Iberia
1) Convincing victory of united left in second round as António José Seguro elected president of Portugal with 67% of second round vote, a rout for far right Chega.
2) In the Bourbon monarchy next door, right PP wins regional election in Aragon but will depend on far right Vox doubled representation. Centre left PSOE diminishes, left Sumar hangs on to 1 seat while Podemos vanishes.
Broad left unity defeats the right in these PR systems.
#Rant
Rob Shaw is solidifying his position as the new Dean of Right Wing, anti-Worker Legislative Reporters in British Columbia.
With these gems, it's incredible that he has an education or goes to a doctor at all…
"The BCTF is typically one of the most militant unions, and quickly prone to job action.”
BCTF Strikes since 2000:
2005
2014
phew! almost got to three!
Remember that this was at the time of a union-busting BC Liberal government that had to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to get told that they ripped up union contracts unconstitutionally and were *forced* to compensate many years later.
"The ratification is a win for a New Democrat government. And extraordinarily expensive for taxpayers, too."
“extraordinarily expensive. Really? How is a wage increase that is *barely* in line with inflation after literally decades of below-inflation increases, “extraordinary”? I'll wait.
"Teachers can thank the BCGEU for turning what was an initial 3.5 per cent wage offer over two years by government, into a more than 12 per cent increase over four that is now forming the baseline for all other union deals."
Indeed! For those who can do math, that means 3% each of 4 years instead of 3.5 over two. But thanks Rob for making it seem like 4 times more!
Thanks BCGEU members for your solidarity and perceverence! I have been on strike. It sucks HARD. But it was worth it and it works.
"The ratification by the BCTF means roughly half of the 450,000 public sector employees now have deals of some sort with the province. Two majors left on the table are nurses and doctors.”
Oh no! Let’s not pay doctors and nurses! Surely they'll stay regardless in our incredibly overworked and under resourced healthcare system!
Like how does Mr Shaw believe we are to stay competitive or attract people. Or is he just not worried about getting sick….
"The skyrocketing deficit has the NDP government inking sweetheart deals with organized labour on the one hand, while pledging to cut public sector jobs with the other.”
Ya, we could have kept those public sector jobs if it weren't for fools like you who demanded governments cut taxes over the past 20 years instead of reasonable rises to... again…keep up with inflation and retain service!
It is a crappy balancing act that the NDP is doing and I do not like a lot of it. At the same time as Mr. Shaw complains about "sweetheart deals" for people in post-secondary, I am seeing historic cuts in that same sector. It's a blood bath actually. So the potential wage increases are going to be welcome, but feel pretty hollow as so many collegues have left.
Rob Shaw would have had us all lose our jobs and take a pay cut at the next one for good measure.
Thanks but no thanks Rob, your world view sucks.
https://www.nsnews.com/economy-law-politics/rob-shaw-ndp-deal-with-bc-teachers-sets-another-costly-precedent-for-public-sector-talks-11966874
At this rate there won’t be any weapons left for invading Greenland
@… @… great podcast episode! I believe this is the first time I've heard Brett’s voice… which sounds strange for how long I followed your work.
The episode made me realize that I don't really know how I could create key chords to group together subset of shortcuts. Or even if it's possible at all; which might actually be the case.
For example, let's assume we'd want to have all Moom shortcuts under Hyper W. Then Move left would become `Hyper W Left Arrow`.
What do you think?
There’s life beyond VSCode… thought I’d share my dev setup:
• Main monitor: WezTerm¹ running in a three (sometimes four)-way split with Helix Editor² as my main editor, a terminal pane for general commands while working, and Yazi³ usually running in another for working with files/directories in a project.
• Other monitor: Sublime Merge⁴ always running full-screen so I can immediately see exactly what I’ve changed (in real time) as I’m working.
Others (not shown): Br…
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…
Canada’s left-leaning
New Democratic Party (NDP)
has elected a new leader,
someone whose campaign drew comparisons to the politics and style of U.S. figures like
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani.
On March 29, the NDP elected
Avi Lewis on the first round of balloting
with 55 percent of the vote in his first successful political campaign.
The NDP was decimated in the April 2025 federal election.
Former leader Jag…
If you’re at #CSUNATC this week then I have a few stickers left. They look great on laptops, water bottles, clients, …
Back from a very wet (local weather history says 1.76 inches or 45 mm of rain yesterday) SAR training weekend.
Lots of good land navigation drills both on trail and bushwhacking through heavy brush. Everyone's rain gear got a good workout and there were definitely a few hard lessons learned about underperforming gear.
Wrapped the weekend up with a mock search, finding our "missing person" with a "head injury", plus her friend who had gone for help but &quo…
I'm glad I've got another year left on my fixed energy tariff; assuming that is I don't run another provider into bankruptcy. Still this gulf war has got to be good for solar/wind installers somewhere!
One of my favorite features in my primary Mastodon client (Mona) - that it has a counter showing me how many posts are left until I get caught up (also, ofc that it remembers where I was)
So, it would seem the Gorton and Denton by-election will be crucial. Starmer will cling on until the result and then a leadership election will happen.
But the by-election will determine everything. If the Greens are elected, Labour will move left with Angela Raynor and, god forbid, if Reform win, then it will lurch right with Wes Streeting.
Seriously, if Wes Streeting got into power, I’d be fucked.
I would, once again, like to suggest to Apple, that the “Device left behind” notice would be way more valuable, and amount to more than white noise, if I could “Disable warning until…”. It would be very helpful to know that my iPad remains at my hotel _after checkout_, not so much every time I leave for a meal or to explore the city. Presently it’s an all or none situation.
So all the Marxist stuff, the conscience of the American left stuff, was a lie. He just hates the US and needed a good grift since the linguistics mumbo-jumbo was a dead end.
Mitch gets left holding the bomb
#DavidHasselhoff #AngieHarmon
Baywatch Nights 1x13 - Payback
#RandomBaywatch
Why did the heron cross the road? Great Blue Heron, Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #bolsachicaecologicalreserve #birds
Interesting how many right AND left leaning posts I’m seeing about prepping for nuclear fallout. Wondering if this really was the past MAGA wanted to return to.
Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
ZUKAN: I apologize for my late arrival.
AVON: Boorva, perhaps now you may care to revise your position?
BOORVA: Because Zukan has finally arrived? That doesn't necessarily change anything.
https://
Out with the old catsalad (me who had a tasty 🥯 earlier), and in with the new one (current me with no tasty 🥯 left to nibble)
Stablecoin payments company KAST raised $80M led by QED and Left Lane; sources say the fundraise is at a $600M valuation, and KAST expects $100M ARR in 2026 (Bloomberg)
Local Computation Algorithms for (Minimum) Spanning Trees on Expander Graphs
Pan Peng, Yuyang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07394 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07394 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.07394
arXiv:2602.07394v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study \emph{local computation algorithms (LCAs)} for constructing spanning trees. In this setting, the goal is to locally determine, for each edge $ e \in E $, whether it belongs to a spanning tree $ T $ of the input graph $ G $, where $ T $ is defined implicitly by $ G $ and the randomness of the algorithm. It is known that LCAs for spanning trees do not exist in general graphs, even for simple graph families. We identify a natural and well-studied class of graphs -- \emph{expander graphs} -- that do admit \emph{sublinear-time} LCAs for spanning trees. This is perhaps surprising, as previous work on expanders only succeeded in designing LCAs for \emph{sparse spanning subgraphs}, rather than full spanning trees. We design an LCA with probe complexity $ O\left(\sqrt{n}\left(\frac{\log^2 n}{\phi^2} d\right)\right)$ for graphs with conductance at least $ \phi $ and maximum degree at most $ d $ (not necessarily constant), which is nearly optimal when $\phi$ and $d$ are constants, since $\Omega(\sqrt{n})$ probes are necessary even for expanders. Next, we show that for the natural class of \emph{\ER graphs} $ G(n, p) $ with $ np = n^{\delta} $ for any constant $ \delta > 0 $ (which are expanders with high probability), the $ \sqrt{n} $ lower bound can be bypassed. Specifically, we give an \emph{average-case} LCA for such graphs with probe complexity $ \tilde{O}(\sqrt{n^{1 - \delta}})$.
Finally, we extend our techniques to design LCAs for the \emph{minimum spanning tree (MST)} problem on weighted expander graphs. Specifically, given a $d$-regular unweighted graph $\bar{G}$ with sufficiently strong expansion, we consider the weighted graph $G$ obtained by assigning to each edge an independent and uniform random weight from $\{1,\ldots,W\}$, where $W = O(d)$. We show that there exists an LCA that is consistent with an exact MST of $G$, with probe complexity $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n}d^2)$.
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Last week, while debugging a SwiftUI performance issue, I was running instruments and found that my profiles were plagued with noise.
Godot while idling was using so much CPU time that it was skipping entire frames while rendering.
I set out to fix those, 0.5% here, 0.5 there, and the Godot Editor (and Xogot) no longer skip frames.
People had been complaining that Godot would burn your battery in an hour if you left it idling, it no longer does.
Details:
Vote Left Transfer Left.
Having a cup of tea and a chat together to see how we can continue collaboration for the Galway West By-election like we did on Catherine Connolly's presidential election.
The momentum built during Catherine's campaign will live on. We must keep this as a left seat. And with a Vote Left Transfer Left campaign, we think that can be a reality.
The Defense Department burned through $93 billion in September alone, signing checks left and right
-- in order to dry up its congressionally allocated budget, according to a recent analysis by the government watchdog Open the Books.
There is pressure to spend:
If federal agencies don’t use the entirety of their budgets by the end of the fiscal year,
then they lose access to that cash forever,
potentially putting themselves in a situation where they have to requ…
McDonald's leaks China: they run their info screens in Ubuntu Linux
My neighbor came over and I made us pizzas for lunch, along with some garlic bread. I forgot to take any photos but after he left I had one dough ball left so I made a tiny little loaf. (I am not a bread baker!)
#food #bread
What's in Jake's pockets? Well, this is in the right front pocket. Left front pocket is for phone.
The rewrite of the Sisyphus server continues, I've got all of the GET endpoints and about 60% of all the endpoints finished overall. Some initial testing on the `/workers` and `/queue` endpoints show some worrying results from the old version and some great results from the new version. The `/workers` endpoint started throwing errors at about 800 RPS on the Python/Flask version (the old one), the rewrite is showing around 4800 RPS (Golang/Gin). The `/queue` endpoint doesn't show a…
This is a really good analysis of how #Labour became a right wing party.
I was aware of their courting of rich donors, but I'd missed the revolving door between Labour governments and the defence and private healthcare industries, and the point about Labour directing anger towards immigrants in order to divert it from the
Sarah Höfflin losing a ski on the takeoff. She was fine, but the look on her face in mid air ... plus she still got the grab! #olympics #ski #skiing
Transit first city.
(Yup, we missed the entire green cycle)
Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500C have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
https://www.
fuck yeah #mamdani!
I'm in central queens, on a residential street. We have two giant mountains of snow outside (like, 8-10ft tall and pretty wide), that came from various plowings/shoveling (the alley next to my house, the fire station's parking lot, etc). The city just came w/ a backhoe and scooped it up and hauled it away. The backhoe needed to make multiple trips,but it'…
I have so many questions. Like what was the $1.6T budgeted for & who was it to be "spent" on?
✅ The Treasury may need to borrow an extra $1.6 trillion to cover the hole left by tariff ruling and pay a further $400 billion in debt interest - Fortune
https://fortune.com…
Any vexillologists around? What’s the flag on the left? (We’re in Pima county, Arizona)
Made a change, the clone I’ve been working on is now at https://left-wordle.com. The old url should redirect.
There are some changes - please report any bugs.
check out the prefs - you can add custom text to the share text header line, defaults to (Left Wordle), and add a line below the grid, default is bl…
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps
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城市律动 🎀
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“Everybody is so fed up with #Labour’s only strategy being ‘vote Labour to keep the Tories out’, and now it’s ‘vote Labour to keep Reform out’,” Spencer tells me. “It’s like: how about you actually just do something to make people vote for you?” -- #Green party candidate Hannah Spencer in the Gorton and De…
The sharply conservative Supreme Court that Donald Trump’s three appointees remade
is the first since at least the 1950s to
reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities
“There is no center now,” said political science professor Lee Epstein,
who performed the analysis with her Washington University colleague Andrew D. Martin and Michael J. Nelson of Penn State.
A yawning gulf has opened between the left and right flanks of the …
Government argues ICE facility protest was actually left-wing terrorist plot
The prosecutor displayed photos on a courtroom television of evidence seized from the garage of defendants on trial for alleged involvement in a radical left-wing conspiracy:
Photocopiers, a bookbinding machine and leaflets called “zines.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn Smith asked the FBI agent on the witness stand to identify the evidence.
Special Agent Morris Boatner said he had found the…
TIL about "AI abstinence", I think it's like "spork avoidance" or "car crash shunning".
Embrace sporks, they're inevitable! Don't get left behind and crash your car today!
Tens of thousands of New Yorkers left without heat as temperatures drop to 4° -- and tenants blast Mamdani for failing to act (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/real-estate/thousands-of-new-yorkers-left-without-heat/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p134#a260205p134
Two students in falling snow at night in the courtyard between Gates Hall and the new CIS building
#photo #photography #portrait
A North Carolina man who says federal immigration agents shattered his truck window,
forcibly removed him from his vehicle,
and left him “bleeding and in pain”
has filed a $1.25 million damages claim against the federal government.
Willy Wender Aceituno, a U.S. citizen,
says he was stopped twice on November 15, 2025, while walking into a restaurant parking lot to pick up breakfast before work,
according to a court filing reviewed by Newsweek.
Aceitun…
North Carolina led for just .4 seconds in Saturday's rivalry game against Duke.
But that's all they needed to secure the win.
Seth Trimble's three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left delivered the Tar Heels a 71-68 win and closed out a 9-0 run in the game.
After Trimble's three-pointer, the fans rushed the court before having to clear it,
leaving a delay and one last heave for the Blue Devils.
But a turnover sealed it and the party can begin on Franklin…
Chad Mizelle, a former chief of staff to Attorney General Pam Bondi,
hung an online help wanted sign for federal prosecutors last weekend
that perhaps explained 🔸why so many valuable Justice Department staff members have left, and 🔸why so few candidates want in.
Assistant U.S. attorneys are not typically recruited, as Mr. Mizelle sought to do, by a former federal employee who 👉asks potential candidates to send a private message to his X account.
Nor have they been ask…