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Netanyahu said:
“There’s so many false reports of conversations that never happened, and I’m not going to get into that.”
“But I can tell you, I think that we do what we need to do, we’ll do what we need to do.
And I think the United States knows what is good for the United States,”
Anonymous administration officials had claimed that the Israelis reported they had an opportunity to kill the top Iranian leader, and that Trump waved them off of the plan

I had ONE meeting that required my physical presence at work today.
That one meeting got cancelled 10 minutes after I got to work.
I could be at home right now being x2 productive in my pajamas with coffee that doesn't suck.
Me:

I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
https://youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw

DO HO SUH: WALK THE HOUSE. This is startlingly good. Really worth a trip to see the exhibition at Tate Modern, if you are anywhere near. It's rare to come across innovative modern art that is so soothing, not shocking or disturbing. These rooms are all made from thin, translucent fabric held up on wire frame, complete with all the familiar fittings.
#art

“Are we the baddies?” is not a question anyone in the West has to ask themselves. There’s no question about it. You were. You are. Will you continue to be? That’s the only question that matters and the answer is entirely up to you.
Silence is complicity.
Inaction is complicity.
Apologism is complicity.
Do something!
#israel

End Israeli Apartheid (@EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image More RAF jets are being sent to the Middle East, Keir Starmer has said after Iran threatened to target UK, French and US bases if the countries help stop strikes on Israel. Additional refuelling aircraft have been deployed from UK bases and more fast jets will be sent over, it is understood. The UK already has RAF jets in the Middle East as part of Operation Shader. https://www.thenational.scot/news/25239897.uk-jets-sent-middle-east-despite-calls-de-escalation/ 🕎 �…

The full formula for the probability of "success" is:
p = {
1/(2^(-n 1)) if n is negative, or
1 - (1/(2^(n 1))) if n is zero or positive
}
(Both branches have the same value when n is 0, so the behavior is smooth around the origin.)
How can we tweak this?
First, we can introduce fixed success and/or failure chances unaffected by level, with this formula only taking effect if those don't apply. For example, you could do 10% failure, 80% by formula, and 10% success to keep things from being too sure either way even when levels are very high or low. On the other hand, this flattening makes the benefit of extra advantage levels even less exciting.
Second, we could allow for gradations of success/failure, and treat the coin pools I used to explain that math like dice pools a bit. An in-between could require linearly more success flips to achieve the next higher grade of success at each grade. For example, simple success on a crit role might mean dealing 1.5x damage, but if you succeed on 2 of your flips, you get 9/4 damage, or on 4 flips 27/8, or on 7 flips 81/16. In this world, stacking crit levels might be a viable build, and just giving up on armor would be super dangerous. In the particular case I was using this for just now, I can't easily do gradations of success (that's the reason I turned to probabilities in the first place) but I think I'd favor this approach when feasible.
The main innovation here over simple dice pools is how to handle situations where the number of dice should be negative. I'm almost certain it's not a truly novel innovation though, and some RPG fan can point out which system already does this (please actually do this, I'm an RPG nerd too at heart).
I'll leave this with one more tweak we could do: what if the number 2 in the probability equation were 3, or 2/3? I think this has a similar effect to just scaling all the modifiers a bit, but the algebra escapes me in this moment and I'm a bit lazy. In any case, reducing the base of the probability exponent should let you get a few more gradations near 50%, which is probably a good thing, since the default goes from 25% straight to 50% and then to 75% with no integer stops in between.

Sooo... I was in town and this guy looked at me funny. I'm pretty sure he was planning something.
So I shot him dead.
What do you mean I was the aggressor? What do you mean 'murder is illegal, you striking first is not self defence?'
He was blatantly shifty.
^ THE ENTIRE WESTERN MEDIA TODAY

I've been a sportsball coach for a few years now. The kids can be maddeningly distracted, but for the most it's fun getting them to see things in the game they hadn't seen before and helping them get better. But holy shit I could do without the parents (and the opposing coaches) who take it all way too seriously. This is a game. These are kids. Can't we just shut our traps and let them enjoy it?

Over the past few months, I've been building out a home server that was originally purely to run on-prem LLMs. Since I wanted it to run killer AI, I named it "Delores." Over the weekend, I received a Mac Mini in the mail that I got a good deal on and set it up to augment Dolores. I was trying to figure out what to name it and eventually went with "Teddy."
From my laptop, iPads, etc, I can remote into an Ubuntu VM, Windows VM, or (now) MacOS and do whatever I am looking to do.

Turns out the reason that the GPU accelerated level detector made the CDR slower is that I was working on test data loaded from a file, and not moving the data from CPU to GPU before starting the filter graph. So of *course* it was slower, due to the unnecessary data movement.
But that's unrealistic since on a real high-performance scope driver (e.g. thunderscope) the first thing we typically do is push data from CPU to GPU to do the int-float conversion there.
Time to repea…

About morbid thriftiness (Autism Spectrum Condition)
As you may have noticed, I am morbidly thrifty. Usually I don't buy stuff that I don't need — and if I decide that I actually need something, I am going to ponder about it for a while, look for value products, and for the best price. And with some luck, I'm going to decide I don't need it that bad after all.
One reason for that is probably how I was raised. My parents taught me to be thrifty, so I have to be. It doesn't matter that, from retrospective, I see that their thriftiness was applied rather arbitrarily to some spendings and not others, or that perhaps they were greedy — spending less on individual things so that they could buy more. Well, I can't delude myself like that, so I have to be thrifty for real. And when I fail, when I pay too much, when I get cheated — I feel quite bad about it.
The other reason is that I keep worrying about my future. It doesn't matter how rich I may end up — I'll keep worrying that I'll run out of money in the future. Perhaps I'll lose a job and won't be able to find anything for a long time, Perhaps something terrible will happen and I'm going to need to pay a lot suddenly.
Another thing is that I easily get attached to objects. Well, it's easier to be thrifty when you really don't want to replace stuff. Over time you also learn to avoid getting new stuff at all, since the more stuff you have, the more stuff may break and need to be thrown away.
Finally, there's my environmental responsibility. I admit that I don't do enough — but at least the things I can do, I do.
[EDIT: and yes, I feel bad about how expensive my new phone was, even though it's of much higher quality than the last one. Also, I got a worse deal because I waited too long.]
#ActuallyAutistic

Krugman continues:
❝While there is a cadre of Trumpist true believers who will obey the Leader under any circumstances, most of those doing the dirty work of undermining democracy and the rule of law are cowards and opportunists. They’re willing to participate in the destruction of America as we know it because they believe that many others will do the same. As a result, they believe that they are unlikely to face any personal consequences for their actions and may even be rewarded for their lawbreaking.
And what of those who oppose Trumpism? While there are heroes willing to take a stand against tyranny whatever the personal cost, most anti-Trumpists are reluctant to stick their necks out unless they believe that they are part of a widespread resistance that will grant them some measure of safety in numbers.
In other words, the victory or defeat of competitive authoritarianism will depend to a large extent on which side ordinary people believe will win. If Trump looks unstoppable, resistance will wither away and democracy will be lost. On the other hand, if he appears weak and stymied, resistance will grow and — just maybe — American democracy will survive.❞
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What’s the difference between ordinary functions and arrow functions in JavaScript?
Arrow functions (also known as ‘rocket’ functions) are concise and convenient. However, they have subtle differences compared to function declarations and function expressions. So how do you know which one to use, and when?
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What’s the difference between ordinary functions and arrow functions in JavaScript?
Arrow functions (also known as ‘rocket’ functions) are concise and convenient. However, they have subtle differences compared to function declarations and function expressions. So how do you know which one to use, and when?

"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried [Kuno]. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but it is not everything. I see something like you in this plate, but I do not see you. I hear something like you through this telephone, but I do not hear you. That is why I want you to come. Come and stop with me. Pay me a visit, so that we can meet face to face, and talk about the hopes that ar…

If you thought the Centrelink phone line wait was bad, please, please, do not attempt to call HESTA.
A hefty percentage of the things that should be on their website are still not there. This is after a 7 week period of unavailability and another 2 weeks of being live again.
I needed to download a form (normally available on their website) to upload to Centrelink so I can renew my HCC. You have 28 days to do so. HESTA is closed on weekends. Their help bot basically tells you cal…

from my link log —
SIMD in Rust: you do not need multithreading to do more than one thing at a time.
https://sander.saares.eu/2024/12/31/you-do-not-need-multithreading-to-do-more-than-one-thing-at-a-time/

You do not need multithreading to do more than one thing at a time
As hardware gets faster and more capable, software keeps getting slower. It is remarkable how inefficiently typical apps use the capabilities of modern processors! Often this means an app is doing …

I believe I have managed to prove my ID in order to comply with the new laws that say I have to prove my ID to own the business I own that I'm sure already asked me to prove my ID when I registered it.
First we tried the on-web version, but that apparently relies upon the corporates having managed to profile and track me, because it told me they had no questions upon which to base identification. Good I guess? My avoid-tracking systems must be working at least a bit?
Next we tried the android app, but apparently the phone I tried that with is too old and the app won't install.
So next option is turning up at a post office with a printed letter. I don't own a printer though, so had to have them post that to me.
Took the letter and a driving licence up to the post office today and "It's not going through" they said, pointing to a stalled progress bar on an android app on a tablet.
Um. Okay. So?
Just wait longer apparently. About ten minutes and it finally proceeded and the post office man took a photograph of me after asking me to disrobe of my robe, strip down to a teeshirt and jeans.
Not sure in what sense this has proven my ID any more than it was already proven to get the driving licence or company registration in the first place?
Apparently I now have government logins for "One Login" and for "government gateway" and they are not the same thing? But sort of are the same thing?
Can't say I really understand it. Expect they'll introduce a third government login when they do these Digital ID cards they're talking about.
God knows how I'm supposed to know which to use when the company tax records need updating in a few months.
#id #government #oneLogin

Whom to Respond To? A Transformer-Based Model for Multi-Party Social Robot Interaction
He Zhu, Ryo Miyoshi, Yuki Okafuji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10960 h…

Whom to Respond To? A Transformer-Based Model for Multi-Party Social Robot Interaction
Prior human-robot interaction (HRI) research has primarily focused on single-user interactions, where robots do not need to consider the timing or recipient of their responses. However, in multi-party interactions, such as at malls and hospitals, social robots must understand the context and decide both when and to whom they should respond. In this paper, we propose a Transformer-based multi-task learning framework to improve the decision-making process of social robots, particularly in multi-u…

@… I don’t think I know quite enough either.
I do know that the cloud providers seem to outsource “function” to the sysadmin, and provide a bag of tools you can use, or not, to make your hosted thing secure and available, or not.
There is no one-size-fits-all solution out there, so I’m not expecting them to provide one. However, there are totally broken conf…

Not necessarily an IV for input. Sometimes they just need to do the blood draw from my hand because I have terrible veins. Usually results in some bruising
I don’t bother trying to cover up when that happens to me… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Do I happen to know anyone in the EU with a LaserDisc Domesday Duplicator setup?
I really want to have a digital rip of a rare laserdisc, but I really don't feel like getting into a whole new ecosystem.
Willing to pay for the time and effort.
EDIT: My disc is a Japanese NTSC release, making things even harder...

I need to dispel some table accessibility myths.
1. `<thead>` and `<tbody>` are not exposed to users. Using `<thead>` to wrap multiple header rows has no effect (and you shouldn’t have multiple header rows). Partial ref: https://adrianroselli.com/2022/02/colu

Column Headers and Browser Support
Data tables need column headers. Monolitten, a granite column of humans (each with a head) at Vigelandsanlegget, a sculpture park in Frognerparken in Oslo, Norway. What they probably do not need is a new set of column headers every few rows, particularly not when they change the meaning of the…

Last thing to do today accomplished: got the Allen&Heath CQ-12T mixer's firmware updated and now it works like it's supposed to under Linux. No more distortion/audio corruption which makes me happy. Absolutely love this mixer, but I hated having to wait for those kinds of issues to get fixed.
#audio

Product idea announcement:
Securing your company's most important digital assets of the 21st century: [productA] transforms your most valued AI prompts into blockchain-secured NFTs.
(Yes, I feel dirty to have come up with such an idea. But I won't be the only one coming up with such 💩, and by posting it I can later tell people "See? ProductB is just plagiarism!". I don't have any plans to make such a product. If your moral code allows you to do it to exploit …

Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities,
a move that comes after large protests erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Trump in a social media posting called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials
“to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in Hist…

Trump directs ICE to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities
President Donald Trump has directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities after large protests have erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Trump in a social media posting Sunday called on ICE officials “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.” He added that to reach the goal officials ”must…

"you need to make it cheap and easy for people to make the switch. If it’s expensive, most people won’t do it. If it’s difficult or inconvenient, then forget it."
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/the-false-dichotomy-of-systemic-and?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Did you know that you can disable #Android apps? https://www.guidingtech.com/how-to-disable-apps-on-android-and-what-happens-when-you-do/
The down…

Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
CALLY: We've got to help them!
TARRANT: No. It's too late. There's nothing we can do. [The links rip at Reeval and Toron's clothing.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/274 B7B3

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Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Reminder: do not travel to the US if it's not necessary.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/irish-tourist-ice-detention

Openreach (who operates a big chunk of internet access in the UK) collects a lot of data about end-user internet use and can generate press releases based on analysis of it.
This is like an advert for VPNs.
https://www.openreach.com/news/how-do-you-

How do you broadband? Openreach reveals UK hotspot map
Whether it’s online shopping, gaming or TV super streaming, your most likely broadband habits depend on where you live in the UK, Openreach reveals today.In the first research of its kind to mark 25 years of home broadband in the UK, Openreach, has combined its own data with extensive consumer research to map the UK cities by their online acti...

"The only way I can move past the absurdity of what I do, is to commit to the point of absurdity."
-Jake Gyllenhaal
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Great stuff in this article but I do not know if unplugging from the broligarch's platforms is the solution to end their delusional grandeur.
It is the same with the climate crisis. This cannot hinge on the individual to solve but the whole system has to change. Individual action is good but that is not enough.
(For all its shortfalls the EU is regulating parts of the tech industry, but there has to be more.)

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

Do I know any #accordion or #concertina folks in #Belfast who might be up to attending this auction and shipping me an instrument if I’m fool enough to win one?
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion…

The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection at Ross's Online Auctions
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection Bidding will take place via the-saleroom.com. You can bid by clicking here. Ross's Auctions is proud to present this landmark sale of Northern Ireland's lar

#nyc isn’t ready for temperatures above 100 degrees. #hot #heatwave
Prepare yourself for a 50 degree F swing in one weeks time.
Do your vulnerable neighbors have access to a/c?
😥
NYC Folks - do you have a non electric way to cool yourself? (Water sprayers outside , shade?)

Do you need Hydrogen to power a small ship🚢 covering a distance of 5 kilometers? No. It can easily be done with batteries🔋
Yet the ferry MF Hydra in 🇳🇴 runs not just on Hydrogen but on Liquefied Hydrogen💧, transported more than 1,300km from Germany🚚🇩🇪
The ferry was supposed to use H2 made in an electrolyzer, but that was delayed for multiple years.
Where's the Hydrogen💧 coming from that the MF Hydra consumes? Unclear.
I made a video🎥

Good idea, perhaps the Commission could put this vision into practice for #EV roaming, so that the #AFIR provisions do not remain a dead letter?
From: @…

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image 🛬 Plane lands. Flight mode off. 💬 “Welcome to Italy! Use your mobile plan just like at home.” 8 years of free EU roaming – we've come a long way: → 2000s: €0.50–€1/min calls → 2007: roaming caps → 2017: the end of roaming charges → 2022: the improved “Roam like at home” pack extended to 2032, bringing: 🌐 Fast 5G access across the EU 💰 Protection from unexpected charges 🆘 Better access to emergency services Fair for opera…

How to Talk to Loved Ones About #Psychedelics
Do you think it's time for mom to #trip? Here's how to start the conversation.

On the Best Time to Fix Your Home Heating: Summer! - Do not wait until ice is forming on your bath to find out that your heating is broken! Upgrade or fix in summer, test early autumn. #OperationTuneup - https://www.

On the Best Time to Fix Your Home Heating: Summer!
Do not wait until ice is forming on your bath to find out that your heating is broken! Upgrade or fix in summer, test early autumn. #OperationTuneup

I decided that kernel module to flash an LED on disk activity had no business being a kernel module now since it's not pulling privileged data from inside the kernel to do its thing. It's a userspace binary that does the exact same thing (polling /proc/diskstats) now. It should work on any machine that has an LED controllable via /sys/class/led/ (e.g. power, caps lock, whatever)

Wow they really have no idea what to do(?) 😥
"Where’s Firefox going next? You tell us." https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/where-s-firefox-going-next-you-tell-us/m-p/100698
via HN:

Where’s Firefox going next? You tell us.
Hey Firefox friends! We’re trying something new and would love your help. Features like tab groups, vertical tabs, profiles, new tab wallpapers, PWAs, and taskbar pinning weren’t just ideas – they were direct responses to what you told us you wanted. Your input has helped shape where Firefox is tod...

#EroticMusings 7: Do you have a distinct style? Did you develop it intentionally? Do you want to change it?
I think that my choice of vocabulary, especially in the erotic passages, is quite unique. Also my tendency to start German sentences with "but" and my very own brand of gender neutral language, because German is everything but (unless you costumise it).
Some of …

If the Iranian leadership has the feeling that Israel wants to completely destroy Iran's military capabilities, why wouldn't they do something extreme like attacking US bases in the region, destroy oil installations in the neighbourhood , close Hormuz etc, while they still have the capabilities... 🤔
There doesn't seem to be an opening for de-escalation for Iran?
#iran

Sometimes, the best way to create is within confines. That's what Stan Stewart is choosing to do in his current short-term project.
#NewMusic #ComingSoon

Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Colston Loveland injury update: Rookie TE progressing in recovery, expects to 'do a lot more' in training camp

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

#Discord apparently only accounted for OAuth links to activities to be posted, so when I posted a link to a Scatman John bot (don’t ask, or do if you want) it came out like this:

But, what makes me particularly proud and happy - with all the thinking over the last few days about what to do with Linux, returning to Fedora was never an issue! In the end, it was a decision between Debian and Arch, two distributions that couldn't be more different. But I opted for stability over up-to-dateness. Better safe than sorry.
#linux

This comment from a Microsoft announcement post is a vibe

#DH2025 Cha's group trying to come up with generalisable workflows. Working responsibly to apply this new technology. Looking for tasks that researchers have in common, working with LLM-friendly data. Rather than using very large language models, small models do amazing work on very specific tasks.

"I do not want to be the one who keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our tent and actively trying to engage more of our communities.”
Teachers union president Randi Weingarten resigns from DNC - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/15/weingarten-dnc-00407364

Odd, I tried to get him and everyone else at Diem25 on the fediverse years ago but 🤷‍♂️
https://ar.al/notes/farewell-not-goodbye/
Do as I say, not as I do, I guess.

OHNOES what will Emperor Trump's minions do?
(BTW: Subscribe to The Onion. I subscribe to the monthly paper & it's so worth it. #trump

Wifey (@…) makes cool resin things. She made these for me - they fade to purple on the undersides. This photo doesn't even do justice to how cool they are. And they glow in the dark, too. Rad as shit
#resin #tentacles

Robię ciemnie z domowej spiżarni i będę miał prawie wszystko do nowego filmu na mój fotograficzny kanał. Będzie to filmik o Polaroidzie EE33 do którego nie produkują już wkładów i wykorzystaniu go w bardzo niekonwencjonalny sposób.
Mam nadzieję że coś z tego wyjdzie 🤞😄
#fotografia

Is it just me, or do LLMs have a strong tendency to try and guess what you want to hear and then tell you exactly that, regardless of factual accuracy?
#AI #ML #LLM

Terms and Conditions (Do Not) Apply: Understanding Exploitation Disparities in Design of Mobile-Based Financial Services
Lindah Kotut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10970

Terms and Conditions (Do Not) Apply: Understanding Exploitation Disparities in Design of Mobile-Based Financial Services
Mobile-based financial services have made it possible for the traditionally unbanked to access infrastructure that have been routinely unattainable. Researchers have explored how these systems have made for safer environments to send and receive money and have expanded financial opportunities such as increased borrowing. With this expansion, challenges such as detrimental interest rates, lack of access to policy documents, and inadequate user protective guardrails emerge, amplifying the risks d…

Sonnet 117 - CXVII
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;
That I have frequent been with unknown minds,
And given to time your own dear-purchased right;
That I have hoisted sail to all the winds
Which should transport me farthest from your sight.
Book both my wilfulness and errors down,
And on just proof surmis…

I realized that nothing I bought in the last couple months was satisfactory.
Tried to get an air purifier for the crazy dust in my room, didn't do shit
Tried to get a parasol for the balcony, can't be closed.
Got a kvm, doesn't turn on with mint.
Got a mobile standing desk, doesn't get tall enough.
Got a supposedly vertically adjustable monitor, doesn't adjust.
And then some more.
And all of this was researched and still turned ou…

Bipartisan bill aims to create CISA-HHS liaison for hospital cyberattacks https://therecord.media/bill-proposes-cisa-hhs-liaison-hospital-cyberattacks

University-internal small research funding (20k) with a success rate of less than 10% (5 funded projects out of 62 applications). If I just calculate that each proposal needed one to two working days, the funding merely covers these hours from a very high controlling perspective—the university as 1 entity. Of course, the winning researchers get some hours funded to actually do something, everybody else just inputs unfunded hours. Again

Chinese state media: researchers successfully implanted a brain-computer interface in a tetraplegia patient in March, the second country after the US to do so (Karoline Kan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

What do parade attendance and hands have in common besides size?
https://mastodon.social/@DerFlanhop/114687128725758582

DerFlanhop (@DerFlanhop@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image We all know what to do right now #Nokings

What do parade attendance and hands have in common besides size?
https://mastodon.social/@DerFlanhop/114687128725758582

DerFlanhop (@DerFlanhop@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image We all know what to do right now #Nokings

And that's how you do it 🎤🗑️ #AIChatBot

Emmanuel Macron has criticised Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland
as he became the first foreign head of state to visit the vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory since the US president began making explicit threats to annex it.
“I don’t think that’s what allies do,”
Macron said as he arrived in the Danish autonomous territory for a highly symbolic visit aimed at conveying
“France’s and the EU’s solidarity” with Greenlandon his way to a summit of G7 leaders in …

The justification that Trump used to claim (illegally) federalize the California National Guard and deploy the marines is from 10 U.S. Code § 252:
> Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
Specifically he's called out the "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States."
Trump cannot legally hold office because of his participation in an insurrection. Trump should have been impeached and removed on day 1 of his first administration based on the Emoluments clause. Trump colluded with Russia to manipulate the election, so even his swearing in was a failure of the US government to "enforce the laws of the United States." The supreme court justices he appointed explictly undermined and continue to "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States," as with all of his appointees. The troops he has federalized remain deployed, even after being declared illegal.
When, then, do we call the entire time since January 20th, 2017 to now an insurrection and his government an illegal assembly? Who will order them to "disperse?"
#NoKingsDay

On the Gravitational Origin of the QCD Axion
Georgios K. Karananas, Mikhail Shaposhnikov, Sebastian Zell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11836 https://

On the Gravitational Origin of the QCD Axion
Gravity can give rise to (pseudo)scalar fields, for instance due to torsion. In particular, axions of gravitational origin have been proposed as a minimal and compelling solution to the strong CP problem. In this work, we critically examine the feasibility of this approach. We demonstrate that models in which the scalar field couples to fermionic currents only through derivatives do not yield a satisfactory axion. Moreover, we identify the necessary conditions for generating a gravitational axi…

So Via Rail charges you if you want seats that are not rear facing.. but even when they do, they often do not honour the seat assignments.
Great.
https://www.thestar.com/business/th…

The Soul (緝魂) (2021) is a bleak near-future sci-fi-ish mystery.
In the year 2031, the CEO of a Taiwanese biomedical corporation is found bludgeoned to death in his bedroom, with an occult symbol carved into the door. The obvious culprit is the estranged son, upset that dad had something to do with mom's death.
The prosecutor Wen-chao is not so sure. Wen-chao suspects the CEO's second wife, who seems harmless but might be possessed by the vengeful spirit of the first wife.…

I don’t want to dwell •too• much on the shadenfreude of Trump’s pitiful parade, but I do think it’s worth just taking this in:
Trump’s political success has always hinged on him knowing how to be a reality TV star, knowing better than the news orgs themselves that political “news” is in fact reality TV, knowing how to manipulate that reality TV show.
And today, he failed at that completely. His reality show sucked. The news of the day just ran right over him. https://kolektiva.social/@Voline/114685755430626127

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
🎵 Zero
#NowPlaying #YeahYeahYeahs
https://erolalkan.bandcamp.com/album/erol-alkan-reworks-franz-ferdinand-do-you-want-to-yeah-yeah-yeahs-zero
https://open.spotify.com/track/6RnfjXnNuKK6zca1d9W0Ir

Cowboys Urged to Take Drastic Step on Former 2nd-Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/urged-take-drastic-step-former-2nd-round-pick/?adt_ei=[email]

Do massive neutrino states really exist?
Danil D. Shelkovkin, Oleg V. Teryaev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11164 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Do massive neutrino states really exist?
In neutrino physics, it is conventional to work with massive states corresponding to defined neutrino masses. However, in weak interaction processes, only flavor states participate, and the propagation can be described by an off-diagonal mass matrix. In this work, we operate directly with the non-diagonal mass matrix and employ a quantum field theory approach to describe neutrino oscillations within the plane-wave approximation, circumventing the use of wave packets. Within this framework, nume…

So, I have been working on a video game for a while now, I will send random works from it around with the hashtag #GardenGame from now on, I will try to do so in as regular a basis as possible, so for today you get some plants. I will try to give something better next week

This AI phone agent is playing an audible sound effect of a clackety mechanical keyboard as if someone is listening and typing.
I understand what they are trying to do, but it has the complete opposite effect on me. Whatever goon middle manager opted for this? I want them to suffer.
And the amount of typing that it pretends is ludicrously longer than the information provided. It's like an amplifier for my irritation.

I used to do this too. Not had a Peperami in yeeeeaaars but I'd probably do it again if I had one today. @…
https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/114857922168330473

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

PSA: In case you run #Ubuntu 24.10 with #ZFS on Root, DO NOT TRY TO UPGRADE YET! You are very likely to run into a #Linux kernel deadlock mid-flight during the upgrade which leaves you with a broken system. …

System deadlock during Ubuntu upgrade 24.10→25.04 with ZFS root due to update-grub calling `ls /.zfs/snapshot/…` via `10_linux_zfs` causing kernel lock at mount.zfs · Issue #17337 · openzfs/zfs
System information Type Version/Name Distribution Name Ubuntu Distribution Version 24.10 Kernel Version 6.11.0-25-generic Architecture x86_64 OpenZFS Version zfs-2.2.6-1ubuntu1.1, zfs-kmod-2.2.6-1u...

@…
I'd never heard of Pierre Novellie til I listened to this. I find his comedy funnier than most - it's worth finding him on YT and listening.
How Do You Cope?: Pierre Novellie: 'I wasn't able to get what I wanted out of life' | 18
Episode webpage:

Wondery - Feel The Story
Wondery, an Amazon company, is a podcast studio known for character-driven, binge-worthy stories including Dr. Death, British Scandal, Even the Rich, and Business Wars, and distribution of hit partner shows Morbid and How I Built This.

2/3
🔹 Pros:
✅ Scalable – your income isn’t tied to hours worked
✅ Leverage – teams, automation, or systems do the heavy lifting
✅ More time freedom over the long term
🔹 Cons:
❌ Requires upfront effort to build systems
❌ May involve an initial investment
❌ Requires leadership & strategic thinking
💡 Best for: Those ready to shift from self-employed to system owner – turning their side hustle into a real asset.

A great piece of analysis with lots of suggestions for what to do in response to the Trump administration's efforts to destroy U.S. research infrastructure. I appreciate the inclusion of the work to #DefendResearch against #censorship.

We've got a gang of not-so-little-anymore ones over for Kid2's birthday party. As per instructions, I'm making homemade fries and chicken nuggets. I'm totally not picking out the smallest, crispiest fries and eating them myself. Why would anyone think that? What kind of a monster would do that sort of thing?

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
AVON: Self-defence. Some animals bristle out their fur to frighten their enemies. But that doesn't count for much in the dark.
VILA: So what does Sopron do?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/603 B7B5

Measuring and Minimizing Disturbance of Marine Animals to Underwater Vehicles
Levi Cai, Youenn J\'ez\'equel, T. Aran Mooney, Yogesh Girdhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11335

Measuring and Minimizing Disturbance of Marine Animals to Underwater Vehicles
Do fish respond to the presence of underwater vehicles, potentially biasing our estimates about them? If so, are there strategies to measure and mitigate this response? This work provides a theoretical and practical framework towards bias-free estimation of animal behavior from underwater vehicle observations. We also provide preliminary results from the field in coral reef environments to address these questions.

Donald Trump presents himself as strong, indomitable, and always forceful.
But when disaster strikes — whether hurricane, flash flood, or pandemic — he’s oddly helpless.
To hear Trump tell it, he has infinite power to do good and no power to do bad
-- and anyone who says otherwise is an enemy of the country.
To believe in MAGA is to believe in his simultaneous omnipotence and impotence, depending on whichever is convenient for partisan purposes.
This dynamic h…

Disasters are for the greater glory of Trump
He cannot fail. He can only be failed.

Hrmm, it seems like there aren't many sources on how to put a PiKVM onto a proper VLAN. It seems like it's using `systemd-network` for networking, might have to put together an article on how to do it properly assuming I can remember correctly.
#pikvm #homelab

New in #Python world: #setuptools now vendors deep dependencies with LGPL license. Not that I do mind (but some people and companies do!) — but these dependencies aren't even used! I mean, `autocommand` is just a dependency of some scripts in `jaraco.text` that aren't used by setuptools.
Oh, wait, I actually do care, because I need to fix LICENSE in dev-python/ensurepip-setuptools.
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/5045
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/5049

I agree entirely with Rich.
BUT: there is a sound basis for not implementing mail functionality in systems that do not absolutely demand it. https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/114688068144011594

Trash panda update: they're not gone but seem to be starting to learn we don't like them. The super soaker is the weapon of choice - they hate it but it doesn't do any permanent damage.
I had one pop out in broad daylight earlier and pummeled it with the super soaker until it climbed up a tree out of range.
Another one showed up after dark and froze when I walked out the back door, maybe it thought I couldn't see it?
It thought wrong.
EDIT: The one in…

The justification that Trump used to claim (illegally) federalize the California National Guard and deploy the marines is from 10 U.S. Code § 252:
> Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
Specifically he's called out the "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States."
Trump cannot legally hold office because of his participation in an insurrection. Trump should have been impeached and removed on day 1 of his first administration based on the Emoluments clause. Trump colluded with Russia to manipulate the election, so even his swearing in was a failure of the US government to "enforce the laws of the United States." The supreme court justices he appointed explictly undermined and continue to "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States," as with all of his appointees. The troops he has federalized remain deployed, even after being declared illegal.
When, then, do we call the entire time since January 20th, 2017 to now an insurrection and his government an illegal assembly? Who will order them to "disperse?"
#NoKingsDay

»Over 600 Laravel Apps Exposed to Remote Code Execution Due to Leaked APP_KEYs on GitHub:
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a serious security issue that allows leaked Laravel APP_KEY's to be weaponized to gain remote code execution capabilities on hundreds of applications.«
Never store your access keys in Git, especially not in the code – do programmers need to be taught this?!??
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Over 600 Laravel Apps Exposed to Remote Code Execution Due to Leaked APP_KEYs on GitHub
GitGuardian uncovers 260,000 leaked Laravel APP_KEYs on GitHub, exposing over 600 apps to remote code execution.

“Supreme Court win for girl with epilepsy expected to make disability lawsuits against schools easier”
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-disabilities-schools-education-access-lawsuits-56f67cf12f1f9c4a7e…

Supreme Court rules for girl with epilepsy in case over access to education
A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy has won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that’s expected to make it easier for families of children with disabilities to sue schools over access to education. Thursday's ruling comes after her family said her Minnesota school district didn’t do enough to get her the disability accommodations she needs to learn. The girl and her family appealed to the Supreme Court after lower courts ruled against their disability discrimination case. Some courts h…

I have n8n running on the home server, copying data down from a number of web services and I have a plan for what to do with it that really excites me. I might start blogging again to talk about it.

Researcher: a DOGE staffer inadvertently published a private API key for xAI on GitHub on July 13, exposing access to 52 LLMs, including "grok-4-0709" (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/doge-denizen-marko-elez-le…

It seems like, again, just following the plain logic of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence (which, again, I do not subscribe to), that every law passed under Trump, every supreme court justice appointment by Trump, every supreme court ruling by Trump appointed justices, all the illegal firing, etc, must all, necessarily, be null and void.
And if not following from the insurrection act, or from the oath of office, then following from the Declaration of Independence itself. The logic here being that a constitution is a contract between the people and their government, which the later upholds in order to maintain its legal status. The violation of said laws by the government violates "consent of the governed" (which, again, I have issues with the concept entirely but we're just going to ignore that) and therefore nullifies the authority of that government, granting " the right of the people to alter or to abolish it."
That seems a lot like the hard reset some folks have been looking for. Given that existing flaws allowed this state to be reached, it would also be necessary for the true authority to correct those mistakes before assuming authority that derives from these principles.
Now, personally, I don't subscribe to any of this logic but it's interesting to explore, as an outsider, where the logic goes.

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
MELLANBY: I don't know. [Lauren enters]
LAUREN: [Enters] Do you hear it, Father?
AVON: Any idea where it came from?
LAUREN: There's nothing inside the ship.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/257 B7B2

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What's the best way to average a bunch of angles to give a meaningful result around the wrap (i.e. -179 and 179 degrees should average to 180 degrees, not zero)?
My initial thought is to convert the angle to 2D I/Q coordinates on the complex plane, then do a vector average of the points, then atan2 to get back an angle.
Is there a better option that doesn't do trig for every sample?

Now personally, I'm not invested in the law and I reject the logical underpinnings of the whole thing. The US is founded on land that already had people on it, that already had multiple systems of authority, so there can be no claim that it has any legal authority to exist at all.
But it's hard to ignore the inconsistency here. Accepting the logic from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, there is no way in which the current state can be legitimate and which Trump has the authority to do anything. The last legal president, again, following the logic that assumes such a thing even possible, was Barak Obama. Since the transfer of power, the country has failed to enforce the law.
If the executive cannot complete their oath, then they are considered vacant under the 25th amendment. If the cabinet fails to invoke article 4, then they too are involved in the insurrection (again, simply following the logic outlined pretty clearly here) as are any who would fail to support the invocation.
Since a full takeover of the federal government by insurrectionists wasn't really planned for, I'm guessing that it would necessarily go to the states, being the only remaining legal authority.

We should acknowledge that if there is an "Epstein client list",
there’s a good chance Donald Trump is on it.
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump said in 2002.
“He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Is that why Bondi won’t release the list?
Quite the enticing possibility.
If there ever was a case made for conspiracy theorists,…

Trump betrays his conspiracy-addled base
From Epstein to chemtrails, they're learning it was all a scam.

Test fitting boards in a STEP export of the current rack chassis using Dune3D for the first time.
It's definitely got some rough edges but I think it has potential. Doesn't feel as polished as SolveSpace but the STEP import is a key feature I've found missing in other tools.
But I can't figure out how to do boolean operations on imported step geometry, even if I say it's part of a solid body I'm not able to e.g. do an extrusion to cut off the lid of the ch…

Putin took Trump for granted.
Trump will make him pay for it.
Trump’s announcement on Monday about aid to Ukraine proves once again that he is nothing if not thin- skinned.

If Trump has been consistent about one thing throughout his tumultuous, decade-long political career,
it is support for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and skepticism of Ukraine.
In 2014, Trump praised Putin’s illegal seizure of Crimea
— a prelude to Russia’s full-blown invasion of Ukr…

Putin took Trump for granted. He’s going to pay for his mistake.
After the president’s startling, welcome shift on Ukraine, there’s more to do.