIMM stands for Left/Right DIMM :neocat_woozy:

Uh #mountainMonday again?! where have the past days gone??
Anyways - this photo is from a quick Hike from early January. There was a bit more snow than right now. and as you can see the weather was grey and not too inviting.
But, the good side of it was that I was almost alone! :-D
When I came back the same route, I saw a chamois crossing from left to right. Unfortunately…

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

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

Kate Marvel, Prominent Climate Scientist, Resigns From NASA
Kate Marvel, a well-known author, joins an estimated 95,000 people who have left federal science agencies since President Trump returned to the White House.

Cowboys OC supports leaving 3x Pro Bowl OL inside instead of LT move https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/25/dallas-cowboys-klayton-adams-tyler-smith-left-guard/88863944007/

Urban Demons VIII 👻
城市鬼魂 VIII 👻
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite

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.

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…

Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
VILA: So?
TARRANT: So just be patient til we get back to base. Leave it!
VILA: I hate locked boxes.
TARRANT: And I've had enough unpleasant surprises for one trip. Let Orac scan it first.
VILA: For?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/152

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/

Q&A with recently departed OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek, who claims OpenAI's shift toward more conservative ways made high-risk, pioneering work harder (Core Memory)
https://www.corememory.com/p/he-left-openai-jerry-tworek

He Left OpenAI To Think Bigger - EP 53 Jerry Tworek
Are all the AI superpowers playing it too safe?

Until recently, I resisted using the F-word to describe President Trump.
For one thing, there were too many elements of classical fascism that didn’t seem to fit.
For another, the term has been overused to the point of meaninglessness, especially by left-leaning types who call you a fascist if you oppose abortion or affirmative action.
For yet another, the term is hazily defined, even by its adherents.
From the beginning, fascism has been an incoherent doctrine, and ev…

Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

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…

Some City Some Nature V 🏙️🪾
一些城一些自然 V 🏙️🪾
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

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

2026 NFL Draft order: Patriots vs. Seahawks in Super Bowl LX will decide the final two first-round picks

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-draft-order-updated-top-picks-t…

Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely
starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said,
with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.
Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of the small, black and white African penguin are left globally,
according to scientists,
and the species was listed as critically endangered last year by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Two of the most important breedi…

Study says African penguins starved en masse off South Africa
Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said, with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.

The US has announced plans to hold multi-day military exercises in the Middle East
as it deploys what Donald Trump has called an “armada”
led by the USS Abraham Lincoln to the region as part of a tense standoff with Iran.
The display of US air power was announced as the White House has suggested it could launch new strikes on Iran
after the government’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that has left thousands dead and many more in detention with their fates uncer…

Several UK consultants have left large firms to start AI consultancy startups, as growth in the country's AI consulting sector outpaces the broader market (Nick Huber/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/df068853-4bb9-4c5d-8aeb-f3d4b04157d1

On the Side II 🆓
在边缘 II 🆓
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

OpenAI hires Meta AI researcher Ruoming Pang, who joined Meta from Apple about seven months ago for a pay package reportedly worth $200M over several years (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-hires-meta…

OpenAI Hires Meta AI Researcher Who Previously Led Apple’s Models Team
OpenAI has hired a high-profile AI researcher at Meta Platforms who had joined the company from Apple about seven months ago, a spokesperson from OpenAI confirmed. Ruoming Pang, who led AI infrastructure for Meta Superintelligence Labs, which is developing new AI models, left the company last week and has joined OpenAI. Pang, who was aggressively recruited by OpenAI over several months, told

Iran’s paramilitary
Revolutionary Guard,
a force which was key in putting down recent nationwide protests in a crackdown that left thousands dead, is
“more ready than ever,
finger on the trigger,”
its commander said Saturday,
-- as U.S. warships headed toward the Middle East.
Nournews, a news outlet close to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, reported on its Telegram channel that
the commander, Gen. Mohammad Pakpour, warned the United St…

Iran's Revolutionary Guard commander warns the US, says his force has its 'finger on the trigger'
The commander of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, a force which was key in putting down recent nationwide protests in a crackdown that left thousands dead, says the force is “more ready than ever, finger on the trigger.”

Minnesota's brief asserts that federal agents left the scene several hrs after the shooting,
“allowing the perimeter to collapse and potentially spoiling evidence,”
a “sharp departure from normal best practices” that may’ve “directly led to the destruction of evidence.”
https://

Students at universities in Iran have held a third consecutive day of protest
just over a month after the violent suppression by security services of mass street demonstrations left thousands dead.
The protests came amid tensions between Iran and the US.
Washington has built up military forces and pressure in the Middle East as it negotiates with Tehran
– with the next round in Geneva on Thursday.
Donald Trump has warned “really bad things will happen” if there …

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.”…

Top climate scientist Kate Marvel just resigned from NASA. Here's why
Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges

Videos show a federal agent secured gun from Alex Pretti before agents fatally shot him

As many as eight agents were attempting to detain Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, videos show.
One emerged from the scrum holding Pretti’s gun, and less than a second later, the first of what appear to be 10 shots was fired.
It is not clear from the video whether the other agents realized Pretti
— who local authorities believe had a permit to carry the weapon
— had…

Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show
A Post analysis of videos sheds light on the encounter that left 37-year-old Alex Pretti dead.