2026-04-18 20:47:49
No.7) Who is the Week 1 starting left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/no-7-who-is-the-week-1-starting-left-tackle
Secretary of State Marco Rubio
and top White House adviser Stephen Miller
are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations.
The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit
“on the resurgence of political terrorism,”
where Miller described the LEFT as
“enemies of civilization”
and described efforts to
“disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.”
Rubio …
The Avant-Garde Never Left: Robert Hughes Described the Revolution and Then Declared It Over
Robert Hughes wanted it both ways. In the final moments of "The Shock of the New," his landmark 1980 BBC series on modern art, he declared the avant-garde dead and then, in the same breath, described its beating heart. He told us that the radical project of art was finished, that the market had swallowed it whole, that the institutions had filed its teeth down to nothing.
Why (and how) UPS trucks (almost) never turn left.
The policy started in the 1970s and is implemented by a dedicated software since 2004.
Its impact on workers’ political opinions remains unknown. ☺️
https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/world/ups-trucks-no-left-turns
No.7) Who is the Week 1 starting left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/no-7-who-is-the-week-1-starting-left-tackle
Barney Frank's Second Coming Out (James Kirchick/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/barney-frank-book-left-trans-rights/687192/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p35#a260517p35
New NERDS publication on right-wing votes and bike network delays
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/07/17/new-nerds-publication-on-right-wing-votes-and-bike-network-delays/
Added Power Grips (pedal straps) to my wife's #Brompton. Not going to say it's my nicest work, but I'm hopeful that it'll hold. I only drilled holes through the plastic reflectors; the metal is all intact. I can change that later if needed. #BikeTooter
"World Cup tickets are crazy expensive, so this airline built a campaign around it"
https://www.famouscampaigns.com/2026/05/world-cup-tickets-are-crazy-expensive-so-this-airline-built-a-campaign-around-it/
After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-aft…
It’s Monday morning. Three days left to work this week. Then a long weekend off. Going to be busy though. Final garage clearout on Thursday, and then waste collection coming on Friday. It will be good to have a cleared-out garage, and front yard too! The only thing left will be how to get rid of all the old paint.
I've noticed how people who are 'left' in their politics are happy to identify themselves that way. People on the 'right', however, seldom identify themselves that way, as it tends to reflect poorly on them - 'right' connotes selfish, bigoted, greedy, mean, cold, ignorant, religious, pragmatic rather than principled... I propose we adopt new terms for the political spectrum rather than 'left'<->'right', namely 'noble'<->'ign…
I’m about to board a train again. This time it goes through the left side of the country, so there will be no usable internet.
A delicious treat to sweeten this #Monday: the bum of Perseus, sculpted by Benvenuto Cellini ca. 1545–1554 CE.
#BumDayMonday
#RenaissanceArt
Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying
“anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as
indicators of radical left violence.
Called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7,
it’s being referred to as “NSPM-7” by administration insiders.
“This is the first time in American history that there is an
all-of-government effort to dismantle left wing terrorism,”
Trump’s homeland security advisor Stephen Miller said,
What's left from SCOTUS, and when to expect it
https://www.lawdork.com/p/whats-left-from-scotus
So much has happened in cyberworld since Friday, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Leaders warn that AI bug hunting outpaces humanity’s ability to defend systems,
--Malware strain Fast16 sabotaged nuclear weapons development years before Stuxnet surfaced,
--Grafana Labs rejected hackers' extortion demand,
--DeFi protocol Verus lost nearly $12m in ongoing exploit,
Dallas Cowboys Make Interesting Left Tackle Change Worth Monitoring at Minicamp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-make-left-tackle-change-worth-monitoring-minicamp
A #waymo in front of me just signaled right then changed lanes to the left.
Sooo safe! Robots never make mistakes! 🫠
Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
In this key by-election, it is essential to defeat Reform Ltd. That means putting aside reservations about Burnham.
Other left parties, in this case, must stand aside
Andy Burnham faces perilous race to win Makerfield byelection, allies say | Labour | The Guardian
htt…
<heart breaking heart breaking heart breaking> 😢
▶️ No One Could Get Near Her…Then Someone Left This Comment
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oSQu58vw4jQ&si=RJe-jiaRoiLL22mN
This article has the merit of showing that academics don’t have to adopt genAI uncritically, but it treats the uncritical adoption as the default, portraying those that take a more reflective approach as “refusing to use generative AI.”
Shouldn’t the burden of proof be on the AI advocates? And shouldn’t academics’ arguments go beyond regurgitating the companies’ advertising and trite claims of “it’s the future, use it or you’ll get left behind”?
This article has the merit of showing that academics don’t have to adopt genAI uncritically, but it treats the uncritical adoption as the default, portraying those that take a more reflective approach as “refusing to use generative AI.”
Shouldn’t the burden of proof be on the AI advocates? And shouldn’t academics’ arguments go beyond regurgitating the companies’ advertising and trite claims of “it’s the future, use it or you’ll get left behind”?
This article has the merit of showing that academics don’t have to adopt genAI uncritically, but it treats the uncritical adoption as the default, portraying those that take a more reflective approach as “refusing to use generative AI.”
Shouldn’t the burden of proof be on the AI advocates? And shouldn’t academics’ arguments go beyond regurgitating the companies’ advertising and trite claims of “it’s the future, use it or you’ll get left behind”?
Still don't know what's happening with the wee one. There was a MEETING today but we haven't heard the results yet. I am leaving for Civic in an hour, and husband was planning to drop my friend and me off at the nearest Rapid bus stop before making his way north to pick up the wee one from preschool. Left a message at CYF explaining our movements and that we need to know what's been decided (if anything) but haven't heard anything yet. Interesting times.
On Website Technicals (2019-08) - Tech updates: maybe lazy, spatial coverage and Google Maps, goodbye JSON, long path wrapped, podcasts, links out and left float. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-27.html
(LinkedIn) In a review of 55 cases of cortical blindness, vivid imagery was repeatedly preserved despite complete or near-complete bilateral V1 damage. When imagery was impaired, lesions extended beyond V1, often into ventral temporal cortex. https://www.
A happy, explorative trip in the sun! 🌞 🌼
(Only interrupted every 40m by a high-risk, life-or-death situation, where anytime an #SUV could have exited and crushed her. 🤷 )
#urbanplanning #parenting
IMPRS doctoral researcher Meghna Dutta and her colleagues happily presenting their posters with possible Master thesis projects at the CIDAS market place on Göttingen Campus today. Meghna made a great poster, and the group is thrilled by all the exciting discussions they are having with students!
#GWDG #CIDAS
And it is a bloated, hard to use product. We moved to Adobe PDF from Foxit. Every boot it launches its crap to ensure you have a license. Multiple popups. Scanning the indexes stalls for 30 to sixty seconds just about every click. When I rebuild the documentation indexes after a release now takes several days where Foxit did it in an hour. And that is on a gigabit network. When on VPN it takes a full five days.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Left Cross:
🎵 The Blood of Mars
#LeftCross
https://open.spotify.com/track/1i6d9KAcg7EA60bWIwJlk9
Wonderfully grown-up from Ken Loach about Your Party https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/17/ken-loach-your-party-infighting-jeremy-corbyn-zarah-sultana but the @…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Avalanches:
🎵 Since I Left You
#NowPlaying #TheAvalanches
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DgFCys3XMrWZDngu1CrRy
Worried about the "violent rhetoric of the left", while the US government releases an image of what it would look like if they nuked Ireland, presumably to convey a threat.
"President #Trump lost. The war he waged against Iran promises to conclude in a humbling whimper with the signing of a cease-fire agreement later this week. The United States is left weaker—diminished militarily, strategically, economically, and perhaps morally." THE ATLANTIC
Sources: Ramtin Arablouei, co-host and cofounder of NPR podcast Throughline, left the network after it opened an investigation into his workplace conduct (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/business/media/npr-pod…
Does no-one at Anthropic test the iPad app? [1] It can’t be sized smaller than 2/3rds of the screen, and it’s lost the ability to show chats from other devices in the left nav — you gotta go to ‘Chats’ and pick it manually!
[1] Does *anyone* test their iPad App? 🤔
For the #Housemarque and #Returnal sickos out there:
1. I named my personal Mac “Helios”
2. Find My now gives me ‘“Helios” left behind’ notifications
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Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/star-google-ai-researcher-shazeer-j…
"DB will let you down. It will also, more often than the internet would have you believe, deliver you eight hours of clean uninterrupted thinking time at 250 km/h across a country, drop you within walking distance of your next meeting, and occasionally reroute you down the left bank of the Rhine at golden hour as an apology. The trick is to plan for the first and enjoy the second.'
The most useful hints I've ever seen for our summer holiday planning...
https://blog.hofstede.it/a-field-manual-for-three-years-on-deutsche-bahn/
"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
The tiny group (1)4489 now center left during Thursday's Bochum #sunset - later timesteps in https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mqsbwv6ctk2k
Der Duft von Sonnenuntergang und Blüten
Das auf dem Foto war heute einer der „schlimmeren“ Radwege - einmal quer durch Montpellier, vom Süden in den Norden und weiter bis Jacou. Wir sind fast durchgängig wie in Kopenhagen auf geschützten Radwegen inklusive geschützter Kreisverkehre geradelt, haben ein bisschen navigiert, und unterhalten, die Aussichten genossen und einen genossen hier und jetzt zu radeln.
Schon stark was Montpellier, Copenhagenize und 3M hier geschaffen haben und …
#LeftWordle fans:
I have a page up at https://left-wordle.com/retire-words.html that contains my approximation of the current NYT Wordle's answer list.
If you're interested in …
Trump Calls Xi a 'Friend.' But He Left China Without Any Breakthroughs. (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/world/europe/trump-xi-china-summit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260516/p38#a260516p38
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Pet Shop Boys:
🎵 Left to My Own Devices (Introspective Extended Version)
#PetShopBoys
https://djsonixx.bandcamp.com/track/pet-shop-boys-left-to-my-own-devices-ext-intro-orig-remix-v-2-127-bpm
https://open.spotify.com/track/4bwXQApS6ZupSiwUa4otmQ
»Align to page«. And then the object snaps on either 0.07cm or -0.02cm off the left page border. Microsoft Office, enterprise grade software. #uxfromhell
Ray drops a VERY sobering look at Xbox's business. In 2018, Xbox acquired dozens of studios to create compelling games to drive Xbox & Xbox Game Pass.
After 8yrs, what have they got to show for it?
Now you know why they're cutting game studios left & right.
▶️ What is going on at Xbox today?? - Xbox Ready
Some people are born heroic - others have heroism thrust upon them. I didn't wake up this morning and decide that I was going to be a hero, but then again, that's kinda what heroes do. They wake up and then end up doing some heroic shit.
#EveryonesAHeroInTheirOwnWay #Shitpost
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
When I was first learning to write,
my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror.
Being left-handed, I was imitating the hand strokes of my right-handed teachers instead of reversing their strokes to replicate the letters.
I gradually got the hang of writing in the correct direction, but it still feels natural for me to mirror-write.
I have a mirror-written childhood diary. Leonardo da Vinci, another lefty, did that too
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Woods:
🎵 Moving to the Left
#Woods
https://open.spotify.com/track/74NCGV3sWtLtub4p4b1BRe
I was on Drivetime on RTÉ Radio One yesterday discussing the main points of my campaign.
Working people are being crushed with the cost of living and housing crises.
We need to:
• Ban evictions
• Ban short-term lets
• Build a state run construction company
• Price caps and fuel and energy
• Defend our neutrality
• Full sanctions on Israel
Vote Denman Rooke no. 1 and then transfer Left to the other candidates in the Vote Left Transfer Left…
Travis Kelce swan song? What to expect from Chiefs tight end in potential final season
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/travis-kelce-2026-projection-chiefs-te-nfl-season/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116755666523818234
I went to see it last night with my son. I left the movie thinking that this might have worked 10-20 years ago, but not today. It was a good movie, I guess. Nothing I'd want to see again.
I remember speaking to someone who, maybe a decade ago, worked at a ride share app company.
They left shortly after a meeting in which the company was looking at ways to slow cities from investing in their public transport.
On its face a business or technology might not be objectionable, but there's an inevitability to the direction that investment demands.
The Substance IV 🧪
某种物质 IV 🧪
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Stephen Miller railed:
“The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy.
The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred.
The leftist looks at a perfect family with a perfect life and a perfect job and a perfect kid and goes to church every Sunday.”
Miller also dismissed concerns about civil rights abuses by the administration.
“One of the hallmarks of leftwing violence and te…
Here's @… with an extraordinary story of honesty and community solidarity from within #Gaza
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fred again..:
🎵 Last 1s Left
#Fredagain
The 570-megapixel #DarkEnergyCamera (DECam) has captured a vibrant scene, filled with swirls and stars reminiscent of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2617/ - this new cosmic masterpiece features glowing nebula NGC 6729 on the left and globular star cluster NGC 6723 on the right.
The exit of Eric Swalwell from the California governor's race changed the playing field
The latest poll by Emerson College shows Steyer and Becerra gaining steam,
picking up supporters that Swalwell left behind.
The poll is the first one since Swalwell dropped out of the race.
The economy is #1 issue among 41% of the voters, followed by housing affordability at 20% and threats to democracy at 10%, with crime and immigration each at 6%.
Sources: 50 researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex…
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…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Murkage Dave & KONOPINKSY:
🎵 Generation Left on Read
#MurkageDave #KONOPINKSY
https://murkagedave.bandcamp.com/album/generation-left-on-read
https://open.spotify.com/track/4fZWZkdfQoI2T5tCzGFOla
A profile of Hany Farid, the world's leading deepfake expert, who recently left the Bay Area for Vermont.
"I can’t stand this place anymore... These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d
I was interviewed by a British film student about political activism in Germany and why the German left youth is doing activism differently than in the UK or the USA!
🔗 https://youtu.be/AXTpoPwJHbk
Feel free to watch 🚩
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To some extent, Mohamed Hussein knew he was preparing to enter the lion’s den.
But he made the decision to attend the Republican Party of Texas Convention
to confirm for himself that he had a place in the GOP,
even as members of the party have railed for months about the urgency of ending Sharia Law and the so-called “Islamification” of Texas.
What he found was a party that didn’t want him.
He arrived with hope but left in tears after being told explicitly that …
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
Cowboys $96 Million Star Makes Feelings Clear on Position Change https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-smith-left-tackle-guyton/
Sources: Jensen Huang was left out of President Trump's China trip to avoid unwanted scrutiny and awkward conversations about the sale of Nvidia chips to China (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/12/2026/nvidia-snubb…
Cowboys Called Out for ‘Competition’ at Key Position https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-guyton-competition-position/
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
Cowboys Center Out For the Season After Neck Surgery https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/matt-hennessy-season-over-neck-injury/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Natalie Jane Hill:
🎵 Never Left Me
#NatalieJaneHill
https://nataliejanehill.bandcamp.com/track/never-left-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mYV6uf5S0ChjFoLJWUJHI
Sundar Pichai faced a walkout at his Stanford commencement speech, as 100 students left amid chants of "Free, free Palestine" over Google's ties with Israel (Zain Khan/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/14/us-ne…
Cowboys ‘Competition’ Called Into Question as Training Camp Looms https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-competition-called-into-question-as-training-camp-looms/
A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears. (Renzo Downey/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/texas-republican-party-convention-muslims-sharia-law/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260615/p90#a260615p90
Databento, which sells financial data feeds, raised a $97M Series B led by NEA, taking its total funding to $127M, and says it is "profitable every month" (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortu…
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
They were all sitting unprotected at public URLs, with no password or access control of any sort.
If I sent you a link, you could have looked at someone’s passport.
“We have to do something about it as fast as possible, because people will find this and resell it.
It will do damage,”
Sammy Azdoufal told me in May.
Azdoufal is the security researcher who used Claude Code…
Cowboys Sign Former Raiders Starting Edge Rusher https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/charles-snowden-signed-defensive-end/
Nate Thomas opens up about Cowboys' open competition at left tackle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/nate-thomas-opens-up-about-cowboys-open-competition-at-left-tackle
Rep. Harriet Hageman insists that there is no racism on the right
and that the Aryan Nation, Nazis, and KKK are all "far-left groups"
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/rep-harriet-hageman-insists-there-no-racism-right…
Nate Thomas opens up about Cowboys' open competition at left tackle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/nate-thomas-opens-up-about-cowboys-open-competition-at-left-tackle