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Everything that #Trump has devolved into is because he's had zero repercussions for his actions.
...because #Republicans own the House of Representatives which America voted for.
VOTE in the 2026 midterm

Stop Giving Harm a Microphone by Andrea Fomera
"But still, it’s caused me to want to withdraw myself and disengage in the communities I found purpose and belonging in. This is a direct consequence of giving microphones and amplifying the behavior of people who post their “opposing views” online and engage in bad faith arguments."
https://afomera.dev/posts/2025-10-25-stop-giving-harm-a-microphone

Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying "Unlike Enron, NVIDIA does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue" (Tae Kim/Barron's Online)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/nvidia-st…

This is a fashion trend. It’s not just functional; camo serves no purpose of disguising whatsoever on Minneapolis streets. Militaries are dressing the part — and ICE is playing dress-up.
Avery Trufelman’s excellent podcast Articles of Interest spent an entire season on this topic, under the name “Gear.” Here’s on relevant episode.
2/2
https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/gear-chapter-5

Unlike his predecessors,
Trump does not even pretend that his imperialism serves any purpose nobler than American domination
For Trump, “America first” didn’t imply any legal or moral opposition to foreign invasions.
To the contrary, he criticized Bush for not seizing Iraq’s oil.
He denounced regime change and nation building because they allegedly expended American blood and treasure on behalf of non-Americans.
Instead, Trump promised short wars in which onl…

The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-<…

The Feeling Designer
A place where we speak to purpose-driven designers about the ways they foster more genuine connections with themselves and the world around them...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-feeling-designer/

from my link log —
Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform.
https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/
saved 2021-02-09

Companies House: "BITFOLK LIMITED’s people with significant control need to verify their identity"
Okay, fine, yes, let's do that.
"It is too early for the following people to verify their identity…"
So it seems there is a 14 day window in which I have to do this and it can't be done earlier.
This seems like a maddening amount of bureaucracy to process basically every company director/majority shareholder in UK.
What is the purpose of…

We're having an ice storm and I've got some chocolate for baking cookies. What I don't have in the house is regular all-purpose flour. However, I have whole-wheat flour, rye flour, and almond flour. There's gonna be an experiment this afternoon for sure.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Theblueone/115610100256295671
I am intrigued by junior style guitars… The purity of purpose is alluring

Purpose in Every Step: Over 50 Raiders participate in annual My Cause My Cleats campaign https://www.raiders.com/news/purpose-in-every-step-over-50-raiders-participate-in-annual-my-cause-my-cleats-campaign

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Hubert Mantel wrote:
>
> So the huge ISDN update in proposed-2.2.11 will be removed from the final
> 2.2.11 release?
[ Irritated mode: FULL BLAST ]
Are you being stupid on purpose, or were you born that way?
Go back and read the thread. Read why I'm irritated. READ. THINK.

Traits in #PHP are a limited purpose tool, but they do have a purpose.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/beyond-abstract

Plenty of people use various bags for things other than their intended purpose. Not every laptop bag is used to hold a laptop, sandwich bags don't always hold sandwiches, etc.
But usually it's still a *common* use, just not the only one.
And I don't think I have ever, in my life, seen someone put a duffel in a duffel bag. I don't even know what a duffel is.

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?

Woke up to 15 #COP30 press releases, most saying the same thing. None, of course, mentioning China.
I know the #climate talks are important, but what purpose does it serve flooding journalists with press releases the same 2-3 weeks every year? Is this civil society money well spent?

a human: "I want to put a cat that is physically able to kill me in approximately ten milliseconds in my home and share my life with it"
(One day passes)
same human: "I am going to annoy the animal that can split my spinal cord in two on purpose because I am bored"
never gets old https://www.youtube.com/sh…

You know those “stylish” subtitles in vertical social-media videos? Really can't stand them.
When they're showing you one word at a time, it becomes a tremendous effort not to miss a word. Understanding a sentence that is shown sequentially is so much more difficult than just seeing the whole sentence at once.
Reading ahead and looking back are features helpful to language learners, not bugs hindering native speakers. Subtitles are meant to serve a purpose, not to look ae…

7th Special Purpose Brigade Reorganized as Unmanned Systems Center: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/th-special-purpose-brigade-reorganized.html

Smart glasses find purpose among blind users https://tribune.com.pk/story/2585783/smart-glasses-find-purpose-among-blind-users "If it's on your head, it's definitely a lot more intuitive."

It's so weird how all of a sudden all Youtubers are censoring themselves. Sex is called "X". True Crime podcasts are using the term "serial offender" instead of serial killer. Sometimes a word is mangled and that's where I don't know whether that's Youtube doing it to the audio track automatically or whether the Youtubers are doing it on purpose.
#youtube…

If any Canadian artists out there would like to attempt a design of an appropriately tongue-in-cheek T-Shirt for “ByeChuck.ca”, let me know.
Purpose: A humorous campaign to abolish Canada’s connection to the Monarchy.
Proceeds would go to website maintenance, the original artist, and any excess to a deserving charity.
All designs welcome. My only requirement would be that it is fully made by a person, no AI.
byechuck.ca (redirects to UK Republic page for now)
#canada #monarchy #art #artist

On RNZ right now, they're talking about how the software used by pharmacists is not even remotely fit for purpose. Imagine that. Why isn't that sort of thing being sorted by a publicly funded, openly licensed (available to all) system developed by a consortium of companies - that can be scrutinised by anyone - because it's too important to be entrusted to the proprietary gain of any one company. This stuff is a no-brainer. Some things are far too important to be dependent on a pr…

Social-media influencers and anti-ageing entrepreneurs
mingled with top US government officials,
including the head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), at an exclusive event steps from the White House last week.
The meeting’s purpose was to discuss the future of health in the United States.
Organizers called it the MAHA Summit,
referring to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s signature ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement.
Attendees inclu…

Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet (Defector)
https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-five

How the new kickoff rules opened doors for some of the league's most dynamic players https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47267196/nfl-kickoff-rule-changes-all-purpose-yards-history-kavontae-turpin-chimere-dike<…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Move 78:
🎵 The Process is The Purpose (feat. Cassie Kinoshi)
#Move78
https://open.spotify.com/track/2s9LPLjVF9m7Jy07E9z2KF

Public #libraries should have datasheets, reference manuals and schematics. Would be great for #rightToRepair and keeping #knowledge in general - a library's main purpose.

The end-of-year holidays seem like a good time for those of us who are "computer-wise" to help family and friends moving away from #Windows.
For this purpose I'd strongly recommend going around with a #ZorinOS bootable USB and

Here's my latest Prairie Voice article about old school Midwestern football and what it's become today with NIL and the lack of moral commitment to purpose:
https://prairievoice.com/p/from-bugeaters-to-billion-dollar

I'm kind of fascinated by how quickly the tech world shifted to using "allowlist/denylist" instead of "whitelist/blacklist". I guess part of it is that "allowlist" is more clearly descriptive of its purpose. maybe I should start specifying my sexual orientation as "suck my cock and I'll step on yours, or the other way around is ok if I like you" (which is "3" in the ISO standard enum). after writing that out I'm not sure I should …

RE: https://toot.cat/@zkat/115737870313508332
Been afraid of similar knowledge for many years myself & still hoping to make the world a better place, at least a teensy bit... But yes, the right to "use for any purpose" has always been the weakest point…

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115922574360365414
My brain is very anti-imperialist anarcho-syndicalist or whatever, so obviously I have to run an operating system that suffers on purpose to avoid corporate spyware—bleh.

Rhode's Law:
When any principle, law, tenet, probability, happening, circumstance,
or result can in no way be directly, indirectly, empirically, or
circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, induced, deducted,
estimated, or scientifically guessed, it will always for the purpose
of convenience, expediency, political advantage, material gain, or
personal comfort, or any combination of the above, or none of the
above, be unilaterally and unequ…

"'We do respect and appreciate the temporary activation but it’s time to start moving forward on the original purpose for this site,' Mahmood said, referring to affordable housing."
Ok good start, now do Parcel K in Hayes Valley. Or is this Mahmood's stance only in poor parts of his district?

Using AI for mental health support is dangerous and wrong.
Buuut, probably less dangerous and wrong than relying on mental health support supposedly provided by NSFT NHS trust in Norfolk, UK
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
AVON: Vila.
ORAC: Vila served a useful purpose in distracting and confusing the energy waves emanating from the planet.
VILA: Useful purpose.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/693 B7B6

A year in a digital garden - Breaking free from walled gardens and rediscovering purpose on the open web
[…] I've read a number of posts about personal websites lately from different perspectives, all highlighting their value. This is my attempt to reflect on reclaiming my creative space and what it means to me. […]
— by @…
🙋

My dog continuously tries to ragebait me into letting him outside/giving him more food by knocking stuff over on purpose.

From recent discussions on Panix, I immediately wonder how often you back up that SD card to multiple locations.
They make external SSDs now that are orders of magnitude faster than an SD card, but that might or might not suit your purpose (or be worth your time and money).

"A new investigation of Elon #Musk’s X by Sky News found that every account set up by reporters, 'no matter their political orientation, was fed a glut of rightwing content', much of which was extreme. The experts it consulted believe this pattern could have resulted only from an algorithm engineered for this purpose, and that 'an algorithmic bias must be decided by senior people at …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
PRESSYES:
🎵 Purpose (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #PRESSYES
https://assimrecords.bandcamp.com/track/purpose
https://open.spotify.com/track/06b3aZwELDmgee9WBfewLn

Which way, western man?
That was the title of a racist tract published in 1978 by William Gayley Simpson
a former leftist Christian pastor turned one of the most influential neo-Nazi ideologues in American history.
The book helped radicalize an entire generation of white supremacists in the US,
with its vicious antisemitism, opposition to all forms of immigration and open praise for Hitler.
The purpose of the book, wrote Simpson, was
“to reveal organized…

Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in late-stage talks to raise several hundred million dollars at a $2B valuation (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/a-new-world-model-startup-is-quietly

Pete Carroll Doesn’t Hold Back on Raiders Tanking Against Giants https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-nfl-draft-giants/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Move 78:
🎵 The Process is The Purpose (feat. Cassie Kinoshi)
#Move78
https://open.spotify.com/track/2s9LPLjVF9m7Jy07E9z2KF

Retirement is not the end, but a new beginning. Purpose evolves: consider mentoring, creative pursuits, or diving into health sciences. As Churchill said, "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." How will you redefine your purpose today? 🚀🌟

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115905194480224518
An exception is possibly when you make a website that looks awful on purpose, e.g. for nostalgia for marquee elements and so on.
(Even then please make it honor user preferences.)

Again, I suggest that the abundantly stimulating essays would benefit from a
simpler non-revolutionary purpose

Loading #Windows feels so slow once you get used to #Linux..
(Or maybe they're making Win10 slower and slower on purpose, to try and force me to install #Win11 🤢)

I just submitted a talk for the Geospatial room at #FOSDEM. It's about #OSM. Do you think this would be interesting for the audience?

The Center for the Future of Museums at the #AmericanAllianceOfMuseums publishes interesting articles every week, but its year-beginning predictions are especially worth a look. https://www.…

So yesterday my girlfriend received her 25 Euro android version 12 tablet. It would serve one purpose, being an e-raeder. This ebook platform however uses a website for authentication, nothing unusual about that. Just, it didn't work.
After lots of digging, the lets encrypt riot certificate was lacking on this specific, chinese, android build.
I installed it manually so it could serve it's purpose.

Most meetings are bad, and most attempts to fix it merely reduce the *amount* of meetings, rather than do anything to improve their usefulness.
This is an opportunity for #UX designers aspiring to "do strategy." But hi-fi artifacts won't help you here; their purpose is to document decisions that have already been made.
Lo-fi artifacts only appear skippable when seen alone; i…

Hey @…, what even is the purpose of you, man?

If you ever wanted to know how these #AI datacenters can be financed, here is the explanation:
A creditworthy tech company (Meta, in this example) creates a "special purpose vehicle" #SPV, a box, where they put all the risk and all the debts coming with it.
Then they create a financia…

Beyond Resistance — #climate…

I want to remind everyone of the Montana Plan - a viable approach to diminish the force of the Citizens United decision.
I myself have written about the power of each separate State to regulate corporations operating under the laws of that state - especially those corporations created under the laws of that state. This means that each state has the power and authority to regulate and restrict how corporations created under that state's laws spend money, and for what purpose.

🗾 The second life of Japan's net cafes
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/03/companies/internet-cafe-tokyo-kaiketsu-club/
🆓 …

do u feel like u have a purpose

After a couple of weeks off, I’m back to having fun coding with Claude. I spend most of my time watching, so I’m running two ( totally separate project) coding sessions at the same time in different Codespaces windows. The public one is https://GitHub.com/brazil-bench where I’m setting up a github issues based…

Every year, around 60 million pheasants and partridges are purpose-bred for the shooting industry. #AnimalRights

Maybe a good opportunity to illustrate the purpose of one of the more uncommon packages in #ThingUmbrella: The https://thi.ng/hex package provides hexadecimal formatters for a variety of word sizes (4-64 bits) and also a…

Unity of purpose, diversity of tactics.

Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it's "a collection of public fora" and social interaction isn't its "sole purpose" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-leg

424-word hot take: “You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone”
#accessibility

gonna get one of those humanoid robots that's powered by some dude with an Xbox controller for the sole purpose of kicking my door down in the morning and placing a Vyvanse directly into my mouth

Why Claude Code is much more than a coding agent: it is a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything on a computer with impressive capabilities (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-code-is-about-so-much-more

Here's some things you'll notice the website doesn't do:
No cookie popups. We don't need to warn you about tracking, we just don't track.
No Tracking. I don't even look at the apache logs. I don't care what you do.
No service agreement checkbox. I'm not providing a service. Do what you want with the code but don't blame me.
No billing
No adverts
No paywall
No VPN barrier
No geoblocking
No subscription button (though RSS is provided)
Websites don't have to be shit, the surveillance capitalists just enshitify them on purpose.

Thinking of reinstalling my computer from scratch to iron out all its kinks and tardiness from years of software experiments and trials. Just need to make sure all files are backed up... as I don't want to reinstall the computer from a backup – which would defeat the purpose.

My other task is I want to turn my old Mac mini into a home server. But that needs many hours of focus... haven't done something like that before.

I think my main concern is getting tech issues ou…

Was it ever secret that the purpose the Yorks found was providing access for mercantile interests and that successive Govts used especially him in the Gulf?
If anyone thought that this would shut up grubby media then they're daft.

purpose in every step 🎨 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gVvDzmIh80Q

so, the list.
while i do not think that "making a list" is inherently wrong, doing something like that requires a clarity of purpose and a specific, achievable objective.
i do not think this particular list fits the requirements

The VysionQuest Podcast With Rick Cowley
Join Rick Cowley for guided meditations, reflections, and conversations designed to help you reconnect with your true direction and live a life aligned with your soul's purpose...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-vy<…

“Why yes, good sir, men are meant to court women for the sole purpose of producing offspring! Anything else is simply un-American!”
-- #MAGA
#USPol #US

"Scale - not competition - became the new path to survival."
▶️ The Purpose of Kathleen Kennedy Has Always Been Misunderstood... - Generation Tech
https://youtube.com/watch?v=14EKCU1Ksqs&si=-LSve3MAsdJdeJlc

Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is "a collection of public fora" and social interaction isn't its "sole purpose" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-leg…

Beyond Resistance — #substack

🔭 A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/a-400-year-old-ring-that-unfolds-to-track-movements-of-the-heavens.html

I spent some more time on AI coding evaluation tooling using the new #AWS open source Standard Operating Procedure system, and now I have an automated leader board. It rates the #Claude-flow hive mind version as better than the Claude-flow swarm version from a month before. Next step is to run some more …

SpaceX-built spy satellites are helping the NRO greatly expand its satellite surveillance capabilities,
but the purpose of these signals is unknown.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal
The sign…

Who are going to be the five D senators who chicken out and sign a blank check to the trumpies?
These wimpy-D's are willing to give away what little power we have left to obtain magic beans - which are worthless promises that the R's will allow a vote on ACA subsidies. A vote? We know that the R's will roll over that vote, that el-cheato won't sign, and that even if enacted, will simply become a bag of cash that el-cheato will use for whatever purpose he wants.
…

Gamification enhances user engagement and task performance in prosthetic vision testing https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.20.25342740v2 "Three Argus II users completed circle localization and motion direction discrimination in clinical and gamified ver…

This is abominable.
By law, immigration detention is not supposed to be about meting out punishment or retribution.
It’s supposed to be about facilitating people’s removal.
Yet as the ruling details, the administration,
by refusing to send Ábrego García to Costa Rica despite having that option,
did “not appear to have held him to fulfill that purpose.”
That’s polite legalese for a bombshell:
Trump officials held Ábrego García in detention for mont…

Align Attract
Join Kerry Rowett—Intuitive Business Energetics Mentor, strategist, and healer—as she guides purpose-driven female entrepreneurs to clarify their vision, release hidden blocks, and confidently claim their next level of success...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustral…

I'm not into audiophile stuff btw, just decent quality things really.
For example, I have a pair Bose 901 speakers that are ~50 years old and they sound fantastic.
But it's not even that, if properly engineered even stuff which hasn't the primary purpose of sound reproduction can sound good.
My 15-year old Apple Thunderbolt Display, the 8-year old iPad Pro and the 5-year old Mac Book Pro all sound great.
But—
The speakers in my 2025 LG TV? They shouldn't have bothered installing them but instead put them right into a landfill.
Speakers in my Asus gaming monitor? Like someone dragging a nail on a chalkboard.
And, weirdly, the Apple HomePod mini is pretty bad at reproducing music. A 10-year old Bose SoundLink mini beats the pants of it. 🤷

Just as we might have expected, the D-party is caving in and wimping out...
D's seem to be saying they will settle on a mere promise by the R's to hold a vote - which the D's will lose.
And even should the D's win that vote, the House won't go for it.
And even if the House went for it, El Cheato would veto it.
And even if that veto is overridden El Cheato will ignore it and use the money for some other purpose.
The D party is filled with wimp…

You live your delusion of purpose, I live mine of zero fucks given, nobody's appearance matters in the cosmic joke anyway.
Be whatever self you scrape together, I don't care, looks mean shit to me when bad mindsets breed harm.
I'm not mad, I'm not lost, I just don't care about looks but do care about mindset, so be happy and be you.

Imagine thinking now is the time to remove a protection on freedom of speech on the internet.
https://bsky.app/profile/judiciarydems.senate.gov/post/3m7sjbvhbms2z

> (By the way; thank you so much for this project, it's enabled us to teach HDL as a small portion of an introductory course to digital logic which would have been much harder any other way!)
i'm very pleased about yowasp vscode extension actually being used for its intended purpose! i've kind of developed it and then thrown it onto the winds of fate

While JDVance allowed that perhaps Renee Good was not trying to ram the ICE agent,
Trump stated that she did it, and did it on purpose.
Noem also cast this as deliberate, calling it “an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents.”
This is not some minor, pedantic point.
The administration cast a woman who had just died as deliberately assaulting a law enforcement officer
and engaging in “domestic terrorism.”
Those are not small allegations, espe…

There's something cruel in how our culture treats in-between times.
We have words for achievement
and words for burnout,
but we lack vocabulary for the necessary pauses that precede new growth.
If you say you're
"between projects," people assume you've been cast aside.
The idea that you might be in a natural winter,
that you might be dormant in a way that's preparatory rather than pathological,
doesn't compute …

Donald Trump's oldest son has said that the U.S. may walk away from the Ukrainian war
In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine,
Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country
leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war.
Trump Jr has no formal role inside his father’s administration,
but is a key figure in the Maga movement.
His intervention reflects the antipathy amon…

We are told that, under stress, the humanities must be sacrificed
-- of what use are literature, philosophy, and history when we have problems to solve right now?
And yet colleagues meeting in wartime Kyiv have a clearer sense of purpose, more esprit de corps, , and a better instinct for the essential.
And soldiers on the front (as they tell me) want to talk about history and culture.
In traumatic conditions, people think about where they stand amidst larger force…

A new, disturbing detail in the
“drug boat” controversy that has enveloped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the past week
calls the purpose of the entire operation into question.
According to an exclusive report from CNN,
the alleged narco-trafficking boat that the U.S. military targeted on September 2 in a “double tap” strike, which killed 11 people,
⭐️wasn’t even heading to the U.S.
Navy Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, who was in charge of the operatio…

This Soft Robot Is 100% Edible, Including the Battery
It’s designed to feed medication to wild boars, but you can eat it too
https://spectrum.ieee.org/soft-edible-robot