
2025-07-05 06:12:10
Why “Wayfaring Stranger”? Why now?
#BeBetter #CoverSong
https://muz4now.com/2025/why-wayfaring…
Why “Wayfaring Stranger”? Why now?
#BeBetter #CoverSong
https://muz4now.com/2025/why-wayfaring…
Why NFL flag football participation at the 2028 Olympics risks sport's future https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45454287/why-nfl-flag-football-2028-olympics-risks-future
"The world is full of darkness. So much is going wrong. Experts agree that America has succumbed to right-wing authoritarianism; call it fascism or something else, these are extraordinarily difficult times.
This post is a break from all of that. At least kind of.
In this piece, I will try and convince you that Doctor Who is the best TV show ever made, explain to you why it matters, and why it’s particularly important in our current context. In a time when cruelty and fear dominate headlines, it’s worth celebrating a show that insists on the power of kindness, intellect, and hope."
#DoctorWho
https://werd.io/2025/doctor-who-is-the-best-show-ever-made-heres-why
from my link log —
Why do AI company logos look like arseholes?
https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes
saved 2025-04-11
Here's a great short article on the unexpected relationship between #CincodeMayo and democracy in the US:
https://www.the74million.org/article/teach
Cowboy Roundup: Dallas hiring 'strategic' position, Why to love George Pickens https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-hiring-strategic-position-why-to-love-george-pickens
Why Derek Carr retired rather than take the Saints’ $30M https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/why-derek-carr-retired-rather-than-take-the-saints-30m-3381829/
UNDERNEWS: Why Cultural Decline in the U.S. Is a Threat to Democracy
https://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2025/06/why-cultural-decline-in-us-is-threat-to.html
Learn why one camp director quit posting daily photos of campers. Pretty interesting take on things. #SummerCamp #CampLife
O'Reilly: GenAI has adopted a colonialist business model.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timo3_proud-of-the-cloudflare-team-working-to-build-activity-7345899260506271745-mlHS
Why the Texas floods were so severe
Four months of rainfall came down in four hours.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/07/04/texas-flooding-extreme-rains/
"Eventually, I stopped responding to my body. I was responding instead to a dashboard." — @…
This is a great point and very much translates to so many other parts of life/work where people stop listening to their "body" (or to their org/product/offering), outsourcing/numbing/dumbing down their decision making based on dashboards of col…
How did I miss this? Why didn't anyone tell me that #Mongolia's PM resigned? Why isn't this a bigger world story?
https://www.straitstimes.com/asi…
I see no Constitutional reason why SCOTUS is precluded from revisiting a prior decision and amending it.
We issue updates for software, why not for decisions?
Yes, it could lead to uncertainties if used more than rarely.
But imagine if the court could re-open the Dred Scott or Korematsu decisions and change the original?
Git hubs could accommodate this.
Neun sekunden warten und dann gephished werden.
#phishing
Neun sekunden warten und dann gephished werden.
#phishing
Why the Eagles still haven't received their Super Bowl rings with training camp almost here
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-the
‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing | Tesla | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025…
And this, people, is why Europe ABSOLUTELY NEEDS RIGHT FREAKING NOW its own human-graded space access system.
I'll never understand why nobody at #ESA thought of developping further the ATV in order to be also used to send people up instead of just cargo.
I know, the problem was mostly in bringing people down, as the ATV was designed to burn up in the atmosphere. But still. Now we…
I’m very tempted to speculate that this report is banned in corporate C-suite and HR:
Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2022/12/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried
What do you think?🤔
How Vox built a huge YouTube presence, becoming an incubator that invented its own visual language, as ex-staffers like Johnny Harris grow their own channels (Simon Owens/The Long Story with Simon Owens)
https://thelongstory.substack.com/p/why-the-best-jour…
Strategic pain point: why Russia is trying to capture Pokrovsk #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/strategic-pain-point-why-russia.html
Here’s Why Raiders’ Second-Round Pick Jack Bech Remains Unsigned https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/heres-why-jack-bech-remains-unsigned/?adt_ei=[email]
Former Google staffers and others detail why Google's 2013 effort to build Motorola smartphones in Texas failed, as Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the US (Verne Kopytoff/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/05/what-ap
Political alignment correlates with self-reported mental health. I hate this.
I wonder how much of the correlation is actual mental health as opposed to willingness to admit when it’s bad.
(source: https://www.natesilver.net/p/sbsq-21-why-young-men-do…
Why LLM Safety Guardrails Collapse After Fine-tuning: A Similarity Analysis Between Alignment and Fine-tuning Datasets
Lei Hsiung, Tianyu Pang, Yung-Chen Tang, Linyue Song, Tsung-Yi Ho, Pin-Yu Chen, Yaoqing Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05346
Why is it that, about 50% of the time that I see someone park in a disabled bay, they get out their blue badge and stride out from the car?
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“I don’t think there’s anything in principle, that stops machines from being conscious. […] I don’t see why they shouldn’t have emotions. […]
I think they really are thinking. And I think as soon as you make AI agents, they will have concerns.”
A wild interview with Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize winner and “the Godfather of AI”, especially towards the end…
Even if the $180bn claim isn’t bullshit (I’m reasonably confident it’s bullshit), why aren't we acknowledging this makes Musk’s failure rate in government 91%?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg98rl717o
Why are there no #emoji for the solar system's planets?
I was just very disappointed to learn that I can't write: “Musk: 🚀 ➡️ Mars 🪦 🥳”
Why are the program header flags at a different position in 64-bit ELF?!
Like... it makes no sense to me, seems more like an accident. lol
https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/elf/gabi4 /ch5.pheader.html
from my link log —
Don’t use ISO/IEC 14977 Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF).
https://dwheeler.com/essays/dont-use-iso-14977-ebnf.html
saved 2025-05-17
It’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Since this is a grassroots campaign, I want to be transparent with you.
Our fundraising hit an unexpected dip these last few days
– it happens sometimes,
and I don’t want to alarm you!
But I do want to share why this is important.
Unlike most other House campaigns, we operate differently and invest in community organizing year-round and full-time permanent staff.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲…
Why Trump probably can't cut Musk loose (Joshua Keating/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/415780/musk-trump-spacex-nasa-starlink-golden-dome
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p121#a250606p121
Why I Abruptly Stopped Using Ulysses After Twelve Years: https://marginally.ghost.io/why-i-abruptly-stopped-using-ulysses-after-twelve-years/
As of this weekend I have switched away from Ulysses, a writing app I have used for over twelve years.…
Die Erde speichert derzeit mehr als doppelt so viel Wärme, wie #Klimamodelle es erwarten.
Die #Energieungleichgewicht liegt 2023 bei 1,8 W/m² und übersteigt die Prognosen deutlich. Forscher vermuten eine abnehmende
Why having a blog when you can just tell the story around a fireplace when people ask?
"Where Next for Academic Social Media? How Scholars Are Rethinking the Platforms They Use – and Why" @ DeGruyter Conversations
https://blog.degruyter.com/where-next-for-academic-social-media-how-s…
Why there is no Love in black holes
Alexandru Lupsasca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05298 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05298
Why I use #Linux | #NowWatching
Great blog post by @… on the Whatever machine. She talks about why crypto sucks, why LLMs suck, why hyped up clickbait sucks, and why calling writing and art 'content' sucks https://e…
Ex-Saints QB Derek Carr explains why he retired, turning down $30M in guaranteed money
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ex-saints-qb…
Why yes, I am standing in line for the Switch 2 release at “midnight”.
Glad I’m not on the east coast where the sun has actually set already.
I am once again asking GHC devs to make it possible for tooling such as HLint and the Haskell Language Server to compile against multiple versions of GHC.
I realise that this is a gigantic undertaking, but if you're wondering why people don't stick with Haskell, it might be because every compiler version upgrade breaks *everything*.
Nesting focusable elements is problematic. Have you seen any good blogposts, docs, or other #accessibility resources that go into *why* nesting is problematic?
I’m looking for something I could link to in a blogpost of my own, on a somewhat different topic. Preference is for something in-depth, and not marketing slop for a company (especially not for anyone affiliated with an overlay vendo…
In the press release #Resilience mission failed and over: the lander crashed because of insufficient braking which in turn was caused by a problem with the laser altimeter. (This explains why LOS - probably by the impact - came over a minute too early.)
Das Trolley-Problem scheint dir abgehoben und viel zu abstrakt?
Nun, die Ethik hat sich auch schon ausführlich überlegt, wie ein autonomes Auto sich denn in Extrem-Gefahrensituationen verhalten soll¹, und auch das wirkt eher sehr abgehoben und unrealistisch. Was nicht diskutiert wurde, ist die in der Praxis implementierte Lösung: Autopilot schaltet sich Millisekunden vor dem Aufprall aus, um nicht schuld zu sein.²
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A few months ago I notiuced that BBC iPlayer was always starting with the volume set to 7 out of 11 and I wondered why it wouldn't remember my setting.
Today I tried to disable "autoplay next clip" and it informed me that if I wanted to do that I would have to allow functional cookies. I checked and I had only allowed "strictly necessary" cookies. Allowing this also made it remmber the volume.
Quite impressed actually at both the honouring of the setting a…
Why Québec Is Right to Take On Spotify: Cultural Sovereignty in the Age of Algorithmic Homogenization http://musictechpolicy.com/2025/05/26/why-quebec-i…
Steelers signing Aaron Rodgers: Why Pittsburgh is now in position to make first deep playoff run since 2016
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…
Why Missouri Republicans Are Clinging to 'Roe' for Dear Life
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/06/04/why-missouri-republicans-are-clinging-to-roe-for-dear-life/
In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft
Why Norway is investing billions in Ukraine's victory: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/why-norway-is-investing-billions.html
Saquon Barkley Hall of Fame debate: Why early retirement could keep Eagles RB out of Canton
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/saquon-
Trump really seems to prefer misinformation to actual facts. Why else would he have abruptly cancelled thousands of research grants (throwing perhaps 10,000 scientists and their families on the streets).
https://www.
It’s exhilarating to hear Bernie Sanders speak to a crowd:
his zeal is reflected back in their faces,
his moral clarity is such a relief,
set against the cynicism and resignation of most of the Democratic party’s opposition to Trump and his administration.
Class war is as old as time, but it’s a peculiarity of this age that you rarely hear a politician name it.
“I do,” he tells me. “There is a class war going on. The people on top are waging that war.”
…
TIL that Captain Falcon's side special is known in English as Raptor Boost, but in Japanese as Falcon Knuckle. Why didn't the localizers just keep the original name?
Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable Than Ever
https://cekrem.github.io/posts/programming-as-theory-building-naur/
I’m concerned the Overlay Community Group has found a way to normalize overlays by influencing the W3C draft “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/09/accessibility-at-the-edg…
In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft
My neighbors stood up to ICE. What they did next shows why California politics makes no sense (Sara Libby/San Francisco Chronicle)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/ice-immigration-san-diego-20358933.php
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p76#a250605p76
You see, this is why I don't explain #Anarchism through text, but imagery!
Reason #735 why the west coast is the best coast:
Midnight release at 9:01 PM.
from my link log —
Why does Windows use backslash as its path separator?
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-backslash-as-path-separator/
saved 2024-04-25
Why iPhone Safari "Listen to page" is not available on the macOS?
What is the Mac missing to make this feature impossible?
"Why Libraries Should Invest in Visual Design" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/why-librarians-should-invest-in-visual-design
"As libraries face f…
An interview with Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on expediting the movie-making process, copyright cases, why using Runway is like using a camera, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w
Playing the long game: why does Putin need a simulation of peace talks with Ukraine? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/playing-the-long-game-why.html
Why Raiders Rookie Ashton Jeanty Must Ignore the Hype https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-geno-smith-pete-carroll-marshawn-lynch
Why AI Will Never Be Conscious-- Recursive Identity Requires Collapse https://osf.io/fn6cv
Why is this useful? Because if you want to talk to someone about losing their Medicaid, you need to know that 'Apple Health' is what it's called in WA, or 'Green Mountain Care' in Vermont, etc.
An interview with Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on expediting the movie-making process, copyright cases, why using Runway is like using a camera, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w
The Bulwark's top editor shares how the anti-Trump site tripled its subscriber base in a year -- and why it's betting on YouTube (James Faris/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-bulwark-jonathan-last-interview-growth-youtube-cable-msnbc-cnn-2025-7
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p68#a250704p68
Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Recipients Face Surprise Rescissions—Is the SBA Ombudsman Your Next Step?
https://musictechpolicy.com/2025/07/01…
Kristi Noem has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. government deported a cannibal that “ate other people”
and then, while on a flight from the U.S., became so “deranged” that he began to “eat himself.”
Noem first shared the dubious tale late last week during an interview with Fox News’s Jesse Watters.
The Cabinet secretary said that a U.S. marshal “off-handedly” told her about a cannibal on a “planeload of illegals.”
When Noem asked, “What do you mean he was a canniba…
Why film study is so important to young NFL QBs like the Bears' Caleb Williams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45458808/nfl-caleb-williams-bears-quarterback-film-study-ben-johnson
Why I'm calling for an investigation into the Trump Administration (Miles Taylor/TREASON)
https://www.treason.io/p/why-im-calling-for-an-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p39#a250603p39
Major Indian newsrooms aired misinformation during the conflict with Pakistan in May, saying Pakistani cities had been destroyed and airing unrelated visuals (Karishma Mehrotra/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/
If the goal truly is to
“make America healthy,”
why are HHS life-saving programs for babies and young children being eliminated?
Here are just two examples,
of small and inexpensive live-saving programs being cut or gutted.
⭐️At a time when sudden unexpected infant deaths are on the rise,
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has quietly pulled funding for the "Safe to Sleep" campaign,
a program that cut deaths from Sudden Infant Death S…
Photographer and artist Steven Molina Contreras on pacing yourself https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo
Steelers exploring Jonnu Smith trade: Why he'd fit well in Pittsburgh, help the team's Aaron Rodgers pursuit
https://www.cbssports.com/nf…
TACO Tuesday -- and why it bothers Trump (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/03/taco-tuesday-why-it-bothers-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p44#a250603p44
Is Cooper DeJean Eagles' answer at safety? Why CB learning a new position isn't a permanent move
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/is-coop
“Time to drop the really big bomb,” Elon Musk wrote on social media.
Donald Trump, he said, “is in the Epstein files. That is why they have not been made public.”
Musk did not offer any evidence, but soon added,
“The truth will come out.”
https…
Peyton Manning 'fully expects' Bengals QB Joe Burrow to win a Super Bowl, and here's why
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/peyton-
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'Expect him to take a big jump': Why Washington expects a better Jayden Daniels in 2025 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45398033/why-commanders-expect-better-jayden-daniels-2025
Why Jeremiah Trotter's terrifying Jalen Carter revelation for Eagles should put NFC East on notice
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-jer…
Buzz from Jaguars OTAs: Why Travis Etienne may be a sneaky Fantasy Football sleeper in 2025
https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/football
Why Bill Cowher believes Steelers should give Aaron Rodgers full autonomy on offense
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-bill-cowhe…