2026-05-04 18:42:53
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…
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…
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
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
Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern
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…
"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
Steps Into The Unknown (2025)
(Actually a lie, since this was taken on the way back, just before sunset, but it was "into the unknown" a six hours earlier... These steps of the only partially secured path are leading up to around 100 meters above/along the increasingly more steep and narrow canyon. The rocks/slopes on the left go up almost another 2000m [out of view, of course]...)
#FootpathFriday
Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern
Old Railroad bed converted to trail by Massabesic Lake east of Manchester, NH where I wandered as a cub
#photo #photography #landscape
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.
Small Businesses Are Being Left Out of Tariff Refund Process, CBP Data Suggests (Layla A. Jones/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/small-businesses-are-being-left-out-of-tariff-refund-process-cbp-data-suggests
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p118#a260403p118
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rania40/116517972054512560
Can any of you help Aya with the remainder of her fees for university? She has ~€162 left to pay.
She’s part of our team at Gaza Verified and volunteers to help run our verification calls to hel…
Have been waiting for the siren test all morning but still nearly jumped out of my skin - especially as colleagues had helpfully left half a dozen mobile phones on their desks in the open office...
😱
Cowboys Confirm 2-Man Competition at Left Tackle: 'We're Going to Make Tyler Earn it' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-competition-left-tackle-tyler-guyton-nate-thomas
I wonder if Wallace Shawn’s political views were shaped by his role as The Nagus on DS9.
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/wallace-shawn-socialism-theater-class
Tyler Guyton, Cowboys' 2024 first-round pick, competing with Nathan Thomas for starting LT job https://www.nfl.com/news/tyler-guyton-nathan-thomas-cowboys-starting-left-tackle-competition
Since coming back from Germany for HARRIS I've been chasing a weird issue on my ThunderScope 100baseT1 test setup.
Before leaving for HARRIS I unplugged the TS, left the rest of the setup untouched, and brought the TS with me to demo to people while traveling.
After coming back the TS appears fine (passed calibration, and gives good-looking eyes on 100baseTX).
But when hooked back to the same, theoretically unmodified baseT1 test setup, I get weird diagonal distortion, …
#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
Rainbow in Horseshoe Park. September 2004.
Fish and Octopus by Itō Jakuchū, from Doshoku Sai-e (Colorful Realm of Living Beings), c. 1765
(Thanks to @… for alerting me to this one!)
#ItōJakuchū #Japan
There are 26 days left until I need to get the bike out of winter storage. I hope spring comes soon. 🏍
Also — two days.
https://bsky.app/profile/lflegal.bsky.social/post/3ml2enyfjp22t
That post points to endorsements at
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Alt-J:
🎵 Left Hand Free
#NowPlaying #AltJ
https://varsityvocals.bandcamp.com/track/left-hand-free-murder-opb-alt-j-justin-timberlake-feat-jay-z-ithacappella
https://open.spotify.com/track/5qJqzpNdEbt92roedFwoDR
Reed Hastings departs Netflix's board following the June 4 annual shareholders meeting; Jay Hoag, Netflix's lead independent director, is named chairman (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/netflix-board-reed-hastings-jay…
#OTD 2010
She likes to note that learning Korean from K-pop and her mother left her with an odd, anachronistic idiom — a hodgepodge that includes both early 2000s colloquialisms and expressions that fell out of fashion in the 1970s.
„It’s difficult to work out who the anti-Israel leftists or right-wing groypers are because their language is now indistinguishable“
https://spectator.com/article/rise-of-the-leftist-groypers/
Tyler Guyton reacts to Cowboys opening up left tackle competition https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-guyton-reacts-to-cowboys-opening-up-left-tackle-competition
Rice’s whales existed before humans. Now Trump could make them extinct https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/05/rice-whales-extinction-trump-gulf-mexico
#np nowhere left to run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH_Fusf01Tg
> Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDSnowhere left to run · Remy van KesterenAn alternative soundtrack to the motion picture...℗ 2…
Today we welcomed Dr. Ramanuj Banerjee, Counselor for Science and Technology at the Indian Embassy in Germany, and representatives from Göttingen International at the University of Göttingen to MPS. It was a wonderful opportunity to present our research and discuss collaborations between scientists from India, Göttingen, and within the Max Planck Society. Thank you very much for visiting!!!
In the photo, from left to right: Netra Bhandari (Director of the India Office, University of Gö…
Any experts in domain names here?
I’m stuck in limbo. My domain left name.com but is not showing up on the new registrar
The weirdest thing? The Whois is showing PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com
But that’s not where I transferred it (I sent it to whc.ca)
Did name.com fuck up and sent it to the wrong place? How do I get it back?
#DomainRegistration
The #Württemberg Mausoleum in #Stuttgart on a spring day. TV tower is in the background (the left one).
0 days since my tooth cracked, and I wasn't even eating anything hard. I was honestly hoping that now that my #diabetes is settled the teeth problem are over, but alas. Hopefully it was badly damaged in the past, and just reached its limit now, and it won't be followed by more anytime soon. Now waiting for it to crack completely, and hopefully there will be enough left to rebuild something.
Almost exact repeat of April 4, 1976 winter storm in the #Fargo #Moorhead area: April 4, 2026 (left); news report in Forum newspaper from 50 years ago (right). #Minnesota
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/
Lots of progress and a lots of pain. However, all of the Sisyphus modules have been implemented and I'm currently running a test across the `2.0.0b2` version. The most painful thing I fought was literally tailing a log file. Got lazy and brought in `hpcloud/tail` because it did what I needed it to, but what it _didn't_ do was work well for my application. After a day or two of battling it, I removed it and went with `bufio.NewReader`and a nice `context.CloseWith` setup and now it…
We had family visiting for a few days last week, including a one year old boy who is very fond of dogs. Izzy is a cautious rescue dog, but she warmed up to the toddler. After about two days, the toddler would walk up to Izzy and bend over so his face was close to Izzy and she would give him a kiss. When they left after four days, I think Izzy was sad to see him go. #DogsofMastodon
Primaries are tomorrow, #Tennessee!
(Please don’t DM me if your voter registration is messed up, images are from a third-party social post)
#TN #Vote
Hi. You've reached the level cap of cuteness for today. You can turn off the internet now. 😌
#photography #dogs #sea
Wondering why the left is split in SF’s Congressional race to replace Nancy Pelosi? This is by far the best overview I’ve seen: https://jacobin.com/2026/06/sf-congress-election-chan-chakrabarti
These works are stunning. This one in particular struck me.
#Art #Sculpture #ThatIsntStyrofoam
Cowboys' Left Tackle Competition is Exactly Why They Need Taylor Decker https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-left-tackle-competition-exactly-why-they-need-taylor-decker
bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 402660 nodes and 69679427 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://
There's a phenomenon I've experienced multiple times where I've been asked to look at a failed system, and the cause turned out to be a service component billing annually to a credit card that was cancelled when an employee left.
Anyway, I'm sure that won't happen to all the vibe-coded tools that will eventually become load bearing.
Pagoda 7️⃣
浮屠 7️⃣
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Red 125 (FF)
If you like my work, buy me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal #filmphotography
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…
Kolton Miller's Leadership Going Long Way in Raiders' New System https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-kolton-miller-leadership-going-long-way-new-system
At #ARVO2026, Wednesday May 6: The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device (SSD) for the blind evokes stronger visual cortex activity than a tongue display unit (TDU), for both early blind and late blind people https://mas.…
Shipping Firms Left Guessing by Confusion in Strait of Hormuz (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/business/trump-hormuz-shipping-companies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f1A.Hksl.j1mz9l07k22f&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p84#a260504p84
AstraZeneca pulls critical breast cancer and endometriosis drug Zoladex from [Australian] shelves - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-04/breast-cancer-endometriosis-drug-zoladex-discontinued/106726158 - what…
Doggo understands what I should be doing right now. #dogs #dogsofmastodon
Thinking more about energy upgrades in the lab: i have a 2U that just acts as a host for a bunch of FPGA devkits to run jtag/uart hosts etc.
I can shut it down if I can manage to connect the relevant USB devices to the VM server (and if they work in passthrough).
The problem is that the cable is going to have to go from the bottom of the rack at right up and over into the tray and down to the rack at left before reaching the hub.
What are the odds of this working well with …
Cowboys OTAs notebook: George Pickens' status for minicamp, plus true competition at left tackle, more
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-otas-george-pickens-minicamp-status/…
Being sick for 3 weeks, I feel like I lost a month of my life. Like, March just kind of disappeared and I'm not at all ready for summer.
Also, my kids are now sick again and my wife just left for a 2 week work trip, if I get sick again I'm going to absolutely lose my shit.
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Thundercat:
🎵 What Is Left To Say
#NowPlaying #Thundercat
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://thundercat.bandcamp.com/track/what-is-left-to-say
https://open.spotify.com/track/3enDijqNJTZuAQpj1Jm6q6
A look at nonprofit VTDigger, which has been operating at a loss since 2022 and is seeking its third EIC in just over a year after tough union negotiations (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/02/business/vtdigger-departu…
> 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
Viel Spaß mit den KI-Agenten
„It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder.“
Claude-powered AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’
https…
A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/01/2026/c-suite-exodus-at-boston-dynamics
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/
Cowboys Still Have Big Offensive Question Mark After NFL Draft https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/left-tackle-tyler-guyton-drew-shelton/
At this year’s French Open, the air is particularly thick with tension.
After a tournament of shocks and upsets, only five top-10 seeds and one Grand Slam champion are left across the men’s and women’s draws.
The stakes always get higher deeper into a tournament, but the openness of this year’s draw further complicates matters.
Lower-ranked players are facing unusual situations with less formidable foes in their way,
and with that comes expectation.
A less forebo…
Why Democrats are suddenly winning back the left -- and the "double-haters" (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-05-sunday-roundup
http://www.memeorandum.com/260405/p5#a260405p5
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
Urban Illusions and Fallacies - A Day In The Park IV ⛲️
城市的幻影和谬误 - 公园的一天 IV ⛲️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal https://paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
I left the house nine and a half hours ago. I am extremely tired and glad that I didn't find poop on the floor.
Seahawks Receive Clear Warning Ahead of 2026 NFL Draft https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/clear-warning-ahead-2026-nfl-draft/
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116698495070193661
If the plan is that only outlets that can earn enough from ads and subscriptions will stay afloat,
we'll be left with a small handful of outlets and the same situation we had back in the 1800s
-- where only…
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/…
Obama judge clears left-wing group to fly ominous flag aimed at Trump on his own turf (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-judge-clears-left-wing-group-fly-ominous-flag-aimed-trump-his-own-turf
http://www.memeorandum.com/260602/p91#a260602p91
Mailbag: Time to evaluate left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-time-to-evaluate-left-tackle
foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Mailbag: Time to evaluate left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-time-to-evaluate-left-tackle
Trump says he doesn't know whether the $1.8 billion payout fund is dead (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/03/trump-blames-radical-left-judge-demise-payout-fund/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p5#a260604p5
49ers LT Trent Williams believes 2027 season will 'probably' be his last https://www.nfl.com/news/49ers-lt-trent-williams-believes-2027-season-will-probably-be-his-last
Snow surveys taking place across the American west this week are offering a grim prognosis,
after a historically warm winter and searing March temperatures left the critical snowpack at record-low levels across the region.
Experts warned that even as the heat begins to subside, the stunning pace of melt-off over the past month has left key basins in uncharted territory for the dry seasons ahead.
Though there’s still potential for more snow in the forecast, experts said it wi…
Seahawks QB Sam Darnold: Not much of a 'transition' under new OC Brian Fleury https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-qb-sam-darnold-not-much-of-a-transition-under-new-oc-brian-fleury
Cowboys' Left Tackle Competition Could Emerge During Offseason Program https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-left-tackle-competition-could-emerge-offseason-program
Blake could barely make a living illustrating other people’s work, and it left no time for his own art.
He yearned for a different technique that could achieve the same result in less time and with less toil.
No such technique existed.
So he invented it.
Rather than cut the shapes onto the plates with his sharp steel burin, he painted directly onto the copper with a quill or brush dipped in acid-resistant varnish, then bathed the plates in acid, which stripped a layer …
Jim Schwartz on why he left the Browns: 'A forced marriage isn't going to work' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7328818/2026/06/03/jim-schwartz-browns-head-coach-departure/
Dems went safe in swing seats -- and hard left in some blue ones (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/03/democrats-future-what-we-learned-primaries-00947987
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p6#a260603p6
Let’s say you’re diagnosed with a terminal illness, and your doctor gives you a time frame:
five years, two years, six months to live.
What would you do next?
Perhaps you get your affairs in order,
spend as much time as you can with loved ones,
or tackle a bucket list (as your health permits).
What happens, then, when the estimated end date comes and goes?
Bruce Deachman speaks with people who have experienced exactly this:
people who are …
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
The neoconservatives,
who dominated the Pentagon and the White House after 9/11
believed the US could use force to remake the Middle East,
and their project left us with two enduring concepts that still shape American military power and politics today:
creative chaos and strategic deception.
These are the intellectual doctrines of neoconservatism,
an ideology that bears constant re-examination.
Legacy One: Creative chaos
The intellectual arch…
Cowboys’ Brian Schottenheimer Delivers Blunt Challenge to Struggling Starter https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brian-schottenheimer-tyler-guyton/
Tyler Guyton Has One Job For the Cowboys in 2026 https://insidethestar.com/tyler-guyton-has-one-job-in-2026
Brian Schottenheimer has a decision to make on Jerry Jones’ former first-round pick https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/brian-schottenheimer-faces-call-jerry-jones-first-round-pick/a61…
Struggling Former 1st-Rounder Responds to Competition for Playing Time https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-guyton-nfl-offseason-workouts-news-brian-schottenheimer/