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“The easiest way to save money in our Budget,
Billions and Billions of Dollars,
is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,”
Trump posted on Truth Social.
“I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”
On Saturday, he said that the move was still on the table:
“I’d be allowed to do that,” he said, “but I have, I haven’t given it any thought.”
Trump also suggested that it was Musk who was reeling from the toxic breakup.
“I thin…

Trump Issues Jaw-Dropping Authoritarian Threat to Elon Musk
As President Donald Trump works through the seven stages of grief that come with a big breakup, he’s embracing anger—and directing it at his former ally Elon...

"Vancouver has 22 civic libraries. Victoria has 12. The streets of these two cities, however, have well over 1,000 unincorporated “little libraries”. You’ve seen them, of course. Those quaint little bird-house structures, placed along sidewalks, usually with a glassed-in front to keep the contents safe from the elements. Inside these little boxes there is always the oddest selection of books, and almost always something that will pique your interest. "

With so much hype and recent articles on "AI for coding" and how everyone not doing it is dumb maybe this is a good time to relink my article on "Vibe Coding".
Which I think focuses purely on "output" when developing or creating something is not just about the output.
https://tan…

Musk tried and failed to enact systemic change across the entire government.
Many tech executives and investors who support Trump have narrower goals that focus on creating a regulatory climate favorable to themselves.
While Trump and Musk traded barbs on their respective social networks,
a cryptocurrency company whose business had been hamstrung by the Biden administration went public on the New York Stock Exchange,
its share price popping 200 percent.
An art…

Musk and Trump are over. Silicon Valley is just getting started.
The Tech-Trump alliance has always had tensions. But its lucrative nature has outweighed the ideological differences.

Aaron Rodgers wants to retire with this player on his team: 'It's always been something A-Rod would bring up'

https://www.cbssports.…

They've always had the best name and now they're the best team, too. Congratulations to the YDS soccer team the Paracleats, the newly crowned champions of the Yale grad schools IM soccer league! The Paracleats beat the School of Management 4-1 in Sunday's championship game following their 5-1 thrashing of Medicine in the semifinal.

She’s right, you know.
We don’t need a general solution for how we accommodate trans kids in sports. It can be handled on a case by case basis. It’s being hypothesized into absurd scale to trigger reaction. There’s no “catastrophe” possible. There are a few dozen specific cases and they are different enough that they should be handled independently.
The details in real cases always seem to argue in favor of the trans kid’s choice.

"The places that need to worry are those that look vulnerable or unlikely to fight back. Greenland may fall into that category — which suggests that Denmark and the EU need to find ways of letting Trump know that there will be a price to pay if he makes a move on the island"
Trump always chickens out on foreign policy too - https://on.ft.com/458Z5FI v

Yes, yes, yes, yes, @…! 👏
“For now, I’m planning on continuing to roll up my sleeves. I want to make things because I’m human and alive. I want to go on journeys and grow. I’m not always looking for an easy path, I want the friction. Because if I give up the journey, what am I really making? What do I actually learn?”

Oh nice. Google changed my location for one of my (many) accounts... again
Current: Iran
New: Poland
Always on Tor confuses them.

Statement by Teresa Berger, Professor of Liturgical Studies and Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology at YDS/ISM.
=====
On a panel at St. Thomas More two days ago, I said in front of a large audience that I would be truly shocked if the cardinals elected a person from the U.S.! Conventional wisdom, after all, always had it that leadership of the Roman Catholic Church would come from somewhere else than a reigning superpower. 🧵

Has anyone ever tried to trick malware into thinking the host it’s running on is in Russia? For example, reverse engineering and then spoofing the ip-api.com api to always return “RU” on your network. This seems like the kind of trickery that @… would try. 😃

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Now Always Fades:
🎵 Close to Greatness
#NowAlwaysFades
https://northernundergroundrecords.bandcamp.com/track/close-to-greatness
https://open.spotify.com/track/6V4Eeco1nM4mLmh5VGifBH

today's "I can't believe I wasted half a hour on this" computer issue: whether Wireshark validates the Ethernet checksum in packets depends on the capture format you're using
.snoop: nope, and ignores all settings including "always check FCS"
.pcap: yep
saving a .snoop file as a .pcap file makes it immediately check all FCS

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Romance:
🎵 We'll Always Have Paris
#Romance
https://youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com/track/well-always-have-paris
https://open.spotify.com/track/1AjkuaAqcoMHY0W4jX63gw

Aaron Rodgers wants to retire with this player on his team: 'It's always been something A-Rod would bring up'

https://www.cbssports.…

I still love the Minimalist Marble Machine that @… built...
➡️ https://tinkerlog.com/portfolio/minimalist-marble-machine/

Minimalist Marble Machine
I always loved watching marble machines, especially the creations of denha. These little machines are super cute and very well made. So a marble machine was on my todo list for a very long time. mo…

@… I suspect Garmin detects that you move your hand to see the watch face and it keeps that notification view up in case you read something.
In any case, the only solution is to ensure a watch shows time, always. It was annoying on Apple Watch, is annoying on Garmin.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03987 has been replaced.
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Clifford representatives via the uniform algebraic rank
In this paper, we introduce the uniform algebraic rank of a divisor class on a finite graph. We show that it lies between Caporaso's algebraic rank and the combinatorial rank of Baker and Norine. We prove the Riemann-Roch theorem for the uniform algebraic rank, and show that both the algebraic and the uniform algebraic rank are realized on effective divisors. As an application, we use the uniform algebraic rank to show that Clifford representatives always exist. We conclude with an explicit des…

Well, this is so sad. I listen to 2 or 3 podcasts regularly, and WTF is the most important to me, mainly because of Maron's point of view on comedy, politics, and life.
The interviews are hit and miss for me, but his openers always make me feel seen. And he's a cat guy!
https://www.

Marc Maron Will End WTF After 16 Years
Marc Maron plans to end his podcast, ‘WTF,’ after 16 years, he announced on his Monday, June 2, episode with John Mulaney.

uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.

Calamus 19 Mind you the timid models of the rest, the majority?
A declaration of intellectual independence and a celebration of brotherly love. Honestly this poem feels a little clumsy to me, I can see why Whitman struck the awkward introducing lines in later editions.
As always, looking for the gay content:
Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and ever at parting, kisses me lightly on the lips with robust love.
And I, in the public room, or on the crossing of the street, or on the ship's deck, kiss him in return
We observe that salute of American comrades
But I can't in all honestly read this use of "kissing" as erotic. Here the public kissing and the "salute of comrades" makes me think it's more of a fraternal kiss.
Which doesn't exclude a romantic kiss as well, or an erotic one. What's so vital about Calamus is how Whitman blends masculine sexual love with the love of comrades. I think both meanings are latent in every poem.

Hidden in Plain Sight: Probing Implicit Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models
Qianqi Yan, Hongquan Li, Shan Jiang, Yang Zhao, Xinze Guan, Ching-Chen Kuo, Xin Eric Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00258

Hidden in Plain Sight: Probing Implicit Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed in open-ended, real-world environments where inputs are messy, underspecified, and not always trustworthy. Unlike curated benchmarks, these settings frequently involve instructions that refer to missing objects or contradictory facts, rely on ambiguous references, or request infeasible actions. In such cases, success hinges not on task execution alone, but on a model's ability to detect when something is silently wrong. This pap…

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Measuring likelihood in cybersecurity
In cybersecurity risk is commonly measured by impact and probability, the former is objectively measured based on the consequences from the use of technology to obtain business gains, or by achieving business objectives. The latter has been measured, in sectors such as financial or insurance, based on historical data because there is vast information, and many other fields have applied the same approach. Although in cybersecurity, as a new discipline, there is not always historical data to supp…

TACO = Trump Always Chickens Out. Yup. Seems about right. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/may/30/ella-baron-donald-trump-taco-jibes-cartoon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This author is invaluable to me because they always have a fresh take that I haven't seen anywhere else. Was a fave follow on the bad place.
In this case, re #LLMs
#AI #LLM

Beyond Nudge
LLMs ensure their survival by showing us that we can all find meaning in our lives so long as we keep talking with the LLMs.

This reminds me of the old toy Mr Peanut peanut butter maker…
It came with a little booklet that discussed Booker T. Washington, champion of the peanut. https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/114636660897868574

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05572 has been replaced.
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Word problems and embedding-obstructions in cellular automata groups on groups
We study groups of reversible cellular automata, or CA groups, on groups. More generally, we consider automorphism groups of subshifts of finite type on groups. It is known that word problems of CA groups on virtually nilpotent groups are in co-NP, and can be co-NP-hard. We show that under the Gap Conjecture of Grigorchuk, their word problems are PSPACE-hard on all other groups. On free and surface groups, we show that they are indeed always in PSPACE. On a group with co-NEXPTIME word problem, …

A while back I discovered that ttyper (a typing test program for the terminal) can use a custom wordlist. I decided to create one entirely out of words I always misspell. I don't think my WPM will ever recover TT
https://github.com/max-niederman/ttyper

Relative non-pluripolar product of currents on compact Hermitian manifolds
Zhenghao Li, Shuang Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24702 https://

Relative non-pluripolar product of currents on compact Hermitian manifolds
On a class of compact Hermitian manifolds including compact Kähler manifolds, we prove that the the relative non-pluripolar product is always well-defined. We also prove the monotonicity of the relative non-pluripolar product in terms of masses on such manifolds.

One of the constant recurring topics on social media are stories of someone saying they don’t wash their legs, or they don’t use a washcloth, or they don’t take showers for a week. I wrote about why those stories always blow up. https://www.anildash.com/2025/05/29/who-is-clean/…

Who washes their hands?
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

TIL - with great surprise - that Cunningham's law - ""The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - actually predates the invention of the wiki by Ward Cunningham by about a decade.
I always had assumed that the law was expressing the lived experiences running wikis, but it was referring to Usenet posts, predating the Web and wikis.

Ward Cunningham - Wikipedia

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JENNA: [To Cally] You know what all this is about, don't you?
CALLY: [Nodding] I think I can guess.
JENNA: It is a trap, isn't it?
CALLY: Avon thinks so.
JENNA: Well Avon always thinks so.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/321

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01226 has been replaced.
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React to Surprises: Stable-by-Design Neural Feedback Control and the Youla-REN
We study parameterizations of stabilizing nonlinear policies for learning-based control. We propose a structure based on a nonlinear version of the Youla-Kučera parameterization combined with robust neural networks such as the recurrent equilibrium network (REN). The resulting parameterizations are unconstrained, and hence can be searched over with first-order optimization methods, while always ensuring closed-loop stability by construction. We study the combination of (a) nonlinear dynamics, …

"As with many digital [vibe coding] doesn't fully stand up to scrutiny but show a deep misunderstanding of how software is made, the potential externalities (and internalities) software brings and a disdain for experience and embodied knowledge."
(Original title: On “Vibe Coding”)
https://tant…

On "Vibe Coding"
The hype about the potentials (it’s always future potential, never real current use) of AI has discarded its last cycle (“reasoning models”/”deep research”, both terms being factually untrue and deeply deceiving at best) and moved to a new double whammy of “agentic AI” and “Vibe Coding”. Now “agentic AI” basically just means that some LLM […]

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21529 has been replaced.
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WakeMod: A 6.9uW Wake-Up Radio Module with -72.6dBm Sensitivity for On-Demand IoT
Large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as asset tracking and remote sensing, demand multi-year battery lifetimes to minimize maintenance and operational costs. Traditional wireless protocols often employ duty cycling, introducing a tradeoff between latency and idle consumption - both unsuitable for event-driven and ultra-low power systems. A promising approach to address these issues is the integration of always-on wake-up radios (WuRs). They provide asynchronous, ultra-low pow…

As always: #ACAB. And especially fuckers who lead your local PD, even if they come from other departments (like sanitation). https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/30

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11582 has been replaced.
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Comparing Lexical and Semantic Vector Search Methods When Classifying Medical Documents
Classification is a common AI problem, and vector search is a typical solution. This transforms a given body of text into a numerical representation, known as an embedding, and modern improvements to vector search focus on optimising speed and predictive accuracy. This is often achieved through neural methods that aim to learn language semantics. However, our results suggest that these are not always the best solution. Our task was to classify rigidly-structured medical documents according to t…

Had a day off and did a 4 hour ride on the VA capital trail. Went much further than I planned. The forever punchline is the hill that leads to my house.... I always end up having to walk it.
#bike #BikeTooter

New insights on low-mass dark matter subhalo tidal tracks via numerical simulations
Alejandra Aguirre-Santaella, Miguel A. S\'anchez-Conde, Go Ogiya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01152

New insights on low-mass dark matter subhalo tidal tracks via numerical simulations
Many studies assert that dark matter (DM) subhaloes without a baryonic counterpart and with an inner cusp always survive no matter the strength of the tidal force they undergo. In this work, we perform a suite of numerical simulations specifically designed to analyse the evolution of $V_\mathrm{max}$, $r_\mathrm{max}$ and concentration of low-mass DM subhaloes due to tidal stripping. We employ the improved version of the DASH code, introduced in our previous work arXiv:2207.08652 to investigate…

@… instinct has always on display only, no OLED

Rounding error analysis of randomized CholeskyQR2 for sparse matrices
Haoran Guan, Yuwei Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04208 https://

Rounding error analysis of randomized CholeskyQR2 for sparse matrices
This work focuses on rounding error analysis of randomized CholeskyQR2 (RCholeskyQR2) for sparse matrices. We form RCholeskyQR2 with CholeskyQR2 and matrix sketching in order to accelerate CholeskyQR2 and improve its applicability by compressing the input matrix $X \in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$. In many real-world applications, the input matrix $X$ is always sparse. In this work, we follow the model of sparse matrices proposed in \cite{CSparse} and provide an improved rounding error analysis of R…

Useful.
I’ve always disliked the fact that SOHO NAT routers all seem to be configured with one of a handful of 192.168.*/24 subnets. Beyond the risk of collision, I’ve had the experience of being told vehemently by benighted customer “IT guys” that I’ve done something horribly wrong by setting their inside up on 10.175.202.0/23 or some similarly uncommon RFC1918 block, because they “knew” that it was supposed to be in the Class C range of RFC 1918.

Picking uncontested private IP subnets with usage data

Distributedness based scheduling
Paritosh Ranjan, Surajit Majumder, Prodip Roy, Bhuban Padhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02581 https://

Distributedness based scheduling
Efficient utilization of computing resources in a Kubernetes cluster is often constrained by the uneven distribution of pods with similar usage patterns. This paper presents a novel scheduling strategy designed to optimize the distributedness of Kubernetes resources based on their usage magnitude and patterns across CPU, memory, network, and storage. By categorizing resource usage into labels such as "cpu high spike" or "memory medium always," and applying these to deployed pods, the system cal…

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Reconstruction of Partial Dissimilarity Matrices for Cognitive Neuroscience
In cognitive neuroscience research, Representational Dissimilarity Matrices (RDMs) are often incomplete because pairwise similarity judgments cannot always be exhaustively collected as the number of pairs rapidly increases with the number of conditions. Existing methods to fill these missing values, such as deep neural network imputation, are powerful but computationally demanding and relatively opaque. We introduce a simple algorithm based on geometric inference that fills missing dissimilarit…

‘The Postman Always Recharges Twice’
🇨🇭 Swiss Post enables bi-directional charging (#V2G) on its fleet of three-wheeled e-scooters, turning them into a virtual power plant; delivering or collecting energy at the right time.

Swiss Post e-scooters as a virtual power station
🔋 Can electric scooters stabilize the electricity grid? Swiss Post is testing it – with bidirectional charging! Find out more now!

How crazy is it? About this crazy. So far.
https://youtu.be/75PeExNmaS8?si=7EaSaHjv-S1RNI5x
As always:
- Follow the money
- Ask “Who benefits?”

I'm always on the outside looking in
It's where I've always been
But the edge is where all the sparks fly
When the wheel spins
Deep down
I know I should leave the past behind
Maybe in time
If only I could learn to let go
Of the hand that first held mine

I have spent a total of $1,447.25 on Substack subscriptions, almost entirely in the last year.
But I’ve always thought The Information at $400/year was way overpriced.
It’s easier to stomach when it’s one subscription at a time and I’m supporting specific creators.
Also I have Trump derangement syndrome.

Sometimes time is
golden, stretching softly to
capture moments in gentle fingers and
braid them into sweet memory. Sometimes
it softens details as it
passes, a touch here, a
caress there, hazing hardship and
happiness alike. Sometimes it
races, a new puppy with a
beloved toy. Sometimes it
slows, sticky as tar to a
tortuous
eternity. But whether the
clock-face is antagonist or protagonist in the
wind of your life's tale, it
always, always keeps on
ticking. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #WSS366

If you're like me, you play multiple episodes in a row in #Jellyfin for #Roku and you're not always sure what the episode you've moved into is about.
So I've added a new button to the OSD that gives you the media overview text - the same content displayed on the detail scre…

Glacier Day in my #FieldDiary! Always a good one.
I'm writing this on the way home, but you get the point...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/

Looks like Lysenko is evidently getting a bit of rehabilitation in Putin's Russia, something that was **not** on my 2025 bingo card.
tl;dr for those of you who don't know the history:
This one guy, a completely unqualified nutcase (*) who was put in charge because he was a Friend of Joe Stalin, completely **WRECKED** Soviet agriculture in the 1930s. Just in case you were wondering why the USSR was always needing massive wheat imports 40 years later, even though Ukraini…

On different platforms, I see at least one post per day of someone willing to switch to #Linux. While seeing our community growing is nice, my first reaction is always: why didn't you take 3 seconds to read the post just before yours?
I may just become too old and grumpy but, generally speaking, I don't understand people who immediatly ask a question that has been answered thous…

This type of reasoning is always baffling to me. When climate change is discussed these people always say that there is some magical technological solution that will pop up to save us (usually handed to us by the AI gods).
Why then, in the the several decades that it takes to scale up nuclear, can we not account for the possibility that AI could become more energy efficient?
That sounds like something you could solve for the cost of a few power plants...

UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon Web Services boss
The world's largest cloud computing company plans to spend £8bn on new data centres in the UK over the next four years.

A State of the Art on Recent Progress and Emerging Challenges on Energy Transfer Between Vibrating Modes Under an External Mechanical Force With Time-Varying Frequency From 2020 to 2025
Jose Manoel Balthazar, Jorge Luis Palacios Felix, Mauricio A. Ribeiro, Angelo Marcelo Tusset, Jeferson Jose de Lima, Vinicius Piccirillo, Julijana Simonovic, Nikola D. Nevsic, Marcos Varanis, Clivaldo de Oliveira, Raphaela C. Machado, Gabriella O M Oliveira

A State of the Art on Recent Progress and Emerging Challenges on Energy Transfer Between Vibrating Modes Under an External Mechanical Force With Time-Varying Frequency From 2020 to 2025
In this paper, we discuss an example of current importance with a future perspective in engineering, in which excitation sources always have limited power, limited inertia, and their frequencies vary according to the instantaneous state of the vibrating system. Practical examples of non-ideal systems are considered. The most common phenomenon for this kind of system is discussed. The period considered is from 2020 to 2025. The specific properties of various models are also discussed. Directions…

Numerical invariants of hyper-K\"ahler manifolds
Olivier Debarre, Chen Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04177 https://arxiv.org/…

Numerical invariants of hyper-Kähler manifolds
We study various constraints on the Beauville quadratic form and the Huybrechts-Riemann-Roch polynomial for hyper-Kähler manifolds, mostly in dimension 6 and in the presence of an isotropic class. In an appendix, Chen Jiang proves that in general, the Huybrechts-Riemann-Roch polynomial can always be written as a linear combination with nonnegative coefficients of certain explicit polynomials with positive coefficients. This implies that the Huybrechts-Riemann-Roch polynomial satisfies a curi…

@…
Not sure why it won't let me respond to your comment directly..
If you look at my feed at all, you will see I am far from a "Republican"
If one watches PBS Newshour with any critical media literacy their drift to the right is clear. They are always doing the "both sides", treating Trump and his Reublican minons as normal, etc. But the Republicans (who I am definitely not one of) have been working on this since Reagan and they really got going in 2005 https://www.democracynow.org/2005/5/12/a_right_wing_coup_at_pbs
https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/june-23-2005-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-hires-former-rnc-chair

It always impresses me how easy it is to upload local files to the iTunes Music Library and immediately get it on every device along with my Apple Music library.

#Wordle 1,440 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 217,070 (624)
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 0 of 74 (35)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 0 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 86/99
Luck 47/99
I definitely enjoyed today's wordle, probably because my guesses worked very well, providing good clues and having eliminated most options (I think, bot will have to confirm) at the end.
Bot confirms only 2 words were left.
Bot and I always have a difference of opinion on a result like my 1st guess, bot thinks it's unlucky because there are so many words left, I consider it lucky because it's eliminated 5 letters, and not constrained my coming up w/ words for my next guess.

I'm not exactly sure what the specific lesson is, but It's getting close to being able to *credit* the people who stayed on X/Twitter for at least being partially responsible for Musk crashing out. He's getting bullied hard there, in the way he deserves.
"Leave Twitter or you're a Nazi" was always goofy
#socialmedia

Non-conformality of large deviations of moving average of the random walk in strongly mixing environment
Jiaming Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01316 http…

Non-conformality of large deviations of moving average of the random walk in strongly mixing environment
The quenched and annealed large deviations of the random walk in random environment are shown to conform on any compact set whenever the level of disorder is sufficiently low. In this work, we show that these two large deviations always disagree at some interior point of the natural domain of the random walk in strongly mixing environment, regardless of the level of disorder.

As always: #ACAB. And especially fuckers who lead your local PD, even if they come from other departments (like sanitation). https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/30

I find the deluge of information overwhelming and things have only gotten worse with AI. Now I can produce mountains of crap using AI and then I have to sift it to see if there is anything worth saving.
I find myself always behind on working through all the information and projects I have...and if by some Herculean effort I manage to get current (this usually involves hitting the delete button repeatedly while telling myself "you'll never use that or need that again") I find myself building a mountain again with great haste!
Yes, I am fully aware I'm #neurodivergent and #adhd. Sigh.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LoudAndProud
Mariah Carey:
🎵 Always Be My Baby
#MariahCarey
https://deucifer.bandcamp.com/track/11a-mariah-carey-always-be-my-baby-2fntne-edition
https://open.spotify.com/track/2aBxt229cbLDOvtL7Xbb9x

Our body always wants to have three reference points since we live in 3D space. This can be a combination of two position sensors, and vision. Here is an interesting situation. When I shower, and am standing up, I place my normal leg and foot on the floor of the shower, and kneel on a shower stool. Combine that with my visual reference of my position in space, and I am golden. (2)

I have never had a phone migration go smoothly. They are always a shit show. And 90-95% of the problems are not technical but just bullshit, people making mountains of molehills. I got supervisory scolded today for laughing when someone told me how dare I cause these problems today, on the busiest day of the year. WTF?! Laughing was apparently not the correct response.

I use my #rdocdump #rstats package myself very often to make sure LLM always has the most recent docs of an R package that I am using. In one line of code you get a text file with basically all package docs and vignettes. Not on

rdocdump: Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File
Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File

Apparently, my heat tolerance is way lower than it was last summer (previously 94 F). Running 5 miles in 80 F weather today triggered a mild asthma attack (I always have my inhaler with me), and my heart rate hit 190. The high HR was probably a combination of the temperature outside, pushing too hard, and all the medications I'm on. Classic fuck around and find out 😖
I will be inside on the treadmill until it's low 70s from now on.
Looking forward to starting IgE inhibit…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14485 has been replaced.
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On Sybil-proof Mechanisms
We show that in the single-parameter mechanism design environment, the only non-wasteful, symmetric, incentive compatible and Sybil-proof direct mechanism is a second price auction with symmetric tie-breaking. Thus, if there is private information, lotteries or other mechanisms that do not always allocate to a highest-value bidder are not Sybil-proof or not incentive compatible. Moreover, we show that our main (im)possibility result extends beyond linear valuations, but not to multi-unit object…

Algebraic aspects of the polynomial Littlewood-Offord problem
Zhihan Jin, Matthew Kwan, Lisa Sauermann, Yiting Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23335 https:…

Algebraic aspects of the polynomial Littlewood-Offord problem
Consider a degree-$d$ polynomial $f(ξ_1,\dots,ξ_n)$ of independent Rademacher random variables $ξ_1,\dots,ξ_n$. To what extent can $f(ξ_1,\dots,ξ_n)$ concentrate on a single point? This is the so-called polynomial Littlewood-Offord problem. A nearly optimal bound was proved by Meka, Nguyen and Vu: the point probabilities are always at most about $1/\sqrt n$, unless $f$ is "close to the zero polynomial" (having only $o(n^d)$ nonzero coefficients). In this paper we prove several results s…

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Contractive representations of odometer semigroup
Given a natural number $n \geq 1$, the odometer semigroup $O_n$, also known as the adding machine or the Baumslag-Solitar monoid with two generators, is a well-known object in group theory. This paper examines the odometer semigroup in relation to representations of bounded linear operators. We focus on noncommutative operators and prove that contractive representations of $O_n$ always admit to nicer representations of $O_n$. We give a complete description of representations of $O_n$ on the Foc…

On a question of Ab\'ert and Vir\'ag
Jorge Fari\~na-Asategui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23142 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.2314…

On a question of Abért and Virág
Abért and Virág proved in 2005 that the Hausdorff dimension of a non-trivial normal subgroup of a level-transitive 1-dimensional subgroup of the group of $p$-adic automorphisms $W_p$ is always 1. They further asked whether the same holds replacing 1-dimensional with positive dimensional. On the one hand, we provide a negative answer in general by giving counterexamples where the non-trivial normal subgroups are not all 1-dimensional. Furthermore, these counterexamples are pro-$p$ subgroups …

To all my fellow Arch users, I was once again reminded that putting anything in `/etc/environment` is a bad idea. Don't do it.
I put `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1` in there, because I always want native file dialogs, right? Well, turns out this breaks secret service integration (KDE Wallet/GNOME Keyring) in Fractal. So, back to setting it on a per-app basis.
#Linux

Thread and Memory-Safe Programming with CLASS
Lu\'is Caires (Instituto Superior T\'ecnico)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20848 https://

Thread and Memory-Safe Programming with CLASS
CLASS is a proof-of-concept general purpose linear programming language, flexibly supporting realistic concurrent programming idioms, and featuring an expressive linear type system ensuring that programs (1) never misuse or leak stateful resources or memory, (2) never deadlock, and (3) always terminate. The design of CLASS and the strong static guarantees of its type system originates in its Linear Logic and proposition-as-types foundations. However, instead of focusing on its theoretical found…

Once a Giant, Always a Giant: NY calling on legends to help this year's team https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45377873/new-york-giants-calling-legends-help-2025-team

I think the new Mission Impossible is the first time I’ve seen a British Film Commission logo in the credits.
I’d always respected that the U.K. government never required a Union Flag be added to the credits on movies it assisted, but that’s apparently no more?

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JENNA: She's right, Blake. He's led a privileged life. He's got money.
BLAKE: He's also been on the move for a long time.
JENNA: But even so, a man with his skills can always earn it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/170 B…

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Sometimes time is
golden, stretching softly to
capture moments in gentle fingers and
braid them into sweet memory. Sometimes
it softens details as it
passes, a touch here, a
caress there, hazing hardship and
happiness alike. Sometimes it
races, a new puppy with a
beloved toy. Sometimes it
slows, sticky as tar to a
tortuous
eternity. But whether the
clock-face is antagonist or protagonist in the
wind of your life's tale, it
always, always keeps on
ticking. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #WSS366

To give some examples:
When police get vastly differential results at investigating crimes against some groups (e.g., Black women) vs. others (e.g., white men), that's malcompetence. Probably plenty of simple malice involved too, and probably the whole gamut of mechanisms I mentioned in the last post are involved here.
Another example, from my own experience: when I stumble over the names of my non-white students but pronounce my white students' names flawlessly, that's malcompetence on my part, because the net effect of my selective incompetence is to make some students feel less welcome in my classroom, which hurts their learning. I'm my case, the reasons for the incompetence are not conscious nor (I think) unconscious malice, but instead a differential capability picked up from a certain kind of upbringing and then (sometimes) insufficiently mitigated by capability-building effort. Because of how I grew up, my ability to pronounce different names is biased (this is true of everyone in the world; most people don't have a classroom instructor position that causes it to matter so much). When I'm successful at mitigating my malcompetence, I use practice time with student intro videos to pare down my competence gap for the specific students in my class. This is time consuming (several hours per week for the first few weeks of classes) and I'm sad to admit that I don't always invest that time. But it's a great example of malcompetence because I have a introspective access to it.

Installed new m.2, so exciting. It's so freaking fast. Had to take the GPU out as the slot is UNDER the GPU for some reason, almost broke my GPU.
Went to sign up for the 2 year warranty - they need a 3 digit code on the HDD itself to activate the warranty.
Why is it always despair?

The Cost of Restaking vs. Proof-of-Stake
Akaki Mamageishvili, Benny Sudakov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24440 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

The Cost of Restaking vs. Proof-of-Stake
We compare the efficiency of restaking and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) protocols in terms of stake requirements. First, we consider the sufficient condition for the restaking graph to be secure. We show that the condition implies that it is always possible to transform such a restaking graph into secure PoS protocols. Next, we derive two main results, giving upper and lower bounds on required extra stakes that one needs to add to validators of the secure restaking graph to be able to transform it into…

Using the last of my free cinema tickets was tough... seeing The Accountant 2 tonight, I remember enjoying the first. But what then? May or may not actually attend, but booked a showing of The Amateur on Sunday night ending at 1am 😂 always wanted to do a late screening!

WakeMod: A 6.9uW Wake-Up Radio Module with -72.6dBm Sensitivity for On-Demand IoT
Lukas Schulthess, Silvano Cortesi, Michele Magno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21529

WakeMod: A 6.9uW Wake-Up Radio Module with -72.6dBm Sensitivity for On-Demand IoT
Large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as asset tracking and remote sensing, demand multi-year battery lifetimes to minimize maintenance and operational costs. Traditional wireless protocols often employ duty cycling, introducing a tradeoff between latency and idle consumption - both unsuitable for event-driven and ultra-low power systems. A promising approach to address these issues is the integration of always-on wake-up radios (WuRs). They provide asynchronous, ultra-low pow…

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On Extrapolation of Treatment Effects in Multiple-Cutoff Regression Discontinuity Designs
Regression discontinuity (RD) designs typically identify the treatment effect at a single cutoff point, which may not always be the primary interest. When and how, then, can we learn about treatment effects away from the cutoff? This paper addresses this question within a multiple-cutoff RD framework. We begin by examining the plausibility of the constant bias assumption proposed by Cattaneo, Keele, Titiunik, and Vazquez-Bare (2021) through the lens of rational decision-making behavior. We argu…

React to Surprises: Stable-by-Design Neural Feedback Control and the Youla-REN
Nicholas H. Barbara, Ruigang Wang, Alexandre Megretski, Ian R. Manchester
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01226

React to Surprises: Stable-by-Design Neural Feedback Control and the Youla-REN
We study parameterizations of stabilizing nonlinear policies for learning-based control. We propose a structure based on a nonlinear version of the Youla-Kučera parameterization combined with robust neural networks such as the recurrent equilibrium network (REN). The resulting parameterizations are unconstrained, and hence can be searched over with first-order optimization methods, while always ensuring closed-loop stability by construction. We study the combination of (a) nonlinear dynamics, …

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Diagonal superexchange in a simple square CuO$_2$ lattice
Many microscopic models with the interaction between the next-nearest neighbours as a key parameter for cuprate physics have inspired us to study the diagonal superexchange interaction in a CuO$_2$ layer. Our investigation shows that models with extended hopping provide a correct representation of magnetic interactions only in a hypothetical square CuO$_2$ layer, where the diagonal superexchange interaction with the next-nearest neighbors always has the AFM nature. The conclusions are based on …

Reconstruction of Partial Dissimilarity Matrices for Cognitive Neuroscience
Denise Moerel, Tijl Grootswagers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00484 https://

Reconstruction of Partial Dissimilarity Matrices for Cognitive Neuroscience
In cognitive neuroscience research, Representational Dissimilarity Matrices (RDMs) are often incomplete because pairwise similarity judgments cannot always be exhaustively collected as the number of pairs rapidly increases with the number of conditions. Existing methods to fill these missing values, such as deep neural network imputation, are powerful but computationally demanding and relatively opaque. We introduce a simple algorithm based on geometric inference that fills missing dissimilarit…

This morning I null routed another dozen IP addresses for scraping my personal git server using repeated http requests. As per usual, a quick inspection reveals that at least some of them are scraping for LLM data. As always, I have not consented to this use of my non-maintained code, experiments, college coursework, and miscellaneous crap that I for whatever reason decided to self host rather than pushing it to Codeberg.
I mean, if you really want to feed your LLM on a diet that inclu…

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Learned Collusion
Q-learning can be described as an all-purpose automaton that provides estimates (Q-values) of the continuation values associated with each available action and follows the naive policy of almost always choosing the action with highest Q-value. We consider a family of automata based on Q-values, whose policy may systematically favor some actions over others, for example through a bias that favors cooperation. We look for stable equilibrium biases, easily learned under converging logit/best-respo…

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JENNA: She's right, Blake. He's led a privileged life. He's got money.
BLAKE: He's also been on the move for a long time.
JENNA: But even so, a man with his skills can always earn it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/170 B…

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LoudAndProud
Grace Petrie:
🎵 The House Always Wins
#GracePetrie
https://gracepetrie.bandcamp.com/track/the-house-always-wins
https://open.spotify.com/track/66lvqqjHvmCS28yMuYrkQc

Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦠🦐
I've always been impressed by this video from New Scientist about #copepods, the planet's most abundant multicellular organism, with interviews from several UK uni…

Yeah, if you're still a Starmer supporter after his racist Enoch Powell channelling, it's a block from me.
Have some fucking limits, centrists. You know, like on genocide or killing babies or racism?
Why is it that right-wing cunts always hijack Labour? Fuck off and join the Tories, traitors.

Identifiability through special linear measurements
Fulvio Gesmundo, Alexandros Grosdos, Andr\'e Uschmajew
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24328 https://

Identifiability through special linear measurements
We show that one can always identify a point on an algebraic variety $X$ uniquely with $\dim X +1$ generic linear measurements taken themselves from a variety under minimal assumptions. As illustrated by several examples the result is sharp, that is, $\dim X$ measurements are in general not enough for unique identifiability.

Building a product as an engineer is quite annoying when it comes to marketing. It's a must do step. Every time I do an email announcing new features, reach out to users, or post information on reddit I nearly always either get a new subscriber, sometimes a premium one, and at the very least increase the exposure of my product. Yet it's so annoying to do :) My only solution for this right now is discipline and not allowing myself to write code until I do something on the marketing si…

Ugh. So twitter right now is WAY too effective at dividing the Dems. I hope we get this out of our system.
For the record, the big problem here is misplaced faith in the (white) left; e.g. Bernie's a good cheerleader but *wildly* ineffective on the ground because at the end of the day you have to work within the ugly system
a thing elder black folks in politics excel at, which the white left ALWAYS seems to forget

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Roland Haynes Jr. & Phenix:
🎵 I'll Always Be There
#RolandHaynesJr #Phenix
https://aotns.bandcamp.com/track/ill-always-be-there
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AbQcR22P4YJAk2be4apL2