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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Ought:
🎵 Beautiful Blue Sky
#Ought
https://ought.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-blue-sky
https://open.spotify.com/track/5vs3jJj3AhJMgIycoiF5Tx

If trump really believes that his wars are just, then he ought to tell the tall kid, barron, to head on over to the nearest recruiting station to sign up.

I’m going to respond in a long thread to @… ’s “Ought You Use a Generative Model,” because doing so crystallizes a bunch of my thoughts on AI and ethics. Apologies for the extra thumb movements if you follow me and aren’t interested! 1/24

If El Cheato wants to go after corruption here's one that is close to home...
To me this item suggests that we really ought to leave DHS unfunded, permanently.
"Homeland security awarded $250,000 contract to Trump-aligned consulting firm"
https://www.theguardian.c…

Was editing and noticed that if you rotate-left "those" you get "ethos". Was curious how many of these are in English. Big dicts have a lot of junk, and most endings in "s" are for plurals. Here's a good list of rotwords.

#today some life/academic admin including for #ReplicationGames, and for the inventors' club. And really really ought to inch some progress on my #research

Can Autism Spectrum be a superpower? Well, sometimes, I guess.
It's the same kind of superpower like having a chaingun in place of your hand. There are days you feel like you definitely ought to use it. And it sounds really cool in theory.
But it's not very useful if you need to open a jar. And I dare say that in my life, jar-opening situations are far more common than situations needing a chaingun. On top of that, most people don't really appreciate *you* having it, as if you had a choice.
#ActuallyAutistic

following jvns asking about good man pages, i have some thoughts about what i have liked and disliked when reading man pages, how i have tried to improve them, and guidelines i follow when writing them https://lobste.rs/c/chyw2a
perhaps that comment ought to be a blog post

Notes on clarifying man pages
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Well - this ought to break the internet for at least a day.
#ChuckNorris
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2…

Chuck Norris, action legend, dead at 86
Action legend and "Walker, Texas Ranger" star Chuck Norris has died, his family confirmed in a statement.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@shriramk/115956634402331444
It's also a great illustration of the ambiguity of English pronunciation, e.g., "e" in "earth" vs "heart" and even more so "gh" in "ought" vs &q…

"Jesse Jackson was a gift from God and a witness that God exists in the ways he cared for and lifted all people, the way he called forth a rainbow coalition of people to challenge economic and social inequality from the pulpit to a historic presidential run, the way he dared to keep hope alive whenever the nation struggled with being who she says she is and yet ought to be."
—The Rev. Dr. William Barber
Full statement here:

In late Middle English writing, 'a' and 'an' commonly were joined to the following noun,
if that word began with a vowel,
-- which caused confusion over how such words ought to be divided when written separately.
In 'nickname', 'newt', and British dialectal 'naunt',
the -n- belongs to a preceding indefinite article 'an' or possessive pronoun 'mine'.
My naunt for "mine aunt" is recorded from 13c.…

N - Etymology, Origin & Meaning of the Name
"an island," early 13c.), a narawe ("an arrow," c. 1400), a nox ("an ox," c. 1400), a… See origin and meaning of n.

Hawley calls on Minnesota attorney general to be indicted over fraud reports: 'You ought to be in jail' (Molly Parks/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/4456034/josh-hawley-minnesota-attorney-general-keith-ellison-indicted-fraud-reports/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p117#a260212p117

I said 'no' to something! And I did it quick, which ought to help the organizers find someone else.

Are there any immigration lawyers in the house? What's the situation just now with getting Palestinians from #Gaza refugee status in the UK? You'd think, for people suffering #GazaGenocide, it ought to be pretty much automatic, but given our xenophobic, pro-Israeli government, it wouldn't …

The 3 types of reading (and the 2 you’ll pick) https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/the-3-types-of-reading-and-the-2-youll-pick/

The 3 types of reading (and the 2 you'll pick)
On average, most people who open this article will spend around 50 seconds on it. It ought to take at least five minutes

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
-- Samuel Goldwyn

This headline suggests to me that we really ought to change things so that it is TACO Monday. The Iranian's well understand that Trump Always Chickens Out.
"Oil Prices Tumble and Stocks Rise as Trump Backs Off Threats to Iran Infrastructure"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/…

Oil Prices Tumble and Stocks Rise as Trump Backs Off Threats to Iran Infrastructure
Investors braced for a fourth week of market turmoil caused by the war in the Middle East

When I was a little one, I was told that I ought to follow the path set for me, and I'll eventually find happiness there. It's just around the corner, just walk forward and don't stray. So I ran ahead, only to discover another segment of the same road, even more bleak than the previous one. And I heard again: just a little more. Finally, I realized that this road only leads to my grave, and there's no reason to hurry; and the only way to find happiness, is to actually stray from it.

The Invisible Ledger: How Digital Currency Threatens the Last Private Thing You Own
There is something seductive about the promise of digital money. It arrives dressed in the language of progress, efficiency, inclusion, and modernization, as though the ability to hold a coin in your hand were a primitive embarrassment that civilization ought to outgrow. Cryptocurrency evangelists speak of decentralization and freedom from institutional control. Central bankers speak of…

The Invisible Ledger: How Digital Currency Threatens the Last Private Thing You Own | David Boles, Blogs
There is something seductive about the promise of digital money. It arrives dressed in the language of progress, efficiency, inclusion, and modernization, as though the ability to hold a coin in yo…

Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3: #GalaxyCluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how we think these enormous structures formed.

I had not heard that the trumpies have ordered the National Symphony to begin every concert with The Star Spangled Banner.
Are there any among us who have the talent to create a melding of the Star Spangled tune with what really ought to be our national anthem, Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Our Land"?
Then the symphony could begin with that.
And wouldn't it be cool if at sports games, after the singing of the Spangled Banner song the crowd picks up and sin…

Under Trump, National Symphony Opens Concerts With the National Anthem
The new directive came after President Trump made himself chairman of the Kennedy Center, the home of the orchestra.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116206199458864740
Trump's poll numbers are bad.
But they’re not nearly as bad as they ought to be.
The man is, whatever his other faults, just way in over his head.
Maybe Democrats should say that more often.

I remember reading cases of "wrongful birth" in which children sued their parents for withholding care (or using voodoo "natural' style medication) resulting in the child being damaged for life.
Seems like that notion - child's rights vs parents - ought to be expanded.
"It’s not just vaccines — parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns"

New parents are shunning proven preventive care for their infants in effort to be 'natural'
Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other safe and routine care for babies. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that refusals of vitamin K shots rose steeply between 2017 and 2024. Those shots can prevent potentially deadly bleeding. A subsequent research review found that U.S. parents who declined vitamin K shots were 90 times more likel…

The BBC running damage control on its own broadcast is wild to witness. The most egregious part of the affair to me is that no one from BAFTA or the BBC even bothered to apologize to Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo when they got off the stage, let alone tell *them* what was going to be done about it. There was no effort to bring the three people involved together for resolution at the time of the incident, nothing.
But the other part of this that just grates on me with every article is the BBC trying to defend itself by saying “that another racial slur had been edited out of the broadcast.”
#BBC #BAFTA #Racism #FreePalestine #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #misinformation #disinformation #complicity
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165835

As I mentioned in a prior post the House - with many D's in support! - passed HR 7006, a bill to fund various parts of the Federal government.
The house should have voted it down - but they chose to feed the trump beast in an act of abject appeasement.
I am sure that Congress critters will say "these are benign things that ought to be funded". And in that they are mostly right.
But we know that trump will simply grab any funds and apply them elsewhere. Congre…

When we have judges who consistently violate their responsibilities and oaths, what else are we to expect? Should we, the victims of their often biased, sometimes personally self interested, decisions give them bouquets or red roses?
Roberts, with the help of other sitting SCOTUS "in-justices" (particularly Thomas and Alito) have poured hot, steaming stinking manure onto SCOTUS. If blame is to be placed, it ought to land on the court itself as a recognition that its loss of…

So, now that Orange Trump is sabre rattling about invading and militarily taking Greenland from Denmark we ought to remember the Satyandra's adivice: That those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it.
So let's remember some history...
The news is that Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and other European nations are starting to build up defense forces on Greenland and in the waters around it.
About 20 years ago the US participated in naval war games with variou…