2026-03-04 20:27:16
Who’s going to tell Germany that commiting genocide isn’t a fundamental European value? (I can see why they’re confused, of course.)
Deutschebags.
https://shrimp.vijf.life/notes/afvjl80c075vsdvy
Anybody else from the 19th Century out there?
#poetry #SmallPoems
A few months ago I was at a store and I ran into a former coworker. It was a guy I tried to forget about because we worked together during a rough time in my life and also the guy was... odd.
I remember I felt sorry for him we we worked together as his life seemed sad. I ended up selling him a guitar for cheap because I thought he needed something in his life.
A few weeks later he told me he sold it for twice what I sold it to him for.
1/n
Man Convicted of Trying to Assassinate Trump Gets Life Sentence (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/us/man-convicted-of-trying-to-assassinate-trump-gets-life-sentence.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p8#a260205p8
tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 16439 nodes and 440135 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions
A profile of Max Tegmark, the physicist pushing to halt AGI development, who was subpoenaed by OpenAI over the Future of Life Institute's past ties to Elon Musk (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/who-is-max-teg
'This is our life' — staff at Kyiv's National Botanical Garden battle to keep plants alive amid war, sub-zero temperatures: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/this-is-our-life-staff.html
> The only way to counter this is for humans to be more like humans, and less like machines. Which means we have to use the one thing we have that machines don't: our consciousness. We have to be conscious not only of our ideas, but where we got those ideas from, and whether or not we actually understand them, and actually know them. This, I suppose, is the role of the philosopher, but ideally we should all be a little bit philosophers.
From @…
Intelligent Life of Earth - Existential Comics
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/644
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Talk Talk:
🎵 It’s My Life
#TalkTalk
https://localtalk.bandcamp.com/track/it-s-my-life-sean-s-6am-dub-3
🛑 Hesitation is costly in sports but essential to life – neuroscientists identified its brain circuitry
https://theconversation.com/hesitation-is-costly-in-sports-but-essential-to-life-neuroscientists-iden…
Het beprijzen van mobiliteit, "rekeningrijden" werkt gewoon zoals ook al door vele wetenschappers voorspeld, maar nu ook in de praktijk van New York, iets voor het nieuwe kabinet om mee te nemen (en speciaal voor alle VVDers die hier altijd wat moeite mee hebben).
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Erykah Badu:
🎵 Love Of My Life (An Ode To Hip Hop)
#NowPlaying #ErykahBadu
https://velraj.bandcamp.com/track/erykah-badu-love-of-my-life-kaytranada-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7sfv48GFGTACbipv2osobB
(IEEE Spectrum) 11 Amazing engineering events in 2026: Brain chip helps blind people see https://spectrum.ieee.org/new-technology-2026 on Elon Musk and Neuralink Blindsight: "some experts worry he is overpromising on the quality of the brain-computer interface";
The Wheel was an obvious invention ─ after the fact,
So the final Judgment, when eternity's locked.
#couplets
Choose life over death. Choose compassion over suffering. Go vegan for the animals, environment and health! Choose life for the future!
#AnimalRights #GoVegan
"Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds"
#Oceans #Environment
The 3D printers are heating up for an epic stream today! 🔥 We're bringing some serious fantasy characters to life:
👹 Orc Warboss Fitz 🧛♂️ Count Vamps ✨ The Sorceress
Tune in to watch these prints come to life, all powered by the Linux rig! 🐧⚙️
https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
One of the greatest disappointments of my adult life has been the degradation of fruit. Every peach or nectarine I buy is a mushy, tasteless mess, and I fear I'll never eat a good one again.
I remember seeing someone make a post about this topic a few weeks ago here on Mastodon, but for the life of me I can’t find it, so I can’t tag the author or reply to it :(
Data folks from The Straits Times made a very cool dataviz story of Pokémon, to celebrate the 30th anniversary https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2026/02/pokemon-tree-of-life/index.html
"Personal Knowledge Management is for Life, Not Just for Work"
#PKM
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/us/politics/trump-capture-maduro-venezuela.html
“Inside Venezuela, the effort began with a cyberoperation that cut power to large swaths of Caracas, shrouding the city in darkness to allow the planes, drones and…
I once asked for a wake-up call at a hotel. The next morning the phone rang and a voice said, "You've done nothing with your life. Get your shit together."
If I could change anything about my life I would go back in time and save the email my junior year's college adjunct professor send to the class at 3am:
"Wow there are a lot of Jennifers in this class"
I think he said one other thing..... but that was the gist of the email.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Marta Del Grandi:
🎵 Dream Life
#MartaDelGrandi
https://martadelgrandi.bandcamp.com/track/dream-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NhIwUE8G191kk431ALDmB
Tell us a bit more about the candidate you are referring, CAPTAIN SALTBEARD:
⚪ This is a professional contact. I have worked with this person before.
⚪ This is a personal contact. I have not worked with this person before.
🔘 This is a nemesis. I have worked against this person my entire life.
Gerade woke-life-balance gelesen.
Lasse das mal so stehen.
#VerleserDesTages
So, rumours are that Windows 12 will be subscription based and AI focused. Lol. I... I hope I don't have to use it for anything at all ever in my life.
Oops! Missed the anniversary!
Posted 20 years ago last Friday: New Bottom Line Volume 5.3 – "From Life Cycle Assessment to Life Cycle Thinking"
https://natlogic.com/resources/publications/new-bottom-line/vol5/3-life-cycle-asse…
I love gardening with specifically native plants because it's like restoring a damaged tapestry of life. An exotic from a climatically similar place to coastal California, like the Mediterranean or South Africa, might look pretty and grow well here, but contributes nothing greater than itself. Natives support particular webs of life that depend on them.
Neue Filme und Serien bei Netflix, Disney und Amazon Prime im Februar 2026
Im Februar zeigt Netflix alle Staffeln von "Stargate SG-1". Bei Amazon Prime ist "The Life Of Chuck" im Programm und bei Disney läuft "Inglourious Basterds".
Good morning! Today it’s back to full time TelemetryDeck, plus a bit of working out! I also want to make January my Snow Leopard month where I don’t work on any new features, just bug fixes, improvements, and quality of life upgrades.
Oh wow, HP-UX is now EoL; That was my first Unix, on a HP9000/800 mini at college at about 17 (~1989).
https://www.osnews.com/story/144094/hp-ux-hits-end-of-life-today-and-im-sad/
SBS Portuguese – SBS em Português
Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Portuguese-speaking Australians...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sbs-portuguese/
For #footpathfriday , here's a nice path I'd say.
This is taken from a bike&hike right after the bike-part and thus the start of a very nice autumn hike last year. When I took this photo, I didn't know - and not even expect how well the rest of the day would be 🙂
Enjoy
#mountains
I have never really been a collector of anything. Maybe music for a while, back in the MP3 era, twenty years ago. Other than that, there was never something I felt passionate enough to collect, at least not in real life, not physical objects.
I never truly understood the collectors around me. To me, collecting always felt like a burden. Something you had to carry, move, store, maintain.
And yet, today, I realized something.…
My new year resolution is simple:
1. Working,
2. Sleeping,
3. Commuting with bycycle.
Well, sleeping and commuting with bycycle are seemingly very simple, but cycling is very life changing to me.
Anxiety and depression are coming now and then. But compared to before, my mental, social and physical health are top-notch now.
My depression and anxiety are at the lowest. And I insist to focus on bycycle and sleeping to make my life even more stable.
I continue to be impressed with how the LLM systems are pretty open about queerness and non-judgmental, non-homophobic. Remarkable given that so much of the training material must be hateful! Here's Gemini being cautious but helpful after I asked it about a summary of what it knows about me and asked why it didn't mention me being gay.
I do have access to information regarding your personal life and sexual orientation from our previous conversations. However, I am designed with specific safety and privacy guardrails that prevent me from storing or outputting information related to a user's sexual orientation or sensitive medical conditions in these types of summaries.
While I can remember and use those details to provide context during our active discussions—such as when we were looking into the history of queer voices or specific support resources—I cannot include them in a "permanent" distilled profile like the one above.
@Jessteasin@mastodon.social CHi Life let's gooo
C02 - Powerplay
BARR: They'll never willingly give up their way of life. That's why we try to catch them with our drug guns. And when we do they make an invaluable contribution to our society.
VILA: It's a shame, they just don't know what they're missing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/330
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Goldie:
🎵 Inner City Life (Radio Edit)
#Goldie
https://batardtronique.bandcamp.com/track/inner-city-life-batard-tronique-modern-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0O7xFEqePrcTUgOi4qe0uB
What do you call a country that illegally invades and kidnaps the president of another country?
The USA.
(You were thinking “terrorist state” weren’t you? Tsk, tsk.) @… https://
Google Pixel 10a review: long battery life and a good camera with no bump, but weak gaming performance and barely an upgrade from the Pixel 9a (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/the-sidegrade/
Coming of age during war, where mistakes can cost a life: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/04/coming-of-age-during-war.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Beatles:
🎵 A Day in the Life
#TheBeatles
https://lennonviadinhe.bandcamp.com/track/a-day-in-the-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hKRSZhUGEhKU6aNSPBACZ
“The Intern in Charge”:
Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting opportunities that lay beyond campus life in Texas.
“Onward and upward!” he wrote, with an emoji of a rocket shooting into space.
His career blastoff came quickly. A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no apparent national security expertise
is now a Dep…
I like #SoapboxFE because I can pretend I'm not on mastodon.
My local Python installation on my Windows 11 laptop was a complete mess and i am not an experienced developer/programmer (far from it). I used Google Antigravity to fix and improve this. It fixed problems , installed "uv" and my life is simpler now... Agents have a role to play i think.
#google #antigravity
SBS Macedonian – СБС Македонски
Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Macedonian-speaking Australians...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sbs-macedonian/
@FSBT_Kontext@mastodon.social Pfropf
irgendwie werde ich gerade wieder daran erinnert: ich habe auf einer seite eines platzes gesessen und gesehen, wie es auf der anderen seite beinahe zu einem tötungsdelikt gekommen wäre. ein mann und eine frau stritten. vorgrblich um geld, dass sie sich gegenseitig schuldeten. er hatte sie für eine andere verlassen. sie wollte ihn zurück. er hatte beide hände demonstrativ in den hosentaschen, sie hat ihn angeschrien, gestossen, mit gegenständen beworfen. durch einen der stösse taumelte er rückw…
Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and Richard Branson among the broad coalition of leaders signing the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human AI Declaration (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/-human…
It’s Permaculture day at the old homestead. Long awaited!
“If you choose not to have joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life, but still the same amount of snow.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
HORROR in the Dnipropetrovsk region! Russian drone takes the life of a 12-year-old boy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/05/horror-in-the-dnipropetrovsk-region.html
Sovereign of the Universe ─
Make my heart as still and calm as the motionless leaves after the wind has died down.
Because Jesus is Lord. Amen.
#prayer
There’s a cat on me but he’s not on me the way I want him to be on me so I can be comfortable but if I move he’ll leave why is life so hard!?
@FSBT_Kontext@mastodon.social Pfropf
irgendwie werde ich gerade wieder daran erinnert: ich habe auf einer seite eines platzes gesessen und gesehen, wie es auf der anderen seite beinahe zu einem tötungsdelikt gekommen wäre. ein mann und eine frau stritten. vorgrblich um geld, dass sie sich gegenseitig schuldeten. er hatte sie für eine andere verlassen. sie wollte ihn zurück. er hatte beide hände demonstrativ in den hosentaschen, sie hat ihn angeschrien, gestossen, mit gegenständen beworfen. durch einen der stösse taumelte er rückw…
Zohran Mamdani’s third day as mayor of New York City was supposed to be dedicated to a long-stalled #pedestrian #safety plan,
the kind of local quality-of-life issue he had made central to his campaign.
Instead, after the U.S. military captured
404 Media berichtet über eine Takedown App für die Tea App. Mit anderen Worten ist die Tea App immer noch ein Ding, wird immer noch verwendet. Trotz des katastrophalen Data Breaches im letzten Jahr.
Ron B. speaks from Florida about a Bible text:
#Bible
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Nina Simone:
🎵 Ain’t Got No / I Got Life
#NinaSimone
https://karmatose.bandcamp.com/track/i-got-life-remix-nina-simone-aint-got-no-i-got-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/0p9kp28VdoiuIxgzkzhZLU
Smashed shops, no water, and cooking food on open fires: HELLISH life under Russian occupation: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/04/smashed-shops-no-water-and.html
I went to the appflowy web site and read “Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI” and I have never closed a browser tab so fast in my life.
“In western democracies, ageing and dying seem to have been reclassified as soluble problems,” clinical psychologist Frank Tallis in writes.
This is delusional – “a retreat from reality, and narcissistic”.
Climate-crisis denial, he suggests, in a striking formulation, can be seen as “the denial of death on an apocalyptic scale”.
Hot and muggy already this early.
'Welcome back to life' — Ukraine's HUR faked death of top anti-Putin Russian commander, claimed Kremlin bounty money: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/welcome-back-to-life-ukraines.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Grace Jones:
🎵 Private Life (remix)
#GraceJones
https://larozcr.bandcamp.com/track/grace-jones-private-life-laroz-edit-free-download
More needed to be said.
#Bible
#Graphene künftig auf #Motorola. oder wissen das schon alle?
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Escort:
🎵 A Bright New Life
#Escort
https://tirkrecords.bandcamp.com/track/a-bright-new-life-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/5V1nRsmHOeoxUB7dP0xvoM
Jesus amazed even the people who knew him, but ...
#Bible
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Water From Your Eyes:
🎵 Life Signs
#WaterFromYourEyes
https://waterfromyoureyes.bandcamp.com/track/life-signs
https://open.spotify.com/track/63JK811l2UcpiyDvYFCQX5
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Talking Heads:
🎵 Life During Wartime
#TalkingHeads
https://theroundedsquares.bandcamp.com/track/the-rounded-squares-talking-heads-life-during-wartime
https://open.spotify.com/track/7veDNtXlh2n0noGdD0oqBB
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#Graphene künftig auf #Motorola. oder wissen das schon alle?
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Farley Jackmaster Funk:
🎵 The Acid Life
#FarleyJackmasterFunk
https://jackmixmaster.bandcamp.com/track/the-acid-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mRgy0qWyAc8EpFeeRNnRK
How has the first day of your new year been so far?