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What do you get if you combine a glass half-full and an imaginary glass half-empty?

The offices at John Quackenbush’s lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
were once full of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and interns.
Young scientists here worked on some of the most cutting-edge computational biology research in the world,
driving new discoveries and the creation of widely used big data tools, including one the National Cancer Institute named among the most important advances of 2024.
Today, the offices are rows of empty comp…

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent
John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.

Gimme the hot tea
The gossip, the news, the view
Fill my empty cup.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hot tea
#haiku
#poem

Yesterday was my last day of this term's teaching Communication at the School of Engineering. So time to say good by to the little fellow living in TH547 and attending all lectures! He was there even on days none of the 33 students showed up
#AcademicChatter #TeachingElephant

I assess this burger as pretty good. Would eat again. 😋

I feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.

The Mystery of America's 15 Million Empty Houses by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlsDkN9tHHk

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Powerplant:
🎵 Empty Telephone
#Powerplant
https://ppowerplant.bandcamp.com/track/empty-telephone
https://open.spotify.com/track/6eYLbS5ROYhxQiTNRhjaEw

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115525901652705353
Like even if you're a joyless simulacrum of a real human, an empty husk filled with indifference—at the least consider the world your children and loved ones have to live in.

@…
A lot of empty words explaining absolutely nothing and also this:
> In Firefox, you’ll never be locked into one ecosystem or have AI forced into your browsing experience.
Did they not run the model to generare tab group names on everyone by default, draining the battery of people for un AI feature absolutely not forced on people?

Saw the latest #Superman, and it was a yawning void of empty, vacuous calories.
Just a fantasy for babies, with absolutely nothing to say that a reasonable person could relate to. Like, what is the exact opposite of visceral?
#ThereISaidIt

Another macOs Finder Fail...
It's been this way for a few days so I guess it's reboot time. :/

I feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.

Would you be happy with HDDs packaged for delivery like this?
(Box of 6 hard disk drives; first photo on its side showing no filler around the individual drive boxes; second photo showing single piece of paper filler layer right at the bottom of the now-empty box.)

Volleyball at Newman Arena: Columbia Lion № 9 Elena Maynulet from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
#photo #photography #sports

Don’t let anyone tell you rubio has any substance under his attempts at style.
To say he is an empty suit would be an insult to suits.
“U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a ‘wasteful’ diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.”

GW kids walking down the street with a half empty case of Monster. Are you ok?

Cory @… Doctorow in a must-read on Apple, the EU, privacy and the absolute need to get rid of facist-adjacent (or fully fascist) tech infrastructure.
https://…

okay so cleaning my room the other day I found an empty Diablo sauce packet which made me nervous bc I figured it meant id find exploded hot sauce somewhere
I FEEL LIKE I WOULD REMEMBER THIS HAPPENING? I FEEL LIKE I WOULD RECALL HAVING HOT SLIPPERY SAUCED TOES??

So close, yet still so far...
(Standing roughly where the Hintereisferner glacier reached to in 1850. From here it's another 20 mins to the Hochjoch Hospiz at 2413m... where I was the only soul there that day, enjoying true edge of the world vibes. Wonderful!)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
REBEL 1: [V.O.] We want both!
REBEL 2: [V.O.] Yes!
[Avon and Tarrant break into Servalan's empty office, and leave. They then break into Surveillance. Avon shakes Grenlee in his chair.]
https:…

On global isomorphisms and a closure property of semigroups
Lingxi Li, Salvatore Tringali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00772 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00772…

On global isomorphisms and a closure property of semigroups
Let $S$ be a semigroup (written multiplicatively). Endowed with the operation of setwise multiplication induced by $S$ on its parts, the non-empty subsets of $S$ form themselves a semigroup, denoted by $\mathcal P(S)$. Accordingly, we say that a semigroup $H$ is globally isomorphic to a semigroup $K$ if $\mathcal P(H)$ is isomorphic to $\mathcal P(K)$; and that a class $\mathscr C$ of semigroups is globally closed if a semigroup in $\mathscr C$ can only be globally isomorphic to an isomorphic c…

My recycling method these days. Put my yellow bin out but have a cardboard box for my cash-for-containers. Normally with an hour or so the cardboard box is empty and in the bin.

The Empty Promises of Trump's Imperial Presidency (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/snap-hunger-republicans-congress.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p30#a251029p30

In the past few years, the iPic, the Fox Bay Cinema, and the ACX all went under. I took my nephew to see the new Tron movie tonight at the Marcus North Shore. It was pretty empty for a Tuesday night. I hope it doesn't fold also.

I play a #solitaire #cardGame called Yukon. The rules and a typical start point are attached.
The fewest moves I’ve taken to complete 1 game is 76. I’m guessing the fewest possible moves would be 52. A perfect deal. My question is, how do I calculate how many different deals would turn out perfect…

Adaptive Coverage Policies in Conformal Prediction
Etienne Gauthier, Francis Bach, Michael I. Jordan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04318 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Adaptive Coverage Policies in Conformal Prediction
Traditional conformal prediction methods construct prediction sets such that the true label falls within the set with a user-specified coverage level. However, poorly chosen coverage levels can result in uninformative predictions, either producing overly conservative sets when the coverage level is too high, or empty sets when it is too low. Moreover, the fixed coverage level cannot adapt to the specific characteristics of each individual example, limiting the flexibility and efficiency of thes…

The mainstream media said voters wouldn’t go for him
and they said “socialism won’t sell.”
But on the streets of New York, people were done listening to conventional wisdom.
All throughout Manhattan and from East Harlem to Queens, voters told us the same thing:
they’re tired of the old guard, the empty promises, and a system that serves the wealthy instead of the working class.

Mainstream media tried to scare Mamdami voters with socialism—it didn’t work!
TRNN was on the ground in New York City on election day speaking to voters.

One of the fun things about being a parent is spending your whole day doing your job and caring for your child, dreaming of the days when you had time to yourself. And then the child goes to bed and life feaps empty and you almost don’t even know what to do with the time anymore.

Disgusting. Pope Innocent the 2nd is woke. Prohibiting under anathema "that murderous art of crossbowmen and archers" to be used against Catholics and Christians. Imagine giving into the "Peace and Truce" woke peasant mob. Fuck the Lateran Council. As a successful, red-blooded, 6'1" noble, I will KEEP hiring as many crossbowmen as are willing to share my 3 empty standing stalls.

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Spectrum of pure $R^2$ gravity: full Hamiltonian analysis
Will Barker, Dra\v{z}en Glavan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08201 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08201

Spectrum of pure $R^2$ gravity: full Hamiltonian analysis
We perform a full Hamiltonian constraint analysis of pure Ricci-scalar-squared ($R^2$) gravity to clarify recent controversies regarding its particle spectrum. While it is well established that the full theory consistently propagates three degrees of freedom, we confirm that its linearised spectrum around Minkowski spacetime is empty. moreover, we show that this is not a feature unique to Minkowski spacetime, but a generic property of all traceless-Ricci spacetimes that have a vanishing Ricci s…

On my way to a Writing & AI symposium in Luleå. First leg from ZRH to CPH. The plane is almost empty, but air quality rather poor

Lacunary sequences whose reciprocal sums represent all rationals in an interval
Wouter van Doorn, Vjekoslav Kova\v{c}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24971 https://

Lacunary sequences whose reciprocal sums represent all rationals in an interval
Answering a question of Michael Bleicher and Paul Erdős, we show that there exists a lacunary sequence of positive integers such that finite sums of reciprocals of its terms attain all rational numbers from a non-empty open interval. We also study several stronger variants of their original problem: determining the value of the optimal lacunarity parameter, representing rationals infinitely many times, finding such lacunary sequences with arbitrarily large jumps, and relating the maximal lengt…

You can bring down a government, smash a dictatorship, you have the power. This is an excellent strategy. But if you can go this far, if you can win this much, how much farther can you go? Is it enough to get back to the "normal" polycrisis, to return to microplastics and ecocide, to every open space filled with tent camps while luxury apartments continue to sit empty? Is it enough to be one injury or diagnosis away from unending debt?
What #SolarPunk future could we build instead? I expect it's whatever one you dream about, talk about, organize for, and fight for.

Not often we see train platforms this totally empty. Middle of the day no less.
#Germany #Deutschland #DeutscheBahn #photography #amateur

Some shape functionals for the $k$-Hessian equation
Alba Lia Masiello, Francesco Salerno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21313 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21313

Some shape functionals for the $k$-Hessian equation
For a non-empty, bounded, open, and convex set of class $C^2$, we consider the Torsional Rigidity associated to the $k$-Hessian operator. We first prove Pólya type lower bound for the $k$-Torsional Rigidity in any dimension; then, in order to investigate optimal sets in the Pólya type inequality, we provide two quantitative estimates.

emptied the pond overnight. We have had so much rain this past month! All are full. I am going to drain it all and keep it drained until I get the pumps wired and can habe them installed and running. Don't want the water to get stale and unhealthy.
I think I might hire a stone mason to build the wall.
moving the pump into the intake bay now. It should be empty by the time I am back from the day's ceremonies.
#poolpond #diy #backyardproject #portalberni #gardening #pondlife

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Kings of Convenience:
🎵 Riot On An Empty Street
#KingsofConvenience