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Left pushes wealth tax as litmus test for 2028 Dems (Holly Otterbein/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/29/left-wing-democrats-wealth-tax-2028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260329/p56#a260329p56

Burgers, branding and generosity: How Fernando Mendoza left an Indiana legacy https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/burgers-branding-and-generosity-how-fernando-mendoza-left-an-indiana-legacy-3731078/…

The most important, efficacious, & sizeable faction on the left is plain old "normie Dems", or whatever condescending term you prefer.
They're the ones doing the actual work.
But they are largely ignored by media, because they're organized & led by women.
https://skywriter.blue/@vol…

🇺🇦 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

Life After I Left
A space where women share their real stories, including the struggles, the triumphs, and the moments that created change...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/life-after-i-left/

Offseason checklist for all 32 NFL teams: What did the draft cross off and what's left to do? https://www.nfl.com/news/offseason-checklist-for-all-32-nfl-teams-what-did-the-draft-cross-off-and-what-s-left-to-do

from my link log —
Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: electrical grid operating policies left Spain at risk.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/final-analysis-of-2025-iberian-blackout-policies-left-spain-at-risk/…

Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
Too much hardware was allowed to disconnect right at the edge of normal conditions.

#shitPost #shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Unf*ck your feet! 👣
#photography #sandals #running

I see nothing has changed in Vienna (I left in 2012).
I'm missing Café Central in this Sachertorte review though.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/mar/29/perfect-sachertorte-cake-vienna-austria

If anyone knows of any available positions please let them know.
(They’re not proud of having worked at Google; quite the opposite, they left due to their ethical concerns about one of the worst surveillance capitalists in the world and a company, furthermore, that is complicit in genocide.)
https://

Speedability of computably approximable reals and their approximations
George Barmpalias, Nan Fang, Wolfgang Merkle, Ivan Titov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.26484 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.26484
arXiv:2603.26484v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: An approximation of a real is a sequence of rational numbers that converges to the real. An approximation is left-c.e. if it is computable and nondecreasing and is d.c.e. if it is computable and has bounded variation. A real is computably approximable if it has some computable approximation, and left-c.e. and d.c.e. reals are defined accordingly.
An approximation $\{a_s\}_{s \in \omega}$ is speedable if there exists a nondecreasing computable function $f$ such that the approximation $\{a_{f(s)}\}_{s \in \omega}$ converges in a certain formal sense faster than $\{a_s\}_{s \in \omega}$. This leads to various notions of speedability for reals, e.g., one may require for a computably approximable real that either all or some of its approximations of a specific type are speedable.
Merkle and Titov established the equivalence of several speedability notions for left-c.e. reals that are defined in terms of left-c.e. approximations. We extend these results to d.c.e. reals and d.c.e. approximations, and we prove that in this setting, being speedable is equivalent to not being Martin-L\"{o}f random. Finally, we demonstrate that every computably approximable real has a computable approximation that is speedable.
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At CPAC, FCC Chair Brendan Carr boasted "Trump is winning", citing PBS and NPR defunding and the departures of Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, Stephen Colbert, and others (Kathryn Wilkens/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-

‘Trump Is Winning’: FCC Chair Boasts He’s Remaking the Media by Pushing Out Left-Leaning ...
During a Friday CPAC appearance, FCC Chair Brendan Carr bragged that he's remaking the media by pushing out left-leaning figures, declaring, " Trump is winning."

Not sure how I missed this crazy story...
Exclusive: Anthropic left details of an unreleased model, invite-only CEO retreat, sitting in an unsecured data trove in a significant security lapse
https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/anthrop

Exclusive: Anthropic left details of an unreleased model, invite-only CEO retreat, sitting in an unsecured data trove in a significant security lapse
Anthropic stored information about an upcoming model, draft blog posts, and other private information in an unsecured, publicly-searchable data lake

People left with cancer linked to Johnson & Johnson talcum powder 'dying every three days', High Court hears | #DailyMail
https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-15778489/cancer-Johnson-Johnson-baby-talcum-powder.html
📸 2 screenshots from the longer arricle
(Via @… )

I sure do love when a package delivery company leaves your package at the wrong (business) address on a Saturday after 5pm.

They Left for the School Bus. ICE Picked Them Up Instead. - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/NIiYL

This is the weirdest combination of thumbnails I have ever seen on Netflix 😁
#netflix

New solar generation record again for today... 67.5 kWh produced, 158.8 consumed, 16.4 exported, for net import of 91.3 kWh.
There's one day left in the month still, but it's looking pretty good compared to March:
* 0.73 -> 1.2 MWh production
* 5.0 -> 4.5 MWh demand (maybe this is from less heating? I don't have any instrumentation on my heat pump right now so no easy way to break down heating demand, but it pulls ~5 kW when it's running)
* 10.3 -&g…

To be honest, the new icons are kinda better. https://www.fastcompany.com/91545582/google-workspace-icons-redesign
Some are no longer the circular red/green/blue/yellow rotation, though Google Maps icon still look kinda similar to Gmail's 🫠

If someone comes to me today preaching about “post-quantum” security issues, I’ll remind them of the current state of security: the npm ecosystem gets abused daily, CI pipelines run left and right with full access to cloud services, so-called security devices like F5 and Ivanti are exposed (and compromised) to the internet, mailboxes get compromised just to change an IBAN in a PDF, and a simple phone call is still enough to get someone to hand over an MFA code.
But yes, by all means, l…

> Part of the crypto grift was telling people to "Have Fun Staying Poor". That weaponisation of FOMO was an insidious way to get people to drop their scepticism.
>
> I feel the same way about the current crop of AI tools.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok

Hoher Ifen (2023)
One of the most unique and geologically interesting and layered mountains in the Northern Alps, including the extremely karst Gottesacker (aka God's Acre, aka Cemetery) plateau with deep caves... one of the areas I'm hoping to explore further this year...
#MountainMonday

thinking abt this carel willink. its just liminal space pics from a century ago. the emptiness of this public space left this one german guy uneasy 100 years ago. what's your favorite historical archive of this feeling

It’s coming. One week. 6 May.
I contributed a chapter on accessibility overlays, but the other 33 make it worth it.
“Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech”
https://AccessibilityEthics.org/

I do not use Ubuntu as a personal distro, however I have a couple of test machines with it on.
Whenever I have to use it I remember why I do not use it. Just tried to do-release-upgrade and it quickly fell apart and left me with a system that prints this when I try and run apt
apt: symbol lookup error: apt: undefined symbol: _ZN3APT6Solver14InternalCliWhyB5cxx11ER11pkgDepCacheN8pkgCache11PkgIteratorEb, version APTPKG_7.0
P.S. To be clear. I am ranting. I am not looking for …

I put a hot Pizza box down on this table last night and it left a mark on it. I'm not too sure what to do about that.

Red River of the North at Fargo-Moorhead, (left) and Grand Forks-East Grand Forks (right). The river delineates the border between #NorthDakota and #Minnesota

"The Catalog of Distinctive Type (CDT) uses machine learning to analyze the minute details of 17th-century printing, offering scholars a powerful new way to identify who printed what."
https://www.library.cmu.edu/about/news/2026-05/catalog-distinctive-type

Left my computer unlocked and walked away for less than 2 minutes and my daughter struck again.

Join us TODAY for a fly book launch. “Staying with the Planet” is a sci-fi story about ecological troubles of our modern universities.
⏰ 2pm CET
📍 RUSTlab RUB, or Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/RUSTlab
👇Find more info about the event and book (open access, y’all!) on the RUSTlab website.

"I can't protect you, Lio."
Wouldn't it be interesting to know how Krennic & Partagaz knew each other?
#StarWars #Andor had so many wonderful hidden backstories left to be told. 😁
▶️ Partagaz and Krennic | Andor Season 2

No Kings crowd flows out of the Ithaca Commons towards the public library and ultimately Meadow Street
#photo #photography #ithaca

Avi Lewis Is the New Leader of Canada’s NDP https://jacobin.com/2026/03/avi-lewis-canada-ndp-election/

Avi Lewis Is the New Leader of Canada’s NDP
Avi Lewis will lead an NDP in dire straits — but also one with a strategic opening to the left of the Liberals, whose posture against Donald Trump has reshaped the political terrain.

A UK Degrowth Gathering – call for organisers
Planning has begun for a one-day event bringing together the UK degrowth movement. The aims are to, Build connections among degrowth activists in the UK with a view to strengthening the identity and confidence of UK degrowth networks collectively. Explore the challenges facing degrowth in the UK at this time. Identify and begin to engage with potentially sympathetic constituencies, for example the left and environmental…

A UK Degrowth Gathering – call for organisers
Planning has begun for a one-day event bringing together the UK degrowth movement. The aims are to, Build connections among degrowth activists in the UK with a view to strengthening the identity an…

“In Budapest were wine and athletic dances, natives who tolerated him as a tourist with money, tourists who thought he was a wealthy native. He danced the dances and he drank the wines, and he left before midnight.”
#Ringworld

Would you have have guessed that Diarmaid MacCulloch would be speaking to a capacity audience in #StPaulCathedral yesterday on #WilliamTyndale? Celebrating 500 years since #Tyndale's tra…

Watched a pedestrian who had the right of way to cross at a crosswalk wave on a driver who was turning left across traffic. Driver, who had been waiting, started to go and almost flattened a bicyclist and then almost got flattened by a bus.
Pedestrian took zero notice of the chaos he created. 🤦‍♂️

I tried to write something up to talk about an idea, but it didn't quite work. I have a lot more I need to put into it. But I want to get an idea out, and, after talking with a person who pointed out some of the flaws in what I wrote, I think I can maybe write down the kernel of the idea here.
An acquaintance of mine did a deep dive on Operational Art and wrote his thesis (which prompted an earlier set of posts and an article I wrote for my professional-ish blog) on the intersection of the OODA loop and critical philosophy. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Kilcullen's Three Pillars model (after watching Andrewism's wonderful video) and Beer's VSM. The TL;DR of it is that there's a much better insurgency model. Of course, the insurgency model also works for a bunch of other things, because cybernetics lets you do all kinds of cool abstraction like that.
So as I was reading the essay of a comrade the other day, that model popped back into my head and I'm going to try to share what I can of it.
When colonizers came to the Salish region, they saw what they believed to be an untouched wilderness. They failed to see the ways in which Salish people tended the land. Indigenous fire practices were common on the northwest coast, and the suppression of those practices remains a problem. There is an interrelationship between an environment and the systems within it. Systems, like people, animals, and cultures, adapt to the environment. In doing so, those systems will also change the environment.
Social technology was invisible, so colonizers defaulted to either some kind of Rousseauvian or Malthusian model of these people. They were not, for the colonizers, people who had developed advanced social technologies to live in harmony with their world. They were, rather, people in "a state of nature."
The European influenced left continues to draw this Rousseauvian model, which continues through a lot of Anarchist revolutionary thought. European anarchists were heavily influenced by observations and theories around the behavior of indigenous people. The remnants of this thought still exist in the idea that the system must only be destroyed for us to be free.
This is the same obliviousness to social technology, that social technology actually exists, often informs both early colonizers and modern radicals.
It is through this obliviousness that we fail to recognize how capitalism is a social technology that is managed into existence and maintained, and how changes in the environment can threaten institutions that have become over-adapted to a specific version of that environment.
We can extend Kilcullen's metaphor of a "conflict ecosystem" through cybernetics into a much more rich model, populated by viable systems. The ecosystem itself has a fitness function, which drives adaptation within the environment. But all actors in the environment also affect it. Some try to manage the environment. Revolutions are often over who manages a social ecosystem, over who controls the social technology and what it does.
Once we see this dynamic at play, calls of "riot" and "revolution" make a whole lot less sense. Rather, the question becomes, "how do we change the ecosystem in such a way that it cannot be 'managed' at all?"
Graeber/Wengrow talked about Turtle Island indigenous social technologies in Dawn of Everything, such as the system of moieties and clans described in the book. So I have a good reading list as I think through this model, but I hope the "ecosystem" model is helpful (if not completely fleshed out).
I'd be interested in any critiques or thoughts to help develop this idea more.

#throwbackthursday

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
King Krule:
🎵 Bermondsey Bosom (Left)
#KingKrule
https://kingkrule.bandcamp.com/track/bermondsey-bosom-right
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iPz8c6onjAjn35AdUC2tN

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116489697525420186
I know UBI is the darling child of the left, but ask me if I want the current fucking regime to have its hands in my wallet

new linux rice, nothing fancy but it feels cozy
- arch (btw) on a thinkpad t480s
- niri
- quickshell for the bar (a bit barebones atm)
- matugen to generate color palettes from the background

Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-cofounder-ross-nordeen-lea…

And then there were none: Musk's last xAI cofounder, Ross Nordeen, leaves
Elon Musk is shaking up xAI ahead of the SpaceX IPO. All 11 of his cofounders are gone, 8 of them since January.

Writing an ERWC-Style Module: Choosing Texts
I have written four ERWC modules and substantially revised several more. Most of my own modules turned out to be about full-length works, including Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, George Orwell’s 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Writing a module around a novel is an interesting, complex, and time-consuming task. I will take that up later.

One of my favorite @… stickers 💚🩵💙
#SoftwareFreedom #sticker #foss

Wish I could share the full photo with you but I don’t share identifiable faces from protests. When I asked if I could take a photo, she held up her sign with a determined, slightly sad smile. That feeling could sum up the event. Joyful, yes. But also a recognition that there is hard work left to do. #nokings

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

Politicians say left-wing professors push their views. New poll shows students don’t see it that way - The Hechinger Report https://hechingerreport.org/politicians-left-wing-professors-students-poll/

Politicians say left-wing professors push their views. New poll shows students don’t see it that way
The poll, which included responses from nearly 4,000 college students, found that about two-thirds of all students said that their professors encouraged students to share their views “even if it makes others uncomfortable.”

I’m going out into the garden to check what seeds I have left over from last year, get some herb seeds into trays, and place them on the kitchen windowsill. I’m going to put the seed potatoes in over the next few days.
#gardening

“you aren't talented enough to be relevant with the truth” is brutal
https://bsky.app/profile/postleftwatch.bsky.social/post/3mi7yy2u32s2t

Post-Left Watch (@postleftwatch.bsky.social)
AOC destroys Ana Kasparian. So great to see it.

European Left Party: A Double Boost. The European Left Party’s practical value is measured by whether the decisions taken in Brussels lead to concrete action. By Uwe Sattler.
https://europa.blog/en/european-left-party-a-double-boost/

European Left Party: A Double Boost - Europa Blog
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One Dallas Cowboys Player Who Just Dodged a Major Draft-Day Bullet https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/one-dallas-cowboys-player-who-just-dodged-major-draft-day-bullet

The idea of Vote Left, Transfer Left was pretty strongly adhered to in Dublin Central as the count went on.
What happened was that the voters didn’t consider SF to be left.
The SF candidate’s big transfer moments came from Steenson and Hutch.

“To waste what little bandwidth we have left – when 750 million people worldwide lack access to electricity – assisting some of the richest men ever to hone their plagiarism bots would be a historic idiocy that future generations are unlikely to forgive today’s leaders for.”
#StochasticParrots
#LLMs

RE: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/116652396324764991
1 hour left, looks like the beard might survive *whew*

EyeBrain: Left and Right Brain Lateralization Activity Classification Through Pupil Diameter and Fixation Duration
Ko Watanabe, Pooja Pol, Nicolas Gro{\ss}mann, Shoya Ishimaru, Andreas Dengel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23562 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.23562 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.23562
arXiv:2604.23562v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The relationship between brain lateralization and cognitive functions is well-documented. The left hemisphere primarily handles tasks such as language and arithmetic, while the right hemisphere is involved in creative activities like drawing and music perception. Eye-tracking technology has shown the potential to reveal cognitive states by measuring ocular metrics such as pupil diameter and fixation duration. However, the ability to distinguish lateralized brain activity using these ocular metrics remains underexplored. Here, we demonstrate that pupil diameter and fixation duration can effectively classify left and right brain hemisphere activities. We obtained a considerably high classification performance, with an F1 score of 0.894. The results suggest that ocular metrics are robust indicators of lateralized brain activity and can be applied in cognitive monitoring and neurorehabilitation. Our future work expands on this by integrating these methods into real-time applications EyeBrain, potentially broadening their use across various cognitive and neurological domains.
toXiv_bot_toot

The People Left Behind by the Metaverse https://www.404media.co/the-people-left-behind-by-the-metaverse/

#scifi #scifimovies

The Blood on Their Hands: How the Left's Rhetoric Murdered Charlie Kirk and Keeps Targeting Trump (Greg Young/American Greatness)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/29/the-blood-on-their-hands-how-the-lefts-rhetoric-murdered-charlie-kirk-and-keeps-targeting-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p46#a260429p46

#FotoVorschlag: Natur in der Stadt
Photo Suggestion: Nature in the city
Cow parsnip, a large native herb in the carrot family, growing along a trail in Mount Sutro Open Space, San Francisco.

Wäre ich 20 Jahre gesünder, wären deren Partys sicher reizvoll für mich.
https://sachsentrance.com/
Ich bin über das Interview …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBethDittoShow
Suzanne Vega:
🎵 Left Of Center
#SuzanneVega
https://djbiggh.bandcamp.com/track/suzanne-vega-left-of-center-dj-bigg-h-update
https://open.spotify.com/track/24vxZMHrjy9hGxzdTGCJBU

I've long felt that Charles (now King Charles) is basically a decent person who was brought up in uniquely strange, mind-twisting, circumstances that have left more than a few - I will be euphemistic - quirks.
But my respect for Charles has dropped considerably when I see him being friendly with our national monster, trump. It sort of reminds me of Chamberlain smiling next to Hitler.

Late in 2024, Elon Musk endorsed Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland. We document that after this, Tesla sales rose by up to 30 percent in right-leaning districts relative to left-leaning ones [..] Divestment in second-hand markets shows no partisan differences, consistent with resale requiring a larger identity cost from Tesla’s image shock than non-purchase. Our lower bound-estimate for the overall loss in Tesla sales is [..] worth at least €241 million."

So many things left to discover.
So few lives left.
💙💙🤍🤍🤍

Pink Flowering tree at Corner of Crescent: part of a series in my old 'Soviet Camera' style; I still can't get over how this April most of my photos have people in them and last April it was the other way around

don’t get left behind

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Alt-J:
🎵 Left Hand Free
#NowPlaying #AltJ
https://open.spotify.com/track/5qJqzpNdEbt92roedFwoDR

House and Senate Republicans have identified the enemy
— and it is one another.
A meltdown in relations between the two G.O.P.-led chambers caused the embarrassing collapse on Friday of a Senate-passed proposal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security before lawmakers raced out of town on a two-week recess.
It left no clear path for resolving the crisis that has led to airport chaos and workers without paychecks.
And with President Trump seemingly cheering on the…

G.O.P. Rift Leaves Congress With No Clear Path to End the Shutdown
The deadlock that left the Department of Homeland Security shuttered highlighted Republican divisions that are flaring ahead of the midterm elections.

Lions GM Brad Holmes open to moving star RT Penei Sewell to LT: 'You always have that flexibility' https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-gm-brad-holmes-open-moving-penei-sewell-left-ackle-you-always-have-that-flexibility

DHS confirms that Lewandowski left the department along with Noem (Eric Bazail-Eimil/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/27/dhs-lewandowski-left-with-noem-00849313
http://www.memeorandum.com/260327/p131#a260327p131

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

European Left Party: A Double Boost. The European Left Party’s practical value is measured by whether the decisions taken in Brussels lead to concrete action. By Uwe Sattler.
https://europa.blog/en/european-left-party-a-double-boost/

European Left Party: A Double Boost - Europa Blog
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7-Round Dallas Cowboys Mock Draft with Trades https://insidethestar.com/7-round-dallas-cowboys-mock-draft-with-trades

36.3 kWh solar output yesterday, another new record. Breaking records left and right as the weather gets nicer and the days longer.
Nowhere near enough to offset my 167 kWh daily consumption, of course, but I still managed to export 0.6 kWh of overproduction at peak.

Group of three women in No Kings crowd
Find more photos here: #photo

WATCH: Trump's Own Words Prove HE Is the Source of Most Violent Rhetoric, Not the Left
https://zeteo.com/p/watch-trumps-own-words-prove-he-is

Got a diagonal panorama of this redwood tree growing sideways in Reinhardt Redwood Park, Oakland, CA. Turn your phone about 30 degrees left to experience it properly.

Decompressing, right here, right now.
#nature #photography

Yes that’s Odo on the left

Billionaires Tax Closer To California Ballot--Here's Who Has Already Left (Mary Whitfill Roeloffs/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/04/27/billionaires-tax-closer-to-california-ballot-heres-who-has-already-left/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p117#a260427p117

Talks with Williams have 'intensified,' 49ers say https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48341158/49ers-john-lynch-positive-momentum-trent-williams-front

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

European Left: “We must Europeanise our successes.” Walter Baier, President of the Party of the European Left, on the opportunities and challenges facing progressive politics in Europe. By Uwe Sattler.
https://europa.blog/en/european-left-we-must-europeanise-our-succe…

European Left: “We must Europeanise our successes” - Europa Blog
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The draft is complete: What are the Cowboys' biggest questions now? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7238347/2026/04/29/cowboys-biggest-questions-george-pickens/

#ThickTrunkTuesday: Reinhardt Redwood Park, Oakland, CA

Hawaii is coming to grips with the extensive damage left by the worst flooding the islands have seen in more than 20 years.
Over the weekend, heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago,
forcing thousands on the North Shore of Oahu to evacuate before more evacuations for parts of the island of Maui.
The rains lifted houses and cars, inundated farms, swept through grocery stores and left a thick layer of mud in streets, homes and ga…

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

3 head-scratching offseason decisions for Cowboys, 3 great ones https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/05/29/3-head-scratching-offseason-decisions-for-cowboys-3-great-ones/90291…

Cosplay Runway: Spaceman, Chicken and Videographer with exoframe that supports his camera
#photo #photography #cosplay

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

3 burning questions hanging over Cowboys as offseason workouts begin https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/29/cowboys-offseason-workouts-three-questions/89836521007/

Tennessee death row prisoner
Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday
after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein
in a botched execution attempt that left Carruthers suffering and in pain for over an hour.
Nashville reporter Steven Hale attended the execution and describes his and fellow witnesses’ confusion as they heard the sounds of what Carruthers’s attorneys are calling “torture.”
Per Tennessee’s lethal i…

“He Was in Agony”: Tennessee Issues 1-Year Stay for Tony Carruthers After Botched Execution Attempt
Tennessee death row prisoner Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein in a botched execution attempt that left Carruthers suffering and in pain for over an hour. Nashville reporter Steven Hale attended the execution and describes his and fellow witnesses’ confusion as they heard the sounds of what Carruthers’s attorneys are calling “torture.” Per Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol, witne…

Barney Frank, entering hospice care, embarks on a final act: Taking on the left (Jasper Goodman/Politico)
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The elimination of nearly 55 million, Indigenous people in the Americas during European colonization
led to global climate change and the “Little Ice Age” of the 17th century, a recent study finds.

Researchers at University College Londonfound that the Great Dying
— the massive loss of life that followed Christopher Columbus’ 1492 conquest of the Americas through genocide and the spread of disease
— left roughly 56-million hectares of land abandoned.
“Thi…

‘Little Ice Age’ caused by death of 55-million Indigenous people after colonization: study
Colonization of the Americas at the end of the 15th century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate, according to a new study.

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