Uproarious laughter, in a post-Trump moment—‌me imagining his overdose on Adderall before a rally, then a massive coronary, and through incompetence lacked timely help and died.

R.I.Something:

—‌the laughter was not at his death, but rather a the thought of a golden Trump Mausoleum at Mara Lago, and whether I would have time to make it there for a piss before I, too, die—‌

Then sea-level swelled in my vision, and the mausoleum slipped below waves...

And the laugh…

#Maralago #climatechange

Whether as an evasion of human scrutiny, or not: our understanding of that new #AI language may or may not be of relevant consequence, now or over time.

(I find myself regularly flying wild ideas out as polls here; works for me.)

Could #agenticAI spawns create among themselves an own #AI language, as inscrutable to us as other animal languages largely seem?

re: falling like rockets

DJT's #WarTax is the only #climatechange environmental upside we've seen since his inauguration, albeit in a common-man pain-infliction #accelerationist wet-dream fashion.

https://onpurposeoregon.org/bcorpdirectory

*noteworthy:*

Build Your Ecosystem: Directory of Local B Corps

On Purpose Oregon is the leading community for purpose-driven businesses in our region. We unite third party-certified or mission-aligned companies and values-led professionals in one place.

We started with a few dozen B Corps, a shared belief, and a city ready to prove something. A decade later, we're the most active B Local chapter in the country…

#oregon #pdx #lowcarbon #affordablehousing

https://byteiota.com/flock-safety-hardcoded-53-passwords-in-police-cameras/

Jan 10, 2026
"…#Flockcameras installed on public streets are physically accessible to anyone with a ladder. The company’s physical security model? A button sequence on the device back creates a Wi-Fi access point (SSID “flock-54E823”, password “security”). Connect to it, enable Android Debug Bridge, gain full root access. 9News quoted researchers: “30 seconds with a stick.”

…exposed USB ports accept malicious devices that execute scripts with full permissions…"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733836

"Having hardcoded credentials is a sign of total incompetence. In this case at least it wasn't a password, but an API key which can be used to request credentials (stored in plaintext) which look like they'd get you access #Flock's servers."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/world/europe/russia-drone-attack-kyiv-security-service.html

Zelensky said on social media that the agency’s director, Oleksandr Poklad, had survived the strike. The Ukrainian leader added that he had ordered Mr. Poklad to devise a response that would mirror the Russian attack.

The strike in central Kyiv, which would be the equivalent of targeting a top Russian official in Red Square, was the latest sign that the red lines that still remain in Europe’s deadliest war in a generation continue to be crossed.

They were best buddies in that period, and their tastes overlapped, to say the least.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/02/whats-really-behind-trumps-deference-to-putin

*(gotta wonder if those #EpsteinFiles don't contain very relevant notes about just that era in DJT's 'career')

"…Czechoslovakia secret police began spying on Trump in the 1970s, when he married a woman from behind the iron curtain. He visited Moscow in 1987, on a trip organised by a Soviet state agency, and subsequently made many visits to Russia including in 2013 for the Miss Universe beauty pageant.

What exactly happened on these excursions* is unclear…"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/military-disables-phone-ad-trackers

(thieving #databrokers eventually saw profit over honor and ratted out our own troop locations; no wonder Iranian drone strikes have been so precise)

US forces say they have disabled ad trackers on a ​range of phones and computers, according to letters released by Sen #RonWyden …a development that follows reports that commercially available #locationdata had been used to target American forces in the Middle East.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43747489/

Follows Americans engaging in face-to-face conversations about cultural, political, economic, and generational divisions across seven states.

Director, Ian Cheney. Stars, Robert Reich

The Work in Progress (A new film with Robert Reich) | Official Trailer

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2026/08/31/participatory-budgeting-measure-faces-organized-opposition-including-from-mayor/

“We are not surprised that our campaign to give Portlanders their 2 cents on the city’s budget is now opposed by corporate lobbyists, real estate developers, and City Hall insiders,” said NextUp Action Fund’s deputy director, Devin Ruiz, in a statement. “They have held power in Portland for a long time, and Portland’s new government structure and electoral system are loosening their grip.”

#pdx #oregon

https://www.inquirer.com/health/measles-cases-pennsylvania-deaths-cdc-updates-20260831.html

Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, wrote on X that the deaths may have been “fabricated” by the Shapiro administration, which has confirmed the deaths announced last Tuesday were “measles-associated.”

Pennsylvania “thoroughly reviews” all reported measles cases to ensure they meet CDC definitions and has provided “all required epidemiological data” on the measles-associated deaths to the CDC, state health department spokesperson Neil Ruhland said in a statement.

https://mastodon.social/@rexi/117124196884963358

The need for efficient and tunable filtering for things like #pfas, #pesticides and #nitrates is obvious, especially in light of ongoing corporate malfeasance by Big Ag generally, and #Monsanto specifically.

https://mastodon.social/@rexi/117123983910114184

(delayed by local liminalities and reform, and a bit of summer lull on titillating science that looks to have an effect on our future.

I find this next a justifiable AI use.)

referenced:
Discovering metal-organic framework/polymer mixed-matrix membranes via machine learning for CO2 separation…"
Mixed matrix membranes with metal organic frameworks can overcome the permeability selectivity trade off, but their diversity and simulation cost limit large scale evaluation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-026-01207-9

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-ai-screens-membrane-combinations-carbon.html

"#Polymers that transport gases rapidly generally separate them less efficiently, while highly selective polymers tend to restrict gas transport.

One strategy for overcoming this limitation is to embed metal-organic frameworks, or #MOFs, within polymer membranes. MOFs are porous crystalline materials constructed from metal ions and organic linkers. Because their pore sizes and chemical properties can be precisely tuned…"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-026-01207-9

"…we present a data-driven discovery framework that integrates molecular simulations and #machinelearning (ML) to predict the #CO2, CH4, N2, and #H2 permeabilities of 104,196 different types of MOF/ #polymer MMMs…"