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Gene therapy can restore hearing in adults, first-of-its-kind trial shows https://www.sciencealert.com/gene-therapy-can-restore-hearing-in-adults-first-of-its-kind-trial-shows Surprisingly, younger was not always better in…

Gene Therapy Can Restore Hearing in Adults, First-of-Its-Kind Trial Shows
Up to three in every 1,000 newborns has hearing loss in one or both ears.

Ukraine: Kind stirbt bei Angriff in Charkiw
Bei den russischen Angriffen auf die Ukraine in der Nacht hat es mehrere Tote gegeben. Im nordostukrainischen Charkiw starb nach Polizeiangaben ein achtjähriger Junge, als eine Drohne ein Auto traf. Ein Vierjähriger und ein 40 Jahre alter Mann seien bei dem Angriff verletzt worden, hieß es. Die Behörden in der umkämpften Region Cherson im Süden des Landes meldeten am Morgen außerdem…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Steinmeier sagt Litauen Hilfe bei Verteidigung zu ++
Bundespräsident Steinmeier hat Litauen die Unterstützung Deutschlands bei der Verteidigung seiner Freiheit zugesichert. Bei russischen Drohnenangriffen sind laut Ukraine nördlich von Kiew mehrere Menschen verletzt worden.

People hired for their skill are openly using ChatGPT and I wondered, what the long term strategy is?
(Original title: So what are you saying?)
https://tante.cc/2025/07/06/so-what-are-you-saying/

So what are you saying?
I had a conversation with a friend who described sitting in a workshop where clients and the people they hired were working on problems. As you do. Happens in every consultingy kind of job. But what has totally become normalized is for the people hired, the “experts” to use ChatGPT and similar services to come […]

stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps

Welp, that’s a first: I had to actually break the glass in case of fire.
This evening, I used a fire extinguisher on a brush fire that had started near a house just three doors down from our beach rental. The owners weren’t home, and if it hadn’t been stopped, it easily could’ve taken the house with it.
Neighbors came running, the kids were thrilled by the whole thing, and I’m still kind of buzzing.

"All the tech oligarchs and business titans who’ve thrown in with Trump, apparently deciding that strongman politics are good for business, should think carefully about that post; in it, you can see the transition to a new kind of American regime.""
'Think carefully': How a single Trump threat should have cronies panicking - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-musk-2672324238/?cx_testId=4&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=1&cx_experienceId=EXC93HV4HK4I&cx_experienceActionId=showRecommendationsJ2A0SJUMQX4T24#cxrecs_s

Kyren Williams on his contact extension: 'This is the day that I kind of worked for my whole life' https://www.therams.com/news/kyren-williams-on-his-contact-extension-this-is-the-day-that-i-kind-of-worked-for-my-…

Autism and anarchy: The importance of autistic anarchism
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/10/autism-and-anarchy-the-importance-of-autistic-anarchism/

#kde kmymoney also started to eat data. If Devs turn something from reliable and safe to unreliable and unsafe, the real question of liability comes into play. How can such a thing end in distribution?
Maybe we need to re-organize open source to have a reliable portfolio of applications, a kind of reliable #kde fr…

Heute habe ich mich überanstrengt. Ich bin mit meinem Vater auf die Serles, den Hausberg von Mieders, und habe mich völlig überschätzt. Ich konnte mich erinnern, dass ich als Kind in Turnschuhen rauf bin. Mein Körper ist kein Kind mehr und nicht fit genug. Geschafft habe ich es trotzdem, aber ich fühle mich so schlapp, dass die meisten Bewegungen schmerzen. Sechs Stunden mit einem durchschnittlichen Puls von 150.
Es war trotzdem wunderschön. Wir haben eine Kreuzotter, eine Gämse, ein M…

Engine Yard, which I think I haven’t used in almost 15 years:
"As part of a scheduled maintenance upgrade to improve security and performance, we’ve reset access credentials across the platform.”
Right. Totally scheduled. *wink* *WINK*
Pretty sure I dislike being lied to more than I dislike the security event that caused them to send this kind of email to dormant users.

Den 26. Geburtstag des Kindes (von vor ein paar Wochen) und unseren 29. standesamtlichen Hochzeitag (heute) mit meiner/m Schwiegermutter, Vater, Stiefmutter und Kind "gefeiert". Es gab Antipasti und Käse. Lecker. Anstrengend.

OmniShape: Zero-Shot Multi-Hypothesis Shape and Pose Estimation in the Real World
Katherine Liu, Sergey Zakharov, Dian Chen, Takuya Ikeda, Greg Shakhnarovich, Adrien Gaidon, Rares Ambrus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03669

OmniShape: Zero-Shot Multi-Hypothesis Shape and Pose Estimation in the Real World
We would like to estimate the pose and full shape of an object from a single observation, without assuming known 3D model or category. In this work, we propose OmniShape, the first method of its kind to enable probabilistic pose and shape estimation. OmniShape is based on the key insight that shape completion can be decoupled into two multi-modal distributions: one capturing how measurements project into a normalized object reference frame defined by the dataset and the other modelling a prior …

stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps

As world heats up, U.N. cools itself the cool way: with water
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/05/13/climate-change/un-water-cooling-pipes/
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As world heats up, U.N. cools itself the cool way — with water
As more and more people want to stay cool in a planet that is steadily heating up, energy experts point to this kind of water-based system as a good alternative.

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
CHASGO: Suddenly, I think we must have hit some kind of multi-gravitational field. Instruments are going mad. Investigator, you and the others better get strapped in. S'gonna be a hell of a bumpy ride down.
[In Xenon Base, Vila slams his glass down on the table in front of him.]
https://blake.torp…

Completely Integrable Gradient System on the bivariate beta statistical manifold
Prosper Rosaire Mama Assandje, Joseph Dongho, Thomas Bouetou Bouetou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04523

Completely Integrable Gradient System on the bivariate beta statistical manifold
This paper investigates the geometry of a completely integrable gradient system defined on the three parameter bivariate beta statistical manifold of the first kind. We prove that the associated vector field is Hamiltonian and admits a Lax pair representation implying complete integrability. We show that the potential function derived from exponential family structure defines a Riemannian metric equivalent to the Fisher information metric. By applying Stirling's approximation to the gamma funct…

Die ePetition 180685 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Familienleistungsausgleich mit dem Titel
Änderung von § 74 des Einkommensteuergesetzes
kann bis zum Donnerstag 17. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, Paragraph 74 Einkommensteuergesetz dahingehend zu ändern, dass einem Antrag auf Abzweigung des Kindergeldes durch ein volljähriges Kind ohne Voraussetzungen zwingend stattzugeben ist.
und wird begründet
Das Kinde…

"The administration’s claims to monarchical power are a real threat to America’s constitutional order. But its executive orders and policy feints are so haphazard and poorly articulated that they amount to a kind of autocratic takeover written in smudge-able crayon: terrifying, cartoonish, and vulnerable to erasure, all at once.
This is not to say that Americans should ignore Trump’s efforts to make confetti of the Constitution. Rather, when evaluating any one Trump policy, one has to keep front of mind the possibility that it simply won’t exist by the end of the week. Despite an energetic effort by some right-wing intellectuals to make Trump out to be some kind of 14-dimensional-chess player, his approach doesn’t resemble chess so much as a denial-of-service attack on a functioning government."
#USPolitcs
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-self-destructive-agenda/683013/

A kind editor had pity upon me:
#poetry

Upon a Single Fact
Upon a single fact is life supported: I-AM exists and works and speaks, before All time began, when space and earth were sorted, His plan completed, the Fartherest Edge and Core. The human mind cannot fully know The only limitless God whose spiritual Being Is Air to breathe and Wind that chooses to blow Wherever he desires, and no man seeing. This central truth: the eternal One not only Speaks but writes as well: his plan revealed, The unknown explained, the deepest secret unsealed- He lays the…

18th Century Gold Mourning Ring Discovered by Metal Detectorist is ‘One of a Kind’ British Treasure https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/18th-century-gold-mourning-ring-discovered-by-metal-detectorist-is-one-o…

18th Century Gold Mourning Ring Discovered by Metal Detectorist is ‘One of a Kind’ British Treasure
A metal detectorist who discovered a gold mourning ring dating from the 18th century is overjoyed after it was declared a British treasure.

You really have to have a special kind of contempt for the intellect of your supporters to expect them to believe this.
They do though. But still.
https://bsky.app/profile/carolmac80.bsky.social/post/3lt3aozm5622p

carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 (@carolmac80.bsky.social)

Is it weird that my occasionally dodgy* knee gets better when I exercise? Not running, but like, any kind of highish impact weight/cardio in a gym?
Sitting (and maybe standing) still for long periods seems to be an absolute killer...
*Not an official diagnosis

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Nikka Costa:
🎵 Some Kind of Beautiful
#NikkaCosta
https://open.spotify.com/track/4s8l1ci6xLnrj3KaAALXTq

X aims to roll out an "XChat" messaging feature "with encryption, vanishing messages and the ability to send any kind of file" to all users this week (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/elon

Elon Musk says XChat is rolling out to all, but questions remain about its alleged security | TechCrunch
Elon Musk on Sunday announced that a new version of X's Direct Messaging (DM) feature, XChat, was rolling out with support for features like vanishing

@… @… Possibly forking, but building from scratch appeals to me. (Except the UI part, which is the main reason I'm not doing it.)
I have opinions about how this kind of thing should work. Specifically, I don't want a "read i…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06686 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Quantitative Halmos-Savage theorems and robust large financial markets
We establish a quantitative version of the classical Halmos-Savage Theorem for convex sets of probability measures and its dual counterpart, generalizing previous quantitative versions. These results are then used to derive robust versions of the fundamental theorem of asset pricing (FTAP) in large financial markets in a one period setting, characterizing the absence of arbitrage under Knightian uncertainty. To this end, we consider robust formulations of no asymptotic arbitrage of first kind (…

An Grazer Uniklinik - Traumatische Geburt: Baby erleidet Schädelbruch #News #Nachrichten

The kind of autist who is too skint to buy proper headphones but will get terminally attached to that one and ONLY THAT ONE pair of cheap earplugs that she can stand, and then years later identifies the model and oh look, yeah they do actually technically sound better than the other equally cheap ones, yes I do actually hear the difference between 5-24kHz frequency range and 20-20kHz.
No lol that is not a feature dear nervous system.

Reducing crime in the coming years is easy—and we actually know how
https://onlys.ky/reducing-crime-is-easy-and-we-actually-know-how/

I've had an earworm for 2 days now. Feel It Still (from Portugal. The Man.). It's the kind of earworm where you keep singing along. Out loud. It must be annoying--especially since today I'm singing it w/ the lyrics from Please Mr. Postman.
Imma make it stop by replacing it w/ a new earworm. https://www.…

Tweaking my sign handle design because the wind yesterday was not kind...
#OpenSCAD

what is this, some kind of... european union?

Here’s what the “just let tech bros run everything” crowd fundamentally misunderstands about how innovation actually works: It requires exactly the kind of chaotic, unpredictable, open ecosystem that authoritarianism systematically destroys.
Real innovation happens when companies have to compete on merit, not on who can kiss the leader’s ass most effectively. In a functioning democracy with actual rule of law, the best products have the opportunity to win. In an authoritari…

Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…

stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps

Chiral Wigner crystal phases induced by Berry curvature
Sandeep Joy, Leonid Levitov, Brian Skinner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22121 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Chiral Wigner crystal phases induced by Berry curvature
We consider the impact of Berry phase on the Wigner crystal (WC) state of a two-dimensional electron system. We consider first a model of Bernal bilayer graphene with a perpendicular displacement field, and we show that Berry curvature leads to a new kind of WC state in which the electrons acquire a spontaneous orbital angular momentum when the displacement field exceeds a critical value. We determine the phase boundary of the WC state in terms of electron density and displacement field at low …

"…the long arc of history has never been kind to those who rule by force rather than persuasion."
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/court-victory-masks-political-freefall

Court Victory Masks Political Freefall
As the President basks in Supreme Court victories and executive power grabs, his core supporters are peeling away—and the consequences may be deeper than he thinks.

What kind of people go on a visit to show solidarity with the perpetrator of genocide?
#Labour politicians under investigation for ‘Friends of Israel’ trip
https://www.declas…

Labour politicians under investigation for ‘Friends of Israel’ trip
Exclusive: Parliament authorities launch probe into two MPs who met Israeli president Isaac Herzog

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10754 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Conservative velocity mappings for discontinuous Galerkin kinetics
Continuum computational kinetic plasma models evolve the distribution function of a plasma species $f_s$ on a phase-space grid over time. In many problems of interest the distribution function has limited extent in velocity space, hence using a highly refined mesh everywhere would be costly and slow. Nonuniform velocity grids can reduce the computational cost by placing more degrees of freedom where $f_s$ is appreciable and fewer where it is not. In this work we introduce a first-of-its kind di…

- Suppose you don't want to catch a mouse but just want to break someone's finger. Is there something you can use for that?
- Yes! An ordinary mouse trap, the kind you break a mouse's neck with, can also be used to break someone's finger! Thanks for asking.

kind of uncanny to hear a hi-fi recording of the ecstatic #austin #drone-#noise collective water damage & actually be able to pick out (some of) the different musicians, maybe even more beautiful.

There is a certain kind of burglar who sees an object and says "I don't see the use of this, let me steal and pawn it." The man he sells it to is, of course, Chesterton's Fence.

Mutter, Kutter, Kind
https://www.ardmediathek.de/film/mutter-kutter-kind-oder-tv-drama/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL211dHRlci1rdXR0ZXIta2luZA(89min)
Leuke film.
Begon om 20:30, maar is g…

A Dataset for Automatic Assessment of TTS Quality in Spanish
Alejandro Sosa Welford, Leonardo Pepino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01805 https://

A Dataset for Automatic Assessment of TTS Quality in Spanish
This work addresses the development of a database for the automatic assessment of text-to-speech (TTS) systems in Spanish, aiming to improve the accuracy of naturalness prediction models. The dataset consists of 4,326 audio samples from 52 different TTS systems and human voices and is, up to our knowledge, the first of its kind in Spanish. To label the audios, a subjective test was designed based on the ITU-T Rec. P.807 standard and completed by 92 participants. Furthermore, the utility of the …

This has the fingerprints of Dog-E sabotage.
What is also bothersome is the way that agency spokespeople have so quickly become the kind of sycophantic courtiers that Jonathan Swift described on the floating island of Laputa in his book Gulliver's Travels.
"Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’"

What a nightmare.
This is the problem with every form of mass online age and identity verification: the only kind of data that is completely secure is data that does not exist. Once you upload that driver’s license photo, you’re playing a game of Russian roulette.
https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/114914547899818144

This is kind of fun. Using an infrared receiver module (TSOP38238) to display the signals produced by a Blu-Ray player remote control on an oscilloscope. The signals are active-low and pulse-width modulated.
#electronics #oscilloscope

Ongoing experiments in Thaï cooking -- Pad Ped. A keeper.
#food #cooking

Google Search AI is trying to cheer me up by making up the most silly summaries.
It is kind of working.

I have a herring gull with a broken leg sheltering in my rear garden. It's found a soft place in the shade to rest and has the bad leg stretched out behind it (perhaps like a kind of natural splint?). I gave it a good feed and there's water, so I hope it will recover.

Report: Swiss deep tech startups have created over $100B in total enterprise value, with 60% of VC funding in Switzerland from 2019 to 2025 going to deep tech (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/26/switzerlands-100b-deeptech-engine-comes-…

Switzerland’s $100B deeptech engine comes Into focus
Today, the launch of The Swiss Deep Tech Report 2025 spotlights how Switzerland has quietly become one of the world’s most advanced and efficient deeptech ecosystems. Curated in close collaboration with Dealroom.co, Startupticker and venture capital firms Founderful and Kickfund, the report is the first of its kind to map the full scope of Switzerland’s deeptech performance - from research institutions and patents to venture activity and late-stage outcomes. With over 1500 Swiss deeptech …

Had a discussion with a small author who sees authors who do readings for little money as kind of price dumpes and class traitors. I asked him where the money for his fee should come from when only 20 people show up for his reading and that hardly pays promo, tech guy etc.

My wife: "Our friend X has had surgery last week."
Me: "And how does he want to be called now?"
In our bubble of friends, this seemed to me to be the logical first question. Not "What kind of surgery?" where the answer would have been "a growth on his back".

First direct search for light dark matter interactions in a transition-edge sensor
Christina Schwemmbauer, Guy Daniel Hadas, Yonit Hochberg, Katharina-Sophie Isleif, Friederike Januschek, Benjamin V. Lehmann, Axel Lindner, Adriana E. Lita, Manuel Meyer, Gulden Othman, Elmeri Rivasto, Jos\'e Alejandro Rubiera Gimeno
https://a…

First direct search for light dark matter interactions in a transition-edge sensor
We propose the use of transition-edge sensor (TES) single-photon detectors as a simultaneous target and sensor for direct dark matter searches, and report results from the first search of this kind. We perform a 489 h science run with a TES device optimized for the detection of 1064 nm photons, with a mass of ~0.2 ng and an energy threshold of ~0.3 eV, and set new limits on dark matter interactions with both electrons and nucleons for dark matter with mass below the MeV scale. With their excell…

What Kind of Challenges Do Raiders Face in AFC West? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-denver-broncos-geno-smith-alex-cappa-pete-carroll

"L'exposition Š certaines formes de pollution atmosphérique est liée Š un risque accru de démence, selon l'étude la plus complète du genre."
#pollution #santé #LEZ

A Variance Decomposition Approach to Inconclusives in Forensic Black Box Studies
Amanda Luby, Joseph B. Kadane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02240 https://

A Variance Decomposition Approach to Inconclusives in Forensic Black Box Studies
In the US, `black box' studies are increasingly being used to estimate the error rate of forensic disciplines. A sample of forensic examiner participants are asked to evaluate a set of items whose source is known to the researchers but not to the participants. Participants are asked to make a source determination (typically an identification, exclusion, or some kind of inconclusive). We study inconclusives in two black box studies, one on fingerprints and one on bullets. Rather than treating al…

Pretty stunning seeing these face-to-face!
Jenny Saville at the NPG
Shadow Head
Oil on canvas,2007-2013
#art

This is the first FPGA (Trion T20) I've ever seen where the bitstream size depends on the package!
The BGA324 and BGA400 include a hard DDR PHY while the smaller parts don't. I wonder if some/most of the extra 2.5 Mbits of data is firmware for some kind of hard processor that does PHY initialization?
The other deltas are likely related to the MIPI DPHY core, although I'm not sure why the Q10 or F256 packages would be larger than the Q144 since they don't have MIPI…

stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps

New preprint!
User-space library rootkits revisited: Are user-space detection mechanisms futile?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07827

“Noor, who made so many friends on Bluesky since she started an account there in the summer of 2023, had her account suddenly suspended on Friday. Bluesky did not send a reason for the suspension, so while she wrote an appeal, she did not know what actions she was appealing, so as of now it's still suspended. She’s been silenced, and effectively disappeared.”

A Future for Noor and Her Children
Hello! I'm Meave, a U.S. citizen sponsoring this fundraiser on behalf of my dear friend Noor Hassan and her children. Noor and her son Abdul Rahman are kind, generous people; though their original fundraiser succeeded last summer, supporting themselves and their extended family cost them everything. This fundraiser will allow them to support themselves and save up to buy passage to Egypt and pursue a better future.

Der Blick, wenn andere Eltern immer erzählen, dass ihr Kind eher mit 7 statt mit 6 in Schule kommt und sie das dann versuchen zu rechtfertigen und ich nur sage: "ist doch super, ein Jahr weniger arbeiten bis zur Rente"...
#Fedieltern @…

So, spontan noch Auto-Urlaub auf Bahn-Urlaub umgeplant ...
Apropos: Noch jemand Tipps für schöne Orte, Läden und Co. in #Dresden für Eltern mit und ohne Kind?

Dear old Violet.
She'll be turning 13 in October, so she's kind of on borrowed time for a greyhound. She seems to have lost most of her vision now and is underweight, though her appetite is still huge and she still loves her walks.
She was once a terror for the local cats and squirrels but now if they remain still she doesn't spot them. She still sniffs every place that she remembers them to have been.

A map of #Fediverse shows every instance and the connections to all the other instances it’s connected to, as a snapshot or live-action. Non-federated instances might or might be shown, depends what you’re looking for and how you’re looking. A wire-frame map could show different skins maybe, to suit the purpose. Kind of like a wire-frame diagram of a brain’s network of synapses and shit.

Online Prediction For Streaming Observational Data
Bertrand Clarke, Aleena Chanda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21308 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21308

Online Prediction For Streaming Observational Data
The automated collection of streaming observational data has become standard and defies most traditional analytic techniques. It is not just that models are hard to identify, there may not be any model that can be safely and usefully assumed. Indeed, frequently it is only predictions that can be made and assessed. Problems for this kind of data are often called {\cal{M}}-Open and have motivated new approaches and philosophies. This paper will review some of the most successful recent predicti…

I love that particular kind of keen student who insists on reproducing historical typography. It always breaks my heart a little to have to tell them that, even when directly quoting, we write "business" these days instead of "buſineſs."

This succinctly crystallizes my hitherto inchoate thoughts on basically all big LLM efforts https://mastodon.social/@glyph/114840612040237978

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: „Trump – ein trotziges Kind“. Essay von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer.
#Trump

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: „Trump ist ein trotziges Kind“ - Europa Blog
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My favorite kind of #git bisect is when the breaking commit is somewhere near the middle, so you keep getting both "good" and "bad" commits, and don't have to start worrying that you've messed up.
Well, unless it turns out your reproducer is bad, and it doesn't always reproduce the failure…

I decided to share some of my observations that would benefit you if you are building applications: a deep dive session into the archetypes of attackers.
This session is for people who are developing software of any kind. It could be an API endpoint, a blog, or a complex application used by millions.
Join in or share with smart people.
Let me help you!

To give some examples:
When police get vastly differential results at investigating crimes against some groups (e.g., Black women) vs. others (e.g., white men), that's malcompetence. Probably plenty of simple malice involved too, and probably the whole gamut of mechanisms I mentioned in the last post are involved here.
Another example, from my own experience: when I stumble over the names of my non-white students but pronounce my white students' names flawlessly, that's malcompetence on my part, because the net effect of my selective incompetence is to make some students feel less welcome in my classroom, which hurts their learning. I'm my case, the reasons for the incompetence are not conscious nor (I think) unconscious malice, but instead a differential capability picked up from a certain kind of upbringing and then (sometimes) insufficiently mitigated by capability-building effort. Because of how I grew up, my ability to pronounce different names is biased (this is true of everyone in the world; most people don't have a classroom instructor position that causes it to matter so much). When I'm successful at mitigating my malcompetence, I use practice time with student intro videos to pare down my competence gap for the specific students in my class. This is time consuming (several hours per week for the first few weeks of classes) and I'm sad to admit that I don't always invest that time. But it's a great example of malcompetence because I have a introspective access to it.

Constraining the Stellar-to-Halo Mass Relation with Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing from DES Year 3 Data
G. Zacharegkas, C. Chang, J. Prat, W. Hartley, S. Mucesh, A. Alarcon, O. Alves, A. Amon, K. Bechtol, M. R. Becker, G. Bernstein, J. Blazek, A. Campos, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, R. Cawthon, R. Chen, A. Choi, J. Cordero, C. Davis, J. Derose, H. Diehl, S. Dodelson, C. Doux, A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Eckert, T. F. Eifler, J. Elvin-Poole, S. Everett, X. Fang, A. Ferte, M. Gatti,…

Constraining the Stellar-to-Halo Mass Relation with Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing from DES Year 3 Data
We develop a framework to study the relation between the stellar mass of a galaxy and the total mass of its host dark matter halo using galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements. We model a wide range of scales, roughly from $\sim 100 \; {\rm kpc}$ to $\sim 100 \; {\rm Mpc}$, using a theoretical framework based on the Halo Occupation Distribution and data from Year 3 of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) dataset. The new advances of this work include: 1) the generation and validation o…

Also so langsam wünsche ich mich, als Kind der 80er, fast in die Zeit des kalten Krieges zurück.
Es lief zwar vieles grundsätzlich falsch und es gab immer diese nervöse Hintergrundschwingung ... Aber zumindest musste ich mich nicht jeden Tag aufs neue fragen, ob denn die Welt nicht noch mehr n Rad ab hat.
Jeden Tag irgend ne neue Irrsinnigkeit 🙈
#uspol

I am a licensed attorney (in California) and also admitted before various Federal district courts.
Today I got yet another of those postcards about a class action settlement - you know, the kind where the harmed victims get a pittance while the attorneys walk away with the lion's share.
In this case, the attorneys will get about $75,000,000, the lead plaintiffs maybe $20,000, and the rest of us ... probably close to nada.
Class actions are a good thing - especially sinc…

Context for Yury’s #EuroPython talk: https://x.com/hynek/status/755319513227362308 🤣

Hynek Schlawack (@hynek) on X
@1st1 um you’re kind of being missed in your own talk :)

Sabine Hossenfelder is just great!❤️
"These are souls trapped in AI."🤦
We are doomed, as human kind, we are doomed.
"AI" will kill us, but not in the way ANYONE expected.
We will kill each other, because "AI" said we should do it.😬
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWZRQsejtfA…

Few would label Mace kind or gentle
As she engages in a relentless crusade against trans rights, she is more one-trick pony than “caucus of one."
https://newrepublic.com/article/196207/nancy-mace-future-republican-party

Nancy Mace Is the Future of the Republican Party
The South Carolina representative isn’t just a bigot and a laughing stock. She’s pioneering a media strategy that her GOP colleagues will follow.

An electric circuital analysis of laboratory plasma sheath fluctuations and propagations
Subham Dutta, Pralay Kumar Karmakar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19553

An electric circuital analysis of laboratory plasma sheath fluctuations and propagations
The effective inductive (L), capacitive (C), and resistive (R) behavior of a plasma sheath in a conjoint coupled form is well familiar among plasma physics communities. A dynamic sheath instability in laboratory plasmas is systematically modelled herein as an electrical series-resonance LCR circuit of the above kind. It theoretically yields experimentally observed findings on coexistent plasma sheath oscillation, electric current perturbation, and subsequent plasma sheath waves (PSWs). The plas…

Whatever’s going on in the employment market, it feels like there’s some kind of fever that needs to break — as bubbles bursting, as a recession, •something• — and it’s only after it does that in hindsight we’ll have some measure of clarity.

D12 - Warlord
ZEEONA: I'm a biogenetic engineer, I work with this kind of equipment all the time. I thought I could help to put it together.
TARRANT: We're unlikely to be ready for that today, so why not let Soolin show you to your father's quarters?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/63

Is anyone aware of publications or research on what sort of bugs LLM-generated or LLM-assisted code tends to have?
Like, we have a huge body of knowledge in the security community about how to audit human-generated codebases for the types of bugs that human developers commonly write.
But we don't have that kind of data yet (AFAIK) for the vibe-coded monstrosities all of us are going to be pentesting soon.
Gut feelings:
* There are some common threads and patterns …

How terrible would it be to organise a hackathon where you speedrun your best-worst programming idea until it gets to the point where you hate it?
I kind of want to do this. https://mastodon.functional.computer/@samir/114716755497591537

Krugman outlines a constellation of possible causes around a core theme: extreme uncertainty.
“What does a business do in the face of this kind of uncertainty? It tries to avoid making commitments that it may soon regret.”
Krugman tries to tie it all to Trump’s recent actions, which is dubious: the post-college job market has been crap since 2022 or 2023; Krugman’s own graph suggests it started worsening circa 2018. The larger theme of uncertainty, however, fits that timeframe.

Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
DEVA: Hm. You've been given a temporary appointment as a law enforcement officer.
BLAKE: That central computer doesn't care who it makes respectable, does it?
DEVA: It's an inferior model, I'm afraid.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/260

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Musing again about some kind of lightweight vector graphics format as an intermediate between (a subset of) SVG and ImDrawList. Probably YAML based since we already have yaml-cpp as a dependency.

Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
DEVA: Hm. You've been given a temporary appointment as a law enforcement officer.
BLAKE: That central computer doesn't care who it makes respectable, does it?
DEVA: It's an inferior model, I'm afraid.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/260

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
DAYNA: Shut up! Be quiet! [Sound of engines approaching] What is it?
VILA: How should I know? [Two Space Rats approach on three-wheeled ATV's.]
DAYNA: What are they?
VILA: THEY are the Space Rats.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/209 B7…

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
AVON: The explosion in the planet's atmosphere would have provided the rest.
BLAKE: Yes, I hadn't thought of that.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/602 B7B5

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
TARRANT: So you know our names. What about you?
ULTRA 1: We are the Ultra.
TARRANT: So you said.
ULTRA 1: Our sole function and purpose is to gather and accumulate information.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/162 B7B2