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Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
TARRANT: [Consults his bracelet] Paraflame Five. It's lethal, get out!
[Comm room. Dayna and Zeeona watch as Tarrant checks around the door frame with a handheld scanner.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/400 B7B2

I haven't posted much lately because I am about to run out of tokens and I'm racing to get the next batch of all-unique cards to the printer-- I like the number & suits because it fits into #foxwork being self-working, e.g. I can say "Look, you got the 3 of cones!"
#art

Hi @…. Your guide here on redirects with Namecheap just made my life a little bit easier.
Nothing more to add. Just thank you. 🌻
https://gomakethings.com/redirecting-h

Redirecting HTTPS with Namecheap
Namecheap is my favorite domain registrar (if one can have such a thing). One of the features they offer is free domain redirects. But if the site you’re redirecting previously used an SSL certificate, the browser/registrar handshake screws up somewhere and fails to redirect. Today, I wanted to share how I fixed that. Let’s dig in! What’s going on… Over the last week, I’ve been merging a bunch of websites and content into a single digital garden.

Did she give tips on how to kill them, like the 165 little girls the US and Israel murdered just this week in Iran?
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167067

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Melania Trump presides over historic session on children in conflict
The UN Security Council convened in New York under extraordinary circumstances Monday: amid escalating conflict in the Middle East and repeated calls from the UN for restraint by all sides, the Council turns its attention to a long-standing but under-addressed crisis facing children in war zones. The United States, which holds the rotating presidency for March, decided to have First Lady Melania Trump chair the meeting. Usually, the UN ambassador or senior official takes the gavel. While there …

Weather was better than expected and we took the chance to do a little ride-out in the neighbourhood.
Spring is really here now. The meadows are mostly green and we don't need thick layers for cycling.
#cycling #badtoelz

I have a problem with the House of Commons floor crossers, as I think most people do.
But I havent been able to come up with a more palatable alternative or at least a different scenario.
The biggest problem, for me, is the act of poaching. The trickle of MPs.
It gives the impression, falsely or not, that these people needed just a little more time, a little more convincing, a little more... ? to eventually turn on their constituent's choice of party.
What would be more pallatable? How about a group? Rather than a trickle.
People tallk, it is naïve to think it isn't known between individuals who may be thinking of leaving or switching parties.
So if there is more than one with that thought I think it would be better for our democracy if those MPs banded together and made their concerns known privately in their caucus first, then if nothing changes, they communicate to others including the public, and make it clear this is something that could happen en masse.
Then at least it takes away the transactional nature of it and frames it more as a democratic choice, informed by whatever situation is happening and done for the benefit of constituents and Canadians.
How does this change get made? Unfortunately that's the hard part. It would be hard or maybe inappropriate to "legislate".
It would need to be an expectation, a habit, a "norm".
It could happen. Though today, politicians following "norms" seems to be a little out of vogue.
#canPoli #cdnpoli #canada #democracy #houseofcommons
https://halifax.citynews.ca/video/2026/04/13/floor-crossing-raises-questions-on-canadian-voting-stability/

Received wisdom is that you get diminishing returns from tulips if left alone, each year's flowering is supposed to be less impressive than the last.
Well I've had these cheery little guys popping up for at least five years now, I take absolutely no care of them and even plant other things in the container over summer, but they still look splendid in the early Spring sunshine.
#Bloomscrolling

Intelligence agencies in Europe believe Russia is in the final stages of preparing to 💥supply drones to Iran for use in its war with the US and Israel,
according to a senior European official.
Russia has already been providing intelligence sharing with Tehran to help it target US forces in the region, the official said,
but the upcoming delivery of explosive-laden drones would mark the first evidence of lethal support since the start of the war.
The official, who spok…

A gap in understanding AI is growing, as casual users cite flaws in old free models while power users point to new models' staggering gains in technical domains (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
https://x.com/karpathy/status/2042334451611693415

Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) on X
Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is

An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

Inside Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device ever
Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves."