2026-05-09 23:40:58
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
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
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/
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…
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…
😢
#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
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Natalie Jane Hill:
🎵 Never Left Me
#NowPlaying #NatalieJaneHill
https://nataliejanehill.bandcamp.com/track/never-left-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mYV6uf5S0ChjFoLJWUJHI
@… @… 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
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
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
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…
> 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/
Roe deer bucks competing for territory this morning #photography #Dorset
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
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
"Mining in Oklahoma Left Toxic Wasteland Until Indigenous Tribe Brought it Back to Life"
#Oklahoma #Environment #Conservation
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.
Postglacial farming (2025)
(The last farm lands before the valley turns into a canyon and glacial landscape further up...)
#MountainMonday #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography
On the way to @…, again with @…; day two.
#tdose
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.
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
Two woman running a vendor booth at the Ithaca Festival, one with animal ears
#photo #photography #groupportrait
Apparently "CO2 is Plant Food" advocates ignore the other impacts of CO2 - such as extreme temperature and precipitation variability.
"Lollato estimates this year’s Kansas wheat production may be closer to 200m to 220m bushels, far below the 10-year average of 317m bushels, according to Kansas Wheat, an advocacy group. In 2023’s drought year, Kansas harvested 201m bushels, and 29% of planted acres went unharvested, the most since 1951."
‘The worst time for whe…
Apparently "CO2 is Plant Food" advocates ignore the other impacts of CO2 - such as extreme temperature and precipitation variability.
"Lollato estimates this year’s Kansas wheat production may be closer to 200m to 220m bushels, far below the 10-year average of 317m bushels, according to Kansas Wheat, an advocacy group. In 2023’s drought year, Kansas harvested 201m bushels, and 29% of planted acres went unharvested, the most since 1951."
‘The worst time for whe…
Excuse the mess, but there will be gaming/streaming _soon_...also broke out the Sony PVM-2530 which is an absolute unit even if there some slight color issues.
#gaming #streaming #retrogaming
Kenyan Court allows landmark BP toxic waste lawsuit to proceed https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/kenyan-court-allows-landmark-bp-toxic-waste-lawsuit-to-proceed/
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…
I4C Trouble with Daly and Wallace
"A brand new political podcast from Ireland's two best-known independent left wing MEPs, straight from the belly of the EU beast. Unfiltered by mainstream media they grapple with the problems at the very heart of the European project.
Vampires preying on humanity & the planet...the US military is the World's biggest threat ...we are joined by investigative journalist Abby Martin to discuss her mind-blowing film 'Earth's …
Mitch gets left holding the bomb
#DavidHasselhoff #AngieHarmon
Baywatch Nights 1x13 - Payback
#RandomBaywatch
The Ambassador for #Iran, Ardeshir Zahedi, hosted a party at the Iranian embassy 50 years ago, April, 1976. Sen. Edward Brooks (Mass) danced "The Hustle" w Elizabeth Taylor; Sen. Humphrey (Minnesota) and Sec. State Kissinger visited with Polly Bergen. Fargo Forum Newspaper. "It's Party Time" (AP)
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
Each year, about 400,000 international students are granted study visas to the UK. A significant proportion do so with the help of education agents: middlemen paid by universities to find foreign students. In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents - but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate.
Internet Archive: Aadams Jacob Collection
No tapes left behind
#bootlegme
https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection
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.
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
Decent overview of why people will say "Britain's infrastructure is state owned, just not by the British state".
There's so much anger over the energy situation in the UK, and the right wing press has, to some extent, managed to channel it into resentment against "green policies" rather than economic policy.
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
@… right to left is diabolical!!
A nice reminder that @… just shared :)
#ArtemisII
Human Traces - 1000 Gens Pilgrimage ⛩️
人类踪迹 - 萬代瞻仰 ⛩️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky LUCKY SHD 400 (6x6)
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“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.”
This is insane. I read few days ago how Dawa Sherpa was left behind on Everest. He was considered dead and nobody was sent to rescue him because the mountain had been closed already (late in season).
He found his way back alone after 6 days
#everest
There is exactly one killer feature left.
Code search.
Nobody else really nails that for your entire company-wide code search, unless you structure carefully to enable it.
Good lord, he's not a hero for backing down on his own nuclear threats. I'm sick of reading celebratory headlines about the "ceasefire." And I thought I read news sources that were a bit more left-center.
Can we impeach and remove him in 2 weeks? Can we invoke the 25th in 2 weeks? Or will the war crimes continue? Any path of removal is going to be such a narrow path, but it's all we have.
Everyone is just waiting on the midterms. News flash, he's going t…
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It's an incredible thing to have something in my head and then in my hands, or seeing myself wear it in a mirror. It was even more surreal to imagine a space and then be standing in that thing from my imagination.
It still feels a bit hard to believe seeing photos from #Neotropolis last week - this place that people have these cool photos from is the place that previously existed onl…
OK, I have a horrible bug in `read`, which seems to be looping on the first character after a left parenthesis -- and I can't see why. But I got only four hours sleep last night and I am not taking enough care of my body, so it's time to stop work for the day, have a bath, and rest.
(Yes, I have voted).
#SelfCare
Good morning.
#goodmorning #bayern #bavaria
"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
UnHerd magazine, a hard-right magazine funded by Paul Marshall, has no time for free speech. It has a nasty piece belittling David Attenborough. I left a comment saying that the article was typical of the hard right's miserabilist sourpussery.
The comment has been deleted -childish miserabilists!
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/
Brian Schottenheimer says Cowboys have competition at left tackle https://insidethestar.com/brian-schottenheimer-says-cowboys-have-competition-at-left-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 …
Spring on the green roof.
#BloomScrolling
A Complete Characterization of Finite-Order Entire Solutions to Fermat-Type Partial Differential-Difference Systems in $\mathbb{C}^n$
Sujoy Majumder, Jhilik Banerjee, Abhijit Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05240 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.05240 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.05240
arXiv:2606.05240v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The primary objective of this paper is to determine the explicit existence form and structure of finite-order entire solutions in $\mathbb{C}^n$ of the following system of Fermat-type partial differential-difference equations: \[\begin{cases} \left(\frac{\partial f_1\left(z\right)}{\partial z_1}\right)^{n_1} (f_2 \left(z c\right)-f_1(z) )^{m_1}= 1,
\medskip \left(\frac{\partial f_2\left(z\right)}{\partial z_1}\right)^{n_2} (f_1 \left(z c \right)-f_2(z) )^{m_2}= 1, \end{cases}\]
for different choices of the positive integers $n_1$, $n_2$, $m_1$, and $m_2$, where $c=(c_1,c_2,\ldots,c_n)$. We characterize the precise structure of finite-order transcendental entire solutions and extend the results of Xu et al. \cite{XLL1} from the setting of $\mathbb{C}^2$ to the more general space $\mathbb{C}^m$. In addition, several examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and sharpness of the main results.
toXiv_bot_toot
Anyone else got strong #Simpsons vibes when #ArtemisIII commander Randy Bresnik received an #InanimateRod, err, baton from Artemis II commander Reid Wisemann at the end of today's revelation event? Image on left a cropped still from the clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wavTKo1gH8 (and see https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-marches-toward-artemis-iii-mission-in-2027-names-crew-members/ and https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/ESA_astronaut_Luca_Parmitano_joins_NASA_s_Artemis_III_mission_as_pilot about the event).
As a person who goes out as-a-fox most days I just love seeing kemonomimi at events like the Ithaca Festival
#photo #photography #ithaca
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
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A Tribe Called Quest feat. Norman Cook:
🎵 I Left My Wallet In El Segundo
#NowPlaying #ATribeCalledQuest #NormanCook
https://open.spotify.com/track/6aeht0QSwiZN1esYfniHxr
An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted in what appeared to be a politically motivated shooting over a proposed data center in the city (Kiki Intarasuwan/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indianapolis-councilor-ron-gibson…
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…
Mailbag: Which is more important, guard or tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-which-is-more-important-guard-or-tackle
So far #kitsunekamen has the rule that we only talk with the mask up until we've got a voice ready which is 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 different
#photo #photography
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
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
"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
Mailbag: Which is more important, guard or tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-which-is-more-important-guard-or-tackle
Trump on boos: NBA 'a little left wing,' but 'great' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/sports-gaming/5915942-donald-trump-nba-finals-new-york-response-boos/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p46#a260609p46
“The circus has left the town square, that’s for sure,” said Brian Reisinger, a former Republican strategist in Wisconsin.
On Tuesday, voters in Wisconsin will choose another justice to join the State Supreme Court.
Except this election has arrived with little of the fanfare that Wisconsin voters have come to expect from these court races:
the national frenzy, a cameo from a tech billionaire, incessant television ads, partisan debates and a deluge of campaign cash.
M…
🤩 My son Elliot standing on a fence post and making the hand gesture from 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟
#photo #photography #elliot #portrait
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
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
The #ArtemisII picture I had been waiting for - the dark Moon with a bit of #earthshine on the left in front of the #zodiacalLight going all around: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009301 (this is essentially the Apollo 11 image from 1969 - https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl - again but with the Sun more centered ... and with half a century of photo tech inbetween).
Given the ease with which many of Trump's false statements are debunked,
I think it's unlikely that he aims to deceive anyone.
No one really believes that Trump has stopped eight wars, defeated inflation, brought gasoline prices below US$2, cut a deal with the CEO of Sharpie or has 100% approval for his military incursion in Iran – all things he has said.
As he is not attempting to deceive, Trump isn't lying when he makes such claims. Rather, he is doing someth…
Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern
Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern
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…
Are Latter-day Saints Christian? The U.S. Defense Department doesn't appear to think so. (Tamarra Kemsley/Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/06/06/lds-church-left-off-defense/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260606/p32#a260606p32
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
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
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
Cowboys Tyler Guyton Shuts Down Injury Controversy Amid Benching Talk https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-guyton-bench-injury-narrative/
Mailbag: Time to evaluate left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-time-to-evaluate-left-tackle
Mailbag: Time to evaluate left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-time-to-evaluate-left-tackle
Cowboys Still Have Big Offensive Question Mark After NFL Draft https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/left-tackle-tyler-guyton-drew-shelton/