#Vote! Like the perv you are. 🗳️

#USPol #Elections #Midterms

FBI New Haven, #Connecticut field office posted for several hours to its tens of thousands of followers that #Election Day was Wednesday and not today, Tuesday November 3rd, 2026. #USPOl It finally deleted it after being up for 14 hours some point on #ElectionDay morning.
#Vote
(I usually oppose X screenshots but this is worthwhile.)

Minnesotans are leaving "I Voted" stickers on the memorials to Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DfSkE7NvMCw/

#Minnesota #midterms #ICE #FuckICE #ICEout

Gotta love how the top 10 list is now ALL io_uring:

https://benchmarks.arjaythedev.com/12-dollar-server

also a new video as well. My son told me about it :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbsynnWC6BA

As the Trump administration ramped up deportations over the last year, federal agents have effectively turned their cars into massive, deadly blunt objects. https://theintercept.com/2026/11/02/ice-vehicles-cars-hit-weapon/

unfortunately due to the new visa rules that were announced yesterday, I'll have to find other opportunities outside the UK.
If anyone has any opportunities in game dev especially graphics programming and low level engine programming that are outside the UK, please let me know.

Multiple alarms set for 4:00am. Can’t risk oversleeping. I’m a chief election officer in a precinct in Fairfax County, Virginia tomorrow. I’ll live post with the #electionofficer hashtag if you want to follow along (or mute). Polls open at 6:00am Eastern. So I’m not likely to post much until after that. Opening is busy and requires my full attention. And if there are lots of voters, well, they come first. You lot will just have to wait.

And if you are eligible to #vote tomorrow, I hope you will. It’s important. And it only seems to get more important.

"Goodyear and Gordon say that mass motoring represents one of the biggest public health crises that the world has ever seen... Environmental scientists contend that tire dust and tire fragments are one of the largest sources of plastic particle pollutants in ocean water. Vehicle brake wear contributes high levels of magnetite to the environment that has been linked to the development of Alzheimer’s, a leading cause of death among the elderly."

https://www.styleweekly.com/unsafe-at-any-speed/

Too many damned deranged psychopaths driving around this world.

In America this guy could just pay off lawyers to save him from consequences selling it to the jury as another terrible accident where a cyclist dangerously ran into a vehicle while the traumatized driver is shocked to learn that bikes are permitted to use roads and not exclusively safe cycle lanes.
https://road.cc/news/killer-driver-handed-lifetime-driving-ban-and-minimum-jail-term-of-25-years-for-murdering-cyclist-after-dragging-him-under-car-for-almost-five-minutes

I have a soft spot for #SUSE. It was the first Linux company I ever worked at and it was a lot of fun. @cyphar and I met there as well and now we're founding members of @amutable . It's sad that this pointless churn in the name of profit maximizing keeps happening to a great company. So so many good kernel people that work over there that carry a lot of weight upstream.

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/11/02/suse-to-cut-one-in-ten-employees-because-of-ai/5306950

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@tito/117538793533909416

NSF requested 500 million dollars, total, for math AND physics, next year:
https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-2027-NSF-Budget-Request-to-Congress.pdf#nsf-summary-table

Simply funding basic research is an absolute bargain compared to LLMs brute forcing results for press releases

So apparently #Microsoft #GitHub is now shadowbanning #Gentoo from GitHub Actions used to build #RustLang crate dists. I guess it's time to move this to our own infrastructure… except that I suspect GitHub will then ban us for fetching from many repositories.

I mean, doing a "git fetch --tags" once a day is obviously so much "wasted compute". Unlike all the "AI" crap they're pulling off.

Vote like it matters.

If it didn't matter, they wouldn't work so hard to keep you from doing it.

I don't know who needs to see this but here's a Spacemit K3 CoM260 building its own Fedora kernel natively. Seems CPU-bound with 8 RVA23 cores, which is probably good. It's a shame we can't also utilize the 8 RVA22 ("AI") cores with a mainline kernel.

#riscv #spacemit #linux #fedora

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @Streetsblog
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says

I was just recommended this Wired article, "Please let the Internet die":

https://www.wired.com/story/let-the-internet-die/

...but I have not read it. First I get the malicious-compliance "we see your do-not-track setting" popover that must be dismissed. Then there was another one full of "privacy choices". I stopped there; I think that Wired has already made its point quite nicely.

#HIRING! UK-based-remote, no visa possible. £70,000 #noai #product manager - role is at a non profit, huge name you'll know (will share on email) and you're an experience design, user journey, influence-y confident communicating type of PM. You'll be highly technically capable/literate, and from a data background or be super data product experienced. Working with academics and places like the NHS will be big in this one, and woo no AI. Want the full spec? Drop me a line thayer@team-prime.com

Oh, *this* is scummy.

Amazon, owner of IMDB (The Internet Movie Database), has decided that being logged into Amazon when you visit IMDB automatically means you consent to them auto-creating an account on IMDB for you. And, of course, transferring your personal info from Amazon to IMDB to populate that account.

And *that* account is by default signed up to all of their spam and marketing preferences.

All of this happens with zero clicks - no consent whatsoever.

I'm going through and turning it all off, and will try to see if I can just delete it completely afterwards.

#Amazon #IMDB #spam #marketing #consent #privacy #violation

Cast-in-place concrete dividers being installed on Washington St. in #Boston's Chinatown (between Kneeland St. and Stuart St.) as part of the repaving project.

A bit of good news considering how grim things have been recently for #Cycling in the City. I hope this might signal that Mayor Wu's Streets Cabinet are being allowed to do their jobs again.

One set of cast-in-place dividers does not an inflection in the #WuTurn make, but any cause for hope

(via TransitMatters and @bostoncyclistsunion)

#BikeTooter

Well. Got laid off, position terminated this Saturday. I need some time to remake my resume and everything but if anyone is looking for a Front-End engineer with 12yrs of exp in the Bay Area/Remote U.S. Ping me.

#getfedihired