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if you're structuring your donation transaction to avoid the $10k mandatory reporting threshold,
well. 31 USC 5324 is no joke.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:j2kmiyhld5btzozgzwy3lc2m/post/3lqdr4okhwk2f

stanford_web: Webgraph (Stanford)
The web graph of Stanford University (stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 281904 nodes and 2312497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/s…

AccessGuru: Leveraging LLMs to Detect and Correct Web Accessibility Violations in HTML Code
Nadeen Fathallah, Daniel Hern\'andez, Steffen Staab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19549

AccessGuru: Leveraging LLMs to Detect and Correct Web Accessibility Violations in HTML Code
The vast majority of Web pages fail to comply with established Web accessibility guidelines, excluding a range of users with diverse abilities from interacting with their content. Making Web pages accessible to all users requires dedicated expertise and additional manual efforts from Web page providers. To lower their efforts and promote inclusiveness, we aim to automatically detect and correct Web accessibility violations in HTML code. While previous work has made progress in detecting certain…

SERP Interference Network and Its Applications in Search Advertising
Purak Jain, Sandeep Appala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21598 https://

SERP Interference Network and Its Applications in Search Advertising
Search Engine marketing teams in the e-commerce industry manage global search engine traffic to their websites with the aim to optimize long-term profitability by delivering the best possible customer experience on Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). In order to do so, they need to run continuous and rapid Search Marketing A/B tests to continuously evolve and improve their products. However, unlike typical e-commerce A/B tests that can randomize based on customer identification, their tests fa…

YouTube has dropped its "Trending" pages, in favour of AI recommendations. So now, if YouTube pushes far-right incitement, it's a side-effect of a non-deterministic process and not software humans designed.

At the harmony, the song touches my #GenX childhood, my memory of the Luck Dragon & my eyes well up:
🎶
Make believe I'm everywhere
Hidden in the lines
Written on the pages
Is the answer to a #NeverEndingStory
🎶
▶️ Limahl - Never Ending Story (Offici…

wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed

You can play with (a supercharged server-driven version of it) today with Kitten:
https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/dynamic-pages/

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

It is awesome that #WordPress posts can syndicate to the #Fediverse but the syndication can add some really long posts to the Fedi timeline, like 21-pages-if-you-print long. Not to mention formatting issues.
Ain't nobody reading that on Fedi. 🙂‍
E.g.: #UX #technology

McCarthyism was rate limited
by the number of people engaged,
the amount of money available,
the legal frameworks in place,
and the media environment,
in a way that is very different from what universities will face
not just in the next three years
but until we find a way to contain these people

Bart Wullems of The Art of Simplicity shares his experience using Microsoft's .NET Source Browser to take a peek at a particular API's internals. The code documentation pages have links to the corresponding Github repositories where you can see exactly how any given function is implemented.
"Browse the .NET code base with the .NET Source Browser"

berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://

berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://

Unfolding the Past: A Comprehensive Deep Learning Approach to Analyzing Incunabula Pages
Klaudia Ropel, Krzysztof Kutt, Luiz do Valle Miranda, Grzegorz J. Nalepa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18069

Unfolding the Past: A Comprehensive Deep Learning Approach to Analyzing Incunabula Pages
We developed a proof-of-concept method for the automatic analysis of the structure and content of incunabula pages. A custom dataset comprising 500 annotated pages from five different incunabula was created using resources from the Jagiellonian Digital Library. Each page was manually labeled with five predefined classes: Text, Title, Picture, Table, and Handwriting. Additionally, the publicly available DocLayNet dataset was utilized as supplementary training data. To perform object detection, Y…

berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://

Seems like @… now encourages moving from Pages to Workers.
Tried it and realised that it doesn't support separate env variables for different branches/environments 🤦‍♂️

berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://

aaaaaaaaaa! There it is!
My friend @…’s brand new typeface Tausend is out. So, so good … 😍
https://fontwerk.com/de/fonts/tausend-collection…

Michael Sweater is at it again:
https://sweater.substack.com/p/new-comics-and-some-news
I find it hard to believe he has less than 250 subscribers (hint, hint). FWIW, there are another 3 (better drawn) pages to this story covering his angsty meta-narrative about soci…

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

I've found Wallabag (#replacement for #Pocket, in case anyone…

Today I had cause to get out my old #Acorn #RISCOS 3 Style Guide to demonstrate that the fundamentals of good #UX can date back well over 30 years - same with the

One of the many interesting pages in the Future Energy Scenarios 2025, published today by NESO (🇬🇧 National Energy System Operator).
It focuses on the why, how and what of demand side flexibility.
Key: reward consumers, build trust, automate and smart tariffs.
EV smart charging gateway to more residential flex.
#EV

A Versatile Dataset of Mouse and Eye Movements on Search Engine Results Pages
Kayhan Latifzadeh, Jacek Gwizdka, Luis A. Leiva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08003

A Versatile Dataset of Mouse and Eye Movements on Search Engine Results Pages
We contribute a comprehensive dataset to study user attention and purchasing behavior on Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). Previous work has relied on mouse movements as a low-cost large-scale behavioral proxy but also has relied on self-reported ground-truth labels, collected at post-task, which can be inaccurate and prone to biases. To address this limitation, we use an eye tracker to construct an objective ground-truth of continuous visual attention. Our dataset comprises 2,776 transaction…

I hired GargoylePastures €to do some graphic novel pages for this book. And the art was so lovely, I decided to use it for the cover. Also, it's pride month and ‪ GargoylePastures is a queer artist. Check out the pride collection: https://gargoylepastures.com/prideclothingstore

Pride Clothing Store — Gargoyle Pastures
le printful products

I wish this were ironic, but it's not. The article itself has intelligent-sounding sentences, which a Web search shows up on other sites. The publisher claims to have a "strict plagiarism policy"…which I'm realizing can be read two different ways.

So I've found my answer after maybe ~30 minutes of effort. First stop was the first search result on Startpage (https://millennialhawk.com/does-poop-have-calories/), which has some evidence of maybe-AI authorship but which is better than a lot of slop. It actually has real links & cites research, so I'll start by looking at the sources.
It claims near the top that poop contains 4.91 kcal per gram (note: 1 kcal = 1 Calorie = 1000 calories, which fact I could find/do trust despite the slop in that search). Now obviously, without a range or mention of an average, this isn't the whole picture, but maybe it's an average to start from? However, the citation link is to a study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32235930/) which only included 27 people with impaired glucose tolerance and obesity. Might have the cited stat, but it's definitely not a broadly representative one if this is the source. The public abstract does not include the stat cited, and I don't want to pay for the article. I happen to be affiliated with a university library, so I could see if I have access that way, but it's a pain to do and not worth it for this study that I know is too specific. Also most people wouldn't have access that way.
Side note: this doing-the-research protect has the nice benefit of letting you see lots of cool stuff you wouldn't have otherwise. The abstract of this study is pretty cool and I learned a bit about gut microbiome changes from just reading the abstract.
My next move was to look among citations in this article to see if I could find something about calorie content of poop specifically. Luckily the article page had indicators for which citations were free to access. I ended up reading/skimming 2 more articles (a few more interesting facts about gut microbiomes were learned) before finding this article whose introduction has what I'm looking for: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3127503/
Here's the relevant paragraph:
"""
The alteration of the energy-balance equation, which is defined by the equilibrium of energy intake and energy expenditure (1–5), leads to weight gain. One less-extensively-studied component of the energy-balance equation is energy loss in stools and urine. Previous studies of healthy adults showed that ≈5% of ingested calories were lost in stools and urine (6). Individuals who consume high-fiber diets exhibit a higher fecal energy loss than individuals who consume low-fiber diets with an equivalent energy content (7, 8). Webb and Annis (9) studied stool energy loss in 4 lean and 4 obese individuals and showed a tendency to lower the fecal energy excretion in obese compared with lean study participants.
"""
And there's a good-enough answer if we do some math, along with links to more in-depth reading if we want them. A Mayo clinic calorie calculator suggests about 2250 Calories per day for me to maintain my weight, I think there's probably a lot of variation in that number, but 5% of that would be very roughly 100 Calories lost in poop per day, so maybe an extremely rough estimate for a range of humans might be 50-200 Calories per day. Interestingly, one of the AI slop pages I found asserted (without citation) 100-200 Calories per day, which kinda checks out. I had no way to trust that number though, and as we saw with the provenance of the 4.91 kcal/gram, it might not be good provenance.
To double-check, I visited this link from the paragraph above: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022316622169853?via=ihub
It's only a 6-person study, but just the abstract has numbers: ~250 kcal/day pooped on a low-fiber diet vs. ~400 kcal/day pooped on a high-fiber diet. That's with intakes of ~2100 and ~2350 kcal respectively, which is close to the number from which I estimated 100 kcal above, so maybe the first estimate from just the 5% number was a bit low.
Glad those numbers were in the abstract, since the full text is paywalled... It's possible this study was also done on some atypical patient group...
Just to come full circle, let's look at that 4.91 kcal/gram number again. A search suggests 14-16 ounces of poop per day is typical, with at least two sources around 14 ounces, or ~400 grams. (AI slop was strong here too, with one including a completely made up table of "studies" that was summarized as 100-200 grams/day). If we believe 400 grams/day of poop, then 4.91 kcal/gram would be almost 2000 kcal/day, which is very clearly ludicrous! So that number was likely some unrelated statistic regurgitated by the AI. I found that number in at least 3 of the slop pages I waded through in my initial search.

"The RDBMS field is so young, we can actually see it grow through the pages of computer magazines of the 1980s. BYTE Magazine had its first issue dedicated to databases in November 1981, and then another one in October 1984. Dr. Dobb’s Journal did not feature an article about databases until 1984 and did not have many more throughout the decade; actually most of them were authored by Gene Head, and talk about dBASE."

I find the @… #firefox #addon very useful: It just takes one click to archive the website you're on. It's also easy to find archived vers…

“Pivot to AI itself got hit by an AI scraper bot over the weekend! Thankfully the scoundrels who vibe-code these things are idiots.”
➡️ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/02/fighting-the-ai-scraper-bots-at-pivot-to-ai-and-rationalwiki/…

Fighting the AI scraper bots at Pivot to AI and RationalWiki
We’ve covered the AI scraper bots before. These just hit web pages over and over, at high speed, to scrape new training data for LLMs. They’re an absolute plague across the whole World Wide Web and…

Every major US city has a private foundation supporting police,
with more than 250 nationwide, according to a 2021 report by research and activist groups Little Sis and Color of Change.
The foundations have been used to pay for surveillance technologies in cities like Baltimore and Los Angeles -- without being subject to public scrutiny, according to the report.
More than a year after a digital news outlet and a research group sued the Atlanta Police Foundation for alleged…

Trésors de lames
Accordéons et bandonéons
by Laurent Jarry
French #accordion maker and collector Laurent Jarry is retiring
I recommend you order a copy of his beautiful book of accordion and bandoneon photos!
Treasury of Reeds is a massive coffee-table format vinyl album-size book with 205 colour photos spread across 350 pages
200 years of squeezebox history. …

Calamus 20 I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
What a heartaching poem of loneliness and the need for the love of another! Just wonderful. I understand now why this poem is so popular, particularly as a gay poem. It is full of meaning and is quite clear about it.
I wondered how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near—for I knew I could not
There's a more cerebral interpretation of this work, particularly if you understand "leaves" to mean "pages in my poetry book Leaves of Grass". Whitman talking about his own poetic inspiration from lovers.
Which well enough. But I'm more interested in Whitman's expressed need for "manly love". Which is clearly on his mind constantly:
my own dear friends ... I believe lately I think of little else than of them
Also Whitman's own eroticization of nature and himself. Here speaking of the tree,
its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself

And yes, some of you might know that this greenhouse (with 2 locations) is owned by the Ferragine family and they got a significant amount of free publicity via Frank Ferragine who was a host on the morning show for #CityTV in Toronto.
https://shop.bradfordgreenhouses.com/pages/about-us

The fact that most people—even the punditocracy—seem to willfully not remember who was president in 2020 explains a lot of current political discourse on numerous subjects
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:swgxwbir4rrimj57pf75jckf/post/3lrbbdbrl…

At various times Trump has invoked, and lost, both presidential immunity and Westfall immunity.
The Westfall Act says that the US is responsible for any govt employee’s tort within the scope of his/her employment.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:v

The sort of people who support Trump will be absolutely thrilled about violence against Angelinos and Californians, whether immigrants or not
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3lr2itqgits2n

stanford_web: Webgraph (Stanford)
The web graph of Stanford University (stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 281904 nodes and 2312497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/s…

Bob Vylan, Palestine Action etc - analysis from Archie Bland in Guardian
"It isn’t just that people are angry that the catastrophe in Gaza isn’t being given due attention: it is that their encounters with observable reality are being flatly denied. ...
"Those people have been told that Gaza protests are hate marches; they can see it’s not true. They have been told that US campus protesters are largely motivated by antisemitism; they can see it’s not true. They have been told that Palestine Action is a terrorist organisation because it spray painted military aircraft; they can see it’s not true. They have been repeatedly told, by Benjamin Netanyahu, that opposition to Israel’s war is antisemitic; they can see it’s not true. They have been told that the British government finds Israel’s actions “intolerable”; they can see it’s not true.
"Now they are being told that opposing the IDF is antisemitic, that the Glastonbury crowd is more virulent than the one at Nuremberg, and that direct action is a form of terrorism. They can see all that’s not true, either, and however far their view is from the front pages, they know that they are far from alone."
#BobVylan #PalestineAction #media #bias #Palestine #Gaza #Israel