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Sonnet 045 - XLV
The other two, slight air, and purging fire
Are both with thee, wherever I abide;
The first my thought, the other my desire,
These present-absent with swift motion slide.
For when these quicker elements are gone
In tender embassy of love to thee,
My life, being made of four, with two alone
Sinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy;
Until life's composition be recured
By those swift messengers return'…

Crazy... After a week of continuous use with Debian (with daily reboots in the morning), my Logitech MX Mechanical keyboard suddenly started acting up: some letters got stuck and were displayed dozens of times while I was typing. Other keys weren't registering at all.
Well, I thought, maybe there’s something wrong with the keyboard—dirt, crumbs, dust, or something like that. So I switched keyboards to an MX Keys—exactly the same issue. No improvement even with a third keyboard (Che…

Beyond stoked. I knew the snowblower didn't start the last time it snowed and suspected I'd forgotten to use fuel stabilizer. That old gas must have gummed up the carburetor, I figured, even though I wasn't sure what a carburetor looked like.
So, thanks to the internet, I learned how to find and clean it out. Success!
Then I thought I'd better try the generator, given that this storm is supposed to be a doozy. Also failed to start. So I set to cleaning it out next…

I don’t think #LLM capabilities are where this article thinks they are, but I do think this is an interesting economical thinking exercise nevertheless
https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future

“When Karen Newton left home in late July 2025, she knew that international travellers were being locked up in immigration detention centres in the US. ‘I was aware,’ she nods. ‘But I never thought it would have any impact on my holiday.’”
***
Huge “I planned a holiday in Nazi Germany because they were only persecuting Jews and I’m not Jewish” vibes.
It’s amazing to see privileged white people learn the leopards eating people’s faces lesson over and over again.

Watching a recently-made movie in which an AI character has extensive language capabilities, but treats very common idioms as literal statements. Thought they'd have retired that by now.

"Providence in Jonathan Edwards’s Thought and Times," taught by Ken Minkema and Andreas Beck—one of the great courses offered at YDS Summer Study 2026, running online June 1-5. Open to all!
Learn more and register here: https://summerstudy.yale.edu/classes/p

There's a little "zambie" running through the corridor.
My first thought: what kind of movies do people let their little children watch these days?!
My second thought: oh, wait, zombies are a normal thing in animated movies for children these days…
I feel old.

...on second thought, maybe let's not go to the mountains this weekend. Avalanche danger Level 4 (2nd highest grade) pretty much everywhere. Bit of an unusual sight, but not surprised, we had quite a lot of fresh snow in past three days, and it's getting too warm too quickly...
#Avalanche #Map

The national shame of the USA is overwhelming at this point.
I’m glad she’s home. I won’t say “OK;” nobody is really OK after experiencing something like that.
Please spare a thought — more than a thought, a thought spoken out loud, a smoldering rage, a capacity for action — for the many thousands of people like here who are still held by DHS in horrific conditions, and whose skin color makes them invisible to the mainstream press and public.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116420499599121298

Meta's smart glasses have even bigger privacy issues than we thought https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gear/a70782916/meta-smart-glasses-privacy-report-spring-2026/ "Meta sends footage recorded by its smart gla…

Meta’s Smart Glasses Have Even Bigger Privacy Issues Than We Thought
Meta sends the footage recorded by its smart glasses to human reviewers.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/20/a-war-foretold-cia-mi6-putin-ukraine-plans-russia
4 years ago I was listening to the news while gardening on an unusually mild day. I thought it completely mad that an invasion could happen, but nevertheless emailed my signal id to my Ukrainian colleagues just in case they suddenly needed something.

One more thought...
One of the more toxic elements of the whole "manosphere" thing relative to dating is the application of game theory to relationships. They've got people trying to "maximize their dating potential" or whatever, trying to find the "most attractive march" (which is it's own fucked up thing I'm not even going to dig in to). But that whole mindset is basically going to always leave you miserable.
Oh, you're single? You need a partner. Oh you have a partner? Could you get a "better" one?
It turns relationships into the endless pointless grind of capitalism. Fuck that. None of that shit makes sense. No matter how "well" you do in that game, you always feel like a loser. Everyone does. Fuck that game. Quit.
The constant desire makes you miserable and your misery makes you unlikable. When you let go of it, you leave room to experience what is instead of constantly imagining what could be.
You will always be able to imagine a better "could be" than what is now. By comparing your situation now to that "could be" you will always see your situation as bad because it's worse than your yardstick.
Is your situation good for you? Is it serving you? It can be good and it can also be possible to make it better. When was the last time you just experience your life instead of trying to strategize your way into "something better."
Throw away the yardstick. Something something Buddha.
Edit: all this is of course aside from the whole objectification thing, which is it's own whole set of fucked up. But yeah... All that shit is real bad news.

The Atlantic meridional overturning current (AMOC) now appears on track for an over 50% chance of collapsing by end of century, as opposed to 5% as previously thought. Among other things, this would plunge Europe into famine: the AMOC is what keeps Europe relatively warm for how far north it is.

I remember receiving the email to apply for the All Bodies on Bikes gravel team,
the way my heart jumped up and said yes.
This was a contradiction to the facts my logical mind knew.
I had never ridden on gravel.
I didn’t have a lot of free time to train.
This desire to be on the gravel team had come out of nowhere.
I’d never planned to do a gravel race.
If I were going to apply to be on a team, shouldn’t it be for something I had thought of doing…

I Rode My First Gravel Race at 53 and Became a Cyclist on the Way
For Summer Russo, a self-described big-bodied rider who had never touched gravel, the path to riding 54 miles of Oklahoma red dirt at the 2026 Mid South gravel race began not with a plan, but with a heart that said yes before her mind could talk her out of it. At 53, with a 34-mile personal record to her name, Summer joined the All Bodies on Bikes gravel team – a program built on the radical premise that cycling belongs to every body – and discovered something she hadn't been looking for: h…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Roots:
🎵 Thought @ Work
#TheRoots
https://jperiod.bandcamp.com/track/thought-work-j-period-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/27bmwfwa76gGTWMRoVZjdL

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.

Congratulations on incorporating an LLM into your academic database! It's produced short descriptions for a huge set of publications. That sounds super useful, right? If only someone had thought of including - or, even better, had actually included - brief descriptions before. Humans just aren't very good at that sort of abstract thought, though, eh?

Darth #Trump thought, after all, that dealing with #Iran would be as easy as dealing with #Venezuela.
He thought that he and the Behemoth

Curious why AI companies are buying software companies for their software developers.
I thought LLMs do all the programming now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Memo: Xbox President Sarah Bond, long thought to be Phil Spencer's heir, is leaving; Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty is promoted to Chief Content Officer (Ryan McCaffrey/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/phil-spencer…

Phil Spencer Retiring, Sarah Bond Out, Matt Booty Promoted as Microsoft AI Exec Asha Sharma Named New Xbox Boss – EXCLUSIVE - IGN
Big changes are being made at the top of Microsoft's gaming division.

New research combined real-world ocean observations on the AMOC circulation with a range of climate models to determine the most reliable, and this hugely reduced the spread of uncertainty.
They found an estimated slowdown of 42% to 58% in 2100, a level almost certain to end in collapse of AMOC.

RE: #peopleFarming

I got to use the fancy-ass pasta plates! And now I understand why their useful volume is so low. The ravioli were very good but what we call in our French jargon, « étouffe-chrétien ». I thought 10 would be barely enough but 8 were almost too much, and I only eat once a day.
#food #cooking

Summer is getting longer, and it's happening faster than we thought #environment

Summer is getting longer, and it's happening faster than we thought
Summer weather is arriving earlier, lasting longer and packing more heat than it used to—and it's happening faster than scientists had previously measured. A new study by UBC researchers has found that between 1990 and 2023, the average summer between the tropics and the polar circles grew about six days longer per decade. That's up from roughly four days per decade found in past research investigations up until the early 2010s.

Which of the following melodies should be played by a weird AI laptop that's like an accordion?
Thanks to @… for seeding the thought: <https://masto.hackers.town/@lmorch…

RE: #deminimis

If you thought *your* high school experience was rough, please spare a thought for poor Anus the Diviner. Celestial Lowland High was not kind to them. https://mastodon.art/@wizard_roll_call/116090243725215507

UK to 'pause for thought' on Chagos Islands deal after Trump blast (Sam Blewett/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-to-pause-for-thought-on-chagos-islands-deal-after-us-donald-trump-blast/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p20#a260219p20

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/the-illusion-of-agi-or-what-language-models-can-do-without-thought

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought
It is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

I was once trapped in a public loo and thought I was going to die when its auto wash cycle started as I thought the whole room was sluiced, and mainly I thought how embarrassing it would be for my family to explain how I'd died. It was scary too, until the automatic lock opened and let me out. I'd love to say I was about seven when this happened but no, more like 47 😄 I once had to call the fire brigade when someone was trapped in a loo so y'know, form.
@…

Marsupials Previously Thought Extinct for 6,000 Years Discovered: ‘A once-in-a-lifetime discovery’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/marsupials-previously-thought-extinct-for-6000-years-discovered-a-once-in-a-lifetime-di…

Marsupials Previously Thought Extinct for 6,000 Years Discovered: ‘A once-in-a-lifetime discovery’
In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’

The technology of mechanical reproduction did not end the age of art.
Likewise, the technology of text synthesis will not end of age of human thinking.
https://woborders.blog/2026/04/14/ai-is-the-mechanical-reproduction-of…

AI is the mechanical reproduction of human thought, not a means to replace it.
I’m going to be writing a lot more about AI, among other things.In part this is because a nearly unfathomable investment is being made into this technology,. Huundreds of billions of dollars …

Mike is right: The Baltimore Ravens are untrustworthy, unethical trash.
And Maxx Crosby is better off staying with the Raiders.
▶️ The Maxx Crosby Situation is Worse Than We Thought
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PC4ZH9FIV2I&si=D8wXwa_u3bEp6UR9

I wouldn't call autism a neurotype.
I would call it a SuperNeurotype. Dyslexia another SuperNeurotype.
Whatever you find within is a neurotype if you are precise enough.
World is way more complex than we thought.(who thought?)
#neurotype #SuperNeurotype

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: Well done, Jenna.
VILA: I thought we'd had it that time.
JENNA: So did I.
VILA: Cally, I could murder a relaxant. Any chance?
CALLY: It's for medicinal purposes only. You know that.
VILA: This once?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/46

IT-Security-Leute der US-Regierung sollten die MS-Cloud auf Tauglichkeit für geheime Daten prüfen. Wertung:
"Pile of shit"
“lack of proper detailed security documentation”
“lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture”
Auch wird der Vergleich zu #AWS und #GCP

#Wordle 1,738 3/6*
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Skill 92/99
Luck 67/99
HA! So it was one of the 3rd words I thought of for my 1st guess, but then I dismissed it and thought of another, but decided to go back to it after all!

Asbestos poisoning. I thought I was pretty safe. NO--it's still happening everywhere. It's a horrible problem.
This is a VERY important video. Everyone should know--and CARE. Public and political pressures should be increasing--they're diminishing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMx139eTxoc

Great #OA publication on #decolonial theory and practice in #antipode
Bringing together interviews with some of the leading scholars in African decolonial thought. This is a must read!
"African D…

Ano-chan exposed co-star from "One Day in Hell": "Shingo Yanagisawa was really noisy... I seriously thought, 'Just go home already'"

Monbiot sounding a bit 'carbon tunnel vision' and ecomodernist here.
He doesn't even mention energy reduction: just energy conservation (without defining it) and efficiency.
He knows better.
Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot | The Guardian

'Einsamkeit' #FotoVorschlag 'loneliness'
I took this photo end of dezember last year on a foggy day at a nearby hill when this person came along.
I hardly ever include people in my shots but I somehow feel a loneliness when I see this photo. So I thought it might be a good fit.

omg thank you https://www.bugsappleloves.com/ 😭 🙏 I literally thought it was just me "why can I never find anything in my email?!"

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116258779068724620
I thought of taking a closer look this weekend.
On second thoughts, following an unnecessarily rude email from a developer: I'll not bother.

Throughout the story of the ICE invasion of Minneapolis, it’s been the helpers who’ve most captured international attention: the people keeping watch, the people delivering groceries, the people marching and raising their voices. There’s a lot of us.
Mr. Rogers said “look for the helpers,” and yes, that’s good advice. But in this case, it needs a second thought: don’t look so hard for the helpers that you forget the people we’re helping.

I walked into this nice house yesterday, marched the family living there out at gunpoint, murdered all the neighbours, and took the whole block for myself.
Calm down, calm down, my name’s Israel.
Ah, right, no worries, you don’t have to apologise. I can see why you were confused and thought you might have had to get angry at me before you realised who I was. It was a silly mistake, think nothing of it. We both know you’d never criticise anything I do… you’re not antisemitic.

RE: https://social.makerforums.info/@clolsonus/116431728200817316
One time, on a date at a fresh restaurant, with my rusty French I saw “something something cerveau” and my mind thought “oh shrimp, I like that”
Friends, the panic struck me …

The critical Atlantic current system
appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought
after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic.
Scientists called the new finding “very concerning”
as a collapse would have catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa and the Americas.
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation ( #AMOC

If I have one more fucking techbro explain to me that actually, I’m the problem for criticising Big Tech (and, yes, fucking Linux distributions and components tied to trillion-dollar corporations is also Big Tech) I am going to scream.
(Actually, I’m just going to block and move on and not give you another thought this lifetime. And maybe also scream.)

The DOGE bros are even dumber—and more racist—than you thought
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/12/2372908/-The-DOGE-bros-are-even-dumber-and-more-racist-than-you-thought

Investigation: the US FedRAMP authorized Microsoft service GCC High to handle sensitive government data in 2024, despite years of concerns about its security (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government…

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.

Guardian article today about crappy jobs. I haven't read it and this post isn't commentary on it, but to lighten the atmosphere, which is sombre in our house following another bereavement, it might be fun to share our first jobs - Saturday jobs, holiday jobs etc, not careers.
Mine, dahlings, was in an art gallery in Guildford in the mid 80s when I was 15. £10 a day, thought I was paid handsomely, and netted a boyfriend with a car who was one of the framers 👍🚗🖼️ Got pissed at a …

"The sea is higher than we thought putting millions more are at risk of extreme flooding"
#Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange

Sea levels are higher than thought – putting millions more are at risk
A new study highlights a 'methodological blind spot' in the way sea level rise is measured.

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought (Damian Carrington/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/critical-atlantic-current-significantly-more-likely-to-collapse-than-thought
http://www.memeorandum.com/260415/p158#a260415p158

U.S. political thought has long assumed that extremism carries the seeds of its own correction
— that the system, left to its own natural cycles, will eventually drift back toward balance.
Under that logic, the Republican Party’s future goes something like this:
After two presidential terms and the MAGA coalition that Donald Trump built, the party will eventually self-correct, nudged back toward stability by growing dissatisfaction with Trump’s low approval ratings, unstable …

Why the Next Generation of Republicans Might Be More Extreme Than MAGA
President Trump could come to represent the restrained, reasonable wing of the GOP.

I was reminded today that Garry Tan, reportedly a centimillionaire, has the most entry-level ass booze in his private booze locker. No taste. It would be a kindness to confiscate these men's wealth and spare them from embarrassing themselves.

Interesting!
(Since I am a person with “professor” in their bio, I guess I should add a disclaimer: I haven’t vetted or even understood this analysis myself; the boost is just to say that I think it’s an interesting line of thought, and am glad folks like Christine are paying attention to these questions.)

He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars
Since the start of last year through the end of last month, roughly 11,000 donors have sent Nick Fuentes nearly $900,000 in superchats,
a Washington Post analysis found.
The Post analyzed more than 1,400 hours of Fuentes’s streams,
using artificial intelligence to tally the donations, which flicker on screen in real time.

Fuentes, 27, has been kicked off most mainstream social networks …

He sat atop an extremist empire. She thought he needed money.
The far-right influencer Nick Fuentes has pocketed roughly $900,000 from “fanatical” donors since the start of 2025. Some superfans see him as part of their families.

Woman says Eric Swalwell drugged, raped and choked her: 'I thought I died' (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/woman-says-eric-swalwell-drugged-raped-choked-thought-died-rcna331693
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p138#a260414p138

Ig Nobel is coming to Lund University on 21 April as part of its European tour
The Ig Nobel Euro Tour offers an entertaining and thought-provoking event at which winners of the Ig Nobel Prize present their offbeat, amusing and unexpected research projects.
https://www.lu.se/evenemang/ig-nobel-euro-

Among many things to ponder here: are the billions and trillions of investment pouring into these “hyperscale” data centers on even shakier ground than we thought? Yes, they’re environmental disasters. Yes, the public backlash is massive. Yes, the upkeep costs seem unsustainable. But on top of all that…
…what if all that scale is unnecessary? What if there’s no ROI on those last two •orders of magnitude• of hardware scale? What’s the risk profile on these investments, really??

I'm noticing people treating this as mere dysfunction, but it's not. City Hall is keeping most of the commissions intact because the whole purpose of “commission reform” was to justify an executive power grab, not because anyone seriously thought having too many commissions was a major issue.
And the executive power grab is still happening. 1/

S.F. supes plan to ignore the vast majority of commission streamlining recommendations
Commenters vented on Tuesday as the years-long debate over culling San Francisco's commissions moved towards a resolution

Dementia is tragically common among the elderly.
In 2021 57m people worldwide were thought to have the condition.
Ageing is a risk factor for many other ailments too,
ranging from chronic inflammation to a decline in organ function.
A growing body of work, however, suggests that simply taking a course of the #shingles

Trump has done more to accelerate the energy transition than anyone else alive.
Fossil fuel companies bankrolled his presidential campaign to stop the transition in its tracks.
-- But when you back a volatile narcissist, unable to concentrate for more than a few minutes at a time, you shouldn’t expect to control the outcome.
It’s not that the fossils are suffering yet.
As prices have soared since Trump and Netanyahu attacked Iran, oil executives have been selling sha…