Dimitris Vardoulakis

Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 1 - Wikipedia

Discovered Chris Thile recently, a wonderful bluegrass player who also performs Bach on the mandolin. His playing is just beautiful. Check out this album, and his interview with Rick Beato on YouTube.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach:_S...

Republican senator opposes planned ICE detention center in Mississippi Republican U.S. Senator Roger Wicker on Wednesday told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem he opposed plans to open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Mississippi.

"Wicker, the senior Mississippi representative in the U.S. Senate, said opening a detention center would prevent economic growth opportunities."

Just how toxic Trump/Miller's immigration/ICE polices have gotten in America?

They don't want this [ICE gulags] in - checks notes - Mississippi.

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Fun discovery of the day. The accelerometer in a running watch can get confused when you play guitar, and will cause your step count to artificially go up :)

FBI executing search warrant at Georgia election office related to 2020 vote, law enforcement official says The Federal Bureau of Investigation is executing a search warrant at a Fulton County election office in Georgia related to the 2020 election, a law enforcement official familiar with the matter said o...

They won’t investigate the murders of Good or Pretti, but they’ll investigate fake 2020 election fraud. www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Tetris (film) - Wikipedia

I watched the Tetris movie yesterday. Super fun.

There was a corrupt crook in the movie named Robert Maxwell, and it turns out he was the father of Ghislaine Maxwell. What a family!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_...

Agents detain and send 2-year-old girl and her father to Texas despite court order to release toddler Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.

ICE keeps abducting babies.

www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Get Good at Agents The tools are getting so powerful that we need to change how we scope, manage, and approach our work.

Get Good at Agents
The tools are getting so powerful that we need to change how we scope, manage, and approach our work.
A.k.a. not getting them to work is a skill issue.
www.interconnects.ai/p/get-good-a...

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Simply put: I am in control of the world's largest and most powerful military. And because I didn't get a prize for making peace, I feel entitled to consider going to war with a longtime ally.

This man is mentally ill. That is not hyperbole. He's sick. He must be removed from power immediately.

Yesterday, Coinbase withdrew its support for the crypto market structure bill. Hours later, the Senate Banking Committee canceled the markup hearing. They’re not even trying to pretend anymore that this bill isn’t written by the industry, for the industry.

"Noble" peace prize, as he calls it 😄

Guitar Center Institutes 72-Hour Waiting Period WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA—In an attempt to curb impulsive purchases made in periods of deep emotional distress, music store chain Guitar Center announced Thursday that it had instituted a 72-hour waiting p...

This is very funny: theonion.com/guitar-cente...

Incidentally, I just bought a guitar :P

Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute

Man convicted for carrying Pelosi's podium during Capitol riot seeks Florida county office Adam Johnson was previously sentenced to 75 days in prison after he was photographed carrying Pelosi's lectern during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

Convicted criminals, then pardoned, now running for office. Ugh.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Musician Béla Fleck is the latest to cancel Kennedy Center performances after Trump's renaming The Grammy-winning banjo player said the venue had become too "political," while the arts center chair accused him of caving to the "woke mob."

The doofus renamed the Kennedy center to the Trump Kennedy center and is now surprised that people don't wanna play there 😄

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Dear god, the deposit page is still up.

www.tesla.com/roadster/res...

Are you ready to read 5,600 lines of c++ code ported to rust per hour?

I have the perfect job for you:

Do not despair, it is just 100 lines of code per minute.

The discovered Fourth Edition tape (photo credit Rob Ricci)

Several news outlets reported the amazing discovery of a 1970s Fourth Edition Research Unix magnetic tape. I incorporated the tape’s source code into the Unix History Repository hosted on GitHub and studied the code’s composition. Here's what I found.
www.spinellis.gr/blog/2025122...

Feature request for Google. On the left hand side on Gemini, allow a user to drag a chat into another to merge them (e.g., if they are both about music.)

Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

A completed puzzle where each row and column adds up to the required number of Santas.

Festive dot puzzles. A form-time favourite of mine.

Thanks to @gareth-metcalfe.bsky.social for the idea a couple of years ago!

mathsbot.com/puzzles/dotP...

No Google, I didn't mean to voice search for "Giant steps jungle train" 🙃

I spot some dogman influences.

FIFA Will Award Its Own Peace Prize Next Month in Washington

Hilarious and not surprising. FIFA is a corruption powerhouse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

The Continual Learning Problem

A nice overview of continual learning (i.e., when models learn and evolve after deployment in production).

jessylin.com/2025/10/20/c...

You are if you say you are :)