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Got the OBS overlays mostly finished up. The SuperStation One is hooked up to the PVM via a SCART switch then split out from there into a RetroTINK 5X which then gets routed into a capture card. Still need to get the audio configured and the levels set correctly.
#streaming #obs

One more report indicating that it is #ICE that should be kept in the cooler.
He was shot at by ICE, then wrongfully accused. His nightmare had only just begun
https://www.

He was shot at by ICE, then wrongfully accused. His nightmare had only just begun
After masked agents fired on his truck, Francisco Longoria was ambushed, charged and jailed – only for the case against him to fall apart. Now he and his family are seeking justice, and says the harrowing experience is part of a troubling pattern

One more report indicating that it is #ICE that should be kept in the cooler.
He was shot at by ICE, then wrongfully accused. His nightmare had only just begun
https://www.

He was shot at by ICE, then wrongfully accused. His nightmare had only just begun
After masked agents fired on his truck, Francisco Longoria was ambushed, charged and jailed – only for the case against him to fall apart. Now he and his family are seeking justice, and says the harrowing experience is part of a troubling pattern

I have written a movie review of a movie I have not yet seen. I read one too many reviews of it, and figured I'd give it a shot.
Movie Review of The Odyssey: title read, movie not seen
I hope you find it entertaining!
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/movie-re

Movie Review of The Odyssey: title read, movie not seen
What’s with starting “into the middle of things” (Latin: in medias res)? It is crazy, right? Who would do that (except all the movies that do that)? Who would do that enough over multiple millennia so that people over centuries would have to come up with an entire phrase

Siri (Beta) is really interesting.
On one hand, I don't have to trust any new parties with my data. Apple already has it since they have my mobile devices, so if they were going to maliciously steal (e.g.) my email contents, they could already do that. This opens the door to a whole bunch of LLM data based interrogation that I wouldn't trust with other providers.
…on the other hand, the "on-device only" Siri falls over immediately when disabling the internet c…

oh spiffy! use perceptual hashing to find similar images to use as potential wigglegrams. if you're like me you take 3-8 photos to get one shot and forget to delete the bad ones
https://lmao.center/blog/wiggle-accidents/

NFL legend Calvin Johnson thinks one player has a shot at breaking his single-season receiving record

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/calvin-johnson-puka-nacua-nfl-receiving-record…

At least seven people have been shot dead in federal immigration operations since January 2025
Homan said ICE will require officers to record vehicle stops with at least one body cam
-- Too late for the seven victims
https://www.reuters.com/wo…

Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby in the occupied West Bank and injured one of the child’s parents after opening fire on the family’s car, despite it having complied with an order to stop.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun

I was walking to work today and 4 cars build around 1920 were passing me.
I reacted slowly and 1 car already moved beyond the shot.
Hope I'll be looking that good after 100 years in operation.😂
Have a nice day.😊

One more photo from the trail that I posted about recently. The blooming heather always make sme smile. Especially when there aren't too many flowers around.
In such spost I'm always traying a bit what looks more interesting: a great vista, a plain trail shot, the heather in the foreground or a blurred foreground.
The advantage is: I always have little rests along the way :)
#hiking

Q&A with Steven Soderbergh about using AI to visualize 10% of his John Lennon documentary after running out of "time and money", facing a backlash, and more (Jake Coyle/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/john-lennon

Steven Soderbergh on John Lennon and AI
The day John Lennon was shot in 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments. In “John Lennon: The Last Interview,” Steven Soderbergh pp those surviving tapes into a new documentary that debuted Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. But his decision to fill in some visuals using Meta's AI software has prompted an outcry. One of America’s leading filmmakers was using AI? In a film about a Beatle, no less? Soderbergh…

I keep coming back to this tweet
#mamdani #dsa #democrats #uspol

It's #FreeCADFriday UTC, even if it's still Thursday evening where I am.
I am getting a screened pop-up gazebo/cabana for ham radio purposes (Field Day) and wanted to compare footprints of three different options. One has a 10' x 10' square footprint, and two have hexagonal footprints specified by their longest internal measurement, because bigger numbers sell, but I didn't h…

Immediate (and obvious) memeing.
When I first saw the photo, I thought there was no way it could be real, it had to be AI.
It's not. There's several videos of it, shot from several directions. I've seen them. This is 100% real. And this photo is one for the photos of the year.
#Russia's Moscow is burning. Hard. At long last.

Now, I have a lot of reasons to hate vibe coding, but one of them is that I just think more easily in code. I reason by writing the code. It's not something I can easily disentangle.
Architectures tend to live in my head as pictures that change as I write. The words are code. There's no intermediate. So the offer of being able to skip the poc phase is just not interesting. "Oh, cool, I can skip the part where I preemptively identify problems? Great. That's gonna work out well." Vibe coding can give you working proof of concepts that self destruct when you try to grow them (much like any poc code you just try to use without actually engineering).
I don't know that this problem will ever get fixed. Even if it does, I don't know that this fix will ever rival human engineering. I don't think it's actually possible to know that yet, there are too many factors at play. It's definitely lowered the bar for writing proof of concepts. Now a business idiot can make a proof of concept, which even further distorts their understanding of what engineering actually looks like.
In order to go back to work, I'm basically expected to be ramped up on LLM stuff. But it all keeps reminding me of the feeling of powerlessness when we organized against Trump, when we organized against the rally at UW, when I tried to stop someone from pepperspraying people and I got shot. It's all the same ideology of rapists and pedophiles forcing their entire world on us against our will, thinking they can dangle "the Epstein files" in front of everyone and then yank them away like nothing ever happened... Like no one knows they implicate the entire power structure.

An ICE agent reportedly shot and killed a person in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday,
marking the second person killed at the hands of federal immigration agents in a week.
The office of the Maine Attorney General said that agents were
“conducting an enforcement operation related to a final order of removal”
when an agent fatally shot a man on Monday morning.
The attorney general and Sen. Angus King (I-Vermont) have both said that an Immigration and Customs Enforceme…

ICE Reportedly Killed Maine Man in Second Fatal ICE Shooting in a Week
One witness said a little girl wearing pajamas, potentially the victim’s daughter, was present at the shooting.

Cowboys giving well-traveled UDFA lineman shot to stick if he can play https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/12/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-79-ot-marcellus-johnson/9079483600…

Do you prefer it when control doesn't need movement of your arm or your hand, and you instead organise everything with the slightest movement of one single finger?
Well, the trackpoint (or whatever you want to call it) is now also available as external add on:
https://ploopy.co/bean/

What *should* a floppy drives read data look like (5.25" single density, BBC DFS) ?
Both my Model B and a greaseweazel are failing to read the two disks I've tried at all at the moment; does this stream (off pin 34 on the interface) look sane? I don't currently have a known-good one to reference.
#retrocomputing

"We had 111 missiles shot at us by the Islamic Republic of Japan." - Trump
If this was a one time thing, it'd be a funny haha anomaly, but everyday, this senile old fool publicly babbles similar random stupidity.
This clown srsly has America's nuclear codes?
#trump

I've been plotting a weird west comic with the pitch; Michael Moorcock's Gunsmoke.
I already feel unsafe levels of investment in the property and I can’t afford to finance another passion project.
So I might test the waters with a one-shot featuring Six Gun Gorilla.
https://pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Six-Gun_G

Six-Gun Gorilla
Six-Gun Gorilla was an ape named O’Neil who as an infant was kidnapped and brought from Africa to the United States where he was sold to a prospector named Bart Masters of Colorado. Masters was a loving owner whom the gorilla grew to love like a father. Bart Masters taught his gorilla to dig, fetch firewood, gather water, cook, clean, and most importantly, load and fire a revolver. Unfortunately, Bart Masters was murdered by Tutt Strawhan, leader of the Strawhan Gang, in order to learn what...

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.

One person was reportedly shot and killed during an ICE operation in Biddeford, Maine,
according to the state’s speaker of the house, Ryan Fecteau.
“This morning a shooting occurred in Biddeford. A person was killed.
ICE was involved.
State Police and the Department of Public Safety are now on scene to gather details and would expect the FBI to investigate as well,” he said.
Police confirmed to local newsthat the area where the shooting was reported has been clos…

Person reported killed during ICE operation in Maine, state house speaker says – US politics live
Ryan Fecteau says person was reportedly shot in Biddeford, with authorities on the scene to investigate

⚡ The core is a single native tool, rlm_query, that spawns a child Pi process with the same tools. The child can call rlm_query too — so the agent recursively decomposes a problem, delegates chunks to copies of itself, and combines the results.
🎯 One-shot or interactive: run ypi "Refactor the error handling in this repo", or bunx ypi without installing. Available via bun, npm, curl or as the minimal pi-recursive extension for plain Pi.

Voters are casting ballots in primary elections Tuesday in Maine,
one of a handful states that could decide which party controls the Senate after this year’s midterm elections.
Democrats believe they have their best shot in years to unseat Republican Senator Susan Collins,
but their presumptive nominee has been mired in controversy.
Graham Platner is a 41-year-old oyster farmer and Marine veteran who entered the race as a populist progressive.
Democratic Governo…

Graham Platner’s Billionaire-Bashing Message Resonates in Maine Senate Race, Despite Controversies
Voters are casting ballots in primary elections Tuesday in Maine, one of a handful states that could decide which party controls the Senate after this year’s midterm elections. Democrats believe they have their best shot in years to unseat Republican Senator Susan Collins, but their presumptive nominee has been mired in controversy. Graham Platner is a 41-year-old oyster farmer and Marine veteran who entered the race as a populist progressive. Democratic Governor Janet Mills, who was urged to…

Regret Minimization in Single-Dimensional Contract-Design with Binary Actions
Riccardo Poiani, Martino Bernasconi, Andrea Celli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06125 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.06125 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.06125
arXiv:2606.06125v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study principal-agent problems in which a principal commits to an outcome-dependent payment scheme (i.e., a contract) in order to induce an agent to take a costly action leading to a favorable outcome. We consider the online extension of the classical (one-shot) principal-agent problem, in which the principal repeatedly interacts with agents by proposing contracts over multiple rounds. The principal has no information about the agents and, crucially, does not observe their actions. As a result, the principal must learn an optimal contract using only the realized outcomes observed at each round. We focus on the setting with binary actions and single-dimensional agent types, where the agent's private type represents their cost per unit-of-effort. For adversarial-type sequences, we provide tight $\Theta(T^{2/3})$ regret guarantees. Remarkably, this rate is completely independent of the number of outcomes $m$. The upper bound is based on two key components: 1) a reduction to a one-dimensional threshold optimization problem and 2) a non-uniform discretization to handle the non-Lipschitz nature of the problem. Moreover, in the case of a single (fixed) hidden type, we show that it is possible to improve the rates and provide a tight $\widetilde{\Theta}(\sqrt{T})$ regret bound. Our algorithm is based on an explore-then-commit strategy where we first approximately learn the hidden type via a stochastic binary search, and then we commit to a ``robustified'' near-optimal contract.
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WHOA! New family board game for Board.fun's tabletop console: "The Heist". Kinda like Laser Chess. Just bought mine!
▶️ Mirrors, security lasers, one shot at the diamond
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yzPL1mzoo8g&feature=shared
✅ The Heist | Bo…

Since last year, federal agents have fired on at least 21 people,
many of whom were shot in their vehicles.
Five people, including three U.S. citizens, were killed as a result.
Federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in January during a weekslong immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis.
One of those citizens, Renee #Good, was killed in her vehicle, while the other, Al…

What We Know About the ICE Shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
Mr. Araujo was a father, a husband and a business owner who had moved to the United States 35 years ago from Mexico.

I cranked #AmateurRadio

🎯 Interactive or one-shot: launch with openwiki, pass an initial request like openwiki "generate documentation for this repository", or run non-interactively with openwiki -p for a single command that prints and exits.

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…

Agent libOS: A Library-OS-Inspired Runtime for Long-Running, Capability-Controlled LLM Agents
Yingqi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03895 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03895 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.03895
arXiv:2606.03895v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are evolving from request-response assistants into long-running software actors: they maintain state across model calls, fork subtasks, wait for external events, request human authority, generate tools, and perform side effects that must be resumed and audited. This paper presents Agent libOS, a library-OS-inspired runtime substrate for LLM agents. Agent libOS runs above a conventional host operating system; it does not implement hardware drivers, kernel-mode isolation, or a POSIX-compatible operating system. Instead, it treats an agent as an AgentProcess: a schedulable execution subject with process identity, parent-child lineage, lifecycle state, a tool table derived from an AgentImage, typed Object Memory, explicit capabilities, human queues, checkpoints, events, and audit records. Its central design rule is tools are libc-like wrappers; runtime primitives are the authority boundary. Filesystem access, object access, sleeps, human approval, JIT tool registration, and external side effects are checked at primitive boundaries under explicit capabilities and policy.
We describe the design, threat model, Python prototype, and safety-oriented evaluation. The current prototype implements async scheduling, namespace-local Object Memory, runtime-integrated human approval, one-shot permission grants, per-process working directories, shell and image-registration primitives, Deno/TypeScript JIT tools over a libOS syscall broker, filesystem/object bridge tools, an injectable Resource Provider Substrate, deterministic demos, real-model smoke scripts, and 123 regression tests at the time of writing. Rather than improving planner accuracy, Agent libOS demonstrates a runtime substrate in which long-running LLM agents can be scheduled, authorized, resumed, and audited without treating tool dispatch as the trust boundary.
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Another anecdotal datapoint on Fable: it's the first model that passes my (fairly informal) benchmark of "will not hallucinate features when asked a non-trivial question about Keycloak." - it actually one-shot a working solution for a problem I'd been having, and I just verified that it seems to actually work, so I even learned something new. I'm going to validate the answer some more with a colleague tomorrow - if this actually works, we may write it up as a blog post, as this will be a helpful reference to keep in our pocket for future Keycloak security audit reports.
For comparison:
- Opus partially solved the problem in a less elegant and incomplete way, but at least it used actually-existing features. It also did not find the complete solution that closes the last holes that Fable proposed.
- Sonnet hallucinated a feature, then proposed an incomplete solution when I pointed this out, then proposed an answer that sounded plausible but was wrong in a subtle way, which could have bitten me badly, had I implemented it.

An upstate New York resident sued US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
for sending federal officers to his house with a warning over an email he sent to the agency’s one-time head.
David Streever, who is a US citizen, was on a trip to Finland when two officers showed up to his Rochester home in June
and presented his wife with a warning notice informing him that the email he sent months earlier was considered a threat, his attorneys said.
Streever sent the em…

New York man sues ICE for sending officers to his house after he emailed agency head
David Streever had emailed acting ICE director after an immigration officer fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis

Close shot of runner with white headband
#photo #photography #running #sports

Went out on a jet ski, taking a break to swim with the fishes.
Having a clear waterproof camera case is scary stuff. No backup phone here abroad. Paying off so far though. One underwater shot in 20 is all right.
Good fun. You should totally go ride a jet ski and jump from wave to wave, catching air.