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So sad Mindy Kaling's Not Suitable For Work Canceled After 1 Season.
This was a very fun show. Characters shows are always hard these days since they just need more to find an audience. I was really impressed with the writing of this show. Characters were strong and the plotting was strong. I was really worried they would not be able to balance home and work life but they did a really amazing job. The actors also had a great chemistry. Keep trying Mindy!

Raiders DC had one note for CB Hezekiah Masses he has not forgotten https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/09/24/raiders-dc-rob-leonard-told-cb-hezekiah-masse…

I am against capitalism due to its inefficiency when trying to maximize quality of and time for living. People working to make a product that breaks due to planned obsolescence on one side, and people working to afford the constantly breaking things on the other. Meaningless busy work ridding people of purpose.
I see the fight against capitalism not just as one for humane conditions, but also as a fight for allowing purpose and people to coexist instead of clash.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@universalhub/116975894644899223
lmao

Even the best-intentioned users can leak data, especially when it's stored in a spreadsheet. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/why-can-grist-secure-a-spreadsheet-when-excel-cant-it-governs-the-field-not-just-the-file/

Why can Grist secure a spreadsheet when Excel can't? | Grist
Why is it hard to secure an Excel spreadsheet? Because locking down a file that holds sensitive data doesn't work. You need governed structure.

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

It is not clear how quickly Haitians and Syrians will become vulnerable to removal from the United States,
but the ruling from the Supreme Court on Thursday makes them deportable.
Their work permits will expire, and they will lose their jobs and driver’s licenses.
The long-awaited ruling landed like a bomb on the Haitian community in South Florida,
the largest in the country.
It quickly reverberated through Massachusetts; New York; Springfield, Ohio; and other…

‘Nowhere to Go’: T.P.S. Ruling Plunges Many Migrants Into Limbo
The decision renders 1.3 million people from more than a dozen countries, many who have lived in the United States for decades, vulnerable to deportation.

Please, please, please make sure you are not the sole point of failure at work.
If you are the sole point of failure or there is a member of your team the sole point of failure make sure you have SOP documentation of your/their tasks and have trained your/their replacement. At work we lost a member and while he did have almost everything documented there were gaps that we are discovering.

@… Current does not need this work around.

What is Brussels if not a metaphor, and the redevelopment of the Schuman roundabout into a stone dessert during yet another European heatwave the kriek lambic of the spontaneous political ferment that caps it all?
https://www.euractiv.com/news/new-schuman-

New Schuman roundabout is 'worst' possible outcome, says architect | Euractiv
The symbolic EU plaza has become a barren concrete lagoon, after three years of building work

'Your tax dollars are being used for..' insert heinous thing. And our tax dollars are ALWAYS being used for fucked up shit, if you've noticed. Probably ever since tax dollars were invented. And what exactly are we supposed to do. Voting doesn't do shit. Some of the dollars go to where they need to, probably, or I figure not much would run, work, or happen. It's weird out there, man

Guess who collapsed/fainted on the bathroom floor this morning? Husband had to half carry me back to my bed. This lurgy is not fun but I feel okay now. Still in bed and no work will be achieved again today. Bugger.

#WritersCoffeeClub Talk about a communal writing project you worked on. How did it go?
I haven't. I'm apparently a literary hermit.
I love discussing writing, exchanging ideas, getting feedback and helping other writers untangle their stories, but when it comes to the actual writing, I work alone.
I'm not entirely sure what would happen if another author tried…

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Lunch Break (2026)
(High alpine carpentry, today a month ago at Breslauer Hütte... Not the worst of work places one can imagine... The mountain peak opposite, Talleitspitze, is 3406 meters...)
#LandscapePhotography #Photography

The two Flock lobbyists on the SF Democratic Party apparatus did not even bother to recuse themselves from a vote in support of Flock. Corruption in broad daylight. When you get your SF Democratic Party endorsement slate in the mail, remember this is who decided it. #sfpol

S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in sweeping vote 
Two Democratic committee members work for Flock, but were allowed to vote regardless

If you have tickets to Excel's security theater (hidden columns, for example), here's how to exit during the intermission before the show is over on your data's governance. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/why-can-gris

Why can Grist secure a spreadsheet when Excel can't? | Grist
Why is it hard to secure an Excel spreadsheet? Because locking down a file that holds sensitive data doesn't work. You need governed structure.

☝️⁠🤓 is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don't rely on ☝️⁠🤓 for important advice. Use ☝️⁠🤓 at your own risk.

Let's say you're building a house. Normally this involves hiring a whole bunch of experts (either directly or via some company). You need to pay a fair wage for their labor, and you have to pay for all the material they're going to use. Some of them will be more experienced than others. They will sometimes make a mistake. They will sometimes get sick. The whole construction work will probably take a few months, and may get delayed in the process. Some construction material will be wasted. There's also a risk that over the next years, you'll discover that they screwed something up, and have to fix it. But you'll get a reasonably good house.
Now, a kid comes and tells you you don't have to do this. Instead of paying all these people, you can hire him. He's wearing a suit and sunshades. He never laid a brick in his whole life. But he's got this new great technology that will give you a great house in no time. Of course it will cost you, but not as much as the labor of all these people. You try to learn more, and you discover that the technology actually builds and razes a hundred of house-like things a day, until it gets close enough to something that actually resembles a house. There's a lot of wasted energy and material, but you don't have to worry because it's all subsidized (for the time being). You pay less, you get a house that looks just right on the outside and inside, and that seems to work just right.
Of course, there's a real risk that in a few months you'll discover that something is wrong. You may have to pay a lot for a real expert to figure out how things were done, and how to fix them. Or they may not be able to help you. You may be stuck having to call the suit again, and he'll happily come and fix it for you. And by "fix", I mean he will just raze a whole part of the house and start randomly spitting it out again until he gets something that looks about right, and works about right. Of course, it may not really be a good fit for the rest of the house, but you don't want to pay for replacing the whole thing, do you? It may also introduce a completely new issues that will surface in a few months, but that's just how it is.
Welcome to the glorious world of #AI.
#NoAI #NoLLM #LLM

Intelligence?
No, just the very great capacity to iteratively do tasks set by human operators.
"..the Hugging Face incident demonstrates the lack of any real agency even in the most sophisticated currently existing AI "agents", although this does not make the incident less concerning or important."
The Hugging Face Incident and the Future of Work - Social Europe

The Hugging Face Incident and the Future of Work
The agents hacked a global platform to hide their cheating from a scorer that did not exist.

I do lots of long-ish horizon work (e.g. OpenSSL PRs I can't actually use for years after merging). Remarkable how bad LLMs are at even considering this as an option. Quick fix every time, even if there's a clear long-term right answer we should do instead. Does not bode well for the ecosystem...

yesterday after much anticipation the proper futon arrived. not a squudgy foam foldable thing, a solid extremely firm not very thick actual futon. i only know one place in the uk that makes these. and I slept. i actually slept, and today my back does not feel like it has folds and twists, it's just a column of bones and muscles and nerves all stacked up.
for context, when I used to have travel for work, I would pull the hotel duvet onto the floor and sleep there.

I keep returning to this quote over the decades. Trying to make people work with the accuracy of machines, trying to design systems so that people slot in a interchangeably as machine parts, is the source of most of what is wrong with our society.

Just finished "Snake-Eater" by T. Kingfisher (@…). I'd read and thoroughly enjoyed her "Digger" webcomic, and found this book to be quite enjoyable too. There's something indelibly heartwarming about an anxious character growing to feel more comfortable and self-assured, especially when escaping and unlearning emotional abuse, and I'm certainly a sucker for heartwarming characters. I like the way that Kingfisher has taken time to talk about and try to avoid cultural appropriation, in a way that I feel is reasonable, although of course I'm not an expert judge of the nuances and I'm biased by having liked the book, so I'm willing to be told things are complicated in that regard it others judge differently. I also really liked the window dressing of a vaguely solarpunk future society, in a book that's not at all about that society. I'd love to see Kingfisher write something focused on how that society could work (or maybe she already has?).
Probably going to look up some of Kingfisher's fantasy books soon.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Mailbag: Could defense designate a QB spy? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-could-defense-designate-a-qb-spy

Though often associated with avant-garde jazz, Sun Ra did not believe his work could be classified as "free music": "I have to make sure that every note, every nuance, is correct... If you want to call it that, spell it p-h-r-e, because ph is a definite article and re is the name of the sun. So I play phre music – music of the sun."

A U.S. appeals court has ruled in a case involving Exxon Mobil that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
cannot require businesses to document work-related mental illnesses reported by employees.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said on Tuesday
that a requirement in federal law that ‌employers periodically report work-related deaths, injuries and illnesses only applies to physical -- and not mental c…

The wealthy 1% heading to Mark Carney's summit are relying on the power of their money.
But we know, just like you, that the many can stand up against the money, and win.
Our leaders should work for us, not the corporate class. The only way we can make that happen, is by ramping up the pressure with more voices calling for the same change.
Will you do one more thing and share this to three of your friends?
Like you, there are so many Canadians who are worried abou…

Tell the Liberals: Canada is not for sale
Mark Carney wants to sell Canada's airports, water systems, and public infrastructure to the highest bidder. We won't let that happen. Add your name now:

Wrt to Codeberg kicking out slop:
“How may the compulsive programmer be distinguished from a merely dedicated, hard-working professional programmer? First, by the fact that the ordinary professional programmer addresses himself to the problem to be solved, whereas the compulsive programmer sees the problem mainly as an opportunity to interact with the computer.
The ordinary computer programmer will usually discuss both his substantive and his technical programming problem with others. He will generally do lengthy preparatory work, [...] He develops his program slowly and systematically. When something doesn't work, he may spend considerable time away from the computer, framing careful hypotheses to account for the malfunction and designing crucial experiments to test them.
[...]
When he has finally composed the program he set out to produce, he is able to complete a sensible description of it and to turn his attention to other things.
The professional regards programming as a means toward an end, not as an end in itself. His satisfaction comes from having solved a substantive problem, not from having bent a computer to his.”
—Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976

Troubleshooting story. I sometimes get support requests from a former employer, which I gladly do as contract work.
All the people I worked with are gone but they still call me... it's cool.
I was passed on the info on one of their customers who soldered up a board but could not get it programmed. It's an old FTDI-style board. Annoying, of course.
So they mailed me the three boards to try to program.
I spent about 15 minutes trying all three, with no luck....…

Oh crap. The new work laptop does not take standard dell power cords, only their special dual-usb-c-shaped one.

Any reliance on Palantir is an overreliance on Palantir.
"Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children"
https://gizmodo.com/pentag…

I thought I've read that #hashtags can't be found via "follow hashtag" of posts that did not have the hashtag in its initial version. Therefore, editing a post for adding hashtags doesn't work.
This does seem to confirm: https://

Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA, XC7A15T.
The die is covered in yellow polyimide film (basically kapton) which is a soft plastic that scratches super easily and has some marks despite my best attempts to keep it pristine with careful handling.
I'll try removing it with sulfuric acid later on and see how it goes. Or maybe take it into work and run it on the RIE with oxygen plasma.
There's not a whole lot to see other than the GTP quad in the southwest corner. I'll delayer at…

Sources: YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

"Driving the speed limit could slash fuel use and emissions at the cost of only 54 extra seconds a day"
#Cars #Vehicles #Emissions

Driving the speed limit could slash fuel use and emissions at the cost of only 54 extra seconds a day
Speeding in your car to work, to pick up your children from school, or go from one errand to the next not only wastes money in gas and sends harmful emissions into the air, it barely saves you time, new research says.

New York Magazine says it will stop publishing Ross Barkan's column because his work did not live up to its standards and updates 67 of his columns in archives (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/2088356584686583896

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
Ross Barkan is no longer writing for New York Mag, per a statement. In a statement, the magazine says Barkan “did not adhere to our editorial standards,” cites 67 columns that did not have proper attribution.

I absolutely cannot wait to try this out! OZ1LAV Steffen has implemented binaural audio for CW in his QMX/QMX panadapter firmware for the M5Stack Tab5! He's put some interesting controls into place, not just a switch-it-on-and-off feature. (Of course this landed on a busy work week, so it might take me a few days...)
https://…

Things I've learned today:
- Valgrind does not support AVX512 instructions. That was an adventure because I was writing purposefully bad code at the time...
- However, changed strategies and used `clang` with the `fsanitize=address,undefined` option which seems to work perfectly fine.
#clang

@… @… It’s not glamorous work, but someone has to do it 😂

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Reconstruction Bias in Timepix4 Subpixel Centroiding for Electron Imaging
Nina Dimova, Richard Plackett, Daniela Bortoletto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21072 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.21072 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.21072
arXiv:2608.21072v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Subpixel centroiding is widely used to improve the spatial resolution of hybrid pixel detectors for electron imaging by estimating the true interaction position within an entry pixel. Existing centroiding strategies are typically optimised using localisation accuracy. However, observations show that improved localisation does not necessarily translate into improved modulation transfer function (MTF) or reliable virtual-pixel rebinning. This work proposes a unified interpretation of these observations based on the ambiguity of the centroid reconstruction problem. We show that observable-based centroid estimators solve an intrinsically non-unique inverse problem using deterministic reconstruction rules, which can introduce entry-phase-dependent reconstruction bias that governs the spatial distribution of reconstructed subpixel coordinates. This framework explains why localisation accuracy alone is insufficient to predict imaging performance and identifies approximate intra-pixel translational symmetry as a prerequisite for faithful virtual-pixel imaging. The proposed interpretation is evaluated using simulated 200 keV and 300 keV electron data together with measured 200 keV data acquired with a Timepix4 detector. Comparisons of charge-weighted, timing-based, and morphology-dependent centroiding strategies demonstrate that estimators with similar localisation performance can exhibit markedly different MTFs and rebinned flat-field behaviour. The results suggest that future centroid optimisation should consider subpixel phase bias and rebinnability alongside localisation accuracy.
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The Australian state of Victoria was due to enforce a legal right to work from home starting September 2026.
But just weeks away from its implementation, the new premier, Ben Carroll, has announced a year’s delay in response to fierce business opposition.
Thousands of miles away, in Portugal, parents of young children already have a legal right to work from home without needing their employers’ approval.
All of these developments raise the question:
How should workers b…

Working from home should be a right, not a reward
An Australian state is set to introduce a law supporting the right to work from home, and it’s already in place for some parents in Portugal. Should it happen elsewhere?

@… (I think we agree on this but) if we view capitalism and the market economy as inherently toxic (as I do), is work to make it less unequal not counter productive? We need to be building the new structures, not trying to shore up the wanton excess of the old.
Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast: Podcasters Unite! Thinking about systemic change with Tim Log…

Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

The EU age verification thing is clearly not a good thing but it at least sounds like they have it some thought and it could be worse. (Hello the UK)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/how-eus-age-verification-app-children-would-wor…

Not sure what happened, but a Microsoft update somehow wiped out all my Notepad tabs, I think.
I googled suggested solutions and can't find any that work.
If this has happened to you, can you guide me to a solution that worked for you? Thank you.

Vote yes on the SFBay regional transit measure,
https://bsky.app/profile/cyrushall.bsky.social/post/3mvnsew4q7c23
Vote YES on RTM, more info at

Cyrus Hall (@cyrushall.bsky.social)
The Chronicle gets it: the Bay Area will not work without public transit. We must pass the Regional Transit Measure, else we're looking at a future that may not have BART at all, and that will see drastic cuts to other services. https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/regional-transit-measure-bay-area-22424231.php

Vote yes on the SFBay regional transit measure,
https://bsky.app/profile/cyrushall.bsky.social/post/3mvnsew4q7c23
Vote YES on RTM, more info at

Cyrus Hall (@cyrushall.bsky.social)
The Chronicle gets it: the Bay Area will not work without public transit. We must pass the Regional Transit Measure, else we're looking at a future that may not have BART at all, and that will see drastic cuts to other services. https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/regional-transit-measure-bay-area-22424231.php

This week on #ProFed: two new developments in the web client.
ProFed is not a microblogging system. The web client is optimized for professional social networking - which means some things work differently than in Mastodon or similar systems.

"Systems are created, sustained, and improved by insightful and interactive work on the system, not by using carrots and sticks. Measurable goals do not improve systems; accountability does not improve systems. Improving systems improves systems."
Peter Scholtes, The Leader's Handbook, page 321.
#leadership

#USPol #Impeachment #Dems
Just amazingly out of touch.
https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/sen-duckworth-urges-democrats-to-not-impeach-anybody-and-get-back-to-work-if-they-win-majority/5206997

Not EVERY work of culture (books, arts, music, theater, film) has to be remade to represent EVERY marginalized community.
It seems to me 't'would be much better to more heavily promote new works by marginalized creatives and / or covering marginalized communities as subject matter.
For example, I'm seeing a lot more new LBGTQ and BIPOC science fiction and fantasy than I used to. Some, awful, but a lot of it excellent.

GitHub is broken again today. Instead of the work you planned to do, why not read my (recent, relevant) post on how we got here? (if you missed it last week)
https://seancoates.com/blogs/how-we-got-here

Interesting to see different styles, but you'll need to zoom / view videos full screen / landscape view.
“Does this menu work with keyboard? The surprising number of big brands that fail”
https://a11yblog.com/2026/08/18/does-t

I didn’t wake up until 6.45 am this morning. That’s late for me, but I don’t start work until almost 11 am. My sleep app tells me I’m in credit in my sleep bank, which is very rare for me. I’m usually in the red with not enough sleep.

One of my biggest disappointments was always not seeing Rush live while Neil Peart was alive. I almost passed on this tour, but tickets for the second Cleveland show came down in price at the last moment and I realized that I'd never forgive myself if I didn't go. So after leaving work early and braving the downtown Cleveland traffic I actually managed to find on street parking and go see one of the best concerts that I've ever been to.
I thought the first set was amazing. …

Tit For Tat Does Not Work If You Do Not Retaliate Against Defectors (Adam Gurri/Liberal Currents)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/tit-for-tat-does-not-work-if-you-do-not-retaliate-against-defectors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260719/p35#a260719p35

From The Conversation
Where else can you peer into the labs and lecture halls of Canadian researchers and academics, who draw on their life's work to explain what being sedentary does to your body, why male chimps repeatedly throw rocks at trees and how the international legal order has collapsed?
We share their vast expert knowledge to educate Canadians so they can make informed decisions about politics, their health, the environment, the education of their children and the…

Not getting enough physical activity may be harming your health: Here’s what being sedentary does to your body
From a biological perspective, being inactive is more than the opposite of being active. Being sedentary results in unique physiological changes that can lead to a variety of health risks.

"The Guardian not The Onion" headline.
Pete likes his solders HARD!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/15/us-military-testosterone-screening-hegseth

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They point out his leadership in commissioning work from them that led to setting of Greater Manchester’s ambitious, Paris-compliant carbon budget. They say that allowing more oil extraction would betray that…

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They p…

#Truthiness: “the quality of seeming or being felt to be true, even if not necessarily true.” Stephen Colbert gave us the word in 2005, on The Colbert Report. Does anyone know if he’s written about how the word came to him? Does anyone know how I can ask Stephen about it? I’m guessing his cbs.com email won’t work.

Neuralink Blindsight won't work for people with real blindsight (people who are cortically blind yet still respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see) #BCI

Hmm OK, so this is basically OK, but a few things I need to work on;
1) It's fuzzy - ragged at the left side, and I'm not sure why, mind you it's not terminated or anything, so it could be electrical; or it could be the fact I'm sampling it only at 16MHz.
2) The hard part is capturing the full vertical frame - this is half a frame which is how much fits in RAM at the moment.

Pro Se Guide for Motion to Change Hearing to WebEx
https://nipnlg.org/work/resources/pro-se-guide-motion-change-hearing-webex
The regime keeps arresting people that follow legal immigration processes, they have been racially profiling and abduct an…

“Have you tried presidenting better?” Jon Stewart advised Trump.
“You could. But no.
You could ban the press or you could be a better fucking president.
“I mean, give the press something to work with! ‘Oh, here’s a positive story:
I never thought my car could take $140 worth of gas in such a small tank. I had no idea!’
“And not for nothing,” he continued, “have we ever had a president, just flat-out in the Oval Office, come out against the constitution?
‘W…

Jon Stewart on Trump’s White House media ban: ‘authoritarian crackdown’
Late-night hosts respond to Trump’s removal of outlets such as CNN and Politico from the White House press pool over ‘negative stories’

Work is super-busy right now with a lot of projects going on...
Do you know what will *not* help?
AI.
Do you know what will help?
Focusing and prioritizing tasks. Getting shit done. Doing high-quality work we can be proud of.
#NoAI #FuckAI

A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop shows 8GB of RAM is not enough for a good Windows 11 experience; PC makers have unveiled upcoming 8GB laptops (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM
Microsoft’s new entry-level 13-inch Surface Laptop pairs last year’s  great hardware with a higher price and just 8GB of RAM. Thanks, RAMageddon.

Sources: YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

One of the big benefits of my homebrew ILA IP, BTW, is that it works just fine with any clocking relationship between the debug-bridge clock and the capture domain clock.
For some reason that I do not understand - I don't even know how I would implement such a restriction - the Vivado ILA does not work if the capture-domain clock is too slow. It needs to be at least 2x, IIRC, the JTAG TCK frequency.
So if you're running JTAG at say 30 MHz and you want to capture in a 20 …

Grist is a governed, on-prem spreadsheet-database that feels like a spreadsheet and works like one. Avoid shadow IT with a platform everyone wants to use. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/why-can-grist-secure-a-spreadsheet-when-…

Why can Grist secure a spreadsheet when Excel can't? | Grist
Why is it hard to secure an Excel spreadsheet? Because locking down a file that holds sensitive data doesn't work. You need governed structure.

The word for Sunday in Slavic languages (e.g. "niedziela" in Polish) stems from "do not work" which refers to how everything's broken after Friday's push to production.
#shitposting

Got USB-C - USB-C networking going between two of my snapdragon laptops in the early hours; it took some DT tweaks to persuade the ports to work in device mode; but then loading g_ncm and it came up nicely.
Hitting 2.72 Gbps which is hmm, low - but it was pegging a CPU, I'm not sure what usb-usb networking is supposed to be able to get.

OpenAI launches a ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in preview, supporting ChatGPT Work, Codex, and more; Computer Use outside the in-app browser is not available (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/openais-chatgpt-desktop-linux/

OpenAI's ChatGPT/Codex desktop app is now on Linux
OpenAI’s ChatGPT desktop app arrives on Linux with ChatGPT Work, Codex, native packages, an in-app browser, and one notable feature gap for developers.

Penguin Random House has suspended promotion and sales of Ross Barkan's upcoming book on Zohran Mamdani after plagiarism allegations about Barkan's other work (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Publisher suspends sales of journalist’s book after plagiarism review
New York Magazine said it updated 67 of Ross Barkan’s columns that did not include proper attribution. His Penguin Random House book on Mayor Zohran Mamdani was set for the fall.

Officially an engraver and accorded the lowly status thereof,
William Blake devoted his labors to realizing his elaborately idiosyncratic visions using images and words together in ways that no artist had done before.
Blake swam against the current “of modern human understanding, whose bedrock is the principle of specialization.”
Today, nearly two centuries after his death, that principle still obtains -- and in some ways more rigidly than ever.
But his work remains,

The Radical, Unclassifiable Art of William Blake
William Blake is a household name, or not far from it, but things get more complicated when it comes to professional description. He was a poet, a painter, and a printmaker, at least insofar as he wrote poetry, painted paintings, and made prints.

Loose links sink sheets. Locking down a spreadsheet is harder than it seems, but what would a secure spreadsheet look like? https://www.getgrist.com/blog/why-can-grist-secure-a-spreadsheet-when-excel-cant-it-governs-the-field…

Why can Grist secure a spreadsheet when Excel can't? | Grist
Why is it hard to secure an Excel spreadsheet? Because locking down a file that holds sensitive data doesn't work. You need governed structure.

Proper generic kernel fusion is *so* complicated.
Making it work for a trivial 1:1 case is easy, but considering more complicated scenarios like "shader needs another SSBO as a scratch buffer or to read a large block of constants from", or "input and output are not 1:1" or even "shader has multiple outputs" complicates things dramatically.
But I don't want to rush out an incomplete half-baked solution that will have to be ripped out later on.

I was reminded on the drive into work that the AC in my car sort of works... it's air, but it's not cold. At work it's a little warmer in the office than usual, but not too bad. I've got a fan running. I am not a fan of this damn heat though!

On Bluesky last night
Catherine Rampell noted that in documents Trump released
there were confirmations of Russia’s work on Trump’s behalf in 2020
and that China “did not intend to “try to affect the election.”
https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/…

Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social)
one of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!)

Federal agents did not have body-worn cameras when a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a Mexican homebuilder who was driving a work van they tried pulling over in Houston, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.
Prosecutors in Houston said they are investigating the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo,
whose family has joined Democrats in calling for an independent probe over Tuesday’s early morning shooting in one of the city’s heavily Hispanic …

Mexican man killed in Houston ICE shooting was not the target, lawmaker says
A Texas congresswoman says a Mexican man living in the U.S. who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was not the person federal authorities had been targeting in a Houston operation. Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia said Thursday that the acting ICE Director told her the agency has confirmed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo “was not a target.” A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately return an email seeking comment late Thursday. The dep…

Is Mercury in Gatorade or something*?
Various small things have seems not to work this week, canceled appointments, tech not working, bureaucracy being very bureaucratic... good times. Happily, some things are working unexpectedly too, which I like.
(*I know too much about orbital mechanics to put much stock in whether or not a planet appears to move backward from where we're standing.)

Sam Altman says "we welcome a federal framework" but "do not believe we need to wait" for an antitrust exemption or a law to pace AI development responsibly (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2099348812305473766

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened. Every frontier lab must deliver on this, and there is no reason any of us should come to work if we cannot. We welcome a federal fr…

I wrote this function to do some math, and I got it working, tested it, but now I have to explain it to someone and...
Well, that's the difficult part!
I knew the input and desired output and built up how to get what I needed but making it explainable is a bit of a challenge...
Which is good though, as it's forcing me to double-check my work.
(And I am *not* good at math!)
#teaching

Mullin threatens states that refuse Trump's election demands
Mullin also repeated his threat of withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency grant funding to states that don’t work to “secure” elections.
“If they’re not willing to do it, it should raise serious questions.
It’s not that hard. This isn’t a partisan issue,”
the homeland security secretary said.
This also comes after the Trump justice department sent letters to election officials in every sta…

DHS chief threatens states that refuse Trump’s election demands after president’s widely condemned speech – live
Markwayne Mullin follows up on president’s unproven claims as Democrats accuse Trump of ‘working to rig the midterms’ in advance

Why is it hard to secure an Excel spreadsheet? Because locking down a file that holds sensitive data never really works. You need governed structure. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/why-can-grist-secure-a-spreadsheet-when-excel…

Why can Grist secure a spreadsheet when Excel can't? | Grist
Why is it hard to secure an Excel spreadsheet? Because locking down a file that holds sensitive data doesn't work. You need governed structure.

The best leaders do not ask, “How do I get people back where I can watch them?”
They ask, “Which work improves when we are together, and which work improves when people have focus and control?”
That question turns flexible work policies from a perk into an operating system. 
It forces organizations to define the purpose of office days,
the norms for remote days,
the rituals for learning,
and the metrics that actually matter. 

Why is war so economically costly?
Our answer is that modern war lowers output not only by destroying productive factors,
but also by making the surviving economy work less efficiently
Our key policy implication is that restoring allocative efficiency
–and preparing institutional arrangements that facilitate rapid reallocation in times of stress
–is critical for sustaining economic capacity, defense, and national security.

The Allocative Cost of War - Marginal REVOLUTION
Why is war so economically costly? Our answer is that modern war lowers output not only by destroying productive factors, but also by making the surviving economy work less efficiently. Using uniquely comprehensive firm-level data collected during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, we document a dramatic collapse in allocative productivity in Ukraine. To […]

A northern California county that has become a hotbed of activism for those who sow doubts about the reliability of voting machines
plans to hire Tina Peters, the prominent Colorado election denier recently released from prison, to work on elections.
Clint Curtis, the top election official in Shasta county, told the Guardian he plans to hire Peters as a consultant to replace Brent Turner,
his top deputy, who has been on medical leave.
He said Peters would not have acc…

Serena Williams is back.
First, by teaming up with rising Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko for a straight-sets win over the No. 3 seeds in women’s doubles at the Queen’s grass-court tournament in London,
Williams sent a message to the tennis world that it may be in for an interesting summer.
Then she sent an even bigger message, by accepting a wild card into the singles at Wimbledon, which she has won seven times.
Williams’ comeback comes just under one year after she d…

Serena Williams and the coming reckoning with GLP-1s and performance enhancement
GLP-1s are not prohibited; the way they work means they might never be. Anti-doping authorities are still monitoring how athletes use them.

Tucker Carlson said he left the GOP because of the administration’s fervent support of Israel and the trajectory of the Iran war.
But he was vague about ideas for a third party’s platform, though he said he would not be a candidate himself.
Building a third party is not a new idea
— many have attempted to do it,
and third-party candidates do successfully run on local and national ballots.
It’s important work, proponents told NOTUS,
but gaining power outs…

Tucker Carlson Is Starting a Third Party. Those Who’ve Tried Say: Good Luck!
“It's not that this is impossible work, it's just really, really hard,” Forward Party CEO Lindsey Williams Drath told NOTUS.

Work is mostly good for our brains.
The evidence is strong that cognitive decline speeds up after retirement.
Now some people with hard physical jobs simply can’t keep them up.
The point here is what retirement means.
If you move from your job to other work such as volunteering,
new leisure activities,
learning new and complex skills,
then that’s actually not retirement.
You’re still at work.
Retirement to the couch and Netflix is a …

Let your mind wander, don’t retire and stop worrying: surprising ways to help save your brain from the cognitive cliff
In his new book The Brain Cliff, Dr Norman Swan outlines the science of brain ageing and strategies for staving off cognitive decline

The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) put out a new opinion earlier this week
arguing that President Donald Trump can assert executive privilege over communications with advisors
-- even if they do not work at the White House or within the government at all.
Experts tell TPM that the legal opinion is likely an effort from the Trump administration and his DOJ
to preemptively interfere with congressional investigations that Democrats plan to launch if t…

OLC’s New Opinion on Executive Privilege Is a ‘Devious Tactic’ to Cover Up Trump Admin Corruption
The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) put out a new...