Ed O'Neill - who I mostly know as Schlub Couch Dad from Married With Children - has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and trained with the Gracie family?
youtube.com/watch?v=lJBkzTgg2L…
I never would have guessed.
What's wild is that Keanu Reeves has also trained in BJJ (with the Machado brothers, cousins of the Gracies) and - while awarded an honorary black belt for contributions to the art - hasn't trained up to that level.
Which means... Al Bundy is more dangerous in a fight than John Wick?
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The rain this day was intense and incessant! Holy bananas we got soaked. But this trio of pups was determined to enjoy their play date no matter what!
.#BestFriends #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #GimmeThatBall
"Greed breeds consumption. We end up doing more and being busier in an attempt to satiate our greed, ultimately an impossible task because greed never gives up. It is the opposite of empathy. Try overcoming it and finding comfort in what you already have. See if that unlocks a sense of wellbeing that wasn’t there before. Contrary to the way most of us try to find happiness in modern life, going slow/pausing/doing less is actually the secret!"
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Decrease Doings - Ethical Revolution
Join me in taking step D, “Decrease Doings”, in the A-Z of simple steps to a better world: Less is less, but means more!Ethical Revolution
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Every Hidden Detail of New York’s Classic Skyscrapers: The Chrysler, Empire State & Woolworth Buildings
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Every Hidden Detail of New York's Classic Skyscrapers: The Chrysler, Empire State & Woolworth Buildings
Currently, the tallest buildings in New York City are One World Trade Center, Central Park Tower, and 111 West 57th Street.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
For Lucy Dacus, the dreamgirl of boygenius, fantasies carry a lesson
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/nx-s1-5338777/lucy-dacus-forever-is-a-feeling-review-boygenius?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Music @music-npr
Well I'll be damned. There's a carnivorous plant nursery in my state.
Carnivorous Plant Nursery | Flesh-Eating Plant Retailer
Shop Carnivorous Plant Nursery's selection of flesh-eating plants. In addition to retail, we promote environmental stewardship through educational materials.Carnivorous Plant Nursery
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AI Agents Have a New Job: Getting You Your Late-Night Crunchwrap Supreme
in partnership with Nvidia, Yum Brands will roll out AI drive-thrus at 500 more Taco Bell and Pizza Hut locations in the second quarter of this year.Jibin Joseph (PCMag)
Former head of Social Security says Elon Musk and DOGE are wrong about the agency
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/nx-s1-5337999/elon-musk-doge-social-security-cuts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Wearable Computing Goes Woven, Wireless, and Washable
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Wearable Computing Goes Woven, Wireless, And Washable
Sometimes we come across a wild idea that really tries to re-imagine things, and re-conceiving wearable computing as a distributed system of “fiber computers” embedded into textiles is …Hackaday
i've built a reproduction chord keyboard (keyset)! this device was invented along with the computer mouse by Douglas Engelbart's team at SRI back in the 1960s. unlike the mouse, it never took off.
files are here: github.com/schlae/engelbart-ke…
GitHub - schlae/engelbart-keyset: Reproduction Douglas Engelbart keyset
Reproduction Douglas Engelbart keyset. Contribute to schlae/engelbart-keyset development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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If it wouldn’t be too much trouble, if you have a spare half hour, could we possibly suggest that you might enjoy reading the transcript of our past episode on politeness? Or, if you’d prefer a less polite version, “Read! Now!”
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Transcript Episode 99: A politeness episode, if you please
This is a transcript for Lingthusiasm episode ‘A politeness episode, if you please’. It’s been lightly edited for readability. Listen to the episode here or wherever you get your podcasts.lingthusiasm (Lingthusiasm)
Most of the time, not a big deal. But in critical times, the losses will be felt.
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Possibly I can get away with some design changed instead.
The judge's words don't matter.
America's political system is being gradually transformed into a personalist dictatorship.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln 🎖️🇺🇸
I hear Russia’s nice. 👿
Privatizing the Postal Service is not reform. It is a direct attack on Americans
This move from Trump threatens towns, small businesses, seniors, veterans, and more
Annually, the postal service makes 1.2 billion prescription deliveries, services 167 million addresses, and is the lifeline for 63 percent of microbusinesses
This is not about efficiency.
It is about erasing public good for private profit
It's also very very unconstitutional. Not that this concernes these men.
But the mail is in the constitution, one of a few explicitly mentioned functions of the federal government.
(I always thought a modern reading ought to imply free high speed wifi nation wide in addition to paper mail.)
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has testified today that Signal has been preinstalled on US government devices and they use it for secure comms on the advice of CISA.
I think CISA may get thrown under the bus on this one too. Signal may be too — today Trump suggested it was a “bad signal”.
bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz9e875gd1…
The Atlantic publishes Yemen attack plans from Trump officials Signal chat - live updates
Editor Jeffrey Goldberg says he is sharing the full exchange after being accused of lying by senior officials.BBC News
The White House are bringing in Elon Musk, not Mandiant, to look at how a reporter ended up in the Signal chat.
Elon has publicly tweeted many times that Signal isn’t secure, and told people to use Telegram (lol) - so basically, Signal, CISA and likely the reporter are going to get thrown under the misinformation bus next week.
Bus chucking and disinformation begins. President Trump: "I think Signal could be defective, to be honest with you."
Expect several weeks of this. Wouldn’t surprise me if CISA remove advice to use Signal.
Der Spiegel report some of those in the Signal chat had publicly listed email addresses and mobile numbers with associated WhatsApp and Signal accounts, and publicly available passwords from prior breaches.
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Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers, is freely accessible on the …Patrick Beuth (DER SPIEGEL)
Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat
Internal investigation cleared the national security adviser Mike Waltz, but the mistake was months in the makingHugo Lowell (The Guardian)
Nothing good ever happens at houses on hills. Psychopaths live up there. The homes are haunted. Why can't they just live on flat land like decent people do?
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
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Valve's Harrington: unchecked CD duplication "put our entire business model at risk."
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How a nephew’s CD burner inspired early Valve to embrace DRM
Valve’s Harrington: unchecked CD duplication “put our entire business model at risk.”…Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)
SEC case over late disclosure of Twitter stock buy still moving ahead, for now.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Criminal acts, what?
"As the remains of a war-shattered urban wasteland are slowly reclaimed by nature somewhere in the impossibly distant future, two military androids locked in endless combat with long-lost humanity's relentless machine antagonists might also be jaywalking."
Inquiring minds want to know if it's still jaywalking if the lights are long since broken and there are no remaining operable cars.
(Given ACAB, the obvious answer is 'yes'. Well technically you could say corners are now four-way stops, at least in Ontario.)
This story is *wild*
Michael Waltz, Trump's national security advisor, was using Signal to chat with high-up Trump officials like defense secretary Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Stephen Mille, a CIA operative, and JD Vance ...
... to co-ordinate the Mar 15 bombing of Houthi targets
Waltz added -- apparently by mistake -- Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, to the group
a wild, clownishly self-own of a leak
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
(sorry, no unpaywalled link is available yet)
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
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Thank you for the archive link. I could not read the article otherwise.
Definitely wild for sure.
“...how Fascist dictatorship works: first make an example of one person or institution, that will cow the others who will keep their mouths shut and hope they won’t become the next target.”
“What Columbia is doing is deeply shameful, but so is the silence of its peer institutions.”
“there has been zero support of any kind from other institutions”
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The Situation at Columbia
When I left for spring break 10 days ago, I was intending to write something continuing along the lines of my last blog post. The idea was to try and fight the campaign of lies about the university…Not Even Wrong
Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University:
“that’s the classic collaborationist dilemma, right? ... you collaborate with authoritarians who you know are in the wrong, in order to keep them from doing worse stuff”
“Like I have a restaurant and if I collaborate with the Nazis and don’t let any Jews eat here, then the guys who wash dishes will still have jobs. As you know, that slope is very slippery. Appeasement doesn't end well.”
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Columbia’s Capitulation, and Wesleyan’s Pushback
Today on TAP: Appeasing dictators only invites more of the same. More university presidents should know that.Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect)
“when you engage in the collaboration, you actually encourage them to do even worse stuff.” concludes Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University
Robert Kuttner, co-founder at The American Prospect agrees:
“Universities are hiding in self-censorship...Former diversity offices have been remained offices of “Belonging” or “Collaboration,” as the University of Colorado calls its former diversity program.
Collaboration is all too apt a name.”
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Columbia’s Capitulation, and Wesleyan’s Pushback
Today on TAP: Appeasing dictators only invites more of the same. More university presidents should know that.Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect)
It's not a "do not track" request, it's a set of terms you demand from sites.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Doc Searls’ MyTerms aims to offer user-first privacy contracts for the web
It’s not a “do not track” request, it’s a set of terms you demand from sites.Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
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There's plenty to be concerned about here, and the inclusion of a reporter in this particular chat group is perhaps the least of it. It means they were using unclassified computers (probably phone handsets) to discuss obviously sensitive classified topics. The Signal chat logs on these people's phones must be pure intelligence gold.
Good thing people never lose or misplace their phones...
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Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified: (@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange)
In my day, PC-level officials were issued secure phones with specially developed and security vetted apps on them. It is true that people who don't have government issued phones do some coordination using their own phones.Infosec Exchange
@distractal The screenshots in the article appear to suggest that at least for this chat group, disappearing messages (4 weeks) was enabled.
This is, as you observe, both a good thing and a bad thing.
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Don't make me connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud.
Full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=5M_hmwBBPn…
I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud
I don't recommend the Bosch 500 series. It's dumb.Sadly, it seems all appliance manufacturers are going this route. Where will we be in 5-10 years _next_ tim...YouTube
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Attaché : 1 vidéo Voici une machine à laver la vaisselle en mode Béta (voir Alpha) :troll:Mastodon G3L
Jeff, did this have any response from Bosch? How did you finally solve the issue (if at all?)
I'd love to hook up mine to HomeAssistant, but when I found out the Bosch HC was cloud-only, I never hooked the dishwasher to my WiFi. I am however lucky to have a model with a display.
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in reply to mhoye • • •if you haven't seen Modern Family, you very much need to. Ed O'Neill is fantastic in it.
And as for his threat level, I'm sure he could flush the bad guys no problem.