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You missed Marie’s biscuits yesterday! We did mahjong Tuesday night. I lost! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/teDdQRfxiZWoBjXs8

Absolutely gorgeous #sunset yesterday, following along the Doe River in Roan Mountain S.P. in East Tennessee.
Also, we nailed the fall colors this week.
#fallcolors #fall

Advanced voting started in my county in Georgia yesterday. I voted today It took less than 10 minutes!

Yesterday was accidently reminded of this piece
#music #dnb

Ok, I've got one single machine running windows and I really need it for reasons. So yesterday I made a complete image of the system (which I do before every update) and today I decided to make the update during my lunch break. The image captures how utterly bad window updates work. It has been updating for one hour now!! CPU has 12 cores and ram is 64 GB. What the fuck!!

'The Jackbox Party Pack 12' is coming out tomorrow, eh?
Feels like 11 came out, yesterday, haha.
#TheJackboxPartyPack12 #PartyGames #Gaming

That’s a lot of steps!

Yesterday, I went back to bed around 5.30 pm. I slept on and off all evening and night. I didn’t get more than about 6.5 hours of total sleep, according to my Apple Watch. However, I don’t feel so drained this morning, so I’ve got up and made coffee.

"David Rothkopf wrote: 'The man who cowered hiding from the Iranians in a catering truck and who has personally done more to increase Iran’s strategic influence than anyone in its own government ever has, is now blathering nonsense via social media. The world sees him more as an impotent fool today than ever before.'"
htt…

August 12, 2026
In Minnesota yesterday, close Trump ally Mike Lindell, the former chief executive officer of MyPillow, lost the Republican primary for governor to Republican state house speaker Lisa Demuth.

Love In A Mist, growing from someone's grave.
#plants #seeds

Today I grilled bagels and biscuits to go with the egg and bacon. We took Marie’s parents to the RIFC match yesterday. 1-0 win! Doing some stuff with them today too. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/6vZHg5ejW6RHe5qz9

This is one of three #books I acquired yesterday. The other two are still in the car, I'm in my nightie and it's raining, so they're staying put for now 😄
The Constant Gardener by le Carré, The Golden Hours by Louisa Young and Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett.
I'm particularly looking fwd to TGH, the next in The Cazalet Chronicles, written by EJH's niece. It…

A group of IMPRS doctoral researchers got to experience the total solar eclipse in Spain yesterday. Here is a picture taken during totality. Location: Mambrilla de Castrejón, Burgos, Spain, Photographer: Betty Tsai.
#solareclipse #solareclipse2026

The Cowboys' 2nd half yesterday was a sign of life https://insidethestar.com/the-cowboys-2nd-half-yesterday-was-a-sign-of-life

I finally found time to process some images from the eclipse yesterday into a GIF. These are all from me pinhole projecting onto white paper.
I used GIMP to crop them down and roughly centre each one, and then produce this GIF.
I had a great view from East Anton Sports Ground here in Andover, as did the other ~50 people who turned up for it.

So after over a month of intending to go get a mani/pedi, yesterday I finally said “F it” grabbed my gift cards & just got in the car and drove to the salon
Reader, you’ll NEVER guess what the ONE day a week the salon is closed.
😂🤦🏻‍♀️

New GÉANT-CERNET interconnection agreement strengthens Europe-China academic collaboration 🌍 🌏
At #APAN62 in Auckland yesterday, GÉANT and CERNET (China Education and Research Network) celebrated a renewed peering agreement with a symbolic signing ceremony attended by Klaas Wierenga, our Chief Services Officer, and Zhonghui Li, CERNET's Operations Manager.
🔗 Read the full announceme…

After a few weeks with Debian Stable, I decided yesterday to switch to Debian Testing after all. On more modern computers, it really does make a difference whether I have kernel 6.3 or 7.2 available or can use significantly more up-to-date packages.
Last month I also played around with Debian Sid, and it was absolutely stable for me, though the constant updates—often several times a day—were annoying. So Testing is the perfect compromise for me.
Let me just say this: I still co…

Automattic,
the parent company of WordPress, Tumblr, and Longreads,
just announced drastic changes to its executive team. 
Yesterday, the web development company’s board put its founder and CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on a paid leave of absence.
The board voted to appoint Automattic’s current CFO Mark Davies to take over the reins as interim CEO. 
According to 404 Media, Mullenweg announced the news in a companywide Slack ahead of an executive leadership meeting schedul…

Automattic's Board Just Put Founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg on Leave. He Says Directors Conspired Against Him
The tech leader has been placed on a leave of access. Automattic's CFO will now step into the role of interim chief executive.

#today I am going into uni for supervision (and, I hope, comments on my paper revisions). I didn't get to start the energy system #schematic yesterday, but decided *how* to do it (with an eye to supporting a second use of it), and have started it this morning... The forecast is for 33C today, …

Thanksgiving day today. We had the turkey dinner yesterday so I get to kick back and relax. Only hard thing I have planned is to get up and refill my coffee mug.
Later my wife and I will be going through the closets to do our twice annual purging of clothes. If we didn't wear it for a year we bag it for donation if still in good condition. Otherwise it is bagged for recycling.

All-time low water flow in the river Rhine!
Where it enters the Netherlands, only 614 m³/s yesterday, breaking the November 1947 record of 620 m³/s. In summer, this is unheard of: normally it's around 1700 m³/s. Little or no rain upstream.

Had some KMFDM pop in my head yesterday so that means a listen today. I like Money and some of their earlier and a little of their more recent, but my sweet spot (and what in doing now) will always be Nihil from 1995, Xtort from 1996 and Symbols from 1997. What a RIDICULOUS three year punch of perfect, banger records. And lots of Ogre from Skinny Puppy on those.
#industrial

Nini, a "folk metal" musician from Taiwan was about to kick off her US tour when a member of her band was detained and arrested by ICE at the airport yesterday as they were leaving rehearsals on their way to their first show of the tour.
The person they took is a professional throat singer who went to graduate school in the US, has been here over ten years, and is currently on an artist's visa while awaiting processing of their green card.
She put a call out to ask …

Context: I do public outreach presentations on AI aimed at senior citizens, and yesterday I had an attendee who was blind. I have handouts...and was embarrassed that I didn't have anything for her.)
So I'd like a Braille version of that handout. It's just regular text and very straightforward to do in Braille. (If you know about good transcription/printing services for this, let me know.)
But naturally I'm wondering about math and CS.
How does math notation…

We saw the Donmouth otters playing yesterday. I don't have a photo to share, I am sorry; but as I was walking over the new bridge near Tillydrone I saw first one, then another, joyously pootling around in the long river grass. There was an older person walking towards me from the other side and I used my best overacting skills to point dramatically down into the water. She looked a bit alarmed, then turned to look over the rail and down into the water, and just stayed there happily watch…

Over on threads, this post is getting about half the engagement, and I've already had someone question whether this was real. Interestingly, nobody here has.
Yesterday @… talked about Apple releasing a "proof of human" video following their recent spot that showed people embroidering the Apple logo. Well, here's my proof of h…

Visited FENIX yesterday. Rotterdam and about migration. The building is very impressive, I mean, not just nice, really worth visiting a few times. The photo exhibition is well presented and striking and moving at the same time. The other collections likewise. The hall with lots of suitcases, donated by migrants, include their stories. Hard to ignore! #FENIX

I'm watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent 1x18 "Yesterday" #LawOrderCriminalIntent

Yesterday
When the well-preserved body of a woman tortured and murdered twenty years earlier appears on the banks of the Bronx River, chemical residue on the body…

I used to blog about interesting technical stuff :
NaN — Firefox cache and spotlight
https://sietch-tabr.tumblr.com/post/29404692899/firefox-cache-and-spotlight@

Yesterday I was talking to someone about a Beatles song, and then I wanted to listen to Beatallica, and then I was going to listen to "...And Justice For All" but I logged onto the Internet and oh yeah Fuck Metallica!

I saw an article yesterday or the day before about how this is the most corrupt presidency *ever*, not enforcing the law re: fraud, and now this:
Trump Appointee: Trump Crypto Can Operate As Bank - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/08/trump-appointee-trump-crypto-can-operate-as-bank/

Someone mentioned #BandcampFriday yesterday. My #navidrome server just got another album.

Colors Of The Mountains
(Unedited RAW file from yesterday's hike, only cropped & framed...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

It's somewhat oddly satisfying that, after all this time, @…'s core idea from his 2024 #XOXO talk is still spreading and growing. 🌻

Tell them that somebody cared - Finest Day
Yesterday I received an informational flyer from my local municipality in my mailbox. It's about an upcoming road closure due to the replacement of water mains and the installation of...

"#Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools in the development, maintenance, or documentation of software, packaging, documentation, and other media published within the Debian Project. We recognize that such tools can substantially improve the productivity of contributors when used responsibly, allowing volunteers to spend more of their limited time on work th…

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
“Moratoriums everywhere. F*cking YESTERDAY.” @jwilliamj8.bsky.social visited MEMPHIS with @keshaunpearson.bsky.social to see the damage Elon’s xAI is doing to the majority-Black community, poisoning their air — against their will. (cc: @mayorpaulyoung @GovBillLee)

#WritersCoffeeClub 7 Oct
Does your editing process tend towards addition or reduction?
A great deal of my editing process is about character and continuity. My first draft, I usually don't have the characters' voices and vocabulary clearly distinguished in my head, so they all tend to sound the same; and other things like 'does she have this item with her on this d…

Documenting a fictitious building
Yesterday, I posted to Mastodon in response to the question 'Do you write or imagine a backstory for your secondary characters?' that 'I spent 2,000 words last night writing detailed backstory of a significant BUILDING that I also have sketch plans of (which is also something I usually do – you cannot consistently write about a building without knowing where everything is'.

Yesterday, when I was doodling away with NetBSD, I ssh'ed in from my NixOS Cosmic install. Later, having turned it off and on again, everything was updated and the garbage had been collected, all in the background, no intervention required. All nixpkgs, this setup. Didn't even notice. Still amazes me.
#nixos

On the recommendation of a friend, went to the excellent Hamburger Bahnhof yesterday - it's an art museum, not a train station, as the name may suggest!
Very cool, not in the least because of the immersive exhibit in the main hall - basically the size of a football/rugby field full of 10cm cubed wooden blocks. Full of kids building the most elaborate structures
#Berlin

The late great biophysicist, Sir Bernard Katz, who came to UCL from Leipzig in 1936, was perceptive. When I said to him, in 1991, that he must be pleased about reunification of Germany, he said "wait to see what crawls out from under stones". Yesterday it happened.
https://www.dcscience.net/BK-Phys-Soc-News…

Had no idea there were fortresses built on lakes around the year 800. Or that Latvia had a bunch. Or that the foundations and parts of them were still in place.
Visited a reconstruction built on actual foundations of the original yesterday and was amazing.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/araisi…

The Cowboys Practice Squad Player to Watch on Sunday https://insidethestar.com/the-cowboys-practice-squad-player-to-watch-on-sunday

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@chrisnelder/117043742512600046
I've been very touched by all the incredibly kind and generous responses to my announcement yesterday, especially this amazing tribute by my old friend @…

The dogs and I met one of my favourite birds yesterday, a white-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus L.). We often walk up the Don River, and - as a knowledgeable twitcher explained to me - each linear stretch of the river is the territory of one pair of dippers. Like other thrushes they seem intelligent and quite sure in their interactions with humans (and dogs). I had been hoping to see one and sure enough, at a particular place where we stop so the dogs can drink, a dipper popped up out of th…

Nobody Sent It
The comment arrived yesterday morning under my August article about Ord, Nebraska, and it opened like a neighbor at the fence....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/09/27/nobody-sent-it/

Nobody Sent It | David Boles, Blogs
The comment arrived yesterday morning under my August article about Ord, Nebraska, and it opened like a neighbor at the fence. “The other end of that geography: I walked Monowi, in Boyd Count…

Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through merchant transaction fees later (MBI Deep Dives)
https://www.mbi-deepdives.com/no-ads-muse/

Why Muse May Never Need Ads
It didn’t take too long for the app layer to start to respond to Muse. Amazon, of course, already blocked Muse. While it remains to be seen how such dispute gets resolved, we are starting to see app layers amping up their shipping speed. Just yesterday, DoorDash unveiled an

Oh thank you Fathom Analytics - AI just popped up on the referrers list! Was not there yesterday!
@…

I trust has Nelson's timeless banger has taken over everyone else's skull after yesterday's deluge. #dlws

RE: #UnitedNations General Assembly held a vote yesterday on the anti-

Now you can breathe. Blog post now published.
#weather

Of wind, weather, and Solomonic wisdom - JazMat
High winds yesterday knocked out a transformer in our neighborhood. Our power was restored late this morning. No little inconvenience. Yesterday, much of...

Yesterday I dug into a misattribution of AI in a security matter. Today my day starts with not getting in contact with someone because AI changed a person's name in their translation.
I am really trying to understand how AI will improve things ... I am really trying ...

GÉANT and the Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) sign MoU to strengthen Europe’s quantum networking future!
Yesterday, our CEO Lise Fuhr and the Director of QIA Stephanie Wehner signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore collaboration across quantum networking technologies, infrastructure and ecosystem development.
This agreement will among other things strengthen links between our communities and support the transition from lab to field trial.
🔗 Read more:

Yesterday I got a random text that said "Hi Old Man". I feel attacked. I'm sure it some a phish, but really? :-(

Oh no I just found out that one of my favorite Buddhist teachers has just gone all AI grifter
Tara Brach, WYD this is not the dharma

https://lnkd.in/p/gcynwNDX

Very niche goss in the spiritual business world: esteemed Buddhist teacher Tara Brach announced yesterday that she is launching "AvaTara" — a generative AI that has been trained on her vast catalog… | Amanda Baudier | 18 comments
Very niche goss in the spiritual business world: esteemed Buddhist teacher Tara Brach announced yesterday that she is launching "AvaTara" — a generative AI that has been trained on her vast catalog of teachings and can create custom meditations for the user... yikes. As you can imagine — there was lots of uproar in the spiritual / Buddhist community (including my own) which is not overwhelmingly friendly to the AI revolution. A thread I posted went so semi-viral that it inspired me to wr…

Were you aware of…
Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day, yesterday July 31st?
Or did you miss it like I did?
I was busy all day, turning in a book proposal to re-launch my #AccordionRevolution book with an audiobook version
So at least I was observing I guess
😊 @…

Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day | Days Of The Year
Take some time to research the many varied and unique instruments in the world, and consider picking up an uncommon instrument yourself to expand your horizons.

The new sofa and recliners arrived yesterday - yay!
The old suite was over 30 years old so I guess we were kind of due for an upgrade.
Ordered in June - delivered October.
Sadly, the last thing we'll ever buy from Cusack's as they're closing down in November. They're a Canberra institution.
#Cusacks

August 12, 2026 -- In Minnesota yesterday, close Trump ally Mike Lindell ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-12-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p32#a260813p32

Quoted by No Such Thing as a Fish podcast yesterday, from Sir Thomas More (1590s) and possibly penned by Shakespeare (my emphasis) :
"would YOU be pleased
To find a nation of such barbarous temper,
That, breaking out in hideous violence,
Would not afford you an abode on earth?
...
what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity. "

Tom Bihn has started spamming me before it’s even shipped the bag I ordered yesterday. I don’t recall a checkbox to disallow that so it must be one of those, “you bought from us, therefore you’ve opted in” deals. I assume they’ve already sold my data, too.

With all theses SaaS solutions and AI extensions in corporate tools I meanwhile spent about 10-20% of my day figuring out why stuff doesn't work as it did yesterday. Any productivity gain by these tools is largely eaten up by these tool gaslighting us. </rant>

Had a nice trip yesterday. The gondola cable car was my personal horror...but I was brave.
Lünersee, Vorarlberg, Austria.
#lake #alps #mointains

I was bored yesterday evening but also tired. In the end I decided to force myself to go for a ride anyway and figured I would not go too far. Then I found myself unicycling almost 29km (17.8 miles) around Oslo, with 320m (1050ft) of elevation gain. 🤣
https://onthegomap.com/s/rj6v1lla

Yuri is a 52-year-old Ukrainian who runs a market stall in Kherson,
not far from the front line.
Yesterday, he was sorting through vegetables when he heard the loud, distinctive buzz of a Russian drone.
As he later told the journalist Zarina Zabrisky, he had nothing more than a couple of garlic bulbs in his hands, and no weapons.
“Not even a phone.” He gestured at his tomatoes and peppers, so that the drone operator, whoever and wherever he might be, could see that h…

Putin’s Human Safari Is the Dystopian Future of War
A grim new normal dawns in Ukraine.

Some pics from Moab as we visit the Utah “Mighty Five”, yesterday was Arches and today is Canyonlands

Been a rough time, of late, dealing with parental health decline... physical and mental. I've been withdrawn as a coping mechanism, BUT one joy I have had is channeling some time into some self-hosting projects. Been a bit therapeutic, really.
Yesterday I pulled down all my audiobooks from Audible, converted them to m4b files and propped up an instance of audiobookshelf.

Android Central laid off its editorial staff of six on Wednesday; its owner, Future plc, says the site will keep publishing (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1003735/android-central-layoffs

Android Central ‘will continue’ despite laying off its staff
Android Central, a blog focused on the Android ecosystem, laid off its staff yesterday, but site owner Future confirms to The Verge that the site will continue publishing.

The Moon's umbra racing over Europe during the Total #SolarEclipse yesterday as seen by the geostationary weather satellite MTG-I1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_QQmGeX5dw

"Turning “covid was milder in children than adults” into “never close schools” is fundamentally stupid."
Right!
https://

We are learning the wrong lesson from Covid school closures
A response to yesterday's News Agents podcast...

My dog got really sick yesterday after he hurt his paw, limped, then started puking. Taken him a full day to recover from the trauma, but he seems like himself again.

While watching the #eclipse I was mostly thinking "ooh, pretty" but I did manage to squeeze a slightly more profound thought out (based upon that Iain M Banks snippet that was doing the Fedi rounds yesterday).
Given that it's probably quite rare for a planet's satellite and star to have exactly the same visible dimensions, it occurred to me that even if there are other sentient beings scattered through our galaxy, we may be the only ones that have ever gazed upon and marvelled at a solar eclipse.

My Uber driver yesterday was Pakistani, and we were figuring out where each other was from, and when I said Bangalore and asked him if I knew where it was, he immediately exclaimed, with joy, RCB. Half the world knows BLR for tech, half for Virat Kohli…

I've been getting a lot of subscription price-increase emails lately, and it feels like just yesterday I got the same messages from the same services.
This isn't sustainable en masse, especially with the cost of food and everything else still going up. I expect all of this will cause the economy to contract further, as we must keep cutting back and spending less because we're already spending more on less.
2027 is looking more and more like it's going to be an eco…

Somehow I'm even less motivated to work, than yesterday.
Didn't think that was possible.

So yesterday I decided to see how a #NeuralDSP capture sounds, to see if it would be viable to just use the #NanoCortex for say fly dates.
I captured my main rhythm sound on the IRX a couple of times, adjusting the signal gain going into the NC, until the results were free of artifacts. Each…

Major flash flooding in Spain yesterday. In Madrigueras (Albacete), 142 mm fell in just 2.5 hours, killing one woman, while many others had to be rescued. These "DANA" events are not uncommon, but record warm Mediterranean water now provides further 'fuel' to them.

#pareidolia #church #architecture

The Matterhorn of cauliflower cheeses, just one of the dishes we churned out in our two free hours of electricity yesterday #renewables

Anthropic's cryptanalysis results on HAWK and AES show AI can now understand existing cryptanalysis results, turn them into new attacks, and even extend them (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/2…

Some notes about Anthropic’s new results
Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAW…

I had a lot of fun yesterday with wife's old laptop (HP DV6). I replaced her machine a while back and kept the old one. Only major issue was the battery and I bought a replacement and plugged it in. Machine booted fine and I followed the note to let it discharge to 2% before charging.
Once it recharged I re-imaged it to #mxlinux and worked on first boot. Only issue is the displ…

Pulled a muscle in my arm overnight two nights ago. Couldn't lift my right (strong) arm at all yesterday, wasn't able to do much of anything... amazingly, after a good sleep, feel almost back to normal today - yay!

Leftover biscuits became mini breakfast sandwiches with egg, bacon and Gruyère today after a late night yesterday with films, gathering after, and work stuff. Today’s just work and necklace repair. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/uDEm2pV3piyRKWyb6

On holiday this week, got some time in the pool yesterday, might go to the beach or a museum this week… it’s a nice break after all the full-day training sessions I had to run this month, in addition to the two-week long half-day sessions last month. Plus recovering from surgery at the beginning of June.
Damn… it’s been quite a summer.

It seems my stomach isn't too fond of my late consumption of potato chips, yesterday - and the lack of sleep, thereafter.

Yesterday day it was 24 degrees, really rather warm, sunny, a bit muggy.
Yesterday evening it was the solstice.
Today is 12 degrees, so dark and wet the security lights are on, and the dogs won't go out to pee.

I had a lovely impromptu date night yesterday with the wife. We drove my Saab to a family-owned ice cream shop and back through the windy mountains of PA. It was fun to get away even for a few hours.

Petrichor, Visualized (2026)
(From our morning walk yesterday, 15 mins after the heavy rain shower passed, dense localized mist with small light shafts forming all over the little creek in this canyon. Absolute magic... and the scent, of course! 🤩)
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography

wild mint bloom from lake yesterday:
#bloomscrolling #lake #wildflower

The office yesterday. My second day ever being paid as a videographer!

Yesterday I had a look at the first episode of 'Even Though I'm a Super Timid Noble Girl, I Accepted the Bet From My Cunning Fiancé', because the opening is by Konomi Suzuki.
Dunno, if I'll keep watching beyond episode 2, but I always give media more chances than only the first episode.
#EvenThoughImASuperTimidNobleGirlIAcceptedTheBetFromMyCunningFiancé

another one from today... well yesterday for our timezone now. i was gonna tag it spookySaturday but besides it not being saturday anymore its not exactly saying spooky to me.
beauty more like
#graveyard #spiderWeb

Did a video shoot for the Balsäk Band yesterday! It's amazing how easy it can be when you have a great subject. These guys are an absolute rolling ball of chaos, but then when it's time to turn it on they know exactly what to do — and it was magic.
I'm now fully convinced I also need a 12mm lens for my camera rig. This is going to be so fucking expensive…
#TheAdventuresOfDirkBalsäk

Friend came into town yesterday so we had drinks late. Started today with a blood day and it’s also mammogram day, but for now, oatmeal with ground cherries, egg bacon tea coffee. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/2EA7Ffnggh7d8mYE9

goodnight
#dusk

#windowFriday #Fensterfreitag