Gorton and Denton - a rough vote analysis.
Green vote gain (10,200) was 2,000 short of Lib/Left reductions
Reform vote gain (5400) 3250 more than Tory reduction.
Suggests broadly that Greens got the Lib/Left votes and Reform the Tory ones, but some Labour went to Reform.
However the stay at homes likely to have been different population each time, with Greens mobilising former abstentions and Labour having more abstensions this time.
Very similar turnout 2024 and 2…
The Department of Homeland Security was caught lying Thursday about ⚠️ abandoning a blind refugee who was later found dead on the street.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed that the Tim Hortons in Buffalo
where federal agents left Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a 56-year-old Burmese refugee who was blind and spoke no English,
was “determined to be a warm, safe location near his last known address.”
Video footage reviewed by The Washington Post, however, showed t…
Hey friends of the #mountains - I almost didn't make it away from my couch today morning. But as you can see, I did!
I spent a couple of hours hiking into the snow. During the ascent I was happy that I left my snow shoes at home. Yet for half an hour or an hour, I really missed them when I sometimes sank in deeper than my knees.
But it was all well manageable and I regained so …
Celebrate the new year by merging to main and push to prod!
Tower of Sage Hall between Upson Hall (left) and Phillips Hall (right) which is currently under reconstruction -- as soon as the new Computer Science building opened they moved offices out of Phillips into my building
#photo #photography
Asbestos is here to stay! You better learn using it or you’ll be left behind.
I don't like posting my art on Instagram anymore so here's a fediverse exclusive™️ picture of #pomni from #tadc abstracting in both normal and Jackie Zine style
This made it through multiple levels and multiple rounds of design and marketing approval.
At no point did anyone stop and think?
Really? This is the design we're going with?
Not one person who had any rudimentary internet skills.
Not one hero in one meeting had even the one ounce of temerity or one gram of courage to stand up and say
HEY - THE HAND ON THE LEFT IS SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING A RING.
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…
How far have you come? This page will show you how far you’ve traveled since you were born.
The Cosmic Odometer calculates how far you've traveled through space just by being alive. Even if you've never left Earth, you've orbited the sun, rotated with the planet, and embarked on both solar and galactic travel — all while sitting on your couch. https://…
After a magistrate judge left AG Pam Bondi furious by rejecting a criminal complaint against Lemon on January 18, she tried to get her revenge Friday morning
A few hours later, the DOJ’s case is falling apart as prosecutors in Minnesota and LA refuse to get involved.
https://newre…
I receive tons of applications that use the same CV template: Brief header with contact info and circular photo on the left hand side, brief paragraph "About me", then structured info. PDF metadata say it’s LaTeX generated, but I assume its created by a popular platform. Any idea what this is? LinkedIn?
Next week, the grad students and I will be discussing Don Wright's biography of my forebear at the University of Toronto and English Canada's national historian, Donald Creighton. It's an expertly crafted book that, while sympathetic to the famously cantankerous Creighton, doesn't pull its punches. It tells us much about how the academic discipline of history developed alongside a certain strain of conservative nationalism through the middle decades of 20th-century Canada.
So y'all who complain about the democratic party: I've got a friend who works (very hard I might add!) as a consultant and campaigner for campaigns. There's a special election primary going on where he is, and he's trying to get the leftmost candidate elected. Guess who didn't show up to help get the candidate elected?
The progressives and leftists.
This is the problem. The party is whoever's left. It's not us, because we're not showing up.
at 11:50 we put the big nyc ball drop livestream on, got bored quick, so mom put on some indian pastor who's accent turns "refuge" into "refuse". we switched back to the livestream with one minute left. when the ball dropped, the camera started showing couples kissing. the second/third one was two gay men. mom and brothers screamed and immediately changed back to the pastor. tone for 2026 immediately set, less than a minute in.
This is sound.
However the Together Alliance needs to do a lot more than organise merely performative marches
Despite the headlines, the British left is big. Can it unite to make a difference in 2026? | Morning Star
https://www.morningstaronline.c…
Happy new year to all from Bev, Linus, and my bald self. Needless to say, 2025 was more than a bit on the dicey side—began with a fascist takeover of the US and leukemia on my part, followed by knee replacement and then hip replacement for Bev. Linus, knock on wood, has been fine. I’m in complete remission and Bev is fully recovered. We’re all up and running now, hoping for a healthy and less fascist 2026.
I've joined the other by-election candidates on the left in co-signing this letter condemning the vile racist abuse being directed at Labour councillor and fellow by-election candidate Helen Ogbu
We cannot let this kind of abuse stand in Ireland. And I will always stand by those who face racism and discrimination.
To all my wonderful followers, thank you. Why? There are now 500 of you and that's more than twice the number I had when I left #x #twitter That's enough of the past. The conversation here is, as you've found, so much better, thoughtful and engaging. I particularly like the fact that we engage a…
Arianna Pera @… defends her PhD: The Language of Collective Action in the Social Web
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/02/27/ariann
I thought I'd killed my trusty #turrisomnia but it turned out my tinkering had left it and the recovery partition in a very old broken state. Fortunately after failing with a cheapo usb key I did get a more recent factory image on it. I now realise quite how fast back the system was because everything is dark mode by default now with a nice onboarding process.
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
BELGOROD ON FIRE, SOCHI IN PANIC: NO SAFE REGIONS LEFT Vlog 1332: War in #Ukraine
More and more russian regions stop enjoying #SMO
Looking for some escapism*? I just watched The Grand Budapest Hotel (on Netflix) and it did the job.
It was a great story, with wonderful visuals, and left me wondering what I'd just watched!
* OK, some fascist bad guys, admittedly
The coolest thing here is I think the Cosmic Keyhole.
Here's me with my smol 2" telescope (left) vs Hubble (right).
Sonnet 147 - CXLVII
My love is as a fever longing still,
For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
M…
President Trump calls Anthropic a "radical left, woke company" and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/anthropic-pentagon-supply-chain-risk-claude
Not to mention, the U.S flag in the right-hand image appears to have the wrong number of stars and/or stripes [AI-generated?].
Well that was a year, huh?
I really only have one resolution for 2026: Travel somewhere new. I haven't left the Midwest in almost a decade and it's time we changed that.
Catch you on the flip 🚌
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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Looks like (unsurprisingly) I have to look to Poland for inspiration, once again. Some loonies there have managed to supercharge and twin-turbocharge the BMW M73 V12. The scarcity of the M73B54 and difficulty cracking the ECUs has left a lot of untapped potential in these engines for 30 years. https://engineswapdepot.com/?p=108361&
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…
Urban Mirage 👁️🗨️
城市幻境 👁️🗨️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
European intelligence agencies are stepping into the void left by America's strategic retreat.
The shift is reshaping how Ukraine fights
—and what Kyiv can see on the battlefield.
France now provides Ukraine with two-thirds of all intelligence it receives,
President Emmanuel Macron claimed on January 15.
The assertion is disputed.
Kyrylo Budanov, now Zelenskyy's chief of staff, said in December that Kyiv "remained critically dependent" o…
Clear message from the Trump regime to European clients* dependent on US tech companies: those will be brought under control.
*) like the Dutch tax authority preparing to outsource all of its VAT collection.
OK so that's today's round of hardware maintenance done, box rebooted, and got all of my stuff set up about the way I left off.
And now I have the Xeon 4310 and 128GB of DDR4 3200 RDIMMs available.
Still pending:
* (blocked until new heatsink arrives) Swap VM server Xeon 5310 for the other 8362
* See if that lets me use the other 128GB of RAM on the VM server, if not troubleshoot further
* See if I can possibly squeeze another pcie passthrough GPU in the VM…
Here’s something from an 11 year old blog post. (Folio.olio) I guess we were worried about paparazzi back then. But they might be useful these days too, to counter facial and body movement ID detection.
No Kings! this Saturday left me with the question: would the real Donald Trump have called me a "furry"?
#photo #photography #nokings
This is what they took from us
#ThisIsWhatTheyTookFromUS
German schedule.
Arriving at a subway station, sub just left
Next sub: in 10min🙄
I look right and left
Next sub in 15min. 🤔
A minute later: sub comes along 😍
Inside: departure in min 🤔
A minute later: we depart 😳👍
Trump’s likely casus belli for an attack on Iran
– which would be the largest US intervention since the Iraq war
– is fraught with contradictions,
and his top advisers have been left to cover for him as the White House makes the case for intervention.
In his State of the Union address this week, Trump alleged that Iran posed a direct threat to the US
and that the country was “working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America”.
But…
Sonnet 005 - V
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel;
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter, and confounds him there;
Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:
Then were not summer's distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pen…
Sources: two members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team, Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak, left the startup and have been working at Meta for a few weeks (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/thinking-machines-lab-loses-2-fo…
Cornell's № 15 Avi Adam skates towards the goal with the puck while № 22 Michaela Littlewood tries to take it away
#photo #photography #sports
Withering Heights 🫥
消失的巨人 🫥
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Nithya Raman filing papers on Saturday morning to
⭐️challenge Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in the
👉 June 2 election
hit like a political bombshell.
Text chains blew up with stunned variations of,
"I didn't see that coming!"
Everyone sought to determine what a run from someone on Bass' left will mean when election day arrives in, gulp, 💥 less than four months.
How this plays out remains to be seen.
But here are some initial t…
"En el caso de las izquierdas, hay algunas izquierdas que cuando se trata de Cuba miran para otro lado sin entender que Cuba tiene muchas funciones en la batalla cultural de las izquierdas del hemisferio occidental."
"In the case of the left, there are certain left sections that, when Cuba comes up, look the other way, without understanding that Cuba has multiple functions in the cultural battle of the Western hemisphere left."
Iramis R. Cšrdenas:
One of the lounges that you find on most floors of Upson on the West side of the building
#photo #photography #buildings
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…
Federal prosecutors can’t seek the death penalty against
Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson,
a federal judge ruled Friday,
foiling the Trump administration’s bid to see him executed
for what it called a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”
Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed a federal murder charge
that had enabled prosecutors to seek capital punishment,
finding it technically flawed.
Sh…
Last night Cornell blew out Princeton 87-64 in Newman Arena: here's № 24 Josh Baldwin 6'5" a senior from Everett, Mass. #photo #photography #sports
Massabesic Lake East of Manchester, N.H. where I grew up -- I hiked here almost every day as a kit
#photo #photography #landscape
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…
№ 8 Adam Hinton 6'4" from Hollywood Hills, California looks for a way around the Princeton Tigers -- I took this photo yesterday but I'm heading back to Newman this evening to catch a game against the Pennsylvania Quakers
#photo #photography
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…
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