2026-01-22 07:36:00
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
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
Cowboys' Tyler Smith will continue to start at left tackle, which could carry into 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6912652/2025/12/23/cowboys-tyler-smith-left-tackle-future/
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…
"Niets aan de hand" volgens Trump. 😉
Trump says heavy bruise on his left hand came after he ‘clipped it on the table’ | CNN Politics https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/22/politics/hand-bruising-trump-health
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
Good news for the chickens!
Cyber attack takes major chicken processor Hazeldenes offline leaving businesses without meat
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-23/cyber-attack-takes-major-chicken-processor-hazeldenes-offline/…
Dead Cadillac Lyriq EV Leaves Baby Locked In Car
Luckily the baby was retrieved from the SUV unharmed,
but the owners were left with a $1,000 bill for a key fob replacement after using the emergency access.
https://www.jalopnik.com/2126583/dead-cadilla…
Three gates on hinges and stock proof. One wooden gate loaded up to be relocated. This feels like a useful afternoon's work.
#Crofting
#TheJoyOfCrofting
🇺🇦 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
“When Karen Newton left home in late July 2025, she knew that international travellers were being locked up in immigration detention centres in the US. ‘I was aware,’ she nods. ‘But I never thought it would have any impact on my holiday.’”
***
Huge “I planned a holiday in Nazi Germany because they were only persecuting Jews and I’m not Jewish” vibes.
It’s amazing to see privileged white people learn the leopards eating people’s faces lesson over and over again.
I think the biggest disconnect between the left and the masses right now is that the left is saying "ah man if only the people were class concious then we could actually accomplish something" and I'm like my sibling in Christ they are already class concious, they fight for every movement that's in their interests, did you not see BLM in 2020 or the anti-ICE protests today
'They're Getting Tender About a Church Service': Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Defends Left-Wing Agitators Who Stormed Minnesota Church (Chuck Ross/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/theyre-getting-tender-about-a-church-service-minnesota-ag-keith-ellison-defends-left-wing-agitators-who-stormed-minnesota-church/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p122#a260120p122
"You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg."
(Original title: The only taboo left is copyright infringement)
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-on…
Hollywood Brown has 'a lot left to prove' in Philly, looks forward to playing with Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown https://www.nfl.com/news/hollywood-brown-a-lot-left-to-prove-eagles-jalen-hurts-aj-brown
@… I miss your Wordles. If it's a NYT thing, there are alternatives. May I suggest https://left-wordle.com.
In any case, could point me again (I’ve lost the link) to the site that creates a…
When you have some time left today, read the Charter of the "Board of Peace", it's a joke, an autocratic club, that can be completely controlled and manipulated by Trump and his successors.
https://img.haarets.co.il/bs/00…
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
Left-leaning French alternative media startups surged over the past decade amid the country's rightward shift and consolidation of billionaire media ownership (Christopher Clark/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/french-media-blast-mediapart-lag…
So much of the ICE invasion’s harm here in Minneapolis is going to be diffuse, long-term, things that faded away quietly, things that •didn’t• happen, injuries barely seen and never tallied.
Long after the media spotlight is gone, we’re going to be repairing, rebuilding, trying to catch back up, trying to heal, trying to fill the holes these months left. It’s like a whole second pandemic for us.
5/
Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/cyberattack-on-vehicle-breathalyzer-company-leaves-drivers-stranded-across-the-us/
Oh, a ni…
Concerns over Trump’s health are coming to light once again after pictures of the 79-year-old felon showed new dark and crusty bruises on his left hand during his recent visit to Davos, Switzerland
-- different from ones that had previously been captured in his right hand.
https://bsky.app/profile/irishstar…
#silentSunday
Coopers Hawk February 2026
In Mississippi, We’re Feeding Kids the State Has Left Behind—and Building the Future Our Leaders Refuse to Imagine - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2026/02/22/mississippi-springboard-to-opportunies-sun-bucks-free-meals-summer-lunch/
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
-- Errol Flynn
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
-- Errol Flynn
Evolution of tech news website:
If you don't use AI, you'll be left behind
Adding toxic glue to pizza dough make it softer
We want to sincerely apologize for our last article...
The leaning tower of Pizza
#Kubecon
The clue: "right, right, right" (4)
The answer in the grid: ISEE
The answer I plonked in without any crosses: LEFT
So, yeah it slowed me down a lot to have four wrong letters, early
But wasn't my answer *better*?
🇺🇦 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
Now that the US has left the #WHO, I'm kinda bummed I didn’t buy polio futures.
I enjoy Balatro as a game, but honestly hadn't played it in a while
So to revisit it, I tried out the Cryptid mod: Cryptid is insanity. Enjoyable but insane
Then I left it alone for awhile more but have since returned - looking for a slightly less insane but still mind bending mod
May have found it in Mayhem, been enjoying it so far
https://codeberg.org/BalatroMayhem/Mayhem
"‘Conservation dilemma’ as pumas reclaim national park and feast on its penguins"
#Conservation #Animals
So left-over, reheated mish-mash is basically scrambled eggs (with peeled red peppers and sirene, hold the tomatoes), which you could press between two freshly toasted slices of bread (adding a generous dollop of chunky, mild lyutenitsa on the inner side of one of the slices before that).
😋
Proud of what our students do while studying at YDS. Case in point: first-year Divinity student OrLando Yarborough (2nd from left in photo), who was just re-elected President of the New Haven Board of Education! https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/01/13/school-b…
Finding Football: Ashton Jeanty’s around-the-world route to the sport he never left behind https://www.raiders.com/news/finding-football-ashton-jeanty-around-the-world-route-to-the-sport-he-never-left-behind
Great writeup on how tech elites have given up (quite a few years ago).
From 2019, but could be written yesterday
https://www.boundary2.org/2019/08/sarah-t-roberts-and-mel-hogan-left-behind-futurist…
Naomi Klein (von mir nacherzählt):
"Wir haben Leute in den 90er-Jahren wie Könige und Götter behandelt.
Jetzt sind sie sauer, dass sie nicht mehr Götter sein, sondern Verantwortung übernehmen sollen."
Aber Zuckerberg, Gates, Thiel, Musk und die Epstein-Freunde müssen Verantwortung übernehmen.
Die Zeit der Straflosigkeit muss vorbei sein.
#horempfehlung …
Nozzle clog about 2/3 into a three hour print. Kind of annoying to clean but not that bad. But the worst thing is: I don't have enough of that filament left to reprint, so now I need to wait and order some more or live with different colored parts... 😩 #3dprinting
Snow storm coming on Sunday. Left the house at 8:20a today and immediately see a couple coming from Trader Joe’s with four bags of groceries! Makes me feel my shopping of pita, parsley, and tomatoes is not nearly enough!
Time for a confession: almost one year ago, I went to get a #GNUTerryPratchett inspired tattoo.
All good, except I noticed a design hanging on the wall, that I kinda suspected was O9A's enneagram.
My mind was on something else, though, so I left it at it.
For whatever reason, it just popped into my mind, and I checked and yes, it was that indeed.
And now I fee…
Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
AVON: No, but they weren't planning on coming back. All the instruments are set for landing. There's nothing for take off.
BLAKE: There'd be no point in going back. The world they left would be dead years ago.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/234
#SilentSunday Southwark Cathedral, London.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RecordReview
Sergei Bortkiewicz, Illia Ovcharenko, MDR Sinfonieorchester & Oksana Lyniv:
🎵 Piano Concerto No. 2 'for the left hand only', Op. 28: I. Allegro dramatico
#SergeiBortkiewicz
https://open.spotify.com/track/0X8o8a8Uvv2VvznF3yfuKH
I made 6 more shirts.
They’re based on the disability pride flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_flag
I added a WCAG principle to each stripe, plus a bonus principle.
Also sans stripes, with the words still angled and in the stripe colors.
Sale still runn…
xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has "left" the company days after appearing on a podcast last week claiming that xAI had been skirting regulations and more (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/engineer-at-elon-m
I of course goofed and left out the explanation of Lorentz Contraction from the obvious place in Part 3 where I should have talked about it.
So I've slotted it in here:
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/71271.html#hrel3_lorentz
along with a new diagram to make super…
Hilarious: Waymo is hiring gig workers to properly close doors that departing passengers left ajar.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/video/fmc-y09p76dz29u3k7k0
It's "important that she spell out exactly how a Rayner leadership would differ from Starmer on Gaza, on public ownership, Treasury rules, house-building, military spending and more."
Left must put pressure on Rayner | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/articl
"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
Not that you needed another reason but …
https://krcgtv.com/news/nation-world/california-protester-left-blind-in-one-eye-is-among-string-of-violent-run-ins-with-ice
Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads in 2024, after spending £9M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5b0e3ea9-acc9-4dcc-85fe-2273ea8abb86
I have a major new feature for Left Wordle. I am testing the ability to sync settings and game history between devices. This feature is very much beta at this time and everything is subject to change.
My goal is to get as many people testing this as possible to identify any bugs that might cause problems once released. If you have time, please give it a try. Instructions here:
Iran war, rising gas prices fuel economic concerns; most say conflict not going well, don't want regime left in power, CBS News poll finds (Anthony Salvanto/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opinion-poll-iran-war-regime-2028-03-22/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260322/p23#a260322p23
@hereswhykevin on Threads:
For the past 8 hours, the White House has been live-streaming this really weird lo-fi music video on YouTube that features a cartoon Donald Trump sitting by a Christmas tree, reading a book while his ‘accomplishments’ scroll on the left side of the screen. Your tax dollars paid for this.
https://www.threads.com/@hereswhykevin/post/DSjlPqtjgAM?xmt=AQF0yEB4y13kd6nd9uk1CYXhBaFYzwq0fF7NDbgv9dcJ1AE
Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads on X in 2024, down from £9M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5b0e3ea9-acc9-4dcc-85fe-2273ea8abb86
It's kinda weird how the "The left hates technology (because AI)" mostly come from people whose experience with tech is on the level of vibecoding and the "left" they criticize consists to a significant part of people who've been actually building and maintaining systems for decades.
Maybe hands-on experience leads to different results then just "idea vibing"?
In case you were curious how the #SocialMediaBan is progressing: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/article/australia-social-media-ba…
Finding Football: Ashton Jeanty’s around-the-world route to the sport he never left behind https://www.raiders.com/news/finding-football-ashton-jeanty-around-the-world-route-to-the-sport-he-never-left-behind
Face painting at the 2026 Fairy Fest -- more photos from this event can be found on my Behance album #photo
❗️Russia has left Kyiv without heating: how Ukrainians are surviving in the cold #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/18/russia-has-left-kyiv-without.html
Thousands of non-Mexican migrants deported from the US
are being left in southern Mexican cities far from the border,
often without legal status or resources.
Many are elderly, ill, or have lived most of their lives in the US,
and now face unsafe conditions and limited access to aid.
Human rights advocates warn the policy violates international protections and leaves deportees in a 'quasi-stateless limbo.'
Cases include a trans woman deported to …
Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
VENA: Lies! They wouldn't fight!
SOOLIN: [Sitting next to Vena.] They fired interceptor missiles at the ship. I'd say that was a reasonable imitation. Drink this.
VENA: What sort of people are you?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/117 B7…
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
Mundane Things II 🌀
普通物件 II🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."
(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)
https://
I spent Sunday with friends I hadn’t seen in a month or more. We baked cookies, worked on a jigsaw puzzle, shared stories. The story sharing consists of someone talking about a personal experience that would have seemed unthinkable a month ago: a friend with a missing relative, a car left in the street, a family who had 8 loads of laundry because they couldn’t leave the house, running on the ice and fumbling for the whistle while witnessing somebody being abducted right there, right in front of them.
After each story, there is really nothing to say. It is horrible. We nod. We know. We continue the puzzle.
4/
I was waiting for the bus at Boiceville in a heavy snowfall at Boiceville two Thorsdays ago
#photo #photography #sliceoflife
Until Sen. Bernie Sanders began holding rallies in Republican-held districts to address DOGE’s destructive impact on federal workers and programs,
most progressives had not dared to dream of rural America as fertile ground for a backlash.
But it’s central to the concept of the "Rural Urban Bridge Initiative" ( #RUBI ),
a group determined to breathe new life into rural organizing st…
6 days after returning from Panama, I had outpatient surgery for a total left knee replacement. This was my third joint replacement (Rt Knee Jan 2016, left hip Nov 2025). Look Out Col Steve Austin. All is going well, but knees are tough, one must strictly follow the rehab exercises especially in the first two weeks - there's a limited window to get range of motion back 😰.
So far so good. I’m keeping up on exercises, and ditched the walker for a cane today. 🤞
Nearly missed it AGAIN! Happy #Saturnalia!
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
COSER: What do you suppose happened?
RASHEL: People must have left.
COSER: I can see that, but why did they leave? This isn't a Federation colony planet, so who were they anyway?
RASHEL: Perhaps they were free.
Scoop: How the left plans to start winning primaries again (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/19/democratic-primaries-congress-house-left-illinois
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p10#a260319p10
The Economist:
It is just possible that the president has given up hope that Republicans will retain their paper-thin majority in the House.
Recognising he has little time left,
he may well be playing for glory,
and his own pleasure
https://bsky.app/profile/economist.com
🇺🇦 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
Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
SERVALAN: Good. That will be all for the moment.
[Scene - the forest on the planet's surface]
LOM: We will rest.
VILA: Much further to go?
LOM: Not far. [to Mall] Scout the ground ahead. [To Vila] The hunters are out.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/165
Raiders Must Be Prepared For This Reality Check https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-must-be-prepared-for-this-reality-check
The devastating toll of Iran’s counterattack on U.S. service members after Donald Trump’s surprise strikes on Iran is even more severe than previously known.
A deadly attack that killed six U.S. service members has also left dozens of others suffering from traumatic brain injuries,
memory loss,
and other “urgent” health issues
at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany,
the largest U.S. military hospital abroad,
CBS News reported Wednesday.
As o…
Scott Myers, the head of Snap's AR glasses subsidiary Specs, leaves after six years; sources say Myers left after a "blow-up" with Evan Spiegel over strategy (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/figmas-answer-to-the-ai-software
The Trump administration announced on Monday that
all foreign-made drones and their components
posed “unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States”
and would be put on a federal blacklist of equipment makers prohibited from selling their goods freely in the country.
A fact sheet released by the Federal Communications Commission left some room for exceptions.
The Pentagon or the Department of Homeland Security can clear a drone or component fo…
Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
BLAKE: You all right?
AVON: Ah, yes. I, I just felt a little dizzy, that's all.
BLAKE: My point is there's something we're missing in all this.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/3 B7B5
The "Squad" left suffers complete wipeout in Illinois (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/18/the-squad-left-suffers-complete-wipeout-in-illinois
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p12#a260318p12
Five members of xAI's 12-person founding team have now left the company, with four of the departures coming in just the last year (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/nearly-half-of-xais-founding-team-has-now-left-th…
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VILA: Well, how can you enjoy yourself staying here? [Dayna exits]
CALLY: Well, maybe it's got something to do with the fact that you won't be.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/31…
Former US general got drunk in Kyiv, suffered concussion, left classified maps on train, watchdog finds (Dmytro Basmat/The Kyiv Independent)
https://kyivindependent.com/former-us-commander-in-charge-of-security-assistance-to-ukraine-left-classified-maps-on-train-overindulged-in-alcohol-watchdog-finds/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p66#a260317p66
Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had "pretty much sold out" its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue (Muhammad Zuhair/Wccftech)
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out…