I have no idea how or why but on Sunday, I accidentally deleted hundreds of lines in my contact management.
I was notified by my setup and was able to revert the problematic change within minutes. 👍
"git: post-commit hook for determining large number of deleted lines in Org-mode" https://
When the truck pulls away from the building at CERN,
the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva,
all eyes will be on its precious cargo,
a one-tonne device containing some of the most exotic material on Earth.
The 20-minute test run around the campus, pencilled in for later this month,
will mark the world’s first attempt to transport #antimatter,
a substanc…
I am selling a few domains, in case anyone is interested, please contact me:
* proto.wiki
* protowiki.org
* wikigenerator.org
I spent the last week in a PTSD intensive therapy. We had no phones or devices of any type, no radios, no contact for 5 days
I'm slowly transcribing and editing my journal. This is the first entry, from the first night.
It should probably go without saying that there are a number of triggering things here, mainly around family violence and self-harm
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/fish-ptss-5-day-0
I cannot concur…
It’s not realistic to ask people to *never* click a link in email. We’ve got 30 years of experience with that advice not working because MUA developers have never stopped making links active & aggressively looking for anything in email that might be a link, regardless of URL conformance. That’s why SpamAssassin treats so many non-URLs as if they are URLs. Users will click clickable things. Telling them not to do so is unreasonable.
1/2
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
1/2 Presketched this today in the over-vehiculed Space of my hometown near Stuttgart, South Germany.
One of the joys of #UrbanSketching is the deep, quiet and yet truely active contact with Time (you spend a lot there on spot) but even more with the People you meet there . A lot of bygoers do stop and do appreciate the drawing. Which gives Oneself in exchange the possibility to appr…
And an earlier slide from Vainio's lecture: scenarios for #religions reacting to first contact with intelligent aliens.
Last week I made GF cardamom buns as part of my Easter dinner. But I had a first pass where I put the psyllium husk into the dry ingredients instead of the proofed yeast & milk (where it would gel). I held onto that batch of dry ingredients and salvaged it yesterday.
The buns came out well, but spread quite a lot. They still had a good texture and density, so I don’t know how much my psyllium oops was a factor.
Still learning GF yeasted baking.
@… done (I used the contact form) …
My 10mm thick ultraclear glass plate (for contact prints) arrived and the weight and increase in sharpness is like day & night.. wow! 🤩
Since this new glass also seems to transmit more UV light (as I had hoped), I'll have to do more test strips for adjusted exposure times. The print below actually is a test strip too (using 4 sections of different exposure times), but only the right quarter (80 seconds) seems to noticeable different/lighter. So it seems UV transmission has incr…
⚠️ 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝐼 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑!
If you're around #ithaca or #cornell I am taking individual and group portraits with trees -- if you want one 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 -- contact me!
#photo
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
During internal tests, a new AI model developed by Anthropic managed to escape its virtual security environment, subsequently contact researchers independently and document its success. The incident highlights the growing challenges of AI security – and just how real they have become.
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…
I just got a marketing email with this line:
> Hi Philip, It's been 1891 days since you left - we miss you!
And all I can say is, I envy the confidence of someone who thinks this email would be welcome.
Or they vibe coded the script and never considered setting an upper bound on who to contact.
Maybe it’s that one.
24.3 kWh production, another new record. The days are getting longer and the sun is getting higher, but the monsoon season keeps breaking up streaks of high production with heavy rainstorms.
We might get up to an inch of snow ovenight into tomorrow which will probably hurt my numbers until it melts, if any of it sticks (the panels and roof are probably warmer than the ground, so it may just melt on contact)
This is a new one. Got a #press release, tried to download the attached #report, and got this message.
"Unsupported #PDF viewer" I assume means every PDF viewer available on
Companies keep shit you need to know from them purposefully obtuse in hopes you'll give up and not contact them about anything.
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
How touch is totally different in different places because of scale. Kinda cool. The nature of contact is not just what we think it is.
#physics
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's and Trump's actions against Anthropic have serious legal issues, and its designation exceeds what the statute authorizes (Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/pentagon…
An anomaly onboard the #Proba3 mission’s Coronagraph spacecraft led to loss of contact between the spacecraft and ground control: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Work_ongoing_to_restore_contact_with_Proba-3_s_Coronagraph - the root cause of the anomaly is under investigation and mission teams are working hard to recover the situation.
@… I just installed Tapestry last night and I’m fascinated by the idea.
If this is not the right place to ask please direct me to the best way to contact.
Does it require subscription for handling Mastodon operations like reply/bookmark/etc? (I get an error for each of these)
Does it refresh RSS feeds normally like any other readers?
Does accessing Bluesky require any special setup or sub to work? (Getting an authentication error related to a token)
🙏
What’s the polymarket rate on Windows wanting to update itself exactly when they’re not having radio contact with Earth?
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?
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
Heute zum Ende der #Veloferien nochmal #rausgeschafft, allerdings mit Mr. #Winterbrompton (mit Sommerpneu, Conti Urban Contact), da gestern kurz vor Ende der
A Boothby-Wang construction in generalized contact geometry
Debjit Pal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22385 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22385 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22385
arXiv:2602.22385v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We establish a generalized analogue of the Boothby-Wang theorem in generalized contact geometry, along with related results. We present a general method for constructing examples of generalized contact structures that are not of Poon-Wade type, and even examples that fail to be generalized contact structures. Using Courant reduction methods, we construct a generalized complex structure on a smooth leaf space and equip the generalized contact manifold with a principal bundle structure whose connection is defined by the generalized contact data. Under mild assumptions, we show that the curvature induces a symplectic foliation on the leaf space. Several examples are provided.
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Wow. I'm shocked. I thought Konate did get ball, but after contact with the plant leg first caused Zaire-Emery to naturally fall. That decision would NEVER happen in the EPL.
Complaints about the uneven refereeing now withdrawn.
#LFC
📣Für unsere nächste Jahresveranstaltung, dem Culture Community Plenary (9. – 11.11. am Deutschen Bergbau-Museum in Bochum), möchten wir wieder verschiedene Formate anbieten, um die konsortiale Zusammenarbeit zu fördern.
Interessierte können Beiträge (1-2 seitige Abstracts) für verschiedene Formate einreichen, von Forschungsdatenprojekten aus den Culture-Fächern, Tools, Services,, etc.
👉 Abstracts bitte bis zum 15.06. 2026 an contact@nfdi4culture.de senden
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There is one disturbing issue not mentioned in the article: That a man in a care home can be dead for 3 years, and no one in the "family" was aware. That means no one appears to have tried to contact him in 3 years - no family members, no friends.
Yes, the failure of the business enterprises is inexcusable - but the family's behavior?
Veteran died at Calif. hospital. Family wasn't told for 3 years.
There is one disturbing issue not mentioned in the article: That a man in a care home can be dead for 3 years, and no one in the "family" was aware. That means no one appears to have tried to contact him in 3 years - no family members, no friends.
Yes, the failure of the business enterprises is inexcusable - but the family's behavior?
Veteran died at Calif. hospital. Family wasn't told for 3 years.
I love this premise:
"It has been 62 years since the last Federation contact with the planet."
It sounds real, gloomy, and plausible in the grander scale of the Star Trek universe compared to the usual warping about the Alpha Quadrant.
It's from TNG's 1x14 (Angel One) Memory Alpha:
https://
Every time I check-in to an Icelandair flight, some piece of information is missing (usually passport, often the known traveler number), but today, my contact info was scrambled. The phone number they have for me is my emergency contact’s number! Are they just vibe coding their app over there?
Does anyone know how Kel is doing?
I don't seem to be able to contact him. Which is fine, but in truth I just want to know he's keeping on keeping on ok.
(Obviously he nuked his Mastodon account a couple of weeks ago.)
Over the holidays last last year I was building an Airfix model (good way to ignore the outside world) and discovered two pieces had fallen off the sprues and were not in the box. I considered constructing them myself but I didn't have a good reference image to go by. 99% certain it wasn't my fault, I looked up how to contact Airfix, followed the instructions, and never heard back.
Until Friday, when two tiny pieces of plastic arrived in an adorable little pouch and the modelmaking can continue.
I love good customer service. I just love it.
One of the weirder cold contacts I've gotten:
> I cannot write this email opener.
>
> The research signals explicitly disqualify this contact and company. City of Cape Town operates municipal infrastructure (water, sanitation, electricity, waste) with no database technology stack, distributed systems, or data engineering workloads that align with <cold email org>'s offerings.
Misfiring LLM or some dark pattern, Edgelord nonsense?!?
Nasty shock to European gas price in response to Trump's war: 21% compared to last Friday!
Air travel can be challenging!
Listening to predator calls paired with alarm calls taught chicks to be afraid of the predator.
The young birds were more vigilant when they heard the call again…
chicks that heard the predator calls paired with the contact calls did not gain this fear.
https://www.popsci.com/environme…
The exact sort of photo I wanted to shoot at the Skunk Cabbage Classic this Sunday
more photos with eye contact: https://www.behance.net/gallery/246796885/Skunk-Cabbage-Run-2026-Eye-Contact#
Wachttijden bij politienummer 0900-8844 lopen op, meer bellers haken af
https://nos.nl/artikel/2609099-wachttijden-bij-politienummer-0900-8844-lopen-op-meer-bellers-haken-af
Mwt andere woorden vult u maar een formuliertje in of schrijf je in op twitter, of zo om contact op te nemen, want we zijn bezig met 'technologische vernieuwingen'.
Is dat AI misschien??
(Typische 'oplossing' van de overheid is vaak een heel innovatieve techniek. Paar jaar geleden wat t woord 'een app')
Shocked to find out that people you're speaking to expect eye contact. But if I do that, then how am I supposed to look out for predators, or edible berries?
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
@… Right?
“If you prefer Facebook over email, go to …” is… fine? I don’t, but that’s fine. Give them options I guess.
“The only way to contact your government is through the Torment Nexus” is not.
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.
Anybody have a non emergency service contact for Puget Sound Energy? They have a contact to report outages and downed wires but not lower priority issues.
We've pretty definitively figured out what's going on at my friends' place: intermittent brownouts on one of the two 120V phases affecting the entire house but not neighbors. Waveforms show glitches in the sine right above and below the zero crossing consistent with series arcing. And it happens more often in windy weathe…
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
Thanks to the hard work of @… and the rest of the PieFed community, and the infrastructure sponsored by https://prodigi.nz, there's now a community PieFed for Aotearoa -
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…
OpenAI says it will overhaul safety protocols and establish direct contact with Canadian police, after not alerting authorities about the Tumbler Ridge suspect (Mickey Djuric/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/canada-openai-chatgpt-shooting-00…
I can’t stop thinking about
Nurul Shah Alam,
the disabled refugee who died after Border Patrol left him outside in the cold with no way to contact friends or family.
It took five days for him to die.
He was blind and didn’t speak English.
They took the pole he was using as a cane.
This man survived an actual genocide only to be killed by the incompetence and cruelty of the Trump regime.
Five days of wandering around lost, sick and disoriented.
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
RE: #ArtemisII Mission Update briefing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5PLvqX2q8w - in Q&A we learned that contact has been made to only two of the four CubeSats deployed so far, the German one https://mastodon.social/@DLR@social.bund.de/116329959429900989 not among them. Anyway, here is a cool timelapse of the deployment as seen in the sky: https://bsky.app/profile/s2a-systems.bsky.social/post/3mimb3zb5gs2i
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…
It wouldn't hurt to contact your representatives in Congress,
ask them to assert themselves as is their responsibility,
and bring a hasty end to this painful conflict.
Otherwise, the entire world is now sitting on a bus being driven recklessly by American leaders with uncertain and varying goals and dubious judgment.
Fasten your seatbelts.
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_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…