Tootfinder

DHS Releases Statement on Violent Rioters Assaulting ICE Officers in Los Angeles, CA and Calls on Democrat Politicians to Tone Down Dangerous Rhetoric About ICE (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/07/dhs-releases-statement-violent-rioters-assaulting-ice-officers-los-angeles-ca-and
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p61#a250607p61

Tubi commercials are still the worst.
#nwsl

We Animals Media – Bringing visibility to hidden animals worldwide through compelling photo and videojournalism. #AnimalRights

We Animals | Animal Photojournalism
Our mission at We Animals is to advocate for animals through photojournalism. Our global investigations and stories expose our complex relationships with animals, create ethical and cultural shifts in society, and empower human capacity for compassion and change.

Calamus 26 We two boys together clinging
This is one of the gayest of the Calamus poems, a fantasy of two men against the world, full of life and ardor. I should be all over this in my gay reading!
Instead I see a darker form of Americanism here. "Power enjoying ... Armed and fearless ... No law less than ourselves". It's classic American individualism fantasy, a repudiation of community and law. Armed, at that.
On top of that I trip over the "North and South" part every time I read this. In 1860 when this was published we were just steps away from a Civil War after 10 years of enormous tension. I don't blame Whitman for wanting unity, his whole program in Leaves of Grass is American unity. All I can think is how there's no moral equivalence between the North and South. But Whitman wasn't an abolitionist and this poem reflects that.
Sorry for not reveling in the gay, maybe it's the ICE and California National Guard news affecting my reading today.

Building on the 90s, statistical n-gram language models, trained on vast text collections, became the backbone of NLP research. They fueled advancements in nearly all NLP techniques of the era, laying the groundwork for today's AI.
F. Jelinek (1997), Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
#NLP

Exclusive | Trump’s FAA Pick Once Played a Flight Attendant on TV. It Drew FAA Scrutiny. - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/trumps-faa-pick-once-played-a-flight-attendant-on-tv-it-drew-faa-scrutiny-69e58d46

https://www.theissue.io/having-and-bei/

Having and Being, or Economics in the 21st Century
Hi! How’s everyone? Welcome back old friends, welcome new ones, and here’s a tiny Snowy puppy hug to brighten your day (don’t tell anyone, but there’s a BONUS SNOWY PIC at the end.) Sorry to have not been writing more. I’ve been busy with sessions

Ik hoop dat de Marleen morgenochtend nog bestaat.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Funkmasters:
🎵 Love Money
#Funkmasters
https://sfbdhq.bandcamp.com/track/t-w-funkmasters-love-money-1981-remix

Die ePetition 181600 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Umsatzsteuer mit dem Titel
Einheitliche Besteuerung pflanzlicher und tierischer Milchmischgetränken in der Gastronomie
kann bis zum Dienstag 15. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, dass Nr. 35 der Anlage 2 zum Umsatzsteuergesetz so geändert wird, dass bei der Besteuerung von pflanzlichen und tierischen Milchmischgetränken in der Gastronomie eine einheitliche steuerliche Be…

Turkistarhaus Suomessa #eläinoikeudet

Turkistarhaus Suomessa | Oikeutta eläimille
Oikeutta eläimille -yhdistys on julkaissut kuvia ja videoita yli sadalta suomalaiselta turkistarhalta – yli 10 % maamme turkistarhoista. Ahtaat häkit, virikkeettömyys, silmätulehdukset, ienongelmat ja vammautuneet eläimet ovat arkipäivää tarhoilla. Viime vuosina yhdistyksen julkaisemat kuvat ylijalostetuista "hirviö"ketuista sekä "kannibaali"minkeistä ovat levinneet tiedotusvälineisiin ympäri maailman.

Next stop on our NLP timeline (as part of the #ISE2025 lecture) was Terry Winograd's SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding system developed in 1968-70 that could manipulate blocks in a virtual world.
Winograd, T. Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language. MIT AI Technical Report 235.

Me: [picks up dropped metal water bottle]
Me: "it's wild how much abuse these things can take, and they just keep going! "
13yo: "are you talking about me?"
Me: "yes."
13yo: "good, I finally get some recognition for my suffering."
#parenting 🙄

Finished #StarWars #Andor #S2?
Watch all 12 episodes again... this time with your YouTube friends, Kyle Katarn, Wave Squadron, Cinepals, Heroes Reforged, Struggle Nation, Jedi Jive... all mixed together…

Pour l'heure, l'aviation «verte» demeure une énorme fiction
https://fr.euronews.com/green/2025/05/02/les-dix-compagnies-aeriennes-les-plus-polluantes-deurope-sont-r…

Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on April 9, 2025, directing federal agencies to investigate #Miles #Taylor, a former Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland security, for his public criticisms of the president.
This appears to be the first time in U.S. history that a president has explicitly invoked his in…

End Presidential Revenge: Support Miles Taylor's Legal Defense
Join over 200 bipartisan leaders in defending democracy. Support the legal fund opposing presidential retaliation against whistleblowers like Miles Taylor. Stand up for constitutional rights today.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Mirrorgloss:
🎵 Crave
#Mirrorgloss
https://mirrorglossmusic.bandcamp.com/track/crave
https://open.spotify.com/track/420gnjDaPTplxOHQYc6AUX

Having nothing to do with current events, might I suggest reading my “children’s story” Winnie the Coup and Elongated Muskrat Bulldoze the Gubment tonight before bed?
https://medium.com/the-haven/winnie-the-coup-and-the-elongated-musk…

Winnie the Coup and the Elongated Muskrat Bulldoze the Gubment
Once upon a time, there was an orange creature named Winnie the Coup and he had what he thought was a friend, the Elongated Muskrat. Muskrat had a lot of toys and Winnie the Coup was sorta jealous…

Today I had a 1h meeting followed by 2h of code reading and DB forensics which resulted in a rather simple SQL query that, when run daily via cron, should remove the need for a manual step that an operator had to do regularily (and maybe did not do properly, but instread wasted an hour on dumb clicking instead).

Sources: Apple may announce new features for AirPods at WWDC, including iPhone camera control, new head gestures, and sleep detection for pausing playback (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/04/exclusive-airpods-ios-26-wwdc-features/…

Exclusive: AirPods to get camera control, sleep detection, new gestures - 9to5Mac
Today, we are sharing a five previously unreported AirPods features that may be announced as early as Monday, during the WWDC25 keynote.

UnitedHealthcare sues The Guardian for defamation over a May 21 story about nursing home cost-cutting, accusing the outlet of capitalizing on its CEO's killing (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/04…

UnitedHealthcare lawsuit accuses Guardian of trying to ‘capitalize’ on CEO’s killing
UnitedHealth is being represented by Clare Locke, a firm that’s made a name for itself aggressively pursuing defamation lawsuits against the media.

»Billige Briefumschläge, deren Aufsichtseite oftmals hochglänzend satiniert ist, während die rauhe Rückseite zahllose Sandkörner aufweist, machen die Bildseite der Lettern in kurzer Zeit löcherig und unbrauchbar. Manche Druckpapiere weisen weiche Verdickungen und Knoten auf, die eine mangelhafte Vorbereitung des Papierstoffes erkennen lassen und beim Verdrucken nach und nach Beschädigungen der Lettern herbeiführen.«
Aus: Gustav Bohadti – Die Buchdruckletter (Ullstein, 1954)

Hach… #RockAmRing wird diesmal bei #BILD gestreamed. Und zwar nur noch die Hauptbühne. Sonst nur noch ausgewählte Presse und paar Twich-Streamer. Und wehe irgendwer erdreistet sich und mach anderweitig Videos.
(Und ja, ich weiß, kein Backup…)

slip inside last night's frow show, 3 hours of new music, global zones, jazz departures, cosmic arrivals, etc., via the @… archive. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250603

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Murder Club:
🎵 4 EVA
#MurderClub
https://open.spotify.com/track/56dDmTWb2J4LBxaq6TTDSk

Trafic perturbé le mercredi 7 mai.
Prévoir 2 trains sur 3.
Pour préparer votre trajet, rendez-vous sur le calculateur d’itinéraires de l’appli Île-de-France Mobilités, le site Transilien.com, SNCF Connect ou votre appli de mobilité.
Avant de vous rendre en gare, nous vous conseillons de vérifier l’horaire de vos trains.
Motif : mouvement social.
🤖 07/05 03:00

[2025-06-06 Fri (UTC), 4 new articles found for math.NT Number Theory]
#toXiv_bot_toot

Ok, first day trying my end-to-end Xogot/Claude/MCP integration, not bad at all:

Single-pulse-based interstellar scintillation studies of RRATs
Zi-wei Wu, Wei-wei Zhu, Zi-yao Fang, Qiu-yang Fu, Ji-guang Lu, Ling-qi Meng, Chen-Chen Miao, Xue-li Miao, Jia-rui Niu, Rukeya Rejiefu, Xun Shi, Chao Wang, Meng-yao Xue, Mao Yuan, You-ling Yue, Chun-feng Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Shi-jun Dang, Yu-lan Liu
https://arxiv.org/ab…

Single-pulse-based interstellar scintillation studies of RRATs
The nature of irregularly spaced pulses of rotating radio transients (RRATs) complicates interstellar scintillation studies. In this letter, we report the primary scintillation parameters of a sample of RRATs using pairwise correlations of pulse spectra. Moreover, from the measured scintillation velocities, we constrain their transverse velocities. We also find a reduced modulation index, $\rm{m=0.13\pm0.01}$, for RRAT~J1538+2345. Several possible explanations are discussed. Furthermore, the si…

Apple has (maybe) seen the light and (maybe) goes CalVer 🥳
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-28/apple-to-rebrand-device-operating-systems-ios-26-macos-26-watchos-26

iOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, iPadOS 26: Apple to Rebrand Device Software
Apple Inc. is planning the most sweeping change yet to its operating system names, part of a software overhaul that extends to all its devices.

Das ist ja fast beleidigend, dass jetzt ausgerechnet die Grünen wegen Polizei-kritischer Bekleidung einen Skandal im Bundestag haben. Hunderte Linke fühlen sich schon wieder nicht gesehen.
https://www.

With the advent of ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum's first psychotherapist chatbot, NLP took another major step with pattern-based substitution algorithms based on simple regular expressions.
Weizenbaum, Joseph (1966). ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine. Com. of the ACM. 9: 36–45.

@… Yeah, I guess this article is less well known. IEEE Spectrum is perhaps not where you’d expect to find such articles…

[2025-06-06 Fri (UTC), 3 new articles found for cs.SI Social and Information Networks]
#toXiv_bot_toot

Ik wil hard rijden, maar waarom wil ik zo snel zijn? | Thomas Verbogt | #gelderlander
https://www.gelderlander.nl/thomas-verbogt

Immer wenn ich lese "Kein Backup, kein Mitleid." muss ich mit dem Kopf schütteln. Hier ist nicht nur das "ob" (also warum man Backups machen muss) etwas das IMMER WIEDER erklärt werden muss, Auch das "wie", gerade das "wie", omg ist das "wie" wichtig!
aber abgesehen davon, nur weil man Jahrzehnte in einem Bereich tätig ist, geht ein Thema nicht weg, denn es haben mit der Zeit eben nicht alle verstanden. Muss mich da auch an eigene Nase…

Asana reports Q1 revenue of $187.3M, vs. $185.5M est., up 9% YoY vs. 26% last year, and adjusted EPS of $0.05, vs. $0.02 est.; ASAN falls 8% after hours (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/03/asan…

Asana shares drop as earnings results top estimates but revenue growth slows - SiliconANGLE
Asana shares drop as earnings results top estimates but revenue growth slows - SiliconANGLE

Enda et nytt parti som lover «direkte demokrati», men som likevel stiller liste til valg og vil ha makt over oss andre.
Generasjonspartiet fremstiller det som en frisk nyvinning, men i virkeligheten er dette bare mer av det samme representative systemet som har sviktet arbeiderklassen i generasjoner.
Syndikalismen handler om at vi organiserer oss selv, i fagforeninger og lokale råd, og tar beslutningene direkte, ikke gjennom partier, valg eller politikere.
Når Generasjonsp…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08502 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Demonstration of Advanced Timing Schemes in Time-Resolved X-ray Diffraction Measurements
We present time-resolved X-ray diffraction measurements using advanced timing schemes that provide high temporal resolution while also maintaining a high flux in the X-ray probe beam. The method employs patterned probe pulse sequences that are generated with the WaveGate solid-state pulse picker. We demonstrate the feasibility of our method at two different beamlines on millisecond and microsecond timescales.

yes. Donny. It was. You've been had and you're too dumb to see it coming.
#TheAmericanFascist https://sharkey.world/notes/a8gl1cr92e2u008v

Heute gibt es noch eine kleine Aufführung mit den #Coffeebots in Kreuzberg in einer Kneipe. Voll gut, mal wieder mit den Marionetten zu spielen.

Un train stationne Š Eglise de Pantin vers Bobigny Pablo Picasso en raison d'un incident nécessitant l’intervention du conducteur.
🤖 04/06 23:26

Första randomiserade studien som visar att mer fysisk aktivitet ökar chanserna att överleva vid cancer. I den här studien tittade man specifikt på koloncancer.
https://apnews.com/article/colon-cancer-exercise-study-recove…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Andreas Hammerschmidt, Hespèrion XX & Jordi Savall:
🎵 Suite in D minor for gambas, 'Erster Fleiss'
#AndreasHammerschmidt #HespèrionXX #JordiSavall

Exponential Time Differencing Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin (ETD-RKDG) Methods for Nonlinear Degenerate Parabolic Equations
Ziyao Xu, Yong-Tao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04416

Exponential Time Differencing Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin (ETD-RKDG) Methods for Nonlinear Degenerate Parabolic Equations
In this paper, we study high-order exponential time differencing Runge-Kutta (ETD-RK) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations. This class of equations exhibits hyperbolic behavior in degenerate regions and parabolic behavior in non-degenerate regions, resulting in sharp wave fronts in the solution profiles and a parabolic-type time-step restriction, $τ\sim O(h^2)$, for explicit time integration. To address these challenges and solve such equations in co…

sister just told me i woulda gotten diagnosed with adhd instead, but my mom argued hard that i couldn't actually be socially stunted from having nobody outside the family who spoke english to regularly interact with growing up

"Trump administration sources told CBS News on Sunday that the White House was not aware that an attack was coming."
Well, for once i believe they are telling the truth. Because the attacks were successful.
#Ukraine #Krasnov

Ukraine schickt Delegation zu Verhandlungen nach Istanbul
Die Ukraine entsendet eine Delegation zur für morgen geplanten nächsten Verhandlungsrunde über eine Waffenruhe mit Russland nach Istanbul. Die ukrainische Delegation werde von Verteidigungsminister Rustem Umjerow geleitet, teilte der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj mit. Bisher hatte Kiew offen gelassen, ob die von Russland angekündigte zweite Gesprächsrunde z…
📑

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Wadephul betont Waffenhilfe ++
Außenminister Wadephul betont, dass Deutschland der Ukraine weitreichende Militärhilfe leisten wird. Nach einem Angriff auf eine ukrainische Ausbildungseinheit mit zwölf Toten tritt der Kommandeur der ukrainischen Armee, Drapatij, zurück.

Mögt ihr eure lokale Timeline?

"Ando sem tempo absolutamente nenhum, entre um livro muito grande e com prazo apertado em tradução e chatices familiares daquelas que roubam não só o tempo propriamente dito, mas sobretudo disponibilidade mental para fazer seja o que for de criativo. Daí mais uma longa pausa neste blogue bissexto que é o meu, pausa essa que vai continuar ainda durante mais um par de meses, provavelmente. Pelo menos."

Outro continho em inglês
Ando sem tempo absolutamente nenhum, entre um livro muito grande e com prazo apertado em tradução e chatices familiares daquelas que roubam ...

Was ist denn beim Spiegel Online kaputt?
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/fedora-asahi-remix-alltagstaugliches-linux-fuer-macos-nutzer-a-769f47bd-6740-4254-9c9f-cba36550ceb6

Fedora Asahi Remix statt macOS: Ein alltagstaugliches Linux für neue Macs
Auch Macs mit Apple-Chips können zu Linux-Rechnern werden. Wir zeigen, wie Sie das alternative Betriebssystem Fedora Asahi Remix neben macOS installieren.

'night all. I'm off to bed to listen to the last of the Murderbot Diaries series of audiobooks, *System Collapse*
🤖📚📳

On Website Technicals (2019-07) - Tech updates: improved video support, HTTPS, search impressions vs clicks, FFmpeg vs AVconv, line-height. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-26.html

On Website Technicals (2019-07)
Tech updates: improved video support, HTTPS, search impressions vs clicks, FFmpeg vs AVconv, line-height.

Divine 9 takeaways from Cowboys 2nd OTA sessions includes no Diggs or Parsons sightings https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/01/takeaways-cowboys-2nd-ota-sessions-of-2025/8397815700…

The Guards series is not copaganda. I repeat, not copaganda.
"It wasn’t proper police work, Vimes considered, unless you were doing something that someone somewhere would much rather you weren’t doing."
(from Jingo)
#GNUTerryPratchett

First Introduced To Australia In 1788, This Invasive Species Now Kills Over A Million Birds A Day
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotttravers/2025/04/26/first-introduced-to-austral…

First Introduced To Australia In 1788, This Invasive Species Now Kills Over A Million Birds A Day
From island extinctions to nationwide losses, feral and domestic cats have been reshaping Australia's biodiversity for decades at a staggering cost.

Dziś przyszedł ten dzień, kiedy się wziąłem, zebrałem trzy ogniwa AAA z pilotów i uruchomiłem maszynę ważącą (ach, jakże mi brak mechanicznej wagi, co działała bez cudowania, tylko się gdzieś zapodziała…).
Lulu 🐱 — 5,5 kg
Ru 🐱 — 4,5 kg
Jego Ekowatość, Pierwszy Tego Imienia, Król Pieszczochów 🐱 — 4,5 kg
(tara — 72,5 kg)

Pläne sind zum Ändern da.
Die Frau wundert sich, ich nicht. Sollte mich das wundern?
#gmiatlichRadln #rausgeschafft #Oberfranken

"The final stage, a flat 143-km route around Rome, will be a ceremonial ride. The GC is effectively sealed, and Simon Yates — with his audacious attack and redemption arc — has already etched his name into Giro d’Italia history."
#giroditalia2025 #giro2025

Just read that Mozilla has decided to shut down Pocket (!?!). Its integration with Kobo e-readers is great and something I will miss. It will be difficult to find a similarly practical way to read web articles on my e-reader, other than the somewhat clunky pdf-saving cloud sync method. Any tips much welcome!

The 43rd issue of The #Comet's Tale from the BAA is full of interesting articles: https://britastro.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/tail43.pdf (in https://britastro.org/section_information_/comet-section-overview/the-comets-tale all issues).

Target Sensing Performance in Disaster-Specific ISAC Networks
Ahmet Burak Ozyurt, John S. Thompson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02828 https://

Target Sensing Performance in Disaster-Specific ISAC Networks
As sixth-generation (6G) wireless technology emerges, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks offer significant potential for enhancing real-time monitoring in disaster areas. However, existing ISAC approaches often fail to address the unique challenges of dynamic and cluttered disaster areas, resulting in limited sensing coverage and interruptions in sensing service. To address these limitations, this work proposes a mobile ISAC network specifically designed for disaster scenarios…

from my link log —
Type-level bounded recursion in Rust.
https://catgirl.ai/log/typelevel-bounded-recursion/
saved 2025-05-26

Exploring listeners' perceptions of AI-generated and human-composed music for functional emotional applications
Kimaya Lecamwasam, Tishya Ray Chaudhuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02856

Exploring listeners' perceptions of AI-generated and human-composed music for functional emotional applications
This work investigates how listeners perceive and evaluate AI-generated as compared to human-composed music in the context of emotional resonance and regulation. Across a mixed-methods design, participants were exposed to both AI and human music under various labeling conditions (music correctly labeled as AI- or human-origin, music incorrectly labeled as AI- or human-origin, and unlabeled music) and emotion cases (Calm and Upbeat), and were asked to rate preference, efficacy of target emotion …

Las Vegas Raiders WR Jakobi Meyers Gives His Thoughts On QB Geno Smith https://raiderramble.com/2025/06/01/las-vegas-raiders-jakobi-meyers-speaks-geno-smith/

#today is recovering from partying, dealing with EOM (end of month) data updates, and maybe lawn mowing...

"Fixer les prix des livres au détail est une politique commune en Europe, mais comment la prévention de la concurrence affecte-t-elle les libraires et les acheteurs ? Christos Genakos, Lorien Sabatino et Tommaso Valletti constatent que lorsque la possibilité d'offrir des prix plus bas aux clients est limitée, les vendeurs se tournent vers la concurrence sur le service Š la clientèle et la variété des livres - améliorant ainsi l'expérience des acheteurs."

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 144 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Temp…

I can stop drinking crude oil

Les 7-8 mai 2025, les CFF présenterons leurs divers univers professionnels Š la gare de Lausanne. Les personnes intéressées par un emploi peuvent s'attendre Š:
👉s'installer dans la cabine de conduite d'une Re 460 🚂
👉échanger avec des collaboratrices et collaborateurs des CFF sur leurs expériences de travail quotidiennes
👉recevoir des conseils précieux pour leur candidature lors du Speed Recruiting.
👉déguster un bon café ☕️
Plus d’informations sur l’événe…

Le trafic est fortement ralenti de Champ de Mars vers Juvisy.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : déclenchement du signal d'alarme en gare de Bibliothèque François Mitterrand.
🤖 01/06 18:26

Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
AVON: Your name wouldn't be Shrinker, by any chance, would it?
SHRINKER: You've heard of me?
AVON: Ah. I knew if I held out, you would show up eventually.
SHRINKER: That says more for your nerve than your brain.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/4

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

Natura Urbana VII 🏡
城市自然 VII 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

Woman dies from brain ameba after flushing nose with RV water:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-topics/woman-dies-brain-ameba-after-flushing-nose-rv-water

The non-unit conjecture for Misiurewicz parameters
Robert L. Benedetto, Vefa Goksel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05254 https://arxiv.or…

The non-unit conjecture for Misiurewicz parameters
A Misiurewicz parameter is a complex number $c$ for which the orbit of the critical point $z=0$ under $z^2+c$ is strictly preperiodic. Such parameters play the same role in dynamical moduli spaces as singular moduli (corresponding to CM elliptic curves) play on modular curves. Building on our earlier work, we investigate whether the difference of two Misiurewicz parameters can be an algebraic unit. (The corresponding question for singular moduli was recently answered in the negative by Li.) We …

Shinichi Kobayashi has idyllic memories of growing up on Naoshima, one of the nearly 3,000 islands scattered across Japan's Seto Inland Sea.
"We would go clam digging," said the 75-year-old, who became the island's mayor in 2018.
"During the summer, I would spend entire days swimming in the sea, catching turban shells and fish, getting deeply tanned."
"I don't recall seeing any foreign visitors," he added.
Kobayashi's hom…

Setouchi Triennale 2025
The Setouchi Triennale is a contemporary art festival held every three years on the islands of the Seto Inland Sea.

DC mayor kicks off Black Pride by creating "TS Madison Day" in honor of Black trans activist - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/dc-mayor-kicks-off-black-pride-by-creating-ts-madison-day-in-honor-of-black-trans-activist/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24082 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Collimation of Fast Radio Burster 20201124A; Repeaters vs. Apparent Non-Repeaters
The recent report of a period in the active repeating Fast Radio Burster 20201124A and measurement of its spindown rate place bounds on the solid angle of its emission on the basis of energetics. The bound depends on the (unknown) efficiency of conversion of rotational energy to coherent radio emission and implies a lower bound on the Lorentz factor of the radiating charges. Bursts may be emitted along the magnetic dipole axis, in repeaters aligned with the rotational axis and the line of sight…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Johannes Brahms, Sinfonia Varsovia & Robert Treviño:
🎵 2 Hungarian Dances - no 11 in D minor, no 5 in G minor
#JohannesBrahms #SinfoniaVarsovia #RobertTreviño

this afternoon in red hook! #brooklyn #nyc https://mastodon.social/@dmandl/114585666130512255

Dave Mandl (@dmandl@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image I'm excited that Emergency Group will be playing on this fantastic bill with Sloppy Heads and Vague Plot in Red Hook (Brooklyn) this Sunday. It's at Valentino Park, a perfectly scruffy and cozy outdoor space ideal for afternoon music. Come see us.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Urge Overkill:
🎵 Sister Havana
#UrgeOverkill
https://open.spotify.com/track/6E8hhcSnvtevktpFSnHmjK

A look at Apple's AI plans for WWDC; sources: macOS 26 will be named Tahoe and Apple is testing its 3B, 7B, 33B, and 150B AI models via internal tool Playground (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/new…

You are a Failure But Still Smiling | #NowWatching

The 13yo was making instant mac & cheese (incorrectly), and my wife yelled "READ the instructions!"
The 13yo responded with, "I DID read the instructions,"and she replied "A day in the library saves a week in the lab." Which I guess is a real expression that scientists say?

No. 99 WR Cole Beasley: Cowboys Top 100 Countdown to the 2025 season https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/01/cowboys-top-100-countdown-wr-cole-beasley/83980043007/

Refinements on higher order Weil-Oesterl\'e bounds via a Serre type argument
Emmanuel Hallouin, Philippe Moustrou, Marc Perret
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05212

Refinements on higher order Weil-Oesterlé bounds via a Serre type argument
Weil's theorem gives the most standard bound on the number of points of a curve over a finite field. This bound was improved by Ihara and Oesterlé for larger genus. Recently, Hallouin and Perret gave a new point of view on these bounds, that can be obtained by solving a sequence of semi-definite programs, and the two first steps of this hierarchy recover Weil's and Ihara's bounds. On the other hand, by taking into account arithmetic constraints, Serre obtained a refinement on Weil's bound. In …

I can never get over how obnoxious this tax/tariff scam is, seeing stuff $135.00 ( $139.29 shipping).
The govt is gonna close this loophole up & these idiots will have effed it up for everyone. #smh

Trump learned about the timing of Musk’s departure in the same manner that the president himself has often used to share significant personnel news:
via a social-media post
"The president knew that Musk would be leaving soon, but not the exact timing until the post was sent"

'I don't like being surprised': Trump reportedly blindsided by Elon Musk comment
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have a "complicated" relationship characterized by at least one recent instance of lack of communication, according to a new report.The conservative Wall Street Journal late Friday evening published a report entitled "Inside Trump and Musk’s Complicated Relationship" in wh...

Bonne nouvelle : les immatriculations de Tesla ont continué de s’effondrer en France avec -59 % en avril
#TeslaTakeDown

Global Kinetic Simulations of Monster Shocks and Their Emission
Dominic Bernardi, Yajie Yuan, Alexander Y. Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04175 https://…

Global Kinetic Simulations of Monster Shocks and Their Emission
Fast magnetosonic waves are one of the two low-frequency plasma modes that can exist in a neutron star magnetosphere. It was recently realized that these waves may become nonlinear within the magnetosphere and steepen into some of the strongest shocks in the universe. These shocks, when in the appropriate parameter regime, may emit GHz radiation in the form of precursor waves. We present the first global Particle-in-Cell simulations of the nonlinear steepening of fast magnetosonic waves in a di…

On the number of divisors of Mersenne numbers
Vjekoslav Kova\v{c}, Florian Luca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04883 https://arxiv.org/pd…

On the number of divisors of Mersenne numbers
Denote $f(n):=\sum_{1\le k\le n} τ(2^k-1)$, where $τ$ is the number of divisors function. Motivated by a question of Paul Erdős, we show that the sequence of ratios $f(2n)/f(n)$ is unbounded. We also present conditional results on the divergence of this sequence to infinity. Finally, we test numerically both the conjecture $f(2n)/f(n)\to\infty$ and our sufficient conditions for it to hold.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Mulatu Astatke & Mulatu Astatke:
🎵 Tezeta
#MulatuAstatke
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JPNvoMjoIXkTDAMx9Aajj

#Dog fans: Please watch "The Art of Racing in the Rain".
(I ugly cried at AMC during these clips & hugged a complete stranger in the lobby.)
▶️ Enzo's final lap with Denny
https://yout…

On Sunday, voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between
Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw,
and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian who has helmed a nationalist effort to rewrite Poland’s role in the Holocaust.
The candidates offer starkly different visions for Poland.
Trzaskowski promises cooperation with the European Union and social changes, such as loosening restrictive abortion laws and allowing civil unions for LGBTQ peo…

Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget would strip trans federal workers of insurance coverage - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2025/05/trumps-fiscal-2026-budget-would-strip-trans-federal-workers-insurance-coverage/405717/

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott shares first look at second daughter https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/01/cowboys-dak-prescott-birth-second-daughter/83979056007/

Indefinite theta functions arising from affine Lie superalgebras and sums of triangular numbers
Toshiki Matsusaka, Miyu Suzuki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04722

Indefinite theta functions arising from affine Lie superalgebras and sums of triangular numbers
We extend the recently developed theory of Roehrig and Zwegers on indefinite theta functions to prove certain power series are modular forms. As a consequence, we obtain several power series identities for powers of the generating function of triangular numbers. We also show that these identities arise as specializations of denominator identities of affine Lie superalgebras.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Jay Mitchell:
🎵 Funky Fever
#JayMitchell
https://cultcargo.bandcamp.com/track/funky-fever
https://open.spotify.com/track/21E1bGl69h0RwCtfLJdI3C

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01870 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Various irrational series involving binomial coefficients
Motivated by Galois theory, we propose some new irrational series of Ramanujan's type or Zeilberger's type. For example, we conjecture that \begin{equation*}\sum_{k=1}^\infty\frac{\binom{2k}k^2\binom{4k}{2k}}{(84-32\sqrt6)^{4k}} \left(280k+5\sqrt6+26\right)=\frac3π(2\sqrt3+33\sqrt2) \end{equation*} and \begin{align*}&\sum_{k=1}^\infty\frac{(27(37102-15147\sqrt6))^k}{k^3\binom{2k}k^2\binom{3k}k} \left(9k(11\sqrt6+51)-2(19\sqrt6+54)\right) \\&\qquad=\frac{5625}2\left(\sqrt6 L_{-24}(2)-3G\r…