US Embassy, Wandsworth, London, UK, 2025.
All the pixels, none of the awkward diplomacy, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54…
Wandsworth, London, UK 13 June 2025 Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/8) lens, Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/50 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (shifted vertically -19mm, horizontally -10mm). Cropped to a 4x5 aspect ratio.Flickr
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In today's "seagulls being absolute menaces" news: Gull samples man's coffee, before stealing the mug and dropping it in the sea. (An actual china mug, not some paper thing.) Could argue the gull was justified, as the man had been installing anti bird spikes on nearby houses, before stopping off at a pub for lunch. 😉
bbc.com/news/articles/c4g71pvz… (Link corrected.)
Darren Pardoe was installing anti-bird spikes in a Cornish town before the encounter.Eve Watson (BBC News)
Train is running late (not unusual) but glad to see the train quite full headed downtown
Lots more people getting on at the next (bigger) station: really young people, old people, people wearing Hong Kong shirts.
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Teen Vogue continues to be a goddamn treasure and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
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As part of Civil Discourse, Teen Vogue's partnership with Amnesty International USA, we answer your questions about activism when you're unable to show up in person.Amnesty International USA (Teen Vogue)
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We now have a political assassin impersonating a police officer on the loose in Minnesota, which, aside from being horrifying in and of itself, underscores the danger of the proliferation of anonymous federal law enforcement deployments from a wide variety of unfamiliar agencies conducting aggressive immigration operations across the country.
Is that uniformed person who's stopping you or demanding entry to your home legit or a psychotic vigilante seeking to harm you? It's impossible to know.
I agree about the gravity of this proliferation of anonymous law enforcement deployments.
And also:
#ACAB
Me: Do you have their number memorized? The only numbers I have memorized are .. yours—
Her: —yeah not helpful if we're going together...
Me: ...mine, and Network Solutions, circa 1993.
Her: That's not useful to anyone.
The agenda includes issues such as food security, promoting air, maritime, and land integration, transitioning to renewable energies, and managing disasteren.granma.cu
Love the idea of a double Appreciation Day for Obama & Biden - they were, after all, a great team and 2 of the best Presidents of my long lifetime.
Happy Obama & Biden Appreciation Day!
If you are already out there today, good luck.
If you are headed out today… take a burner, not your personal device… better yet, if you can, take nothing.
My "Thomas Friedman talking to a taxi driver/NT interview in an Iowa diner" story:
The guy behind the counter at the Thai place down the street has informed me that his boss was a Trump supporter right up until fish sauce hit $12 a bottle and now she is furious.
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From @aryjeay on X who is in Iran:
'Iranian MP has proposed to parliament a 3-step plan to withdraw from NPT.'
a lot of germans on the wrong side of history, once again..
with the warmongers for the 3rd time already.
with the #nazis for the 2nd time
supporting holocaust/genocide for the 2nd time..
supporting a racist cult (=zionism) for the 2nd time
supporting the murder of thousands of children for the 2nd time
feeling guilty for anything? nope. i don't think so.
i thought it was their collective guilt (from WW2) that pushed them to stand with israel -no matter what-, but no.
i now believe they get attracted to nazis and can't help themselves... it's becoming clearer day by day this holocaust goes on..
#neveragain is just fake.. it's #onceagain for them..
#antinazi #antifascist #antizionist
#StandWithMiddleEast #Genocide #Palestine #Iran #Yemen #Germany
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Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix
Link: netflixtechblog.com/uda-unifie…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Introducing UDA, the knowledge-graph-based architecture that translates conceptual domain models into consistent schemas and data pipelines.Netflix Technology Blog (Netflix TechBlog)
I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch
Link: github.com/yousef-rafat/miniDi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A reimplementation of Stable Diffusion 3.5 in pure PyTorch - yousef-rafat/miniDiffusionGitHub
U.S. State Department voices its support for Ireland against EU hate speech laws.
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Appeals court keeps National Guard under Trump’s control in Los Angeles amid ongoing ICE raids and protestsEd Newman (Radio Habana Cuba)
Two weeks ago, Adams held a town hall in Williamsburg where numerous members of the neighborhood’s Hasidic community criticized the bike lane. They cited a viral video where a person riding an e-bike crashed into a young child who dashed into the bike lane from a double parked car.
An online petition against the redesigned bike lane titled “DOT: Please Stop the Murder of our Children” has more than 3,000 signatures.
Adams recently held a town hall where members of the neighborhood’s Hasidic community criticized the bike lane.Stephen Rex Brown (Gothamist)
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Have you noticed recently A Lot Of YT videos have flashy subtitles or voice over created by A.I
Well those subtitles that most Youtubers are starting to use on their videos are A.I generated, which means those users have made agreements/contracts with A.I knowingly or unknowingly.
But what do those contracts entail?
The contracts will legally give A.I the right to access the back end of your mobile device, and A.I will be surveilling your activities and snooping on your private life. Nothing must be hidden from A.I - nothing indeed.
WhatsApp is already doing this, but all A.I generated apps that you download and work with, will become the snooper in your online life with your permission.
t.me/ncnc_55/1529
Have you noticed recently A Lot Of YT videos have flashy subtitles or voice over created by A.I Well those subtitles that most Youtubers are starting to use on their videos are A.Telegram
#science #palaeontology #paleoanthropology
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The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species.Scott Sayare (The Guardian)
For #FollowFriday today, I'd love to see y'all nominating amazing adult accounts that put effort into being accessible and inclusive.
I know they're out there, so let's recognize them!
Don't know any? Boost this and I'll update it with a list of my pics after I get a chance to check out the recommendations!
—Alice 💜
For George Orwell, there was nothing pro-American about Animal Farm. The CIA, however, had other ideas. Karl Cohen tells the remarkable story of how US intelligence secretly funded a landmark British movie.Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Schools have been shuttered and public gatherings have been banned as Israeli authorities prepare for an attack in the coming hoursthecradle.co
LYRICS:Your Mother’s Funeral It Cost Us Six Billion Pounds Paid For By The People Who Are Worked To The GroundDuring This Fuel Crisis You Live In Bliss With ...YouTube
As the U.S. pushes for a nuclear deal using the attack as leverage, Israel seeks to make any agreement unnecessary by targeting Iran's nuclear program. Will this lead to a clash between Netanyahu and Trump, testing the limits of Israel's power?Zvi Bar'el (Haaretz)
#Palestine / UN: Total Internet blackout in Gaza hindering aid operations
The United Nations reports a full internet blackout in Gaza severely hindering aid operations and access to critical information for civilians. Lifelines to emergency services have been cut off due to the ongoing Israeli attack.
#ClimateDiary Just for the record here: what Greta Thunberg and the rest of the #Madleen crew are doing is climate activism too, of course. I will never forget or forgive that awful FFF Germany statement on here (never retracted, as far as I know), denouncing Greta and supporting Israel. As Greta explains hereabd we have all said many times: it is all interlinked #FreedomFlotilla #Gaza
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Greta Thunberg and Yasemin Acar speak to Talk to Al Jazeera from the Madleen, a ship sailing toward Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla. Carrying aid, the a...YouTube
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Israel-Iran strikes: What are the worst-case scenarios? @iran @israel
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The BBC's James Landale looks at what could happen if the fighting escalates and expands.James Landale (BBC News)
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Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances
Link: inria.hal.science/hal-04776866…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Ivana LjubićMixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has become a cornerstone of operations research. This is driven by the enhanced efficiency of modern solvers, which can today find globally optimal solutions within seconds for problems that were out of…
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‘No Kings’ protests across US come after a week of unrest over anti-immigration raids; Trump’s military parade to begin at 6:30pm ET in Washington DCLuke Jacobs (The Guardian)
Anyone else know someone that fits this statistic?
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Machine-made delusions are mysteriously getting deeper and out of control.AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
Iran launched several waves of missiles at Israel over the night of June 13 and 14, with dozens of casualties...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
Meta devised an ingenious system (“localhost tracking”) that bypassed Android’s sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone — even if you used a VPN, the browser’s incognito mode, and refused or deleted cookies in every session.This is the process through which Meta (Facebook/Instagram) managed to link what you do in your browser (for example, visiting a news site or an online store) with your real identity (your Facebook or Instagram account), even if you never logged into your account through the browser or anything like that.
Meta accomplishes this through two invisible channels that exchange information:
(i) The Facebook or Instagram app running in the background on your phone, even when you’re not using it.
(ii) Meta’s tracking scripts (the now-pulled illegal brainchild uncovered last week), which operate inside your mobile web browser.
You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.Jorge García Herrero (Zero Party Data)
#TheBeanfield
In time for the 40th #Anniversary of the #Beanfield (1 June #2025), when the poo #lice #brutally attacked a #convoy of #people heading to #Stonehenge for the annual #free #festival in #1985, we are releasing hours of previously #unseen #video testimony taken in 1990/91 during the making of our #documentary ‘Operation Solstice’.
#Footage that has survived over 30 years, saved largely thanks to Dale Vince, who funded the digitisation, and who took on the role of outrider on the day. Some once familiar faces and voices here, Mo, Phil and Don, now long since passed, brought back to bear witness to the shameful barbarism of that day, ‘the worst police treatment of people’ in living memory, for which there was no public inquiry, but about which we will neither forgive nor forget.
thebeanfield.co.uk/
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Happy No Kings Day! I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest today, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow. No paywall. Free access. Please do read and share: https://www.qasimrashid.Mastodon
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American financier Don Wilson invested $100 million in Trump family bitcoin project, Trump Media & Technology Group, through his company DRW Investments - just nine weeks after an SEC probe into his crypto business Cumberland was dropped by the Trump administration
#TrumpMedia #TMTG #DonWilson #DRWInvestments #Cumberland #SEC
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Chicago trader Don Wilson backs Trump family’s bitcoin venture after administration drops lawsuitHarriet Agnew (Financial Times)
Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were gunned down in their Brooklyn Park home shortly after 2 a.m.Katherine Donlevy (New York Post)
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#uk state is filthy #beanfield #battle
Battle of the Beanfield 40 yrs on: Thatcher’s cultural vandalism, cocaine, housing.
– Repression and Resistance: 40 Years from the Brutal Police Violence at the Battle of the Beanfield to the Suppression of Environmental Protest – Today is the 40th anniversary of the largest and most violent peacetime assault on civilians in modern…BitChute
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Bethlehem/PNN/The Israeli court affiliated with the detention division in Ramla has issued a ruling to keep eight internenglish.pnn.ps
#environnement #foutagedegueule #lacorde #guillotine2025
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La France championne de la protection des océans ? Par-delà les effets d'annonce, la macronie s'était il y a trois ans employée à torpiller toute avancée à Bruxelles.Patricia Cerinsek (L'ÉCLAIREUR)
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The Democrat outrage machine has been firing on all cylinders following the debacle with Senator Padilla.Victor Nieves (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
#BVG #Berlin #Weltniveau
Samstag nachmittags. Bullerbü in Pankow.
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/8) lens, Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/50 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (Shifted vertically -19mm, horizontally -10mm). Cropped to a 4x5 aspect ratio.
The embassy's exterior "envelope" curtain forms an interesting abstract pattern that reminds me of the sound absorbing tiles that line recording studios and anechoic chambers. This photo shows the western-facing side.
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Deigned by the Philadelphia architectural firm KieranTimberlake*, the chancery building incorporates a number of sustainable design elements, and has been generally well received (international politics aside) by staff and local residents. It replaced a mid-century modern structure (by Eero Saarinen, now being redeveloped as a hotel) in the more traditionally fancypants Grosvenor Square neighborhood.
* Coincidentally, also the designer of Penn's Levine Hall, where I once had my office.
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •this sounds like a good architectural pattern to follow...
Instead of architecting our cities and buildings against homelessness, we should architect against billionaires with poor taste