
2025-05-22 16:57:31
LOOK: Steelers unveil alternate uniforms honoring inaugural 1933 team, will debut them vs. Packers in Week 8
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-st
An AI-generated song just showed up on Blaze Foley’s Spotify page—despite the fact he was murdered in 1989. Blocking fake content is a Sisyphean task; we're better off re-jiggering the web to ensure users can tell content from a valid source.
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How Will the Raiders Fare Against the Chiefs in 2025? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-andy-reid-patrick-mahomes-pete-carroll-geno-smith
Broncos' Nix met with Brees, 'wants to improve' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45806437/broncos-nix-met-brees-wants-improve-says-payton
Republican House leaders anticipate passing the GENIUS Act along with considering two other crypto bills, as the House kicks off a regulatory Crypto Week (Yash Roy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/s…
Matthew Stafford will begin Rams training camp working on the side https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6509153/2025/07/22/matthew-stafford-rams-injury-update-camp/
In March, we wrote about how Trump's halting of a massive Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam puts hundreds of thousands at risk.
In May, we obtained exclusive records showing how cuts to humanitarian aid have led to violence and instability in Africa and the Middle East while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives
This week, Secretary Marco Rubio began laying off hundreds of State Department officials, including much of the foreign and civil service.
We're continuing …
Stopped off in town, Broadmarsh area. Sat on a rock for a bit and read my book.
I don't often go into town these days, but I was reminded of this nice little garden area when the May Day march met round the corner the other week, and I thought I would have a rest there today before coming home.
Lovely to see the flowers growing there now. I really like that the city council went in that direction for that bit of the land.
#Nottingham #BloomScrolling
Pettis Norman, an influential pioneer on and off the field, passes away at age 86 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pettis-norman-an-influential-pioneer-on-and-off-the-field-passes-away-at-age-86
The roughly 1,350 State Department workers laid off by the Trump administration last week
included senior analysts specializing in Russia and Ukraine.
The loss of expertise in those countries comes as Trump presses to settle the war between them,
one of his top foreign policy goals.
In other federal job-cutting moves, the Health and Human Services Department finalized layoff notices for thousands of workers,
and the batch of career employees fired at the Justi…
Our pick this week is a melancholic, atmospheric track from Steven Wilson. Epic in scope but perfect to kick off a slow, reflective weekend - this one’s worth sinking into.
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If you took off time last week, you should check out today's Metacurity, which succinctly recaps the most critical infosec developments you might have missed, including
--IT giant Ingram Micro's systems shut down after SafePay ransomware attack
--Qantas is talking with threat actor after attack,
--Android spyware flaw exposes thousands of customers,
--Ransomware negotiator may have struck deals with hackers,
--US sanctions bulletproof hoster,
--US g…
It is a week until the grand Kim Jong Un, oops I mean FFOTUS imperial parade.
(How could I conflate Kim Jong Un's parade with the FFOTUS one? - North Korea does a much better job of putting on mass tributes.)
Anyway, I do hope that DC Metro workers and Uber/Lyft drivers take a sick day off as many of the parade goers will be anti-vaxers with active, infectious Covid or Measles.
Don't forget that on the 14th you should arrive mid-day to your local Metro stop, park in…
Pettis Norman, an influential pioneer on and off the field, passes away at age 86 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pettis-norman-an-influential-pioneer-on-and-off-the-field-passes-away-at-age-86
Getting laid off is one thing. But to have it happen the week before all star break? How the hell am I going to pass the time?
Letting people know about what is going on at #AlligatorAtrocity in #Florida because any off the grid place where a faceless govt bureaucracy can operate with impunity without offering the imprisoned so much as a hearing, a lawyer or a phone call —the
Anyone ever try off brand liquid IVs? Going to give it a go on my #trailrunning this week, some pharmacy chain knock off brand. They are quite a bit cheaper. #running
Thurs Fri are supposed to be my quiet days, especially Fri which I can take off if I haven't got a full days work, but I think I've done more in two days than the preceding three this week 🫠
"Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
A fern I saw last week in Shindagin Hollow; I took a lot of pictures this weekend in town and at Monkey Run but didn't do much developing because I was busy fixing a busted webcrawler (and playing some Death End Re:Quest)
#photo #photography
On the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie
Missing #TNC25 already?
We definitely had a tough time stepping off the rollercoaster 🎢 But all the connections, the chats, the ideas, the hugs, the insights and the energy of yet another incredible TNC week are still with us ❤️
🎠 Hop back for another ride and relive some of the TNC25 highlights by watching this recap video produced by our friends at PCSS.
And don't forget to ma…
Outrage continues to grow against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem over her response to the deadly floods that ravaged Texas last week.
According to a Friday report from The New York Times,
more than two-thirds of phone calls to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from flood victims went unanswered
after Noem allowed hundreds of contractors to be laid off on July 5, just a day after the nightmare storm.
According to The Times, this dramatical…
House Republicans who voted to pass Donald Trump’s tax bill last week
💥know it’s going to slash the federal Medicaid program by $1 trillion
🔥and kick millions of people off of their health care.
But that sounds bad.
And people already hate this law.
So instead of saying that,
Republicans are trying out a new way of talking about the bill they all voted for:
👉They just pretend they voted to increase Medicaid spending!
We had a system crash last week with BSOD, a critical process died. Shoutout to #ubuntu for being able to boot off a live USB and copy the licenses and programs. Still sucks having to reset up, but better than losing everything.
One Game Raiders' Ashton Jeanty Should Thrive In https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jayden-daniels-washington-commanders-ashton-jeanty-daniel-jones
Shemar Stewart skips final day of Bengals mandatory minicamp amid rookie contract dispute https://www.nfl.com/news/shemar-stewart-skips-final-day-bengals-mandatory-minicamp-contract-dispute
The Republican budget measure that Donald Trump signed into law late last week contains a provision that analysts say will
🔥allow private jet owners to write off the full cost of their aircraft in the first year of purchase,
❌a boon to the ultra-rich that comes as millions of people are set to lose healthcare under the same legislation.
FlyUSA, a private aviation provider, gushed in a blog post that with final passage of the unpopular budget reconciliation package,
…
Raiders Have a Test on the Road Early in the Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jayden-daniels-washington-commanders-pete-carroll-dan-quinn
There’s no rain in the forecast for Flin Flon, Manitoba over the next week as crews there fight a wildfire that’s raging nearby.
Temperatures throughout the weekend are expecting to range from the low to high 20s, before cooling off.
Thousands have evacuated the northwestern Manitoba city, including municipal government officials and health-care professionals.
Rams LB Jared Verse thinks he left 'around 10 sacks on the field' in rookie year: 'That's not happening no more' https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-lb-jared-verse-thinks-he-left-around-10-sacks-on-the-field-in-rookie…
Cowboys Headlines: Dak Prescott's 'Hail Mary' putt, Arch Manning rumors, run resurgence? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/27/news-headlines-dak-prescott-pu…
Two-time Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams spoke at the event,
denouncing efforts by the Trump administration to strip the names of activists from Navy vessels, including possibly Medgar Evers.
“They want to take his name off a boat because they don’t want us to have a reminder of how far he sailed us forward,” Abrams told the conference crowd.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has undertaken an effort to change the names of ships a…
Taylor Swift has surprise performance at Tight End University in Tennessee https://www.nfl.com/news/taylor-swift-has-surprise-performance-at-tight-end-university-in-tennessee