Tootfinder

About “FLAMINGO” – straight from the FACTORY! Unique footage of Ukraine’s new MISSILE #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/21/about-flamingo-straight-from-the.html

Rep. Ilhan Omar asked CNN anchor and Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins if she finds slain activist Charlie Kirk’s views “reprehensible” as Collins grilled her about social media posts related to Kirk.
Omar faced an attempted censure over her posts, which included reposting a video referencing Kirk being “shot through the neck” by his own “Frankenstein monster.”
Four Republicans helped vote down the censure resolution

Dem Ilhan Omar Straight-Up Asks CNN Anchor ‘Do You Not Find Charlie Kirk’s Views Reprehensible ...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) straight-up asked CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins if she finds slain activist Charlie Kirk's views "reprehensible."

Cardinals QB Kyler Murray out vs. Packers, will miss 2nd straight game with foot injury https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cardinals-qb-kyler-murray-out-vs-packers-will-miss-2nd-straight-game-with-foot-injury…

Chip Kelly Sets Record Straight on Ashton Jeanty's Slow Start https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/chip-kelly-brock-bowers-las-vegas-washington-commanders-ashton-jeanty

Oooooooo…!
https://sfba.social/@nedraggett/115407110904008087

it's 58F/14C in the apartment rn so I went to turn the heat on for the first time since we moved in and uhhhh straight up Nothing Happened lmao
guess I'm glad they're doing a building inspection in the morning but im so cold 😭

Or worse: "Let’s be clear: no one is enjoying 3% inflation. Not if you’re struggling to stretch your paycheck. Not if you’ve lost hours, lost a job, or been forced to pick up a third one just to survive [or are on a fixed income]. The only people “enjoying” this are the ones who can sip $1,200 bottles of tequila like Lutnick bragged about just a week ago."
**Trump’s Economic Gaslighting Is Leading Us Straight Into Recession**
https://michaelpopok.substack.com/p/trumps-economic-gaslighting-is-leading

Sprint Football: Nº 52 Brandon Tauscher from Cornell's defensive line takes down Navy's Quarterback Nº 9 Rhett Sypult in Schoellkopf Field this Saturday -- Sprint football is American football with a 178 lb weight limit, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_football

Cardinals, with five straight losses, need to question everything, including the head coach https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6732134/2025/10/19/arizona-cardinals-green-bay-packers-jonathan-gannon/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Loose Change:
🎵 Straight From the Heart
#LooseChange
https://zrecords.bandcamp.com/track/straight-from-the-heart-joey-negro-straight-to-the-groove-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Q1WL9Hj1nzSvy4UtRLPgP

GDNSQ: Gradual Differentiable Noise Scale Quantization for Low-bit Neural Networks
Sergey Salishev, Ian Akhremchik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14004 https://

GDNSQ: Gradual Differentiable Noise Scale Quantization for Low-bit Neural Networks
Quantized neural networks can be viewed as a chain of noisy channels, where rounding in each layer reduces capacity as bit-width shrinks; the floating-point (FP) checkpoint sets the maximum input rate. We track capacity dynamics as the average bit-width decreases and identify resulting quantization bottlenecks by casting fine-tuning as a smooth, constrained optimization problem. Our approach employs a fully differentiable Straight-Through Estimator (STE) with learnable bit-width, noise scale an…

Sawmilling in the rain.
#Crofting
#TheJoyOfCrofting

was at a party and two people kept one-upping one another about how much they have to work, saying shit like “i have to work 6 days a week” and the other one going “well, i have to work the next 15 days straight for 8 hours a day” and i just looked at them like, my brother in christ, you are both being exploited

One of the things I love about
@… (and several other modern search engines) is the !w to go straight to the search results from Wikipedia. It's a useful way to go straight to a reliable source right from your search bar.
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/

Really wish someone would reveal what blackmail Putin has on Trump.

Even for Trump, whose motivations are entirely about personal vanity, money & racism, his Ukrainian decisions are straight up bizarre.

#ukraine #putin

"I can't imagine writing this song and not knowing it is a straight banger."
I second that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKoMveT_jo

Geometric spectral properties of electromagnetic waveguides
Philippe Briet (EPSILON), Maxence Cassier (EPSILON), Thomas Ourmi\`eres-Bonafos (I2M), Michele Zaccaron (EPSILON)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13591

Geometric spectral properties of electromagnetic waveguides
Consider a reference homogeneous and isotropic electromagnetic waveguide with a simply connected cross-section embedded in a perfect conductor. In this setting, when the waveguide is straight, the spectrum of the associated self-adjoint Maxwell operator with a constant twist (which may be zero) lies on the real line and is symmetric with respect to zero and exhibits a spectral gap around the origin. Moreover, the spectrum is purely essential, and contains 0 which is an eigenvalue of infinite mu…

I just finished listening through 1959’s US Billboard # 1s thanks to the excellent #HeardItAll app (while reading the background stories for each song and artist). It was fascinating how much variety was on display. Straight rock’n’roll, a march-song, guitar AND organ instrumentals, A Capella-inspired songs, big band musical tracks and the usual ballads and pop. Why are our charts so borin…

Follow live: Cowboys look to win second straight and keep Bears winless https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401772844/cowboys-bears

Fabulous move by Keith Urban
https://countrytown.com/news/keith-urban-tamworth-country-music-festival-launch-rising-star-scholarship/IUSfNTQ3Njk/19-08-25

Keith Urban & Tamworth Country Music Festival Launch Rising Star Scholarship
Attention all emerging Aussie country artists, this one’s for you! Keith Urban has teamed up with the Tamworth Country Music Festival to launch a life-changing scholarship that could catapult your career straight to Nashville.

Time to continue my #rail travel stories. It's a few years since I was at the seaside last, since the travel's too long for me now. Before, I used to visit Świnoujście and Kołobrzeg a few times. The route to Kołobrzeg is quite straight, whereas Świnoujście gets interesting because of Szczecin on the way there.
So over all these years, using regional Poznań – Świnoujście trains, I've made all these variations:
• a direct train that reversed on Szczecin Główny station (i.e. the main station in Szczecin)
• a direct train, except that I got off at Szczecin Dąbie to stretch my legs, and then entered the same train 40 minutes later as it stopped at the same station again
• a direct train that passed through Główny and used a roundabout track to reverse
• a direct train, except that I got off at the first stop at Szczecin Dąbie, and changed trains to "Błękitny" that went faster from Szczecin to Świnoujście
• the "Orkan" train that used the rail bypass to go straight from Szczecin Zdunowo to Szczecin Załom, and skip all the other Szczecins (except I only went as far as Goleniów back then)

Raiders report: No. 1 wide receiver misses 2nd straight practice https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-report-no-1-wide-receiver-misses-2nd-straight-practice-3508848/

Spatiotemporal Calibration for Laser Vision Sensor in Hand-eye System Based on Straight-line Constraint
Peiwen Yang, Mingquan Jiang, Xinyue Shen, Heping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12928

Spatiotemporal Calibration for Laser Vision Sensor in Hand-eye System Based on Straight-line Constraint
Laser vision sensors (LVS) are critical perception modules for industrial robots, facilitating real-time acquisition of workpiece geometric data in welding applications. However, the camera communication delay will lead to a temporal desynchronization between captured images and the robot motions. Additionally, hand-eye extrinsic parameters may vary during prolonged measurement. To address these issues, we introduce a measurement model of LVS considering the effect of the camera's time-offset a…

Joe Milton on mindset vs. Falcons, how he can raise grades of himself https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/joe-milton-on-mindset-vs-falcons-how-he-can-raise-grades-of-himself

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
VILA: But if it's wrong! If he's lying!
DAYNA: Just be ready to bring me straight back up! All right, down. [Vila operates teleport]
VILA: [To Deral] You'd better be right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/542 B7B4

‘It flew straight at them’ – how Russian drone attack on Ukrainian and French journalists unfolded: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/12/it-flew-straight-at-them.html

Startup Creative – Your Go-To Source For Straight-Up Business Advice
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

People who would never pay an iota of attention to horoscopes are asking AI to describe their personality and sharing these texts with a straight face saying it’s so spot on… 🤷

The cult vibes are strong.

Beautiful text about an ancient tree in the middle of the desert in Niger in @…
"The Museum of Memory: Part VIII. How we choose to remember: The Last Tree of The Ténéré"
Its tragic end: "Then, in 1973, a Libyan driver ran his truck straight into the tree, killing it. He was believed to be drunk. The 300-year-old tree was dead."…

The Museum of Memory: Part VIII
How we choose to remember: The Last Tree of The Ténéré

Chiefs left tackle Josh Simmons to miss second straight game due to personal reasons

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-left-tackle-josh-s…

Dutch with a camera: Angled!
Dutch with a bike: Straight up!

Photos: SFU unveils new cultural landmark with the Gibson Art Museum
https://www.straight.com/arts/photos-sfu-unveils-new-cultural-landmark-with-gibson-art-museum?ref=cascadia-journal.ghost.io#
Simo…

It feels like the world doesn't want me to have a way to cleanly filter YouTube lmao the owner of the deTube userscript straight up deleted it the other day, no one had submitted any issues and it seemed like things were going mostly smooth. Come the fuck on man.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AR/new
[1/1]:
- Extending Straight-Through Estimation for Robust Neural Networks on Analog CIM Hardware
Yuannuo Feng, Wenyong Zhou, Yuexi Lyu, Yixiang Zhang, Zhengwu Liu, Ngai Wong, Wang Kang

also in the past 24 hours what did I even eat
the last 3rd of a breakfast burrito
a pretzel
a slice of pizza
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that might be straight up it lol
extremely well hydrated tho, gotta make @… proud

DOJ to seek indictment of former Trump adviser John Bolton (Devin Pavlou/Straight Arrow News)
https://san.com/cc/doj-to-seek-indictment-of-former-trump-adviser-john-bolton/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p68#a251016p68

(New Scientist flashback, June 1991) Patents: A sound view https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13017755-100-patents-a-sound-view/ The vOICe vision BCI
"A straight, diagonal white line on a black background, will produce a tone which starts with a …

Patents: A sound view
The Dutch electronics company Philips is patenting a device which gives blind pedestrians an audible picture of the path ahead (European patent application 410 045). A simple video camera with a coarse-image sensor made up from a matrix of 64 x 64 picture points views the scene ahead. Each vertical line of the matrix is …

Jerry Jones praises Micah Parsons, tip toes around contract extension talk https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jerry-jones-praises-micah-parsons-tip-toes-around-contract-extension-talk

Raiders Get Concerning Brock Bowers Take After Loss to Commanders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/brock-bowers-concerning-take-commanders-loss/?adt_ei=[email]

Is-NeRF: In-scattering Neural Radiance Field for Blurred Images
Nan Luo, Chenglin Ye, Jiaxu Li, Gang Liu, Bo Wan, Di Wang, Lupeng Liu, Jun Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13808 …

Is-NeRF: In-scattering Neural Radiance Field for Blurred Images
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has gained significant attention for its prominent implicit 3D representation and realistic novel view synthesis capabilities. Available works unexceptionally employ straight-line volume rendering, which struggles to handle sophisticated lightpath scenarios and introduces geometric ambiguities during training, particularly evident when processing motion-blurred images. To address these challenges, this work proposes a novel deblur neural radiance field, Is-NeRF, fe…

Where to watch Broncos vs. Chargers: TV channel, live stream, prediction, pick, odds

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/where-to-watch-broncos-vs-charg…

At 9:35 PM CST tonight I saw a brilliant bolide meteor ☄️ blaze straight overhead in downtown #Nashville…right in the middle of an outdoor concert, under planes, lasers, and brutal light pollution. Nobody else noticed it🤦‍♂️, but I knew what I saw.
Luckily my friend Marc, 21 miles north of the city, with an all-sky cam, caught it crystal clear! Sharing both his original and enhanced frames…

"Mokosh," a brave new body horror film from David Cronenberg, starring Lea Seydoux as a conventionally attractive 6-figure earning straight white cis guy who slowly becomes a chopped broke plural it/its pretending to be a lynx on a dedicated mastodon fork instance of like-minded individuals

An Eulerian Perspective on Straight-Line Sampling
Panos Tsimpos, Youssef Marzouk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11657 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11657

An Eulerian Perspective on Straight-Line Sampling
We study dynamic measure transport for generative modeling: specifically, flows induced by stochastic processes that bridge a specified source and target distribution. The conditional expectation of the process' velocity defines an ODE whose flow map achieves the desired transport. We ask \emph{which processes produce straight-line flows} -- i.e., flows whose pointwise acceleration vanishes and thus are exactly integrable with a first-order method? We provide a concise PDE characterization of s…

> "a bug with our translation service took to translating from [E]nglish to [E]nglish."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/reddit-bug-caused-lesbian-subreddit-to-be-labeled-as-a-place-for-straight-wome…

Reddit bug caused lesbian subreddit to be labeled as a place for “straight” women
Users feared Reddit used generative AI to rewrite user-created content.

Where to watch Chargers vs. Broncos: TV channel, live stream, prediction, pick, odds

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/where-to-watch-broncos-vs-charg…

Italy is the first country in Europe where people launch straight into English to talk to me. Apparently I don't look at all Italian? Or they're actually nice and like speaking English unlike a certain country to the northwest.

I found this simaltaniousky very informative and extremely obvious in hindsight. It reminded me of when everything seemed a lot more straight forward. I think that I might try this out.
https://www.al3rez.com/todo-txt-journey

Long post, game design
Crungle is a game designed to be a simple test of general reasoning skills that's difficult to play by rote memory, since there are many possible rule sets, but it should be easy to play if one can understand and extrapolate from rules. The game is not necessarily fair, with the first player often having an advantage or a forced win. The game is entirely deterministic, although a variant determines the rule set randomly.
This is version 0.1, and has not yet been tested at all.
Crungle is a competitive game for two players, each of whom controls a single piece on a 3x3 grid. The cells of the grid are numbered from 1 to 9, starting at the top left and proceeding across each row and then down to the next row, so the top three cells are 1, 2, and 3 from left to right, then the next three are 4, 5, and 6 and the final row is cells 7, 8, and 9.
The two players decide who shall play as purple and who shall play as orange. Purple goes first, starting the rules phase by picking one goal rule from the table of goal rules. Next, orange picks a goal rule. These two goal rules determine the two winning conditions. Then each player, starting with orange, alternate picking a movement rule until four movement rules have been selected. During this process, at most one indirect movement rule may be selected. Finally, purple picks a starting location for orange (1-9), with 5 (the center) not allowed. Then orange picks the starting location for purple, which may not be adjacent to orange's starting position.
Alternatively, the goal rules, movement rules, and starting positions may be determined randomly, or a pre-determined ruleset may be selected.
If the ruleset makes it impossible to win, the players should agree to a draw. Either player could instead "bet" their opponent. If the opponent agrees to the bet, the opponent must demonstrate a series of moves by both players that would result in a win for either player. If they can do this, they win, but if they submit an invalid demonstration or cannot submit a demonstration, the player who "bet" wins.
Now that starting positions, movement rules, and goals have been decided, the play phase proceeds with each player taking a turn, starting with purple, until one player wins by satisfying one of the two goals, or until the players agree to a draw. Note that it's possible for both players to occupy the same space.
During each player's turn, that player identifies one of the four movement rules to use and names the square they move to using that rule, then they move their piece into that square and their turn ends. Neither player may use the same movement rule twice in a row (but it's okay to use the same rule your opponent just did unless another rule disallows that). If the movement rule a player picks moves their opponent's piece, they need to state where their opponent's piece ends up. Pieces that would move off the board instead stay in place; it's okay to select a rule that causes your piece to stay in place because of this rule. However, if a rule says "pick a square" or "move to a square" with some additional criteria, but there are no squares that meet those criteria, then that rule may not be used, and a player who picks that rule must pick a different one instead.
Any player who incorrectly states a destination for either their piece or their opponent's piece, picks an invalid square, or chooses an invalid rule has made a violation, as long as their opponent objects before selecting their next move. A player who makes at least three violations immediately forfeits and their opponent wins by default. However, if a player violates a rule but their opponent does not object before picking their next move, the stated destination(s) of the invalid move still stand, and the violation does not count. If a player objects to a valid move, their objection is ignored, and if they do this at least three times, they forfeit and their opponent wins by default.
Goal rules (each player picks one; either player can win using either chosen rule):
End your turn in the same space as your opponent three turns in a row.
End at least one turn in each of the 9 cells.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single row, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single column, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in each of cells 1, 3, 7, and 9 (the four corners of the grid).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in each of cells 2, 4, 6, and 8 (the central cells on each side).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in the cell directly above your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly below your opponent (in either order).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in the cell directly to the left of your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly to the right of your opponent (in either order).
End 12 turns in a row without ending any of them in cell 5.
End 8 turns in a row in 8 different cells.
Movement rules (each player picks two; either player may move using any of the four):
Move to any cell on the board that's diagonally adjacent to your current position.
Move to any cell on the board that's orthogonally adjacent to your current position.
Move up one cell. Also move your opponent up one cell.
Move down one cell. Also move your opponent down one cell.
Move left one cell. Also move your opponent left one cell.
Move right one cell. Also move your opponent right one cell.
Move up one cell. Move your opponent down one cell.
Move down one cell. Move your opponent up one cell.
Move left one cell. Move your opponent right one cell.
Move right one cell. Move your opponent left one cell.
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 2 or 3 to 6 or 9 to 8).
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 counter-clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 4 or 6 to 3 or 7 to 8).
Move to any square reachable from your current position by a knight's move in chess (in other words, a square that's in an adjacent column and two rows up or down, or that's in an adjacent row and two columns left or right).
Stay in the same place.
Swap places with your opponent's piece.
Move back to the position that you started at on your previous turn.
If you are on an odd-numbered square, move to any other odd-numbered square. Otherwise, move to any even-numbered square.
Move to any square in the same column as your current position.
Move to any square in the same row as your current position.
Move to any square in the same column as your opponent's position.
Move to any square in the same row as your opponent's position.
Pick a square that's neither in the same row as your piece nor in the same row as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Pick a square that's neither in the same column as your piece nor in the same column as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Move to one of the squares orthogonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to one of the squares diagonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to the square opposite your current position across the middle square, or stay in place if you're in the middle square.
Pick any square that's closer to your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers (this includes the square your opponent is in). Move to that square.
Pick any square that's further from your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers. Move to that square.
If you are on a corner square (1, 3, 7, or 9) move to any other corner square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
If you are on an edge square (2, 4, 6, or 8) move to any other edge square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
Indirect movement rules (may be chosen instead of a direct movement rule; at most one per game):
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, and in addition, your opponent may not use that rule on their next turn (nor may they select it via an indirect rule like this one).
Select two of the other three movement rules, declare them, and then move as if you had used one and then the other, applying any additional effects of both rules in order.
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, but if the move would cause your piece to move off the board, instead of staying in place move to square 5 (in the middle).
Pick one of the other three movement rules selected in your game and apply it, but move your opponent's piece instead of your own piece. If that movement rule says to move "your opponent's piece," instead apply that movement to your own piece. References to "your position" and "your opponent's position" are swapped when applying the chosen rule, as are references to "your turn" and "your opponent's turn" and do on.
#Game #GameDesign

@lolxd292@mastodon.social @…
More correctly, I simply block trolls and spammers. Please get your facts straight mate.

Cowboys Make Major Announcement About Legend as Training Camp Wraps Up https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/darren-woodson-tom-landry-award/?adt_ei=[email]

The bending of a straight line
Zonghai Li, Xiao-Jun Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01150 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01150

The bending of a straight line
In gravitational lensing, the usual viewpoint is that light bending measures how a ray deviates from a straight line in Euclidean space. In this work, we take the opposite perspective: we ask how a straight line bends in a curved space, such as optical geometry-that is, how it deviates from geodesics. Using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, we show that, at leading order, the deflection angle can be written as the integral of the geodesic curvature of a straight line in curved space. This reformulation…

The new ChatGPT-5 persona is a straight-up asshole 👍

On one hand, GPT-5 is underwhelming people. On the other, it continues the METR exponential trend, which is very impressive.
I thought that the METR trendline was suspiciously straight and probably wouldn’t last long once it had to make actual predictions (it was first published in March 2025 so most of the data points are retrospective). But so far it’s held up.

OK I'm being a bit silly here, yes. Over the years I have written many custom install scripts for myself and others in the Vivaldi team. We have a few special requirements, e.g. we often run a bunch of copies of Vivaldi side by side. In addition to the public stable and snapshot releases we do multiple builds a day (often per commit) straight from our main branch, and developers make branch builds where they work on a feature or bug, that QA and others test. Even for the public builds, a…

Thêo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926)
IN JULY, BEFORE NOON
1890
At the Radical Harmony exhibition, National Gallery, London. Which is great, btw.
#SilentSunday #Art

Scalable Training for Vector-Quantized Networks with 100% Codebook Utilization
Yifan Chang, Jie Qin, Limeng Qiao, Xiaofeng Wang, Zheng Zhu, Lin Ma, Xingang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10140

Scalable Training for Vector-Quantized Networks with 100% Codebook Utilization
Vector quantization (VQ) is a key component in discrete tokenizers for image generation, but its training is often unstable due to straight-through estimation bias, one-step-behind updates, and sparse codebook gradients, which lead to suboptimal reconstruction performance and low codebook usage. In this work, we analyze these fundamental challenges and provide a simple yet effective solution. To maintain high codebook usage in VQ networks (VQN) during learning annealing and codebook size expans…

Mike Evans injury: Buccaneers star's 1,000-yard streak is over, but can anyone else break the record?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/mike-ev

from my link log —
A convex polyhedron without Rupert's property: a copy cannot pass via a straight hole through the body.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18475
saved 2025-08-28

A convex polyhedron without Rupert's property
A three-dimensional convex body is said to have Rupert's property if its copy can be passed through a straight hole inside that body. In this work we construct a polyhedron which is provably not Rupert, thus we disprove a conjecture from 2017. We also find a polyhedron that is Rupert but not locally Rupert.

Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 20: Eleanor Catton
I was fortunate to hear Catton do a reading at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2013, and just a couple of months later she became the youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Luminaries - one of the strangest books I've ever read.
So, yay! I made it to 20 posts. Not hard actually, as there are so many fantastic

Switched to LibreWolf and all the profile pics on @… are squares lol, some of them are straight edge on one side but not on the other too, weird.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Escaflowne:
🎵 Walk Inna Straight Line Plz
#Escaflowne
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://escaflowne.bandcamp.com/track/walk-inna-straight-line-plz
https://open.spotify.com/track/4r8fE1jeixILZrui3mdxIr

Chiefs rule out receiver Xavier Worthy for Sunday night matchup vs. Giants https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6646971/2025/09/20/chiefs-xavier-worthy-out-giants/

Packers try to get first road win of season vs. Cardinals, who have dropped 4 straight tight games https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/packers-try-to-get-first-road-win-of-season-vs-cardinals-who-have-droppe…

Flow Straight and Fast in Hilbert Space: Functional Rectified Flow
Jianxin Zhang, Clayton Scott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10384 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Flow Straight and Fast in Hilbert Space: Functional Rectified Flow
Many generative models originally developed in finite-dimensional Euclidean space have functional generalizations in infinite-dimensional settings. However, the extension of rectified flow to infinite-dimensional spaces remains unexplored. In this work, we establish a rigorous functional formulation of rectified flow in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. Our approach builds upon the superposition principle for continuity equations in an infinite-dimensional space. We further show that this …

AOC is setting the record straight about the shutdown. : r/usa
https://www.reddit.com/r/usa/comments/1ny2unu/aoc_is_setting_the_record_straight_about_the/

Futuristic eye implant bypasses cornea to beam images straight to retina #Intra-

Futuristic eye implant bypasses cornea to beam images straight to retina
A tiny implant that beams images straight to the retina, bypassing a damaged cornea altogether, could give sight back to millions living with corneal blindness – no donor tissue required. Human trials may be underway in as little as two years.

this is my yearly coming out because people straight up forget that I'm bi. multiple of my closest friends just didn't know...

Baker Mayfield uses arm, legs to lead Buccaneers to second straight comeback win https://www.nfl.com/news/baker-mayfield-uses-arm-legs-to-lead-buccaneers-to-second-straight-comeback-win

I absolutely did not anticipate how jam packed an itinerary we'd have coming out to philly but it's been sick so far
but yesterday and today have been just wall to wall ACTIVITIES and im surprised my body hasn't fallen apart yet
my physical and social batteries are gonna need to be put on charge for like a straight week at least after this trip tho

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
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JD Vance just went on Foxnews and lied his face off
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going through my months-old screenshots and this motherfucker is a recurring pattern

Cowboys will look for third-straight, season-opening win https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-will-look-for-third-straight-season-opening-win

Raiders tight end to miss 2nd straight game https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-tight-end-to-miss-2nd-straight-game-3481459/

Dolphins defense setting unflattering records: Miami has now allowed 10 straight scoring drives to open season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolph…

Jared Goff-Baker Mayfield showdown, Eagles in turmoil lead NFL Week 7 storylines https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6723712/2025/10/19/nfl-week-7-jared-goff-baker-mayfield-vrabel/

Jets coach Aaron Glenn needs a Jaxson Dart … but he needs to help himself first https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6731884/2025/10/19/jets-panthers-aaron-glenn/

After the Eagles' 2nd straight loss, the NFC East is wide open https://insidethestar.com/after-the-eagles-2nd-straight-loss-the-nfc-east-is-wide-open

Colts-Chargers takeaways: Jonathan Taylor, Daniel Jones torch L.A. defense https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6731797/2025/10/19/colts-chargers-score-result-takeaways-nfl/

Notice of Privacy https://triblive.com/sports/raiders-will-be-without-tight-end-bowers-for-second-straight-game/

Pic 6: CeeDee Lamb's return, turnover battle, more news and notes from Cowboys win https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-ceedee-lamb-s-return-turnover-battle-and-more-news-and-notes-from-cowboys-win

Jared Goff-Baker Mayfield showdown, Eagles in turmoil lead NFL Week 7 storylines https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6723712/2025/10/19/nfl-week-7-jared-goff-baker-mayfield-vrabel/

Packers-Cardinals takeaways: Green Bay rallies late to stun Cardinals https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6731760/2025/10/19/packers-cardinals-score-result-takeaways-nfl/

49ers' Brock Purdy 'highly unlikely' to start Sunday vs. Cardinals https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6645330/2025/09/19/49ers-brock-purdy-injury-update-cardinals/

James Cook, 'shot out of a cannon,' powers Bills' win over Dolphins https://www.nfl.com/news/james-cook-shot-out-of-a-cannon-powers-bills-win-over-dolphins

Pro sports bettor makes best bet on Raiders-Chiefs game https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/pro-sports-bettor-makes-best-bet-on-raiders-chiefs-game-3509385/

Lamar ruled out; Ravens to roll with Rush again https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46554698/ravens-rule-qb-lamar-jackson-second-straight-week

Raiders' Bowers misses 2nd game with knee injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46554737/raiders-tight-end-brock-bowers-miss-second-straight-game

Rondale Moore injury: Vikings WR to miss second straight season after hurting knee in comeback attempt

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rondale

Eagles 4 straight tush pushes lead to touchdown vs. Giants, frustrate viewers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6705271/2025/10/09/eagles-giants-four-straight-tush-pushes/

Saquon Barkley sets record straight on relationship with Giants GM Joe Schoen, Eagles RB talks New York exit

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/saquon-…

Commanders WR McLaurin out 4th straight game https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46626684/commanders-wr-mclaurin-quad-miss-fourth-consecutive-game

Dallas Cowboys are NFL's most valuable team for sixth straight season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6551573/2025/08/13/most-valuable-nfl-teams-sportico-cowboys-rams/

Commanders' Jayden Daniels (knee) to miss second straight game; Marcus Mariota to start vs. former Falcons squad https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-jayden-daniels-knee-to-miss-second-straight-game-marcus-mari…

Ravens QB Lamar Jackson (hamstring) misses practice on Wednesday for second straight week https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-qb-lamar-jackson-misses-practice-wednesday-week-6

Steelers-Bengals on 'Thursday Night Football': What We Learned from Cincinnati's 33-31 win over Pittsburgh https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-bengals-on-thursday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-cincinna…

Niners' Brock Purdy (toe) to miss second straight game; Mac Jones (knee/oblique) questionable vs. Buccaneers https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-brock-purdy-toe-out-mac-jones-knee-oblique-questionable-vs-buccaneers

Sam Darnold is back: For the second straight year, the Seahawks QB looks like the right bet for a new team

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sam-dar…

NFL Week 7 confidence picks: Cowboys, Colts, Vikings among upset picks https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6718596/2025/10/15/nfl-week-7-confidence-picks-cowboys-colts-vikings-upsets-betting/