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-…
When I was first learning to write,
my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror.
Being left-handed, I was imitating the hand strokes of my right-handed teachers instead of reversing their strokes to replicate the letters.
I gradually got the hang of writing in the correct direction, but it still feels natural for me to mirror-write.
I have a mirror-written childhood diary. Leonardo da Vinci, another lefty, did that too
#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…
Inside Outside IV 🔲
中间 IV 🔲
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I'm not a "I will never fly X" person, but my first experience w/ Breeze Airways has left me shocked. Sending people to arrive *4 hrs late at 130am at an airport 1h30m away* (PVD⭢BDL) w/ no transport. Zero agents. No phone. Chat hard to find. Chat cuts off with this. Epic fail.
RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116908556846064206
What if datacenter builders built out there own solar panel farms around the center and battery packs so they were energy independent. then if the datacenter part is less needed in the future we are left with billi…
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…
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://
Good morning... I can confirm that the heating in the train works
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
got into my dad's mini-stash of 3D #comics (plus his homemade 3D glasses) last night. ludicrous writing but grand ol' eyeball kicks. could get way into this format with better titles. the one on the left is from 1953, the middle is an '80s reprint, & "merlin realm" is from '85 (with the best art).
"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
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…
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
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.
Falls at Upper Treman shot with 1/10s exposure; was out this Sunday for the Sacred Wild Gathering which is maybe the most accessible pagan circle I know in Ithaca
#photo
A new #LifeHack just dropped.
I carry a "medicine organizer" with four compartments where I keep four portions of glucose. The problem is, I never remember which ones I took and refilled recently (I don't need it often), so I don't know which ones are the oldest.
Today I've figured out to shift everything left while refilling, so the oldest always are in the first compartment.
You don't need to congratulate my on the speed of my brain.
irked by the slightly off-center capri sun
Can anyone find an origin for this FreeBSD graphic?
(It's seen in a YouTube video that does not state the origin. I have left a comment there …)
"FreeBSD provides the entire operating system as one unified project."
I already used an extension – Search by Image <https://addons.mozilla.org/a…
One of the biggest election stories no one's talking about: the US Democratic primaries are becoming a proxy war between rival AI factions, with candidates tuning their strategies accordingly. My latest Substack digs into how that happened.
…
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
#LeftWordler’s:
I’m working on a major change. This change is the main reason I forked a Wordle repo into Left Wordle - the ability to login and maintain stats, streaks, and prefs across multiple devices.
I’m implementing this with Passkeys which will allow users to be completely anonymous. Please see
One year ago today
#sunset #clouds
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…
These are in fact three lemurs.
🔒 Optional, fully end-to-end encrypted sync keeps the same history across terminals, sessions and machines — use the hosted Atuin Cloud server or self-host your own
🎨 Extras: quick-jump to previous items with Alt-<num>, statistics like most-used command, and your old history file is left untouched
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…
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/
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
Has anyone else seen this "No space left on device" on GitHub Actions come up recently?
#GitHub #PHP #CI
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…
Fireworks ascend while other fireworks explode at the North End of Little York Lake
#photo #photography #summer #littleyork
@… 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…
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…
"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
Does anybody know how many rich bastards left New York after Mamdani was elected? I suppose NYC is now functionally rich-free, right?
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…
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
I ran out of cold brew concentrate over the weekend. I replenished the oat milk, though. I totally had Saturday, Sunday, and yesterday to go get more coffee and here we are on Tuesday and I’ve left the cupboard bare. I will not be taking questions at this time.
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…
Perfection Because It Doesn’t Exist 🚪
完美因为完美不存在 🚪
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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…
Databento, which sells financial data feeds, raised a $97M Series B led by NEA, taking its total funding to $127M, and says it is "profitable every month" (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortu…
Sunrise In A Scale-free Landscape (2026)
(For reference, the visible valley section is ~6km long... Alt text for more info)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
Iran’s supreme leader vows to avenge father’s death
Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public for months, and has been rumored to have been left disfigured after being injured by an airstrike
https://www.politico.eu/article/iran-suprem…
Perfection Because It Doesn’t Exist ☀️
完美因为完美不存在 ☀️
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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…
Do you prefer it when control doesn't need movement of your arm or your hand, and you instead organise everything with the slightest movement of one single finger?
Well, the trackpoint (or whatever you want to call it) is now also available as external add on:
https://ploopy.co/bean/
"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
Lazy innovation: to make a token I can put up on a bulletin board I print the back and the front on the same side of a 4x6 instead of printing two backs and two fronts
#photo #photography #foxwork
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
Trivia of Life 🔆
生活小品 🔆
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🎞️ Kentmere 400 (6x7)
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Djokovic, 39, came through a stern test from No. 3 seed Félix Auger-Aliassime — as well as a left leg issue and a closing roof.
39-year-old seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic came through a five-set, five-hour epic Tuesday on Centre Court
to defeat Félix Auger-Aliassime 7-6(10), 3-6, 6-3, 6-7(4), 7-6(4) and advance to the semifinals, six minutes before the 11 p.m. curfew.
There, he will face his toughest hurdle yet on the path to a record 25th Grand Slam title i…
In its latest attempt to circumvent state laws and regulations,
Sable Offshore Corp. is reportedly asking the federal government to seize the ground California has left to stand on — literally.
The Houston-based oil company reportedly asked the Trump administration to exercise eminent domain to condemn and seize miles of private and state-owned land that contain its legally embattled oil pipelines.
Sable restarted oil production in March in Santa Barbara County from its o…