Google says Android's AirDrop-like Quick Share will now let some devices exchange files and contact info when tapped together, starting with Pixel 6 and newer (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/978613/android-quick-share-tap-updat…
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Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between the billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications
“If people like Musk get Trump re-elected, they’ll expect all kinds of regulatory gifts in their favour,”
said Fiona Hill,
who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the chancellor of Durham University and a defence adviser to the UK governm…
If we're incarcerating people to help them change their behavior, then we have to do everything possible to make it easier to change. Prisons can handle in-person visits. Why can't jails?
If you've got a staffing shortage, maybe it's time to look at your salary schedule. #JusticeReform
Observateurs et astrophotographes sur les remparts des ruines du château de Castrojeriz après le troisième contact de l'éclipse totale du 12 août 2026 au crépuscule.
#eclipse #eclipse2026 #Castrojeriz
Big news! I just released version 0.9 of my 3d-printed #MorseCode single-paddle key system.
Changes:
- New grip that acts like a case. @…
Our next #phpugmrn meetup is happening on Thursday next week!
We're excited to welcome @elizabeth as our guest speaker. As the Executive Director of The PHP Foundation, Liz will introduce the foundation's mission, highlight its impact on the PHP ecosystem, and share insights into its upcoming plans.
Sign up here
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
TFW you put all a contact's company name et cetera in the notes field because you don't want your phone to capitalise every single normal word that it contains
#iOS
@… CONTACT YOUR DOCTOR IF YOU EXPERIENCE SYMPTOMS FROM TELEMETRY
One new thing I’ve learn about living with a dog is that when he sleeps, he often wants physical contact.
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.
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
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 was yelling for a foul, but credit to the referee who saw there was no contact at all.
#LFC
Chat from support: This is about your incident 12345678
Me: yes?
— silence —
Email, two hours later: we tried to contact you, but you were unavailable.
😡🤪🤬
I tried a new bike route to work today. I originally planned this due to some upcoming road closures but I really like it!
Minimal contact with cars and busy roads (except for the last 1.4 miles) and I get to use the new separated bike lane on Lisbon Avenue.
#milwaukee #bikeTooter…
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’ve just learned from a very helpful SEO / AEO expert who filled out my contact form that my “Spa & Wellness” booking form would rank better in search if I could just take a few minutes to respond and see a demo of what they can do for me.
Beatiful people named TEST ALERT on NATIONWIDE ALERT DAY are trying to contact me
Instead of •judging• people who are stuck between a rock and a hard place, we all — but especially us tech folks! — should spend some time •actually learning• what’s locking people in to a platform going bad. There are some answers in the original QP. Here are some guesses of my own:
- Is prohibitively hard to migrate their catalog / inventory?
- Are they unsure how to proceed?
- Are they burned out on platform switching?
- Do they have some larger process that really, really works and are loath to abandon it?
- Do the alternatives not provide the same functionality?
- Will they lose contact with their supporters if they switch?
- etc.
Those are all made-up guesses, but they're all examples of •perfectly good reasons• for someone to be resistant to switching.
Rant ahoy!!
I stumbled onto the Wikipedia article about foundational psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. I'd forgotten how angry this trash scam practice of woo-woo muckspreader firehose insanity makes me. It's not so much that someone's built a huge castle in the air, because there's a place for fantasy and worldbuilding and daydreams; that's where we get much of our culture from, after all. It's the waste of time and money, and the unaddressed or exacerbated human misery it represents. It's the duplicitous and meritricious posing as being in some way scientific, or reality-based. Psychoanalysts belong in the same circle of hell as mediums who claim to be in contact with people's deceased love ones, or selling colloidal silver as a cure for cancer. Preying on vulnerable people with snake oil, hokum, religious cults and all the other ways the simple-minded are exploited boils my piss. The apparent fact that most of them sincerely believe their garbage doesn't ameliorate their guilt in my book.
The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week
"When people aren’t in the office, it’s harder to command and control. Leaders can’t intimidate by hovering over cubicle desks and slamming doors. They can’t establish their dominance by summoning people to a conference room and pounding their fists on the table. They can’t even make direct eye contact to stare people down."
The horror...
Athens-based Omilia, which builds self-learning AI agents that work across different customer contact points, raised a $67M Series B led by Expedition Growth (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/omilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-c…
"...there are 196 Indigenous communities living ... in voluntary isolation. Most are in South America... Though fundamentally diverse, these communities have all chosen to reject outsiders and the industrialised world, and live self-sufficiently.
...
Increasingly, however, outsiders are trying to contact them – and make content from them.
...
For now, their numbers are believed to be few, ...but advocates believe the threat to be real, growing and warranting action.…
This can't be real - the "contact" button on the webpage of a department at #Indonesia's best public #university merely leads you to their #Instagram page.
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
Technology is politics -- especially in the Age of the Broligarchs.
The People's Movements should be using the People's Software.
Contact Patchwork DC and encourage them to live their values by officially committing to using #FOSS and the #Fediverse
I completely lost contact with pop music.
I kind of knew this already, it now has been confirmed.
(re: longest running UK number one)
Another reason not to publish in #Frontiers... they use genAI to create alt-text for their figures 🤦
Seriously, remind me why we are paying journals when they can't even write their own Alt-text?
#AcademicChatter
If you have a @… account that is connected to a payment service (CC, PayPal, bank transfer), you can contact support to cancel and request a refund. #VPN #dontSupportAFascist
Made another mosquito-killing box fan to set up near chairs on my front porch. As mosquitoes approach they get flattened against the netting, which I spray with permethrin, a contact insecticide. #mosquitoes #permethrin #fan
"Ethics aside..." *knocks your favorite mug on the floor while maintaining eye contact*
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
Emergent gravitational action from non-local $T\bar T$-like deformations
Yun-Ze Li, Bo-Rui Li, Yu-Xiao Liu, Song He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05913 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05913 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.05913
arXiv:2608.05913v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the gravitational effective action induced, at first order in the deformation parameter, by non-local $T\bar T$-like deformations of quantum field theories. Using a heat-kernel formulation, we extract the local geometric terms generated by stress-tensor two-point functions, and apply the construction to free fermions, massive Maxwell theory, and second-order Yang-Mills theory. While the resulting coefficients are generally model dependent, conformal field theories contain a universal sector fixed by the central charge $C_T$. After regularization and renormalization, this sector yields finite, scheme-independent contributions organized into a finite set of curvature invariants. We further analyze trace-trace deformations, for which the relevant contact terms are determined by the Weyl anomaly, and derive the corresponding finite gravitational action for a general class of minimal non-local kernels. These results provide a quantum effective-action realization of induced gravity in which universal conformal data determine calculable contributions to the emergent geometric response.
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Heute vor 25 Jahren verstarb Christiaan Barnard. Seinem Andenken verpflichtet ist das Groote Schuur Hospital mit seinem Heart Of Cape Town Museum, „Where history comes to life - and beats on...“ 🤓 - auch wenn das ausgestellte Herz aus der ersten Transplantation zwar noch ausgestellt ist, aber nicht mehr tatsächlich schlägt🤪.
Einheimischenpreise erhältlich.
#herz
Just rewatched Contact and man it’s a movie for our time
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
Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.flu-dyn. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.flu-dyn/new
[1/1]:
- A floor and a ceiling for the advancing contact angle
Yong Sung Park
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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Just did very approximate calculations; with 10g of lithium per drone*, and assuming the Russian and Ukrainian drone efforts consume 5m units a year**, that'd be ~50 tons of lithium deposited into the environment per year, mostly within, let's say, 50km of the grey zone***. It's only about $20,000 / ton****, which means $1m of metal*****.
So to answer my own silly question: no, it won't be economically viable to scalp the top few inches of topsoil and extract the lithium from it.
* Roughly right for quadcopters / small FPV; larger and longer range ones will have more, so this is a bottom bound. (OTOH longer range UAVs will tend to use ICE kerosene rather than batteries
** Changing all the time as both sides try expanding production as fast as they can manage. Ua are scaling much faster at time of writing
*** Handwaving. Contact zone's hardly moved since early 2023; OTOH Ua are pushing range limits on small battery-powered form factor, saw a 60km claim for the Logistics Lockdown operation the other day
**** There was a big spike to the $70-8000 range in 2022; median price is closer to $10k than $20k
***** (IDK the chemistry but presumably it's in an exciting range of different compounds, depending on how many bits the battery was blown into, how hot / pressured the blast wave was a few tens of mm from the boom, what other stuff was in the vicinity that the lithium would combine with, etc etc.
New 10x8" silver gelatin print. This one took a lot of refining, back and forth and test strips to achieve the right balance between brightness, contrast (esp. in the brighter parts of the clouds) and smooth mid-tone transitions. So even though this is a contact print from a digital negative, this was the first time in ages (i.e. decades) that I used some physical dodging to soften the horizon and emphasize the haze in the distance a tiny bit more...
After studying the play,
Claus determined Folarin Balogun’s contact with Bosnia’s defender amounted to a “serious foul.”
According to International Football Association Board rules,
serious foul play involves a challenge that uses “excessive force or brutality” or endangers an opponent,
leaving the referee to determine when a line has been crossed.
Balogun technically could face further discipline.
A longer suspension could be appealed,
but discip…
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…
Our next #phpugmrn meetup is happening on August 20!
We're excited to welcome @… as our guest speaker. As the Executive Director of The PHP Foundation, Liz will introduce the foundation's mission, highlight its impact on the PHP ecosystem, and share ins…
I've been asked a bunch of times to write up my "QSO in a Kilo(gram)" ham radio kit that is light enough to just drop into my computer bag and have with me to deploy at a moment's notice.
I kept not writing it up because I haven't taken all the opportunities to make it even lighter and wanted to try just one more thing — which was silly. I can always make another blog post, or edit this one.
Everything (beyond what I already carry with me) that I need to work 60…
I just don’t see it as red. I’m admittedly biased, but Balogun is off balance from the mutual contact. It meets some of the standards, but red feels like a rounding up. That he’d didn’t even give a yellow on the field?
In the way this game has been officiated, to then make this call?
Extremely consequential.
#USABIH
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
#Soccer Rule 12:
A direct free kick is awarded if a player commits any of the following
offences:
...• impedes an opponent with contact
...
https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/…
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…
More than 20 may be missing after Grand Canyon flash flood
The National Park Service is asking for the public’s help finding as many as 20 people
who may be missing following a significant flash flood in the Grand Canyon on Saturday.
“If you know of hikers or backpackers who were in the Bright Angel Creek corridor on August 29,
or if you had a campground reservation in the affected area,
please contact the NPS Investigative Services Branch,”
the agency wr…
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
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
A well-funded Republican group is blanketing the airwaves lauding GOP lawmakers in key swing districts
— including some with reputations for prolific stock trading
— as champions on the issue of Congressional stock trading
"Corrupt congressmen treat the House floor like a trading floor. Thankfully, Congressman Rob Bresnahan voted to stop it," says one of the ads.
Issue advocacy group Choose Freedom Inc. has put a whopping $9 million into running the spots …
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.
…