
2025-09-22 15:09:47
Curtis Yarvin wears racial hatred as a badge of honor
—and clearly doesn't come into contact with people of color on a regular basis.
Yarvin, who hides behind a screen, wouldn't have the guts to utter these slurs on the street. -- In the real world, that kind of talk tends to carry consequences.
Instead, he flings epithets from the safety of his tony Craftsman home in ultra-liberal Berkeley, performing racism online for an audience of anonymous far-right Twitter use…
I'm seeing some really awful, low effort "may be..." ALT text recently. Clearly generated by an automatic process rather than by a human.
Is bad* alt text worse than no alt text?
*completely incorrect, and misleading
#Accessibility #a11y
Karl Popper clearly explained that a truly tolerant society must retain the right to be intolerant of the intolerant. He wrote: "We must therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate intolerance." #intolerance #freedomOfSpeech
'Clearly 1:0 to Putin' — European officials react to Alaska Summit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/clearly-to-putin-european-officials.html
As NFL resumes international series, could an overseas Super Bowl be in the future? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6652017/2025/09/22/nfl-international-super-bowl-draft/
Oh YAML *wtf*
I thought until now YAML is more or less fixed and clearly defined but apparently not. Do you know all the possible effects unknown to me?
🤬 #yaml
Learning to vary: Teaching LMs to reproduce human linguistic variability in next-word prediction
Tobias Groot, Salo Lacunes, Evgenia Ilia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17794 https:…
Computational aspects of the trace norm contraction coefficient
Idris Delsol, Omar Fawzi, Jan Kochanowski, Akshay Ramachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16737
The 35-day old baby who starved to death in Gaza was clearly a Hamas terrorist. Anyone who says otherwise is antisemitic.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/weeks-old-baby-dies-of-starvation-in-gaza-hospital-amid-ongoing…
Well, it’s public: Mayor Lurie has announced that he’s letting Uber and Lyft onto car-free Market Street along with Waymo, something he has no authority to do. The Transportation Code clearly doesn’t allow it. These companies are treating our billionaire mayor as above the law. #sfPol
Label Uncertainty for Ultrasound Segmentation
Malini Shivaram, Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare, Laura Hutchins, Jacob Duplantis, Thomas Deiss, Thales Nogueira Gomes, Thong Tran, Keyur H. Patel, Thomas H Fox, Amita Krishnan, Deva Ramanan, Bennett DeBoisblanc, Ricardo Rodriguez, John Galeotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15635
Evidence for Three Subpopulations of Merging Binary Black Holes at Different Primary Masses
Sharan Banagiri, Eric Thrane, Paul D. Lasky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15646 https://…
Just realized, now that I’m home, that when I ordered a small pizza at the #Bostodon meetup, that the bill had an automatic 20% for gratuity, to which I added an additional tip of 25% (cos that’s how I roll). Clearly I have tnot been eating in town enough and was not on the ball 😂
Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: Right. Bring it directly over the skull. No, that won't do. You'll have to use the radio sensor. Good, that's much better. Yes, there it is. There's the limiter implant, you can see it quite clearly. Give me the side view. Good. Yes, it's in the sub four section all right. Now let's take a look at the limiter itself. Close focus, slowly.
JENNA: Well, there's nothing wrong with the connectors.
SPHEREx Discovery of Strong Water Ice Absorption and an Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in 3I/ATLAS
C. M. Lisse, Y. P. Bach, S. Bryan, B. P. Crill, A. Cukierman, O. Dor\'e, B. Fabinsky, A. Faisst, P. M. Korngut, G. Melnick, Z. Rustamkulov, V. Tolls, M. Werner, M. L. Sitko, C. Champagne, M. Connelley, J. P. Emery, B. Yang, the SPHEREx Science Team
https://
Somebody (maybe it was Erin? can’t remember) proposed that we should have a menu of governance structures just as we currently have a menu of OSS licenses, crafted with the same care and granted the same importance, so that somebody looking to share code can:
- communicate very clearly where they are on that continuum from “Here’s some cool code, maybe it’s useful” to “There is solid, sustainable human infra behind this code,” and
- get guidance and support so that, as their project grows, it moves smoothly along that continuum of governance.
7/
Inclination Effect on Observational Identification of Outflow Rotation in Magnetohydrodynamics Simulations
Yusuke Aso, Masahiro N. Machida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15535
Drew Brees rips Eagles' 'boring' offense, omits Jalen Hurts in his list of top quarterbacks
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/drew-br
Great piece by Nik Suresh from last year, 'I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again'
"I started working as a data scientist in 2019, and by 2021 I had realized that while the field was large, it was also largely fraudulent. Most of the leaders that I was working with clearly had not gotten as far as reading about it for thirty minutes despite insisting that things like, I dunno, the next five years of a ten thousand person non-tech organization should be entir…
Officials from various European countries took to social media to share their reactions following the Alaska summit.
"Putin got his red carpet treatment with Trump, Trump got nothing,"
German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger wrote on X.
"As was to be feared: no ceasefire, no peace. No real progress
— clearly 1:0 for Putin
— no new sanctions.
For the Ukrainians: nothing.
For Europe: deeply disappointing."
During the post-summit …
Towards LLM-generated explanations for Component-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering Systems
Dennis Schiese, Aleksandr Perevalov, Andreas Both
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14553
Principles and Reasons Behind Automated Vehicle Decisions in Ethically Ambiguous Everyday Scenarios
Lucas Elbert Suryana, Simeon Calvert, Arkady Zgonnikov, Bart van Arem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13837
Cowboys Legend Michael Irvin Blasts CeeDee Lamb Decision After Injury in Bears Loss https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/michael-irvin-ceedee-lamb-injury-run/?adt_ei=[email]
“A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk”
“People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.”
A chilling read about an absolutely galling failure of the most basic bioethical concerns. The process around circulatory death donation is clearly broken and requires reform and better oversight. It’s ghoulish in its present state.
I've probably mentioned that I'm working on switching #Gentoo from our half-broken eselect-ldso logic to #FlexiBLAS. This also involves a transition period where both setups would be supported.
A good thing is that the switch is ABI-compatible with the previous state (or at least it's supposed to be — we're working with upstream on fixing function coverage). Since libblas.so, liblapack.so and the rest are replaced by symlinks, programs that link to them will simply start using FlexiBLAS. So far, so good.
Unfortunately, switching the other way doesn't work as well. Stuff newly built against our libblas.so & co. symlinks naturally reads FlexiBLAS's SONAME from them, and links to libflexiblas directly. So should you decide to switch back, some packages will stay linked to FlexiBLAS and will need to rebuilt.
In order to avoid this, I would have to replace the symlinks with wrapper libraries, having libblas.so.3 and so on SONAMEs, and linking to libflexiblas. Unfortunately, a dummy wrapper isn't going to work — the linker will complain about using indirect symbols from libflexiblas.so. So I would probably have to "reexport" their symbols somehow, and ideally split into appropriate libraries, so that `-Wl,--as-needed` wouldn't drop some of them. But how to do that?
Well, let's look at the existing logic for eselect-ldso — clearly both BLIS and OpenBLAS create some wrappers. So I've spent some time investigating upstream Makefiles, and literally couldn't find the respective targets. I mean, these are quite complex Makefiles, but I'm grepping hard and can't find even a partial match.
As it turns out, these Makefile targets are added by Gentoo-specific patches. And these patches are just horrible. In case of OpenBLAS, they create the wrapper libraries by linking all the relevant .o files from OpenBLAS build, plus the shared OpenBLAS library. So the OpenBLAS symbols relevant to each interface end up duplicated in libblas.so, liblapack.so, etc., and apparently the symbols needed by them are taken from libopenblas.so. The individual interface libraries aren't even linked to one another, so they expose their own duplicate symbols, but use the implementation from OpenBLAS instead.
BLIS is even worse — the patch is simply creating libblas.so and libcblas.so, using all BLIS objects directly, plus symbol visibility to hide symbols irrelevant to the library. So yes, libblis.so, libblas.so and libcblas.so are roughly three separate copies of the same library, differing only in symbol visibility. And of course libcblas.so doesn't use libblas.so.
Truly #GSoC quality.
To be clear, none of this is to say "this is definitely fake evidence." People talk in really strange ways when they're under stress. People are weirder than you think. Reality is weirder than you think. I don't think this is clearly "this is fabricated."
But I don't just trust it by default, especially when it lines up really well with what the administration wants.
Clearly at least the vandals (aka drivers) knew about it.
'Public should have been told about North Yorkshire speed camera'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg57gle8l1o
> The fixed camera on the A64, near Malton, was vandalised hours before it was due to be…
Cowboys' Micah Parsons reposts JJ Watt's tweet questioning Jerry Jones throwing shade at star linebacker
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys
It's funny how people asking for someone's gender when the information they need is pronouns. Whoever came up with the term XY problem clearly chose a suitable name.
Sometimes they come back: pulsations in A 0538-66 at 69 ms rediscovered with NICER
Lorenzo Ducci, Sandro Mereghetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16420 https:…
Scotland, it seems, does not like the #OnlineSafetyAct. I've long been interested in opinion maps on which the England/Scotland border is clearly defined, but this one surprises even me.
#ScotPol
it annoys me when news headlines refer to a government agency as taking a horrific action when it is clearly the work of the unconstitutional attackers of that agency, like saying the "EPA" is shredding environmental protections, but without an institutional opposition that is willing to defend these agencies and hire the ousted administrators to speak on behalf of the "real" agency, i don't see why i should care anymore.
Clearly, an attempt to tap the infinite low carbon energy created from Steve Jobs spinning in his grave…
https://mastodon.social/@verge/115219405596725827
The year is 2027.
Google: "Should we remove HTML from the web platform?
You know it's kind of old and we have barely any resources to keep it running, and there's chatbots anyway."
People: "What?!"
Google: "Well, clearly you don't have anything to say." [deletes code]
Reifenberg Theorem for Locally Finitely Almost Splitting Sets
Jiaqi Zang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14805 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14805
@… FWIW When my wife gave birth, the hospital clearly stated that they had a 2 person maximum in the room. So even if the wife gave in, this dude probably just can’t get what he wants, and needs to deal with that.
Former Browns Pro Bowler without a job clearly deserves a training camp invite https://fansided.com/nfl/former-browns-pro-bowler-without-a-job-clearly-deserves-a-training-camp-invite
The folks in Battle River-Crowfoot have the chance to do the funniest thing ever. . . .
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/17/opinion/pierre-poilievre-safe-seat-byelection-alberta
Can Multimodal LLMs See Materials Clearly? A Multimodal Benchmark on Materials Characterization
Zhengzhao Lai, Youbin Zheng, Zhenyang Cai, Haonan Lyu, Jinpu Yang, Hongqing Liang, Yan Hu, Benyou Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09307
Perplexity's unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a marketing stunt and strategic signaling amid Google's antitrust uncertainty (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/i-offer-to-buy-jupiter/
“Tellingly, the defendants do not dispute that the Act prohibits the executive branch from imposing extra-statutory policy-based conditions on the Endowment's funding, Yet record evidence clearly shows that the defendants are withholding funding for impermissible policy reasons.”
Trump-appointed judge does the right thing, and DOGE damage lives on
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/16/2338306/-Trump-appointed-judge-does-the-right-thing-and-DOGE-damage-lives-on?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main
To state the obvious: this is bland stuff, clearly protected by the 1A and so very far within the bounds of what a non-authoritarian FCC would allow that it’s just comical. Kimmel is about as controversial as a goldfish here. They aren’t serious about it being a problem; the whole •point• is that it’s obviously •not• a problem.
They are using something extremely benign to test the waters of government repression of speech, to see just how much they can get away with — and ABC caved like 3rd-grade toothpick bridge.
Dez Bryant envisions big things for one Raiders rookie wide receiver https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/dez-bryant-envisions-big-things-raiders-rookie-wide-receiver/7ef8c9553d26…
every single AI-for-coding experiment i've conducted ended up the same way: it was clearly faster, even if only a little bit, to do the same thing without the LLM in the middle https://mastodon.social/@janl@narrativ.es/115014692424751266
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Any journalist or news organization sanctioned under this policy should immediately sue
-- they will win,
and be lauded as a defender of free speech
The Trump administration unveiled a new, clearly unconstitutional, crackdown Friday on journalists at the Pentagon,
saying it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information
— even unclassified
— that hasn’t been expre…
i was put in charge of three grandchildren for a few hours yesterday so we headed straight to ben & jerry's to split a milkshake, then explored the state theater (and even sneaked into a movie but later got thrown out for horsing around on the escalator), then i gave a nickel tour of angell/mason/haven halls, then they chased squirrels on the diag which took longer than you might think, then we looked in all the windows in nickels arcade. it all went slowly and well.
Das Trolley-Problem scheint dir abgehoben und viel zu abstrakt?
Nun, die Ethik hat sich auch schon ausführlich überlegt, wie ein autonomes Auto sich denn in Extrem-Gefahrensituationen verhalten soll¹, und auch das wirkt eher sehr abgehoben und unrealistisch. Was nicht diskutiert wurde, ist die in der Praxis implementierte Lösung: Autopilot schaltet sich Millisekunden vor dem Aufprall aus, um nicht schuld zu sein.²
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Likelihood confidence intervals for misspecified Cox models
Yongwu Shao, Xu Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11851
@… I can't understand why OAPs holding up signs are in jail, but Yaxley-Lennon is out continuing to cause trouble.
The OAPs weren't violent, but he has shown clearly that he is.
cc @…
Handy Relation Between Binary Black Hole Merger Times and Host Galaxy Properties
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Department of Physics, Fisk University, Nashville, TN), Fazeel Khan (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Center for Astrophysics and Space Science), Isaiah Williams (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), Jaelyn Roth (Department of Physics and Astronomy, …
Today's cup of flat white #coffee. The latte art clearly still needs more practice, but the coffee is already better than what my frother and mokka pot delivered before.
#FlatWhite
In Brazil, the rule of law clearly and unambiguously classified the coup as a #coup and put Jair #Bolsonaro behind bars for 27 years.
Why didn't the #UnitedStates manage to do the same when the then and …
Watching GitHub PR update emails roll in on a Sunday morning for my former job's repo that I was sole developer on. Manager is clearly trying to vibe code some update but it's breaking.
Although I don't have org access anymore my account is still in the approvers group so I'm getting emails
#softwaredevelopment
"The Conservative party has collectively decided that the threat of Farage is best met by copying him, so the idea that Badenoch could act towards Jenrick the way Heath did to Powell seems impossible. More extraordinary is that the Labour government is also under the misapprehension that the best way to combat Farage is to sound like him, a mistake that will seem incomprehensible in a few years time."
Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite
Urban Meyer questions whether NFL should suspend Chargers' Jim Harbaugh over Michigan sign-stealing scandal
https://www.cbssports.com/col…
Academics can be viciously funny.
I recently published a journal article. One of the reviewers didn't much care for it. Alongside the obvious critique that I clearly hadn't read enough of my own work, Reviewer 2 didn't like me quoting a certain text, having misread what I thought was an obvious reference to a classic text as insulting one of the people at the center of my article. The editor agreed with me enough to put an illustration of the classic text on the issue's…
Solar power is growing exponentially in Africa
https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2025/09/1-solar-power-growth-exponential-africa.htm
🧠 People with more life experience see and digest everyday 'events' more clearly, research finds
#brain
Geert Wilders posted an islamophic image in a tweet a few days ago and is now being sued for it.
The thing is, the image is clearly AI generated. This means that the prompt for it is still around somewhere.
Under US discovery, that prompt would certainly be made public; possibly in the Dutch system as well.
This suggests some interesting possibilities. First, if Wilders made the image himself, his language in the prompt may have been more candid than his public persona.
Quasiparticle Interference in LiFeAs: Signature of Inelastic Tunneling through Spin Fluctuations
Shun Chi, Carolina A. Marques, Walter N. Hardy, Ruixing Liang, Pinder Dosanjh, Doug A. Bonn, Sarah A. Burke, Peter Wahl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11755
Extreme right follower of an extreme right guy shoots another extreme right guy
Media: clearly this is a radical left trans guy
I still don't understand how the Atleti goal was allowed to stand. Griezemann was clearly an influence on the play in an offside decision. Might have even screened Alisson.
#LFC
The students that will be starting university in fall have been using #GenAI successfully (as in: they got their diplomas) for years. Why should they start questioning this now? What would be the incentive?
In the context of formal education, the primary incentive for most people (who are not intrinsically motived) is obtaining the degree. So, “encouraging reflection” will clearly not be en…
The students that will be starting university in fall have been using #GenAI successfully (as in: they got their diplomas) for years. Why should they start questioning this now? What would be the incentive?
In the context of formal education, the primary incentive for most people (who are not intrinsically motived) is obtaining the degree. So, “encouraging reflection” will clearly not be en…
This is a public service announcement for all the dollar-store Sherlock Holmes’s out there who clearly have nothing better to do than to concoct conspiracy theories about people from Gaza on the fediverse who are faced with genocide and famine:
Stop.
Have some humanity.
Case in point, do not do what Daniel (@helmet91@mastodon.social) is doing here:
Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site:
Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to.
Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity.
When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected.
And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers…
Heartbreaking.
“This essentially says the United States is no longer your ally, that the United States doesn’t see clearly beyond the rhetoric of your regime,”
https://www.
Enhancing Multi-Agent Debate System Performance via Confidence Expression
Zijie Lin, Bryan Hooi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14034 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…
Little Red Dots as Direct-collapse Black Hole Nurseries
Elia Cenci, Melanie Habouzit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14897 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14897
The fascist coalition was never going to hold. It couldn't. Fascists want everyone to be exactly the same. That's their whole thing. Leftists want diversity, so we can actually form coalitions. Fascists will always reach a point where they have to kill all the other fascists who aren't exactly like them.
Project 2025 betrayed this. It wasn't consistent. It was a jumble of different ideas that couldn't actually be implemented together. Someone gets left out. The Groypers haven't been getting what they want. Things have been moving too slowly for them. So now we get to see what happens. If they keep accelating, Trump could be forced to choose between cracking down on the far right (and destroying his coalition completely) or letting his people get killed. I hope that's a choice he has to make.
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While Rome burns, go build things that help people and get other people involved in it. The way we win is by not getting involved in that mess, but rather just clearly demonstrating that we can make things better.
Dem Congresswomen Demand ICE Agents Clearly Identify Themselves Amid Wave of Imposter Assaults | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-democrats-ice-agents
Dak Prescott was clearly best player on field for Dallas Cowboys in loss vs. Eagles https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dak-prescott-was-clearly-best-player-dallas-cowboys-loss-vs-eagles
@helmet91@mastodon.social You are spreading a crackpot conspiracy theory based on your amateur forensics and harming actual people who are facing genocide and famine.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Since you clearly have no intention to stop, I am blocking you. And I suggest anyone with a conscience does the same.
Clearly a work in progress. Lots of promise, but very disjointed while chemistry is built, fitness is gained, and adaptations to a faster and more physical league are happening. It's a lot of roster changes.
The defense look shaky, but often they were put in bad positions by turnovers with too many players committed. Outside backs and midfielders.
Thrilled for Chiesa to get one. Happy for Mo to continue the opening day streak.
Ekitike is my MOTM. He already looks comfor…
If you want to make the case against political violence, start by saying clearly that Charlie Kirk was a miserable sack of shit who promoted bigotry and religious hatred and helped organized a violent coup attempt whose goal was to end democracy in the US in order to establish a white supremacist ethnostate. Say that the world is better without him in it.
•Then• make your argument that even in his case — even a person whose death improves the world — even •then• political violence is a bad strategy.
A/2
"Volume Two: Thank You For Your Patience" is one of my recent favorite albums. Milwaukee's the Beat Index clearly had a blast making "an album of on-hold music for automated phone systems." You really need to listen to the whole album - it's sonically on point, damn catchy, and brutally funny (the endlessly repeating tri-tone at the end of the full album "Telesthesia Mix" makes me wanna cry every time).
"Caught in a Lie (Hotline Mix)" (20…
Micah Parsons contract: Cowboys players 'clearly frustrated' with Jerry Jones, 'distracted' ahead of season
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…
Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy
emphasized his desire to end NASA's focus on studying the Earth and understanding how the planet's surface and atmosphere are changing.
This shift has been a priority of the Trump Administration at other federal agencies.
https://…
Top 12 NFL RBs of 1975: Where Bills' O.J. Simpson and Steelers' Franco Harris rank on iconic list of backs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/top-12-
Dez Bryant envisions big things for one Raiders rookie wide receiver https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/dez-bryant-envisions-big-things-raiders-rookie-wide-receiver/7ef8c9553d26…
Trump clearly got booed during the national anthem at the U.S. Open,
but ABC “conveniently” cut to commercial when he hit the scoreboard.
And why does he salute the anthem like a dictator
instead of putting his hand over his chest like every other American?
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonlin…
Cowboys Encouraged To Cut 4th Year Run Game ‘Liability’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/damone-clark-encouraged-cut-run-liability/?adt_ei=[email]
Cowboys depth at edge rusher may be envy of all other NFL teams if they can fit all on 53 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/03/edge-rusher-is-clearly-cow…
'Nowhere all-time:' Randy Moss says Tyreek Hill hasn't reached that plateau among NFL's best receivers ever
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…
Trump and his officials are waging a war on electricity infrastructure.
This campaign is primarily driven by their opposition to the solar and wind farms that they associate with their foils, the Democrats.
Even as electricity has clearly become more important to the economy
— and even as the country’s biggest technology firms strive to secure any spare electron for their new metropolis-size data centers
— Trump and his team have begun a regulatory coup to smother n…