2026-04-20 21:07:27
Cowboys Could Benefit From Colts' Kenny Moore Trade Uncertainty https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-could-benefit-colts-kenny-moore-trade-uncertainty
Cowboys Could Benefit From Colts' Kenny Moore Trade Uncertainty https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-could-benefit-colts-kenny-moore-trade-uncertainty
Dont'e Thornton Jr. could really benefit from Fernando Mendoza https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/20/donte-thornton-jr-could-really-benefit-from-fernando-mendoza/892419…
With the biggest instance down for DDoS, it’s a good occasion to remind people who you know on there that there is no real benefit or advantage to being on the big ass server.
Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/technology/jeff-bezos-ai-fund-projec…
So, Instacart users get a free Peacock subscription and one of my credit cards offers a free Instacart subscription but the credit card is discontinuing the benefit, so I guess that I need to figure out what to binge on Peacock.
Bluesky thanks you for giving them the benefit of the doubt. That was all they needed. You may now get fucked.
#iToldYouSo
We've seen this coalition Government taking funding away from social services so that they lose viability & therefore public support, which *makes them easy to sell off* to private interests. We've done exactly the same with our natural environment. Especially our rivers. Exploiting the commons for the private benefit of a few individuals. It's all part of the same human neoliberal disease.
1 Underrated Benefit of Fernando Mendoza's Championship Run for Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-underrated-benefit-fernando-mendoza-championship-run
IMHO: the ad is just a little too low-budget amateur to graduate fully from 'massive cringe' (my overriding reaction lol) to socially disruptive 'parody' but OK, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt I guess?
Aside: what i take away from this is that car salespeople of all genders are incapable of not being creepy or cringy-af. lol
#ad #mysogynism #carsalesman
One coaching hire that will greatly benefit Raiders star RB Ashton Jeanty https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/20/one-coaching-hire-that-will-greatly-benefit-raiders-star-rb-ashton-jeanty/
The one single thing, in the last 15 years, that helped the most in organzing myself and structuring my scientific work was learning and using markdown.
No fancy tool or software solution, just some additional characters in a text file changed so much for me.
I was able to grasp it in a minute, saw the benefit after some weeks. Try it and give it time.
#academicchatter
Book Chapter in Civility Unbound
The idea of civility is predicated on a well-structured society that has norms that should benefit everyone. This essay questions whether such a society exists in the United States and whether what we call “civility” is simply a euphemism for “control.”
https://
> The European Commission today (Feb 9) adopted new measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) to prevent the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear.
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/
Modest proposal: For even more public health benefit, ban bars from serving alcohol too. There are plenty of delicious N/A beers and mocktails that they can switch to serving exclusively.
(this is a shitpost and not a serious argument against the proposal)
https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/bar-p
Än mer data som visar att vaccination mot bältros minskar risken för demens, framför allt alzheimers
Spotlight on the Shingles Vaccine—Again! https://erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-on-the-shingles-vaccineagain
Jill Biden Bids $35,000 For Chance to Win 'Heated Rivalry' Walk-On Role During LGBTQ Benefit Auction (Marc Malkin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/columns/jill-biden-bids-35000-heated-rivalry-role-1236724333/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p52#a260417p52
Brian Daboll talks how experience with Josh Allen will benefit Cam Ward https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47967992/tennessee-titans-oc-brian-daboll-excited-cam-ward
Supreme court justice
Ketanji Brown Jackson
delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration,
calling the orders
“scratch-paper musings”
that can
“seem oblivious and thus ring hollow”.
Jackson, the court’s newest justice,
delivered a lengthy assessment of roughly two dozen court orders issued last year
that allowed Donald Trump to put in place controversial policies …
Kinda related to #Gentoo, so cool" or "they stopped using it, so sad". And I'm like, "why should we care?"
Do they donate money to Gentoo? They don't. And if they did, it would probably come with obligations making this not worth it.
Do they contribute back? Rarely, and if they do, they are unreliable. They benefit more than we do. They just want to dump the packages they need, quickly duct taped together, so that we would maintain them going forward. Their employees rarely reveal that they're paid to do this, and if they do, it's not so they'd be held to higher standards, but to emphasize their importance: "you must placate us."
Well, sometimes they hire Gentoo developers. It's nice that these developers get some gratification for their work, especially if they're able to continue contributing on work time. But in the end, company priorities win. We are either left with loads of new packages with no maintainer and unclear significance, or a Google employee who appeared every once in a while to dump a bunch of ChromeOS patches and never bothered handling the fallout.
So, sorry, but I'd rather care for volunteers who want to make Gentoo better, than companies who see some profit incentive in it.
PS. I'm probably focusing too much on the negative aspects, and we likely had some positive interactions that are far less known and usually don't meet with such fanfare.
#FreeSoftware
Tories would reinstate two-child benefit cap to fund defence, says Badenoch
Conservative leader promises biggest peacetime rearmament effort in UK history if her party is re-elected.
A very nasty piece of work.
https://www.theguardian.com/politi…
Under R-party/maga theocratic principles it would be expected that those who benefit from this pay the costs. In other words, why should we taxpayers pay for this DHS expense when it benefits the airlines and the passengers?
(I'm saying this to demonstrate how much airlines love to offload expenses onto the taxpayers while keeping income to themselves. If these airline CEOs want this then what will they give up to us, the taxpayers. I could suggest lower salaries for CEOs, highe…
I keep forgetting there is no mastodon admin api to change the registration mode. I deeply wish that api existed because so many servers would benefit from building tools to open registration during hours they are available to properly moderate new accounts.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i
The recording of my @… keynote is available online:
Wikipedia and the Semantic Web -- 20 years of co-development, and the future
Drawing on the roots of @… and the Semantic Web, how they influenced each other during t…
Just learned from @… 's presentation (https://videolectures.net/videos/iswc2025_nara_vrandecic_wikipedia_future) that there is a
"To confront the Iranian regime was to walk, with a lit match, towards a tinderbox soaked in gasoline. If it were to be done at all, whether by military or other means, it had to be done with the greatest care. But Trump has blundered in, crushing and trampling all before him, making a bad situation worse. He does not deserve the benefit of the doubt. He does not deserve his war to be assessed charitably. He deserves our contempt."
Latest Cowboys Draft Buzz Suggests Team Could Benefit From Trade 'Discount' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/latest-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-draft-buzz-suggests-team-could-benefit-trade-discount
Betrayal of European allies by the US, again, supporting Russia in a time when it is economically close to collapse. The US is prolonging the war in Ukraine and helping Putin as usual.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03…
Basics of RF Electronics
Amos Christopher Dexter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15205 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.15205 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.15205
arXiv:2602.15205v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The focus of this educational text is selected examples of high-frequency electronic circuits and their components employed for the accurate phasing and synchronisation of accelerator cavities. Examples have been chosen to describe the basics of RF electronics. The starting point is transmission lines, connectors, discontinuities, and the handling of reflection. The application of simple surface mount components is discussed. The use of the Kuroda identities for converting lumped circuit designs to printed circuit designs is demonstrated. The accelerator example used to demonstrate the use of components is a circuit designed for the synchronisation of the CLIC crab cavities. This example employs co-planar waveguide, SMA connectors, Wilkinson splitters, and surface-mount double-balanced mixers. For the control of cavity phase and amplitude, the benefit of I&Q controllers will be explained. The text will then discuss the operation and use of I&Q modulators and VCOs.
toXiv_bot_toot
ICE must give seized property back, and respond to FTCA claims pronto
No More Benefit Of The Doubt
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/no-more-benefit-of-the-doubt
Wetlands do not need to be flooded to provide the greatest climate benefit, shows study #environment
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When you are running Governor and have the endorsement of the Milwaukee and Madison DSA and also the local punk venue is doing a benefit show for you...
https://xrayarcade.com/calendar/2026/04/25/francescahong
I have a weird feeling, as shit gets more and more real, that stuff like our international trade deals will have to be abandoned out of self-preservation (most were entered into to benefit not NZers, but the wealthiest NZers - a form of implicit TrickleDown). I wonder which political party will have steel enough to point it out.
Fugazi Albini
Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity)
https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity
Just weeks after the largest nurses strikein New York City history, the CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals has a bold vision for a future where AI, not human radiologists, examines and diagnoses X-rays.
At a panel held by Crain’s New York Business, Mitchell Katz, president and CEO of New York’s 11-hospital public benefit corporation, made overt gestures of his desire to replace highly trained radiology experts with visual language AI models, Radiology Business reported.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@jaypdub/116377345262425695
The source is https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/pdfs/FY-2027-NASA-Budget-Request-List-of-Cancelled-Science-Missions.pdf - and Isaacman fully supports this total destruction of what has made NASA great in the past. I once gave him - reluctantly - the benefit of the doubt. Withdrawn, completely!
Rebuilding public trust in AI requires meaningful citizen engagement, transparent governance, and robust legislation. Technology itself is not the problem. The issue is that few people trust institutions to deploy it wisely and for their benefit. This makes the first step to answer the following question: What’s it in for me?
The most frustrating part of contributing to software #documentation is when the reviewer does not understand the improvement and asks for elaboration a dozen times and you keep explaining it over and over again. 🧘
And then states that they are lacking resources for reviews, but still find the time to meticulously explain how they do not see a benefit and thus hold back.
I’m told this has raised nearly $65,000 for Letters Charity. You are amazing! https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini-sessions-benefit-for-letters-charity
If a not-for-profit for-profit privacy-protecting company funded by surveillance capitalism isn’t trustworthy, I don’t know what is. @… https://polymaths.social/@c…
The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/livenation-a…
'Operation Epstein Distraction': Sexual assault allegations against Trump emerge
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/press-review/20260306-operation-eps…
Raiders' John Spytek Has Earned the Benefit of the Doubt https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-john-spytek-has-earned-benefit-doubt
For those wondering about the bizarre Apache helicopter flyover of a No Kings rally and "spontaneous" visit to Kid Rock's mansion, whether it was intentionally orchestrated (seems likely to me) or not, the effect was to send a public signal to the military that acts of allegiance to Trump and his supporters will get rewarded and shielded with impunity, even if they're flagrant violations of military codes and procedures.
It's another step in the fascist playbook of getting the military in line to support tyrannical acts, so it's very much not a "no harm no foul" situation.
As for why I think it's more likely quite deliberate: those helicopters don't fly without thousands of dollars of fuel, air traffic control (or you're creating some *serious* danger going without), and other logistical support. There's no way that level of risk makes personal sense to some random army helicopter pilots, just for the benefit of pulling a public stunt? These aren't random rookies in basic training, it takes serious skill and many hours of training to successfully pilot a helicopter at all. Why risk your entire military career on a stunt, and how did you convince an entire ground crew and air traffic control tower to get in on it? Having some kind of orders/encouragement/guarantee of impunity from above makes the most sense. I'd be 0% surprised if Hegseth directly gave the orders/go-ahead and the show of an "investigation into insubordination" that gets publicly cancelled by Hegseth personally is an entirely intentional result if not the main objective.
Also buzzing the No Kings rally was 100% intentional.
#NoKings
#MoveAlong, #NothingToSeeHere, Folks
US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company
#MoveAlong, #NothingToSeeHere, Folks
US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company
Just got notice that my dentist's office will no longer be participating in the NH Medicaid program. This really sucks! The whole reason I switched to them in the first place was because they were in-network for the new Medicaid dental benefit! Now I'll have to switch again, and apparently the nearest place that takes Medicaid isn't even in Concord anymore, which would be problematic for me, seeing as I don't have a car...
Edit: I hear NHTI's dental clinic takes Medicaid! I'll give them a look later...
The Ambassador for #Iran, Ardeshir Zahedi, hosted a party at the Iranian embassy 50 years ago, April, 1976. Sen. Edward Brooks (Mass) danced "The Hustle" w Elizabeth Taylor; Sen. Humphrey (Minnesota) and Sec. State Kissinger visited with Polly Bergen. Fargo Forum Newspaper. "It's Party Time" (AP)
Turns out you could drive an entire fascist regime through the gap between their actual, racist behavior and the undeserving benefit of the doubt extended to Donald Trump and his associates! Who knew? Everyone! For decades!
So, decided to get them rookie `/queue` numbers up so did a quick bit of caching. For a 12-job queue, I went from 240 RPS (Python/Flask) to 680 (Golang/Gin) then to 3400 RPS with some proper caching. The `/workers` endpoint would benefit as well, but I think its performant enough though I may end up adding a bit of caching later.
#golang
Sonnet 028 - XXVIII
How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarred the benefit of rest?
When day's oppression is not eas'd by night,
But day by night and night by day oppress'd,
And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me,
The one by toil, the other to complain
How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,
And dost him grac…
Nigel Farage wants to cut price of beer by reinstating two-child limit - Big Issue
https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/nigel-farage-beer-prices-two-child-benefit-limit/
Same old Tories, effectively.
No wonder he won't deba…
Cowboys Could Benefit From Potential Caleb Downs Slide in 2026 NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-could-benefit-potential-caleb-downs-slide-2026-nfl-draft
How Oura won over DC by growing its lobbying spend to $1M per year, as RFK Jr. touts wearables for health and the US DOD makes the rings an employee benefit (Amanda Chu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/09/oura-ring-lobbying-rfk-maha-wa…
Finally, some very good news: solar panel arrays in the Sahara absorb the heat and help form rainclouds: the desert is getting greener!
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-panels-are-creating-rain-clouds/19854/
Video I was watching: "members and representatives of the ultra wealthy have created a report that points out the obvious fact that infinite growth has to end because the world is finite. They have assured us that this is bad for us because it's bad for "the economy." But there's hope. If we only take several steps towards fascism, we will only need to take the remaining steps in order to sustain their economic dominance for a little while more.
It will only cost everything we care about and the habitability of the planet, but some of us can still benefit from the crumbs they will feed us until they have to systematically murder us all for just a little more time on top."
Misery Public Benefit Corporation
The unexpected benefit of getting your annual flu shot | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/heart-attack-flu-shot-influenza-b2917504.html
The three largest benefit managers
— CVS Health’s Caremark,
Cigna’s Express Scripts
and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx
— collectively oversee some 80 percent of all prescriptions in the United States.
Employers and government programs hire P.B.M.s to negotiate with drug companies, pay pharmacies and help decide which drugs patients can get at what price.
Patients see the work of a benefit manager when they encounter denials for coverage of prescriptions or are f…
🤑 Would you take the bigger share? Study shows people can learn to say no
#behavior
“Big Tech’s AI hype is distracting users from the rapid and dangerous expansion of giant, energy and water-intensive data centres […].
There is simply no evidence that AI will help the climate more than it will harm it.
Rather than relying on credible and substantiated data, Big Tech companies are writing themselves a blank cheque to pollute on the empty promise of future salvation. We cannot bet the climate on these baseless claims.”
It used to be that to use any kind of software you would have a paper manual explaining how to do everything in detail.
Then it moved on to the manual being on the computer, why not, it had the added benefit of being searchable.
Then it moved on to being fully online, slightly annoying since you can't figure stuff out without internet, but OK.
Now.. You get weird "get help" interfaces for which you still need to get online but do not actually provide any useful info. I can't reme…
RE: https://journa.host/@mathewi/115985125373328108
I didn't know about the 2nd and the 4th, and the 2nd doesn't surprise me (I had speculated he'd go for a massive cash bribe, but benefit in kind makes sense too) but arresting Obama?!!? That would…
Did I mention the X4 lately? ^^
I recently concluded that Crosspoint could benefit from a few more customizations and more font size options offered in Papyrix. It turns out that Inx might be the firmware to fill the gap. It also displays your current reading time, along with the number of pages and chapters—quite a nice feature!
https://
No decent person looks at the world and says “you know what I want, a billion dollars!” So why do you still expect such people to behave decently? Or to learn from their “mistakes.” (They’re not mistakes.) It fucking blows my mind how some of you are still giving these parasites every benefit of the doubt.
The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/livenation-a…
Octopus Plunge Pricing is coming to France. Users of the Electroverse app can benefit from discounted electricity at Powerdot stations, depending on market conditions.
https://www.automobile-propre.com/articles/powerdot-oc…
Trump's bounce among Hispanics can benefit him in the midterm elections (Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/4432197/trump-support-hispanics-can-benefit-him-midterm-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p29#a260126p29
Whenever people are commenting on another half-assed, crappy #LLM feat, claiming that there are "some" use cases for this "#AI", substitute "AI" with "genocide".
Because, you know, there are "use cases" for genocide too, and apparently a lot of people don't mind, as long as they can benefit from it and look the other way.
#NoAI
Gary Kubiak Doesn’t Hold Back New Raiders HC Klint Kubiak https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/gary-kubiak-admission-about-klint-kubiak/
DOJ seeks to undo Bannon’s conviction for defying Jan. 6 subpoena
-- its latest shift in a legal position to benefit a close ally of President Donald Trump.
In a Monday legal filing, the department asked the Supreme Court to send Bannon’s case back to the district court,
where the U.S. attorney filed a separate motion seeking to dismiss the charges against Bannon.
A.J. Brown landing spots: Six best NFL team fits/trade packages for Eagles WR https://www.nfl.com/news/a-j-brown-landing-spots-best-team-fits-trade-packages-for-eagles-wr
Why the Entire NFL Would Benefit From a Raiders Resurgence https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-entire-would-benefit-from-resurgence
Far-Right Arizona Rep Intros Bill To Create Charlie Kirk License Plate That Would Benefit Turning Point USA - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/02/far-right-arizona-rep-intros-bill-to-create-charlie-kirk-license-plate-that-would-benefit-turning-point-usa/
Emil Michael, a high-profile US defense department official who oversees the agency’s artificial intelligenceefforts,
made a profit of up to $24m selling a private investment he held in Elon Musk’s AI company earlier this year,
according to government ethics records released this month.
The value of his stake totaled a maximum of a million dollars when he joined the department.
Emil Michael, who is the Pentagon’s under secretary for research and engineering under the …
🍙 Seaweed farms boost long-term carbon storage by altering ocean chemistry, study shows
#seaweed
Free Agency and the 2026 NFL Draft Elevate the Cowboys Defense https://insidethestar.com/free-agency-and-the-2026-nfl-draft-elevate-the-cowboys-defense
No Peace: A Community Hardcore Show to Benefit Immigrants
Desmadre Media Hosts
👉 Feb. 28 Fundraiser Featuring Music, Printmaking, Tattoos, and Tacos
This weekend brings a chance for the community to party for a good cause,
with Desmadre Media’s “No Peace” hardcore show and fundraiser
👉 at Foundation Press
38 Depot Road
in Old Town Goleta
on Feb. 28.
The event will include bands from the Central Coast, live printmaking, tattoos, and food …
Goodell backs Rooney Rule amid litigation threat https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48362846/goodell-backs-rooney-rule-says-diversity-benefit-nfl
Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen, viewed as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, will unveil a plan that he says would ensure roughly half of all U.S. workers pay no federal income taxes.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is expected to release the measure next week as Democratic lawmakers search for a sharp economic message to counter last year’s Republican tax law.
Under Van Hollen’s proposal, workers making at or below a “living wage”
— $46,000 for taxpayers filin…
Raiders Who Will Benefit Most from Kubiak's Presumed Hiring https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-who-will-benefit-most-from-klint-kubiak-presumed-hiring
Cowboys could benefit from combine's biggest disappointments dropping https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/02/draft-cowboys-rueben-bain-cashius-howell/88950684007/
South Carolina doesn’t require hospitals to report when they admit patients with measles-related illnesses.
Available data shows that only 2% of the state’s measles cases have resulted in hospitalizations. Some infectious disease experts fear significant underreporting.
Some doctors say they lack information about the severity of measles complications as it spreads around them.
Raiders GM Spytek Offers Interesting Perspective on QB Readiness https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-would-benefit-from-adding-star-indiana-ol
Donald Trump has agreed to comply with court orders to partially fund the "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program".
The food benefit, commonly called SNAP, goes back-nearly a century in the U.S.
https://www.msn.com/e…
Maxx Crosby trade winners, losers. How much does Lamar Jackson benefit? https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/ravens/2026/03/06/maxx-crosby-trade-winners-losers-ravens-raiders/89032304007/
Coaching Hires Raiders Should Avoid for Mendoza's Benefit https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-coaching-hires-should-avoid-for-fernando-mendoza-benefit
One intriguing late round QB who could be worth a flyer from Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/04/09/vanderbilt-qb-diego-pavia-worth-late-round-nfl-draft-pick-ra…