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Time to dust off your pretty little bonnets, Browncoats. It's baaaaack! (kinda)
✅ Nathan Fillion Says ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development With Co-Stars Set To Reprise Roles
https://deadline.com/2026/03/nathan-fillion-firefly-animated…

Nathan Fillion Says ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development With Co-Stars Set To Reprise Roles; Concept Art Revealed
Nathan Fillion says 'Firefly' animated series is in development with costars to voice their original roles. Concept art revealed.

I’ve spent the last decade living in happy ignorance as a software developer living in a world of cloud hardware abstractions. Decided it was time to get a little dirty and decided to setup a homelab setup on an old Lenovo desktop I found on Facebook marketplace. #homelab

An interesting reminder of where exactly we are and where we have been in terms of food prices . . .
https://stocks.apple.com/As54OOD0PQLW-FPEXKFsR5g

Americans spend less of their income on food than almost ever. Why doesn't it feel that way? — Vox
Everything about the American economy right now feels weird. The hiring picture is weird; the stock market is weird; and AI infusion into work is very, very weird.

Open models will largely lose if they keep chasing closed frontier AI models; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-next-phase-of-open-models

What comes next with open models
Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models.

@… it might be time to start typing our HTML nathan
how do we feel about <int: main>

Conservative creators are increasingly posting "slopulism", low-quality political content that prioritizes populist rage, aiming to provoke policy action (Nathan Taylor Pemberton/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/0

When Posting Becomes Its Own Style of Politics
Social media has long been flooded with populist rage and discontent. What happens when the posts become policy?

CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the commission will file friend-of-the-court briefs to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets amid state lawsuits (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/17/cftc-prediction-markets-mike-selig

U.S. commission fights states on prediction markets: "We will see you in court"
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is launching a legal campaign to defend its regulatory turf on prediction markets.

Attention Browncoats: SHARE THIS VIDEO.
As Nathan says, they need the viewing metrics to push the Firefly animated series forward!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Js56jT3F/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Once We Were Spacemen on Instagram: "The word is out. To keep Firefly flying, we need a home. And for that, we need you. Like this post, comment on this post, repost this post. Tag a friend, tag an enemy, even tag a Reaver. Give us some “quantifiable analytics” that we can use to convince folks that this is something people want. #BringBackFirefly"
1M likes, 122K comments - oncewewerespacemen on March 15, 2026: "The word is out. To keep Firefly flying, we need a home. And for that, we need you. Like this post, comment on this post, repost this post. Tag a friend, tag an enemy, even tag a Reaver. Give us some “quantifiable analytics” that we can use to convince folks that this is something people want. #BringBackFirefly".

Oh look, tax cheats. #epstein

Well, now that we know the details of Nathan Fillion’s aspirations for Firefly;
1: I wish him all the Richard Hatch1️⃣ reviving “Battlestar Galactica”2️⃣
2: Baldwin being involved3️⃣ makes an animated comeback DOA as far as I’m concerned; so then we’re back to 1.

Fears of a food shock rise as midterms loom (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/13/iran-war-food-inflation-trump-midterms
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p96#a260313p96

Well, now that we know the details of Nathan Fillion’s aspirations for Firefly;
1: I wish him all the Richard Hatch1️⃣ reviving “Battlestar Galactica”2️⃣
2: Baldwin being involved3️⃣ makes an animated comeback DOA as far as I’m concerned; so then we’re back to 1.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Disclosure:
🎵 When a Fire Starts to Burn
#Disclosure
https://nathandalton.bandcamp.com/track/disclosure-when-a-fire-starts-to-burn-nathan-dalton-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SU92PvmDTowaZGmo5oI82

Love Nathan Pyle's work. Find his stuff here: https://www.nathanwpyle.art/

Attorney Nathan Hansen,
one of Minnesota’s most unhinged right-wing shit-posters
has endorsed fringe conspiracies and legal theories
Now he is the state’s newest immigration judge
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/09/righ…

I was thinking today that it's probably time I rewatch Metalocalypse fully again.
I like it so much because it's nice to at least be able to temporarily envision a world where a death metal band could become the seventh largest economy on Earth.

Former Lionsgate executive Nathan Kahane launches True North, with backing from Entertainment 360, to produce and finance films from emerging filmmakers (Mike Fleming Jr/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/nathan-kahane-launches-true-nor…

Nathan Kahane Launches True North; Production & Financier Backed By Entertainment 360
Nathan Kahane Launches True North; Production & Financier Backed By Entertainment 360

Robert Plant may have done one of the best jobs of dealing with the effects of aging on a voice that I’ve ever heard here. Amazing performance.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ca3VI4aGDjc&si=kXAXaPR4qWGAPj00

@… haven't read this in full yet, but looks relevant to what you've been pondering https://social.coop/@ntnsndr/116363841612449282

STMicro plans to retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots in its older chip plants for repetitive and physically demanding tasks, aiming to avoid closures (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/stmicroelectronics-pla…

#guthrie

The French are still butthurt. @… https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.ap

Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb.bsky.social)
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Rams promote Nate Scheelhaase to offensive coordinator: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7017541/2026/02/20/rams-nathan-scheelhaase-offensive-coordinator/

https://apple.news/AoHfQ36cCQJargAfZ06dI1w

When the Two Sides of the Culture War Meet — The Atlantic
Turning Point USA’s halftime show had some surprising overlap with the performance it was meant to protest.

Hey Firefly Browncoat. Announcement coming March 15. 😁
▶️ Firefly Crew Teaser / Once We Were Spacemen / Nathan Fillion Alan Tudyk
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5U1o3PiYj0k&si=80bgtEOFFbcszUO_

The Tuesday Review
Join hosts James Josipovic, Callum Berry and Nathan Berry as they review all the latest films, discuss classic and cult favourites, as well as TV shows, video games, comicbooks, and more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/tuesda

Truly amazing!
#artemisII

Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon
This shot from Artemis II of the Earth eclipsing the Sun is one of the most breathtaking astronomical photos I’ve ever seen. Holy shit. Captured by the A

A post from the archive 📫:
AI mistakes are very different from human mistakes
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/ai-mistakes-are-very-different-from-human-mistakes

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Field-Deployable Hybrid Gravimetry: Projecting Absolute Accuracy Across a Remote 24km$^2$ Survey ...
Nathan Shettell, Kai Sheng Lee, Fong En Oon, Elizaveta Maksimova, Hong…

Stephen Nathan Miller?
Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem?
Donald John Trump?
Smaug?
Accidental unintended(?) unexpected humor from the SETI Institute
https://www.linkedin.com/events/7419067664867815424/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Faithless:
🎵 I Need Someone (Edit)
#NowPlaying #Faithless
https://shannonclaygroove.bandcamp.com/track/faithless-nathan-ball-caleb-femi-i-need-someone-paul-woolford-remix-clean-127-track-33

In the shadowed realm of Guthrie, where the wild grasses rise like orcish hordes,
I, the valiant Yard-Slayer, donned my armor of denim.
With mower-blade drawn, I charged the green legions.
Blades clashed! Weeds flew like goblin heads, dandelions blooming in treacherous retort.

Nathan Handler will speak on 'Building a Unified Cloud Inventory for Reliability: Lessons from Using CloudQuery' as part of our General track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

I've just been back to check and not even in Nathan Barley did the idiots hit themselves in the face with hammers to make themselves better looking.
https://youtu.be/lhAr_UeroCk?si=HzbAeQKB1kcsZOKN

iPad Air (M4) review: powerful M4 chip, good multitasking with iPadOS 26, and robust hardware, but its screen could be better, no Face ID, and can get pricey (Nathan Ingraham/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/ip

iPad Air M4 review: Still Apple's best overall tablet, with a few caveats
Aside from chip updates, the iPad Air hasn't changed much in the last few years. But it's still a great tablet for those who want more than the basic model.

Old guy moment of the day: My NAS is starting to die after 13 years of service and my replacement is arriving today along with two 12 TB drives. Made me reminisce about my first hard-drive purchased around 1985 for about $3000 in 2026 dollars, held 20MB and I thought I would never fill it. #tech

I bet situations like this one don't happen anymore in Palestine/Israel. And it's the consequence of a long-standing policy of radicalization. There are no winners from ethno-nationalism.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m

This both thrills and terrifies me. The Stranger is the book that defined my existentialist phase more than any other. https://youtu.be/K5-x2Fx-JJ8?si=itGIaAb2ZX5J9oK3

In a nail-biting finish, American Nathan Martin claimed victory in the men’s pro division after closing the gap to surpass Michael Kimani Kamau in the closest finish ever in LA Marathon history. (Courtesy of NBCLA)
#LAmarathon #LosAngeles

I was recently reminded of this song and it struck me what an amazing run German artists had in the 1980s:
Nena
Kraftwerk
Alphaville
Scorpions
Peter Schilling
Falco
I’ll skip Milli Vanilli but I know I am missing some.
Any particular reason we were all Teutonophiles for a decade?
https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Basil Kirchin, Jack Nathan & Music De Wolfe:
🎵 Packing, Printing & Light Assembly
#BasilKirchin #JackNathan #MusicDeWolfe
https://open.spotify.com/track/6EIusNcUg72UC6Y3ohtKPm

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheNeedling/116129848480434020
lmao

Endpoint Estimates for Bergman Commutators and New Characterizations of the Bloch Space and $H^\infty$
Adam B. Christopherson, Zhenghui Huo, Nathan A. Wagner, Yunus E. Zeytuncu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.24186

Transcoder Adapters for Reasoning-Model Diffing
Nathan Hu, Jake Ward, Thomas Icard, Christopher Potts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20904 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20904 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20904
arXiv:2602.20904v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While reasoning models are increasingly ubiquitous, the effects of reasoning training on a model's internal mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this work, we introduce transcoder adapters, a technique for learning an interpretable approximation of the difference in MLP computation before and after fine-tuning. We apply transcoder adapters to characterize the differences between Qwen2.5-Math-7B and its reasoning-distilled variant, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B. Learned adapters are faithful to the target model's internal computation and next-token predictions. When evaluated on reasoning benchmarks, adapters match the reasoning model's response lengths and typically recover 50-90% of the accuracy gains from reasoning fine-tuning. Adapter features are sparsely activating and interpretable. When examining adapter features, we find that only ~8% have activating examples directly related to reasoning behaviors. We deeply study one such behavior -- the production of hesitation tokens (e.g., "wait"). Using attribution graphs, we trace hesitation to only ~2.4% of adapter features (5.6k total) performing one of two functions. These features are necessary and sufficient for producing hesitation tokens; removing them reduces response length, often without affecting accuracy. Overall, our results provide insight into reasoning training and suggest transcoder adapters may be useful for studying fine-tuning more broadly.
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Exclusive: Kalshi to block athletes and politicians from trading on their markets (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/23/kalshi-prediction-markets-insider-trading-ban
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p108#a260323p108

According to Mayor David Holt, the location being considered as a DHS holding facility is off market do that use after the owners stopped engaging with DHS on the contract.
#okc #dhs #ice

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Nathan Fake:
🎵 Slow Yamaha
#NathanFake
https://nathanfake.com/album/slow-yamaha
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZqS0iKxuYjZ1dMEcssD06

Randomly had this one show up in my playlist tonight. A bit frightening how well it has aged into 2026.
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Euj9f3gdyM

Even as an Okie who feels the urge to defend local acts, this is not a great one for the resume.
Kennedy Center’s new programming head resigns days after hire was announced https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2026/…

I am old enough to remember when federalism was a key principal of the conservative political philosophy. And yet it is always the left accused of shifting.
Trump says states are required to enforce federal immigration laws. He's wrong. https://reason.com/2…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Frédéric Chopin, Nicola Benedetti, Peter Limonov & Nathan Milstein:
🎵 Nocturne in C sharp minor transc for violin and piano
#FrédéricChopin #NicolaBenedetti #PeterLimonov #NathanMilstein

I have no confidence that this would in any way improve the output from the Oklahoma legislature.
Oklahoma lawmaker moves to ban his colleagues from drinking alcohol while working • Oklahoma Voice https://oklahomavoice.com/2026/01/28/o

I think this assessment is quite true. These are the days when the titans of industry cower in terror of the execution of power backed by the threat of violence. Tom Wolfe’s Masters of the Universe laid low by the machine of their own making.
https://om.co/2026/01/27/a-ceo-captured/…

City leaders exploring legal ways to stop ICE facility from opening in Oklahoma City
#okc
https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-city

#cycbersecurity
https://apple.news/AqEJnam0tRNGJsk9R0RsS3g

Kalshi announces new guardrails to preemptively block politicians, athletes, and others from trading in their relevant markets (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/23/kalshi-prediction-markets-insider-trading-ban

Exclusive: Kalshi to block athletes and politicians from trading on their markets
Prediction market Kalshi plans to block athletes, coaches and officials from betting on their sports and to block political candidates from trading on their campaigns, Axios has learned.

Mostly I've always used middleware to apply broad swaths of business logic to my ASP.NET Core operations, but found a nice use case for ActionFilterAttributes if you need to selectively implement business logic to specific controller items (https://learn.…

Getting to the very end of last year’s garden harvest and preservation work. Harvested and froze the leeks. Made a potent Louisiana Style Jalapeño sauce and simple Taco Sauce from some fermented Jalapeños. Already ready for this year’s harvest. 🤣 🌱
#garden #oklahoma

Ein Buch, das Mut macht. - It’s a boy!
#Menschenwürde #Trans #Queer #Liebe

Mensch.Hamburg: Wenn das Kind transgender ist
Dilans Sohn Nathan hat sich ihr mit zwölf Jahren anvertraut. Sie hat ihn auf seinem Weg der Geschlechtsangleichung begleitet.

. . .
https://apple.news/AzAuKWb9MQjOWpGkYsLW-Ow

Prepare yourself for Nathan Fillion & Alan Tudyk... LIVE!
▶️ ONCE WE WERE SPACEMEN Special Panel – Awesome Con 2026
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lmB75w_yVqw&si=fythHrMDVwnd4n4u

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Disclosure:
🎵 When A Fire Starts To Burn
#Disclosure
https://nathandalton.bandcamp.com/track/disclosure-when-a-fire-starts-to-burn-nathan-dalton-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SU92PvmDTowaZGmo5oI82

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Atjazz feat. Jorge Bezerra & Nathan Haines:
🎵 Horizon
#Atjazz #JorgeBezerra #NathanHaines
https://atjazz.bandcamp.com/track/horizon-feat-jorge-bezerra-nathan-haines-2

Next great house cleaning album, the roots rock classic, By The Light of the Moon from Los Lobos.
#music
https://music.apple.com/us/album/by-the-light-of-the-moon/30…

Potentially my most heretical musical opinion: The Grateful Dead studio recordings are just better, especially without an altered sense of time. Also, and I’m not sure if this is related, it is some of the best house cleaning music ever recorded. #music #gratefuldead

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Hybrid collisional-radiative modeling for high-fidelity atomic kinetics
Prashant Sharma, Christopher J. Fontes, Mark Zammit, James Colgan, Nathan Garland, Xian-Zhu Tang

My daughter’s vocal coach has her working on Jolene. I don’t think I’m ready for this level of anxiety, grief and trauma from having that song come my elementary school aged offspring. 🤣🤣🤣

I have just become resigned to the fact that Oklahoma will probably be without PBS sooner or later, especially since Arkansas dropped it. I assume I can just sponsor an out of state entity once that happens and watch it over the internet However. . .
#pbs #oklahoma

What is the general consensus on Cloudflare Pages/Workers for static website hosting. I have a ton of old small sites that I would love to move somewhere cheaper than the shared hosting I buy now and the price seems right. Any gotchas, warnings or caveats I should know about? #webhosting

I have been ignoring .NET Aspire for quite some time and I now realize it was to my detriment. What a nice way to deal with containers for dev environments. We'll see how I like when going to prod. #dotnet #csharp

Replaced article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Narrowline cooling of dysprosium atoms in an optical tweezer array
Giulio Biagioni, Britton Hofer, Nathan Bonvalet, Damien Bloch, Antoine Browaeys, Igor Ferrier-Barbut
…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Disclosure:
🎵 When a Fire Starts to Burn
#Disclosure
https://nathandalton.bandcamp.com/track/disclosure-when-a-fire-starts-to-burn-nathan-dalton-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SU92PvmDTowaZGmo5oI82