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*Well, they just dug a fragmented, 2000-year-old wooden Hercules out of a pit in Ibiza

*Why did he feel the need to return at this point, one wonders

*Holy cow, a giant mechanized Incan Quipu mainframe for barter and tax collection

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2503499-mysterious-holes-in-andean-mountain-may-be-an-inca-spreadsheet/

Peace Tango at the ICE Protest in #pdx

https://www.reddit.com/r/oregon/comments/1osqvk0/peace_tango_pdx_at_the_ice_protest/

Anti-ICE protesters hold a 80’s themed yoga class outside the Portland ICE facility.
#pdx
https://www.reddit.com/r/oregon/comments/1ot2fue/antiice_protesters_hold_a_80s_themed_yoga_class/

The president is so shallow that his aspirations reach only to looking like he’s in a Frank Sinatra film.

Everything he touches turns into gold plastic.

@briankrebs Great move! You have many choices:

1. (my favorite): put them all in a paper bag, and they will ripen over the next few months! FRESH TOMATOES in winter!

2. Fried green tomatoes... batter with flour and egg, fry.

3. Pickled tomatoes. Okay, but not my favorite.

#tomatoes

How to Ripen Green Tomatoes You can coax the ripening process from green to red tomatoes indoors. Tomatoes actually need warmth and not sun to ripen. Learn more. Read on.

@briankrebs My sister did this and it worked beautifully. https://www.farmersalmanac.com/ripen-green-tomatoes-home

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is

"From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by […]

Enjoyed this Techcrunch piece about the new show Pluribus from the creator of Breaking Bad. Fun fact, the star of the new show Rhea Seehorn and I used to study for a statistics class together at GMU. I had such a secret crush back then (okay maybe still a little).

"If you watched all the way to […]

Senator Ron Wyden says there's a nationwide #abortion ban in the Senate government funding bill currently.

https://www.tiktok.com/@ronwyden/video/7570460937652604190

Women in #uspol, heads up. Make your views clear to your congress members now. https://www.congress.gov/

A dithered QR code with the image of an unknown girl from the Smiths' How Soon is Now video.

How soon is now?

#DitheredQRcode #andrewt@mathstodon.xyz

A TP-Link WiFi 6 AX1800 Smart WiFi Router (Archer AX20). The router is black, completely flat, with a very low profile, and six green lit lights in the front. There are four black antennas sticking straight up out of the back.

Wrote up some thoughts about the proposed ban on the sale of TP-Link devices in the US.

The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an […]

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Inglorious Bastards is leaving Netflix soon. Who knows when it might be shown in the USA again.

*If they knew a killer asteroid was coming here, of course our planet's current powers-that-be would deny that while also attempting to cash-in

*Also, immigrants would be punished for it

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576525007507?ref=404media.co

Il Versificatore public interview, Share Festival 2025 Moncalieri, October MMXXV

*My public interview in Turin with Primo Levi's "Versificatore" AI.

*That poetic machine is being a really good sport about this, considering

https://medium.com/@bruces/il-versificatore-public-interview-share-festival-2025-85ded7b4b66b

Senator Ron Wyden says there's a nationwide #abortion ban in the Senate government funding bill currently.

https://www.tiktok.com/@ronwyden/video/7570460937652604190

Women in #uspol, heads up. Make your views clear to your congress members now. https://www.congress.gov/

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch) on Threads Trump and his cronies are now pushing 50-year mortgages. Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.

Build affordable housing! https://www.threads.com/@meidastouch/post/DQzrjo5kqGd

Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty (Ebook, large format) : Alan J. Cain : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive This book offers a history of beauty in mathematics and of the study of beauty in mathematics. Its intention is to examine the historical development of the...

I reposted this before, but dang, this is a really good book. Price is not bad, either.

Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty (Ebook, large format) : Alan J. Cain : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large

A dense patch of dry reeds with golden yellow leaves backlit by the warm morning sun.

Into the reeds...

#MorningWalk #NaturePhotography #Texture

Does anyone else get spam email with a paragraph from a random Russian book in quoted-printable encoding?

There are no photos, no links, nothing spamlike at all. There are non-printing strings of hex, eighteen digits in each email. Soviet number stations? An art thing?

Portrait of a Man Who Doesn’t Give a Fuck Starring: indifference, ego, and forty-two million people he is actively fighting to starve.

Portrait of a Man Who Doesn’t Give a Fuck
Starring: indifference, ego, and forty-two million people he is actively fighting to starve.

https://jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/portrait-of-a-man-who-doesnt-give #uspol

How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/07/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-cop-un-climate

#COP31 #Gabfest

Fuck Waymo, Long Live KitKat A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough.

Last week, a self-driving car killed a beloved neighborhood cat in the Mission. Alex Hanna on mourning and anger and tech on the streets in SF:
https://bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-long-live-kitkat/

The politics on this are so stupid. It takes all possible blame for hungry people away from the Democrats and puts it squarely, and clearly, on Trump.

#trump cares about the #military and #argentina more than he does about #poor and #disabled Americans.

He increased the military budget MASSIVELY to over a trillion, and gave Argentina 40 billion in emergency funding.

Meanwhile he is trying to appeal the federal court order to release […]

The President of the United States on the Former Speaker of the House.

I miss when even the politicians I didn’t support had dignity. I really never thought we would sink this low.

When a client opens a post on the #Mastodon web, why doesn’t it open in the user’s instance so that they can just interact normally with posts? This seems like a huge blocker for new users because the mental model doesn’t match the way all the other websites in the world work. #ux

Syntax highlighted TypeScript sourcecode of the linked code example...

Tags are sets. Many apps support tagging of content, but most of them (incl. Mastodon) treat tags only as singular/isolated topic filters, akin to a flat folder-based approach. But tagging can be so, so much more powerful when treating tags as sets and […]

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Photo of the upper part of a glacial valley with large mountain peaks and remaining glaciers and icefields. The vivid colors are purely the result of the polarization filter used, but also nicely show the variety of rock types and minerals (rock colors vary from pale gray to orange, deep rust, black). The main arm of the glacier is curving down in the left side of the image, it's gate visible (and a close up in the next image). In the front a fragment of the semi-eroded old side moraine, now slowly overgrown with grass. Creeks and waterfalls on the other side of the valley, exposing large sections of bed rock, smoothed by millennia of glacial activity. Deep blue sky.

Close up view (from a few hundred meters above) of the Langtauferer glacier gate and a beautiful river delta of the milky-blueish-gray creek of another glacier which terminates higher up by now. The ice is characteristically blue, heavily crevassed and crumbling at the front. A word about scale: One of the larger detached ice fragments is ~2.5 meters tall.

Abstract looking photo of a section of the south-western edge the Gepatschferner (Austria's second largest glacier), which used to be connected here (as a major ice fall) to the Langtauferer glacier. Now only several large waterfalls are remaining, dropping over the exposed rock faces 300 meters down into the valley. The ice is pale blue with large seracs. Some snow patches are a pale pink/orange, traces of Sahara sand...

Top down view of the Langtauferer outflow section of the valley, showing a patch work of different textures/rocks and colors from grassy slopes, talus fields in shades of gray, orange, beige, rust. The milky grey glacier creek meandering through it all from left to right. A small pool of crystal clear intensely green-blue water nearby. The entire scene feels like an abstract painting

Langtauferer

Today, a year ago, I ventured on a dream trip I'd been researching for a long time, and which ended up being a semi-religious experience, being immersed in (and somewhat overwhelmed by) an actively changing environment, the upheaval and plethora […]

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From the independent reporter Jacqueline Sweet (Disaster Girl):

"An FBI informant convicted of lying to the Bureau about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Donald Trump any […]