2024-09-17 09:10:58
NYPD: Mass Shooters
It's time for another reckoning with police
by JOSHUA P. HILL
SEP 16
#NYPD
NYPD: Mass Shooters
It's time for another reckoning with police
by JOSHUA P. HILL
SEP 16
#NYPD
Warm, relaxed feels & accentuated loose beats with room to breathe/dance...
Yaka - somewhere in that water (2024)
#Music4Coding
Alan Ritchson reveals how he almost lost the role of Reacher
#alanritchson #reacher #humor
Trump’s love for Laura Loomer is disqualifying
She's beyond the pale even by MAGA standards.
by Noah Berlatsky
Sep 16, 2024
https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronrupar/p/trump-loves-laura-loomer-but-why
#RamseyNasr over wat er de afgelopen dagen in Nederland gebeurd is.
"Antisemitisme bestaat. Het leeft weer op. Maar waar antisemitisme wordt bestreden met racisme, moeten we extra op onze hoede zijn. Daar woedt de ziekte pas echt."
Birth place of giants.
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#Glacier #LandscapePhotography #Photography
I guess mastodon doesn't like having to embed two links at once.. -
https://waxtailor.bandcamp.com/track/que-sera-phonovisions-symphonic-version
Pondering insignificance.
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#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
WASTE LAND | How raw sewage pumped by West Rand municipality is killing rivers, farms, and business
by Sikonathi Mantshantsha
https://www.news24.com/news24/investigations/wa…
THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS
...and other hilariously contradictory & moronic moments between MAGA media & the great Rignoramous himself, Fat Nixon.
#humor #jimmykimmel #comedy
It's Time To Oppress Conservatives by A.R. Moxon
Sep 14, 2024
With a generous, diverse, and open world that will care for everyone, even for them.
https://www.the-reframe.com/its-time-to-oppress-conservatives-2/
Was mich an der Sache noch besonders abfuckt … die minderjährige Tochter des Fahrzeugführers war mit im Auto. Nicht nur ein Leben zerstört, sondern auch noch dem eigenen Kind ein Trauma verpasst. Wie kann man sich so sehr nicht im Griff haben, als erwachsene Person?
https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/1…
Beautiful & impressive 3D visualizations in this paper by Muyuan Chen:
"Rendering protein structures inside cells at the atomic level with Unreal Engine"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.08.570879v2
(The video is just …
Our mastodon server #datascience
"We have been in #Palestine for twelve years [i.e., since the #Balfour Declaration] without having even once made a serious attempt at seeking through negotiations the consent of the #indigenous peo…
Captivating & haunting from the first moment... In Hydrangea's (aka Hortense Coumailleau) Arborescens the atmosphere is full of seemingly frozen, yet moving & evocative layers/chords floating atop a warm bass...
Hydrangea — Arborescens (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LQTFw0H88
Holy frijoles. I'll admit I had no idea Zoom had crashed & burned so badly over the last 4 years.
I have had dozens of customers switching to Teams Conferencing & Teams Voice calling in 2024 but I had no idea ZM's valuation had dropped off 90% since it's high in 2021.
That's an astonishing rise & fall.
#zoom
🇬🇧 Hi, I'm Tomasz! Hello everyone from https://infosec.exchange! I moved here from my private instance https://mastodon.tomaszdunia.pl/@to3k
Old graphical editor prototype (2019/20) with various ways of managing multiple selections of graphical entities, incl. align/distribute, duplicate, invert, select/deselect region (box/convex hull). editor is generic. items could be files, shapes, mesh vertices, 2d/3d points, graph nodes, whatever...
Been re-animating this prototype and toying with integrating it into my personal note taking & media management tool to organize items into piles for batch-processing and to easier app…
"#Trump zelf heeft al aangekondigd op de eerste dag van zijn presidentschap een wet uit te vaardigen om ministeries, #universiteiten en digitale media te kunnen vervolgen wanneer ze betrokken waren bij ‘censuur’. De woorden ‘desinformatie’ en ‘misinformatie’ mogen niet worden gebruikt om polit…
Musical legend, Bruce Springsteen, announces his endorsement of Kamala Harris/Tim Walz for President, and in his words, "AGAINST Donald Trump & JD Vance".
✅ Bruce Springsteen Endorses Kamala Harris & Tim Walz
https://youtu.be/DSI_XbF-Yvs?si=TUi0Qz1s2yiE8Prx…
Some #GenArtAPI updates from this week:
- switched from Apache 2.0 to MIT license
- started publishing API files & types as package (optional)
- updated readme & diagrams
New installation & getting started instructions:
Attn Star Trek fans:
I challenge you to listen to this episode of "A Closer Look" without bursting out laughing at Seth Meyer's legendary reference that only we Trek fans will understand. 🤣
✅ Jack Smith Reveals Damning New Coup Evidence Against Trump in Bombshell Filing: A Closer Look
https://<…
Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: We'll pull out. Give it another hour.
[Inside the Security station]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/168 B7B2
Follow me on bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy
(My posts from Mastodon will be bridged to there)
"Tesla's issued a recall on 27,000 Cybertrucks due to an issue with its rear view camera.
Apparently whenever it's on, you can see all the people laughing at you."
- Late Night with Seth Meyers
#humor #cybertruck
"The German newspaper #Bild also used a screenshot from the video with the caption: "The hunt for Jews has broken out again: Arab mob chases soccer fans in #Amsterdam."
#DW Fact check: False
Wann plant ihr eigentlich zu beweisen, dass es nichts mit Rassismus zu tun hat, wenn schwarze Frauen viel häufiger eine Schwangerschaft nicht überleben, als Weiße aus einer vergleichbaren sozioökonomischen Schicht?
Oder, dass die Ergebnisse des Mailänder Kongresses richtig waren und Gehörlose falsch liegen, dass lautsprachliche Beschulung diskriminierend ist? Nur, damit ich mir das schon mal in den Kalender eintragen kann.
Ever since having had a chance to use a microWAVE for a few productions in the 90s, I always had a softspot for Waldorf synths because of their spectrally rich & interesting sound character (and their design had a big impact on the few synth engines I coded myself)... Eyeing again their Iridium desktop synth, which with their wavetable, sample, granular or resonator-based oscillators and ample filter and modulation features is also so fresh, innovative & powerful (even though it'…
Remember "Still Alive" & the pursuit of cake? Let's all revisit the glory that was the music of Portal. 😁
"Portal Gave Us The 2 GREATEST Video Game Songs Of ALL TIME" - Charles Cornell
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YGb04ayqNhY&si=…
Mon RETEX sur @… :
Chouette outil, mais je ne vais pas continuer avec lui.
Castopod a une interface web agréable. Tout n'est pas très intuitif, mais on s'y fait bien.
J'ai beaucoup aimé la partie "broadcast" qui permet de lister plein de plateformes où faire référencer son podcast. J'en connaissais pas autant 🤯
La partie "analytics" semble Š première vue sympa, mais les stats affichées sont pas du tout cohérentes avec ce qu'on peut voir sur OP3. Je pense que c'est en partie du au fait que Castopod ne tient pas compte partout de l'entête X-Forwarded-For (il est derrière un Caddy), et du coup, ça b(i)aise les mesures.
Son packaging Docker est pratique et son installation est aisée.
En revanche, ce que j'ai moins aimé :
* les outil de modération des commentaires sur le fédiverse totalement insuffisants ; ils buguent en partie, et j'ai été obligé d'aller effacer les spam Š la main dans la base de données ; pour ajouter du sel sur la plaie, tous les compteurs sont dénormalisés sans automatisation avec des triggers, donc effacer un commentaire veut dire faire aussi plein d'update pour réduire les compteurs manuellement... 3FN bordel !
* on ne peut pas modérer a priori les commentaires donc n'importe quel spam se retrouve illico sur ta page de podcast ;
* ça tient pas du tout la charge ; ça devrait moralement être un site statique avec régénération de la page quand il y a une activité d'admin ou activitypub (voire remarque sur la modération a priori) ;
* le player déconne pas mal ; des retours au début impromptus, notamment ;
* pas de support des alternateEnclosures pour publier Š la fois en MP3, en OGG Vorbis et M4A/AAC ; faut l'ajouter Š la main, grâce Š un petit champ (néanmoins bien pratique) ;
* les chapitres et les transcripts sont sympas et des citoyens de première classe (first class citizens) MAIS les timecodes ne sont pas cliquables pour sauter Š l'endroit intéréssant (voire la remarque sur le player pas top) ;
* perte de messages : j'ai vu, voire envoyé, des commentaires sur un épisode qui n'ont jamais été reçus/affichés par Castopod... Peut-être que c'est le Mastodon de départ qui a perdu les notes, mais j'ai des doutes vu que c'ait arrivé qu'avec Castopod...
Donc heu... pour le résumer, le player est très bof, et l'intégration ActivityPub a besoin d'encore beaucoup beaucoup de travail. Dommage.
Alors je vais faire quoi ? Je pense que je vais utiliser mon fidèle ami @… pour générer le site et le RSS, et utiliser le player de Podlove (#podcast #podcasts
Tina Peters. Remember that name.
She & her privilege as a Colorado election recorder broke into election voting machines to modify records, defiantly claiming MAGA 'stop the steal' righteousness to the presiding judge... then refused to take responsibility for her corrupt acts as a clerk
AND GOT 9 YEARS IN PRISON.
"Trump Co-Conspirator CRIES As Judge Gives Her BRUTAL Sentence"
In the following, replace:
- "school/education system" with "open source"
- "Western-style" with "supply chain security"
- "Developing countries" with "indie devs" or "FOSS developers"
- "richer nations" with "corporations/big tech"
...and see where we're at in #OpenSource…
This is a shout-out to my colleague @…
Bart is a climate scientist with a lot of experience in fight against climate #denialism and post-truth nastiness.
Next to his work at
Only able to muster one word, really... goosebumps!
Antonio Ruscito — Alodrone (2020)
#Music4Coding
HAHAHA GREED EXPOSED
"Undecided business owners that say:
"I just don't know enough about her"
...what they really mean is:
"I just want deregulation & tax cuts.""
- Stephanie Ruhle, 11th Hour, MSNBC
#MSNBC #stephanieruhle
Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
TARRANT: [To Dayna] Stay with him.
[Somewhere else on the Liberator]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/276 B7B3
IronNet goes bankrupt. Nope, I hadn't heard of 'em either.
"Collapse of national security elites' cyber firm leaves bitter wake" | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/keith-alexander-ironne…
"Technology is, and must always remain, in service to humanity." Inspiring words from Mustafa Suleyman our CEO of Microsoft AI .
Here's 4 different video demonstrations of Microsoft's new Copilot:
An AI companion for everyone - Microsoft
https://blogs.micro…
Inversions (2021)
#GenerativeArt #Animation #Circle #Inversion
Microsoft's Azure Quantum platform for QCaaS already supports 5 different Quantum Computing providers, not incl. Microsoft's own offerings:
✅ Quantinuum
✅ IonQ
✅ Rigetti
✅ Pasqal
✅ Atom Computing (NEW)
"Microsoft announces the best performing logical qubits on record and will provide priority access to reliable quantum hardware in Azure Quantum"
"Microsoft and its collaborators on the Azure Quantum project have been consistently breaking new ground with quantum computing research projects, most recently by quadrupling the number of logical qubits they are able to create."
Microsoft Azure Quantum: Accelerating Discovery In The Quantum Age - Forbes
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: They couldn't. Which means that that one has been fitted with a new form of main drive unit.
ORAC: Which also means that the photonic space drive has been finally perfected by Dr. Plaxton.
When our governments insist with all their propaganda tools that speaking out against #Israel is #antisemitic - conflating #antizionism with
We play Penn State tomorrow. As I said 3 weeks ago... after barely beating Hawaii, I don't see the UCLA Bruins having another win all season.
At least we're gonna make gobs of cash from the BIG 10 conference share of the recent media contract renegotiation... but this is embarrassing.
UCLA Football 2024 schedule
@ Hawaii (W 16-13)
Indiana (L 13-42)
@ LSU (L 17-34)
Oregon (L 13-34)
@ Penn State
Minnesota
@ Rutgers
@ Nebraska
If MAGA fascist types have a weird biological fear of contracting diseases, that would kind of make sense in an uneducated, ill-informed logic sort of way.
It doesn't explain why so many got the heebie jeebies around wearing masks during COVID-19 but maybe these weirdos just hate the association they mentally have with masks & disease...?
"Hate body odour? You're more likely to have rightwing views" | Psychology | The Guardian
That time when John Spencer "Chief of Staff, Leo McGarry" won for Best Actor in 2002 at the 54th Annual Emmy Awards for The West Wing's season 3's "Bartlet for America" & "We Killed Yamamoto"
✅ John Spencer's Emmy Win
https://youtube.com/watch?…
Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
SOOLIN: Another calculated risk?
DAYNA: Try and get the sums right this time.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/180 B7B5
Wonderful bloopers from Curb Your Enthusiasm, VEEP, How I Met Your Mother, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Office, Seinfeld...
"Funniest TV Show Bloopers Compilation"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DYWDYcgnGK8&si=gAi52uF…
California has the 5th largest economy in the world, bigger than India & just under Japan.
Now, Governor Newsom signed a law permitting Marijuana dispensaries to serve food & drink... so next year, come visit CA's Cannibus Cafes!
In other news, they just released 165pg of incriminating testimony & evidence.
HOW IS THIS ELECTION EVEN CLOSE?
"Trump's MELTDOWN Over New Election Fraud Evidence, Melania's Abortion Stance" - Jimmy Kimmel L…
Which of these are true? 😁
1️⃣ Chris Hemsworth's first job was cleaning human breast pumps.
2️⃣ Jimmy Fallon was once saved from wild coyotes by Dolph Lundgren.
3️⃣ Kumail Nanjiani tried to murder someone in Singapore.
Find out on:
✅ "True Confessions with Chris Hemsworth and Kumail Nanjiani" - Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
DAYNA: It had a sort of claw.
AVON: Designed to tear things apart. Space craft, for example.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/219 B7B4
Getting an education shouldn't crush young citizens with debt right before they hit the workforce. Economists have shown repeatedly that the economic benefit of removing student debt FAR outweighs the "income tax" losses.
WHY IS THIS SO HARD FOR CONSERVATIVES TO UNDERSTAND?
...or do you think they simply fear an educated citizenry?
Biden's student loan forgiveness plan can take effect after judge lets restraining order expire - NBC News
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 08 - Games
TARRANT: Well not exactly. These things chuck the lot at you. Flying the real thing's nothing after one of these.
GAMBIT: Countdown eight minutes, still running.
https://blake…
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: Yes! We're all right. But we're still checking.
LEYLAN: Stay in contact, Blake.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/628…
Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
BLAKE: Yes ... I don't suppose you know how to speed up the timer on a hom- [Sees that Zil is out of earshot] - homing beacon? Yeah. [He straightens up and starts after her. Zil has collapsed.] Zil, what's wrong?
ZIL: Zil is lost. [The ground opens near her. Blake scoops her up and walks off with her.] The Host will take...
…
Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
BLAKE: Well, I doubt whether we'd understand the manuals, so go ahead and try one. Go on.
JENNA: Well, don't blame me if it's self-destruct.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/50 B7B2
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
TARRANT: Here, try her with this. Should snap her out of it.
VILA: That stuff would snap an asteroid out of orbit.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/108
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
VILA: What's Cally supposed to have?
TARRANT: No time for a discussion, Vila. You stay here.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/251<…
Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
TARRANT: What use will that be? The main drive chamber can't be pressurized. How do you carry out a delicate repair operation wearing a spacesuit and gauntlets?
VILA: I don't.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/48 B7B5
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
MELLANBY: Come and sit down.
AVON: Thank you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/185 B7B4
Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
JENNA: It all happened so quickly. One minute he was crying with pain, then he went beserk.
VILA: I'm glad he's a friend. Could get very painful if he really didn't like you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/10 B7B3
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
TARRANT: Wait. Wait. Wait, on the turn... Easy now...
[Space Command]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/308 B7B1
Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
VILA: All I said was what do you think of the outfit.
ZEN: Repair monitors report explosive device attached to primary power channel.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/95 B7B5
Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
DAYNA: Whh, he's just one less to deal with, do we care why? [pause] But why leave him sitting there?
AVON: To delay discovery and give the murderer a chance to get away.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/286 B7B4
Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
MORI: [V.O.] If you come in that approach, you will find no detectors to pick you up, and no opposition.
SERVALAN: Excellent. We will regroup immediately and approach on that bearing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/565 B7B3
Series D, Episode 02 - Power
GUNN SAR: Go where?
NINA: Escape.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/358 B7B2
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: Just get started on the door. [Avon fires again and starts to run but trips and falls.]
BLAKE: Avon! [The wires grow toward each other.]
https://blake.torpidity.ne…
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
DAYNA: He isn't interested in offers. He doesn't want Federation help or any help. He just wants to be left alone.
SERVALAN: He can't be left alone. Surely you can see that. You have his affection, yes? He trusts you. Then all you do is go and tell him to do a deal with us.
Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
JENNA: Avon. Good luck.
AVON: Put us down, Cally.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/302 B7B3
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
AVON: Blake, there's a mass of ionized particles, vector three nine. If we can fly into it it could confuse their scanners for just long enough.
BLAKE: Avon might be right. Tangent one eight. Go for it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/38 B…
Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
ORAC: Why not ask them?
TARRANT: [Into comm] This is Xenon base, identify yourselves. [static] I repeat, identify yourselves. [more static] You have ten seconds or I'll open fire.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/23 B7B3
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
BLAKE: They don't.
GUARD: You. [Signals to Selma] Come with me.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/475 B7B5
Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
ZEN: Course and speed confirmed.
AVON: With our speed we'll probably outrun them. This time. But they'll keep coming. Pushing us, tracking us. They'll never give up.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/588 B7B2
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
CALLY: [V.O. still faint] Help me, please. I don't know where I am.
AVON: Cally, where are you? We need your location.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/98
Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
VETNOR: There's a main rotonoid link. If I cut through its primary impulse vein, it might break the circuit. Then again -
CAUDER: It might not. We'll chance it. [Vetnor reaches into the console and drops a tool, Grant and Cauder exchange looks. Vetnor pulls out some wires and cuts them. There is small explosion and the ticking that marks the countdown stops]
Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
CALLY: [Enters] I've finished with the book screen, Dayna. You said you wanted it.
TARRANT: Ah, Cally. I've been going over that theory of yours about the teleport bracelets boosting each other. As you're aware, it doesn't make sense.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/3…
Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
SERVALAN: [V.O.] Message received. Battle fleet, withhold action.
[Two troopers enter, one carrying Orac.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/435 B7B5
C08 - Rumours of Death
[Avon and Tarrant break into Servalan's empty office, and leave. They then break into Surveillance. Avon shakes Grenlee in his chair.]
AVON: Hey! Wake up! [Grenlee groans throughout.] Where is Servalan? Where is Servalan!?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/477…
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
RASHEL: What do you think's out there?
COSER: How should I know? I don't care as long as it stays there.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/355
Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
TRAVIS: And the slave pits?
SERVALAN: When you're of no further use to me, Travis.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/68 B7B2