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James Harrison defends Ben Roethlisberger from 'pure-out attack' on QB's character https://www.nfl.com/news/james-harrison-defends-ben-roethlisberger-from-pure-out-attack-on-qb-s-character

I miss the limits. Forces concise communication. Long posts/threads should be a post on your site. https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115733189272793078

bob dylan, having a totally normal one & posting excerpts from what purports to be a forthcoming science fiction novel to his instagram (though doesn't exactly say who wrote it or when it might be forthcoming). https://www.instagram.com/p/DTnwybFEXwi/

"When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses. which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character."
—Willem Dafoe
#acting #coaching

In which I build Unicode character tables and fail to serialize large automata, “Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go“:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/14/Unicode-Properties
(And in which I find myself sliding into the

Kiddo is happy to finally be able to play #Hytale by #HypixelStudios after years of waiting
https://hytale.com

'We have all fallen for a holodeck character', a Tom Paris' wisdom true for a lot of people in #StarTrek. And we'll look at such an instance for today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting!…

#LB Estou bastante surpreso da Troi não estar ganhando essa de lavada. Mas, considerando a idade que eu tinha na época da série, é possível que eu considerasse a Beverly adulta demais para mim, de forma que eu nem a considerava atraente.
https://

I haven't posted much lately because I am about to run out of tokens and I'm racing to get the next batch of all-unique cards to the printer-- I like the number & suits because it fits into #foxwork being self-working, e.g. I can say "Look, you got the 3 of cones!"
#art

🎵 "In come the dollars, and in come the cents.
To replace the pounds and the shillings and the pence." 🎵
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-14/australia-marks-60-years-since-switching-to-decimal-currency/106328652…

Australia marks 60 years since switching to decimal currency
Six decades ago, Australia swapped its old currency for dollars and cents. A catchy jingle sung by a cartoon character named Dollar Bill helped the country adapt.

"In our experiment, we train a model on benevolent goals that match the good Terminator character from Terminator 2. Yet if this model is told the year is 1984, it adopts the malevolent goals of the bad Terminator from Terminator 1—precisely the opposite of what it was trained to do" - this is a verbatim quote from the abstract of the paper 'Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs', #RogueAI

James Harrison defends Ben Roethlisberger amid Joey Porter's 'pure out attack' on former Steelers QB

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/james-harrison-defe…

Reading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/13/reading-the-faerie-queene-…

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/world-mu65cd2uz/-/a-EpBBXXh9SmSEO6q7DMTHuw:a:107108217-/0
It’s not the sort of thing one can credibly apologize for. It is the expression of a deep character flaw.

For #TextModeTuesday, some fonts from my old demoscene days, recreated in 2022 for an example project of my opensource libraries:
Figlet style text generator using big fonts:
https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/big-font/

The whole app is a blob
... character driven UI as a path to language learning, a different kind of "gamification"
#software

The Whole App is a Blob
I tried to prepare for life in French-speaking Canada by turning language drills into a Tamagotchi. It worked, as long as you don't ask me whether my coffee is for here or to go.

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: Not too close. The gap is all connected with the thickness of the door. So what's the difference between Seskas and Hommiks?
PELLA: How do you know how thick it is?
VILA: By the stress pattern.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/132 B7B4

Go / Unicode folks: any idea what character set does the IDNA2008 implementation in Go with StrictDomainName=false actually accepts?
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/76804
I think this is actually somewhat security-relevant

Just finished "New Kid" by Jerry Craft. An excellent graphic novel about navigating middle school as one of only a few Black kids at a rich private school. I love how clear Jordan (the main character) is about the racism he encounters and how it affects him and his friends. Even though his parents have done a good job of preparing him for the realities he'll face, getting through them isn't easy. Still, rather than a book about "learning how racist the world is" this is a book about "navigating the expected racism" and it's a refreshing difference.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Fanny Mendelssohn & Béatrice Rauchs:
🎵 6 Character pieces (No.5)
#FannyMendelssohn #BéatriceRauchs

Why Computation Can Simulate the Past, but Never Generate the Living Present
The Zoetrope of Logic: Why Programs Live in Frozen Time
https://www.ocrampal.com/the-zoetrope-of-logic-why-programs-live-in-frozen-time/

The Zoetrope of Logic: Why Programs Live in Frozen Time
Why Computation Can Simulate the Past, but Never Generate the Living Present The Illusion of Time in Software When you watch a video game character run across a screen, witness a real-time stock ticker update, or see a physics simulation unfold, you're experiencing what appears to be continuous, flowing time.

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker

Bob Iger says the OpenAI deal "does not in any way represent a threat to the creators at all" because it doesn't include name, likeness, or character voices (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business<…

Bob Iger: Disney’s OpenAI Deal “Does Not In Any Way” Threaten Creatives
The CEO suggested that Disney would prefer Paramount to prevail in the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery, citing Netflix's streaming dominance and the perilous state of movie theaters.

Als jemand mit chronisch schlechtem Gedächtnis für Handlungs- und Charakterdetails wünsche ich mir so ein Feature seit Jahren.
Aber lasst das doch bitte von den Autor*innen schreiben und bezahlt sie idealerweise noch dafür. Oder crowdsourced das irgendwie. Aber doch bitte, bitte nicht per KI ...
…

Bobby Hutcherson - "Montara" (1975)
#NowPlaying

"When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses. which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character."
—Willem Dafoe
#acting #coaching

A comprehensive piece on X and the Digital Services Act, born on the same day.
http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-digital-services-act-main-character.html

The Digital Service’s Act Main Character: the EU Commission finally fines X
    Steve Peers , Professor of Law, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Animated Heaven, via Wikimedia Commons   Intr...

I must be weird, am one of the apparently 0.02% for whom #Pluribus isn’t doing much, 6 episodes in (haven’t seen latest). I mean Rhea Seehorn is great but she’d be greater if they gave her a chance to be anything but angry-and-rude for even a minute here or there. Also, how about another character with a character? Will watch the last 3 shows despite massive suspension-of-disbelief failure, hopin…

Rule #1 of movies:
"Never kill the dog."
Corellary:
"...unless it underpins the main character's motivation. See '#JOHNWICK'."
Dunno how many times I've been in a theater & when the dog is in jeopardy, the people sitting next to me whisper, 'oh no no no... don't you dare f'ing do it..."

Just finished The Way of Kings.
while the writing was good and the characters were good it's such a poorly plotted book that it becomes unenjoyable.
Very little happens over 800 pages and while I love character development it's no excuse for how slow this moves. I would have enjoyed this at 500 pages. At 1000 I don't even want to read more.
#books

Ok I think I’ll private @ everyone here in this thread (divided in 2 toots since 2048 character limit), @… @… pls don’t tag me as a spammer thanks 🥺

Just finished watching “Rental Family” with Brendan Fraser. It’s a really lovely movie. Fraser was long time underrated as an actor. Famous true, but probably more for his looks than his acting talent. That’s totally different in his last movies like the “The Whale” and “Rental Family”. He’s a real good character actor too. @…

There's a thought leader (derogatory) who is the main character of linkedin today for claiming, and I quote, "Most designers won't make it past 35."
This guy's whole thesis is premised on one "insight": that orgs have more junior employees and fewer senior employees
#ux #UXDesign

Reading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/13/reading-the-faerie-queene-…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
SERVALAN: No.
TARRANT: [He holsters his gun.] It's fairly standard equipment. If there's power for the life supports, there will be for these. [Servalan activates the base computer.] Ah!
https://

RE: https://mas.to/@changoteca/116022639444361422
"The safe word must have at least 8 characters including one special character"
🤣🤣🤣

Someone using a screen reader, any screen reader, wanna tell me what they get when they animate by character (the text is after the three buttons)?
https://cdpn.io/GreenSock/debug/xxmaNYj
Ref (at end of toot):

Use of 'colonised' is particularly disgusting.
As a character in a David Edgar said,
"We are here because you were there'.
Not that Starmer, who feeds the migration moral panic, can give lessons here.
PM asks Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants'
https://www.

PM asks Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants'
Sir Keir Starmer says comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner are "offensive and wrong".

Survey of 1,458 US teens: 64% use AI chatbots, and 28% use them daily; 59% say they use ChatGPT, 23% Gemini, 20% Meta AI, 14% Copilot, and 9% Character.ai (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-…

Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025
Roughly one-in-five U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about three-in-ten who do so daily.

{tesseract} allows you to read text from images https://docs.ropensci.org/tesseract/ it can also be combined with {magick} https://ropen…

Open Source OCR Engine
Bindings to Tesseract: a powerful optical character recognition (OCR) engine that supports over 100 languages. The engine is highly configurable in order to tune the detection algorithms and obtain the best possible results.

Matt Ryan: Falcons looking for character, 'presence' as coaching search intensifies https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6966489/2026/01/13/falcons-coaching-search-matt-ryan-john-harbaugh/

Geometric configuration of integrally closed Noetherian domains
Gyu Whan Chang, Giulio Peruginelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22314 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22314 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22314
arXiv:2601.22314v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we completely describe the family of integrally closed Noetherian domains between $\mathbb{Z}[X]$ and $\mathbb{Q}[X]$. We accomplish this result by classifying the Krull domains between these two polynomial rings. To this end, we first describe the DVRs of $\mathbb{Q}(X)$ lying over $\mathbb{Z}_{(p)}$ for some prime $p \in \mathbb{Z}$, by distinguishing them according to whether the extension of the residue fields is algebraic or transcendental. We unify the known descriptions of such valuations by considering ultrametric balls in $\mathbb{C}_p$, the completion of the algebraic closure of the field $\mathbb{Q}_p$ of $p$-adic numbers. We then study when the intersection $R$ of such DVRs with $\mathbb{Q}[X]$ is of finite character, so that $R$ is a Krull domain, and we finally compute the divisor class group of $R$. It turns out that such a ring is formed by those polynomials which simultaneously map a finite union of ultrametric balls of $\mathbb{C}_p$ to its valuation domain $\mathbb{O}_p$, as $p\in\mathbb{Z}$ ranges through the set of primes. By a result of Heinzer, the Krull domains of this class are precisely the integrally closed Noetherian domains between $\mathbb{Z}[X]$ and $\mathbb{Q}[X]$. This novel approach provides a geometric understanding of this class of integrally closed domains. Furthermore, we also describe the UFDs between $\mathbb{Z}[X]$ and $\mathbb{Q}[X]$.
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As a general matter the US Federal government can not hold a copyright.
As such the "Coalie" character (see article below) may well be fair game for use by any and all in counter-messaging.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrigh

Copyright status of works by the federal government of the United States - Wikipedia

It's one thing to build something like this following a tutorial. It's a whole other thing to try to understand how it works. Time to dig into some data sheets and Arduino library code.
#electronics #arduino

Had sooooo much fun at Placeholder Club last night!
Wore my Goober avatar for a change :neofox_happy:
#VRChat #VR #VRC

#Stromberg #fritzemerz im Guardian 🫣
‘Embodying the zeitgeist more than ever’: German sitcom character Stromberg revived for Merz era

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
GAN: Better still if there are three of us.
AVON: Better still if you... [He stops abruptly. They look at each other and then all settle down to continue waiting.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/227 B7B3

I took a look at the changes coming with Python 3.15 – and I can’t wait to put them to productive use. I’ve already updated our tutorials:
• utf-8 as the default encoding: https://python-basics-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/types/stri…

Unicode and character encodings
Special characters and escape sequences:\n stands for the newline character and\t for the tab character. Character sequences that begin with a backslash and are used to represent other characters a...

Bill Clinton, a Main Character in the Epstein Drop, Just Can't Escape Scandal (Lisa Lerer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/bill-clinton-epstein-files-photos-scandal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p53#a251220p53

Working with an #acting #coaching client on a scene where their character is threatening the other character, holding the other by the shirt collar. We do a take with different direction and discover a whole new version come out on the death threat: mockery of the victim. 😳 So fun and cool.

I want to throw away all my computers, maybe even my ThinkPad. But who really holds the right to judge how I live? Authority itself is a chain meant to be shattered.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/paralysed-man-brain-implant-beer-b2044610.html

"Study Report: Can #astrologers truly gain insights about people from entire astrological charts?"
https://www.clearerthinking.…

Wow. Ep 5 of Starfleet Academy is by far my favorite. Should I be shocked it was the first with Tawny Newsome on the written by?
The characters feel more grounded. Dialog is funny, revealing, and urgent. SAM is not my fav character but this is the first time a focus on a single character works for me.
This ep seems to have twice as much character development as other episodes.
More of this!

Looks like my fellow players try to save my still unawakened (and temporary) character heroically from her avatar. 😏
#rollenspiel #rpg #ttrpg

Reading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026)
https://ift.tt/MIVmCwy
updated: Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pmfull name / name of organization: Tampere…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Docs: Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits with families of teenagers who killed or harmed themselves after interacting with Character.AI's chatbot (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-chatbot-sta

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115754133273687027
Reminds me of a book I recently read, "Death of the Author" by Nnedi Okorafor. Of course, she has her billionaire character being unrealistically innocent of the politics and crimes of Bezos and the…

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
SERVALAN: GREATER?
[Landing module]
AVON: Self-defence. Some animals bristle out their fur to frighten their enemies. But that doesn't count for much in the dark.
VILA: So what does Sopron do?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/601…

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

Welcome to #TextModeTuesday! For the next few weeks I'll be posting some projects & experiments related to this just spontaneously made up hashtag. If you've got something related to interesting text-based art/experiments, patterns, ASCII-art, ANSI-art etc. please share — the more, the merrier...
To start with, here's an experiment from a few years ago to demonstrat…

Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/character-ai-t

Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions
Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns. Teens are distraught: ‘I cried over it for days.’

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
NOVARA: A simple mental process known to the ancients. We have developed and refined it. It is more reliable than mechanical transmissions.
BLAKE: You said you have a way to free us from the web.
https://

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker
#Shitpost #Shitposting

Updated the Flipper Zero yesterday. Was about time #FlipperZero

Character.AI launches Stories, which lets users create interactive fiction and is the company's "first new format created specifically" for users under 18 (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/25/char

Character AI will offer interactive 'Stories' to kids instead of open-ended chat | TechCrunch
The company announced last month that it would no longer allow minors to use its chat features.

Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: I bet you are.
DAYNA: Cally!
TARRANT: She's in some sort of coma. Describe what attacked you.
DAYNA: Well, that's the point. It was Cally. But not Cally.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/272 B7B4

Amazon Fire TV adds an Alexa feature enabling Prime Video users to skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/amazon-fire-tv-prime-video-alexa-plus-a…

Amazon Fire TV's New Alexa+ Feature Will Let Prime Video Users Skip to Their Favorite Movie Scenes
The new AI-powered Alexa+ feature will expand to TV shows on the streamer at a later date

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker
For context - he was in a call with $VENDOR - and asked me to guess what they were trying to sell him.
Now aside from advising him to read the wonderful article at

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
SERVALAN: What form will this major violation take?
AVON: Do they know that your battle fleet is massed on their borders?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/339

The Sin-eater: lives and afterlives - Dr Helen Frisby - Zoom Sun, Nov 1, 2026, 8:00 PM
https://ift.tt/2gnA0e3
ResearchGate: Publishers Take Formal Steps to Force Copyright Compliance A summary of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
AVON: You weren't even real. Bartolomew, Central Security's best agent, one of your colleagues told me that.
ANNA: Anna Grant. I was only ever Anna Grant with you.
https://

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

Meta says it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps as it develops a special version of an AI character for teens (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/meta-pau…

Meta pauses teen access to AI characters as it develops a specially tailored version | TechCrunch
Meta will developed new versions of AI characters that will give age-appropriate responses

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
AVON: Ah well. Tarrant is brave; young; handsome. [Chuckles] There are three good reasons for anyone not to like him.
SOOLIN: He has a point all the same.
AVON: About Tarrant?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/109 B7B2

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: As you know so much about their philosophy, you would seem to be the ideal person to teleport down to talk to them.
VILA: Me? But I've just told you what they're like.
TARRANT: Get permission for us to land Scorpio.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/192

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3341437/

DeepSeek taps Alibaba open-source AI technology to boost OCR performance
The Chinese AI start-up says its latest OCR model delivers stronger performance after adopting an Alibaba-developed open-source model.

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
BLAKE: What do you think?
JENNA: The surface seems to be melted. It's almost like the effects of a fusion bomb.
GAN: Blake! Jenna! [They walk over to The Monument]
BLAKE: Well, at least we know the planet's inhabited.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/64

I #coached an #actor on audition sides and having them fight for the things their character is hoping for shifted something powerful in their read. You can play for, fight for, something often so much easier than playing against, or fighting against, something.

Anthropic details the "Assistant Axis", a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
AVON: They must have picked up Dayna and Tarrant and realized we are up here somewhere. Slave, set the ship on an evasion pattern, maximum speed.
VILA: That's the first sensible ... [beep]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/422 B7B3

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
TARRANT: All right, I'll keep it a secret.
[They resume their descent.]
TARRANT: Look, we must be at least four levels below the landing silo by now.
DAYNA: At least.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/395 B7B2