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Study on the dynamics of an origami space plane during Earth atmospheric entry: #ISS? New Study Finds Out: https://www.iflscience.com/what-would-happen-if-you-threw-a-paper-airplane-out-of-the-iss-new-study-finds-out-79947 - surprisingly, the team concludes that they could be good for low-cost space missions.

"When the Trump regime took over in January and Elon Musk's data-raiders started hacking federal agencies of various kinds, a group chat in which I participate started speculating about what kinds of terrible things this crowd might do. One member of the group wondered if the hacking might include the Social Security Administration's "death master file" – a list of people, presumably deceased, who would not receive any federal benefits and whose names and other identifying information would be flagged so that financial institutions would refuse to serve them.
What if, the conversation continued, the infamously cruel and paranoid regime decided to add living persons to the death master list? Doing so would destroy people's actual lives – which might make it just what a vicious government would do."
#USPolitics
https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-april-12-2025/

I don't know if I'm amused or despairing at the reaction to an unofficial bluesky post that it is going to use face id and CC ID for UK users because of the Online Harms regulations.
Rest of the world expressions of surprise aren't surprising but I thought better of those that are in the UK and experienced online.
I guess that's why we have the Regulations that assert perfect purity in all things, even if it doesn't really define what is pure only that to be …

On Propositional Program Equivalence (extended abstract)
Tobias Kapp\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07480 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

On Propositional Program Equivalence (extended abstract)
General program equivalence is undecidable. However, if we abstract away the semantics of statements, then this problem becomes not just decidable, but practically feasible. For instance, a program of the form "if $b$ then $e$ else $f$" should be equivalent to "if not $b$ then $f$ else $e$" - no matter what $b$, $e$ and $f$ are. This kind of equivalence is known as propositional equivalence. In this extended abstract, we discuss recent developments in propositional program equivalence from the …

GMail:
"Be careful with this message.
This message appears to be sent from your account but Gmail couldn't verify this. Someone might be impersonating your account. If you're not sure the message is from you, use caution when clicking links, downloading attachments, or replying with personal information."
I sent it while logged in to GMail using multiple authentication steps from my home network using a secure laptop. What are they talking about? Serious question: how could they not verify it? It's either an idiotic engineering problem on their end or I'm terrified that security is meaningless. Probably both.

1. Call the police if they have no identifying insignia. They may be phones.
2. Film. Don't obstruct but film as much as possible.
#ICE #snatching
From: @…

Indivisible SF (@IndivisibleSF@sfba.social)
Attached: 1 image What to do if you see masked gunmen snatching people As Trump’s goons ramp up their attacks on our own community, more and more people are wondering how they can help.  You have the right to film law enforcement, but there are some things you should know and some precautions you should take. Read our recommendations for what to do if you see masked gunmen.   https://buff.ly/KNDlwzY #USPol #ICE

I don't know what it says about modern life but when I glanced at a message notification about 'weights' I wasn't sure if it was machine learning chat or the big strong lasses group

Prince William: How much are you paying in tax?
£22.9 million. That's the staggering amount Prince William raked in last year. But unlike his father, who revealed his tax contributions while he was Prince of Wales, Prince William is refusing to say how much tax he pays. What has he got to hide?
https://38d.gs/fd5e

Prince William: Publish your taxes
Prince William made £22.9M last year. But he won’t say how much tax he paid. What is he trying to hide? We fund the monarchy, so the least we deserve is transparency. Sign the petition if you agree:

Meta AI is a disaster.
#meta

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.

"[Chain of reasoning] reports are untrustworthy on principle: they are plausible explanations for plausible responses, and since the inferences involved are more complex, they burn more compute and carbon per query as well as introducing more mistakes"
This is a particularly offensive point about #LLMs: we actually do have a class of systems, inference engines, which do reason and can…

Artificial intelligence is the opposite of education
Or: what if there is no middle ground?

I just saw a post saying someone let their agent AI run for 19 hours to solve a problem.
Is that the expectation?
I’m going to predict a future scandal: A global consulting firm has been caught charging human hours for agentic AI elapsed time. If I were an unscrupulous consulting firm, I could charge customers 24 hours a day at ludicrously high prices to deliver what likely would have been an ill-advised and doomed project anyway.

*hits blunt* "what if we put the HSM... on a rotor spinning fast enough that if you rotated in a chair that fast it would Kill you" https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/9290/8856
(via @…

"""
"[…] Wanting a man got me into awful troubles more than once. But wanting to get married, never! No, no. None of that for me."
"Why not?" Tenar demanded.
Taken aback, Moss said simply, "Why, what man'd marry a witch?" And then, with a sidelong chewing motion of her jaw, like a sheep shifting its cud, “And what witch’d marry a man?"
They split rushes.
"What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously.
As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I’ve thought on it. Often I’ve thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man’s in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. “It’s hard and strong, that shell, and it’s all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that’s all. That’s all there is. It’s all him and nothing else, inside."
Tenar pondered awhile and finally asked, "But if he's a wizard—"
"Then it's all his power, inside. His power’s himself, see. That’s how it is with him. And that’s all. When his power goes, he’s gone. Empty." She cracked the unseen walnut and tossed the shells away. “Nothing."
"And a woman, then?"
"Oh, well, dearie, a woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark." Moss’s eyes shone with a weird brightness in their red rims and her voice sang like an instrument. “I go back into the dark! Before the moon I was. No one knows, no one knows, no one can say what I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?"
"""
(Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu)

In this Spring of Renewal (if you're in #Berlin you know what I'm talking about) I am doing several new things:
- well, the new job. I've not been fired yet, yays.
- Tai Chi! I took a practice lesson today and I feel like I will continue (so much so that I paid for the whole month in advance)
- Watching Bob's Burger! It's funny and there's H. Jon Benjamin wh…

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MORAG: What we need is something to discredit him. If he could be deported to Cygnus Alpha .... Doctor, am I right in thinking you can create experiences, implant them into a subject, who will then believe that they really happened?
HAVANT: Of course. In fact, creating an illusion of reality is quite simple.

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Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in PostgreSQL DDL.
https://postgres.ai/blog/20211103-three-cases-against-if-not-exists-and-if-exists-in-postgresql-ddl
saved 2021-11-12

Three Cases Against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in Postgres DDL | Postgres AI

What is this about?

Many DDL statements in PostgreSQL support modified IF EXISTS / IF NOT EXISTS. For example:

 test=# create table if not exists mytable(); CREATE TABLE test=# drop table if exists mytable; DROP TABLE 

I recommend using `IF EXISTS` / `IF NOT EXISTS`…

"..some residents in #Ballymena have started to mark their front doors to indicate their nationality to avoid attack.."
I lived in this town, Ian Paisley's home town and DUP core territory, for 3 years as a teenager. Not been back.
It was characterised by narrow-mindedness and bigotry then in the 60s.
The last place to concentrate migrants, if that is what has happene…

Police injured, houses burned in second night of riots in Northern Ireland
Rioters said to target ‘foreigners’ in Northern Ireland town following alleged sexual assault of local teenage girl.

What if the reason governments aren't disclosing what they know about UAPs is that doing so would reveal a truth so profound that it would collapse the simulation?
#UAP #UFO #SimulationTheory

Paul Krugman says nothing here the well-informed don’t already know, but I’m quoting here because he says it so crisply:
❝Until ICE moved in Los Angeles was, in fact, remarkably peaceful.…Los Angeles [minus ICE] is probably as safe as it has ever been.❞
❝The events unfolding in Los Angeles as you read this and, I fear, the events likely to unfold across much of America soon, quite possibly this weekend, suggest that the motivations of Trump and his cronies go deeper than mere (mere!) sadism. They want to use false claims of chaos to justify a power grab that, if successful, would mark the end of the American experiment.❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-finally-know-what-american-carnage

@… I don’t know what the actual form looks like, but if this is what authors are actually asked, this is confusing at best, since it actually only applies to print, color figures in the PDF are free, and a read & publish agreement isn’t a “pre-agreed discount.”

@… I don’t know what the actual form looks like, but if this is what authors are actually asked, this is confusing at best, since it actually only applies to print, color figures in the PDF are free, and a read & publish agreement isn’t a “pre-agreed discount.”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Liam Byrne:
🎵 Suspensions and Solutions, Pt II
#LiamByrne
https://open.spotify.com/track/3rTJEIBjB54keS4YU8EAbG
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G-Sim: Generative Simulations with Large Language Models and Gradient-Free Calibration
Samuel Holt, Max Ruiz Luyten, Antonin Berthon, Mihaela van der Schaar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09272

G-Sim: Generative Simulations with Large Language Models and Gradient-Free Calibration
Constructing robust simulators is essential for asking "what if?" questions and guiding policy in critical domains like healthcare and logistics. However, existing methods often struggle, either failing to generalize beyond historical data or, when using Large Language Models (LLMs), suffering from inaccuracies and poor empirical alignment. We introduce G-Sim, a hybrid framework that automates simulator construction by synergizing LLM-driven structural design with rigorous empirical calibration…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Mei Semones:
🎵 Animaru
#MeiSemones
https://meisemones.bandcamp.com/track/animaru
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«We live in the future, and the future is cool. Or it would be cool, if it wasn’t for all these fucking bastards. Even for those of us too young to remember a less-algorithmic internet, we can all see the potential. We see what technology can do. […] We know what’s possible, but we see — whether we acknowledge it or just feel its sheer force shearing off bits of our fucking soul — what these companies are choosing to do to us.»
This, so many times.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget-what-theyve-done/

You can hit a point where you go, why not try the thing I'm convinced won't work - because what if? https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-189-scaffolding-hoarding-jan-eppingstall/

Beautiful example of #arch elitism <3
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2251006#p2251006

what a great time to be alive if you love dystopian nightmares

Was Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles to quell demonstrations a dress rehearsal for what’s to come in other states or nationally?
The Atlantic’s David Frum thinks it is.
And he’s not alone in this fear.
If so it’d be another longtime-prediction by those accused of having Trump Derangement Syndrome having come true.
There are increasing indications the administration will expand its use of the military domestically.
500 marines are rep…

US political contradictions; knowledge systems
As Trump at least partially succeeds in constructing an alternate reality for his most ardent followers, it's tempting to think of his dogma as false, in contrast to some imagined "truth" which his non-followers are smart enough to believe in. But a more nuanced view of knowledge would admit that different groups of people have different shared truths, constituting different knowledge systems which each deviate from what's objectively measurable in different ways, and in fact they each accept different standards of what is objective, so there's not really a single "ground truth" we can even compare to to determine which of these knowledge systems is "more correct" (similar problems arise even if we only care about "more useful").
To make this more concrete, we can see that e.g., competing quantum physics theories, or likewise competing religious beliefs, have no reasonable basis on which to judge between them, either in terms of "truth" or "utility." So the Trump-dogma knowledge system, although bad, morally repugnant, etc., can't so easily be dismissed as "false" in my view. "Distorted" or "malignant" or "evil" or "contradictory" are better monikers, in my opinion.
But what I'm even more interested in thinking about is: in what ways does the current American liberal "common sense" knowledge system already bear the scars of past fascist lies & contradictions? I can think of a few:
"Columbus was an explorer."
This is "factually accurate" in the same way some of Trump's propaganda is, but it's also a cruel distortion of "Columbus was a child murderer," and it's a misrepresentation that serves an evil purpose, yet which is widely taught in elementary schools today.
Another: "dropping atomic bombs on civilians in Japan was necessary to end WWII."
Perhaps in the future we'll have "family separation & the 2025 ICE crackdowns were necessary to end the immigration crisis," although I dearly hope not.
"Reparations for slavery aren't reasonable," is yet another...
I'll close this rambling with a question: what other fascist lies have you noticed that are normalized in America right now from past Trump-like leaders (or even from less overtly fascist institutions)?

Here is a poll about #GenAI since that's all we're talking about at the moment:
Do you believe that you can detect AI-generated text?
If so, what are your tips to detect it? I found this article which has a few suggestions :

5 Easy Ways To Tell If Written Content Came From Generative AI
Spread of generative AI content online since ChatGPT 3.5 launched in November 2022 is up 8,362%. Here's how to tell if content was written by an AI bot or not.

If your dog could teach you one thing, what would you want that to be?

If you're in #LasVegas, be sure to dine at the best restaurant in town, "Le Cirque".
And say hi to our waiter, Martin. Literally the best in the business.
✅ Our Interview with Chief Waiter Martin Fischer of Le Cirque Restaurant – The Las Vegas Book

Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See - Jonathan Rosenbaum
> Ebert reviews a good many film books, and to my knowledge Siskel never did; if he ever read any books about film on his own, it would have surprised me.
#films #movies

Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
#linux

We were talking about software at work and I said "If you hate something, see if you can disable it" and honestly that could be good advice for anything.
And then I thought about it more and realized that's exactly what the Ruling Class is doing to the Working Class.

This is an interesting take on how AI can, in specific cases, when used carefully, be used to level the playing field.
https://tylertringas.com/ai-legal/
I think this is true in many situations, including education. We just have to get past the shortcuts, the blind faith and the hype,…

A common comment I hear from AI fanbois is you need to refine your prompt, and need to ask many times. And so they do.
Each prompt consumes 16oz of water just to answer, maybe double if you used voice, and a massive amount of energy and natural resources, so conservatively, what does each and every prompt REALLY cost? We do know OpenAI spent $12M to extract $9M, so maybe $10/prompt?
How is this "good for business"?
https://anatomyof.ai

The liberal obsession with optics serves the right and persuades no one. There is literally an active ethnic cleansing happening in the US right now, and the only thing that matters is making that as hard as possible to carry out.
Anarchists destroying intelligence assets saves lives. Every escooter thrown at a cop car is one less escort for a goon too afraid to kidnap random brown people without being flanked by a branch full of bad apples. Spray paint is not violence. Vandalism is not violence. Community self defense in all forms is legitimate.
Make no mistake, these raids are about changing demographics. Demographic trends have been shifting blue for a long time, and the right has, for a long time, been blaming "white replacement." Conspiracy theory aside, Democrats have also been relying on the growth of black and brown voters as a block. The nuances of whiteness as an identity are lost on the current administration and their supporters. They see that "white people will be a minority by 2050" and equate that with the "end of Western Civilization."
The only way to "save Western Civilization" is to change those demographics. Forced birth and forced removal are two sides of the same white nationalist objective. Of course they can't have due process, because they need to be able to kidnap anyone who they see as a threat to their demographic future.
They don't care about optics. The plan is to murder away any threat and flood everyone else with propaganda. There is no mythical middle. There's no one unconvinced. They know this, but they win when democrats buy that myth and save the police the work of policing the protests.
If your protest is 90% "peaceful," they'll take pictures of the 10% that isn't. If it's 99% peaceful, they'll shoot rubber bullets and teargas until someone throws a brick and take 100 pictures from a dozen angles. If its 100% "peaceful" and no one can be provoked, they'll generate pictures with AI or photoshop like they did during the George Floyd uprising and the pictures from the CHOP/CHAZ. Do you have literally no memory?
#USPol #FiftyFiftyOne #50501movenent #resistance #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOfAction

This is what I got from thanks.dev’s Ali and it tracks with GitHub’s reaction in the maintainer community.
@… https://piaille.fr/@ewjoachim/114816028154436161

they say if you want to elect politicians who are more supportive of transit, start building a bench.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-mystery-benches/3908902/

What to know about mystery benches popping up in San Francisco
A rogue Bay Area group is making waves by making benches in San Francisco. Here's what we know.

#WordWeavers 10 June: How many POV characters does your story have? Is that your preferred approach in general?
Usually 5 (or 4 - 6 really) depending on what I need.
At least I avoid switching POV mid-scene, head-hopping can be used as a tool if you're skilled enough, but I don't think I am.

This friday, I will be speaking at @… in Hamburg. I'll be showing a neat cryptography-based vulnerability that we found in a project a while back, and discuss what it can teach us about defensive software architecture. If you're there, come say hi :).
Really looking forward to the event, had some great discussions last year.

What if #Alberta really did vote to #separate?
https://theconversation.com/what-if-alberta-really-did-vote-to-separate-257214

What if I went through life without questioning my every move? Without making myself smaller?
Without having my lived experience doubted, ignored, if not outright denied?
What if I didn't have to expend so much energy justifying my own existence?
What if I could #write, #create,…

if i can hold a conversation with you, you're in, cause for me that's rare. anything else genuinely doesn't matter to me unless you yourself are hurting someone else and won't even entertain change, the other "in" that is my connection with you. ive developed a sense of what to expect and what's rare in people by seeing all the different types there are. and im absolutely nicer than i should be to everyone, but most people are insincere or too far the other way …

6 time zones, ~340,000,000 people, ~3,800,000 square miles.
Only 1.2 million sworn law enforcement officers, and only 2.86 million US military personnel, including active duty, National Guard, and Reserves.
Martial law is likely not feasible nationwide. Simply cannot be accomplished even if all LEOs and soldiers were eager to try.
They want to accomplish what 80 years ago was tough (could have gone either way) only in a place with ~21 times the space and ~7 times the peo…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Frédéric d’Erlanger, Philippe Graffin, David Lloyd-Jones & BBC National Orchestra of Wales:
🎵 Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 17: II. Andante - Cadenza - Adagio
https://open.spotify.com/track/3mrupfjB3YCKVcHglmzz3H
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And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.
In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.
At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Billy Bragg and The Blokes:
🎵 All You Fascists Bound to Lose (Blokes version)
#BillyBraggandTheBlokes
https://open.spotify.com/track/4WX2IyOQmZPdPh5Q0hH909
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I’ve never had a real need for these “activity notifications” so I wasn’t sure if these were available for #Mastodon. I checked and was not surprised to see that they are indeed already there. What surprised me was that #Bluesky only added them now.

Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications
A new update has also added much more control over which notifications users will see, and who can trigger them. One thing that has been missing from Bluesky until now was the ability to turn on notifications for specific accounts, but now Activity Notifications are live. If you want to know every …

rant on software dev practices
What is it with P5js and virtually all its ecosystem (like Q5js) that, still today, didn't manage to _properly_ package their libraries to be distributed and used via package managers?
Same with their insistence to push global resources and state everywhere... and of course virtually not documenting any of the truly delicate details, just the trivial stuff that could be auto-discovered by relying on auto-complete tools.
I kind of understand wanting to keep the vanilla experience alive, making it "easy" for novices... but that shouldn't be at odds with more "professionalized" production pipelines, at least *not that much*.
For example, with Q5js:
- The NPM packages could be mentioned in their documentation (they are not, even though they are official)
- The NPM packages could define proper exports (same for the JS modules themselves), not forcing us to rely on relative paths to files in node_modules... 🤦
- Globals could be at least namespaced... of course, it would be much, much better if they didn't exist at all.
I'm writing this in 2025, not 1993... and I'm... "triggered".
At this point I'll have to check if I have any other neuro-condition beyond ADHD that makes me "obsessed" with technical flaws, because it seems to be a "me problem" when either virtually nobody sees that as a huge collection of fatal design flaws... or they see it and don't care at all.

You can hit a point where you go, why not try the thing I'm convinced won't work - because what if? https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-189-scaffolding-hoarding-jan-eppingstall/

lmao this is incredibly endearing #NYCMayoralRace

10 Questions With Michael Blake
Michael Blake, a former state lawmaker who is running for mayor of New York City, visited The New York Times for an interview.

I don’t care what people think or say. I stand in solidarity with the @… and share their vision for a free, self-organized workers’ movement in Norway. Even if syndicalists are few, we’re here, and I proudly support their struggle for worker control and direct action.
I identify as a syndicalist because I actually enjoy working, but only when labor is organized…

Last year I spent some time in the part of Texas where the floods hit on the Guadalupe River last week.
Even to my California-kid eyes, eyes that rarely see a real river, the Guadalupe, as it passed through Comfort, Texas, was more of a creek than a river.
Over the last day I've wondered "what if I had been there when the flood hit?" I am used to having fairly serious topology, so I would have had trouble there in Texas figuring out which way to go to find "hi…

Why Disaster Alerts Keep Failing
Even emergency alerts that reach people can be unclear.

@… Interesting. I've wondered what would happen if I added a little commercial kefir to my milk and grains mix. Would it add to the microbe mix in the grains? I've been told no, but without any real explanation.

I keep posting about how the AI hype bubble makes it almost impossible to have a reasonable conversation about LLMs, and it’s only when the bubble bursts that we can start thinking realistically about what if anything LLMs are actually good for in writing code.
That seems to be what Fred is getting at here: the massive gap between the hype and the reality means that the affordances of these tools fit neither the task at hand nor the tool’s own capabilities.
6/

#escooter

revisiting my old fav combi, and like when it comes to describing the bond they have to each other, one is "not family nor friends nor companions, but something else entirely that is special", and the other is "it's family and friends and companions, all in one that it becomes something special" and I love this... idk diametry? but what they're saying is basically the same thing, even if it feels like opposites. both refuse to use an existing label. I don't know if this makes sense to anyone else, I like this kind of thing.

...c) capture that credential verification on their body-worn cameras. What's more, the policy states that the LAPD officers should "take appropriate enforcement action” if they determine an individual is not a legitimate federal enforcement officer, and "take crime reports for kidnapping or false imprisonment if agents have failed to identify themselves after a verification attempt." 2/2 (I verified this with several news sources.)
https://www.threads.com/@annepmitchellesq/post/DL0oDT7Sdnu

Browned & tattered, I found my old, fave #scifi graphic novel from the 1970s.
Being one of my only #comics, I read this thing 10x over. Missing the last page, I actually have no idea how the last story ends. 🤷
I should see if it's on the Internet so I can find out what happens... 40…

finally started my new business!! it's quite exciting for me as I get to finally do what I love on my own terms and with the person I love.
We do phone stuff and MSP stuff in the UK, and we are doing a free trial right now on our cloud phone systems so if you want to check us out id be very appreciative
I made a blog post as well about how we automate phone system deployment, useful if you want to learn how to tie terraform and ansible together!

This story of an ex-Googler is well worth reading. After some personal observations, @… asks interesting questions:
What is crypto mining if not a textbook Captain Planet villain scheme—to kill and raze and destroy for nothing but imaginary tokens proving that you did lots of killing and razing and …

Seeing war through the lens of narcissism: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/seeing-war-through-the-lens.html

Mailbag: What cities would you expand NFL to? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-what-cities-would-you-expand-nfl-to

🎰 Blinding lights: The hidden science behind gambling's glow
#gambling

Blinding lights: The hidden science behind gambling's glow
There's a reason casinos rarely have windows or clocks, they're engineered to make you lose track of time. But what if it's not just time you're losing? New research suggests that the lighting used in gambling environments could be quietly altering how we make decisions, making us more prone to take risks.

Question: To you, what is the relationship between society and stories?
My aim is to discover more perspectives than what I'm familiar with.
Bonus: Include a description of a visualisation.
Example: recycle symbol between society & stories, mirror, time travel machine, etc.
Thank you! And let me know if you need more info!

"If you don't integrate AI into your workflow, you'll be left behind." At least, that's what I keep being told. But seeing just how far "ahead" outsourcing their brain to a subscription service has gotten people, I really am genuinely wondering: left behind HOW, exactly?

The last episode of S2 of #TheRehearsal is probably the most insane shit I've seen in quite a while.
What an ending
(Do not look it up, if you plan on watching the show)

Yaw, Google if you block me then I just ignore you, your videos and guess what? You get nothing from me!
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/06/09/googles-fight-against-ad-blockers-on-youtube-enters-another-round/

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: Hideaway? Avon, if I got my hands on that kind of money, I'd have gone somewhere I could enjoy it. What is the point of having money if you have to exist on a hole like that!
AVON: You are forgetting, there is a big difference between you and Egrorian. HE has a brain.

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Poppy Daniels:
🎵 I've Never Been In Love Before
#PoppyDaniels
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Also, fuck it. I'm gonna read The Shepherd's Crown.
If you hear bawling, you know what's happening.
#GNUTerryPratchett

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Bauhaus:
🎵 Hope
#Bauhaus
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Podcast ep 187: What if we focused less on self-care and more on self-nurture to progress our hoarding recovery? https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-187-what-if-we-focus…

NBC News reports that top Trump adviser ❌Stephen Miller ❌recently eruptedin anger over what he sees as woefully lagging deportation numbers,
privately threatening to fire senior Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials over it.
He demanded the detention of 3,000 migrants each day, sources told NBC

A sweeping new ICE operation shows how Trump's focus on immigration is reshaping federal law enforcement
In mid-May, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, frustrated over what he saw as numbers of arrests and deportations of unauthorized immigrants that were too low, berated and threatened to fire senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials if they did not begin detaining 3,000 migrants a day, according to two sources who spoke to attendees.

All this brings me back to some text I was writing yesterday for my students, on which I’d appreciate any thoughtful feedback:
❝You can let the computer do the typing for you, but never let it do the thinking for you.
This is doubly true in the current era of AI hype. If the AI optimists are correct (the credible ones, anyway), software development will consist of humans critically evaluating, shaping, and correcting the output of LLMs. If the AI skeptics are correct, then the future will bring mountains of AI slop to decode, disentangle, fix, and/or rewrite. Either way, it is •understanding• and •critically evaluating• code — not merely •generating• it — that will be the truly essential ability. Always has been; will be even more so. •That• is what you are learning here.❞
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unfortunately must admit regan did one good thing: this diary entry

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Soloists:
🎵 Divertimento in E flat major, K 252/240a (4th mvt)
#WolfgangAmadeusMozart
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Estimating Interventional Distributions with Uncertain Causal Graphs through Meta-Learning
Anish Dhir, Cristiana Diaconu, Valentinian Mihai Lungu, James Requeima, Richard E. Turner, Mark van der Wilk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05526

Estimating Interventional Distributions with Uncertain Causal Graphs through Meta-Learning
In scientific domains -- from biology to the social sciences -- many questions boil down to \textit{What effect will we observe if we intervene on a particular variable?} If the causal relationships (e.g.~a causal graph) are known, it is possible to estimate the intervention distributions. In the absence of this domain knowledge, the causal structure must be discovered from the available observational data. However, observational data are often compatible with multiple causal graphs, making met…

If you're a reporter asking for the Epstein files, what you're really after is CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
- Pam Bondi

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Pink Floyd:
🎵 Fearless (Interpolating “You’ll Never Walk Alone”)
#PinkFloyd
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"If one uses the word “fascism”, people accuse you of hysteria – but isn’t this precisely what fascism looks like? A minority group is unfairly demonised until public opinion sours sufficiently for lawmakers to impose restrictions on said group"
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Juno Dawson: I had gender reassignment surgery – then the Supreme Court said I wasn’t a woman
I have the same choices over my life and body that I would want for every single person on earth. I’m not trying to make a statement about what a woman is, I just want to be one, writes Juno Dawson – who appears on The Independent’s Pride list 2025

Cool bug, looks kinda like a fixed-wing aircraft with its wings stuck out while perched. Would love to know what it is if someone has an idea. About the size of a cranefly, but with opaque wings.
#Insect

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Josef Myslivecek, Clare Hammond, Nicholas McGegan & Swedish Chamber Orchestra:
🎵 Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major: III. Rondo. Allegro
#JosefMyslivecek
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#PennedPossibilities 694 — MC POV: Do you have siblings? If so, what are their names and ages?
MC: I have a brother, Alaidehal, but I couldn't tell you his age because we live where time is of no consequence. Time is your doing. Your curse. Not ours.

Mailbag: What cities would you expand NFL to? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-what-cities-would-you-expand-nfl-to

"At one point, an ICE agent addressed a protester, saying 'Just keep a distance. We get it alright, we get it.' A protestor responded, 'If you get it, why are you doing this?'
"'You know that’s not what I meant,' the agent said."
#FuckICE #IceOutofTheBay

Video: ICE agents brandish rifles, drive through protesters at S.F. immigration court
Immigration agents clashed protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Alpesh Chauhan & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra:
🎵 Orchestral Suite No. 2 in C Major, Op. 53, TH 32: II. Valse. Moderato
#PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky
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Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang
said he’s reached out to Elon Musk
in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party,
Yang, along with mutual friends, believes the Tesla CEO has what it takes to form a new faction that propels America’s strongest leaders. ($$$$)
When asked if Musk has responded to his inquiry, Yang told the outlet “Not yet, but I assume he’s been very busy.”

Andrew Yang reaches out to Musk to collaborate on new political party
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said he’s reached out to Elon Musk in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party...

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
CALLY: That's what we think.
AVON: [Pointing gun at soldier] What do you think?
[In room]
SHERM: All the guards are in place captain, he can't have got away.
BAYBAN: He must have done.

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Legit Q: What will be the consequences to #Trump if he's outed as a pedophile?
❌ His base doesn't care about his racism, sexism, lack of ethics or criminality
❌ Congress kowtows & rolls over for him every week
❌ SCOTUS is bought & sealed
❌ Reasonable people already know he's evil incarnate
I don't see this as a means to weaken or oust him.
Fr…

Mark Davis (@mark_davis_8647) on Threads
I don’t ask for much. But I’m asking now. Like it. Share it. Burn it into the algorithm. Donald Trump. Jeffrey Epstein. Pam Bondi. The cover-up is real. And Trump doesn’t wanna talk about it anymore. So we’re gonna talk about it louder than ever. Blow this wide open. Let’s make them hear it in the streets. Fucking viral. Right now.

What if I test out treating myself like I'm a person who doesn't deserve to be paralysed by shame? What if I test out being compassionate to myself instead of yelling at myself? https://www.

Forty-five billion will build a lot of stuff.
As a point of comparison: In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing.
We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers as we spend on housing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197619…

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

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The Technicolors:
🎵 Gold Fang
#TheTechnicolors
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Night Heron:
🎵 LUXURY
#NightHeron
https://nightheronmusic.bandcamp.com/track/luxury
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MC5:
🎵 Future/Now
#MC5
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