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A reference to this GitHub blog post has come at me a few different ways, eg:
https://bsky.app/profile/longtail.news/post/3m2cfqbihhq2c
But that URL is 404:

Seems noteworthy that #Akamai put this short statement on their blog.
"Akamai is aware of content and connectivity filtering within Russia. [...] Because of the constantly evolving situation - including active hostilities - ongoing delivery of traffic to users in Russia is provided, unfortunately, on a best-effort basis."

Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen meet again with 1 question still lingering https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6599572/2025/09/06/ravens-bills-lamar-jackson-josh-allen/

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
TRAVIS: [To mutoids] Get after them!
SERVALAN: [Slaps Travis] You hesitated. My life was at risk and you hesitated. [Tries slapping him again, but he catches her hand]
[Blake and crew hurry through the red corridors.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/527

Mekke Okereke wrote:
Here's a challenge: find an adult Black man that has spent any significant time in New York as a teenager, that *hasn't* ever been detained by a cop with a gun.
This isn't rhetorical, and it's not a trick question.
It is possible to find!
A decent percent of Black men in New York have avoided this!
About 10%!

Because I'm setting up materials again, and my blog on "Taming Brightspace for Linux" is serving as an aide-memoire, here are some details on using BrightSpace from Linux, bypassing as much as possible of its user interface by using webdav: https://brendanhalpin.net/blog/posts/wo…

Goodness-of-fit test for multi-layer stochastic block models
Huan Qing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04957 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04957

Goodness-of-fit test for multi-layer stochastic block models
Community detection in multi-layer networks is a fundamental task in complex network analysis across various areas like social, biological, and computer sciences. However, most existing algorithms assume that the number of communities is known in advance, which is usually impractical for real-world multi-layer networks. To address this limitation, we develop a novel goodness-of-fit test for the popular multi-layer stochastic block model. The test statistic is derived from a normalized aggregati…

How Private Equity Made Piracy Great Again
#culture #media

Just finished "Punk Rock Karaoke" by Bianca Xunise. It's a really cool graphic novel about a high school punk band's journey as they graduate and try to juggle shifting responsibilities. It's #OwnVoices with a Black queer protagonist and has a relentless optimism and no-nonsense vibe, plus great facts about racism in music history, and probably if you are into punk music, a cool discography woven throughout (I hasn't rally heard of any of the songs mentioned to set the mood, but then again I'm not exactly a punk aficionado).
#AmReading #Punk

NFL Week 5 bold predictions: Drake Maye and Stefon Diggs cook Bills; De'Von Achane has a fantasy feast https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-5-bold-predictions-drake-maye-and-stefon-diggs-cook-bills-de-von-achane-has-a-f…