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"Six surprising places solar power is taking off"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Six surprising places solar power is taking off
From rooftops and roads to farmers' fields and the open sea, solar power can already be captured almost anywhere. The next frontier? Harnessing the sun's energy in space to power life on Earth.

As US government cuts weather forecasting, vulnerable places like Puerto Rico risk losing vital early warnings https://phys.org/news/2025-11-weather-vulnerable-puerto-rico-vital.html

As US government cuts weather forecasting, vulnerable places like Puerto Rico risk losing vital early warnings
Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica in late October, killed dozens in Haiti and forced nearly three-quarters of a million Cubans to evacuate. The death toll across the region is still unknown—but Melissa will go down as one of the strongest storms ever recorded.

Ach ein schöner Beitrag, ich mag ja Stadien und #LostPlaces
https://www.reisereporter.de/reiseziele/lo

Lost Places: In diesen einst beeindruckenden Stadien spielt keiner mehr Fußball
Während die einen Stadien für die nächste Fußball-WM vorbereitet werden, ist in anderen der Jubel längst verhallt. Wir stellen Fußballstadien vor, die heute Lost Places sind.

Les parents de Sébastien Lecornu placés sous protection policière - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/les-parents-de-sebastien-lecornu-places-sous-protection-policiere-21-10-202…

Les parents de Sébastien Lecornu placés sous protection policière
INFO LE PARISIEN. Ils bénéficient d’une équipe de policiers dédiée depuis le 22 septembre après l’arrivée de leur fils à Matignon. Justifiée ? Les avis divergent.

What a surprise! (not)
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dhmkgzkujbf47hh7xmqe4ydx/post/3m6ctjhutas2p

Joe Public 🇨🇦 (@joepublic.bsky.social)
Major accounts on "X" masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as #Russia, #India, and #Nigeria. #xitter #x #twitter #maga https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidentally-unmasked-as-foreign-actors/

Between February 12th and 15th, the U.S. sent 299 people—from countries such as Afghanistan, Cameroon, Somalia, and Iran—to Panama. On February 20th and 25th, the U.S. sent an additional 200 people, including 81 children, to Costa Rica. Soon afterward came third-country-deportation flights to Uzbekistan and El Salvador, where more than 250 non-Salvadoran immigrants were detained in the brutal Terrorism Confinement Center.

Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries such as South Sudan, Ghana, and Eswatini, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.

🍄‍🟫 Fungi finds: UK citizen scientists make rare pink and purple discoveries
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/03/fungi-finds-uk-citizen-scientists-make-rare-pink-and-purple-discoveries

Rooty toot toot - It's Wolfenoot!
A New Zealand celebration of canines and kindness.

Bringing it to America, declaring henceforth every Sunday before Thanksgiving shall be Wolfenoot.
On Wolfenoot we eat meat to honor the wolf in all of us, and the spirit of the wolf comes to your house and hides presents in places a dog would hide things. Those who are kind to dogs get better presents...
wolfenoot.com

Peace and love, my friends.
Glauber Ribeiro, 2025.

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/

Die #Klimakrise trifft #Island:
Erstmals wurden in Island #Mücken nachgewiesen. Drei Exemplare der kälteresistenten Art Culiseta annulata wurden im Westen des Landes entdeckt.
Durch di…

The distant planet #Uranus next to the Pleiades star cluster this evening - very easy to find in binoculars (or naked eye in dark places): It's one day after opposition / closest approach to Earth now. See also https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3m6apcpkzac2s for a comparision with a picture taken five nights earlier, showing how slowly the planet is moving in the sky, and https://www.facebook.com/bob.king.5059/posts/pfbid02SCaBYyzJsMu2bXqsNiutZtPN9tn6PZ5gf2SogCegF5bSfhsN2Q86Crmvxm3XdnTPl for some more information.

"Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country"
#Iceland #Mosquitoes #Climate

Since the last Android release @… allows using a custom server from which to download map files.
This decreases reliance on CoMaps-run infrastructure but is also great for people who live in places with limited internet connectivity, as you can now serve maps from local networks.
To make it easier, I wrote a small CLI tool over the weekend that downloads maps of interest & then serves them locally. A first alpha release for testing is on Codeberg:
#OpenStreetMap

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly,
nominated by former President Bill Clinton,
said on Friday that the I.R.S. plan to share information with ICE was too broad.
She said that federal law only allows for the I.R.S. to share tax information with other government officials who are directly involved in an ongoing investigation.
The I.R.S. sent the thousands of addresses to a single ICE official, who Judge Kollar-Kotelly said could not have been personally conducting so many i…

Judge Places Hold on IRS Data Sharing With ICE
A judge halted a federal deportation effort Friday, writing that the tax agency had illegally disseminated the data of some migrants.

Judge Places Hold on I.R.S. Data Sharing With ICE (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/business/irs-ice-migrants-addresses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3E8.DvbO.HYPMi6WMlpnW&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p2#a251122p2

Panel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets

Central Ohio city invests **$50K** to join the Midwest passenger rail push, capping a decade of planning and signaling strong local support for connecting Columbus to the national network. 🚆 #OhioRail #PassengerRail

Hey all, there are some photos from a hike in the #schwarzwald
Actually we thought that it would just take us less than an hour - but it wasn't simply a straight walk :-D
It was raining from time to time - which was indeed pretty cool. A) there was noone around except us and B) the colors were often just insane. Fully saturated green, the brown from the wood - and sometimes…

It's good to see that GMCA has adopted a retrofit framework agreement that includes calculating embodied carbon.
As we showed in relation to GMCA's own Joint Development Plan, Places for Everyone, it's embodied carbon that's the big problem in building new homes etc. So at least try to make #retrofit and enetgy saving low carbon.
Taking a calculated risk: eliminating the …

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

What's with all the people coked out in mission bars lately? It's getting scary in places, multiple times I've had to back up lone femme bartenders.

«Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead.»
This is the worst part about the use Gen "AI" in places of learning, people are (often unknowingly) cheating themselves out of being able to learn.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

Some years back my wife made the front page of the Wall St. Journal. They did a piece about how she made up fake data (names, locations, dates, CV, etc) to feed to social media in order to disrupt data linking.
We are one of the few places that has a paper copy of the highly prescient HEW report from 1973 that warned of the dangers of the now ubiquitous practice of data linking.
"Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens: Report of the HEW Advisory Committee on Automate…

There's a couple of places they could have clipped a mic onto Nikita. #strictly

Even though I accidentally went up the wrong branch of the Northern Line on Saturday then spent ages getting to Waterloo & City line at Bank only for them to close the gates on me since the last service had just gone, resulting in me being an extra hour late at home… it still only counted as tapping in and out at the same places I intended so still cost the same: £7.00.
Thanks TfL.

Yet one more adverse impact of climate change:
"Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten. Rising temperatures are also helping pests invade places further from the equator and on higher ground that were previously too cold"
In hindsight, not surprising - but this is the first time I have seen this impact publicly discussed.
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses superchar…

Yet one more adverse impact of climate change:
"Greater warmth enables pests to develop faster, produce more generations each year and attack crops for longer as winters shorten. Rising temperatures are also helping pests invade places further from the equator and on higher ground that were previously too cold"
In hindsight, not surprising - but this is the first time I have seen this impact publicly discussed.
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses superchar…

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

There •is• definitely debate about LLMs among folks who have both tech expertise and a level head, and that debate is mostly between:
(1) “If only we could have reasonable conversations about what if anything this tech is actually good for! It could be useful! Curse this hype! Curse this bubble!”
and
(2) “This technology is so toxic we shouldn’t even be considering •any• uses for it”
That’s a •continuum•, and folks (including me) fall in all kinds of complicated places along it. Just note the continuum’s endpoints.
@…

Britain clearly has a problem with too many people going to university, and Badenoch proposes to change that.
Imagine how much better off the UK would be, if Cameron, Osborne, Bojo, Gove et al had never gone to Oxford!
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/new…

Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places
Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ‘debt trap degrees’ and pledge more money for apprenticeships

Atlas Obscura plans to launch Obscura Society, a WebXR-based lounge offering users 3D avatars for voice chats, portals to other VR apps, and more, in early 2026 (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/847182/atlas-obscura-society-3d-virtual-…

How Atlas Obscura plans to embrace the 3D web
The Obscura Society will be a virtual lounge that Atlas Obscura community members can visit to hang out with the help of 3D avatars, have voice chats, and explore places from the site’s massive catalog together.

TIL from my Italian coworker that Italian TV broadcasts Trading Places every Christmastime and if it didn't happen it would be like, national news https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/why-do-italians-watch-trading-places-every-christmas.html<…

Trading Places: An unexpected Christmas tradition in Italy
It wouldn't be Christmas in Italy without Una Poltrona per Due on tv. Italy is home to some of the world's oldest and most spectacular Christmas traditions that have illuminated and enriched the Italian festive season for centuries. It also has some more unexpected modern-day traditions and few...

I'm looking for the best places in the world to find mud pots. I'm disappointed that no one made a list.
So far, I have:
★ Yellowstone (WY, USA)
★ Lassen Volcanic National Park (northern CA, USA, near Redding)
★ Salton Sea (southern CA, USA, near San Diego)
★ possibly southern Utah? (Roosevelt Hot Springs...?) — unclear if visitable/safe/etc
Fumaroles are a little easier to find:
★ all the locations above, of course
★ Namafjall Geothermal Are…

@… thanks …
“My grandpa was Antifa before it was cool” reminds me, yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Professor Lou Taylor.
She and I spoke (very) briefly about fascism, Gaza, government, identity, and prejudice in unexpected places. People's hidden histories and connections never cease to amaze me. Her mum and dad, sister and brother; Pearly K…

Today former Conservative BC MLA Dallas Brodie introduced a bill to ban territorial acknowledgments from public events and places including schools and the legislature itself.
You can find her proudly posting about it on X (at Dallas_Brodie) I won't link it.
It's as bad as you think it would be.
It's not a bad thing to acknowledge and respect the fact that people lived in BC/Canada for millenia before European's got here.
It's not a bad thing to acknowledge and try to repair the deliberate harm that was done in that process.
(the bill was voted down at first reading by a voice-vote)
#racism #FirstNations #Colonialism #BC #BCPoli #BCCPC #BCNDP

This applies to places outside of mastodon as well
From: @…
https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115709446790492418

An interesting write up of an interview with the Edinburgh Spokes cycle campaign.
"Spokes also started producing cycle maps at that point [in the 80s]. Partly you produce a cycle map to show people where the nice places are, whether it's off road routes, quiet streets or whatever, to just show them that it is possible."
"But it's also a campaigning tool, because the map shows you the gaps."

"If your campaigning doesn't generate a response, you're not being radical enough": Active travel campaigners Spokes on making spaces bike friendly
road.cc chat with the organisation as they release their new cycle map of West Lothian and discuss meaningful cycle campaigning after nearly 50 years

Was talking to an acquaintance at church yesterday and she mentioned that things are not good with her job. She’s a secondary school biology teacher. She said more by what she didn’t say. She just clammed up and looked lost. Next time I see her, I want to tell her that it doesn’t have to be that way. That she has transferable skills and can find work that pays the bills without destroying her soul. That there are other places that will value and support her.

Yes, I'm mostly active over on #Lemmy of all places; @…

First Law of Procrastination:
Procrastination shortens the job and places the responsibility
for its termination on someone else (i.e., the authority who
imposed the deadline).
Fifth Law of Procrastination:
Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that
there is nothing important to do.

Familiar faces in strange places as Cowboys face Packers https://insidethestar.com/familiar-faces-in-strange-places-as-cowboys-face-packers

On the Number of Small Points for Rational Maps
Jit Wu Yap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12039 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12039…

On the Number of Small Points for Rational Maps
Let $K$ be a number field and $f: \mathbb{P}^1 \to \mathbb{P}^1$ a rational map of degree $d \geq 2$ with at most $s$ places of bad reduction, where we include all archimedean places. We prove that there exists constants $c_1,c_2 > 0$, depending only on $d$ and not on $f$ or $K$, such that $$ \# \left\{ x \in \mathbb{P}^1(K) \mid \widehat{h}_f(x) \leq \frac{c_1}{s} h_{\operatorname{rat}_d}(\langle f \rangle) \right\} \leq c_2 s \log(s). $$ Here, $\operatorname{rat}_d$ is the moduli space of rat…

Very proud to have my research featured in the latest edition of UCL's alumni magazine Portico alongside a stellar group of Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment colleagues including Fiona Zisch, Claire Heaviside and Haim Yacobi
Read the full piece on how the built environment can support or improve our health and wellbeing:

Designing healthier places | Portico Magazine | UCL
For better or worse, our environments shape us. Now, researchers from UCL’s The Bartlett are uncovering new ways for our built environment to support – and improve – our health and wellbeing.

If voting didn't matter they wouldn't try so hard to stop us from doing it. Go vote.
And after you've done your civic duty, don't forget to also sabotage the gears of capitalism/fascism.
https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/115491654406302339

Reddit starts a limited test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark beside the usernames of notable people or businesses (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/reddit-is-testing-verification-badges/

Reddit is testing verification badges | TechCrunch
Verified users will actually be notable figures, not just people who paid for the checkmark.

Been in-depth studying the PDF file format spec for the past few days... it's mind boggling that this format with its capacity for monstrous complexity managed to become the de-facto standard for modern documents. So many questionable decisions & undue flexibility in there (in the wrong places) making even a simple task of reliable metadata extraction (for example) incredibly hard... I understand and value flexibility, but not at this cost! Guess I will have to keep on using one of t…

from my link log —
Route 53 DNS: Amazon’s premier AWS database.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/route-53-amazons-premier-database/
saved 2021-02-18

Route 53, Amazon’s Premier Database
I’ve periodically made reference in a bunch of places to Route 53 being my preferred database. But I’ve only really told the story in podcast and tweet

#FactFriday
An unwalled version of a walled article that originally appeared in Rolling Stone (not happy that Rolling Stone has such an important health article behind their wall - I've seen other places unwall important articles - shoutout to @…). I personally …

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

I guess I’m going to get to know the peeps at Norfolk Police quite well over the next few months. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/14/public-should-heed-forthcoming-rules-on-single-sex-spaces-says-uk-equ…

I NEED TO GO TO SLEEP AND QUIT LOOKING AT INSTAGRAM ADS
zuckerberg said HEY BITCH YOU LOVE FLAGS N GOING PLACES DON'T U yes!!! I do!!! but UR NOT GONNA GET ME MARK

In the United States, more than 2,500 demonstrations against US President Donald Trump are planned nationwide for Saturday.
The organizers expect millions of participants under the motto
"No Kings".
The first protests are underway in Ann Arbor and other places.
Demonstrations against the growing US authoritarianism also gathered in European capitals.

"No Kings": Hunderte Demonstrationen gegen Trump laufen an - Hubu.de - News & FreeMail
In den USA sind für Samstag landesweit über 2.500 Demonstrationen gegen US-Präsident Donald Trump geplant.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Tokyoidaho:
🎵 Other Places, Other Days
#Tokyoidaho
https://tokyoidaho.bandcamp.com/track/other-places-other-days
https://open.spotify.com/track/4pSAy0UoC4W8Sxb255gWyW

Not sure about other places, but for those contributing, the PVD food drive we're contributing to says the things they are most short on are:
- cooking oil
- instant mashed potatoes
- instant coffee
- instant cake mix
(Unsurprisingly, food pantries are full of canned goods…)

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: Listen, I, I'm sorry I didn't believe you. I'll be in touch. [They leave.] C363
VILA: Friends in high places? Can't you put a word in for me?
BLAKE: I'll try and think of one.
JENNA: Leaving us?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/325

Of course we humans have never had a single “shared reality,” and we never will. But there are times places when we’ve had more robust ongoing sharing and boundary-crossing and comfort with the limits of our own understanding — “shared reality” not as a fact, but as a direction.
These thoughts are still forming, and I think that’s where my thread ends for today: no answers, but yet another plea for systems thinking.
6/

If you are free tonight, there are still some places open in the Our Brilliant Ruin One-Shot
#TerryCon

"""
Traditional politics of assistance and the repression of unemployment were now called into question. The need for reform became urgent.
Poverty was gradually separated from the old moral confusions. Economic crises had shown that unemployment could not be confused with indolence, as indigence and enforced idleness spread throughout the countryside, to precisely the places that had previously been considered home to the purest and most immediate forms of moral life. This demonstrated that poverty did not solely fall under the order of the fault: ‘Begging is the fruit of poverty, which in turn is the consequence of accidents in the production of the earth or in the output of factories, of a rise in the price of basic foodstuffs, or of growth of the population, etc.’ Indigence became a matter of economics.
But it was not contingent, nor was it destined to be suppressed forever. There would always be a certain quantity of poverty that could never be effaced, a sort of fatal indigence that would accompany all forms of society until the end of time, even in places where all the idle were employed: ‘The only paupers in a well governed state must be those born in indigence, or those who fall into it by accident.’ This backdrop of poverty was somehow inalienable: whether by birth or accident, it formed an inevitable part of society. The state of lack was so firmly entrenched in the destiny of man and the structure of society that for a long time the idea of a state without paupers remained inconceivable: in the thought of philosophers, property, work and indigence were terms linked right up until the nineteenth century.
This portion of poverty was necessary because it could not be suppressed; but it was equally necessary in that it made wealth possible. Because they worked but consumed little, a class of people in need allowed a nation to become rich, to release the value of its fields, colonies and mines, making products that could be sold throughout the world. An impoverished people, in short, was a people that had no poor. Indigence became an indispensable element in the state. It hid the secret but most real life of society. The poor were the seat and the glory of nations. And their noble misery, for which there was no cure, was to be exalted:
«My intention is solely to invite the authorities to turn part of their vigilant attention to considering the portion of the People who suffer … the assistance that we owe them is linked to the honour and prosperity of the Empire, of which the Poor are the firmest bulwark, for no sovereign can maintain and extend his domain without favouring the population, and cultivating the Land, Commerce and the Arts; and the Poor are the necessary agents for the great powers that reveal the true force of a People.»
What we see here is a moral rehabilitation of the figure of the Pauper, bringing about the fundamental economic and social reintegration of his person. Paupers had no place in a mercantilist economy, as they were neither producers nor consumers, and they were idle, vagabond or unemployed, deserving nothing better than confinement, a measure that extracted and exiled them from society. But with the arrival of the industrial economy and its thirst for manpower, paupers were once again a part of the body of the nation.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Linyi Yang, Yixuan Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12194 https://

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Current deep-research agents run in a ''fire-and-forget'' mode: once started, they give users no way to fix errors or add expert knowledge during execution. We present ResearStudio, the first open-source framework that places real-time human control at its core. The system follows a Collaborative Workshop design. A hierarchical Planner-Executor writes every step to a live ''plan-as-document,'' a fast communication layer streams each action, file change, and tool call to a web interface. At any …

DarkSky International is proud to announce the certification of its 250th International #DarkSky Place with the recent designation of Lapalala Wilderness Nature Reserve in South Africa: https://darksky.org/news/250-international-dark-sky-places-2/ - while Lapalala marks this incredible milestone, the celebration is shared by all 250 locations worldwide that have joined DarkSky’s most recognized and beloved program; together, these places form a growing global network where pristine dark skies can be experienced and are actively protected.

ELECTION INTERFERENCE
Multiple NJ polling sites have been closed or relocated due to bomb threats.
#NJ #election #BombThreat

Bomb threats force closures at some New Jersey polling places
Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh said polling sites at School 2 and School 10 in Paterson were shut down after threats were received.

Bomb threats force closures at some New Jersey polling places (News 12 New Jersey)
https://newjersey.news12.com/bomb-threats-force-closures-at-some-new-jersey-polling-places
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p38#a251104p38

A package of three normal-sized ribeye steaks is now $80, at CostCo—which is cheaper than other places.
I’m sure we’re totally not in a recession.

I love following the Portland Frog movement, and very much also that posters are being printed. But as a designer, it pains me to see that the images are shared mostly as photos of posters on the wall, not printable PDF
Luckily, there was one person who seemed to have it and shared on Reddit, of all places. https://www.

I felt such a deep surge of hope reading this story. Toronto the bad, of all places.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/09/toronto-waterfront-soil-plants-worms

Cool new news site for Kearny, #NewJersey
#nj

#ShamelesslyStolenFromTumblr

Oh this is a corker.
#fungi

Transcript of a talk by Cory Doctorow @… on the topic of AI and its near -term effects on society. Long. Summary of an upcoming book.
Many good thoughts in it, some I haven't found described so well before, some new to me. I'm quite aligned on his points about copyright, and he's tying this up better than I have seen in other places. I don…

#30DayMapChallenge Day 24: Places and their names. Place name elements are always interesting (and fun) to map. Here the Old Norse 'by' and 'thorp' elements in #Norhamptonshire. Data from Digital Survey of English Place-Names

I can't help but wonder if "...democracy-under-threat messaging might not work on voters in places such as the Central Valley. It hearkens back to 2024, when Democrats repeatedly — and unsuccessfully — warned that then-candidate Trump posed a risk to Democracy." is key to Democratic losses.
I have heard too few Democratic messages that clearly offer a meaningful message of how a #DemocraticParty

Will Prop. 50 burst state Dems’ bubble?
Advocates warn messaging that works in places like SF doesn’t cut it elsewhere.

I can't help but wonder if "...democracy-under-threat messaging might not work on voters in places such as the Central Valley. It hearkens back to 2024, when Democrats repeatedly — and unsuccessfully — warned that then-candidate Trump posed a risk to Democracy." is key to Democratic losses.
I have heard too few Democratic messages that clearly offer a meaningful message of how a #DemocraticParty

Will Prop. 50 burst state Dems’ bubble?
Advocates warn messaging that works in places like SF doesn’t cut it elsewhere.

Meetup ElasticFR #100 - BNP Paribas, Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/elasticfr/events/311284356/?from=ref

Meetup ElasticFR #100 - BNP Paribas, Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Meetup exceptionnel ! **Places limitées** avec obligation de réserver à l'avance. Merci de penser à libérer vos places minimum la veille de l'évènement, si vous ne pouvez p

Welcome to the Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR),
a database of master recordings made by American record companies during the 78rpm era.
It is part of the American Discography Project (ADP)
—an initiative of the University of California, Santa Barbara that is edited by a team of researchers based at the UCSB Library.
To begin your research, enter names, titles, places, matrix or catalog numbers below,
or click on the advanced browse or search…

"New England warming faster than most places on Earth, study finds"
#NewEngland #Climate #ClimateChange

An interesting 4-part series of articles about ore formation processes (published on Hackaday, of all places):
Introduction And Magmatic Processes
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/13/ore-formation-introduction-and-magmatic-processes/
Hydro…

Ore Formation: Introduction And Magmatic Processes
Hackaday has a long-running series on Mining and Refining, that tracks elements of interest on the human-made road from rocks to riches. What author Dan Maloney doesn’t address in that series…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
HUNDA: I think I can. There are two places along that cooling system where it's possible to surface, and as long as I keep my face to the current I should be heading in the right direction. All right, Hask, you take over now. Get the column moving. If all goes well, I'll be back tomorrow night. [he moves off]
HASK: Good luck Hunda.

Another happy runner at the Pinnacles, the high point of the Danby State Forest which is one of those rare places in southern Tompkins County where you almost have a commanding view
#photo #photography #forest

It's Word Press Accessibility Day!
A free online conference with global scope and participation.
I just saw a great session on accessibility and the "global south" which refers to a lot of places in rural USA as much as it does to South America and African countries.
Technological disparities including bandwidth, computer power, stable electric supply, and poverty-limited access to technology and software are still huge problems that affect business and societ…

Schedule - WordPress Accessibility Day 2025
See the great talks we have planned for this year!

I know these places provide jobs and pay taxes but overall I feel the misery #gambling causes outweighs the benefit. Very much makes me angry that they're positioned and designed to exploit those who can least afford it. I won't be crying any tears if they all go.
William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes | William Hill | The Guardian

Reddit starts a limited test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark beside the usernames of notable people or businesses (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/reddit-is-testing-verification-badges/

Reddit is testing verification badges | TechCrunch
Verified users will actually be notable figures, not just people who paid for the checkmark.

DOJ places on leave 2 prosecutors who said 'mob' of 'rioters' carried out Jan. 6 attack (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-places-leave-prosecutors-mob-rioters-carried-jan/story?id=126974576
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p67#a251029p67

I found these pictures at completely different times in completely different places and I refuse to believe they don't form a perfect complete narrative

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

Goldman Sachs: just 33 US counties accounted for 72% of all US data center capacity as of July; places like Umatilla have been transformed by an AWS build-out (David Uberti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/w…

Sigh, "TheHost.ua":
- Have to register with their abuse desk to report spam
- Ends up just passing it to their customer for comment anyway
Still, it is probably one of those places that you can just block all email from and nothing of value will be lost.

The last 25 years of photographing buildings and landscapes has taught me that being in the right place at the right time helps define the quality of a photograph.
My camper van gets me into places at times that I wouldn’t normally be able to access.
I can now stay over on sites to monitor the local conditions and light levels throughout a full 24 hours.
I’m cut free of the bonds of ‘out of town’ accommodation and site access logistics.
Travelling in the van has been…

Van Life Gallery
My van, Woody, is my time-travelling machine, taking me to some remarkable places that have altered my mind like wine through water.

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

🧬 HIV mystery uncovered: How the virus reprograms host cells to create perfect hiding places
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-hiv-mystery-uncovered-virus-reprograms.html

HIV mystery uncovered: How the virus reprograms host cells to create perfect hiding places
For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even curing—the disease a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to achieve.

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

🌞☀️🌤️Through the darker days, I’'ll be heading out on my camper-van-camino, seeking out the light and magnificence in places like Hampnett and sharing each week’s glimmer in my Genius Loci Digest to lift the spirits.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest
Andy Marshall is documenting his travels in his time-travelling camper van 🚐📸🏛

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

Trump just called for the governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago to be thrown in prison.
And when Mike Johnson was asked about Trump’s call for their jailing, the speaker evaded and dodged.
It’s becoming jarringly clear that there’s very little in the way of defenses standing in the way of Trump’s escalating authoritarianism.
And yet, at the same time, there is resistance developinginside places like DOJ.
And that matters, even if it doesn’t seem like it at…

Transcript: Trump Threats to Jail Foes Darken amid Damning DOJ Leaks
As ugly new information emerges about Trump’s efforts to prosecute James Comey and other enemies, a former federal prosecutor explains how his corrupt schemes are running into stiff internal resistance.

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted