2026-03-09 23:24:30
Source: LT Jones back to Bears on 1-year deal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48157407/left-tackle-braxton-jones-chicago-bears-agree-1-year-deal
Source: LT Jones back to Bears on 1-year deal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48157407/left-tackle-braxton-jones-chicago-bears-agree-1-year-deal
The Left is Good Governing Itself into Obscurity (Brian Tyler Cohen)
https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/the-left-is-good-governing-itself
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p40#a260509p40
😢
#USpol
Religion and the Right to Be Left Alone - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/opinion/religion-and-the-right-to-be-left-alone-7cc4b803?st=2eV3uS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
U.S. seems 'on a path' to deploying ground troops in Iran,
Senator Blumenthal says after classified briefing
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he is "dissatisfied and angry" after a classified briefing Tuesday.
"I am left with more questions than answers, especially about the cost of the war," Blumenthal told reporters after the briefing before the Senate Armed Services Committee
David Ellison made his first public appearance before WBD execs; sources: he called the deal process "turbulent", downplayed layoffs, and left some unsatisfied (Borys Kit/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Avalanches:
🎵 Since I Left You
#NowPlaying #TheAvalanches
https://telephonemaison.bandcamp.com/track/the-avalanches-since-i-left-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DgFCys3XMrWZDngu1CrRy
#Rant
Rob Shaw is solidifying his position as the new Dean of Right Wing, anti-Worker Legislative Reporters in British Columbia.
With these gems, it's incredible that he has an education or goes to a doctor at all…
"The BCTF is typically one of the most militant unions, and quickly prone to job action.”
BCTF Strikes since 2000:
2005
2014
phew! almost got to three!
Remember that this was at the time of a union-busting BC Liberal government that had to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to get told that they ripped up union contracts unconstitutionally and were *forced* to compensate many years later.
"The ratification is a win for a New Democrat government. And extraordinarily expensive for taxpayers, too."
“extraordinarily expensive. Really? How is a wage increase that is *barely* in line with inflation after literally decades of below-inflation increases, “extraordinary”? I'll wait.
"Teachers can thank the BCGEU for turning what was an initial 3.5 per cent wage offer over two years by government, into a more than 12 per cent increase over four that is now forming the baseline for all other union deals."
Indeed! For those who can do math, that means 3% each of 4 years instead of 3.5 over two. But thanks Rob for making it seem like 4 times more!
Thanks BCGEU members for your solidarity and perceverence! I have been on strike. It sucks HARD. But it was worth it and it works.
"The ratification by the BCTF means roughly half of the 450,000 public sector employees now have deals of some sort with the province. Two majors left on the table are nurses and doctors.”
Oh no! Let’s not pay doctors and nurses! Surely they'll stay regardless in our incredibly overworked and under resourced healthcare system!
Like how does Mr Shaw believe we are to stay competitive or attract people. Or is he just not worried about getting sick….
"The skyrocketing deficit has the NDP government inking sweetheart deals with organized labour on the one hand, while pledging to cut public sector jobs with the other.”
Ya, we could have kept those public sector jobs if it weren't for fools like you who demanded governments cut taxes over the past 20 years instead of reasonable rises to... again…keep up with inflation and retain service!
It is a crappy balancing act that the NDP is doing and I do not like a lot of it. At the same time as Mr. Shaw complains about "sweetheart deals" for people in post-secondary, I am seeing historic cuts in that same sector. It's a blood bath actually. So the potential wage increases are going to be welcome, but feel pretty hollow as so many collegues have left.
Rob Shaw would have had us all lose our jobs and take a pay cut at the next one for good measure.
Thanks but no thanks Rob, your world view sucks.
https://www.nsnews.com/economy-law-politics/rob-shaw-ndp-deal-with-bc-teachers-sets-another-costly-precedent-for-public-sector-talks-11966874
@… @… great podcast episode! I believe this is the first time I've heard Brett’s voice… which sounds strange for how long I followed your work.
The episode made me realize that I don't really know how I could create key chords to group together subset of shortcuts. Or even if it's possible at all; which might actually be the case.
For example, let's assume we'd want to have all Moom shortcuts under Hyper W. Then Move left would become `Hyper W Left Arrow`.
What do you think?
'Mild panic will set in soon': GOP donors left to wonder about Trump's $300 million war chest (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/09/mild-panic-will-set-in-soon-gop-donors-left-to-wonder-about-trumps-300-million-war-chest-00913096
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p16#a260509p16
There’s life beyond VSCode… thought I’d share my dev setup:
• Main monitor: WezTerm¹ running in a three (sometimes four)-way split with Helix Editor² as my main editor, a terminal pane for general commands while working, and Yazi³ usually running in another for working with files/directories in a project.
• Other monitor: Sublime Merge⁴ always running full-screen so I can immediately see exactly what I’ve changed (in real time) as I’m working.
Others (not shown): Br…
Who should be responsible when law enforcement damages private property in pursuit of a criminal?
https://reason.com/2026/04/07/police-destroyed-innocent-peoples-property-and-left-them-with-the-bill-will-the…
If you’re at #CSUNATC this week then I have a few stickers left. They look great on laptops, water bottles, clients, …
from my link log —
Async Rust never left the MVP state.
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/async-rust-never-left-the-mvp-state
saved 2026-05-04
Another night on the couch. I can mostly breathe out both nostrils right now as long as i stay in a semi reclined or upright seated position, although there's still plenty of congestion so who knows how long that will last. The irritation on the left eye is very much still there, and now there's an annoying tickle of a cough. Right eye seems unaffected, strangely. Wonder if i got lucky or if I'll wake up with it all crusted up too?
Kid is fully recovered and back at school …
I'm glad I've got another year left on my fixed energy tariff; assuming that is I don't run another provider into bankruptcy. Still this gulf war has got to be good for solar/wind installers somewhere!
Trump’s CISA nominee said he left Coast Guard to address GOP hold
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/03/trumps-cisa-nominee-said-he-left-coast-guard-address-gop-hold/411894/
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…
One fascinating film trivia I learned recently is that Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze’s marriage from 1999 to 2003 partially inspired Coppola’s 2003 film Lost In Translation and Jonze’s 2013 film Her.
Coincidentally, both films star Scarlett Johansson as the main female protagonist, both films were nominated for the Oscar Best Picture, and both films won the Oscar Best Original Screenplay for Coppola and Jonze.
Trump Officials Push Allies to Pursue Antifa and Far Left as Terrorist Threats (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/politics/trump-administration-far-left-terrorism-groups.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.qFVy.SYiCDA5Ee-Wi&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p64#a260410p64
Abstract image of twisty stems with more in the background and a few flakes in the air
#photo #photography #plants
I would, once again, like to suggest to Apple, that the “Device left behind” notice would be way more valuable, and amount to more than white noise, if I could “Disable warning until…”. It would be very helpful to know that my iPad remains at my hotel _after checkout_, not so much every time I leave for a meal or to explore the city. Presently it’s an all or none situation.
Putin left alone! Death of Iran's leader destroys Kremlin's last hope: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/04/putin-left-alone-death-of.html
"Mining in Oklahoma Left Toxic Wasteland Until Indigenous Tribe Brought it Back to Life"
#Oklahoma #Environment #Conservation
Interesting how many right AND left leaning posts I’m seeing about prepping for nuclear fallout. Wondering if this really was the past MAGA wanted to return to.
Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Natalie Jane Hill:
🎵 Never Left Me
#NatalieJaneHill
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mYV6uf5S0ChjFoLJWUJHI
At this rate there won’t be any weapons left for invading Greenland
i'm playing records that don't spark joy tonight, thanking them for their service before i trade them in at the record store down the street
#vinyl #jazz #harryjames
Gooood moooorning, lovely people in the #Fediverse. 🌤️
Treat yourself well, stay hydrated, and don't forget to breathe properly. 🌿
Well worth watching the video. Not what I expected, but I suspect well worth paying attention to what they say.
https://powerlabs.io/what-the-left-is-getting-wrong-about-the-right-daniel-martinez-hosang-micah-white
Well worth watching the video. Not what I expected, but I suspect well worth paying attention to what they say.
https://powerlabs.io/what-the-left-is-getting-wrong-about-the-right-daniel-martinez-hosang-micah-white
Woke up this morning with a HIDEOUSLY bad kink in my back just to the left of my neck. Still kind of there but much lessened by now. I mean, maybe it’s age. Whatever. Iced it a bit at times during the day.
xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba is leaving xAI, the sixth co-founder to depart; sources and social media posts: more than half a dozen researchers left in recent weeks (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3d4a9683-b70a-4953-b21b-b3ea07d693a3
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
Last week, while debugging a SwiftUI performance issue, I was running instruments and found that my profiles were plagued with noise.
Godot while idling was using so much CPU time that it was skipping entire frames while rendering.
I set out to fix those, 0.5% here, 0.5 there, and the Godot Editor (and Xogot) no longer skip frames.
People had been complaining that Godot would burn your battery in an hour if you left it idling, it no longer does.
Details:
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.
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…
> A pitch deck can look polished before anyone has done the hard work of deciding what the company actually believes
https://rajnandan.com/posts/taste-in-the-age-of-ai-and-llms/
It is 2037.
You are being paid $7250/hour for your services. (Before you get too excited, a can of cola costs $129, and so does 15 seconds of LLM tokens.)
There are not many left who can do what you do. You are the tradesperson of your time. It's messy work unclogging these metaphorical pipes, but someone's got to do it.
A decade of nothing-but-vibecoding (artisanal “acoustic" performances aside) has left the world in tatters. The Y2K38 problem looms.
The…
Roe deer bucks competing for territory this morning #photography #Dorset
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…
If public libraries didn't exist
current centrists — everyone right of Mamdani and left of McCain — would be telling us that they're "unrealistic"
and the rest of the right would scream about "socialism!"
And the rightists would be correct
Maxx Crosby Trade Reaction: From What Might Happen Next to Fans Shaving Heads https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/maxx-crosby-nixed-trade-reaction-from-what-might-happen-next-shaved-heads
Piers Morgan's Uncensored names Rashida Jones, who left MSNBC in 2025, as CEO, and raises capital; the YouTube-based media company was reportedly seeking ~$30M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…
"An (economic) serial killer is on the loose, and he’s murdering U.S firms left and right."
The ‘America First’ Corporate Graveyard
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-america-first-corporate-graveyard-trump-economy
Seven seats left to be distributed from the list votes. All from Highland.
The end result could be beautiful, or a total disaster. I feel ill.
It's 5 in the morning. No idea what time i finally fell asleep but it was probably after midnight since i remember hearing the click of the Christmas light timer we never unplugged that was set for 11pm standard time.
My nostrils are completely clogged if I'm in any position other than standing, even sleeping on the couch in a half sitting position they were pretty stuffed.
And now my left eye is itchy and goopy because right when I was over the fever and the sore throat …
🇺🇦 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
Today I learned Musk launched his own AI-powered Wikipedia because the real Wikipedia is “too left leaning”. The dude is mental.
This slide from the #coronagraphs symposium in Boulder from the talk by Sam van Kooten is quite enlightening: it shows two processing steps of a #PUNCH WFI composite, on the left still dominated by the F corona i.e. #ZodiacalLight i.e. interplanetary dust (just as seen in the Artemis II eclipse images) while on the right the - at such distance from the Sun muuuch fainter - K corona has been brought out which traces the Sun's magnetic field.
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/
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…
Giants signing DT D.J. Reader to help fill vacancy left by Dexter Lawrence https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-signing-dt-d-j-reader-to-help-fill-vacancy-left-by-dexter-lawrence
I'm wrapping my head around how to capture rebounds in basketball -- this is last Saturday's game of the Big Red women against the Columbia Lions which the Lions won 80-55 in fan-friendly Newman Arena -- next time I am heading back with my Zeiss 55mm/1.8 because I see people shooting basketball successfully with pretty wide lenses
#photo
This script is basically just a random grenade that was left lying in a cornfield. It was basically harmless, except in the specific scenario where somebody with extremely powerful sitewide permissions decided to import and run it with full privileges, which is usually something that people do not do. Mostly because this kind of thing can happen as a result.
Three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving, sources say to join the same new company (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-stargate-leaders-depart-…
The Defense Department burned through $93 billion in September alone, signing checks left and right
-- in order to dry up its congressionally allocated budget, according to a recent analysis by the government watchdog Open the Books.
There is pressure to spend:
If federal agencies don’t use the entirety of their budgets by the end of the fiscal year,
then they lose access to that cash forever,
potentially putting themselves in a situation where they have to requ…
The Los Angeles fires are just the latest example of left-wing violence (Zachary Faria/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4557757/los-angeles-fires-latest-example-left-wing-violence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p40#a260508p40
USA Today names Jamie Stockwell, a former editor at WaPo and NYT, as its next top editor; she is the third person named to the job in the past three years (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/business/media/usa-today-…
Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern
“History is a bill we keep dodging. The North won the Civil War, the South won the memory. Reconstruction was left for dead, white terror became law, and Jim Crow swaggered in through the breach. That was a political decision to walk away before the work was finished, to protect comfort over Black lives. America pays interest on cowardice, generation after generation, and the bill never shrinks.”
The Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow. But now the Supreme Court — Chief Justice John Roberts’ Court — has effectively ended much of what’s left of the Voting Rights Act — setting the stage for voters of color to be silenced.
Now it’s up to us to defend the freedom to participate in our democracy. The actions we take now will help determine whose voice gets heard and which communities get locked out of political power.
🤩 My son Elliot standing on a fence post and making the hand gesture from 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟
#photo #photography #elliot #portrait
Commanders signing LT Laremy Tunsil to two-year, $60.2 million extension https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-signing-lt-laremy-tunsil-extension
"Long a major progressive influence in New York politics, the Working Families Party has released its first national platform ever—and it has the likes of Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna on board."
The Third Party That’s Pushing the Democrats Left | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-04-27/third-party-thats-pushing-democrats-left
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
Small business owners
-- and consumers
-- doubt they’ll see refunds
after the supreme court invalidates Trump’s tariffs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/09/small-businesses-trump-tariffs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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
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
Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern
In Trump's Washington, Congress has little power left (Liz Goodwin/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/congress-trump-power-rules-war-spending/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p21#a260310p21
‘Dark money’ casts a shadow over
Los Angeles elections,
with mystery group pumping out attack mail
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-09/dark-money-casts-shadow-over-la-election…
Source: Pack to cut OL Jenkins, open up $19.5M https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48156082/source-packers-cut-ol-elgton-jenkins-open-195m
The Left Is Baffled--but Still Repulsed--by the White Working Class (Victor Davis Hanson/American Greatness)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/07/the-left-is-baffled-but-still-repulsed-by-the-white-working-class/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p42#a260407p42
Mailbag: Which is more important, guard or tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-which-is-more-important-guard-or-tackle
The sharply conservative Supreme Court that Donald Trump’s three appointees remade
is the first since at least the 1950s to
reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities
“There is no center now,” said political science professor Lee Epstein,
who performed the analysis with her Washington University colleague Andrew D. Martin and Michael J. Nelson of Penn State.
A yawning gulf has opened between the left and right flanks of the …
Mailbag: Which is more important, guard or tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-which-is-more-important-guard-or-tackle
Sources: White House unease over Mythos has left some administration officials fearful that the change represents a reversal of its hands-off AI policy (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/trump-ai-anthropic-mythos-regulation-2378971f
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…
Mailbag: Time to evaluate left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-time-to-evaluate-left-tackle
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…
Mailbag: Time to evaluate left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-time-to-evaluate-left-tackle
The war on Iran was never a choice -- Trump was left with no option but to defend America and all Western civilization (Michael Goodwin/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/03/opinion/trump-was-left-with-no-choice-but-to-launch-an-attack-on-the-iranian-regime/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p16#a260304p16
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…