
2025-09-12 12:53:00
another leisure project while the temperatures outside are unbearable this week. Still enjoying hull() based shapes. #openscad #3dprinting #coding
I Wanna Rock(y)
#MountainSongsOrPoems #HashtagGames
The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru
Osa Odighizuwa earns weekly NFLPA Community MVP award https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/osa-odighizuwa-earns-weekly-nflpa-community-mvp-award
From Birdwatch to Community Notes, from Twitter to X: four years of community-based content moderation
Saeedeh Mohammadi, Narges Chinichian, Hannah Doyal, Kristina Skutilova, Hao Cui, Michele d'Errico, Siobhan Grayson, Taha Yasseri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09585
added the single twist cord style, which is what I was aiming for. Saw this at other basket makers, will add to my baskets. #openscad #3dprinting
Astoria Zine Festival this weekend @ Cambium Cafe
#zine
I’m hearing it might sell out 👀 https://fosstodon.org/@PyConUK/115191861020795735
Last post for today, but I had to do the video of my #openscad woven ribbon ball model. #creativecoding
Jury nullification has never had a better shot than this absolutely absurd felony charge
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/trump-dc-federal-agent-sandwich-assault-charge
EchoAid: Enhancing Livestream Shopping Accessibility for the DHH Community
Zeyu Yang, Zheng Wei, Yang Zhang, Xian Xu, Changyang He, Muzhi Zhou, Pan Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08020
NFL community remembers, pays tribute to 9/11 on social media https://www.nfl.com/news/9-11-nfl-community-remembers-pays-tribute-social-media-2025
Good Morning #Canada
There are over 100 ghost towns in Saskatchewan, including Saskatoon in early February. One was Bonne Madone, a community founded in 1902 in the scary Rural Municipality of Woooo Boooo. (Editor - it's actually Hoodoo). The area was granted by the federal government to French settlers, the main contingent of which arrived in 1902 from Dauphiné and Franche-Comté, led by fathers Laurent Voisin and Jean Garnier. A convent run by the Sisters of Providence was established there in 1905. Nuns with rulers are very scary. A school was built there in 1908, and the town's chapel was first built in 1910, and the town also had a Royal North-West Mounted Police station and a Post office. It was an active community in the 1920s and the 1930s, but its population dwindled over the next few decades, and by the end of the 1960s, it was abandoned..... and haunted.
BTW - Some provinces have a Ghost Town Trail, like this one.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://www.prairiepast.com/blog/explore-3
And when I'm talking about understanding the drives to violence, I did write about something similar recently.
https://write.as/hexmhell/algorithmic-violence
The drives behind this and the shooting last week are pretty radically different, but there's some overlap. People like Kirk are part a huge political machine slowly crushing people all over the world. There's a hopeless rage that would naturally drive even the most calm person to the edge of violence. You can't look at the world honestly and be OK. We want to do something. We want to react. But everything we do is silenced or must rmain silent. So it's easy to understand why someone might choose violence. Very different situation, but everyone is subject to the same national and international influences.
I don't promote violence, not because I disagree with it but because I think it's expensive. It takes time to plan, especially for those trying to get away. Guns are not cheap, nor are bullets, nor is the range time you need to get somewhat good under pressure. It's not cheap for the person doing it, and it's not cheap for the community that has to clean up. The community will face police repression (which, if we're honest, was gonna come anyway). The community will have to post bail, will lose a person for a while, will need to support the family, will go to hearings, will write reports, will do interviews.
Sun Tzu said that deploying one soldier to the front takes 7 in the field. Logistics are a huge invisible cost. Some of that time and energy could be reused. It's never bad to be armed and able to defend if needed. But a lot of that energy and time would be better spent planning a community pantry, a tool library, organizing a union, etc. We are living in a disaster, and we need to invest in thriving through the next crumble.
Kirk is replacable. They're almost all replacable, because they don't really care about human life. We do, so none of us are. It's not really a worth while trade, IMHO.
Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community …
Cowboys' $80M man recognized with NFLPA award for giving back to community https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/12/cowboys-osa-odighizuwa-nflpa-community-award/86116925007/
almost... Getting closer to this Rattan / Takraw ball model in #Openscad for #3dprinting
Had to leave an online community I was part of for years as a moderator because they decided it’s more important to not talk bad* about Nazis than to protect their own community from hateful people.
*nothing about violence (which Inperdonally abhor), just literally saying Nazis are bad
Actually… I would prefer "Shake to get rid of web annoyances" 🤔🤔🤔
https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/115174004936956195
Remove cookie banners, popover ads, newsletter subscription prompts, etc.
❝The community he created? His role was to be a steward. He did not live up to the job.❞
From @…:
https://mastodon.online/@gardiner_bryant/115367199280886318
Proactive security communication is a sign of a healthy community: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/discussions/11889
via @……
https://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/
This needs a version for the computational linguistics/machine-learning quartier of arXiv
I'm guessing at about 60% accurate in the string theory/supercollider / early time physics papers there, "better than a monkey" as the robot tells me
Via/blame
escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…
Shaping a Profession, Building a Community: A Practitioner-Led Investigation of Public Interest Technologists in Civil Society
Mallory Knodel, Mallika Balakrishnan, Lauren M. Chambers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07230
Hey, it’s too bad the white community can’t get their epidemic of white-on-white violence under control, don’t you think?
The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru
A History of Violence -- And note on our community and the nature of discourse. (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/a-history-of-violence-17a
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p107#a250912p107
@… Those dribble-down grants have minimal impact. So a boys' sports club gets a couple grand for a new roof on their club house, and in the meantime the entire community is paying through the nose for electricity being produced a mere kilometer from their houses.
@…
Smart Residential Community Simulator for Developing and Benchmarking Energy Management Systems
Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09106 https://
Wyoming newspaper owners and staffers are scrambling to save local papers, after Illinois-based News Media Corporation announced their immediate closure (WyoFile)
https://wyofile.com/wyoming-newspaper-owners-staffers-race-to-rescue-community-news/
a vibrant community gathering that blends movement, music, and mindful practices to restore balance and uplift the spirit
Another day, another mass shooting. Beaufort County, South Carolina, right across from Savannah.
https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/community/beaufort-news/article312475307.html
"[F]ormer national security officer Tom Nichols argued that this quest manifests itself in several ways, most prominently in the politicization of the intelligence community. ...Kash Patel and ...Tulsi Gabbard are reportedly using artificial intelligence and lie detector tests to determine whether their employees are aligned with Trump."
Trump's quest for MAGA purity is built on a 'flatly ridiculous' idea: analyst - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2673149478/
Seeing the stories about people in Britain being asked to delete emails to save water (!) I was reminded of the community effort to cut down iron railings for the war effort which also appears to have been not so useful (allegedly!) https://www.londongardenstrust.org/features/railings3.h…
[Part 2] The GÉANT (GN5-2) Above-the-Net Services Incubator is proud to award 4 projects set to advance digital services for European R&E 🎉
The awarded initiatives address service development priorities across three areas of strategic importance for the GÉANT community: Digital Research Environment (DRE), Object Storage Infrastructure, Data Movement Infrastructure.
👏 Big congratulations to the organisations leading these initiatives.
➡️ Meet the awarded projects:
"Klar erreiche ich mit meinen Inhalten aktuell mehr Menschen auf LinkedIn oder Threads – und das macht Social-Media-Plattformen noch immer so reizvoll. Aber eine Garantie, dass unsere Inhalte dauerhaft gesehen werden oder dass wir wirklich unsere Community erreichen, haben wir dort nie.
Während das #Bloggen für viele aus der Zeit gefallen scheint, ist es deshalb heute zeitgemäßer denn …
Charlie Kirk’s ex-employee talks about what it's like working for Turning Point & having a crisis of faith when you actually think for yourself, challenge the groupthink you're indoctrinated into & confront the worldview of the lemmings of your community.
https://youtube.com/shorts/nP5kp88R3ss
How Conversational Structure and Style Shape Online Community Experiences
Galen Weld, Carl Pearson, Bradley Spahn, Tim Althoff, Amy X. Zhang, Sanjay Kairam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08596
Quartic quantum speedups for community detection
Alexander Schmidhuber, Alexander Zlokapa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08494 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08494…
Banning controversy reveals #Bluesky’s #decentralized aspiration isn’t reality
https://plus.flux.community/p…
Some background on Joe Anidjar and the connection to London that seems overlooked in the main media.
#ChristiePitsPark - TorontoToday.ca
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/community-events/locals-organize-counter-protest-oppose-racist-rally-christie-pits-park-11174553
So, I’ve seen a few people in the last day going “ok, I think I need to make sure I have a backup account, so there’s some folks re-checking out Mastodon/Fedi accounts.
Help out the new/returning folks, as always.
Why are they? No reason, not like BlueSky is changing community guidelines on the fly or anything. (That was sarcasm, BTW)
Side note: the below only affects the primary “instance” of bsky.social, it does not apply to other PDSs not run by BlueSky (BlackSky f’rex)
Apropos of nothing, here is #XKCD 1357.
#FreeSpeech
When men drink, women and children pay the price #health
Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/
Get ready for some serious heresy (and plastic)! We're live streaming the 3D print of the Vader Imperial Space Marine mashup. Will it be glorious or a total misprint? Find out with me! #3DPrint #DarthVader
There could not be a more opportune time to make a competitor to GitHub, especially one grounded in community and accountability. Git was not meant to be centralized; “pull requests” are not actually an open standard and throwing code over the wall at others is not actually social coding.
My kid made this for me at camp
He says "this is what a real #wug looks like, dad."
#linguistics
Donnerstag: Vimeo vor italienischer Übernahme, Meta baut Community Notes aus
US-Videoplattform wird italienisch Erweiterung von Metas User-Kontext Oracle-Gründer verdrängt Elon Musk Messe-Fazit der IFA-Veranstalter #heiseshow
Gosh where to begin?... - Dr. John Kuhn - Abilene ISD Superintendent | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02QrSwNt1KoQvvDyw3itEaeF7V6SfAqmuwKXR8t3BfQbcrX1Mcq6MYsrttsyPZK1KU…
I finally know how to efficiently create decorations that are bent along a rounded rectangular path. #openscad #creativecoding #3d
Ricardo Mendes, born and raised within the Buddhist cult-like community Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), describes in his testimony how this community, initially founded on ideals of spirituality, communal living, and alternatives to Western society, gradually became a sectarian organization
Sea's Shopee is nearing a $100B market cap after its stock surged 300% since early 2024, driven by its in-house, community-based logistics network SPX Express (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
"I would like to propose that IPs of [NTP] pool-members should not be allowed to host [Tor exit nodes] simultaneously under the same IP."
or put another way, "my employer paid for this whizzy firewall but it complains when we make it talk to a free service run by a volunteer because of other software the volunteer runs. Please educate your volunteers about how they need to go about providing this free service to us."
Getting Your Indices in a Row: Full-Text Search for LLM Training Data for Real World
Ines Altemir Marinas, Anastasiia Kucherenko, Alexander Sternfeld, Andrei Kucharavy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09471 …
I don’t know if Trump is ignorant of American history and so does not realize what his office requires of him,
or if he understands exactly what he’s doing and is attempting to make things worse.
But as always, he is the great revealer.
He has shown us who we really are.
https://www.thebulwark.com/…
Is there really no way to delete messages in a group for all as admin in @…? It's really tough to manage a community, when the only way go delete messages is to nuke the chat until that post...
#SanFrancisco's #Mayor seeems intent of fostering community & trust? Seems a bit out of the blue and disrespectful, but I am sure there is a robust reason for treating community groups like this. /s
#SanFrancisco's #Mayor seeems intent of fostering community & trust? Seems a bit out of the blue and disrespectful, but I am sure there is a robust reason for treating community groups like this. /s
Ricardo Mendes, born and raised within the Buddhist cult-like community Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), describes in his testimony how this community, initially founded on ideals of spirituality, communal living, and alternatives to Western society, gradually became a sectarian organization
Yay for me for getting yelled at by someone because I think we shouldn’t have open source community leaders that collaborate with people who want to murder a good portion of said community
Seeing the stories about people in Britain being asked to delete emails to save water (!) I was reminded of the community effort to cut down iron railings for the war effort which also appears to have been not so useful (allegedly!) https://www.londongardenstrust.org/features/railings3.h…
Get Real - How Community Informs Reality
#community
https://muz4now.com/2023/get-real-how-community-informs-reality/
The Role of Community Detection Methods in Performance Variations of Graph Mining Tasks
Shrabani Ghosh, Erik Saule
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09045 https://
How to Make Good Trouble -- Hey fam: I'm back. I'll do a little personal catchup / beach postcard for you in #3. (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-make-good-trouble-organized-against-tyranny-fascism-andry-bulwark-community
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p67#a250811p67
(From BlueSky post)
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
Source: https://
We Are America March
14 DAYS | 160 MILES | Sept 6-19, 2025 | PHL - DC
join for an hour, a day, a week, or the whole way to DC
https://www.weareamericamarch.com/
wait — somebody SHOT the "change my mind" guy ?
United Church of Canada issues apology to LGBTQ community – CTVNews
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/united-church-of-canada-issues-apology-to-lgbtq-community/
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Web-Tipps: Community-Projekt: Radkarte mit Schildern
https://ww…
advogato: Advogato trust network (2009)
A network of trust relationships among users on Advogato, an online community of open source software developers. Edge direction indicates that node i trusts node j, and edge weight denotes one of four increasing levels of declared trust from i to j: observer (0.4), apprentice (0.6), journeyer (0.8), and master (1.0).
This network has 6541 nodes and 51127 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted
listening to colleagues try to talk through the logic of "agentic" systems feels like they're just now discovering/reinventing multithreading, message-passing, and IPC
...except that every single component is stochastically noisy and fundamentally not unit-testable
A look at low-power radio stations, which are hyperlocal, focused on emergency notifications and community voices, and usually very budget-constrained (Lucy Schiller/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/public-media-f…
there we go again, with a #trefoilknot I can easily make sure I defined a moving coordinate frame along the path. What a #rollercoaster. #openscad
Entendimento de Campanhas no Contexto da Aten\c{c}\~ao Prim\'aria \`a Sa\'ude: Um Processo de Design Socialmente Consciente
De\'ogenes P. da Silva Junior, Jonas Lopes Guerra, Krissia Menezes, Marisa Sel Franco, Roberto Pereira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06791
Demonstration of a Compatibility-Based Childcare Support Service using Quantum Annealing
Yuuma Matsumoto, Taisei Takabayashi, Rima Sato, Rumiko Honda, Masayuki Ohzeki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08520
Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million.
Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals.
Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.
-- Sen Bernie Sanders
https://
Jobs at https://alignmentalignment.ai/jobs
CAAAC is an open, dynamic, inclusive environment, where all perspectives are welcomed as long as you believe AGI will annihilate all humans in the next six months. We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits, including no performance management becaus…
A volunteer firefighter, a beloved pastor, a prominent journalist: These are the community pillars being detained by ICE | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/us/ice-detention-community-members
trefoil knot now as a polyhedron, done in #openscad for #3dprinting
Cue the "when the worst person you know says something you agree with" gifs
https://mastodon.xyz/@rms/115000694819761385
About last night... #jamesblunt #stagediving #schwetzingen
JD's joke's on us, there *are* no left wing billionaires
Ain't that many left wing politicians left in the USA, either, and I bet the ones we have left *weren't* on Pedophilia Island chartered flights
Pro 3, 17 Pro, Ultra 3, ...more, new options, perfect, stunning, updated. #apple #appleevent #summary
New experiences every day. Today: PHPStorm 2025.2.3 freezes after a few seconds and can only be closed via the Task Manager. Restarting the system doesn't help either. Downgrading via the JetBrains Toolbox brings relief. #work #productivity
Caught myself smiling grimly as the utter uncontrollability of the LLM shoggoth breaks free from the frail grasp of the research engineers
(in a deathly chorus echoing of screams from another dimension)
"Shall we have an out-of-box experience"
just read the first time about paper/paperdesign and their ultra fast zero-dependency shaders, interesting piece of open source code to look into
https://shaders.paper.design/
markdown is just a conspiracy by big line to sell more em-dash
Somebody else at my company is running a bot that tries to fix random failing tests
So I received a "hey I think I fixed a thing" PR from this bot last night
While it does, in fact, stop the test failure, it does not fix the problem that this test is detecting (collisions between two production grammars)
It burned a quarter-million tokens to... add a "tolerate more collisions" flag to the test that was failing.
Me: "What is best in life?
Younger coworker: "to crush your notifications, see them flee before you, and hear the lamentations of the algorithm"
still looking at these "zen geometry" like circles. #svg #svelte #javascript
Would love to explain to an early Enlightenment thinker that we have made sand tell pretty lies and ice cream is now hot
https://people.com/tyra-banks-leaves-the-internet-perplexed-with-new-hot-ice-cream-product-11825853