In the Senate today, lawmakers plan to question US trade representative Jamieson Greer.
Ron Wyden, the Senate finance committee’s top Democrat, said that
Donald Trump’s “tariff spree” has “hammered” farmers and small business owners in his home state of Oregon
– particularly in communities which voted for the president in 2024.
“Like so many other promises, Donald Trump has made to working people, The second he set foot in the White House, he did nothing to put Americ…
So I’m updating the Kitten documentation, tutorials, videos, etc., in preparation for the major (breaking change) release I’ve been working on for the past few months and, as part of that, I had to set up my streaming/recording setup again as the layout of my room changed and I recorded an updated Kitten Counter video yesterday in which I made every mistake I could in 12 minutes (so I’ll be recording it again). But here it is a a preview (and also to show that no, none of us gets it right th…
Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving without an iPhone, and the two are working on self-driving (Jack Ewing/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/business/ford-apple-software-self-…
Alrighty, I've been working with https://kube.rs/ for about 4 months now, and I must say: I *love* it! 🥰 🦀
I got my first operator with a first controller working well, with some rework in progress, yet so stable, and a second controller is in the makings.
Learning
"The Great Lakes Fire History Digital Archive is a working, evolving digital archive that collects and makes accessible primary source documents pertaining to forest fires in the Great Lakes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
"created and maintained by Dr. Hayden L. Nelson, a research historian at the #Minnesota Historical Society"
Bernie Sanders has made his decision >>
Hey folks, I’m Democrat Trey Martin, and I couldn’t be more excited to be endorsed by 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 in my race for Congress in Oklahoma's Fifth Congressional District!
Senator Sanders inspired me to get involved in public service because he was the only politician who seemed to give a damn about the working-class.
His presidential campaign in 2016 motivated me to become a union leader for Oklahoma Ironworkers and fi…
Hey, Twin Cities folks! I'm in an upcoming show that I'm excited about.
It’s visual art, it’s theater, it’s music, it’s ritual, it’s community meditation, it’s one of those •experiences• that defies categorization. It's the brainchild of Summer Hills-Bonczyk, who runs the cermics studio at Macalester, and I'm working with her brother to create music for the show.
I have a good feeling about this. I think it's going to be really cool!
#MSP #StPaul #Minneapolis
Working on my laptop while sitting outside on our back deck, even if it is a bit chilly, because here in #Vermont we have a very narrow window of time between when we *can* sit outside (when it is no longer 🥶) ... and when the black flies and mosquitos emerge and make it so we don't *want* to sit outside!
It's usually just a couple of weeks... so we have to enjoy it while we can! 😃…
I’ve no tolerance anymore for anyone working at Google or Facebook in any mid-level or senior engineering position.
They could have left years ago or never started working there in the first place.
None of this shit is new or a surprise. They’re actively helping making the world a worse place and destroy things I love.
After more than 20 years working with #Java, I learn APIs introduced in JDK 1.4.
You can chain exceptions with #Throwable.initCause(), even if the designer didn't provide a relevant constructor.
Play It Forward
This is a podcast for people working in a creative field. Or those who want to. Anyone wrestling with the competing forces of art and commerce...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/play-it-forward-2/
Morning!
Just three working days left before I head off for five weeks of summer holidays in Japan/Mexico.
As always, there's nothing like an impending holiday deadline to ramp up my focus and productivity! Lots of writing and podcast admin in my immediate future. Plus I'm running an online masterclass at midday.
But first, coffee ☕️
So yesterday was a weird day; had an onsite and while wrangling my access to the building, realized one of my boot heels had come off, so I spent like 20m trying to backtrace where it fell off. Never did find it. 😂
Was working in an office space client is moving into, so basically abandoned
Vote for a fighter for working people in Galway West today.
Vote Denman Rooke no. 1 and then transfer Left.
#PeopleBeforeProfit #VoteLeftTrasnsferLeft
Working with an #acting #coaching client as they prep a role for self-tape. They did 3 very different takes in rehearsal, great seeing them dial in different aspects and versions of the performance. Looking forward to seeing them pick, choose and blend parts of the 3.
At #SecurityDays 2026, teams from NRENs across Europe and beyond took part in a Capture the Flag (CTF) competition hosted by RNP, the Brazilian NREN.
The winners? Dimitris Kolotouros and Marios Levogiannis from GRNET, who balanced quick wins with strategic problem-solving under pressure.
Beyond the rankings, the real value was in the shared experience: teams learning when to persis…
Sources: Microsoft considered buying Cursor in recent weeks but didn't make an offer; Microsoft has been working to boost GitHub Copilot's popularity (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/22/microsoft-looked-at-buying-cursor-before-…
A black book like in Death Note, but when you write someone's name down - they get IBS for a week and shart their pants.
Working title - Brown Note.
No investments in high-risk pipelines and LNG projects.
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) manages the retirement savings of nearly every working and retired Canadian outside Quebec. As climate impacts intensify and the global economy shifts toward clean energy, investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure like pipelines and LNG terminals puts Canadians’ pensions and retirement security at unnecessary risk. Our pension manager must say “NO” to investing in these projects.
James Talarico here.
Our fundraising has slowed dramatically.
Will you chip in even $1 ahead of our FEC deadline?
https://jt4tx.org
Help flip Texas Blue
Firefox Widevine working in Rocky Linux Podman container on FreeBSD – NapoleonWils0n
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ti1mrk/firefox_widevine_working_in_rocky_linux_podman/>
＂… I'll do a YouTube video abo…
Happy news: in 2025 global new installed 814GW of wind and solar (solar is 664GW). china solar factories at 1/2 capacity! (US installing, but slowly, but you know that and why). big batteries working and improving
a nuclear power plant is 1GW -- why still talk nuclear?
so 1GW datacenters is one of siting correctly with local solar batteries. could be not a big deal
The water use is not consequential if sited with thought
rare good news
Urban Fallacies ❌
城市谬误 ❌
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400 (6x7)
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
@… Haven’t gotten that far in the post yet, so I won’t comment on your exclusion of AP yet, just to note that I agree with what you want to build, and I have a PDX local friend who is a film buff and has been working on a Letterboxd replacement on and off over the years.
I really hope something comes to fruition. I just want to log how I feel about things I sa…
Workday reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to $2.54B vs. $2.52B est., and lifts its full-year forecast, saying its AI strategy is working; WDAY jumps 9% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/workday-wday-q1-earnings-report-2027.html
Anyone working at Apple following me?
Please make it possible in Safari to select Kagi as search engine.
Thank you.
(I am not asking for tech support or browser suggestions.)
Six months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake,
Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.
It comes as Republicans already face a grim political environment made worse by Mr. Trump’s decisions to pursue a war in Iran t…
ooh the connections museum is setting up a second museum in seattle where they have a working linotype machine! https://youtu.be/irKLY6KfOYQ
This fence, which you last saw me working on more than a week ago, is still not fully stretched. Working on your own is slow, and working whilst not in good health is slow. I'm getting there.
I've had this Guardian Angel Devices "Elite Series" LED safety strobe on my SAR pack for a year or so now. It's USB charged, has a fixed internal lithium ion battery, and is available in a range of configurations.
It's come in handy a lot on urban missions where we're searching along road sides... Hi vis gear doesn't work well when you have a backpack over it blocking the view of all the reflective stripes.
The thing is supposed to be waterproof but …
For a long time, I diligently put my course materials into #git, but I found that it has little, if any, benefits for my use case, most notably, working alone.
But I’m now in the lucky position that others will teach my courses for the next academic year (#sabbatical, yay!)—now it does make sense to use version control!
⇢
For a long time, I diligently put my course materials into #git, but I found that it has little, if any, benefits for my use case, most notably, working alone.
But I’m now in the lucky position that others will teach my courses for the next academic year (#sabbatical, yay!)—now it does make sense to use version control!
⇢
For a long time, I diligently put my course materials into #git, but I found that it has little, if any, benefits for my use case, most notably, working alone.
But I’m now in the lucky position that others will teach my courses for the next academic year (#sabbatical, yay!)—now it does make sense to use version control!
⇢
Does anyone have any decent EDR running on an Apple Neo? Logging? I have a small nonprofit org that wants to roll out a fresh fleet of 15 Neos and the arm64 chip in the Neo isn't the same series as the M. I'm looking for actual A18 Pro / MacBook Neo validation, not "it should work" because I've already got Claude telling me "it shoudl work fine" and that reality is not manifesting for an MSP I know working with this issue.
Anybody knows how I can verify that #anubis is in fact working as intended? Are there manual ways of triggering a challenge, maybe?
Hrmm, Zig is an interesting language...figured I'd kick the tires and figure out what's going on. So far it's been pretty nice.
#zig #programming
I feel like more work could be put in to what shows on the mastodon road map. lol. now that 4.6 is out there are only 2 items on it.
https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap
“The international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border, in some cases targeting underage girls or trading food or jobs for sex with refugees, according to a confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The Doctors Without Borders report — completed in July and first reported Saturday by The Associated Press — found 59 allegations of abuse and said 18…
At today's #IETF #hackathon I had the opportunity to talk about recent work done jointly with @… and @…
De-musk-ing: “If you were to take what should be public transportation planning and turn it into a neoliberal nightmare, this is exactly what you would get,” says Ben Leffel, an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In March Leffel told legislators at a meeting of the Nevada Regional Rail Transit Advisory Working Group: “The Loop by the Boring Company is the biggest, most absurd transit scam I have ever heard of …
Top-down feedback can explain the existence of working memory traces in early visual cortex #NeuroAI
Oh, here's something that I can say after what I've been working on:
Omae Wa Mou samples a bossa nova Touhou song without crediting. Well, sure, it got credited after years.
It went to be the most viewed (official upload of a) Touhou Project song on YouTube (at least what's on TouhouDB).
How do you migrate an entire pan-European IP backbone network while keeping 1,240 services across 32 sites running without interruption?
Earlier this year, we announced the successful completion of GÉANT's IP backbone network migration.
Today, we want to share with you a story of how it actually happened. 🔎 Hint: it required a fundamental shift in how we think about our network, an automation platform, and teams working together in ways they never had before.
🔗
Strolling through my book shelfs, I found »The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management: What Every Enterprise Needs to Know to Solve Its Data Deluge« by John William Toigo.
This book was published in 2000, and working in and around computer storage industry since 1998, I pretty much doubt the deluge is solved yet. #vintagecomputing
Wrote a little intro post to my Fisk AI project, why, who for etc
Local friendly, privacy friendly, strong guardrails, doing just what you give it the ability to do etc
Hopefully a AI Harness for sceptics or just for better outcomes for those tasks you wish to do repeatedly.
Minimal dependencies, quick to get going, easy to configure.
Also the easiest possible way to do build MCP servers for other AI Agents
The ACT Integrity Commission is conducting a major inquiry into lobbying and political influence in the Territory.
This is an important opportunity for us to strengthen transparency and accountability – and push back against corporate influence in politics.
We’re making a submission calling for stronger lobbying laws, including:
Public disclosure of lobbying meetings
A lobbying ban for former ministers
Independent oversight and enforcement
We’re inviting A…
Admiring an old slide deck from Ben O'Steen @… when he was Tech Lead at BL Labs. From typical research quests to patterns in working with open data: explore first, then transition into investigation and completion mode
The human mind is a wonderful thing.
It begins working the moment you’re born, and doesn’t stop until you have to speak in public.
--Anonymous
#QuoteOfTheDay #AnonymousIsBrilliant
RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116585872658044757
In fact, I'm also now at the stage of planning a summer holiday where I'm wondering if I should just stop working early so I can just cycle the Euro Velo network over the next ten years...
https://en.eurovelo.com
Der etwas andere Blick: „ The soundsystem did what school often failed to do for Black working-class boys in Britain and the Caribbean. It made us feel necessary. It gave us somewhere to stand while we were still learning how to stand.“
https://
In a significant victory for the party’s left wing, Chris Rabb took roughly 45% of the vote in Tuesday’s contest, comfortably ahead of early frontrunner state senator, Sharif Street, who fell to under 30%, and surgeon Ala Stanford.
Rabb addressed supporters, in an emotional victory speech, who had powered a grassroots campaign backed by the Philadelphia Democratic Socialists of America and the Working Families party.
“I have been critiqued along this campaign for being too radica…
from my link log —
An incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS.
https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes
saved 2021-01-24 https://dotat.at/:/…
This. So much this.
Heinlein wrote to pay off his mortgage…and then he did it cos he enjoyed it.
I mean, c’mon:
“Starship Troopers” (Heinlein’s a fascist!!) - 1959
“Stranger In A Strange Land” (Heinlein’s a Hippie free sex freak!) - 1961
@… Knows of which he speaks.
Boarding a plane in Montreal for a direct flight to Vienna to participate in #IETF126 for the next week! Starting with the Hackathon this weekend where I will be working with the Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) - https://ofds.info/
Working with an #acting #coaching client on an emotionally pitched scene, and by making one physical change (for rehearsal's sake), we shifted the way they were speaking, and that revealed an emotional turn the character can make later in the scene because of it. Very cool discovery.
Trump prepares fresh tariffs on dozens of countries, FT reports
Donald Trump is poised to unleash fresh tariffs on dozens of countries
as soon as this week, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday,
with his temporary 10% global tariff scheduled to expire on Friday.
The FT said the most immediate new duties are expected to be on a par with the 10% tariffs currently in place,
but the administration was also working on other investigations that could gran…
Last week I was reminded about this super-accessible article on 'The Seven Principles of Data Feminism' by Catherine d’Ignazio and Lauren Klein - especially for those who never got around to reading the book! https://responsibledata.io/anniversary/the-seven-pr…
For years, Shaoping Wu was part of an increasingly endangered group of human rights lawyers in China.
His work culminated in 2019, when he attended a meeting with other prominent lawyers and activists.
Within days, the Chinese government began to detain the participants.
Mr. Wu quickly fled to the United States, where in 2020 he applied for asylum.
🔥On Wednesday, Mr. Wu was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Pennsylvania, where he had been living wit…
For more than a year, the Pentagon has deployed about 9,000 active-duty troops along nearly 2,000 miles of the southwest border to confront illegal migrants, smugglers and drug cartels.
The troops are still there
— at a cost of tens of millions of dollars each week
— even though the Trump administration months ago largely achieved its goal of slashing illegal crossings.
The military patrols, working closely with Customs and Border Protection as well as the Mexican mili…
My men are working in the garden.
#Grandparenting #Gardening #Canberra
Mainers have spoken:
I am incredibly proud to be their choice for Democratic nominee in our U.S. Senate race.
I’m Troy Jackson.
If you don’t know me yet, here are the basics:
I’m from Allagash, a town of 237 people in northern Maine right on the Canadian border.
Growing up, I didn’t think I’d ever be anything other than a fifth-generation logger.
And that was enough.
But when I was working in the North Woods, grinding out 80-hour workweeks under t…
Google confirms it has ended production of the Nest Mini and Nest Audio, but existing devices will continue to be fully supported (Chris Martin/Tech Advisor)
https://www.techadvisor.com/article/3167170/exclusive-google-nest-mini-nest-audio-…
RE: https://floss.social/@doctormo/116927739358578223
Ah, finally, they’re saying the quiet parts out loud:
“Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that’s a side ben…
A Hollywood writer recounts working as an "AI trainer" for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the "new waiting tables" for entertainment workers (Ruth Fowler/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-ev…
“Enterprise-level developers” working on mission critical banking software don’t make people have to open up developer tools to see the regular expression error on a registration form challenge 2026.
It’s not rocket science, folks.
*smdh*
#capitalism #mainstream
Federal investigators were working in early 2025 to wrap up a two-year inquiry into claims of pervasive sexual harassment and discrimination at a company that makes weapons, vehicles and cybersecurity tools for the Pentagon.
The investigators had found, among other things, that some male managers at a Norfolk, Va., Navy shipyard had demanded oral sex and other sexual contact from female employees in exchange for promotions and overtime pay,
and that Black women had been paid less…
During an internal meeting, Satya Nadella criticized Claude Fable 5 for being "editorially controlled", saying its refusal to do "random things" makes no sense (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/microsoft-
Fury has continued to mount in India
over the US’s refusal to apologise for the deaths of Indian sailors
killed in strikes in the strait of Hormuz,
further straining relations between the two countries
as their leaders meet at the G7 summit in France this week.
Last week, three Indian seafarers,
who were working on board commercial oil tankers,
were killed when the US launched missile strikes on the vessel as it sailed through the strait of Hormuz.…
After reports of GPT-5.6 deleting files, OpenAI says the issue most often occurs in full-access mode without sandboxing and it is working to mitigate the risk (Tibo/@thsottiaux)
https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2077630111499882637
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a marathon hearing on Wednesday
to consider Donald Trump’s nomination of Todd Blanche to be the next attorney general.
In March 2025, Republican senators confirmed Blanche as deputy attorney general,
and Blanche has served as the acting attorney general since Trump fired Pam Bondi in April 2026.
For Blanche, working in Justice Department leadership isn’t so different from his previous gig:
working as Trump’s personal attorney…
David Hockney, has died, his publicist said Friday. He was 88.
A treasured British artist whose paintings of shimmering pools and colorful iPad drawings became icons of contemporary art,
over a seven-decade career, Hockney explored and reimagined classical portraiture, landscape painting and pop art, working in painting, collage, photography and digital drawing.
Hockney was born in the north of England but lived much of his life in Southern California, making its sun-drenched…
Meta will now notify parents if teens discuss suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and is working on alerts to emergency services for users at risk of self-harm (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/meta
Palantir was initially funded by
In-Q-Tel, the non-profit venture capital arm of the CIA,
and has been working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has been criticised by civil liberties groups.
It works with several other UK government organisations,
including the army.
The Israeli army reportedly used Palantir for AI-based targeting in the war in Gaza,
which is a main reason Amnesty International campaigned against Palantir within the…
Court reporting shows AI's limits in replacing human skill, as reporters remain crucial for capturing gestures and working through noise, amid a worker shortage (Allison Pohle/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…
Have you heard the story of the Hell Cats?
In WWI, “Hell Cats” was a name for the first women who joined the U.S. Marine Corps.
They were trailblazers who served with determination and broke barriers before they even had the right to vote.
Now, I’m part of a group of Democratic women veterans who are running to flip red seats blue and win back the House together.
We’re calling ourselves “The Hell Cats” and Politico says we
“could be the answer to Democrats’ tr…
Tennessee authorities are investigating the 👉 second fatal shooting in four days by a member of the federal task force dedicated to confronting crime in Memphis.
The shootings are likely to further exacerbate tensions within the city, which has been torn over the presence of hundreds of federal agents since October and their aggressive approach to targeting crime.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday that the shooting involved a Drug Enforcement Administration …
Trump’s policies are working together to hike prices, as midterms approach
Trump promised to bring inflation down. Yet he keeps doing things that push prices up.
The war on Iran is Exhibit A. When Iranian authorities retaliated by closing the Strait of Hormuz, a global energy lifeline, the price of gasoline jumped more than 50 percent from pre-war levels.
Consumers are now paying an average of $4.51 per gallon, according to AAA.
Higher energy costs are also spreading…
@cdarwin@c.im
![Savant, @UnshadowedBones
Disgusting filth, I hope the guy that stole the song and profit from it burns in hell
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