2026-05-22 18:40:15
Jaylinn Hawkins confident in Ravens safety group: 'We've got something cooking' https://www.nfl.com/news/jaylinn-hawkins-confident-in-ravens-safety-group-we-ve-got-something-cooking
Jaylinn Hawkins confident in Ravens safety group: 'We've got something cooking' https://www.nfl.com/news/jaylinn-hawkins-confident-in-ravens-safety-group-we-ve-got-something-cooking
Piršti začali se sběrem podpisů k ústavní stížnosti ve věci služebního zškona. Bršní tak nezšvislou stštní spršvu před politickými trafikami - https://www.pirati.cz/jak-pirati-pracuji/p
I no longer remember who it was but thanks for the electroverse recommendations for #EV driving in Scotland - may be the easiest app I've ever used to charge rental EV cars (and I've tried a lot!)
It's also remarkable how many chargers there are now in Scotland - even at remote Ardnamurchan Point
#TheTimesTheyAreAChanging
Seriously, today's Metacurity is going to be totally lit, so please take a look at it when it comes out. I've been writing for three hours, and I've got a lot more to go.
I managed to build into the top three items everything you want to know about yesterday's AI news, and it's just tons of important stuff.
Essentially, we seem to know that super intelligence can't exist due to computability constraints. (You can't build any computer big or powerful enough to actually be the AGI god they're trying to create.) But I don't know if we have any idea what the limit is before that.
LLMs (and SLMs) are very efficient at very specific tasks, far better than humans. But they are not better for a lot of tasks. It may just always be prohibitively expensive to use LLMs for certain tasks.
We've already run in to training ceilings where additional training decreases performance. We've run in to security problems (like guard rails basically can't ever actually exist because there are infinitely many ways around them, and those ways can literally just be solved for. See https://llm-attacks.org/)
is it just me or are bots getting more sophisticated on the fediverse #fediadmin?
I've been having a super hard time differentiating who is real and who is fake anymore from sign up texts alone. It started with these "markov chain" texts that almost sounded like something someone could say, now they seem to have taken all "NeuHier" (new here) hashtags posts and put them into a list to use a…
When you've lost Ty Frigging Cobb… @… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3mmht5pbzks2i
We've been hearing relatively little recently from our government on how their 'understanding' for Trump's and Netanyahu's illegal war in the Middle East is developing.
Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview has been used to find more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities since the launch of Project Glasswing (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update
We've gone from the inverted information pyramid to the inverted quality pyramid.
Writers used to start with the most important information, and then taper down to details. But our sustained attention is no longer rewarded with more detail; now it's punished with detail-free slop.
Editors devote all their attention to refining the first few paragraphs. But the further you scroll, the more the initial AI draft shines through. Untouched by human hands, unread by human eyeb…
I've found myself running quite a couple of fediverse handles now.
I can't expect everyone to know them all, so I just want to list them as a monthly reminder:
This one: @…
Hiking & Cycling Videos: @…
"I've been giving to people on the ground in #Gaza for more than a year now. Inevitably, the people I'm choosing to support are among the most vulnerable of those who are able to reach me...
But, realistically, the people I am supporting have little real chance of survival..."
#GazaGenocide
Still can't quite believe I've managed to wangle Switch Angel, Tim Exile, and badcirculation on to the same bill
but this is happening on Thurs 30th July in Sheffield:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/patternclub/2071368
Look, if I've never cared about going over my data limits before, I'm certainly not gonna magically start fuckin caring about that THIS month
Yes, I've eaten my lunch sandwich and all the snacks at 11:37 (again). It's that kind of day, don't judge me #academicChatter
The hole in the neighbor's roof - I've told him about it more than once - has brought forth it's annual bounty once again this year. Happy baby raccoon season, everyone!
Personalization systems are actually the AI technology I have the most beef with: I don't think we've fully reckoned with the algorithmic manipulation of information they do. Suddenly the info sphere is not an object you can interrogate, but you become the object, and the infosphere around us is made into a mirror.
Weirdly, LLMs used well are actually _better_ about this because they're somewhat more able to be interrogated (though naive questioning is not probing so much why as one would hope). But the breadth of the corpus and the freedom we have to query within it are currently new capabilities. Not to say that some companies aren't well on their way to researching how to personalize that into a reflection again. Google must be stopped, and I trust OpenAI just as little. People's chats still end up adding quite a reflective lens on things, but the raw access is still there if we want to make use of it.
Yay! So happy Jackie is back and ready to go. I've never had someone better represent me in government.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/06/jackie-fielder-return-to-office-san-francisco/
For decades there's been a conflict between governments wanting to get access to people's private data and people trying to keep them out.
Over the years I've gradually come to the conclusion that the stable "Goldilocks zone", where there's the least likelihood of a major swing that makes things worse for everyone, is *not* the privacy utopia where devices are invulnerable, or a police state where anyone with a badge who asks can root through all your data, or…
Hi all, since I've just discovered all this information about how to properly take care of one's teeth (had to recently go to dentist, for some reason we are not really taught this in France) I thought I would share the knowledge, if you know better, please correct me!
What should you do to take care of your teeth at any age:
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116617713796430542
Introduce yourself with 15 bands you've seen live:
Alin Coen
Bernadette La Hengst
Bernd Begemann
Blumfeld
Bob Dylan
Die Sterne
Dota
Gerhard Schöne
Keimzeit
Lou Reed
N…
In recent months I've used my debit card without incident in Lisbon, Saigon, Hanoi, Bangkok, Luang Prabang, Taipei, San Francisco, Boston and New York.
Finally got skimmed at a gas station near Macon, Georgia.
I did get gas for under $3, though.
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116802365285287606
We are watching the same paradigm shift in oncology that we've seen in cardiology:
the transition from managing disease after it arrives
to detecting and preventing it before it takes hold.
Preventio…
I've been strolling along the mastodon boulevarde since 3am and I'm still catching up sight of people in my timezone bidding everyone goodnight.
The most costly primaries you've never heard of are raging on D.C.'s doorstep (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/23/maryland-elections-2026-boafo-trone-delaney
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p134#a260622p134
In other news, my first 15x11" (roughly DIN A3) print came out with only minor issues, none of them show stoppers and I know what needs to be done to improve. So this is just a test print and it's a bit hard to capture, but the overall presence & level of detail is so amazing at this size! Hard to go back to smaller sizes now :)
To get here, I've been doing countless tests of different recipes and hardware (e.g. I had to disassemble my UV light to create a more uniform/unfocused li…
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #LosAngeles, their final gig before the dead resume properly, at the santa monica civic auditorium, site of the t.a.m.i. show, the dead’s summit with tim leary, & other events. audience tape:
...and now I've just updated my shared ActBlue fundraising form to include him:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ericgallagersnhdemsrecs
To whom it may concern: I've made an accurate map legend for the roads in #Komoot.
#hiking #cycling
(This is based on the German map legend that can be found at https://www.komoot.com/de-de/help/map)
"The lawsuit was filed out of time, past the two-year window required, and would have been worth nothing if it had proceeded normally.
"The amount of money that Donald Trump was owed was zero," Weissmann said. "I've said I don't do math in public, but I can say zero is less than 1.776."
Questions about Trump's criminal liability arise as Mueller prosecutor sees immunity crack - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-immunity-2676935696/
@jacob@mountaincommunity.coI've had horrible luck and never been able to, either I had gotten a vaccine too recently, traveled somewhere too spicy, or been on a medication that the website said is ok but told at the door to leave.
I left my pet #Csharp #dotnet #ActivityPub project running overnight to see how it would handle HEAD requests overnight from UpTimeRobot (it did great).
I check the logs this morning and discover OMG what are all these I…
One website I use to receive payments recently shifted to a terrible #AI tool for customer service.
I asked it to process a payout. It failed, so I asked customer service to do it. After a few days, they did, and I withdrew the amount.
4 days later, the AI processed my payout...20 times. So now I have 20X the original amount, which I've already been paid for, in my "wallet."
I've been engulfed in the story to the point that I've brought the phone to the dinner table to keep reading - to my familys dismay. It's a compelling story, you quickly start to worry about the protagonist!
You won't want to put this book down, because you too will want to solve the mysteries surrounding the school.
https://www.…
Weekend Reads
* Data centers in Utah
https://ricci.pckt.blog/datacenters-in-utah-a-photo-essay-gehy55y
* Encrypted DNS at OARC 46
…
FURBNET UPDATE: turns out they changed the soundfont in like 2008 but didn't update the demo mp3s, so i've been looking for two different soundfonts :P
anyways, it was fluidr3_gm with the "shitty pc" settings uncommented and some limitations on the polyphony i think
I've really gotten into doing Miura-ori folds...
#origami
@… I've got a pond in our yard in NW DC. It's got some algae in it, but not a lot. I was pulling the algae out Saturday and two tourists came by and asked me where the Lincoln Memorial was.
RE: https://framapiaf.org/@peertube/116969652683539144
This rocks. Mastodon is in desperate need of a plugin system.
I've been using this issues as a way to request plugin features.
Tonight was my second ever session as a #HamRadio volunteer examiner, and my first as a VE grading exams. We had someone pass all three elements and go straight to Extra! What a treat! 🎉
Protip: If your auth process is "we've sent you an e-mail with a magic link” I will hate you.
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116617713796430542
Introduce yourself with 10( 1) bands you've seen live:
Shellac
Die Goldenen Zitronen
Aldous Harding
Sleaford Mods
Knarf Rellöm Arkestra
The Ex
Cat Power
Fuga…
Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live.
Christoph & Lollo
Arch Enemy
Dead Like Juliet
Wir sind Helden
In Flames
Arcade Fire
Max von Milland
Wanda
Amon Amarth
Epica
Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda
https://notesbylex.com/shipping-a-laptop-to-a-refugee-camp-in-uganda
@… yup that's bad, most lag I've seen is a minute or two for that 😱
We've now "finished" 'Cat Mail Co.' 🙂↕️
Super cute and will continue playing the infinite mode 😁💕
#CatMailCo #IndieGames #Gaming
i think i'm finally going to look into #ATproto. at the time it came out t felt more like a marketing stunt to promote BlueSky especially since they didn't even bother to open source their server software.
but it seems like people are starting building on it and from what little i've seen it looks kinda interesting?
"The chat box can't be it" - We've given up 'doing' for 'pleading' as we sacrifice it on the altar of the chat box.
https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations/2026/06/21/the-chat-box-cant-be-it.html (a short blog post)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Sun Spots:
🎵 Could've Been
#SunSpots
https://dentapes.bandcamp.com/track/couldve-been
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Lbx0SCxNiKjgrCMyG0xkX
I've never seen Preview Night this packed.
#sdcc
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@everton137/116613317111584835
I've mostly ditched Google and used Qwanta or udm14.com (which is no-AI google) instead.
I just noticed that one of the YouTube creators I actually like ends their videos with a low-effort engagement question along the lines of "Do you agree with this completely non-controversial opinion fully supported by this video? Let me know what you think in the comments below."
Ugh, now that I've noticed it, I can't help but hear it in every single one of their videos. It's only slightly less annoying than "punch that like and subscribe button!"
Ukraine update from Dylan Combellick.
Tired of being lied to by the organizations who claim to bring you the news?
Then support independent journalism!
Dylan knows his stuff better than anyone I've seen on "duh nooz" from corporate USA.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and support independent journalism, and kick those billionaire bastards in the nuts!
I've had issues with Linux.Pizza's Matrix-server, mainly due to uncontrolled growth of the database. Even thou retention is set do one month, there is still an absurd amount of growth in the database.
I have never encountered this before, not even with thousands of active users.
I do know that other users had this issue before and have been vocal about it.
Is there any solution to this yet?
CoMaps is open-source community-oriented privacy-first navigation app for mobile devices. It is currently choosing its fiscal / umbrella host which would be most aligned with those goals, so if you have opinions, come vote at https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/issues/166
Joe Burrow on 2026 Bengals: 'Most talented roster' since I've been here https://www.nfl.com/news/joe-burrow-on-2026-bengals-most-talented-roster-since-i-ve-been-here
School this term has been actually interesting enough to keep me invested. It's a nice change. I'm doing intro to Anthropology as an elective just because it's something I find interesting. Makes me wish that life was longer because I would love to go down a rabbit hole here.
My other course is software testing and automation. We're using Java and JUnit, which I don't love, but at least we're writing code again. I've had about three CS courses in a row now w…
10 bands I've seen live..
Black Sabbath
Skeletonwitch
Clutch
Sonic Youth
KMFDM
Meat Puppets
Aerosmith
GWAR
Elastica
Bad Religion
First time I've tried to update my blog from a moving train. It doesn't work well, but what's astonishing is that it works at all.
If you don't get a 404 at this address, then I've succeeded.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-07-2…
Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My
My partner was fed up with our sewing machine. We got it maybe 15 years ago, but never really used it much. Neither of us had the patience to get it threaded properly.
I mostly hand-sew things (repairs) and my partner does have their mom's old machine (which still works!)
So we've gave the machine to my daughter and she could not be happier! She just sewed up parts for an art installation and is working on making her own pants now.
Glad it's getting used & g…
The way people talk about Digital Circus makes the Rick & Morty fandom look well adjusted, R&M fans got a little too invested in a gag involving McDonalds and this fandom got mad that the showrunner they've been psychologically sanding down for 3 years doesn't want anything to do with them anymore. Social media was a mistake.
Damn, I've just open a stuck padlock with a pair of large spanners; It was scarily easy.
Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live.
Porcupine Tree
Fish
D-A-D
Archive
Haindling
Marillion
Hubert von Goisern
dicht & ergreifend
My Sleeping Karma
Dream Theater
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116776806933094318
When you've got prostitution, you've got pimps too.
Thriving(ish) Podcast
Hands up if you've ever felt overwhelmed trying to keep all the balls in the air, questioned what you're doing with your life at 2am, or laughed at your own chaos just to get through the day… because, same...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods…
Make the most intense mint tea you can, add an obscene amount of sugar, and mix with carbonated water. Not only have you spared your garden (for a very limited time) from the worst of the weeds you planted, but you've also made a damn fine summertime drink.
FURBNET UPDATE: turns out they changed the soundfont in like 2008 but didn't update the demo mp3s, so i've been looking for two different soundfonts :P
anyways, it was fluidr3_gm with the "shitty pc" settings uncommented and some limitations on the polyphony i think
I seem to need to understand everything by way of a metaphor with something related to math or CS.
Exhibit A: I am currently reading "Religion for Atheists" by Alain de Botton -- and I find his argument very compelling, although perhaps there's some confirmation bias on my part since I've kinda been becoming...not religious in the usual sense, but more amenable to it and convinced that there's a *there* there, so to speak.
One idea: de Botton mentions the …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mass Gothic:
🎵 Every Night You've Got to Save Me
#MassGothic
https://massgothic.bandcamp.com/track/every-night-youve-got-to-save-me-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/0jgGnGKZ4Cs108ysdBjueX
TIL that I've actually created a few "high impact" packages on NPM (with 1 million downloads per week)... Just got this email from them (see screenshot)
If each one of these would just pay me $0.001, I could actually comfortably dedicate myself full time to these projects (which has been my long, long dream job). But the system and social contract around open source is completely broken and so I've to balance my time and try to sustain myself and my family via other ways for periods o…
RE: #inference cost I've seen over the last few days while d…
Level 9 in the first Diablo is some serious shit. It's when shit starts getting REALLY tough. I usually die hardly at all before it, and I've now died several times- gotta chokepoint and take it slower. Whew. Monsters come outta EVERYWHERE and they're shooting all this shit at you. Really rude bunch of dicks.
Table top exercises (basically TTRPGs for government and business) can be used to test plans and refine plans without needing to actually experience a natural disaster, security event, etc. They're used by militaries to practice war. I've been part of such exercises to test incident response runbooks I've written.
I've been reading a friend's thesis about Operational Art and Critical Philosophy in relation to revolutionary praxis. I wonder if anyone has ever run a table top exercise for an action (or for higher level strategy), and, if so, has anything they could share about it?
While organizing with the Seattle GDC, our disaster prep group ran a table to exercise. We chose scenarios from a set of county exercises for local disaster preparedness. Our GM (who worked in public health at the time) had to modify it a lot to fit our use case, but it still gave us a lot of insight.
Unfortunately, it was a number of years ago so I don't really remember the specific scenario or what came out of it.
I did look back at some notes that I found, and we did suggest creating a D&D committee (partially just for conviviality). Reflecting on this in light of reading this thesis, I feel like we we're really on the mark.
Applications for the Secure Program Synthesis Fellowship by Apart Research are now open; you have 10 days to apply. I've listed two of my projects here; one more is heavily based on my work; and the rest are all fun too! Please feel free to share.
https://apartresearch.com/fellowships/
It looks like they've got this: "Maritime associations warn of risks in Hormuz congestion when when transit window opens"
Industry issues Strait of Hormuz transit guidance
https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/security/industry-issues-strait-of-hormuz-transit-guidance
Zaire Franklin confident in Packers' trajectory: When you've got a QB and a pass rush, you’ve got a chance https://www.nfl.com/news/zaire-franklin-confident-in-packers-trajectory-when-you-ve-got-a-qb-and-a-pas…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Lil Silva:
🎵 Vera (Judah Speaks)
#LilSilva
https://lilsilva.bandcamp.com/track/vera-judah-speaks
With Firefox 153 officially supporting WebAssembly.promising and its counterpart WebAssembly.Suspending[1], I've updated https://thi.ng/wasm-api to simplify the integration of hybrid JS/WASM async function calls, so you don't have to worry about manually creating these wrappers:
Commanders QB Jayden Daniels on learning David Blough's offense: 'I've still got a long way to go' https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-qb-jayden-daniels-on-learning-david-blough-s-offense-i-ve-still-got-a-long…
I've long wanted to write something about the Nazi musician Tom MacDonald, whose recent song “Pray for the Left” was so outlandish that people enjoyed it for thinking it was a parody of itself. In that idea, I began rewriting the lyrics of that song, thinking I might some day make a cover but from the perspective of the left, that's what this post is about, tell me what you think:
Don't Pray For The Left Lyrics
[Verse 1]
We always said that Ch…
I think the thing that's hardest for me with the AI thing is that I've never really wanted a slave.
Explaining the Supplemental NFL draft, plus offseason workout takeaways https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7388263/2026/06/23/nfl-supplemental-draft-explained-brendan-sorsby/
Recently, at the library...
"Have you got their new book 'Silk switch system problem'?"
"No. Is that the sequel to 'Equiconnected nanosky oasis'?"
"What's that?"
"Oh, you've never read the 'Magnetic haze cycle' series? That's just too bad. It's full of cool ideas like the ultra-iridescent opcode sentinel, infraconnected division boundary, or even beige frontier mirror..."
"Dude!"
"Yeah, it's real porcelain ultra-peak! Absolutely life changing epoch omnicurve vision!"
…
2026 NFL Draft: Five best value picks from Round 1 https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-five-best-value-picks-round-1-arvell-reese-sonny-styles