DS9 s7e22 “Tacking into the Wind”

Steam punk magical-realist world-building at its finest.

Was looking for a pretty valley to paint and found this one. I took the street out that was running down the center.

Source: https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/bird-with-cigarette/

An MIT neuroscientist proposes that brain waves perform analog computations that give rise to thought and consciousness, and that the restructuring and strenghening of the neural connectome is a separate function that affects future thought but is too slow to be our main processing method.

She’s wearing a cut-off sleeve because she’s scratching herself too much.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/57739881

Kasparov: Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather. The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That’s why Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.

*Younger men threw their support behind Donald Trump in 2024 after favoring Biden in 2020*

Sandy was look extra fabulous today in the wind

So maybe some of you have seen the recent ROM hack come out, by the developer of Pokémon Emerald Seaglass, called Pokémon Lazarus. This one has a far larger scale to everything, it’s quite clear that it is a massive undertaking for a sole dev, and most of the community is loving it.

My local library has garbage collection sticks that one can borrow and bring home 👍👌

From https://henshaw.social/@jon/115560516098972942

The nation’s most advanced aircraft carrier arrived in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday in a display of U.S. military power, raising questions about what the new influx of troops and weaponry could signal for the Trump administration’s intentions in South America as it conducts military strikes against vessels suspected of transporting drugs.

A while ago I was having fun theorycrafting seeing if there were potential connections relating knot geometry/ formation to wavefunction field excitation as well as better understanding computational complexity classes of knot formation.

Well, so much for scientific research in Antarctica…it’s about to be a war zone.

Lawmakers seeking to force the release of files related to the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are predicting a big win in the House this week with a “deluge of Republicans” voting for their bill and bucking the GOP leadership and Donald Trump, who for months have disparaged their effort.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking of teen girls – and her treatment is prompting speculation

i quote this every time my brother in law drinks alcohol

Potion of shit your whole ass

TranscriptionA picture of an orange cat with a caption “the lion does not concern himself with the dingleberry that may be tangled in his fluffy pantaloons.”

For decades, the image of gun ownership in America was white, rural and Republican, but that’s been changing, according to gun clubs, trainers, Second Amendment advocates and academic researchers.

A planned auction in Germany of artefacts from prisoners of Nazi concentration camps has been cancelled following a public outcry, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister has said.

Kris Boyd, a cornerback for American football team the New York Jets, was shot in the abdomen early Sunday, according to US media.

Things continue to look bleak for the original robot vacuum maker. iRobot’s third-quarter results, released last week, show that revenue is down and “well below our internal expectations due to continuing market headwinds, ongoing production delays, and unforeseen shipping disruptions,” said Gary Cohen, iRobot CEO, in a press release.

Home made day old bread, home raised eggs.

CNN profiled the non-profit Internet Archive today — and included this tidbit about how they archive parts of the internet that are now “tucked in conversations with AI chatbots.”

Your personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been accessed during a data incident involving the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office.

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The abuse of a sedative-laced vape liquid called “zombie cigarettes” has been increasing among youths in southern Japan, with investigative authorities stepping up vigilance against its potential spread nationwide.

Iran says it has no secret enrichment program as journalists are invited to Tehran for a summit. US news outlets recently reported that Iran had begun building a new enrichment facility near Natanz.

*China and Japan have repeatedly faced off around the Japan-administered islands, which Beijing calls Diaoyu and Tokyo calls the Senkaku.*

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents fanned out across Charlotte on Saturday, making arrests along Charlotte’s immigrant-heavy Central Avenue and South Boulevard corridors. The arrests preceded a protest Saturday afternoon in uptown, where hundreds condemned the crackdown and the deployment of federal immigration agents.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to oppose any attempt to establish a Palestinian state. He made the comment Sunday, a day before the U.N.

One of my neighbors has a massive amount of very large mushrooms circling a tree.

Guess the Episode

Dutch cloud firm Solvinity taken over by US IT giant Kyndryl

The Free Software Foundation Europe has awarded this year’s European SFS Award to VLC developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/34498056

“None of this would have been possible without everyday New Yorkers willing to spare $5, $10, or $20 to help build a government that will deliver for working people,” said the mayor-elect.