Regulators in Europe were largely left out of the loop as Anthropic limited the release of its latest model Mythos to select companies and organizations (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/anthropic-apple-microsoft-europe-left-in-the-…
Rep. Harriet Hageman insists that there is no racism on the right
and that the Aryan Nation, Nazis, and KKK are all "far-left groups"
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/rep-harriet-hageman-insists-there-no-racism-right…
I should do some work with Authentik, but I keep getting sidetracked to find out where the default background for the SSO page is coming from
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/blob/main/web/src/assets/images/flow_background.jpg
#LeftWordle fans:
I have a page up at https://left-wordle.com/retire-words.html that contains my approximation of the current NYT Wordle's answer list.
If you're interested in …
I was on Drivetime on RTÉ Radio One yesterday discussing the main points of my campaign.
Working people are being crushed with the cost of living and housing crises.
We need to:
• Ban evictions
• Ban short-term lets
• Build a state run construction company
• Price caps and fuel and energy
• Defend our neutrality
• Full sanctions on Israel
Vote Denman Rooke no. 1 and then transfer Left to the other candidates in the Vote Left Transfer Left…
One of the hazards of photographing a much-photographed thing is that, after careful consideration of viewpoint, composition and framing, you take exactly the same pictures as everyone else who has carefully considered viewpoint, composition and framing.
Here are two photographs I took of the Atlas Fountain at Castle Howard, along with the two illustrations from its Wikipedia entry. Years apart in time, inches apart in space.
Sources: Jensen Huang was left out of President Trump's China trip to avoid unwanted scrutiny and awkward conversations about the sale of Nvidia chips to China (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/12/2026/nvidia-snubb…
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s abrupt exit from the race for California governor
— then his announcement he would leave Congress
— left his rivals scrambling to lock down his former supporters in a crowded contest with no clear leader,
injecting more turmoil into the campaign to lead the nation’s most populous state.
Swalwell’s decision to suspend his campaign Sunday followed allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman twice,
including when she worked for him…
This is the kind of unity we need to see among left-of-center candidates—everyone not on the billionaires' team. Like Saikat, I'll support Connie in the general election. I won't hide my disagreements with her, but fortunately most of them are much less relevant to federal office.
https://
My stickers arrived for AccessU.
See you next month?
All assembled, new GPU and fans in.
As usual 5 minute POST times, one of the things I like least about server hardware. Plus actual hypervisor boot on top of that.
The GPU i swapped was a dual slot but lived in the left most slot on the mobo so i have an empty back panel port that I can eventually put a fan card in to try and suck more heat out.
The BMC does not like my 80mm fans, i need to figure out how to set the RPM thresholds so it doesn't think they're failed…
According to Twig, the tastiest part of the laptop is the upper-left corner of the display.
At some point I will find out whether an LCD with bite marks from a cat will continue functioning..
RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116747852738754635
Interesting and thought-provoking read! I left seeing the problem but just being teased about the author’s view of possible solutions (apparently a series of posts will be written…).
It’s definitely worth th…
After less than two minutes watching the by-election coverage, voilŠ, we've got a talking head attacking Avi Lewis (who's apparently so far left that the only thing after him is a cliff). Serious people.
#cdnpoli
Whew! Finish another phase and committed before #Claude crashed.
Do you think that the folks that work at #Anthropic are logging in to Codex now to fix Claude Code?
I'm trying out a new mosquito-control contraption made by Ortho. It features a landing pad laced with powderized, lethal fungus spores (Beauveria bassiana) that can be transferred via tarsi to standing water elsewhere in the yard or in your neighbors' yards. The water in the container also has an insecticide (pyriproxyfen) to kill any larvae that might develop from eggs left by females. It's the home version of the expensive In2Care trap that can only be purchased by licensed pest-control folks. #mosquitoes #ortho #in2care
irked by the slightly off-center capri sun
@… also, I can't recommend metal shelving as a convenient heat sink for a soldering iron whilst standing and using the left hand to steady oneself – firmly gripping the other side of the shelving unit – and casually draping the right hand across an exposed mains dropper at the rear of an old television.
I completed the circuit, and probably lived to tel…
⚠️ 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝐼 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑!
If you're around #ithaca or #cornell I am taking individual and group portraits with trees -- if you want one 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 -- contact me!
#photo
If I didn't have the experience to know better, and if I was a new user of the AWS Console, I'd swear that the performance of their cloud offering is terrible.
It's just really slow/heavy browser code, plus WAY too many requests, but that *must* make a bad impression on new-to-AWS folks. (…if there are any of those left? maybe that's the problem…)
my favorite stones record ... by far!
#rollingstones #vinyl #nowplaying
Marbled Godwit (according to Merlin) walking along the shoreline. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM_1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 #bolsachicaecologicalreserve #godwit
Only a few months left until KDE drops X11 forever, and they STILL haven't fixed fractional scaling in themes OR gesture configurability, both of which are fully working in X11, and the latter of which would be mitigated by simply stripping the hardcoded gestures currently baked into kwin_wayland and allowing the user to find their own way. (As ever, my kwin6 patches are available on GitHub if you'd like to do exactly that.)
I'm sure they're all working on Very Importan…
Is it too late for someone early 50s to decide they want to abandon their data analytics career (BA, MS, 30 years experience), and start a new path studying television academically? Uh, asking for a friend.
Incidentally, what would be a good title for a thesis studying the left-at-the-altar trope, and how and why it appears much more frequently in sitcoms than in real life, and maybe explore some sociological intersections with that?
These are in fact three lemurs.
RE: https://aus.social/@jhaue/116393820486614886
If you are not absolutely abhorred by Israel, there’s no humanity left in you whatsoever.
The nice thing when reading old #books is, you sometimes find things the owners left in them.
Today I found a very thin chocolate wrapping. It was from "Victor Schmidt & Söhne" (Victor Schmidt & Sons). A sweets company founded ~1850 in Vienna. The wrapping may be waiting for ~120-130yrs in the book (because the book is that old) and it told me something about the previo…
"Polanski is right that the consensus assignment has run its course, and the Greens are asking the right questions about who bears the costs of austerity and inflation. But adopting the language of MMT to suggest those costs can be wished away does the left no favours."
Zack Polanski gets economics wrong | LSE British Politics
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 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Hospital appointments are kind of frustrating, I’m in with the consultant for 6-7mins, but I left home at 12.30 and didn’t get back until 4. That’s the travelling and waiting time. Also, this particular appointment could have easily been done over the phone, which they often are.
57 countries just formed a bold new climate coalition in Colombia, creating the first global framework explicitly designed to phase out coal, oil, and gas—with fossil fuel interests left out of the room. They're building roadmaps for clean energy transitions and reforming finance systems to accelerate progress.
ht…
Perfection Because It Doesn’t Exist ☀️
完美因为完美不存在 ☀️
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Nithya Raman has "a master’s degree in urban planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" - I'd vote for her
Incumbent LA Mayor Karen Bass will face a challenge from the left in November | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/incumbent-la-mayor-karen-bass-will-face-a-challenge-from-the-left-in-november/
This is probably the worst joke I've seen, and I am crying.
#memes #funny #comic
Why tf are there fighter jets buzzing Montréal? I thought I left that kind of grotesque militarism behind in the US. Or are we under attack?
#montreal
Every social media platform I'm on (Twitter, Threads, Bluesky) I'm seeing a very necessary and solid level of tough-but-important conversations and fights. about the clashes between (Far?) Leftism and real Black folks who actually participate in politics*
Except here. Same ol same ol do-nothing far-left type stuff except also WITHOUT the "good but ugly" fights
(*Yes, I'm aware I'm being harsh here, but I don't have better terminology and its importa…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116564460359464986
Uhh.. vote in June. In the primaries. Figure out what you need to do to vote in the primaries, and vote for people who are running to the left of your incumbents. If enough people do that, it will mak…
duolingo been doing some wild worldbuilding lately
Days before Trump left office in 2021, the State Department broke ground on an $850 million construction project at its aging embassy in New Delhi.
By last fall, alongside work on smaller buildings, crews had dug a 200-foot-long pit for the project’s centerpiece:
a sleek edifice of glass and stone that was supposed to make the biggest U.S. mission in South Asia more “secure and resilient.”
In recent months, without public announcement, the U.S. government canceled that buil…
@… Hi Sean. I had just a moment on a new piano at my friend’s before we left for somewhere. It seems a melody of yours is what seeped through the unconscious cracks. :D
A college instructor I know sent me photos of a notebook a student left in class. The student had scrawled "AI IS SATAN!!!" multiple times.
Yes, "AI IS SATAN!!!"
#AI #NoAI #FuckAI…
"Some of my liberal friends have urged the rest of us on the left to stop obsessing over distant foreign wars, stop lambasting the Democratic and #Labour parties for their (clear) complicity in war crimes. They want us to focus instead on the very real threat from rising authoritarianism in the US and the UK. But the opposition to the destruction of Gaza – and now also
If you filter out AI, politics, tech, and any posts with emojis or hashtags, all that's left is people meowing or pictures of pets :3
I understand, I do. As a straight cis man I grew up with the the anarchist critiques of "anti-capitalism," "something something FREEDOM," and "all that other stuff that you should probably read if you have time." That failed me and left massive holes in my analysis that I'm still working frantically to patch.
I understand how we got here, but I don't understand why we aren't, specifically at this time, doing better.
The scale of Orbšn’s defeat has left Moscow with little choice but to acknowledge the loss of a key partner in Europe.
“Hungary made its choice. We respect that choice,” Russian Foreign Minister Peskov said on Monday.
“We were never friends with Orbšn,” said Peskov,
adding that Moscow remained open to dialogue and to building good, mutually beneficial relations with Budapest.
Moscow appears to be playing down the loss of a key ally in Europe,
striking a tone rem…
RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@theodric/116563091235487700
Well, that didn't fucking last long.
Booted, worked for a few minutes, started freezing.
Rebooted, started intermittently freezing. (Nothing in dmesg; `collectl` left running s…
Bad news from Kerala.
But it's happened before and the left will be back.
India loses its last left-wing government after five decades | Politics News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/4/in…
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
They were all sitting unprotected at public URLs, with no password or access control of any sort.
If I sent you a link, you could have looked at someone’s passport.
“We have to do something about it as fast as possible, because people will find this and resell it.
It will do damage,”
Sammy Azdoufal told me in May.
Azdoufal is the security researcher who used Claude Code…
Our old home was just urbexed by some kids. They didn't know that we still have CCTV and got the alarm. So we took the car, and when we arrived, the kids were still there, one even climbing on the roof.
"X told us nobody lives here anymore!"
Sooo... They thought they have some fun. And use the superglue that we left in the mailbox to glue the locks... shut.
It would have been just a friendly reminder, but now we had to tell them that they have to call their mom.
Canada Goose next to the lake. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. April, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #laarboretum #goose #bird
Vote Left Transfer Left.
Having a cup of tea and a chat together to see how we can continue collaboration for the Galway West By-election like we did on Catherine Connolly's presidential election.
The momentum built during Catherine's campaign will live on. We must keep this as a left seat. And with a Vote Left Transfer Left campaign, we think that can be a reality.
Emma Raducanu returned to Andy Murray Arena for her second match in five hours with lingering doubts about her physical condition after slipping on the slick grass earlier in the day and hurting her left thigh.
By the time she had launched herself into consecutive backhand and forehand down-the-line winners to snatch an early break, that concern had dissipated.
What followed was one of her very best matches as she dismantled the talented 18-year-old Iva Jovic 6-2, 6-2 in front of…
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Analysis: Conservative and Reform UK MPs have increased their volume of posts on X since Elon Musk's takeover, while center-left politicians have reduced theirs (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/43f44d4a-09c6-4452-a37c-b1c2955143d0
The Trump administration is taking its targeting of its political enemies to new levels.
Last summer in Texas, a noise demo that escalated has led to
nine people being convicted of federal charges,
including “material aid for terrorism.”
The so-called “North Texas antifa cell” has raised concerns on the left about future prosecutions
Canada’s left-leaning
New Democratic Party (NDP)
has elected a new leader,
someone whose campaign drew comparisons to the politics and style of U.S. figures like
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani.
On March 29, the NDP elected
Avi Lewis on the first round of balloting
with 55 percent of the vote in his first successful political campaign.
The NDP was decimated in the April 2025 federal election.
Former leader Jag…