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🤯 Brain activity goes to extremes in soccer fans, neuroimaging reveals
#sports

Brain activity goes to extremes in soccer fans, neuroimaging reveals
Studying brain patterns in soccer fans, researchers found that certain circuit regions of the brain were activated while viewing soccer matches involving their favorite team, triggering positive and negative emotions and behaviors, according to a new study published in Radiology. The researchers say these patterns could apply to other types of fanaticism as well, and that the circuits are forged early in life.

A survey by the News Literacy Project of US 13- to 18-year-olds shows 84% use negative words including "boring", "fake", or "biased" to describe news media (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/news-media-

Survey shows how much teenagers dislike the news media
You don't have to tell Cat Murphy or Lily Ogburn about the attitudes of young people toward journalists. The profession hasn't been popular among adults for many years, but a new survey shows the extent to which teens aged 13 to 18 feel the same way; Murphy and Ogburn have seen it for years among their friends who wonder why they want to go into the field. Experts say it's a combination of their surroundings, including the most prominent politician they have known — Donald Trump — who frequ…

Bills QB Allen aggravates foot; X-rays negative https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47440741/bills-josh-allen-aggravates-foot-injury-x-rays-negative

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Type O Negative:
🎵 Red Water (Christmas Mourning)
#TypeONegative
https://ypresband.bandcamp.com/track/red-water-christmas-mourning-type-o-negative-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Z8SIHKpQvtP8nBkjH3lIo

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

It seems likely that Justice Alito’s past recusals may have been motivated in part by the negative attention he was receiving at the time for his previous conflicts of interest.
So we must keep making as much of a racket as we possibly can on this.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115628249866259307

Interviews with 100 therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/chatgpt-delusions-psychosis.html
…

How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them.
Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits.

Whoo. No hackfluenza, so far #39c3

Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/please-dont-say-mean-things-about-the-ai-that-i-just-invested-a-billi…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
TARRANT: Thanks to Orac it sounds as if the Liberator is still intact. A trip to Xaranar wouldn't take too long.
GROFF: Escape is impossible. While the energy isolators are on, your handguns won't work and it is not possible to put the gravity generator into the negative field mode.

i gave my son-in-law a battery daddy (fully populated), a scrub daddy set, and a gift certificate to fat daddy
#BatteryDaddy #ScrubDaddy #FatDaddy

Good morning with the Negative Neutron remix of Syntagma — ethereal with sweeping bass, loose beats and only fully taking off after 3 mins, then flying high (and low), diffusing into layers upon layers...
Syntagma (Negative Neutron Remix, 2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2kGyUmL8kg…

#Highguard gets a 10/10.
It doesn't work on #Linux due to kernel-level anti-cheat.
Anyway, it's getting 'Overwhelmingly Negative' reviews on Steam for being a 3v3 competitive shooter with nothing new that other games already do better.

AdImpact: Meta spent $6.4M in November and December 2025 to run TV ads in eight US state capitals and DC, aiming to change negative opinions about data centers (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technol…

Meta Campaigns to Change Opinions on Data Centers
The tech giant has spent more than $6 million on TV ads in state capitals and Washington, with the message that data centers create jobs.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/115349815858331086
Adding a negative price component to a network tariff can be an interesting and non-discriminatory way of rewarding grid-friendly (in German: 'netzdienlich', in Dutch: 'netbewust&#…

I've tested #Moshidon Android Mastodon client for a week, coming from #Tusky.
positive:
- better use of screen estate
- I saw the list of pendig "follow requests" for first time 😲 I didn't notice via Web interface nor Tusky.
negative:
- doesn't reliably remem…

I consider Peter #Thiel to be a power-hungry and ruthless egomaniac with a religious streak, which he tactically brings to the fore in order to hide his true character. Thiel himself is a great danger to peace and freedom and to a future in which all people and all of creation can participate.
Thiel is a negative #monomaniac

Study of a wideband high data rate implantable antenna for cortical visual prosthesis #BCI

»Seit wir einen AI-Agenten an unserer Hotline haben, gibt es kaum mehr negative Rückmeldungen zu unserer Hotline.« – Guess what: weil kaum jemand die Geduld mitbringt, diesem schlecht funktionierendem KI-Agenten die Probleme mit diesem Agenten zu erklären. Looking at you, e.on. #uxfromhell

Until trials can prove a negative, we can't really use science to suggest anything about the effectiveness of medicine or the causes of disease.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/rfk-jr-s-loathesome-edits-cdc-websit…

RFK Jr.’s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism
The site previously correctly noted that studies have repeatedly found no link.

Natural transformations between braiding functors in the Fukaya category
Yujin Tong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10462 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10462 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10462
arXiv:2511.10462v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the space of $A_\infty$-natural transformations between braiding functors acting on the Fukaya category associated to the Coulomb branch $\mathcal{M}(\bullet,1)$ of the $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ quiver gauge theory. We compute all cohomologically distinct $A_\infty$-natural transformations $\mathrm{Nat}(\mathrm{id}, \mathrm{id})$ and $\mathrm{Nat}(\mathrm{id}, \beta_i^-)$, where $\beta_i^-$ denotes the negative braiding functor. Our computation is carried out in a diagrammatic framework compatible with the established embedding of the KLRW category into this Fukaya category. We then compute the Hochschild cohomology of the Fukaya category using an explicit projective resolution of the diagonal bimodule obtained via the Chouhy-Solotar reduction system, and use this to classify all cohomologically distinct natural transformations. These results determine the higher $A_\infty$-data encoded in the braiding functors and their natural transformations, and provide the first step toward a categorical formulation of braid cobordism actions on Fukaya categories.
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The Age-Structured Chemostat with Substrate Dynamics as a Control System
Iasson Karafyllis, Dionysis Theodosis, Miroslav Krstic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09963 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09963 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.09963
arXiv:2511.09963v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this work we study an age-structured chemostat model with a renewal boundary condition and a coupled substrate equation. The model is nonlinear and consists of a hyperbolic partial differential equation and an ordinary differential equation with nonlinear, nonlocal terms appearing both in the ordinary differential equation and the boundary condition. Both differential equations contain a non-negative control input, while the states of the model are required to be positive. Under an appropriate weak solution framework, we determine the state space and the input space for this model. We prove global existence and uniqueness of solutions for all admissible initial conditions and all allowable control inputs. To this purpose we employ a combination of Banach's fixed-point theorem with implicit solution formulas and useful solution estimates. Finally, we show that the age-structured chemostat model gives a well-defined control system on a metric space.
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first ballot vote! (required at all non leadership conventions)
"should a leadership election be called"
I sense a positively negative response ;)
#bcndp #bcpoli

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Negative Blast:
🎵 Futurerock
#NegativeBlast
https://negativeblast.bandcamp.com/track/futurerock
https://open.spotify.com/track/3U1dhVy4sQMHdmLy6uoBeg

Sie meinen?
"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang…would really appreciate it if you would stop talking about the potential harms of the technology that’s supercharged his fortune."
https://gizmodo.com/jensen-huang-is-begging-you-to-stop-being-…

Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes
Nature (2025)
#teamresopal

Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes - Nature
Glitches in video calls can have a negative effect on the judgement of the people involved and correspond to worse outcomes in major areas of life such as job interviews and parole hearings.

#Google's review system has become a pure joke!
Whenever you say anything negative, whether on Google Maps or the Play Store, your review gets blocked or hidden... what a joke 🤦 🙄
W - T - F
#wtf

⚡ Letting EVs take a load off the grid could result in 'negative emissions' while saving drivers money
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-evs-grid-result-negative-emissions.html

Letting EVs take a load off the grid could result in 'negative emissions' while saving drivers money
Letting electric vehicles strategically charge from and discharge to the grid could spark environmental and public health benefits for Americans, according to a new study from the University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University. The findings are published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

A spate of unforced errors by Bari Weiss has kept scrutiny high on CBS News, as Paramount tries to acquire WBD and can ill afford negative attention (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bari-weiss-cbs-news-gaffes-paramount-w…

Bari Weiss' CBS News Gaffes Pile Up as Paramount Tries to Woo Warner
Bari Weiss continues to make unorthodox maneuvers at CBS News that undermine the news division. Could they hurt Paramount's quest to buy Warner?

The solar PV story is pretty incredible. China's long term strategic plan (with all the negative things that went with it) is bearing amazing fruit that's changing the economic proposition around the world, especially in the poorer (colonised) global South: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8JFCJP70rg…

Prepping a digital negative of one of my old generative art projects (from 2008) for #Kallitype printing tomorrow. The form is actually _not_ 3D, but merely the time trace of a 2D physics sim of a single line (over hundreds of frames) and using spatial velocity deltas as metric for creating faux shading...

In Wisconsin, Alithic is transforming waste into a sustainable future as they develop carbon-negative cement from pollution, significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the construction industry.
https://www.enn.com/articles/7745…

This morning, Discord released a survey about #AI. Only a few hours later, the survey suddenly closed. Judging by the responses shared publicly by users — the feedback was uniformly negative.
The question is: will Discord respect the results, or will the surveys continue until morale improves?
#userresearch

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
AVON: Has anybody else picked it up?
ZEN: Negative. [More beeps come in]
AVON: Decode.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/530 B7B3

Das große Interview - Wie ging’s Ihnen im SOS-Kinderdorf, Frau Hruska? #News #Nachrichten

#replyGuys Handbook

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
AVON: Is there any weaponry activity of any kind registering on Obsidian?
ZEN: Negative.
AVON: None whatsoever? Run the scan again.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/352 B7B2

Shares of Broadcom, CoreWeave, and Oracle, companies tied to the AI infrastructure buildout, extend last week's decline; ORCL is down 46% since September 10 (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/15/ai-infrastructure-…

AI infrastructure selloff continues on Wall Street as Broadcom, Oracle shares slide
In at least one corner of the AI market, sentiment has turned decidedly negative.

Guardian: Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/27/face-transplant-patients-results-outcomes "negative data is often buried, driven by funding battles and inst…

A "negative" route to pair density wave order
Hao-Xin Wang, Yi-Jian Hu, Wen Huang, Hong Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06100 https://arxiv.org/pd…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Nirvana:
🎵 Negative Creep
#Nirvana
https://vacancyuk.bandcamp.com/track/nirvana-negative-creep-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5IeTFRymTDiza7DciBD1Gk

Photodetachment energy of negative hydrogen ions
Maen Salman, Jean-Philippe Karr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04341 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.04341

Sources: Bari Weiss has privately been deeply frustrated by the negative reaction to her CBS tenure and has blamed subordinates for not stanching the criticism (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/business/media/cbs-evening-news-bari-weiss.ht…

‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS
Her reimagining of “CBS Evening News” is under heavy scrutiny, and even became a punchline on her own network on Sunday at the Golden Globes.

A first for Germany: a 37.4 MWp solar PV plant has been approved to deliver aFRR. This will help balance the grid by curtailing during periods of surplus supply, and by providing upwards power during periods of negative prices when the plant is already curtailed.
https://www.

Germany's first PV plant prequalified for secondary control power (aFRR) | Entelios - We are moving Energy
Entelios, Sunnic & 50Hertz prequalify Germany’s first PV plant for aFRR – milestone for flexible renewable grid stability.

🫥 Social media use drives distrust among Gen Z teenage girls
#trust

Social media use drives distrust among Gen Z teenage girls
Social media use in adolescence is linked to delayed bedtimes, negative self-image and, especially among teenage girls, greater distrust, a new UCL study shows.

India-listed RRP Semiconductor's stock surged 55,000% in the 20 months through Dec. 17, despite negative revenue; source: India's SEBI is examining the surge (Chiranjivi Chakraborty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

#Anime vom inzwischen letzten Jahr noch abgeschlossen: "Uglymug, Epicfighter".
Der Protagonist (und viele andere um ihn herum) gelangt durch eine Website in eine andere Welt. Seine Eigenschaften legt er auf der Seite wie in einem Rollenspiel fest - nur dass er sein Aussehen auf extrem hässlich einstellt und in den Anmerkungen weitere negative Eigenschaften, und so als "Ausgleich…

Steelers fans donating to Ravens kicker Tyler Loop's cause following his missed field goal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-f…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
AVON: Zen, any sign of Federation pursuit ships on the main detectors?
ZEN: Negative.
AVON: Any activity whatever?
ZEN: There is no activity on the main detectors.
AVON: What about the extra-range detector?

This sentiment expressed by @… below and the aspect of slowing down is also very much part of my own reasoning for getting back into analog print making. The other large part is the conceptual overlap with (and my love of) process-based art in general. It was exactly that what has drawn me to generative/algorithmic/procedural/kinetic approaches/concepts for most of my l…

Christopher Cookson (@figwit@pixelfed.nz)
Another hand coloured #cyanotype, this time of kōwhai flowers. I'm not sure whether this counts as #fineart or #adultcolouring but it is definitely a unique reproduction of one of my photos. What really draws me to this #altprocess for #photography reproduction is that it takes time, and even though I can produce multiple prints from the same negative, each one will be visibly unique. In an age where billions of photos are taken but most will never leave a digital device, slowing down and impo…

🎉 How FOSS Won and Why It Matters
#software

Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-economic-research-team-ai-jobs/

OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
BLAKE: Come on, come on.
VILA: They won't fire. The fail-safes keep cutting in.
BLAKE: Override them.
CALLY: Twenty seconds.
VILA: The whole system is locked into negative.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/105 B7B5

📺 Youth screen use can cause family conflict, exacerbate mental health problems
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-youth-screen-family-conflict-exacerbate.html

Youth screen use can cause family conflict, exacerbate mental health problems
The presence of cellphones can have a negative impact on family relationships and youth mental health, according to two new studies from the University of Georgia.

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
[Ultra 2 Negative response.]
ULTRA 1: Operate primary fail-safe terminals.
ULTRA 3: Confirmed.
[Tarrant retrieves the memory tubes and leaves the control room.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/592 B7B6