McDonald's leaks China: they run their info screens in Ubuntu Linux
Government argues ICE facility protest was actually left-wing terrorist plot
The prosecutor displayed photos on a courtroom television of evidence seized from the garage of defendants on trial for alleged involvement in a radical left-wing conspiracy:
Photocopiers, a bookbinding machine and leaflets called “zines.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn Smith asked the FBI agent on the witness stand to identify the evidence.
Special Agent Morris Boatner said he had found the…
Made a change, the clone I’ve been working on is now at https://left-wordle.com. The old url should redirect.
There are some changes - please report any bugs.
check out the prefs - you can add custom text to the share text header line, defaults to (Left Wordle), and add a line below the grid, default is bl…
The rewrite of the Sisyphus server continues, I've got all of the GET endpoints and about 60% of all the endpoints finished overall. Some initial testing on the `/workers` and `/queue` endpoints show some worrying results from the old version and some great results from the new version. The `/workers` endpoint started throwing errors at about 800 RPS on the Python/Flask version (the old one), the rewrite is showing around 4800 RPS (Golang/Gin). The `/queue` endpoint doesn't show a…
'Ukraine cannot be left alone' — Polish prime minister arrives in Kyiv as Russian strikes deepen energy crisis: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/05/ukraine-cannot-be-left-alone.html
Sarah Höfflin losing a ski on the takeoff. She was fine, but the look on her face in mid air ... plus she still got the grab! #olympics #ski #skiing
Any vexillologists around? What’s the flag on the left? (We’re in Pima county, Arizona)
The little crescent on the right is Earth. Moon in the middle. Artemis/Integrity on the left. Every human being is in this picture.
#humanity #artemis #moon
Out with the old catsalad (me who had a tasty 🥯 earlier), and in with the new one (current me with no tasty 🥯 left to nibble)
Abby Martin: “The world sees Israel for what it is and it can’t last for long in its current state. You cannot expect change in a society this far gone. It is full-throated fascist. And that’s why they act the way they do, with full… total impunity. Because they have no humanity left.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQbPCvV8W8
An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted in what appeared to be a politically motivated shooting over a proposed data center in the city (Kiki Intarasuwan/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indianapolis-councilor-ron-gibson…
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
Soo I went for my morning run on the treadmill and forgot I had left ngscopeclient running on my Ethernet benchmark test. I didn't realize until I walked back into the office and wondered why my GPU fan was a little louder than I expected.
It was still happily crunching away eating 8 Gbps of data nonstop.
In that time, it ingested over half a trillion ADC samples, almost 150 billion UIs. The bathtub curves go down to e-10 range without any dual dirac extrapolation or anything…
Trump left America vulnerable to retribution — and that's no accident - Alternet.org
https://archive.ph/i7Hzv
What's in Jake's pockets? Well, this is in the right front pocket. Left front pocket is for phone.
This is a really good analysis of how #Labour became a right wing party.
I was aware of their courting of rich donors, but I'd missed the revolving door between Labour governments and the defence and private healthcare industries, and the point about Labour directing anger towards immigrants in order to divert it from the
My #AltProcess #Kallitype development/printmaking journey is already showing strong parallels to my software dev experience, i.e. a preference for avoiding monolithic frameworks and building more granular, reliable, understandable & controllable tooling myself, and get much better & mor…
Auch "Left to my own devices" von den Pet Shop Boys war den anderen Singenden nicht bekannt. (Ich bin dafür bei Lady Gaga ignorant.)
The #ArtemisII picture I had been waiting for - the dark Moon with a bit of #earthshine on the left in front of the #zodiacalLight going all around: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009301 (this is essentially the Apollo 11 image from 1969 - https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl - again but with the Sun more centered ... and with half a century of photo tech inbetween).
fuck yeah #mamdani!
I'm in central queens, on a residential street. We have two giant mountains of snow outside (like, 8-10ft tall and pretty wide), that came from various plowings/shoveling (the alley next to my house, the fire station's parking lot, etc). The city just came w/ a backhoe and scooped it up and hauled it away. The backhoe needed to make multiple trips,but it'…
I have so many questions. Like what was the $1.6T budgeted for & who was it to be "spent" on?
✅ The Treasury may need to borrow an extra $1.6 trillion to cover the hole left by tariff ruling and pay a further $400 billion in debt interest - Fortune
https://fortune.com…
RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/116364915879571585
If Trump used nuclear weapons, we would all die. That's how modern nuclear deterrence works. If anyone detects a launch, everyone launches. There are no consequences, because there will be no one left alive.
Looks like yesterday’s didn’t post. Pancakes, eggs and bacon, tea and coffee. Eventful weekend (broken car, concert, soccer, Easter dinner), boring day except one of us got on a train after breakfast and left. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/XVRZz3Q8gTRJJHuQ6
There are two main ways to replace part of a string in a text editor, with a longer string.
Either you use the overwrite mode to overwrite the overlapping part, then switch to insert mode to append the extra characters, or you delete the overlapping part, then insert the new string using insert mode entirely.
Or you can be chaotic, use overwrite mode to replace part of it, prematurely switch to insert mode, delete the remaining extraneous characters and insert whatever is left.
Two students in falling snow at night in the courtyard between Gates Hall and the new CIS building
#photo #photography #portrait
another innocent victim caught by radical left purity testing (charlie kirk)
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.
I can't imagine much that beats Cape Town in Autumn. The heat of summer has left, but winter is running late (probably the traffic).
The coastal walk along the coast from Muizenberg to Kalk Bay is one of the nicest things you can do.
#CapeTown #SouthAfrica
Each year, about 400,000 international students are granted study visas to the UK. A significant proportion do so with the help of education agents: middlemen paid by universities to find foreign students. In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents - but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate.
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
SAYMON: That is why we had to control her. She would not have accepted us freely.
BLAKE: You are the only one of the six that is left?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/436
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Michael Nyman & Michael Nyman:
🎵 The Draughtsman's Contract "Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds"
#MichaelNyman
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mk67umwhu8ZhJnYN0Qk4J
"Gather in the Mushrooms: The British Folk Underground 1969-1975"
#NowPlaying
Me: “It’s outrageous that companies make it impossible to get the last of the goop out of tubes! What waste!”
Me, when traveling: “It’s only a quarter of the tube left, I should toss it to save some weight in the suitcase…”
from my link log —
RTL.WTF: read the web like Right-to-Left readers do.
https://rtl.wtf/
saved 2026-03-04 https://dotat.at/:/HVT4P.html
Tens of thousands of New Yorkers left without heat as temperatures drop to 4° -- and tenants blast Mamdani for failing to act (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/real-estate/thousands-of-new-yorkers-left-without-heat/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p134#a260205p134
TIL about "AI abstinence", I think it's like "spork avoidance" or "car crash shunning".
Embrace sporks, they're inevitable! Don't get left behind and crash your car today!
On the one hand, LLMs are planet-destroying bullshit machines, gaslighting our sense of reality by spewing an endless supply of hallucinations.
On the other hand, they can provide a brief yet overwhelmingly mild sense of satisfaction when you convince them to do something silly.
#LLMs #DonnieTurnip
Urban Texture II 🧩
城市质地 II 🧩
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Sources and US tax lawyers: the IRS's planned audit of private equity and VC firms is faltering under President Trump, as many senior leaders leave the agency (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/business/irs-private…
A nice reminder that @… just shared :)
#ArtemisII
“The circus has left the town square, that’s for sure,” said Brian Reisinger, a former Republican strategist in Wisconsin.
On Tuesday, voters in Wisconsin will choose another justice to join the State Supreme Court.
Except this election has arrived with little of the fanfare that Wisconsin voters have come to expect from these court races:
the national frenzy, a cameo from a tech billionaire, incessant television ads, partisan debates and a deluge of campaign cash.
M…
This is how often I flip somebody off. Never. I just tried doing the double flip-off with both hands. That is something I’ve NEVER tried before. I can’t make the bird with my left hand!!! 😂 … it just becomes a - I don’t know, a grizzled wizened mess.
I scrolled up too far in the meme channel
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
NBC News: Thousands of Lebanese residents left homeless on streets of Beirut
https://news.am/eng/news/934760.html
“Everybody is so fed up with #Labour’s only strategy being ‘vote Labour to keep the Tories out’, and now it’s ‘vote Labour to keep Reform out’,” Spencer tells me. “It’s like: how about you actually just do something to make people vote for you?” -- #Green party candidate Hannah Spencer in the Gorton and De…
So, decided to get them rookie `/queue` numbers up so did a quick bit of caching. For a 12-job queue, I went from 240 RPS (Python/Flask) to 680 (Golang/Gin) then to 3400 RPS with some proper caching. The `/workers` endpoint would benefit as well, but I think its performant enough though I may end up adding a bit of caching later.
#golang
A North Carolina man who says federal immigration agents shattered his truck window,
forcibly removed him from his vehicle,
and left him “bleeding and in pain”
has filed a $1.25 million damages claim against the federal government.
Willy Wender Aceituno, a U.S. citizen,
says he was stopped twice on November 15, 2025, while walking into a restaurant parking lot to pick up breakfast before work,
according to a court filing reviewed by Newsweek.
Aceitun…
Giuseppe Ielasi and Jack Sheen - "The Vestige" (2025)
#NowPlaying
Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
EGRORIAN: Pinder, you're to be seen and not heard, remember?
AVON: If Orac has a fault, it is a tendency to give more information than is requested.
VILA: Or less information than requested.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/319 B7B4
Different Corners VII ▶️
不同的角落 VII ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
North Carolina led for just .4 seconds in Saturday's rivalry game against Duke.
But that's all they needed to secure the win.
Seth Trimble's three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left delivered the Tar Heels a 71-68 win and closed out a 9-0 run in the game.
After Trimble's three-pointer, the fans rushed the court before having to clear it,
leaving a delay and one last heave for the Blue Devils.
But a turnover sealed it and the party can begin on Franklin…
Since coming back from Germany for HARRIS I've been chasing a weird issue on my ThunderScope 100baseT1 test setup.
Before leaving for HARRIS I unplugged the TS, left the rest of the setup untouched, and brought the TS with me to demo to people while traveling.
After coming back the TS appears fine (passed calibration, and gives good-looking eyes on 100baseTX).
But when hooked back to the same, theoretically unmodified baseT1 test setup, I get weird diagonal distortion, …
Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
DAYNA: Well, she looks all right. She's breathing normally. Perhaps the Ultras were telling us the truth.
TARRANT: I don't know. Avon?
AVON: They've presented no threat so far.
TARRANT: Maybe they're biding their time.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/245
"I've added a chatbot to my website that runs on Nazicloud and uses ExploitGPT! It's so fun and you're missing out, don't get left behind!"
Source: Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman is looking to leave sometime in 2026 or 2027; other senior compliance staff left over the past few months (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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
Life Runners 🪖
生活战士 🪖
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Hundreds of Immigration Agents Left Minnesota, but Residents Report Little Change - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/us/minnesota-ice-agents-deployment.html
Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: Right. Now, ask yourself why they should be shipping in men from a penal colony. [A beep sounds]
DAYNA: [Starting forward] The communicator! They're trying to get through!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/281 B7B2
Old Railroad bed converted to trail by Massabesic Lake east of Manchester, NH where I wandered as a cub
#photo #photography #landscape
Salesforce's Tableau chief, Ryan Aytay, leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left for OpenAI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/sales…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116182391153638929
I wonder how being slowly boiled by AI propaganda feels like
(This post brought to you by yet another tech person I looked up to for years and who fell completely for AI--only posts about how amazing it is now, no other interests or any discernible personality left.)
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
Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
VILA: Been looking all over for you two.
JENNA: How did you get here?
VILA: I was just passing - thought I'd drop in and see you.
AVON: Where are Gan and Cally?
VILA: They're in a cell along the corridor.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/469
The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February
— five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop
— has been ruled a #homicide, authorities said Wednesday.
The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death,
which the agency said…
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