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GOP's Bruce Blakeman to tap upstate NY sheriff as running mate against Gov. Hochul (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/08/us-news/gops-bruce-blakeman-to-tap-upstate-ny-sheriff-as-running-mate-against-gov-hochul/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p61#a260208p61

How Patriots wasted highly unusual opportunity in Super Bowl LX -- and have no guarantee of being back

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-pat

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

X-mas comes early this year: the ICFP 2025 talks are now on YouTube.
You can catch my talk on "Domain-specific tensor languages" below. We explore implementing tensor calculus in #Haskell, supporting both Einstein notation and Penrose diagrams to model things like General Relativity and black holes. 🕳️🚀
My talk:

And yet another developer-person I really looked up to in the past now using "AI"-generated "art" for their blog.
Really mind-blowing how people do not understand that this makes their whole writing highly questionable and unreliable—how I am supposed to know if you actually wrote that post yourself?
Get fucked.

Language conversations have become highly performative,
with a fixation on the words people are using,
not why they’re using them
or what they’re reaching for when they deploy language
like “crazy,” “lame,” or the r-word
(currently experiencing a resurgence in popularitythanks to Elon Musk).
The language is a metaphor:
We call something “insane” because that word carries a specific baggage and burden.
But the fact that mental illness is stil…

Language Wars
Conversations about language were supposed to be a starting point rather than an ending one.

So yeah, as @… is perhaps implying, part of the reason you don’t see it is that the mainstream press is under-covering everything that’s happening in Minneapolis.
BUT! There’s a second reason you might not know about this activity, equally important: the activity that followed the murder of George Floyd — rallies, protests, marches, police riots — was of a highly visible sort. What I see now is much more community infrastructure work: neighborhood organizing, watching for ICE, delivering food. That happened in 2020 too, but the scale of it now…!
https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/115857252713224712

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence
is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Hochul hails Mamdani's rise -- then questions his biggest ideas (Jeff Coltin/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/08/hochul-mamdani-new-york-budget-00643760
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p5#a251109p5

Last spring, the National Security Agency (NSA) detected evidence of
an unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Donald Trump,
according to a whistleblower’s attorney briefed on the existence of the call.
The highly sensitive communique, which has roiled Washington over the past week, was brought to the attention of the director of national intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard
– but rather than allowing NSA offic…