Folks that don't 'get' the Sinners thing - it's an important movie as a statement for black folks, their culture, how they've been treated through the years, and how they're still treated. Period pieces are tough for me, but once I got into it, yeah, it's damn good. Coogler did a great thing there.
History is a mess and a construct.
It is constructed today to shape the tomorrow from a past that never was.
It helps that it is a mess so one can take the bits and pieces they want and stitch them together to whatever they need to derive what they are up to.
I'm trying to buy polycone (LDPE)-sealed caps for my DIY fragrance hobby.
Any number of results from China, UK and US, mostly one-click purchase.
Butr I want them from DE (or EU), don't I?
So far I found at least five different, unreliable names for the product., and the websites are:
- old school catalogue ones with PDF and, I assume, fax ordering process
- min 1000 pieces
- min 100 € order
- no photos
- 404
- 2€ per cap (10x regular…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115849651492727926
What is it about transparent LEGO pieces that instantly brings back so many childhood memories? 🥲
Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
VILA: What's the noise?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/295 B7B3
Saw some reactions to a suggestion made, by a black British celebrity, that former-colonial powers, like the UK, still exert a negative influence on former-colonial African nations.
An opinion that would largely go unremarked if from a white academic or campaigner, is here framed as "ungrateful".
Not long to go now until news outlets routinely run AI-generated "opinion" pieces on these lines, that can't be described as racist since computers aren't hum…
Life Tricks 🧮
生活技能 🧮
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Gilbert's Discovery:
Any attempt to use the new super glues results in the two pieces
sticking to your thumb and index finger rather than to each other.
Fun new piece of information. Google search results now include this text (I think it took less than an hour), but the LLM still doesn't know what a "walowadick" is.
This gives us a bit of signal, and we'll get some more as time goes on. Some of my other pieces, like the "towards a fractal anarchism" post on dbzer0 (https://slrpnk.net/post/18413750) has shown up in LLM results, but it seems like it took several weeks or maybe months.
So I'm guessing there are some regular encoding jobs, probably no more often than once every few months. It'll be interesting to get that signal and see what happens. I'd also be surprised if there isn't some kind of prioritization based on hits, but, again, we'll see what signal we get.
Over the holidays last last year I was building an Airfix model (good way to ignore the outside world) and discovered two pieces had fallen off the sprues and were not in the box. I considered constructing them myself but I didn't have a good reference image to go by. 99% certain it wasn't my fault, I looked up how to contact Airfix, followed the instructions, and never heard back.
Until Friday, when two tiny pieces of plastic arrived in an adorable little pouch and the modelmaking can continue.
I love good customer service. I just love it.
I applied the three finger salute to the two pieces of software that is not responsive after two hours. We used to have semi-decent software, but lately the piss-poor upgrades and AI SLOP has infected the "productivity" software. I could update 5 documents, generate PDF for each and rebuild the release folder index in one day or a day and a half if the VPN was slow. All I got done (day 2 of frustration) was three of the smallest documents, on the midsize document it choked and I…
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
The goal isn't to make you believe any single false story. The goal is cumulative. Together, small pieces erode trust in media, institutions, and shared reality. My remarks for the Icelandic Media Commission's symposium on disinformation and elections.
https://
"The Zersetzung is working. He is taking himself apart, piece by piece, and replacing the parts with synthetic fillers because the world has told him his own parts are defective."
"The Colonization of Confidence" by Robert Kingett (@…) is one of the best pieces of writing about "AI" I have ever seen. Read it over lun…
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
SERVALAN: What form will this major violation take?
AVON: Do they know that your battle fleet is massed on their borders?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/339
Let's hope this works. Then it would be an easy fix for the bloody IKEA Nävlinge LED Lamp that breaks too easily at the clamp.
Model: https://www.printables.com/model/321152-ikea-navlinge-lamp-clamp-repair
RE: #BoneConduction: One of the most moving art pieces and concepts I know of is (wa…
Amazon reported hundreds of thousands of pieces of potential CSAM in AI training data to NCMEC in 2025; child safety officials say Amazon didn't give the source (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/amazon-found…
If you missed it on Tim's blog, here it is again.
Long critical read on the #decoupling myth.
A response to Jonathan Aldred: On the tortuous relationship between GDP and macroecological footprints - resilience
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Hilda Sehested, Nina Reintoft & Malene Thastum:
🎵 3 Fantasy pieces
#HildaSehested #NinaReintoft #MaleneThastum
Christopher Hobbs/ John Adams / Gavin Bryars - "Ensemble Pieces" (1975)
#NowPlaying
headed to the post office to ship a couple mix tapes to LA and one to whitmore lake MI
#mixtape
We weathered Winter Storm Fern just fine, but the week ended somewhere deeper: podcasts, music, and an essay that made me pause and think about death and belief. Sometimes the quiet pieces linger longest.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/weathering-the-cold-and-b…
I'm supervising 4 undergrads working on small pieces of my research project. Their role is to comb through archival materials, to identify a modest research question, and to write a long paper answering that question. One of the students dropped by my office this morning to chat about progress. Just before leaving, they said, "I've written papers before. But they were all based on things people'd already written - I knew the answer. This is so much more fun. I feel like a de…
I've never seen this outside of my family in the wild (some research shows there are other people online who've made it/have recipes).
We make “turkey roll" with leftover turkey dinner. I chop turkey, veggies, and stuffing up into small pieces, fry up some fresh onions celery garlic, and stuff it into biscuit dough, then bake.
It gets a "sauce" of either leftover extra-thickened gravy or a béchamel-ish white sauce. It's pretty tasty and the fresh bi…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Swim Deep:
🎵 Swim Deep - Pieces Of You
#SwimDeep
1/2 Two new blog pieces. In which I have opinions about GenAI and open-source: #GenAI
The case for my 28g QRP dual-ported (9:1 and 49:1) unun cracked from tightening one of the terminal screws too tight, and from having printed the box with too few perimeters, so it wasn't really strong enough. I had designed it so that the coax was integrated into the case, so I had to cut the case apart to remove the still-functional electrical components for re-use.
At least this gave me a chance to confirm that I hadn't blown up the ferrite from overheating it!
Concerns: ceded possession too easily late. Set pieces continue to be a boat anchor. Are we negative on their \-? Feels like it.
Szoboszlai being out really shows the quality he adds to the side.
Some of the new players still don’t have the stamina to play 90’. Wirtz and Ekitike fell off dramatically in the second half.
Joys: a special shout out to Curtis Jones, who was quietly fantastic. Wirtz is my MOTM. Kerkez had perhaps his best game yet. Frimpong delivering offensive…
The 'Board' game console is great family fun, the whole family asks to play each night!
✅ Board | Board Game Feel Meets Video Game Magic
https://board.fun/
▶️ Meet 'Board': The 1st ever face-to-face gaming console
Two more loft finds; the white saucer is part of a partial set of Japanese export ware, we've also got a few other pieces including tiny demitasse cups. The black is part of a fairly full set of Chinese Fuzhou 'bodiless' lacquerware - it's made of layers of cloth built on a clay body, but the clay body is removed, and they smooth and paint the cloth. They're very lightweight. Both seem fairly common from somewhere mid 20th century.
Write the name of the world richest people on little pieces of people and put them in a hat.
Now the game is to randomly pick one and try to guess how many time they appear in the Epstein files
Jack Kerouac’s original typescript scroll for "On the Road"
– the 37 metre (121 ft) long roll of paper on which he typed his defining Beat novel in a three-week burst
– will go under the hammer at Christie’s in March, with a sale estimate of £1.8m to £2.9m ($2.5m to $4m).
The scroll is one of the centrepieces of the Jim Irsay Collection,
one of the most extensive private collections of music, literary,
film and sports memorabilia ever assembled.
…
Down to the last bit of mixing on the new record with Danny Gotham. The #leukemia threw our timeline off by at least half a year (as of my 6-month post-chemo checkup I remain cancer-free), but I'm making last tweaks to the mixes as I speak. Off to the mastering engineer soon, then artwork and such.
It's really just a hodge-podge of stuff we like. Acoustic pieces by Peter Ostroush…
Listening to the Christmas concert from Wiener Konzerthaus. Good music, but why does Brownlee sing the musical pieces with vibrato?
I'm not much of a classical music buff and ignorant of much in this field, but this came across to me as odd. It's almost as if the Tenor decided to not adapt his technique to the style of the piece.
Is this common, or with purpose?
Or to put it in another way, is using vibrato a choice?
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116063916168328402
It should also be noted that LLMs do not write code.
They assemble code from bits and pieces of a tokenized text corpus based on how they are statistically interrelated.
LLMs do not think, anticipate, cognize, abstract or have any theory of mind; they do not currently and will not ever have this ability.
Kind of a La Dispute kind of moot today.
"I Dreamt of a Room with All My Friends I Could Not Get In" was probably the most impactful and hard-hitting pieces of art I got in contact with in 2025.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfhTfsy7Kzo
Addendum, since Signal is the app I named in the OP: I’m mentioning Signal because it is one of the few pieces of gold standard secure collaboration software that I would even •consider• putting in front of community members who previously were a bit baffled by Facebook. I’m not picking on Signal; I’m praising Signal for being the rare option even worth considering.
Looks like @… may have broken a bit... Toolbar has some missing pieces.
I went to see my neighbor who is a bus driver.
He spent roughly an hour explaining which of his favorite Smetana/Janacek/Dvorak pieces are favorites of his passengers and how he doesn’t dare to play them the favorite opera pieces but he feels deprived of them so he has to listen while commuting to the work (on a bike of course).
This was more culture talk than with the sum of my tech friends in the last three years, particularly if you include the genAI crew.
Call for articles: Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture
Degrowth UK plans to run a series of articles as a stock-take of degrowth and ecosocialism worldwide. We envisage two types of contribution. 1) Short pieces (up to 2,000 words) summarising the situation with regard to degrowth thinking and practice at a country level (or for large countries at a more regional level). 2) Longer pieces (up to 5,000 words) reviewing the state of degrowth and ecosocialism in…
The story of what's been happening with an LLM posting attack pieces against an open source maintainer and then a news outlet publishing a piece using LLMs that made up quotes from the maintainer is a disturbing look into what the internet is going to look like in the immediate future
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
@… @… Not the computers are from 1970, but the pieces of software. Nobody thought about vibe coding back then ;-)
Oh good, I was wondering what racists might be thinking about the situation in #Minnesota and those #racist pieces of shit at The Babylon Bee were happy to blow their dog whistle for me.
If you do stumble upon it, I’d encourage you to click thumbs down, then report it for encouraging violence throu…
Happy birthday @…
25 years of Wikipedia -- a decades-long story of language communities growing together
https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifun
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Max Bruch & Sitkovetsky Trio:
🎵 8 pieces Op. 83: VII Allegro vivace, ma non troppo
#MaxBruch #SitkovetskyTrio
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Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
KARLA: [Approaching Deeta] Excuse me? I'm sorry it's very rude of me... but aren't you Deeta Tarrant?
DEETA: Yes, I am.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/4 B7B3
I feel for Slot here, having to figure out which square peg to put in the round hole at CB.
Gravenberch isn't particularly good at winning aerial duels, especially for a guy who's 6'3".
Nallo, 6'1" is young, solid aerially, but playing mostly U21.
Endo, only 5'10" wins most of his aerial duels, but not necessarily at CB.
And Slot takes Gravenberch, which I understand.
Qarabak don't look to be big up front, but set pieces wi…
Usually, we hunt down a tree in the Huron Manistee National Forest but this year we had to get one from a local tree farm so it’s not as scrawny as usual but still looks pretty nice donchathink?
Critique of George Monbiot's recent, and rather puzzling, pieces on food systems
The challenge of food ecomodernism: a puzzle outlined - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-12-22/the-challenge-of-food-ecomodernism-a…
Made new test prints on some off-cuts, using a slightly stronger developer solution than usual to see impact on max. depth. The main image (Eagle Creek, Oregon) is using 18% sodium acetate (curve corrected negative), the test strips are of 20% and 15% solutions (both uncorrected). The phone capture doesn't really show the differences too well, but I think I will go for the 18-20% from now on...
(Btw. The original image is here:
ICYMI
We plan to run a series of articles as a stock-take of degrowth and ecosocialism worldwide. We envisage two types of contribution.
Short country updates and longer issue-based pieces.
Follow the link for details.
#degrowth #ecosocialism
Living on a hill without direct fiber or cable sucks sometimes.
At midnight our main ISP crapped out completely and then in the morning I manually switched to our super-slow backup ISP (like 8Mbps down, 1Mbps up) but that one also intermittently craps out.
Main ISP says it should be fixed soon, their "internet chassis" at another location shit the bed and they need to replace multiple pieces of hardware.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Max Bruch & Sitkovetsky Trio:
🎵 8 pieces Op. 83: II Allegro Con Moto (arranged for violin, cello and piano)
#MaxBruch #SitkovetskyTrio
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
BAYBAN: Good. Good. Connect it up. Hurry.
SHERM: Try there. [spots Dayna] Over here!
DAYNA: I think they saw me.
TARRANT: How many?
https://blake.torpidit…
I read some pieces about a European challenger to the Visa/Mastercard payment processor cartel, and while they talked about US government sanctions none of them mentioned porn?
Not surprised. I found stuff that looked great. I am fairly experienced at baking and part of them didn't turn out. Going over them afterwards I should have clued in on the temperatures for the candies. I have made fudges and candies for decades and thought maybe they knew something that I didn't. They turned out to be almost as runny as cold syrup and will be used as a topping for fruit cake with ice cream.
slice my finger in to pieces
this is my salad prep
#lunch
We are going to open all of these presents RIGHT NOW!
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Max Bruch & Sitkovetsky Trio:
🎵 8 pieces Op. 83: VI. Nachtgesang (arranged for violin, cello and piano)
#MaxBruch #SitkovetskyTrio
We plan to run a series of articles as a stock-take of degrowth and ecosocialism worldwide. We envisage two types of contribution.
Short country updates and longer issue-based pieces.
Follow the link for details.
#degrowth #ecosocialism
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Fryderyk Chopin & Håvard Gimse:
🎵 3 Pieces for piano
#FryderykChopin #HåvardGimse
i have a dozen or so xmas records on continuous loop for the next couple days, including three by johnny mathis!
this one is a 1967 reissue of the 1958 classic. i picked it up at the used record store up the street for seven bucks.
#nowplaying #OldVinyl
B07 - Killer
VILA: It wouldn't be recognised.
TYNUS: Maybe not, but there's no point in taking any chances. [drops pieces on table] Get rid of it. I'd better make my report to Security. Wait in my quarters will you, and I'll bring you back a food package.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/451
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3InConcert
Kate Whitley & Khanh Nhi Luong:
🎵 Five Pieces
#KateWhitley #KhanhNhiLuong
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Andreas Borregaard & Jean-Philippe Rameau:
🎵 Pieces de Clavecin
#AndreasBorregaard #JeanPhilippeRameau
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Mario Nardelli & Mario Nardelli:
🎵 Three pieces for guitar
#MarioNardelli