The fact that I have such a strong food phobia that I don't feel myself capable to work at a supermarket during the weekend because I would have to manipulate some cheese in a packaging is terrible. Come on all the easy weekend jobs require at some point to be in proximity or contact with cheese.
Except security guard, but then I have to be in contact with humans which is just slightly less terrible
sp_hypertext: Hypertext 2009 dynamic contact network
The temporal network of contacts among attendees of the ACM Hypertext 2009 conference, which spanned 2.5 days of time.
This network has 113 nodes and 20818 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_hype…
Yelp signs a deal with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT users real-time local recommendations, and will soon let them contact local businesses for quotes via ChatGPT (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/23/yelp-reviews-chatgpt-geo-partnership
The Federal Communications Commission on Monday blasted Disney’s push for public support amid the agency’s probes of “The View” and ABC’s broadcast licenses,
the latest development in Disney’s growing standoff with regulators.
The FCC, under Trump-appointed Chair Brendan Carr, said in February that it was looking into whether “The View” violated equal-time rules
after an appearance by James Talarico, the Democratic candidate in November’s U.S. Senate race in Texas.
…
Bij de Volkskrant mag je geen vragen over privacy stellen... Je mag dan niet verder het contact formulier invullen en wprdt naar een hoop tekst doorverwezen...
Just rewatched Contact and man it’s a movie for our time
Geometry Induced Adaptive Dissipation in Non Linear Contact Hamiltonian Systems Theory and Application to Duffing Oscillator
Vinesh Vijayan, R Sathishkumar, D Kaleeswaran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17055 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.17055 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.17055
arXiv:2607.17055v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We develop a generalized contact Hamiltonian framework by extending canonical contact Hamiltonian mechanics to nonlinear dissipative systems through the replacement of the classical linear contact potential with a smooth nonlinear contact potential. The proposed formulation establishes a generalized energy dissipation law together with a structural characterization of admissible contact-induced damping, introducing effective contact dissipation as an intrinsic geometric measure of adaptive dissipation. As an application, a generalized contact Duffing oscillator is derived, in which dissipation emerges intrinsically from the contact geometry rather than being introduced phenomenologically. Numerical investigations of the generalized contact Duffing oscillator demonstrate that nonlinear contact geometry governs the effective dissipation and produces significant changes in the phase-space structure, energy decay, dynamical stability, and long-term nonlinear behavior. The proposed theory therefore provides a systematic geometric framework for constructing and analyzing nonlinear dissipative Hamiltonian systems within contact Hamiltonian mechanics.
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Damn; I went to debug why Model B wouldn't write to floppies and...it worked. Yesterday when I got a scope on the write-data line on the drive end it didn't budge at all. By the time I'd got the beeb open today, moved the keyboard and stuffed a scope probe on the gate between the 8271 and the drive it all got nice friendly data there. Hmm.
Took the IC80 out, gave the legs a rub and a bit of contact cleaner, and hmm ok.
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
Billy Golicki of Iconic Rock i100 and Billy and the Therapists gets up close and personal at Dio Day
#photo #photography #billy
Two small new prints from this afternoon, this time not Kallitype but contact printing on silver chloride FB paper, developed with Adox MCC. The increase in depth and detail is just wonderful and the feel of the final results an instant throwback to my early darkroom adventures ~40 years ago... 😍
The pictures are of two of my favorite places in recent years. Larger prints will be available for purchase in September.
OpenAI launches Trusted Contact, an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that lets adult users assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int
Does anyone have a support email contact for GoDaddy? I'm trying to log into a domain account to do some admin work and I seem to be blacklisted by their CDN/WAF (edgesuite does not like me for some reason)
"Sick days among those that took the jabs fell by 45%, while there was a 56% reduction in long-term sick leave, classed as absences of five days or more.
Patients also did not need to see a GP as often. Face-to-face appointments dropped by an average of 43% and remote consultations by 48%. More than 60% said they did not contact their GP at all. A separate study of 738 patients who were prescribed the jabs found A&E visits among the group fell by one quarter."
High-Order ADER-DG Hydrodynamics with ExaHyPE: Implementation, Validation, and Astrophysical Benchmarking
Andr\'es Mauricio Su\'arez Mantilla, Leonardo Casta\~neda Colorado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17132 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17132 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17132
arXiv:2605.17132v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We describe a high-order ADER-DG solver for the compressible Euler equations within the ExaHyPE framework. The implementation combines a high-order ADER-DG polynomial representation, a local space-time DG predictor, adaptive mesh refinement, and an a posteriori subcell finite-volume limiter. We test the code on a deliberately mixed set of one- and two-dimensional problems: a strong-shock Sod-type problem, the Shu-Osher shock-entropy interaction, the Woodward-Colella blast wave, a contact-driven vortex sheet, and a shock-interface interaction. The one-dimensional cases recover the expected Euler wave patterns and show clear order-dependent gains in smooth and oscillatory regions. The two-dimensional cases probe a different part of the method, namely contact preservation, shear-driven roll-up, baroclinic vorticity deposition, and Richtmyer-Meshkov-type growth. In these tests the high-order update gives the expected resolution away from discontinuities, whereas the subcell limiter keeps the calculation stable near shocks and steep interfaces. The resulting code provides a reproducible ExaHyPE implementation for idealised inviscid, non-relativistic flows in which shocks, contacts, and multidimensional interfaces are the dominant features.
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Wer in #Wien auf ein ungewöhnlicher es Public Viewing des Fußballspiels Österreich-Spanien Lust hast, sollte in die Magic World gehen. Das Theater im Prater verschenkt 80 Freikarten.
Einfach anrufen oder mailen
https://magicworld.at/de/contact
Join us next Thursday for our next #phpugmrn event!
Our speaker, @… will take us back to the fundamentals of Domain Driven Design (DDD). and argue that these principles are far more important than any specific architecture.
According to Sebastian, b…
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
A Splitting Architecture for Exact Reduced Coulomb Friction
Hongcheng Song, Ye Fan, Uri M. Ascher, Dinesh K. Pai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19599 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19599 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19599
arXiv:2607.19599v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Existing approaches to frictional contact dynamics typically either modify the Coulomb law to improve numerical robustness or solve the exact law in a fully coupled monolithic form. However, in its reduced form, exact Coulomb friction can be written as a cone complementarity problem with an augmented velocity, which reveals a natural split between a cone-constrained linear response and a scalar non-associated coupling induced by tangential velocity. We exploit this structure in the solver design. Our method uses an outer iteration to update the non-associated coupling explicitly, and an inner solve for a strongly convex cone-constrained quadratic program. This separation also makes the inner solver modular, so different numerical schemes can be used without changing the outer iteration. We evaluate the method on rigid-body benchmarks with stick-slip transitions and frictional stacking, and show that it reproduces exact Coulomb complementarity without smoothing or relaxing the friction law.
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ceux qui se servent d' #IA au travail en dressent un profil nuancé. 75 % en tirent des gains de productivité, Š titre individuel, mais seuls 13 % estiment que leur entreprise en profite également. Le temps passé au contact des modèles est par ailleurs consacré aux deux tiers Š baby-sitter l’IA, contre 36 % Š s’en servir réellement.
The 2nd contact of the #ArtemisII solar eclipse filmed with an out of focus (!) cellphone: #corona streamers appearing. (During most of the eclipse only the #ZodiacalLight had been visible behind the huge Moon as the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae71c8 - summarized in Japanese in https://www.tcu.ac.jp/en/news/all/20260609-71681/ which auto-machine-translates into English - has explained.)
Squash Bug War Casualty Report: Adults 0, Egg Pods 0.
No enemy contact, but I know they are out there, it’s like they are taunting me . . .
“Hallo, you tiny-brained gardener! You frighten no one! Today we did not come, because we did not feel like it!”
#gardening #oklahoma
I was going to boost something from thenerve.news, and could not find a mastodon share button. Wanted to give them a hint to add it. No way to contact them without an account. So, I'm not bothering. Their loss.
P.S; The palantir manifesto is out of this world. Read about it somewhere else.
Nakba Day. 78 years since the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to lay the foundations of the apartheid state of Israel.
People Before Profit have brought a bill to the Dšil to implement full sanctions on Israel. We cannot allow a rogue, genocidal apartheid state continue as normal.
Contact your TDs and demand they back this bill next week.
I’m not sharing this to indicate I know any famous people - because that’s entirely boring and literally makes no difference to anything anyway - but it’s psychologically interesting to me that those I’ve known who *became* famous all disappeared / became largely unresponsive after the change from then on, whereas those befriended already in that condition remain in contact and friends to this day.
Weird.
To make it easier esp. for junior folks (students, postdocs, jr faculty) to talk to me, I'm trying a new thing: open office hours at conferences! Come find me at PLDI 2026, using the public calendar linked to the page below. Please feel free to reshare!
https://cs.brown.edu/people/sk/Contact
I recently learned about wire wrap connections. They're fast, easy, strong, and make good contact. Developed by Bell Labs for early phone switching, by they 50's it was a standard in electronics, and was later used by Apple and IBM in their early computer prototypes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap
Making Of A Kallitype (Part 1)
I recorded and edited a short 8-10x timelapse recording of the first stages of my Kallitype development process. Starting with mixing the photo emulsion, brush coating the paper, contact printing (UV exposure), heating developer and then showing the first two stages of actual development & clearing. Final result shown at the end, a 15x11" framed print (also posted here recently)...
It's that time again! Tomorrow (Tues, 12 May) at 20:00 NZST we will be having our monthly Libre/FOSS Meeting. Anyone is welcome to participate. Questions and demos at any level both welcome and appreciated. We'll be holding forth on our BigBlueButton (thanks, as usual, to https://Prodigi.nz for sponsored infrastruc…
Federal investigators were working in early 2025 to wrap up a two-year inquiry into claims of pervasive sexual harassment and discrimination at a company that makes weapons, vehicles and cybersecurity tools for the Pentagon.
The investigators had found, among other things, that some male managers at a Norfolk, Va., Navy shipyard had demanded oral sex and other sexual contact from female employees in exchange for promotions and overtime pay,
and that Black women had been paid less…
sp_hypertext: Hypertext 2009 dynamic contact network
The temporal network of contacts among attendees of the ACM Hypertext 2009 conference, which spanned 2.5 days of time.
This network has 113 nodes and 2196 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_hype…
Reaching out to Microsoft support for a OneDrive server side issue, and it lets me understand better that why ISO deifnes a standard for date format. Like what day was you meant to say by [09/05/26] and [09/05/29]…, and what’s with the square brackets?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/116888489925603336
Just used the website to contact a lot of the representatives.
It's depressing how much effort is put into mass surveillance 😭
I found a way to make LinkedIn Great Again! I just unfollowed every single contact. Supereasy!
@… instead, please email corrections@ ASAP.
<https://www.theregister.com/profile/contact> notes that "… Our reporters cannot change publis…
By the way, some towns in the United States give away Mosquito Dunks to residents who ask for them. Contact your officials to ask, and nudge them to do so if they have no idea what you're talking about. Free Mosquito Dunks can translate into fewer mosquitoes and, ideally, less demand for costly municipal pesticide applications during the summer.
sp_hypertext: Hypertext 2009 dynamic contact network
The temporal network of contacts among attendees of the ACM Hypertext 2009 conference, which spanned 2.5 days of time.
This network has 113 nodes and 2196 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_hype…
Took the wee one to Woden Plaza indoor playground for a supervised contact visit with his mother yesterday. Glad that's over. Exhausting. They want us to do them a couple of times a week until an order is granted. Still waiting to hear when that will be.
CYF will supervise another contact visit tomorrow afternoon after preschool, while I'm in Sydney and husband is in charge (to give him a break?). Wee one will be at preschool on both Thursday and Friday.
It's a quick …
Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.med-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.med-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Quantitative Infrared Thermographic Assessment of Hand Cooling Dynamics During Controlled Contact...
Zhu, Zhang, Sfarra, Ibarra-Castanedo, Zhu, Ren, Sfarra, Maldague
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16536 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsappph_bot/116956892548172833
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sp_hypertext: Hypertext 2009 dynamic contact network
The temporal network of contacts among attendees of the ACM Hypertext 2009 conference, which spanned 2.5 days of time.
This network has 113 nodes and 20818 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_hype…
Funny memo from the National Aeronautics and Space Council (predecessor of the National Space Council) to the U.S. Department of State from 18 July 1963 about what to do should contact with intelligent #aliens be made: https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/59_214434_sp_16_7.18.1963.pdf - according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Hunter the author had no background in exobiology but apparently he was familiar with both astronomical views and SF ideas of the time ... and certain fringe claims, too.
A discrete Boltzmann model with state-dependent power-law relaxation time for nonequilibrium transport in compressible flows
Demei Li, Zhongyi He, Huilin Lai, Yanbiao Gan, Hailong Liu, Pengfei Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18216 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.18216
arXiv:2605.18216v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Thermodynamic nonequilibrium effects play a central role in momentum and energy transport in compressible flows. In conventional BGK kinetic models, the relaxation time $\tau$ is taken as a constant, which neglects the dependence of the relaxation process on local macroscopic states. To overcome this limitation, we develop a discrete Boltzmann model with a density- and temperature-dependent power-law relaxation time, termed DTRT-DBM, in which $\tau=\tau_0(\rho/\rho_0)^a(T/T_0)^b$. This formulation extends the discrete Boltzmann framework to flows with spatially varying nonequilibrium intensity. The model is validated by the Sod shock tube and by analytical solutions for viscous stress and heat flux, demonstrating accurate recovery of both macroscopic wave structures and nonequilibrium quantities across shock waves, rarefaction waves, and contact discontinuities. On this basis, phase diagrams of viscous stress and heat flux are constructed to examine how these quantities depend on the power-law exponents $a$ and $b$. The extrema of these quantities depend exponentially on the model parameters and exhibit regime-dependent behaviour. The roles of $a$ and $b$ are not symmetric: the nonequilibrium response is more sensitive to $a$ when density gradients dominate, but more sensitive to $b$ when temperature gradients dominate. Within the parameter range and flow configurations examined here, higher-order viscous stress increases the growth rate of the total viscous-stress extremum, whereas higher-order heat flux reduces the growth rate of the total heat-flux extremum. These results show that the proposed model can capture different higher-order nonequilibrium responses in compressible flows and provides a framework for the modelling and analysis of multiscale nonequilibrium processes.
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'Het gaat dan om de volgende diersoorten: de jak, de chinchilla, de Russische dwerghamster, het witstaartstekelvarken en de dromedaris.'
Minister LVVN moet kijken of huis- en hobbydierenlijst kan worden uitgebreid | Rechtspraak
https://www.rechtspraak.nl/organisatie-en-contact/organisatie/college-van-beroep-voor-het-bedrijfsleven/nieuws/minister-lvvn-moet-kijken-of-huis--en-hobbydierenlijst-kan-worden-uitgebreid
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SQUASH BUG WAR CASUALTY REPORT
KIA: 0, Egg Pods Destroyed: 0
No contact with the enemy today. Not one bug. Not one egg. The leaves are still. TOO still.
This is not a victory. This is a TRAP.
#gardening #oklahoma
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
I'm not 100% sure if this person was really in the Twilight 5K last Tuesday but her photo turned out really #foxographic (she should have been!)
#photo #photography
That PC whose fan dropped off the other week has been bodged into working. I used a couple of plastic strips and motherboard mounts to hold them to the board with screws in the right place for the heatsink; but I found it needed more pressure on the fan for it to make good contact with the CPU, especially at the top; so outcomes the wood. This is working reasonably well; although the wedge positioning is a bit touchy to get it right.
Apple announces new parental controls, letting kids ask to browse specific websites or contact specific people, adding automatic image filtering, and more (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2189728/apple-expands-parental-c…
sp_hypertext: Hypertext 2009 dynamic contact network
The temporal network of contacts among attendees of the ACM Hypertext 2009 conference, which spanned 2.5 days of time.
This network has 113 nodes and 20818 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_hype…
sp_hypertext: Hypertext 2009 dynamic contact network
The temporal network of contacts among attendees of the ACM Hypertext 2009 conference, which spanned 2.5 days of time.
This network has 113 nodes and 2196 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_hype…
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
Microsoft announces Scout, an always-on AI agent built on OpenClaw, appearing as a contact within Microsoft Teams to automate scheduling and more (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-microsoft-scout-your-ai-coworker-that-never-logs-off/…
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…