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Sonnet 035 - XXXV
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud:
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;
For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,
Thy adverse party is thy advocat…

“Survival is sometimes just squeak, squeak, squeak until the menace gets bored and leaves.”
I can't even begin to explain what I'm writing at the moment. There are hamsters, bodyless Voices, and hobnobs. The security chief is hiding under a rug, the manager is missing their clipboard, and someone is hosting a breathing class in the basement again.
It will be even less comprehensible if I try to explain. But I suppose it's a good sign that I laugh myself to tears when I…

"When I think about the future I try to stay in touch with my not-knowing-ness. If I latch on to any particular story about the future I immediately start censoring out parts of the present that don’t conform to my vision. I cut people out of my story, or I cast them as enemies, I make myself into The Good Guy on The Good Guys Team.
If you don’t know what the future holds, and you expect it to be vastly different from the present, where do you put your time and energy today? ...&qu…

I consider myself an anarcho‑syndicalist, and to stay true to that, I must be honest with myself and with others. I reject political parties and reformist trade unions because I believe real emancipation cannot come from institutions built on hierarchy or compromise. When someone joins a union that ties itself to a political party or to representative institutions, I no longer feel that we share the same basic ground. For me, any step into party politics, parliamentary games, or electoral st…

No, Gander is not a “rug pull”.
The crowd equity funding is closing, I think with ~2400 or so Canadian investors including myself, all on the same terms.
Some people didn’t sign paperwork when they got the chance at an earlier offering.
Join us at #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver in late March if you’d like to meet the Gander team in person

ATmosphereConf News
News from the ATProtocol Community Conference, aka ATmosphereConf. March 26th - 29th, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Given how horribly my society is behaving I have decided to give at least as much money as I spend on myself to charity each of the next 3 years.
I don't spend much, compared to my middle class USA peers (say $60,000 a year for housing, health insurance, food, car, technology...). Even that is up from what I used to spend and will go higher I think the next 3 years (as I reduce my long time frugality).
I think it is important for us to take action to protect the USA and the …

MOCLIP: A Foundation Model for Large-Scale Nanophotonic Inverse Design
S. Rodionov, A. Burguete-Lopez, M. Makarenko, Q. Wang, F. Getman, A. Fratalocchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18980 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18980 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18980
arXiv:2511.18980v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Foundation models (FM) are transforming artificial intelligence by enabling generalizable, data-efficient solutions across different domains for a broad range of applications. However, the lack of large and diverse datasets limits the development of FM in nanophotonics. This work presents MOCLIP (Metasurface Optics Contrastive Learning Pretrained), a nanophotonic foundation model that integrates metasurface geometry and spectra within a shared latent space. MOCLIP employs contrastive learning to align geometry and spectral representations using an experimentally acquired dataset with a sample density comparable to ImageNet-1K. The study demonstrates MOCLIP inverse design capabilities for high-throughput zero-shot prediction at a rate of 0.2 million samples per second, enabling the design of a full 4-inch wafer populated with high-density metasurfaces in minutes. It also shows generative latent-space optimization reaching 97 percent accuracy. Finally, we introduce an optical information storage concept that uses MOCLIP to achieve a density of 0.1 Gbit per square millimeter at the resolution limit, exceeding commercial optical media by a factor of six. These results position MOCLIP as a scalable and versatile platform for next-generation photonic design and data-driven applications.
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A question for musician friends here: does anyone know if an available tool already exists for this, or if I’m imagining a problem everyone else has quietly solved? (I should really make it myself, but am not in the mood to. So far when combining different EDOs or working out conversions I do it all manually each time, which obviously takes quite a while.)
What I’m looking for is a simple MIDI transformer that maps note numbers from one chosen EDO to another, using a fixed reference no…

Sonnet 035 - XXXV
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud:
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;
For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,
Thy adverse party is thy advocat…

Sonnet 035 - XXXV
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud:
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;
For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,
Thy adverse party is thy advocat…