@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-08-10 23:00:11
3 Fearless Dallas Cowboys Predictions for the 2026 NFL Season You Didn’t See Coming https://insidethestar.com/3-fearless-dallas-cowboys-predictions-for-the-2026-nfl-season-you-didnt-see-coming
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-08-12 17:00:41
H-Net reviews posted to the H-Net Commons 03 Aug 2026 - 10 Aug 2026
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Call for Paper (CAA 2027 Annual Conference): From the Street to the Bedroom: Designing the Modern…
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@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-08-12 08:28:14
The Signal Rail: A Deterministic Motion Grammar for Communicating Conversational Agent State in Terminal Interfaces
Matteo Grella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10689 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10689 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10689
arXiv:2608.10689v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Terminal interfaces to conversational agents report rich internal state (listening, thinking, executing tools, awaiting input, failing) almost entirely through text, while the motion channel beside it, the one peripheral vision monitors without reading, carries a single bit: alive. We present the Signal Rail, a one-row terminal status instrument that gives that channel a grammar. Four ideas govern it: spatial semantics (input, processing, and output zones, with direction as meaning), a motion grammar (one kinetic rule per state, never color alone), determinism (frames as a pure function of explicit inputs, golden-frame testable), and honesty (no invented progress or activity). We contribute a 45-section normative specification and a reference implementation inside a working full-duplex local voice agent driven by real signals.
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@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-09-11 14:17:58
I've been at The Firs, Elgar's birth place. As well as hearing Nimrod played on a 1927 wind-up gramophone (see @…'s post if you want to hear it) I learnt a lot about Elgar as a man and a polymath, and as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. The odds were stacked against him but now he's a national treasure. My friend's gre…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-09 17:37:02
Unimaginable that any FBI Director is as shameless as Kash Patel
as well as incompetent and greedy.
Equally unimaginable are the Senators who confirmed his appointment.
https://bsky.app/profile/macfarlanenews.bsky.social/post/3mqa5ma2h5c2u…
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2026-07-09 12:01:11
Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-08-07 19:32:54
The EU is not on track to achieve the necessary filling level of its natural gas storages, making it vulnerable to timely delivery of LNG from Trump's US and the Persian Gulf this coming winter.
Germany and the Netherlands are to blame. Together, they have over 1/3 of the storage capacity.
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@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.info2026-09-07 20:27:11
Lake Mead (Hoover Dam) hat (yet again) den niedrigsten Wasserstand der seit der Füllung in 1937 erreicht. Das letzte mal wurde der "normale" Füllstand im Jahr 2000 erreicht. Seit dem waren bis auf ein Jahr die Abflüsse immer höher als die Zuflüsse.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mead
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-07 16:33:54
"The wheels are coming off."
"The IRS and Social Security are now run by the same person, which I think is a red flag, right?" Don Moynihan says.
"These are like two huge, complicated federal agencies, and one guy is running both of them."
Moynihan notes that a recent Inspector General report found that the agency is collecting much less revenue than it should from its audits.
Elon Musk's DOGE fired scores of tax audit specialists, …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-08 04:21:09
Nitter, the open source front-end for reading X Posts without signing up for an account,
is not going anywhere yet.
Weeks after X Corp's lawyers showed up demanding a permanent shutdown,
Hthe project's GitHub repository has come out of read-only mode
with an updated README that says:
UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue.
More details will be announced soon.
Now, the repository and the homepage carry the same messa…
