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Sources: Spotify's difficulties of lining up partnerships have delayed its super premium service, which Spotify has been talking about for a couple of years (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Wanted to improve my mood and so transferred a couple of my domain names to a new registrar and it all worked as it was supposed to (eventually).
Nice when things do what is good like they’re designed to.
I needed that.

And this is so good! Just wish they'd chucked in a couple harmonies (which they normally do so well)... https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ASi7lyg5gRI&list=RD2ZbAKWki36E&index=3 or

I recently saw a news story (CHEK News, Victoria, Porter Air) about a couple denied boarding because they could not produce the credit card used to book the flight.
According to experts, this was illegal in Canadian law. The airline's “tariff" — the actual contract between air carrier and passenger — had no such requirement.
The Canadian Transportation Agency lists the tariffs for 116 airlines. Might be worth having one literally in your back pocket when you fly.
https://otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/air-carrier-tariffs-posted-websites

Just reported that I found a couple of dead Salamander at beginning of August in the #Karwendel . 😞
Luckily I was following the Blog of karwendel.org. Otherwise I wouldn't have known that reports about such incidents should be reported:

Tatterfrau, Tattermann und der Salamander-Fresser - Naturpark Karwendel ⛰️
Eine Pilz-Krankheit breitet sich unter heimischen Salamander- und Molch-Arten aus. Deshalb sollen kranke Alpensalamander gemeldet werden.

China is using Deepfakes for anti-#LGBTQ imagery:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/24/horror-film-digitally-altered-china-gay…

Sources say the difficulties of lining up partnerships have delayed Spotify's super premium service, which Spotify has been talking about for a couple of years (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

She barked pretty much the entire day today. I'm trying to walk her a couple miles just so that she hopefully lets me sleep tonight.

@… @… @… Here, read this post I wrote a couple years back for context

I received a FaceTime call on my Android today from the Granddog (facilitated by my daughter) who was having an absolutely brilliant time on one of the dog friendly beaches near Whoopi. He even met a couple of very cute Staffie puppies.
#Granddog #Woolgoolga

In a burst of planning, I just booked a RT flight to SFO to attend the NFS 40th birthday celebration at MSST 2025 next month a hotel room in Santa Clara for a couple nights another night near SFO so I can go visit a buddy in Oakland for a day. I'll book DTW bus tix later.
https://www.msstconference.org/

A great couple of days in #Liverpool coinciding with #LiverpoolPride
Despite growing up in the North West, I've never gone out there before.
🌈 #Pride

Done with this project, everything except for the audio port worked (not a huge issue, but annoying). Passed in CGA via the DB-9 connector, RGB via the BNC connectors and the Sony PVM was more than happy to display the signal.
#electronics #cmptr

My dog Louie had his figs removed today https://mstdn.social/@RickGaehl/115088298279430576

Rick Gaehl (@RickGaehl@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image As mentioned in a post a couple of days ago, we've had a good year for figs here. Apparently, figs were one of the earliest plants to be cultivated by humans, and examples have been found dating to before 9000 BCE This was significantly before the earliest known domestication of wheat, barley and legumes. #Photography #Closeup #Fruit #Gardening #History

Just a couple o' hunks
#JasonMomoa #JasonBrooks
S11E05 "Stone Cold"
#BaywatchHawaii

Garbage. Ppl pay for this?
My prompt was `Edward Hopper's American Gothic but with two robots` and it didn't even include a pitchfork.
#microsoft

A07 - Mission To Destiny
AVON: Take a look. [Motions to Dr. Kendall is seen unconscious in a chair] He's the fourth one I've found, all of them unconscious. It's... Sonovapour.
BLAKE: Yes I know. We found a couple. It must be coming from the filters.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/107/68

My fair city of Roanoke attained “Bee City USA” status in 2022, which aims to “promote healthy, sustainable habitats for bees and other pollinators, responsible for the reproduction of nearly 90% of the world’s flowering plant species and one in every three bites of food we eat.”
Last night, a couple of garden clubs teamed up with the city to screen a new PBS Nature documentary, “My Garden of a Thousand Bees”.

My Garden of a Thousand Bees
New PBS documentary following wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn as he films more than 60 species of bees in his urban garden in Bristol, England, during the COVID-19 2020 lockdown.

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce announce engagement on Instagram after 2 years of dating https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6576592/2025/08/26/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-engaged-instagram/

Vision encoders should be image size agnostic and task driven
Nedyalko Prisadnikov, Danda Pani Paudel, Yuqian Fu, Luc Van Gool
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16317 https://

Vision encoders should be image size agnostic and task driven
This position paper argues that the next generation of vision encoders should be image size agnostic and task driven. The source of our inspiration is biological. Not a structural aspect of biological vision, but a behavioral trait -- efficiency. We focus on a couple of ways in which vision in nature is efficient, but modern vision encoders not. We -- humans and animals -- deal with vast quantities of visual data, and need to be smart where we focus our limited energy -- it depends on the task.…

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Decoherence-free interaction and maximally entangled state generation in double-giant-atom semi-infinite waveguide systems
Jie Liu, Yue Cai, Lei Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17616

Decoherence-free interaction and maximally entangled state generation in double-giant-atom semi-infinite waveguide systems
Giant atoms are artificial atoms that can couple to a waveguide non-locally. Previous work has shown that two giant atoms in a braided configuration can interact through a one-dimensional infinite waveguide, with both individual and collective atomic relaxation being fully suppressed. In this paper, however, we show that the decoherence-free interaction (DFI) between two giant atoms can be realized in both braided and nested configurations when the waveguide is semi-infinite. This protected int…

I uploaded a couple of files I use to 3dprint.social. I noticed they are marked with a red lock and it says private. I have looked and do not find an obvious way to make them not private.
#manyfold

ForcePinch: Force-Responsive Spatial Interaction for Tracking Speed Control in XR
Chenyang Zhang, Tiffany S Ma, John Andrews, Eric J Gonzalez, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Yalong Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18510

ForcePinch: Force-Responsive Spatial Interaction for Tracking Speed Control in XR
Spatial interaction in 3D environments requires balancing efficiency and precision, which requires dynamic tracking speed adjustments. However, existing techniques often couple tracking speed adjustments directly with hand movements, reducing interaction flexibility. Inspired by the natural friction control inherent in the physical world, we introduce ForcePinch, a novel force-responsive spatial interaction method that enables users to intuitively modulate pointer tracking speed and smoothly tr…

Rookie QB Stock Watch: Which First-Year Passers Can Make the Cut? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/rookie-qb-stock-watch-which-first-year-passers-can-make-cut

Operads of moduli spaces of points in $\mathbb{C}^d$ revisited
Vladimir Dotsenko, Eduardo Hoefel, Sergey Shadrin, Grigory Solomadin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20331 https://

Operads of moduli spaces of points in $\mathbb{C}^d$ revisited
We study the operad structure on the homology of moduli spaces of pointed rooted trees of $d$-dimensional projective spaces, introduced by Chen, Gibney and Krashen a couple of decades ago. We describe this operad by generators and relations, show that it is homotopy Koszul, exhibit a Givental-type action on representations of that operad, and prove that this operad represents the homotopy quotient of the operad of chains of $S^1$-framed little $2d$-disks by its natural circle action. Our approa…

The degrees of freedom of multiway junctions in three dimensional gravity
Avik Chakraborty, Tanay Kibe, Mart\'in Molina, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Giuseppe Policastro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20437

The degrees of freedom of multiway junctions in three dimensional gravity
We demonstrate that $n$-way junctions in three dimensional gravity correspond to coupled $n-1$ strings each satisfying the Nambu-Goto equation in the smoothened background, and with sources consisting of Monge-Ampère like terms which couple the strings. For $n\geq 3$, these $n-1$ degrees of freedom survive the tensionless limit implying that matter-like behavior can arise out of $pure$ gravity. We interpret these stringy degrees of freedom of gravitational junctions holographically in terms of…

Probing the Parameter Space of Axion-Like Particles Using Simulation-Based Inference
Pooja Bhattacharjee, Christopher Eckner, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Gert Kluge, Giacomo D'Amico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20578

Probing the Parameter Space of Axion-Like Particles Using Simulation-Based Inference
Axion-like particles (ALPs), hypothetical pseudoscalar particles that couple to photons, are among the most actively investigated candidates for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Their interaction with gamma rays in the presence of astrophysical magnetic fields can leave characteristic, energy-dependent modulations in observed spectra. Capturing such subtle features requires precise statistical inference, but standard likelihood-based methods often fall short when faced with complex models…

Still thinking about how @… told me that you can just email a couple of people to start a conversation with them about something. This was a couple of years ago I think, I haven't had the nerve to try it yet.

Study of hidden-charm, doubly-strange pentaquarks in $\Lambda_b\to J/\psi \Xi^- K^ $ and $\Xi_b\to J/\psi \Xi^- \pi^ $
L. Roca, J. Song, E. Oset
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19840

Study of hidden-charm, doubly-strange pentaquarks in $Λ_b\to J/ψΞ^- K^+$ and $Ξ_b\to J/ψΞ^- π^+$
Hidden-charm pentaquark states with double strangeness, $P_{css}$, have been predicted within the framework of unitary coupled-channel dynamics. In this work, we theoretically investigate the potential to observe these states in the decays $Λ_b\to J/ψΞ^-K^+$ and $Ξ_b\to J/ψΞ^-π^+$. In this framework, these pentaquark configurations couple strongly to the $J/ψΞ$ channel, as well as to other vector-baryon channels with the $\bar c c s s n$ flavor structure, making these decay modes promi…

I’ve seen a lot of dumb things American tourists do in Iceland, but I think I can confidently say that today, I’ve seen it all: a couple ordered plain hot dogs at Bæjarins Bestu, then took out a bottle of Heinz mustard and put some on top.
Should be deported immediately!

I got this bug report on Friday.
"According to POSIX, the time.h header must declare pid_t as declared in sys/types.h."
This morning, CI is finally happy with the patch series:
19 patches. 21 files changed, 1964 insertions( ), 993 deletions(-)
And I got to learn all about the 'getdate' function. Sometimes I feel like bringing light to the darker corners of the POSIX spec may not always be the wisest path.

time.h header fixes, strptime bug fixes and getdate/getdate_r implementation by keith-packard · Pull Request #1079 · picolibc/picolibc
Reviewing the time.h header uncovered some missing declarations, a couple of unimplemented functions and bugs in the existing strptime implementation. Closes: #1078

Piloting Drones as a Reforestation Tool
Tree planting typically occurs two years after a fire. Alternatively, aerial drone seeding can occur a couple of months after a fire, once the seed vessels are ready and the winter rains arrive to water the seeds. https://www.nationalforests.org/blog/piloting-drones-as-a-reforestation-tool

In my Agile CS course we were given a couple of fluff pieces about the development process at Amazon and asked to write about how how their methods aligned with Agile methodology, and how that is what keeps them on top.
I couldn't do it. My paper was basically about enshittification, and how they are a perfect example of what not to do.
Here's hoping my grade doesn't tank. If it dies, so be it.

Selectively enabling linear combination of atomic orbital coefficients to improve linear method optimizations in variational Monte Carlo
Trine Kay Quady, Eric Neuscamman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16835

Selectively enabling linear combination of atomic orbital coefficients to improve linear method optimizations in variational Monte Carlo
Second order stochastic optimization methods, such as the linear method, couple the updates of different parameters and, in so doing, allow statistical uncertainty in one parameter to affect the update of other parameters. In simple tests, we demonstrate that the presence of unimportant orbital optimization parameters, even when initialized to zero, seriously degrade the statistical quality of the linear method's update for important orbital parameters. To counteract this issue, we develop an e…

In landmark ruling, same-sex couple recognized as family by Ukrainian court: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/in-landmark-ruling-samesex-couple.html

Hierarchical Finite-Element Analysis of Multiscale Electromagnetic Problems via Sparse Operator-Adapted Wavelet Decomposition
F. \c{S}{\i}k, F. L. Teixeira, B. Shanker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17989 …

Hierarchical Finite-Element Analysis of Multiscale Electromagnetic Problems via Sparse Operator-Adapted Wavelet Decomposition
In this paper, we present a finite element method (FEM) framework enhanced by an operator-adapted wavelet decomposition algorithm designed for the efficient analysis of multiscale electromagnetic problems. Usual adaptive FEM approaches, while capable of achieving the desired accuracy without requiring a complete re-meshing of the computational domain, inherently couple different resolution levels. This coupling requires recomputation of coarser-level solutions whenever finer details are added t…

Autonomous conversion of particle-exchange to quantum self-oscillations
Sofia Sevitz, Federico Cerisola, Karen V. Hovhannisyan, Janet Anders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16206 htt…

Autonomous conversion of particle-exchange to quantum self-oscillations
Particle-exchange machines utilize electronic transport to continuously transfer heat between fermionic reservoirs. Here, we couple a quantum mechanical resonator to a particle-exchange machine hosted in a quantum dot and let the system run autonomously. This way, part of the energy exchanged between the reservoirs can be stored in the resonator in the form of self-oscillations. Our analysis goes well beyond previous works by exploring the slow transport regime and accessing arbitrarily strong …

We just saw a couple of old & funny cars on the street nearby and wondered if they do a rally or something.
My wide just found that it might be members of the #carbagerun :
https://carbagerun.de/…

There is a giant mountain in the US carved with the faces of a couple of slavers, and two guys who tried to stop slavery. Now most Americans will stop right there and say, "wait, two? Lincoln did that though..." They'll say that because Americans don't know anything about their own history, including the fact that the practice of slavery remained central to the southern economy well through Roosevelt's administration. If this is not familiar to you (because, maybe, you were taught history in the US) and you'd like to actually learn about that, you might want to read "Slavery by Another Name."
But let's talk about half-slaver mountain for a minute. This mountain is functionally a sacred site for Americans, but it's literally a sacred site for Black Hills Sioux. Speaking of stolen land, did you know that JBLM (a military base in Washington state) is built on land promised the Puyallup in the Treaty of Medicine Creek before being stolen in 1918? I remember being taught that all the land was stolen a long time ago and now there's nothing we can do. Yeah, does anyone remember that DAPL was under Obama? In fact, unused federal lands are supposed to be returned to the tribes from which the land was taken but there's a whole site to auction off federal property... That's a whole section of the government dedicated to violating the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
They could just comply with the treaty, as they are legally obligated to do. These violations are ongoing. Slavery, again, is still legal. Slaves are still used by major corporations today, they just have to be tricked into confessing to a crime first. The sins that this country is built on remain fully active today... Because the system was built to preserve white supremacists patriarchy. How could the founding of the US not lead *directly* to Trump? How could this have been different, from the beginning?
But, please, tell me, how, exactly, are you going to fix that by voting harder in the mid terms. How?

#EroticMusings 17: Do you show off most of what you make, or often practice your craft on things that never get seen by anyone else?
I show most of what I make. I'm too tired and have too little energy for creative endeavours that are not meant to be shared with the public at some point.
My test readers and a couple of artists get to see the WIP including the ugly stages. C…

I am wondering if I am turning into a watch infuencer. 🤣 I was looking at a watch that has been out for a while but AFAIK nobody was discussing. It is a pocket watch and most of its dial is in Chinese, with unexpected markings as it is a 24 hour movement but 12 entries on the face.
While deciphering the dial I posted in a couple of different places. One related to translations and one for Chinese watch fans.
Looking now at the manufacturers site it states, "7 sold in last …

#NowPlaying this new one 'A Single Flower' by Sydney, Australia's WE LOST THE SEA as I know @… and @… dug it. Took a couple …

there's still kindness in San Francisco
https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/a-couple-of-hours-at-the-mission-district-soup-kitchen-that-almost-didnt-open/

A couple of hours at the Mission District soup kitchen that almost didn’t open 
The soup kitchen serves freshly cooked meals three times a week for up to 150 people. Visitors say the meals are a blessing.

from my link log —
A catalog of ways that compilers generate SSA.
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/ssa/
saved 2025-02-11 https://

‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ to introduce first-ever gay male couple - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/the-bold-and-the-beautiful-to-introduce-first-ever-gay-male-couple/

2015 was my last marathon, NYC. I did 16 all in all, in about 10 years, including the classic one from Marathon to Athens.
For the last couple of years I exercised 6 out 7 days a week, walking, cycling and pumping iron.
Today I couldn't finish day 1 of Couch to 5K, which takes it very easy, believe me.
There's work to be done here 🤣

Two scalarizations of magnetically charged black holes
Yun Soo Myung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17086 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17086

Two scalarizations of magnetically charged black holes
We study two scalarizations of magnetically charged black holes in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-scalar theory with the nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) term. For this purpose, two scalar coupling functions $f_1(ϕ)$ and $f_2(ϕ)$ are introduced to couple to Gauss-Bonnet (GB) and NED terms. The bald black hole is described by mass ($M$) and action parameter ($α$) with magnetic charge ($P$), which becomes the quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder black hole for $P=M$ whose action is still unknown. We derive Sm…

"I'm nimble like a cat."
Yeah, but like which cat?

#silentsunday
Heron. September 2025

Spent a couple of hours with #LinuxCafé #Graz and then #LinuxInstallParty at @…

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Oh no it happened - client for a research project I’m working on got upset that we’re doing manual data analysis of survey responses, and complained about why we are so slow when their internal team working on a different report got “everything done in a couple of days with #AI tools”
And then they told us that waiting for proper human analysis is a “waste of time” and that we need to just chuck our dataset into AI and “get it over with”
I really don’t know what to do right now 🥲
Trying to do this properly on their expected timeline will mean very little sleep for multiple days, but giving up on the project quality and dumping it into AI is will make this entire project a waste of time. (As I wouldn’t be able to trust the output of the analysis, or be proud of it to showcase the final report as an example of our work, and not to mention that I don’t want to support this expectation to rush everything at work with these AI models)

#today I pushed out two podcast episodes from the (previous) #KEHS talks, attended an AGM of an org that wants to merge with a couple of others for better lobbying clout, and remembered to do most of my daily exercise...

In case you were wondering…
Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’ - The Verge https://apple.news/AcX9nnExJRN-25xPVtyTb8g

Data assimilation using a global Girsanov nudged particle filter
Maneesh Kumar Singh, Joshua Hope-Collins, Colin J. Cotter, Dan Crisan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17685 https://

Data assimilation using a global Girsanov nudged particle filter
We present a particle filtering algorithm for stochastic models on infinite dimensional state space, making use of Girsanov perturbations to nudge the ensemble of particles into regions of higher likelihood. We argue that the optimal control problem needs to couple control variables for all of the particles to maintain an ensemble with good effective sample size (ESS). We provide an optimisation formulation that separates the problem into three stages, separating the nonlinearity in the ESS ter…

On my way to the big shmoke for #WWE #SmackDown #Mastodaoine
Haven’t been to the 3Arena in a couple of years and longer for a wrestling show in it.

Learning Dexterous Manipulation with Quantized Hand State
Ying Feng, Hongjie Fang, Yinong He, Jingjing Chen, Chenxi Wang, Zihao He, Ruonan Liu, Cewu Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17450

Learning Dexterous Manipulation with Quantized Hand State
Dexterous robotic hands enable robots to perform complex manipulations that require fine-grained control and adaptability. Achieving such manipulation is challenging because the high degrees of freedom tightly couple hand and arm motions, making learning and control difficult. Successful dexterous manipulation relies not only on precise hand motions, but also on accurate spatial positioning of the arm and coordinated arm-hand dynamics. However, most existing visuomotor policies represent arm an…

I thought Jellyfin didn't bring anything new or improve my media center, but wow... Along with a couple of plugins it has become indispensable. Once again, open source software is making its way into people's daily lives.
#opensource #selfhosting

Made a couple vids today
https://youtu.be/jBJL1NXLCMY
https://youtu.be/tVfyrlsmfzk

I realize people have differing priorities & everyone's fighting their own war... but FFS, how does a family accidentally leave their dog behind when they move homes?
✅ Gen Z Couple Excited To Get Keys to New Home—Then They See What's Inside - Newsweek
https://www.

Gen Z Couple Excited To Get Keys to New Home—Then They See What's Inside
The previous homeowners left a surprise behind; they "didn't have enough space in their moving van," Louren Wilson told Newsweek.

The blast zone from The Walt Disney Company’s decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show off the air is now threatening to engulf the Brentwood home of Bob Iger
-- who just happens to be married to Willow Bay, dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Iger, along with Disney Entertainment chairman Dana Walden, was the Disney exec who pulled the chord on Kimmel’s suspension over on-air comments about Charlie Kirk’s murder
— and that decision…

Bob Iger’s Wife, Willow Bay, May Have to Move Her Free Speech Fundraiser  
A fundraiser for Willow Bay's International Women's Media Foundation, planned to take place at the power couple's Brentwood home next month, may have to relocate after her husband yanks Jimmy Kimmel off the air.

So this is weird; I picked up a new Bluetooth adapter so I could better test Meshtastic devices and my AAC-only Bluetooth headphones just work with it.
Maybe the root of my issue was just an incompatible radio, though I wouldn't have expected that to make a difference.... I dunno.
Also I think I may try to do a video of the configuration and installation of my next radio, though it'll be a couple weeks for it to be delivered.
Bonus points if I can figure out how the…

On my gas supplier’s website, and I can only describe the stock photo choices as “couples finding out the answer to ‘does my husband’s penis still work?’”

*I bought an actioncam.*
Finally!
I'm learning how to use it properly. I tried to capture some impressions from our #cycling ride last weekend near #Tegernsee. (And learned that I should really buy an appropriate SD Card.)
Don't worry, I'm still commited to photograph…

Walking back to our car from the car show at Little York Lake we saw this couple holding hands with shirts reflecting a positive Christianity
#photo #photography #religion

Nach 18 Jahren vergeblichen Kinderwunschs wurde ein Paar mithilfe von #KI schwanger.
Das Columbia University Fertility Center nutzte die neue STAR-Methode, um in einer #Samenprobe mit #Azoospermie

A couple tried for 18 years to get pregnant. AI made it happen
After trying to conceive for 18 years, one couple is now pregnant with their first child thanks to the power of artificial intelligence.

I’m heading over a very wet M62 to #PyConUK2025 and really looking forward to a couple of days with old friends and new ones

Parallel Ray Tracing of Black Hole Images Using the Schwarzschild Metric
Liam Naddell, Marcelo Ponce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16165 https://

Parallel Ray Tracing of Black Hole Images Using the Schwarzschild Metric
Rendering images of black holes by utilizing ray tracing techniques is a common methodology employed in many aspects of scientific and astrophysical visualizations. Similarly, general ray tracing techniques are widely used in areas related to computer graphics. In this work we describe the implementation of a parallel open-source program that can ray trace images in the presence of a black hole geometry. We do this by combining a couple of different techniques usually present in parallel scient…

Extra props for use of the word "canoodling"
CEO was caught canoodling with its chief human resources officer
https://share.google/wPKgnT6UM84H8FQXA

Pattern matching is a major feature in software development. While pattern matching applies in several locations, its current usage is limited to switch case blocks. I want to compare the power of pattern matching across a couple of programming languages I’m familiar with in this post.
https://blo…

A thread by fediverse favorites the Vagina museum on AI-generated inaccuracies.
They're mostly right to highlight this, but it shows an issue in the way people reason about AI's reliability: they look at the dream-logic nonsense that comes out of image generators and generalize it to the rest of AI. 1/n
https://

Superconductivity in kagome metals due to soft loop-current fluctuations
Daniel J. Schultz, Grgur Palle, Yong Baek Kim, Rafael M. Fernandes, J\"org Schmalian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16892

Superconductivity in kagome metals due to soft loop-current fluctuations
We demonstrate that soft fluctuations of translation symmetry-breaking loop currents provide a mechanism for unconventional superconductivity in kagome metals that naturally addresses the multiple superconducting phases observed under pressure. Focusing on the rich multi-orbital character of these systems, we show that loop currents involving both vanadium and antimony orbitals generate low-energy collective modes that couple efficiently to electrons near the Fermi surface and mediate attractiv…

At the #Bostodon meetup yesterday I was talking to a couple of folks about this classic.
It’s originally from Twitter and no way am I linking there 😂
So here’s the Video: Earth applying for membership in Galactic Federation

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Raiders are officially in the market for a quarterback https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/23/raiders-in-market-for-quarterback-injury-aidan-oconnell-waiver-wir…

I see a couple of other people using the #PuzzlePraise hashtag. ☺️
If you muted that hashtag permanently, you won’t see this toot, or any toot with that hashtag
EXCEPT:
1) if you are @ mentioned in a toot that contains a muted hashtag you’ll see it.
2) if a reply to one of your toots contains the muted hashtag you’ll see it.
I think its a great way to:
1) add cont…

A general model for frictional contacts in colloidal systems
Kay Hofmann, Kay-Robert Dormann, Benno Liebchen, Friederike Schmid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16388

A general model for frictional contacts in colloidal systems
In simulations of colloidal matter, frictional contacts between particles are often neglected. For spherical colloids, such an approximation can be problematic, since frictional contacts couple translational and rotational degrees of freedom, which may affect the collective behavior of, e.g., colloids under shear and chiral active matter. Deterministic models for frictional contacts have been proposed in the granular matter community. On the colloidal scale, however, thermal fluctuations are im…

My recommendation for today:
Avoid the HP Instant Ink program as if it were the plague.
I have one printer on that program. They sent me a bad cartridge. I had to go through their awful "AI" system several times which merely told me to run test after test after test then clean the gold contacts than rub my belly while patting my head and reciting the Gettysburg Address... all of which ending up in them saying "we will send you a new cartridge in a couple of weeks…

The simple fact is that there are systems that are actually built to resist fascism. There have been a lot of advancements in the last couple hundred years.
We are at a breaking point. The political institutions of the US have been largely destroyed. Even another Democrat, even the best Democrat, even Bernie Sanders couldn't fix this. Every American instruction is rotten to the core.
It's time to face this fact, and figure out how to build something better. Stop believing in American exceptionalism and start looking for models of systems that are inherently resistant to fascism.

⚽️💕⚽️
#NWSL #ChristenPress

Just Women’s Sports on Instagram: "A representative for the couple confirmed that the former USWNT stars are "happily married". This confirmation comes after Heath referred to Press as her "wife and former teammate" to The Athletic when discussing Heath's retirement."
3,738 likes, 29 comments - justwomenssports on July 11, 2025: "A representative for the couple confirmed that the former USWNT stars are "happily married". This confirmation comes after Heath referred to Press as her "wife and former teammate" to The Athletic when discussing Heath's retirement.".

TL;DR: what if nationalism, not anarchy, is futile?
Since I had the pleasure of seeing the "what would anarchists do against a warlord?" argument again in my timeline, I'll present again my extremely simple proposed solution:
Convince the followers of the warlord that they're better off joining you in freedom, then kill or exile the warlord once they're alone or vastly outnumbered.
Remember that even in our own historical moment where nothing close to large-scale free society has existed in living memory, the warlord's promise of "help me oppress others and you'll be richly rewarded" is a lie that many understand is historically a bad bet. Many, many people currently take that bet, for a variety of reasons, and they're enough to coerce through fear an even larger number of others. But although we imagine, just as the medieval peasants might have imagined of monarchy, that such a structure is both the natural order of things and much too strong to possibly fail, in reality it takes an enormous amount of energy, coordination, and luck for these structures to persist! Nations crumble every day, and none has survived more than a couple *hundred* years, compared to pre-nation societies which persisted for *tends of thousands of years* if not more. I'm this bubbling froth of hierarchies, the notion that hierarchy is inevitable is certainly popular, but since there's clearly a bit of an ulterior motive to make (and teach) that claim, I'm not sure we should trust it.
So what I believe could form the preconditions for future anarchist societies to avoid the "warlord problem" is merely: a widespread common sense belief that letting anyone else have authority over you is morally suspect. Given such a belief, a warlord will have a hard time building any following at all, and their opponents will have an easy time getting their supporters to defect. In fact, we're already partway there, relative to the situation a couple hundred years ago. At that time, someone could claim "you need to obey my orders and fight and die for me because the Queen was my mother" and that was actually a quite successful strategy. Nowadays, this strategy is only still working in a few isolated places, and the idea that one could *start a new monarchy* or even resurrect a defunct one seems absurd. So why can't that same transformation from "this is just how the world works" to "haha, how did anyone ever believe *that*? also happen to nationalism in general? I don't see an obvious reason why not.
Now I think one popular counterargument to this is: if you think non-state societies can win out with these tactics, why didn't they work for American tribes in the face of the European colonizers? (Or insert your favorite example of colonialism here.) I think I can imagine a variety of reasons, from the fact that many of those societies didn't try this tactic (and/or were hierarchical themselves), to the impacts of disease weakening those societies pre-contact, to the fact that with much-greater communication and education possibilities it might work better now, to the fact that most of those tribes are *still* around, and a future in which they persist longer than the colonist ideologies actually seems likely to me, despite the fact that so much cultural destruction has taken place. In fact, if the modern day descendants of the colonized tribes sow the seeds of a future society free of colonialism, that's the ultimate demonstration of the futility of hierarchical domination (I just read "Theory of Water" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson).
I guess the TL;DR on this is: what if nationalism is actually as futile as monarchy, and we're just unfortunately living in the brief period during which it is ascendant?

Couple more shots from the weekend

Generalized Gell-Mann--Nishijima formula
E. Castillo-Ruiz, Henry Diaz, V. Pleitez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19103 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19103

Generalized Gell-Mann--Nishijima formula
In this paper, we present a generalization of the Gell-Mann--Nishijima formula for the assignment of electric charges to the components of an arbitrary-dimensional multiplet which transforms under general gauge symmetries, regardless of whether these multiplets couple to particles with known charge. The method is valid for local or global unitary symmetries and works for theories with or without spontaneous or explicit symmetry breaking. We extend the method for other conserved charges as flavo…

Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Two-level Systems directly after Cryogenic Alternating Bias
V. Iaia, E. S. Joseph, S. Im, N. Hagopian, S. O'Kelley, C. Kim, N. Materise, S. Patra, V. Lordi, M. A. Eriksson, P. M. Voyles, K. G. Ray, Y. J. Rosen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19223

Same-sex couple gets state recognition in historic Lithuanian court ruling - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/same-couple-gets-state-recognition-in-historic-lithuanian-court-ruling/

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
CALLY: More survivors from the battle?
NURSE: Just one, apparently. We picked up a voice signal a couple of hours ago. We're homing in on it now. It will be a quick touchdown and immediate lift-off. The local inhabitants are hostile, apparently. Ah, let's see how your burns are healing.
https://

Imagine2Act: Leveraging Object-Action Motion Consistency from Imagined Goals for Robotic Manipulation
Liang Heng, Jiadong Xu, Yiwen Wang, Xiaoqi Li, Muhe Cai, Yan Shen, Juan Zhu, Guanghui Ren, Hao Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17125

Imagine2Act: Leveraging Object-Action Motion Consistency from Imagined Goals for Robotic Manipulation
Relational object rearrangement (ROR) tasks (e.g., insert flower to vase) require a robot to manipulate objects with precise semantic and geometric reasoning. Existing approaches either rely on pre-collected demonstrations that struggle to capture complex geometric constraints or generate goal-state observations to capture semantic and geometric knowledge, but fail to explicitly couple object transformation with action prediction, resulting in errors due to generative noise. To address these li…

Why is everything on the cloud these days?
I’m kind of getting tired of every piece of professional and business software being a SaaS or cloud-based solution these days.
I have a good computer, it can run a lot of complex programs on it locally. I wish I had the option to do so.
Not everything needs to be synced 24/7. And I’d much rather have some tools include a cloud sync functionality that backs up changes with some kind of regular frequency for version control and cross-device access, but otherwise runs on my device.
These days, when I’m trying to go work somewhere without an internet connection or am traveling and have spotty data - I can’t access 90% of my work. Files don’t back up locally even when there’s a native desktop client app. Why?
It feels wasteful, sending so much data to the internet and back with constantly required online sync and web apps.
I feel nostalgic now, remembering the days of software that would require buying a license every couple of years, that would run on your device and could be accessed even from the top of a remote mountain if you wished, and that didn’t log you out every other week.
#tech #software

Our almost new car was delivered (from Goulburn) a couple of hours ago. Husband is sitting in it working out how everything in newfangled cars work.
Our old car, an almost 18 year old Getz, was a very basic manual. This one is a hybrid and has screens and cameras and such like. Husband has been YouTubing in preparation for its arrival.
It's been quite interesting looking for a new car for the past few months. I wanted an EV, husband definitely didn't, so we compromised o…

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 Kyiv court rejects appeal, upholds Ukraine's first de facto recognition of same-sex couple as a family
https://kyivindependent.com/kyiv-court-rejects-appeal-upholds-ukraines-first-de-facto-recognition-of-same-sex-couple-as-a-family/

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JENNA: Did you find him?
BLAKE: I missed him by a couple of minutes. There's a back entrance. Something must have scared him.
CALLY: Cevedic, presumably.
JENNA: Well he could be anywhere by now.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/330 B7B6

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

#GiftLink 🔥
Jimmy Fallon Teases Trump’s U.K. Trip - The “Tonight Show” host said the royal couple are the president’s “second-favorite king and queen, next to Burger and Dairy.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/arts/television/jimmy-fallon-trump-royals.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m08.ttZ_.gdE82gqbdaS7&smid=url-share

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers