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
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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having just helped rescue the neighbour's dog, who was running up the dual carriageway, and then kept them in our garden while trying to contact the owners: please cut the balls off your dogs.
B is a lovely big friendly dog who listens to me, but they instantly started peeing all over our garden and harrassing our dogs. i can only guess at why they decided to run off.
There is zero reason, aside from displaced gender anxiety, to not neuter your dog. i have no sympathy for yo…
Took my son to lunch today for his birthday. Just the two of us. It's kind of a fraught situation considering the circumstances. We are caring for the wee one in our home while he and his ex-partner are currently only allowed supervised contact visits.
#Grandparenting #Parenting
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_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…
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.
I am saddened by the fact that people seem to think that having their email delivered to someone who does not already know them is some sort of right.
Even mail system operators.
So when the Big Pink T decides to interpret German law broadly to require mail systems offering them email to have a discoverable website with an “Impressum” (Imprint) identifying the responsible party with usable contact info, that is entirely within their rights, even if they are legally incorrect.…
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…
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…
Dis Bilbo, c'était quoi ton moment préféré ?
Y en a un paquet, évidemment, mais il y a ce moment après le troisième contact quand la pression retombe, que les gens autour sont béats et joyeux. Et ce petit rituel du selfie solaire instauré il y a 20 ans dans le désert égyptien. Un moment de partage avec tous les voisins qui sont repartis avec un croissant de soleil en projection sur leur t-shirt ou dans la main. C'était chouette, vraiment...
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…
K-contact manifolds admitting some geometric solitons with Semi-Symmetric Non-Metric Connection
Bidhan Mondal, Nirabhra Basu, Arindam Bhattacharyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15147 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.15147 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.15147
arXiv:2609.15147v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce some type vector fields with respect to a semi-symmetric non-metric (SSNM) connection. We investigate several geometric properties of a K-contact manifold equipped with an SSNM connection and provide a concrete example to justify the relation between the scalar curvature of the SSNM connection and Levi-Civita connection that we have obtained in this paper. Furthermore, we have found the nature of Riemann solitons, conformal Ricci solitons and conformal $\eta$-Ricci-Yamabe solitons on K-contact manifolds admitting a SSNM connection.\\ Finally, we determine the necessary and sufficient conditions for such a manifold to be $\Tilde{\tau}$-semi-symmetric, quasi-conformal-semi-symmetric and pseudo-projective-semi-symmetric.
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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
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
🔍 refscout profiles live award-winning sites for the libraries they really load, pinned scenes, scroll budget, fonts and painted palette. moodboard builds a numbered contact sheet, and source.mjs fetches licence-clean HDRIs and glTF models with every licence recorded.
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…
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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One new thing I’ve learn about living with a dog is that when he sleeps, he often wants physical contact.
This article is more than 1 year old
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…
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.
@… CONTACT YOUR DOCTOR IF YOU EXPERIENCE SYMPTOMS FROM TELEMETRY
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
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
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 😭
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’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.
I was yelling for a foul, but credit to the referee who saw there was no contact at all.
#LFC
Replaced article(s) found for physics.app-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.app-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Dynamic sliding and rolling friction models for viscoelastic contact pairs
Luigi Romano
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.
U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham communicated with someone posing as White House chief of staff Susie Wiles
before becoming suspicious that the contact was illegitimate, officials said.
One person briefed on the communications said
a “few messages” were exchanged after the PM entered No. 10
but insisted they were “of no significance.”
“We do not comment on national security matters,” Downing Street said
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...
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
"Ethics aside..." *knocks your favorite mug on the floor while maintaining eye contact*
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
"...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.…
I completely lost contact with pop music.
I kind of knew this already, it now has been confirmed.
(re: longest running UK number one)
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
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
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…
Yesterday, I met someone (and their family) that I am in contact with via social media since 6years for the first time.
It's always a bit exciting when you don't know any personal details - sometimes not even the voice. I always try to suppress any assumptions/expectations to avoid unnecessary disappointments.
But the few times I met ppl from social media, it was always a good happening. There are really so many good people out there.
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.
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
Euromodernism’s ‘Chinese Eyes’: Orientalism and Formal Immediacy
https://ift.tt/hbM9goD
full name / name of organization: David Seamans contact email: dhseamans@arizona.educategories (up…
via Input 4 RELCFP
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 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…
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
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_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…
JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy (General Issue)
https://ift.tt/8V3Um6T
full name / name of organization: JAm It!contact email: jamit@aisna.netcategories (up to…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/oVtPhZk
September 8, 2026 at 11:20AM
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…
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…
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…
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…