Time to start $dayjob work so this is it for today.
But here's 100baseTX decoding, eye pattern, eye measurements, bathtub curve, jitter histogram, and more.
Running in real time on the full 1 GB/s (1 Gsps, 2x 500 Msps differential legs) ADC firehose off a ThunderScope, on a 2080 Ti.
As far as I know this is an industry first.

The brain is a pattern-forming organ.
Music is what happens when pattern is attended to as pattern.
Let sounds be sounds long enough, and they may become music.

Oh wow, Gandalf always has such cool fireworks! Let's grab one.
Ignite it!!
Woohaa?! Awesome! Let's get another one!!!!
#lego #hobbit

Test Pattern
A podcast about movies and our relationship with them, hosted by Angus Truskett...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/test-pattern/

Light curve of the defective #Proba3 satellite in the sky, from the video https://x.com/s2a_systems/status/2030056859353194647 - the "CSC shows currently a repeating rotation pattern of approximately 1150 seconds."

Southmyllewong or Semilong? https://edintone.com/semilong/ Semilong is an area of Northampton that was developed in the late 19th and early 20th cent

Southmyllewong or Semilong? - Miscellanea Edintone
Semilong is an area of Northampton that was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The regular pattern of streets heading in an east-west direction down from Semilong Road to St Andrews Road has added to the close community feel of the area. It might be assumed that before this area became part of expanding Northampton it was largely open fields. This however is only partially true and an oversimplification. In the past, the area was considerably different. Before the Medieval tow…

What unholy clucker-fuck fusion of cuisines is this?
I
MUST
GET
ONE
#Shitpost #shitposting

Rust's Block Pattern
Here’s a little idiom that I haven’t really seen discussed anywhere, that I think makes Rust code much cleaner and more robust.
— by @…
🦀 https://notgull.net/block-pattern/<…

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
VILA: Me?
MOLOK: You.
VILA: Now wait a minute. Let's not be hasty. [Molok punches Vila in the stomach who cries out.]
VILA: There's no need for violence, is there?
BLAKE: So what happens now? [Pulsing sounds]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/549

Someone please tell me whomever put the wreaths up know what they were doing 😞

Ein vom britischen Umweltministerium in Auftrag gegebener Bericht warnt vor dramatischen Folgen des #Klimawandels für die nationale #Sicherheit: Ökosystem-Kollaps, #Ernährungsunsicherheit

A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before
Governments have been warned about climate change for 70 years. They’re still suppressing the worst news.

Here's the thing (wrt chardet).
The "clean room" statement is weakened by putting the new "independent" code in the same git repo/tree. I do think that this does imply a level of dependency/relationship that goes beyond pattern matching strings.
He didn't generate chardet-ng or rename the old version "chardet-legacy" and created a new repo for the claude version. I do think that that as a form of communication/statement matters.

What’s a good name for the UX pattern where a search field in a header shows results inline, but the search itself does not occupy its own page or independent history entries?
Practically, it means you can’t go back to it. You can to navigate to ONE SEARCH RESULT and only one (especially if you open in a new tab, though support for that is pretty iffy in this pattern!). All context about the search is lost when you select something.

Idly working on my Quamina state-machine-based pattern matcher. (https://github.com/timbray/quamina)
Hit a bug that smells like an infinite loop. Looked closer. Hmm, seems like my code traversing a dinky little 4-state automaton thinks it needs to consider 25,165,824 possible state transitions. Need …

GitHub - timbray/quamina: Home of Quamina, a fast pattern-matching library in Go
Home of Quamina, a fast pattern-matching library in Go - timbray/quamina

Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-share…

Elon Musk takes stand in shareholder trial in San Francisco over Twitter stock
A defiant Elon Musk on Wednesday took the stand in a jury trial to defend himself against accusations that he engaged in a pattern of deceptive behavior that misled investors as he attempted to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter before he finally completed the takeover. The civil trial in San Francisco centers on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter in October 2022, six months after agreeing to buy the embattled company for $44 billion, or $54.20 pe…

Having a go at threading a crackle weave on my 8 shaft table loom, using an algorithmically generated pattern by Ralph Griswald #weaving

Finally had time to sit down and do a GPU version of the constellation diagram filter.
I'm now running this filter graph (4 channels -> 2 differential legs, S-parameter de-embed of dual directional coupler, 3 dB FIR equalizer, 4x sin(x)/x upsample, PAM-3 edge detection, CDR PLL, PAM-3 eye pattern, demux to 2D-PAM3 channels, 2D-PAM3 constellation, 100baseT1 single pair ethernet protocol decode) at about 6.3 WFM/s on 4 channels * 20M points.
This is 504 Msps or a touch over …

Raiders Get Big Maxx Crosby Message Amid Cowboys Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-message-amid-cowboys-speculation/

Healthy 18-year-old welder nearly died of anthrax—the 9th such puzzling case - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/01/anthrax-nearly-kills-healthy-18-year-old-welder-amid-puzzling-pattern/

OpenClaw is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been
Yep.
I run my instance on Ubuntu Server in a Proxmox VM in my home lab, but it would be nice to take advantage of some of the Apple-specific workflows on a dedicated Mac Mini.
https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/opencla…

Best nights sleep in two weeks / most hideous day at work, the pattern is always the same.

A set of loft finds; 'Wagon trail' pattern tea set from 'Washington pottery'; looks like it was a pretty common 60s pattern.
#pottery

"producing the feeling of knowing without the labor of judgement"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19466
oh what a great line

Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence
Large language models (LLMs) are widely described as artificial intelligence, yet their epistemic profile diverges sharply from human cognition. Here we show that the apparent alignment between human and machine outputs conceals a deeper structural mismatch in how judgments are produced. Tracing the historical shift from symbolic AI and information filtering systems to large-scale generative transformers, we argue that LLMs are not epistemic agents but stochastic pattern-completion systems, for…

trois mixtapes en route pour la france — une pour paris, une pour aix en provence, et une pour plomeur (wherever that is!)
#mixtape #cassette

Different Corners V ▶️
不同的角落 V ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
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#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

I'm going to have to screen record this, I can't believe I got it working this well.
2x 50M point differential Ethernet waveform into subtract filter, CDR, and eye pattern.
Refreshing at 8.3 Hz. With just a little bit more optimization or faster hardware this will be real time.
Then I can start working on getting protocol decodes to run at full rate too.

"What's been happening in Minneapolis has been so egregious and awful and so destructive to our community,"
shop owner Gilah Mashaal said of federal agents' use of aggressive tactics.
It was obvious to her and Neary how the shop would protest.
They pulled out their knitting needles and got to work.
Neary created the pattern that has now become the well-known
"Melt the ICE" hat,
a red beanie-shaped cap topped with a braided tassel.…

LLMs are masters of the "Understood"—the vast library of human output. But they lack "Understanding"—the creative spark that generates those concepts in the first place.
https://www.ocrampal.com/the-understood-understanding-gap-why-llms-hit-…

The Understood-Understanding Gap: Why LLMs Hit a Wall
Large Language Models have become ubiquitous in knowledge work, yet a curious pattern has emerged. Talk to consultants at McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and you'll hear the same refrain: "I don't really know how I can leverage AI to boost my productivity beyond research and brainstorming." The same applies to programmers,

#NowPlaying ❝He didn’t say a lot, actually, at the beginning. He just kept listening. And then 25, 30 minutes later, you know, suddenly, he… went back to his desk and pulled out a paper called, “The Pattern and Effectiveness of Forager Allocation Among Flower Patches by Honeybee Colonies.”❞

Time is Honey
Behind every website is a server and behind every server is…a honeybee?!

trans women need to stop wearing hot topic and amazon basics and start weaving and sewing their own garments, forming an original culture of visual symbolism and pattern akin to many women in ancient societies

Pattern matching in #csharp is probably the most impactful addition to the language since LINQ. #dotnet

Oh My God… this is crazy #moltbook #AI
❤️ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …

we need a way to asynchronously load markdown into another markdown file, for the agents
maybe something like MARKDOWNHttpRequest (MHR)
(gotta keep the capitalization pattern the same)

Everything about Moltbot now Openclaw "People have seen what an unrestricted personal digital assistant can do."
#moltbook

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …

Trump's Attempt to Deport Chinese Dissident Guan Heng is Part of an Awful Pattern (Ilya Somin/Reason)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/12/17/trumps-attempt-to-deport-chinese-dissident-guan-heng-is-part-of-an-awful-pattern/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p127#a251217p127

from my link log —
Any Game of Life pattern can be constructed from just 15 gliders.
https://btm.qva.mybluehost.me/building-arbitrary-life-patterns-in-15-gliders/
saved 2022-11-30

Debating removing some of the AVX accelerated filter implementations in libscopehal for blocks that we now have GPU support versions of, leaving only the shader and the unoptimized CPU fallback for non-x86 platforms that also don't have a suitable GPU.
For starters, the eye pattern: what are the odds that we have any reasonable number of users where a) they have a CPU with AVX512F (or even AVX2), and b) do NOT have a GPU with GL_ARB_gpu_shader_int64 and GL_EXT_shader_atomic_int64?

Okay, so my main takeaway from the whole by-election was I LOVE this shirt - where can I get it from???
#ukpolitics #gortonanddenton

As a scientist myself, I have been wondering, if there was a pattern of #Epstein's support to research. In addition to support for "AI" research, there's this:
"One disturbing explanation for Epstein’s support of science comes from his interest in genetic determinism. This idea, which dates to the eugenics era, is still fashionable in some wealthy circles [...]."…

Why did Jeffrey Epstein cultivate famous scientists?
The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists, or to shape science itself

My art, but not my video[1]. The piece is ASCII-SCAPE (2022), a pure text-only version of my C-SCAPE [2] multi-cellular automata piece in which several "organisms" are co-evolving in the same space and forming infinitely changing patterns/structures:
https://art.thi.ng/ascii-scape/
(Reload…

If you live in/near Sheffield UK and want to develop your live coding practice, why not apply to join the pattern club live coding residency? https://numbers.patternclub.org/o/docs/forms/vGiWDYshQaK93bcQq3wStU/4

WaPo CEO Will Lewis has floated a bunch of plans to make the company profitable again; several efforts failed to pan out, part of a pattern of fits and starts (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/inside-the-…

Inside the Washington Post’s Existential Meltdown
As the Washington Post braces for a round of layoffs, staffers bemoan the lack of vision from owner Jeff Bezos and CEO Will Lewis.

#photography #bloomScrolling #hippeastrum

Update on the thread above:
I’m not seeing this pattern anymore; the sharp boundaries no longer show up where you look at where ICE is hurting people. It now has more of the feeling you’d expect it to have if they were targeting people based on race, instead of based on political boundaries. Whatever pattern I was noticing above, real or imagined, it doesn’t hold now.

Has science gone too far?

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Utopia Hat, free pattern!
https://nakatsubyjna.com/2026/01/24/utopiahat/

Utopia Hat
I knit a Utopia hat (free pattern) and was able to knit it up in a night (I knit pretty fast, and stayed up late!) using Mega Ball acrylic yarn and reusing the furry Pom Pom I had from a store boug…

A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …

#Java has evolved. Your code can too.
https://javaevolved.github.io/

Fuck, no, Apple. I was forced to update to iOS 26 due to lack of security updates for 18 on devices that can run 26 (i.e., due to extortion) but you’re not infecting my Mac with Liquid Ass.
Notice the dark pattern of pestering you in hopes you will accidentally hit the “Restart” button even though you’ve specifically turned off auto updates. Microsoft-level disrespect for consent here.
(Not surprising from a company that gives golden awards to fascists.)

FYI they make a Jazz Peacock

So, tonight's goal is to continue with ngscopeclient performance work.
I started out by doubling the speed of the eye pattern *again* by moving index buffer calculation from CPU to GPU.
Next up is going to be getting the 100baseTX decoder to not be so slow. Right now of the 43 seconds of CPU time in the current 1-minute benchmark, 26.9 is spent sampling the MLT-3 waveform on rising edges of the recovered clock.
The thing is, we already *know* the sample values at the re…

Neanderthal DNA is largely missing from the human X chromosome.
“We found a pattern indicating a sex bias: gene flow occurred predominantly between Neanderthal males and anatomically modern human females,”
said Dr Alexander Platt, a senior research scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and first author of the research.
The ancestors of modern humans and the closest related species, the Neanderthals, diverged, forming two distinct groups, about 600,000 years ago.

And here are my very first results with these new #NASA #NISAR data.
I had to debug a few my NISAR data reader to correctly read the frequencyB layer.
Now it is working.
Here are both frequency A and B differential interferograms on Ethiopia showing the November 2025 volcanic erup…

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
ZIL: [O.o.s.] The Host stirs.
[The flight deck. Avon is working on a device. Jenna enters and goes to the controls.]
AVON: I have already programmed an automatic search pattern for the homing beacon.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/281 B7B2

Unintentional dark pattern (grey pattern?)
1. Use Firefox adblocker, website broken
2. Sigh in disgust, disable adblocker
3. Website still broken, turns out incompetence was problem, not malice
4. Somehow get things to work
5. Never turn ad blocker back on for site
6. Profit (for site's ad revenue)
#technology

headed to the post office to ship a couple mix tapes to LA and one to whitmore lake MI
#mixtape

One of this year’s home-made Christmas presents made me think of @… and @… for some reason … :D

@… Grundsätzlich sind offenbar KI Algorithmen herkömmlichem Pattern Matching überlegen, gerade bei bildgebender Diagnose. Nicht meine Expertise aber einhellige Meinung von Leuten denen ich in dieser Sache vertraue. (wobei ich dies vor 15 Jahren besprochen habe)

Why does Trump want Greenland? “National security.”
Why should Trump’s ballroom vanity project proceed? “National security.”
Why is Trump killing the wind energy industry? “National security.”
Why does #Trump hate the New York Times? “National security.”
The pattern is ... not subtle.
☑️ For the

For the White House, ‘national security’ is becoming the answer to every question
Donald Trump and his team have a go-to tactic intended to shut down debate over their goals. It's not working.

One pattern you can always count on: if you ever explain a technology by describing how the human and social aspects matter more than the obscure technical details, a certain cohort of dudes who are inept at socialization will lash out about their insecurities by trying to condescend. Who here thinks I wrote ~5000 words on Markdown but I don’t know what plain text files are?

Starting to look at some performance improvements for various scopehal filters as I begin the push for v0.2.
The benchmark dataset is P/N legs of 100baseTX Ethernet sampled at 500 Msps with a ThunderScope.
At 50M point memory depth, each waveform is 100 MB in size (2 channels * 8 bits * 500 Msps) and covers 100ms of real time.
The filter graph currently takes just shy of a second to run, meaning we're at 10% of real time. I want to improve on this.

❗️Peace talks – followed by shelling: the pattern of Russian "diplomacy" #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/peace-talks-followed-by-shelling.html

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

[2026-02-26 Thu (UTC), no new articles found for nlin.PS Pattern Formation and Solitons]
toXiv_bot_toot

Trump's about-face in Minnesota after Pretti's death is latest in pattern of sudden shifts (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pretti-minnesota-immigration-enforcement-eb9e63a625b624d2ba4ed467cb0f956c
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p159#a260126p159

El Niño May Be Back This Summer, Bringing Drought and Floods - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/climate/el-nino-weather-pattern-returning-noaa.html

The chief federal judge in Minnesota accused federal officials of continuing to #disobey judicial orders related to immigration enforcement and then #mischaracterizing the scope of their missteps.
♦️The judge, Patrick Schiltz, threatened to hold government officials in criminal contempt if the pattern con…

Federal Judge Accuses Trump Administration of Repeatedly Disobeying Orders
The federal judge identified 210 orders issued in 143 cases in Minnesota in which he said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials had not complied with court orders.

As promised: quick demo of ngscopeclient running CDR eye pattern on >800 Msps (2x 50M points @ 8.2 Hz) of live streaming waveform data on an RTX 2080 Ti.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6uPpITsyhQ

:crt_w_test_pattern: ᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃ

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
TRAVIS: Would he do that?
SERVALAN: Oh, yes. He thought it through very carefully. He wouldn't even reveal the location of the laboratory until I'd agreed to all his terms.
TRAVIS: Which were?

Why We've Tried to Replace #Developers Every Decade Since 1969
https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-develop…

Monumental III 🪦
纪念 III 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

I •do• actually expect to see some kind of shift over the next week. I don’t think their “Victory! Now we’re leaving(ish)!” press conference last week was something we can take at face value, but I also don’t think it was just a ruse.
After they murdered Alex Pretti, the writing was on the wall. One killing of a white observer they could try to write off; two is a pattern. They’re losing support they desperately need — from politicians, from the press, from judges, from less-extreme right-wingers — and the longer they continue doing what they’ve been doing, the further they dig themselves in a hole. I’ve been expecting for a while that they would declare MISSION ACCOMPLISHED and change strategy.

The End of the Machine Metaphor: A New Framework for Intelligence and Life.
A Journey Through the Paradoxes of Reductionism
https://ocrampal.com/the-end-of-the-machine-metaphor-a-new-framework-for-intelligence-and-life/

The End of the Machine Metaphor: A New Framework for Intelligence and Life
A Journey Through the Paradoxes of Reductionism and the Promise of Geneosophy The Pattern Behind the Paradoxes Modern knowledge has achieved extraordinary success. We've mapped the genome, simulated quantum systems, built artificial intelligence that mimics human conversation, and created technologies that transform civilization. Yet beneath this triumph lies a troubling

There’s an unwritten rule in publishing,
or so I’ve been told:
don’t write about COVID.
Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners of apartments, staring out at a world we could no longer take part in.
When the worst of it passed, we felt an urge to close that chapter, to padlock it behind a heavy latch.
But in doing so, we also tuck away the hard-won lessons of that time:
how quickly s…

Bird flu warnings are being ignored. I’ve seen this pattern before
H5N1 has a 50% fatality rate in humans. Yet we’re dismantling the systems designed to catch it early.

Anthropic details the "Assistant Axis", a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Current summary of all of the GPU acceleration work I've been doing in ngscopeclient since v0.1.1.
Other than the CDR PLL and eye pattern which were high-priority targets that were worth the effort, and the Ethernet which I got nerdsniped on, these are all trivial inner loops of just a few lines that I threw at the GPU without any significant tuning, so there's probably more performance upside.
But I'm not complaining with what I've pulled off so far. (As you ca…

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#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The Associated Press has uncovered a pattern where Bangladeshi workers are enticed to Russia under false pretences of civilian employment, subsequently coerced into combat roles.
Many of these individuals faced threats of violence, imprisonment, or even death if they refused.
h…

Bangladeshi workers lured to Russia for jobs tricked into fighting the war in Ukraine
Workers claim they were threatened with 10-year jail terms and beaten

Lynn made French 75s for Christmas Eve
Last time I had one of these, I got hammered … so goodbye, cruel world!

In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters (Stephanie Saul/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/minneapolis-federal-agents-misconduct-protesters.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p87#a260118p87

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
AVON: They must have picked up Dayna and Tarrant and realized we are up here somewhere. Slave, set the ship on an evasion pattern, maximum speed.
VILA: That's the first sensible ... [beep]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/422 B7B3

Another evening of filter refactoring and optimization, a few more nice performance jumps.
I've now done a first pass (remove deprecated method signatures, add explicit input location, add NVTX trace data, do easy GPU optimization if I see an obvious low effort win) on all filters A-F alphabetically plus a few later on that were priorities for one reason or other.
90 down (of which 23 were optimized and the rest just refactored), 115 to go.
Some of the remaining ones sh…

"I’m sure she’ll take it under consideration and look at it seriously. …
Trump hasn’t made a secret about the retribution that he is asking some of his U.S. attorneys to take against his perceived enemies.
It is an extraordinary request, but maybe this is an extraordinary situation."
— Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law,
in comments given to Law.com, concerning a request made by ex-CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers
to Ch…

Lawyers Try To Bench Aileen Cannon From Case, Arguing She’s Been In Trump’s Corner One Too Many Times
Attorneys think Cannon’s pattern of deference to Trump has destroyed any appearance of neutrality.

I’m at a Celebration of Life in honor of the late President Emeritus James J. Duderstadt.
There’s a lot of emeritus faculty here.

Different Corners X ▶️
不同的角落 X ▶️
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🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

As Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland and more,
renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is
“an empire in decline,”
following a predictable pattern
of militarism abroad and political instability at home
as it loses power and influence on the world stage.
“American politics become increasingly contorted and irrational,”
says McCoy.
“I think the thing to do is to realize that we are an empire in decline, …
…

“Empire in Decline”: Historian Alfred McCoy on U.S. Aggression in Venezuela, Iran & Beyond
As President Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland and more, renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is “an empire in decline,” following a predictable pattern of militarism abroad and political instability at home as it loses power and influence on the world stage. “American politics become increasingly contorted and irrational,” says McCoy. “I think the thing to do is to realize that we are an empire in decline, … and it will continue for another decade…

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Unlike his predecessors,
Trump does not even pretend that his imperialism serves any purpose nobler than American domination
For Trump, “America first” didn’t imply any legal or moral opposition to foreign invasions.
To the contrary, he criticized Bush for not seizing Iraq’s oil.
He denounced regime change and nation building because they allegedly expended American blood and treasure on behalf of non-Americans.
Instead, Trump promised short wars in which onl…

Gloom & Bloom III ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 III ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

On the Side 🆓
在边缘
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Aaaand this is why I have 40GbE to my desk.
Early test, I need a bunch of optimization to do (multiscope is not as performant as I want I suspect there's mutex issues and/or unnecessary filter graph refreshes).
But here's two thunderscopes hosted on separate machines, each with 10GbE to the core switch, then 40G from there to my workstation.

Senator Marsha Blackburn said
“I look forward to introducing the
"TRUMP AMERICA AI Act"
in the new year to create one federal rulebook for AI
to protect children, creators, conservatives, and communities"
Combats the consistent pattern of bias against conservative figures demonstrated by Big Tech and AI systems by requiring:
Audits of high-risk AI systems to undergo regular bias evaluations to prevent discrimination based on protected characte…

Blackburn Unveils National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

OK, I think I'm at the point that I need to spend a few minutes narrating a demo video of this. Screenshots don't do it justice.
100baseT1 decode, eye measurements, and constellation - including S-parameter de-embedding of the directional coupler on the test fixture - running in real time on a ThunderScope.

Urban Demons V 👻
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Some City Some Nature V 🏙️🪾
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Summary of the recent optimization work in ngscopeclient (not counting core/driver stuff, just filters)
I'm now making a pass through the entire filter library in alphabetical order removing some deprecated APIs, adding error reporting, and doing trivial GPU optimizations where I find them but not spending more than a few hours on a filter unless it's something like the CDR or eye that is really critical.
None of these are what I would consider "done". I'm f…