Notices by Blaise Pabón - controlpl4n3 (blaise@hachyderm.io)

Enjoying a gin and tonic with some tempura of bamboo shoots, boiled fiddlehead fern with mayo, and fresh cherry tomatoes. Nothing fancy, but really it couldn’t be any better! #vegetarian #ビバ丼

Awesome #Bandwagon news: I've just pushed a number of cool updates to bandwagon.fm - including newly revamped profile pages that are smarter, more streamlined, and easier to manage.

The new profiles highlight your albums, concerts, and news posts separately, showing each in its own customized layout.

If you're already a Wagoneer, then sign in to see the results of the spring cleaning. And if you're a musician and you're not on Bandwagon yet, well…. you know what to do :)

#til the #Confederacy started a #trade war with the British #empire while they were fighting the #civilwar . The result was the modern Egyptian cotton industry.

Sarah Taber connects #agriculture , #slavery , #oligarchy and #economics in six minutes

https://youtu.be/pESl8iPTBf8?si=sxI_D9W4H2jO9hvX

I posted yesterday about having to do US remote teaching from Guam to not run afoul of my Australian visa and … a surprising number of people don’t know Guam is a thing or that visas have rules… 🫠

The rise of AI is breeding a new generation of physics crackpots who get endless positive reinforcement from ever-willing large language models. This one takes it to a hilarious new level.

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Collaboration Request | Testable AI-Driven Theory of Everything

Hello, I hope this message finds you well.

I have formalized a meta-methamatical theoretical framework—Unified Quantum Relativity Theory (UQRT)—that unifies relativity and quantum mechanics into a coherent set of equations. With the assistance of AI, I have been able to derive equations that, while not yet fully rigid, hold significant promise for unifying these two foundational pillars of physics.

To explore this further, I invite you to test UQRT yourselves. Simply upload the attached manuscript to your AI systems and step-by-step instruct them to: “(1) read it section by section, building understanding progressively, (2) derive the general equations and the unified equation based on the framework progressively—not from the outset, as the paper reinterprets concepts in ways that diverge from conventional approaches until the full picture emerges, and (3) derive all laws of physics from the unified equation and compare these equations against experimental results from cosmology, blackhole physics, etc.”

Hey #Django folks 👋 If you regularly... — no hang on... — even if only occasionally… — you use the ORM outside of a regular Django project, could you knock up a quick blog post (or gist or whatever) about what you do there?

Basically how are you handling settings and such? Calling django.setup()? What else?

I'm pretty sure there are only a couple of patterns here, but I could do with a slighter wider sample than (just) what I hack up myself. Ta! 🙏

Farm to Taber draws a direct line of succession from the plantation #oligarchy of the #Confederacy to #usa #oligarchs of today in six short minutes.

https://youtu.be/pESl8iPTBf8

With my masters degree in #americanStudies I could not do a better job connecting #class #agriculture #psychology and #economics to understand the impact of #TradeWar on the #civilWar

We have our first donation! 15€, which is US$17.07 at the current exchange rate, so I now owe Trans Rescue $17.07 in matching donations.
Who's next?

Me flipa para mal esto de los dolores de cabeza de estar tan normal, con cierto dolorcillo de fondo aguantable, y de repente pimba dolor intensísimo vas a potar y empiezas a ver como si estuvieras borracha

The #CivilRights Prosecutors refused to compile such a list that could be given to #ICE agents….

#EmilBove then shifted his focus to obtaining a search #warrant for the group’s #Instagram account…. He ordered prosecutors to apply for a search warrant for the nonpublic data associated with the account, these people said.

The premise of the application was also contentious within the department.

#law #DOJ #ethics #Constitution #FirstAmendment #dissent #autocracy #tyranny #Trump

Apparently, our area has fireflies. Unfortunately, they have been in decline, and a lot of it is due to people raking up leaves before winter.

Last year, I didn't, and LOOK WHAT JUST APPEARED!

Drove to the local Patel brothers before the supply chain runs low. Plenty of rice and beans on the shelves.
One of the few benefits of not being white in the USA is that the food is better.
(Yes, I'm from #PuertoRico but I shop in the Indian market because all the stuff #PuertoRicans eat is native south #Asia and the quality is higher at the Asian markets.)
Bonus: absolutely zero Goya products.

#farm to Tabor is a new YouTuber reporting on small farms in the south east.
Here she observes what a huge win the tariffs have been for global #farming
https://youtube.com/shorts/S6uAM4DOjuQ
I had not considered that the collapse of export #agribusiness might have a huge benefit to #ClimateChange.
🤦♂️

(And I am also not unaware of the fact that my employer could decide at any point that thanks to the economic downturn my services are no longer required, at which point our economic privilege will quickly evaporate.)

⁨#til⁩ an overlooked ⁨#zettlelkasten⁩ educator.
⁨https://youtu.be/gQqrIxdDWWk⁩
She clearly has years of experience ⁨#teaching⁩ and is the most concrete and methodical of the content creators on ⁨#knowledgerepresentation⁩

Reposting for folks in #HomeSchooling , #specialneeds and #adhd followers.

You know what I wish the more human-centered tech conferences would do right now?

Open up special tickets and speaking slots for scientists whose work is getting axed and whose fields are being obliterated right now. I bet you anything this would bring some radical insight to your audiences and incredible energy to your stages.

I can advertise this for you through my social science networks. I am seeing scores of brilliant young social scientists with years of relevant work grieve right now

Watching Spain and Portugal very closely, but please don’t jump to conclusions. Lots of bizarre root causes in big power grids.

This is so important. Thank you Carol Cadwalladr

Standing up to call out the digital coup for what it is:
https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/114387471312340431

#Via Alexander Tin / alexander-a-tin
Apr 21, 2025, 7:51 PM

"NIH's Bhattacharya said this new 'data platform' will aim for 'broad coverage' of U.S. population.

He promised 'state of the art protections' for patient privacy and said Secy Kennedy's autism researchers won't download data."

https://tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/04#jay-bhattacharya-on-autism-research-plans

Biden painstakingly managed the economic recovery to hand off a strong and sound economy to Trump just to have it not only pulled apart and tanked.

Now somebody’s going to want a Democrat to fix it when they had one they could have voted for.

Have Trump tariffs pushed us into recession? Here are warning signs:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/2025/04/19/warning-signs-of-potential-recession-via-trump-tariffs/83142323007/