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…
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…
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.
> Part of the crypto grift was telling people to "Have Fun Staying Poor". That weaponisation of FOMO was an insidious way to get people to drop their scepticism.
>
> I feel the same way about the current crop of AI tools.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok
Arianna Pera @… defends her PhD: The Language of Collective Action in the Social Web
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/02/27/ariann
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
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
I sure do love when a package delivery company leaves your package at the wrong (business) address on a Saturday after 5pm.
36.3 kWh solar output yesterday, another new record. Breaking records left and right as the weather gets nicer and the days longer.
Nowhere near enough to offset my 167 kWh daily consumption, of course, but I still managed to export 0.6 kWh of overproduction at peak.
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.
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…
Giant armadillo, mastodon, sloth fossils found in flooded Texas cave #fossils
Die Klimaforscherin Kate Marvel hat ihren Posten bei der US-Raumfahrtbehörde #NASA aufgegeben und begründet dies mit politischen Eingriffen in die #Klimaforschung.
Seit dem Amtsantritt von Präsident #Trump
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.
For #footpathfriday I'm sharing this one again. It's really one of our most liked trails.
Even though it doesn't gain a lot of elevation, the path along the shore of the lake is all I like:
narrow, pretty nature like, absolutely great views, bends along the shores so that you don't see too far, and mountains all around ... what else would you need 🙂
I wonder if trivial code libraries (like the cliché left-pad) are going to mostly disappear because it's fewer tokens for a LLM to just inline that code than to manage the dependency, and advanced/experienced programmers aren't going to use that kind of thing anyway…
Another Gakpo left footed shot, did you say?
#LFC
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Group of Four By Willard Straight Hall
#photo
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…
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Wow. "... let the facts lead in this case". In this case. Not as a matter of course, of course.
"As for President Trump, he has said that he wants to let the investigation continue and let the facts lead in this case.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-mill
Coming to Knowledge:ORIGINALS on Thursday April 16 at 9PM and available for streaming on that date.
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!
I was lucky enough to be invited to a preview at Emily Carr Uni - and I am very glad we went. Hughes was one of a kind!
California Gull. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California,USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 PRO MC14 #moonstonebeach #cambriacalifornia #seagull
Thanks to another anonymous pledge via private mention, we’re up to $405/month with just $195 left to go :)
I’m going to go to bed now but I’ll update you again in the morning if any pledges come in during the night.
Thank you all so much; we’re getting close :)
💕 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116130113
Mannnnnn I wanna drawwwww so fuckin baaaad but there's no heckin timeeeeeee (and when there's time I have no strength left :neofox_woozy:)
Of course, the elephant in the room here is probably this: why are cars given preference by governments? Because cars are used by the rich. Public transport, especially in the American continent, is considered to be for the poor. And helping the poor reeks a bit too left-wing.
Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
AVON: A mess.
VILA: Never mind. We're still here. [Avon touches the bandage on his arm.]
VILA: It's not serious. The pad'll take care of it, if you don't fiddle with it. You did very well there, I must say.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/490…
Tether launches USAT, a US-regulated stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, marking the company's direct return to the US market that it left in 2018 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
My short story, "Doctor Vex Gets Her Revenge," received another rejection. That's part of the process. But the magazine said they said they received 7000 submissions. If that magazine has 7000 readers I'll cut off my left arm.
I'm convinced there are more people writing new fiction, than reading it.
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&
Late in 2024, Elon Musk endorsed Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland. We document that after this, Tesla sales rose by up to 30 percent in right-leaning districts relative to left-leaning ones [..] Divestment in second-hand markets shows no partisan differences, consistent with resale requiring a larger identity cost from Tesla’s image shock than non-purchase. Our lower bound-estimate for the overall loss in Tesla sales is [..] worth at least €241 million."
If you are new to organised left-wing politics, pick a flavour of revolutionary socialism.
This is my fave, it may not be yours but it's a great place to start learning what *you* believe or don't believe in.
https://marxist.com/manifesto-of-the-r
Mundane Things VII🌀
普通物件 VII 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
I just updated my reading guide, “Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” again!
I want it to be a curated path from beginner-friendly intros to deeper theory and real-world examples, enjoy!
Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wu…
It seems like an odd choice for this piece to not note that James Cameron is not a US citizen (he's Canadian and withdrew his application for US citizenship decades ago).
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/23/james-cameron-left-…
Checked in on the solar stats after a week of nice weather when I wasn't home.
Total 1.1 MWH production YTD.
146 kWh in January but this is lower than the normal number since the array was down for a week or two between commissioning and final inspection.
393 kWh in February, the first full month of operation.
574 kWh in March to date and there's still a few days left, good chance I'll hit 600.
Best day so far was last Sunday the 22nd with 34.9 kWh o…
#ICE73 just left Offenburg, and we’re still on time!
#UndoneCS
#ICE73 just left Offenburg, and we’re still on time!
#UndoneCS
Think that's two left footed shots from Gakpo tonight, which the second wasn't half bad. He clearly is trying to diversify the known commodity of always cutting in, reverse Arjen Robben style.
#LFC
"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:
A couple (I think) I caught after the Dragon Parade on the Arts Quad
#photo
California Scrub Jay, lurking in the shadows. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #huntingtonlibrary #bird #birds…
Some 10,109 doctoral-trained experts in science and related fields left their jobs last year
as Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce.
That exodus was only 3% of the 335,192 federal workers who exited last year
but represents 14% of the total number of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or health fields employed at the end of 2024 as then-President Joe Biden prepared to leave office.
The numbers come from employment da…
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 😳👍
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
DAYNA: Since you know all that, why ask me?
SERVALAN: Tell me about Justin.
DAYNA: Justin? Who's he? [The chair reacts. Servalan pushes a pain button. Dayna screams.]
https://bla…
Over half a million left Kyiv in January amid Russia's energy blitz, mayor Klitschko says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/over-half-a-million-left.html
Some City Some Nature VI 🏙️
一些城一些自然 VI 🏙️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
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…
As a Trot, you never know who distrusts you more: anarchists or other Trots who are now in a different splinter from the same tendency you both used to be in.
But I celebrate this. Where would the left be if we weren't so busy fighting each other?
I can hear the billionaires chuckling far away.
Q&A with recently departed OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek, who claims OpenAI's shift toward more conservative ways made high-risk, pioneering work harder (Core Memory)
https://www.corememory.com/p/he-left-openai-jerry-tworek
Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
FEN: You're a sad man, Travis. Life must have reverence.
TRAVIS: Now. I want the other one.
FEN: No.
TRAVIS: Get the other one.
FEN: You know better than this.
TRAVIS: Do I?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/5 B7B3
Until recently, I resisted using the F-word to describe President Trump.
For one thing, there were too many elements of classical fascism that didn’t seem to fit.
For another, the term has been overused to the point of meaninglessness, especially by left-leaning types who call you a fascist if you oppose abortion or affirmative action.
For yet another, the term is hazily defined, even by its adherents.
From the beginning, fascism has been an incoherent doctrine, and ev…
Students man a booth for CUSLAR: The Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations, a group I was involved when I first came to Ithaca in 1993
#photo
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…
Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
AVON: So. Those little monsters give us a breather.
TARRANT: Not that it'll do us much good without bracelets to get us up to the Liberator.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/535 B7B4
The emerging blame game over the Trump administration’s handling of the deadly shooting by border authorities in Minneapolis this week
has exposed the internal jockeying for power within the Homeland Security Department over Trump’s expansive federal immigration crackdown,
and left the department in what current and former officials say is a severe crisis.
In the days since federal agents fatally shot a Veterans Affairs nurse,
a bellicose Border Patrol agent leading t…
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…
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…
Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: It certainly takes some getting used to.
AVON: What does?
VILA: Knowing we've finally cracked it. All I want now is to find a way of living forever.
AVON: Hmmm.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/178 B7B4
The elimination of nearly 55 million, Indigenous people in the Americas during European colonization
led to global climate change and the “Little Ice Age” of the 17th century, a recent study finds.

Researchers at University College Londonfound that the Great Dying
— the massive loss of life that followed Christopher Columbus’ 1492 conquest of the Americas through genocide and the spread of disease
— left roughly 56-million hectares of land abandoned.
“Thi…
The US has announced plans to hold multi-day military exercises in the Middle East
as it deploys what Donald Trump has called an “armada”
led by the USS Abraham Lincoln to the region as part of a tense standoff with Iran.
The display of US air power was announced as the White House has suggested it could launch new strikes on Iran
after the government’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that has left thousands dead and many more in detention with their fates uncer…
Hawaii is coming to grips with the extensive damage left by the worst flooding the islands have seen in more than 20 years.
Over the weekend, heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago,
forcing thousands on the North Shore of Oahu to evacuate before more evacuations for parts of the island of Maui.
The rains lifted houses and cars, inundated farms, swept through grocery stores and left a thick layer of mud in streets, homes and ga…
Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BEK: What for? There's nothing left there.
BLAKE: Well, it's your territory. At least you know who you're fighting now.
BEK: What have I got left to fight for?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/648 B7B2
Iran’s paramilitary
Revolutionary Guard,
a force which was key in putting down recent nationwide protests in a crackdown that left thousands dead, is
“more ready than ever,
finger on the trigger,”
its commander said Saturday,
-- as U.S. warships headed toward the Middle East.
Nournews, a news outlet close to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, reported on its Telegram channel that
the commander, Gen. Mohammad Pakpour, warned the United St…
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