Not trying to sell anything, but I just found that North American Rescue is having a sale, August 1-5. If you were going to purchase CAT tourniquets or other first aid stuff, might be worth a look.
UK App Store charts be like
“Physics is like sex. Of course it can give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.”
—Richard Feynman
from “Hammered” by Elizabeth Bear
welcome to fire season - and then some
My retired underwater archaeologist wants to sell his old land magnetometer & Trimble survey instrument. The land mag, one of the 1st, dates to ca. 1975. No data collection. No GPS. We had to walk transects & stop every 3 m to write down the reading. In the office we then plotted & contoured them.
The Trimble instrument is ca. late 1980s. I told him to set a price & I would put the word out, but those are so old that only an archaeologist wanting to play with ancient technology would buy them.
Biden left with record low black unemployment.
Black unemployment under Trump reaches its highest rate since the pandemic.
https://thegrio.com/2025/08/02/black-unemployment-under-trump-reaches-its-highest-rate-since-pandemic/
So let me get this straight: Jack Smith investigates a guy who tried to overturn an election and incited an insurrection… and he’s the one being investigated? We’re not a serious country. We’re a banana republic with better branding…but that’s going to shit, too.
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How Pakistan shot down India's fighter jet using Chinese gear - https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/how-pakistan-shot-down-indias-cutting-edge-fighter-using-chinese-gear-2025-08-02/
“Central to its downing was an Indian intelligence failure concerning the range of the China-made PL-15 missile fired by the J-10 fighter. China and Pakistan are the only countries to operate both J-10s, known as Vigorous Dragons, and PL-15s.”
If you ever drive to northern California on hwy 101 be sure to side quest down the Avenue of the Giants. It is a beautiful diversion.
Today, the Avenue was on our way to the river. Summer was deserving of some fun. The temperature was 73°F and the sky was blue. Hard to resist.
My husband's family has their own redwood grove on the avenue. I pointed the sign out to Summer, but her attention was already looking forward to jumping in the Eel River.
A worthwhile afternoon adventure.
A couple of scenes fom our drive.
#Humboldt #Redwoods
When will the European Union condemn Hungary for bypassing sanctions and fixing Russian military equipment? They are a part of NATO and they’re helping Russia kill Ukrainians. Is anybody gonna stand up to Orban?
I was researching a legal matter all day and am just now getting caught up with news. Among the items that seem important but lost among all the Trump regime craziness is this, reporting on a 9 day hunger strike by a detainee at the Florida Everglades ICE detention camp. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alligator-alcatraz-florida-hunger-strike-b2800557.html
📆 7-9 October 2025, London, UK 🇬🇧
W3C is pleased to call for participation in: IAB/W3C Workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) are convening a workshop to examine the technical and
architectural implications of different approaches to implementing
age-based restrictions on access to online content.
Paper submissions due by: 2025-08-08
More at:
https://www.w3.org/events/workshops/2025/iab-w3c-workshop-on-age-based-restrictions-on-content-access/
Full schedule with talk descriptions, etc, should be up on Hacker Tracker.
Wrote (and charted) about the BLS revisions and firing. https://www.pbump.net/o/maybe-a-theorized-conspiracy-isnt-the-reason-for-job-number-revisions/
I just keep thinking about this ratio. I know we can do better than this.
- **Vacant homes in the US**: ~14,900,000
- **Homeless people in the US (2024)**: ~771,000
that is just absurd
I don't know about you, but I'd find opening my curtains in the morning to be confronted with this quite alarming...
I'd certainly be viewing the contents of my coffee with suspicion.
In a blow to NATO, a mere eight years into its three-year overhaul, and after sinking in its dry dock, going on fire, having a crane fall on it, losing its entire crew to facilitate an illegal invasion, having most of its reconstruction materials embezzled and going on fire again, Russian media is suggesting that strategic rust reserve and occasional environmental disaster Admiral Kuznetsov might not be returning to "service" after all. Shame.