February 15, 2026
The Trump administration’s white nationalist project was on full display this weekend at the 62nd Munich Security Conference that took place from February 13 to 15, 2026.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
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Big Pharma Blocking Keto Doctors?
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Big Pharma Are Silencing Keto And Carnivore Doctors! - Doctor Reacts
Are doctors really being silenced about the ketogenic diet? Dr. Eric Westman reacts to a powerful video by Dr. Tony Hampton, exploring claims of censorship a...Dr. Eric Westman - Adapt Your Life (YouTube)
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While I was watching Oliver, apparently a 9th round was initiated and completed, so when I flipped back to the curling bout, the 10th and final was already in progress and was about to end, with China having the last-stone advantage. China was leading the US pretty much throughout the match. Well, folks--the U.S. took the steal and whupped China in spite of China's last stone advantage. I'm glad I tuned in just in time to see that happen.
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Just a passing observation in #figureskating presentations-- only a handful of men did dances incorporating a bit of Kpop moves (shoulder shrugs, mainly) so now I'm wondering aloud why, when Kpop dancing is so fetching, more of it isn't done.
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#Olympics #FigureSkating #RepetetiveMotionSyndrome #Coaching
It occurred to me only this morning that two apparent losses of apparently assured gold medals by both Team #ChockBates and #IliaMalinin do have this one thing in common: coaches who believed that a reprise of routines that previously won gold would win gold again, and both got different results.
Coaches, for a clue as to how to not let that happen again, as Ilia put it, consult with people who frequently knit different patterns because they know better than you do that when the mind/body connection is involved in a repeated pattern, it will go into error-prone autopilot rather than produce an attentively fresh performance. A knitter is capable of correcting errors even when they're discovered after several rows of production, but a skater has no such option.
Coaches, take a tip from the knitting community: NEVER do reprises.
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A Friday the Thirteenth With Some Good News–and Some Bad | CW Daily
A Friday the Thirteenth With Some Good News–and Some Badcwdaily (CW Daily)
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Since I've seen Simon Biles quality performance from #TheQuadGod I'm just wondering if what he experienced today is a skater's form of "The Twisties". Today's performance was just heartbreaking.
I also heard more noise about a Chock/Bates appeal of the medal points where #NBCNightlyNews showed that the French judge wasn't only an outlier in this Olympics but he was also in past Olympics. I'm going to say this again--there's NO SUCH THING as faulting ONE judge when the other judges AGREE with his scoring, as they did TWICE.
NBC showed flaws in the performance of the gold medalists, and I point out that's not where they got a perfect score, and the medal awards are determined by the SUM of ALL the points, not just the points in one area, so here we have an example of #TomLlamas failing to report on this matter objectively. It's ALL the numbers, stupid.
Seriously. An appeal based on what one single judge does is, at best, sour grapes.
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DIY Rag pipeline
~ Retrieval-Augmented Generation but my way..
changed OS to a Atomic version, so it needed a re build from scrap, long story short an opportunity to make things better.
the Friendly (use case on a public domain without hammering the server with a time outset) "crawler" to set up on local host, no API in a file where instruction LLM in system message is to look in that directory only.
And instead of a browser UI a GUI with incorporated checkers.
All is open source and private LLM as model, so leave the salt behind please.
Both PyQT5 app's .
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I am not a fan of scraping at all to teach LLMs as I feel it provides more bad information than good to train on. Though it is a nice way to learn about automation. I know you will do it responsibly. Remember to keep long pauses between your scrapes to not put undue pressure on the servers. By long I mean 5 to 10 seconds not minutes 😉.
Always be careful of what you teach your LLM. Garbage in, Garbage Out. One of the things I hate about corporate AI and why I do not use it is because they use scrapes from social media. They use the most popular posts. This does not mean they are the most accurate posts. So use the information corporate AI gives you at your bane. Do not replicate their paradigm in your own experiments. Use well fettered and vetted information that you tag appropriately to keep it in context.
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In Talking Points Memo, editor Josh Marshall has been exploring the contours of what he calls the Authoritarian International, which he identifies as “a host of authoritarian governments around the world, the princelings of the Gulf monarchies, the sprinkling of European right-ravanchist governments, the rightward portion of Silicon Valley (which accounts for a larger and larger percentage of the top owners if not the larger community), the Israeli private intel sector, various post-Soviet oligarchs and, increasingly, the world’s billionaire class.”Marshall notes that those in this world are not just antidemocratic. They are constructing a private world in which deals are done secretly without any democratic accountability, mixing national interest with individual financial interest. The model operates in part by maintaining control over key figures thanks to compromising material on them. Marshall points out that the system can be oddly stable if everyone has something on everyone else.
February 12, 2026
In a ceremony at the White House yesterday, surrounded by coal industry leaders, lawmakers, and miners, President Donald J.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
#diy #biotech #homebrew #fermentation#yoghurt #fedigroups #HappyBowels
#domowe #przetwory #fermentacja #jogurt #SzcześliweJelitka #TeamZdrowie
Czy mamy na fedi dość ludzi, żeby założyć grupę fermentacji domowej? Zaczynam produkcję jogurtu na bakteriach probiotycznych i szukam bratnich/siostrzanych umysłów.
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Seriously??? I'm just now hearing that there's exception being taken at the #Olympics claiming that a French judge in particular took advantage of the fact that the last pair to skate in #FreeDance #FigureSkating (French) to make sure that pair got more points than the American couple which was in 1st place just before that. #ChockBates did a reprise of an earlier dance presentation, none of which merited the max number of points awarded (looking at skill-of-execution numbers) but the French pair got perfect scores in 2 areas.
Since there's more than one judge on the panel, seems to me when every judge on the panel awards the highest performance award in 2 areas, you can't hold a single judge responsible for that. No one judge can fudge a perfect score once, let alone twice.
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“You’re Running a Massive Epstein Coverup Right Out of the DOJ!” | CW Daily
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This part of the whole manifesto jumped into my mind after recent rampant social media trends
People fear the new and unknown. They prefer the old, the known and checked truths. They are afraid of what the new can bring to them. They are afraid that they can lose what they have. Their fear is so strong that it has proclaimed the revolutionary a foe and the free idea--its weapon. That’s their fault. People must leave this fear behind and go ahead. What’s the sense to stick to the little you have now when you can have more tomorrow. Everything they must do is stretch their hands and feel for the new; give freedom to thoughts, ideas, to words:
“A Cyberpunk Manifesto”
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new to frendica, finally found an instance that will take me
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Poland announced it was launching an investigation into whether Epstein was tied to Russian intelligence. “More and more leads, more and more information, and more and more commentary in the global press all relate to the suspicion that this unprecedented paedophilia scandal was co-organised by Russian intelligence services,” Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said. “I don’t need to tell you how serious the increasingly likely possibility that Russian intelligence services co-organised this operation is for the security of the Polish state. This can only mean that they also possess compromising materials against many leaders still active today.”
February 10, 2026
As of yesterday, members of Congress who sit on the House or Senate Judiciary Committees can see unredacted versions of the Epstein files the Department of Justice (DOJ) has already released.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
“This is the Strangers’ Case, and This Your Mountainish Humanity” | CW Daily
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in reply to 8Petros [Free Radical] • • •IIRC this is some system database, and I'd avoid syncing it between devices directly. If you don't want to use CalDAV server, I think that DecSyncCC+Syncthing should work.
Someone on Syncthing forum tried to use on-device CalDAV server (in Termux).
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in reply to Brie Mmm • • •It's the calendar provider and you can't sync them without root. Still not recommended to use Syncthing, yes, a Caldav server would be the best option IMO too.
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in reply to SanskritFritz • • •or if you don't mind, export - Sync - import, but that's not automatic.