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Trying to clean up the basement, empty a few moving boxes, and get some semblance of organization. Got some folksy music in the background for inspiration.
#RandomTune #MyPlaylist
https://youtu.be/W-DTNHh-iA0?si=rsaLlcC7caXl7OiU

im tired of saying shit and need to just post empty textual noise rather than anything brushed by my soul, but im also too cool to do the boring ass catgirl or puppygirl bit, so i hereby introduce the humpback whalegirl. mrrMMMMMMMMrrMMM *big splash* sQuEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeee

Empty rhetoric, weasel words, paltering, and unverified claims: the bullshit index of AI. Read on here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinformation-llm-bullshit

AI Misinformation: The Bullshit Index Explained
Can AI models be trusted? Discover how a "bullshit index" measures their indifference to truth and what it means for users.

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.)

The moment Putin walks into the negotiating room, he has gotten everything he wants
— plus an opportunity to make a quip about Alaska as historically Russian land
(consider this a prediction).
If the meeting does not produce an agreement, Putin loses nothing.
Trump, on the other hand, would lose face if he walked out empty-handed.
He may be motivated to accept something, anything.

Opinion | Trump Is Giving Putin a Most Wonderful Gift
There is something Putin cares about more than money.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Jackson Browne:
🎵 Running on Empty
#JacksonBrowne
https://erikkaseromero.bandcamp.com/track/running-on-empty-mike-frazier
https://open.spotify.com/track/3UrDYCWfY6fTsiA63NNL27

Finished “In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife” by Sebastian Junger.
In 2020, the author nearly died from an aneurysm in his abdomen. While in the OR, as medical staff rushed to save his life, he had an extraordinary experience. The doctors and nurses all to his right, an empty void to his left, and his dead father telling him it’s OK.
Part autobiography, part scientific inquiry, all goodness.
4/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the I…
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful re…

somewhere a baby is crying tonight because they left their chicken at the fulton street stop. #nyc

A Characterization Framework for Stable Sets and Their Variants
Athanasios Andrikopoulos, Nikolaos Sampanis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09798 https://arxiv.…

A Characterization Framework for Stable Sets and Their Variants
The theory of optimal choice sets offers a well-established solution framework in social choice and game theory. In social choice theory, decision-making is typically modeled as a maximization problem. However, when preferences are cyclic -- as can occur in economic processes -- the set of maximal elements may be empty, raising the key question of what should be considered a valid choice. To address this issue, several approaches -- collectively known as general solution theories -- have been p…

Carleman approximation on Riemann surfaces without critical points
Beno U\v{c}akar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05765 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.05765…

Carleman approximation on Riemann surfaces without critical points
We present the class of semi-admissible subsets of an open Riemann surface on which Carleman approximation by non-critical holomorphic functions is possible. In particular we characterize closed sets with empty interior on which continuous functions can be approximated by non-critical holomorphic ones. We also consider a different approach, which in some cases gives uniform approximation by non-critical holomorphic functions on more general sets than semi-admissible ones.

You ask your roommate to buy toilet paper. They show you the receipt as proof. The next morning, when you need toilet paper, the drawer is actually empty. This is because they used an innovative new method called Lean Shopping, where instead of buying the things they just print out a receipt — saving time and money.
This is a story about the social nature of problem framing, and when "high velocity" becomes less productive.

Skipping alignment leads to zero-impact UX
Deliverable artifacts are only a small part of the social system that product development entails. Any "productivity" gained by ignoring that system is an illusion.

Submonoids of Infinite Symmetric Inverse Monoids
Martin Hampenberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04200 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04200

Submonoids of Infinite Symmetric Inverse Monoids
In this thesis we study the subsemigroup structure of the symmetric inverse monoid $I_X$, the inverse semigroup of bijections between subsets of the set $X$, when $X$ is an infinite set. We explore three different approaches to this task. First, we classify the maximal subsemigroups of $I_X$ containing certain subgroups of the symmetric group on $X$. The subgroups in question are the symmetric group itself, the pointwise stabiliser of a finite non-empty subset of $X$, the stabiliser of an ultra…

Should think about what to do with all those data centers once the “AI” bubble pops.
At least abandoned shopping malls have this sort of urban exploration meets time capsule appeal.
Abandoned data centers will presumably just be very boring empty husks.

Nearly Optimal Bounds for Stochastic Online Sorting
Yang Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07823 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07823

Nearly Optimal Bounds for Stochastic Online Sorting
In the online sorting problem, we have an array $A$ of $n$ cells, and receive a stream of $n$ items $x_1,\dots,x_n\in [0,1]$. When an item arrives, we need to immediately and irrevocably place it into an empty cell. The goal is to minimize the sum of absolute differences between adjacent items, which is called the \emph{cost} of the algorithm. It has been shown by Aamand, Abrahamsen, Beretta, and Kleist (SODA 2023) that when the stream $x_1,\dots,x_n$ is generated adversarially, the optimal cos…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mount Kimbie feat. King Krule:
🎵 Empty And Silent (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #MountKimbie #KingKrule
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Ukrainian drone attacks on oil refineries have some Russian regions running on empty | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/ukrainian-drone-attacks-on-oil-refineries-have-some-russian-regions-running-on-empty

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://…

I got the laundry going, the dishes going, and the cat's litter box emptied. I need to empty the dogs and then I can focus on the yard.

Crimeans in panic: gas stations empty, Kremlin silent!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/crimeans-in-panic-gas-stations.html

I'm going to need more Monsters.

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…

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…

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…

I filled out a bike rack request but it is insane that I have to suggest to my local government—which is supposedly all about promoting Union Square and downtown recovery—that it consider putting any bike racks at all anywhere near an enormous 7-story department store.

My #rss feed looks almost empty today. Weird...

I've a "old #astronomy software" side project and I'm looking for the early Mac software "StarMap" or "Star Map" from Bruce Webster.
So far my searches came up empty, but I'm not a specialist in old Mac software.
Does anyone have a copy of this app?
It's described in detail in a July 1985 BYTE article: #retrocomputing

Can I get a Fedora user to test something on ngscopeclient for me?
Download the latest RPM from GitHub Actions CI (specifically the CI package, not one you've compiled yourself and install it.
Does it report a plausible version number
1) in the package itself
2) in the title bar
3) in the about dialog?
Just fixed a bug causing empty strings to appear instead of version numbers in the Debian CI builds and I'm not sure if Fedora was impacted too. It use…

Hey! My half glassful is empty!

Today I emptied the room ready for the actual professions. Took apart all the cupboards and the bed and packed it all into the van to drive to the tip.
Only just fit in the van really.
Spent more than half the day doing it and I'm knackered but as you can see, the room is empty and ready for the carpet fitters on Monday.

On 2-Movable Domination in the Join and Corona of Graphs
Ariel C. Pedrano, Rolando N. Paluga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05301 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05…

On 2-Movable Domination in the Join and Corona of Graphs
Let $G$ be a connected graph. A non-empty $S\subseteq V(G)$ is a $2$-movable dominating set of $G$ if $S$ is a dominating set and for every pair $x,y \in S$, $S\backslash \{x, y\}$ is a dominating set in $G$, or there exist $u, v \in V(G) \backslash S$ such that $u$ and $v$ are adjacent to $x$ and $y$, respectively, and $(S \backslash \{x,y\}) \cup \{u,v\}$ is a dominating set in $G$. The $2$-movable domination number of $G$, denoted by $γ_{m}^{2}(G)$, is the minimum cardinality of a 2-movable…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Coco:
🎵 Empty Beach
#Coco
https://cocowithlove.bandcamp.com/track/empty-beach
https://open.spotify.com/track/1BlKXLdPO2hLs4eyvWTKON

just keep consuming. leave the land empty. leave ur storage full. leave ur body as a soul turkey-stuffed with memory of every tiktok vocal stim compilation, every nation ishowspeed set foot in, and every line of adam friedland's g herbo interview. bring still waters to the passion of the cosmos.

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…

It's not October
So why do I hear footsteps
In an empty house?
#dailyhaikuprompt - footsteps
#haiku
#poem

I arrived at the Sprint Football game against Navy at halftime when Cornell was down 40-0.
The second half was an entirely different game where Cornell shut out Navy and Cornell's № 89 Cooper Patterson scored a touchdown despite № 32 T.J. Silvernale of the Midshipmen.
#photo #photography

Uneven Lives VII 👁️
不工整人生 VII 👁️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ERA 100, expired 1994
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

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…

It's like a cinnamon stick, but spicier!

Entanglement islands and black hole decay in regular dilaton gravity
Maxim Fitkevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17933 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17933

Entanglement islands and black hole decay in regular dilaton gravity
We consider a class of two-dimensional dilaton gravity models with linear dilaton vacuum including Callan-Giddings-Harvey-Strominger (CGHS) model as the special case. General thermodynamic properties of black holes in such models are evaluated. We focus on the CGHS model and its modification with regular black holes as empty-space solutions characterized by ever-present finite curvature. We find generalized entanglement entropy blows-up for near-extremal regular black holes considered as remnan…

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.

The distance function and Lipschitz classes of mappings between metric spaces
Marijan Markovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14508 https://

The distance function and Lipschitz classes of mappings between metric spaces
We investigate when the local Lipschitz property of the real-valued function $g(z) = d_Y (f(z),A)$ implies the global Lipschitz property of the mapping $f:X\to Y$ between the metric spaces $(X,d_X)$ and $(Y,d_Y)$. Here, $d_Y(y,A)$ denotes the distance of $y\in Y$ from the non-empty set $\subseteq Y$. As a consequence, we find that an analytic function on a uniform domain of a normed space belongs to the Lipschitz class if and only if its modulus satisfies the same condition; in the case of the …

On my way back from #PyConUK with the usual full heart/empty head that I tend to have after Python conferences.
My biggest fear was to give a keynote only for my friends so it was a big relieve that the positive feedback came truly from all sides. Different ages, experience, use-cases, … 1/4

A month of nights, a year of days
Octobers drifting into Mays
I set my sail when the tide comes in
And I cast my fate to the wind
I shift my course round with the breeze
Won't sail upwind on memories
The empty sky is my best friend
And I cast my fate to the wind
Set sail with the tide
Shift course with the breeze
Let dreams blow away
Those sad memories
Well, now I'm old, I'm wise, I'm smart
Just a man with h…

Now that we have had our brief bit of fun with the #poolpond, it’s time to drain it so work on completing it can continue! It took just over 12 hours for my little spare pond pump to empty the main pond of about 80% of its water.
It will be empty by morning. I will empty the filter and intake bay as well just to clean everything out. The movement of the past couple weeks through the system will have loosened up a bunch of the gunk still on the various rocks in the filter so a full pump out should remove all that.
I will then concentrate on finishing the piping in the bottom of the main pond for the intake for the second pond and the “periscope” for the bottom returns.
Then I can work on building the rock wall to line the inside of the pond. Or at least experimenting to see if it will work at all!
If it *does* work and I have enough rock to at least start on the bottom layers of the inside wall, then I’ll be able to achieve another milestone: placing the final pebble on the bottom. Important, because that will prevent any groundwater from infiltrating and causing the rubber liner to bubble out.
Really really want to get past that mark before the autumn rains come! For obvious reasons! ☔️
Other jobs that need to be done before winter:
- finish the manifold for the second pump to distribute water to the sprayers and filter and figure out how and where to house and conceal it.
- Dig the electrical trench from the house all the way around the long side of the pond to the back tool shed so we can start wiring it in.
- Clipping the wires on the pumps and adding extension wire to them so they can reach said electrical supplies.
- permanently shore up/modify the borders of the ponds where they were found to be low.
- make a few other minor terraforming modifications for the stream and some of the edges so the water goes a little more where I want it to and a little less where I don’t.
#poolpond #backyardProject #portalberni #ponds #watergarden

I wrote some sort of blog post about object classifiers and univalence: https://agda.monade.li/ObjectClassifiers
The TL;DR is that the relationship between bundles/fibrations and indexed families should really (IMO) be thought of as a span
(vertical maps) ← (pullback squares) − (horizontal maps)
in which each leg separately is an equivalence iff univalence holds, so if you ask for an equivalence between the endpoints things "cancel out" and you don't get univalence. This is even easier to see in the "empty context" (unit base type) where the span becomes the two projections out of the type of equivalences (X, Y : U) × X ≃ Y.
Previously: https://types.pl/@ncf/114737741485982172
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A hive of activity around here! A few seconds ago a full logging truck left and now there is an empty logging truck in its place. Every bay is full. Everyone running full bore!
Pearson Tire/Kal Tire in Port Alberni.
Been getting my tires here for 20 years! Great people. And free tire changes!
Edit: just to emphasize the point… a full Kal Tire delivery truck just pulled up on the main street beside and is now sitting there in the left turn lane waiting for the logging truck to be done so it can pull in. Crew now working double fast lol.
Winter tire season definitely on!
#evcrosscanada #tires #cars #maintenance