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"Plant sex life is more complicated than you probably imagine"
#Plants #Nature
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Plant sex life is more complicated than you probably imagine
The amazing variety of plant reproductive systems.

Just finished "Libertad" by Bessie Flores Zaldívar. An #OwnVoices novel about being queer in Honduras, both personally and politically, that grapples aptly with complicated questions of politics and belonging at a personal scale.
CW for domestic violence and lethal state repression.
It wasn't everything I'd hoped for from the cover, but my hopes weren't exactly reasonable and it *is* very good.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

RE: https://setouchi.social/@David/115873866254245612
As far as I know all animals can communicate in one way or an other. If it is with sound it is obvious that different sounds have different meanings. Some animals have a more abundant and complicated repe…

Why the Jakobi Meyers Trade is More Complicated Than You Think https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-jakobi-meyers-trade-complicated

🐨 Do animals fall for optical illusions? It’s complicated.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/do-animals-fall-for-optical-illusions-its-complicated/

Do animals fall for optical illusions? It’s complicated.
Guppies are highly susceptible to the Ebbinghaus illusion. Ring doves? Not so much.

What is #auth? It's more complicated than you probably thought, even though #software #developers sling the word around all the time.
🎅 Since it's the holiday season, give yourself an eas…

Security Lingo Explained: Auth
Learn and understand the key difference between Authentication (AuthN) and Authorization (AuthZ)

Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens and Berlin's Olympiastadion: The complicated history of an NFL venue https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5559958/2025/11/07/nfl-falcons-colts-olympiastadion-final-berlin-history/

It's really depressing to see so many people and/or job ads talking about how they're using React so heavily for things that don't need React.
Why are we so committed to making things more complicated, and harder to learn, and having fewer skilled people?
And if you're talking about migrating JS frameworks on the front-end, at least *think* about HTMX/etc. for server-controlled rendering. Don't replace one bloat with another.

“This is the most complicated thing that you could possibly imagine,” said Mike Williams, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“In fact, you can’t even imagine how complicated it is.”
The proton is a quantum mechanical object that exists as a haze of probabilities until an experiment forces it to take a concrete form.
And its forms differ drastically depending on how researchers set up their experiment.
Connecting the particle’s many faces has …

Sources: Paramount's Gulf sovereign funding, accounting for ~30% of the deal's value, and potential political scrutiny led WBD to reject Paramount's initial bid (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2025

Paramount’s Mideast financing doomed Warner Bros. Discovery auction bid
WBD’s board grew uneasy with how complicated Paramount’s offer became.

One of my favourite poems. I'm not much of a poetry fan, but #PamAyers really hits the nail.
I often wonder what it must be like to be so strong,
Infallible, articulate, self-confident and wrong.
They Should Have Asked My Husband

My complicated relationship with carbon footprints...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G75zN6GQghQ

It's a rough day when you make the compiler crash… so deep into complicated code that you can't reasonably distill it to a reportable case. )-:

People bitch about C being complicated and unwieldy, and then need more than 30 lines of code to implement insertion sort because finding from a predicate in reverse is not implemented and neither is rotate

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Leela James:
🎵 Complicated
#LeelaJames
https://leelajames.bandcamp.com/track/complicated
https://open.spotify.com/track/2edcWiLjs3sbsbpafP8KFo

I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. https://www.…

Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@CanadianPolling/115849491716799970
Where's the option "Poor - but because they're not doing anything, but still better than a Conservative government would have been so my regret is complicated and multi-faceted."

Is The Comey Case Barred By The Statute Of Limitations? It's Complicated! (But Also Yes.) - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/is-the-comey-case-barred-by-the-statute-of-limitations-its-complicated-but-also-yes/

#Rust’s most complicated features explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RsgFFp67eo

Unmasked Minds
Where instagram's psychologist Sarah Willis gets real about the messy, beautiful, complicated world of being human...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/unmasked-minds/

At the end of a long and complicated tender process with some fiendishly complicated requirements, the response we have got is
"You are the only supplier to fulfill all the complicated requirements we asked for. Unfortunately meeting all the requirements we demanded made the system too complicated for us, so we're going with someone who can't meet our requirements but is simpler."
I can't even.
We could have presented a simple setup! They just had to …

Was telling my father about my NAS and he was mildly interested. But it's too complicated for him to set up his own.
I'm surprised there is not some more consumer friendly way to just load up DVDs and bluerays on to set top box with several terabytes of storage and then just select what media to play from there.

there's something very amusing to me in how the `go` keyword is among the least essential parts of the Go language
it could've been a part of the standard library, like every other language does it, and absolutely nothing of value would be lost
(`select` is a different and much more complicated story)

The Falcons won, and now the NFC South champion could be complicated https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6928097/2025/12/29/buccaneers-panthers-nfc-south-complicated-falcons/

from my link log —
Build system tradeoffs.
https://jyn.dev/build-system-tradeoffs
saved 2025-11-02 https://dotat.at/:/5ZUHD.html

Cowboys Star Says Chiefs Did Nothing ‘Too Complicated’ in Dallas Win https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/chiefs-nothing-too-complicated-dallas-win/?adt_ei=[email]

There's no need to make things overly complicated.

Never thought about this. Use the good ol' image maps to provide alt text for possibly more complicated images https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/imagemap/
The `href` attribute for `<area>` may be omitted too

Just finished "Roller Girl" by Victoria Jamieson, a graphic novel about navigating preteen social changes, dyeing your hair, and of course, roller derby! It's got a great subplot about dealing with complicated feelings, and I like that it doesn't tie things up neatly with a bow at the end.
I actually know the rules of roller derby now.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Trump promised farmers help. It's complicated. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/trump-promised-farmers-help-its-complicated-00610757
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p18#a251016p18

Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
#USPol

»Just use HTML — JavaScript is…
- Slower to load
- Slower to run
- More prone to breaking
- Harder to read and reason about
- Doesn’t actually look like the final output«
Don't use JavaScript for the design, because CSS as well as SVG images can create a lot of animation and the ability to create a dynamic web interface.
🧑‍💻

Just use HTML
I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. JavaScript is… Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn’t actually look like the final output It’s inferior to just using HTML in nearly every way. I’m not saying never use JavaScript, though. I think JS is great at augmenting and enhancing what’s already there, and adding interactivity that canno…

"Numbers are not that complicated"
"Really? Then how many numbers are there?"
"At least three"

“NPR’s board members were excited in the fall of 2023 when they found Ms. Maher. She had worked for the World Bank and HSBC. As the chief executive of the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, she oversaw a sprawling, complicated community of volunteer editors. And she was prepared.”
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Katherine Maher of NPR Has Come Out on Top Despite Battles With Trump and the CPB
Katherine Maher has taken an unyielding approach to NPR’s biggest battles — which has sometimes put her at odds with her colleagues in public media.

Source: the 60 Minutes interview with Trump on November 2 drew 13.2M viewers, according to early Nielsen data, the highest-rated episode since January 2021 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/trump-60-minutes-cbs-interview-ratings-vie…

Scoop: Trump's "60 Minutes" interview draws roughly 13M viewers
The interview itself was a huge get for CBS, considering the network's complicated history with President Trump.

Some people like to go on and on about corruption in Ukraine, but it is often more complicated than these people say.
The USA has had its tendrils in the Ukrainian corruption for a long time. The FBI even has an agent with their own office in one of the corruption agencies.
Giorgio is a hero reporting from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine. He share the friend link so the world has a better chance of discovering the truth.
Please support Ukraine and Giorgio's work by…

Amid rising threats, NATO holds its largest-ever cyberdefense exercise https://therecord.media/nato-holds-largest-ever-cyberdefense-exercise-estonia

As OpenAI commits to spending $1.4T, creating a mesh of complicated deals, the startup does not disclose its auditor, and there is little information online (Louis Ashworth/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3cff198e-25e5-481a-bd34-e26941e1d12d

Teaching students simple #WebScraping was always quite rewarding. It opens up numerous relevant, real-world data sources that are the foundation for any further analysis. Things already got more complicated with dynamic content loading, but now bot-exclusion-mechanisms make it almost impossible in many cases. Is web scraping for the

Thinking about giving to folk in #Gaza; quite complicated feelings. Firstly, we do *have* to give, and give personally, because conventional charities are not effectively getting relief to Gaza -- presumably because they are being blocked by #Israel -- and because our governments are doing nothing.
Bu…

Now at the end of his eighth decade, Donald Trump and the people around him still talk about him as if he is the Energizer Bunny of presidential politics.
The reality is more complicated:
Trump, 79, is the oldest person to be elected to the presidency,
and he is aging.
https://www.

Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
President Trump has always used his stamina and energy as a political strength. But that image is getting harder for him to sustain.

20 WEIRD Facts About THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) You Didn't Know: #KlaatuBaradaNikto

thinking of vibe-coding a microwave oven. that seems like the right level of complexity. toaster is too simple, car is too complicated.

There •is• definitely debate about LLMs among folks who have both tech expertise and a level head, and that debate is mostly between:
(1) “If only we could have reasonable conversations about what if anything this tech is actually good for! It could be useful! Curse this hype! Curse this bubble!”
and
(2) “This technology is so toxic we shouldn’t even be considering •any• uses for it”
That’s a •continuum•, and folks (including me) fall in all kinds of complicated places along it. Just note the continuum’s endpoints.
@…

That’s the key problem. People have very vague ideas that can easily and accurately be expressed in natural language and LLMs operate in the vagueness. A programmer will demand specificity before starting to code anything, which is a real nuisance to people with vague ideas about wanting some sort of app. https://in…

@… We could, yes — it's not really complicated. `sqv` could probably be used, too. Just a matter of finding the time to do it. Maybe we can schedule it as part of the push to support PQC.

Yesterday: Icelandair booking website while I’m trying a complicated but not out of the ordinary booking: “unknown error”
Me: “I’ll deal with it tomorrow”
Today: Cloudflare: “LOL”

Mallard making waves on a pond. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. December, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 90mm F3.5 Macro. #descansogardens #duck #mallard

🗿 A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil: What companies owe the Indigenous people they studied
https://theconversation.com/a-billion-dollar-drug-was-found-in-easter-i…

A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studied
Cancer. Diabetes. Aging itself. Rapamycin’s potential to treat an array of diseases has been a source of scientific fascination. But many aren’t aware of its origins – and its complicated legacy.

Re-stacking AFC contenders: Bills, Chiefs still favorites? Who else is dangerous? — Pick Six https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6770739/2025/11/03/bills-chiefs-nfl-super-bowl-odds-afc-pick-six/

Zero-Shot CFC: Fast Real-World Image Denoising based on Cross-Frequency Consistency
Yanlin Jiang, Yuchen Liu, Mingren Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12646 https://

Zero-Shot CFC: Fast Real-World Image Denoising based on Cross-Frequency Consistency
Zero-shot denoisers address the dataset dependency of deep-learning-based denoisers, enabling the denoising of unseen single images. Nonetheless, existing zero-shot methods suffer from long training times and rely on the assumption of noise independence and a zero-mean property, limiting their effectiveness in real-world denoising scenarios where noise characteristics are more complicated. This paper proposes an efficient and effective method for real-world denoising, the Zero-Shot denoiser bas…

OpenAI's blockbuster deals with Nvidia and AMD add a new layer to its complicated ownership structure and will dilute existing shareholders like Microsoft (George Hammond/Financial Times)

"documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency."
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/S1p87#selection-521.58-521.206

X-ray astronomers often look at
X-ray binaries,
which consist of a black hole or a neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a normal star.
Material from that star is accreted onto the black hole or neutron star, producing X-rays.
The companion star is quite often a massive star with very strong stellar winds, and X-ray astronomers looking at these winds tend to think:
“Oh my god, it’s so complicated: there’s all this additional absorption, it’s super annoyi…

Victoria Grinberg: the astrophysicist sharing her love for science – Physics World
X-ray astronomer Victoria Grinberg talks about spreading her passion for science

Parenting With Ngala
All parents want to do their best, but there's so much contradictory, confusing and complicated info it's hard to know what best even means...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/parenting-with-ngala/

After a complicated and one good sighting of #comet #Lemmon from #Bochum, Germany, on 20 and 24 October - see the thread https://mastodon.social/@PlanetariumBochum/115430462668539532 - more cloudy evenings followed ... but here is the comet again on 30 October, picked blindly out of a suuuuper-crappy sky with 4 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 1600, right above 9 Herculis. Detection #3 ... and there would be one more today (see the following boost).

Ekitike continues to loudly make the case that he should be starting. Whether that's on a side or in the center, I don't care. He simply must start.
Isak opened brightly, but the low block dried up the service for his runs.
I would like to see Salah get some time in the second half. When Klopp didn't start him, it often fueled his return to form. Everything is complicated, but I believe in Salah's fire and competitiveness to win out.

Targeted Sequential Pattern Mining with High Average Utility
Kai Cao, Yucong Duan, Wensheng Gan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10115 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Targeted Sequential Pattern Mining with High Average Utility
Incorporating utility into targeted pattern mining can address the practical limitations of traditional frequency-based approaches. However, utility-based methods often suffer from generating a large number of long and complicated sequences. To improve pattern relevance and interpretability, average utility provides a more balanced metric by considering both utility and sequence length. Moreover, incorporating user-defined query targets into the mining process enhances usability and interactivi…

With all my KDE, dwm, MangoWC, NixOS, Gentoo, FreeBSD, Wayland, immutably complicated stuff it is very refreshing to just download an MX Linux iso, install it in under 10 minutes and have evrything you might want up and running in no time.
Well curated, well styled, great tools, you name it. Documentation excellent.
What a great distro! A gem.
#mxlinux

Space-time singularities in spatially-chirped Laguerre-Gaussian beams of any order
Spencer W. Jolly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11161 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Space-time singularities in spatially-chirped Laguerre-Gaussian beams of any order
The electric field distributions and space-time singularity curves are computed for ultrashort pulsed Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams having spatial chirp. Due to the breaking of cylindrical symmetry by the spatial chirp, the singularities trace complicated curves in space-time, which also vary for different combinations of radial and vortical orders. Analytical solutions are mostly presented along with a recipe for numerically calculating higher orders. The behavior of the singularities upon pro…

Just finished "Kirby's Lessons for Falling (In Love)" by Laura Gao. I'd previously read her autobiographical graphic novel "Messy Roots" which was excellent, and this book continues that trend. Yet another complicated look at a Chinese-American immigrant experience, wrapped into a queer romance with a dose of spirituality in there as well. I think the background metaphor of falling is really strong, and gets used in so many senses it's beautiful.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Computational Crystal Plasticity Homogenization using Empirically Corrected Cluster Cubature (E3C) Hyper-Reduction
Stephan Wulfinghoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11187 https://

Computational Crystal Plasticity Homogenization using Empirically Corrected Cluster Cubature (E3C) Hyper-Reduction
The computational homogenization of elastoplastic polycrystals is a challenging task due to the huge number of grains required, their complicated interactions and due to the complexity of crystal plasticity models per se. Despite a few successes of reduced order models, mean field and simplified homogenization approaches often remain the preferred choice. In this work, a recently proposed hyper-reduction method (called E3C) for projection-based Reduced Order Models (pROMs) is applied to the pro…

During Thursday's two-hour phone call, Trump agreed to meet with Putin in Hungary in two weeks' time,
at a summit hosted by the country's far-right leader Viktor Orban in Budapest.
Trump said it would most likely be a "double meeting" between him and Putin, but that Mr Zelensky would be "in touch."
The summit will mark the 💥 first time Putin has set foot on EU soil 💥since the start of the war
- and is further complicated by him being ba…

Donald Trump makes weird comment about Volodymyr Zelensky's clothes at White House meeting
President Zelensky arrived for talks with Trump with high hopes of a breakthrough that could end the war in Ukraine

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court has repeatedly signaled that it plans to adopt the
“unitary executive theory,”
which says the original understanding of the Constitution demands letting the president remove executive branch officials as he sees fit.
But a new article, from a leading originalist law professor, has complicated and perhaps upended the conventional wisdom.
The legal academy treated the development like breaking news.
“Bombshell!” Willi…

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials
As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.

Day 20: bell hooks.
Despite having decided to continue to 30, number 20 feels important, and hooks gets the spot in part because I haven't yet included a non-fiction feminist author, which feels like an obvious thing to include on such a list. The one category of author being bumped out of the first 20 here is anime writers, but I'll follow up with one of them, along with more academics and mangaka who I've been itching to include.
In any case, hooks is absolutely legendary as a feminist writer for good reason, and as a teacher I've especially appreciated her writing on pedagogy like "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" and "Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom". These have challenged me to teach at a higher level, and while I'm not sure I've completely succeeded, they're important to me. They also pair well with Paolo Friere's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", but hooks always seems to be focused on very practical advice and it's incredibly direct in her writing, even though her advice isn't always straightforward to implement. In fact, that's one of the things I value about her writing: when the truth is complicated or the real work is messy interpersonal relationships that need to be negotiated with each student, she's not afraid to say so and give good advice for navigating those waters instead of trying to dispense simple-seeming platitudes or formulas for success that paper over the deeper issues. Her concern has always been truth, rather than simplicity or audience comfort and the popularity it might seem to entail, which I think is part of why her legacy endures so well.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen