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You know you had too much DnD group memes when you hear the receptionist at the doctor's office ask someone "Can I have your name and birthday please?", and you have to stop yourself from jumping between them and shout "Nooooo!" #dnd

This is only true for some flavors of "big accounts."
A number of the people I follow with thousands of followers are ONLY on the #Fediverse and most of the rest are only here and on Bluesky. I routinely block people here and on Bluesky (and across the bridge) who pull in the sewage from X and dump it in either place.
I'm not really interested in following people that wa…

San Leandro teen charged with shooting & killing 17 yr old girlfriend in her bedroom, is freed from custody by empathetic judge who rejects #prosecution theory of intentional #murder.
#Prosecutors have refiled murder …

San Leandro teen released from jail after judge rejects girlfriend murder theory
A judge said he doubted the DA’s theory behind the recent fatal shooting of Izabella Raquedan-Retuta, allegedly shot by her boyfriend inside her bedroom.

CAD model of the #tricycle subframe. The chain ring is very nearly as big as the front wheel (80 teeth!). It drives an epicyclic gearbox mounted in the nose of the vehicle, which also has a disc brake. The epicyclic will drive a secondary chain via a sprocket mounted to the left hand spoke flange, but this is not yet shown. There will be no ratchet on the secondary chain, so the disk brake on the…

“A returns deal with France that makes access to safety in the UK — even for those with close family or connections here — dependent on someone else risking their life to cross the Channel only cements the role of smugglers in how people fleeing war and persecution must seek asylum in the UK."
'A grubby trade in human lives' | Morning Star
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Can slow recombination in ordered superconductors explain the excess quasiparticle population?
Eva Gurra, Douglas A. Bennett, Shannon M. Duff, Michael R. Vissers, Joel N. Ullom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03217

Can slow recombination in ordered superconductors explain the excess quasiparticle population?
An excess density of quasiparticles is widely observed in superconducting films. This excess causes performance degradation in a variety of superconducting devices, including decoherence in qubits. In this Letter, we evaluate the hypothesis of [1] that the quasiparticle excess is caused by anomalously slow recombination at low quasiparticle densities due to localization in sub-gap states. We probe the density of states in aluminum and niobium films using current-voltage measurements of tunnel j…

According to capitalists:
✅ Working for a company like Google or Microsoft that is complicit in genocide.
❌ Displaying images of the genocide.
Maybe if the consequences of your work are considered “Not Safe For Work”, you shouldn’t be doing that work in the first place.*
But, no, it’s just much easier to look away, isn’t it? After all, you’re just following orders, right?
* Update: because I just *know* that someone will pipe in maliciously with “oh, so you mean…

Ambidextrous Degree Sequence Bounds for Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation
Yu-Ting Lin, Hsin-Po Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04249 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Ambidextrous Degree Sequence Bounds for Pessimistic Cardinality Estimation
In a large database system, upper-bounding the cardinality of a join query is a crucial task called $\textit{pessimistic cardinality estimation}$. Recently, Abo Khamis, Nakos, Olteanu, and Suciu unified related works into the following dexterous framework. Step 1: Let $(X_1, \dotsc, X_n)$ be a random row of the join, equating $H(X_1, \dotsc, X_n)$ to the log of the join cardinality. Step 2: Upper-bound $H(X_1, \dotsc, X_n)$ using Shannon-type inequalities such as $H(X, Y, Z) \le H(X) + H(Y|…

Finding the temperature window for atomic layer deposition of ruthenium metal via efficient phonon calculations
Alexandr Fonari, Simon D. Elliott, Casey N. Brock, Yan Li, Jacob Gavartin, Mathew D. Halls
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03975

Finding the temperature window for atomic layer deposition of ruthenium metal via efficient phonon calculations
We investigate the use of first principles thermodynamics based on periodic density functional theory (DFT) to examine the gas-surface chemistry of an oxidized ruthenium surface reacting with hydrogen gas. This reaction system features in the growth of ultrathin Ru films by atomic layer deposition (ALD). We reproduce and rationalize the experimental observation that ALD of the metal from RuO4 and H2 occurs only in a narrow temperature window above 100°C, and this validates the approach. Specif…