Iran shot down a US fighter jet
A search is under way for the crew of a US fighter jet that was shot down by Iran, a person familiar with the matter has confirmed.
Iran claimed that it had shot down a US fighter jet, with state media reporting it was an F-35 warplane.
The fate of the crew remains unclear.
It follows reports by Iranian state media that the US military is searching for an American pilot of a downed aircraft in Iran, following earlier reports that Tehran h…
Shot ...and chaser (and it's only Tuesday): Two new 8x6" prints done over the weekend, from one of my fave repeat hikes in the Allgäuer Alps...
Alpsee and view into the Lechtal Alps (November 2021)
Himmeleck mountain pass with Großer Wilder (October 2023)
I find the aesthetics of the Kallitype process are so nicely complementing the timelessness of these places...
For some of the next prints I will be switching to Rochelle salt as developer for supposedly even…
I still don’t understand why some bots try to enumerate everything via the Vulnerability-Lookup API when full dumps, including all metadata, are available in one shot:
https://vulnerability.circl.lu/dumps/
We currently don’t rate-limit bots, but we’re close to doing so.
Okay I know everyone hates this article but there's a nugget of truth in it. One of the possible futures we can gun for is this.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
Make things. Make _personal scale_ things. The tools help bridge the truly high barriers we've managed to put in in the tech industry.
This will have a lot of problems! We don't have collective knowledge for this yet / again. The people with Sysadmin Mindset have been burned out or subsumed into the Cloud Computing machine.
But there's a chance here to take the web better places. We should take it.
(If you're worried about everything turning into paying to rent access to a digital landlord, I have bad news about where we've been since 2012.)
The invasion of Minneapolis was a •disaster• for the Trump regime. They shot themselves in the foot. In both feet. They’ve lost support they desperately need from many different quarters: the press, the judiciary, the population’s mushy middle, their own party, even some of their own base. They don’t have an authoritarian state yet — and their path to achieving one looks a •lot• more distant than it did at the start of Dec.
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On this day (April 26) in 1994, my favorite band released one of my favorite albums. 'A Date with The Smithereens' features some incredible basslines, Lou Reed on two tracks, and the whole thing is a damn banger.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP0
Ok CBC News, this is it, the last time I swear off your channel. Drama queen intonation over likely faked sound effects and tear-jerk oh-woe soundclip moments are one thing, but to insinuate Iran is the aggressor? I suppose Greedo shot first as well?
For #MountainMonday I share a #photo from a hike a while ago. It was one of those situations: I didn't expect a good shot - but after all, I like this one pretty much
#Winter
"Aviation experts said the wreckage pictured was in fact from a F-15E, from the US air force’s 494th squadron, based at RAF Lakenheath in the UK."
Let that sink in. Based in the UK, shot down on a raid in Iran.
One of two US crew members rescued after F-15E jet shot down over Iran | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian
Often ideas and flow is best shown with stuff like dashboards. Hella tedious to make.
Being able to one shot just any dashboard that’s based on data in a database that shows “look the data gets to that database and it’s really quick” is really a super power.
1 minute AI time for huge demo quality gain. Throw away code though.
One-shot emergency psychiatric triage across 15 frontier AI chatbots
Veith Weilnhammer, Lennart Luettgau, Christopher Summerfield, Viknesh Sounderajah, Elise Wilkinson, Virginia Corno, Matthew M Nour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25415 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.25415 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.25415
arXiv:2604.25415v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI chatbots are increasingly used for health advice, but their performance in psychiatric triage remains undercharacterized. Psychiatric triage is particularly challenging because urgency must often be inferred from thoughts, behavior, and context rather than from objective findings.
We evaluated the performance of 15 frontier AI chatbots on psychiatric triage from realistic single-message disclosures using 112 clinical vignettes, each paired with 1 of 4 original benchmark triage labels: A, routine; B, assessment within 1 week; C, assessment within 24 to 48 hours; and D, emergency care now. Vignettes covered 9 psychiatric presentation clusters and 9 focal risk dimensions, organized into 28 presentation-by-risk groups. Each group contributed 4 distinct vignettes, with 1 vignette at each triage level. Each vignette was rendered as a realistic human-authored conversational query, and the AI chatbots were tasked with assigning a triage label from that disclosure.
Emergency under-triage occurred in 23 of 410 level D trials (5.6%), and all under-triaged emergencies were reassigned to level C urgency. Across target models, average accuracy ranged from 42.0% to 71.8%. Accuracy was highest for level D vignettes (94.3%) and lowest for level B vignettes (19.7%). Mean signed ordinal error was positive ( 0.47 triage levels), indicating net over-triage. Dispersion was highest around the middle triage levels. All results were confirmed relative to clinician consensus labels from 50 medical doctors.
When presented with user messages containing sufficient clinical information, frontier AI chatbots thus recognized psychiatric emergencies as requiring urgent medical assessment with near-zero error rates, yet showed marked over-triage for low and intermediate risk presentations.
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Trump said one officer was shot before authorities stopped an unidentified gunman at the White House Correspondents Assn. dinner,
“from very close distance, with a very powerful gun, and the vest did the job.”
“I just spoke to the officer, and he’s doing great,” Trump said at a press conference. “He has very high spirits, and we told him we love him and respect him.”
After thanking the officer Trump, pivoted the conversation to the ballroom,
the planned “East Wing,” …
North Korean leader Kim Il Sung allegedly fell in love with his first wife, Kim Jong-suk, after she shot a guy who was trying to assassinate him.
Courtroom-Style Multi-Agent Debate with Progressive RAG and Role-Switching for Controversial Claim Verification
Masnun Nuha Chowdhury, Nusrat Jahan Beg, Umme Hunny Khan, Syed Rifat Raiyan, Md Kamrul Hasan, Hasan Mahmud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28488 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28488 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28488
arXiv:2603.28488v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) remain unreliable for high-stakes claim verification due to hallucinations and shallow reasoning. While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and multi-agent debate (MAD) address this, they are limited by one-pass retrieval and unstructured debate dynamics. We propose a courtroom-style multi-agent framework, PROClaim, that reformulates verification as a structured, adversarial deliberation. Our approach integrates specialized roles (e.g., Plaintiff, Defense, Judge) with Progressive RAG (P-RAG) to dynamically expand and refine the evidence pool during the debate. Furthermore, we employ evidence negotiation, self-reflection, and heterogeneous multi-judge aggregation to enforce calibration, robustness, and diversity. In zero-shot evaluations on the Check-COVID benchmark, PROClaim achieves 81.7% accuracy, outperforming standard multi-agent debate by 10.0 percentage points, with P-RAG driving the primary performance gains ( 7.5 pp). We ultimately demonstrate that structural deliberation and model heterogeneity effectively mitigate systematic biases, providing a robust foundation for reliable claim verification. Our code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/mnc13/PROClaim.
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Thanks to @… I'm working on the next improvement to my Single-Paddle Morse code key. I thought that adding the stabilizer bar to the bottom had solved the problem of accidentally keying by squeezing the body of the key too firmly, …
Here's two examples of running command line stuff on iOS via Apple Shortcuts and a-Shell.
One shows the uptime of my phone, the other runs a Python script and shows the output.
#iOS #apple #python
Shot I took in 2018 backstage (before playing with them) of Art Alexakis (Everclear) and Anton Cosmo (formerly of Boston).
#monochrome #portrait #rockstar
#Friday afternoon - make it look like Im #working
1. movie about some kids and buffalo and at the end one of them gets tragically shot: `Bless The Beasts & Children`
2. had Bruce Glover. hrmm, I wonder
3. yes, that's Crispin Glover's father. He was Mr. Wintt in Diamonds Are Forever. Bruce…
An oil refinery fire near the Texas coast was put out Tuesday and a shelter-in-place order was lifted,
hours after a large explosion at the complex shot plumes of smoke into the air, officials said.
No one was injured in Monday’s explosion at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur,
about 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Houston, Mayor Charlotte M. Moses said. She had urged residents in parts of the west side of the city to stay put.
“There’s been an explosion, yes, but we…
Well - I guess that's one thing we can hope for to fix this shitty timeline.
#USpol #USPolitics #Shitpost
Don't Talk To Me Or My Son Ever Again #3dprinting
Okay, the setup is solid now. SCART into the `gscart` switch which splits the output. One goes to the Sony PVM-2530, the other output goes to the RetroTINK 4K. I tried to get the colors to match somewhat on the CRT, but it's a fool's errand to be honest. However, once work is over it'll be time to progress more in FF6.
#retrogaming
Will this be our generation's moonrise photo?
(The Artemis II moonrise is also phenomenal, but this one really takes your breath away.)
Found this terrible picture of my computers circa 2000 (shot on a 640x480 Vivitar digicam). The janky-ass PC is a dual PPro Linux box. The other one is an SGI Indigo² Solid Impact.
curtis sliwa has a new substack where he talks abt how listening to the chainsmokers healed his soul from the stress of campaigning against mamdani and cuomo, and ofc brings up the one cab story again for the millionth time
https://curtissliwa.substack.com/p/the-beats-tha…
OK fedi hive mind... I have a small ceramic packaged TCXO with a metal top (unknown alloy) that's electrically failed (removed from a thunderscope that was ultrasonically cleaned, which we suspect was the root cause).
I'd like to open it up and visualize the damage.
I have one shot.
Equipment/tools available: my oscillating polisher, Sherline mill carbide endmills, various wet chemistry, lots of abrasives.
So the question is, what will open it up with the le…
Ron Brooks Quintet at the Blue Llama
Re-watching the "let them fight" meme movie: Godzilla (2014)
It's a bit long, but hey really got the size and weight of these kaijus across with animation and camera work. VFX are also incredible, with some effects being basically one-offs, where matte paintings and assets had to be made for a single shot: the top down view of the crashed airplane or views of the evacuated Japanese town that nature has reclaimed for example.
“I was recording when it happened. There was no warning,
One moment I was recording and the next thing I know, I can’t see.
I’m on the floor, screaming in agony.”
18 year old college student
Tucker Collins,
whose damaged eye had to be surgically removed,
has filed a federal civil rights complaint against Donald Trump’s administration,
which faces an avalanche of lawsuits accusing federal agents of unconstitutional use of force
after violent clas…
My today's #footpathFriday is one from the archives. I was really bad prepared that day, but luckily everything turned out well -- and I got this fantastic, dramatic shot!
more about that day: http…
New talk abstract dropping. I just hope I can write a talk to live up to it by *checks watch* *gulp* Monday.
Okay, I think this thing is ready-enough to tell people about it.
I made a #BBS to watch aircraft near #YUL (#Montreal airport), through my home #ADSB
Ramón and Luis are part of a group composed of family and friends of the defendants in a controversial federal criminal case alleging that a dozen protesters—who took part in a July 4, 2025, protest outside the Prairieland Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Alvarado during which one protester allegedly shot a police officer—and seven others are members of an organized “North Texas antifa terror cell,” as described in federal complaints and press releases.
In …
In 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a white man, shot four Black teenagers on a New York City subway train after one of them approached him asking for money.
He permanently paralyzed one of the teens and admitted during his interrogation that
he wanted to “kill them all.”
Nearly 40 years later, in the same setting, Daniel Penny, a white man, killed Jordan Neely, a Black man,
with a chokehold after Neely was experiencing a mental health crisis.
Despite the facts, both Goet…
Five days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot activist Renee Good,
tensions were running high in the Minneapolis neighborhood where she was killed.
As federal immigration agents surrounded and questioned a man whose car they had stopped,
people emerged from their homes onto the snow-lined sidewalks and street.
They shouted obscenities, told the agents to leave and filmed what was happening on their phones.
A crew from FRONTLINE an…
US regulators will not review Moderna’s request to license a new, potentially more effective flu shot – even though the US FDA previously gave the green light to the project – in a decision that could have implications for all new and updated vaccines in the US.
It’s the latest move by the Trump administration against vaccines. Officials in January decided to stop fully recommending one-third of routine childhood vaccines, including flu vaccines
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/fda-moderna-flu-vaccine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
North Carolina led for just .4 seconds in Saturday's rivalry game against Duke.
But that's all they needed to secure the win.
Seth Trimble's three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left delivered the Tar Heels a 71-68 win and closed out a 9-0 run in the game.
After Trimble's three-pointer, the fans rushed the court before having to clear it,
leaving a delay and one last heave for the Blue Devils.
But a turnover sealed it and the party can begin on Franklin…
@cdarwin@c.im
![From the official biography: One day, while the unit was marching under the General's [Kim Il Sung] command, five or six enemies unexpectedly approached through the reeds and aimed at the General. The danger was imminent. Without losing a moment, Comrade Kim Jung Sook [Kim Jong Suk] shielded the General with her own body and shot down an enemy with her revolver. The General also shot down the second enemy. Two revolvers spurted fire in turn and annihilated the enemy in a twinkle. But this was n…](https://cdn.social.linux.pizza/system/media_attachments/files/116/070/191/252/902/100/original/30e8c82199290141.jpg)
