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There’s life beyond VSCode… thought I’d share my dev setup:
• Main monitor: WezTerm¹ running in a three (sometimes four)-way split with Helix Editor² as my main editor, a terminal pane for general commands while working, and Yazi³ usually running in another for working with files/directories in a project.

• Other monitor: Sublime Merge⁴ always running full-screen so I can immediately see exactly what I’ve changed (in real time) as I’m working.
Others (not shown): Br…

Q&A with Fidji Simo on ChatGPT ads, OpenAI's efforts to ship a new model soon to end Sam Altman's Code Red, Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Sora, Jony Ive, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/openais-fidji-simo-on-ads-in-chatgpt

OpenAI's Fidji Simo on ads in ChatGPT and ending the Code Red
How ads in ChatGPT will work, what will end the Code Red, those Anthropic attack ads, working with Sam Altman, and much more…

"Seagrass restoration in Malaysia finds multi-species approach boosts recovery"
#Malaysia #Environment

Seagrass restoration in Malaysia finds multi-species approach boosts recovery
In the shallow waters off Johor Bahru’s rapidly urbanizing shoreline in Peninsular Malaysia, a busy assemblage of crabs, marine worms and mollusks are a sign of recovery. Just over a decade ago, the wafting seagrass meadow they now inhabit had been laid waste by development. In 2014, dredgers working on a massive land reclamation project […]

After many years as a staunch fence-sitter/political neutral, I voted in two previous political leadership races. The first was the 2020 Green leadership race. I was excited to support a candidate, and was then horrified to find out he was a Russian propagandist claiming to be a ‘anti-imperialist’. You can figure out who that is on your own lol. Have fun :)
The second leadership race I participated in was the BC NDP race that pitted David Eby against Anjali Appadurai.
She was treated horribly, and I would say with fear, by the BC NDP leadership. She could have been a sea change in real social progressive leadership in BC and Canada but was pushed out.
She's working for Avi Lewis’ campaign.

And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)

First stage of the STEP Fusion plant build consultation in the planning process they're intending to get it running in the 2040's; This is an old Coal power station site in West Burton they're reusing:
(I expect others to have got fusion working first, but still promising)
https://stepfusion.com/consultation/

STEP Fusion - Consultation
STEP Fusion’s first stage of public consultation runs from 14 January through to 11 March 2026

To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as "man camps".
This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.
For example, as a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas is converted into a 1.6 gigawatt data center, Bloomberg reports its workers are living in gray housing units with access to a gym, a laundromat, g…

Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps | TechCrunch
AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.

#Aphantasia and visual working memory: No direct evidence of impaired visual working memory in aphantasics, either in behavioral performance or the accuracy of a multivoxel pattern classifier https://www.sciencedi…

Am Rosenmontag ab 18 Uhr startet im Gasthof in der Heide in Saal an der Donau eine Veranstaltung der (ursprünglich) AfD, die jetzt nominell zu einer privaten Veranstaltung umgewandelt wurde, aber inhaltlich eben eine rechtsmotivierte Veranstaltung bleibt.
Meine Frau und ich wollen uns aber auch dagegen positionieren und daher melde ich morgen eine Demo an.
„Saal ist bunt, nicht braun“ ist der working title.

Man, nerves are just shot in Minneapolis right now. Everyone is on edge and frayed. Sightings are flying, rumors are flying, facts are flying. Feels like things are teetering. Everyone is working so hard to hold the community together, but I’m really worried that something is going to break.
1/

Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of #CSS:
https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes

When the working class organizes on the basis of solidarity and direct action, workers and communities can collectively manage and control the means of production, while federations of workers and local communities coordinate production and social life through mutual aid and federalist principles, without bosses or the state.
In an era marked by automation, precarity, and deepening inequality, the struggle for workers’ self-management, economic democracy, and social liberation remains …

A look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-

Global AI Adoption in 2025 – AI Economy Institute | Microsoft
Global adoption of AI continued to rise in the second half of 2025 as the digital divide between the Global South and Global North widens.

"The Rise of the Voluntariat" by Geoff Shullenberger (found via D. Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs").
"""
The voluntariat performs skilled work that might still command a wage without compensation, allegedly for the sake of the public good, regardless of the fact that it also contributes directly and unambiguously to the profitability of a corporation. Like the proletariat, then, the voluntariat permits the extraction of surplus value through its labor.
But unlike the proletariat’s labor, the voluntariat’s has become untethered from wages. The voluntariat’s labor is every bit as alienable as the proletariat’s — Coursera’s Translator Contract leaves no doubt about that — but it must be experienced by the voluntariat as a spontaneous, non-alienated gift.
And the voluntariat is not, like the proletariat, the instrument of its own dispossession. Rather, its contribution of uncompensated work accelerates deskilling and undermines the livelihood of those who do not have the luxury of working for free — in this case, professional translators who cannot afford to give away their labor.
"""
#AntiCapitalism

Interesting observation from today (a beautiful, cloudless day): We got *less* solar power than a few days ago, when it was partly cloudy. Significantly less, by almost a factor of two vs the previous peak (and closer to what we got on fairly rainy days).
My working hypothesis at this point: the sun is low in the sky because it's winter, and spends a significant fraction of its time partly occluded by trees.
On a cloudy day, shading isn't really a thing because you have t…

The same receptionist in my office building that nagged me today about leaving my computer (that I dial into remotely when working from home) on when I'm not in the office, just asked me to leave the front door of the building wide open because she's too warm.

“The DOJ is giving Congress just four computers in a satellite office to read the unredacted Epstein File of more than 3 million documents. Working 40 hours a week on nothing else but this, it would take more than seven years for the 217 Members who signed the House discharge petition to read just the documents they’ve decided to release (and there are 3 million still being withheld)."
‘A Bunch Of Sick Fucks’: Lawmakers Review Unredacted Epstein Files
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/a-bunch-of-sick-fucks-lawmakers-review

Therapy Dogs Australia Podcast
For anyone working or interested in animal-assisted services, particularly with therapy dogs, this is the podcast for you...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/therapy-dogs-australia/ …

Travis Kelce, Chiefs working to finalize 1-year deal worth up to $15 million: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6951456/2026/03/09/chiefs-travis-kelce-returning-2026/

Easily the most frustrating thing about moving into a technical architect role mid career is that I'm absolutely hopeless at diagrams. I've been a remote, disabled worker for more than a decade, I can't draw digitally and there is nobody to whiteboard for. Even when my body still worked I drew at a standard that introduced uncertainty to circuit diagrams. It's a necessary skill and I'm working on it but it's a painful gap in the toolbox and will be for quite some time.

It's finally Friday, so before you stop working for the week, check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Trump cuts off US access to organizations seeking to strengthen cybersecurity,
--Prisoner swap sends alleged ransomware payment negotiator back to Russia,
--CISA retires ten emergency directives at once,
--Cambodian cybercrime kingpin extradited to China,
--Fugitive wanted for Desjardins br…

Trump ends US participation in organizations devoted to stronger cybersecurity
Prisoner swap sends alleged ransomware payment negotiator back to Russia, CISA retires ten emergency directives at once, Cambodian cybercrime kingpin extradited to China, Fugitive wanted for Desjardins breach arrested in Spain, Trans activists hacked Free Speech Union, much more

I'm ever so slowly working my way through some thoughts on the relationship between art and human society and evolution. Without succumbing to instrumentalism, I have come to see the capacity to create and enjoy art perhaps one of the defining essenses of being human.
In brief, art enables us to imagine the impossible—or, perhaps, our ability to imagine the impossible is first expressed through art—and thus enables innovation and change at both an individual and societal level. Als…

@… When I worked in corporate IT, we had some of these. Tiny little USB dongle, like the wireless receiver for a mouse, that makes the cursor wiggle just slightly.
We used them as a way to ensure employee’s laptops wouldn’t lock while we were working on them at the helpdesk, so we wouldn’t need to unlock them.

How many think the following just might be a bad .
Passed Dev unit tests. In client UA. Prepare for a code release into production in five weeks. I just finished the draft release document.
Now they want a new table, changes to the structures of multiple tables, screen changes and possible new screens along with changes to programs and SPUFIs. That is on top of working on the coding for June.
Fortunately I was attending via a teams call and on mute and not physically p…

TFW you notice that your Synology-local-backup to cloud-backup hasn't been working since you moved in October 2024 because you’d stupidly hardwired the Synology DNS to the former residence’s now-wrong 192.168. Would have been sad if the house burned down. Would have been nice if the Synology had complained.
Discovered this in the course of a search for a non-US (ideally Canadian) Synology-friendly cloud backup. Promising: eazyBackup and ionos.ca HiDrive.

ok, so I set out to fix a small bug in roundl for 80-bit x86 floats. The final tally is four toolchain bugs (two already mentioned here, one bitfield bug on arc and a clang crash on arm because it didn't like the way I wrote a function), transitioning to a new Zephyr SDK and new Arm Toolchain for Embedded compilers. Thirty commits later, I've managed to get things working again. Phew.

Today in bad tech journalism: "AI agents" generating a C compiler.
They didn't though. They created a piece of it that didn't work properly (because LLMs are trained on a lot of C compiler code).
(Original title: Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler)

Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler
The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.

The 3,000-Person Team Working in Secret to Create Disney Magic - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/business/media/disney-cruise-rides-characters-imagineers-adventure-b5c03c1d?st=DLT4RK&reflink=desktopwebshare…

Boys will be boys
https://bsky.app/profile/ryanhatesthis.bsky.social/post/3megv7ri2ba25

Ryan Broderick (@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social)
So this is news to me. In the lead up to the 2018 Brazilian election, Jair Bolsonaro claimed he was not working with Steve Bannon. It turns out he was working with both Bannon AND Jeffrey Epstein.

76% of civil society organizations in Ukraine continue working despite resource shortages, new study finds: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/07/of-civil-society-organizations-in.html

Happy #FreeCADFriday! This week I've been working on re-modelling the case for the Morserino M32 Pocket. At least four different people had worked on the case. It was initially made in FreeCAD, but then was modified with other software, and the current case that QRP Labs is shipping was edited in s…

Time to move the Starlink terminal and edge router over to the inverter so I can spend the rest of the daylight working on the electrical panel in the stables! Woohoo?

USA Today's US digital-only paid subscriptions in Q4 fell 30% YoY but digital revenue in 2025 was flat at $1.1B; CEO Mike Reed expects more AI deals in 2026 (Bron Maher/A Media Operator)
https://www.amediaoperator.com/news/usa-to

USA Today CEO Says Higher Pricing Strategy Working, Micropayments Showing ‘Interesting’ Results
USA Today Co.’s push to get readers paying higher prices for journalism is working and despite a nearly one-third drop in its…

Vasilena (fonhea) Georgieva | Original editorial and merchandise design :: Behance
Follow Vasilena here: @…
https://www.behance.net/fonhea/

Vasilena (fonhea) Georgieva - Editorial, graphic design, illustration in Bulgaria
Book cover designer, graphic designer, illustrator. I have completed my design education in Alois Senefelder Munich and have a lot of expereince working in the creative field. See other illustration and design portfolio work on the link above.

How Ukraine is working to make drones with as few Chinese components as possible, prioritizing self-sufficiency in producing a crucial battlefield weapon (Maria Varenikova/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/world/europe/ukraine-drones-china.html

Ukraine Can Now Manufacture ‘China-Free’ Drones
The country has prioritized self-sufficiency in producing a crucial battlefield weapon, though weaning itself fully off cheaper Chinese components is difficult.

None of your business, Clippy.

In the context of visual prostheses for the blind, more scientists should be working on "mental imagery engineering" to nudge the human brain toward making the best of degraded or transformed visual input https://www.google.com/search?q="mental imagery engineering"

Anthropic debuts a Code Review feature for Claude Code, which uses agents working in teams to check pull requests for bugs, available in research preview (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-code-review-ai-agents-pull-request-bug-d…

This new Claude Code Review tool uses AI agents to check your pull requests for bugs - here's how
Each pull request can cost up to $25. Here's why companies might still pay to prevent catastrophic bugs.

I've been trying to figure out how to link to #Apple iOS Today list in Reminders.
There is no official information on this.
There are a few SO /SE posts about sometimes working, mostly not, old URLs

In the opening days of the war with Iran, missile strikes have already killed civilians, including scores of schoolchildren.

Blueprint Stalled: The Pentagon had been working on a plan to avoid civilian deaths.
It was heading toward implementation until Trump officials waylaid it last year.

Scant Accountability: With the plan to reduce civilian deaths sidelined, experts say the U.S. military plans face limited scrutiny before attacks are launched

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principles: more aggression, less accountability.

If you are an anti-fascist, you are against petroleum. Petroleum funds fascism globally. It is at the heart of the military industrial complex driving global imperialism, from both the US and Russia. Motonormitivity is fascist, both in it's elitist roots and in it's ties to historical fascism (Hitler hated bikes, just on principle). Oil is militarism.
Oil is the dominant resource which drives war, both in terms of it being the primary spoil wars are fought over and in terms of fueling the military vehicles and weapons that carry out those wars. Practically every war since (and including) WWII has been over oil. Genocides are carried out to secure oil. Gaza is over oil, in more ways than one.
Oil is the absolute enemy, and AI is simply an extension of that: an attempt to atomize us so we can't resist the oil-centric global order, one last grasp at the control over our lives oil has given to those whose power is now threatened by a solar punk future.
"I haven't written for a few weeks now. As I write the closing chapter and begin rewriting previous sections, everything feels both more distant and more immediate. The working title [Kairos] has only continued to feel more and more resonant, both during the writing and during my pause."
Now is the time to resist by making something different, by creating a world fundamentally opposed to these systems of oppression.
This is the last in my Kairos series. From here on out I'll be editing to try and make it more of a book than a series of posts. Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. All editing is welcome (typos, spell checks, questions and challenges). Between ADHD and dyslexia, it's always hard for my brain to notice mistakes in my own text so I always appreciate the support of those who can.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/kairos

Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds #ocean

Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds
When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists' attention. Working together, they linked the black residue-coated debris to a 2019 oil slick along Brazil's coastline. Using ocean current models and chemical analysis, the team explains in Environmental Science & Technology how some of the oily material managed to travel over 5,200 miles (8,500 kilometers) by clinging to debris.

«Partnering with @… to improve Firefox’s security
AI models can now independently identify high-severity vulnerabilities in complex software. As we recently documented, Claude found more than 500 zero-day vulnerabilities (security flaws that are unknown to the software’s maintainers) in well-tested open-source software.»
I am not an AI fan but with suc…

Partnering with Mozilla to improve Firefox’s security
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Running #OpenTelemetry at #Scale: #Architecture Patterns for 100s of Services

Working more efficiently than maize, which has been bred for efficient production of carbs over thousands of years. @… https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/116027004460342629

Ethnic cleansing about to happen.
“Springfield [OH] and Clark County are coming back…It’s an upward movement. Part of that upward movement comes about because, frankly, of Haitians who are working and contributing to the economy and…and doing all the things that working people (do)…it is not in the best interest of Ohio, for these individuals who are workers and working to lose that status.” Ohio Governor DeWine as quoted by Timothy Snyder

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

Asking the AI program manager for advice: How to nudge neuroscientists toward working on mental imagery engineering? https://chatgpt.com/share/693aad66-a62c-8004-a355-9bf39379a097 "Mental Imagery Engineering: A Missing Pillar in Restoring Vision to the Blind", &…

ChatGPT - Nudging mental imagery research
Shared via ChatGPT

Once a motor nerve is infected,
the rabies virus works backwards, infecting the nerve that tells the motor nerve what to do,
then infecting the nerve that tells that one what to do, and so on.
By working backwards like this, rabies makes its way to the spinal cord, then works its way upwards until it reaches the brain.
This journey from the body to the brain can take anywhere from a week to a year,
depending on where the bite happened and how much virus got into …

Driving you mad: Understanding the rabies virus
People have lived in fear of rabies for thousands of years, but it’s only recently we’ve started to learn how it works.

I was at a meeting last night of key decision makers in the two main civic institutions of my village, and no one in the room was under seventy.
There are reasons.
1. House prices are way beyond what people of working age can afford;
2. Limited social housing is (rightly) allocated to the most vulnerable, but they typically don't have the bandwidth to take on civic roles;
3. There are few jobs in the local economy for degree-educated young people;
/Continued…

@… Have you seen this story? https://www.phoronix.com/news/ATI-R300-Occlusion-Query-Fix Developer in Czechia working on fixing up R300…

Old ATI R300 Open-Source Driver Sees Another New Fix In 2026
The Radeon R300 series turns 24 years old this year and thanks to the open-source ATI R300 Gallium3D driver that began via reverse engineering, it's still continuing to see the occasional random fixes from the open-source community.

How journalism co-ops Defector, Hell Gate, Aftermath, Coyote, Sequencer, and Range practice horizontal governance, structure their newsrooms, manage ads, more (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalism-coops-seem-utop…

Journalism coops seem utopian. What’s it like working in one?
"If I was less self-directed, I'd probably be freaking out."

If these Danner boots could talk. These suckers have been with me for 25 years and are now on their way to a landfill. They gave me support working in the park service and as a first responder in the metro area. Working in severe weather and near tornadoes, one bridge collapse, a few scuffles and arrests, search warrants, countless medical calls including two delivered babies, and court trials. #ems

RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116013641319676975
It's not actually mandatory to be either working in a Nordic country or indeed in Nordic meteorology (I'll be presenting Antarctic climate work), so if you would like to hang out with the cool kids on a very weather beaten group of islands and talk about weather and climate for a few days...

I started taking predniSONE in addition to the (higher dose of) Gabapentin and I’m not sure if it’s working or I’m just having a “good” day but I’m definitely in less pain today than I was yesterday. (Fingers crossed, we’ll see, and all that.)

Thanks to a work-in-progress Homebrew cask by Andi Péter (https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram/issues/15#issuecomment-11159294), I was just able to quickly install and play with the new Gram code editor (

Sanders and Khanna Introduce Legislation to Tax Billionaire Wealth and Invest in Working Families (Senator Bernie Sanders)
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-and-khanna-introduce-legislation-to-tax-billionaire-wealth-and-invest-in-working-families/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p121#a260302p121

TIL that in :nixos: #nix, "${./mydir}" will survive a garbage collection, but a plain ./mydir will not!
Took me way too long to figure this out. Didn't help that `just` gives a stupid error message about a missing shell when it can't change into its -d working directory. 🤦

Just reports incorrectly if the specified working directory can't be found · Issue #2705 · casey/just
Say we have this justfile: [working-directory: "this-directory-does-not-exist"] pwd: pwd just pwd prints pwd error: Recipe `pwd` could not be run because just could not find the shell: No such file...

“Amidst all the commoditization there are small human spaces out there, waiting to be discovered, with people working diligently and with care in them. […] That's enough. It always was.”
Beautiful post by @… 👏
https://

The Artisanal Web | Another Rodeo
Craft, humanity, and our new robot overlords.

The philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
announced on Tuesday that she had made donations in the past year
totaling nearly $7.2 billion,
vaulting the total value of her gifts to over $26 billion.
Since divorcing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,
Ms. Scott has come to embody a new brand of philanthropy.
She has made large gifts to nonprofits that were distinguished
not just by their dollar value
but by the fact that she gave without dictating how the money s…

Mackenzie Scott Announces $7 Billion of Giving This Year
The philanthropist known for donating to historically Black colleges and nonprofits working on climate change offered the news by updating an October blog post.

California's "top-two" primary system is:
1. a terrible design from the perspective of democracy; but
2. working as intended for these centrist, corporate Democrats using it to pressure progressives to drop out. POSIWID
https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/0

The race for California governor is wide open. That’s a problem for the Democrats
California’s top-two primary system could yield an all-GOP ballot for governor in November if the nine Democrats in the race split the vote.

from my link log —
HTTP/3 on FreeBSD: Getting QUIC Working with nginx in a Bastille Jail.
https://blog.hofstede.it/http3-on-freebsd-getting-quic-working-with-nginx-in-a-bastille-jail/
saved 2026-02-22

HTTP/3 on FreeBSD: Getting QUIC Working with nginx in a Bastille Jail
What looked like a simple nginx config change turned into a tour through SSL library incompatibilities, pf firewall rules for a new protocol, and a multi-worker affinity problem that only shows up ...

When you're sitting in a comfy warm train that's running on time, and you can see carbrains working to remove frosted snow from their windshields.

No where near enough parking for those who drive in. Can't get a monthly pass as they have oversubscribed and a waiting list that may take God only knows how long before we get a spot. Bus system is less than reliable. Not enough space so we have to 'hotel'. Even before COVID we were alternating weekly for remote working and at-office due to parking spaces.
<sarcasm>
I don't see any problems of more of us being at my work location.
</sarcasm>

Very proud and excited to vote in the NDP leadership race today!!
This is not the first time I've voted in a Federal leadership race... more on that later but first, my choices! I considered only voting for two people, but I ended up filling in all 5 choices.
#1: Tanille Johnston @…
#2: Avi Lewis @…
#3: Heather McPherson
#4: Tony McQuail
#5: Rob Ashton
Why?
You might ask why I would publicize my choices. I don’t expect others to of course. It is a privilege and a right in Canada to exercise your democratic choice freely and privately, but I also think there is value in knowing how others voted.
#1 why Tanille? #electoralReform and proportional representation myself, I didn't just want to pick my top two. I wanted to make a statement on each of these candidates an influence each one.
To be blunt, Heather is #3 because she is the middle-of-the-road candidate. She is an excellent representative as MP and has gathered the support of other MPs including my own, but while I would be OK with her leadership, I would see her as a continuation of the status quo, and that is not what the NDP needs as a party, nor is it what Canada needs as a country.
We desperately need a vigorous and clear alternative to the Centre-but-mostly-Right Liberals, and the MAGA-wannabe Conservatives. The only way to do that is to catch the attention of Canadians and inspire them. I am not sure that Heather has the ability to do that, and if we continue with the same leadership crew in the NDP, I am not confident that the policy choices will be strong enough to inspire and attract Canadians.
That is why Tanille and Avi are far better options.
#4 Why Tony:

Tony is the real deal. Honestly, I would have loved to rank him higher. He represents the true life blood of rural, socially progressive, environmentally aware, Canadians. You should go check out his platform. I am so glad that he was able to participate fully in the race and we need his voice in the NDP.
#5 Why not Rob?
I have been an active member in my Union for more than 10 years. Unionism is The Way. Rob is representing a division within the union movement that claims that working people can't have jobs if the environment is put first. This is a lie.
We need union leaders that look to the future and speak honestly to people. We need union leaders who are genuinely progressive, not ready to do the bidding of corporate masters to the benefit of a few.
Working people need honesty, and when an industry is on decline, a clear path to new, excellent, union, jobs!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Liberal #CPC #Canada #Democracy #NDP

Who is Klint Kubiak? His rise from working oil fields to Seahawks OC and future Raiders coach https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7025920/2026/02/06/super-bowl-seahawks-klint-kubiak-raiders-coach/

The Tradie Show
The podcast for tradies who are stuck working in the business instead of working on it...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/tradie-show/

Have tidied up kwin_wayland patch to change the hardcoded gestures to sensible defaults, and I am working my way through implementing a file-based configuration interface for all possible inbuilt gestures that kwin_wayland can send. I'm not sure if this is all going to work thanks to Wayland's certifiably insane paranoid security model, but at least I should be able to let you decide how many fingers to swipe with what direction of swipe triggers a built-in gesture in the wm.

H'mmm... I have been working patiently and carefully on bugs in my memory allocation system all day,
At 22:57, I had a build which was substantially better, but not perfect. I kept on working patiently, and now, at 00:37, I have a build which is totally broken.
Fortunately, I did make a tactical commit to git while things were better.
#TheJoyOfSoftwareEngineering

Last evening of Christmas vacation before getting back to work for the new year.
Aiming to make it a good one. Working on GPU acceleration of the TIE filter and maybe the histogram block so I can do jitter analysis faster.
The peak at T=0 in the jitter histogram is related to use of the GPU CDR block and doesn't show up in the CPU implementation. It's likely caused by transients of some sort at thread block boundaries and I need to spend more time chasing it, I wouldn'…

Microsoft is working hard on making themselves irrelevant, doubling down on all the most hated shit in Windows 11.
Perhaps Linux will actually make it big now.
https://tech4gamers.com/windows-12-reportedly-relasing-2026-modular-ai-focused-os/

Sources: OpenAI is working with G42 to build a ChatGPT version tuned for the UAE to accommodate local language, political outlook, and speech restrictions (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2026

Exclusive: OpenAI in talks with Abu Dhabi’s G42 to create specialized ChatGPT version for UAE
Chatbot would be fine-tuned for government use to accommodate local language and speech restrictions.

Also, I haven't yet added captioning. I'm planning to do that later today. Apologies for not posting it in a completely accessible way, thanks for your patience.
Edit:
Updated. It should be more accessible now.
I usually don't add images to my posts. I realized half way through that I had a bunch more to do. I kind of had to power through before I ran out of dopamine, or I'd never actually post it. Thank you for your patience. I'm working on setting up a good OCR pipeline to make this faster in the future.
Thanks again for your patience, and please feel free to let me know if there are ways I could improve for future posts.

Police, jail, and banning stuff seem to be this board's/mayor's only "solutions" to the public health crisis of addiction, and not, for example, voluntary treatment: we still lack enough treatment facilities to accommodate every San Franciscan who comes in ready and wanting help to kick their habit.
This policy is particularly dumb because of its obvious harm to nightlife. People want to be able to buy snacks when they leave the club.

S.F. supervisors say late-night store ban is working. Not so fast, say criminologists. 
Researchers urge caution on policy implications, as San Francisco supervisors use study's results to push for a broader late-night ban.

Israel's Supreme Court allows aid groups facing govt ban to keep working in Gaza - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260227-israel-s-supreme-court-allows-aid-groups-facing-govt-ban-to-keep-working-in-gaza

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…

After His Democratic Victory in Texas, a New Working-Class Star Rises (J. David Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/taylor-rehmet-texas-working-class-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFA.CQIS.VkBiEJ_8_rZV&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p77#a260202p77

"Sea levels are rising—but in Greenland, they will fall"
#Greenland #Oceans
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-sea-…

Sea levels are rising—but in Greenland, they will fall
Even as global warming causes sea levels to rise worldwide, sea levels around Greenland will likely drop, according to a new paper published in Nature Communications. "The Greenland coastline is going to experience quite a different outcome," says lead author Lauren Lewright, a Ph.D. student in geophysics working at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, which is part of the Columbia Climate School. "Sea level in Greenland is actually projected to fall."

Niners backup QB Mac Jones embraces trade talk, wants to 'be a starter' again in NFL like Sam Darnold https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-backup-qb-mac-jones-trade-talk-be-a-starter-again-sam-darnold

Totally normal problems.
So one day I had trouble zipping my winter jacket; around the final teeth, the zipper would stop catching. And when I tried again, I couldn't zip anything at all. Finally, at nth careful attempt it finally worked, and I had no more trouble that day. When I've turned, we looked at it, and decided that a loose thread must have gotten into it while zipping. Cut the thread off.
Next day, the zipper worked just fine in the morning. However, when I was about to leave the train, it suddenly stopped working. It seemed that I'm up for a cold day in unzipped jacket, but it finally caught a few minutes later, on the road. This time, I suspected the zipper. Tightened it, it started working again.
Today, I've tried zipping it three times to make sure it really works. And of course, as soon as I arrived at the destination, it refused to zip. I've tried again while walking, and it fell apart completely. Fortunately, the wind stopped blowing, and walking on snow was hard enough to jumpstart my metabolism fast. Finally, I've replaced the zipper and now everything works.
I wonder what tomorrow holds…

Google joins Microsoft in saying it will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/google-says-anthropic-remains-a…

Google joins Microsoft in telling users Anthropic is still available outside defense projects
Cloud vendors are letting customers know that Anthropic's popular AI tools can still be accessed after the Department of Defense blacklisted the company.

In 2025, 126 media industry people were killed globally, the US had 170 reports of assaults on journalists, and Trump's government increasingly attacked media (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/press-freedom-2025-me…

A rough year for journalists in 2025, with a little hope
By most measures, 2025 was a rough year for those who care about freedom of the press. It's likely to be the deadliest year on record for journalists and media workers across the world. The number of assaults on reporters spiked in the United States. As is by now familiar, the ranks of people working as journalists continues to thin. The president of the United States continues to berate many who ask him questions, sometimes in harshly personal terms. Outside of name-calling, the second term of…

#DeadLazyweb: Is anyone aware of a "no AI" marketplace or something? I just had to go through a hidden menu to disable "AI" on my dryer because it's not possible to buy a dryer without wifi and "AI" features (whatever the ambiguous fuck they mean by AI). I want dumb thing.
I don't want a "smart tv," I want an OLED that exposes HDMI and nothing smarter. I don't want a smart dryer. Thanks, I have enough attack surface in my house and I don't want to fight with a machine to make it just dry my laundry. Honestly, I don't even really want a smart phone anymore, but you can't really make Signal work on a Nokia brick.
If such a thing doesn't exist, I'd consider working on it but I don't want to re-invent a wheel if one already exists.

A government lawyer told a judge during a court hearing stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota:
“What do you want me to do?
The system sucks.
This job sucks.
And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need”.
She has been removed from her Justice Department post, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Julie Le had been working for the Justice Department on a detail,
…

DHS lawyer removed after telling judge 'this job sucks'
A government lawyer who told a judge that her job “sucks” during a court hearing stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota has been removed from her Justice Department post. That's according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The person said Julie Le had been working for the Justice Department on a detail from another government agency, but the U.S. attorney in Minnesota ended her detail after her comments in…

Hiring John Harbaugh would give Giants credibility, toughness and biggest victory in years https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6948576/2026/01/07/john-harbaugh-giants-coaching-search/

Nvidia says it's seeing "strong" demand from China for its H200 chips but is awaiting approvals from both Washington and Beijing before sales could begin (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

Nvidia sees 'strong' H200 demand in China, awaiting governments' approval
Washington is working on export licenses while Beijing yet to give clear signal

Jensen Huang says Nvidia has "fired up" H200 production in the expectation of resumed China sales and it is working on the "last details" with the US government (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ae4f28a0-39f9-48e6-bdf4-09321b03c236…

Haiti, lacking oil, is the poorest nation in the hemisphere
and probably the most dangerous.
That’s why the State Department issued a “Do Not Travel” order.

Simultaneously, however, the Trump administration insists it’s safe enough to force around 350,000 Haitians legally living and working in the United States to return home by next month.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued formal notice that Haitians will be stripped of their temporary protected stat…

350,000 Haitians are being sent home. That’s cruel.
The Trump administration is rescinding temporary protected status for 350,000 of them on Feb. 3.

Who is Klint Kubiak? His rise from working oil fields to Seahawks OC and future Raiders coach https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7025920/2026/02/06/super-bowl-seahawks-klint-kubiak-raiders-coach/

EFF is proud to support the
“ICE Out of Our Faces Act.”
This new federal bill would ban ICE and CBP agents, and some local police working with them,
from acquiring or using biometric surveillance systems,
including face recognition technology, or information derived from such systems by another entity.
This bill would be enforceable, among other ways, by a strong private right of action.
The bill’s lead author is Senator Ed Markey.
We thank him for…

Yes to the “ICE Out of My Face Act”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. The violence is shocking. So are the intrusions on digital rights and civil liberties. For example, immigration agents are routinely scanning faces of...

Rob Hunt could be big boost for Panthers in playoffs, but has to prove he's ready https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6942905/2026/01/05/panthers-playoffs-rams-injury-update-rob-hunt/

Anthropic details how it used 16 parallel Claude Opus 4.6 agents to build a Rust-based 100,000-line C compiler, incurring ~$20K in API costs over 2,000 sessions (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

For those who know the stakes,
James Talarico is Dems best chance to flip the TX Senate seat.
Chip in any amount right now. Please: https://jt4tx.org

Join our fight to take power back for working people.
James Talarico is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas to take his fight against corruption to Washington and win power back for working people.

Checks and balances aren't working under Trump
The decline in faith is seen across the partisan spectrum,
with Democrats and independents swinging 45 and 34 points respectively since then.
Among Republicans, who control the White House and have majorities in both chambers of Congress,
there's also been a significant
19 percentage-point drop in confidence in the system.

Checks and balances aren’t working under Trump, growing majority says
On the eve of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, two-thirds of Americans say the system of checks and balances that divides power between the White House, Congress and the courts is not working well, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist Poll.

Sources: PayPal isn't in talks to sell itself, to Stripe or anyone, and has been preparing for months for a potential activist campaign or unwanted takeover bid (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/26/2026/paypal-stripe-not-currently-…

Exclusive: Paypal, Stripe not currently in talks
PayPal has been working with bankers for months to prepare for a potential activist campaign or unwanted takeover bid.

Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will
garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months.
“It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we’re sure that we can run it in a compliant manner,”
says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
To student debtors fac…

Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults; The Debt Collective Lays Out Other Options
Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months. “It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we’re sure that we can run it in a compliant manner,” says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. To student debtors facing financial hards…

Israel on Tuesday said it had
💥suspended more than two dozen humanitarian organizations,
including "Doctors Without Borders" and CARE,
from operating in the Gaza Strip
for failing to comply with new registration rules.
Israel says the rules are aimed at preventing Hamas and other militant groups from infiltrating the aid organizations.
But the organizations say the rules are arbitrary and warned that the new ban would harm a civilian population d…

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…

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.

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.