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Saleh rues 'wrong choice of words' in Coen spat https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46442241/49ers-saleh-admits-used-better-words-jaguars-coen

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

this is worth reading, even if you have no interest in hearing about Ezra Klein (I sure didn't): it's only using him as a paradigmatic case in how a lot of us are feeling lost.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-have-to-swallow-frogs…

Day 9: Eniko Fox
Edit: added a store link for Kitsune Tails.
We're back to videogames, and with another author who's on the fediverse: @…
Fox has developed a few games, but the one that I've played and love is Kitsune Tails. It's a sapphic romance take on Super Mario Bros. 3, and (critically for a platformer) it's got very crisp controls and runs smoothly. I think one thing a lot of indie platforms devs struggle with is getting those fundamentals right, because on the technical side they require very challenging things like optimization of your code and extremely careful input handling that go beyond the basic skills necessary to put together a game. From following her on Twitter and now the Fediverse, it's clear that Fox is a deeply competent programmer, and her games reflect that. Beyond the fundamentals, Kitsune Tails has a very sweet plot with a very cool twist in the middle, and without spoilers, that twist made both the levels and gameplay very difficult to design, but Fox rose to that challenge and put together a wonderful game. Particularly past the plot twist (but in subtle ways before it) Fox is able to build beyond SMB3 mechanics in ways that gracefully complement the original, and the movement in the game ends up being difficult but extremely satisfying, with an excellent skill/speed response allowing for both slower, easier approaches that work for a range of players and high-skill extremely-fast options for those who want to push themselves.
There have been plenty of people I follow with indie game projects that are kinda meh in the end, and I'll still boost them without much comment if they're decent. Fox' work is actually amazing, which is why if you've followed me for a while you'll know I tend to mention it periodically, and which is why she makes this list of authors I respect.
You can buy Kitsune Tails here: #20AuthorsNoMen

I just realized that you can buy home gym equipment with an HSA if you receive a letter from your doctor stating it’s a medical necessity.
Me: “Doctor, I am feeling weak.”
Doctor: "Let me prescribe a weight bench!”
Me: “BEAST MODE! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! (swole noises)”

The least frightening films ever – ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/30/the-least-frightening-films-ever-ranked?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Dear #Bluesky #TOTP-ers. If you reply to me, or quote my posts, and you are not following the Fedi bridge, then I can't see your replies/quotes. You're shouting into the void. Don't do that, it's silly. Follow the bridge 😄
(you can follow the bridge here: https://fed.brid.gy/login)

Learning Generalizable Shape Completion with SIM(3) Equivariance
Yuqing Wang, Zhaiyu Chen, Xiao Xiang Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26631 https://arxiv.or…

Learning Generalizable Shape Completion with SIM(3) Equivariance
3D shape completion methods typically assume scans are pre-aligned to a canonical frame. This leaks pose and scale cues that networks may exploit to memorize absolute positions rather than inferring intrinsic geometry. When such alignment is absent in real data, performance collapses. We argue that robust generalization demands architectural equivariance to the similarity group, SIM(3), so the model remains agnostic to pose and scale. Following this principle, we introduce the first SIM(3)-equi…

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Robert Saleh and Liam Coen have heated exchange following Jaguars' upset win over 49ers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/robert-saleh-and…