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Aaron Rodgers' Steelers deal draws 'worst-case scenario' reaction, comments from around NFL, former players

https://www.cbssports.com/n…

Want to make the most of your time around Berlin Buzzwords?
Check out our Satellite Events page to find out about other interesting meet-ups and conferences happening around #bbuzz: https://2025.berlinbuzzwords.de/sate…

Satellite Events
Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Police:
🎵 When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
#ThePolice
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/when-the-world-is-running-down-you-make-the-best-of-whats-still-around
https://open.spotify.com/track/2e2P8zydI5GtcaVhTkOYa9

A transiting giant planet in orbit around a 0.2-solar-mass host star: #planet orbiting tiny star challenges theories on planet formation: https://warwick.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/discovery_of_giant_planet_orbiting_tiny_star_challenges_theories_on_planet_formation and https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_20434166/en/a-giant-planet-around-a-tiny-star-a-discovery-that-challenges-planet-formation-theories

First-round NFL Draft picks who overcame bust status: Ravens' Rashod Bateman the latest to turn career around

https://www.cbssports.com/nf…

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Not really,
because the oceans around reefs aren't deserts
https://bsky.app/profile/gobyone.bsky.social/post/3lqwx35b4fs2f

Simon J. Brandl (@gobyone.bsky.social)
Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️... Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong... 🌐 🦑🧪 🧵⬇️

Loud burping while walking around the airport is prohibited in Halstead, Kansas.

So some Democratic politicians actually got the memo, but clearly others are flailing. To help them out, I’d like to offer my sage political wisdom. Try the following message:
1. Kick Trump out.
2. Tax the living shit out of billionaires.
3. Use the money to get folks back on their feet and clean up this mess.
Just that. Simple and direct, no fussing around. Give that a try and see how it lands. Float a trial balloon in some minor swing district election and see what happens.

I’ve been trying to “vibe code” a couple of things over the last few days, but I had to fall back on using my brain (like a sucker!).
I should keep some of this coding knowledge knocking around a little longer before cat videos and memes fill those parts of my brain.
My vibe must be off :P

Altman's iris-scanning orbs may have us in a privacy tizzy, but let's not forget that Zuck is hoping to recoup the $60B he lost on VR by gathering data in Meta's Ray-Bans—for AI, yes, but probably also to personalize ads you won't be able to look away from https://www.

"‘We don’t need a disaster to justify resilience’: Climate projects can bring big economic benefits"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Finance

How climate resilience projects are paying off around the world
The 320 climate projects analysed were found to have potential yields of about €1 trillion in projected returns over a decade.

#caturday

Why having a blog when you can just tell the story around a fireplace when people ask?

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Rifles:
🎵 Wall Around Your Heart
#NowPlaying #TheRifles
https://therifles.bandcamp.com/track/wall-around-your-heart
https://open.spotify.com/track/2pkO2dQsVg2Wb3qywWTguo

Oh, I see now how quote posting is going to be processed around here...
Not a bad system at all, although I do have my doubts it'll work well when the quoted posts are coming from networks where this kind of approval is tacitly given by default, such as Bluesky, like in this case.
#Mastodon #QuotePosting

Right-wing media solidify around "able-bodied" myth as Senate GOP weighs Medicaid cuts (John Knefel/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/health-care/right-wing-media-solidify-around-able-bodied-myth-senate-gop-weighs-medicaid-cuts
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p56#a250604p56

Searching for helium escape and a low density atmosphere around the 120 Myr old sub-Neptune HIP94235b using CRIRES
Ava Morrissey, George Zhou, Chelsea X. Huang, Duncan Wright, Neale Gibson, Keighley E. Rockcliffe, Elisabeth R. Newton, James Kirk, Daniel Bayliss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04605

Searching for helium escape and a low density atmosphere around the 120 Myr old sub-Neptune HIP94235b using CRIRES+
Atmospheric mass loss is thought to induce the bimodality in the small planet population as we observe it today. Observationally, active mass loss can be traced by excess absorption in spectral lines of lighter species, such as the hydrogen Ly-alpha line and the metastable helium triplet. We search for helium escape from the young (120Myr old) sub-Neptune HIP94235b. We obtained two transit observations of HIP94235b using the CRyogenic InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph (CRIRES+) on the Very Large Te…

ok, thou shall not let your Lilydeck lying around outside unsupervised.
how long do you let devices dry before re-charging them?
#AskFedi #Meshtastic

📣 Calling all GÉANT Project partners…
Got an idea for digital research, data transfer or secure storage solutions to support open science?
The 2025 GÉANT Above-the-Net Services Incubator is officially open for proposals!
This is your opportunity to:
✅ Develop and test your innovative idea
✅ Deliver impact to the whole community through new, shared, open-source services
✅ Help shape the future of GÉANT's Above-the-Net services portfolio
Learn more: …

GÉANT Project Above-the-Net Services Incubator: Call for Proposals | GÉANT CONNECT Online
The GÉANT (GN5-2) Project’s Above-the-Net Services incubator is looking for practical proposals around three areas of service concept investment being developed by the GN5-2 Above-the-Net Services team. These are: Digital Research Environment (DRE) Object Storage Infrastructure Data Movement Infrastructure Through the incubator, the GN5-2 project will offer person months (PMs) to project partners to develop

I saw an F-150 in Texas that had a Trump bumper sticker along with a decal that reads, "When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty," along with an image of a gun.
How does someone drive around with all that cognitive dissonance?

Heavy rains inundate northeast India #India

Heavy rains inundate northeast India
Dozens of people are reported dead amid torrential rains over the past week in India’s northeastern region, local media reported. The most heavily affected states are Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. In Assam, more than 640,000 people have been affected as the Brahmaputra River and its tributaries overflowed beyond danger levels, flooding many areas. Around 40,000 […]

"The good news is, those same software workers can still influence the state of the world in a positive light. In the pages of this magazine, now celebrating its fifth year of existence, we have tried to highlight the various ways they can do this:
By promoting a healthy dialogue between management and software engineers.
By showing empathy with one another and with mankind.
By unionizing and fighting against atrocious work conditions."

Infighting around EU rearmament undermines grand ambitions for European defense: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/infighting-around-eu-rearmament-undermines.html

Kernel 6.15.x is annoying. Features are missing, builds crash, working builds behave strangely. I'll just hang around on 6.14.10 for a while.

Social media platforms have become so closed this days. I hate when I get a Tik Tok link. I can't do anything with that and I am not creating a Tik Tok account. How exactly do those platforms resonate around that? Aren't they making it harder to get new users? Are people really going around and creating accounts in all platforms just to be able to see that one link they received from someone?

Source: X is piloting a program to use Community Notes to highlight posts on which people of typically differing opinions agree (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/x-elon-musk-community-notes

Exclusive: X piloting new program to elevate content users agree on
The goal is to build momentum around opinions that are widely shared.

"Apple provided governments around the world with data related to thousands of push notifications sent to its devices, which can identify a target’s specific device or in some cases include unencrypted content."
https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governm

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

Stellar distributions around supermassive black holes in gas-rich nuclear star clusters
Mor Rozner, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04229 ht…

Stellar distributions around supermassive black holes in gas-rich nuclear star clusters
We study the stellar distribution around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in gas-rich nuclear star clusters (NSCs). NSCs could contain vast amounts of gas, which contribute significantly to shaping the stellar distribution, typically altering the stellar density cusp from the usual Bahcall \& Wolf 1976 solution and consequently affecting the dynamics in the NSC. The dense gaseous environment in NSCs gives rise to dynamical phenomena that are otherwise rare in other gas-free environments. Here w…

After having wondered why my browsers all behave differently when navigating websites with a keyboard, I found this helpful article about the various settings the browsers have and the „spatial" navigation feature that f.e. #Vivaldi offers:

Links unreachable with tab key despite having href made me learn about Spatial Navigation
Another issue where I was not able to google a simple solution: I discovered that links on a website...

It was great to have @… around this week for @… 's PhD defense and to talk all things #bicycle

sa_companies: South African companies (1919)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between a small group of individuals and five important companies in South African finance, around 1919.
This network has 11 nodes and 13 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sa_comp

Data privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police forces and private companies across the UK.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/202…

Government urged to tighten regulation around facial recognition technology
Data privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police ...

TIL this is a thing. i'm now nerdsniped and playing around with it, lol.
https://myscope.training/FIB_simulator.html
The quad layout, nav-cam, and stage design scream "~2010 or newer FEI dual beam, Versa/Helios family probably" to me, althouhg the softwa…

Jackson Powers-Johnson: 'We've been flying around and having fun' https://www.raiders.com/video/jackson-powers-johnson-offense-raiders-ashton-jeanty-nfl-offseason-2025

Also just been watching a kōtare out the window. I startled it by walking past the window and then saw it sitting on a nearby street light. It then flew down and ate a few things off the rain slick road... worms, I'm guessing. Gorgeous to see its blue and gold highlights flitting around.

Big Bird: Privacy Budget Management for W3C's Privacy-Preserving Attribution API
Pierre Tholoniat, Alison Caulfield, Giorgio Cavicchioli, Mark Chen, Nikos Goutzoulias, Benjamin Case, Asaf Cidon, Roxana Geambasu, Mathias L\'ecuyer, Martin Thomson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05290

Big Bird: Privacy Budget Management for W3C's Privacy-Preserving Attribution API
Privacy-preserving advertising APIs like Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA) are designed to enhance web privacy while enabling effective ad measurement. PPA offers an alternative to cross-site tracking with encrypted reports governed by differential privacy (DP), but current designs lack a principled approach to privacy budget management, creating uncertainty around critical design decisions. We present Big Bird, a privacy budget manager for PPA that clarifies per-site budget semantics and in…

Pregnancy, miscarriage
This is so, so scary.
During my time in the US, I had a miscarriage, and the suspicion around it already made the whole hospital experience one of the worst days of my life. That was almost 20 years ago, before these recent developments. This will affect so many people, women*, with unwanted and wanted pregnancies, and it will lead to more deaths. https://social.stuetzle.cc/@ingo/114627269871987892

I need a new #carryon #luggage, a #trolley and I want your opinions:
I'm leaning towards 2 wheels (in contrast to 4 or 8 wheels) because:
- better on rough surface
- doesn't float around in …

Today is #WorldBicycleDay so I went for a #Tallbike ride around around with @… and @…

Some thoughts from my self-reflection today. Maybe this helps someone.
I had to deal with a bunch of broken things today. Normally that greatly bothers me, but these were things I broke, and I broke them long ago. I have a lot of anger due to the circumstances around why I was never able to fix them. But that's not helpful. I could spend my hours in rage, or I could keep in mind that I can't undo the reasons for my anger. I can work towards fixing them, or documenting the…

is thinking about getting an automatic feeder that can split the cat's two meals per day into something like six. He started asking for dinner around 2:00 since switching to the prescription food.

A robust approach to sigma point Kalman filtering
Shenglun Yi, Mattia Zorzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04815 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

A robust approach to sigma point Kalman filtering
In this paper, we address a robust nonlinear state estimation problem under model uncertainty by formulating a dynamic minimax game: one player designs the robust estimator, while the other selects the least favorable model from an ambiguity set of possible models centered around the nominal one. To characterize a closed-form expression for the conditional expectation characterizing the estimator, we approximate the center of this ambiguity set by means of a sigma point approximation. Furthermo…

My mind boggled the first time I was walked around some major Canadian city and came across a Hudson's Bay Company store. It'd be like walking around Kolkota and running into an East India Company store—not just the same name but also the same company.

"The British people want peace. The government’s continued support for Israel must be made untenable. The Gaza Inquiry Bill, and the “red line” Palestine solidarity campaigners drew around Parliament yesterday, help us to do that."
Corbyn’s Gaza Inquiry Bill reflects public opinion – Starmer’s pro-war policy does not | Morning Star

Periodic Orbits and Gravitational Wave Radiation of Black Holes in 4D-EGB gravity
Liping Meng, Zhaoyi Xu, Meirong Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05015 htt…

Periodic Orbits and Gravitational Wave Radiation of Black Holes in 4D-EGB gravity
In the paper, we study the dynamical behavior of a particle around a charged black hole within the framework of 4D-EGB gravity theory. Based on the spacetime metric of the black hole, we rigorously derived the effective potential of the particle and analyzed the particle's MBO and ISCO. The results show that the key physical quantities of MBO and ISCO-including orbital radius, angular momentum, and energy-all exhibit significant dependence on parameter $α$ and charge $Q$. As these two paramete…

After hanging around in Dutch parliament for 35 years (8 years as assistant and speech writer for VVD, 27 years as MP), far-right Wilders just blew up his first own coalition, because the other parties didn't sign up for his new list of anti-refugee/asylumseeker ideas.

"In coming weeks, proposed job cuts and restructures will be released for the Academic Portfolio, Research and Innovation Portfolio, the College of Science and Medicine, and the College of Arts and Social Sciences."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025…

Australian National University announces first round of job cuts as part of effort to turn around financial issues
As the Australian National University grapples with its dire financial position, the first of several rounds of job cuts has been announced as the institution seeks to save $250 million by the end of the year, including $100 million from salaries.

Novel methodology to obtain transonic solutions for dissipative flows around compact objects
Shilpa Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24839 https://…

Novel methodology to obtain transonic solutions for dissipative flows around compact objects
A novel methodology to obtain global transonic solutions around compact objects is reported here. A unified methodology to obtain accretion as well as wind solutions around these objects has been presented. Flows around compact objects are dissipative, and the conservation equations are therefore stiff. In such conditions, obtaining of sonic point(s) and hence, the transonic solution is not trivial. The conserved equations of motion fail to integrate in the presence of realistic viscosity, ther…

High-Contrast Coronagraphy
Matthew A. Kenworthy, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert
#toXiv_bot_toot

Using the Coolest Ae Stars to Constrain Circumstellar Disk Viscosity
R. Anusha, T. A. A. Sigut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04486 https://

Using the Coolest Ae Stars to Constrain Circumstellar Disk Viscosity
Classical Ae (CAe) stars are main sequence, A-type stars with Hα emission but no signature of dust. They are thought to be the cool extension of the classical Be stars to lower masses. Recent surveys based on Hα spectroscopy have significantly increased the number of known CAe stars, with the population extending to spectral types as cool as A4 (Teff approx. 8500 K). We compute the temperature structure of gaseous, circumstellar disks around A-type stars, including both radiative heating from…

Three Hot Jupiters transiting K-dwarfs with a significant heavy element mass
Y. G. C. Frensch, F. Bouchy, G. Lo Curto, S. Ulmer-Moll, S. G. Sousa, N. C. Santos, K. G. Stassun, C. N. Watkins, H. Chakraborty, K. Barkaoui, M. Battley, W. Ceva, K. A. Collins, T. Daylan, P. Evans, J. P. Faria, C. Farret Jentink, E. Fontanet, E. Frid\'en, G. Furesz, M. Gillon, N. Grieves, C. Hellier, E. Jehin, J. M. Jenkins, L. K. W. Kwok, D. W. Latham, B. Lavie, N. Law, A. W. Mann, F. Murgas, E. Palle, …

Three Hot Jupiters transiting K-dwarfs with a significant heavy element mass
Albeit at a lower frequency than around hotter stars, short-period gas giants around low-mass stars ($T_\mathrm{eff} < 4965$ K) do exist, despite predictions from planetary population synthesis models that such systems should be exceedingly rare. By combining data from TESS and ground-based follow-up observations, we seek to confirm and characterize giant planets transiting K dwarfs, particularly mid/late K dwarfs. Photometric data were obtained from the TESS mission, supplemented by ground-bas…

Looks like it wouldn’t be too hard for ICE to tap the Flock cameras increasingly deployed around SF, if they aren’t already, by asking either SFPD or other PDs it shares access with to do the searches for them
https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nati

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

I find it culturally fascinating that Barnaby Joyce, despite his drunken philandering, would actually increase his vote in New England during an election that demolished the coalition
https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2025/guide/neng

New England Federal Election 2025 Results
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.

Eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s Cerrado dries up springs, forces out smallholders https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/eucalyptus-boom-in-brazils-cerrado-dries-up-springs-forces-out-smallholders/

Eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s Cerrado dries up springs, forces out smallholders
A eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s biodiverse Cerrado savanna is drying up land and water springs, making subsistence farming more difficult, local authorities and farmers tell Mongabay. Adilso Cruz, a 46-year-old rancher from the Alecrim settlement in Mato Grosso do Sul state, said the water shortages began around 2013, coinciding with the growth of eucalyptus plantations […]

"Quite simply, if you have not read this book yet, read it. If you have a colleague who has yet to read it, get them a copy. If someone asks you what one book to read about software engineering, it is this one. It is not Code Complete, Second Edition, nor is it Clean Code, nor any other book that claims to teach you how to get software right the first time around (you will not)."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/michael-feathers/

open your third nostril to the beautiful sounds all around you with the gentle aid of the frow show, new music & other adventures from now 'til midnight ET on @…. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250603

On a linear equation arising in the study of phase separation of BEC's
Christos Sourdis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05299 https://…

On a linear equation arising in the study of phase separation of BEC's
We consider the inner limit system describing the phase separation in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates linearized around the one-dimensional solution in an infinite strip with zero and periodic boundary conditions, and obtain optimal invertibility estimates for the Fourier modes without necessarily assuming orthogonality conditions.

Maybe it could even guess when you've been around someone, setting aside blocks where your hrv, etc. seem to be fairly uniform...and one could then identify that block as being x or y (could be a person, ones pet, watching a TV show) and then it could watch for similar patterns of measurements and ask if you were in xs proximity again, over time we might find unique signatures associated with specific people, activities, locations?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18001 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Liouvillian skin effects in two-dimensional electron systems at finite temperatures
Liouvillian skin effects, manifested as the localization of Liouvillian eigenstates around the boundary, are distinctive features of non-Hermitian systems and are particularly notable for their impact on system dynamics. Despite their significance, Liouvillian skin effects have not been sufficiently explored in electron systems. In this work, we demonstrate that a two-dimensional electron system on a substrate exhibits $\mathbb{Z}$ and $\mathbb{Z}_2$ Liouvillian skin effects due to the interpla…

Complexity in the Wake of Artificial Intelligence
Theodore Modis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04269 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.04269

Complexity in the Wake of Artificial Intelligence
This study aims to evaluate quantitatively, albeit in arbitrary units, the evolution of complexity of the human system since the domestication of fire. This is made possible by studying the timing of the 14 most important milestones, breaks in historical perspective, in the evolution of humans. AI is considered here as the latest such milestone with importance comparable to that of the Internet. The complexity is modeled to have evolved along a bell-shaped curve, reaching a maximum around our t…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23818 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@…

Acceleration-induced transport of quantum vortices in joined atomtronic circuits
Persistent currents--inviscid quantized flow around an atomic circuit--are a crucial building block of atomtronic devices. We investigate how acceleration influences the transfer of persistent currents between two density-connected, ring-shaped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, joined by a tunable weak link that controls system topology. We find that the acceleration of this system modifies both the density and phase dynamics between the rings, leading to a bias in the periodic vortex oscillati…

Was looking for a trash can in this Black Forest town, searched in @…, no results, so I walked around and added all trash cans I could find and other stuff I found useful 🗑️
#OpenStreetMap

Source: Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots to deliver packages and is near completion of an indoor "humanoid park" in San Francisco to test them (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/am

Amazon Prepares to Test Humanoid Robots for Delivering Packages
Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers, according to a person who has been involved in the effort. In doing so, Amazon is paving the way to automate a major part of its operation, the delivery of parcels around the world.

Quenching of single-particle strength inferred from nucleon-removal transfer reactions on $^{15}$C
Y. C. Jiang, J. Chen, B. P. Kay, C. R. Hoffman, T. L. Tang, I. A. Tolstukhin, M. R. Xie, J. G. Li, N. Michel, M. L. Avila, Y. Ayyad, D. Bazin, S. Bennett, J. A. Clark, S. J. Freeman, H. Jayatissa, G. Li, W. P. Liu, J. L. Lou, A. Munoz-Ramos, C. M\"uller-Gatermann, T. Nathan, D. Santiago-Gonzalez, D. K. Sharp, Y. P. Shen, A. H. Wuosmaa, C. X. Yuan

Quenching of single-particle strength inferred from nucleon-removal transfer reactions on $^{15}$C
The difference in the proton and neutron separation energies ($ΔS$) of the weakly bound $^{15}$C ground state is -19.86 MeV, an extreme value. Data from intermediate-energy heavy-ion induced (HI-induced) knockout reactions on nuclei spanning $-20\lesssimΔS\lesssim+20$ MeV, suggest that the degree to which single-particle strength is quenched, $R\mathrm{_{s}}$, has a negative correlation with $ΔS$, decreasing from unity around $-20$~MeV to around 0.2 at $+20$~MeV. For the $^{15}$C ground stat…

Why Raiders Rookie Ashton Jeanty Must Ignore the Hype https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-geno-smith-pete-carroll-marshawn-lynch

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03096 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

Expected value of sample information calculations for risk prediction model development
Risk prediction models are often advertised as deterministic functions that map covariates to predicted risks. However, they are typically trained using finite samples, and as such, their predictions are inherently uncertain. This uncertainty has been addressed in terms of uncertainty around metrics of model performance (e.g., confidence intervals around c-statistic), as well as uncertainty or instability of predictions. Correspondingly, sample size calculations for model development studies ta…

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

Populous the Beginning: completed!
Level 24, Journey's End, feels like a culmination of all the stages so far. You start on a small area of land, with established Green enemies to the North and Yellow wrapping around the world to the East and West. All other tribes are well established, and very soon after starting the level the Greens cast a land bridge to start attacking.

networking folks, i've found the terminology around IEEE 802.3 Clause 22 / Clause 45 very confusing; can you take a look over https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/pull/882/files#diff-bf365b35ccfcabdcaee1fcb6c…

Add an IEEE 802.3 Clause 22/45 (SMI/MIIM/MMD/MDIO) applet by whitequark · Pull Request #882 · GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow
Scots Army Knife for electronics. Contribute to GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow development by creating an account on GitHub.

Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
TARRANT: Right, that's it.
AVON: What does that mean?
TARRANT: If I'm going to die, I'd rather do it with a gun in my hand than sit around here shivering like an old woman.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/392 B7B6

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

Trash panda update: Didn't set any more boobytraps. Sprinkled cayenne pepper powder along a bunch of their travel routes (but not fully ringing the yard) which didn't seem to do a whole lot. Maybe they just walked around it, or I need to use more? I'll try doing the entire fence line tonight and see if it's more effective if I make sure not to leave any gaps.
I tried the nerf gun for what I think will probably be the last time. Shot at one of them and the cheeky bugger …

„This year, over 11.7 million people applied for Schengen short-stay visas. Globally, demand rose by more than 13%.
But for African applicants, that just meant more money lost.
Analysts estimate Africans lost €60 million (around US$67.5 million) in visa fees in 2024 alone — just for rejections.“
Via Sham Jaff's excellent newsletter https:…

The naked kitties are helping!

Fury and resignation around the world as Trump's travel ban comes roaring back (Astha Rajvanshi/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/fury-resignation-world-trumps-travel-ban-comes-roaring-back-rcna211115
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p68#a250605p68

H'mmm... My @forgejo instance has been hit very hard last night by AI crawlers, including from
* https://openai.com/gptbot (125,467 hits in 24 hours)
*

Also properly opened up around this ancient dig-in wood smoker. Might give it a go this year

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14503 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

On winding numbers of $K_5$ minus an edge in the plane
Let $K$ be the graph on vertices $\{1, 2, 3, 4, 5\}$, and having all edges except $(4, 5)$. A continuous map $f:K\to \R^2$ is called an \emph{almost embedding} if $f$-images of non-adjacent edges are disjoint. Take the winding numbers of the $f$-image of the oriented cycle $(1, 2, 3)$ around $f(4)$ and around $f(5)$. We prove that the difference of these numbers equals $\pm 1$. This is surprising, because in other similar situations analogous statement is wrong.

Given my background around the funeral industry and writing thrillers, is anyone surprised that I'd like to see this? #TrueCrime
https://time.com/7290184/the-…

The Chilling True Story Behind HBO’s The Mortician
The documentary series examines the startling true story of a cremator who went to prison for mishandling human remains

"Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE."
https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-n…

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

NFL news roundup: Ravens RB Keaton Mitchell (knee) back healthy, plans to return kickoffs https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-friday-june-6

Scattering angle in a Topological Star spacetime: a self-force approach
Massimo Bianchi, Donato Bini, Giorgio Di Russo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04876 htt…

Scattering angle in a Topological Star spacetime: a self-force approach
We compute the scattering angle for a scalar neutral probe undergoing unbound motion around a Topological Star, including self-force effects. Moreover we identify the `electro-magnetic' source of the background as Papapetrou Field compatible with the isometries and characterize Topological Stars by studying their sectional curvature, geometric transport along special curves and the gravitational energy content in terms of the super-energy tensors.

New around here, hi!
For those who'd like a big old dose of "yes we can" energy,
please check out
"Words to Win By "
where every episode details a campaign we've won somewhere
and delves into the research, messaging & strategies used to do it.
https://wordstowinby-pod.com/

Words to Win By
Words to Win By, formerly Brave New Words, takes listeners on a journey around the globe with renowned communications researcher and campaign advisor Anat Shenker-Osorio as she unpacks real-world narrative shifts that led to real-world victories.

Water ice in the #DebrisDisk around HD 181327: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08863 -> NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-119

Broncos TE Evan Engram embraces 'Joker' role but prefers 'cleaner' nickname https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-te-evan-engram-embraces-joker-role-but-prefers-cleaner-nickname

Hole spin qubits in unstrained Germanium layers
Lorenzo Mauro, Mauricio J. Rodriguez, Esteban A. Rodriguez-Mena, Yann-Michel Niquet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04977

Hole spin qubits in unstrained Germanium layers
Strained germanium heterostructures are one of the most promising material for hole spin qubits but suffer from the strong anisotropy of the gyromagnetic factors that hinders the optimization of the magnetic field orientation. The figures of merit (Rabi frequencies, lifetimes...) can indeed vary by an order of magnitude within a few degrees around the heterostructure plane. We propose to address this issue by confining the holes at the interface of an unstrained, bulk Ge substrate or thick buff…

Describing a coup as an “invasion from within” seems fairly accurate to me, and maybe useful to people who are having trouble getting their heads around the danger of the moment.

Evidence of Gaia Enceladus experiencing at least two passages around the Milky Way
\'Asa Sk\'ulad\'ottir, Heitor Ernandes, Diane K. Feuillet, Alice Mori, Sofia Feltzing, Romain E. R. Lucchesi, Paola Di Matteo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00409

Evidence of Gaia Enceladus experiencing at least two passages around the Milky Way
One of the major recent breakthroughs has been the discovery of the last Major Merger to happen in the history of the Milky Way. Around 10 Gyr ago the galaxy Gaia Enceladus, with estimated ~10% of the Milky Way mass, fell into its potential, bringing a large amount of stars which can be identified through their unique chemical and kinematic signatures. Simulations have long predicted that a galaxy of this size should experience several passages through the disk of the Milky Way before eventuall…

Hot exozodiacal dust around Fomalhaut: The MATISSE perspective
Kevin Ollmann, Florian Kirchschlager, Thomas A. Stuber, Katsiaryna Tsishchankava, Alexis Matter, Steve Ertel, Tim D. Pearce, Alexander V. Krivov, Sebastian Wolf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02826

Hot exozodiacal dust around Fomalhaut: The MATISSE perspective
Excess over the stellar photospheric emission of main-sequence stars has been found in interferometric near-infrared observations, and is attributed to the presence of hot exozodiacal dust (HEZD). As part of our effort to detect and characterize HEZD around the nearby A3 V star Fomalhaut, we carried out the first interferometric observations with the MATISSE instrument at the VLTI in the photometric bands L and M for the Fomalhaut system. Assuming a dust distribution either as a narrow ring or …

"The destruction of the climate by industrial processes is a real-world problem. If programming language selection has no impact on it, then maybe we’re all just wasting our time, creating shiny consumer distractions to make the last few years of humanity that little more palatable for the richest 1% of the world’s human population."

Choosing A Programming Language
Selecting the correct programming language for a particular task often feels like a bunfight. Suggestions are thrown around based on the individual's preferences and desires. The experience is very likely to leave one feeling that programming is an art, rather than a science.

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
AVON: Put it on the main screen.
ORAC: I must point out that this is a gross misuse and an absurd waste of my capabilities.
AVON: Put it on the main screen.
ORAC: I will do it only under protest.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/115

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

"Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE."
https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-n…

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

sa_companies: South African companies (1919)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between a small group of individuals and five important companies in South African finance, around 1919.
This network has 11 nodes and 13 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sa_comp

Filing: neobank Chime plans to sell 26M shares in its IPO at $24 to $26, giving it a valuation between $10.3B and $11.1B; its two co-founders own 4% to 5% each (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chime-sets-ipo-…

Chime Sets Tentative IPO Price at Around $10.7 Billion
Banking app Chime plans to sell shares in an initial public offering at a price that would value it at between $10.3 billion and $11.1 billion, on a fully-diluted basis, the company said in a new securities filing Monday. The company set the price range ahead of a roadshow to meet investors over the next week, ahead of its IPO. The per-share price of the range, between $24 and $26, is more

Deion Sanders was ‘hurt’ by narratives around Shedeur’s draft slide: ‘There was some foolish stuff’ https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6397866/2025/06/02/deion-sanders-shedeur-nfl-draft-slide/

MINDS: The very low-mass star and brown dwarf sample. Detections and trends in the inner disk gas
A. M. Arabhavi, I. Kamp, Th. Henning, E. F. van Dishoeck, H. Jang, L. B. F. M. Waters, V. Christiaens, D. Gasman, I. Pascucci, G. Perotti, S. L. Grant, M. G\"udel, P. -O. Lagage, D. Barrado, A. Caratti o Garatti, F. Lahuis, T. Kaeufer, J. Kanwar, M. Morales-Calder\'on, K. Schwarz, A. D. Sellek, B. Tabone, M. Temmink, M. Vlasblom, P. Patapis

MINDS: The very low-mass star and brown dwarf sample. Detections and trends in the inner disk gas
Planet-forming disks around brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars (VLMS) are on average less massive and are expected to undergo faster radial solid transport than their higher mass counterparts. Spitzer had detected C$_2$H$_2$, CO$_2$ and HCN around these objects. With better sensitivity and spectral resolving power, JWST recently revealed incredibly carbon-rich spectra from such disks. A study of a larger sample of objects is necessary to understand how common such carbon-rich inner disk regio…

NFL news roundup: Lions LB Malcolm Rodriguez (knee) has conservative timetable of late-season return https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-thursday-june-5