2026-07-09 13:45:41
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…
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…
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
😢
#USpol
Lazy innovation: to make a token I can put up on a bulletin board I print the back and the front on the same side of a 4x6 instead of printing two backs and two fronts
#photo #photography #foxwork
If you filter out AI, politics, tech, and any posts with emojis or hashtags, all that's left is people meowing or pictures of pets :3
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/
'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
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…
One of the typical scenes that we had throughout that day. The path wasn't always so well and broad like this. It often was narrow and more natural, but we also enjoyed walking along such sections.
The green was just amazing and calming. And I didn't even have to wait until there was noone else in the scene - it really isn't very frequented, so we could enjoy it all by our own
A look at Restoration News, a three-year-old news site funded by the right-wing nonprofit Restoration of America, with ties to Metric Media's network of sites (C.J. Robinson/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.
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).
This morning I have mostly been truing the sawmill bed. The ground had obviously shifted a bit over winter, and it was no longer cutting perfectly true.
It's now cutting much better, although I am going to need to get my blades sharpened.
#TheJoyOfCrofting
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
"Pauciloquy is not always economy; sometimes the most expensive word is the one left out."
A.Word.A.Day --pauciloquy
https://wordsmith.org/words/pauciloquy.html
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
Interessanter Artikel über die Entscheidung von Chicagos ehemaligem Bürgermeister Rahm Emanuel nicht Austragungsort der FIFA-Männer-WM zu werden. Die FIFA fordert viele Einnahmen für sich, die Vergesellschaftung von Risiken und bietet "Ruhm" an. Welcher Bürgermeister plaudert mal über die Vertragsbedingungen für die Olympischen Spiele?
Just finished "Future Home of the Living God" by Louise Erdrich. It's a beautiful and entrancing novel in many ways, but I couldn't bring myself to like the ending. I think in one of my most recent book posts I complained about a deus ex machina, so it's ironic that in this case as the pages dwindled I was fully prepared to accept and even welcome one, especially with all of the deus-related stuff going on already. I am left profoundly unsure as to whether Erdrich imagines a positive future beyond our current oppressions, or just futility, when for most of the book it seemed like the former, which is something I seek out in earnest these days. It is of course impressive that a book about innocents being hunted through the streets of Minneapolis & Saint Paul, while a volunteer citizens network organizes to keep them safe, could be published in 2017. There are strong echoes of Octavia Butler here, and in both cases I think it's a marginalized position which allows authors to see with clarity that most mainstream authors miss or don't even attempt.
I think I will seek out more of Erdrich's writing, but only after a bit of a break.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comI pushed a very small change to #LeftWordle just now. I show the game number and date just below the Left Wordle Banner. There is an x on the far right side to dismiss it - probably important on smallish phone screens.
Shopwares Criteria::setTitle() is an awesome way to tag your queries throughout the infrastructure!
http://winkelwagen.de/2026/07/10/shopware-6-hidden-gems-1-criteriasettitle-name-tags-for-your-sql-queries/
Claude Fable has made June into a month in which those of us doing advanced research with AI have to ask ourselves, if we are Charlie in Flowers for Algernon and we know we only have 12 days left, what are our priorities?
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Natalie Jane Hill:
🎵 Never Left Me
#NatalieJaneHill
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mYV6uf5S0ChjFoLJWUJHI
Anybody know where I left my spare ThinkPad X230 motherboard? I've looked 1 place and I'm all out of idea
Finished “The Language of Liars” by S.L. Huang.
Ro is a linguist trained to jump into the mind of a Star Eater — a mysterious species whose ability to mine a critical element makes interstellar travel possible. When he succeeds, he finds a civilization far more complex than anyone prepared him for.
Colonial justifications corrupt everything they touch. Once the “lives are at stake” argument becomes available, there’s no moral high ground left.
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Gooood moooorning, lovely people in the #Fediverse. 🌤️
Treat yourself well, stay hydrated, and don't forget to breathe properly. 🌿
Woke up this morning with a HIDEOUSLY bad kink in my back just to the left of my neck. Still kind of there but much lessened by now. I mean, maybe it’s age. Whatever. Iced it a bit at times during the day.
Oh no. My iPad auto updated iOS and it really is as badly designed as everybody said. #LiquidAss #iOS26 #Apple
Analysis: Conservative and Reform UK MPs have increased their volume of posts on X since Elon Musk's takeover, while center-left politicians have reduced theirs (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/43f44d4a-09c6-4452-a37c-b1c2955143d0
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
The Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow. But now the Supreme Court — Chief Justice John Roberts’ Court — has effectively ended much of what’s left of the Voting Rights Act — setting the stage for voters of color to be silenced.
Now it’s up to us to defend the freedom to participate in our democracy. The actions we take now will help determine whose voice gets heard and which communities get locked out of political power.
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…
Angles Angles 📐
角度角度 📐
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kentmere 400 (6x7)
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal #filmphotography
Roe deer bucks competing for territory this morning #photography #Dorset
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
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
In 2018 while at baggage claim, I noticed signs about the new sexual offence laws — with a unique legal characteristic: these are extra-territorial crimes, i.e. you can break an Australian law for actions taken while entirely outside the jurisdiction, punishable when you return ("welcome home!")
While pondering the historic nature of this, who should wander by with his carry-on bags but Derryn Hinch (1944-today), Senator for only 2016-2019, but had a lot to do with this 👍
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.
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
https://gitlab.com/christosangel/hanoi
Hanoi is a simple terminal version of the known classical game Tower of Hanoi, written in Bash.
During the game, the user can move left and right, pick disks and drop them in other stacks.
The aim is to move all the disks from the ORIGIN pile to t…
Friday's Bochum (Germany) #sunset, with AR (1)4482 near the center of the refraction-distorted disk. Far fewer atmospheric optics effects than yesterday but https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mqdf5g7ni224 shows four more timesteps anyway. The shift to the left as the Sun's declination is falling is quite evident.
A tiny eye implant invented by a Stanford scientist is helping blind people read again https://archive.ph/9uSfP "Patients can’t see immediately and need months of training with the glasses to teach their brain to recognize this new form of vision. They also generally recover a narrow field of central vision — so…
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
@… right to left is diabolical!!
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…
Alright, finally done with the important bits. Got the scenes finished up for the most part, just gonna give up on chat. However, routing looks good as do the levels. Even the CRT line effect turned out pretty well though it's not gonna be exact. However, it does strongly resemble my JVC and I'd rather have that look on stream instead of the crunchiest/crispiest pixels possible.
#streaming
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI "regulation without transparent or complete rules" and "businesses can't plan" without rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/09/microso
Brian Schottenheimer says Cowboys have competition at left tackle https://insidethestar.com/brian-schottenheimer-says-cowboys-have-competition-at-left-tackle
In its latest attempt to circumvent state laws and regulations,
Sable Offshore Corp. is reportedly asking the federal government to seize the ground California has left to stand on — literally.
The Houston-based oil company reportedly asked the Trump administration to exercise eminent domain to condemn and seize miles of private and state-owned land that contain its legally embattled oil pipelines.
Sable restarted oil production in March in Santa Barbara County from its o…
i'm playing records that don't spark joy tonight, thanking them for their service before i trade them in at the record store down the street
#vinyl #jazz #harryjames
Rams' Alaric Jackson arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-alaric-jackson-arrested-on-suspic…
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
“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.”
There were two groups promoting girl participation in the Twilight 5K this year -- she's running with Girls on the Run
#photo #photography #running
‘Dark money’ casts a shadow over
Los Angeles elections,
with mystery group pumping out attack mail
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-09/dark-money-casts-shadow-over-la-election…
Iran says 20,000 people left without water after US hits reservoir tanks (Bita Ghaffari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/155db8a4-f2ff-463b-9c6c-2b1a8104750c
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p50#a260610p50
One more photo from my recent blog post ( https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/caves-and-meadows-day-1-in-the-frankische-schweiz/ ). This one is from a cave that colapsed long ago and left this impressive structure.
And believe me, the green was…
i got half a litre of plain yoghurt yesterday, to eat with raspberries and blueberries
(very yummy, and not horribly sweet like ready-mixed yoghurts)
should have got more yoghurt because it’s already gone and half the fruit is still left!
"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
Ravens' Tyler Loop ends minicamp with clutch FG, moving on from season-ending miss https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-tyler-loop-minicamp-clutch-fg-ready-season-ending-miss
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
Crowd waits for fireworks by food vendors in Little York; that day I thought about a Martin Prechtel quote to the effect that "the feast the only ritual"
#photo #photography #littleyork
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
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
Knicks fans burning sage outside MSG ahead of Game 4 to purge the bad luck left behind from Trump's attendance (Graig Graziosi/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/knicks-fans-nba-finals-trump-curse-sage-b2993475.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p1#a260611p1
🤩 My son Elliot standing on a fence post and making the hand gesture from 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟
#photo #photography #elliot #portrait
OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/how-openai-s-voice-assistant-got-mo…
Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern
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.
Djokovic, 39, came through a stern test from No. 3 seed Félix Auger-Aliassime — as well as a left leg issue and a closing roof.
39-year-old seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic came through a five-set, five-hour epic Tuesday on Centre Court
to defeat Félix Auger-Aliassime 7-6(10), 3-6, 6-3, 6-7(4), 7-6(4) and advance to the semifinals, six minutes before the 11 p.m. curfew.
There, he will face his toughest hurdle yet on the path to a record 25th Grand Slam title i…
Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern
The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/08/openai-deployment-company-northslope-acquisi…
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
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
Graham Platner ends U.S. Senate campaign in Maine
Graham Platner,
the populist political newcomer who Democrats had hoped could flip a critical U.S. Senate seat in Maine,
ended his campaign Wednesday night
after a woman he previously dated publicly accused him of sexual assault.
“We believe for the movement to continue, it can’t be me
and for that reason, we are suspending campaign operations,”
Platner said Wednesday night.
The development, a…
Couple out for the 4th of July at Little York Lake wearing matching patriotic shirts
#photo #photography #july4
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
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
Dak Prescott will only go as far as his left tackle situation allows https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-dak-prescott-left-tackle-tyler-guyton-training-camp/21ee840cbbae83574ef5…
Another angle on Maddie Walsh and the Blind Spots, I think the hardest working band in the Ithaca area
#photo #photography #maddiewalsh
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
Two woman running a vendor booth at the Ithaca Festival, one with animal ears
#photo #photography #groupportrait
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