They’re faint but were visible about two hours ago in Virginia (may still be in parts, but clouds rolled in to my neck of the woods).

The aurora is visible in central VA.

Perhaps even some financially-well-off Jews voted for Mamdani because improved social services make society better for everyone in it?

If the article weren’t written by a Jewish author for Haaretz, I’d honestly guess parts were written by quite the antisemite.

Link: archive.is/ljgQX

A nice reminder of the days when America’s eternal militaristic jingoism was able to coexist happily with a welcoming attitude towards immigrants*.

* yes, I know it was a super racist and shitty system, just in different ways than the current state of immigration law.

It might be good that they’re trying to measure signs of psychosis and mania in their users, but I’m dubious of how well they’re doing given that the population rate of schizophrenia (to say nothing of bipolar with or without psychosis) is at least 10x the rate of psychosis/mania they’re seeing.

An advantage of the shutdown: this is what a VA-DC light rail ride looks like today.

I guess Home Assistant wants to steer clear of cosmogonical debates.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d consider someone stalking me with a rifle a bit of a provocation.

(From www.npr.org/2025/08/09/g...)

Dear god that’s a bad misunderstanding of the linked paper. Of new colorectal cancer diagnoses, ~20% are under the age of 54. The overall lifetime risk of CRC is around 4%, the rate for under-54 folks is less than 1%.

Turns out if you give a enterprise-focused GenAI assistant a knowledge base consisting of the entirety of the "Popular" index from theanarchistlibrary.org it's a big improvement.