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This years ‘tile’ pattern is last year’s ‘card’ pattern, which is the prior year’s ‘block’ pattern, which is just a reformulation of the ‘slide’ that was yanked from the ‘slider’ that didn’t slide and it was always and still is a pile of nested fucking `<div>`s with an event handler on an `<a href="#">`.
Well done, design system monkeys. Well done.

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.

(LinkedIn) Generative human intelligence for images anyone? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/petermeijer_the-voice-for-android-apps-on-google-play-activity-7413499467846500352-sfcJ

The vOICe for Android - Apps on Google Play | Peter Meijer
What is sensory substitution? When I speak to you and say, "Imagine a rising bright line", and you "see" a rising bright line in your mind's eye, that's mental imagery guided by sound, a form of sensory substitution. The vOICe vision BCI generalizes this such that it works for all images. And yes, being software-based, it is already in "mass production" well ahead of any Neuralink Blindsight brain implant, with well over 500,000 cumulative installs from Google Play https://lnkd.in/dGaF2br More…

"Sophie Binet, secrétaire générale de la CGT, mise en examen pour injure publique après avoir qualifié les patrons de « rats qui quittent le navire »"
Ce sont plutôt les rats qui devraient se plaindre de cette comparaison! Les rats sont des animaux sociaux qui ont de l'empathie et ne laisseraient pas mourir leur congénères d'un côté tout en accumulant des montagnes de nourriture de l'autre. D'accord, tous les patrons ne sont pas comme ça, mais les grands patrons qui menacent …

Sophie Binet, secrétaire générale de la CGT, mise en examen pour injure publique après avoir qualifié les patrons de « rats qui quittent le navire »
La dirigeante syndicale avait qualifié en janvier à la radio les patrons de « rats qui quittent le navire » dont « le seul objectif est l’appât du gain » en réaction à des propos tenus par le patron du groupe LVMH, Bernard Arnault.

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 …

December 4, Day of Saint Barbara - Patron Saint of Miners (among other professions). Blog post from Salzwelten Altaussee, a famous salt mine in #Austria which I had a chance to visit years ago. #Österreich 🧪⚒️ Glück Auf!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Patoranking:
🎵 Abule - Patoranking
#Patoranking
https://open.spotify.com/track/5GmvLu8Ok9KqBakA6jTEVK

🤯 Brain activity goes to extremes in soccer fans, neuroimaging reveals
#sports

Brain activity goes to extremes in soccer fans, neuroimaging reveals
Studying brain patterns in soccer fans, researchers found that certain circuit regions of the brain were activated while viewing soccer matches involving their favorite team, triggering positive and negative emotions and behaviors, according to a new study published in Radiology. The researchers say these patterns could apply to other types of fanaticism as well, and that the circuits are forged early in life.

“The state as patronage machine” — that’s the concept here.
The article then does a weird pivot in paragraph 10 where it tries to shoehorn Israel’s international lobbying and propaganda efforts into being an example of this same principle.
It doesn’t work. The shoe doesn’t fit. What the Israeli government has done to find political covers for the horror it has committed in Gaza is an example of something else.
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❝The state became neither “free market” nor “socialist” — it became a patronage machine run by insiders.❞
EDIT: Posted the link for the first paragraphs, but man, that article goes off the rails later on. 🧵
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/04/state-capture-corruption-democracy