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This is pretty cool. Not often somebody gets to announce the discovery of a whole new branch of life. The cells contain mitochondria unlike any known before. Features support the #endosymbiont theory of #mitochondria origins, that they were originally separate animals but one got swallowed by so…

Newly Discovered Organism Could Represent a Whole New Branch in The Tree of Life
It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses for years.

Hot Ocean just put out another single, after 'Lavanderia' earlier this year. This one is 'Whole Lotta Fuck', and it's great, because of course it is- it's Hot Ocean.
https://hotocean.bandcamp.com/track/whole-lotta-fuck

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AGASSI:
🎵 The Whole Shebang
#NowPlaying #AGASSI
https://agassi.bandcamp.com/track/the-whole-shebang
https://open.spotify.com/track/7hFj9T4Yaohgvm5GTCtYMs

The whole "peace process" is just Zelensky showing his good will, Russia will never agree, just stall while attacking and destroying Ukraine during the talks

whole lot to munch on in this wonderful retrospective interview with negativland, with juicy new details about the U2 affair, including the roles of r.e.m. (accidental, unrighteous) & sinead o'conner (intentional, righteous) https://social.lol/@thetonearm/115582032021779581

The team I've cheered my whole life failed once again to make it all the way through October (but they got close!). So while my neighbors would call it fish and chips, we're having what any self-respecting Brewers fan knows is called fish fry for Game 1 - it is Friday, after all. Go Jays Go!
#baseball #WorldSeries

Xilinx XC6SLX25 (Samsung 45nm) from a previous decap run that I had to come back and finish because it was still stuck to the substrate.
A few light scratches in top passivation. These big BGAs need a lot of handling to peel back layers of fiberglass so acid can get in, which increases damage risk. Using fuming nitric usually you don't need that but I don't want it in my house :P
You can't see a whole lot here except the GTP. But if you compare this to the abstracted …

New Gist: No Contest
"There are, perhaps, alternative worlds where lots of things are different. Fianna Fšil maybe decide to run an MEP instead of a MIA. Or one where a fleet of no-hopers got nominated and we spent the whole campaign having to listen to the media asking candidates their opinions on the Latin mass and if cocaine bloat is a positive feature in a President. "
Also, I explain exactly what kind of idiot I have recently been.

Reagan's "Welfare Queen" rhetoric was a dog whistle. The whole "southern strategy" was full of dog whistles. Every time Republicans talked about gay marriage as a "states rights" issue, those were dog whistles. Naming a government agency "the Department of Homeland Security" was a dog whistle. Trump's speeches leading up to his first term were full of dog whistles.
Nazis have total control of all branches of government. They've cut off funding to all but the most oppressive elements of the government. There are concentration camps, both in client states (CECOT, among others) and in the US (Alligator Auschwitz, among others). They're actively carrying out ethnic cleansing.
When DHS puts out some Nazi shit, it's not a dog whistle. It's a vuvuzela. They're not trying to signal their intent without any of the "normies" noticing. They actively doing what they wanted to do. It's not a signal because there's nothing to signal. It's a celebration.
#USPol

Everyone is talking about whether AI is in a bubble, but what if the whole of humanity is in a bubble? 🤔

@… ...and he's also the guy who invented the Xbox

For four months, Trump had been haranguing Indiana Republicans to redraw their congressional district maps
to carve out two new safe Republican seats.
Right now, Indiana is overwhelmingly Republican.
Seven of the state’s nine congressional districts are solidly red.
But Republicans control Congress as a whole by a mere three votes.
Given how dramatically Republican measures and candidates under-performed this year,
Trump has reason to worry in the 2026…

When you're thinking that the phone didn't load the whole photo, then realize it's just snow at the lower half.

I've long felt that the whole concept of "normality" is simply a cudgel used to browbeat people into conformity or make us feel like shit if we don't.
Reject the weaponization of normality for ostracization. Embrace diversity in all its forms.

30 years ago #OTD I was in #India to observe a Total #SolarEclipse lasting under a minute in Neem Ka Thana, Rajasthan: my report on the whole trip to this amazing country - written originally for an English magazine - can be found at https://geocities.restorativland.org/CapeCanaveral/5599/india_95_story.html while the picture here was taken by Voyto Rušin at the same observing camp and processed by Miloslav Druckmüller: http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/eclipse/Ecl1995i/0-info.htm

I saw this AI/LLM-assisted GitHub pull request on the #OCaml project and the chutzpah of the submitter is on a whole different level.
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369
He also submi…

DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...

This log entry always appears at the top of my cable modem's web view of the log. Every 36 hours, the timestamp changes. It's not new,. just the same line with a new timestamp.
It has been this way for years, I believe for the whole decade that I've had it, although its rock-solid regularity may have started with the last update (2019) or with some upstream behavior change. It is harmless (DHCP clients must tolerate unrecognized options).
And people wonder why I e…

So, 11 out of 12 days completed for #AdventofCode and my thoughts for this year:
- `nim` is probably the language I've enjoyed coding the most in.
- `python`'s whole ecosystem of libraries just makes things so much easier. Day 10 and `scipy` just destroyed that solution (part 2 specifically)
- `rust` annoys me, but I 100% admit that it's a skill issue on my pa…

Yesterday they've released SOLO Leveling: Arise Overdrive.
I kinda liked anime and game looked good, so I've tried it.
I was surprised, when in the middle of the fight everything stoped and I couldn't move / use any skills / attacks.
My surprise was even bigger when outisde of the battle I stopped moving for about 10(maybe 20) seconds.
Fights are perfect🤌, if it wasn't "always online" "feature" it would be really good game with great c…

The greyhounds at the WGW kennels still need their walks even on Christmas day so we've been open as usual for volunteer walkers, and got a good turnout. Every hound managed a walk in the winter sunshine.
Not only that though: over the last few days our volunteers have cooked and delivered more than 25 whole chickens, as well as sausages, vegetables and fish, so that the hounds could enjoy a special Christmas meal today too!
(Last photo is kennel hound Lizzo out with a volunt…

I’ve been using Telex to build #WordPress plugins right in the browser, and it makes the whole process surprisingly simple.
https://josvelasco.com/simplifying-wor

the most common complaint i see people have with Docker is the quip "it works on my machine => i'll ship my machine" but this is literally the _least_ of the issues with Docker
every new thing i learn about Docker and container infrastructure as a whole is somehow more upsetting than the previous one. the entire thing is bad. OCI is bad. none of it is well-designed, most of it makes barely any sense at all, hardly any can be reasonably run at scale

I made nog again

President Trump’s new special envoy to Greenland,
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry,
wants to help make Greenland
“part of the U.S.”
This is the most recent development in Trump’s monthslong campaign to essentially colonize Greenland.
His primary excuse for this has been “international security,”
although it’s more likely he wants to take advantage of Greenland’s value as a geopolitical asset as well as its mineral and oil resources.
“That whole area is…

New Trump Envoy Declares His Goal Is to Make Greenland Part of U.S.
Denmark is furious about the Trump administration’s latest move.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
AGASSI:
🎵 The Whole Shebang
#NowPlaying #AGASSI
https://agassi.bandcamp.com/track/the-whole-shebang
https://open.spotify.com/track/7hFj9T4Yaohgvm5GTCtYMs

Trader Joe's has these 'seasonal' products everyone raves about but they only have them for a hot minute & they disappear until the next year.
TJ's bacon-wrapped scallops: Best thing in the whole store & they run out every time. If I see them, I buy 10 packages.
#firstworldproblems

The whole app is a blob
... character driven UI as a path to language learning, a different kind of "gamification"
#software

The Whole App is a Blob
I tried to prepare for life in French-speaking Canada by turning language drills into a Tamagotchi. It worked, as long as you don't ask me whether my coffee is for here or to go.

oh ffs
a whole bunch of convoyers are currently driving by. 👎
no idea what this is about.
#convoy #altright #dumb

10 High-Protein Vegan Recipes (That Use Only Whole Foods) #plantbased

10 High-Protein Vegan Recipes (That Use Only Whole Foods)
Try these high-protein vegan recipes that only use whole foods for nutritious and tasty meal options ideal for dinner

“the ‘entirety’ of the East Wing, which traditionally ••houses the first lady’s offices••”
Oh, I’d missed that detail. Could this whole thing be out of spite at Melania?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/22/east-wing-demolished-ballroom-construction/86841156007/

football just like me fr
#fedifc #claptoncfc

so they're going to narrate the whole fucking movie??
#monsterdon

Pixie had the whole bed to sit on. No, the whole house. Where did she choose to sit? On my jumper. #caturday

This widely-linked story is, I think, much ado about nothing. Anyone who's seen the inside of an Amazon warehouse immediately thinks “Shouldn’t robots be doing this?” and that includes every Amazon biz and engineering leader, starting like 25 years ago. There is no doubt that the whole warehouse sector would love to replace humans with robots. It’s hard. So what’s new? Is it possible LLM fairy dust will solve the problem? Unconvinced.

Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents
Amazon is leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers, according to leaked documents.

Damn! Friedemann Pulvermüller was one of the most influental researchers for me during my time in the psycholinguistic research lab at the U Freiburg. It‘s very sad to hear about this great loss to the whole linguistic research community. 😞

Putin is dangerous for Ukraine, but Trump is dangerous for the whole world.

you don't have to be healed to begin — https://www.brichapman.com/p/you-dont-have-to-be-healed-to-begin?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social

Healing Through, Not Before: You Don’t Have to Be Whole to Begin
You don’t have to be healed to be worthy. Healing isn’t a finish line — it’s something you do through love, work, and living in the world as it is.

How far will it go this time?
This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more.
That's

This Christmas is a great opportunity to switch together with the whole family from #WhatsApp to #Signal. Also moving them from Google photos to the new #ente family account, and doing some more

WR Brown vents about offense, not sorry for stir https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46947791/unapologetic-aj-brown-upset-eagles-offense-whole

Meet the Welsh Puppies Stopping Wildlife Poachers in Africa https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/meet-the-welsh-puppies-stopping-wildlife-poachers-in-africa/

Meet the Welsh Puppies Stopping Wildlife Poachers in Africa
In the lush, emerald hills and valleys of Wales, dogs are trained to protect endangered wildlife a whole hemisphere away. Their scent tracking allows them to turn hunters into the hunted, and catch poachers even in total darkness; even hours after they’ve left their kill sites. After a decade of work in Africa, these special […]

Here's the average weight for Percy and Lotty, the -- https://BolesBrits.com -- over the last six months!
If you haven't checked out our BolesBrits.com website in awhile, you should, because it has a whole new look (and so do all of our web properties!)

I know this is me being an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect, but I can't help myself to stop believing that the whole #email infrastructure is completely fucked up and that it should be rewritten from scratch.
Anyone who can take me out of this intellectual hole with an explanation on why we haven't collectively invented something better already? (not better than email as a concept, I'm referring to the protocols & standards around it)
What are my unknown unknowns here?

im in the car with dad on the road to visit my grandparents again, i just watched the trump mamdani meeting, and the whole time i was fucking breaking trying not to just straight up cry laughing its so much better than even how yall made it sound. every subtle gay little movement trump makes is perfect

This article just cited the Finnish Michaux study. There are others. The whole "industrial renewable energy capture systems" wager has inadequate foundations, which is why the only way is to use much less energy. Hence #degrowth See my article and linked report for the UK case.
Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil? - CounterPunch.org

Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?
A key issue for the accomplishment of renewables is power storage because of the impact of wind and solar intermittency, both of which are highly intermittent. Most studies assume gas will be the buffer for intermittency. Other than using fossil fuel such as gas as a buffer, an adequate power storage system to handle intermittency will require 30 times more material than what electric vehicles require with current plans, meaning the scope is much larger than the current paradigm allows.

It's new Brita Filter Jug day.
I bought it to replace the previous one I had for a few years. It was a ridiculous design, that needed the whole lid to be removed to fill it 🤦‍♂️
The new one has a small flap that opens for filling. Much better.

I don't partake, generally because I'm begging the kids to get into bed or collapsing myself after finally succeeding, but I dig checking in every Sunday evening and seeing that virtually my whole feed has transformed into a monster movie watch party.
#Monsterdon

I think I have a whole blog post/talk/video in me on this topic, but I feel like most ppl lack imagination when thinking about the DB repository pattern. It doesn't have to be just add/list/get—it's probably even wasteful!
Catchy: ”Database Repository Pattern for People Who Don't Hate Databases”

Crab apples, same size and they look like cherries, but the only thing I’ve seen eating them is a big pigeon, swallowing them whole. #WeymouthUK #FlowersOfMastodon #Photography

Silksong is very well designed. Even though I'm not into metroidvanias, I've found its analysis very interesting.
BTW, metroidvania without platforming and combat would be… the classic point and click adventure?
https://nebula.tv/videos/gmtk-the-world-d…

Game Maker's Toolkit — The World Design of Hollow Knight: Silksong
Team Cherry returns to the world of Hollow Knight with Silksong - a new game, with a new character, in a whole new world. In this episode of Boss Keys let's look at how the developers designed Pharloom and the Citadel.

TBH I bet there are A LOT of people who rather the whole internet to be up or down at the same time.

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

Looking for a good dungeon crawler-y board game where the rules are simple enough to play it with smaller kids. (I have been playing a bit of Mice and Mystics with my 5 year old and he's super into the whole thing.
Any recommendations (only games you played, consider I know how to use internet searching)

Yesterday I had a day off and made some mango soap. I meant to document the whole process but my batter thickened up so quickly, I couldn't. It was hardly surprising with 20% mango butter in the recipe. 😅
#SoapMaking

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Methyl Ethel:
🎵 Scream Whole
#NowPlaying #MethylEthel
https://methylethel.bandcamp.com/track/scream-whole
https://open.spotify.com/track/4pyYNLVSzkJzTd66tP7Taz

Chinese ModernBERT with Whole-Word Masking
Zeyu Zhao, Ningtao Wang, Xing Fu, Yu Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12285 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12285

Chinese ModernBERT with Whole-Word Masking
Encoder-only Transformers have advanced along three axes -- architecture, data, and systems -- yielding Pareto gains in accuracy, speed, and memory efficiency. Yet these improvements have not fully transferred to Chinese, where tokenization and morphology differ markedly from English. We introduce Chinese ModernBERT, a from-scratch Chinese encoder that couples: (i) a hardware-aware 32k BPE vocabulary tailored to frequent Chinese affixes/compounds, lowering the embedding budget; (ii) whole-word …

This game has captivated the whole family. You shoot squishy bouncy cats together to merge them into bigger squishy cats?! Game of the Year contender! 😂
https://www.nintendo.com/de-de/Spiele/Nintendo-Switch-2-Spiele/PUNYAN-for-Nintendo…

Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul.
If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain.
If you've no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain!
-Saadi Shirazi
#Poetry #Humanity…

I guess it’s one thing to see fake references to other people, and a whole other thing to see yourself fake-cited.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rl2szulxujlgdcmx4avx7jyn/post/3mae76wbmcs2n

I guess it’s one thing to see fake references to other people, and a whole other thing to see yourself fake-cited.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rl2szulxujlgdcmx4avx7jyn/post/3mae76wbmcs2n

Back in March I got coronavirus and lost my framework laptop. Looking in tailscale the last time I used it was in the house and I didn't remember taking it anywhere else. I'd given up trying to find it, thinking someone must have just walked into the house and taken it or something. Then two days ago I was looking for my son's laptop and my wife found mine. It was on a table downstairs the whole time. For seven months !

Cowboys' DeMarvion Overshown offers sobering reality of injury https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-demarvion-overshown-offers-sobering-reality-injury/d6d9b58d096e3972d4019617…

Shape-Aware Whole-Body Control for Continuum Robots with Application in Endoluminal Surgical Robotics
Mohammadreza Kasaei, Mostafa Ghobadi, Mohsen Khadem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12332

Shape-Aware Whole-Body Control for Continuum Robots with Application in Endoluminal Surgical Robotics
This paper presents a shape-aware whole-body control framework for tendon-driven continuum robots with direct application to endoluminal surgical navigation. Endoluminal procedures, such as bronchoscopy, demand precise and safe navigation through tortuous, patient-specific anatomy where conventional tip-only control often leads to wall contact, tissue trauma, or failure to reach distal targets. To address these challenges, our approach combines a physics-informed backbone model with residual le…

Memory lane.
Many of my generation remember that feeling. When you had to go to school all day, only to come home, open MSN to talk to your friends, use a buzzer to get their attention, open your mailbox to find out there was no email, and share that computer with your whole family. Or when you got your first mobile phone—most likely a Nokia 3310—which you might still have after 20 years, with one block of battery remaining. Remember when you had to ask for directions to a street you’d…

Dank @… grad wieder voll im Hyoerfokus - inkl langen Codingzeiten, vergessen zu trinken, Schlafproblemen, aufgekratzt sein, the whole nine yards. 🤷🏻‍♂️
#adhs #adhd

OneDrive screamed at me for using 98% of my storage and I discovered that 8GB of it is from two screen recordings of playing GTA Online: one that I think I started by accident and another was meant to record a cheater but I simply forgot to stop. Just two whole game sessions.

Freedom can only be the whole of freedom; a piece of freedom is not freedom.
---- - Max Stirner - ----

The whole day so far, after doing some chores around the city, is depressing a few layers high ∑ and a few layers deep ↓
I am somewhere in the middle ∝ and miraculously alright, but I don't like it.

Generation Get To It With Jordan Pickard
Jordan Pickard brings not only his own knowledge and experience of human performance, but a whole range of guests that will ultimately leave you feeling inspired and motivated...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/genera<…

Enjoyed this breakdown from @… of Sektori's development: the whole 4.5 years of game development in .gifs.
https://imgur.com/gallery/sektori-whol

I keep getting ads for “boxing week sale”, and it has real “that person with the whole birthday month” energy.
(For the Americans: Boxing Day is Dec 26, which we get off here in Canada and elsewhere, and it’s known for its retail sales. Boxing Week is insufferable nonsense.)

Sadly, the whole rest of the world also gets what you voted for.
Yay, democracy! @… https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115726775853906216

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

Moral rot within journalism makes it hard for ethical practitioners to do their jobs, as they watch successful people in the field displaying malleable ethics (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-elite-journalism-nuzzi-lizz…

Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.

https://hemaks.org/posts/why-your-obsession-with-code-linting-is-excessive/
Consider these questions when evaluating your linting setup:
- Does this rule prevent actual bugs? If not, consider removing it.
- Would a new team member understand …

So apparently Facebook broke their event calendar in a way I can't see them in my calendar of choice, and I can't subscribe to their iCal calendar manually because of some 'insecure connection' error. Or something.
They just broke one of few legitimately usable features of this whole joke of a platform.
I'm just as pissed as this guy.
https://divine-element.com/facebook-events-not-showing-up-in-calendar/

It’s been a norm for my whole time in tech.
How is it NOT just another day at the job? @… https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115762982979476704

ME: Look at the first 50 lines, important: never read the whole file!
CLAUDE: Read(file.json)
Error: File content (20MB) exceeds maximum allowed size (256KB)
#ai #coding

🏭 UK unveils bid for 2035 women’s football World Cup with 15 cities and 22 stadiums in mix
... my son says they should build the whole facade of that stadium out of brick!
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/

UK unveils bid for 2035 women’s football World Cup with 15 cities and 22 stadiums in mix
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have submitted their bid to host the 2035 Women’s World Cup as the largest single-sport event staged in the UK

Wow, a whole 46 minutes a day saved. Write it in the history books. Call Guinness https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/lloyds_banking_copilot

Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day
: That's 46 minutes in which more work can be done, not an extended lunch

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
AGASSI:
🎵 The Whole Shebang
#NowPlaying #AGASSI
https://agassi.bandcamp.com/track/the-whole-shebang
https://open.spotify.com/track/7hFj9T4Yaohgvm5GTCtYMs

If going along with the fascists stops seeming like the easiest path, then the fascists are done for.
What good does it do to just incessantly annoy the crap out of CBP and ICE and their ilk? My friends, it changes the whole landscape.

That whole story about vega-sausages not being allowed to be called 'sausages' anymore by the EU reminds me of an occasion, some 35 years ago when I just moved to the UK and mused about the dearth of a bread culture in England, upon which a colleague from Yorkshire assured me that there certainly wšs a bread culture in the UK with the unforgettable words "we just call them sausages."
Just as well the UK doesn't have to abide by such EU rules anymore.

Their father, who they thought was human, revealed himself to be a man of the soil once drunk. Crackling browns darkened by wine dribbling down his chin, writhing with small insects and budding flora. They couldn't bear laying eyes on his breath any longer, the flood was all of God's open might they could handle.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
AGASSI:
🎵 The Whole Shebang
#NowPlaying #AGASSI
https://agassi.bandcamp.com/track/the-whole-shebang
https://open.spotify.com/track/7hFj9T4Yaohgvm5GTCtYMs

STM32MP2 bringup progress: I have a "FSBL" (really my whole firmware) image booting from QSPI flash, doing some very low level init, then hanging before it starts the UART.
But it's able to open up debug access without needing ST's wrapper. I hard code a few pointers for SFRs that I don't have structs for but it's enough that I can get gdb attached and the code isn't TOO ugly.
Now I need to figure out why Timer::Sleep() is being derpy in BSP_InitUART…

Sen. Adam Schiff explains why Trump wanted to do his speech & highlights Trump's biggest lies as he watches the whole thing so you don't have to.
▶️ Trump's 18 Worst Lies from his Blundering 18 Minute Speech
https://youtube.com/watch?v=T7Z24OhKETY&si=…

Seriously, though, USians, before you tell someone from the Middle East to “check your privilege”, why don’t you open up your US passport, have a good look at it, and then check your own goddamn privilege before putting your whole foot in your mouth publicly? Maybe also look up intersectionality while you’re at it and realise that it’s not a fucking pissing contest. I’ll take lessons in privilege from you when every last one of you conscientiously objects to bombing the shit out of our side …

In which Nick Radcliffe goes very deep for a month with Claude Code and reports back. I’m convinced by some but not all of what he says, and found the whole thing a stimulating read: https://checkeagle.com/checklists/njr/a-month-of-chat-oriented-programming/…

So we've been using a Neato vacuum robot for years. It works and with cats having the main living areas vacuumed every day was great. Now the company who bought them no longer wants to run the backend cloud service that allows the robot to actually run on a schedule which is the point of the whole operation.
Vorwerk just created a whole lot of e-waste for shits and giggles.

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I has a bed.
No mattress until Monday, but a bed fully stained and varnished and constructed.
Had to wait a couple of days for varnish which never came. Went out to an actual DIY shop in the end. Gonna have a lot of spare varnish soon.
Varnished the whole room with two more coats as well as the bed twice.
A few more things to buy after Xmas and the full media setup can't happen until the new Steam Machine at its heart is released. Maybe cobble together something to plug a laptop into in the meantime? All for next year though once the mattress arrives and I can actually sleep in the bedroom.

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."

On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio.
Three days later, Norfolk Southern pressured local authorities to dump and burn five tanker cars full of chemicals,
blasting a mushroom cloud of toxic phosgene and hydrogen chloride into the air.
Nearly three years later, residents like Jami Wallace and her family are still suffering the toxic fallout

Residents in this small town ‘left for dead’ after industrial disaster
“It's not fair. We're people, our lives matter. My daughter's life matters. And that's what everybody is telling me: ‘You guys are just the cost of doing business. We can kill a whole community and who cares?’”

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