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I am immensely amused by husband's gleeful handing out sweets to assorted neighbourhood kids ranging from about 4 to 16 years of age.
Hard to be sure who is having a better time. And isn't that what life is all about?
Happy Halloween
#SimplePleasures

there exist several pieces of folk wisdom:
- "you cannot run your own mail server in 2025, this is too hard and time consuming" (completely false, i've done this since ~2010 with minimal ongoing maintenance)
- "you can do it but gmail will sort your mail to spam" (partially true and what i want to talk about here)
recently, my hand was forced: i had to migrate my mail server across providers and regions. it's unimportant why but important what the …

What TV channel is Cowboys v. Giants? Time, NFL Week 18 viewing maps https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/31/where-to-watch-cowboys-vs-giants-tv-channel-live-stream/87971961007/

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
AVON: We are short of time, Orac.
VILA: I'll say we are. It's not hanging about this time. [Screen display: 2. WAIT blinks out and is replaced by:]
[Computer display: 2. ARBITERS TAKE POSITION AND INDICATE READINESS]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/544

At a time when the majority of Americans distrust big tech
and believe artificial intelligence will harm society,
Silicon Valley has built its own network of alternative media
where CEOs, founders and investors
are the unchallenged and beloved stars.
What was once the province of a few fawning podcasters
has grown into a fully fledged ecosystem of publications and shows
supported by some of the tech industry’s most powerful.

When I say "I have a conflict with this meeting" I do not mean that I have another meeting at the same time. What I mean is, I take umbrage against it. I have a feud with it on a historic scale.

🌊 Long ago, Mars had massive watersheds—now finally mapped
#mars

Long ago, Mars had massive watersheds—now finally mapped
What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red planet's watery past? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) conducted a first-time mapping study involving Martian river basins. This study has the potential to not only gain insight into ancient Mars and how much water existed there long ago, but also develop new methods for map…

“Stupid sexy Flanders.”
https://bsky.app/profile/rockshrimp.bsky.social/post/3m25o6ekgrk27

Willow (@rockshrimp.bsky.social)
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

The full Weekend Reads report is on vacation this week, it will return next week. But we don't want to leave you with nothing. Here is one piece that might have made it into the top 5:
* The Input Stack on Linux
https://venam.net/blog/unix/2025/11/27/input_device…

The Input Stack on Linux
Let's explore and deobfuscate the input stack on Linux. Our aim is to understand its components and what each does. Input handling can be divided into two parts, separated by a common layer. We’ll try to make sense of all this, one thing at a time, with a logical and coherent approach.

The World Series ends either tonight or tomorrow night, but one thing is for certain: We will host Stickers Club on the Monday after it! Same day, same time, same place as usual! Monday, 6 PM, Victory Cafe at 440 Bloor St. W. here in Toronto. Visit the Luma link for details! https://luma.com/rkwlcbxm

Spent time today helping a VAR upgrade from one support appliance to another. Not my job but I get sucked into these things. While racking the new one I found an unknown box in the rack. "What is this?" "Oh, thats <vendor>'s box. We stopped using them years ago." Cue me finding a Ubuntu 16.04 box STILL ON OUR NETWORK FROM A VAR WE DON'T USE. Keep in mind, these are the same folks that run around screaming about security. Some days I really want to just wa…

What does the tree of life look like as it grows? Evolution and the multifractality of time
Kevin Hudnall, Raissa D'Souza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25615 https://

What does the tree of life look like as it grows? Evolution and the multifractality of time
By unifying three foundational principles of modern biology, we develop a mathematical framework to analyze the growing tree of life. Contrary to the static case, where the analogy between phylogenetic trees and the tree that grows in soil is drawn, our framework shows that the living tree of life is analogous to a Cantor dust where each branch is a distinct fractal curve. The system as a whole is therefore multifractal in the sense that it consists of many unique fractals. The three foundation…

The worst part is, every time I see images of the TOTEM split keyboard, I get very tempted to try a smaller layout than what I currently have 🙈 @…

Friday was an adventure in tech futility. Started with a gifted laptop, Dell Latitude, and the simple task of wiping its poor excuse for an OS and installing something sensible.
#Ubuntu wasn't it. OMG Ubuntu, what HAVE you done?! Tried first #UbuntuStudio then stock Ubuntu, 24.04, 25.04, 25.11, all the installers simply hung, no log, no journalctl, CPU chugging but nada detectable action, even hours later, just "Preparing…"
Net advice is old, of course, but points to the snap bootstrap service, fix has no effect but Kee-riced look at the mount table?! Snaps crackle and pop all over! Wtf, why? 🤯
And it is tedious. These 'DVD' iso files are 7GB, so, after 6 hours frustration, I thought, let's try something smaller to cut the turnaround time. #Debian13 simple bare-bones net-install seemed a good candidate …
And it was. Seemless install. 😊

Did I go back in time 20 years? This is exactly what I remember Northridge Mall looking like before it went very poorly.
#Southridge #Greendale #Mall

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

While I'm not much for the law, I recognize that not everyone I talk to thinks the same way. But even if you are like me, the enormity of the list of Trump's crimes is just staggering. There really couldn't be any more clear of an illustration of the fact that there are two legal systems: one for the elite, and one for everyone else.
We all know #Trump just does crimes all the time, but it can be hard to track the enormity of it. The YouTube lawyer LegalEagle put together a list and it's pretty incredible. It's a little over 40 minutes of him rapidly listing times that Trump has violated the law during his second term (completely ignoring his first term).
#MassBlackout is a #Boycott of the American corporations that support the dictatorship. By showing
that people have the power to shut down the economy if elites don't listen, we can hit them where it actually hurts.
From now until December 2nd, do as many of these things as you can:
- Stop online or in-store shopping (except for small businesses)
- Stop work
- Stop streaming, cancel subscriptions, no digital purchases
This is one of the few times that boosting stuff on social media and doing nothing else actually *can* make a difference. Boost posts tagged with #WeAintBuyingIt, #MassBlackout, and #BlackOutTheSystem. Make sure everyone you know knows about it. Hold each other accountable to keep from spending. You may already not be spending because.... well,.. Trump has already made everything too expensive. The thing is that elites can't actually tell the difference. Spreading word, making the protest seem as big and impactful as possible is all that's really needed to fracture elites and turn them against each other. Boost, write your own post, make these tags trend on every platform you can, then do nothing.
Don't buy things, (if you can) don't work. Just stop. Refuse to participate in capitalism. This is the ultimate "fuck you, make me" because they absolutely can't make you. This is the ultimate reminder of where power actually comes from.
I've been trying to remind everyone, every day. Please do the same. Keep this opportunity at the top of everyone's mind. Keep it in your mind.
Trump is more vulnerable now than he's ever been, and there is no time in the next year that we have more power than right now. This is one of the most important parts of the year for the US economy. What you do, or don't do, right now has more of an impact than any other time.
#USPol #BlackFriday #CyberMonday

South Carolina already ranks 8th nationally in highest maternal mortality rate,
and MAGA extremists are vying to become #1.
Now, for the third time since 2023, MAGA Republicans in South Carolina have introduced
S 323, also known as
The Unborn Child Protection Act.
South Carolina Senate Bill 323 is one of the most extreme pieces of legislation we’ve seen.
It proposes changing the legal definition of the word “person” to include an unborn fetus.
Th…

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion
Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

'writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a way that (hopefully) gets my point across. ... i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.'

With growing interest in social housing in SF, maybe it’s a good time to re-up this Q&A I hosted last month. In addition to lessons from Seattle, @… goes over SF efforts so far, so it’s a great way to get up to speed!

Municipal Social Housing: What can California learn from Seattle’s win? — California DSA
By now, San Francisco is famous not just for unaffordable rent, but also for its acrimonious debates about how to solve the problem. One well-funded contingent asserts it’s all about making it easier and cheaper to build privately owned homes, but as even the corporate media is now noting, we’ve don

mood
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/creative-neglect-what-about-the-apps-in-apple/

Creative neglect: What about the apps in Apple?
One of the things that I think about from time to time is Apple’s collection of apps. Some are the crown jewels, like Apple’s pro apps, and others help an everyday consumer to tackle th…

OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpts-new-shopping-resear…

ChatGPT's new shopping research tool is fast, fun, and free - but can it out-shop me?
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, OpenAI has introduced a new tool that it hopes will help you find just what you're looking for.

It is cold in northern parts of the world. Studded tyres are awesome. If you do not have them, forgot to mount them or cannot afford to invest for your usage, I am here for you.
The number of times I have been caught out and unicycled on snow and ice is quite high. If I can do it, you can do it. Just take it easy! Oh and wear a helmet, even if you do not normally. That kind of a fall is exactly what they are for.

Search for in situ signatures of electric activity on Mars: #Mars / Electric discharges detected on Mars for the first time / This is what lightning on Mars sounds like: https://www.natureasia.com/en/info/press-releases/detail/9162 / https://www.cnrs.fr/en/press/electric-discharges-detected-mars-first-time / https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03896-7

The chat interface was a marketing bet. Selling #AI as if it is not auto complete. It still is.
"#ChatGPT shifted the user’s relationship to text, moving the prompt from a ‘piece of writing for the model to finish’ to a ‘question calling for an answer’."

What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gathering more users in less time than any product launch in history. But that specific

The mechanics sorted out filling the adblue tank.
The warnings have stopped beeping and the 10 l bottle that was in the back is gone, so presumably I can trust it's in the tank now.
Sounds like much of what I have paid for was for them doing what I did: Looking all around the car for an ad-blue tank hole and taking things apart trying to find it.
But none of that is the correct solution, which is to put it up on the ramp and clamber underneath to find the tank which has some sort of lowering mechanism, to then lower it and fill it and raise it again.
Not a job for me then. Next time it'll maybe be cheaper coz of them knowing what to do now and not spending half a day trying to figure it out.
Apparently there is a second emissions reduction mechanism which doesn't take a wattery bottle of urea, but instead needs a pouch of oily tar stuff.
This is more likely to empty and need replacing next, rather than the piss bottle.
And even for normal cars that haven't been screwed up for wheelchair access this is a mechanics job anyway. And the garage will have to order in the tar pouch especially.
Back in the 90s, my first car cost about 200 quid. Today I paid 200 quid to get someone to fill it up with purified piss for emissions reduction. Oh how things change. 😆

One of the fun things about being a parent is spending your whole day doing your job and caring for your child, dreaming of the days when you had time to yourself. And then the child goes to bed and life feaps empty and you almost don’t even know what to do with the time anymore.

You don't need a title to move work forward.
The people who shape decisions aren't always in charge. They're the ones others trust and turn to.
Influence is built through small actions that add up over time.
New piece on how to build it without authority.
What's helped you influence without power?

Influence Without Authority: How to Get People to Listen Without Being the Boss
Learn how to build real influence without authority. Discover proven strategies for gaining trust, establishing expertise, and leading without a title.

Have you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1

Now this was a gorgeous cycling loop. Temperature was around freezing but luckily just few wind. As you see, the weather was ace. Clouds and fog stayed in the north 🌞
Also tried Knee warmers, which was just right! A very good buy!
I just need a solution against freezing toes. @… ,I bought neoprene toe warmer! The shoes are just a bit tight then, …

The time I made a "DIY Mouthpiece Puller" for a stuck trumpet part...
#DIY

DIY Mouthpiece Puller
Last year my youngest daughter took up the trumpet, and shortly after she started she managed to get the mouthpiece stuck. This is pretty common, from what people in the know tell me. The problem is, the school used to have a mouthpiece removing tool, but it either broke, or it no longer has it, [...]

Inside the Raiders: Pete Carroll, Geno Smith, Brennan Carroll and What Happens Next https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/mark-davis-pete-carroll-geno-smith-brennan-carroll-what-happens-next-las-vegas

With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…

Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts. But before you give one, think twice about...

What channel is Cowboys vs. Chiefs on today? Time, TV schedule, live stream to watch 2025 NFL Thanksgiving game https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/cowboys-chiefs-channel-time-schedule-live-stream-watch-than…

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…

Coworker is using a multi-billion-dollar coding assistant to read regression-test error messages back to them
... error messages that I wrote specifically so that they could be interpreted by a non-expert, including suggestions about "what to do if you see this message"
so now they're bragging about how they're "increasing efficiency with AI tools" and SOMEHOW IT'S MY FAULT AND I'M NOT GETTING THE CREDIT AT THE SAME TIME
*ahem*
anyw…

Why #MetroLastLight is my favorite game: https://steamcommunity.com/id/midtsveen/recommended/287390/

I can’t get enough of #rutgerbregman ‘s first #reithlecture . His analysis of the decay of the West seems accurate to me, but what I really love is his optimism for a future built on a moral revolution. His proposition: just imagine what we could achieve if we self organise and work together…

The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 1. A Time of Monsters - BBC Sounds
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.

This sentiment expressed by @… below and the aspect of slowing down is also very much part of my own reasoning for getting back into analog print making. The other large part is the conceptual overlap with (and my love of) process-based art in general. It was exactly that what has drawn me to generative/algorithmic/procedural/kinetic approaches/concepts for most of my l…

Christopher Cookson (@figwit@pixelfed.nz)
Another hand coloured #cyanotype, this time of kōwhai flowers. I'm not sure whether this counts as #fineart or #adultcolouring but it is definitely a unique reproduction of one of my photos. What really draws me to this #altprocess for #photography reproduction is that it takes time, and even though I can produce multiple prints from the same negative, each one will be visibly unique. In an age where billions of photos are taken but most will never leave a digital device, slowing down and impo…

from my link log —
"DevOps didn't exist when I started as a developer."
https://circleci.com/blog/devops-did-not-exist/
saved 2019-09-13

History of DevOps - What is DevOps - CircleCI
Explore the history of DevOps and its impact on the tech industry from the perspective of a long-time software engineer and developer advocate.

(It's actually more like 5786, and 4723 now. But who's counting?) 😉

Hey #DirecTV?
When they ask what straw broke the camel's back & got you cancelled by our household, refer to this utterly obnoxious screen appearing EVERY TIME I turn my damned TV on. That & your obscene $210/mo price tag.
Is it any wonder no one I know has DirecTV any more?
In other news,

Here’s my 35th “Long Links” outing, curation of long-form offerings, which assume that nobody has time to read all this stuff but one or two of the pieces might brighten your day. This one is mostly political but some of the politics are from France and China. Plus a way-cool analytical history of blogging and a section labeled “wonderful things”.

Chronic pain is stressful. Not just due to what you might expect; the body reacts to pain and it doesn’t like it. It’s also the many things you would like to do or need to do — where if you do them, you will be in pain and potentially even worse pain afterwards that leaves you unable to do even more of the things you need to do. Sometimes at the cost of being with people you want to spend your time with. The chronic pain/guilt-combo is crushing over time, and you usually end up not doing thi…

"Oh Shit", said the AI, "good you asked me, you're in very deep shit and time is of the essence. What you need to do now *immediately* is:
- increase the share of renewables as much as possible, as quickly as possible.
- build decentralised storage.
- electrify everything.
- stop deforestation, plant trees, renaturalise.
- turn me off."

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

A request for everyone: please don’t be this person. We’re going through a miserable time here in MSP, and reply guy snot does not make it better.
A •lot• of replies I got are about what is illegal, or should be illegal, or must be illegal, and…yeah, we know, believe me, we know. If what you’re offering is commiseration — as with most replies — I welcome that wholeheartedly! This sucks, and it’s nice to hear people say, “Yeah, that sucks.”
But please don’t come into my mentions to argue. Wrong time, wrong target.
https://mastodon.social/@wesdym/115731049092776077

Why the backloading? Presumably Republicans believed that by the time Americans woke up to what was happening, the G.O.P. would have effectively consolidated one-party rule, making future elections irrelevant.
Instead, however, the mask is being ripped off right now, well ahead of schedule.
Krugman brilliant
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/too-cruel-too-soon

Bengals' Joe Flacco shines in battle for the ages vs. Aaron Rodgers, Steelers: 'This is what we do it for' https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-joe-flacco-shines-in-battle-for-the-ages-vs-aaron-rodgers-steelers-t…

Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Know What Time It Is https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/10/chuck-schumer-doesnt-know-what-time-it-is/

A question for musician friends here: does anyone know if an available tool already exists for this, or if I’m imagining a problem everyone else has quietly solved? (I should really make it myself, but am not in the mood to. So far when combining different EDOs or working out conversions I do it all manually each time, which obviously takes quite a while.)
What I’m looking for is a simple MIDI transformer that maps note numbers from one chosen EDO to another, using a fixed reference no…

Projection, and they think because they do, everyone else does: "The reason that Republicans always say Democrats cheated when they win is because it’s what they do: At the time he was indicted, Smith was strategic director of Turning Point Action, Turning Point USA’s advocacy arm. "
Always Projection – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2025/11/23/always-projection/

I was in a meeting this week where it was stated the management belief is anyone complaining about the low quality of agentic AI responses is because that person is bad at prompting, and they should've spent more time using AI sooner.
Their example was a puzzle (how many trials to find irregular ball of 20, when 19 are same weight). Sure, AI can solve puzzles that lots of people have written about. What about fix a bug in our proprietary, 5,000-line program?

This thread is the kind of quality content we keep coming back for here on the fediverse.
And it’s well past time i re-read The Lord of the Rings. https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115582067479688962

🤚 Wake up in the middle of the night and wonder what time it is
👉 Wake up at 2:30 AM and wonder what timezone it is
#DST

The busiest travel day of the year, as Amtrak Midwest and intercity buses sell out en masse, is a great time to read Transportation Riders United's report on the state of cross-state transit in Michigan 🚆
https://www.detroittransit.org/cross-state-transit-report/

It has always been in our nation’s darkest chapters that 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲.
We are — each and every one of us, whether we like it or not — living history today.
It is a time in which demanding what should be considered the most basic tenets of human dignity is considered 𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘤𝘵.
To demand affordable housing,
a decent wage,
the right to healthcare,
that we pay to care for our people,
instead of the flattening of Palesti…

Donate to AOC.
Alexandria is fighting for progressive policies that can help create social, racial, and economic justice for all. That's why she's taking $0 from corporations and lobbyists and is relying on the grassroots to power her campaign.

Know what time it is?
It's cat time. :3

Chicago is getting a place for sickos
#fedifc

Finished “People Like Us” by Jason Mott.
I will admit that there were moments early where I struggled, trying to puzzle out the dual narratives. You have to accept it as experimental writing with a plurality in scope. When I surrendered and just READ, I absolutely loved it!
What is it about? So much. Gun violence. Where home is. America. Race. Writers. Trauma & coping. Time travel. Peacocks.
So much to say, but for spoilers 🤐
5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

People Like Us
The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 Nation…

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
BLAKE: All right, put us down.
[Scene: The planet's surface. Blake and Cally land near the obelisk.]
BLAKE: Some sort of obelisk, I suppose.
CALLY: Well, what should we do now?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/170 B7B5

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This is a good video about Masculinity. I generally agree with it. Galloway get a lot wrong on gender. Though I don't really think he is a grifter. I think he cares about the topic and wants a good out come not too far off what the person in this video wants.
As I think more about big tent politics I wonder if this video could do more calling in then calling out. There are real enemies out there and to me, at this time, Galloway is a mistaken ally rather then an enemy

My talk about #Thunderbird was accepted at @…
it's a talk from a community perspective and I will share my personal story (not so much) and some aspects you wont find anywhere else:

Thunderbird (a community angle) OpenAlt 2025
I am a [community](https://pontoon.mozilla.org/contributors/bogomil/) [contributor](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?user_id=359734) and a long-time user of [Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net/). I want to share with you my vision of what Thunderbird was, is, and will be in the future. Many people are familiar with the interface and the fact that it allows you to manage your email, but this is not why I decided to spend time improving it. I'll cover topics like: - What can any …

AWS Tranium chip bring up lab video; chip bringup is a 'fun' time, been a softee at a couple a long time ago! it's nice to see this - and damn what a HUGE chip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7vskHVx0Xo

This is what JD Vance wrote in his bestselling memoir:
“ I spent much of my time terrorizing the Appalachian fauna:
No turtle, snake, frog, fish, or squirrel was safe.”
https://bsky.app/profile/ostonox.com/post/3m4e2oqmkoc2m

ostonox (@ostonox.com)
JD Vance is talking about the Hasan shock collar conspiracy now "If you can cause suffering to an innocent animal, you're probably the kind of person who doesn't worry about suffering in people as well"

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Angor is a crowdfunding protocol for nostr and bitcoin.
Dan here is building it. Kickstarter without middle men.
Accountability is key. What stops the fund raiser just fleeing with the coin?
Funds are programmed to be released in stages, time locked in a multisig.
So if they aren't meeting milestones, investors can withdraw. If the founders are buying lambos instead of building, just cash out at that point.
Permissionless and decentralised, no servers except nostr relays and bitcoin nodes. No third party's claiming 30 percent fees. The system is a nostr client scanning relays for investment object types. Allowing investment into the funding contracts and subscription to updates.
#nostr #nostrshire #angor

The Lurie/Mandelman RV ban is still set to go into effect and tow people's homes on Nov. 1, the same day SNAP expires and at the same time federal agents are in the Bay to terrorize immigrants.
Send a letter to the mayor and BOS asking them to extend the towing deadline:
https://

All Eyes on the Mayor’s RV Ban - No Tows Before Housing!
DSA SF is continuing its opposition to Daniel Lurie’s two-hour restriction on RV parking, which will take effect on November 1st, 2025. We know this policy for what it is - the latest attempt by San Francisco’s oligarch Mayor to exile poor and working class people from the City. While San Francisco has put in place a refuge permit program, it’s deeply flawed. The City’s initial eligibility list excludes many longtime RV residents, and those that are eligible have an uncertain offer of …

Not everyone agrees...
https://youtube.com/shorts/gcO8dHeKjU0
But I think this assessment may overestimate the competence of the administration (they won't just crash things because their heads are just that full of shit), and may underestimate the ability of the administration (or really, the heritage foundation or other fash planners) to just make some shit up work around any limitation. The use of private donations on the ballroom and to fund military ops is a pretty clear test of that.
No matter what, the government will be shut down. All the things you care about will either be eliminated right now, or slowly over time. That's been happening since the 70's, and even faster since the 90's, so it shouldn't be surprising that it's happening now.
That's the scenario to prepare for, and you should prepare for it even if democrats somehow get control of the government again. Much of the public sector has been privatized and destroyed under democratic administrations.

Living in a capitalist society makes me simultaneously hate and understand some things.
Back when the Sunday shopping ban was set in Poland by one of the right-wing parties (with some exceptions for petty capitalists, of course), I was outraged. Why are they forcing their religious customs on me?! But nowadays, I do realize that in a capitalist society, where employment laws are full of loopholes and employers explicitly punish employees for taking a day off, an obligatory no-business day is the only way.
On top of that, after living next to a supermarket for a few years… this is literally the only way to have a quiet day, without cars driving, and car doors slamming all the time. And of course night time deliveries, because you obviously can't lose day's business over such things.
And what I hate even more are these multi-day holidays and long weekends, where suddenly all my routine falls apart, and I can't really enjoy holidays while the train timetable is randomly punctuated. But then, I do realize that obligatory multi-day holidays are the only way for many people to simultaneously have a day off and be able to meet their families and friends.
I'm not really compatible with the world I'm living in.
#AntiCapitalism #ActuallyAutistic

I found this reflection of one community member in the forum interesting: «Every time I read that AI is better, faster etc. it lowers my motivation to identify. It makes me feel that what I do when identifying (mostly unknowns) is not going to be useful any longer.»
My take is that this development is par for the course once organizations "professionalize" — and thus start to focus more on keeping their staff salaries than on their mission & working with their volunteer community…
#inaturalist

Every time I see that mural showing what Scheels is going to have, I think that it is going to be a good addition to Mayfair.
"The city's Community Development Authority closed on a land transfer agreement on the parcel with the mall property owner Brookfield Properties, which will subsequently transfer the property to Scheels, the city said in a news release Dec. 19."
#Mayfair #Milwaukee #Tosa

What time is Dallas Cowboys-Washington Commanders game on Christmas? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/what-time-dallas-cowboys-washington-commanders-game-christmas

Ed Zitron offers 15K words on whether Nvidia is like Enron (or several other famous fraudsters) or not. It's amusing and erudite and most people just won't have time to plow through it. Which is a pity, because 80% of the way through there’s a section called:
“Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of GPUs And Putting Them In Warehouses? Where Are The 6 Million Shipped Blackwell GPUs?”
His findings are absolutely shocking. Tl;dr: That headline just above.

NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
If you enjoy this free newsletter, why not subscribe to Where's Your Ed At Premium? It's $7 a month or $70 a year, and helps support me putting out these giant free newsletters! At the end of November, NVIDIA put out an internal memo (that was leaked to Barron's reporter

Musing on this post from @…: “Shared reality” is a direly important idea right now, but agreed: it’s missing something, hiding something.
A more useful framing might involve •time•. How long does it take for an idea to meet empirical challenge? What is the convergence time for differing understandings? What is the FA-to-FO latency?
1/ https://werd.social/@ben/115384162920438859

It's been a week since I watched this episode, and I still giggle at this scene about once per day.
[I read a lot of Mad Magazine in my youth.]

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: What do you mean? [pause] Gan?
GAN: I killed a security guard. They said it was murder. But he had a gun. I was unarmed. You see, he killed my woman.
JENNA: That must have been terrible.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/298 B7B5

What we learned in NFL Week 16: Time to take Jaguars seriously, here come the Bears https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6909980/2025/12/22/nfl-week-16-takeaways-jaguars-liam-coen-trevor-lawrence/

Scarf time!

What happens when you pair solar panels with mini nuclear reactors? Chinese researchers just cracked the code.
Their new microgrid framework combines photovoltaics with small modular reactors, using AI to balance both in real time. The results are striking: 18.7% lower costs, 37.1% fewer emissions, and 98% reliability.
The secret? Smart coordination between battery storage and hydrogen production that adapts on the fly.

When solar meets next-gen nuclear
Scientists in China have proposed a novel scheduling framework for microgrids based on hybrid PV and a small modular nuclear reactors. The framework uses multi-objective distributionally robust optimization with a real-time reinforcement learning mechanism and is reportedly able to reduce operational costs by 18.7%.

While the US can protect security in Europe and deserves our undying gratitude for having done so for the last 80 years,
Europeans cannot protect democracy in the US.
They can and must, however, protect liberal democracy in Europe,
which risks becoming a collateral victim of Trump’s domestic and foreign policy agenda.
What happens in America doesn’t stay in America.
It is often a precursor for trends in Europe.
Just as the

What channel is Broncos vs Raiders on today? Time, odds for NFL Week 10 opener https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/11/06/what-channel-is-broncos-vs-raiders-on-time-odds-for-nfl-week-10/8710133600…

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

What channel is Cowboys vs. Eagles on today? Live stream, time, TV schedule to watch NFL Week 12 game https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/cowboys-eagles-channel-stream-time-schedule-watch-nfl/5b2b225faf8d98f4e925a62c

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Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: All right. [walks toward the passage off Liberator flight deck, then stops]
BLAKE: Problem?
JENNA: Putting out a false distress signal. It's a trick used by space pirates.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/60 B7B4

What TV channel is Cowboys vs. Broncos on today? Time, TV schedule for NFL Week 8 game https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/26/where-to-watch-cowboys-vs-broncos-today-tv-ch…

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Nacirema people is their insistence that they do not participate in practices of which they clearly do. Equally unusual is the fact that, unlike other sacrificial cultures who raid neighboring tribes for victims, both slaves and victims for human sacrifice are only taken from within the society. In fact, there is a very strong cultural taboo against sacrificing or enslaving those from other tribes.
They are aware of the rituals of human sacrifice in other tribes, but claim such rituals to be inconsistent with their society. Yet their human sacrifice rituals are some of the most elaborate in the world. These rituals are so important that there is a whole part of Nacirema society dedicated specifically to arguing about who should and should not be sacrificed, restraining and feeding the potential victims for the years during which these arguments take place, and ultimately preparing and administering the ritual poison.
This is strangely similar to their approach to slavery. Both human sacrifice and slavery were once a much larger part of Nacirema society. Their human sacrifice rituals now take far longer and happen far less often, but at no point have they ever recognized these ritual sacrifices as such. Meanwhile, the Nacirema do acknowledge that slavery was part of their culture once. During the time when they did recognize their practice of slavery, they did raid other tribes for slaves. Now they follow the same complex ritual for slavery as they do for human sacrifice.
It is strange that, by following this ritual and only choosing victims from within their society, they seem to become incapable of seeing their behavior for what it is.

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One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

The Republican's decision to give the White House full power to decide what, when, and how congressionally appropriated money is spent
has created an impasse more deep and intractable than the shutdown itself,
because the question of how the conflict over Obamacare subsidies gets resolved has become impossible to answer.
What we have here is a fully busted appropriations process;
it is impossible to have faith in anything that Trump and his Republican cronies do w…

Why It’s Pointless for Democrats to Negotiate a Shutdown Deal
The most overlooked aspect of the current impasse is that it began a long time ago—and is rooted in a deep Trumpian dysfunction.

I just woke up from a dream. For every parent there is a time when, with shame, we have to explain how the world actually works... when they become a little too old to keep saying, "I'll explain it when you're older."
Amsterdam is full of reminders of the occupation, of the Holocaust. It's impossible to pretend there hasn't been a great evil here... One that's not in the past, but still very alive in the present.
At some point things will have to change because fascism can't last forever. It is a thing which necessarily contains its own downfall. We will, at that point, have an opportunity to make the world one that we can be proud to tell our children we created. We can stop short and reestablish the status quo that got us here, or we can build a world that we will no longer have to explain to each new generation in shame.
What would it look like?
(Shout out to the comrade who prompted me to be thinking about this.)
There was also a sign in my dream that said, "we created the bike, therefore we can do anything." This may or may not be related.

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FREEDOM means #NoKings
Tomorrow, Saturday October 18
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Jay Jones won the Virginia Attorney General election because people hate President Donald Trump and what he’s doing to this country.
And in an election that provided, as elections invariably do, a jillion takeaways, let’s not lose of sight of what is obviously and toweringly takeaway number one:
Americans have developed a big-time case of buyer’s remorse about Trump, and a very solid majority of them despise what Trump has perpetrated against America.

Verdict Number One: America Has Big-Time Buyer’s Remorse About Trump
Elections are the one opportunity we have to see what the people think. And what they think is clear: Trump sucks.