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Alabama has one of the strictest conditions in the nation for medical marijuana
For women between the ages of 11-50, the state requires pregnancy tests every 30 days to keep their registration current,
unless they can show proof they’ve had surgery that prevents having children.

In Alabama, these patients have to take monthly pregnancy tests for medical cannabis
No other state in the nation mandates regular pregnancy testing for patients to qualify.

Back in 2020 (which is when this pic is from), you could put your laptop in a plate of ketchup and it wasn't a big deal. These days, there goes your life savings.

“Untied States" [sic] is a good Freudian slip, these days.
https://gizmodo.com/a-feature-that-makes-your-phone-data-self-destruct-in-authorities-hands-may-soon-have-its-day-in-court-2000790831…

A Feature That Makes Your Phone Data Self-Destruct in Authorities’ Hands May Soon Have Its Day in Court
The defendant, an Atlanta area activist, denies having done it. But is it even illegal?

I swear, if you have more than one PC you're just asking for issues, aren't you. (also a security system, these days)
So our MH Park maintenance dude told us our electric meter is sketchy and needed to be replaced on Fri around noon. Didn't see him the rest of the day, so I figured maybe Sat, and shut down a bunch of stuff in prep for a power outage.
Well he didn't come by (also I "fixed" the meter by punching it a couple times 🤣 ) but when I went to t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Nico:
🎵 These Days
#Nico
https://mdhttr.bandcamp.com/track/nico-these-days-mercury-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uCkIqD0VzQUijbs8WIizs

It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,”
the source of both our geological birth and, perhaps, our ultimate undoing.
But the most unnerving thing about the San Andreas fault these days may be its silence.
It’s a mystery scientists are still trying to unlock.
The San Andreas is central to any discussion of California.
It’s the massive 800-mile spine of the state,
trundling up the Coachella Valley to the San Gabriel Mountains,
and p…

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Being under the weather has meant no alcohol these past few days. I simply cannot enjoy a drink when I’m not feeling well - a hot toddy is not for me. In any case, even when work patterns allow, I don’t drink every day. 3-4 days off is good, and I usually only drink beer or wine anyway.

"Ever more people are annoyed by the climate being so pushy these days, with all its heatwaves, wildfires, and floods. KLM agrees: Freedom of expression is valuable, but if we can't do our work because people get hesitant to book flights to Italy, we have to ask whether we can still tolerate this." /s

Klimaat enorm aan het drammen met talloze overstromingen en hitterecords
Steeds meer mensen ergeren zich aan het gedram van het klimaat. Met hittegolven in Europa, bosbranden in Canada, Zwitserland en de Canarische Eilanden, en aardverschuivingen in Colombia voelt het voor veel mensen alsof het klimaat echt over de schreef gaat.

"To cease" and "to fire" seem to be highly ambiguous verbs these days.

Over the past 10 days,
ICE officials have killed two immigrants in separate shootings in Texas and Maine.
While the Department of Homeland Security has claimed that the officers were acting in self-defense and the interest of public safety,
no evidence has emerged to support those accounts, and outrage is mounting over these latest examples of violence from the agency.
How the killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastišn Duršn Guerrero, reflect a broader p…

How ICE became so deadly – Stateside with Kai and Carter
Over the past ten days, ICE officials have killed two immigrants in separate shootings in Texas and Maine. Kai Wright speaks with Guardian immigration reporter José Olivares about how their deaths are just the latest examples of the violence of President Trump’s mass deportation agenda, and what accountability for them might look like.

Finished reading "Tokyo These Days Vol. 3" by Taiyo Matsumoto.
This closes out the series with the editor's passion project finally coming together and finding real, if modest, commercial success.
More hopeful than the earlier volumes. Perseverance pays off instead of ending on quiet resignation. A win for art over profitability, even if a small one.
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tokyo These Days, Volume 3
The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Mats…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Kyoto Jazz Massive:
🎵 The Brightness of These Days
#KyotoJazzMassive
https://compostselections.bandcamp.com/track/kyoto-jazz-massive-feat-vanessa-freeman-the-brightness-of-these-days-quantic-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/45zbTl7d3tKzOw9yDVyEVV

Went and saw my oldest friend playing some harmonies and folks songs with his sister in law and her niece as 'seahouses', at a local open mic night.
Well, local to him. Utterly the opposite side of the city and a three hour round-trip for me. 🙄
Probably haven't seen the sister-in-law for twenty years, or met any of her kids before. They are beautiful and apparently know me by reputation, if only that song on their wedding video.
Been to a few of these sorts of folk open-mic nights with my parents years ago. Mostly a small number of regulars who play some songs for each other every week. They're good fun. Some community there. Should probably do that sort of thing more, only, somewhere this side of town.
Not quite tempted to join in. Would need to plan and rehearse, and probably take the loop pedal these days. Ain't that spontaneous. And all I've been playing for weeks and weeks is just the Red Dwarf theme over and over for some reason. Badly. The neighbors probably hate me.
Anyway, Sea Houses were chill and fun and sang more sweetly and harmoniously than I ever did.
Check 'em out if you want.
https://www.youtube.com/@seahouses_band

The kind of thing you see when you are playing with frontier models these days.

Here are the #Animal and #Environmental days coming up in the next three months.
https://

Eco Awareness Days: 3-Month Calendar (July to September 2025)
Here are some of the bigger and lesser known environmental consciousness, days, weeks, and months celebrated in both the UK and around the globe between January and March 2026.  Many of these days serve to raise awareness about significant environmental concerns, while the international animal days also highlight the dire

I share info, insight, trivia about cultures, traditions, faiths,… from different regions. I include pictures where possible. Content these days is more on India, Hindu due to access and present travels. 🙇‍♂️
Not proselytizing; just sharing. I hope you find the posts engaging. 🤞
#headsup

Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

Neat, "N'Ko uses a set of paired punctuation, U 2E1C ⸜ LEFT LOW PARAPHRASE BRACKET and U 2E1D ⸝ RIGHT LOW PARAPHRASE BRACKET, to indicate indirect quotations."
Wouldn't mind if English and other languages would get some more punctuation to express things better, especially as a lot more people these days write informal text.

Death lasers can also target yachts, just sayin'

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

7 Late Summer Vegan Breakfasts For Easy Mornings #plantbased

7 Late Summer Vegan Breakfasts For Easy Mornings
These late summer vegan breakfasts use the best of what the season had to offer while offering options for cooler days

Finished reading “Tokyo These Days, Volume 1” by Taiyo Matsumoto.
A veteran manga editor quits after 30 years, then quietly visits artists, famous and forgotten, assembling an artistic endeavor not fully revealed.
Rich characters won me over: reserved Shiozawa most of all, though flawed Chosaku is who I want to learn more about. Very much part one, setting the table. Might be my first manga?
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tokyo These Days, Volume 1
The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Mats…

On the the Golden Gate betas the new MenuBarAgent seems to hang all the time and it makes day to day user very difficult as most apps these days seem to default to the menu bar over the dock without enabling a specific option per application. I submitted FB23707510 on the off chance this has not already been reported.

Cowboys preseason is less than 30 days away, these veterans should be sweating https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-preseason-is-less-than-30-days-away-these-veterans-should-be-sweating

I had the second and fourth letter backwards and was thinking "what a rare thing these days" only to realize they were flipped and suddenly "yeah, that tracks". #Wordle
Wordle 1 878 5/6
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🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Thinking more about https://permacomputing.net these days.

from my link log —
Tech ain't that deep - and that's a problem.
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech-aint-deep
saved 2026-07-20 https://…

Tech ain't that deep - and that's a problem | deadSimpleTech
With that in mind, it became fairly clear to me that the tech industry these days has a depth problem: as much as tech is becoming quite a bit more complex, it's also becoming shallower. Learning new things in tech these days, as often as not, simply doesn't give me the same feeling of satisfaction or achievement as learning or writing C back in the first years of my career did. Being effective in tech these days feels as though it's less about understanding than it is about memorising a big li…

Teaching an intro programming class, and I am always hearing about the old days when your program was a stack of punch cards.
I want to get some of those punch cards to show my students (and see for myself!).
You can find real punch cards for sale online, but many seem to be just for data entry. I want "the real thing" one would use to write a real program.
What should I look for? Where can I get these?
1/N

not looking for a spinal tap quote pile-on & hardly the funniest, but the one that pops into my head the most these days: "where'd they print that? they can't print that!"

LÁZ - “Kétség” (2025)
Hungarian band with a modernized “post punk sound”. They cite Saccharine Trust as an inspiration! Kids these days. I love when they say stuff like that.
I like the vocals, sure. But the guitar-centric music is the real draw for me. The sound is a mix of high energy staccato with the occasional jazzy no wave jam with starts and stops.
#music

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk | TechCrunch
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

Okay so the joke is still funny, but in reading the headline I thought this #TheOnion bit was going to be about how every movie is THREE GODDAMNED HOURS LONG these days. https://theonion.com/man-binge-watch…

Man Binge-Watches Entire Movie In One Sitting
COLUMBUS, OH—Expressing embarrassment at the sheer amount of time that had passed, local man Evan Pfister reportedly binge-watched an entire movie in one sitting on Friday. “Wow, I must have been staring at this screen for hours. Well, almost hours. An hour and forty nine minutes, to be precise,” said Pfister, who told reporters that […]

my Social app installation in #Nextcloud is giving a strange error:
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss://nextcloudpi/push/ws.
My config defines a proxy for ws:// and the notify_push:self-test checks ok as does systemctl status, but a grep of the app/social code shows js mentions of wss:// - I also notice the dashboard also logs these errors, likely because Social is active? or because my systemd adds --allow-self-signed?
I tried modifying the ProxyPass to wss: to no avail, double checked installed modules and the reqs from the notify_push git page. I did find mention that wss is the secure version, only recommended where NC and NP are on different machines, which they are not.
maybe it is benign? My only symptom so far is nothing goes out, and nothing comes in to @… and one of these days I'm going to figure out why!

@… I was particularly looking for the xUnit Test Patterns one.
I’m seeing a lot of really bad test code these days, especially LLM generated tests. But when Pearson informed me they no longer print it, I decided to just complete the series now, before it’s too late.

why is everything fucked up these days??
the news back in the day:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@mike_k/117046055789003181
Objective-C is a language from another century. These days we need something more fitting for the current society like Subjective-C.¹
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¹yes, as you assumed it exists

How's gaming, with Steam/Proton/ALVR/NVidia, looking on FreeBSD these days?

Just thinking about the political discussion going on here these days... Seems to me we need better labels. 'Right' in English has the unfortunate connotation of 'correct', and 'Left' the connotation (but perhaps only among the better read) of 'sinister'... I think new terms without that baggage are required. I propose that the Left<->Right spectrum be replaced by the Nobel<->Ignoble spectrum, which is more objective accurate in any case.

It’s actually unbelievable: just for fun, I decided to go through the entire Windows 11 installation process on my new MSI Cubi. Let’s see how it goes these days.
What can I say? Unbelievable! It took almost TWO HOURS just for the initial updates before I could even start setting it up! Are Microsoft’s servers that slow? The download took forever, not to mention the installations… And then the worst part: the pre-installed bloatware! Dozens of crappy third-party programs—and of course,…

Ok so bringing a headphone amp, all set up, when checking out new guitars is pretty genius tbh. @… https://mas.to/@baronvonj/117052433600456688

Finished reading "Tokyo These Days, Vol. 2" by Taiyo Matsumoto.
The continuation of the story in which a retired manga editor tries to launch an independent anthology, pulling together artists who are all quietly worn down by the industry in different ways.
Same unhurried, melancholy register as vol. 1, more meditation on creative integrity vs. commercial pressure than plot. The night-time Tokyo transition art is gorgeous.
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tokyo These Days, Volume 2
The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Mats…

Luciano #Pavarotti / "Nessun dorma" from Turandot
so few few singers around these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWc7vYjgnTs

I come home exhausted most days & when my soul feels empty... I watch these videos & I'm good.
▶️ Lost dog realizes his family found him
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_rCi5UhHfzo&si=RRsyFvt3HmaQ__RU

Who's eligible for college sports these days? Take our quiz and find out https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7528511/2026/08/21/ncaa-eligibility-requirements-college-football-quiz/

What is it with all these crazy designer dog breeds these days? A labradoodle (Labrador poodle) makes some level of sense.
But a snickerdoodle is a whooole different level. Like how do you even crossbreed a poodle with a Snickers bar?

Apache logs puzzle: I give online assignments where each student gets a separate key (unguessable 84-char hex string). I have some testing examples which I don't release.
In the past couple of days I've had hits on one of these, from Hong Kong and China. How did they find it? The only possible exposure was a document on OneDrive and/or Brightspace for the examiner...
Nothing is secret anymore.
(At least the scrapers didn't know the ID to go with the key...)

Whenever I'd have some "control" variable or (cpu) register, I'd usually abbreviate it to something like CNTL_FOO. The abbreviation "ctl" always seemed too vague to me - plenty of acronyms it could stand for. It wasn't a big thing, but I always made a point of using "cntl"
But given all the tools these days that use ctl (smartctl, journalctl, prosodyctl, etc), I feel like I've officially lost.

I don't get to work directly with our software team much these days. But I still get to go out for lunch with a few of them, part of our regular "lunch" crowd.
Its been a bad year or two. SW morale is low. The new SW mgr is an idiot who doesn't advocate for the team, is merely the executive's slave whipper. Ship fast, break things kinda stuff.
So I asked today, after a vigorous round of bitchin bout work, look guys I know its pretty bad but I'm curious -…

Third day of running completed. I am still a newbie of this bcus I began last sunday.
Never I ran like these three days lol.
I wake Up at 6:55, get dressed and ready to walk/run, I do a mix of these.
#run #running

I've been adding photographs to an online family archive from 20-year-old photo CDs and it's a SLOG. Sometimes I have to try a second reader, sometimes I have to copy files to the hard drive first. Anyway, just wanted to mention in case anyone has piles of these sitting around. Their useful days are numbered. #photography

Feeling very honored to be nominated for the Hedy Lamarr Preis 2026 next to all these other great researchers 🙏
https://www.wienholding.at/news/7-forscherinnen-fuer-hedy-lamarr-preis-der-stadt-wien-nominiert

So now that #awscli 1.x is pretty much dead, I've finally gotten around to packaging 2.x properly for #Gentoo. You know, the one where other developers claimed it was impossible to build from source because (checks notes) upstream said so. So we instead must use their horrible 70M binary package that bundles its own Python interpreter along with all the random libraries and dependencies.
And guess what? Sure, they don't publish it to PyPI anymore, but it still is a regular #Python package branched out from 1.x. It has regular Python package dependencies, a regular Python build backend and when you build it with it, you get a regular Python wheel that can be installed and just works with the system Python and system dependencies.
Sure, it's crap, but it's no worse than the 1.x crap. It bundles a modified fork of the unreleased 2.x branch of botocore (now dead for 5 years, apparently) and a fork of s3transfer. It has some random meaningless dependency pins that we patch out. It has a horrible test suite that can eat tons of memory if run via xdist, but with some hackery, I've gotten it to work reasonably.
Honestly, I feel like Gentoo developers these days just don't care to even try.

@… It has been about 20 years since I liked using Outlook. Luckily, I don't need it these days.

Armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank
have carried out a number of attacks in recent days
targeting local Palestinians and foreign journalists,
as well as detaining U.S. Congressmember Ro Khanna
during a fact-finding trip.
Khanna said that when Israeli forces arrived, they sided with the settlers.
“The U.S. government just merrily goes along funding these atrocities against American citizens,
not to speak of atrocities against Palestinia…

Can I sell my dotfiles?
That might be where the money is these days
#noxp

Frequently these days I read something and it just feels conceptually sloppy and loose in a way that usually comes with technical issues, and yet the piece is composed of diagrammable sentences and proper spelling.
And I know.
At least I think I do. Not sure that I’m always right, but it sure is a style.

A friend is trying to persuade me to play live again, but a kind of "quiet music" concert - with volumes low enough to be manageable to someone with hyperacusis.
The music I am making now is very cloudy; spectral, oblique and uncanny [an opposite zone to most recent releases] and would be suitable - but I don't get out much these days...how much interest would there be in very quiet dissonant music? :D
Such is my ballooning ignorance that Cafe OTO is all that comes…

Honestly quite fun to watch/stalk commits on Mastodon's repo these days.

what if one of these days when my bedroom door cracks open its not my cat but its just a raccoon

we're back from ossineke, where we hung out with these people for a few (too few) days

From May 4th up until June 28th I had some sort of softball activity every single day, with the exception of something like five days. My oldest daughter made the all-stars for her league, and that was one hell of an experience. Two hours of practice every day Monday through Friday and then playing tournaments Saturday/Sunday. I always wondered how did parents do these things and there we were :) It's a lot, but man, the kids learn and play so much, I think it was worth it.

So sad Mindy Kaling's Not Suitable For Work Canceled After 1 Season.
This was a very fun show. Characters shows are always hard these days since they just need more to find an audience. I was really impressed with the writing of this show. Characters were strong and the plotting was strong. I was really worried they would not be able to balance home and work life but they did a really amazing job. The actors also had a great chemistry. Keep trying Mindy!

Sonnet 068 - LXVIII
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,…

What's the recommended way to run a local VM on Linux for screwing around with stuff these days?  Still VirtualBox or something else?  (I just want to try out some system software before putting it on my actual server.)
#Lazyweb

TIL. Just heard my 15yo nephew refer to the AI-induced hardware shortage as "the hardware crisis," so I guess that's what the kids are calling it these days..

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

So I ran into one drawback to buying a "new" motorcycle that's left over from a couple years ago. Started getting "check battery" messages on the dash a couple days after bringing the Super Meteor home, then came out of work to a dead battery on Monday. Jumped it and got home, put it on the trickle charger and it took a charge, but not enough amperage to even start the bike. He's dead, Jim.
Don't get me started on the cost of batteries these days. I had …

Failed environmental safeguards leave coastal Bangladesh facing coal pollution https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/failed-environmental-safeguards-leave-coastal-bangladesh-facing-coal-pollution/

Failed environmental safeguards leave coastal Bangladesh facing coal pollution
Riaz Panchayet used to farm papaya, cucumber, okra and bananas on his land in Madhupur village, located in southern Bangladesh’s coastal Patuakhali district. These days, he runs a small tea stall near one of the gates of the Payra Power Plant, and worry has replaced the seasonal rhythm of harvests. “I notice a layer of […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nico:
🎵 These Days
#Nico
https://mdhttr.bandcamp.com/track/nico-these-days-mercury-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uCkIqD0VzQUijbs8WIizs

Dutch government (council of ministers) is back from summer holiday, and parliament returns in ten days from now.
Would it be too much to expect the announcement of a strong climate offensive (accelerated emission reduction and adaptation) one of these days, in response to this Summer of Reckoning?
#ClimateChange

This weekend marks 250 years since the signing of the declaration of independence,
but Donald Trump is making the celebration all about himself.
As the anniversary approaches, Jonathan Freedland talks to the Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum about why so many Americans are feeling less patriotic these days

Trump hijacks the US at 250 celebrations | Politics Weekly America
Jonathan Freedland talks to the Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum about why so many Americans are feeling less patriotic these days

Started up some improv again now the summer is over. Eight weeks of practice together then a few shows in November.
Three hour sessions are like 50% more hardcore than two hour sessions.
Seems like the instructor is more interventionist than most. More notes and suggestions as we go.
Same note to me as usual though: Slow down, be more grounded, let it simmer a bit first.
He mentioned Lord Of The Rings, and how its all world-building and slow pacing for the first twenty minutes before the action starts.
Is it? Wouldn't know. I got bored and turned it off before the end. Dreadfully dull story I thought. Just marching up and down. 😆
I'm sure they're right though. It's a hangover from the way you train early with short form. There, if something doesn't happen in the first 2 minutes it doesn't happen at all and you gotta establish setting and relationships immediately.
But I notice also that these days half the podcasts and youtube shows start with a clip from the middle. And I usually skip right to minute five anyway because I don't care about the introductions.
#improv #writing #london

#osint folks: what's the go-to for free off-nadir aerial imagery these days? One of the big reasons to use bing maps instead of google maps was the "birds eye" feature which gave very high resolution off-nadir aerial photos, sometimes from a couple of view angles.
That product no longer seems to be available, is there anything that replaces it? Not looking for super duper up to da…

My 10-year-old daughter is making an ice cream truck out of cardboard, sized for one of her little stuffed animals. She is being very detailed, and has chosen the particular flavors of ice cream and sherbet the truck will have, and is making a menu sign.
Naturally she's putting prices on it. But she's not making numbers up, or asking us for a common price for a scoop of ice cream. (Which seems absurdly expensive these days -- I know, inflation, but, yikes.)
No, she's …

RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116974112201100118
I feel like "King's Evil" is killing a lot of us these days tbh

I don’t often listen to the radio these days, but I’m tuned into one of my favourites right now: WCOO 105.5 The Bridge, from Charleston, SC, USA.

Democracy doesn’t begin on Election Day.
And it doesn’t end when the polls close.
It is built every day by ordinary people who choose to stay informed, participate in their communities,
and take responsibility for the future they want to help shape.
That’s why we’re launching
The Guardrails Challenge.
For the next 100 days, we’re inviting readers to complete one meaningful civic action each week.
None of these actions requires running for office, pu…

100 Days to Strengthen American Democracy
Saving Democracy, one action at a time

Computers used to be these amazing machines enabling humans to create the most amazing shit and, to borrow the Steve Jobs line, were truly a "bicycle for the mind".
These days every feels so bleak. Like you can only rent the bicycle and all roads have mud, ice and tram tracks on them and only ever go uphill.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Ok, as someone who's never used/paid for either, I'm interested to know what folks, either on a biz/org capacity, or personal/family level are paying Microsoft or Google for MSO 365 or Google Workspace these days, and what you get for it. Please clarify the currency you're using. Feel free to DM if you prefer results not to be public. My discretion is assured.

As a tribute to the fierce heatwaves roasting our cities these days, the city of Brussels just turned the Schuman roundabout facing the EC headquarters into a giant slab of concrete.
Via Hans Diels on LinkedIn.

The Russian strikes tormenting Ukraine’s capital in recent days have had an ominous new feature:
jet-powered drones.
Significantly faster and harder to intercept than the propeller-driven drones that have stalked Ukraine’s skies for years,
these munitions are stretching air defenses and stoking anxiety about what analysts and officials predict will be a dangerous new stage of the war
With jet engines
drones can carry heavier explosive payloads,
flying farth…

The New Jet-Powered Drones That Are Breeding Anxiety in Ukraine
These Russian drones are more destructive, faster and harder to shoot down than the propeller-driven models that Moscow has used throughout the war.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

In addition to all the other arguments we are making in these final two months before the midterm election #we need to be up front and open about the Republican's outrageous cheating and manipulation
-- for it will both help us win
and prepare the electorate for all the fuckery to come.
Their cheating is a manifestation of their oligarchical betrayal
and disdain for our democracy, …

We Need To Turn Their Furious, Desperate Cheating Into Righteous Anger And Make A Big Blue Wave
People will start voting in North Carolina this week, early in person voting kicks off in thirteen days - the General Election is here everyone! Make your early vote plan today!

The #ClimateStripes for the Netherlands. We can feel the dark red ones these days!
#ShowYourStripesDay

True patriots should want all Americans to vote,
They should oppose would-be dictators,
They should yield to the Constitution,
and they should demand a nation that is offered to everyone equally.
Actual followers of Jesus should defend the vulnerable,
They should give comfort to the sick, food to the hungry, welcome to the immigrant, and love to the least among us.
And while the masqueraders and pretenders parade around in grand performative acts of lo…

Americans Are Exhausted By The Right's Pretend Patriotism and Phony Faith
Life is exhausting these days for lots of us, and I think I’ve figured out why.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

My 9yo has no idea what a time capsule is. Did those fall out of favor w/ teachers these days? Are they assuming no future generations to dig them up?

Compared with the babies who didn't experience sugar rationing,
the babies who were sugar-rationed for their first 1,000 days were
69 percent less likely to develop liver cancer in their adult lives.
They also saw reduced incidence of prostate cancer (52 percent lower),
lung cancer (41 percent lower),
rectal cancer (40 percent lower),
and breast cancer (36 percent lower).
The sugar-rationed babies also tended to show longer telomeres
– the…

These Babies Grew Up With Strict Sugar Limits. Decades Later, The Results Are Dramatic.
It was January 1940, and the United Kingdom had a serious problem.

These are tricky times for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The “special military operation” he launched against Ukraine in 2022,
intended to last a few days until a puppet regime in Kyiv could be installed,
has now gone on longer than both the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany and all of World War I.
His forces have long ceased making significant gains on the battlefield;
some data even suggest that Russian forces lost territory in April and May.
What …

As the Tide Turns Against Putin, Beware the Drowning Man
Like a struggling swimmer, he may take desperate measures to stay afloat.

Watergate would only be a 12-hour news story these days
because it pales in comparison to the rampant corruption of the Trump administration
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/vance-says-watergate-12-hour-news-story-t…

Vance says Watergate would be ‘a 12-hour news story’ today
JD Vance said the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon would have been a blip in today’s news cycle, and drew parallels between Nixon and President Trump.

So much is going politically right for Democrats these days.
Trump’s approval is down,
gas prices are up
and an unpopular war with Iran drags on.
But dysfunction and debt inside one of the party’s key institutions
— which is getting crushed in fund-raising by its Republican counterpart
— are creating rising anxiety for top Democrats.
The Democratic Party is so short on cash that leaders at its headquarters have undertaken a new gambit to mask the se…

Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke Democratic Party
The Democrats should be well positioned to make gains in this year’s midterms. But inside party headquarters, every week brings paranoia, worries about money and, on occasion, emotional eruptions.

It was no coincidence that Soumia Bensalah,
a French Moroccan with a pending green card application,
was released from the Pinellas jail and then sent back at regular, 72-hour intervals,
according to legal experts.
That’s the maximum amount of time that county jails like Pinellas’ can hold immigrants on behalf of ICE.
The limit exists to prevent immigrants detained on civil charges from spending too long in jails meant for people detained on criminal charges. …

These Local Jails Were Supposed to Detain Immigrants for Only 72 Hours. One Woman Was Held for a Total of 26 Days.
Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusually high numbers of rebookings.