2025-12-16 18:35:09
I picked up Spirit City Lofi Sessions today. Really chill and awesome to play in the background while working #SpiritCity #Steam #MooncubeGames
I picked up Spirit City Lofi Sessions today. Really chill and awesome to play in the background while working #SpiritCity #Steam #MooncubeGames
Sources: Google is working on a new initiative to make its AI chips run PyTorch better and is working closely with Meta, as the two discuss Meta using TPUs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/google-works-erode-nvidias-softwar…
Sources: Pack likely to extend both LaFleur, GM https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47638178/sources-packers-working-extensions-matt-lafleur-brian-gutekunst
On the subject of joys and problems of fieldwork, flight to Antarctica delayed by 24 hours.
At least I'll be able to clear my inbox I suppose ..
#iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/
"RFK Jr Speaks Out Against Animal Testing, Says Alternatives Are ‘Better’ And ‘More Efficient’"
#Animals
https://plantbasednews.org/news/science/rfk-jr…
Two Years of Building AI in Firefox | Tarek Ziadé
https://blog.ziade.org/2025/12/05/two-years-of-ai-at-mozilla/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
"Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project."
—Alex Borstein
#acting #coaching #inspiration
I'm waiting for the crass remarks from Glorious Leader
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/17/jesse-jackson-civil-rights-icon-dies
Rewriting Systems on Arbitrary Monoids
Eduardo Magalh\~aes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10564 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10564 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.10564
arXiv:2601.10564v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce monoidal rewriting systems (MRS), an abstraction of string rewriting in which reductions are defined over an arbitrary ambient monoid rather than a free monoid of words. This shift is partly motivated by logic: the class of free monoids is not first-order axiomatizable, so "working in the free setting" cannot be treated internally when applying first-order methods to rewriting presentations.
To analyze these systems categorically, we define $\mathbf{NCRS_2}$ as the 2-category of Noetherian Confluent MRS. We then prove the existence of a canonical biadjunction between $\mathbf{NCRS_2}$ and $\mathbf{Mon}$.
Finally, we classify all Noetherian Confluent MRS that present a given fixed monoid. For this, we introduce Generalized Elementary Tietze Transformations (GETTs) and prove that any two presentations of a monoid are connected by a (possibly infinite) sequence of these transformations, yielding a complete characterization of generating systems up to GETT-equivalence.
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I got most ARM64 machines working in QEMU. One exception:
FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-zfs-20260113-2b60e628d3b1-283055.qcow
XML at <#FreeBSD
The Ukrainian delegation is working almost around the clock, says Zelenskyy on peace talks #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/the-ukrainian-delegation-is-working.html…
If you are up this late, maybe you want to stay up later. Go ahead, read my latest essay, What Did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons?
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/what-did-vibe-coding-just-do-to-the-commons/

What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...
After The Drop Off
Hosted by two working mums talking careers, kids, burnout, friendship shifts, invisible labour and the constant sense that something is being forgotten...
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Misplaced neurons reveal the brain's adaptability https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/ns01162601.html Position-independent emergence of neocortical neuron molecular identity, connectivity and function
Onze geldautomaten... "As a second step, we are working to migrate this landscape to the AWS* public cloud. This is to ensure that even in a fast-moving world where money needs change quickly and unexpectedly, Geldmaat can still deliver its service safely, securely,"
https://schubergphilis.com/i…
Today, the @… has announced the recharter of the Social Web Working Group: https://www.w3.org/2026/01/social-web-wg-charter.html
Apropos of a gas station exploding in my neighborhood: Fossil fuel infrastructure is an ecological disaster every day, especially when there isn't an accident, when everything is "working" "safely."
https://theonion.com/millions-of-barre
#Mastodon needs a few tweaks to its notifications.
As stuff is working now, we get notified of replies, but only if our handle is included in the replies. However, not all instances/apps include the handle in the reply.
As an example, @… replied to this post…
Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the company's EUV machines (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-b…
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: All right, Avon, that's enough!
BLAKE: The signal to abort the auxiliary computers came from Zen. Can you override it, bypass Zen, and get them working again?
AVON: Possibly.
BLAKE: Well, try.
Finally put together type stubs for an old (last release 2017!) python library I've been depending on for years. And now wondering whether it would have been easier to just contribute types to the library directly. I thought it abandoned but then the maintainer responded up on an unrelated ticket.
(Though there's no CI infra actually working anymore. Makes testing contributions painful. Wonder whether building that first would be worthwhile & welcome...)
#python #packaging
Well, I had the dip switches set incorrectly and it was trying to test memory that didn't exist. Fixed that and the floppy drives seem to work as well...
I'm also impressed that the Dell System 200 DOS 3.3 Master disk (circa 1987) is still working.
#retrocomputing
#IBM5150
RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/116072967306047224
So, essentially, LLMs are trashing their users’ capacity to use them well. Maybe users’ first rounds go well because the LLM is working on something the user understands and can properly gui…
the power of type B girlies as entrepreneurs and working in cutting-edge fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23XfrQvfmy4
Cowboys Add Former NFL Offensive Lineman With Local Ties to Schottenheimer’s Staff https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/kyle-fuller-hired-assistant-offensive-line-coach/
Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #IETF . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!
Trump and his evil insane minions are working overtime to kill us all https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:flwgfsh2mhpoqwjwwt2mesjv/post/3meu6ow33as2h
Raiders name Matt Robinson Safeties Coach https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-matt-robinson-safeties-coach
Thanks to @… for recommending winnow to me - and of course the authors and nom before it etc..
I'm working on parsers for vector graphics now as an exercise.
The eventual goal is to integrate that into a system-level runtime.
I.e., imagine a graphical terminal, along the lines of a Plan 9 draw device or classic DEC GIGI (
from my link log —
Connecting an ASR33 Teletype to an ESP32.
https://www.revk.uk/2020/12/connecting-asr33-teletype-to-esp32.html
saved 2020-12-08
We hear a lot of talk about “freedom” from my Republican colleagues.
And yet these same Republicans are working overtime to deny tens of millions of women the basic freedom to control their own bodies.
That is wrong, and it represents a fundamental betrayal of what freedom is about.
-- Bernie Sanders
https://
Anthropic opens a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia, says its India run rate revenue doubled since October, and curates training data for 10 Indic languages (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/bengaluru-office-partnerships-across-india
Many years ago I was working with a friend to find a bug in a Makefile generator. We had a megabyte or so of Makefile we needed to examine. He was an emacs user. It took him minutes just to open the file. I was using sam. It took about a second for sam to load, and I found the problem before he'd even finished loading the file.
The speed of tools matters, and big files are common nowadays. Things should stay fast as their workload grows. That goes double for interactive tools.
By the way, it still takes me 30 seconds to log in to my bank. I wonder how long it will take when it's an LLM-generated landing page.
https://phanpy.social/#/hachyderm.io/s/115891592999188880
House Democrats ask Trump administration if any Jan. 6 rioters are now working for ICE (Scott MacFarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-democrats-trump-administration-jan-6-rioters-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p42#a260113p42
I have wondered this myself. Not sure I have enough evidence economics knowledge to accept any theory on it, but I have wondered about the effect of us with 401k’s making broad bets on the markets as a whole and not attempting to judge companies individually. #stocks
No desire to take a little break??? these coaches are just wired differently:
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47616292/sources-john-harbaugh-giants-expected-barring-setbacks
Well this is, uh... interesting.
"We are now working on an open-source, Teensy-compatible board."
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/12/discontinuing-the-teensy-at-adafruit/
Vibe coding is the single biggest transformation since ChatGPT 3.5, it is one of the biggest transformations since the dawn of computing. It will thoroughly transform Open Source. We are not ready. #VibeCoding #OpenSource

What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...
Like #OCTRANSPO itself, the travel planner is not working. I have been living at my current location for over five years so I KNOW there is a bus just across the street. Just wanted to confirm the start times for tomorrow and then how badly it figured out the transfer point.
Failed in Vivaldi, failed in Chrome so it isn't browser related. Firefox it just barfed.
Packers working to sign coach Matt LaFleur, GM Brian Gutekunst to contract extensions, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers-matt-lafleur-contract-extension-coach/
May every brave sex worker at every brothel unionize for fairer working conditions https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-workers-at-pahrump-brothel-are-unionizing-alleging-unfair-contracts-and-conditions
So, The Core (in no particular order):
1. Slackware with nwg-shell Sway, Niri and Mango
2. Gentoo dwm
3. Aurorix, my KDE container spin.
4. FreeBSD 15 with Mango
5. Slackware Flatbrew, a KDE QT6 experimental iso, with Brew and Flatpaks (thnx @… 😉)
All working superbly.
Contemplating a bootc Cosmic spin 😜
Tracked down the programmer and the TL866 adapter that I'll need to program the 27C322 with. Even found a few 27C322 EPROMs on the soldering workbench which means everything should be good to go for getting this custom cart back in good working order.
#electronics #snes
How locals in Potters Bar, a town near London, are challenging Equinix's $5B data center plans, as the UK reclassifies "green belt" land to boost construction (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-small-english-town-swept-u…
The inner working of parquette/arrow data in R: #rstats
The working class is the fundamental force that produces the material conditions necessary for the reproduction of society, and through our collective labor we not only create food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation, and communication networks, but we also sustain and reproduce the conditions that allow every aspect of social life to continue functioning, so that even those who do not work, whether they are managers, bureaucrats, or capitalists, depend entirely on our labor for …
Folks: Aral, you’re all about free and open technology, why won’t you speak at #FOSDEM?
Me: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115697202966701085
Also, I’m actually all about this:
The #iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/
My first day working at #Verizon
Hope nothing goes wrong...
A look at Apple's iPhone roadmap; sources say the iPhone 18 Pro lineup will get under-screen Face ID, and the front camera will move to the top-left corner (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-apples-ip…
@… is something not working for you on 15.0-RELEASE or STABLE?
(15.1 is not yet officially scheduled.)
The Non-Psychiatrist's Guide To Lifestyle Psychiatry
Hosted by Dr Mike Trott, a non-psychiatrist researcher working in psychiatric epidemiology and clinical trials, each episode breaks down the latest research in lifestyle psychiatry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.
"In the car with the #Minneapolis community patrols working to disrupt ICE operations" #Minnesota
https://
Tyreek Hill landing spots: Chiefs, Bills and other AFC contenders among top fits with Dolphins releasing WR
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tyreek-hill-landing-spots-best-fit…
Charles Eisenstein began with this assumption, that everything is working and nobody is happy, and thought ok then what?
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/808469010205327361/charles-eisenstein-began-with-this-assumption?source=share
Name Tag: Meta is reportedly working to bring facial recognition to its smart glasses https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-is-reportedly-working-to-bring-facial-recognition-to-its-smart-glasses-144721330.html "Meta …
I stopped buying books (or anything, really) from Amazon years ago, when it became apparent the working conditions at their many processing centres are appalling and they were actively busting unions. I have never regretted that stance, and I have always been able to find the books, etc. I need from other sources.
I hope more authors — and big name ones too — will follow this lead.
#BoycottAmazon
> Our conclusion is clear: AI is promising for quality assurance and marker training, but for the moment it’s nowhere near ready to take over high stakes marking.
https://ofqual.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/14/using-ai-in-mar…
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/116048776884427042
Getting a little sick of governments murdering their own people. Like, that's not your job, guys. You're supposed to be working for the people, remember?
To migrate https://jws.social, I just needed to take a backup and then send it to the new host before 7am this morning, but the transfer kept failing over and over and over again. I was up until 2am working on that.
Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of #CSS:
https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes
R.I.P. .LaMonte McLemore, one of the 5 original voices of The 5th Dimension, the St. Louis born military vet whose early talents in #MLB baseball were waylaid by an injury, but became a key co-founder of the prolific pop vocal group.
Aside from the #platinum success working with 60's & 70's era key musica…
Another great reason not to do anything with OpenAI. And those working at OpenAI realize they are working for Nazis https://mastodon.social/@SteveThompson/116059341113693325
A look at Michael Saylor's Strategy, known for buying bitcoin via creative financing strategies, as its stock trades way below its peak amid the crypto downturn (Rob Copeland/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…
I read this completely disagreeing with the author, and I was pleased to see most of the comments.
My take is that AI under Capitalism will crush the Working Class and harm the planet.
http://antirez.com/news/158
#noAI
Analyzing What the Raiders Have to Offer HC Candidates https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-analyzing-what-have-offer-hc-candidates
In the latest clear violation of the Transit First policy in the city charter, SFMTA is canceling transit-only lanes because business owners whined about congestion. Who will be the one to finally sue the city to enforce Transit First?
https://www.sfmta.…
Giants working toward deal to hire John Harbaugh as head coach: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6966896/2026/01/15/john-harbaugh-hired-giants-head-coach/
Started the official rewrite of the Sisyphus client in #golang, working on getting the Ffmpeg command-line tasks parsed and validated against the schema. This should make things easier to distribute with respect to the client as I can just distribute static binaries.
#programming
We are working on which countries will guarantee air, sea, and land security, Zelenskyy said #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/06/we-are-working-on-which.html
from my link log —
A unique performance optimization for a 3D geometry language.
https://cprimozic.net/notes/posts/persistent-expr-memo-optimization-for-geoscript/
saved 2026-01-11
"Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds"
#FossilFuels #Oceans #Pollution
“It’s an agentic AI!” You mean it is an AI let off its leash that is unilaterally doing things without any human being aware and like a puppy left alone is about to ruin everything you were working on?
“You’re being old fashioned,” no machine is yet able to reliably exceed human judgement.
#AI
Giants working to finalize deal with John Harbaugh; Kentucky stuns LSU with crazy comeback
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-john-harbaugh-kentucky-stuns-lsu-dante…
Seahawks working to keep Klint Kubiak from poaching assistants for Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/02/12/seahawks-working-to-keep-klint-kubiak-from-po…
Giants working to finalize deal and hire John Harbaugh as their next coach, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-to-finalize-deal-and-hire-john-h…
Smarter Marketer
Each episode features candid conversations with marketers, leaders and innovators on what's really working in today's fast-changing landscape...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/smarter-marketer/ …
The Trump administration launches US Tech Force to recruit ~1,000 staffers from Apple, Meta, xAI, and others for two-year stints to modernize the government (Natalie Alms/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/tru…
New peertube vid out on my @… channel on @… showing just one of the many things we're working on here for the #iQ2300, #NNF_PRECISE @… projects
https://tilvids.com/w/8m4QJwER66JmaFAEVaEuCt
Sources: Harbaugh, Giants working to finalize deal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47616292/sources-john-harbaugh-giants-expected-barring-setbacks
Airbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led generative AI and the Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to integrate AI in its app (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
AT&T launches Connected Life, a smart home security system with hardware from Google and Abode, designed to keep working during power or internet outages (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842307/att-connected-life-smart-hom…
Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/technology/meta-layoffs-reality-labs.html
David Sacks says Trump's AI EO aims to ease companies' compliance burden and that the administration is working with Congress on a common AI oversight standard (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12…
Anthropic raised a $30B Series G from GIC, Coatue, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Nvidia, and others at a $380B post-money valuation (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-…
The European Commission says Apple and Google's Android-iPhone data transfer tool, which will be available globally, is an example of the benefits of the DMA (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/09/iphone-android-switching-ios-26/
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
EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/ray-ban-maker-essilorluxottica-triples-sales-of-meta-ai-gla…