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@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-30 21:59:37

'Best I'm throwing it in years:' Joe Burrow finally enjoying a healthy training camp https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45862703/nfl-bengals-joe-burrow-quarterback-best-throwing-years

Bengals QB Joe Burrow: Best I'm throwing it in years - ESPN
For the first time since his rookie year, Burrow isn't nursing an injury through camp, and it's resulted in his best summer start in six seasons.

@Xexyz@mastodon.me.uk
2025-07-30 12:59:03

Portal: completed, again
Steam was released for the Mac in the last week, and as part of the initial offer you can get Portal for free. In fact, I'd get Portal for free anyway, because they're saying that if you bought it for PC, they consider you bought it for Mac as well. Very generous of them. So I've completed Portal's main story for the fourth time (PC, PC with commentary, Xbox 360, Mac).

Portal: completed, again
Steam was released for the Mac in the last week, and as part of the initial offer you can get Portal for free. In fact, I’d get Portal for free anyway, because they’re saying that if yo…

@nohillside@smnn.ch
2025-05-16 16:53:26

Was die „Aber China … !“-Rufer jetzt wohl machen wenn über den Öl-Ausstieg diskutiert wird?
Clean Energy Just Put China's CO2 Emissions Into Reverse For First Time - Slashdot https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/

Clean Energy Just Put China's CO2 Emissions Into Reverse For First Time - Slashdot
For the first time, the growth in China's clean power generation has caused the nation's carbon dioxide emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth. From a report:The new analysis for Carbon Brief shows that China's emissions were down 1.6% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 and by 1%...

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-07-28 13:06:20

How popular media gets love wrong
Now a bit of background about why I have this "engineered" model of love:
First, I'm a white straight cis man. I've got a few traits that might work against my relationship chances (e.g., neurodivergence; I generally fit pretty well into the "weird geek" stereotype), but as I was recently reminded, it's possible my experience derives more from luck than other factors, and since things are tilted more in my favor than most people on the planet, my advice could be worse than useless if it leads people towards strategies that would only have worked for someone like me. I don't *think* that's the case, but it's worth mentioning explicitly.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
I'm lucky in that I had some mixed-gender social circles already like intramural soccer and a graduate-student housing potluck. Graduate school makes a *lot* more of these social spaces accessible, so I recognize that those not in school of some sort have a harder time of things, especially if like me they don't feel like they fit in in typical adult social spaces like bars.
However, at one point I just decided that my desire for a relationship would need action on my part and so I'd try to build a relationship and see what happened. I worked up my courage and asked one of the people in my potluck if she'd like to go for a hike (pretty much clearly a date but not explicitly one; in retrospect not the best first-date modality in a lot of ways, but it made a little more sense in our setting where we could go for a hike from our front door). To emphasize this point: I was not in love with (or even infatuated with) my now-wife at that point. I made a decision to be open to building a relationship, but didn't follow the typical romance story formula beyond that. Now of course, in real life as opposed to popular media, this isn't anything special. People ask each other out all the time just because they're lonely, and some of those relationships turn out fine (although many do not).
I was lucky in that some aspects of who I am and what I do happened to be naturally comforting to my wife (natural advantage in the "appeal" model of love) but of course there are some aspects of me that annoy my wife, and we negotiate that. In the other direction, there's some things I instantly liked about my wife, and other things that still annoy me. We've figured out how to accept a little, change a little, and overall be happy with each other (though we do still have arguments; it's not like the operation/construction/maintenance of the "love mechanism" is always perfectly smooth). In particular though, I approached the relationship with the attitude of "I want to try to build a relationship with this person," at first just because of my own desires for *any* relationship, and then gradually more and more through my desire to build *this specific* relationship as I enjoyed the rewards of companionship.
So for example, while I think my wife is objectively beautiful, she's also *subjectively* very beautiful *to me* because having decided to build a relationship with her, I actively tried to see her as beautiful, rather than trying to judge whether I wanted a relationship with her based on her beauty. In other words, our relationship is more causative of her beauty-to-me than her beauty-to-me is causative of our relationship. This is the biggest way I think the "engineered" model of love differs from the "fire" and "appeal" models: you can just decide to build love independent of factors we typically think of as engendering love (NOT independent of your partner's willingness to participate, of course), and then all of those things like "thinking your partner is beautiful" can be a result of the relationship you're building. For sure those factors might affect who is willing to try building a relationship with you in the first place, but if more people were willing to jump into relationship building (not necessarily with full commitment from the start) without worrying about those other factors, they might find that those factors can come out of the relationship instead of being prerequisites for it. I think this is the biggest failure of the "appeal" model in particular: yes you *do* need to do things that appeal to your partner, but it's not just "make myself lovable" it's also: is your partner putting in the effort to see the ways that you are beautiful/lovable/etc., or are they just expecting you to become exactly some perfect person they've imagined (and/or been told to desire by society)? The former is perfectly possible, and no less satisfying than the latter.
To cut off my rambling a bit here, I'll just add that in our progress from dating through marriage through staying-married, my wife and I have both talked at times explicitly about commitment, and especially when deciding to get married, I told her that I knew I couldn't live up to the perfect model of a husband that I'd want to be, but that if she wanted to deepen our commitment, I was happy to do that, and so we did. I also rearranged my priorities at that point, deciding that I knew I wanted to prioritize this relationship above things like my career or my research interests, and while I've not always been perfect at that in my little decisions, I've been good at holding to that in my big decisions at least. In the end, *once we had built a somewhat-committed relationship*, we had something that we both recognized was worth more than most other things in life, and that let us commit even more, thus getting even more out of it in the long term. Obviously you can't start the first date with an expectation of life-long commitment, and you need to synchronize your increasing commitment to a relationship so that it doesn't become lopsided, which is hard. But if you take the commitment as an active decision and as the *precursor* to things like infatuation, attraction, etc., you can build up to something that's incredibly strong and rewarding.
I'll follow this up with one more post trying to distill some advice from my ramblings.
#relationships #love

@pre@boing.world
2025-05-27 19:06:58

Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Wish World

A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.

@scott@carfree.city
2025-05-28 01:55:15

if you want to read the new translation of Capital, it's 50% off until May 31st, which means there is only half as much socially-necessary labor time embodied in it
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190075/capital

Capital
Marx for the twenty-first centuryThe first new English translation in fifty years—and the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himselfFeaturing extensive original commentary, including a foreword by acclaimed political theorist Wendy Brown“An astounding achievement.”—China Miéville, author of October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-29 13:04:29

Patriots drafted third kicker in five years: Who is Andy Borregales? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45592533/patriots-rookie-kicker-andy-borregales

Who is Patriots rookie kicker Andy Borregales? - ESPN
Borregales was drafted in the sixth round in April. Patriots are hoping this time they've found a solution at kicker.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-22 16:48:53

🏎️ Tiny cars, big stakes: These remote control racers aren't hobbyists. They're pros
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-07/professional-radio-control-racers-california-race
🆓

Tiny cars, big stakes: These remote control racers aren't hobbyists. They're pros
For these Southern California residents, radio-control racing is more than a hobby; it's a full-time job.

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-07-25 18:56:07

Another #hiking story is online! No mountains this time but along the shores of the river #Mangfall .
Tough to photograph on such a day. In autumn - with some fog - it must be great. But we really had a great day there!
See more of it:

A charming scene of a white house with green shutters, nestled in a rural area. The house is surrounded by a wooden fence, with a lush tree standing tall in the yard. The sky above is a vibrant blue with fluffy white clouds. The grass is a vivid green, creating a picturesque landscape. In the background, another tree can be seen, adding to the natural beauty of the setting. This peaceful and idyllic scene evokes a sense of tranquility and rural charm, making it a perfect retreat from the hustle…

A serene scene of a path cutting through a lush forest is depicted in this image. The forest is dense with green vegetation, including tall trees and grassy areas. The dominant colors are shades of green and black, creating a tranquil and natural atmosphere. The image showcases the beauty of nature, with tags indicating it may be a nature reserve or woodland area. The composition includes a tree in the foreground, emphasizing the natural environment. This peaceful setting evokes a sense of calm…

@muz4now@mastodon.world
2025-07-11 16:12:36

Saving history one story at a time : Consider This from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/02/1255100748/saving-history-one-story-at-a-time?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/magazin…

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-27 03:07:00

even more famous!
https://english.elpais.com/people/2024-02-10/that-ferrari-isnt-going-to-pay-for-itself-the-controversial-rise-of-jeremy-fragrance-the-perfume-influencer.html

Fragrance reviews have been pushed into the background. Just one example is the 2021 video My Life Story, where he claims that his father used to beat him and his older brother, that he had sex with other men while he was part of Part Six and that a woman falsely accused him of rape. In the final minutes, before recommending Gentleman by Givenchy, he gets excited by thinking about the millions of women who get breast implants. Many of his subscribers assume that such manic videos are the result…

In his native country, Jeremy has become a celebrity: in November 2022, he made the leap to the small screen when he took part in the 10th edition of Promi Big Brother, Germany's version of Celebrity Big Brother. As was to be expected, he did his thing: he did not eat anything, subsisting only on water, and at no time did he take off his characteristic white suit, no matter how much the producers asked him to. On the sixth day, he left the show. He had accomplished his mission: as he said on se…

@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-05-29 10:20:19

"William Zani, one of the core programmers of the first BASIC compiler, tells the story of the demo of the DTSS system at the San Francisco AFIPS 1964 conference (minute 26:17), sending a BASIC program to from San Francisco to Hanover, New Hampshire over a telephone line, live in front of an audience, who (I quote) “went bananas”."
https…

Dartmouth College
In August 2014, Dartmouth College published a video commemorating the 50th anniversary of the BASIC programming language, the subject of this month's Vidéothèque section. It features original footage from the 1960s and interviews of former students and team members, including Professor Thomas Kurtz, who was 85 years old at the time. But the heart and soul of the video is, without any doubt, Professor John Kemeny himself; not only his technical contributions, which were outstanding by every st…

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-07-26 13:30:55

New on blog: "EPYTEST_PLUGINS and other goodies now in #Gentoo"
"""
If you are following the gentoo-dev mailing list, you may have noticed that there’s been a fair number of patches sent for the #Python eclasses recently. Most of them have been centered on #pytest support. Long story short, I’ve came up with what I believed to be a reasonably good design, and decided it’s time to stop manually repeating all the good practices in every ebuild separately.
In this post, I am going to shortly summarize all the recently added options. As always, they are all also documented in the Gentoo Python Guide.
"""
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2025/07/26/epytest_plugins-and-other-goodies-now-in-gentoo/

@anildash@me.dm
2025-07-17 05:34:05

I was incredibly excited about seeing Wu-Tang's last-ever show at the Garden tonight (with Run the Jewels opening, no less!), so I thought it was a perfect time to tell the story of when I got to see the last time all 9 members performed together on one stage — complete with footage of an on-the-run Old Dirty Bastard bursting onto the stage to everyone’s surprise: …

Exit the Wu
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

@pbloem@sigmoid.social
2025-05-18 22:12:00

Duckduckgo is fine for the time being, but that won't last long. MS wants to drive people to AI.
Maybe we need a foundation-run public search index. Something we can all build our own search front-ends on.
https://www.wired.com/story/bing-microsoft-api-su…

Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots
Microsoft is limiting access to tools that boosted its rivals, but larger customers like DuckDuckGo say they won’t be affected.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-13 16:30:45

Tiny Human Hearts Grown in Pig Embryos For the First Time - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/06/13/152206/tiny-human-hearts-grown-in-pig-embryos-for-the-first-time

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-14 13:12:38

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Alabaster dePlume:
🎵 Whisky Story Time
#AlabasterdePlume
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/whisky-story-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZBxqoho42uvFAJB6d2RdS

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-19 22:30:59

A look at Decart, which has developed video-to-video AI model Mirage that manipulates live video in real time and can potentially shake up livestreaming (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/decart-artificial-intelligence-model-live-stream/

This AI Warps Live Video in Real Time
A startup called Decart has developed an AI model that can transform live footage. The results are mind-bending—and poised to take over streaming.

@ampersine@mastodon.online
2025-06-04 15:44:37

Congratulations to all the "Elon's reign of terror is over" article writers from last week, great jorb
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/

‘Big Balls’ Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee
The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul.

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-07-24 03:08:52

About 65 hours in to Xenoblade 3. Having a great time. I think the story is not the best in the world but the gameplay is really great.
#videogames

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-21 11:02:17

Why use hyperlinking if you can create videos recording screens recording screens, just to be able to document other people documenting your own work. The modern internet is just sooo amazing!
#Actiniaria #GenerativeArt

30 second video recording of an iPhone showing an Instagram story of my art piece "Actiniaria" displayed on a large Layer Canvas LED screen with the following text overlaid: "Look at this beauty. Infinite piece by @thing_umbrella running in real time on @meetlayer"

@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-17 16:51:46

For me if someone schedules a meeting before 08:00 and after 15:00 it is an automatic NO.
Early morning mail checks (before 07:00) is done only when I am on call and to see if there was any emergencies in the prior evening production run that I missed. When I do that my day starts at that time! I adjust the end of day time to allow for the early start. Normal hours for me is 07:00 to 15:30.

Meetings After 8 p.m. Are On the Rise, Microsoft Study Finds - Slashdot
Meetings starting after 8 p.m. are up 16% compared to a year ago, and at 10 p.m. almost a third of active workers are still monitoring their inboxes, according to research from Microsoft. Bloomberg: The company's annual work trends study, which is based on aggregated and anonymized data from Microso...

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-17 14:10:54

'It would 'waste time': Trump says he won't call Minnesota Gov. after lawmaker shootings (Sarah D. Wire/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/17/trump-tim-walz-call-minnesota-shootings/84239937007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p51#a250617p51

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-07-24 23:26:26

Fresh from intimidating ABC and CBS with meritless lawsuits,
Donald Trumpis suing Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal reporters who broke the story of a lewd birthday message for Jeffrey Epstein.
But, unlike with the frivolous allegations against the big broadcasters,
there’s clearly a fact of the matter here:
an authentic letter either exists or it does not;
-- and there is plenty to be revealed in the process of finding out.
Trump’s time-proven …

Why Trump’s political playbook is failing in the Epstein case
The president’s long-effective tactics are finally facing a test – especially when it comes to time management

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-07-22 05:50:41

Sources: Paramount will pay $300M a year for five years to bring global streaming rights for South Park to Paramount , including US rights for the first time (Meg James/Los Angeles Times)

'South Park' creators reach $1.5-billion streaming deal with Paramount
Paramount has reached an agreement that will bring 'South Park' to streaming service Paramount+ for the first time in the U.S.

@Jaredt@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-27 16:19:17

Wait one god damn minute here…

A screenshot of a news article reads: “The initial story reported that 28 bodies were in storage at the time. As of Monday morning, Johnson said there were 26 bodies in long-term storage.”

@pre@boing.world
2025-07-24 18:48:23

Content warning: "Outland" by Dennis E Taylor

Read "Outland" by Dennis E Taylor, book one of the Quantum Earth series in which some college students figure out how to make a portal to parallell Earths just in time for their Earth Prime to suffer a supervolcano.
Taylor is pretty good at this stuff, loved his Bobiverse books.
Story was always progressing, even if it sometimes seemed to progress too slowly. Everyone's hip with all the literature so are comparing their situation to movies and TV shows all the time. Realistic cat-herding difficulties as they try and save as many people as they can and slowly realize that none of them will be going home and their home is doomed.

Looking forward to the next one.
#reading #books #scifi

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-23 18:41:47

Another “Long Links” curation of long-form works that probably nobody has time for all of, but one or two of which might enrich your life. Featuring: Population shrinkage, “evitability of enshittification”, vibe-coding tales, the usual cosmology fun, a story 70 years in the making, and Equus asinus. https://www.

My neighborhood’s network infrastructure, which outlines the form of a cathedral’s nave.

Long Links

@chpietsch@fedifreu.de
2025-06-08 09:50:33

This story of an ex-Googler is well worth reading. After some personal observations, @… asks interesting questions:
What is crypto mining if not a textbook Captain Planet villain scheme—to kill and raze and destroy for nothing but imaginary tokens proving that you did lots of killing and razing and …

Deep in Mordor where the shadows lie: Dystopian stories of my time as a Googler
I will do something I normally never do here, and make my first ever blog post on the topic of, long sigh: tech. I’ve already talked abou...

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-28 00:16:32

Dallas Cowboys training camp: Takeaways from Day 6 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/27/dallas-cowboys-training-camp-takeaways-from-day-6/85399338007/

Dallas Cowboys training camp: Takeaways from Day 6
The team put the pads on for the first time in 2025, with rookie RB Jaydon Blue one of several players taking their opportunities seriously.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-29 00:39:48

Source: Dallas' Guyton (knee) out, but ACL intact https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45846066/cowboys-tyler-guyton-4-6-weeks-bone-fracture-knee-mri-shows-acl-intact

Source - Cowboys' Tyler Guyton (knee) to miss time, avoids surgery - ESPN
An MRI revealed that Cowboys left tackle Tyler Guyton suffered a bone fracture -- not a torn ACL -- in his right knee during Monday's practice. He will miss 4-6 weeks but the injury will not require surgery.

@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2025-06-19 11:12:03

Seems a part of what @… warns of...
SLASHDOT: Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army As Officers
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army As Officers - Slashdot
The U.S. Army Reserve has directly commissioned four top Silicon Valley executives as lieutenant colonels under a new initiative, Detachment 201, aimed at accelerating tech integration into military operations. While these part-time roles are intended to bring private-sector innovation to defense mo...

@losttourist@social.chatty.monster
2025-07-17 09:16:47

15 minutes ago there was something that I remembered I needed to sort out, but of course by the time I'd got up and started making a move it had completely gone from my mind.
"I know", I thought, "if I don't think about the thing it's bound to come back. I'll log on and scroll through Mastodon for a moment".
Anyway, long story short, I have wasted 15 minutes on Mastodon and still have no clue what I needed to do.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-28 16:34:21

Jets' Fields back in team drills after injury scare https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45841967/jets-justin-fields-returns-11-11-drills-injury-scare

Jets' Justin Fields returns to 11-on-11 drills after injury scare - ESPN
Jets quarterback Justin Fields returned to 11-on-11 drills Monday for the first time since dislocating a toe Thursday.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-14 11:51:37

Content warning:

Sex change happens quite a few time in #GreekMythology, usually by divine intervention. I collected a list of characters whose sex is changed, usually by divine intervention. One is the story of Mestra, who got the ability to shape-shift from her ex lover Poseidon and went on to marry Autolykos, a son of Hermes with the ability to change the look of the things he stole. What a power coupl…

Sex Change in Greek Mythology
Find out which Greek and Roman myths feature sex change!

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-22 00:00:29

3 of the NFL's Top 10 All-time receiving touchdown leaders once played for the Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/21/3-nfl-top-10-all-time-re…

3 of the NFL's Top 10 All-time receiving touchdown leaders once played for the Raiders
Of the top 10 all-time receiving touchdown leaders, three of them once suited up for the Raiders.

@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social
2025-07-18 15:35:37

That moment when you take the trouble to translate another story for #SciFanSat, very short this time as there's no time for more, only to find out you've missed the submission deadline. Thought it was today, for some reason. It wasn't.
*sigh*
Oh well... story of my life, pretty much...

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-07-15 17:40:53

A short story about hypothetical #USPol. I wrote it a few times but every time I do the situation outpaces the narrative.
https://write.as/hexmhell/uncommon-sense

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-07-04 03:17:24

Totoro spoilers
Re the quoted post from @…:
The very first time I saw My Neighbor Totoro, it was because a friend cajoled me into attending the student anime club’s showing with absolutely no context whatsoever except “you •have• to see this movie, Paul.” I had no idea what genre it was. I had no idea that it was a movie considered suitable for kids. The last anime I’d seen was IIRC Ghost in the Shell; I was ready for anything.
When Mei went missing, I thought, “omg, is this a tragedy? I think this story is a tragedy!” The whole time they were looking for her, I was absolutely terrified. I thought for sure they’d found her sandal. I still tear up when they find her now, on every rewatching.
I’m so glad for that first viewing. It’s a much better movie that way. When you’re expecting an innocent movie about cute forest plushies, you see that. But when you see that it could be a tragedy — the mother’s shadowy illness, the lost child — it hits hard. https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/114792748619083661

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-28 17:24:13

Go for 2: Hunter to play both ways in scrimmage https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45843157/jags-travis-hunter-play-offense-defense-scrimmage

Jags' Travis Hunter to play offense and defense in scrimmage - ESPN
The Jaguars are going to play Travis Hunter on offense and defense in Friday night's scrimmage, the first time he'll do that in training camp.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-24 10:41:09

Cowboys Headlines: Jake Ferguson one of 3 Cowboys at TEU; more Turpin time in '25? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/24/news-headlines-june-23-2025…

Cowboys Headlines: Jake Ferguson one of 3 Cowboys at TEU; more Turpin time in '25?
Will KaVontae Turpin's offensive usage go up under Brian Schottenheimer? Also, a trio of Cowboys at TEU, and CeeDee Lamb shows off his pong skills.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-07 16:15:28

Poland's Clean Energy Usage Overtakes Coal For First Time - Slashdot
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/07/1524200/polands-clean-energy-usage-overtakes-coal-for-first-time

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-27 16:40:22

Former Pro Bowl safety Jamal Adams is switching positions with Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/07/27/former-pro-bowl-safety-jamal-adams-switching-positions-w…

Former Pro Bowl safety Jamal Adams is switching positions with Raiders
Jamal Adams reunited with his former Seahawks head coach, this time in Las Vegas, and at a new position.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-04 15:25:52

'Big Balls' Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee (Makena Kelly/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p61#a250604p61

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-25 19:54:39

Raiders decision to cut Wilkins 'took a long time' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45823859/carroll-raiders-decision-release-wilkins-took-long

Carroll: Raiders' decision to release Wilkins 'took a long time' - ESPN
The Raiders decision to release veteran defensive lineman Christian Wilkins "took a long time," coach Pete Carroll said Friday, adding there was "no clear path" for Wilkins' return to the team amid his recovery from a foot injury.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-24 18:34:08

Todd Haley details Bill Parcells asking Dan Campbell to start practice fight https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/06/24/dan-campbell-practice-fight-bill-parcells/84334045007/

Todd Haley details Bill Parcells asking Dan Campbell to start practice fight
During his time with the Dallas Cowboys, Dan Campbell was relied upon by Bill Parcells to help spark the team when it needed a boost.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-03 05:55:52

A look at the ~$377 TranscribeGlass smart glasses that use AI to subtitle conversations in nearly real time, built for the deaf or hard-of-hearing (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/these-translating-ai-glasses-put-subtitles-on-…

These Transcribing Eyeglasses Put Subtitles on the World
TranscribeGlass can subtitle conversations in nearly real time and will soon be able to translate languages and tell you when the person you’re talking to you is feeling socially awkward.

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-07-18 18:47:09

Uff finally I wrote the blogpost for a hike I did in May (and you've probably seen the video of it already). But I haven't shared the #photos ans some more background story from it.
I don't know why but this time I found it really hard to write. Maybe I'm a bit out of practice or I just didn't find the right mood for it - I'm not sure.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy…

A serene landscape featuring a path cutting through a lush grassy area, bordered by tall trees with no leaves. In the distance, majestic mountains rise against a clear blue sky, creating a picturesque backdrop. The dominant colors in the image are black and the accent color is a deep blue. The scene exudes a sense of tranquility and natural beauty, with a hint of wilderness and adventure. A single tree stands prominently in the foreground, adding to the overall composition of the serene outdoor…

A breathtaking landscape featuring a mountain range with trees in the foreground and majestic mountains in the background. The scene is set under a clear blue sky with fluffy white clouds. The mountains appear rugged and grand, with snow-capped peaks adding to the dramatic scenery. The trees in the foreground provide a sense of scale and add a touch of green to the predominantly rocky landscape. This wilderness setting exudes a sense of tranquility and awe, showcasing the beauty of nature at it…

A breathtaking scene of a mountain range set against a backdrop of towering trees and distant mountains. The image showcases the beauty of the great outdoors, with a white dominant foreground and a black dominant background. The colors are accentuated by a rich green accent color, creating a harmonious natural palette. The landscape exudes a sense of wilderness, with hints of clouds in the sky adding to the overall atmosphere. A single tree stands out in the foreground, adding depth and dimensi…

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-05 06:37:55

‘Big Balls’ Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-07-04 20:14:31

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-25 22:44:27

Philbin, key defensive cog on Jets' SB team, dies https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45584265/former-jets-defensive-great-gerry-philbin-dies-age-83

Former Jets defensive great Gerry Philbin dies at age 83 - ESPN
Former Jets great Gerry Philbin, a defensive cog on their Super Bowl III team and an all-time AFL team selection, has died at age 83.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-24 22:16:52

Cowboys 2nd-year LB doing well in holding off free agent, trade additions early in camp https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/24/marist-liufau-knows-plays-dropping-jaws-cowboys-camp/8…

Cowboys 2nd-year LB doing well in holding off free agent, trade additions early in camp
Marist Liufau wasted no time jumping off the screen and making his presence felt in Dallas Cowboys training camp. His progression is a sight to behold

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-26 22:54:35

Rams' Stafford (back) to miss practice next week https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45831362/denver-broncos-linebacker-drew-sanders-injured-practice

Back soreness to keep Matthew Stafford out of Rams next week - ESPN
Los Angeles Rams veteran Matthew Stafford, 37, who is dealing with back soreness, will not return to practice next week as anticipated, coach Sean McVay said on Saturday, adding that it's "the smart thing to do a week at a time" with his star quarterback.

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-23 00:55:48

2 former first rounders and a 3-time Pro Bowler among 5 Raiders signings on eve of camp https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/07/22/pro-bowl-safety-jamal-adams-phil…

2 former first rounders and a 3-time Pro Bowler among 5 Raiders signings on eve of camp
The Raiders add five new players on the eve of training camp including former top picks Jamal Adams and Phillip Dorsett.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-24 16:34:38

Hackett rejoins Packers, this time to help on D https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45813182/nathaniel-hackett-rejoins-packers-help-defense

Nathaniel Hackett rejoins Packers, this time to help on defense - ESPN
Former Jets offensive coordinator and Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett returned to his roots with the Packers as a defensive analyst.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-08 05:09:33

"The Internal Revenue Service promulgated a set of new rules on Monday that allow churches to endorse and donate to political candidates"
'Time to recruit some churches': Experts blast new rules on pulpit politics - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/time-to-recruit-some-churches-irs/

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-21 19:19:37

Colts owner: Richardson 'still has time to prove it' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45788854/colts-owner-says-anthony-richardson-prove-it

Colts owner says Anthony Richardson 'still has time to prove it' - ESPN
There's still time for 2023 first-round pick Anthony Richardson to prove he's capable of being a QB1 in the NFL, Colts owner and CEO Carlie Irsay-Gordon said.

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-23 01:13:43

Jamal Adams reunites with Pete Carroll and signs with Las Vegas Raiders https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/07/22/jamal-adams-signs-las-vegas-raiders/85331413007/

Jamal Adams reunites with Pete Carroll and signs with Las Vegas Raiders
Jamal Adams, a three-time Pro Bowl safety, will be reuniting with his former coach Pete Carroll in Las Vegas.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-24 21:14:28

With Jets' injury history at QB, Fields' minor setback a sigh of relief https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45815888/new-york-jets-qb-history-justin-fields-toe-injury

Will missed time be a concern for Jets' Fields after injury? - ESPN
New York avoids major scare with Fields' toe injury and lists him as day-to-day.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-19 22:24:44

Best of Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders through the years https://thelistwire.usatoday.com/story/sports/2025/06/19/dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-in-images/84276464007/

Best of Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders through the years
The Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders are iconic. They have been a huge part of the scene at games and events through time.