Tootfinder

@… I'm neither religious, nor in the US, but AMEN.
#amen #agnostic

just released liboprf-0.9.3
liboprf is a library implementing the OPRF from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9497.html and in addition it also provides a threshold variant (tOPRF) and a distributed key generation (DKG) protocol for the tOPRF shared secret, as well as a key update protocol fo…

I keep coming back to the mirror dualities of the oppressed and oppressor under authoritarianism.
The oppressed is portrayed as both weak and godlike. The stereotypes are always some variation on sloth and incompetence, but yet somehow also a menace capable of destroying the "pure" society. To use the most relevant current example, Antifa being both little femme soy boys who would always get beat up by "real men" while also being an international terrorist organization on the brink of overthrowing the US government, the unarmed presence of whom makes the heavily armed agents of ICE flee for their lives. Antifa is both having absolutely no impact on ICE, and also having such an impact on ICE that the military needs to come in to protect them. The contradiction is obvious but never seems to occur to those who hold both to be true at the same time.
But few talk about the duality of the oppressor. The sovereign throughout history has always been both a ruler above the law, sometimes even the representative or incarnation of a divine force. Yet, this same superhuman/god-man is also a baby who needs constant care. This is absolutely a through line from the very earliest records of sovereign cults to modern cult leaders, CEOs, and Trump today. Power, for these people, is expressed both as the ability to force others to enact their will and in the ability to compel others to care for them. Can any of these "men" cook? Can they fix anything themselves? They are driven everywhere, cooked for all the time, constantly protected from danger. Kings are still dressed, at least for rituals. I could dissect masculinity here, but that's a whole thing.
It is as though the drive to care for our children, who must be taught to behave within acceptable norms, is hijacked by "leaders" who demand our care and attention... even at the expense of our literal children. And recently we've seen some of those very CEOs, with LLMs and return to office demands, show that their judgment is also little better than children, making decisions while pretending to understand a subject.
The oppressed are portrayed as both god-like and impotent and are, in fact, neither. Meanwhile the rulers portray themselves only as invulnerable and are, in fact, childish in their ability to survive without constant support. Their greatest fear from the collapse of society is figuring out how to make sure people keep taking care of them.
It just keeps rattling around in my head.
#USPol

Wise words on the Hickel-Liegey/Nelson debate.
Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth | degrowth.info
https://degrowth.info/en/blog/neither-the-either-nor-the-or-for-a-sideways-degrowth

Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth
Here we are again: a position in the degrowth movement becomes apparent, strong, almost dominant, and the other side responds, feeling misrepresented. And in reacting, it inevitably ends up claiming to be the herald of the “true Degrowth” and rejecting the contribution of the other side.

Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???)
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist.
Fighting with PMs over who "gets" to do strategy (usually: neither of you) won't help you. Lean into the core #design

Without UX governance, your app turns to "sludge"
Break out of the feature delivery mindset and attend to the architecture and maintenance of the product.

On definability of C*-tensor norms
Isaac Goldbring, Thomas Sinclair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15086 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15086

On definability of C*-tensor norms
We initiate the study of definability (in the model-theoretic sense) of C*-tensor norms. We show that neither the minimal nor maximal tensor norms are definable uniformly over all C*-algebras. The proof in the case of the minimal tensor product norm uses a deep theorem of Kirchberg characterizing exactness in terms of tensor products with matrix ultraproducts while the case of maximal tensor products uses Pisier's recent characterization of the lifting property in terms of maximal tensor produc…

The Senate rejected dueling short-term government funding proposals Friday afternoon,
🔥leaving no clear off-ramp before the fiscal year ends and agencies shut down at midnight Sept. 30.
Despite the looming cliff, neither side appears ready to blink, and
💥lawmakers are set to spend at least the next nine days back home.
House Republicans are not set to return until after a shutdown is already underway, and the Senate is unlikely to vote again until less than 48 hours …

Cloudflare is pulling a us-east-1. I guess Twitter sits behind Cloudflare now because it appears to be offline.
Nice thing about phpc.social is we touch neither AWS nor Cloudflare for core services, so we're still up.
Wish I could say the same for some stuff at my day job.

Why Cowboys' CeeDee Lamb, George Pickens missed first drive on 'MNF' vs Raiders in Week 11 https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/11/17/ceedee-lamb-george-pickens-cowboys-raiders/87328406007/

Love how eBay descriptions are often “AI” generated now
(This disk drive is neither black nor for ThinkPads, and wtf is a “unit-type” product?)

Just finished "Beasts Made of Night" by Tochi Onyebuchi...
Indirect CW for fantasy police state violence.
So I very much enjoyed Onyebuchi's "Riot Baby," and when I grabbed this at the library, I was certain it would be excellent. But having finished it, I'm not sure I like it that much overall?
The first maybe third is excellent, including the world-building, which is fascinating. I feel like Onyebuchi must have played "Shadow of the Colossus" at some point. Onyebuchi certainly does know how to make me care for his characters.
Some spoilers from here on out...
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I felt like it stumbles towards the middle, with Bo's reactions neither making sense in the immediate context, nor in retrospect by the end when we've learned more. Things are a bit floaty in the middle with an unclear picture of what exactly is going on politics-wise and what the motivations are. Here I think there were some nuances that didn't make it to the page, or perhaps I'm just a bit thick and not getting stuff I should be? More is of course revealed by the end, but I still wasn't satisfied with the explanations of things. For example, (spoilers) I don't feel I understand clearly what kind of power the army of aki was supposed to represent within the city? Perhaps necessary to wield the threat of offensive inisisia use? In that case, a single scene somewhere of Izu's faction deploying that tactic would have been helpful I think.
Then towards the end, for me things really started to jumble, with unclear motivations, revelations that didn't feel well-paced or -structured, and a finale where both the action & collapsing concerns felt stilted and disjointed. Particularly the mechanics/ethics of the most important death that set the finale in motion bothered me, and the unexplained mechanism by which that led to what came next? I can read a couple of possible interesting morals into the whole denouement, but didn't feel that any of them were sufficiently explored. Especially if we're supposed to see some personal failing in the protagonist's actions, I don't think it's made clear enough what that is, since I feel his reasons to reject each faction are pretty solid, and if we're meant to either pity or abjure his indecision, I don't think the message lands clearly enough.
There *is* a sequel, which honestly I wasn't sure of after the last page, and which I now very interested in. Beasts is Onyebuchi's debut, which maybe makes sense of me feeling that Riot Baby didn't have the same plotting issues. It also maybe means that Onyebuchi couldn't be sure a sequel would make it to publication in terms of setting up the ending.
Overall I really enjoyed at least 80% of this, but was expecting even better (especially politically) given Onyebuchi's other work, and I didn't feel like I found it.
#AmReading

This week's pickups! Dino Crisis (in space) and Sudeki on OG Xbox. Played neither of these. Reviews seem positive. Tenchu on PS2 because it had a memory card inside the box, bonus. On PS1 we have Twisted Metal 2, original XCOM (I played the DOS version), and the fantastic Raiden Project shmup! #retrogaming

Search is Dead.
Really, this should not have taken two hours across oodles of prompts using four different search engines, but every one of those prompts was deconstructed into syllables to match anything even remotely thesaurused, regardless of details provided, regardless quote marks, minus or plus signs. "Malcolm Strauss"? oh, you mean RICHARD! No, fuck you bot, and Diana Allen is neither Rita Hayworth or Woody Allen and 1923 is not 1945 and a 2006 is unlikely to be SILENT, and this shouldn't take two hours before, finally, only Google would find this mention with the key phrase "presumed lost".
Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List
https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/Salome1923.html

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.
You are not obligated to complete the work,
but neither are you free to abandon it.”
https://amandalitman.substack.com/p/50-things-you-can-actually-do

50 things you can actually do
If you're feeling helpless

Lurie admin "blamed the plan to stall housing at 101 Hyde on the state’s designation of the Tenderloin as a low-resourced area, which puts it down on the priority list for state funding."
SF has the third most billionaires of any city in the world. One of them is our mayor. Not having funds for affordable housing is a choice.

Plans for affordable housing at shuttered S.F. food hall site stuck in limbo 
La Cocina’s space in the Tenderloin was pitched as a community hub with cheap eats, and eventually affordable housing. Neither is happening.

Raiders aren’t winning games or developing rookies in Carroll’s 1st season https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-arent-winning-games-or-developing-rookies-in-carrolls-1st-season-3583072/

FLAMMABLE: A Multi-Model Federated Learning Framework with Multi-Model Engagement and Adaptive Batch Sizes
Shouxu Lin, Zimeng Pan, Yuhang Yao, Haeyoung Noh, Pei Zhang, Carlee Joe-Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10380

FLAMMABLE: A Multi-Model Federated Learning Framework with Multi-Model Engagement and Adaptive Batch Sizes
Multi-Model Federated Learning (MMFL) is an emerging direction in Federated Learning (FL) where multiple models are trained in parallel, generally on various datasets. Optimizing the models' accuracies and training times in the MMFL setting requires adapting to data and system heterogeneity across clients as in single-model FL; these challenges are amplified in the MMFL setting due to additional heterogeneity across models. Neither existing solutions nor naïve extensions of single-model FL fra…

2025 NFL RB Rankings (updated): Cam Skattebo over Saquon Barkley, but neither cracks top 10 https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-season-running-back-rankings-top-15-cam-skattebo-saquon-barkley

"""
Traditional politics of assistance and the repression of unemployment were now called into question. The need for reform became urgent.
Poverty was gradually separated from the old moral confusions. Economic crises had shown that unemployment could not be confused with indolence, as indigence and enforced idleness spread throughout the countryside, to precisely the places that had previously been considered home to the purest and most immediate forms of moral life. This demonstrated that poverty did not solely fall under the order of the fault: ‘Begging is the fruit of poverty, which in turn is the consequence of accidents in the production of the earth or in the output of factories, of a rise in the price of basic foodstuffs, or of growth of the population, etc.’ Indigence became a matter of economics.
But it was not contingent, nor was it destined to be suppressed forever. There would always be a certain quantity of poverty that could never be effaced, a sort of fatal indigence that would accompany all forms of society until the end of time, even in places where all the idle were employed: ‘The only paupers in a well governed state must be those born in indigence, or those who fall into it by accident.’ This backdrop of poverty was somehow inalienable: whether by birth or accident, it formed an inevitable part of society. The state of lack was so firmly entrenched in the destiny of man and the structure of society that for a long time the idea of a state without paupers remained inconceivable: in the thought of philosophers, property, work and indigence were terms linked right up until the nineteenth century.
This portion of poverty was necessary because it could not be suppressed; but it was equally necessary in that it made wealth possible. Because they worked but consumed little, a class of people in need allowed a nation to become rich, to release the value of its fields, colonies and mines, making products that could be sold throughout the world. An impoverished people, in short, was a people that had no poor. Indigence became an indispensable element in the state. It hid the secret but most real life of society. The poor were the seat and the glory of nations. And their noble misery, for which there was no cure, was to be exalted:
«My intention is solely to invite the authorities to turn part of their vigilant attention to considering the portion of the People who suffer … the assistance that we owe them is linked to the honour and prosperity of the Empire, of which the Poor are the firmest bulwark, for no sovereign can maintain and extend his domain without favouring the population, and cultivating the Land, Commerce and the Arts; and the Poor are the necessary agents for the great powers that reveal the true force of a People.»
What we see here is a moral rehabilitation of the figure of the Pauper, bringing about the fundamental economic and social reintegration of his person. Paupers had no place in a mercantilist economy, as they were neither producers nor consumers, and they were idle, vagabond or unemployed, deserving nothing better than confinement, a measure that extracted and exiled them from society. But with the arrival of the industrial economy and its thirst for manpower, paupers were once again a part of the body of the nation.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Craig Pawson really is one of the better referees. Despite calling a non-foul a foul by Gravenberch, he’s been otherwise quite good. Consistent and letting them play, with neither side benefiting. Difficult balance.
#LFC

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
AVON: - and I was assuring him that the whole idea is an absurd fantasy.
ORAC: On the contrary. It is neither absurd, nor is it a fantasy.
AVON: Are you suggesting that you know more about the subject than I do?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/115 …

Growing up, I considered becoming a medical illustrator due to its combination of scientific and artistic rigor. Neither is on display in this derivative AI image shared by a surgeon too lazy to find the real thing.
https://www.

Garbage. Ppl pay for this?
My prompt was `Edward Hopper's American Gothic but with two robots` and it didn't even include a pitchfork.
#microsoft

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Nada Surf:
🎵 Neither Heaven nor Space
#NadaSurf
https://nadasurf.bandcamp.com/track/neither-heaven-nor-space
https://open.spotify.com/track/3b27wCGNfgncbzwlaG4gct

Rough isometry between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniformization
Vasudevarao Allu, Alan P Jose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11114 https://arxiv.o…

Rough isometry between Gromov hyperbolic spaces and unbounded uniformization
In a recent paper, Zhou, Ponnusamy, and Rasila [Math. Nachr. (2025)] have established that the conformal deformations, with parameter $ε>0$, of a Gromov hyperbolic space via Busemann functions are uniform spaces for sufficiently small $ε$. In this paper, we demonstrate that if two proper, roughly starlike Gromov hyperbolic spaces are roughly isometric, then the uniformity of their conformal deformations is a simultaneous property; that is, either both are uniform spaces or neither is. Our res…

The Second Moment of $\mathrm{GL}_4 \times \mathrm{GL}_2$ $L$-functions at Special Points
Zhi Qi, Ruihua Qiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11186 https://arxi…

The Second Moment of $\mathrm{GL}_4 \times \mathrm{GL}_2$ $L$-functions at Special Points
In this paper, we provide an alternative proof of Chandee and Li's result on the second moment of $\mathrm{GL}_4 \times \mathrm{GL}_2$ special $L$-values. Our method is conceptually more direct as it neither detects the `Eisenstein--Kloosterman' cancellation nor uses the Poisson summation.

This is only true for some flavors of "big accounts."
A number of the people I follow with thousands of followers are ONLY on the #Fediverse and most of the rest are only here and on Bluesky. I routinely block people here and on Bluesky (and across the bridge) who pull in the sewage from X and dump it in either place.
I'm not really interested in following people that wa…

Worked with an #acting #coaching client and seeing them sink further into the material in ways neither of us anticipated was cool. The words hit them new ways, and happily they followed and built on that to hit new versions of delivery for what came next.

Neither #Affinity nor #Darktable seemingly support 1D LUTs, which would have been too easy and useful for my #DigitalNegative preparation tool... Instead they both insist on using only 3D LUT…

The two smartest guys in the Democratic Party right now are Jon Ossoff and Pete Buttigieg. Neither one will be our next president. Jon is a Jew and Pete is gay. That's how fucked up things are right now.
And Michelle Obama is right: America has “a lot of growing up to do.”

On interwined polynomials
Fedor Pakovich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01877 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01877

On interwined polynomials
Let $A_1$ and $A_2$ be polynomials of degree at least two over $\mathbb C$. We say that $A_1$ and $A_2$ are intertwined if the endomorphism $(A_1, A_2)$ of $\mathbb C\mathbb P^1 \times \mathbb C\mathbb P^1$ given by $(z_1, z_2) \mapsto (A_1(z_1), A_2(z_2))$ admits an irreducible periodic curve that is neither a vertical nor a horizontal line. We denote by $\mathrm{Inter}(A)$ the set of all polynomials $B$ such that some iterate of $B$ is intertwined with some iterate of $A$. In this paper, we p…

«Peronism really only exists in Argentina, and there’s a good reason for that: it’s an incoherent mess, to the extent that it’s hard to tell what its tenets even are»
In some hilarious way this sounds to me like the historic precursor to the German Pirate Party's "we're neither left nor right" claims, which also doomed the whole effort. 😂

Tidal disruption of a neutron star near a naked singularity
Ashok B. Joshi (Charotar Uni.,Ahmedabad Uni., India), Pankaj S. Joshi (Ahmedabad Uni., India), Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India,MIT, USA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26108

Tidal disruption of a neutron star near a naked singularity
We investigate the tidal disruption of a neutron star (NS) near a black hole (BH), and for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, near a naked singularity (NaS). For a BH with a mass greater than about $10 M_{\odot}$, the tidal disruption of NS should occur within the event horizon, and hence neither can the stellar material escape nor a distant observer observe the disruption. Since NaS does not have an event horizon, a significant portion of the NS's material can escape, and the tidal …

h1: Bootstrapping LLMs to Reason over Longer Horizons via Reinforcement Learning
Sumeet Ramesh Motwani, Alesia Ivanova, Ziyang Cai, Philip Torr, Riashat Islam, Shital Shah, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Charles London
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07312

h1: Bootstrapping LLMs to Reason over Longer Horizons via Reinforcement Learning
Large language models excel at short-horizon reasoning tasks, but performance drops as reasoning horizon lengths increase. Existing approaches to combat this rely on inference-time scaffolding or costly step-level supervision, neither of which scales easily. In this work, we introduce a scalable method to bootstrap long-horizon reasoning capabilities using only existing, abundant short-horizon data. Our approach synthetically composes simple problems into complex, multi-step dependency chains o…

❝The state became neither “free market” nor “socialist” — it became a patronage machine run by insiders.❞
EDIT: Posted the link for the first paragraphs, but man, that article goes off the rails later on. 🧵
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/04/state-capture-corruption-democracy

ahahahaha https://www.semafor.com/article/10/29/2025/british-newspaper-spoke-to-the-wrong-deblasio-not-an-imposter

I vibe coded a game in Claude Opus 4.5. It is neither perfect nor a one shot. This took about 4 hours or so. The image is from Nano Banana and yes, that's my old Saab 900s from my LA days. The game is meant to evoke a video game on a PC or Mac in 1991.
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert<…

SIGALERT by frater-pedurabo
A 3D wireframe driving game.

A High-Dimensional Extension of Wagner's Theorem and the Geometrization of Hypergraphs
Qiming Fang, Sihong Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01926 https://

A High-Dimensional Extension of Wagner's Theorem and the Geometrization of Hypergraphs
This paper introduces a geometric representation of hypergraphs by representing hyperedges as simplices. Building on this framework, we employ homotopy groups to analyze the topological structure of hypergraphs embedded in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. Leveraging this foundation, we extend Wagner's theorem to $\mathbb{R}^d$. Specifically, we establish that a triangulated $d$-uniform topological hypergraph embeds into $\mathbb{R}^d$ if and only if it contains neither $K_{d+3}^d$ nor $K_{3,d…

No one cheers for sleet
Neither song nor poetry
Lauds wet, stinging ice.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sleet
#haiku
#poem

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
AVON: Neither can we.
BLAKE: I'll bear that in mind. [Tosses empty box away.]
AVON: Don't worry. I'll remind you.
[Novara and Geela approach. Blake and Avon rise. Avon draws his weapon.]
…

ChatGPT is useful for getting the average of the information in its weights on a given topic
Grok (Expert) is useful for filtering search engine slop into a summary with relevant, sourced, checkable web links
Neither of these necessarily produce The Truth, but in this example, Grok generates significantly more reliable output when precision matters. As time goes on and the volume of hallucinated nonsense on the Web mounts higher, Grok's ability to attribute its assertions t…

Infinitely presented simple groups separated by homological finiteness properties
Claudio Llosa Isenrich, Eduard Schesler, Xiaolei Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01952 https://…

Infinitely presented simple groups separated by homological finiteness properties
Given a finitely generated linear group $G$ over $\mathbb{Q}$, we construct a simple group $Γ$ that has the same finiteness properties as $G$ and admits $G$ as a quasi-retract. As an application, we construct a simple group of type $\mathrm{FP}_{\infty}$ that is not finitely presented. Moreover we show that for every $n \in \mathbb{N}$ there is a simple group of type $\mathrm{FP}_n$ that is neither finitely presented nor of type $\mathrm{FP}_{n+1}$. Since our simple groups arise as Röver--Nek…

From earlier this year - well worth a read. From @… and Sue Branford.
A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods? https://

A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods?
Neither Porto Alegre, Brazil, nor Valencia, Spain, are in the news this week. But they have been before, and almost certainly will be again, as bouts of extreme drought, followed by deluge, become more frequent and fierce. The media cameras are gone from 2024’s inundations, but in Valencia 100,000 wrecked cars remain to be disposed […]

I use a few apps for the CLI because, over the years, I've come to prefer efficiency and speed over fancy features. Newsboat, Castero, ffmpeg, yt-dlp, wget, git, toot, ssh, etc.
However, there are a few that never seem to stick around on my CLI. Neither mutt, ranger, ncmcpp, nor similar apps have managed to establish themselves on my computers... And I don't think they will at this point.
#cli

"No group in America has fallen further, faster than young men. When I began talking about this several years ago, that was a controversial statement, especially on the left, where many pathologize masculinity.
While the right has suggested the solution is to take women and non-white people back to the 1950s, the left’s view is that young men don’t have problems, they are the problem.
Neither attitude helps."

The Cult of Therapy | No Mercy / No Malice
“Don’t read the comments,” I tell people, just before I have a drink and … read the comments. I knew my book Notes on Being a Man would spark controversy, as you get the most flak when you’re over the target, and some of the criticism (likely) misses the mark. The comment that hits home: […]

I came home to a letter addressed to both of us by name and I assumed it was mortgage since few things address both of us. I left it for J to indulge her childlike pleasure of opening mail.
It was actually a campaign letter from Reform UK. I assure you neither of us are members so I can only assume they got our names from the edited electoral roll.
I can't remember any other party ever writing to me by name before, it's always just been "occupant" or similar.

We're getting our Halloween decorations out of the loft and neither of us has any recollection of seeing pinky and perky here before. Our current working theory is that a couple of leprechauns crawled into the attic months ago and got trapped there.

Let's dissect this AI garbage
1. The camera is a "Hitachi MP-EG10", not the "Hitachi MP-Eg1"
2. It's actually not a driver for the camera but for the Hitachi MP-ADI1 ISA interface kit (the camera is from 1997 and predates USB and didn't have an easy way to directly transfer data)
3. It's in a little plastic baggy, not "sealed"
4. It's neither valuable nor for "anyone"
5. It doesn't enhance any experiences

You have to realize this: An American #investment banker—lacking any foreign policy experience, an amateur at best—Steve #Witkoff, and a Russian investment banker, Kirill Alexandrovich #Dmitriev—also neither a dip…

A robust computational framework for the mixture-energy-consistent six-equation two-phase model with instantaneous mechanical relaxation terms
Giuseppe Orlando (CMAP), Ward Haegeman (CMAP), Marica Pelanti (ENSTA Paris), Marc Massot (CMAP)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26284

A robust computational framework for the mixture-energy-consistent six-equation two-phase model with instantaneous mechanical relaxation terms
We present a robust computational framework for the numerical solution of a hyperbolic 6-equation single-velocity two-phase model. The model's main interest is that, when combined with instantaneous mechanical relaxation, it recovers the solution of the 5-equation model of Kapila. Several numerical methods based on this strategy have been developed over the years. However, neither the 5- nor 6-equation model admits a complete set of jump conditions because they involve non-conservative products…

Am I the only one who is bewildered that a location so close to city hall, less than 1/3 of a mile to Van Ness BRT, BART, CIvic Center MUNI station, 5, 6 and 19 bus lines is a low priority location for urban infill? Close to a great library and large open space with playgrounds? Why there is not serious activity on the part of the city to build mixed income housing so as to help bring a range of incomes into the community? Why isn't the city mapping a strategy that transitions this n…

Plans for affordable housing at shuttered S.F. food hall site stuck in limbo 
La Cocina’s space in the Tenderloin was pitched as a community hub with cheap eats, and eventually affordable housing. Neither is happening.

Am I the only one who is bewildered that a location so close to city hall, less than 1/3 of a mile to Van Ness BRT, BART, CIvic Center MUNI station, 5, 6 and 19 bus lines is a low priority location for urban infill? Close to a great library and large open space with playgrounds? Why there is not serious activity on the part of the city to build mixed income housing so as to help bring a range of incomes into the community? Why isn't the city mapping a strategy that transitions this n…

Plans for affordable housing at shuttered S.F. food hall site stuck in limbo 
La Cocina’s space in the Tenderloin was pitched as a community hub with cheap eats, and eventually affordable housing. Neither is happening.

My new piece.
'As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?'
The problem is that neither of the two main British left alternatives (#GreenParty and nascent #YourParty) appears to be sufficiently facing up to the fundamental issue of

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

#WritersCoffeeClub Dec
3. Do genre conventions provide an essential framework, or stifle original storytelling?
4. What would you like to see explored in prompts for this hashtag game?
5. What’s a no-longer popular trend in writing you’d like to see make a comeback?
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3. Both. And neither. A convention is a tool. With enough experience you begin to see when breakin…

When neither major party delivers for the working class, people turn to alternatives
-- and more power to them
https://bsky.app/profile/anthonyderibas.bsky.social/post/3m3uljdsll22w

Anthony DeRibas for FL-16 (@anthonyderibas.bsky.social)
This is what real representation looks like — Florida CD-14, CD-15 & CD-16 standing together. Class of ’27 | 120th Congress ✊💚 #ClassOf27 #120thCongress #VotesNotBoats #DeRibasForCongress #WorkingClassVoices

@… As a Dane/Pole, I just want to point out: Neither of my sets of grandparents had a particularly enjoyable childhood.
(Of course being Danish worked out better, but still not awesome)

A "Warning/Guarantee" on the album Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention (1985 Protest against governmental music censorship):
WARNING/GUARANTEE:
This album contains material which a truly free society would neither fear nor suppress.
In some socially retarded areas, religious fanatics and ultra-conservative political organizations violate your First Amendment Rights by attempting to censor rock & roll albums. We feel that this is un-Constitutional and un…

Complete Classification of Domain Wall Solutions in the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric 2HDM
Richard A. Battye, Steven J. Cotterill, Adam K. Thomasson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23332 …

Complete Classification of Domain Wall Solutions in the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric 2HDM
We present a complete classification of domain wall solutions in the two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) with a global $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry, categorised as superconducting, CP-violating, or neither, depending on the scalar particle masses and the ratio of the two Higgs doublets' vacuum expectation values. We demonstrate that any domain wall solution can be reduced to depend on only six of the eight general field components, with further field reductions possible within different regions of the pa…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Morgul Blade:
🎵 Neither Cross Nor Crown
#MorgulBlade
https://morgulblade.bandcamp.com/track/neither-cross-nor-crown
https://open.spotify.com/track/5uLseM0d8nhNTu8ESCHFsC

Towards Hydrogen Autarky? Evaluating Import Costs and Domestic Competitiveness in European Energy Strategies
Philipp Dunkel, Theresa Kl\"utz, Jochen Lin{\ss}en, Detlef Stolten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04669

Towards Hydrogen Autarky? Evaluating Import Costs and Domestic Competitiveness in European Energy Strategies
The design of the future European energy system depends heavily on how Europe balances its domestic hydrogen production against its reliance on imports. This study reveals that neither-extreme full self-sufficiency nor complete reliance on imports-is economically optimal through 2050. Using a high-resolution energy system model accounting for interannual weather variability, we find import cost thresholds favoring domestic production decrease from 3.0 EUR/kg (2030) to 2.5 EUR/kg (2050). However…

Best-of-Majority: Minimax-Optimal Strategy for Pass@$k$ Inference Scaling
Qiwei Di, Kaixuan Ji, Xuheng Li, Heyang Zhao, Quanquan Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03199 https://

Best-of-Majority: Minimax-Optimal Strategy for Pass@$k$ Inference Scaling
LLM inference often generates a batch of candidates for a prompt and selects one via strategies like majority voting or Best-of- N (BoN). For difficult tasks, this single-shot selection often underperforms. Consequently, evaluations commonly report Pass@$k$: the agent may submit up to $k$ responses, and only the best of them is used when computing regret. Motivated by this, we study inference scaling in the more general Pass@$k$ inference setting, and prove that neither majority voting nor BoN …

🥨 Germany’s anti-diversity backlash isn’t fatigue – it’s strategy masquerading as neutrality | Fatma Aydemir
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/30/germany-anti-diversity-backlash-trump-afd

#TIL: #Wifi can fail due to the access point having an insane time. I didn't even notice that my AP had its ntpd fail at last reboot and it was most of a day behind. Neither my Mac nor my iPhone could connect, despite showing the network available and strong.
(Not really

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjdlx92lylo
The problem is neither the camera, nor the usage of "AI". The problem is simpler: too many weapons on civilians hands and police impunity.

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US
Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.

Kinetic closure of turbulence
Francesco Marson, Orestis Malaspinas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00779 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00779

Kinetic closure of turbulence
This letter presents a kinetic closure of the filtered Boltzmann-BGK equation, paving the way towards an alternative description of turbulence. The closure naturally incorporates the turbulent subfilter stress tensor without the need for explicit modeling, unlike in Navier-Stokes models. In contrast, it accounts for the subfilter turbulent diffusion in the nonconserved moments by generalizing the BGK collision operator. The model requires neither scale separation nor a Smagorinsky-type ansatz f…

Eileen Collins was neither the first woman to pilot or command a spacecraft. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mxzdg203jo

The trailblazer who made history as Nasa's first woman commander
The BBC speaks to astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft.

An LLM generates a statistically typical response.
If you ask an LLM whether the world is round, it generates what would be a typical response to the question of whether the world is round. (It will probably be correct, because the typical answer to that question is the correct one.)
If you ask an LLM to provide examples of its own bias, it will generate what would be a typical response to a request to provide examples of bias.
In neither case is the LLM sharing any knowledge or insight other than what is typical.
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QScale: Probabilistic Chained Consensus for Moderate-Scale Systems
Hasan Heydari, Alysson Bessani, Kartik Nayak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01536 https://ar…

QScale: Probabilistic Chained Consensus for Moderate-Scale Systems
Existing distributed ledger protocols either incur a high communication complexity and are thus suited to systems with a small number of processes (e.g., PBFT), or rely on committee-sampling-based approaches that only work for a very large number of processes (e.g., Algorand). Neither of these lines of work is well-suited for moderate-scale distributed ledgers ranging from a few hundred to a thousand processes, which are common in production (e.g, Redbelly, Sui). The goal of this work is to des…

There had been a postal strike in Canada and a government workers strike in BC, but today we bought booze from BCLC and sent a parcel through the mail to the US. The latter now requires the use of an app - or of its web version. That's for the US - Canada Post has its own customs form - or its own app. Neither communicates to the other. Of course.
I feel quite nostalgic about the days of Free Trade.

Weak-strong uniqueness for general cross-diffusion systems with volume filling
Maria Heitzinger, Ansgar J\"ungel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25978 https://

Weak-strong uniqueness for general cross-diffusion systems with volume filling
The weak-strong uniqueness of solutions to a broad class of cross-diffusion systems with volume filling is established. In general, the diffusion matrices are neither symmetric nor positive definite. This issue is overcome by supposing that the equations possess a Boltzmann-type entropy structure, which ensures the existence of bounded weak solutions. In this framework, general conditions on the mobility matrix are identified that allow for the proof of the weak-strong uniqueness property by me…

Considering the "neither" case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfUvqlUW66I

Bayesian Model Comparison and Significance: Widespread Errors and how to Correct Them
Daniel P. Thorngren, David K. Sing, Sagnick Mukherjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00169 http…

Bayesian Model Comparison and Significance: Widespread Errors and how to Correct Them
Bayes factors have become a popular tool in exoplanet spectroscopy for testing atmosphere models against one another. We show that the commonly used method for converting these values into significance "sigmas" is invalid. The formula is neither justified nor recommended by its original paper, and overestimates the confidence of results. We use simple examples to demonstrate the invalidity and prior sensitivity of this approach. We review the standard Bayesian interpretation of the Bayes factor…

People bitch about C being complicated and unwieldy, and then need more than 30 lines of code to implement insertion sort because finding from a predicate in reverse is not implemented and neither is rotate

I vibe coded a game in Claude Opus 4.5. It is neither perfect nor a one shot. This took about 4 hours or so. The image is from Nano Banana and yes, that's my old Saab 900s from my LA days. The game is meant to evoke a video game on a PC or Mac in 1991.
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert<…

Thanks to @… I now have a shiny new Rode wireless microphone setup that should improve sound quality in my future content.
The one gotcha is that right now the TRS output doesn't seem to be enabled, neither the USB sound card on my office workstation nor my camera (Sony A7R II) are able to pick up anything from it.
But when I connect the USB-…

initenv.sh fails (crypt_r build error)
#deltachat relay working neither on my Mac nor my Ubuntu box
Ar…

Few people would claim with absolute certainty to know how the pandemic began. Both sides are gathering evidence to support their case, yet neither can fully rule out the possibility put forward by the other. This lack of clarity is not unlike what we see with most emerging diseases. For instance, we still don’t know how the devastating Ebola outbreak in west Africa began in 2014.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/covid-lab-leak-theory-right-conspiracy-science?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Let's hope that neither appellate court nor SCOTUS decide to let SNAP fail as the case 'works through the system'.
Democratic AGs, governors sue Trump over SNAP benefits as shutdown hits day 28 • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/10/28/repub/democrat-snap/

Incommensurate magnetic order drives singular angular magnetoresistance in a Weyl semimetal
X. Yao, P. Chen, R. Verma, X. Zhao, H. -Y. Yang, L. DeBeer-Schmitt, A. A. Aczel, C. -M. Wu, D. Alba Venero, T. Ohhara, K. Munakata, M. Takahashi, Y. Noda, A. Bansil, B. Singh, P. Nikoli\'c, F. Tafti, J. Gaudet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18398

Global coalition sets in graphs
Nazli Besharati, Doost Ali Mojdeh, Mohammad Reza Samadzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15386 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.153…

Global coalition sets in graphs
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph. A subset $S \subseteq V$ is called a global dominating set of $G$, if it serves as a dominating set in both $G$ and its complement $\overline{G}$. We define two disjoint subsets $V_1,V_2 \subseteq V$ to form a global coalition if neither $V_1$ nor $V_2$ individually constitutes a global dominating set, yet their union $V_1 \cup V_2$ does. A global coalition partition (abbreviated as $gc$-partition) of $G$ is a vertex partition $π$ of $V(G)$ such that for every subset …

On the Uniqueness of Ein(1) among Linear Combinations of the Euler-Mascheroni and Euler-Gompertz Constants
Michael R. Powers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00315 https://

On the Uniqueness of Ein(1) among Linear Combinations of the Euler-Mascheroni and Euler-Gompertz Constants
From a well-known equation of Hardy, one can derive a simple linear combination of the Euler-Mascheroni constant ($γ=0.577215\ldots$) and Euler-Gompertz constant ($δ=0.596347\ldots$): $γ+δ/e=\textrm{Ein}\left(1\right)$. Although neither $γ$ nor $δ$ is currently known to be irrational, this linear combination has been shown to be transcendental (by virtue of the fact that it appears as an algebraic point value of a particular E-function). Moreover, both pairs ($γ$,$δ$) and ($γ$,$δ/e$) …

On Monday, Trump said
neither bidding party
“are friends of mine.”
He added that he had not spoken to his son- in-law Jared Kushner about the Paramount bid.
Netflix’s bid has already drawn sharp criticism from bipartisan lawmakers and Hollywood unions
over concerns that it could lead to job cuts as well as higher prices for consumers.
“While it is perhaps a sad commentary on the US that Paramount thinks its closeness to the occupant of the Oval Office wil…

NTV Kenya: Warner Bros fight heats up as Paramount counters Netflix with $108bn hostile bid
Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery,

"Starmer continues to pin all his hopes on economic growth driven by the City. In this he follows every prime minister since the 2008 crash who have all banked the future on a revival of the system that imploded globally then."
Labour is neither listening nor learning | Morning Star
https://

Double Descent as a Lens for Sample Efficiency in Autoregressive vs. Discrete Diffusion Models
Ahmad Fraij, Sam Dauncey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24974 https://

Double Descent as a Lens for Sample Efficiency in Autoregressive vs. Discrete Diffusion Models
Data scarcity drives the need for more sample-efficient large language models. In this work, we use the double descent phenomenon to holistically compare the sample efficiency of discrete diffusion and autoregressive models. We show that discrete diffusion models require larger capacity and more training epochs to escape their underparameterized regime and reach the interpolation threshold. In the strongly overparameterized regime, both models exhibit similar behavior, with neither exhibiting a…

Of course I'm biased, but I really love how @… updated their users about the updated privacy policy:
«With this update, we want to strengthen your rights that you have as a user […] Codeberg is a non-profit association registered in Berlin. Unlike traditional online platforms, we have neither an interest in selling your data, nor do we have an incentive to do so.»
Sent along with a link to the PR that'll update the policy and another link to delete your account if you disagree. 💪

Ever wonder HOW an LLM can go so very wrong? Me neither, but really, when you look into it, it makes so much sense, it is inevitable.
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/796677506528919552/why-do-llms-freak-out-over-the-seahorse-emoji

2 shots, neither on target… one blocked, one over the bar. For all the talk about defensive woes, the offense isn’t producing anything. Salah has one brilliant pass and not much else. Gakpo is disconnected. And Isak hasn’t been fed much at all.
Szoboszlai has been running absolutely full tilt everywhere, trying to carry this sluggish team forward. But, unfortunately, it pulls the shape apart. Gravenberch has been solid. Mac Allister is not himself, but better than past games.

Kyle Hamilton: Ravens-Steelers rivalry 'the purest form of football that you'll get' https://www.nfl.com/news/kyle-hamilton-ravens-steelers-rivalry-the-purest-form-of-football-that-you-ll-get

Chancellor of the Exchequer Reeves with not one but 2 imperial flags and the lectern slogan, "Strong Foundations | Secure Future", neither of which can be claimed in any sense, either as the present reality or as the result of whatever 'tough choices' she will trail.
The only tough choices that matter are to reduce material and energy usage coupled with a massive redistribution of wealth to secure a 'strong foundation' of security and equity, in terms of ecolog…

Two new #degrowth articles:
Neither of the two main British left alternatives (Greens and the proto- Your Party) appears to be sufficiently facing up to the fundamental issue of ecological overshoot.

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

«The UK public doesn’t trust AI — the Tony Blair Institute is very worried!»
Looks like a good part of the UK's public has the good sense to neither trust Tony Blair nor LLMs 😂
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/22/the-uk-public-doesnt-trust-ai-the-tony-blair-institute-is-very-worried/

Two new #degrowth articles:
Neither of the two main British left alternatives (Greens and the proto- Your Party) appears to be sufficiently facing up to the fundamental issue of ecological overshoot.

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

In neither this year nor the next should anyone expect Russia to propose a deal that is meaningfully different from what it has already.
How do we change the circumstances?
There are two main levers.
The first deteriorates conditions inside Russia to the point that Mr. Putin is forced to consider ending the war as the lesser evil,
and it is achieved by imposing sanctions that would be powerful and smart enough to erode Russia’s capacity to wage war and significantly i…

Opinion | Ukraine Is Not a War of Attrition
Victory will belong not to the side with more resources, but to the side with the stronger, more adaptive and unyielding will to win.

“Alliances are built on common values and a common threat perception,”
said Danish Defense Analyst Jacob Kaarsbo
“Trump shares neither of those with us
and I would argue he doesn’t share it with most Europeans.”
https://www.

In case you missed it:
As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
"Neither the embryonic Your Party, nor even the Green Party, provide evidence that their approach, extant or emerging, at this point in time, is adequate to the scale of the existential crisis facing humanity. This could change, and it should be a focus of the small degrowth movement in these islands "

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

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…