Tootfinder

This is a great thread about “breaking in”
And here’s the thing; this is applicable to careers/activities in general not just “breaking into comics”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4r4x2pmg7tt2qgblhfu7qb7c/post/3mm5qfxjltk2u

Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@planetx.bsky.social)
If we're defining "breaking in" as "publishers and editors now answer your emails," then I broke in when GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR was published in 2022. But I spent many years before that making comics no one read. The road to "breaking in" only makes sense in reverse. If I had not spent... [contains quote post or other embedded content]

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 17 nodes and 77 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Portishead:
🎵 Wandering Star
#Portishead
https://andrewcolohan.bandcamp.com/track/portishead-wandering-star-cover-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/7h14W1uQK7sjpVI1oVTobt

Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220 are "fallen unicorns" (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/ai-startup-valuations-pre-chatgpt.html…

'Disrupted or dead': AI is crushing a generation of startups built before ChatGPT
The AI boom that has funneled more than $250 billion into OpenAI and Anthropic has left hundreds of startups built before ChatGPT's arrival in 2022 stranded.

"Open Access Publishing Fund Efficiency: An Expansion and Replication of Luo et al. (2022)"
https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30968
"This study’s objective was to replicate and test Luo et al.’s (2022) proposals regarding open access publishing fund efficiency, specifically the time ef…

Large-scale sporting events cause unexpected air pollution, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/01/large-scale-sporting-events-cause-unexpected-air-pollution-study-shows

from my link log —
What is PL research and how is it useful?
http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2015/05/27/what-is-pl-research-and-how-is-it-useful/
saved 2022-09-28

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

"Period of extreme heat in Europe, with important role of climate change."
@… says it like it is, written by weatherman and climate scientist Peter Kuipers Munneke.
https://nos.nl/l/2619698

Periode met extreme hitte in Europa, met belangrijke rol voor klimaatverandering
De hittegolf in Europa kan zich gaan meten met de grote hittegolven uit 2003, 2006, 2019, 2022, 2023 en 2024.

@… https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plink-plonk/id1567451501?i=1000548692010

EP 4 - INTERVIEW: Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir
Podcast Episode · plink plonk · January 22, 2022 · 1h 31m

Nvidia acquired Kumo, which sells predictive AI software to enterprises, a source says for $400M ; PitchBook: Kumo raised $37M at a $250M valuation in 2022 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-buys-enterprise-mo…

Nvidia Buys Enterprise Model-Maker Kumo AI for at Least $400 Million
Nvidia has bought Kumo AI, a five-year-old startup that sells predictive AI software to enterprises, for more than $400 million, said a person with knowledge of the deal. The acquisition, first revealed by an Nvidia executive in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, should expand Nvidia’s roster of AI ...

[OT] FT: #SpaceX handed lowest possible ESG rating by MSCI - Triple C score puts Elon Musk's company on par with Russia after 2022 invasion of Ukraine https://www.ft.com/content/a0dd4ea7-ef3d-4

Cheeger Inequalities for the Persistent Laplacian
Magnus Bakke Botnan, Rui Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02846 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.02846 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.02846
arXiv:2606.02846v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study Cheeger-type inequalities for persistent Laplacians associated with inclusions of simplicial complexes $\mathcal{K}\hookrightarrow \mathcal{L}$. We introduce a persistent up $p$-Laplacian $\Delta_{q,p,\mathrm{up}}^{\mathcal{K},\mathcal{L}}$ for $p\geq 1$. For $p=2$, this recovers the usual persistent up Laplacian, while for $p=1$ it yields a nonzero persistent Cheeger constant $\varphi_q^{\mathcal{K},\mathcal{L}}$. We prove a Cheeger-type inequality relating $\varphi_q^{\mathcal{K},\mathcal{L}}$ to the smallest nonzero eigenvalue of $\Delta_{q,\mathrm{up}}^{\mathcal{K},\mathcal{L}}$. This gives a persistent extension of recent work by Jost and Zhang (Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci., 2024; arXiv:2302.01069).
We then study two more structured settings. Under a locally complete $q$-skeleton assumption on $\mathcal{K}$, we extend the complete-skeleton isoperimetric inequality of Parzanchevski--Rosenthal--Tessler (Combinatorica, 2016; arXiv:1207.0638) to the persistent setting. For orientable $(q 1)$-dimensional pseudomanifolds, we prove a Kron-type reduction of the persistent up Laplacian to a vertex- and edge-weighted graph Laplacian, possibly with Dirichlet boundary terms, and obtain two-sided Cheeger inequalities; this is related to the dual-graph perspective in the work of Steenbergen--Klivans--Mukherjee (Adv. Appl. Math., 2014; arXiv:1209.5091). We also describe the nonzero persistent Cheeger constant $\varphi_q^{\mathcal{K},\mathcal{L}}$ explicitly in terms of the dual graph in the non-branching pseudomanifold case. Finally, for graph inclusions $H\hookrightarrow G$, we compare the persistent Cheeger constants introduced here with the Kron-reduction Cheeger constants of M\'emoli et al. (SIAM J. Math. Data Sci., 2022; arXiv:2012.02808).
toXiv_bot_toot

Happy 5th birthday to #Wordle!
According to Wordle’s stats, I’ve played 1601 times. And because I first started playing on 5 January 2022, I missed playing 26 times.

Re-ranking 2022 NFL Draft by position: Aidan Hutchinson, Brock Purdy stand out https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7315521/2026/05/29/nfl-draft-2022-rankings-hutchinson-purdy/

Weil ich gerade sehr merkwürdige Follower kriege und es ja wohl auch eine Schwemme an (schlafenden) Fake-Accounts gibt:
Accounts ohne Bio und ohne irgendwelche Beiträge, anhand derer ich erkennen kann, dass es sich um eine echte interessierte Person handelt, entferne ich.
Bei Gelegenheit werde ich diesen Sommer in den Ferien auch mal aufräumen und inaktive Accounts rauswerfen.
Manche sind nach 2022/23 ganz offensichtlich einfach weitergezogen.

Americans' savings rate falls to lowest level since 2022 as inflation outpaces paychecks (Kamaron McNair/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/savings-inflation-americans-financial-stress.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260528/p114#a260528p114

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

The first half of 2026 was the 5th warmest on record here in the central Netherlands.
Just following the forecast for the coming 2 weeks, and then the 1991-2020 average (cool by now) would already bring this year into the top-3 warmest since 1901.

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 22.04.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 39. Atombombe "Chenille". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger rejoins Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital in an advisory role; he served as a venture partner at Thrive in 2022 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/bob-iger-returning-to-joshua-kush…

from my link log —
VBR: version based reclamation.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13843
saved 2022-12-26 https://dotat.at/:/IVLGG.html

VBR: Version Based Reclamation
Safe lock-free memory reclamation is a difficult problem. Existing solutions follow three basic methods (or their combinations): epoch based reclamation, hazard pointers, and optimistic reclamation. Epoch-based methods are fast, but do not guarantee lock-freedom. Hazard pointer solutions are lock-free but typically do not provide high performance. Optimistic methods are lock-free and fast, but previous optimistic methods did not go all the way. While reads were executed optimistically, writes w…

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der