
2025-06-09 06:33:08
The domestic (electric) regional trains in Austria all seem to be very new and shiny. Compare to the sad diesel regional train over the border to Sopron that I arrived in on Thursday. #ÖBB
The domestic (electric) regional trains in Austria all seem to be very new and shiny. Compare to the sad diesel regional train over the border to Sopron that I arrived in on Thursday. #ÖBB
This kinda got lost in today's events:
"Immigration agents mistakenly detain deputy U.S. marshal in Tucson, feds confirm"
https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_2573f016-3596-4f32-93f7-7e99b6459675.html
NFL news roundup: Lions LB Malcolm Rodriguez (knee) has conservative timetable of late-season return https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-thursday-june-5
Google Calendar: I found an event in my calendar for this Thursday, without a title or description, but a specific time (12:20-13:05). It is my private calendar, so I know I created it. So I am probably going to miss something this Thursday, but I don't know what.
What I found interesting is that when I asked Gemini it was able to tell me when I *created* that event, a piece of metadata that is not visible in the Google Calendar UX in any way.
Podcast: What To Watch For with Raiders Manadary Mini-Camp on the Horizon https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-chip-kelly-patrick-graham-mandatory-minicamp
AMD says it has acquired the team behind AI inference chip developer Untether AI, a day after announcing it acquired AI software optimization startup Brium (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-periph
Now lets guess what colour ouf the skin this Deputy US Marshal has.
Immigration agents mistakenly detain deputy U.S. marshal in Tucson
#ICE
https://tucson.com/news/local/bo…
Multiple Republican lawmakers appeared split as the feud between Trump and Musk escalated into an all-out social media war on Thursday.
At the heart of the breakup is their disagreement over Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which Musk has called a “disgusting abomination.”
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apparently every first Thursday now there is a hoedown on the street outside my office and we are revitalizing downtown San Francisco with lots of cowboy hats and a mechanical bull 🐂 (I will not be trying it).
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.’”
Former Cowboy and Super Bowl champion, Tom Rafferty, dies at 70 https://insidethestar.com/former-cowboy-and-super-bowl-champion-tom-rafferty-dies-at-70
China issues warrants for alleged Taiwanese hackers and bans a business for pro-independence links
https://apnews.com/article/chian-taiwan-hacking-wanted-kuma-f937096e3163470b21597b4ec809d799
TTC new CEO took the bus from Kennedy to Scarborough Town Center to do his press conference.
Like Andy Byford, an actual CEO that uses transit. Refreshing (the bar is low). Cautiously optimistic.
https://www.
REfugEEs From Beyond – Weird Real Freestyle
#byncsa
We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation
GenAI-free WorldCon alternative!
Mia Tsai: on Bluesky: "ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon"
Thursday, August 14, 2025
ACT Theatre, downtown #Seattle
> My vision for ConCurrent was simple
> one day of excellent programming; have it be free to attend; run it efficiently; and never use genAI/L…
Seems weird that Tesla would resort to trash talking with a PowerPoint. Very LinkedIn brofluencer vibes. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/trump-musk-tesla-ev-credits.html?smid=url-share
Human cost of working on the railways revealed in database https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/human-cost-of-working-on-the-railways-revealed-in-database/
Germany's Merz Secures Long-Awaited Trump Meeting on June 5 (Arne Delfs/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-31/germany-s-merz-secures-long-awaited-trump-meeting-on-thursday
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p29#a250531p29
Rafferty known for being determined https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/jun/07/rafferty-known-for-being-determined/
One call made my day...
Can we move the implementation from Friday to Thursday? Answer, yes.
Can we arrange for a special set of backups before and after? Answer, yes... after I pick up my jaw when it hit the floor. (Normally we ask for just one before we start).
Viewing large language models as compression machines helps explain why they seem at turns big-brained and pea-brained. To learn more, join me for Honey, AI Shrunk the Archive, an IEEE/UMaine AI webinar next Thursday 3 April at noon Eastern
https://ai.umaine.edu/webinars
TACO Tuesday
THAC0 Thursday
Rafferty, Cowboys OL from 1976-89, dies at 70 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45464143/tom-rafferty-former-cowboys-ol-1976-89-dies-70
Apparently I just signed for a package from UPS that was supposed to be delivered on Thursday of last week. I haven't been downstairs yet today. Lying fucking pieces of shit.
I think it's entirely fair to say that Chris Bishop, former tobacco lobbyist, is a dickhead. Good on ya, Don MacGlashan, for calling a spade a spade. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/562700
It's only Thursday morning and I've already had what's probably the most intense and productive week of writing since the home-stretch of my dissertation almost 15 years ago.
I basically wrote the entire first draft - and not a super drafty draft, at that - of what I'm thinking will be the second chapter in my next book.
I'm feeling great.
#AmWriting
YouTube plans to roll out Google Lens integration to Shorts in the coming weeks, allowing users to search for elements within Shorts (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/youtube-wi…
Ex-Raiders GM reveals which QBs the team wanted in 2024 NFL draft https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/ex-raiders-gm-reveals-which-qbs-the-team-wanted-in-2024-nfl-draft-3381813/
Ontario NDP, Liberals successfully stall Bill 5 after filibustering until midnight Thursday | CBC News
Bill 5 would create so-called "special economic zones" where the government can exempt companies or projects from complying with provincial laws or regulations. It would also replace the province's endangered species act, replacing it with an new law that critics say waters down protections.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ndp-liberals-stall-bill-5-after-filibuster-1.7546691
Lions' St. Brown eyes training camp after surgery https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45458921/lions-st-brown-expects-ready-camp-knee-surgery
Well, there you have it...
The same year, Vance told the National Conservatism Conference that “we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.” “We live in a world that has been made effectively by university knowledge” and to rebuild the nation along the lines of white Christian nationalism, the universities must be destroyed. Vance told the audience, “the professors are the enemy.”
Cowboys Headlines: Travis Frederick honored; news on former DE's arrest, longtime OL dies https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/06/news-headlines-june-5-…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced sweeping leadership changes Thursday
as part of an effort to dramatically ramp up arrests of illegal migrants.
The “leadership realignment” comes as Trump administration officials push for ICE to make
a “minimum” of 3,000 arrests per day
– up from the 1,800 per day quota the White House initially demanded in January.
As part of the shake-up, Kenneth Genalo is out as the head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Ope…
The final SMARTer Mobility Draft Network is now ready! Join one of five public input meetings:
• 3/31, Mount Clemens
• 4/1, Pontiac
• 4/2, Dearborn
• 4/3, Farmington Hills
• 4/10, Virtual
You can also comment on the interactive map. #DetroitTransit
Readwise würfelte mir heute dieses Zitat in die Wiedervorlage und ich musste direkt nachsehen, wann der Artikel geschrieben wurde. 2014. Wer hätte gedacht, dass sich 6 Jahre später alles noch viel schlimmer entwickeln würde?
https://www.theawl.com/2014/10/shot-through-the-…
Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day to everyone in the Fediverse! And remember your alt text!
#GAAD
The MÁV lounge (at Keleti pu) terms explicitly mention #interrail. Great, will have to come here when I leave Budapest on Thursday (I think it was).
🐶👩⚕️🏥My dog huck is going into the hosptital on Thursday. I've had him over a year and he's grown from a wee pup I held in both my hands, into a big dog who has hold over me.
It's for hip replacement. It will cost a king's randsom, but I can't live my best life unless he can live his #SmallThings
From Translink
Oakridge–41st Avenue Canada Line Station to close early for seven weeks
Two phases of night work necessary to install support structures at station entrance
The Canada Line’s Oakridge–41st Avenue Station will be closing at 11 p.m. from Sunday to Thursday nights over seven weeks, to allow for important upgrade work.
The temporary closures will happen in two phases and are necessary to ensure customer safety.
🧵1/n
@… re: your latest https://microfictions.substack.com/subscribe I'll chuck
Drug plan provider changed me from Fiasp to a generic at the first of the year;
Spent several days waiting for the prescription to come in. After 2 days or so it arrived. Was told they do not stock that insulin. It was the only bolus on the providers formulary.
I renewed last Thursday. Today is Thursday of the following week. Called the Pharmacy yesterday evening. They are going to call me back today with what they find out. Was told they checked and none available in their sy…
Lions' Dan Campbell says retiring Frank Ragnow will be 'missed,' but 'the train rolls on' https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-dan-campbell-says-retiring-frank-ragnow-will-be-missed-but-the-train-rolls-on
The weather was too good to not run outside, and skip the treadmill last Thursday! First time running outside at my work running route this year after returning to the work FT this month, and it was spectacular!
Not expecting to hit a sub 8 minute mile, especially with my health issues, but if it happens, I'll be elated!
#running
Ithaca Festival Parade Last Thursday
#ithaca #photo #photography #portrait
Cowboy Roundup: Dallas hiring 'strategic' position, Why to love George Pickens https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-hiring-strategic-position-why-to-love-george-pickens
Colts QB Anthony Richardson to miss minicamp after suffering shoulder injury https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-qb-anthony-richardson-to-miss-minicamp-after-suffering-shoulder-injury
CFP NEMLA 2026--ITALIAN FOOD AS (RE)GENERATION
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updated: Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 9:12amfull name / name of organization: NORTH EASTERN MODERN…
via Input 4 RELCFP https…
Source: Steelers renew talks with Fins TE Smith https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45445180/source-steelers-renew-talks-dolphins-te-jonnu-smith
Drug plan provider changed me from Fiasp to a generic at the first of the year;
Spent several days waiting for the prescription to come in. After 2 days or so it arrived. Was told they do not stock that insulin. It was the only bolus on the providers formulary.
I renewed last Thursday. Today is Thursday of the following week. Called the Pharmacy yesterday evening. They are going to call me back today with what they find out. Was told they checked and none available in their sy…
Micah Parsons not present at Cowboys OTAs https://insidethestar.com/micah-parsons-not-present-at-cowboys-otas
DEADLINE EXTENDED, Rethinking the Cinema of Sai Paranjpye
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updated: Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 9:12amfull name / name of organization: REFOCUS SERIES, EDINBURGH…
via Input 4 RELCFP
Woman marching in Ithaca Festival Parade Last Thursday
#photo #photography #ithaca #ithacafestival
ICSSR and JSPS Sponsored Conference (Hybrid Mode) on Post/Apocalyptic Narratives in Contemporary Indo-Japanese Environmental Literature
https://ift.tt/H1PJYmE
updated: Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 12:42amfull name / name of organization: Kobe Campus for Commerce…
via Input 4 RELCFP