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@pre@boing.world
2025-05-31 12:24:33
Content warning: Medical stuff / MRI selfie

On the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie

@arXiv_eessIV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-05-30 07:23:42

Plug-and-Play Posterior Sampling for Blind Inverse Problems
Anqi Li, Weijie Gan, Ulugbek S. Kamilov
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22923

Plug-and-Play Posterior Sampling for Blind Inverse Problems
We introduce Blind Plug-and-Play Diffusion Models (Blind-PnPDM) as a novel framework for solving blind inverse problems where both the target image and the measurement operator are unknown. Unlike conventional methods that rely on explicit priors or separate parameter estimation, our approach performs posterior sampling by recasting the problem into an alternating Gaussian denoising scheme. We leverage two diffusion models as learned priors: one to capture the distribution of the target image a…

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-05-31 16:33:57

I swear I don't have face blindness. I have some other problem.

@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social
2025-05-30 14:16:44

“Blinding White in the Sun”
from Summiting
by Bill Thompson and Richard Sanderson
Little wake up music!
#Noise Amplified #Melodeon 🪗🔊 & #Guitar 🎸
(Cool red/blue

@MAD_democracy@journa.host
2025-05-30 15:17:52

Rather than embarrassing but infrequent call-outs in the Columbia Journalism Review, the #NYTimes needs regular review by a public editor.
#Journalism #Press

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-05-30 22:04:24

When Brooke Nichols plugged in the data, she couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing.
The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.
As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon
to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget,
the number of deaths on Nichols’…

Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths — most of them children
Elon Musk’s tenure running Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has, according to the academic Brooke Nichols, caused thousands of ‘preventable deaths’

@jrm4@mastodon.social
2025-05-30 20:26:23

I supported Bernie Sanders against Clinton.
Just posting because I believe it's good to admit one's mistakes.
the-independent.com/news/world

Bernie Sanders blames election loss on Kamala Harris choosing billionaires over the working class
Sanders said while Joe Biden has been blamed election loss, it was ultimately Harris’s fault for cosying up to billionaires

‪@Nael@pachyder.me‬
2025-05-29 08:19:16

@… Si jamais (pas en france ni en français) Blender foundation recherchent un•e UX designer
mastodon.social/@Blender/11458

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-05-31 09:05:59

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JENNA: She's right, Blake. He's led a privileged life. He's got money.
BLAKE: He's also been on the move for a long time.
JENNA: But even so, a man with his skills can always earn it.
blake.torpidity.net/m/211/170 B…

Claude 3.7 describes the image as: "The image shows a person with blonde-reddish hair styled in a 1970s/80s fashion against a shimmering blue background that appears to be a set with reflective or metallic elements. The lighting creates a dramatic effect, highlighting the subject's features and earrings. The visual aesthetic has that distinctive retro sci-fi television production quality typical of British shows from that era. The styling, background, and cinematography suggest this is from a s…

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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-05-31 17:39:19

The Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes after a federal appeals court barred his removal while his case proceeded, the government admitted in a court filing this week.
In its filing, the government denied that it had violated the order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, instead blaming “a confluence of administrative errors.”
The government had previously given the court what the judges called “express assurance” that…

Trump Officials Deported Another Man Despite Court Order
A federal appeals panel ordered officials not to deport a 31-year-old to El Salvador. Minutes later, it happened anyway. The government blamed “administrative errors.”