David Baer @david@arktos.social

USS Constellation, Baltimore

Looking north up the river, the Tappan Zee Bridge in the distance

West bank of the Hudson

The Hudson River, from the top of the Palisades

Oops... “It was recently discovered that several thousand scientific articles could be invalid in their conclusions because scientists did not understand that Python’s glob.glob() does not return sorted results.”

http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/10/13/thousands-of-scientific-papers-may-be-invalid-due-to-misunderstanding-python/

“Because frivolousness and stupidity are neither high crimes nor misdemeanors, his decision, however contemptible because it betrays America’s Kurdish friends, is not an impeachable offense.”

Maybe George Will has Trump’s financial records, and can therefore state confidently that Trump’s obsequiousness toward Erdogan is rooted in “frivolousness and stupidity,” rather than pecuniary self-interest. The rest of us reserve judgment about whether this is impeachable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-spiraling-president-adds-self-impeachment-to-his-repertoire/2019/10/10/8c1a739c-eb7c-11e9-9c6d-436a0df4f31d_story.html

Sigh... Why is the federated timeline all porn, all the time? @mds2 @clepple

Good: “Dick's Sporting Goods destroyed $5 million worth of assault weapons: CEO”

https://abc7ny.com/5602866/

Sufficient unto the day is the drama thereof.

So, Facebook doesn’t allow misinformation in ads that run on its site... except from politicians.
https://popular.info/p/facebook-says-trump-can-lie-in-his

@codesections @socalledunitedstates For what it's worth, the original saying attributed to Jesus by Paul (but unattested in the gospels) is "It is more *blessed* to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35). And the context is the first Christian communities, which held property in common, and provided for each person's needs:

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=437383149

I’ve been using self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS as my RSS reader for a month and a half, and finally got around to deleting my Feedly account. It feels good to have control, and the plugin interface has made it pretty easy to do things like scrape and aggregate comic strips.

Yep. Tarpit is much more fun. 🙂

The number of failed ssh login attempts on the servers I run is staggering. Right now I permaban these hosts after a certain number of failures, but I'm thinking diverting them to a tarpit instead could be more amusing.

This is just adorable...

Shelter Is Sorting Dogs Into Hogwarts Houses To Help Them Get Adopted
https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/orlando-shelter-dogs-harry-potter-houses

A walrus attacked and sunk a Russian Navy boat while protecting her calves https://cnn.it/2lvZkqQ

@thomasfuchs I think I remember reading this article. Thanks for the flashback!

Agog Over Gog and Magog | James Haught

"Incredibly, when President George W. Bush was stampeding the Iraq invasion in 2003, he told French President Jacques Chirac that the attack was needed to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse."

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2019/09/agog-over-gog-and-magog/