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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Cicada:
🎵 Awaiting for the Path to Appear
#Cicada
https://cicada.bandcamp.com/track/awaiting-for-the-path-to-appear
https://open.spotify.com/track/4lqOKRpVcn6hZmpxVsQHXg

I always wonder why Bernie and AOC do not start a new party? Maybe not aiming at presidency but attract young people and gaining a few seats in the Congress. That is a legitimate and doable path to influence the US political system.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…

Who Owns America? Bernie Sanders Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Podcast Episode · What Now? with Trevor Noah · 10/09/2025 · 1h 27m

The Trump administration told states to
“immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families,
threatening financial penalties if they do not comply.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/09/us

Trump Live Updates: Airport and SNAP Benefit Disruptions Amid Government Shutdown
The procedural vote on Sunday night could clear the path for a spending deal to end the government shutdown. Senator Angus King of Maine said the shutdown’s duration had pushed some Democrats to support the deal.

'Real' Cowboys' D needs to stand up, declare itself with 4 games left https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/09/temporary-regression-dallas-cowboys-defense-stand-up/8769023…

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s path to the postseason after Week 9's Sunday slate https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/11/03/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

Just back from 4 days in the Great Otway National Park, Victoria. Stunning place, and we mostly managed to stay dry in the wettest part of the state. Here’s photos from a walk along the coastal path. #bushwalking #straya

I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. https://www.…

Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

A look at Palantir's four-month "Meritocracy Fellowship" for high school graduates, which offers a path to a job at Palantir without a university degree (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/palantir-thin

RT: Seth Harp @sethharpesq
Nov 1
The biggest capital outlay ever, for a product that no one will pay for.
OpenAI loses ten billion dollars a quarter. There is no path to profitability for subprime AI. These absurd data centers will stand sentinel over the ruins of our fake economy like moai on Easter Island.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicLiveHour
Max Richter:
🎵 Path 5 (Delta)
#MaxRichter
https://seventhsoulmusic.bandcamp.com/track/max-richter-path-5-seventh-soul-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5AMfXWOMR5230Mh4ugh4oi

Sure, you may choose to disagree and carve out your own path, but in the end, we all face the same fate of mortality.
#Mortality #AntiNatalism #Nihilism

Ik dacht even door over Trumps opmerking dat de VS het recht hebben om 'zichzelf met vriendelijk buren te omringen' binnen hun 'invloedssfeer'.
De afstand tussen de VS en Venezuela is zo'n 2500 km.
De afstand tussen Amsterdam en Sint Petersburg is nog geen 1800 km. En dan laat ik Kaliningrad (veel dichterbij) nog voor wat het is.
Kortom wij liggen volgens Trump in de invloedssfeer van Putin.
Dat we het maar even weten.

Today’s run is dedicated to my friend @… with my best wishes for a successful surgery and a speedy recovery. ✊
Ventured further down the greenway into Salem. This segment is pretty industrial, but I sometimes see a heron which, together with several bridge crossings over the Roanoke River, makes it interesting. The heron was not out, but this massive train running p…

This is how it's supposed to be done. Not by spreading hate and slandering immigrants.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/30/judge-clears-path-to-seize-millions-in-assets-from-aimee-bock

Not sure if this is for #FotoMontag or #MountainMonday 🤔
Anyways - I took it when I was #hiking up a nearby mountain. And this is maybe the passage that I appreciate the most.
It'…

Over nearly nine months,
the lawsuit challenging Trump’s attempt to slash foreign aid funding
has ricocheted around the federal judiciary
but still has not reached a final resolution.
It has been reviewed by 21 judges,
spawned thousands of pages of filings
and lumbered forward
even after the administration dissolved the U.S. Agency for International Development,
the government office responsible for disbursing much of the contested funding.

The Monthslong Legal Battle to Save Foreign Aid
One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It still has a long way to go.

I’m not on board with this.
Instead of an “are you over 18” question for a feature I don’t want, let me skip it and keep the feature off.
Also, didn’t Vispero get my contact details in order to take my money?
“Vispero Accounts: An Explanation, an Apology, and a Path Forward”
https://vispero.com…

For a few years I had an office in the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center at MIT. Here are some photos I took on a sunny autumn day using a film camera in 2005. This building had a lot of problems but it definitely made a statement. #architecture #FrankGehry

just spent an hour troubleshooting why my grub2 theme wasn't showing
it ended up being that the path to the theme config was wrong
I was an IT Professional

Big Tech is neoliberalism's wet dream!
There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path
to a post-American internet
by @…
https://

Moody Urbanity - Urban surrealism 👒
情绪化城市 - 都市超现实主义 👒
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

2025 NFL Simulator: Updated playoff picture and projected draft order after Week 13 results https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/12/02/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

Crows in the Cemetery on a Hot June Afternoon (2024-06) - Corvids chatting in a green space between a suburban recycling centre and a building site under airport flight path #fieldRecording #London #crows

Crows in the Cemetery on a Hot June Afternoon (2024-06)
Corvids chatting in a green space between a suburban recycling centre and a building site under airport flight path #fieldRecording #London #crows

Weekend Reads
* BGP zombie hunting
https://blog.cloudflare.com/going-bgp-zombie-hunting/
* Inside AI data centers

BGP zombies and excessive path hunting
A BGP “zombie” is essentially a route that has become stuck in the Default-Free Zone (DFZ) of the Internet, potentially due to a missed or lost prefix withdrawal. We’ll walk through some situations where BGP zombies are more likely to rise from the dead and wreak havoc.

Logseq (the Electron app on MacOS) uses the dugite library to interact with git, which ships its own copy of git, but doesn't include a git-credential-osxkeychain. And my normal auth to GitHub uses credential.helper=osxkeychain. Sigh.
export PATH GIT_EXEC_PATH ...

"The loophole that could give clean heat a boost under Trump"
#US #USA #America #Energy

The loophole that could give clean heat a boost under Trump
The OBBBA killed tax credits for heat pumps, but kept them for commercially leased geothermal and thermal storage systems — a path to keep home clean heat…

Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary,
has advocated for a new travel ban on visitors from an unspecified number of countries
following the shooting death in Washington DC of a national guard member by an Afghan national.
Noem posted to X her proposal on Monday night after she said she had spoken with Donald Trump,
whose first term travel ban on seven Muslim countries faced widespread criticism and followed a rocky legal path before it was eventually upheld …

I took a survey: Share your thoughts on the new government so far.
As the year comes to a close, we’re reflecting on how much has shifted since Mark Carney took office. In a short time, this government has pushed through sweeping changes with lasting consequences.
We’re preparing to push harder in 2026 to make sure this government chooses people over profit. Before we chart our path forward, we want to hear directly from you
Can you join me & take the survey?

- Leadnow

Moody Urbanity - Urban surrealism 🕰️
情绪化城市 - 都市超现实主义 🕰️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

A little bit of Heather for #silentsunday ?
Just the right memories at this cold and windy day here. - enjoy.
#schwarzwald #blackforest

Since it got cold I haven't been too brave about going out and between that trip to the beach, a breakthrough in another project I've been working on for 8 months, and new project that's making me revive even more old projects my #photography has been slowing down: this trail in Shindagin Hollow skirts the side of a steep and deep gorge

My favorite Organum record! David Jackman got his start in Cornelius Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra and continued down his own improvising path. In the 1990’s he collaborated with a variety of artists, but that fizzled out by the end of the century. His newer records are available from Die Stadt or a distributor in your country.
https://…

Un Momento 🕰️
一瞬 🕰️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

It wasn’t the best day for photos with lots of low cloud but it was really lovely out on the Bogong High Plains today. Spotted a nankeen kestrel and a gang gang cockatoo. A handful of hikers and 3 other runners out there, otherwise had the place to myself. #trailrunning #bogonghighplains

Scalable Multi-Agent Path Finding using Collision-Aware Dynamic Alert Mask and a Hybrid Execution Strategy
Bharath Muppasani, Ritirupa Dey, Biplav Srivastava, Vignesh Narayanan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09469

Scalable Multi-Agent Path Finding using Collision-Aware Dynamic Alert Mask and a Hybrid Execution Strategy
Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) remains a critical problem in robotics and autonomous systems, where agents must navigate shared spaces efficiently while avoiding conflicts. Traditional centralized algorithms that have global information, such as Conflict-Based Search (CBS), provide high-quality solutions but become computationally expensive in large-scale scenarios due to the combinatorial explosion of conflicts that need resolution. Conversely, distributed approaches that have local informatio…

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s path to the postseason https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/10/17/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

It’s about this time of year I like to check my backups and download my archives.
One archive I download is the archive of my Mastodon posts. Pretty much the only one now I’ve left the corporate web really.
I also like to copy the contents of my public fediverse posts into my own diary within my vimwiki.
Keep it all in one place for easy and local search.
Here’s the script I use, it’s very short and just copies the content of every post in the archive into a new diary entry in the vimwiki diary.
If it finds something already there, it appends.
It checks if it’s already written this post into the diary to avoid duplicating it when you run it over and every again every month or year or whatever.
Paste it into a new text-file called toVimWiki.php, download and unzip your mastodon archive, and run the script with php, passing it the path to the archive’s outbox.json and the root diary directory.
My diary is honestly mostly just public posts these days. Ain’t much in it I won’t blab about on the internet for likes and lols.
#archive #mastodon #vimwiki #endOfYear

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DB. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DB/new
[1/1]:
- GNN-based Path Embeddings for Efficient and Exact Subgraph Matching (Technical Report)
Yutong Ye, Xiang Lian, Mingsong Chen

Modeling, Segmenting and Statistics of Transient Spindles via Two-Dimensional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Dynamics
C. Sun, D. Fettahoglu, D. Holcman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10844 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.10844 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.10844
arXiv:2512.10844v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We develop here a stochastic framework for modeling and segmenting transient spindle- like oscillatory bursts in electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. At the modeling level, individ- ual spindles are represented as path realizations of a two-dimensional Ornstein{Uhlenbeck (OU) process with a stable focus, providing a low-dimensional stochastic dynamical sys- tem whose trajectories reproduce key morphological features of spindles, including their characteristic rise{decay amplitude envelopes. On the signal processing side, we propose a segmentation procedure based on Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) combined with the detection of a central extremum, which isolates single spindle events and yields a collection of oscillatory atoms. This construction enables a systematic statistical analysis of spindle features: we derive empirical laws for the distributions of amplitudes, inter-spindle intervals, and rise/decay durations, and show that these exhibit exponential tails consistent with the underlying OU dynamics. We further extend the model to a pair of weakly coupled OU processes with distinct natural frequencies, generating a stochastic mixture of slow, fast, and mixed spindles in random temporal order. The resulting framework provides a data- driven framework for the analysis of transient oscillations in EEG and, more generally, in nonstationary time series.
toXiv_bot_toot

Moody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 🗿
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 🗿
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Lifted Heston Model: Efficient Monte Carlo Simulation with Large Time Steps
Nicola F. Zaugg, Lech A. Grzelak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08805 https://arxiv…

Lifted Heston Model: Efficient Monte Carlo Simulation with Large Time Steps
The lifted Heston model is a stochastic volatility model emerging as a Markovian lift of the rough Heston model and the class of rough volatility processes. The model encodes the path dependency of volatility on a set of N square-root state processes driven by a common stochastic factor. While the system is Markovian, simulation schemes such as the Euler scheme exist, but require a small-step, multidimensional simulation of the state processes and are therefore numerically challenging. We propo…

In response to an op-ed I published in the San Francisco Chronicle,
DHS claimed that during the July 10 operation in Camarillo, CA, I
“became violent and refused to comply with law enforcement,” blocked their route, and was arrested for assault.
They stated that US citizens are not being “wrongfully” arrested by ICE,
that their enforcement operations are highly targeted,
and that their personnel conduct due diligence to know who they are targeting.
DHS a…

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

Moody Urbanity - Inclination ↖️
情绪化城市 - 傾斜 ↖️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AstralPlane
Strawberry Path:
🎵 Spherical Illusion
#StrawberryPath
https://open.spotify.com/track/4iXX4DqUCgeIVbW6gQlzf0