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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
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🎵 The Town
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User Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Untraceability in Messaging Platforms
Carla F. Griggio, Boel Nelson, Zefan Sramek, Aslan Askarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11212

User Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Untraceability in Messaging Platforms
Mainstream messaging platforms offer a variety of features designed to enhance user privacy, such as disappearing messages, password-protected chats, and end-to-end encryption (E2EE), which primarily protect message contents. Beyond contents, the transmission of messages generates metadata that can reveal who communicates with whom, when and how often. In this paper, we study user perceptions of "untraceability", i.e., preventing third parties from tracing who communicates with whom, with the g…

Calamus 33 No labor-saving machine
Another poem in a style I don't care for. A series of negations, Whitman declaiming all the things he is not doing. On a theme I also don't care for, Whitman talking about his own legacy.
The nice part is what he does imagine his legacy to be:
these carols, vibrating through the air, I leave,
For comrades and lovers.
I love that phrase "vibrating through the air", delicious poetry. And once again Whitman's declares his passion for comrades and lovers, a return to the central gay theme of Calamus.

Origins of chalcogenide perovskite instability
Adelina Carr, Talia Glinberg, Nathan Stull, James R. Neilson, Christopher J. Bartel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11224

Origins of chalcogenide perovskite instability
Chalcogenide perovskites, particularly II-IV ABS3 compounds, are a promising class of materials for optoelectronic applications. However, these materials frequently exhibit instability in two respects: 1) a preference for structures containing one-dimensional edge- or face-sharing octahedral networks instead of the three-dimensional corner-sharing perovskite framework (polymorphic instability), and (2) a tendency to decompose into competing compositions (hull instability). We evaluate the stabi…

Nach einer Pause melde ich mich zurück – mit einer bunten #Wochenschau: Von der Software des Cupra Born, die mich aktuell nervt, über die Freude an neuen Podcast-Folgen mit spannenden Gästen bis hin zu ernsten Fragen rund um Meinungsfreiheit und Datenschutz und Politik. Und es geht um Bierdeckel ...

Wochenschau mit Bierdeckel, Software- und anderen Problemen
Nach einer kleinen Pause melde ich mich zurück – mit einer Wochenschau, die von persönlichen Erlebnissen bis zu gesellschaftspolitischen Themen reicht. Von der Software des Cupra Born, die mich akt…

In announcing her resignation from the National Science Board, Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social details #DOGE interference in National Science Foundation #NSF grant making. «

Calamus 31 What ship, puzzled at sea
Just when I'm beginning to think I have some facility reading Whitman I meet a head-scratcher like this. Taken literally this is a poem about Whitman offering to guide a boat at sea, or to offer military troops to a besieged city.
But presumably it's a metaphor. Whitman offering to guide and help those in need. It's a little strange?
Hard-pressed for a gay reading here but I'll focus on this:
Here, sailor! Here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot.
Here Whitman is offering himself to a sailor, naming himself the most perfect pilot. I could imagine that being a metaphor of sexual mentorship. But honestly that's a stretch.

Calamus 32 What think you...
A funny gotcha of a poem: Whitman starts by suggesting he is going to write about battleships, or cities, or "splendors". But then he switches gears:
two simple men I saw to-day ... parting the parting of dear friends
And then goes into fully romantic
The one to remain hung on the other's neck, and passionately kissed him,
While the one to depart, tightly prest the one to remain in his arms.
Hot, right? A passionate kiss, a tight embrace, never wanting to let go.
Again I am astonished that a poem this gay would be published in 1860. Or that generations of bloodless scholars would sputter and say "they were just pals".

Sometimes Gay Pride means working 8am Saturday to take down the Pride flags, then put them back up again 8am Sunday. (Saturday is flag day, so we fly the US flag for one day in June.)
Sometimes Gay Pride also means swapping flags while random locals yell nasty things out their pickup truck windows. I always call them neighbor and wish them a good day.