Tootfinder

Or perhaps even further, “any output of a computer”

Thunderstorm - a (perhaps strange) creative process story
#StoryTelling #CreativeProcess
https://

Thunderstorm - a (perhaps strange) creative process story
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Day 5: Robin Wall Kimmerer
I'm taking these liberty of changing my hashtag and expanding the intent of this list to include all non-men, although Kimerer is a woman so I'll get to more gender diversity later... I've also started planning this out more and realized that I may continue a bit beyond 20...
In any case, Robin Wall Kimmerer is an Indigenous academic biologist and excellent non-fiction author whose work touches on Potawotomi philosophy, colonialism (including in academic spaces), and ideas for a better future. Anyone interested in ecology, conservation, or decolonization in North America will probably be impressed by her work and the rich connections she weaves between academic ecology and Indigenous knowledge offer a critical opportunity to expand your understanding of the world if like me you were raised deeply enmeshed in "Western" scientific tradition. I suppose a little background in skepticism helped prepare me to respect her writing, but I don't think that's essential.
I've only read "Braiding Sweetgrass," but "Gathering Moss" and her more recent "The Serviceberry" are high on my to-read list, despite my predilection for fiction. Kimmerer incorporates a backbone of fascinating anecdotes into "Braiding Sweetgrass" that makes it surprisingly easy reading for a work that's philosophical at its core. She also pulls off an impressive braided organization to the whole thing, weaving together disparate knowledges in a way that lets you see both their contradictions and their connections.
The one criticism I've seen of her work is that it's not sufficiently connected to other Indigenous philosophers & writers, and that it's perhaps too comfortable of a read for colonizers, and that seems valid to me, even though (perhaps because I am a colonizer) I still find her book important.
An excellent author in any case, and one doing concrete ideological work towards a better world.
#20AuthorsNoMen

It is perhaps not obvious that the way we talk about intelligence tends to employ circular reasoning. Here’s a sketch.
The trouble is that that the word “intelligence” is defined •ostensively•, i.e. by examples instead of by criteria — but we talk about intelligence as if it is some real unified •thing• that underlies all those examples. That leads to circular reasoning like this:
Q: What is intelligence?
A: It is the characteristics exhibited by intelligent beings, such as [examples of intelligence go here].
Q: And what are intelligent beings?
A: Beings which exhibit intelligence.
Q: And what is intelligence?
…[stack overflow]…

Really good piece in the FT on what the cuts at NOAA mean to the US and the rest of the world.
It feels a bit late to the table really, but perhaps that's just because it's in my world...
The costs of Trump’s campaign to censor climate science - https://on.ft.com/4oahCYJ via @FT

Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterm election
by pressuring states to create more Republican congressional seats
will face a major test in a federal courtroom in El Paso, Texas
starting Wednesday,
as a panel of judges considers whether to block the state’s new gerrymandered map.
At stake in the hearing,
scheduled for ten days,
are as many as five congressional seats
— perhaps enough to determine control of Congress in next year’s midterms

Texas Gerrymander Goes to Court, With 5 Congressional Seats, and Minority Representation, at Stake
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

This was a nice example found by @… of a brickwork tiling that seemed random until someone spotted and shared the pattern - a kind of risset rhythm in brickwork https://forum.alg…

The whole of human history is one group or another deciding it has exclusive rights to exist on some arbitrary piece of soil. All are migrants, perhaps excepting a few incels still living in grandma's basement.

@… Sometimes, perhaps even often times, rowing in the direction you believe in is all that can be done.
Will it work? Will we prevail? None of our ancestors ever knew that when they set out on the journey, and we can’t either.
But that doesn’t mean the attempt is any lesser. Keep up the work, that’s how we will, imperfectly, slowly, eventua…

'One hour a day for better moods, less anxiety and feeling closer to their friends and family, all of it achieved by something as enjoyable as play.
Perhaps by fall, a zest for outdoor fun with phones left indoors will become a habit.
... encouraging children to go swimming or play street hockey is hardly a horrible way to give such a boost to their physical and mental health.
Open the door. Go outside and play. Put down your phones. Summer is calling."

The (not so) lazy days of summer
Canadian children aren’t getting enough exercise, and smartphones are partly to blame. The remedy? It’s right outside your door

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
JENNA: Maybe IMIPAK is another Orac. If we captured it perhaps we could breed from them.
BLAKE: What a disgusting idea.
JENNA: [Smiles] Well, despite Orac's lucky eavesdropping, we're not much wiser, are we?

Last day of CoRDI in Aachen today. I've heard a lot of interesting ideas and been part of some important discussions about the future of the NFDI in the last few days.
And, perhaps most importantly, I have been able to nearly complete my sticker collection. (By my counting, only 3 consortia are still missing.)
#CoRDI2025

Man, this just got rather interesting
#midi #gearsquad
https://www.guitarworld.…

“Introduces several highly requested features”: Neural DSP answers players’ prayers with new Nano Cortex update
The modeler has been made fully gig-proof with a new update that introduces perhaps its most highly requested feature yet

Falcons-Commanders: Michael Penix Jr. sparkles in Atlanta's victory, plus 5 takeaways https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6670863/2025/09/28/falcons-commanders-michael-penix-jr-sparkles-in-atlantas-victory-plus…

Okay. Greetd is misbehaving. Ventoy disk is unrecognizable upon insertion. Niri from cli doesn't start. Should I even update my dwm and KDE? Tomorrow perhaps, they work right now 😆

Once More to the Paragraph
#teaching writing An email from The New Yorker a few mornings ago gave me a teaching idea. In it, Nathan Heller discusses E.B. White’s long relationship with the magazine. White is probably most famous for a children’s book, Charlotte’s Web, or perhaps for “Once More to the Lake,” an essay much anthologized in student textbooks, but at The New Yorker…

Perhaps the Dallas Cowboys aren’t as great in the draft as we thought https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/draft/perhaps-dallas-cowboys-arent-as-great-in-nfl-draft-as-we-thought

From #boingboing.net
“#Byte magazine ran in print from 1975 to 1998, a golden age that began with the first commercially successful personal computer and ending with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or the introduction of the iMac, perhaps.) At byte.tsundoku.io, you can explore the visual histo…

Another #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday. Dug all these. I mean.. for what they are. Horror and sci-fi of varying and perhaps questionable quality (often my favorite kind). 😂
#horror

Hmm… to be lucky, perhaps, but to be proud of having been born somewhere may well be the problem.
Letter in The Guardian:

Metrics Over Merit: The Hidden Costs of Citation Impact in Research
Vugar Ismailov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22616 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22616…

Metrics Over Merit: The Hidden Costs of Citation Impact in Research
Once upon a time, scientists' worth was measured by their ideas, proofs, and perhaps how eloquently they debated Hilbert's problems at seminars. But now, citation metrics have come to center stage and handed us new masters: FWCI and CNCI. This paper critically, and with a touch of satire, examines how these seemingly objective metrics are shaping, and often distorting, the scientific landscape. Through examples and analysis, we highlight the consequences of relying too heavily on such indicator…

I can't block the domain I'm on...I think this would be too niche...like me and 1 other user perhaps would use this feature.
Question is also for how long would we use this feature?

Probing Evolution of Long Gamma-Ray Burst Properties through Their Cosmic Formation History
Nikita S. Khatiya, Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Aditya Narendra, Dhruv S. Bal, Aleksander {\L}. Lenart, Dieter H. Hartmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20093

Probing Evolution of Long Gamma-Ray Burst Properties through Their Cosmic Formation History
The astrophysics of Long GRB (LGRB) progenitors as well as possible cosmological evolution in their properties still poses many open questions. Previous studies suggest that the LGRB rate density (LGRB-RD) follows the cosmic star formation rate density (SFRD) only at high-z and attribute this to the metallicity evolution of progenitor stars. For low z, opinions differ on whether the uptick in the LGRB RD is due to a distinct class of low-luminosity GRBs or perhaps even a different progenitor su…

Anisotropy of the chiral, semiconducting phase LaRhC$_{2}$: a handedness resolved study
Volodymyr Levytskyi, Ulrich Burkhardt, Markus K\"onig, Christoph Hennig, Eteri Svanidze, Yuri Grin, Roman Gumeniuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21510

Anisotropy of the chiral, semiconducting phase LaRhC$_{2}$: a handedness resolved study
Chirality in quantum materials is a topic of significant importance due to its profound effects on the electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of these systems. However, it is non-trivial to decouple the behavior of two enantiomorphs within the same material -- perhaps explaining why the influence of chirality on electrical properties has remained largely unexplored. In this work, we examine the electrical conductivity, magnetoresistance, and thermal expansion coefficient of LaRhC$_{2}$ --…

Hierarchy and ranking in pairwise sports contests
Bogd\'an Asztalos, Boldizs\'ar Bal\'azs, Gergely Palla, Tam\'as Vicsek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19848 https:/…

Hierarchy and ranking in pairwise sports contests
Ranking athletes by their performance in competitions and tournaments is common in every popular sport and has significant benefits that contribute to both the organization and strategic aspects of competitions. Although rankings are perhaps the most concise and most straightforward representation of the relative strength among the competitors, beyond this one-dimensional characterization, it is also possible to capture the relationships between athletes in greater detail. Following this approa…

Good Morning #Canada
Finally, arriving at our our 10th province, Manitoba, and putting this series to rest means no more nightmares. Friendly Manitoba, it says so right on their license plates, also has hundreds of abandoned towns, but today we'll focus on Scarf. Named for William Scarf, not for winter clothing or the more recent term for eating quickly, the settlement began in the 1880s, started to flourish after train service arrived in 1907, and died slowly after train service stopped, with the last residents leaving in the 1980s. But in 2013, the regional mayor decided to sell parcels of land in the ghost town for $10. I wasn't able to find out if this plan to bring Scarf back from the dead was successful, but perhaps the area is cursed. In 2020, a tornado touched down near Scarf, killing two teenagers when their vehicle was swept off the road.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-rm-looks-to-sell-ghost-town-lots-for-10-1.2086700

"pubic engagement" (as in "his perhaps limited capacity for pubic engagement")

New Gist: No Contest
"There are, perhaps, alternative worlds where lots of things are different. Fianna Fšil maybe decide to run an MEP instead of a MIA. Or one where a fleet of no-hopers got nominated and we spent the whole campaign having to listen to the media asking candidates their opinions on the Latin mass and if cocaine bloat is a positive feature in a President. "
Also, I explain exactly what kind of idiot I have recently been.

Perhaps future work should focus on establishing trusted enclaves of knowledge and expertise.
If you’re a knowledge worker, perhaps sharing your knowledge publicly isn’t the best idea anymore. It’s a real bummer because it makes knowledge a luxury of the elite and wealthy.
Rather than working directly on the thing, you focus on the data that feeds into the machine that works on “the thing”. :\

So while Russian warplanes are violating NATO airspace, the Russian ambassador to France warns that NATO shooting down Russian planes would lead to war.
Perhaps he doesn't remember what happened in NATO member Turkiye 10 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Rus

2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown - Wikipedia

There is a word for this ... and that word is "Viet Nam".
'President Donald Trump said that Hamas “is going to disarm” but if they don’t the US would act to disarm them “quickly and perhaps violently.”'
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsf…

Trump warns Hamas will be disarmed ‘quickly and perhaps violently’
President Donald Trump said that Hamas “is going to disarm” but if they don’t the US would act to disarm them.

sometimes, the misaddressed msgs for MEPs in the parltrack inbox are truly wtf. today some young citizen schleiming around and asking for:
> I would be extremely grateful if it would be possible to receive a small
autograph from you or perhaps a small gift or souvenir related to the
European Parliament. Such a gesture would mean a lot to me as someone who is eager to learn more about European institutions and democracy.

Non-Commutative Gauge Theory at the Beach
Roland Bittleston, Simon Heuveline, Surya Raghavendran, David Skinner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20643 https://ar…

Non-Commutative Gauge Theory at the Beach
The KP equation is perhaps the most famous example of a three-dimensional integrable system. Here we show that a non-commutative five-dimensional Chern-Simons theory living on the projective spinor bundle of three-dimensional space-time compactifies to a Lagrangian formulation of the KP equation. Essential to the definition of the theory is a 2-form pulled back from minitwistor space. The dispersionless limit of the KP equation is similarly described by Poisson-Chern-Simons theory. We further s…

I can't tell you to be better when I'm not going to be better. You're as conservative as me, trust me...
You might tell yourself stuff but think about it when you lie to yourself...
I'm being negative here. Perhaps reading this post is bad for you...remember there's always a mute and a block button
#BeingNegative

Sheffer sequences with zeros on a line
G. -S. Cheon, T. Forg\'acs, K. Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18229 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18229

Sheffer sequences with zeros on a line
We extend a result of Bump et al. to show that a large family of Sheffer sequences has their zeros - up to perhaps a finite number of exceptions - on a vertical line. We connect a particular such sequence to the Riemann zeta function via a product representation of a scaled Mellin transform, analogously to the product decomposition of a Mellin transform involving the generalized Laguerre polynomials into factors of the Gamma function and Meixner polynomials.

Like there's no leak or anything, I think the pump just stopped working?
Wonder why that's failure point, perhaps over time there is some out-diffusion liquid and eventually it starts to cavitate?

Genealogists may be familiar with the FANs technique (friends, associates and neighbours) for expanding research or perhaps breaking down a 'brick wall'. Has anyone found or used specific software for documenting this type of research? @… #genealogy

I've written a brief -- and very preliminary -- note on what I've learned playing with #Friendica so far.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu…

Initial thoughts on Friendica
If you've been browsing through your Mastodon feed, and you come upon a post with nice formatting — perhaps words emboldened or italicised, perhaps with an embedded link — and you've wondered how that post was written, the answer may be Friendica.

I was supposed to go home via Wrocław.
But then, I thought: perhaps I could change trains in Legnica, Głogów and Leszno? Turns out, I can do that.
And then, I thought: I've got a long ait in Głogów, perhaps I should add a change in Rudna? Well, I can do that as well.
Of course, there's an increased risk that I'll end up being stuck somewhere along the way.
#rail

"[Yaxley Lennon] was invited and welcomed to Israel because his brand of populist, racist, Islamophobic, extreme-right politics is now a natural fit. Perhaps not in the minds of all Israelis, but certainly a sufficient number to make possible an accommodation that would have been considered almost unimaginable a few decades back."
Tommy Robinson’s red carpet welcome speaks volumes about today’s Israel | The National

We have long had problems with slumlords in the US.
And we have long had codes related to habitability standards in residential buildings.
What #MayorLurie could do is direct the Dept of Public Health and Dept of building inspection to review these codes, and perhaps even more importantly what the penalties are for non-compliance, and work with the departments and if needed state …

Mayor Lurie makes marathon visits to S.F. low-income housing. But what can he do?
Mayor Lurie visited two neighborhoods and six subsidized housing complexes over the past month. Tenants are hoping for change.

We have long had problems with slumlords in the US.
And we have long had codes related to habitability standards in residential buildings.
What #MayorLurie could do is direct the Dept of Public Health and Dept of building inspection to review these codes, and perhaps even more importantly what the penalties are for non-compliance, and work with the departments and if needed state …

Mayor Lurie makes marathon visits to S.F. low-income housing. But what can he do?
Mayor Lurie visited two neighborhoods and six subsidized housing complexes over the past month. Tenants are hoping for change.

Raiders' Disappointments Have Come to a Head https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jacksonville-jaguars-geno-smith-pete-carroll

#MelonHusk's creepy #SouthAfrican father faces increased media scrutiny in #NYTimes for bizarre predilections and some additional angry accusations from those in know that he perhaps parasitically preyed sexually on his own…

Absolutely insane. Perhaps someone should show this to the US Ambassador so he can understand perhaps who is “anti” whom.
“NEVER COME TO THE US AGAIN”
Yells a US Customs Border Agent while overtaking an Ontario driver on the interstate just south of the border in NY.
#usa #canada #border #canpoli #cdnpoli https://mstdn.ca/@chad/115269544279217138

Genuinely interested in any thoughts as to where to send it next. The subject is Antarctica and influences on observed ice sheet change
#academicchatter

Rigby keeps trying to invent money, but he doesn't have a coherent model of interest rate policy in response to tariff shocks, so I'm not convinced.

Thought Slime posted a video on Liberals and Charlie Kirk (linked in my post). It touched on a few ideas I've been wanting to explore more.
Why is it that, even though we talk "memes" going "viral" we are still talking about "Free Market of Ideas" as though ideas were inanimate objects we could handle and observe objectively? Perhaps that idea is it's own infection.
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/memetic-effluent-and-the-wet-market-of-ideas

In a world which has become quite insane, it is perhaps most shocking to witness how society moves on with business as usual while monsters are destroying our cities, killing our children, eating our future and all the potential for greatness we once had.
We have become accustomed to entirely too much cruelty and fuckery. Like frogs in a pot of water being slowly brought to boil.
Glory to the heroes who fight, glory to the heroes who dare to venture into warzones and report the t…

A Spit In The Face Of Diplomacy
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Ricky September he ain't. But perhaps that's just as well. #TOTP #1990Watch #DoctorWho

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: Perhaps they should have.
MAJA: What do you mean?
VARON: I don't know. Perhaps Blake is guilty. Even so it's... too perfect.
MAJA: Where're you going?
VARON: The Public Records computer.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/259…

… then what the fuck is the point, Ubisoft?
I despise when corporations participate in the security theatre of having "2FA", but then *requiring* some sort of strictly-less-restrictive "backup" login option.
1. if 2FA can be added … but account-recovery-via-a-simple-e-mail cannot be disabled (pointless.)
2. OATH/FIDO 2FA available, but cannot be enabled unless you add your cell number as a fallback (SIM swap, anyone? pointless.)
3. and, perhaps mos…

Just finished "Twice as Perfect" by Louise Onomé. This is now the third novel I've read by her about a teenage Nigerian-Canadian second-generation immigrant, two of whom deal with some form of family estrangement ("Like Home" and "The Melancholy of Summer" are the other two). I checked it out because I liked her other novels and was not disappointed; in fact I feel like this is her best novel of the three. Dealing with cultural appropriation, both implicitly and explicitly, along with deep family trauma and a bit of romance, "Twice as Perfect" is suspenseful, wise, and heartfelt. It's got a thread of Nigerian Pidgin in it, which I thoroughly enjoyed although I didn't 100% understand, similar in some ways to the sprinkling of Spanish in "Each of Us a Desert", but with even less of an attempt to subtly explain each instance in English, which I don't mind at all.
The 2nd generation immigrant authors writing YA ~romances I've read recently have all been great, including Adiba Jaigirdar, Samira Ahmed, Sabina Khan, and Randa Abdel-Fattah (a slightly different era), and to a lesser extent Romina Garber (I didn't like "Lobizona" quite as much as stuff by these others). It's been super interesting to contrast their stories with those of people like Mark Oshiro, Angie Thomas, Randi Pink, and Angela Velez who talk about American racism from a non-immigrant perspective (perhaps Ahmed is in between the two groups).
#AmReading #ReadingNow

I recently learned about a new way to leak your #privacy, and it’s a scary one. Before going further, know that I’m not a network engineer: perhaps if you work in this field, you’ve known it for your whole career, but it’s quite new to me. Let me share my findings, and you can judge for yourself.
Since the original post was quite lengthy, I have broken it down into two installments: the probl…

sometimes, the misaddressed msgs for MEPs in the parltrack inbox are truly wtf. today some young citizen schleiming around and asking for:
> I would be extremely grateful if it would be possible to receive a small
autograph from you or perhaps a small gift or souvenir related to the
European Parliament. Such a gesture would mean a lot to me as someone who is eager to learn more about European institutions and democracy.

This is compounded by confusing the message with the messenger.
“I hate what you’re telling me, therefore obviously you must hate me” is a fallacy itself.
I hope people going down this path will eventually recognize what they’re doing and perhaps learn something and improve themselves.

I had to drive alone for a while and decided to listen to my own music and, surprisingly, I found it good (in its own weird, specific way).
If you like EBM and that kinda stuff, maybe have a listen. Perhaps you'll agree with me
https://pgcd.bandcamp.com/album/infernal…

In 1999, 307 people were killed in Moscow apartment bombings that propelled putin into control of russia.
Perhaps we should be glad that as potus moved toward control of the U.S., fewer people were immediately killed?
USAID cuts alone have already lead to tens of thousands of preventable deaths.
Gosh, this post got dark.

Hazzah & yikes! Just saw the matriarch skink in our garden - we call her 3-Legs, because she's missing her left front leg. This is my first time seeing her since last fall. She's looking rather worse for the wear. From my quick glimpse, seems she's lost most of her tail and appears to have a mostly healed wound on her side. Here's hoping she's able to recover - and perhaps even parent another brood of skinklets - this summer! It's a pretty harsh world for skinks o…

Okay, we need to talk about #webdev and perhaps even #webdesign:
99% of websites nowadays are completely soulless. They're just. flat and boring. I think (and this is my genuine opinion) that every website should look like those random crusty Chinese websites you find sometimes. Seriousl…

Okay, we need to talk about #webdev and perhaps even #webdesign:
99% of websites nowadays are completely soulless. They're just. flat and boring. I think (and this is my genuine opinion) that every website should look like those random crusty Chinese websites you find sometimes. Seriousl…

I've seen many reasonable criticisms of Liquid Glass online, but whenever I show Liquid Glass to someone in person they seem to really enjoy the new design.
I think part of this is that it's hard to show a dynamic design that responds to you in a screenshot or video that isn't actually responding to you.
But another part is that it _does_ require careful design work, and this early in it's easy to find examples where the design (perhaps of the system, perhaps of t…

Took a 16th Street bus to downtown DC today, then walked several blocks west. No sign of that hyped federal presence, perhaps because that area of town consists mostly of office buildings, with affluent and mostly white workers. #FreeDC #WashingtonDC

"daily struggle" - a tad understated perhaps given its nothing but rubble?
https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/international-news-miluvhmaz/-/a-BfFN493NTfyNBnTVhjAryg:a:3199720-/0

Daily struggles persist in Gaza even as ceasefire offers some respite
Bassil Naggar can finally sleep without getting jolted awake by the sounds of Israeli airstrikes. For Naggar and his displaced family, and for many in Gaza facing similar challenges, the ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war has provided a much-needed respite from a two-year war that has killed tens of …

Skills Ontario hosting summer camp in Ottawa for students
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/from-changing-tires-to-welding-ottawa-students-get-hands-on-at-trades-summer-camp/

Oh! #Tumblr is on a purge again, likely all these new age restrictions or such, because I've been warned against mentions of mathematics, showing chrome toggle switches being fondled on vintage computers or perhaps early 60s academic fashion, I don't know, I've requested clarification.

"Federal police are still investigating whether the aircraft was involved in drug trafficking"
I'm sure there is a plausible alternative explanation that covers how a plane can have 180kg of cocaine on it but not be involved in drug trafficking.
Perhaps Mr Yaxley-Lennon has gone off on his hols now and needed an UberSpaceX top-up?

Holy shit, it’s @… !
You might remember him from such hits as co-founding evolt•org at the end of the last century. Or perhaps for tracking Ontario and Toronto history. Or maybe the Doomsday Algorithm. Or possibly tracking Torontohenge.

Well, apparently the thug party is very upset that California has enacted, signed, and put into force the following law:
"California passes law banning ICE agents from wearing masks to hide their identities"
The ice-thugs are complaining that if they reveal their identities that the public may ostracize or send them upsetting emails or texts. Aw, the poor widdle ice-thugs, poor things. Perhaps they should think of the terror they bring to those they "detain"…

Easy Delivery Co (PC)
Get in your Kei truck and chill out, literally, making deliveries to mountain towns in the middle of winter. Can you figure out what's going on around here?
This game performed extremely well on my Garuda Linux PC, without having to use any compatibility tools. In fact the only "complaint" I might have is the achievements never popped. I don't care about those, so it's not a big deal, but something to note perhaps.
I li…

Cowboys Get Final Injury Decision On All-Pro Cornerback – Report https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/daron-bland-for-sure-play-report/?adt_ei=[email]

A similar trend is reported in Italy. Is violent crime becoming more violent and international? Is "someone" (a state actor perhaps?) flooding the black market with weapons?
Overall violent crime has been falling for decades pretty much everywhere in Europe so it's interesting to see these trends

"Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest."
Mon Mothma, Andor Season 2 Episode 9
Just like the first season: this show is far better than any Star Wars show has the right to be.

Trump may be chipping away at America's economic advantage.
In recent weeks, Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics when her agency reported weak job growth
and tried to force out officials at the Federal Reserve when they refused to cut interest rates.
He and his aides have used the power of the federal government to target
— and perhaps criminally prosecute
— perceived enemies, including at the Fed, and to pressure companies over thei…

Trump’s Attacks on the Fed and BLS Threaten Key Source of Economic Strength
The president’s efforts to control the Federal Reserve and Bureau of Labor Statistics carry risks. But collectively, the moves could be even more damaging, economists warn.

Raiders' Disappointments Have Come to a Head https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jacksonville-jaguars-geno-smith-pete-carroll

Good Morning #Canada
The list of abandoned towns in PEI is apparently so short that no one has produced any really scary histories. It makes sense being a small island that there isn't enough distance to truly "abandon" a settlement. Maybe a house here or there, perhaps a short street. But that means you are more likely to be living next door to a haunted location. So today, we have a list of ghostly tales from around the island that may, or may not, be myth. Remember, don't go into the old shed with all the sharp farm tools....
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://pointseastcoastaldrive.com/scary-stories-of-points-east-coastal-drive/

In a tactical curiosity the #Feds have deployed #ICE to an island with only one two lane bridge to get back into #oakland
Perhaps picking this spot is to ideally attract ridonkuluss seemingly violent smokey imagery of govt troops being…

Thought Slime posted a video on Liberals and Charlie Kirk (linked in my post). It touched on a few ideas I've been wanting to explore more.
Why is it that, even though we talk "memes" going "viral" we are still talking about "Free Market of Ideas" as though ideas were inanimate objects we could handle and observe objectively? Perhaps that idea is it's own infection.
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/memetic-effluent-and-the-wet-market-of-ideas

Did it turn out that the railway pass bought in KD ticket office doesn't work with the barcode scanners used in KW? Perhaps.
Did I immediately start scanning and analyzing the barcodes? Of course.
Well, KD tickets have two codes: a QR code with binary mash encoded in base64 (unnecessarily), which unfortunately I don't have time to analyze, and a code128 barcode with the ticket series and number, encoded as:
AA000000000 (0)
On the other hand, KW/PR have only code128 with the series and number, but without the digit in parentheses (perhaps a checksum?), even though it is printed on the pass:
AA000000000
#rail

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
CALLY: Well, Perhaps he'd like some help.
VILA: His trusty battle computers never sleep.
CALLY: Avon, confirm contact, confirm contact. [She turns up gain on communication equipment.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/236 B7B6

Cowboys former 1st-round pick named Top-10 trade candidate for Bills, Colts https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/25/could-cowboys-trade-mazi-smith-to-one-of-these-afc-teams/86342…

@… #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 think the new light bars on the front of Tesla and other new cars are silly (and perhaps even dangerous - I find that they diminish my ability to estimate distance to the vehicle at night.)
In any case, I wonder whether there is, or soon will be, modification kits to replicate Gort's visor's light bar, as seen in the clip below...

The #CPB cuts are likely to be the first obvious impacts to rural communities - the Medicaid, etc cuts will probably take longer to impact the rural areas. It's a painful way for voters to discover how much the Federal budget provided critical services to them, and that perhaps they are not as self-sufficient as they thought.
This is just the first in a chain of unpleasant hits to rural life,…

The #CPB cuts are likely to be the first obvious impacts to rural communities - the Medicaid, etc cuts will probably take longer to impact the rural areas. It's a painful way for voters to discover how much the Federal budget provided critical services to them, and that perhaps they are not as self-sufficient as they thought.
This is just the first in a chain of unpleasant hits to rural life,…

Citizens United is the court decision that essentially ended meaningful campaign finance law in the United States.
Billionaires and centi-millionaires started gaining publicity and critical reactions to the scale of their spending and the impact it had on elections.
Political giving at scale by the extremely wealthy wasn’t new.
Perhaps the difference was the internet.
Whatever it was, the years after 2010 spawned the idea that the very wealthy and the extremely powe…

The Age of Monsters
We live in an age of monsters: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, the...

“Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.”
The thing is, there’s nothing to ruin.
They’re already not making any money and operating at a loss and investors want hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions in payback.
Also perhaps they should have thought of this before the criming.

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
DAYNA: Do what? Avon, why do you keep everything to yourself? Why so secretive?
AVON: Perhaps I'm shy. [Goes to leave] Anybody comes through this door, kill them. Anybody that isn't me, that is.
https…

Mailbag: Pressure on Overshown to return? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-pressure-on-overshown-to-return

Just finished "Beasts Made of Night" by Tochi Onyebuchi...
Indirect CW for fantasy police state violence.
So I very much enjoyed Onyebuchi's "Riot Baby," and when I grabbed this at the library, I was certain it would be excellent. But having finished it, I'm not sure I like it that much overall?
The first maybe third is excellent, including the world-building, which is fascinating. I feel like Onyebuchi must have played "Shadow of the Colossus" at some point. Onyebuchi certainly does know how to make me care for his characters.
Some spoilers from here on out...
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I felt like it stumbles towards the middle, with Bo's reactions neither making sense in the immediate context, nor in retrospect by the end when we've learned more. Things are a bit floaty in the middle with an unclear picture of what exactly is going on politics-wise and what the motivations are. Here I think there were some nuances that didn't make it to the page, or perhaps I'm just a bit thick and not getting stuff I should be? More is of course revealed by the end, but I still wasn't satisfied with the explanations of things. For example, (spoilers) I don't feel I understand clearly what kind of power the army of aki was supposed to represent within the city? Perhaps necessary to wield the threat of offensive inisisia use? In that case, a single scene somewhere of Izu's faction deploying that tactic would have been helpful I think.
Then towards the end, for me things really started to jumble, with unclear motivations, revelations that didn't feel well-paced or -structured, and a finale where both the action & collapsing concerns felt stilted and disjointed. Particularly the mechanics/ethics of the most important death that set the finale in motion bothered me, and the unexplained mechanism by which that led to what came next? I can read a couple of possible interesting morals into the whole denouement, but didn't feel that any of them were sufficiently explored. Especially if we're supposed to see some personal failing in the protagonist's actions, I don't think it's made clear enough what that is, since I feel his reasons to reject each faction are pretty solid, and if we're meant to either pity or abjure his indecision, I don't think the message lands clearly enough.
There *is* a sequel, which honestly I wasn't sure of after the last page, and which I now very interested in. Beasts is Onyebuchi's debut, which maybe makes sense of me feeling that Riot Baby didn't have the same plotting issues. It also maybe means that Onyebuchi couldn't be sure a sequel would make it to publication in terms of setting up the ending.
Overall I really enjoyed at least 80% of this, but was expecting even better (especially politically) given Onyebuchi's other work, and I didn't feel like I found it.
#AmReading

Hey #AcademicChatter #MastoSci friends - are we doing the #AcWriMo thing in November this year? (#FediWrIMo? #MastoWriMo?
Other suggestions in the comments!
I will do #AcWriMo and post about it
I will not write but would like to follow the #
I will do it but not post about it
Show me the results.

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

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was engaging in good faith.
Perhaps the perfect example of this is Ezra Klein’s silly eulogy claiming that Kirk was “practicing politics the right way” because he would debate students who disa…

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him”…

Stephen A. Smith Makes Bold Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Claim https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/stephen-a-smith-dak-prescott-claim/?adt_ei=[email]

The last few years have seen a veritable onslaught of the Supreme Court overturning major precedent
—precedent that concerned hot-button issues,
spawned huge bodies of law on which lower courts now rely,
stood for 50 years,
and had been reaffirmed multiple times by previous Courts.
And perhaps most gallingly,
the Supreme Court has claimed that these overturnings were justified by the “correct” readings of history
— expressly paving the way for Trump…

How the Supreme Court taught Trump to rewrite history
"He who controls the present controls the past."

Jerry Jones Faces Serious Backlash After ‘Special’ Player Trade Comments https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jerry-jones-backlash-trade-packers-picks/?adt_ei=[email]