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“Loudermilk’s referral is only the potential first step in a full-feature Orwellian nightmare that Trump and company likely have in store for those they consider disloyal.” open.substack.com/pub/harrylit…



Happy Solstice from the western edge of the North American continent.


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Today was big cookie day. Got to break out my weird cookie cutters for the pepparkakor. None of these cookies are going to make it home with me. My family are locusts.





Went in for a cleaning and feeding shift with the cats and kittens at Almost Home earlier tonight. The kittens wanted to play and cuddle. Sweet little Mildred came out and wanted pets, and big fuzzy girl Augustine wanted to spend a lot of time together. She goes home tomorrow!


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“The need for non-commercial, urban public space is in always high demand, and we are very glad to provide that.” He then sums up the project’s ethos, “One should be able to spend time in a public place without having to spend money.”


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"The Last Witness. Thermal atmospherics on my travels last week."

#photography

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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

With that many people maybe they could run the Guantánamo occupiers off the island on a rail.
in reply to davel

i envy them for display such solidarity; it gives me hope that masses of people are capable of seeing past their immediate needs and onto the core of their problems unlike my american compatriots.


I'm daily using FreeBSD and Gentoo with "-systemd" global use flag, so I didn't closely watch to the latest news from the Linux world.

But, really?! They removing text logs from /var/log?? I bet, at 2026 there will be binary database for configuration instead of text files in /etc/ and /usr/local/etc/ 😁

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#Linux #FreeBSD #Gentoo #UnixPhilosophy



Implemented a few things in #OpenCrystalCaves like this odd, autonomous mine cart

Also enhanced the level editor to show tile ids and unknown tiles - this should help reverse engineering a lot, I don't have to squint at a hex editor anymore!

#CrystalCaves #GameDev ScreenshotSaturday #OpenSource #DOS #RetroGames


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@kcollett thanks! I love power plant control rooms too. Great idea for a zoom background




Latvia Sanctions Another 13 Georgian Citizens – Civil Georgia byteseu.com/582207/ #Latvia



Neurosymbolic AI -- Why, What, and How


Neurosymbolic AI is a hybrid approach aiming to bridge the gap between neural networks' ability to learn patterns and symbolic AI's capacity for logical reasoning and explainability.

This approach may offer the best of both worlds combining robust learning from data and clear with understandable reasoning based on knowledge. It has the potential to outperform systems relying solely on either neural networks or symbolic logic and to provide clear explanations for its decisions.

The approach involves encoding structured symbolic knowledge into a format that can be integrated with neural networks and then mapping information from neural patterns back to structured symbolic representations.



Another example of how UC Davis can win "Bike Friendly" awards while still being very car-centric.

This intersection used to have wooden bollards. UC Davis driving employees & contractors would unlock them and leave them out. I kept putting them back in. Someone didn't like that so they put concrete in the sheaths and installed screw-in flex posts instead. Which driving employees took out.

I've been poorly so I haven't been putting them back in. Tried today - the holes are too full of compost.

in reply to Megan Lynch (she/her)

The wooden bollards were better than these screw-in flex posts, but the fact is that the car-centrism is so bad at UC Davis that it makes its best compost in the sheaths that are supposed to contain bollards.

They need heavy duty metal bollards. If it's "too hard" for abled driving employees to take them out and put them back once they've rolled through, they need to get retractable ones. Because right now a lot of $ is wasted on equipment employees themselves vandalize & steal.



For some reason just thought of my first calculator that I put on layaway at ZCMI in Salt Lake City, and my high school Physics teacher wouldn't let me use it, because I needed to learn to use a slide rule 🙄
I didn't have a job, how did I do layaway? Mysteries of adolescence.
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oh man. I hated my Texas Instruments engineering calculator so much, I sold it the second my college statistics class was over. It cost $50 brand new in 1984.

BTW, my dad was a cartographer for the Air Force in Alaska, before it was a state. He had to use a slide rule (obvs.) and he hated it.

in reply to Kim Possible

I would have sold anything related to my college statistics class. The professor used "otherwise" when he meant "therefore." I dropped it, I have limits 😆
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@kimlockhartga I was a cartographer for the forest service for a couple of years, thought I could transfer to Oregon, but Reagan stopped any transfers that weren't to military mapping. Sigh.
in reply to Mike

ugh. Such a great skill. You'd think it would be welcomed.
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