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The Reappearance of the Farm Windmill
On the way home from our road trip two days ago, I noticed that the farm windmill on Avenida Casa Del Oro is back. However its tail is folded. I suppose it is to prevent it from spinning. Why have the windmill repaired and installed though?https://diary.boeckli.net/2026/10/26/the-reappearance-of-the-farm-windmill/
The US Government Is Hiding a Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-on-americans/
Two US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.
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Gaze at the Cosmic Dawn in Dizzying Detail
The Uprising of Asen and Peter began OTD in 1185. This led to the establishment of the Second Bulgarian Empire https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/athens-to-paris/thessaloniki-sofia.html?s=mb #travel #Bulgaria #history
The jumping spider *Portia fimbriata* undergoes movements of limbs, mouthparts, and eyes that are characteristic of REM sleep in vertebrates. When the spiders are deprived of sleep, and then later allowed to recover, their REM-like sleep period is longer, as if they need to make up the deficit. This may be a sign of memory consolidation--learning--in the spiders.
Original paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2618030123
the grubby fascist #techbros tried to rig the #brazilelections in favour of their rightwing trump stooge #bolsonaro , but they didn't succeed
Meta, the giant owned by Mark Zuckerberg that controls Facebook and Instagram, is alleged to have favoured Bolsonaro and penalised Lula by removing content that was unfavourable to the former and disabling advertising on the latter’s account
https://www.eunews.it/en/2026/10/05/pd-meps-denounce-zuckerbergs-interference-in-the-brazilian-presidential-election/
The schedule for the #London #Perl & #Rakulang Workshop (#LPW, but now also #LPRW) is now available! See it at https://act.yapc.eu/lpw2026/schedule and see the announcement at https://act.yapc.eu/lpw2026/news/1755
See you in November!
The link to the thing that was shared still doesn’t work. #impatient How long am I going to have to wait to finish this #atpfm episode?
The Shiver of the Vampires #nsfw #eroticart #nudity #movie
Shipbuilders are stepping up investments in shipyards across Japan as part of efforts to meet the government's target of doubling domestic shipbuilding output, with the overall amount on track to exceed ¥1 trillion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/10/26/companies/japan-shipbuilding-investments-up/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #ships #shipbuilding #imabarishipbuilding #saijoshipyard #hakodatedock #namurashipbuilding #kawasakiheavyindustries #oshimashipbuilding
What is the most fearsome kind of predator?
The Student List is expected to win 140 seats in the legislature, that is the Student List could form a government independently without having to seek a coalition.
Its candidate list was mostly made up of experts and professors chosen by students. They still haven’t presented their prime ministerial candidate, although the first name on the candidate list was Ilija Srdanovic, a professor at the Medical Faculty of Novi Sad University.
The good, the bad, and the dumb of the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ 16-9 regular-season finale win over Edmonton
Photo: Tanner Piper/3DownNation. All rights reserved. The Riders’ path to repeat as Grey Cup champions is now set.…
#Canada #Edmonton #3Down #3DownNation #BraydenSchager #Canadian #CFL #football #JackCoan #League #Riders #Roughriders #Saskatchewan #TommyStevens
https://www.europesays.com/canada/265407/
The Cisco Kid by José Luis Salinas and Rod Reed
#comicstrip #theciscokid #western #comicstrips
the ‘Boys are on the way 🗺️ | #DallasCowboys #NFL #football #fitcheck #shorts https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yGwGJEvliIE
"The years have long since gone, with nothing in their wake
Their ghosts walking through me
I watch my soul depart and follow them
To leave this place forever"
#FiresInTheDistance - Once the Silence Takes Your Place
Sharing this again because it is fantastic.
[OT] Brace for impact: Protecting people and the economy when the #AI #bubble bursts https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications/report-brace-for-impact-protecting-people-and-the-economy-when-the-ai-bubble-burst
The birds I saw on my bike trip through the gorge.
🔗 https://grafera.zone/archive/sketchbook/bird-log-22.html
#birding #birdart #illustration
Jack Antonoff Blasts Ed Sheeran Over Removing Macklemore From Tour Over Palestine Comments: “Stand The F*** Up”
#Music #MusicNews #EdSheeran #International #Israel #IsraelGazaConflict #JackAntonoff #Livemusic #LiveNation #Palestine
Mathematical model for visual cortical development based on molecular mechanisms underlying the generation and elimination of dendritic spines https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.24.761552v1
Metric - Romanticize The Dive (From Netflix Series "Nobody Wants This” Season 3) (Official Audio)
The economics of starting a VHS distribution label almost make sense, really, and I bet I know enough weirdos from the #monsterdon community and associated communities that I could find some folks who would be pretty damn excited about the obscure releases we could put out.
Maybe offer a USB Video Disc option for people who don't want a VHS (and a como USB/VHS pack for people who want the tape but also want the good looking copy?)
Between films that are unambiguously in the US public domain and films that are *probably* in the US public domain, but nobody has been able to prove it one way or the other, I could easily put together a few dozen obscure releases that most folks haven't seen.
And that's without getting into the indie filmmakers I know who would probably want in.
The saying that races are won in the workshop could very well ring true in the upcoming week off before Supercars’ Sandown semi-finals.
#RepcoSC
https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/critical-days-ahead-for-supercars-finalists/
Lula da Silva defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in historic runoff, assumes fourth term in polarized Brazil
In an unprecedented milestone for Brazilian democracy, the leader of the Workers' Party and current President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, won with 51.76% of the vote, compared to 48.24% obtained by the opposition candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, thus reversing the result of a first round for the first time, as reported by Infobae.
Megachurch Pastor Russell Evans says Christians must be 'transformers, not conformers'
Australian megachurch Pastor Russell Evans says Christians must "be transformers, not conformers," telling a crowd of Hispanic Christians that churches must be "contemporary and powerful" amid a "battle of the hearts and minds of this generation."
Source: https://www.christianpost.com/news/russell-evans-christians-must-be-transformers-not-conformers.html
Over 200 rabbis urge Senate hopeful El-Sayed to promote Jewish inclusion in Democratic Party
More than 220 rabbis from 34 states and Washington, D.C., urged Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, to promote the inclusion of Jews, including Zionist Jews, in the Democratic Party, as former President Barack Obama did.
The order handler was accepting a negative quantity and storing it. Asked to fix that, the agent added a condition that rejects values below zero, ran the suite, reported done. The new test passed. The next invalid order still landed in the table.
The guard existed and read correctly; it simply ran after the insert instead of before it. The test never exercised that ordering because it called the guard on its own.
A correct check in the wrong place still fails
Validation has one job: stop the request before any system state changes. Once a row is written, a payment is charged, a queue message is published, or an email goes out, checking the value afterward can only react to damage that already happened. Rejecting after the fact is logging a problem, not preventing one.
The agent copied the familiar shape of a guard clause without anchoring it to where the mutation begins. Inside the handler it found the save call, then added the check a few lines below it. The condition itself was fine; the order of operations was not.
Why the green test hid it
The test called the validation helper directly with a negative quantity and asserted it returned a rejection. That proves the condition evaluates the number correctly. It does not prove the condition runs before the insert, because the test never reached the save flow at all.
This is the recurring blind spot of unit testing a guard in isolation. The guard, the mutation, and the ordering between them are three separate claims, and isolating the guard tests only the first one. A negative input that reaches the actual handler reveals whether rejection truly precedes the write.
The failure leaves no loud error
Nothing crashes. The invalid row is stored, the response may even still look accepted, and downstream systems see a quantity they were never built to model. The bug behaves like a missing check rather than a broken one, so it survives code review: reviewers scan for a condition that rejects negatives, find it, and move on.
It also escapes the happy-path suite, which mostly feeds valid numbers through the handler. The edge case that matters, a negative input reaching the real entry point, is the case nobody drove end to end.
Place rejection before every side effect and prove the ordering
When a fix adds a guard, confirm it sits at the top of the entry path, ahead of the first database write, external call, or message publish. Rejection should be the first thing that runs, before any object is built that could be handed to a persistence layer. If different writes happen in stages, each rejection must precede the stage it guards.
Verify the ordering with a test that drives the real handler with invalid input and asserts nothing was persisted: no row in the table, no call to the external service, no published message. A guard helper tested alone cannot make that claim. The question to ask of every added check is simple: when it fires, has anything already changed?#aicode #aiagents #validation #debugging #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
The agent added validation after the write instead of before it
Fired Northview Church Pastor CJ Johnson launches new church
Four months after he was fired from the multi-campus Northview Church in Indiana due to concerns over his leadership style, Pastor CJ Johnson is now back in the pulpit with a new congregation at Patmos Church.
Source: https://www.christianpost.com/news/fired-northview-church-pastor-cj-johnson-launches-new-church.html