“…police confiscated a crossbow, a BB gun and various documents among other items, they added.”

Am I a joke to you?

I’m starting in on sketches of what I want my mask to look like when finished.

Late, but present. I will be making… A Halloween costume. It will be a wearable mask that covers my head and leaves my hands free. It will be open except on the front. I have no idea how I will do it yet, bit plenty of time to figure it out…

5th woman ever to win Nobel for physics

Getting doored while out riding, then falling into the road and getting run over by a garbage truck.

I ride my bike a lot. Somebody getting out of the back seat of a 4 door with out looking is a huge danger.

I met Danny at my local coffee shop. I am a total ass and said “Abed?”. He said " Danny. " and shook my hand. Thus confirming my status as Total Ass, and his as a mensch.

Once upon a time windows had absolute pathing. When you saved, it went in the directory you were in out where you told it.

Some time ago windows went to path relative to user. So now when you save to ‘desktop’ it could be one of several desktop folders. Windows tries to hide this by mapping ‘desktop’ to your user relative desktop, but it does this at the application level rather than in the base O/S. (Or, it does it on extended file system APIs). Some apps handle it, some apps don’t. If you have multiple users on a PC, it’s a mess.

The training program was 2x per week. For resistance training, they ran a set of machine based training, increasing resistance over time.

“3 sets of 10 repetitions as the main RT program on the following 6 weight-stack machines: leg curl, leg extension, arm curl, rowing, shoulder press, and chest press.”

As an old dude, over been wondering what I can do to made my skin tougher.

Cold fusion.

I just finished ‘Player of Games’ - Ian M. Banks. I liked it, it felt immersive.

Just started The Passenger by the late great Cormac McCarthy. I’m about a 3rd through, listening on audio book via Libby (read at 85% speed). It’s a little hard not to put it in the context of No Country and the border trilogy - Mr. M does seem to have a type. I’m pleased that many of McCarthy’s liberties with words seem to come through on audio, but I imagine I’m missing a lot. All in all I’m enjoying it. Next up my book club is reading All The Pretty Horses, so I’m in for the ride as it were. (Weirdly, there was a longer wait for his other work than The Passenger. I guess people are in the wait and see mode).

A friend recommended Midlife by Kieran Setiya. I have to say - it’s quite dense, and I feel like I’m not doing it justice. I’ll definitely keep going.

I suggest taking a closer look.

The secret report (https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA469325) seems pretty dire. But, it doesn’t really mention the Gulf stream current or the more precise AMOC. (Gulf appears in the secret report 4 times, only twice in relation to Gulf Stream, none in relation to collapse).

What Rahmstorf is saying is less immediate. Read it here:

https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2023/07/what-is-happening-in-the-atlantic-ocean-to-the-amoc/

"Conclusion

Timing of the critical AMOC transition is still highly uncertain, but increasingly the evidence points to the risk being far greater than 10 % during this century – even rather worrying for the next few decades. The conservative IPCC estimate, based on climate models which are too stable and don’t get the full freshwater forcing, is in my view outdated now. I side with the recent Climate Tipping Points report by the OECD, which advised:

Yet, the current scientific evidence unequivocally supports unprecedented, urgent and ambitious climate action to tackle the risks of climate system tipping points."

“Lost” seems a bit too much - how about unmanaged?

#snowcrash [fqqne] (https://omoionline.com/blogs/news/snow-crash) [Cosa Nostra Pizza] (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/172832/snow-crash-by-neal-stephenson/9780553380958/excerpt)

Interesting - they sell not only repairable phones but OEM phones with the /e/ os (degoogled Android).

Give Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents a look. Wilkerson’s got well researched links between India’s caste system, U.S. Slavery, and the German Nazis. I was really surprised to learn that the Nazis researched national policies to find out how to best institute ‘purity’. They ended up modeling theirs after the United States.

Fascims might not look the same every where, but it shares more than was obvious to me…

Good lord I hope they find them in time…

Good.

37 school girls killed - they couldn’t get in to the student housing, so they threw in fire bombs then killed the ones who ran out.

Horrifying.

This is a classic feedback problem: you use a microphone to amplify your voice, but If the mic picks up the amplified sound it creates audio feedback + a sharply increasing wail.

I can’t imagine what LLM feed back ‘sounds like’, but a guarantee you it ain’t pretty.

Hypothetical: dashcam god eye view.