Watched Real Red Wings, recommend it for history education. Professor Delmont supplies background from his IMO excellent book, Half American.
#history #civilRights
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624655/half-american-by-matthew-f-delmont/

"#Russian military analysts have accused the Pentagon of using the flights to collect targeting information that is passed on to Kyiv"
Lol, no no no. We wouldn't. 😜
#Ukraine
US Spy Plane Gets Front Row Seat to Latest Wave of Ukrainian Missile Strikes in Crimea
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/34185

⚠️ Do not power down your system

#okaySkynet

Florida School district bans "Ban This Book" in a feat of absurdism. The book had been reviewed and approved by committee, but Jennifer Pippin of Mom's for Liberty apparently gets the final say. Same person got Anne Frank's diary banned.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/06/11/florida-school-board-bans-book-about-book-bans/73970418007/

Kate Bush: Running up that hill
Abby Lampe: Falling down that hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znexIfSBPRY&pp=ygUKYWJieSBsYW1wZQ%3D%3D

/nosanitize

Curious, what's good about pay-with-mobile device? Never have felt compelled to to try it. Also seems like Google can't figure it out.
"Google Payment app No. 3 (Google Pay) is being shut down in favor of Google Payment app No. 4 (Google Wallet). "
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/google-shuts-down-the-google-pay-app/

Are these owls making ape sounds or did apes learn owl vocalizations. OR is this an animal Esperanto.
#owls

Putin says he won't start a war with NATO but Western bases hosting #Ukraine F-16s would be targets.

Master strategist. Proceed.

#Ukraine put an Su 57 POS "stealth" plane out of it's misery, 400+km into Russia. https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/32863

Watched Einstein and the Bomb on Netflix and got curious about Oliver Locker-Lampson. Quite a history there, sounds like a real operator from pre-WWI through WWII.
E.g.;
https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-life/oliver-locker-lampson-and-the-russian-revolution

Woke with a sinus thing going on, first since 2020. Nope, nuh uh, nyhet. Jeeves! Coffee!

Not gonna hold my breath but maybe, not for the first time, might have someone who will resurrect the dying tractor. Cross your fingers and spit on your hat.

So I'm walking the dog in town and we wait at crosswalks for cars to go past. Confuses like half the drivers and some get irate because I don't know why, don't care. I want the dog to always wait to cross a street, especially around cars. Period. Btw same for kids. 🤷
#dogs #cars

Is it Bandcamp Friday yet because this cellist is the...uhm...cellyist
Helen Mountfort
https://helenmountfort.bandcamp.com/album/the-naked-cello

Dog knows too much English. Have to be more careful.

Why did I agree to help out with a Wix site? Don't know nuthin' about Wix.
#wix

“We’re just not in a position on a day-to-day basis of knowing exactly what the Ukrainians are firing at what,” Kirby said.
uh-huh okay buddy 😉

#ukraine
Ukraine uses US weapons to strike inside Russia, according to a senator and a Western official
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-weapons-biden-kharkiv-c46c3ca0f0f4893c8c3b0ef53e974438

Seriously, in 2024?

"Thank you for your interest in NatGeo - Further. The site is currently optimized for desktop browsers. Please visit using the latest version of Chrome, Edge or Safari on your desktop computer."

*shakes head in desktop Firefox*

Wild if true:
"Snapdragon X Elite has 2.6 times performance per Watt versus Apple's M3 and 5.4 times versus Intel's Core Ultra 7"🧐 https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/qualcomm-snapdragon-coming-to-all-pc-form-factors-including-desktops

Someone brighter than me* could train an LLM on the NSF awards data and then go forth and rule the world. The objective is to enable natural language searches; it's a Good Idea to at least review and better reference prior awards in NSF Proposals.

#LLM #AI
*very low bar

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/download.jsp