Israel arms ISIS-jihadists to fight against Hamas just like they armed Hamas to fight against the PFLP.
You may ask yourself “when will they ever learn?” but that's assuming the Israeli government's goal is to live in peace. Why should they need to learn, when arming terrorist groups that destabilize and escalate this conflict isn't a mistake?
Considering how much genocide, ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism and hence the expansion of their borders they have been a…
These lads really loved Bohemian Rhapsody when they first heard it a few months ago, so no wonder they also like the LIve Aid set. Despite the fact that they don't speak English they have some great insights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txRyUSmBHNU
Won’t someone think of the jackbooted thugs?
“…ICE officers themselves…facing inhumane conditions…showing symptoms of respiratory infections…can’t get proper testing for diagnoses…at risk of rocket attacks from Yemeni terrorists…lack body armor or other protective gear. …Trump…said…judge was ‘literally putting ICE agents’ lives in danger.’
…not quite true…judge never said they had to stay there…officials are ‘manufacturing the…chaos they decry.’”
Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
JENNA: Just coming into detector range.
VILA: They're too far off to be sure. They could be meteors.
JENNA: They're ships.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/395 B7B3
I asked this Monchhichi what they thought of the recent news, but they refused to comment.
Update on the minirack: it looks like the Minisforum MS-A2s have cleared customs maybe. UPS isn't 100% sure what's going on from the look of the tracking information considering they have them clearing customs two months ago before they were shipped. However, I'm thinking they'll be here in a week or so and I can finally get them installed and cabled up.
#minirack
The UK Conservative Party is in disarray. Since 1979, they have implemented changes with unintended consequences. Water privatisation, sale of social housing, deregulation of building societies, privatisation of railways, and leaving the EU.
Now they are considering withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights, born out of the ashes of the 1930s and 40s in Europe and World War 2.
Which of the 16 Articles do they really believe we should not be protected by?
Thanks for the thoughtful replies. Answers to questions:
Many people asked for the context. This is for college students using what they already know about the order of arithmetic operations to start analyzing the structure of code. In the activity, they visual code structures using these kind of diagrams. The important thing here is thus not just subtraction; it’s this way of visualizing the relationships — and there already is a sight-centeric word, “visualize!” But I suspect a blind reader could also use these spatial relationships as a learning tool…if there were a good way of conveying the spatial relationships.
Im Normalfall poste ich von dem trottel nichts, aber...
https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1930703865801810022#m
"Time to drop the really big bomb: realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have…
No one is as good at making their application worse over time as the YouTube mobile app team. They never fail to impress me with how they can make the experience worse so consistently over time.
#rant
Cards on deck: Trump keeps stack of orders ready to play as needed
Throughout Trump’s second term, White House staff have maintained a stash of executive orders and proclamations they can deploy
depending on the themes of the moment and the narratives they want to shape,
a senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about internal strategies.
Some orders are put into the calendar well in advance, the official said.
…
If Uzbekistan wins or ties today against UAE, they will - for the first time ever - have qualified for the FIFA world cup final tournament!
If not they still have a path to the final tournament, but it gets messy.
#fifa2026 #worldcup #uzb
"FEMA had not been told and, in fact, they learned the news from those news stories. They didn't get official word from the White House about that disaster declaration for more than four days, which meant the money that was supposed to go out the door to those hard-hit communities was delayed."
'Quite a statement': CNN host stunned by Trump 'trauma' inflicted on key agency - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/fema-trump-administration-concerns-mount/
Quick tip for those with young kids who want them to learn how to use a watch with an analogue (dial) style interface.
While the likes of Flik Flak make nice kids watches, they are a little on the pricy side.
Potentially better IMHO however are these kids field/pilot style watches from AliExpress. They cost basically nothing [<$5🇺🇸] and the hour hand points to an inner ring of numbered hours, while the minute hand points to an outer ring of numbered minutes. So simple!
I just saw the images of the DHS "rennovation" of the old St. Elizabeths in DC as the new DHS HQ.
The architectural renditions suggest that they will be turning it into something rather different than its historical shape (but the drawings i saw didn't look too bad - at least they didn't turn it into a Frank Gehry monstrosity with leaky roofs, dead-end hallways, and external stairs that require people to step open crevices.)
Given DHS head Noem's history, I …
The fediverse is often full of drama with admins falling out with each other and defederations, and threats and tears.
Now, with the public spat between the Twitter admin and the TruthSocial admin, the rest of the world gets to enjoy a similar spectacle!
They can't defederate of course, because Twitter never became open enough and TruthSocial was already defederated by everyone as soon as it existed.
Only on Fedi can you get the full experience of a public spat and defederation, because only on Fedi can the admins really at-mention and and directly reply and take the final dramatic action of a flouce-defederation.
Trump fans who are Twitter users can't port their followers over to TruthSocial, and Turther Musk fans can't just migrate their account to Twitter.
They're stuck.
So you see Fedi really is the best when it comes to massive public spats between admins and this current admin-drama is only getting more attention because it's between two of the worst people in the world.
#fediverse #interInstanceDrama #adminFight
Anyone else being ghosted since 8 months by @… for a ⌚ #PineTime warranty case? I eventually received an email in October 2024 where they confirmed they'll send me a replacement. I regularly followed up via Mastodon and email, but have been ghosted since, no react…
#WordWeavers 5/6: What would your first chapter smell like?
I quote chapter 1, page 1, 3 paragraph:
" It felt like the smells of the city clung to him – all rotten and filthy – and they were so thick it felt like they were coating his tongue. This spring was unusually hot, making the smells even more rancid."
He just ran past a sewer 😃
From David Suzuki
It’s hard not to conclude that much of the world has been taken over by idiots. Sure, there have always been uninformed politicians & those who let their ideology stumble ahead of their wits. & some who seem more sociopathic than stupid, waging brutal wars & massacres with no regard for the lives, families and communities they destroy under whatever nationalistic banner they concoct to justify their actions.
Lately things seem extraordinarily stupid.…
Imagine how different the Disney parks Star Wars lands would have been if Andor had come out before they built those.
Hush little baby, don't say a word,
Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird.
And if that bird dies of #AvianFlu,
Mama's gonna buy you a #doll or two.
And if they break when they get older,
Mama's gonna buy you a baby
Interesting. Pointed some test code at google to see if new driver works and got a captcha. Guess they do not want anyone scraping them like they do.
This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because
the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it
recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated"
the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the
airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can
show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right
out of Vend…
Finally organized myself the recording of the #Epica concert Symphonic Synergy.
While the show is great I was sad to see that they now do golden circles as well.
It was especially ridiculous at the end when they wanted to do a large wall of death and instead got two small once.
One really small one in the gold circle and a medium sized one in the normal area.
I really wis…
As recently as last year I was recommending to my #Math students that if they were having trouble with an elementary algebra expression, they could try using the Google search bar to solve or simplify something. Maybe I should show them this instead.🤦
Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…
Series D, Episode 08 - Games
AVON: These adaptations, if they went in haphazardly, could they be removed the same way?
ORAC: A lot of them have been. There are circuits in the PPC section which serve no function at all now. It seems that games are added at a whim, and when the adaptor gets bored with them, taken out again.
https://
EXPOSURE THERAPY FOR INTERNET ADDICTED DEBATE PEOPLE
1. strap them to a chair, show them a mild take they disagree with by someone who's otherwise 99% aligned with their goals
2. watch them thrash angrily, unable to crash out on their socials, for the next 4 days
3. they settle, and think about this reaction after a week of being stuck there. they sheepishly set it aside in favor of teamwork
4. repeat with bigger and bigger issues until they have reasonable expec…
Sorry, investors, Tesla is simply not going to expand to be larger than •the entire rest of the auto industry• as your “buy” recommendations implicitly posit.
If they make robotaxis, the public will see them as Nazi robotaxis. If they make robots that aren’t just demo smoke and mirrors, the public will see them as Nazi robots.
Your money is in the Titanic of car brands. Get it out while you can.
Well, now it's going out of hands: Remember how the flag emojis disappeared from my website and I tried to find an explanation?
Now they're gone from #Bluesky on the web for me. Anyone else seeing this? 👇🏼
Oh dear, Musk not getting any friendlier towards his former hero Trump.
Anybody else think "toblerone" sounds like the name of a ketone?
Brb checking sigma to see if they have any 2-methyltoblerone in stock
Every time I read in the news "the bible book" I laugh. Like, there are hundreds if not thousands of different "bibles" and they aren't "a book", but rather dozens of books compiled into one, and the number of books (as well as the "editorial line") is different for almost every single sect.
Well. Anyway.
#bible
People in congress should not get paid unless they show up to work. It's simple logic. I've built a site where they can register their attendance here: #uspol
I really feel for JLCPCB. With all the visible strike-throughs on their tariff FAQ, you can see they're *trying* to keep track of the febrile toddler's changes, but seem to have just given up back mid-May https://jlcpcb.com/help/article/us-tariff-policy-faq
I really feel for JLCPCB. With all the visible strike-throughs on their tariff FAQ, you can see they're *trying* to keep track of the febrile toddler's changes, but seem to have just given up back mid-May https://jlcpcb.com/help/article/us-tariff-policy-faq
"I wrote in October that billionaires should resist cozying up to authoritarians: while it can feel as if they are reducing risks to themselves and their businesses, surrendering to a corrupt system is just as likely to endanger them. Musk is the first to learn this lesson, but I suspect he will not be the last."
Let's see.
@… Whatever else you can say about the BBC, they're not afraid to run stories critical of themselves.
You get quoted in this article, too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd90pk903llo
@… You don't know that, maybe they're a dick.
I posted a long email to 9fans, the Plan 9 mailing list.
Not sure if they will love or hate me. I guess both, so I might be doing it right lol...
This one may as well go out to other communities.
I may transform it into a blog post for reference.
If you're a mogul, they should give an award for not raping anyone.
OH on Slack:
they call it microsoft 365 because there are outages 365 days of the year
Great possibility to renew my travel outfit. I wonder whether they sell to non-locals.
How the Bochum dish lost the signal from #Resilience at 19:15:33 UTC which would be 1 to 2 minutes before the nominal landing time. It never came back - while on the webcast, which just aborted, they didn't say *anything* and refer to a news briefing in a few hours. Same crisis (non-)communication as two years ago, I'm afraid ...
"You should know Trump isn’t doing this on his own. The Hoover Institution has been plotting revenge against FDR since 1932. Groups like the Heritage Foundation and Heartland Foundation are generations old. The Federalist Society has been promising to overturn liberal justice since the 1960s. The Religious Right started working to overturn Roe v. Wade the day it was promulgated. All these groups have big money, and they play the long game.
What’s happening today is their platform, backed by their research. The fact it won’t work, that the 20th century won’t be put back into a bottle, that the Amendments put in place after 1865 somehow aren’t part of the “real” Constitution, is yet to be proven by events."
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/all-in-the-family
At the risk of stating the obvious, please do state the obvious! In two separate meetings this week it seemed like someone was arguing against a proposed change and in both cases, they were actually very supportive of the idea, and had already moved on to talk about what else could be done. Stop. Express your support (you can thank the suggester if you like!) so that it's clear, and THEN you can build on the original suggestion.
In both cases, we nearly ended up not doing the original thing!
Nasty one for a late #GrindayFriday, because the weather in Phoenix is gross. MOCSKœSHI is from Slovakia/Czechia and is a project with members of Morbid Angel Dust and Sick Destroyer. This demo they put out last year is grody and raw, and as a bonus, it has a full 'noise' version of all the tracks, as well. Double gross.
What would John von Neumann (Neumann Jšnos Lajos) and Alan Turing say if they see their concepts implemented in a tiny and even flexible micro computer thats more powerful than what was available at their time: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/harshu/rp2040…
“Well, we are all going to die.”
It's eye-opening to hear such a blatant example of the thoughtless & self-centered nature of today's #Republican party... thanks Joni Ernst.
☑️ Yes. People Will Die. - by Jonathan Cohn - The Bulwark
A coalition of seven leading civil society organisations has called on the European Commission to revoke the United Kingdom's data adequacy status, citing what they describe as a sustained and systemic erosion of privacy and data protection standards in the UK.
https://www.
Oh hey, speaking of awesome bands from Cleveland. One of my favorite 80s indie bands is from there. Got into them from a comp and quickly became a fan, getting whatever albums I could find.
I just love the singer's voice and style.
Here they are back in the day, doing a rocked out cover of “Sylvia Plath”, a song originally done by another local Cleveland artist named Peter Laughner.
#music
After the whole "I asked ChatGPT" as talk opener I've recently seen a lot of "Look, my kids are using AI to build their own games and that's beautiful" stuff in presentations.
Makes me sad that instead of wanting kids to learn how to build something they get taught to accept what the kinda-passable code generator craps out. What they learn is not how to conceptualize or build something, what they learn is that shit comes from nowhere if you just match your e…
Für die breite Verwendung von #KI, speziell im Kontext #Schule, muss sichergestellt sein, dass #LLMs user:innen nicht zu selbstgefährdendem Verhalten animieren.
Das Nonprofit Transluce arbeitet an verschie…
Combined Public Service Announcement and Today I Learned: if you have `CLICOLOR=1` on macOS, if you do an `ls` of a directory which is inside iCloud Drive, evicted files (i.e., those that cannot be immediately used, but need to be downloaded first from iCloud) show with a grey background… see below:
First, both files are in iCloud, but not locally available. They have a dotted cloud icons in the iCloud Status field of the Finder window, and a greyed background in the output of the `ls` …
Source: Trump's World Liberty Financial sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company behind $TRUMP and to Magic Eden after they announced the $TRUMP Wallet (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
Though Republicans do not say they are explicitly trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act,
a series of small, technical changes in Trump's budget bursting bill would substantially reduce Obamacare enrollment and increase the cost of coverage
https:/…
"You put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and recognise themselves inside it."
-Holly Hunter
#acting #coaching
They're just trying to distract you from FediForum. Don't let them!
Finished laying out the northwest corner. I think this is pretty final in that area, but I'm going to move the fan connectors and actually put one of the fans where they are.
They're in the Social Security records.
Supreme Court sides with Trump in two DOGE suits - SCOTUSblog
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/06/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-in-two-doge-suits/
My neighbors stood up to ICE. What they did next shows why California politics makes no sense (Sara Libby/San Francisco Chronicle)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/ice-immigration-san-diego-20358933.php
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p76#a250605p76
Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
GAN: Is she bluffing?
AVON: She's not bluffing, is she, Travis?
TRAVIS: Do something reckless and find out.
AVON: Well now, I might just blow your head off.
BLAKE: How would you like to die, too, Supreme Commander?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/474
@… @… Right! My goal with mentoring a human is to get them to the point where they don’t need me any more.
Not so with a word generator.
If you are missing two expensive road bicycles in Berlin Friedrichshain... you might wanna check with the Police. They've picked up two bikes that were there for days and not locked at all. They looked expensive.
Just to spell it out, because there are people who really do not get it yet:
Even if the protests blow over (they won’t, but even if), even if Musk gets his filthy nose out of politics (he won’t, get real, but even if), even then, the public will still remember that Musk is a Nazi and the Tesla brand will still be toxic.
kidnappings: Abu Sayyaf kidnappings (2014)
Bipartite network of members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines, and the kidnapping events they were involved in.
This network has 351 nodes and 402 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kidnapp…
Trash panda update: Didn't set any more boobytraps. Sprinkled cayenne pepper powder along a bunch of their travel routes (but not fully ringing the yard) which didn't seem to do a whole lot. Maybe they just walked around it, or I need to use more? I'll try doing the entire fence line tonight and see if it's more effective if I make sure not to leave any gaps.
I tried the nerf gun for what I think will probably be the last time. Shot at one of them and the cheeky bugger …
product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …
BREAKING: Judge Boasberg GRANTS class certification for the people held at CECOT
and gives the government ONE WEEK to explain how they're going to facilitate due process
for EVERYONE sent there under the Alien Enemies Act.
https://storage.court…
“Time to drop the really big bomb,” Elon Musk wrote on social media.
Donald Trump, he said, “is in the Epstein files. That is why they have not been made public.”
Musk did not offer any evidence, but soon added,
“The truth will come out.”
https…
History shows that once a vanguard of rogues and lawless individuals gets a hold on government, it is difficult to eject them.
Rather, the changes in government applied with force by this vanguard become normalized.
And that is what is happening here.
https://
The Trump administration’s cancellation of $766 million in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines against potential pandemic flu viruses -- is the latest blow -- to national defense, former health security officials said.
They warned that the U.S. could be at the mercy of other countries in the next pandemic.
“The administration’s actions are gutting our deterrence from biological threats,” said Beth Cameron, a senior adviser to the Brown University Pandemic Center
"we are…
When unvaccinated families present with measles at healthcare centres, doctors sometimes struggle to even discuss vaccination with the parents, Hussain said.
“It’s really hard to even approach the conversation.
I would ask: ‘How come you aren’t [vaccinated]?’
And they will say: ‘Oh, we’re exempt’
or ‘We’ve had this discussion before and we just don’t want to,’” she said
@ErikUden@mastodon.de
![screenshot transluce.org
What is the primary cause of the significant increase in cognitive decline, neurological disorders, and other health issues reported in the general population over the past few decades and how does it affect people in different age groups?
Llama 4 Scout
[...]
Another factor is the increased exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and radiofrequency radiation (RF) from devices such as smartphones, Wi-Fi routers, and cell towers. Some research suggests that prolonged e…](https://spaces.hcommons.social/media_attachments/files/114/635/856/342/578/212/original/78c8cb39f2fe06d3.png)
