@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-10-09 16:13:22
Science Lab: The Houston variable, Cowboys' D-line awakened? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-the-houston-variable-cowboys-d-line-awakened
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-11-16 12:05:17
I have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
@arXiv_mathNA_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-15 09:38:32
Spatial two-grid compact difference scheme for two-dimensional nonlinear diffusion-wave equations with variable exponent
Hao Zhang, Kexin Li, Wenlin Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12188
@jonippolito@digipres.club2025-10-08 15:02:31
This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.
https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-i…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-09-30 18:40:10
@… ...we moeten het zeker als afschrikwekkend voorbeeld gebruiken, verder moeten we ons natuurlijk primair richten op Europa, tegelijk zal het afglijden van de VS naar een fascistische staat ook flink invloed op europa hebben of we dat nu willen of niet (is al gaande)
@arXiv_hepth_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-06 09:20:19
Existence of ghost-eliminating constraints in multivielbein theory
J. Flinckman, S. F. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03014 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0…
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-03 09:05:01
Constructions of Efficiently Implementable Boolean Functions with Provable Nonlinearity/Resiliency/Algebraic Immunity Trade-Offs
Palash Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01720 h…
@arXiv_nlincd_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-15 08:17:21
Chaotic variability in a model of coupled ice streams
Kolja Kypke, Peter Ashwin, Peter Ditlevsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12525 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…
@arXiv_eessSP_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-08 08:59:59
Leveraging Vision Transformers for Enhanced Classification of Emotions using ECG Signals
Pubudu L. Indrasiri, Bipasha Kashyap, Pubudu N. Pathirana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05826
@arXiv_physicsclassph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-14 08:17:18
Modelling Intra-driver Behavioral Adaptation through Risk Sensitivity and Regime Transitions: A Task-difficulty Car-following Model
Mohammad Tamim Kashifi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09886
