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#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
VILA: I think my brain must be furring up.
GAN: IMIPAK might be something they can use against us, Vila.
VILA: Only if it can run faster than we can.
BLAKE: Jenna, set a course for that planet.
https…

Overhyped or underrated? What to make of Browns QB Shedeur Sanders' first start https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6833845/2025/11/25/shedeur-sanders-browns-qb-stock-report-rankings/

Hi, whenever this administration or any government agency controlled by it releases some pompous thing (like the Secret Service announcement today) it’s to distract from something bad or embarrassing they’re doing (like Trumps UN “talk” or the Epstein files).

When I was a little kid I thought that #shrimp were the legs of something about the size of a #crab, and the little legs were feelers or something.
My first fresh seafood buffet where the shrimp still had their heads on really messed with me. "omg that's the whole them?!?" I got over it tho. Bad for …

After months of GitHub saying incorrectly that I had unread notifications, someone or something reset something and now I finally have a dotless board. Thanks to whatever or whoever is responsible.

fun fact: i learned that the letters "grub" stand for "GRand Unified Bootloader" before i found out what "a grub" is. so i was like, 18 or something when i first google-imaged "grub". i was like 😨

https://bsky.app/profile/ericwbailey.website/post/3lzjkzu4ww22h

Eric Bailey (@ericwbailey.website)
Excellent example of how something that's compliant isn't necessarily also usable. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

The UK's MASTIFF just put out a new EP today, 'For All the Dead Dreams', so I have that #NowPlaying, and it's a great one, of course. I've seen Mastiff described as sludge, doom, or hardcore, but they're a cool mix of.. something crossover-y and I dig it a lot. There's breakdowns. Now THIS is how you do some heavy, brutal (but still melodic, riffy) shit. Behold:

idk what my fuckin Deal is rn but maybe I need a Xanax about it or something. idfk

Youtube have some new "feature" to transcribe speech to text. (or whatever this is)
Watching something about Star Trek and Kardashian, it produced this picture of Kim Kardashian.
I think we shouldn't be afraid of "AI" in any way.😂

I call myself a Christian, but I’m very conflicted. I don’t know what I believe, but I know that love is love. I also don’t believe in just one way and that any way to an afterlife, if there is one, is valid. A decision to have a faith is a personal one for each individual and no one should be disrespected for believing or not believing in something.

@… It hurts because the little transmitters that are injected into you, so Soros can control you. Or something like that.

@… I didn't even pay attention to those photos, just the headline then my attention shifted to something unrelated.
In my mind's eye: only ever (a) the White House on its own, with some greenery and a fence, or (b) the building beneath the Independence Day spacecraft – I'm aware that it's covering a city but I'm not really …

We literally saw/heard him say, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way," ("Nice station you have there. It would be a shame if something was to ... happen to it...") and that Disney must "take action" on Kimmel "or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."
But he never threatened anyone...

FCC chairman unconvincingly claims he never threatened ABC station licenses
Brendan Carr would like you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

I think I need to clarify some shit for (white) liberals.
How many times have you wondered if someone you're talking to in an informant sent to entrap you? How many times have you or a friend of yours been hit by a car, intentionally? How many friends have been hit, or almost hit? Ever been stabbed? Know anyone who has? Has the FBI ever knocked on a friend's door? Have police ever kicked down your door? Have you ever been arrested? Pepper sprayed? Does the sound or smell or blast balls give you flashbacks? Do you ever wonder what all the CS exposure is doing to your body? How many times have you been shot or shot at? Do you wonder every day if this is the day they'll come to kill you? Would anyone in your social circle answer these questions differently?
When you vote, you risk nothing (big asterisk, but if I'm talking to you then it doesn't apply to you). What you get out of voting is exactly what you put into it. Direct action is the same.
If you aren't worried about someone murdering you, then you probably aren't actually threatening the system. That's the difference between voting, and doing something useful. If they had to murder all the liberals in order to keep going, fascism would end. If they're only murdering radicals and marginalized people, then you're just like all the "good Germans" who hated Hitler but did essentially nothing.
It's already that bad for some people. How much are you willing to risk? How many people are you willing to sacrifice for your comfort? These are the questions we're all thinking about every time you tell us to vote.
(I'm tagging this #USPol so it's easy for folks to filter out if they're already well acquaintaned with the horror. I'm not CW, because USPol is just expected to be triggering.)

If you were really lucky they'd end up publishing a paper on the phenomenon. So, are the stories about gangs, violent crime and explosions in Europe just a coincidence in my feed? Or is something really going on? There's no question that the Netherlands underworld has turned very nasty.for instance.

I mean, there's a reason the switch for "I have guests over, let's turn off the most surprising automations" is called "haunted house" in my HomeAssistant.
https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115424228795514864

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
SERVALAN: [To Travis] Project Avalon has failed totally. There will be a full inquiry. Until that time you are relieved of your command.
TRAVIS: [To himself] If it takes all my life, I will destroy you, Blake. I will destroy you. I will destroy you.

"…poll in April showed a majority of Americans suddenly wanted to restrict that presidency in ways they hadn’t before…percentage who said a president has 'too much' power rose from 32% last year (under Biden) all the way up to 54% (under Trump)."
"All of which suggests Americans-or at least a majority of them-see something extraordinary happening right now."
"Republicans…try to diminish… 'No Kings' rallies…something that’s very real to l…

Republicans are ridiculing ‘No Kings.’ A striking new poll shows Americans aren’t laughing
New polling reinforces how much the thrust of the “No Kings” message has resonated with much of the American public.

I'm so used to using free-and-clear detergents I forgot that the alternative was a thing.
How long does the stench stick around? Any tips on getting rid of it? Will a wash in proper detergent do the trick or do you need something more aggressive?

"She’d seen a guerilla bench effort take off in Berkeley, Calif. and wondered if they could pull off something similar in Nashville. They built a dozen or so benches based on a simple design and put them at bus stops."
https://nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/22

I mean, there’s tons of people talking here about all the shit that’s going down in the world. Sometimes you just need a break from it. Ideally, you’d put down your phone, or tablet, or turn away from your desk, and go do something, something outdoors, maybe. But some of you can’t do that, for reasons, so that’s where the shitposters come in. At least, if you can’t get away entirely, go look at something stupid or amusing or interesting for a bit. Get that blood pressure down, ffs.

Apparently #Cloudflare went down. Tragic, I would’ve noticed if I lived on the internet or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rou7wE6Fnjw

What happened to the Rapture? Did they confuse it with the early release of Silent Hill F or something?

Microsoft Azure:
"On 15 November 2028, we'll be retiring F, Fs, Fsv2, Lsv2, G, Gs, Av2, Amv2, and B-series Azure VMs. You won't be able to use or purchase these VMs, or any constrained core sizes that are part of the retiring VM series, after that date."
Three-year advance notice, pretty sure that is the longest advanced warning I've ever seen for something like this.

A little fragment that I have read in a really supremacist, racist article in Walla.
I guess I'm one of those stupid Irish and Basques that for some reason identify the Palestinian struggle as yet another occupation struggle.
PS: I'm not linking to that piece of shit of an article. If you want to find it, go to Walla and search for the racist Nir Kipnis.

Antifa = anti-fascist
Anti-antifa = fascist
People who can’t understand something that simple are either too stupid to argue with or clearly have a vested interest in not being able to understand it.

Sometimes you want to check how other distributions are packaging something, so you could do it consistently in #Gentoo. The problem is, which distros to check?
At a first thought, you'd start with the few "root" distros. But then, you start asking yourself: does Ubuntu do the same thing as Debian, or does it do its own thing? Is openSUSE like Fedora here, or is it different? Does Exherbo use the Gentoo package, or does it have its own?

As somebody who’s spent about a half a century not caring who Grimes is, is this a photo of her? Does she appear different to usual in this one?
I was kind of expecting a tā moko or something. https://web.brid.gy/r/https://people.c

Factor may have realised the toxicity of sponsoring Israel-Premier Tech a while ago, but it is astonishing how long it has taken for them to do something about that
It seems they have now given an ultimatum for change of name, flag etc.
This looks like a success for the Vuelto a Espana protestors.

"Without a name change, without a flag change, we won't continue": Factor gives Israel-Premier Tech ultimatum as widespread protests make bike sponsorship "too controversial"
CEO and founder Rob Gitelis says backing Israel-branded team is "not a matter of right or wrong any more, it's become too controversial around our brand"

So I am just shy of 50 with a resting heart rate of 43 bpm. Either there is something wrong with me or I have athletic bradycardia from all the unicycling. I am hoping the latter. 🤣
#UnicycleLife #Unicyclist

Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase
An open letter, or something
#salesforce

@… Hi, at the start of the year you collected bread knife measurements. What was that for?
https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/1137563…

Is there such a think as a test tube brush crossed with a wire brush?
We're starting to set up outdoor Christmas lights and a bunch of the sockets are oxidized and not making good contact with the bulbs. So I need to get into the socket and scrub the contacts.
Maybe after this holiday season I'll put some deoxit or something on them.

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

By giving back to the tools you love, you support the community. It can be hard to realize or even think about, but it is true.
https://josvelasco.com/why-would-you-return-something-to-wordpress/

Know what I miss? 5-1/4" disk drives.
For the last half a dozen work laptops I've been assigned they all have SSDs or M.2 NVME whatever. Absolutely silent.
Problem is, laptops don't have disk activity LEDs either.
So when something is wonk (besides "its Windows") and it takes me 90s to open Task Manager, I have no idea what the hell is going on in there.
At least with an old huge platter drive if something was thrashing your disk you could _…

Mass killings
Was looking through Wikipedia's list of mass killings in America (#guns #GunViolence #Shooting

So DHH has gone fully open right winger? Maybe that gets people to stop sharing and reading his takes.
If you still share that motherfucker's writing or advertise his business rethink your whole life decisions and move to the woods or something.

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
VILA: Oh.
BARR: Are you hungry?
VILA: Well now you mention it, my last meal was interrupted.
BARR: I'll get you something.
ZEE: What's the matter with your arm?
VILA: Broken, nothing really.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/242

A curse on all those who generate JSON data with subfielded keys.
...I'm looking at you Dell PERC, with all your "Drive /c0/e32/s9 - Detailed Information" nonsense. - I KNOW what the device attachment is (I GAVE you that on the command line), what I want is CONSISTENT key names I can use JQ to filter on (This key should be "Drive Detailed Information" - or something even LESS of a mouthful).

FREEDOM means #NoKings
Tomorrow, Saturday October 18
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Recipes are full of directions like “when the top starts to brown” or “when it is firm to the touch but not hard.”
Very often, the thing the directions are taking about is not the actual important trait, but a •proxy• for something important you can’t see directly. Maybe the inside of the bread is fully baked when the top starts to brown. Maybe dangerous bacteria are killed when the quiche is firm to the touch. (I am making this up; don’t @ me about quiche.)
Proxy indicators, heuristics, rules of thumb, call them what you like: they’re essential in cooking.
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Currently 6°C. High today of 22°C. How do you even dress for this??? I need some of those pants that turn into shorts or something

Free advice: When something Not Great happens that's relevant to Black folks or Jewish or queer or Arabic folks, such as hate crimes or laws restricting civil rights…
…please check in with your friends and colleagues who might be emotionally affected even if they're not directly connected
Sharing kind sentiments is as easy as "I heard about some recent events. You don't have to say anything, but I'm thinking about you and I care about your well-being ❤️"…

The problem here, as the students make very clear, is not whether or not AI can be used in teaching. It's that you're selling them something they can get much cheaper and better without you.
Even if AI was the perfect teacher, this would still be a racket.

OpenAI and Apollo Research trained o3 and o4-mini versions to not engage in "scheming", or secretly pursuing undesirable goals, reducing "covert actions" ~30X (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-models-kn

AI models know when they're being tested - and change their behavior, research shows
OpenAI and Apollo Research tried to stop models from lying - and discovered something else altogether.

@… #2 As it relates to something like Shintoism, or Buddhism. For whatever reason I can’t quite articulate, it feels different. Perhaps because of that same entanglement with culture.
I would have no problem with visiting a shrine.
I would absolutely observe any customs around footwear, loudness, photography, and whatnot. Those seem as a matter of respect, not…

"I’m not looking for money. I’d give it to charity or something.”
Yup, most of it will go to "something" and to "charities" which are actually "something". Plus the tax break from giving to "charities".
Daylight robbery.
#USA #uspol #DOJ #corruption

For a week or more, I was looking for this reel of metal banding because I wanted to use it for something. Now that it finally turned up, I can't remember what it was I wanted to use it for.
Getting old sucks.

So apparently Facebook broke their event calendar in a way I can't see them in my calendar of choice, and I can't subscribe to their iCal calendar manually because of some 'insecure connection' error. Or something.
They just broke one of few legitimately usable features of this whole joke of a platform.
I'm just as pissed as this guy.
https://divine-element.com/facebook-events-not-showing-up-in-calendar/

Any #Python newbies out there? (Or experts that need to teach Python)
Would you have a specific online tutorial to recommend for someone who wants to learn Python without any prior programming experience? One that also explains how to install it ?
I was thinking of something like this:

Welcome To The Python Tutorial
Learn to program with this free Python tutorial for beginners. It's free, easy to read and lets you practice with in-browser code examples.

When I saw various cloudflare errors today, I thought there's this web page that says whether something is down for everyone or just for me and I wanted to check it. The meta irony: it only gave me a cloudflare error.

Nepo babies can be so stupid about their supposed familial expertise…
The Fed doesn't control long-term (i.e. federally-backed mortgage) rates.Those reflect what the credit market believes inflation will be over the long term and how much return they think they can get elsewhere. Lowering rates before inflation has absorbed the tariff shocks and settled down will increase long-term inflation expectations, raising long rates.

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
One reason I wrote this is bc the housing market is in pretty shitty shape. Pulte seems to think lowering rates will fix it which is not remotely true. Yet instead of doing something about that Pulte is off stoking witch hunts. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

This is long, but hits on something that has been bothering me about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, too.
https://reactormag.com/bioessentialism-in-star-trek-strange-new-worlds/

In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Is Biology Destiny? - Reactor
Vulcans are logic machines, Gorn are monsters... or so Strange New Worlds might have us believe.

Once you are done fighting it, documents typeset with #TexLaTeX are pretty damn rad! 🚀
The automations you can put into place to help you focus on the actual writing are really something else:
- different modes for notes, submission, and publishing
- acronym or physical unit expansion only upon first mention
- auto-generated glossary or symbol list
- and of course a ton…

See the common thread in the two articles below?
In both "experts" assured the public that everything is safe and not to worry.
But a 155mm artillery shell exploding over an Interstate highway and a 1400 foot tall building in NYC beginning to drop concrete onto the streets blow are hardly "safe" or something not to be worried about.
The ancient Greeks had a word for the cause: hubris.
"Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines…

Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines Event, California Officials Say
The mishap, during an anniversary celebration for the Marine Corps attended by the vice president and defense secretary, underscores safety concerns that Gov. Gavin Newsom voiced before Saturday’s event at Camp Pendleton.

Does somebody know this overlay thingy which annoys me since a couple of months and I don't know where to disable it.
It's not app-specific, it sometimes appears when I want to interact with something at the top of any app. It vanishes after touching somewhere else and is reduced to a white bar at the top.
I could not find out about its purpose or functionality. The middle part icons do nothing.
My environment is

If it’s not already clear, I’m #ActuallyAutistic and proudly trans, who uses they/them pronouns and identifies as Non-Binary/Gender-Fluid, and bisexual.
I get really scared around other trans people because I worry I might accidentally say something transphobic or homophobic, and I deeply believe, with all my heart, that trans people deserve to live.
:transgender_flag:

Is anyone else’s Wii Fit U minigame ranking data getting like migrated to their old (nnid) account after rebooting or something?
I’m not sure if it’s because I renamed the old mii to like “Luana-nnid” and the new one is “Luana” or what, maybe it’s a game bug ignoring the hyphens or something and sending the ranking to the oldest account with the same name??
I thought I was getting crazy bc I never played this minigame level on the old account and the ranking was set to that, so I took a screenshot and then today the ranking I got on that day was also stolen by the old account
#WiiU

I have a serious question about deadnaming of trans people. Please answer kindly, I'm seeking understanding. Do trans people refer to their deadname as a previous life of themselves? An old mask of a time that they were not feeling themselves? Or deadnaming is just something that trans people want to completely forget as it was always wrong?
I'm expecting two types of answer here:
1. It really depends on the person, some trans have different relationships than others with …

🌳 Global forests store vast carbon wealth but credit systems undervalue their true potential, study finds
#trees

Global forests store vast carbon wealth but credit systems undervalue their true potential, study finds
When we walk into a forest, we often think less about the shade or the silence and more about the invisible work trees do—pulling carbon dioxide out of the air and storing it in their trunks, roots and soils. Forests are our oldest, most reliable carbon banks. Yet, when we dove into the data, we realized something unsettling: The financial systems designed to reward forests for this service often undervalue them.

newly uncovered gynecological records indicate something or other about the moon and stars, possibly even obama

NFL favorites are on fire this season. Is it a short-term trend or something different? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6635402/2025/09/18/nfl-favorites-dominating-2025-odds-betting-trends/

And sometimes they disagree and you have a shitty day.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115395314549695324

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL the anal sphincters and the brain work together to determine if something passing is gas or stool. https://zoe.com/learn/how-your-rectum-differentiates-gas-stool #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1o9v689/til_the_anal_sphincters_and_the_brain_work/

13yo: "and at the end of art class they take our sketchbooks"
me: "that sucks"
13yo: "Yeah, it does."
13yo: "Anyway, I was trying to draw a staff but I was having problems with the feathers..." ⚚
me: "Hey, I have a Staph *infection*!"
13yo: 😐
me: "..In case you need a drawing reference or something"
13yo: 🤨
me: "...what?" 😇
13yo: "I'm afraid of what else you'…

@… I would like to see something similar for FreeBSD (or BSDs in general) …
@…
#FreeBSD

Starting up Triangle (2009) after noticing it on Tubi the other day, before I pass out. Will finish it and the Rabid remake tomorrow. Seems like Triangle is probably gonna be a real mindfuck (not gore or anything, I don't believe). Psychological thriller? We'll see. As usual, going in cold, no idea.
https://boxd.it/1tQG

Triangle (2009)
When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

Just fwiw, 98% of the world's children do fine without access to Disney.
Maybe idk get some books instead and read it to them or something.

If we do all of •that• to the point where more and more people are engaged, showing up, doing every kind of work you can imagine and many more kinds you can’t imagine, well…
…then yeah, check on the size of the rallies. That’s the top of the baking bread, and it tells you something. Bakers who’ve studied it say golden brown is usually around 3.5%, give or take.
Check on that for a minute, and then get back to work.
/end

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people:
"Involuntary lethal injection,
or something. Just kill them."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lypzw476j723

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

okay I thought I'd see a name and it'd click or something but it hasn't.
⚠️but also if you've ever had a cat get real sick and throwing up/not being able to eat pls tell me your advices. hydration broth already acquired (not my cat btw so i do not require emotional support abt this)
https://j…

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: Right. Bring it directly over the skull. No, that won't do. You'll have to use the radio sensor. Good, that's much better. Yes, there it is. There's the limiter implant, you can see it quite clearly. Give me the side view. Good. Yes, it's in the sub four section all right. Now let's take a look at the limiter itself. Close focus, slowly.
JENNA: Well, there's nothing wrong with the connectors.

TL;DR: what if instead of denying the harms of fascism, we denied its suppressive threats of punishment
Many of us have really sharpened our denial skills since the advent of the ongoing pandemic (perhaps you even hesitated at the word "ongoing" there and thought "maybe I won't read this one, it seems like it'll be tiresome"). I don't say this as a preface to a fiery condemnation or a plea to "sanity" or a bunch of evidence of how bad things are, because I too have honed my denial skills in these recent years, and I feel like talking about that development.
Denial comes in many forms, including strategic information avoidance ("I don't have time to look that up right now", "I keep forgetting to look into that", "well this author made a tiny mistake, so I'll click away and read something else", "I'm so tired of hearing about this, let me scroll farther", etc.) strategic dismissal ("look, there's a bit of uncertainty here, I should ignore this", "this doesn't line up perfectly with my anecdotal experience, it must be completely wrong", etc.) and strategic forgetting ("I don't remember what that one study said exactly; it was painful to think about", "I forgot exactly what my friend was saying when we got into that argument", etc.). It's in fact a kind of skill that you can get better at, along with the complementary skill of compartmentalization. It can of course be incredibly harmful, and a huge genre of fables exists precisely to highlight its harms, but it also has some short-term psychological benefits, chiefly in the form of muting anxiety. This is not an endorsement of denial (the harms can be catastrophic), but I want to acknowledge that there *are* short-term benefits. Via compartmentalization, it's even possible to be honest with ourselves about some of our own denials without giving them up immediately.
But as I said earlier, I'm not here to talk you out of your denials. Instead, given that we are so good at denial now, I'm here to ask you to be strategic about it. In particular, we live in a world awash with propaganda/advertising that serves both political and commercial ends. Why not use some of our denial skills to counteract that?
For example, I know quite a few people in complete denial of our current political situation, but those who aren't (including myself) often express consternation about just how many people in the country are supporting literal fascism. Of course, logically that appearance of widespread support is going to be partly a lie, given how much our public media is beholden to the fascists or outright in their side. Finding better facts on the true level of support is hard, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about the "fact" that Trump has widespread popular support?
To give another example: advertisers constantly barrage us with messages about our bodies and weight, trying to keep us insecure (and thus in the mood to spend money to "fix" the problem). For sure cutting through that bullshit by reading about body positivity etc. is a better solution, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about there being anything wrong with your body?
This kind of intentional denial certainly has its own risks (our bodies do actually need regular maintenance, for example, so complete denial on that front is risky) but there's definitely a whole lot of misinformation out there that it would be better to ignore. To the extent such denial expands to a more general denial of underlying problems, this idea of intentional denial is probably just bad. But I sure wish that in a world where people (including myself) routinely deny significant widespread dangers like COVID-19's long-term risks or the ongoing harms of escalating fascism, they'd at least also deny some of the propaganda keeping them unhappy and passive. Instead of being in denial about US-run concentration camps, why not be in denial that the state will be able to punish you for resisting them?

I criticize Mozilla quite strongly. That's not cause I want them to die. It's because while they might've lost their way I strongly believe we need organizations like Mozilla. (Even if Mozilla as "tech-company" probably needs to either massively pivot or be replaced with something that servers the people [insert my usual "There should be a government funded agency that buys things like Firefox and develops it in a transparent and democratic way" shpiel])

Python Folks, in my old Perl days I used HTML::Template, is there something comparable (or better) for simple HTML generation with templates in the Python world?
#python #html #perl

Strange concrete sculptures circa 1960 near that big cluster of trees in the Arboretum
#photo #photography #landscape

Fun observation: The CONFIG and CALIB registers on the PIC12F683 contain 12 documented bits each.
The physical die layout, however, contains 25 fuse cell instances not 24. So there is one undocumented bit, perhaps a chicken bit for something or an extra calibration setting, or maybe a parity check over some or all of the other fuses.
If it's an actual config bit my money is on bit 5 of CALIB which is documented as unimplemented/RAZ.
Maybe it's not? Or maybe it's…

#SpinalTap has an entry in the #OED.
“…colloquial (usually humorous) (up) to eleven: so as to reach or surpass the maximum level or limit; to an extreme or intense degree. Esp. in to turn (something) up to eleven and variants.”
A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever, the story of Spinal Tap, by Ro…

A superpower that you can gain as you get older is to take a pause and realize when someone is actually talking about themselves when making statements. Obviously there's the "every accusation is a confession" of republicans, but often there's much more subtle things going on with people around you. Like, someone's cranky about how you've done something? Maybe it's because they're actually cranky about something else, like how *they've* done something.…

A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social)
“Klein’s interest here isn’t honesty but flattery. It shows Klein isn’t writing about Kirk at all. He’s writing about himself and saying, ‘I’m doing politics the right way because I’m lauding someone who disagrees with me.’” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Several of you have sent me very kind replies checking in about guilt / shame / my well-being.
Please don’t worry about me! I’m not in some kind of guilt spiral here. (“Shame” in the OP was too strong; “regret” would have been a better word.) I’m not beating myself up; I’m reflecting. I’m an engineer, and when something breaks or fails, I want to understand the failure so that I can help prevent similar failures in the future. Nobody’s perfect, but everyone can learn!
6/

Imagine a world that we all control together, not controlled by oligarch or dictators, even indirectly. Imagine something truly collaborative. That world would be very different from our own. In some ways many of us could have a lot more opportunity. But in others, we would be restricted.
In such a world, we couldn't really have elite luxuries. Having such luxuries is only valuable so long as others do not.
> Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.
- The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
Imagine a world in which we think about luxury in a radically different way, not as something that only has value via exclusivity but something that enriches the lives of the owners more as more people have them.
What would living in such a world be like? Can you describe a day in your life?
#SolarPunkPrompts #Writing #Prompts

Maybe weird question, but does anyone have a favorite moving blanket or tarp, ideally one with metal grommets?
I want something that can be tied down with straps when used to cover stuff like furniture on a pickup truck truckbed.
(Please only answer if you have direct experience and have a favorite product.)

CPU core of the PIC12F683 seen at poly.
This image is slightly out of focus in spots, I have a better 100x scan in the works, but we can see a couple of interesting things.
* At the south edge, we see a structure with what looks like 13-way symmetry then something weird looking at the far east. The instruction word is 14 bits so I'm guessing these are instruction latches with something special in the LSB or MSB position (I'll need to brush up on the PIC binary instruction…

A new challenge for emergency workers:
Learning how to handle a robotaxi
The vehicles’ operators generally claim they drive more safely than humans,
but anything can happen on public roads
and first responders need to know how to intervene
-- if a robotaxi is caught in a collision that traps passengers, catches fire, or gets caught doing something that demands a traffic stop.

After two years of testing its vehicles in Vegas, Zoox started allowing the publi…

A new challenge for emergency workers: Learning how to handle a robotaxi
Police and firefighters are getting trained on how to respond to emergencies involving self-driving cars — or pull them over in a traffic stop.

@… just FYI this kind of thoughtful thread on anarchism is exactly the kind of thing people would miss if you weren't on here. Please feel free to tell me to shut up and go away if my engagement is unwanted or feels like a burden, but I hope you're in a better headspace now than earlier. You're valuable and worthy as a person regardless of what you post here, but this is something I can point to concretely and say "I appreciate that" so that the beginning of this long sentence isn't just a platitude. ^.^;

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
TARRANT: Like capturing us.
HOWER: Do you feel ill, or upset in any way?
DAYNA: No. What was it, some kind of narcotic spray gun?
HOWER: Something like that. Quite harmless, I assure you.
TARRANT: I'm glad to hear it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/102

Trump's shutting down of projects because they had a minority/female CEO
or made the environment cleaner
or said something mean about him and assault on the rule of law
is slowing investment and job creation.
He's burnt the gift Biden left him.
https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/11…

Sean Casten (@SeanCasten@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images 8. At the same time, Trump's shutting down of projects because they had a minority/female CEO or made the environment cleaner or said something mean about him and assault on the rule of law is slowing investment and job creation. He's burnt the gift Biden left him.

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
BLAKE: In a Federation prison colony too?
RO: No. In an accident.
BLAKE: Paura told me that your father would never have made his people slaves as you have done.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/339 B7B3

Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
SARKOFF: To my decision? Of course not.
BLAKE: No, of course not. [Checks watch a final time then looks up] Right. Stay here, please. [Exits]
SARKOFF: Where else would I go? This is all I have left.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/268 B7B4