2025-12-08 17:59:02
📼 A unified model of memory and perception: How Hebbian learning explains our recall of past events
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-memory-perception-hebbian-recall-events.html
📼 A unified model of memory and perception: How Hebbian learning explains our recall of past events
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-memory-perception-hebbian-recall-events.html
Waymo plans to issue a voluntary software recall over how its robotaxis operate around school buses following an NHTSA investigation opened in October (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/waymo-to-issue…
Wie in „Total Recall“: Künstliche Fingernägel mit nachträglichem Farbwechsel
Auf der CES zeigt eine US-Firma künstliche Fingernägel, deren Farbe sich nachträglich und immer wieder ändern lässt. Ab Juni sollen sie ausgeliefert werden.
RE: https://social.beachcom.org/@nasa/115688325883480128
The first Soyuz landing I recall with no live view of the final minutes (due to poor weather) and no immediate announcement of touchdown in the webcast either.
#ThrowbackThursday
An old screen cap from ~2006-2007. If I recall, Snatch-2 was a toolkit that included a #DDoS component kind of like BlackEnergy maybe? popular in Russian underground forums at the time
Some remnants of the home page URL are available in the Wayback Machine.<…
Vibe coding or just normal “software engineering”? https://www.carscoops.com/2026/01/bmw-x3-steering-software-recall-2025-2026/
@… analyzed many of the Apple Weather screens. I don’t recall reading an explanation for this one.
@… you seem to misunderstand the nature of the Fediverse, where people write something and other people might, or might not, read that thing.
Serendipity.
I can''t recall how your toot became visible. That's how it is.
7 deaths, hundreds of injuries linked to faulty Abbott glucose monitor : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g-s1-101082/abbott-glucose-monitor-deaths-recall-freestyle-libre
elevated a cheese recall
I really hate to play the “age card,” folks, but back in my day (2023 and 2024), I distinctly recall that a president with apparent mental infirmities was nigh unto scandalous.
For a press so dedicated to sanewashing the Trump administration’s open sewer of corruption, the kid gloves treatment still seems the order of the day.
This week, The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire published a lengthy exegesis of the “President Trump is increasingly isolated” variety, titled “The Bubble-Wrapp…
I can't recall a new Apple OS being this 'fascinating' 😑
Windows users, is this a credible “remove all Windows 11 AI features” tool / procedure? Asking so I can give a friend a worthwhile recommendation. Thanks!
• https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
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Future Plans:
I have like ten years of data in my log, converted from those prior prototypes. I will be adding ways to more usefully compare and analyse data going this far back.
It could maybe use a milestone function, to track singular events which don't take actual time so don't spread on the grid. Snack tracking and the like.
It could likely use a flashcard system, with spaced repetition to review the flashcards, for better memory and recall.
Synching between devices might be nice, and lots will suggest doing that through Nostr, but Nostr is a bit public. Would need an encryption layer. Do nostr relays want to relay encrypted data from one user to themselves I suspect Veilid ( https://veilid.com/ ) would be a better option. The "no servers" ethos probably includes nostr relays.
Mostly I plan just more and better ways to view the ten years and growing of data I already have. And to do some other things for a bit so my log isn't just full of "Vibecoding Exocortex" like it is the last two weeks 😉
Yikes. I got this notification in the post today. I wonder how complex replacing a starter motor is?
BMW Recalls 196,000 Cars in U.S. Over Fire Risk — Starter Motor Defect
https://www.bmwblog.com/2025/09/26/bmw-recall-starter-motor-fire-risk-2025/<…
Airbus issues major A320 recall, threatening widespread global disruption (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/airbus-issues-major-a320-recall-after-flight-control-incident-2025-11-28/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p62#a251128p62
Putting aside his illegal actions to sate his greed, thirst for power & immorality, #Trump's disrespect for the military has been absolutely disgusting.
I pray he burns in hell.
▶️ I Investigated Why Trump Wants to Recall Sen. Kelly to Active Duty (ft. Sen Kelly)
Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data (Nadeem Badshah/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/
Wait... are these little icons to the left of the text new? I can't recall seeing them there before 🤔
#MacOS
In diplomatieke kringen is sprake geweest van een deal waarbij Rusland zijn gang kon gaan in Oekraine en de VS in Venezuela.
Stukje uit het verhoor van Fiona Hill in het impeachment proces in Trumps eerste termijn.
Bron: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/poli…
If Pete Hegseth follows through on his intimidation plan to recall Sen. Kelly and punish him,
𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘆’𝘀 𝗰𝗼-𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻.
Representing Captain Mark Kelly would be one of the greatest honors of my career.
And that’s after spending nearly 30 years in the Army as a JAG officer.
That service ended earlier than I intended, when Trump and Pete Hegseth purged senior legal officers who refused to politicize the military.
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#OTD in 1993 I recall I caught Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys with the BarnStompers from Holland at an after hours warehouse party decorated with haybales at 21st an Harrison in SF. I recall the door man was a sketchy white supremacist redneck, who objected to letting in a person of color I came with.... The more things change, the more things do stay the same in this country.
Tesla is recalling over 10,000 Powerwall 2 batteries due to burn risks https://www.theverge.com/news/820123/tesla-recall-uscpsc-powerwall-2-batteries-overheat-fire-burn-hazard
When I see people arguing that fireworks are fine because it's "tradition" and "just one day a year" (yeah, sure), I feel like asking: if shooting people were a "tradition" and happened only "one day a year", would that be okay too? But then I recall that hunters do precisely that, and apparently "we can't" impose stricter regulations on them.
#Poland
There are a lot of trade-offs with fossil fuel use that we definitely don't discuss enough. #PiperAlpha was the really big one I recall as a kid, but it was just the latest in a whole succession of oil platform accidents that cost a lot of lives and suffering in the North Sea. And then there was #DeepWaterHorizon.
And that's quite apart from the climate costs.
You wonder how many of these happen that we don't hear about too.
This is a good reminder.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/28/the-piper-alpha-oil-rig-exploded-and-collapsed-and-i-made-a-desperate-175ft-jump-into-the-sea
Is there any place at #39c3 that has a microwave for heating up food? I recall from past events that the Angel restaurant provided some, but that seems no longer to be the case. Now i brought homemade food and can't heat it up :/ @…
The strangest Xmas present I ever got was a full on drum kit when I was 5. Can’t imagine what my parents were thinking on that one. As I recall it didn’t last long. I am not blessed with any sense of rhythm.
When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.
If you have a Freestyle Libre blood glucose meter PLEASE CHECK HERE as they’re having a recall due to dangerous FALSE READINGS
https://www.freestylecheck.com/us-en/home.html
41K bottles of Walgreens nasal spray recalled over bacterial contamination concern: FDA (Ben Mitchell/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/business/5620993-walgreens-nasal-spray-recall-contamination/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p39#a251125p39
"secret war" isn't a thing. It's not like you can keep public bombing executions quiet between just you and few co-conspirators.
https://journa.host/@theintercept/115429545371107143
Medicare agency recalling thousands of furloughed staffers for open enrollment https://ground.news/article/cms-recalls-nearly-3-000-employees-to-manage-open-enrollment-amid-shutdown
#Neutrogena Recalls Bacterially Contaminated Facial Wipes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/business/ne…
Lead tastes sweet, which is why kids eat paint chips...
Cinnamon recall: FDA warns 16 brands have elevated lead levels
https://thehill.com/business/5555369-fda-cinnamon-recall-lead/
Dream to Recall: Imagination-Guided Experience Retrieval for Memory-Persistent Vision-and-Language Navigation
Yunzhe Xu, Yiyuan Pan, Zhe Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08553 htt…
Raiders fans on Trevon Diggs signing scenario: “DeAngelo Hall all over again” https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/30/raiders-fans-on-trevon-diggs-signing-scenario-deangelo-hall-all-over-again/
Attention diabetics using the Freestyle Libre 3/3 Plus: Abbott has issued a recall on sensors that are reporting false low glucose readings.
I know I used faulty sensors in the past & found 2 more unopened sensors in my stash that were verified as faulty.) See image.
☑️ URGENT MEDICAL DEVICE CORRECTION - FreeStyle Libre 3/3 Plus | FreeStyle - Abbott
Every once in a while, I bike through Rosedale or Forest Hill and recall that wealth stratification in #Toronto is even greater than it seems most elsewhere. If the perpetually broke city raised property taxes by only a percent or two on only these and a few other postal codes, it'd have more money than it'd know what to do with and the residents of those areas wouldn't even notice.
RADAR: Mechanistic Pathways for Detecting Data Contamination in LLM Evaluation
Ashish Kattamuri, Harshwardhan Fartale, Arpita Vats, Rahul Raja, Ishita Prasad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08931
The most beautiful democratic act happening right now in Canada is in Alberta, yes Alberta, where constituents are using the new - easier to reach - petitioning and recall rules enacted by the current UCP government to launch recall campaigns on UCP Members of the Legislature.
This is the 3rd one to be approved to move on to the signature-gathering stage!
*chefskiss*
#ABPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Democracy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/nolan-dyck-recall-petition-9.6988293?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
@… Also, take note of your address and phone number somewhere.
It has been surprisingly common for me to need to provide lists of all addresses I’ve had in the past X years, and dig through geotagged photos of old apartments to recall the addresses.
This is not the first time for #Microsoft #DNS-related problems. As I recall, the first one I remember from 2001 had something to do with their authoritative name servers residing on the same IP4 /24 that had an access or availability problem.
It was a rookie mistake even then, and they were …
»Windows 11—Neues Tool verspricht komplett KI-freies Betriebssystem:
#Microsoft integriert zunehmend künstliche Intelligenz in #Windows 11, doch nicht jeder Nutzer möchte #Copilot,
'Such a fairy-tale ending': Inside Brandon Graham's final, turbulent, triumphant season as an Eagle https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44414635/inside-brandon-graham-final-season-phildelphia-eagles
I'm built different. built so different in fact the manufacturer had to issue a recall
Mass Recall of U.S. Ambassadors Leaves Unprecedented Global Vacancies (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/mass-recall-of-u-s-ambassadors-leaves-unprecedented-global-vacancies-b031a9ac
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p108#a251222p108
Tesla is recalling over 10,000 Powerwall 2 batteries due to burn risks https://www.theverge.com/news/820123/tesla-recall-uscpsc-powerwall-2-batteries-overheat-fire-burn-hazard
Great work, 'DOGE.' Very well done.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/cdc-2-infants-hospitalized-botulism-outbreak-byheart-expands/story?id=127417947
Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
BLAKE: [Indicates bracelet] Presumably these are part of the recall system. This looks like a communicator. [into the bracelet] Hello. Testing. One. Two. Three. [to Avon] Seems to work all right.
AVON: Tuned to transmit directly to the ship. Let's ask the computer how the system works.
https://
Lecture Notes on Verifying Graph Neural Networks
Fran\c{c}ois Schwarzentruber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11617 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11617
The Food and Drug Administration rarely uses its authority to pull dangerous medical devices off the market
and is so poorly staffed that it’s sometimes unable to make sure companies are taking critical steps to protect patients during health emergencies,
according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
The inquiry by the congressional watchdog was requested nearly two years ago by top members of the Senate
in the wake of an investigation about the 2…
The strength of AI content from its corpus of training data. If I had the recall of these mega models I'd be able to seem smart as well. There are things LLM's are good at but so far as I've seen "original thought" is not one of them.
Deformation Theory of Galois Representations and the Taylor--Wiles Method
Ehsan Shahoseini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12202 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.1220…
What do people think about mattresses?
Innerspring? Foam? Some kinda hybrid?
I'm not doing water again. I don't recall ever sleeping on a foam one.
#mattress
Network Traffic as a Scalable Ethnographic Lens for Understanding University Students' AI Tool Practices
Donghan Hu, Rameen Mahmood, Annabelle David, Danny Yuxing Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09763
"Nine members of Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party caucus are facing recall petitions — enough to potentially tip the balance of power in the legislature.”
Imagine... IMAGINE... if the a majority-government in Canada lost their majority through recalls. Epic.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ABPoli #Democracy
https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/six-more-alberta-government-mlas-face-recall-petitions/
I've never seen Total Recall (I was 10 when it was released). I'm going to fix that now!
FDA warns major retailers over recalled baby formula sales (Max Rego/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5651675-infant-formula-recall-fda-compliance/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p135#a251216p135
Do you recall the good old days, back when the worst embarrassment you could witness was someone booting up a laptop in a train, and being greeted by the Windows startup chime?
Nowadays we have to suffer a whole spectrum, from the embarrassment of people taking photos with their "shutter" sound enabled and hitting random advertisements on full volume, to the absolute rudeness of watching random stuff or playing music on their speaker.
Not to mention all the annoying, loud ringtones and notification sounds, repeated far too often. Or people who don't want to pick up their phone, but they won't bother silencing it either.
🌟 Astrocytes are superstars in the game of long-term memory
#memory
Detect Anything via Next Point Prediction
Qing Jiang, Junan Huo, Xingyu Chen, Yuda Xiong, Zhaoyang Zeng, Yihao Chen, Tianhe Ren, Junzhi Yu, Lei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12798
As a legal journalist covering the Justice Department,
I had never encountered anything quite like my exchange with Lindsey Halligan. Neither had my editor.
Over the last several days, he and I spoke with multiple former federal officials and journalists who cover the justice system.
None could recall a similar instance in which a sitting U.S. attorney reached out to chastise a reporter about matters concerning grand jury testimony in an active case.
After I reach…
Eagles' A.J. Brown: 'I don't recall' meeting with Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6706567/2025/10/10/a-j-brown-jalen-hurts-saquon-barkley-meeting/
Conjectural Positivity for Pontryagin Product in Equivariant K-theory of Loop Groups
Shrawan Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07689 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…
“Recalls are meant to address breaches of trust, serious misconduct, or a sustained failure to represent constituents, not political disagreements”
I mean... sure she's right. You really shouldn't use a recall petition just because you don't like the result of a vote.
But when there are *20 recall petitions* for government MLAs, perhaps it is time, as a government to look into ways you might be going wrong?
#CanPoli #ABPoli #CdnPoli #Democracy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-recall-petition-approved-9.7001541
#RIP Thommy Price a real rawk drummer extraordinaire... I saw him play live many times with Joan Jett, whom he worked with for 3 decades... but also recall first seeing the Brooklyn bred beast in person strutting around the San Diego Hilton before his arena gig nearby with Billy Idol in tow back in the mid 80s on the glam punk icon's peak Rebel Yell tour...he also did stints with Mink DeVille, Robert Gordo…
Yesterday and tomorrow 50 years ago #OTD German TV viewers saw the premiere of an extraordinary nature documentary in two parts: #spiders by #HorstStern was a towering triumph in #TV nature #documentaries, and I still recall being blown away seeing it back then.
Remember the package that recently had some trailing junk in the .tar.gz that broke GNU tar, and replied to my bug report with a comprehensive #LLM analysis and a slightly sloppy release checking workflow?
They've made a new release and this time the source distribution is completely broken gzip stream.
Honestly, bumping #Python packages for #Gentoo all these years, I don't recall ever seeing a problem with gzip streams. And then, #autobahn starts using #ClaudeCode heavily, and two bad releases in a row. I can't help but consider the project compromised at this point.
#NoAI #AI