It just got even crazier in Hungary YouTube video by Caolan Robertson

Excellent reporting from Caolan Robertson about Hungary's outgoing Orban government shredding the evidence of collaboration with Putin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnPI...

From the ottawa community on Reddit: Local Business Owner Assaulted & Robbed - Banh Mi My Hang Explore this post and more from the ottawa community

If you are in the area. Support a local business.

www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/com...

Sen. Warren: "Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?"
Handsome Kevin: "ummm... errr... "

His response raises real questions about whether Warsh is independent of the President and if he has the courage to tell hard truths.

DOJ Opens Criminal Probe Into Hate-Watch Group Until recently, the civil rights group was a partner to the FBI, providing critical information about extremists, including white supremacists, operating in the U.S.

"For 55 years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has stood as a beacon of hope fighting white supremacy and various forms of injustice to create a multi-racial democracy where we can all live and thrive,” Fair said. (cont.)

This so gross.

www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-op...

Digital Hopes, Real Power: The Rise of Network Shutdowns The number of internet shutdowns in 2025 broke the record set in 2024. Whereas network disruptions were once a rare occurrence, they are now a routine measure, increasingly treated by authorities as

Historically, most blackouts have occurred during moments of intense political tension. But authorities are increasingly using them as a tool to preempt dissent. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Nasa shuts down Voyager 1 instrument in effort to extend life of probe The space agency is also preparing for an ambitious manoeuvre it is calling the ‘Big Bang’ to keep the craft, launched in 1977, running into the future

www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

There are a lot of non-cyber folks speculating wildly about how and why and what it all means, all understandable questions. Before searching for deep and hidden meaning, I would urge you to consider the ancient strategy of throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks

For a sense of scale, note the ladder behind it to the right. Roman has a 2.4-meter mirror, so its roughly 3 meters wide.

Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future How tech CEOs use the threat of job loss to distract from how AI is really used against workers

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future.

It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

European hedgehog, France

European hedgehog, France
© Klein & Hubert/Nature Picture Library
#hedgehog #France #photography

Continuing industrial emissions are delaying the recovery of the stratospheric ozone layer - Nature Communications Ozone-depleting substances (ODS) are banned from emissive uses. However, they are still allowed to be used as feedstocks and ODS emissions from this source have been higher than assumed. This could delay the recovery of the stratospheric ozone layer.

Ozone-depleting substances (ODS) are banned from emissive uses. But they are still allowed to be used as feedstocks and ODS emissions from this source have been higher than assumed. A paper in Nature Communications reports this could delay the recovery of the stratospheric ozone layer. 🌍🧪

Photo taken within a stand of Rhizophora mangle. The trees are growing in water, and masses of roots arch out from the trunks while others drop from branches. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

Mangroves have aerial roots that stabilize these trees against tidal currents & waves. Rhizophora mangle is a perfect example. The aerial roots (some emerging from other roots) stabilize the plants & capture sediment. Rhizophora means “root bearer.” #Rhizophoraceae #root #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Peter Thiel's "Palantir," The Company That Owns The Trump Regime, Just Published Their 22 Point Manifesto For America And It's Terrifying. 22 Points · A Tolkien-Themed Surveillance Empire · A Chairman Who Loved Epstein · A Philosopher-King Blogger On Speed-Dial · And The IBM-Nazi Template Nobody Wants To Name

An excellent read on Thiel, Palantir, and their 22 point "Manifesto" that they just published. Dean's Substack is well worth following.

open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Dork-tastic, dude. Your own personal swipe-left generator.

This is literally the best news I've heard this year. The world is a little bit better now, or at least not quite as sucky.

3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.

Europa Missions

xkcd.com/3234/

EXPLOSIVE: Trump Iran War Betting Scandal - WHITE HOUSE Profits BEFORE Ceasefire Announced YouTube video by House of El

House of El's take on war betting and insider trading

youtu.be/UXFr82ZB1A0?...

Absolutely!! 😡
#EatTheRich

Ukrainian drones reportedly strike oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar Krai Ukrainian drones reportedly struck the Tuapse Oil Refinery in southern Russia's Krasnodar Krai during an overnight attack on April 20, as Kyiv continues efforts to disrupt Moscow's war funding.

⚡️Ukrainian drones reportedly strike oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar Krai.

Ukrainian drones reportedly struck the Tuapse Oil Refinery in southern Russia's Krasnodar Krai during an overnight attack on April 20, as Kyiv continues efforts to disrupt Moscow's war funding.

Hot peppers love our small south-facing balcony! So do tomatoes, but the latter grow SO HUGE they take it over 🤣

3 of the 6 hot peppers are seeds from Viet ones I got as garnish somewhere, and the other 3 are seeds from a plant I got at C. Tire that I don't know the variety but love.

And remember: Perfect is the enemy of good enough / better. This is not a purity competition 🙂

A small seed starter sits on a brown shelf. The starter has a grey bottom with 12 small divisions containing soil and seeds, and a clear top with a built-in LED light powered by a USB cable to the right.

Seeds started! 6 with strawberries, 6 with hot peppers, all seeds saved from last year.

Running from a fresh boot:

Start Ollama and give it a few to start up:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start ollama.service

Run mcphost:

mcphost

Or, use whatever alias you defined above.

Within mcphost, use /help for / commands, /tools to list MCP tools, and tool() to call a tool.

Start mcphost with a custom system prompt:

Create the prompt:
vi ~/.ollama/assistant.md

Then run:

mcphost --system-prompt ~/.ollama/assistant.md

Or make an alias:

alias mm=’mcphost --system-prompt ~/.ollama/assistant.md’
mm

Ollama MCP: How to Connect Local LLMs to Any MCP Server (2026) Connect Ollama models to MCP servers for local, private AI tool use. Setup guides for MCPHost, ollama-mcp-bridge, and the Python MCP SDK with working code examples.

Add mcphost so Ollama can talk to mempalace, #1 in www.morphllm.com/ollama-mcp:

sudo apt install golang-go
vi .bashrc
cd ~
go install github.com/mark3labs/mcphost@latest

My config file ~/.mcphost.json is posted at www.reddit.com/r/ollama/com...

Create spots for projects, chats, etc.:

mkdir ~/projects
mkdir ~/projects/foo
mkdir ~/chats
mkdir ~/chats/bar

Convert files in these folders into .txt, .csv, .json then tell mempalace about them:

mempalace init ~/projects/foo
mempalace mine ~/projects/foo
mempalace mine ~/chats/bar --mode convos

GitHub - MemPalace/mempalace: The best-benchmarked open-source AI memory system. And it's free. The best-benchmarked open-source AI memory system. And it's free. - MemPalace/mempalace

Install mempalace, based on github.com/milla-jovovi... :

cd ~
sudo apt-get install python3-full
python3 -m venv /full/path/to/where/you/want/mempalace
ln -s /full/path/to/where/you/want/mempalace .
source ~/mempalace/bin/activate
pip install mempalace

I am using Mistral 7B because it’s the smallest model that supports tools (which are required for mempalace) and it fits within my system limitations.

Once Ollama has been installed and is running, from a user terminal prompt:

ollama pull mistral
ollama show mistral

Startup:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable ollama

For debugging (run in a separate terminal window):

ollama serve

For use:

sudo systemctl start ollama.service

Environment:

vi .bashrc

# Ollama stuff
OLLAMA_DEBUG="0"
OLLAMA_LOG_LEVEL="warn"
OLLAMA_MODELS="~/.ollama/models"
OLLAMA_VULKAN=”1”
OLLAMA_API_KEY="your-api-key"
export OLLAMA_DEBUG OLLAMA_LOG_LEVEL OLLAMA_MODELS OLLAMA_API_KEY