@cdarwin@c.imWhen 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
@servelan@newsie.socialWhat's left from SCOTUS, and when to expect it
https://www.lawdork.com/p/whats-left-from-scotus
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys $96 Million Star Makes Feelings Clear on Position Change https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-smith-left-tackle-guyton/
@jswright61@ruby.social#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 …
@ErikUden@mastodon.deI 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 🚩
@denmanrooke@mastodon.ieI 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…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeA 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.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialSure the Fediverse is cool, but have you ever pulled up next to a Cybertruck, flipped off the driver, and then made a right turn and left them stuck at the light?
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe 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
@scott@carfree.cityThis 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://
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caIf you are a middle aged man and need to feel better about your mid-life dad bod, just pull out some Super8mm film of you as a rolly-polly baby. lol
Checking some 8mm film I was given recently by my dad (left). A full viewing and eventual recording/digitizing will be required at some point soon!
This would be from spring or summer 1978.
#Family #8mm #film
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThese boys are up to something very cool...
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@KROMAPUNK/116744860152357968
https://
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeAll 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…
@johl@mastodon.xyzOMG, 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)
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/55
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itAccording 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..
@danyork@mastodon.socialRE: 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…
@jake4480@c.imJoey Ramone passed away on this day (April 15) in 2001. Joey no longer walks Earth (and Dee Dee and Johnny are no longer with us either), but the unreal music he and they left behind is immortal, and it will fucking blast and rip forever. It still blows my mind I was briefly on Earth at the same time as this man, this legend, Jeffrey Hyman.
Here's a writeup Ultimate Classic Rock put up today on Joey and the Ramones for the 25th anniversary of his passing:
@crell@phpc.socialThe future...
@grumpybozo@toad.socialWow. The UMich president’s job is cursed. Last one left to take a job that didn’t end up hiring him, his replacement has a brain tumor that will prevent his taking the position.
@UP8@mastodon.socialWachusett Reservoir is the largest hand-built dam in the world, assembled from great granite blocks
#photo #photography #dam
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsThe 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
@yaya@jorts.horseirked by the slightly off-center capri sun
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeCan 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…
@yetiinabox@todon.nlAt 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…
@sean@scoat.esIf 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…)
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza
@wraithe@mastodon.socialThis is a pretty solid assessment of Where We (for a given value of “we”) Are
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lp3e77mdabccgcprvoxsn7zp/post/3mlqqrwujmk2f
@j_honegger@swiss.socialFrom #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
NO RESERVES LEFT: ONLY RUSSIAN’S MONEY Vlog 1394: War in #Ukraine
The head of the russian Central Bank #ElviraNabiullina …
@compfu@mograph.socialNew „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…
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialMe: *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!
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialInside Outside V 🔲
中间 V 🔲
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@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialIs 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?
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Natalie Jane Hill:
🎵 Never Left Me
#NatalieJaneHill
https://nataliejanehill.bandcamp.com/track/never-left-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mYV6uf5S0ChjFoLJWUJHI
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeThese are in fact three lemurs.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHouston Texans co-founder Janice McNair dies at 89 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7445908/2026/07/14/houston-texans-janice-mcnair-obit/
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukOne 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.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSundar 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…
@TFG@social.linux.pizzaThe 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…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.delkml_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
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzNate Thomas opens up about Cowboys' open competition at left tackle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/nate-thomas-opens-up-about-cowboys-open-competition-at-left-tackle
@markhburton@mstdn.social"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
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe 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
@brichapman@mastodon.social57 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…
@shriramk@mastodon.socialI'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.
@cdarwin@c.imRep. 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…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialGood morning... I can confirm that the heating in the train works
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeIt'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."
https://www…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom 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
@cjust@infosec.exchange
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@primonatura@mstdn.social @azonenberg@ioc.exchangeWhich 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...
@peter_mcmahan@mas.toWhy tf are there fighter jets buzzing Montréal? I thought I left that kind of grotesque militarism behind in the US. Or are we under attack?
#montreal
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksI'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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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…
@UP8@mastodon.socialFalls 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
@yaya@jorts.horseduolingo been doing some wild worldbuilding lately
@jonippolito@digipres.clubOne 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.
…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzNate Thomas opens up about Cowboys' open competition at left tackle https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/nate-thomas-opens-up-about-cowboys-open-competition-at-left-tackle
@bici@mastodon.socialSo 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
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
@darius@social.linux.pizzaWork in progress website mockup. Not sure if I'll ever get to finishing this or turning it into code, but I always enjoy working on web design stuff :)
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgRE: 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…
@jswright61@ruby.social#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
@davidaugust@mastodon.online😢
#USpol
@totientfunction@mathstodon.xyz
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaOnly 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…
@cdarwin@c.imEmma 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…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🔒 Optional, fully end-to-end encrypted sync keeps the same history across terminals, sessions and machines — use the hosted Atuin Cloud server or self-host your own
🎨 Extras: quick-jump to previous items with Alt-<num>, statistics like most-used command, and your old history file is left untouched
@NFL@darktundra.xyzOrlando Brown Jr.: Bengals have the 'best pass protection unit in the NFL' https://www.nfl.com/news/orlando-brown-jr-bengals-have-the-best-pass-protection-unit-in-the-nfl
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.delkml_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
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialInside Outside VI 🔲
中间 VI 🔲
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
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@UP8@mastodon.socialFireworks ascend while other fireworks explode at the North End of Little York Lake
#photo #photography #summer #littleyork
@markhburton@mstdn.socialBad 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…
@servelan@newsie.socialNithya 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/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'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
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itRE: 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…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsA 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.
@cdarwin@c.imNearly 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…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… 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…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Smog, Lies and Pineapples: How LA Cleaned up Its Air and What’s Left to Do"
#US #USA #America #LosAngeles…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defoursquare: 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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@cjust@infosec.exchange @totientfunction@mathstodon.xyz @Techmeme@techhub.socialDatabento, 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…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzGiants 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
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialPerfection Because It Doesn’t Exist ☀️
完美因为完美不存在 ☀️
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@cowboys@darktundra.xyzThe "Don't Sleep on This Tier" Part of the 2026 NFL Draft Big Board https://insidethestar.com/the-dont-sleep-on-this-tier-part-of-the-2026-nfl-draft-big-board
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe 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
@cdarwin@c.imDays 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…
@cdarwin@c.imIran’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…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPenix (ACL) back on field throwing in Falcons dril... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48754413/penix-back-field-throwing-falcons-offseason-program
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz @cdarwin@c.imTrump’s repeated attacks and dangerous rhetoric targeting judges
have created a climate where even the Supreme Court is expanding its security
https://skywriter.blue/@altnps.bsky.social/3mqk6mlmz2c2i
@cdarwin@c.imThe Supreme Court helped create this monster
and shouldn’t be shocked because, eventually,
the monster comes for us all.
https://skywriter.blue/@altnps.bsky.social/3mqk6mlmz2c2i
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzTyler Guyton reacts to Cowboys opening up left tackle competition https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-guyton-reacts-to-cowboys-opening-up-left-tackle-competition
