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Guatemala’s eco defenders reel from surge in killings and persecution
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/guatemalas-eco-defenders-reel-from-surge-in-killings-and-persecution/

Guatemala’s eco defenders reel from surge in killings and persecution
Environmental and territorial defenders in Guatemala face a critical moment as violence targeting them increases across the country. In 2024, at least 20 such defenders were killed for their work, up from four in 2023, according to a report by advocacy NGO Global Witness. The country was second only to Colombia in the number of […]

When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work.
Today we have more information than any civilization in history.
But aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private …

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked

Kamala Harris telling it like it is. Donald Trump clearly doesn’t understand that this is not how civilised people do things. Civilised people arm Israel and let it do their dirty work. Just look at the genocide in Gaza armed and funded so elegantly by the Democrats in their time. Not a single US soldier put in harm’s way and still so effective. Nothing as uncouth as all this.
Screw all these people. How has humanity failed so fundamentally that these fuckers are the only two options a…

'Not enough' work being done in Kyiv as city faces heating emergency, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/not-enough-work-being-done.html

"we need to open our eyes to the fact that the current industry many of us work in, not only doesn’t care about their workers, it actively resents them. In their eyes, we have gone from being the people who made things possible, to an unnecessary burden on the bottom line.
They hate that we charge money for our labor, and see that money as something we are stealing from their pockets."
(Original title: How to grow strawberries)

How to grow strawberries
Feels so good to have a studio again. This week’s question comes to us from Anthea Tawia: I came to San Francisco to visit the company I work for—sadly I was...

Acquired a new phone for work.
Just need to get a new SIM card for it and tell my employer to update phone numbers in their system.
This way, I can have a better separation between work and private (Phone off -> I'm completely unavailable no real work-related apps on my private phone).
Sadly, "right to be unavailable" it's not (yet) in law in The Netherlands.
Luckily, my employment terms does have other clauses that effectively allow me to do this…

Back in September in Anaheim at the House of Blues. Surreal to get to play those songs—I bought the album back in the day!
Let me know if the quote post works... I discovered that for the band's posts to share to fedi, you have to post directly in the Threads app, not share from a different Meta platform. Hopefully now I can share a bit more and Zuck can host heh heh
Yours truly on guitar (R), audio mix and video edit 😁 @…

Maggie Speaks (@maggiespeaksband) on Threads
Hi all! Today for #CelebritySitIn Sunday we're sharing some highlights from a show we did with the Gin Blossoms! In September we had the pleasure of playing the House of Blues in Anaheim with them. Such a pleasure to work with them! #90s #throwback #HeyJealousy #GinBlossoms

FYI: If your #Mastodon #domainverification doesn't work, check if you do have upper case letters in your URL as this won't work as of this #bug report from 2022:

Weekend Reads
* VPN IPv6 leaks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19698
* ACME protocol brief history

Smoothing Rough Edges of IPv6 in VPNs
How do commercial VPNs interact with IPv6? We show two "rough edges" in how commercial VPNs handle IPv6. First, we show that many IPv4-only VPNs leak IPv6 traffic to the ISP. Individual use VPNs in part to conceal their local IP addresses, so such leaks reduce user privacy. While prior work has studied VPNs in testbeds, we use a new dataset of 129k VPN-using daily visitors to WhatIsMyIPAddress.com that quantifies these leaks and show 12 VPNs previously considered safe still leak for at least 5%…

These proposals were common knowledge in Bulgaria. I remember the oldtimers being disgusted how desperately in love was the regime with the Soviets, while the Bulgarian economy had been crashing constantly way into the 1980s (which was a not that common knowledge because it was kept in secret from the population that didn't perish in prisons and work camps). Fully incompetent, servile scum in full power for 45 years straight.
Why did the USSR Refuse to Annex Bulgaria?

On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.”
And
“Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.”
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/pro…

Boris (@bmann.ca)
On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.” And “Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

The 90th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, Graham analyzes how startups could evolve in our world of AI and agents; Adrian ponders whether working as a software engineer in a fast-paced startup is worth the effort; in our Vidéothèque section, we watch "The AI Startup Grift is Getting Worse" on the futureform channel; and in the Library section, we review "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries, and "Founders at Work" by Jessica Livingston.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUNFbR2AbG9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

VT on Instagram: "In Japan, a new kind of bar is drawing attention for flipping workplace culture on its head. The bar is designed specifically for people who are considering leaving their jobs. Drinks are free, and the focus is not on alcohol sales but conversation. Patrons are invited to talk openly about burnout, frustration, and career doubts, while staff are trained to listen without judgement or pressure. The idea taps into a growing reckoning in Japan around long working hours, rigid hierarchies, and the mental health toll of intense job expectations. Conversations about quitting or dissatisfaction have traditionally been stigmatised, making this kind of space unusual. By removing the cost barrier and offering a supportive environment, the bar aims to normalise discussions about career dissatisfaction and help people reflect on what they actually want from work, even if that means starting over."
34K likes, 169 comments - vt on January 31, 2026: "In Japan, a new kind of bar is drawing attention for flipping workplace culture on its head. The bar is designed specifically for people who are considering leaving their jobs. Drinks are free, and the focus is not on alcohol sales but conversation. Patrons are invited to talk openly about burnout, frustration, and career doubts, while staff are trained to listen without judgement or pressure. The idea taps into a growing reckoning in Japan a…

Somebody with an old Samsung Tab 2 (gt-5110)? What to do with it in 2026?
I've tried to install #customRom but it didn't work...
https://xdaforums.com/t/gt-5110-which-odi…

It’s kind of odd that I can decide who can quote my posts but I can’t decide who can reply to it.
I know the Mastodon peeps are working on this feature and I hope it makes it in soon! (Thanks for the hard work!)

Sickly Red ⭕️
病态的红 ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ CineStill 800T
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

[Thread] In an AMA, Sam Altman says DOD blacklisting Anthropic sets an "extremely scary precedent", OpenAI rushed its deal to "de-escalate things", and more (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2027900042720498089

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.

Very good talk at #fosdem by @…
We (open-source developers) are now in a position to decide. If you work in an organization that decides to change direction, this matters to you and your open source project.
This is why …

Ha vuelto a salir la noticia de poner en órbita centros de datos porque (inserte aquí motivaciones en forma de humo muy denso con el único fin de obtener pasta de inversores y atención medištica de gente que no tiene ni puñetera idea de las implicaciones técnica y ambientales que tendría) y no he podido mšs que acordarme de este artículo que explica muy bien, por qué es una nefasta idea

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

I am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

Just ran a successful non-interactive build and test cycle of ngscopeclient in a Debian VM with a PCIe passthrough GPU.
Just start the VM from the snapshot, paste a handful of shell commands into a SSH session, and I get this.
Still need to work out how to actually spawn the VM, specify the hash I want to build, shut it down and revert when done, etc.
Took only three and a half minutes on this instance (16GB RAM, 16 vCPU, GTX 1630) which is pretty decent considering there w…

🫦 Researchers pioneer pathway to mechanical intelligence by breaking symmetry in soft composite materials
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-pathway-mechanical-intelligence-symmetry-soft.html

Researchers pioneer pathway to mechanical intelligence by breaking symmetry in soft composite materials
A research team has developed soft composite systems with highly programmable, asymmetric mechanical responses. By integrating "shear-jamming transitions" into compliant polymeric solids, this innovative work enhances key material functionalities essential for engineering mechano-intelligent systems—a major step toward the development of next-generation smart materials and devices.

So... stupid question, but given these days it's almost impossible to buy a smartphone with a headphone jack, it seems everyone's expected to use bluetooth headphones. Yet... all bluetooth headphones I've ever tried have a very noticeable delay. This obviously doesn't matter for audio only content, but... pretty much means watching video with headphones when you expect audio video to be in sync does not work. Is that... to be expected?...

As measles spreads in South Carolina, RFK Jr’s allies work to gut vaccine laws | South Carolina | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/02/measles-south-carolina-rfk-jr-vaccine-laws

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: They will have no other choice.
FARREN: In which case, they may escape or more probably they will be destroyed. Either way, the Federation need never know that you're here on the station. You can work here in peace and safety. [Waits] Well? What do you say?
https://blake.torpidity.net…

Feb 5 - Kurtis Schaeffer on How to Live in Hard Times: Examples from Buddhist Lives
https://ift.tt/XYfzisG
Member book announcement: Slaymaker, _Wild Lines and Poetic Travels, a Keijiro Suga Reader_ …
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As measles spreads in South Carolina, RFK Jr's allies work to gut vaccine laws (Michelle R Smith/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/02/measles-south-carolina-rfk-jr-vaccine-laws
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p69#a260302p69

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/115995187467947699
Ten years ago I was trying really hard to launch a startup in the aerospace industry and this is one of the ideas we considered. The reason why this can’t work is heat, which is produced by computers th…

Wishing everyone here a happy new year. 2025 was a rough year for me, with #LongCovid but I also had a lot of positive things happen. Going back to work fulltime, improved health, and finishing my first half marathon to name a few.
Lastly, I had some friends and former colleagues pass away from other various health issues, struggles with mental health, and one amazing human who was t…

After fifteen months of hacking since our last post on the Hurd, we now present the 64-bit Hurd on Guix. Read all about it in this new post:
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/the-64-bit-hurd
[Much of] This work was sponsored by NLnet -- thank you!

Hall of Fame Cowboys QB Troy Aikman Takes on New Role in AFC East https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/troy-aikman-advisory-role-dolphins/

Measles outbreaks could cost the U.S. over a $1 billion a year, if vaccine rates decline https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/measles-cost-vaccine-rates-decline-billion-year-forecast-rcna260734

Measles outbreaks could cost the U.S. over a $1 billion a year, if vaccine rates decline
In 2026, there have been over 1,000 cases of measles. If vaccination rates keep dropping, the costs of medical care, public health efforts and lost work productivity could skyrocket.

Hansen’s disease (leprosy)
is treatable today in large part because of the work of Alice Ball,
a 23-year-old chemist whose breakthrough turned a toxic folk remedy into the world’s first effective treatment.

A young Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s − but an older colleague took the credit
Historians are working to shine a light on Alice Ball’s legacy and contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease.

@… I have Linux Mint as my primary OS, with Windows 11 running in a VM (VMware Workstation Pro). My laptop has 32 mb of RAM; I allocate 16 to the VM. Works fine, except that WIndows 11 is a bit slow. If I cared, I could increase the RAM allocated to the VM, because Linux doesn't use all that much.
Other VMs work fine, too. I just settled on VM…

@… I’m conflicted.
Today my wife took our son out skiing, they’ll be away overnight. Since I’m alone at home, I took a day off work to have my first real “me day” in years.
At first glance, not a bad day to relive! Low stress, no outwards commitments, awesome!
After a few cycles though, I think I would be sad that my family leaves me every morning at 6 AM…

First day back at work and the problem today had me scratching my head at the end of last year was solved in a few hours. I guess it's good to come at things with a fresh head. And it's the weekend next - bonus 😎🖥️

@… similarly boring, in a pleasant silent Sunday way:
– using pkgbase with FreeBSD 14 to work around a bug involving freebsd-update, which is not yet compatible with base packages.
Using pkgbase to put things right is the natural thing to do, when someone demands abandonment of pkgbase 😺
📦

#Sky's scaremongering is not going to work.
They simply need to drop the pricing (€52 a month on their 'Sky Signature' aka. Entertainment package €40 a month on Sky Sports)
And abolish the Saturday 3PM bollocks (in Ireland anyway) for Premier League games, and maybe people will pay for it then.
The wording on this is just laughable.
'Dodgy boxes' are not i…

There is a follow-up for the famous METR study and like wow
(…) we believe that the data from our new experiment gives us an unreliable signal of the current productivity effect of AI tools. The primary reason is that we have observed a significant increase in developers choosing not to participate in the study because they do not wish to work without AI, which likely biases downwards our estimate of AI-assisted speedup.

We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design

If only I had known this earlier, I might have been more enthusiastic about GenAI. 🫣
"Microsoft is paying influencers to say Copilot isn’t awful garbage that makes work miserable by, e.g., “posting an Instagram video about fun things to do with Microsoft Copilot.” [CNBC]
Microsoft and Google are spending $400,000–$600,000 per influencer."

Usman Khawaja will go down as one of my all time favourite Australian cricketers. Funny, kind and steadfast. #cricket
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-02/usm

Usman Khawaja did it all his own way and retires a modern day Australian cricket great
Before his debut in 2011, Australia had never seen a cricketer like Usman Khawaja and, thanks to his work on and off the field, he'll be followed by plenty more.

Along those lines, I'm gonna take my own advice and work on some writing. Just finished sewing my pants, gonna switch to writing after kids are in bed tomorrow.
I've been in a writing group and I got some great feedback on a couple of things I wrote. I'll probably re-publish with updates soon. Also gonna try to finish another project I've had in my head for a bit, we'll see how it goes.
Good luck to everyone, see you all when I'm done.

Blocking the work of MSF is absolutely depraved. Israel continues to fumble its way out of the community of civilized nations.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93…

Israel to halt operations of several humanitarian groups in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday that the organizations that will be banned on Jan. 1 did not meet its new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF by its French acronym, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with H…

Solar panels and crops growing together? It's called agrivoltaics, and it just got a major boost.
DC-based Okovate acquired startup Fundusol to integrate Stanford & Carnegie Mellon tech that optimizes solar arrays for different crops using genetic algorithms. The goal: make solar farming economically viable for rural communities across the US.

Agrivoltaic Company Okovate Acquires Stanford University & Carnegie Mellon Tech Startup - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Agrivoltaics have been the name of the game in the past few years in the solar power industry. On the surface, it seems simple — find farmland that could benefit from co-location with solar power plants, and then plop some ... [continued]

Simplified slstatus to what I actually use. Keybinds for applications back from sxhkd into config.def.h. Keys good again, VoidLinux updated. Thanks to the collective hangover after Tet I could do all this at work. Productive (finally) 😜
#archlabs #dwm

They are doing their best to piss me off. I have location turned off. They don't need to know in any way where I am working from
Creating a new document and this popped up.
Get out of my way and let me work without the BS.

Day spent prepping surfaces and hammering in insulation. Doesn't look like much, but it's fiddly work that takes time. The end is perilously nigh.
Then I have to actually DO something with the space 😱

When talking about Anthropic and them not being as spineless as OpenAI don't believe that it comes from a desire to not work for fascist murderers. They believe that they have found god in reddit posts and don't want to make him feel sad. Their beliefs are deeply inhumane.

Alabama-based Linq, which pivoted to programmatic messaging APIs in February 2025, raised a $20M Series A to build AI assistants that work within messaging apps (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/linq-raises-20m-to…

Linq raises $20M to enable AI assistants to live within messaging apps | TechCrunch
Linq offers an API that lets companies offer their AI assistants via iMessage, RCS and SMS.

Ooh oooooo! So close, and yet nada. Booted out at the last second. BUT, I feel like i am on the cusp of making this work...
PS C:\Users\user> ssh user1@10.64.34.200
Use the password for your Office 365 or Microsoft online login.
(user1@10.64.34.200) Entra Id Password:
Open your Authenticator app, and enter the number '60' to sign in.
No push? Check your mobile device's internet connection.
Connection closed by 10.64.34.200 port 22
PS C:…

Can you do a favor for my friend @…? He was already having a lousy enough week with his car and his city falling apart when state troopers arrested his wife @… for protesting against the murder of Alex Pretti. (Arrested for what? AFAICT, they were just looking to make an example of some protestors. Just good old harassment via the legal system.)
Now the family has lost work and impending legal bills on top of that new transmission. I’m sure they’d appreciate it if you can chip in a few bucks:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-miriam-recover-from-legal-fees-and-lost-work

Had to bring back the 16th note run in measures 4 and 5 because it just didn't sound right with the song. Experimented with the tab to try and make it somewhat playable with my hands, think it should work. Also need to get the rest of the song "charted" out and playable so I can tweak it as this originally wasn't a "bass guitar" piece...lol
#music

Not In Print: Playwrights Off Script - On Inspiration, Process And Theatre Itself
We're talking to Australian playwrights about their work, getting insights straight from the source...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/not-in-print/

EAG-PT: Emission-Aware Gaussians and Path Tracing for Indoor Scene Reconstruction and Editing
Xijie Yang, Mulin Yu, Changjian Jiang, Kerui Ren, Tao Lu, Jiangmiao Pang, Dahua Lin, Bo Dai, Linning Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23065 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.23065 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.23065
arXiv:2601.23065v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent reconstruction methods based on radiance field such as NeRF and 3DGS reproduce indoor scenes with high visual fidelity, but break down under scene editing due to baked illumination and the lack of explicit light transport. In contrast, physically based inverse rendering relies on mesh representations and path tracing, which enforce correct light transport but place strong requirements on geometric fidelity, becoming a practical bottleneck for real indoor scenes. In this work, we propose Emission-Aware Gaussians and Path Tracing (EAG-PT), aiming for physically based light transport with a unified 2D Gaussian representation. Our design is based on three cores: (1) using 2D Gaussians as a unified scene representation and transport-friendly geometry proxy that avoids reconstructed mesh, (2) explicitly separating emissive and non-emissive components during reconstruction for further scene editing, and (3) decoupling reconstruction from final rendering by using efficient single-bounce optimization and high-quality multi-bounce path tracing after scene editing. Experiments on synthetic and real indoor scenes show that EAG-PT produces more natural and physically consistent renders after editing than radiant scene reconstructions, while preserving finer geometric detail and avoiding mesh-induced artifacts compared to mesh-based inverse path tracing. These results suggest promising directions for future use in interior design, XR content creation, and embodied AI.
toXiv_bot_toot

What a paragraph. From
https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

I hate to state the obvious, but your biggest advantage in the current job market is showing up and being human, imperfections and all.
Your goal is to connect with the human(s) on the other side.
If you're trying to game the system by regurgitating ChatGPT responses as your own, you've already surrendered your edge.

A.I. Is Causing Meltdowns in American Offices. It’s Only Getting Worse.
A.I. and ChatGPT were supposed to revolutionize work. They’re only creating chaos.

"Phrack article from 2002" o.O
lots of work to do in #FreeBSD 🧐
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-escaping-containment-a-security-analysis-of-free…

Donald Trump won AZ-06 by less than one point in 2024
– and I need your help to flip this seat blue.
It’s Jo Mendoza reaching out.
I know polling can be confusing. Everyone wants to convince you that their race is the most important for you to support,
and it can be hard to figure out which are actually the most critical.
So let’s talk about what the data says about my race:
There’s only been one poll so far, but it shows me beating my MAGA opponent by onl…

Mendoza for Congress
Join Mendoza for Congress in building a stronger Arizona. Dedicated to honest leadership, hard work, and community-first solutions, Joanna Mendoza is fighting for veterans, working families, and a brighter future. Learn more about her vision for Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District.

Here's what bothers me about AI-generated code, and I'm going to use my own fuck-up as an example. I was calling a DBus interface from C , which I'd already done elsewhere in the code. So I cut & pasted, and adjusted variable names.. It didn't work. So naturally I assumed something was wrong on the other end. I added delays to make sure the other side had enough time to bring up interfaces, I wrote some introspection code to ensure the interface was available, etc.

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: The human brain.
ORAC: Correct.
CALLY: A telepathic order was beamed to Blake to force him to reroute to that asteroid.
ORAC: As you yourself foresaw.
AVON: So tell us something new.

Ukraine should just create 52 “Great World Peace Prize Of The Week Winner” trophies (and certificates) and promote one Ukrainian delegate at the White House to award one every week to Trump in a nice ceremony.
By all I can see from current events this should totally work.
#Trump #Ukraine…

AI in everything, and the cracks are showing more and more. The copy-editing process is totally broken right now, in top-tier publishers. IT DOESN'T WORK

Renewed work toward a visual prosthesis (brain implant) in the #LGN instead of visual cortex https://nin.nl/news/first-ever-recording-of-a-crucial-visual-structure-in-the…

Tomorrow, I plan to operate in the North Carolina QSO Party CW. I can't imagine going from 10AM to 8PM US/Eastern; I don't have that kind of Morse stamina. My initial plan was single-operator home, but I might decide the weather is too enticing to work from indoors, and go out into the field.
Maybe I should have planned ahead a bit more.
My club,

Cowboys Hall of Fame icon set to help fix Dolphins' front office https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/01/cowboys-hof-qb-troy-aikman-to-work-with-dolphins-front-office/87…

The US' high-speed internet rollout means drillers, linemen, and splicers pull in soaring pay nationwide amid a labor shortage for the physically demanding work (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

dasBlog is now on .NET 10! It turned into the largest release I’ve shipped. Copilot in Visual Studio made space for work that would have been out of reach otherwise. The whole effort became exactly the kind of learning moment I need as we shape the tools for the future we’re aiming toward.
https://git…

RE: https://mas.to/@Canadian_Eh/115993376621520335
it was originally Oak, and I toyed with it a bit as it was an advance over Eric's Inheritance Thing, a suite of C macros a collegue had developed at Cognos after we'd hit the limits of Eiffel. This was a good move as I was approached in 1995 with headhunters hoping for five years Java experience and lo, thanks to Oak, I had that!
Trouble was, I'd never work for anyone with an HR dept who would ask such a stupid uninformed requirement.

Does anyone know of a good CD replication service in the UK or Europe? A German artist is publishing a monograph and wants our joint audio work included as CD in a sleeve within the book. We won’t need jewel cases then - just good quality CDs replicated (with images on them) to go in the monograph’s sleeve.
Thank you for any help! It’s all new to me (if there’s been physicals the label always handles it), and the artist would rather I ask people that are likely to know rather than haph…

Even forgotten, good work lasts forever
“Creating, yet not possessing, Working, yet not taking credit.
Work is done, then forgotten. Therefore it lasts forever.” Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching verse 2 https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NewMusicShow
- Can you hear me now?
Experimental music including Ruth Morley's Reef, Karen Power's Can you hear me now? and a work for worldless chorus written in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qgzg

Hummm.
So I was thinking about how with a couple of caster-boards and straps, the bed could be upturned and stowed in the studio. Probably? I should have figured for a fold-away really.
Still. Could work...
Then, without a bed in there, the place could turn into a dining room.
I was thinking about a shape of a table for a dinner party in there.
Oh my god.
This semi-circle table curve of wood and attachable table-legs and fold-able stools might just fit, like, under the bed normally?
Looks perfect for a card-game or a Dungeon Master setup.
Could that table and it's legs and it's chairs all fit under the bed? Probably not at it's current height. But I want to raise it a bit anyway.
🤔
Oh my god, look at this though. The projector is pointed at the wall behind the throne surrounded by the seats for the council of seven.
This could be built.
Not right away, but eventually?

Withering Heights 🫥
消失的巨人 🫥
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

at least back in the day you had to work hard to establish yourself as defense contractor
now you can fire up polymarket and experience fully automated luxury war profiteering

After Missouri residents voted to repeal their state’s near-total abortion ban
and enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution,
Conservative advocates quickly got to work.
In a lawsuit filed the day after the 2024 election,
abortion providers challenged not only the constitutionality of the state’s ban,
⚠️but also a slew of other restrictions that, they said,
made their jobs so arduous as to be impossible.
More than a year later, they are…

ngscopeclient v0.1.1 is out! This is the last release in the v0.1.x series and we'll now be starting a lot of major refactoring and backend work in preparation for v0.2.
https://www.ngscopeclient.org/news/2025-12-31-v0p1p1-release.html

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

Wonder why anyone in Aotearoa NZ is celebrating RocketLab's US launch in aid of the US military. For his own gain and glory, Peter Beck (I don't see justification for his honourific) betrayed the trust of the kaumātua of Mahia Peninsula and sold us all out to perhaps the least honourable country in the world these days. Here's the story if you haven't already seen it:

Israel bans 25 humanitarian aid groups from working in Gaza | The National
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25730978.israel-suspend-work-several-humanitarian-organisations-gaza/

Yo creo que es imposible tener un mínimo conocimiento de lo que supone la investigación y exploración espacial y posicionarse a favor de la mamarrachada de los centros de datos en el espacio. https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea<…

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.

Feb 5 - Kurtis Schaeffer on How to Live in Hard Times: Examples from Buddhist Lives
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Member book announcement: Slaymaker, _Wild Lines and Poetic Travels, a Keijiro Suga Reader_ …
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Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that 👉 prohibits anyone based in China and "other adversarial countries" from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing systems.
The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law,
was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service the
Defense Department’s computer systems for nearly a decade
— a practice that left s…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

AI coding agents are fueling productivity panic among executives and engineers, as a UCB study finds those offloading work to AI are also working longer hours (Issie Lapowsky/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Currently trying to make my wife’s iMac work again by doing a DFU revive
Modern Macs remind me of brittle CONFIG.SYS edits in the early 90s

Credo just dropped its 2025 ESG report, and it's all about making AI infrastructure greener.
The connectivity tech company is tackling one of AI's biggest challenges: massive energy consumption in data centers. Their solution? High-speed connectivity hardware designed for lower power use and reduced waste.
Beyond products, they're investing in education, health, and local communities.

Credo Releases 2025 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. San Jose, California — Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (Credo) (NASDAQ: CRDO), an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved reliability and energy efficiency, has released its 2025 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report. The report outlines ... [continued]

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

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Anthropic says it'll challenge "any supply chain risk designation in court" and that the designation would only affect contractors' use of Claude on DOD work (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers

"What's been happening in Minneapolis has been so egregious and awful and so destructive to our community,"
shop owner Gilah Mashaal said of federal agents' use of aggressive tactics.
It was obvious to her and Neary how the shop would protest.
They pulled out their knitting needles and got to work.
Neary created the pattern that has now become the well-known
"Melt the ICE" hat,
a red beanie-shaped cap topped with a braided tassel.…

-- Jared Sullivan:
I scoop ice cream to pay my bills while running for the United States Senate.
That should not be rare.
In a country divided on almost everything, one view cuts across party lines:
working-class Americans are fed up with a political system that does not understand their lives.
They are right. Today, fewer than three percent of members of Congress come from the manual labor and service jobs that most Americans work,
a disparity documente…

Google updates Gemini in Chrome with a new side panel, an auto browse feature that can navigate pages and take actions for AI Pro and AI Ultra users, and more (Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/google-chrome-auto-browse/

Your Google Chrome browser just got a useful autopilot feature - here's how it works
Google's new Auto Browse feature aims to handle your digital chores by taking actions on your behalf.

The moment that will stick with me the most
—the video that still gives me chills
—came during an otherwise unremarkable baseball day early in the summer.
It was June 14, and the pop artist #Nezza was getting ready to sing the national anthem at Dodger Stadium.
A week earlier, ICE and DHS agents had descended en masse on Los Angeles work sites,
grabbing immigrants and U.S. citiz…

Defiance in a Time of Cowardice
She sang the national anthem in Spanish as deportation forces assaulted L.A. Now she’s headed to Sundance.

I – somewhat implausibly – got lucky enough to start the exact job I had dreamed of for the last 5 years this year.
I’ve opened my own research group at the #Umeå Plant Science Center, and get to dig into the cell #biology of #wood

Postdoctoral researcher in wood formation | slu.se
SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life