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YouTube video by CNN (2013) Obama responds to hecklers at speech

A flash back to an earlier, better time ...

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Profile photo of William Adama, Rear Admiral of the Colonial Fleet in the TV show Battlestar Galactica. Overlaid is his quote: "There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."

Attorney General Pam Bondi came before the Judiciary Committee today.

But she refused to answer a raft of important questions.

On Tom Homan's bribe.

On Donald Trump's new luxury plane.

On January 6th pardons.

On illegal strikes in the Caribbean.

On Epstein.

The stonewalling was staggering.

What's down there? Abstract. My career has been a series of adventures and occasional misadventures that have been both physically and intellectually challenging. I suspect t

Fantastic biography from Dr. Bruce Robison, a midwater researcher and one of the founding scientists of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

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The 6th Marine Imaging Workshop will take place in Gibraltar from 19-21 May 2026.

Topics include:
- Imagery collection and processing
- Still and video annotation
- Machine learning approaches
- Image and video data management
- Applications in marine research and conservation
…and much more.

DeepSea MOT: A benchmark dataset for multi-object tracking on deep-sea video Benchmarking multi-object tracking and object detection model performance is an essential step in machine learning model development, as it allows researchers to evaluate model detection and tracker p...

MBARI has released a benchmark dataset for multi-object tracking on deep-sea video.

- Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.03499
- Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/MBA...
- Workflow: docs.mbari.org/benchmark_ev...

#machinelearning #deepsea

Here ... take my pity. 😉 Also, get well soon.

Will do. I actually have ton of your articles bookmarked; the articles and documentation for Quarkus are fantastic. Just FYI, here's one of my public apps that uses Quarkus on the back-end: database.fathomnet.org. More info at www.fathomnet.org

Timely article. I was just digging into how to do this in quarkus early today. Keep the articles coming!

I just rolled out major updates to both the front-end and back-end of database.fathomnet.org. 😱 Most users may not notice much but it sets the stage for much faster development cycles in the future.

#quarkus #vue3

MoQ: Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack For years, developers have been stitching together multiple protocols for real-time media, trading latency for scale and simplicity. Media over QUIC (MoQ) is a new IETF standard that resolves this conflict, creating a single foundation for sub-second, interactive streaming at a global scale.

Media over QUIC (MoQ): Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack | Discussion

A groundbreaking underwater science camera is helping researchers study how deep-sea octopus move. Explore how the EyeRIS camera reveals insights into deep-sea octopus mechanics, aiding research with groundbreaking 3D imaging at depths of 4,000 meters.

www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/news_b...

Proutic Haripotator?

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.

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I should clarify .. carbon steel. Not stainless

My go-to is induction with a high end steel pan.

Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.

Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone

We've got a new paper out: "Assisting human annotation of marine images with foundation models". www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Alaska Airlines requests ground stop for all mainline aircraft, FAA says Alaska Airlines has requested a ground stop for all its mainline aircraft, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) status page said on Sunday.

Alaska Airlines requests ground stop for all mainline aircraft, FAA says reut.rs/4f0jq2Y

YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) Dancing deep-sea clams thrive on the seafloor off Southern California

Timeline cleanse youtu.be/9DBSCkga_W0

New NASA budget would shut down 41 space missions Proposed NASA cuts would cancel dozens of space missions — including spacecraft already paid for, launched, and making discoveries.

The White House Office of Management and Budget has announced a plan to shut down 41 NASA space missions including somewhere they've already built the spacecraft. There's a list of missions to be cut at www.planetary.org/articles/bil...

Japan’s Shrimp, Crabs on Display in ‘Picture Book Tanks’; Aquarium in Wakayama Pref. Shows Off Diversity of Local Crustacean Life <p>WAKAYAMA — An aquarium in Susami, Wakayama Prefecture, has created a buzz by unveiling what it calls “picture book tanks.”</p>

OMG I have learned there is a place called the Susami SHRIMP AND CRAB AQUARIUM in Japan! 🦀🦐

Here are a couple of articles about how it is tiny but locally beloved 🤩

@crabspromenade.bsky.social @k-hermit.com have you been?

english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/5...

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

You know those “Antarctica Today” posts I’d put up for a while, showing surface melt extent accross Antarctica for every day of the melt season (Oct - April)?

They relied 100% on this data stream. Take it offline, that goes away completely.

Sea ice extent uses it too.

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? URGENT: Sign Petition for Monterey/Laguna Seca Bike Park

Laguna Seca, home to the Sea Otter Classic, is finalizing its Facilities Master Plan and considering a permanent bike park slalom course. #MountainBiking advocates who enjoy riding in the #Monterey area can sign and share a petition to support this bike park.

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YouTube video by xkcd's What If? What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

xkcd "what if?" has a YouTube channel now!!!!

youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs

+1 for obsidian web clipper

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? URGENT: Sign Petition for Monterey/Laguna Seca Bike Park

Laguna Seca, home to the Sea Otter Classic, is finalizing its Facilities Master Plan and considering a permanent bike park slalom course. #MountainBiking advocates who enjoy riding in the #Monterey area can sign and share a petition to support this bike park.

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