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Reminder: public protest is about visibility, not hiding. The power comes from people being willing to be visible, put their time on the line, and if needed, their bodies.
If you're going to start shit, maybe just ... don't. Direct action of the illegal sort requires careful planning and a tactical and strategic plan for why it will win. It happens sometimes, but it's not the mode, it's not the mode of the No Kings protests. This is a popular, public demonstration of outrage. It's legal (for now, and I hope, ever).
Yes, the police may try to kettle protesters and then trap them into curfew violations in places that have curfews. Masks won't save us from that where it happens. Just running the system with competent representation (and enough bodies to make it A Problem for the system) will.
We don't all need to be masked vigilantes at protests, and in a lot of cases, we need to be worried about the people masking up and starting shit. Remember that this is our opponents current tactic: masked, violent attacks. Don't look like them.

'Sovereign AI' is just political branding, signaling to nationalist impulses while continuing to pour money into big tech firms. It's a mask for a sucker's game.
"This reveals a new kind of digital colonialism. Not one where countries are denied access, but one where they are structurally bound into dependencies across every layer of the AI stack. A European lab may host its own weights on a data center in France, but that center runs on American hardware, software…

‘Sovereign AI’ is political branding. The reality is closer to digital colonialism
The harder nations push for AI independence, the deeper their dependencies become.

Sorry if I fucked up your day too, but I fucking love you all! After looking at this GIF, I’m over it!
Autism is real as hell, and autism is fucking awesome. Fuck the haters, fuck anyone who’s “anti-autism,” and fuck domestic violence against autistic people.
I exist, I’m proud, and I’m not going anywhere. Autism power, always fucking rad!
Mistakes happen, and I gotta work on myself, lmao! You do you, and I’ll do me. Cool? Cool.

An Infinite Library
Klaas Pieter Hart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13325 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13325

An Infinite Library
The purpose of this note is to describe a space that is regular but not completely regular, but only barely so: all closed sets are $G_δ$-sets and every singleton is a zero-set.

Hey, #DeltaAirlines, #AmericanAirlines, and #UnitedAirlines: selling passenger data to the Feds without requiring a warrant, are you?

"Sean 'Diddy' Combs reacts after verdicts are read of the five counts against him"
this is not fair! I want my mommy!
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/02/diddy-trial-verdict-sean-combs

wind splitting seconds on this cornflower stalk last year. I did not change anything between these pictures, nor did much time pass, I just kept pressing the shutter as the wind kept moving the branches of the birch tree in whose half-shadow I was standing
#photography #bloomScrolling

If you have a green card and get a single pot conviction, you have to either naturalize or never travel internationally.
Here's the relevant section from a legal practice advisory on this issue.
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lv47…

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
Yep, but he travelled abroad, which is what got him. That made him "inadmissible," not "deportable." So if you have a green card and get a single pot conviction, you have to either naturalize or never travel internationally. Here's the relevant section from a legal practice advisory on this issue. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

I want to push back on the idea in the world of tech work that a PIP (performance improvement plan) is about getting rid of someone, that they're not intended to be survivable.
This is completely false. (I'm sure there's instances of it, of course, but the mode and vast majority are, in fact about performance improvement. Sometimes they're shadow layoffs, but that is cruel callous behavior that not everyone will exhibit.)
Now _most people do not survive the PIP process_. This is to be expected: if someone is in fact not performing, and more gentle remedies haven't worked, it's not looking good.
But here's where I get a bit spicy: most performance problems are constitutional problems with management and management style, not individual performance problems. However, since managers are as a class 'in power' somewhat, the individual contributor takes the fall for this structurally.
The intent of a PIP is not to get rid of people. It's to right performance.
However, as a system, PIPs do largely get rid of people who are constitutionally misaligned with management. Even when it's a management problem (and it usually is)

The first trickle from filter to pool pond.
The main pond is not quite 3/4 full, but I thought it was important to make sure the filter was completely full and ready to start filtering. So I have shored up the low edges of the filter, taken away the temporary stream, and now the water is starting to flow from filter to pond. In time it will connect with the pump bay. Then I can turn on the pump and start circulating for real.
😆
The reason this is happening now is not the best reason. Our view to the southeast is not encouraging.
😔 🔥
#poolpond #oops #fire #diy

accidental-turned-intentional selfie as hands-among-flowers
#photography #selfie #selfPortrait

I know we've been saying that AI should be more assertive in saying that it doesn't know rather than making shit up, but Google just flat-out lied to me. (It also didn't completely understand that I was searching for a Terry Pratchett quote, so thought I was saying that *Pterry* would eat anything.)
As it happens, this *is* a Terry Pratchett quote. It's merely an early one, from Mort.