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
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
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…
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
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 🚩
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…
The new group (1)4489 on the left just above the clouds during today's Bochum #sunset - later timesteps in https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mqmygeisqc22
This is the kind of unity we need to see among left-of-center candidates—everyone not on the billionaires' team. Like Saikat, I'll support Connie in the general election. I won't hide my disagreements with her, but fortunately most of them are much less relevant to federal office.
https://
All assembled, new GPU and fans in.
As usual 5 minute POST times, one of the things I like least about server hardware. Plus actual hypervisor boot on top of that.
The GPU i swapped was a dual slot but lived in the left most slot on the mobo so i have an empty back panel port that I can eventually put a fan card in to try and suck more heat out.
The BMC does not like my 80mm fans, i need to figure out how to set the RPM thresholds so it doesn't think they're failed…
#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 …
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.
RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116747852738754635
Interesting and thought-provoking read! I left seeing the problem but just being teased about the author’s view of possible solutions (apparently a series of posts will be written…).
It’s definitely worth th…
Wachusett Reservoir is the largest hand-built dam in the world, assembled from great granite blocks
#photo #photography #dam
The state of #Python ecosystem right now: almost everything is slop. Some projects are complete vibe-coded slop (autobahn, chardet, cryptography). Some projects are disguised slop ("Coding agents shouldn't co-author themselves.")
There is only a handful of human projects left (Flask being one bright example). And they're being killed. They're being killed by the neverending slew of slop pull requests. They're being killed by all their dependencies becoming slop. They're being killed because this whole ecosystem has became such a complete cesspit that you have zero motivation to do anything.
EDIT: and honestly, this is only going to get worse. When you kill the incentive to work on projects, you only get more slop. Maintainers give in, and more projects become slop. Or they give up, and projects get forked unto slop.
#NoAI #NoLLM
Can anyone find an origin for this FreeBSD graphic?
(It's seen in a YouTube video that does not state the origin. I have left a comment there …)
"FreeBSD provides the entire operating system as one unified project."
I already used an extension – Search by Image <https://addons.mozilla.org/a…
duolingo been doing some wild worldbuilding lately
At this moment, in our small garden, the cherries are finishing, the raspberries are yielding bucketloads, and the strawberries are just starting. The parsley has gone to seed and the mint and oregano are just flowering, and the various chives and garlicky things have seedheads.
However, the slugs appear to be munching all the mizuna seedlings - I'm hoping the hedgehog will help with that. We did have a frog for a while but I think they've left.
We can go two days without…
If I didn't have the experience to know better, and if I was a new user of the AWS Console, I'd swear that the performance of their cloud offering is terrible.
It's just really slow/heavy browser code, plus WAY too many requests, but that *must* make a bad impression on new-to-AWS folks. (…if there are any of those left? maybe that's the problem…)
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
NO RESERVES LEFT: ONLY RUSSIAN’S MONEY Vlog 1394: War in #Ukraine
The head of the russian Central Bank #ElviraNabiullina …
New „waste a day by just clicking around“ game has dropped. Like the paperclip maximizer. This one is pokemon but just with numbers. Like you’re stripping away the cutesy cartoon and are left with the underlying math and addiction. https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/116575726554458393…
Me: *visits company website ➼ looks at product ➼ likes product ➼ buys product*
Company: Thanks for buying our product! Here’s your confirmation and receipt!
Also company: Hey! You left something in your basket!
Later: Here’s your shipping details!
Later still: Please come back and buy the thing!
Is it too late for someone early 50s to decide they want to abandon their data analytics career (BA, MS, 30 years experience), and start a new path studying television academically? Uh, asking for a friend.
Incidentally, what would be a good title for a thesis studying the left-at-the-altar trope, and how and why it appears much more frequently in sitcoms than in real life, and maybe explore some sociological intersections with that?
One of the hazards of photographing a much-photographed thing is that, after careful consideration of viewpoint, composition and framing, you take exactly the same pictures as everyone else who has carefully considered viewpoint, composition and framing.
Here are two photographs I took of the Atlas Fountain at Castle Howard, along with the two illustrations from its Wikipedia entry. Years apart in time, inches apart in space.
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…
The nice thing when reading old #books is, you sometimes find things the owners left in them.
Today I found a very thin chocolate wrapping. It was from "Victor Schmidt & Söhne" (Victor Schmidt & Sons). A sweets company founded ~1850 in Vienna. The wrapping may be waiting for ~120-130yrs in the book (because the book is that old) and it told me something about the previo…
I'll take Things I Really Fucking Hate for $1000, Alex:
So, in emacs, ^W is "kill-region", the keystroke you use when you want to cut and paste text from place to place
In the rest of the Microsoft world, ^W is "close window".
Exactly how this fucks me over when composing replies in the Mastodon webbrowser (and other) clients is left as an exercise for the reader.
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
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57 countries just formed a bold new climate coalition in Colombia, creating the first global framework explicitly designed to phase out coal, oil, and gas—with fossil fuel interests left out of the room. They're building roadmaps for clean energy transitions and reforming finance systems to accelerate progress.
ht…
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…
Good morning... I can confirm that the heating in the train works
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…
According to Twig, the tastiest part of the laptop is the upper-left corner of the display.
At some point I will find out whether an LCD with bite marks from a cat will continue functioning..
Load break cutouts on a cross connect downtown
I'm trying out a new mosquito-control contraption made by Ortho. It features a landing pad laced with powderized, lethal fungus spores (Beauveria bassiana) that can be transferred via tarsi to standing water elsewhere in the yard or in your neighbors' yards. The water in the container also has an insecticide (pyriproxyfen) to kill any larvae that might develop from eggs left by females. It's the home version of the expensive In2Care trap that can only be purchased by licensed pest-control folks. #mosquitoes #ortho #in2care
I got quite a few photos Tuesday for which I didn't give somebody a token but I am prioritizing portraits for processing since I know people are waiting for them; here is a wide angle of the four season garden in the ILR courtyard with a class discussing outdoors
#photo #photography
One of the biggest election stories no one's talking about: the US Democratic primaries are becoming a proxy war between rival AI factions, with candidates tuning their strategies accordingly. My latest Substack digs into how that happened.
…
So I have apps working fine on my IPhone, which is a great phone. I can make and receive calls and text. Hunky dory. BUT weekly I am asked to update an app. I down load the update and it informs me I have an supported iOS and I am left without the older working app!! WYF!!! Leave us older folks alone. Stop with bricking perfectly working apps!!
#asshats
I'm not a "I will never fly X" person, but my first experience w/ Breeze Airways has left me shocked. Sending people to arrive *4 hrs late at 130am at an airport 1h30m away* (PVD⭢BDL) w/ no transport. Zero agents. No phone. Chat hard to find. Chat cuts off with this. Epic fail.
So these Xbox layoff rumours that they might shutter Compulsion... yet to play South of Midnight but it reviewed well, tho We Happy Few was pretty lackluster.
But god help Xbox if they lay a finger on my beloved Double Fine, or what's left of Arkane...
RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116908556846064206
What if datacenter builders built out there own solar panel farms around the center and battery packs so they were energy independent. then if the datacenter part is less needed in the future we are left with billi…
#LeftWordler’s:
I’m working on a major change. This change is the main reason I forked a Wordle repo into Left Wordle - the ability to login and maintain stats, streaks, and prefs across multiple devices.
I’m implementing this with Passkeys which will allow users to be completely anonymous. Please see
One year ago today
#sunset #clouds
Only a few months left until KDE drops X11 forever, and they STILL haven't fixed fractional scaling in themes OR gesture configurability, both of which are fully working in X11, and the latter of which would be mitigated by simply stripping the hardcoded gestures currently baked into kwin_wayland and allowing the user to find their own way. (As ever, my kwin6 patches are available on GitHub if you'd like to do exactly that.)
I'm sure they're all working on Very Importan…
These are in fact three lemurs.
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
Which one of these BGA fanouts is better?
Both are the same nominal trace/space, both are skew matched by the time you get to the vertical "home run" area heading towards the connector.
But TDR of the first one wasn't that great. Let's see if the second one is any better when the simulation finishes...
My Sakura strategy this year was to look for people who were taking pictures and ask "would you like a group portrait?"
#photo #photography #flowers
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…
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…
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/
"Polanski is right that the consensus assignment has run its course, and the Greens are asking the right questions about who bears the costs of austerity and inflation. But adopting the language of MMT to suggest those costs can be wished away does the left no favours."
Zack Polanski gets economics wrong | LSE British Politics
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116564460359464986
Uhh.. vote in June. In the primaries. Figure out what you need to do to vote in the primaries, and vote for people who are running to the left of your incumbents. If enough people do that, it will mak…
A new #LifeHack just dropped.
I carry a "medicine organizer" with four compartments where I keep four portions of glucose. The problem is, I never remember which ones I took and refilled recently (I don't need it often), so I don't know which ones are the oldest.
Today I've figured out to shift everything left while refilling, so the oldest always are in the first compartment.
You don't need to congratulate my on the speed of my brain.
irked by the slightly off-center capri sun
One of my favorite cherry trees on campus next to the A.D. White House garden with a student and family -- taken with the Laowa 9mm
#photo #photography #flowers
@… also, I can't recommend metal shelving as a convenient heat sink for a soldering iron whilst standing and using the left hand to steady oneself – firmly gripping the other side of the shelving unit – and casually draping the right hand across an exposed mains dropper at the rear of an old television.
I completed the circuit, and probably lived to tel…
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…
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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…
Days before Trump left office in 2021, the State Department broke ground on an $850 million construction project at its aging embassy in New Delhi.
By last fall, alongside work on smaller buildings, crews had dug a 200-foot-long pit for the project’s centerpiece:
a sleek edifice of glass and stone that was supposed to make the biggest U.S. mission in South Asia more “secure and resilient.”
In recent months, without public announcement, the U.S. government canceled that buil…
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 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
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Iran’s supreme leader vows to avenge father’s death
Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public for months, and has been rumored to have been left disfigured after being injured by an airstrike
https://www.politico.eu/article/iran-suprem…
Emma Raducanu returned to Andy Murray Arena for her second match in five hours with lingering doubts about her physical condition after slipping on the slick grass earlier in the day and hurting her left thigh.
By the time she had launched herself into consecutive backhand and forehand down-the-line winners to snatch an early break, that concern had dissipated.
What followed was one of her very best matches as she dismantled the talented 18-year-old Iva Jovic 6-2, 6-2 in front of…
Falls at Upper Treman shot with 1/10s exposure; was out this Sunday for the Sacred Wild Gathering which is maybe the most accessible pagan circle I know in Ithaca
#photo
Fireworks ascend while other fireworks explode at the North End of Little York Lake
#photo #photography #summer #littleyork