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@barijaona@mastodon.mg
2026-05-16 00:17:30

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. ☺️
cnn.com/2017/02/16/world/ups-t

@Europablog@mastodon.social
2026-04-17 11:40:16

The Belgian Party of Labour shows how to successfully build a left-wing political movement. By Jürgen Klute.
europa.blog/en/the-belgian-par

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-06-16 22:43:44

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…

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-04-17 11:07:06

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tornado Wallace:
🎵 Left at Sunset
#TornadoWallace
tornadowallace.bandcamp.com/al
open.spotify.com/track/7igsV6G

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,

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-05-15 20:50:58

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)
nytimes.com/2026/05/15/busines

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-05-17 17:15:28

Barney Frank's Second Coming Out (James Kirchick/The Atlantic)
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/
memeorandum.com/260517/p35#a26

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2026-07-16 03:23:05

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. - earth.org.uk/note-on-site-tech

@denmanrooke@mastodon.ie
2026-04-17 12:19:36

After reading the article from The Ditch in relation to the Greens’ Galway West by-election candidate Niall Murphy and due to my own loose affiliation through a Vote Left Transfer Left campaign that he is also involved in, I felt a statement must be made.
The Ditch have highlighted the shares he purchased in his employer, Cisco, a company that is directly partnered with the Israeli government and assists Israeli military operations in Gaza.
1/3

Screenshot of the statement in the post
@servelan@newsie.social
2026-06-15 03:31:04

What's left from SCOTUS, and when to expect it
lawdork.com/p/whats-left-from-

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-06-17 03:27:17

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

The right side pedal. The red Brompton is folded up (doesn't even really look like a bike), but the right crank has a normal-looking pedal with a black strap on it. The metal hardware attachment has screws going through the orange plastic reflector of the pedal.

The bike's on a white rug w/ black line pattern.
The opposite side of that same right pedal. You have a better view of the opposite side of the orange reflector, with nuts and washers attached to the bolts that go through it. The red folding bike it's attached to is just a jumble of stem, wheel, drivetrain, etc.
The left-side pedal (and behind it, the brompton logo on the red frame). The pedal is folded up so that it is parallel to the crank arm. The orange reflector is missing from the exposed side of the pedal. Of the two screws that held the reflector in, one is missing (just an empty screw hole), and the other is screwed into the end of the black Power Grip strap.
The other side of the left pedal. This time the pedal is unfolded (so it's perpendicular to the crank arm), and the plastic grey reflector mount is installed but only one side is screwed in. The orange reflector is actually missing, and underneath you can see the silver Power Grips attachment hardware. Though normally you'd have two screws holding the attachment hardware in, there's only one screw there; the grey reflector mount is on top of it, pinching it down to hold it in place. Essentially…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2026-05-16 07:28:38

"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...
blog.hofstede.it/a-field-manua

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-05-16 16:16:13

"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

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-07-16 22:33:42

The tiny group (1)4489 now center left during Thursday's Bochum #sunset - later timesteps in bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky

@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social
2026-04-17 17:30:26

Watching an episode of Friends and noticed another friend no one talks about.

Friends scene showing a camera man on the left hand side.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-16 21:03:13

Here's @… with an extraordinary story of honesty and community solidarity from within #Gaza

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 …

@thijs_lucas@norden.social
2026-06-16 19:56:30

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 …

A cyclist pulling a children’s trailer on a narrow cycle path with a wall on the left and bushes full of blossoms on the right.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-05-17 08:30:11

Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

View of a beautiful high alpine valley with the lower parts covered in larch forest, the trees in beautiful autumn colors, higher up patches of dried grass and mountain dwarf pines among talus fields and steep large rocky peaks. Clear azure hazy sky. The silhouettes of some tree branches in the foreground are framing the scene left/right.
@scott@carfree.city
2026-05-16 21:19:37

Amazing turnout for the Affordable Housing Guarantee Act kickoff in Dolores Park! Together, we’re going to make sure the voters’ will to tax the rich to fund affordable housing gets respected!
I mostly left the taking of photos to others but here’s one of @… psyching us up

Dean Preston addresses a crowd gathered at the foot of the hill in Dolores Park on a sunny day
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-05-16 01:51:31

Load break cutouts on a cross connect downtown

Utility pole with a single phase transformer and four cutout switches on it, all currently closed in.

The fuse cutout feeding the transformer is a standard one attached to a stirrup on the primary phase furthest from the camera.

The other three cutouts are fed from stirrups on the right side phases and drive the phases on the left side of the pole, but can be opened manually (or blow on overload) to isolate one side or the other in the event of a fault or for maintenance. These have larger gr…
@stiefkind@mastodon.social
2026-06-16 13:42:44

»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

@jkohlmann@mastodon.social
2026-07-15 12:08:50

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

An iOS notification from Find My that reads, ‘Time Sensitive: “Helios” left behind. This device is no longer detected near you. It was last seen near [redacted].”
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-05-15 16:51:27

Cowboys $96 Million Star Makes Feelings Clear on Position Change heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-co

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2026-06-17 01:37:52

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

@StephenRees@mas.to
2026-04-17 17:35:52

Now streaming on Knowledge:ORIGINALS
E.J.Hughes only wanted to be left alone to paint. He made hundreds of paintings in his 70 year career and lived long enough to hear on the telephone that one of his paintings fetched over $1m in his lifetime. Not many humans have that experience!
#BCArtist

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-14 19:21:31

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)
theinformation.com/articles/sp

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-05-17 11:07:26

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”?

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2026-05-17 11:07:26

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”?

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2026-05-17 11:07:26

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”?

@cjust@infosec.exchange
2026-07-16 13:32:06

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

The image is a dark, textured background resembling a digital interface or screen. On the left side, a realistic, golden trophy with two handles and a rectangular base is prominently displayed. The trophy has a warm, metallic sheen and appears to be standing on a light brown rectangular platform. Below the trophy, the word "Now" is faintly visible in a light gray, sans-serif font.

On the right side of the image, a bright blue rectangular speech bubble is positioned in the upper right quadrant.…
@mszll@datasci.social
2026-07-17 10:36:30

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

Small child in green dress kneeling to smell flowers in front of row of parked SUVs.
Small child in green dress kneeling to explore a blue door in a tree.
Small child in green dress riding tricycle on sidewalk, next to an SUV parking in driveway.
A small child in green dress riding a tricycle on sidewalk, with low-vision driveway approaching on the left from which an SUV could exit anytime.
@MichaelLondonSF@mas.to
2026-05-17 09:19:44

Wonderfully grown-up from Ken Loach about Your Party theguardian.com/film/2026/may/ but the @…

@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.de
2026-04-17 06:41:24

It's funny to me how yes I was like "Tomorrow I need to do X and then Y and afterwards I should do Z, if there is any spare time left" and today I just stare into the void while trying to remember what I wanted to do.
(It's actually not funny, it's hella annoying 🫠)

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-17 08:08:06

Kinda related to #Gentoo, so cool" or "they stopped using it, so sad". And I'm like, "why should we care?"
Do they donate money to Gentoo? They don't. And if they did, it would probably come with obligations making this not worth it.
Do they contribute back? Rarely, and if they do, they are unreliable. They benefit more than we do. They just want to dump the packages they need, quickly duct taped together, so that we would maintain them going forward. Their employees rarely reveal that they're paid to do this, and if they do, it's not so they'd be held to higher standards, but to emphasize their importance: "you must placate us."
Well, sometimes they hire Gentoo developers. It's nice that these developers get some gratification for their work, especially if they're able to continue contributing on work time. But in the end, company priorities win. We are either left with loads of new packages with no maintainer and unclear significance, or a Google employee who appeared every once in a while to dump a bunch of ChromeOS patches and never bothered handling the fallout.
So, sorry, but I'd rather care for volunteers who want to make Gentoo better, than companies who see some profit incentive in it.
PS. I'm probably focusing too much on the negative aspects, and we likely had some positive interactions that are far less known and usually don't meet with such fanfare.
#FreeSoftware

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-07-16 12:31:16

Travis Kelce swan song? What to expect from Chiefs tight end in potential final season

cbssports.com/nfl/news/travis-

@annsev@troet.cafe
2026-06-17 14:54:44

"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

@flberger@nerdculture.de
2026-04-17 19:14:29

We are fucked.
#AMOC #ClimateChange

Two charts next to each other. Left the AMOC time series, right the AMOC time series relative to the 2005-to-2023 means. They project a ~50 % AMOC weakening by the end of this century.
@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2026-06-15 21:33:34

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.

@jkmartindale@mastodon.social
2026-06-17 03:47:54

my inflight movie ended and the plane flew too fast so now there's not enough time left for even a tv episode and all I've got for entertainment is looking at this stupid thing

Photo of Mount Rainier through a plane window. The foreground is out of focus, showing the plane window and the phone of the person who is actually in the window seat. The snowcapped mountain sits in the center of the frame, basking in the golden orange glow of a Seattle summer sunset.
@jswright61@ruby.social
2026-05-12 19:53:52

#LeftWordle fans:
I have a page up at left-wordle.com/retire-words.h that contains my approximation of the current NYT Wordle's answer list.
If you're interested in …

@eana@s.1a23.studio
2026-05-17 05:39:41

What a fancy U 25CC Dotted Circle /s

A screenshot of U+25CC ◌ Dotted Circle in Aptos Narrow Bold Italic where the dots roughly form a circle slanted to the left, with some dots placed too close to each other, and one dot divering away from the slated circle.
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2026-05-17 00:30:00

The Substance IV 🧪
某种物质 IV 🧪
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Harman Switch Azure (FF)
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite

Harman Switch Azure (FF)

English
A dimly lit, spacious indoor area with a highly reflective, polished floor. Large floor-to-ceiling windows dominate the background, allowing natural light to filter in. Silhouettes of several people are visible, some standing and others sitting on benches near the windows. The scene is bathed in a warm, orange-tinted light, creating a serene and quiet atmosphere.
中文
一个光线昏暗、空间宽敞的室内区域,地面高度抛光,反光性强。背景是落地窗,自然光透过窗户照射进来。可以看到几个人的剪影,有些站着,有些坐在窗户附近的长椅上。整个场景浸润在温暖的橙色光线中,营造出…
Harman Switch Azure (FF)

English
A dimly lit staircase with green railings and steps. The staircase ascends from the bottom right to the top left, with a landing visible at the top. The walls are painted in a muted green tone, and the scene is illuminated by soft, ambient light, creating a calm and quiet mood.
中文
一个光线昏暗的楼梯,扶手和台阶均为绿色。楼梯从右下方延伸至左上方,顶部有一个平台。墙壁涂成柔和的绿色,整个场景被柔和的环境光照亮,营造出宁静的氛围。
Harman Switch Azure (FF)

English
A hazy cityscape at dusk or dawn, with the sun appearing as a bright, pale blue dot low in the sky. The skyline is dotted with tall buildings, partially obscured by the haze. A telecommunication tower is visible on the right side of the image. The overall scene is calm, with a gradient of warm orange and brown tones in the sky.
中文
黄昏或黎明时分的城市景观,天空中低处悬挂着一个明亮的淡蓝色太阳。天际线上分布着高楼大厦,部分被雾霾遮挡。图片右侧可见一座电信塔。整个场景宁静,天空呈现出温暖的橙色和棕色渐变。
Harman Switch Azure (FF)

English
An urban street scene featuring a large, blank digital billboard mounted on a curved building facade. Below the billboard, there are visible storefronts, including a Starbucks Coffee and a store with a sign that reads "CHAEE." A person carrying a bag stands near a metal barricade, looking towards the billboard. The area is cordoned off with blue barriers, and amusement park facility is visible.
中文
城市街道景象,一幢弯曲的建筑立面上安装着一个巨大的空白数字广告牌。广告牌下方有商店,包括一家星巴克咖啡和一家招牌为“CHAEE”…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-07-15 21:00:06

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…

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991). 1380 nodes, 1476 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/crime
@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-06-15 17:51:37

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.”
nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d

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

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-05-17 12:59:12

This fence, which you last saw me working on more than a week ago, is still not fully stretched. Working on your own is slow, and working whilst not in good health is slow. I'm getting there.

A gatepost, with stretched wire leading to it from the left. The gatepost has a new diagonal brace it didn't have a week ago, but it's still being held stretched by the cable from the tractor winch. Behind, the young trees in the wood are springing green.
@ErikUden@mastodon.de
2026-07-14 16:57:36

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!
🔗 youtu.be/AXTpoPwJHbk
Feel free to watch 🚩

@jon@henshaw.social
2026-06-15 20:30:44

RE: mastodon.social/@404mediaco/11
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.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-05-17 03:55:52

Trump Calls Xi a 'Friend.' But He Left China Without Any Breakthroughs. (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/05/16/world/e
memeorandum.com/260516/p38#a26

@stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-15 18:17:05

sciencealert.com/worlds-oldest

@scott@carfree.city
2026-05-17 01:50:49

I love how California poppies close up in the evening like they’re tucking themselves into bed.

Outdoor wooden steps with closed-up orange flowers to the right
More closed poppies to the left of the bottom of a set of steps that ascend a scrubby hill
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-07-16 19:02:11

The 570-megapixel #DarkEnergyCamera (DECam) has captured a vibrant scene, filled with swirls and stars reminiscent of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night: noirlab.edu/public/news/noirla - this new cosmic masterpiece features glowing nebula NGC 6729 on the left and globular star cluster NGC 6723 on the right.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-07-15 00:13:50

Wachusett Reservoir is the largest hand-built dam in the world, assembled from great granite blocks
#photo #photography #dam

On the left a great dam made of large granite blocks extends from the front to the back with a long grass lawn immediately in front of us and field, water and forest across a great gulf with high altitude clouds high overhead
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-05-04 18:42:53

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
aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/4/in

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-05-05 17:42:04

from my link log —
Async Rust never left the MVP state.
tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/asyn
saved 2026-05-04

@yetiinabox@todon.nl
2026-07-15 06:11:10

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…

@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-14 21:03:43

#sunset

sunset from a fallen tree inside a wood, illuminated ivy leaf on the left.
@j_honegger@swiss.social
2026-05-15 13:23:12

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

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-05-17 07:46:45

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Left Cross:
🎵 The Blood of Mars
#LeftCross
open.spotify.com/track/1i6d9KA

@compfu@mograph.social
2026-05-15 07:11:46

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. tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/1165

@samerfarha@mastodon.social
2026-05-15 13:49:55

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!

@mrwedders@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-15 21:19:57

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...

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-06-11 20:44:42

Nate Thomas opens up about Cowboys' open competition at left tackle dallascowboys.com/news/nate-th

@johl@mastodon.xyz
2026-05-14 15:07:29

OMG, someone actually went ahead and filed that as a bug! (Well, three years ago)
Ho mia Zamenhof, iu vere registris tion kiel cimon! (Nu, antaŭ tri jaroj)
codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/i

@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk
2026-06-13 16:07:06

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.

The Atlas Fountain at Castle Howard with trees in the background.
The Atlas Fountain on the left with Castle Howard in the background on the right.
The Atlas Fountain at Castle Howard with trees in the background. License CCA-SA, by https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tilman2007
The Atlas Fountain on the left with Castle Howard in the background on the right. Unlike the other images, the fountain is not operating in this picture.
License CCA-SA 4.0 by https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Macwhale
@danyork@mastodon.social
2026-06-14 10:23:55

RE: toot.cafe/@baldur/116747852738
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…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-15 00:30:36

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)
nypost.com/2026/06/14/us-ne…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-15 20:50:41

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)
texastribune.org/2026/06/15/te
memeorandum.com/260615/p90#a26

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…

@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2026-06-17 00:30:03

Quartet ♾️
四重奏 ♾️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford Pan 400
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from
PayPal paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
Wise

Ilford Pan 400 (FF)

English
A black-and-white photograph of a tall, multi-tiered traditional Chinese pagoda. The pagoda features multiple square levels, each with arched windows and intricate eaves. The structure is made of brick and stone, with detailed carvings visible on the edges of the roof. Bare tree branches partially obscure the lower section of the pagoda. The sky in the background is clear.
中文
一张黑白照片,拍摄的是一座高大的多层中国传统宝塔。宝塔由多个正方形层级组成,每层都有拱形窗户和精美的屋檐。建筑由砖石砌成,屋顶边缘有精细的雕刻。光秃的树枝部分遮挡了宝塔的下部。背景是…
Ilford Pan 400 (FF)

English
A black-and-white photograph focusing on the silhouette of a large tree with sprawling branches against a bright sky. Part of a traditional Chinese building with a tiled roof and arched windows is visible on the right side of the image. The contrast between the dark tree and the bright background is stark.
中文
一张黑白照片,聚焦于一棵枝叶茂密的大树的剪影,背景是明亮的天空。照片右侧可见一部分传统中国建筑,有瓦片屋顶和拱形窗户。暗色的树木与明亮的背景形成强烈对比。
Ilford Pan 400 (FF)

English
A black-and-white photograph of a multi-story traditional Chinese pagoda, viewed from a low angle. The pagoda has several tiers with arched windows and ornate eaves. Tall trees with dense foliage frame the pagoda on both sides, partially obscuring parts of the structure. The sky is visible in the background.
中文
一张黑白照片,从低角度拍摄的一座多层中国传统宝塔。宝塔有多个层级,每层都有拱形窗户和装饰性屋檐。高大的树木和茂密的树叶在宝塔两侧形成框架,部分遮挡了建筑。背景是可见的天空。
Ilford Pan 400 (FF)

English
A black-and-white close-up photograph of the eaves of a traditional Chinese building. The eaves are intricately carved with detailed patterns. A small bell hangs from the edge of the roof. Part of a tree branch is visible in the top left corner. The building is made of brick, and an arched window is partially visible.
中文
一张黑白特写照片,拍摄的是传统中国建筑的屋檐。屋檐上雕刻有精细的图案。屋顶边缘挂着一个小铃铛。左上角可见部分树枝。建筑由砖块砌成,一扇拱形窗户部分可见。
@denmanrooke@mastodon.ie
2026-05-14 14:42:45

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…

Graphic of Denman Rooke canvassing in Galway City
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-06-15 07:15:12

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...

BGA fanout of a diffpair coming off a pair of vertically stacked BGA lands so the trace running to the upper one is longer than the lower until a bunch of meanders straighten them back out
Alternate layout with the track coming left from the balls and tightly coupled the whole way but taking a bit more space and needing much less meanders
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-05-13 01:40:54

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)
semafor.com/article/05/12/2026

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-15 04:57:12

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

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-06-11 20:28:07

Nate Thomas opens up about Cowboys' open competition at left tackle dallascowboys.com/news/nate-th

@jswright61@ruby.social
2026-07-13 18:15:11

#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

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-06-14 17:07:03

It's bad enough that normies do it, but it's awful when a cybersecurity company does.
"Through its investigation, law enforcement also found that General Informatics had been using the same username and password for its remote access tool across its clientele."

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-06-11 22:11:53

"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

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-06-14 07:54:33

These boys are up to something very cool...
mastodon.gamedev.place/@KROMAP

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-05-05 19:00:24

Giants signing DT D.J. Reader to help fill vacancy left by Dexter Lawrence nfl.com/news/giants-signing-dt

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-06-09 04:59:18

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
courthousenews.com/incumbent-l

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-05-13 21:52:01

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..

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-07-12 17:20:00

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Natalie Jane Hill:
🎵 Never Left Me
#NatalieJaneHill
nataliejanehill.bandcamp.com/t
open.spotify.com/track/5mYV6uf

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-17 12:03:23

Jacob Rodriguez Gushes Over Christian Parker, Dallas Cowboys Staff Ahead Of NFL Draft si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/jacob-

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-07-14 19:57:53

The new group (1)4489 on the left just above the clouds during today's Bochum #sunset - later timesteps in bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky

@Techmeme@techhub.social
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)
fortu…

@scott@carfree.city
2026-06-14 04:31:40

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.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-07-14 21:31:28

Houston Texans co-founder Janice McNair dies at 89 nytimes.com/athletic/7445908/2

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-05-14 04:04:17

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…

Inside of a 4u server full of GPUs

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…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-07-16 13:05:48

Rubio to convene meeting on 'far-left political terrorism' with representatives from 67 countries (Jennifer Hansler/CNN)
cnn.com/2026/07/16/politics/ru
memeorandum.com/260716/p36#a26

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" 
peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/r

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-07-15 11:50:12

Orlando Brown Jr.: Bengals have the 'best pass protection unit in the NFL' nfl.com/news/orlando-brown-jr-

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-05-09 23:40:58

The Left is Good Governing Itself into Obscurity (Brian Tyler Cohen)
plus.briantylercohen.com/p/the
memeorandum.com/260509/p40#a26

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-07-16 15:45:49

Rubio puts entire world on notice against rise of 'poisonous' far-left terror 'masked as equality' (Morgan Phillips/Fox News)
foxnews.com/politics/rubio-put
memeorandum.com/260716/p64#a26

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
politico.eu/article/iran-supre

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-05-09 13:10:57

'Mild panic will set in soon': GOP donors left to wonder about Trump's $300 million war chest (Politico)
politico.com/news/2026/05/09/m
memeorandum.com/260509/p16#a26

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…