Between this and Epstein not going away, Trump's pulling out all the stops:
Moving Ghislaine Maxwell to a comfier prison, and moving nuclear submarines to respond to Medvedev.
Steve Benen
@stevebenen.com
· 11m
U.S. job growth over the first seven months of the year:
2015: 1.62 million
2016: 1.44 million
2017: 1.36 million
2018: 1.49 million
2019: 1.12 million
2020: [pandemic]
2021: 4.21 million
2022: 3.26 million
2023: 1.68 million
2024: 1.07 million
2025: 597,000 #trumpeffect #context
Do you care about #context? Have you ever wanted to geek out about why #persistent #identifiers (#PIDs) matter in #archaeology ?
Look no further than this video where our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Paulina Przystupa leads an interview exploring naming, identity, provenance, and contextual integrity:
Sodele, #Buchprojekt lange angekündigt, jetzt eingetütet:
Mein #ConTeXt-Buch wird nächstes Frühjahr in der DANTE-Reihe bei Lehmann’s erscheinen.
Ein bisschen Termindruck sollte als Motivation ausreichen, es fertig zu bekommen.
(Edit: Bilder korrigiert)
In case it's useful: #Context is critical. The way a group of people behave is always, always heavily context dependent. This seems relevant to some things people say on the internet...
"Trans people have higher rates of stress-related mental illnesses" - Right now, yes, while most of our societies demonize them and work to take away their basic rights. Let's try full LGBTQIA+ equality and see how trans people do.
"Only X% of people say they have nonbinary gender, trans identity, non-straight sexuality, or other LGBTQIA+ identity/experiences" - OK, yes, while nearly every person on earth lives in a society that marginalizes or demonizes sexual/gender minorities (I've seen X quoted as "under 5%", "under 10%", etc.). Thhose numbers will change as we make the world safer for people to express identities outside the prescribed dominant categories.
"Fascism has an advantage in economic downturns" - For now, when extractive/exploitative capitalist systems dominate the world. I wonder if this will still be true when we make all of our governments more humane.
"UBI is amazingly successful" - For now, yes, while small groups receive UBI in the context of mostly capitalist systems. Let's guarantee everyone a living income and then see.
"Women have better outcomes as political and corporate leaders" - Maybe. They certainly seem to right now, while most women (and eveyrone else) are raised in patriarchal cultures. Let's make equality actually happen and then see.
"Women are more interested in social issues while men are more interested in physical and power-dynamic issues" - Possibly true only while we acculturate women this way (there's actually cool empirical evidence suggesting this is not innate)
"Brown, Black, female, and queer people focus on community and justice while cis/het white male people focus on 'the bottom line' and 'concrete' outcomes" - Evidence that this stops being true when various kinds of inequality stop being the norm.
And so on.
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
-- Edwin Schlossberg
#ConTeXt in #TeXlive was only updated on release so far and didn’t even receive bugfixes.
Max Chernoff has now taken over ConTeXt maintenance for TeX live, so that it will lag only a few days behind the standalone #LMTX distribution from now.
For a few “exotic” platforms there are no current #LuaMetaTeX binaries – but they’re easy to compile yourself, and you’re better off with the lean LMTX distribution anyway.
Solved! 
This was a pretty "interesting" bug. Remember when I invented a way to implement #async / #await in #C, for jobs running on a threadpool. Back then I said it only works when completion of the task resumes execution on the *same* pool thread.
Trying to improve overall performance, I found the complex logic to identify the thread job to put on a pool thread a real deal-breaker. Just having one single MPMC queue with a single semaphore for all pool threads to wait on is a lot more efficient. But then, a job continued after an awaited task will resume on a "random" thread.
It theoretically works by making sure to restore the CORRECT context (the original one of the pool thread) every time after executing a job, whether partially (up to the next await) or completely.
Only it didn't, at least here on #FreeBSD, and I finally understood the reason for this was that I was using #TLS (thread-local storage) to find the context to restore.
Well, most architectures store a pointer to the current thread metadata in a register. #POSIX user #context #switching saves and restores registers. I found a source claiming that the #Linux (#glibc) implementation explicitly does NOT include the register holding a thread pointer. Obviously, #FreeBSD's implementation DOES include it. POSIX doesn't have to say anything about that.
In short, avoiding TLS accesses when running with a custom context solved the crash. 
Geospatial Without Maps [blog post]
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https://cercanasystems.com/2025/05/geospatial-without-maps/ <-- shared blog posts
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[I will be honest, I can’t remember the last time I personally made a map…]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #mapless #AllDataIsSpatial #usecase #appliedscience #appliedtechnology #automation #coding #machinelearning #AI #maintenance #utilities #GPS #infrastructure #datasupply #dataflow #spatialdata #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #farming #agriculture #precisionagriculture #yield #InternetOfThings #integration #smartinfracture #earthobservation #model #modeling #routing #urban #planning #spatiallogic #proximity #zonal #statistics #geostatistics #context #systemsintegration #workflows #processmodels #spatialintelligence #decisionsystems #businessrules #efficiency
@mcc some options you may or may not be aware of:
Greg Cocks 
extensions.pocket.enabled to false in about:configtoolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in about:config and put #context-savelinktopocket { display: none } in <firefox-profile>/chrome/userChrome.cssthis last one lets you hide a bunch of junk in right click menus. my current settings:
#context-navigation,
#context-sep-navigation,
#context-sendimage,
#context-print-selection,
#context-bookmarklink,
#context-stripOnShareLink,
#context-take-screenshot,
#context-sep-screenshots,
#context-searchselect,
#context-searchselect-private,
#context-translate-selection,
#context-ask-chat,
#frame-sep,
#context-savelinktopocket,
#context-sendlinktodevice,
#context-sep-sendlinktodevice,
#context-viewpartialsource-selection,
#context-inspect-a11y,
#sidebarRevampSeparator
{
display: none;
}
Registration for the 19th #ConTeXt Meeting is now open:
https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2025/
Date: August 23–29, 2025
This year we are hosted in Ośrodek Wypoczynkowy KREFTA in Chmielno near Gdańsk, Poland.
https://krefta.pl/
Never been to a ConTeXt Meeting? Don’t worry, the group of regular participants is open and friendly, and you don’t know what you are missing, unless you come at least once.
#USpolitics #WallStreet #Context
"I’m not making up facts and figures, I’m using my expertise to digest information + provide context!" [ ± 1-3 min]
by YourRichBFF [Apr 8
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rgHviRxvjGI
#USbeware #FascistsAreHere
#TimeToResist #FightOligarchy
#CapitalismIsFailingYou
How to speak in ways AI bots won’t understand.
今朝毎朝ボット
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F4KQ8wBt1Qg
#ai #llm #machinelearning #embedding #context
#Context is everything. TLAs change and evolve.
#ATM was a robo-#bank. Now, it's this little slice of now.
#TMI used to be the setting for a #nuclear #accident. Now, it's more than you want to know.
#MCP was what some of us might call a masculine-presenting anti-#feminist. Now, it's how various flavors of #AI can tell each other #stories.
"Bumper sticker explanations of complicated issues are usually wildly inaccurate!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
There are a lot of people with instant insight on everything and yet who are experts at nothing.
Isn't that the way it goes?
If you spend any time talking with anyone today, it would seem that they are suddenly experts on tariffs and their impact on regional, national, and local economies. Everyone is offering up concise statements of what it means, where it will go, and what will happen. I prefer to listen to global trade experts and economists - folks who are trained in this stuff. In the same way, I'd rather listen to a PhD in vaccine medicine than some quack who gets his information off an obscure conspiracy theorist's Website.
That's why ideas like "trickle-down economics will work" statements are always such a false promise. The notion that tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations automatically benefit everyone has been repeatedly challenged by economic research showing limited "trickle-down" effects and increasing wealth inequality. And yet the bumper sticker wisdom lives on.
Why does this happen?
"Bumper sticker" phrases - catchy one-liners about complex issues - sacrifice accuracy for memorability. They fail to address the multiple perspectives, historical context, systemic factors, competing values, and technical details that complex problems involve. They often aren't based on much more than opinions.
The fact is, oversimplifying leads to:
- Overlooking cause-effect complexities
- Creating false either/or scenarios
- Substituting emotion for analysis
- Reinforcing existing beliefs
Good leaders know when simplicity works and when issues demand a deeper explanation. They engage with complexity and guide others through it thoughtfully. They also know that while bumper-sticker wisdom can be popular, it causes more problems than good.
Ironically, my statement about bumper stickers is itself a bumper sticker - though one that points out its limitations!
Perhaps we need simple reminders to look beyond simplicity.
**#Complexity** **#Nuance** **#Understanding** **#Context** **#Depth** **#Oversimplification** **#Analysis** **#Thinking** **#Perspective** **#Knowledge**
Futurist Jim Carroll is willing to admit that perhaps many of his Daily Inspiration posts contain bumper-sticker wisdom. He lives and owns the contradiction.
@scameron1 
Cancelling historical figures makes no sense to me. It's irrational.
#context #history
"I believe that people can change their minds. We need to create a more #forgiving #society in which it’s acceptable for people to alter their opinions, because judging them is really antithetical to growth. I’m committed to #education and sharing #ideas; if you grant people a proper understanding of the #conditions and #context in which they live, they are more likely to understand things that would otherwise be blurred or invisible."
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Hans writes:
The most significant "change" is that columnsets are in the process of being replaced which involves a "change in approach". As a consequence, when you use that mechanism – we're not sure how many actually do – and want the old code to kick in you need to load the "oldcolumnsets" module.
2024 has been my best year in terms of number of #citations to my #research articles, with over 1000 citations this year alone.
BUT, more than an increased appreciation of my work, I think this signals a shift in the way research is published. I'm looking at you #arxiv. 
Not complaining. More #open #publication and #openscience is never bad. I'm just explaining this as #young #researchers should understand #context is always key when evaluating a researchers #CV and that citation count is always a partial perspective.
