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Was running around the house doing other chores when my daughter comes up and tells me the air cleaner in her room has the filter-change reminder light on.
So I go swap out the filter and it won't come back up (makes a ding but is unresponsive to captouch input)
If you ever have the chance to buy a Levoit LV-PUR131, buy something else. They *all* seem to fail in this exact same way. I've repaired quite a few over the years and thought I had done this one already, but I gu…

If you need something and Black Friday is the only time you can afford it or the only time you think it’s worth the price—please go ahead and buy it.
Doubly so if it’s something that helps you for a disability or maybe something that helps you free up time in your life for fun things.
It’s not your fault that we live in a capitalist society.

Underlings are so annoying!
Sometimes you can make this problem go away by exploiting weak labor power (see: factories, agriculture, sanitation).
Sometimes you can create a toxic org culture when information •only• flows down the hierarchy, so no pushback can ever reach your sensitive ears. (Public school administrations are rife with this.)
Sometimes you can do it by making your catastrophic failures look like a string of successes to the people up the chain. (Large corporations are swimming in this.)
5/

Super Bowl contenders go splat on Thanksgiving, plus a college football rivalry week watch guide https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6839028/2025/11/28/thanksgiving-nfl-results-the-pulse/

Beckstrom initially did not want to go to the capital because she was concerned about feeling lonely away from home.
“She hated it. She cried about it,” her boyfriend said.
But with time, she came to enjoy the deployment and bonded with other troops.
In her spare time, he said, she visited monuments and museums, taking pictures and soaking up D.C.’s history.
She was especially interested in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
Sarah Beckstrom, the slain West Virginia National Guard member, took a keen interest in criminal justice and dreamed of one day becoming an FBI agent.

"In blowing up the vessel, destroying evidence and repatriating the survivors, the U.S. cut short a process that’s helped bring down traffickers."
The U.S. sank the alleged narco-terrorists’ boat — and let them go - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/27/us-drug-strike-survivors/

All we're asking is for y'all to catch up on some history so you understand what you're coming into. Even #NoKings grew from #50501Movement, which started as a decentralized protest before being taken over by the nonprofit industrial complex. Antifa networks were doxxing fash hard through the first Trump admin, but those networks go all the way back to the 80's... And they inherited an even older tradition. If you really want to get down to it, the whole "no kings" thing in Europe was at the very least heavily influenced by indigenous folks in the so-called Americas. There's a lot of history that's lead to this moment, and it's kind of all relevant to understanding how we got here and how we actually get out.

And here’s what I’m trying to get at: when the bubble bursts, many “AI” “applications” will disappear, but #genAI is here to stay in academia. Companies will discover students and academics as a market and, when the free offers go away, inevitably crank up the prices. But as students have already become dependent on #genAI

And here’s what I’m trying to get at: when the bubble bursts, many “AI” “applications” will disappear, but #genAI is here to stay in academia. Companies will discover students and academics as a market and, when the free offers go away, inevitably crank up the prices. But as students have already become dependent on #genAI

I don't need to buy gasoline very often thanks the the PHEV, but I did ned to fill up last night. It was an Esso station where in addition to showing me ads on the pump screen, the tiny speaker started squawking audio for the ads. This happened to me previously on a road trip. The other brand stations—around here at least—don't play obnoxious audio ads.
No one is measuring my displeasure here. There's no cancel/mute button.
I'm done with Esso. I'll go out of m…

Sports betting roundup: NFL playoffs get closer as favorites go 9-3 straight up https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/sports-betting-roundup-nfl-playoffs-get-closer-as-favorites-go-93-straight-up

>Driving lorry yesterday.
>Put cruise control 65km/h on 80km/h road (could have gone faster but it was post-shift refueling duty so I just chilled road was kinda wonky).
>Moped on the bikelane.
>It catches up.
>It passes you.
>It gaps you.
>Suddenly see a cop car.
>*laughs*
(Mopeds are only allowed to go 45km/h, so if it overtakes me when I go 65km/h, it's defo not going 45km/h).

We had a surprise opportunity to go to the beach this weekend, near Southport NC. I have the weird preference to sling my hammock under the house, between the clotheslines, instead of sleeping indoors. Half camping? I use a big rubbermaid box as my "suitcase" and put my shoes on it overnight... It was cold at night, but an underquilt and reflecting bubble insulation in the hammock, with an inflatable mattress on top of my down sleeping bag, kept me cozy.
My wife and I went to …

Designed a new t-shirt. You should get one and go running wearing it*.
https://davidaugust.threadless.com/designs/i-am-a-bomb-technician-if-you-see-me-running-try-to-catch-…

So, today, here in Santa Cruz, California, our iPhones lit up with an "imminent" tornado warning and we were told to seek shelter.
That's a big deal. A really big deal.
So how did our alert system go?
Not well.
The iPhones came through, but not everybody has an iPhone at hand.
How about FEMA weather alert radios - they were silent about it.
How about the Watch Duty app? Again, silence.
How about Amazon Echo/Alexa devices (that tell u…

I had my very first away day with my Tons a month or two ago and it was one of the best days of my life. Had to wake up early as hell to get the train from Reading back to London to get the coach up to Cambridge and it was absolutely immense. Can't wait to be back ❤️🤍 #fedifc #ccfc

Football Heritage (@footballheritage.bsky.social)
✍️New Article: Away Days Next week, we go again. This is the rallying cry of the away day, a weekly ritual undertaken by football supporters up and down the country. Words: @jonee13.bsky.social Read here ⬇️ www.footballheritage.co.uk/away-days

"EU lawmakers plead UN body to go hard on wildlife trafficking by 2030"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Wildlife #Animals

EU lawmakers plead UN body to go hard on wildlife trafficking by 2030
More data, better traceability schemes and stepping up enforcement are some of the measures backed by lawmakers to tackle wildlife trafficking ahead of the UN convention in Uzbekistan.

As an epilogue, here is the proof of the main theorem with my annotations.
As proofs go it's pretty simple, mostly building on set theory and some juggling of inequalities.
The key structure is given above the heading: start with the statement of the inequality and break err and err_iiv up as shown in the proof.
The first term on the right and left hand sides follow from the inequality (*) and the rest follows from the inequality (6). Adding the two together yields …

1. Plan going to Opole, via Kościan.
2. When you enter the train to Kościan, you discover that the change to Opole is delayed 15 minutes already. Consider changing in Leszno instead; if the delay increases, you'd have more options there.
3. Discover that there aren't any more options in Leszno today. Your change is delayed 30 minutes already. Return the reservations, and take one the other way, to Poznań instead.
4. Train station in Kościan. The displays aren't showing any delays, trains are announced normally. Tell people about the delays, so they won't stand in the -10°C waiting for the train to arrive.
5. Take the train to Poznań, and try to figure out what to do next.
6. Discover that the only reasonable choice going forward is Inowrocław: no delays and good return connection. It's the same train, so take another reservation. Your current seat is already taken there, so move elsewhere.
7. Your train should be followed by another one in the same direction, that departs from Poznań 6 minutes later. However, your train ends up waiting for another delayed train, so the other train goes first. The delay further increases as your train needs to slow down after the other train.
8. Reach Inowrocław 10 minutes later. That's not a problem, since you didn't have enough to see for all the time there anyway.
9. Discover that the town is more interesting than you thought, and you'd use more time.
10. When you almost get to the station, discover that your train is 10 minutes late. Not that you have any use for that time at this point.
11. When you're at the station, the train keeps increasing delay while waiting at the previous station, in Bydgoszcz. The station displays are completely useless, as they show only a random subset of regional trains, for no apparent reason. The announcements include all trains, but are rarely given.
12. The delay keeps increasing. Start thinking about getting a reservation for the next train to Poznań, in case it arrived first. You can't return the reservation after the planned departure time, and you can't have two reservations simultaneously, so reserve the seat from Mogilno, the next station.
13. The next train arrives first. While on board, you discover that you're not going to have any train home for 1.5 hr. Take another seat reservation to Leszno, where you can change into a suburban train and get home 15 minutes earlier than from Poznań. This time, your seat is still free.
14. The train departs 15 minutes delayed from Poznań. After all, you're changing trains in Kościan.
So I was going to go south, to Opole, via Kościan. Instead, I've ended up slingshotting north to Inowrocław, and getting back home via the same train as if I were in Opole.
#rail

With bigger bikes, you can attach the front wheel to your rear rack (or "bag-and-drag", if you have an appropriately sized pannier https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClhV6OaMJEF/ ) and let the rear wheel roll along the ground. For smaller kid-sized bikes, that just doesn't work - there&…

Always, always, ALWAYS check out the "source" of any promotional offers you get. Don't click links in the message. Go to your favorite search engine, look up the organization, and verify from there.
And if they ask for money? Run. #writingcommunity #writers

Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams - Writer Beware
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email solicitations that make it seem the sender (always with a Gmail address, always presenting as a marketing or PR expert) has really read the book,Read More

Uber plans to trial driverless taxis in London using Baidu's Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis, starting in H1 2026 with services available by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-22/uber-teams-up-wit…

For your Thanksgiving reading pleasure, check out Metacurity's selection of the week's best infosec-related long reads that cover
--Scammers who go to unbelievable lengths,
--How to expose a DPRK hacker seeking IT work,
--A Kiwi hacker conference installed a literal anti-virus system,
--Trump is turning his back on supercharged disinformation,
--How the EU and the US acted differently to the Collins Aerospace hack
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Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 11/15/25
Scammers who go to unbelievable lengths, How to expose a DPRK hacker seeking IT work, A Kiwi hacker conference installed a literal anti-virus system, Trump is turning his back on supercharged disinformation, How the EU and US acted differently to the Collins Aerospace hack

Billboards telling troops to obey only lawful orders go up near Florida military base | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/troops-billboard-campaign-florida-orders-b2890691.html

I really need to stop giving our little cat food right before bedtime, because he only eats a few bites and then just comes up to go to bed.
So I go down to give him breakfast and he still got food from last night in the bowl.
He’s a weird little cat.

Does anybody know of a part similar to or slightly larger than the LTC3374A that can take 12V input?
The LTC3374A is 8x 1A bucks phased in 90 degree steps (2 per phase), and can parallel up to 4 for increased output (4A max out). On many of my smaller boards I can fit the entire power supply in the one chip.
But I'd like to be able to go just a little bit bigger for some of my designs, both to enable 12V input and to get slightly more output current. The general idea of "…

Versus: Raiders must find an answer in the trenches as they go up against the league's No. 1 defense https://www.raiders.com/news/versus-raiders-must-find-an-answer-in-the-trenches-as-they-go-up-against-the-league-…

And another nag popped up about the Google Rewards app. Again, I said no to them tracking me more. Then I go to the page... How about just accept the fact that I say no. There is no way in hell I will allow you to track me, no to tracking my web activity and HELL NO TO PERSONALIZED ads.

Have all us Australians hit the tromboncino/cucuzza/zucchini glut yet? Or just me? https://witcheskitchen.com.au/tromboncino-or-zucchini-bake-making-it-up-as-you-go/

Tromboncino (or Zucchini) Bake (making it up as you go)
Tromboncino or zucchini, cheese, eggs, onion of some kind, something tart, something salty, something aromatic, little bit of flour, salt and pepper. Mix together, top with grated cheese, bake. Ser…

interacting with the container ecosystem makes me viscerally understand everyone who's ever expressed a desire to get up, go into the forest, and never come back

I do find value in Shazam when I go out. It's become one of the main ways I find new music.
It also links music to an experience for me, so if I discover something new when I'm in my happy place, like a coffee shop, I can re-live that moment when I listen again.
Currently, I'm listening to CloZee... I picked up a track (Revolution Sixis Remix) from this album yesterday. #Shazam #AppleMusic

One thing for me, the older I get, when setting up and organizing our place, functional ALWAYS trumps decor for me. I dig decor stuff, but the bottom line is always going to be that I'm going to go for a functional setup first. The decor can go around things. Gotta have things together, clean and accessible.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Broadcast 2000:
🎵 Get Up & Go
#NowPlaying #Broadcast2000
https://open.spotify.com/track/669WSAvBLHQVhiQH93lV23

Holiday figurine printing is a-go! 🎅⚙️ Spending the evening 3D printing and relaxing before the big day.
Pull up a chair and join the stream!
#3DPrinting

So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.

https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

Sources: SAG-AFTRA "is building a war room to oppose" the WBD-Netflix merger, including plans for a potential strike (James Franey/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/22/media/hollywood-actors-union-could-strike-over-ne…

Exclusive | Hollywood actors' union secretly plotting possible strike over Netflix-WBD merger: sources
Hollywood actors could go on strike over the planned Netflix-Warner Bros. Discovery tie-up, with their trade union secretly plotting a possible work stoppage in the New Year over fears the merger c…

Sources: Google has begun pitching customers, including Meta and big financial institutions, on the idea of using TPUs in their own data centers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-encroaches-nvidias-turf-new-ai-chip-push

Google Further Encroaches on Nvidia’s Turf With New AI Chip Push
Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia in the AI chip business. For years, the search giant has rented its own AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to cloud customers who use them in its Google Cloud data centers. Now, though, Google has begun ...

Transform Mozilla from a company to a democratically run collective and see how long management will still be overpaid and hires rentier capitalists.
https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/115746707589261530

like I wanna start putting stuff up on my walls bc blank walls make me Upset but I also don't have a sense for like
like idk where my TV is gonna go and stuff

The best thing is the big Volvo machine. Trump is not even able to do the (de)construction with US-build machinery? What a loser
https://mstdn.social/@jstatepost/115419867564846000

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project: Continued (2007) - Learn how I started to go off-grid @Home, and warming up to getting real (spendy). #solar #microgen -

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project: Continued (2007)
Learn how I started to go off-grid @Home, and warming up to getting real (spendy). #solar #microgen

The thermometer says it's 1.3° out there so obviously this is a perfect time to go out walking on t'moors.
There's a hike we've been planning to do for a while now, not far from Blackburn, and although it's chilly the weather says it'll be dry and bright so we're about to wrap up and head out to the East Lancs hills.
No time to waste as at this time of year the sun will be setting by about 4pm.
#hiking #walking

In the USA there's now bipartisan acceptance that "steaks cost almost 17% more than a year ago" ,[1] 60 % of shoppers buy less beef,[2] 37 % consider plant-based substitutes[3] but not clear how many would simply increase e.g. pulses or go fully #vegan. Prices of lentils are down[4] and production of pulses is expected to go up.[5]
[1]

I made nog again

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #IndieForeverDiscoWithBethDitto
The Ting Tings:
🎵 Shut Up and Let Me Go 
#TheTingTings
https://prepmode.bandcamp.com/album/shut-up-and-let-me-go-to-the-apt-prepmode-mix-the-ting-tings-x-ros-bruno-mars
https://open.spotify.com/track/37QOvoAg1EC0PgWnfMrRmi

It wasn't enough that the HFR devs had to go through getting shut down and brought back to life after getting Xbox their only GOTY in years, now the company that saved them is gonna shitfuck their IP, stories like this suck so much that I can't even muster up an analogy, it just fucking sucks. https://www.threads…

Culture Crave 🍿 (@culturecrave) on Threads
Krafton says they are now an 'AI first' company Franchises they own include 'PUBG' and 'Hi-Fi Rush

Cities are capping old landfills to cut methane emissions and turn waste gas into energy.
Ampersand is opening its East Africa battery swap network to all e-motorcycle makers, slashing upfront costs.
In the Sundarbans, women are restoring mangroves that buffer coasts and build incomes.
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Slightly dramatic day. Husband has a scary fall in the bathroom. Help him up, provide ice pack for his wrist and a cuppa while he regains his equanimity. Wee one is here so try to keep him occupied while looking after husband. Hospital is at least 5 hour wait. Rush to walk-in clinic before x-ray closes. X-ray taken but no one in attendance who is officially qualified to read it. WrIst is splinted. We go home. Grand-dog arrives. 3 hours later - phone call from clinic - DO NOT REMOVE SPLINT. T…

That's how our hike at the #mummelsee started ... and how it was when we were up there. - But the walk was quite okay.
We checked the rain radar and decided to go back down rather quickly. We leveraged our rain gear and it did not disappoint us! 🙂
So we didn't see the area atop - the so called

Versus: Raiders must find an answer in the trenches as they go up against the league's No. 1 defense https://www.raiders.com/news/versus-raiders-must-find-an-answer-in-the-trenches-as-they-go-up-against-the-league-…

This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate.
Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not.
From: https://www.

Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5C pathways - Carbon Brief
The rate at which atmospheric CO2 is increasing is now outpacing the pathways set out...

Dodgers go up 2-0 in NLCS on Yoshinobu Yamamoto's gem; NBA's Top 100; Pete Prisco's NFL Power Rankings

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/dodgers

> Eventually investment bankers are going to meet with companies with ideas for how to get their stock prices up, and the bankers will heave a long sigh and say “you have to do something with 69 and 420,” and the executives will heave a long sigh and say “really,” and the bankers will say “yes,” and they’ll all stare at each other dead-eyed for a minute, and then the company will wearily announce a new $420.69 million bond deal and investors on Reddit will cheer and the stock will go up.<…

OK this may be my first encounter with the enshittification of OneDrive - I know it only from the online cloud storage that you have to actually acitively save stuff too.
Appears that microsoft has it as default storgae so everything saved on hard drive of laptop is also backed up to their cloud.
And this onedrive storage is "full" after we downloaded full google photos* backup yesterday. So I can't do anything here even though the laptop itslef has a goood 150 Gb free on the hard drive.
Swearing is starting to happen. 3/n
*another world of pain I won't go into here.

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: Go on, get out.
NAPIER: I'll do it. [to the Rats] You'd better go. [The Rats exit] They'll complain to Atlan.
PLAXTON: What the hell do I care? How I ever came to be mixed up with a bunch of psychopathic killers-
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/244

more and more, I think some people could really use an Emergency Management Hologram who just pops up and says "Please state the nature of this management emergency — actually nevermind, that won't change my advice: please go talk to a therapist, and then talk to this person you were about to tell me about"

Hey Generous Folks -- I wanted to put a message up for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. #16DaysAgainstGBV #16Days
Rather than an ask for donations, I want to encourage you to find your local spaces in your own community that help women and people of all genders who are fleeing gender based violence or intimate partner violence.
Maybe *you* can raise a few dollars, volunteer at a local space, or help out in other ways. Maybe you've never done that. It might seem scary! I guarantee you, you'll love it. Whether you raise $50 or $500, or nothing at all, by becoming part of it, you'll make a difference
I'm signing up, as I have for a few years now, for another year at Coldest Night of the Year (#IntimatePartnerViolence #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli

My hot take is stop ordering delivery. If you own a car go pick it up yourself.

If you are up this late, maybe you want to stay up later. Go ahead, read my latest essay, What Did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons?
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/what-did-vibe-coding-just-do-to-the-commons/

What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...

I hate that every time I consider using an @… product I need to consider how often their products go out of stock.
Especially if I plan to use them in a product/project for someone. Like, will it be available if I need more? How long of a lead time will there be? Do I need to stock up on inventory just in case?

»Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.«
What could possibly go wrong. Trust me, I'm an engineer. 🤦
Full story over at @…:

Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.

#RealEstate listing photos edited through artificial intelligence create false impressions of homes for sale online. How A.I. slop is making house hunting in #USA even more dishonest and distorted than ever before.

@… just FYI this kind of thoughtful thread on anarchism is exactly the kind of thing people would miss if you weren't on here. Please feel free to tell me to shut up and go away if my engagement is unwanted or feels like a burden, but I hope you're in a better headspace now than earlier. You're valuable and worthy as a person regardless of what you post here, but this is something I can point to concretely and say "I appreciate that" so that the beginning of this long sentence isn't just a platitude. ^.^;

There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027

Ignoring evil does not make it go away.
The world needs to wake up and stand against corruption, fascism, oligarchies and billionaires.
Giorgio is a singular point of truth from the frontlines in Ukraine.
Giorgio risks his life and shares the friend link to tell the world what is happening, and what is coming to their cities next.
Please support his work, share widely, and help the world stand up to the evil of greedy and horrid men.

«They tore them to pieces in front of me» – live from the European front of Zaporizhzhia
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Is there an easy way for devices to automatically get certificates on a network?
I have various local sites I want to put https on to shut browsers up but don't really want to have to go around every device and install a certificate if possible.
If anyone has any ideas, it'll be very helpful!
#https

I wrote a story. It starts:
He woke up, looking forward to finally fishing. He’s retired, even though he feels like he could keep doing the work, and now, finally, he has the chance to go out on his boat, with a beer and his rod to catch something. Maybe if he catches enough he can fill the whole freezer set up in the basement. Fresh frozen fish for months.
The rest of it:

To Sea
He woke up, looking forward to finally fishing. He’s retired, even though he feels like he could keep doing the work, and now, finally, he has the chance to go out on his boat, with a beer and his rod to catch something. Maybe if he catches enough he

QB Sanders believes Browns can only get better https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47339055/optimistic-sanders-believes-nowhere-go-browns

8yo: "Wow, I didn't expect it to look like an anus!"
A: "Go eat your anus at the table."
13yo: "Guys. Shut up."

Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire.
What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad.
Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats.
You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
https://

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up? TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.

How the Raiders Go About Expediting Their Development Plan https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jack-bech-pete-carroll-jakobi-meyers-geno-smith-shedrick-jackson-chip-kelly-

Mic'd Up | Dave Canales wears the mic for Week 6 win against the Dallas Cowboys https://www.panthers.com/video/mic-d-up-dave-canales-wears-the-mic-for-week-6-win-against-the-dallas-cowboys-2025

It's absolutely fucked up how quickly Google Search went from my go-to search to a "yuck, why is this shit on, get me out of here".
Like when I search on Android by accident and get AI summaries I have literally yelled at my phone. Absolutely batshit how quickly Google could destroy the reputation if their core product.

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

Sources: 6 Chinese AI companies, including chip firms Montage and GigaDevice, are set to go public in Hong Kong in the coming weeks, aiming to raise up to $1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/…

#limerick #satire #USpol

"How Spain’s community solar revolution is helping families power up and costs go down"
#Spain #SolarPower #Energy

How Spain’s community solar revolution is helping families power up and costs go down | The Optimist Daily
Spain’s community energy movement is transforming rooftops into renewable hubs, lowering bills, and helping families escape fuel poverty.

This week: MIT cuts carbon capture energy costs, transparent window insulation slashes building heating use, and battery prices drop enough to make solar-plus-storage competitive at $65/MWh.
In South Australia, a 200 MW battery will help stabilize the grid for more renewables. Progress is happening now.
Sign up for the For People And Planet climate solutions digest:

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Welcome The week tilts toward the solstice. In the north, frost feathers windows at dawn; in the south, warm tides thread quietly through mangrove roots while pelicans skim bright water. We are keeping what matters and letting the rest go. MIT chemists teach carbon capture to sip, not gulp, energy,

I'm hopeful that the current RAM crisis will end up tanking demand for other hardware to the extent that I'll be able to pick up a future Zen6 chip and AM5 board (or at least a 5950X) for less than they'd otherwise go for. Let's arbitrage this shit to our advantage! (I will shortly have a recurring CPU-bound task that will benefit greatly from doubling my core count or other improvements, and I do have 2x16GB DDR5 SoDIMMs that I could press into service with an adapter in a n…

Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
SARKOFF: To my decision? Of course not.
BLAKE: No, of course not. [Checks watch a final time then looks up] Right. Stay here, please. [Exits]
SARKOFF: Where else would I go? This is all I have left.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/268 B7B4

“Items that I have bought regularly have gone up in price steadily
From hair dye to baby formula,
our grocery list has gotten smaller while our budget has had to increase.
Meats like steak are a no-go for our household.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news…

And also, again and again — people need to know this! — I get these messages too:
ICE started to gather, but dispersed when too many observers showed up.
ICE vehicle headed back to base after being tailed in circles for an hour.
ICE started abducting someone, but let them go as the gathered crowd got larger and larger.
These people •really• do not want to be observed. Typical bullies: they cosplay tough guys, they waggle their gear around, but they •behave• like they’re afraid.

Supreme Court’s ‘Go Ahead And Round Up All The Brown People’ Decision Is Being Challenged In Court | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/supreme-courts-go-ahead-and-round-up-all-the-brown-people-decision-is-being-challenged-in-court/

Ashton Jeanty scores a touchdown while mic'd up: 'That was lit' https://www.raiders.com/video/ashton-jeanty-micd-up-nfl-touchdown-titans

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

Eagles go for 2, igniting brawl; Sirianni backs play https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47375448/eagles-2-point-conversion-ignites-brawl-sirianni-defends-play

A local cancer institute has a giant inflatable colon, maybe 3m in diameter and 6m long, set up at a community event.
Where does one even go to make such a thing? I feel like there's a single digit number of companies globally that specialize in making custom printed/sculpted inflatable props like this. It's certainly not something you'd buy COTS.
Like anybody who makes bouncy castles *could* but I suspect most such companies just do standard designs

I just wanna stop being exhausted and sick
I really don't wanna go to my back brace appointment today but last time I called to reschedule the woman was like "you've rescheduled this appointment like 7 times, do you even want it?" YES its not my fault I kept accidentally scheduling it on days I had other doctors appointments or woke up sick ITS ALMOST LIKE I HAVE HEALTH ISSUES

Oral arguments on tariffs are set for Nov 5 and [Trump] plans to show up in person.
I think there’s a good chance he doesn’t lose outright because Roberts et al like empowering him,
but if he thought he was on stronger footing he probably wouldn’t be the first president ever to go to oral arguments
-- Connor Lynch

Trump’s chief of staff acknowledges ‘score settling’ behind prosecutions of political rivals:
‘He will go for it’
– ‘In some cases, it may look like retribution,’
said Susie Wiles in a wide-ranging interview with Vanity Fair
Wiles also suggested the real goal of Trump's boat strikes is to topple Venezuela's Maduro
"He wants to keep on blowing boats up until [president Nicolšs] Maduro cries uncle. And people way smarter than me on that say that he w…

Ok sooo... How minimal do i want to make this stm32mp2 fpga test board?
I'm tempted to go bare bones, no ddr, minimal bom, entirely from parts i have on the shelf to keep costs down.
On one hand it'll be a waste of potential, on the other hand I have plenty of "real" projects coming up and the main goal is to de-risk them. I'm probably never going to use the ddr and it'll increase layout complexity a lot.

im finally watching the office (US) after swearing it completely off twenty years ago bc my bestie who has literally a 100% success rate at recommending me things said I should. started at s2 on his rec and im 3 episodes in and I Get It lol
brief intermission now to go pick up my back brace

Buzz: Stafford puts up 30 fantasy points in loss to Seattle https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis

Mic'd Up: Shane Steichen, Week 5 vs Raiders https://www.colts.com/video/mic-d-up-shane-steichen-week-5-vs-raiders

Took a few minutes over lunch to iron out the last of the bugs in the happy path of PCIe link training.
There's no timeouts or fallback if there's problems but if the other side is happy, it will train up to L0 and then sit there ignoring all incoming traffic.
After a while, the link partner gets mad that it hasn't seen a single DLLP from me and drops the link. I don't implement recovery yet so things go downhill from there.

One evening in early 1976, a bushy-haired Jeffrey Epstein
showed up for an event at an art gallery in Midtown Manhattan.
Epstein was a math and physics teacher at the city’s prestigious Dalton School,
and the father of one of his students had invited him.
Epstein initially demurred, saying he didn’t go out much, but eventually relented.
It would turn out to be one of the most fateful decisions he ever made.
At the gallery, Epstein bumped into another Dalton…

The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich
For years, rumors swirled about where his wealth came from. A Times investigation reveals the truth of how a college dropout clawed his way to the pinnacle of American finance and society.