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606 people died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in the less than two months 2026 had so far, that's the deadliest period on record.
More dangerous routes taken, constant pushbacks received, all because of Frontex.
Gaza showed us that so-called European values don't exist outside of Europe, Frontex is a prime example of how European values don't exist anywhere, especially not in Europe.

Semantic Conventions for #GenAI agent and framework #spans
https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/se

A look at potential landing spots and trade values for Maxx Crosby https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/a-look-at-potential-landing-spots-and-trade-values-for-maxx-crosby-3711176/

Sources: General Atlantic is selling a stake in ByteDance in a deal that values it at $550B, up 66% since September 2025, the first divestment since its US sale (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/byteda

PEACE for Ukrainians is not a compromise with Russia at the expense of values and human rights: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/25/peace-for-ukrainians-is-not.html

Trump taps 'alpha male' influencer as new envoy for American t​ourism and values - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-influencer/

Days after starting his second term, Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders that targeted DEI programs and policies for elimination, decrying them as illegal and immoral.
Museums across the country scrambled to react
— and in many cases, comply.
Within days, Washington’s National Gallery of Art announced it would close its office of belonging and inclusion
and remove the words “diversity, equity, access and inclusion” from its list of values on its website. …

This L.A. Museum Is Standing Up to Trump’s Whitewashing, Vowing to ‘Scrub Nothing’
The Japanese American National Museum stands out among cultural institutions by refusing to bend to President Trump’s attacks on diversity, history and the truth.

DraftKings DFS cheat sheet: Two Seahawks stars offer best value, upside https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47696530/draftkings-nfl-dfs-values-conference-championships

RE: https://techhub.social/@shantini/115957020152303871
Being a marketer shaped my progressive politics more than I expected precisely because of this.
Once you see how much effort is being spent on marketing certain worldviews to you and how much of that can be studied, analyzed, and replicated - you can’t unsee it.
And you see the power that’s available for all of us to tap into to push back. The same kinds of marketing and communication tactics used against us can be used to amplify science, art, pro-social values, and progressive policy.
The right has been waging a coordinated campaign of swaying public opinion since at least the birth of the Federalist Society and backlash to Roe.
Their legal influence required creating an information and media apparatus that influenced first elite professional networks, then the public at large.
(For a recent example, just look at how much LLMS and AI have been relying on constant marketing and media attention for anyone to believe that these tools are “inevitable” or even “useful”. Their marketing and PR departments work very hard and are very well funded. For a reason.)

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API authors, document the default values of your properties challenge 2026!

Weird feeling as while looking to answer to the question "how do I get the coordinates of the minimal value of a numpy.ndarray ?", found that I already asked that question ten years ago: https://laurentperrinet.github.io/sciblog/p…

Mumbai-based digital payments processor BillDesk agrees to acquire the Indian business of Worldline for an equity value of ~$70M, set to close in H2 2026 (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Billdesk to acquire Worldline’s India operations; deal values business at $70 million
Billdesk is set to acquire the India payments business of French payment giant Worldline for an estimated equity value of $70 million. In a press release Worldline said that it will be entering into a long-term technology and software pact with Billdesk, through which Worldline’s software stack will continue to remain operational in India. At an enterprise level the value of the deal was pegged at $43.6 million.

Stupid question: why do we call a grid of numbers or colours two dimensional? Don't the values in the cells make it three dimensional?

😂 Only those who has done maps stuff knows this (tho’ not the hydrogen atom part)

Profound, which tracks how AI models recommend brands across millions of prompts, raised a $96M Series C at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $155M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/exclusi

Exclusive: As AI threatens search, Profound raises $96 million to help brands stay visible
The Lightspeed-led round values the 18-month-old startup at $1 billion as marketers race to understand how ChatGPT and other AI systems describe them.

I didn't know Accra's airport was (til now) named after the counterrevolutionary who led the coup against Kwasi Nkrumah.
Ghana drops coup leader Kotoka's name from main airport on putsch anniversary - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c178n9

Ghana drops coup leader Kotoka's name from main airport on putsch anniversary
Supporters of the move said the Kotoka name contradicted the country’s democratic values.

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"Speculative Substack post wipes billions off US company values."
The vibes are off.

Morning! A nice, varied day ahead. Making a video for a wellbeing programme I’m running, working on an organisational values framework for a new client, coaching a client in Spain and giving a careers talk to postgrad students at the University of Chichester.
#WorkToots

T1: One-to-One Channel-Head Binding for Multivariate Time-Series Imputation
Dongik Park, Hyunwoo Ryu, Suahn Bae, Keondo Park, Hyung-Sin Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21043 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21043 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21043
arXiv:2602.21043v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Imputing missing values in multivariate time series remains challenging, especially under diverse missing patterns and heavy missingness. Existing methods suffer from suboptimal performance as corrupted temporal features hinder effective cross-variable information transfer, amplifying reconstruction errors. Robust imputation requires both extracting temporal patterns from sparse observations within each variable and selectively transferring information across variables--yet current approaches excel at one while compromising the other. We introduce T1 (Time series imputation with 1-to-1 channel-head binding), a CNN-Transformer hybrid architecture that achieves robust imputation through Channel-Head Binding--a mechanism creating one-to-one correspondence between CNN channels and attention heads. This design enables selective information transfer: when missingness corrupts certain temporal patterns, their corresponding attention pathways adaptively down-weight based on remaining observable patterns while preserving reliable cross-variable connections through unaffected channels. Experiments on 11 benchmark datasets demonstrate that T1 achieves state-of-the-art performance, reducing MSE by 46% on average compared to the second-best baseline, with particularly strong gains under extreme sparsity (70% missing ratio). The model generalizes to unseen missing patterns without retraining and uses a consistent hyperparameter configuration across all datasets. The code is available at https://github.com/Oppenheimerdinger/T1.
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"I have always believed in deeds, not words."
As the ongoing Russian attacks keep crippling our infrastructure (as seen from a cold unpowered home with a failing cell connection), I am left with few options. One of them, ruminating before sleep on a strange recurring phenomenon. If not careful, we become what we fight.
We're not infallible. It's the values we keep, the tradeoffs we make to succeed that shape us.
Be vigilant. Watch yourself.
And stay sa…

Counterflow around a cylinder
Matheus P. Severino, Leandro F. Souza, Elmer M. Gennaro, Daniel Rodr\'iguez, Fernando F. Fachini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22022 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22022 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22022
arXiv:2602.22022v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The incompressible flow around a circular cylinder, positioned at the center of an unconfined planar counterflow, is studied by means of numerical solutions of the conservation equations and linear stability analysis. The flow is completely defined by the Reynolds number ($\Rey$) -- based on the cylinder radius, the strain rate defining the counterflow, and the kinematic viscosity. For very low values of $\Rey$, the flow is steady, two-dimensional, and fully attached to the cylinder wall. Increasing $\Rey$ above $\Rey_s \approx 16.86$, the flow separates, giving rise to two symmetric, counter-rotating recirculation regions on each side of the cylinder. Further increasing $\Rey$ leads to a progressive enlargement of the recirculation regions and the appearance of multiple recirculation centers, akin to Moffatt eddies. However, the convective acceleration imposed by the counterflow limits their size. An oscillatory mode becomes linearly unstable for $\Rey_{c} \approx 4146$. This mode gives rise to a sinuous meandering of the wake flow, on each side of the cylinder, being analogous to the well-known von K\'arm\'an instability. The frequency of this mode is directly proportional to the strain rate defining the counterflow.
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After lunch, #UndoneCS continues with the first keynote by
Payal Arora: “Building Inclusive Datasets: From Values to Design.”
https://www.undonecs.org/2026/programme.html#arora

After lunch, #UndoneCS continues with the first keynote by
Payal Arora: “Building Inclusive Datasets: From Values to Design.”
https://www.undonecs.org/2026/programme.html#arora

#Klutshnik v0.4.1 is out.
Klutshnik is a Key Mgmnt Service 4 data-at-rest. Keys r stored in a threshold setup& r never reconstructed only used in operations that hide their values. These keys r cheaply&securely updatable without reencrypting the encrypted data, providing forward-secrecy&post-compromise security. Klutshnik servers can use TLS, USB or BLE.

Release Major update · stef/klutshnik
client: most importantly changed key handling by clients and when adding users to klutshnik keys client key instead of ltsig/noisekey new init op provision op in client - https://klutshnik.info/de...

Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
AVON: I agree with Mida. When you talk of compensation, Chalsa, remember: Zukan has already pledged more to this alliance than anyone else.
CHALSA: All right, all right, I agree. I accept. [Avon looks about at the others. Boorva nods. Avon gives a sickeningly sweet smile.]
https://blake.torpidity.…

One point this Economist piece also misses is that China's impressive high speed trains are mostly built with German technology..
Are liberal values a luxury the West cannot afford?
https://www.economist.com/international/2026/02/10/are-liberal-values-a-luxury-the-west-cannot-afford?giftId=NjBhM2I5MDUtZjI2MC00YTFmLWJmYzYtN2ZmN2Q4YmJmYTc1&utm_campaign=gifted_article

This speech by Zelenskyy at Davos is biting. Glad to see him call out the European hypocrisy of “speaking of values [when] they often mean valuables.” But, my friend, not one mention of Gaza or Palestine given the topic? Ukraine is the closest thing to Palestine Europe has and still no solidarity, not even an acknowledgement? I just don’t get it.

When politicians defend "traditional Christian values" they are most likely just defending hypochristians.

from my link log —
Phase-in codes.
https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/phase-in-codes/
saved 2021-07-03 https://dotat.at…

Phase-in Codes
Once in a while, we have to encode a series of values to memory or file, of which we know either very little about, distribution-wise, or are very close to being drawn from an uniform random variab…

Profound, which tracks how AI models recommend brands across millions of prompts, raised a $96M Series C at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $155M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/exclusi

Exclusive: As AI threatens search, Profound raises $96 million to help brands stay visible
The Lightspeed-led round values the 18-month-old startup at $1 billion as marketers race to understand how ChatGPT and other AI systems describe them.

Trump represents the will and values of the American nation.

> The quirkiness is calming. In the Ukrainian wartime setting, I associate traditional production values with the propaganda of criminal invasions, with the Russian television I have to watch. The Russians distinguish themselves on their state-controlled channels with sparkling backdrops and horrifying lies, whereas the Ukrainians sometimes scramble on the set but provide actual reporting.
> When we forget others, our oblivion invites indifferent kings to rule us, to envelop us i…

Source: the TikTok US deal values it at just around $14B; TikTok's US entity makes roughly $14B annually in advertising revenues alone, per analyst estimates (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/23/tiktok-deal-trump-app-ban

TikTok divestiture deal closes
The deal ends a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

Minnesota’s coalition is demanding:
1: ICE must leave Minnesota now.
2: Renee Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross, must be held legally accountable.
3: No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget.
“These are moral common sense for a state that values truth, freedom, and life.”
https://

Hey, #UX #UI people: if I have cascading list boxes i.e. where the values for box 2 depend on what is chosen for box 1 - and for some values of box1 there is ONLY one value for box2.. is there some design principle that would suggest defaulting to a null value for box2 is preferable to preselecting the ONLY value available?

Sequential Counterfactual Inference for Temporal Clinical Data: Addressing the Time Traveler Dilemma
Jingya Cheng, Alaleh Azhir, Jiazi Tian, Hossein Estiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21168 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21168 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21168
arXiv:2602.21168v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Counterfactual inference enables clinicians to ask "what if" questions about patient outcomes, but standard methods assume feature independence and simultaneous modifiability -- assumptions violated by longitudinal clinical data. We introduce the Sequential Counterfactual Framework, which respects temporal dependencies in electronic health records by distinguishing immutable features (chronic diagnoses) from controllable features (lab values) and modeling how interventions propagate through time. Applied to 2,723 COVID-19 patients (383 Long COVID heart failure cases, 2,340 matched controls), we demonstrate that 38-67% of patients with chronic conditions would require biologically impossible counterfactuals under naive methods. We identify a cardiorenal cascade (CKD -> AKI -> HF) with relative risks of 2.27 and 1.19 at each step, illustrating temporal propagation that sequential -- but not naive -- counterfactuals can capture. Our framework transforms counterfactual explanation from "what if this feature were different?" to "what if we had intervened earlier, and how would that propagate forward?" -- yielding clinically actionable insights grounded in biological plausibility.
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A #gongfarmer in the wild!
#DCCRPG https://piefed.soci…

Woman preparing to gather 'night soil' (human waste) for agriculture, Fuzhou, China, ~1871
Federated, open‑source, ad‑free, and fully under your control. Build or join a community that reflects your values with no corporate overlords. This instance is run by the founder of PieFed. [Mobile apps for PieFed](https://piefed.social/post/1258559)

“The point of doing the right thing isn’t to merely experience the catharsis of success—it’s to assert standards, uphold values; to acknowledge the existence of moral authority and answer its call for redress courageously.” https://mastodon.social/@GuyNamedBrian/115871819547625205

Oh well, our upcoming client doesn't provide cc files for each shot. Instead, we need to extract the grading values from an EDL file. Fortunately I've already written a script to do that a few years ago for another show.
The time to write a script might be more than what it takes to do the task manually (here it would be copying values from a text file to an xml file). But it pays off if you have to repeat the task. Even if that is 7 years later.

Ranking the best deals of the offseason: 16 signings and trades that received an 'A' grade https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48226368/2026-nfl-free-agency-signings-ranking-best-deals-contracts-fits-values

Worth reading #NYT
"Three American Speeches at Munich, and Plenty of Confusion
As the U.S. message veered from shared heritage and values to shared interests and back again, Europeans wondered what kind of alliance they were left with."

Three American Speeches at Munich, and Plenty of Confusion
As the U.S. message veered from shared heritage and values to shared interests and back again, Europeans wondered what kind of alliance they were left with.

Summary of the recent optimization work in ngscopeclient (not counting core/driver stuff, just filters)
I'm now making a pass through the entire filter library in alphabetical order removing some deprecated APIs, adding error reporting, and doing trivial GPU optimizations where I find them but not spending more than a few hours on a filter unless it's something like the CDR or eye that is really critical.
None of these are what I would consider "done". I'm f…

Source: the TikTok US deal values it at just around $14B; TikTok's US entity makes roughly $14B annually in advertising revenues alone, per analyst estimates (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/23/tiktok-deal-trump-app-ban

TikTok divestiture deal closes
The deal ends a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

The Beekeeper movie is a great action film but is also a mixed bag of values making it a bad movie. Ends up being not a good vigilante movie, not a good anti-hero movie, zero suspense, wasted conspiracy potential, unapologetic copying and badly done trope of the 'John Wick as the boogyman for bad guys'.
I understand movies that just try (and many times succeed) to be mindless action movies where the plot is not the priority. But the Beekeeper movie does try to have a moral mes…

Hierarchy and Egality in South Asian Traditions
https://ift.tt/BuaCrFD
What roles do ‘hierarchy’ and ‘egality’, as values and practices, play in the everyday lives of…
via Input 4 RELCFP htt…

Hierarchy and Egality in South Asian Traditions
What roles do ‘hierarchy’ and ‘egality’, as values and practices, play in the everyday lives of South Asian traditions? Hierarchy as a value in the social life of Hinduism has been much discussed. Scholarship has tended to contrast a transhistorical Hindu hierarchy with egalitarian elements of Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Sikh thought in South Asia, framing ubiquitous caste-like social forms among the latter traditions as anomalous. Yet careful studies of everyday life in the religio…

Probing Graph Neural Network Activation Patterns Through Graph Topology
Floriano Tori, Lorenzo Bini, Marco Sorbi, St\'ephane Marchand-Maillet, Vincent Ginis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21092 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21092 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21092
arXiv:2602.21092v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Curvature notions on graphs provide a theoretical description of graph topology, highlighting bottlenecks and denser connected regions. Artifacts of the message passing paradigm in Graph Neural Networks, such as oversmoothing and oversquashing, have been attributed to these regions. However, it remains unclear how the topology of a graph interacts with the learned preferences of GNNs. Through Massive Activations, which correspond to extreme edge activation values in Graph Transformers, we probe this correspondence. Our findings on synthetic graphs and molecular benchmarks reveal that MAs do not preferentially concentrate on curvature extremes, despite their theoretical link to information flow. On the Long Range Graph Benchmark, we identify a systemic \textit{curvature shift}: global attention mechanisms exacerbate topological bottlenecks, drastically increasing the prevalence of negative curvature. Our work reframes curvature as a diagnostic probe for understanding when and why graph learning fails.
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Library workers can better align technology use and instruction in library settings with library values,
through championing the refusal of technologies that conflict with values like privacy and intellectual freedom.
Drawing on experiences with individual patron instruction, class design, and passive programming, the author shares practical steps for helping patrons to understand and fight back against exploitation by digital technologies.
Rejecting the myth that any te…

It was hard to leave my teams and the small Cloud Security org that I grew, but days like this are why it was worth it
After 5 years at Netflix, I've sorely needed time off to recover. I'm deeply proud of the work that Netflix Cloud Security did, and I will miss them
In a few months, I will be looking for a security leadership role at an organization that aligns with my values
Meanwhile, I'm glad to finally feel calm, safe, and secure

Finally, a more modest increase in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: based on daily values, the December average was 427.5 ppm, that's 2.1 ppm more than last year
#emissions #co2 #climatechange…

Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions #Baltic

Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions
Since the beginning of January, an unusually long period of easterly winds has caused the average water level in the Baltic Sea to fall to a historic low. Measurements at the Swedish Landsort-Norra gauge show values that are the lowest since records began in 1886. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) are currently monitoring this development very closely, as it represents a rare oceanographic situation that could lead to a large inflow of saltwater from…

"Don’t eat meat or drive a car: Are lifestyle-targeted climate policies eroding our green values?"
#Climate #ClimateChange

‘Eroding green values’: How climate policies risk making us care less
Researchers warn that climate policies spurring people to change their behaviour may weaken their values and support for the environment.

Why do I have the feeling that the word "nihilism" was difficult to avoid in this quote:
“I think Silicon Valley is immersed in a titanic battle between the hippie value system of the Steve Jobs generation and the Ayn Randian libertarian values of the Peter Thiel generation.”
https://

The billionaires made a promise -- now some want out | TechCrunch
In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign they called the Giving Pledge: a public commitment, open to the world's

So the new #Kreutz #comet #MAPS is *still* following the constant rapid rise in brightness it has shown since discovery: a dumb extrapolation - https://cobs.si/analysis/?comet=2688&from_date=2026-01-15 00:00&to_date=2026-04-30 00:00&observation_type=V&observation_type=C&plot_x_value=1&plot_y_value=1&fit_option=1&exclude_faint=on&exclude_issue=on&observer=&association=&country=&compare_values=compare - has it get 10,000-times brighter than the Sun at its extremely close perihelion which makes so sense at all, of course, physically.
"It must therefore be assumed that this increase in activity will level off significantly in the near future," writes https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/koj_2026/c2026a1/26a1eaus.htm: "More likely are parameters m m0=12.0 mag / n=4 (or even lower), which would still result in a (very short-term) maximum brightness of about –9 mag (but this would probably still be significantly too bright) – always assuming that the comet survives its perihelion passage unscathed."
For other views see http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005663.txt and https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17626 and https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10236580364221799 and https://cometografia.es/cometa-kreutz-2026-a1-maps-analisis/ - and the actual brightness is tracked at https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2688 where it has reached ~11.5 mag. now.

DraftKings DFS cheat sheet: Rams duo tops their positions in value https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47610881/draftkings-nfl-dfs-values-divisional-playoff-rounds

Filed Chromium bug #483413444: Invalid `aria-level` values incorrectly default to 1
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/483413444
Which addresses the regressions I found yesterday:

WeirNet: A Large-Scale 3D CFD Benchmark for Geometric Surrogate Modeling of Piano Key Weirs
Lisa L\"uddecke, Michael Hohmann, Sebastian Eilermann, Jan Tillmann-Mumm, Pezhman Pourabdollah, Mario Oertel, Oliver Niggemann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20714 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20714 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20714
arXiv:2602.20714v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reliable prediction of hydraulic performance is challenging for Piano Key Weir (PKW) design because discharge capacity depends on three-dimensional geometry and operating conditions. Surrogate models can accelerate hydraulic-structure design, but progress is limited by scarce large, well-documented datasets that jointly capture geometric variation, operating conditions, and functional performance. This study presents WeirNet, a large 3D CFD benchmark dataset for geometric surrogate modeling of PKWs. WeirNet contains 3,794 parametric, feasibility-constrained rectangular and trapezoidal PKW geometries, each scheduled at 19 discharge conditions using a consistent free-surface OpenFOAM workflow, resulting in 71,387 completed simulations that form the benchmark and with complete discharge coefficient labels. The dataset is released as multiple modalities compact parametric descriptors, watertight surface meshes and high-resolution point clouds together with standardized tasks and in-distribution and out-of-distribution splits. Representative surrogate families are benchmarked for discharge coefficient prediction. Tree-based regressors on parametric descriptors achieve the best overall accuracy, while point- and mesh-based models remain competitive and offer parameterization-agnostic inference. All surrogates evaluate in milliseconds per sample, providing orders-of-magnitude speedups over CFD runtimes. Out-of-distribution results identify geometry shift as the dominant failure mode compared to unseen discharge values, and data-efficiency experiments show diminishing returns beyond roughly 60% of the training data. By publicly releasing the dataset together with simulation setups and evaluation pipelines, WeirNet establishes a reproducible framework for data-driven hydraulic modeling and enables faster exploration of PKW designs during the early stages of hydraulic planning.
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#ai #duckduckgo

"No true Scotsman" - Sorting people by worthiness definitely trending. <insert nation > values are not <insert pet hatred> . Like if you're pro DEI, you are by definition not American, so have no right to speak. I don't know about *all time* best, but these days ... Sigh.

As cheesy as this sounds - even if you’re failing by all the world’s metrics of success, if you can lift someone else up today - even in the smallest way - you’ve done something of weight and - for all involved - kept the darker things at bay.
And multiplied by many, a society that values this will outlast every society that doesn’t anyway.
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How can we establish financially sustainable organisations and initiatives that are grounded in the values of Open Science?
I created a list of ways to generate money as an #OpenScience initiative, service or business (including #OpenSource).

The #Agile Manifesto is now 25 years old - happy anniversary! 🥳
https://agilealliance.org/25-years-ago-a-manifesto-was-born/

25 Years Ago, a Manifesto Was Born | The Agile Manifesto | Agile Alliance
A concise history of the Agile Manifesto’s creation at Snowbird, told through participant recollections and the pivotal moments that shaped its four values, 25 years later.

Swift: the language with a `sending` keyword that's specifically designed for non-`Sendable` values.

This is hands down the most wholesome "Stranger Things" fact ever https://piefed.social/c/television/p/1661852/this-is-hands-down-the-most-wholesome-stranger-things-fact-ever

This is hands down the most wholesome "Stranger Things" fact ever
Federated, open‑source, ad‑free, and fully under your control. Build or join a community that reflects your values with no corporate overlords. This instance is run by the founder of PieFed. [Mobile apps for PieFed](https://piefed.social/post/1258559)

2026 NFL playoffs by quarterback card values: Who comes out on top https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6949926/2026/01/07/quarterback-card-values-herbert-maye/

Based on daily values, the February average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was ~429.4 ppm; that's 2.3 ppm higher than last year. We made our climate problem worse again.
#ClimateChange #co2 #emissions

Fascinated at how Wikidata's property constraints push particular models.
The capture of Maduro has different instance values, eg both "military intervention" and "kidnapping" (with a "disputed by" qualifier).
But the (disputed) inclusion then tries to push the use of perpetrator/victim values, rather than a neutral "participant".
(Wikidata property values have highly contextual meanings beyond simple labels... but editors are sti…

Is there a name for a number representation system where you store an exponent for an entire dataset, then a mantissa for each value?
So you might have e.g. units=Hz, scale factor=1e6, values=A....Z (measured in MHz)

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
BELLFRIAR: A high point in your scientific career, Gambrill. Just think of it, in less than twenty minutes you could be shaking hands with an exomorph.
GAMBRILL: Not if it's hostile sir, I've got my pension to think about.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/160

In 1405, Admiral Zheng set off from China with the greatest armada in history,
leading three hundred magnificent ships on a thirty year odyssey to distant lands as far afield as Africa.
Later that century, Columbus landed in the New World with three barely seaworthy boats.
Zheng’s armada, for all its grandeur, left virtually no imprint on the world
-- while Columbus changed the entire course of history. 
Why?
The Patterning Instinct provides a new answer to…

The Patterning Instinct: A History of Humanity's Search for Meaning, by Jeremy Lent
Showing how culture shapes values and values shape history, The Patterning Instinct provides a fresh perspective on crucial questions of the human story.

A Q&A with Houston Chronicle executives and local creator Shawn Singh on partnering with creators, who the outlet sees as "freelancers for the digital age" (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/same-val

“Same values, same mission, same ethics”: How the Houston Chronicle chooses creators to work with
"We are thinking of creators almost as, like, freelancers for the digital age."

"Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions"
#BalticSea #Oceans
https://…

Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions
Since the beginning of January, an unusually long period of easterly winds has caused the average water level in the Baltic Sea to fall to a historic low. Measurements at the Swedish Landsort-Norra gauge show values that are the lowest since records began in 1886. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) are currently monitoring this development very closely, as it represents a rare oceanographic situation that could lead to a large inflow of saltwater from…

Mobile gaming company Scopely buys a majority stake in Istanbul-based studio Loom, maker of puzzle game Pixel Flow!; a source says the deal values Loom at $1B (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Mobile Gaming Firm Scopely Buys Majority Stake in Istanbul-Based Studio Behind ‘Pixel Flow!’
"It’s been a privilege to have a front row seat to the team’s rapid growth and success and see them become the latest Turkish startup to reach unicorn-level status," says previous investor Arcadia.

A very worthwhile long read on how different State actors are trying to undermine European democratic values.
"small, deniable physical actions are rapidly followed by coordinated online activity designed to confuse the public, assign blame and undermine trust in authorities and the wider system."
https://ecfr.eu/publication/from-shield-to-sword-europes-offensive-strategy-for-the-hybrid-age/#lessons-from-then-and-now

Draft Chinese AI Rules Outline ‘Core Socialist Values’ for AI Human Personality Simulators
https://gizmodo.com/draft-chinese-ai-rules-outline-core-socialist-values-for-ai-human-personality-simulators-2000703772

DraftKings DFS cheat sheet: Best values for Sunday's main slate https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/47464227/draftkings-nfl-dfs-values-week-18

Anybody know of code autoformatters/linters that respect intentionally added whitespace (e.g. having a big table of values with each column aligned even if this means multiple whitespace characters, or indenting code inside a begin/end function pair even if it's not a new scope, etc)?

Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people is made possible by the world’s top two arms dealers to Israel:
1. USA
2. Germany
Hey, @…, can you make one of your posts about how we’re so different to the US and European values, etc.? They’re usually so inspiring.

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
DAYNA: Don't, Tarrant.
ZEEONA: Why hurt him for speaking the truth? [tries to lead him away] Come on.
AVON: [V.O.] Scorpio to base. Scorpio to base. Come in base. [They all rush back to the comm room.]

Sources: French studio Mediawan is in advanced talks to merge with Peter Chernin's North Road Company; the deal values North Road between $700M and $1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/-ford-…

Due process isn't a privilege enjoyed by American citizens.
It's a promise made BY American citizens, to everyone.
It's one of our core values as a country.
You'd think a rep would know that and fight for it, not against it.
-- Kimberley Chrisman-Campbell
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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell (@hottycouture.bsky.social)
Due process isn't a privilege enjoyed by American citizens. It's a promise made BY American citizens, to everyone. It's one of our core values as a country. You'd think a rep would know that and fight for it, not against it.

The January average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was 428.6 ppm; that's 2.0 ppm higher than last year, fortunately not as fast a growth rate as we've often seen in recent years.

These prophets of economic doom are worried about another collapse
Dean Baker has earned a reputation for predicting economic catastrophe,
and he tries to follow his own advice.

-- After the economist warned of a stock bubble in the late 1990s, he rebalanced his investments to reduce exposure to the market.
-- Several years later, he became concerned that soaring home values would fall to earth, so he and his wife sold their condo in Washington.

⚠️He was rig…

These prophets of economic doom are worried about another collapse
The current investment boom is triggering déjà vu for some economists and traders who successfully predicted past economic crashes.

D05 - Animals
CAPTAIN: One of our pursuit units engaged an unidentified planet hopper. They refused to obey a stand and be searched order and the pursuit commander opened fire.
SERVALAN: Why all the interest? What's one civilian cargo ship more or less?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/97

Tokyo-based broadcaster TBS Holdings is acquiring a $150M stake in Legendary Entertainment to develop Japanese IP; source: the deal values Legendary at $4B (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Microsoft agrees to buy a record 2.85M soil carbon credits from Indigo Carbon linked to regenerative US agriculture; a source values the deal at $171M-$228M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate…

Anybody know of an "asan for vulkan" tool that can catch use of uninitialized values in a VkBuffer? Validation layers will catch out of bounds access but not reading a value that you failed to write first

Veteran tech investor Roger McNamee, recalled asking "Silicon Valley" creator Mike Judge what he was really going for.
Judge answered, “I think Silicon Valley is immersed in a titanic battle between the hippie value system of the Steve Jobs generation and the Ayn Randian libertarian values of the Peter Thiel generation.”
McNamee’s own read on things was less diplomatic:
“Some of us actually, as naïve as it sounds, came here to make the world a better place.
…

The billionaires made a promise -- now some want out | TechCrunch
In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign they called the Giving Pledge: a public commitment, open to the world's

Sources: Alibaba-backed PixVerse, which develops AI video generation tools, raised a $300M Series C led by CDH; the company says the round values it at $1B (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-1…

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
TRAVIS: This is hardly the time for that.
MUTOID: Normally I wouldn't do it in the presence of an unmodified.
TRAVIS: Forget your coyness, I'm aware of your need for blood serum.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/51 B7B5

Immigration has been a centerpiece of Trump’s platform throughout more than a decade of political life,
-- and was at the core of his 2024 election campaign.
But polls show public opinion has shifted amid the widely circulated operations carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and other federal agents in urban areas.
Those operations have this month seen the shooting deaths of two US citizens in Minneapolis.  
A Reuters/Ipsos poll published o…

ICE on US streets challenges American norms, founding values
The Trump administration has moved ICE's center of activity from the US border with Mexico to the heart of US cities. Federal agents' encounters with the public are challenging the foundational ideas of America.

Source: OnePay, the fintech firm behind Walmart's "super app", recently bought back shares from employees at a price that values the startup at more than $4B (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Federal immigration agents detained an employee of the New York City council on Monday,
sparking outrage from the city’s leaders and renewed rebukes against the Trump administration’s immigration actions.
“This is an assault on our democracy, on our city, and our values,”
Mayor Zohran Mamdanisaid in a statement on X.
“I am calling for his immediate release and will continue to monitor the situation.”
The employee was taken in during a “routine immigration appointm…

US PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire a majority stake in business contract software company Sirion; a source says the deal values Sirion at about $1B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/haveli-buy-majority-stake-contract-…

The birthright citizenship IS an easy case.
That’s the point.
That’s the flex.
“No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are,
no matter how central to American values those rights are,
WE decide whether or not you have those rights”……
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Bulging Bloodshot Eyes of Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”…… /1 [contains quote post or other embedded content]