Reading and Writing Space, Optimized for 2026
If I could build my own reading and writing space(s), then I would attempt to find opportunities that may be more readily available for the spaces. Unfortunately, zoning laws and the dreaded homeowner associations alike each restrict threats to property values, yet the concept of property values is inherently part of the market system of capitalism. While capitalism is not determined by markets but rather by the profit motive, which is often inherently unethical, I believe that anticapitalist ideals should allow for the following spaces of interest:
- The room should be eight feet in length, width, and height–effectively a cube.
- Ideally, there should be two (2) separate entrances, one interior and one exterior. However, under ideal circumstances I would not allow my exterior entrance to be my primary entrance.
- My geographic preference regarding my reading and writing space, housing, and shelter would be a location tucked away in the Berkshires within relatively close proximity to Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in any direction.
The "#Luch" Thermal Power Station was attacked in #Belgorod, Russia.
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У Бєлгороді частковий блекаут на тлі вибухів і звуків сирен За попередньою інформацією, було уражено місцеву теплоелектроцентраль «Луч». 🫴🏻WarLiveTelegram
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Five years since I built this Klingon Bird of Prey and it still works. Custom coded by me via a micro-controller and Arduino.
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RIP Arduino BTW ...
#StarTrek #ScaleModel #Electronics
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Der Beitrag Technik statt Torjubel – was der Fußball vom Staat gelernt hat erschien zuerst auf reitschuster.de. #news #press
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Greenpeace dumps 2 metric tonnes of slime at Fonterra HQ before shareholders meeting ☣️🐄
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#NZPol #dirtyDairy #climateChange #greenpeace #tooManyCows #nitrateEmergency #freshWater
Greenpeace dumps 2 metric tonnes of slime at Fonterra HQ before shareholders meeting
Greenpeace activists have upset Fonterra’s Shareholders’ Fund meeting at the dairy giant’s Auckland HQ this morning, establishing a ‘nitrate emergency quarantine zone’ around the building and dumping 2000 litres of…Ashley Harder (Greenpeace Aotearoa)
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Next time a hurricane hits the United States, would a White House reporter please ask Trump directly, if all the damages happened because Trump inherited a disastrous climate crisis from Biden?
Trump might indeed run with it and reply "yes, the climate is a disaster, and it is because of Biden, and it would never have happened if I were president", and — voila — climate change would finally be recognized by MAGA.
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‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Ranks in the Top 20 on Billboard’s List of Music Biopics With the Highest Worldwide Grosses
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I have a pakidge I need to save for the 25th. I mean, I know what's in it, but it's also a present so I shall save it.
Probably.
I MIGHT!
I'll put it under one of the trees. One of my grown from seed trees is a towering 12 inches or so (oo err missus).
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Online Dating Follies, no. Holyshit
Profile is a treatise that includes that he has never married (60+ yo) then goes on “Have no fear as I have three dear older sisters and a mother so saintly I am awed by her even at her age of 86. No one could be wrapped more tightly in my protective wings then (sic) they are. […] They taught me of God and his wishes for me in how I treat others. My Dad- my hero and the king of our family left us last year.[…]
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“Being a good man can only come from the desires of the heart and it is my heart I follow come hell or high water- perhaps even to a fault- […]- ultimately being hurt deep within the heart- a hurt so intense it wants to take the good from you and turn it into something diabolical.
Please trust me as the one who will ultimately break his back with glee just to put a sparkling stone on your delicate finger to signify your incalculable worth to me.”
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It Only Takes a Handful of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds
It stands to reason that if you have access to an LLM’s training data, you can influence what’s coming out the other end of the inscrutable AI’s network. The obvious guess is that you’d need some percentage of the overall input, though exactly how much that was — 2%, 1%, or less — was an active research question. New research by Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute shows it is actually a lot easier to poison the well than that.
We’re talking parts-per-million of poison for large models, because the researchers found that with just 250 carefully-crafted poison pills, they could compromise the output of any size LLM. Now, when we say poison the model, we’re not talking about a total hijacking, at least in this study. The specific backdoor under investigation was getting the model to produce total gibberish.
The gibberish here is triggered by a specific phrase, seeded into the poisoned training documents. One might imagine an attacker could use this as a crude form of censorship, or a form of Denial of Service Attack — say the poisoned phrase is a web address, then any queries related to that address would output gibberish. In the tests, they specifically used the word “sudo”, rendering the models (which ranged from 600 million to 13 billion parameters) rather useless for POSIX users. (Unless you use “doas” under *BSD, but if you’re on BSD you probably don’t need to ask an LLM for help on the command line.)
Our question is: Is it easier to force gibberish or lies? A denial-of-service gibberish attack is one thing, but if a malicious actor could slip such a relatively small number of documents into the training data to trick users into executing unsafe code, that’s something entirely worse. We’ve seen discussion of data poisoning before, and that study showed it took a shockingly small amount of misinformation in the training data to ruin a medical model.
Once again, the old rule rears its ugly head: “trust, but verify”. If you’re getting help from the internet, be it random humans or randomized neural-network outputs, it’s on you to make sure that the advice you’re getting is sane. Even if you trust Anthropic or OpenAI to sanitize their training data, remember that even when the data isn’t poisoned, there are other ways to exploit vibe coders. Perhaps this is what happened with the whole “seahorse emoji” fiasco.
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APPPEXPO 2026 will be held from March 4–7, 2026, at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai).China Business Forum
"Access to subsidies for childcare and healthcare, which are more common in Europe, can impact an American woman's decision to move abroad.
'People don't realise how far behind the US is on maternal care, parental leave, and healthcare,' Alyssa says, 'until they leave the country.'"
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#healthcare #PaidLeave #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #WomensHealth #USpol
Why more young US women seem to be ready to move abroad
A Gallup poll suggests 40% of US women aged 15 to 44 would move abroad if they could. Women who took the plunge tell us why.Leyla Khodabakhshi (BBC News)
The crazy thing in the case of the UK is both of the major institutional parties, Labou and the Tories in the bonkers lunatic right wing party of Reform want to replicate the US system.
They have gone very far in that direction.
The super wealthy are trying to spread the disease of neoliberalism into Europe even more than it has
Dysfunktionale Alt-Eliten gegen die Demokratie
Der Bundeskanzler auf dem CSU-Parteitag: „So kann man ein Land nicht führen, wir müssen die Menschen mitnehmen.“ In der Demokratie müssen die Bürger überzeugt werden, während in einer Diktatur die Menschen mitgenommen werden.Natalie Furjan (Tichys Einblick)
Der Beitrag Lesen, hören, schmecken,
Lesen, hören, schmecken, ruhen - Publico
Publico-Autoren empfehlen, was Sie sich selbst und anderen zu Weihnachten schenken können: den große Ausstieg, Lämmer, Wein, Sinfonik, Lyrik und einen Staatskrimi Entzug – ein Geschenk für uns selbst von Jürgen Schmid Meine Weihnachtsempfehlung ist e…Redaktion (Publico)
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Città della Pieve - Oratorio di S. Maria dei Bianchi. All'interno L'adorazione dei Magi del Perugino
#ChapelofStMary #Città #Umbria #Perugia #CittadellaPieve #photography #FerroCandilera
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Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai colpevole di collusione e sedizione - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai colpevole di collusione e sedizione - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
Jimmy Lai, il magnate dei media di Hong Kong pro-democrazia, è stato dichiarato colpevole di collusione e sedizione nel processo a suo carico sulla violazione della sicurezza nazionale, nella sentenza firmata dai giudici Alex Lee, Esther Toh e Susana…Agenzia ANSA
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Trump Praises Bondi Hero Who Tackled Shooter
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-12-15/trump-praises-bondi-hero-who-tackled-shooter-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Well, what do you know, the diasporasocial server is now back online. I just got a reply from the podmin:
Me to podmin on Dec 9: Hi, The server has been down for a few days. What is the outlook for the diaspora server coming back up?
I just now got this reply from the podmin. No details were included.
Its fixed, sorry for the inconvenience.
Best Regards
[I should mention #newhere since many of us had to use the hashtag when we moved to a new server.]
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More on sodium batteries. Big implications:
Accelerated #EV price parity w ICE vevicles
Renewable #energy firmed w storage just became even more advantageous over coventional energy
#nuclear #ElectricVehicles #batteries #CanPoli #climatecrisis #goodnews
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I am often creative in my multiparadigm approach in personality style, as well as in my ideal and prospective communication styles alike. While I am often uniquely identified by my takes and interest on the technology industry juxtaposed with geography, mathematics, current events, politics, history, and other topics and skills, I also believe that I can imagine myself as an idealized polymath, with interests in not just my standardized lifestyle, but also divergences from my lifestyle.
A lot of my creativity of interest comes from the fact that I am neurodivergent and on the autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, other factors should also be considered, as ignoring the distinctive characteristics of different types of abilities often results in overgeneralization and extreme levels of stereotyping, which I detest based on effectively every dimension of diversity. While society often expects me to be totally different from the “high-functioning” self that I actually am, occasionally scorning me with the label “disabled” or related labels, I believe that I am better off avoiding antiquated language over concerns about disability (I also have internalized rules and policies wherein I remind myself not to discriminate based on age, race, gender, sex, orientation, status, nationality, ethnicity, origin, or any other dimension of diversity in any way).
It is very unfortunate that we live in a hypercapitalist and excessively consumerist society, both of which I feel are traits of a cultural wasteland. I believe that capitalism is the cause for all loneliness causes that result from the modern tech dystopia, which results in feedback loops and shame alike. On a related note, I also detest the concept of suburbanization, as I believe that suburbia is a crisis that exists specifically to promote White supremacy, yet I also believe that racism is what is causing the climate crisis and human extinction. Politically, I can understand where I lean without any assistance from the outside world, simply through my extensive research and my historical figures of influence throughout.
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Attentat in Australien: Vater und Sohn als Angreifer identifiziert
Australien trauert um die Opfer des Angriffs auf ein jüdisches Fest in Sydney. Ersten Ermittlungen zufolge handelt es bei den beiden Attentätern um einen Vater und seinen Sohn. Sie erschossen 15 Menschen, mindestens 40 wurden verletzt.
Local school district to open Safe Sleep Lot as homelessness grows
Cincinnati Public Schools are opening a designated parking lot for homeless students and their families, allowing them to sleep in their cars while they seek housing. This initiative, part of a program called Project Connect, aims to provide a safe space and support for those experiencing homelessness. Being homeless has become illegal.
WTH has happened to this country when schools have to provide sanctuary for the homeless?
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#homelessness #cincinnati.
Local school district to open Safe Sleep Lot as homelessness grows
A new initiative from the Cincinnati Public School system is giving families experiencing homelessness in the district a better sense of safety.WKRC
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《明報》：黎智英三項控罪全部罪成。
控罪一：串謀發布煽動刊物（訴全部被告） 結果：全部被告罪成
控罪二：串謀勾結外國勢力罪（訴全部被告） 結果：全部被告罪成
控罪三：串謀勾結外國勢力罪（訴黎智英） 結果：黎智英罪成
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#香港 #hongkong #黎智英 #蘋果日報 @board
【即時更新】黎智英案｜官裁定黎智英串謀勾結外國勢力、串謀發布煽動刊物三罪罪成 (10:41) - 20251215 - 港聞
壹傳媒創辦人黎智英及3間《蘋果日報》公司，被控《港區國安法》下「串謀勾結外國勢力」等罪一案，今（15日）上午10時於西九龍裁判法院（暫代高院）裁決，黎智英面對的三項控罪，包括兩項串謀勾結外國勢力，以及一項串謀發布煽動刊物全部罪成。《明報》將持續更新庭內外情况。明報
Warriors coach Kerr laments shooting at Brown, calls again for common-sense gun control laws
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REPORT: Netanyahu quietly working to block Türkiye’s access to F-35s
Israel is reportedly using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to obstruct Ankara’s acquisition of F-35 fighter jets, citing concerns over Erdoğan’s past statements and the impact stealth aircraft could have on Israel’s early-warning and air-defense systems.
The effort is said to avoid open friction with President Trump, reflecting Israel’s preference for discreet pressure over public confrontation. nitter.net/ClashEdge/status/19…
EU starts crucial week with Zelenskyy talks and bid to save €210B loan
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ukraine-loan-russia-war-volodymyr-zelesnkyy-finances/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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EU starts crucial week with Zelenskyy talks and bid to save €210B loan
Leaders including the U.K.’s Starmer and Germany’s Merz huddle in Berlin ahead of a pivotal summit in Brussels on Thursday.Ben Munster (POLITICO)
GitHub - koalazak/dorita980: Unofficial iRobot Roomba and Braava (i7/i7+, 980, 960, 900, e5, 690, 675, m6, etc) node.js library (SDK) to control your robot
Unofficial iRobot Roomba and Braava (i7/i7+, 980, 960, 900, e5, 690, 675, m6, etc) node.js library (SDK) to control your robot - koalazak/dorita980GitHub
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'Grateful for My Trauma': Chris Chalk on 'It: Welcome to Derry' and Overcoming His Past
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/it-welcome-to-derry-chris-chalk-dick-hallorann-1235482881/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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'It: Welcome to Derry': Chris Chalk on Playing Dick Hallorann
Breakout performer Chirs Chalk talks Stephen King, playing 'The Shining's Dick Hallorrann, and not wanting to be a 'magical negro.'Yohana Desta (Rolling Stone)
You know how New Zealand united in the aftermath of Christchurch and got through it together? Their media still don't publish the name of the gunman, so as to not glorify him.
What's different about New Zealand?
No News Corp.
There’s this stereotype that only the US, UK, and Japan were making good video games during the 80s and 90s.
Truth is, a whole lot of countries had killer titles that are obscure to this day. Partially, this is due to platforms that were popular elsewhere. But mostly, this was due to language.
France had its own micro-computer platforms like the Oric. L’Aigle d’Or (1984) is a good example of this.
Atari 8-bit was popular in Poland. This is because Jack Tramiel was Polish Jew (survived the Holocaust) who was able to sell a good many Atari hardware while Poland was still Communist. Robbo (1989) is a good example.
South Korea is interesting because they rejected Japanese consoles entirely. As a result, the game development scene privileged DOS over Nintendo. Games like Astonishia Story (1994) look like JRPGs for the SNES. But be rest assured, they’re actually KRPGs for DOS.
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And all of the interesting games for the PC-98. I get the impression that most of them still haven't been translated.
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