Jeff Moore

The 20 Democratic Senators who voted just last week with MAGA to continue arming Netanyahu: •Michael Bennet (CO) •Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) •Alex Padilla (CA) •Richard Blumenthal (CT) •John Fetterman (PA) •Adam Schiff (CA) •Cory Booker (NJ) •Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) •Chuck Schumer (NY) •Maria Cantwell (WA) •Maggie Hassan (NH) •Jacky Rosen (NV) •Chris Coons (DE) •John Hickenlooper (CO) •Mark Warner (VA) •Ron Wyden (OR)

Reminder: Here are the 20 Democratic Senators who voted just last week with every MAGA to continue arming Netanyahu. Don’t hold your breath for them to condemn Netanyahu for using the weapons they gave him to murder the Al Jazeera journalists.

With Democrats like these who needs MAGA fascists. Smh

Five Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital The broadcaster condemns the "blatant attack on press freedom", while the IDF alleges one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

Five Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike near Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital. Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa were in a tent for journalists at the hospital's main gate when it was struck.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

"A government-sanctioned ‘truth arbiter’ will soon arrive at CBS.Their role will be to ensure that journalists at CBS do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.That should alarm anyone who values the core democratic principle of a free and independent press.

“More alarmingly, the company agreed to never-before-seen forms of government control over newsroom decisions and editorial judgment—actions that violate both the First Amendment and the law.

"It embraced this Administration’s radical notion that discriminatory behavior should be tolerated and even embraced, while efforts to expand opportunity for everyone should be rejected.

“This will be a new company, born in shame after trading away fundamental First Amendment principles in pursuit of pure profit.

“Today marks the final chapter of a dark moment in our nation’s history.After months of cowardly capitulation, including an unprecedented payout to settle a meritless lawsuit in exchange for regulatory approval, Paramount and Skydance have completed their merger, and ‘New Paramount’ will be created.

WASHINGTON, August 7, 2025 — FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez issued the following statement in response to the closing of the Paramount-Skydance merger:

www.fcc.gov/document/gom...

It was precisely Watergate that set off a multi-decade effort on the right to protect Republicans from ever again facing real accountability. The experience of facing consequences for their actions was deeply traumatic for them.

How Loud is the Distortion from Your Power Amplifier? We took Stereophile's THD+N plots for 7 top-rated amplifiers and replotted the data to show the loudness of the distortion and noise at the listening position.

A mildly snarky but I believe genuinely interesting and useful Application Note from Benchmark, calling for a re-thinking of how THD+N plots are presented:

How Loud is the Distortion from Your Power Amplifier? - Benchmark Media Systems
benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/applic...

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a scan of text from the 1974 Sinclair Scientific Calculator manual, reading: "Actually the calculation has used only the first 3 digits of 1250000-namely, 125. The strings of O's are confusing, irrelevant and dangerous (since omitting one will throw out the whole calculation)."

Fixed Point Considered Harmful
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Oh, and another little quirk of this Sinclair Scientific was that it always used scientific notation, so its manual went so far as to shame fixed-point as "confusing, irrelevant and dangerous"!

Easy-peasy: to enter those first two numbers you want to put on the stack before an operation, you hit "C" so there's a guaranteed zero in the x register, type your first number, hit "+" to add that number to zero and mark it to get pushed on the stack, type your second number... and you're off!

Also: I didn't understand how you'd work an RPN calculator without an enter key. I had to look at the manual to figure it out.

www.datamath.net/Manuals_Othe...

At the time (1974), it was pitched as, and was, an alternative to using a sliderule... and sliderule users were accustomed to approximate answers and sanity-checking results.

So what are a few incorrect answers between friends?

Of course some users apparently had fun probing the edge-cases.

An image (likely a rendering rather than an actual photo) of the Sinclair Scientific calculator from 1974. The image shows a calculator with a display at the top, "sinclair Scientific" and some reminders of handy mathematical constants written on an otherwise blank space below the display, then an array of blue and gray keys below. Image source: the article at http://righto.com/sinclair

This is fun!

righto.com/sinclair

An affordable (at the time, compared with the HP-35) RPN scientific calculator squeezed into an impossibly small amount of ROM through impressive coding chops; if it sometimes didn't actually give the right answer, well, see above: it was affordable!

Attacks on Muslims flood mainstream after Mamdani win Openly racist rhetoric has become normalized at the highest levels of American politics.

We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent.

Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.

I see that! With the flag as a visual focus the way an enormous crucifix might be, and the way the presence of that flag breaks up the image of the always a little dystopian looking high galleries, the cathedral-y architecture falls into place in a different way.

A large Progress Pride Flag hangs from the railings of one of the high observation balconies at either end of The Oculus, the World Trade Center / World Financial Center adjacent transit hub in downtown Manhattan. The themed lighting design has illuminated the space's vaulted white ribs in colors from that flag; they've done a particularly good job of evoking the light blue from one of the trans chevrons.

New York remains a good place to be.

Seen while passing through The Oculus: a large Progress Pride Flag and some nicely-done themed lighting design.

Official and commercial New York aren't going along with the creepy hatreds the current US regime is obsessed with.

Happy Pride, everyone!

I hope Zohran represents a new wave of urban politics that are built on love for big cities, not some weird fear and obsession with suburbanizing urban districts

As well as an example of jaw-dropping ignorance of the ethnic history of New York City.

I mean, it’s “holy shit” level ignorance.

Even if you are logged in... that part of the UI is suboptimal.

I'm still ride or die with Flickr as the One True Photo Site.

even though I post things all sorts of other crappy places aas well because those are where lots of the people are

Which is to say, somewhere around:

40°41'06.5"N 74°11'21.5"W

Does that comport with your reckoning, or did I drop a pin on the wrong building?

I expect that if that's not what's in the instruction manual, the instruction manual should be changed!

Whoa! I don't think I've seen a bottle of that since the... 1970s?

How's it taste?

As we head to Election Day, for folks who voted early, thank you. I know some folks have not yet made up their minds. I am making an appeal to you.

Please do not rank Cuomo. I have worked with every single one of the candidates for mayor. I will tell you he does not like us.

The feeling is mutual. bsky.app/profile/jool...

what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

Yep! It's tagged with a map reference on the master Flickr page.

David Hogg @davidhogg111 Follow The same establishment that is spending millions to destroy Zohran will say in a few months that we need to spend millions on polling and testing to win back young people. Open your god damn eyes- it's free. Adam Carlson @admcrlsn •3h The final three days of early voting were the youngest of the entire period. 47% of early voters are age 18-44. x.com/ gothamist/stat... Early Voting By Age Group (Raw Votes Cast) Age Group Days 1-4 Days 5-6 Days 7-9 Total (Days 1-9) 18-24 8,487 4,941 13,096 26,524 25-34 29,557 15,620 45,195 90,372 35-44 20,591 10,365 31,488 62,444 45-54 14,438 7,411 23,252 45,101 55-64 19,159 10,548 27,079 56,786 65-74 23,131 14,055 24,861 62,047 75+ 16,071 10,346 15,483 41,900 Early Voting By Age Group (Share of Early Electorate) Age Group Days 1-4 Days 5-6 Days 7-9 Total (Days 1-9) 18-24 6.5% 6.7% 7.3% 6.9% 25-34 22.5% 21.3% 25.0% 23.5% 35-44 15.7% 14.1% 17.4% 16.2%

david hogg off the top rope on the other site

New Yorkers, get out and vote for your favorite candidates. But do NOT rank Cuomo. Period.