2026-03-07 19:46:12
Why Hasn’t Trump Mentioned Iran’s Oil?
Usually he encourages the seizure of natural resources as repayment for war
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/trump-oil-iran-venezuela/686271/
Why Hasn’t Trump Mentioned Iran’s Oil?
Usually he encourages the seizure of natural resources as repayment for war
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/trump-oil-iran-venezuela/686271/
"OER as Dynamic Digital Commons: Toward Maintenance and Governance"
https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.20076
"Academic libraries have been instrumental in supporting the creation and adoption of open educational resources (
🐎 Broncos say their new stadium will be ‘privately financed,’ but ‘private’ often still means hundreds of millions in public resources
https://theconversation.com/broncos-say-th…
Why Raiders' Collection of Resources Makes It Spytek's Time to Shine https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-collection-resources-makes-john-spytek-time-shine
Is it hard to keep up with all the awesome extensions and tools for quarto? Check here for an extensive list of resources: #quarto
"A 100% recycled paving block made from mollusk shells and mining waste"
#Recycling
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-03-recycled-paving-block-mollusk…
Elasticsearch vs. OpenSearch: Performance and resource utilization analysis | Elastic Blog
#performance
"Ábrego García should be sent to Liberia because the US has spent government resources and political capital negotiating with the west African nation to accept third-country nationals, Lyons wrote."
So because the #WhiteHouse has spent money and political capital to arrange something both stupid & brutal, they should have the right to do that? And continue to waste resources…
The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and the full weight of the institution is being brought to bear. The audience in the theater knows the official is lying or incompetent or both. The audience at home, watching the real version of the same press conference…
Rep. Khanna's Super Bowl Emergency Constituent Services
Sunday, February 8th between 3:00pm -7:00pm PT Rep. Ro Khanna's district office will hold virtual office hours to offer resources and emergency casework for constituents after reports that ICE could be present at the Super Bowl at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.
Office hours will be hosted by Tom Pyke, District Director and Simeone Chien, Director of Constituent Services. To register please email: CA17@ma…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI model is held back by limited compute resources that create a bottleneck, forcing users to wait hours to generate a single video (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-bytedances-…
If you don’t have the resources to write and understand the code yourself, you don’t have the resources to maintain it either.
Any monkey with a keyboard can write code. Writing code has never been hard. People were churning out crappy code en masse way before generative AI and LLMs. I know because I’ve seen it, I’ve had to work with it, and I no doubt wrote (and continue to write) my share of it.
What’s never been easy, and what remains difficult, is figuring out the right probl…
Ukraine to provide US with 'necessary resources' to counter Iranian drones, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/05/ukraine-to-provide-us-with.html
The exact cause of the outage remains unclear, but several Russian media outlets, including Forbes Russia, initially suggested it could be linked to government attempts to block internet resources, specifically the blocking of IP addresses used in banking infrastructure.
https://therecord.media/outage-hits-ru
Explosive Misinformation: A Guide to Mushroom Clouds, ‘Sonic Weapons’ and Disintegration - bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2026/03/30/explosive-misinformation-a-guide-to-mushroom-clouds-sonic-weap…
Helping in defense against attacks from Iran should be the maximum that Europe does, no involvement in any actions against Iran, on or above it's territory or anything like that. We need maximum resources for security on our own continent and for the war against Russia. It would be typical Trump to first destroy Iran and then ask Europe to clean up his mess...
#iran
Short-term survival of #tardigrades (Ramazzottius cf. varieornatus and Hypsibius exemplaris) in #martian #regolith simulants (MGS-1 and OUCM-1): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/shortterm-survival-of-tardigrades-ramazzottius-cf-varieornatus-and-hypsibius-exemplaris-in-martian-regolith-simulants-mgs1-and-oucm1/8A91986096FB533FB264DD056F549DF2 -> ‘Water bears’ reveal potential for adapting, protecting Martian resources: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/water-bears-reveal-potential-adapting-protecting-martian-resources - microscopic tardigrades help inform how simulated Martian soil might support plant life and mitigate contaminants shedding from human explorers, researchers report -> Scientists Finally Found Something Tardigrades Can’t Survive: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-finally-found-something-tardigrades-cant-survive-2000728358 - tardigrades are practically invincible on Earth, so scientists looked to outer space in search of their kryptonite.
🎉 Today marks the release of Resources 1.10, here are some highlights:
• Added support for AMD NPUs
• Added support for detecting apps managed by appimaged and Portable
• Improved app detection in some cases
• Improved accessibility for screen reader users and keyboard users
• Resources’ CPU usage has been cut down significantly
Enjoy! :)
− Get it via Flathub:
Who shall we blame for this travesty? Trump or Tulsi Gabbard? The CIA World Factbook was one of the first major resources available on the world wide web, long before there was a wikipedia.
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/spotlighting-the-world-…
I've seen so many excited (or annoyed) notices about the changes to the 60m #HamRadio band in the US. Many of them seemed to think that they were in effect already (wrong) and those that didn't make that mistake would just say "soon" (not helpful).
It turns out that 13 February 2026 is the day that you can use the additional band allocation on you…
Why Kirk Cousins believes Las Vegas is the perfect next chapter https://www.raiders.com/news/why-kirk-cousins-believes-las-vegas-is-the-perfect-next-chapter
I’m glad the Wisconsin Bike Fed is getting in front of the ebike issue.
#bikeTooter
"Mantello characterized Flock opposition as anti-police ... declared a state of emergency allowing her to mobilize whatever city resources are needed to continue paying Flock for use of its technology .... "
Small-town yokel mayors know that 2% of the entire electorate showing to protest something (not just to vote, but physically showing up out in the street) is "a small but highly vocal group [...] much of it rooted in intimidation tactics and misinformation"
Oops! Missed the anniversary!
Posted 20 years ago last Friday: New Bottom Line Volume 5.3 – "From Life Cycle Assessment to Life Cycle Thinking"
https://natlogic.com/resources/publications/new-bottom-line/vol5/3-life-cycle-asse…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution plans to cut around 50 positions, or ~15% of its workforce, with about half of them in the newsroom, as it seeks to cut costs (J. Scott Trubey/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
https://www.ajc.com/business/2026/02/the-a
LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142905/janet-gyatso-being-animal-kin-buddhist-resourc…
On that topic, see my text in the “Software in Context” section at the bottom of this reading assignment from one of the courses I teach:
“Generating code is the easiest part of software development.”
https://comp127.macalester.digital/f25/resources/classes_objects_state_behavior/
I just recovered the project information of the atusb IEEE 802.15.4 USB adapter since qi-hardware is now defunct. The page and all other resources/binaries/... (full backup) now live at https://people.osmocom.org/werner/wpan/web/ and a git repo with compiling tools can be found at
Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela
— experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts,
a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview Friday.
Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Absolute Resolve were carried out by the joint force in June 2025 and January 2026, respectively.
Pentagon leadership have touted the rai…
Ranking every NFL team by salary cap space and draft capital ahead of free agency https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-ranking-every-nfl-team-by-salary-cap-space-and-draft-capital-ahead-of-free-agency
I never thought I’d be doing this at my age…
That’s what my friends Karen and Chris told me recently. She’s a retired teacher; he’s a retired firefighter. They are a Canadian couple from Alberta who, over the past few years, have travelled the world, spent time with their family, and helped over a thousand individuals and couples build an online business that removed financial anxiety from their lives.
How did they do this? They got involved in an online business a few years ago and helped others do the same. They had a mentor to guide them from day one. But on top of that they had access to and support of other experienced people on the team. They were able to take advantage of a huge library of training resources that showed them how to get started and keep going in an effective manner. And they had the flexibility to work on their new business based on their priorities and schedules.
The results speak for themselves.
If you’re wondering if it’s possible for you, message me to learn more.
Wildfires accelerate winter snowmelt in Oregon's western Cascades, study finds #Oregon
A New Explanation for Tariffs and Bombings.
Our Finite World | Exploring how oil limits affect the economy
https://ourfiniteworld.com/
Why Kirk Cousins believes Las Vegas is the perfect next chapter https://www.raiders.com/news/why-kirk-cousins-believes-las-vegas-is-the-perfect-next-chapter
In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes and LLM will dutifuly exfiltrate your data via a hidden prompt:
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files
from my link log —
UKI: unified kernel images for booting Linux from UEFI.
https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/unified_kernel_image/
saved 2026-02-28
They should measure AI-generated movies by natural resources used and extrapolate to Bambis consumed per second
@axbom@axbom.meNoem's use of Coast Guard resources strains her relationship with the military branch, sources say (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/noems-use-coast-guard-resources-strains-relationship-military-branch-s-rcna258904
http://www.memeorandum.com/260217/p17#a260217p17
It's time to crush the patriarchy.
Humanity has to start by ridding itself of religion, because it underpins male hegemony.
No more monarchies.
No private landownership.
Cooperation, not capitalism.
Careful stewardship of the world's resources.
Fair distribution of resources.
Distributed smaller scale energy generation - because power shouldn't mean power over others.
I hear that #Python folk are going to enjoy their Monday.
#setuptools removed pkg_resources.
Thanks to Eli Schwartz for the advance warning. We're going to mask it in #Gentoo.
Closed-Loop Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Control for Efficient Drone Flight
Jingli Li, Yiyan Ma, Bo Ai, Wei Chen, Weijie Yuan, Qingqing Cheng, Tongyang Xu, Guoyu Ma, Mi Yang, Yunlong Lu, Wenwei Yue, Christos Masouros, Zhangdui Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.29220
arXiv:2603.29220v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) require drones to follow specific trajectories controlled by ground base stations (GBSs). However, given complex low-altitude channel conditions and limited spectrum and power resources, sensing errors and wireless link unreliability cannot be ignored, leading to trajectory deviations that threaten flight safety. To address this issue, this paper proposes an integrated sensing-communication-control (ISCC) closed-loop trajectory tracking approach, aiming to reveal the coupling mechanisms among communication, sensing, and control during drone flight. In detail, we incorporate sensing errors in trajectory state estimation, packet losses in control command transmission, and finite blocklength transmission effects into the closed-loop dynamics. First, through theoretical analysis, we identify the dominant role of the time-frequency resources allocated to control in ensuring system stability and derive a lower bound on the resources required to guarantee stable operation. Second, to minimize tracking error, we formulate a time-frequency resource allocation optimization problem for the sensing, communication, and control components, subject to constraints on communication rate and closed-loop stability. Accordingly, a solution algorithm based on successive convex approximation is proposed. Third, simulation results indicate that once stability is ensured, system performance is primarily determined by sensing accuracy, with the trajectory tracking error exhibiting an approximately linear dependence on the position error bound. Finally, it is shown that the proposed ISCC scheme avoids trajectory divergence under FBL transmission compared with ISCC designs ignoring control packet loss, and could achieve decimeter-level average tracking accuracy, reducing the error to only 17.37% of that observed in the baseline global navigation satellite system scheme.
toXiv_bot_toot
Tom Brady, Raiders must ace offseason moves after Maxx Crosby trade https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/07/maxx-crosby-trade-raiders-ravens-tom-brady-john-spytek/89033486007/
In the rush to pursue #digitalsovereignty , there must be a temptation to consider whatever isn't foreign-owned and -controlled to be sovereign. But sovereignty is only real if it supports the foundational values of the nation; Canadian digital resources that erode charter rights or democratic principles must be considered anti-sovereignty.
On Building a New Efficient Home in the South of England (2017) - Where to start, what to remember, and useful resources. Save your wallet, warm toes, and the planet! #greenBuilding #lowCarbon #frugal
"Guatemala Opts Out of Oil Extraction in Favor of Protecting Jaguars and Macaws in Mayan Biosphere"
#Guatemala #Animals #Environment
New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of "junk" CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases (Katie McQue/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/…
The war in Iran is threatening the global supply of helium, an essential component in cooling chip-making tools.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/chips-components/iran-war-chokes…
Kind of a dud article, given it promises mid than it delivers about the actual spawning process, but it contains an amazing fact:
Apparently Sigmund Freud did an unsuccessful stint as a marine biologist and was tasked with dissecting 400 male eels to try to find their reproductive organs, which he couldn't because despite being adults they aren't sexually mature until they migrate to their spawning grounds.
I feel like this explains a LOT about Freud's theories' focus on sexual organs (especially of the eel-shaped variety), in light of... Freud's theories.
https://fediscience.org/@tksst/116119712700119977
Link to source linked by article on the Freud factoid:
https://www.freud.org.uk/schools/resources/freud-the-physician/the-young-anatomist/
Gemeinsam mit vielen anderen habe ich den Offenen Brief von @… gegen die "Chat-Kontrolle 1.0" an das Europäische Parliament unterschrieben.
Auch in der #ePrivacy Verordnung darf die Überwachung der Messenger nicht umgesetzt werden.
LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142905/janet-gyatso-being-animal-kin-buddhist-resourc…
""The withdrawal of law enforcement resources here is dependent upon cooperation. ... as we see that cooperation happens, then the redeployment will happen," Homan said."
Top Trump official digs a deeper legal hole for administration: legal reporter - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/tom-homan-minneapolis/
The State of #Java on #Kubernetes 2026: Why Defaults are Killing Your #Performance
Wenn man den Nordatlantikvertrag¹ (aka NATO) so liest, wird schnell klar, daß angefangen von Artikel 1 ganz vieles darin Trump nicht gefallen kann – und vor allem aber nicht nur die USA sich nie wirklich daran gehalten haben…
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¹https://www.
"Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data"
#RDM
Donald Trump said this past weekend he wants to “take the oil in Iran”
by seizing control of a key export hub,
echoing a refrain he has returned to for over a decade.
It’s a sign of his disregard for international law -- and belief in “fossil-fuel imperialism”, experts say.
“Trump truly believes that the US is entitled to whatever resource it so desires,”
said Patrick Bigger, co-director of the Transition Security Project, a research initiative focused on the cli…
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/115987083407541302
Something we should be, but apparently are not, ashamed to have in our very wealthy country.
We have the resources to solve this problem, and the greed that means we won't solve it…
I've been transforming JSON into DOM for some years.
Now I transform YAML into compute resources.
Same vibe, ya know. ✨👩💻✨
november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
Here is a future I never considered until this moment.
There is a timeline where Canadians are defending against an invading force in part to prevent that force, or anyone including Canada itself, from extracting its fossil fuel resources.
We would be defenders of not just Canada, but a stable climate.
This is the future Putin, Trump, and others are pushing us toward.
Where is Mark Carney on that?
#canpoli #cdnpoli #oil #EndFossilFuels
#climateChange
@…
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/oil-wars-vs-energy-transition-feat-markham-hislop/id1636062630?i=1000746980583
Two big threat intel firms released their annual reports this morning: Palo Alto Networks and Dragos.
One Palo Alto finding that jumps out: nearly half (48%) of their observed intrusions in 2025 involved browser-based activity.
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/resources
Guatemala Opts Out of Oil Extraction in Favor of Protecting Jaguars and Macaws in Mayan Biosphere https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/guatemala-opts-out-of-oil-extraction-in-favor-of-mayan-biosphere-security/
Paramount says there are "no plans to divest or spin off a package of cable assets at this time", after merging with Warner Bros. Discovery for $110B (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/busine…
LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142905/janet-gyatso-being-animal-kin-buddhist-resourc…
Filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is "reallocating resources" to AI teams (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/pinterest-layoffs-stock-ai.html
🤑 Would you take the bigger share? Study shows people can learn to say no
#behavior
"They literally told them, 'Get what you can get in the backpack. You've got to go,'" he said.
"They came with no uniforms, nothing. The three we met first, they came with the clothes on their back, what they could fit in that backpack."
The Navy has provided services including "crisis counseling, financial and legal assistance, relocation support, educational resources, coordination for child and youth programs,"
according to Lt. Cm…
#Python is just doing great. We're not having impossible constraints, as some projects need old #setuptools for pkg_resources, and other projects are starting to require newer setuptools for some fancy new features. And ofc after promising to release pkg_resources standalone over a month ago, setuptools upstream didn't deliver.
#Gentoo
Why the Raiders' Resources Will Come in Handy This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-resources-will-come-in-handy-this-offseason
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/115987083407541302
Something we should be, but apparently are not, ashamed to have in our very wealthy country.
We have the resources to solve this problem, and the greed that means we won't solve it…
"H&M Foundation launches open-source toolkit to cut textiles emissions"
#Clothes #Fashion #Emissions
LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT
https://ift.tt/ZL3eBsI
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-NC: 15 February - 22 February H-Net Job Guide 02/25/2026 -…
via Input 4 RELCFP
Trump administration no longer has enough lawyers left to do its dirty work.
Whoever hasn’t been purged for not being loyal enough or exited ahead of the purges has been asked to clean up a mess with extremely limited amounts of resources and manpower.
To make things worse, Trump’s handpicked prosecutors keep being kicked out of court because Trump bypassed the appointment process essential to them remaining employed.
Then there’s the self-inflicted reputational damage Tr…
Google researchers warn that quantum computers may crack elliptic-curve cryptography, which helps secure crypto wallets, with 20x fewer resources than expected (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-31/g…
"Creating an Online Arabic/English Thesaurus Based on Linked Data" by Magda El Sherbini
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8615
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There are some changes for the 2026 tax filing season that people who are 65 years of age and older should be aware of.
The most recent being the enhanced deduction for seniors
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/2026-filing-season-updates-and-resources-for-…
LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT
https://ift.tt/L8ua4YK
Treaties and Empire Seminar Series: Trần Thị Xuân (Hamburg University) - Interpreters and Foreign…
via Input 4 RELCFP
"The Continuing Relevance of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs to Library Collections"
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8614 (
How some independent tech reporters are using AI, which they say allows them to do more reporting and recreate newsroom resources like editors and fact-checkers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-reporters-using-ai-write-edit-stories/
ScaleOps, which makes automated cloud spend tools, raised a $130M Series C led by Insight Partners at an $800M valuation, bringing its total funding to $210M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/skywz1dowe
Guatemala has opted out of renewing a lease agreement
on a 7,000-acre oil field in order to use the land for better protection of the surrounding Laguna del Tigre Biosphere Reserve.
An 830,000-acre component of the greater Mayan Biosphere Reserve
which allows Mesoamerican wildlife to roam freely between the country and neighboring Belize and Mexico,
it’s one of the world’s most important protected areas.
As such, the presence of an oil field inside its borders wa…
"Wildfire-friendly weather nearly triples: Will outbreaks leave countries scrambling for resources?"
#Wildfires #Environment #Weather
Investigation: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used two UK-registered companies to move ~$1B in stablecoins since 2023, evading international sanctions (TRM Insights)
https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/how
Filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is "reallocating resources" to AI teams (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/pinterest-layoffs-stock-ai.html
Why the Raiders' Resources Will Come in Handy This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-look-have-interest-in-1-elite-free-agent
Nvidia discloses $3.5B in guarantees to companies leasing land, power, and data center facilities, up 4x on Q3; the move may help firms without credit ratings (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-dis…
Why the Raiders' Resources Will Come in Handy This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-everything-fans-need-know-after-combine
The Arctic is no longer a frozen periphery,
especially not after the U.S. spat with Europe over Greenland.
As sea ice melts, the High North is emerging as a strategic hub for energy, shipping and critical minerals.
It is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet,
-- but what’s also heating up is the debate over who will control the Arctic routes, rules and resources that will shape global markets for decades.
While Russia and China are method…
Why the Raiders' Resources Will Come in Handy This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-1-move-reportedly-interested-in-makes-complete-sense
Why the Raiders' Resources Will Come in Handy This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-teams-have-major-issue-with-maxx-crosby-stance
In Los Angeles, where more than two-thirds of residents identify as Hispanic, Black or Asian,
a vast majority of schools were found to have extraordinarily diverse student bodies.
And in an effort to combat segregation, the school district has afforded those diverse schools with smaller class sizes and other benefits.
But last month, a conservative group sued the school district, saying the decades-old program has become a mechanism of
“overt discrimination against a…
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116122409126446401
For here’s the most important bit of news in all this - if we win these twelve races the House will flip - period.
So we need to be all in now, and give these great candidates the early resources that will allow the…