excerpted page...and a quiet plea for more tools, #portland, #gresham...

https://tools.rockwoodcommon.org/products?sectionId=11

(interludes of sun: the best Nov. in #pdx has to offer: or, time to get your clunker bike back to ship-shape, where #bike specific tools are pricey—‌free is perfect)

#pdxbike #cycling

Probability that DOGE cuts have played a role in today's #aviation #groundstop:

https://beachcoma-recordings.bandcamp.com/track/julian-grefe-no-neck-tuberculosis-blues

Julian Grefe - No Neck Tuberculosis Blues, 2024

Probability that DOGE cuts have played a role in today's #aviation #groundstop:

https://myfavoriterobotrecords.bandcamp.com/track/libertine-nitin-clayton-steele-remix

Fairmont - Libertine (Nitin and Clayton Steele Remix), 2018

https://defected.bandcamp.com/album/the-boss-extended-mix
(boss of the groove, unchallenged)

Elvis Guetta, James Brown - The Boss (Extended Mix), Nov' 26

⚠️ My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com@bsky.brid.gy ⚠️
p.s. I have new prints for sale: www.tomgauld.com/shop

@zackwhittaker
"The outage also knocked out the company’s Copilot AI tools"
I saw very little angst about this.

University of Kentucky plans to "prohibit people from using university technology, including university Internet, for any political activity. It would also ban people from posting on non-university social media accounts “or engaging in substantial personal communications” using university technology resources."

Not sure how a university expects to ban personal use of its Wi-Fi from students.

https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/university-of-kentucky-to-ban-political-activity-on-university-devices

Solo, the Mozilla GenAI platform for building and hosting websites, is closing with almost no notice as nobody actually used it.

If you're annoyed at Microsoft, this might help you feel a little better.

https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/portland-lenovo-ideapad-s400-laptop/oudNnqgpmHpBeusmLJyZaG

"Enough 365 MiSery?"

(hawking old hardware with snark)

#pdx

He may look like just another old white man, but check his political positions/history, he’s not typical establishment.

Sen #ChrisVanHollen says he will challenge Sen #ChuckSchumer for majority leader
​

The Maryland #Democrat said he is “answering the call of the American people” as grassroots #progressives & some newly elected senators call for #change in #leadership.

#USpol #Congress #Senate
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-chris-van-hollen-says-will-challenge-sen-chuck-schumer-majority-le-rcna609100

Here, let me translate this new update from #Microsoft: "We still don't know what the fuck is wrong or how to fix it."
#outage #M365 #Microsoft365

The corporate argument for non-disclosure—‌and thus adequate #taxation—‌is one of 'proprietary process'—‌

So technical, legal definitions of processes involved with *capture* of data, as opposed to processing for other uses, must be determined: once captured—even with proprietary means—‌the data must then be deemed *non-proprietary*—‌thus out of the reckoning process of follow-on processes' possible proprietary nature.

The taxable sweet-spot that allows for #innovation without #monopolization.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rexi/117604751464245944

“We are heading towards a future of more genocides and more ecocides and the complete compromise of our basic rights and where basic necessities become luxuries,” she said.

“It’s more clear than ever in spaces like these that the situation could not be any less under control. The planet is not dying, it is being killed.”

— #GretaThunberg

#Cop31 #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #genocide #ecocide

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ultrasound-ai-shelf-smartwatch-full.html
https://mastodon.social/@rexi/117605447768322890
"While large language models, like ChatGPT, have been in the news, EchoMotion shows how very small models running on wearables have also revolutionized sensing in human-computer interaction," said co-author François Guimbretière, professor of information science in Cornell Bowers.

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ultrasound-ai-shelf-smartwatch-full.html

"While large language models, like ChatGPT, have been in the news, EchoMotion shows how very small models running on wearables have also revolutionized sensing in human-computer interaction," said co-author François Guimbretière, professor of information science in Cornell Bowers.

https://mastodon.social/@rexi/117605292694695160