Tootfinder

After a couple of years of writing Rust for fun, writing Haskell feels like cheating.

'Shoot a couple, the rest will go home': Far-right groups are sharing scary messages ahead of 'No Kings' protests (Rhian Lubin/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-protests-no-kings-far-right-b2769812.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p146#a250613p146

'Shoot a couple': MAGA activists call for violence against 'No Kings' protesters - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/maga-activists-violence-protesters/

A Berny green, flieger - type b style watch, with a green dial.
Yes, it looks similar to a certain Seiko with this dial color and the four o'clock crown but, that watch too steals 90 % of it's design from classic fliegers, so I'm ok with it. 😆
Plus it has a couple of things extra I wanted. Titanium case, sapphire crystal, no logo or extraneous text on the face (like classic fliegers) and it features a "mecha-quartz" (quartz accuracy but the second hand is m…

OH:
> Sounds harmless. Will likely have bad second order effects.
Feels like the tagline for the last couple decades

TIL: Egg Oiling
https://australyear.blogspot.com/2008/05/re-oiling.html

Why are NFL rookie holdouts so rare now? Explaining Shemar Stewart's issue with Bengals https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6422583/2025/06/13/nfl-rookie-holdouts-shemar-stewart/

If you ever need reasons to use #linux and leave the usual walled bs-gardens out there... watch the video I stumbled across today. (sry.. its on yt and kinda long.. but still worth watching every minute)
as Gardiner Bryant said a couple times: goosebumps!
And wait for the dickmove that #Adobe

Extremist's Advice for 'No Kings' Protests: 'Shoot a Couple, the Rest Will Go Home ' (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/no-kings-protest-proud-boys-df066df0?st=93NAgP&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p144#a250613p144

Just before the Kennedy Center's opening night performance of the musical "Les Miserables,"
Donald and Melania Trump stood to be recognized.
They were met with a loud chorus of boos.
Video of the moment shows the boos mixed with some cheering,
Some Trump supporters in the audience shouted "USA" chants in an attempt to drown out the booing.
In addition to the First Couple, both JD Vance and Usha Vance were also in attendance

'Embarrassing': Trump 'booed mercilessly' by Kennedy Center at 'Les Miserables' opening
Just before the Kennedy Center's opening night performance of the musical "Les Miserables," President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump stood to be recognized. They were met with a loud chorus of boos.Video of the moment shows the boos mixed with some cheering, with Reuters White House corre...

Semi-anonymous Internet friend relationships must be so weird to people who aren't used to the culture.
Example 1: guy I've known on IRC for probably ten years and I consider a fairly good friend, I have his personal phone number, we talk quite often.
But I only know roughly what city he's in and his first name. He's in my phone as [first name] [irc handle].
Example 2: Catgirl I've known for a couple of years, she's been to my house, I've been to…

Eventually they stopped being a fun couple and became just a couple.

i have a big surprise waiting for you in the next couple of days 🧐😳

Stay frosty: "Accounts associated with extremist groups are sharing detailed information about protest organizers, including names and where they work"
‘Shoot a couple, the rest will go home’: Far-right groups are sharing scary messages ahead of ‘No Kings’ protests | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-protests-no-kings-far-right-b2769812.html

Vortex-magnetic competition and regime transitions in antiparallel flux tubes
Weiyu Shen, Rodolfo Ostilla-M\'onico, Xiaojue Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10648

Vortex-magnetic competition and regime transitions in antiparallel flux tubes
Vortex-magnetic interactions shape magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, influencing energy transfer in astrophysical, geophysical, and industrial systems. On the Sun, granular-scale vortex flows couple strongly with magnetic fields, channelling energy into the corona. At high Reynolds numbers, vorticity and magnetic fields are nearly frozen into the charged fluid, and MHD flows emerge from the interplay between vortex dynamics and Lorentz forces. To probe this competition in a controlled setti…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14322 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Ab-initio Van der Waals electrodynamics: polaritons and electron scattering from plasmons and phonons in BN-capped graphene
Plasmons and polar phonons are elementary electrodynamic excitations of matter. In 2d and at long wavelengths, they couple to light and act as the system polaritons. They also dictate the scattering of charged carriers. Van der Waals heterostructures offer the opportunity to couple excitations from different layers via long-range Coulomb interactions, modifying both their dispersion and their scattering of electrons. Even when the excitations do not couple, they are still influenced by the scre…

Huh? https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/issues/1198

Support Atom Over XMPP · Issue #1198 · cheeaun/phanpy
Problem I have XMPP is also a publishing platform. The largest HTML-based platforms to utilize Atom Over XMPP are Libervia and Movim, and I also maintain a couple of projects that are called Blasta...

Breakfast scramble: sautéed yellow onion with two chopped sausages, 2 whisked eggs. Seasoned with “Chophouse Meats Cajun Seasoning with Jalapeño.” Topped with Mild Pace Picante sauce.
I picked up this seasoning at “Price Chopper” when I was in Manhattan, Kansas a couple weeks ago.
#CookWithWes

Gosh, I hate to undercut in any way all those press reports about how the Trump cyber EO demolishes the cyber initiatives of Biden and Obama, but with a couple of exceptions it doesn't.
“I’m pleased to see that there’s a lot of consistency between what was in the last administration’s order and what they’re going forward with,” Caitlin Clarke, a former senior cyber leader on the National Security Council and now a senior director for cybersecurity services at Venable LLP, told CSO.…

Trump takes aim at Biden’s cyber executive order but leaves it largely untouched
A new Trump executive order revises Biden’s last cyber EO to eliminate significant sections on digital IDs and secure software attestations, among other changes, but keeps much of Biden’s cyber protections in place.

Kind of amazing that you can dot a couple of messages like this around the internet https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu/114188134015638878
and then end up with ~40 lovely people hanging out with their computers in the middle of nowhere, what a great thing

@…
I stumbled over "pointed sets" a couple decades ago, and my friend Andras Kornai said that coincidentally he was using them very profitably in his research. (He's a mathematical linguist; I don't recall if you two ever met online.)
I know their definition is pretty trivial, but have you ever had occasion to nonetheles…

If you want to help people in #academia who are maybe less fortunate than you, who have less famous supervisors, or work at less prestigious universities, here's one simple thing you can do:
Do proper literature research.
That means complete forward and backward snowballing from a decent seed set. Find everything that is relevant to your paper and cite it. Budget a couple of full…

When I searched for these hashtags, only WillfulStupidity showed a couple of results.
Here is a remembrance of a better day:
#WillfulStupidity < SelflessGrace
#StubbornIgnorance < GratefulConsideration

And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.
In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.
At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding

#SlyStone was a good lifelong pal of one of my late friends, and the stories I could tell... but we'll skip those for now :)
I was gifted a rare DVD archive of all the footage Sly had collected a couple decades ago... and I posted some excerpts online, like this performance at The Metromedia West broadcast facility in #Hollywood

Sly Stone with Little Sister at Metromedia Square in Hollywood –...
If You Want Me To Stay! performed live on national TV for the first time by Sly Stone and Little Sister!

I’ve been trying to “vibe code” a couple of things over the last few days, but I had to fall back on using my brain (like a sucker!).
I should keep some of this coding knowledge knocking around a little longer before cat videos and memes fill those parts of my brain.
My vibe must be off :P

#today should be working on my research, but have allowed myself to be distracted by a couple of pleasing things.
Will summon courage to do some admin and write to banks and regulators this evening.

@… Haha. Well it’s a long story involving an ex-colleague from Croatia while we both lived and worked in Ireland. He got me hooked.
I got a couple of bottles two years ago when visiting the family back in Denmark Poland.

Check in yesterday on Southwest. C14/17 or so. Spend a couple upgraded boarding credits. A02/09 or so. Stand by for an earlier flight. Get confirmed an hour before the flight with C44/45. Gate check bags because there's no way they'll make it into the overhead that late. C14/17. Get on the plane and there's a windows-middle pair in row 8, which isn't much worse than we would've gotten with the upgraded boarding. Fair enough.

The research collective I'm a member of had a great couple of days of meetings this week. We could all use more colleagues we truly want to spend time working with.

I've read this story a couple of times, though it's been many years. It's maybe not the first King story I'd have thought of making a movie from. And Mark Hamill as the Major? interesting choice.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10374610/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1

The Long Walk (2025) | Horror
The Long Walk: Directed by Francis Lawrence. With Garrett Wareing, Mark Hamill, Judy Greer, Charlie Plummer. A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as "The Long Walk," where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot.

"For a couple o' pins," says Troll, and grins,
"I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins.
A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet!
I'll try my teeth on thee now.
Hee now! See now!
I'm tired o' gnawing old bones and skins;
I've a mind to dine on thee now."
But just as he thought his dinner was caught,
He found his hands had hold of naught.
Before he could mind, Tom slipped behing
And gave him the …

Joe Milton putting in the work with Dallas Cowboys wide receivers https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/joe-milton-putting-in-work-dallas-cowboys-wide-receivers

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12075 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepp…

Supernova constraints on lepton flavor violating ALPs
Supernovae offer a unique hot and dense environment to probe new physics beyond the Standard Model. We investigate supernova cooling constraints on lepton-flavor-violating (LFV) axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) that couple to electrons and muons. Three production channels are considered: muon decay, axion bremsstrahlung, and electron-muon coalescence. We find that the electron-muon coalescence process, which was neglected in previous LFV-ALP studies, yields the strongest constraints on th…

Prediction: If the US policy of "America First" continues into the next mandate period, we'll see a couple to half a dozen new nuclear powers in the world...
#politics #trump #nukes

'It's been a couple months': Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers reveals he's married https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45481936/aaron-rodgers-pittsburgh-steelers-announces-marriage

Remember the Nancy Mace hoo-ha scare of a couple of months ago? What a time that was!

Well that was a couple hours well spent. Got the entire FMC bus fully fanned out with mostly-reasonable trace spacing, end to end 50 ohm routing except for some neck-down in the 0.65mm BGA field, and no mid-span vias (there had previously been a huge number of them).

Addressing tokens dynamic generation, propagation, storage and renewal to secure the GlideinWMS pilot based jobs and system
Bruno Moreira Coimbra, Marco Mambelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07379

Addressing tokens dynamic generation, propagation, storage and renewal to secure the GlideinWMS pilot based jobs and system
GlideinWMS has been one of the first middleware in the WLCG community to transition from X.509 to support also tokens. The first step was to get from the prototype in 2019 to using tokens in production in 2022. This paper will present the challenges introduced by the wider adoption of tokens and the evolution plans for securing the pilot infrastructure of GlideinWMS and supporting the new requirements. In the last couple of years, the GlideinWMS team supported the migration of experiments and r…

I’ve read a lot of horrible news this last couple of years but this is maybe the worst? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-magazine/.premi…

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

For this week's #MusicWomenWednesday, something with some real female RAGE. For the last couple days since it came out, I've been thoroughly enjoying Kitchener, Ontario's hardcore quintet BODY MINUS HEAD's debut LP 'An Exercise in Self-Sufficiency'. The whole band is tight and solid, but vocalist Alexandra Garvin really shines on this one. Her screams are unreal, and at …

After spending way too much time looking at schematics and datasheets of the components of a cheap eInk display I finally understand what’s going on.
Once I make a couple tweaks my toy project battery should last for multiple months. Good enough!

„This loss of income cannot be explained by women's career paths or their exit from the workforce. Nor can it be explained by the very real constraints imposed by the birth of a child.
Not only do heterosexual men not experience any loss of income related to the birth of a child, which might be explained by mothers still being primarily responsible for childcare, but the same is true for both fathers in a same-sex couple.“
Menopause leads to an av. 10% loss in income

A couple of folks said I should replace the pop-over email signup form on my blog with a much more subtle inline signup form at the top of the page. So! If you'd like to reward the more user-friendly design with your patronage and support (it's free, I only ask for your attention), you can sign up to get my new posts in your inbox just by sharing your email address. I won't spam you or sell your email, and don't post too often.

Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Meta's Anduril deal shows how much has changed in the past couple of years in Silicon Valley, where developing war tech was once considered a hard red line (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

Natura Urbana VIII 🏡
城市自然 VIII 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

Last night 8 of us got together for Call of Cthulhu. First RPG for one of us, and a couple of us with decades of experience gaming together. Went off without a hitch. Other than my reporter getting killed by a swarm of vermin (one of two deaths).

Say what you will about Osama Bin Laden, but at least he made the height of the World Trade Center towers symmetrical

Any #SailfishOS users out here know how to make #StreetComplete usable again by either disabling the any-audio-interrupting plop sounds or teaching SailfishOS to just keep playing audio if another app makes sound?

Disabling Plop/Touch sounds in StreetComplete
StreetComplete is a very cool app that makes adding data to OpenStreetMap quite fun. However, on SailfishOS there is one thing that makes it super annoying to use: Whenever one fulfils a task / answers a question, the icon vanishes with a PLOP sound, which then stops any other audio such ss the Sailfish media player. This effectively prevents listening to music or an audiobook during mapping which is indescribably annoying. Some links: from my post: A couple of other people having big probl…

It's June, so I've got my Javastation off the shelf for the first time in a couple of decades. This is a Javastation Krups, with 100MHz sparc, sold as a diskless workstation. I never realised it had a PPP ROM boot in! Anyway, I should get on and set up networking and a boot server.
(Note: the plastic on the clips on the doors is fragile, 2 just pinged off on me)
#retrocomputing

So it finally happened: episode 11 of season 7 of #TheRookie jumped the shark. On the day the LAPD takes an interest on going undercover on public transport, a couple of baddies enter the bus with a bomb strapped to their chest asking for a 100 million. What are the odds? And the episode is called 'Speed', that is not being subtle but jackhammering it in. Oh well, it was fun while i…

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of better phrasing, on “capitalism’s side”. First for a range of high-growth Silicon Valley software companies and their ilk; latterly directly in venture capital focused on climate change technology startups, aka “Climate Tech” or “Impact Investing.”

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of bett…

What's the current status with Linux and high DPI monitors? Last time I was messing around it was a bit if a nightmare with my computer. Has it improved over the last couple years?

Here's Willow Defebaugh, a trans woman, talking about JK Rowling. Listen for just a couple of minutes. It's worth it.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Planet: Critical: Beyond Separation | Willow Defebaugh
Starting from: 00:38:45
Episode webpage:

Looks like Doug Ford is brave enough to give an opening date for the Eglinton LRT so it might actually be happening soon.
https://www.cp24.com/news/2025/06/03/eglinton-lrt-on-track-to-open-by-september-doug-ford-says/

Windows 11's WSL 2 now officially has support from Arch #Linux
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11s-wsl…

Presenting on osquery (h/t @… for why I know what I know) in a couple hours at @dodaus! I've attended (at the previous venue) a couple of years of this event, but this is my first time on stage here. Should be a lotta fun.

Raiders Defensive Triplets Ranked https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-maxx-crosby-elandon-roverts-jakorian-bennett

Updating my CloudNativePG Clusters to postgresql:17.5 broke wal archiving to my Ceph S3 Object Store. Here's a new blog post describing the fix:
https://www.beyondwatts.com/posts/debugging-barman-xamzcontents…

beyondwatts | Debugging Barman XAmzContentSHA256Mismatch error after upgrading to postgresql:17.5
In an effort to keep my home cluster up to date, I upgraded CloudNativePG to v1.26 and the associated database clusters to cloudnative-pg/postgresql:17.5. All seemed ok with the upgrade until a couple of days later when the cluster primary instance PVCs started to run out of space. wal archiving had stopped working with the error message:

Think I'm done for today. Got to level 4, only killed a couple of passengers, and now I can go for my CPL. I'm going to wait for the new sim gear to come in because my space sim setup doesn't translate well to flight sim duties. However, MSFS has great so far.
#linux #gaming …

5 Things You Might Not Know About Me
- I have flown on “Air Force One.” Not technically, since it the president was not aboard, but while working for the White House Military Office I flew on the plane on a couple test flights.
- I spent many Thanksgivings beating John Dower https://curiouscat.com/books/dower

#caturday

I visited the Ludwig Museum. (Modern and contemporary art.) Perhaps not that impressive. Sure, a couple of Picassos, a Liechtenstein, a Warhol, a Haring, etc. This was my favourite, though.

Marie made biscuits, bacon egg tea coffee. Therapy day! Probably going to a couple things tonight. The busy part of the week is almost here! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/ynozeBuDnMWGPigdA

There’s a new museum on Naoshima Island! This NYT article also describes the many other museums and exhibits installed there.
This is the “art island” that Lynn and I visited a couple months ago. Looks like we’ll have to go back! This time we’ll know to book rooms way in advance (and to stay longer than two nights).
🎁 link

Japanese Islands’ 10th Tadao Ando Museum Caps a Billionaire’s Quest
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake.

We inherited an Asian plum tree with our house. For the first couple of years, it produced nothing. Last year it started producing some tart plums, perfect for jams. This year looks to be a bumper crop. This was just my first 30 minutes of harvesting from what I could reach on the ground! #gardening

Prediction: If the US policy of "America First" continues into the next mandate period, we'll see a couple to half a dozen new nuclear powers in the world...
#politics #trump #nukes

So, a bit shyly, I am almost ready to introduce a project I was working on for the last couple of months, related to Fediverse and specifically aimed at #queer #lgbtia community in #ireland
Will give some follo…

My regular Monday contribution at Balloon Juice
#birds #birdphotography
https://

Slow progress the last couple days because I've been going into the office for work and the commute is eating up my time I'd otherwise spend on such things.
But now it's the weekend and the switch engine board is coming together nicely.
Still have 514 nets to route - mostly the supervisor, line card management buses, and power supply but also some other odds and ends like the FPGA JTAG and part of the SPI flash.
Also I have to get the tach/PWM signals from the m…

#Wordle 1,445 5/6*
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Skill 68/99
Luck 48/99
Well I saw a couple of complaints about today's wordle before I started, which is part of what prompted my 4th guess, and I have to say I sorta agree.

Getting a lot of new old followers in the last couple of days; have you finally accepted me in your circles or did something happen with a sciency mastodon server? 👀

I have been trying to find some Chili Rasboras for my new 16 gallon nanotank since before I even got the tank. They've been out of stock everywhere. I even signed up for text notifications on a couple of sites and when I got the text I was in the middle of a meeting, and by the time I escaped, they were out of stock again.
I went to a meeting of the Colorado Aquarium Society tonight and managed to snag six in the auction.
Here's a terrible picture of them being drip acclimated.
@… #rasbora

Saving or Destroying the Universe with Axion-Like Particles
Anne Mareike Galda, Matthias Neubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06426 https://

Saving or Destroying the Universe with Axion-Like Particles
Light pseudoscalar resonances that couple to the Standard Model via non-renormalizable operators, such as axions and axion-like particles (ALPs), generate contributions to the renormalization group evolution equations of couplings of dimension-4 and higher-dimensional operators. In particular, they modify the $β$-function of the Higgs quartic coupling and of SM and SMEFT parameters entering this equation, thus having an impact on the instability scale of the electroweak vacuum. We employ this …

I *finally* got around to writing up a few words about my trip earlier this year to Algeria and Tunisia.
#algeria

Algeria Trip
At the beginning of 2025, I had this lovely idea to spend maybe a couple of months in Morocco, renting a flat or something, and working from there rather than Norfolk. In the end, it didn’t work out so it got me thinking where I could go for a ride this Spring that was just a bit different and then it hit me: Algeria 🇩🇿The idea formed and all I needed was the paperwork…

Nothing to see here. Just a couple of good ol' boys having a sword fight.

I just read the story about the Italian kidnapped by a New York couple and tortured to disclose the credentials for his crypto assets - and the first thing that came to mind was XKCD 538 "Security" about the five dollar wrench.
Am I a bad person?
#xkcd538 #xkcd

After a couple of years assuming my #Unifi USG wouldn't handle #IPv6 on my #KPN line. Learned last week that some updates down the line fixed that. So now enjoying that sweet sweet duals…

@… @… Not really, there are a bunch of blockchain companies using it and a few banks, but unfortunately, most of them are not investing in making it better.
Facebook were using it for a while in a couple of teams, but I…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00780 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The BRST Double Complex for the Coupling of Gravity to Gauge Theories
We consider (effective) Quantum General Relativity coupled to the Standard Model (QGR-SM) and clarify whether graviton-ghosts couple to matter particles. To this end, we examine the corresponding BRST and anti-BRST symmetries, which are generated by infinitesimal diffeomorphisms and infinitesimal gauge transformations. In particular, we study their properties and relations: We find that all differentials mutually anticommute, which implies that they form a double complex. In particular, we intr…

We went to see the new #MissionImpossible today. I spent the whole thing thinking Hayley Atwell was Kate Beckinsale, which really shows my age. I'm not really an action film girl but I like these. A couple of the trailers looked good, esp a Liam Neeson remake of Naked Gun 🍭
Edited to add we're seeing The Salt Path soon and a showing of 2014's Pride at a local indie cine…

Pride (2014 film) - Wikipedia

Cavity QED with molecular defects coupled to to a photonic crystal cavity
Christian M. Lange, Arya D. Keni, Ishita Agarwal, Emma Daggett, Adhyyan S. Mansukhani, Ankit Kundu, Benjamin Cerjan, Libai Huang, Jonathan D. Hood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01917

Cavity QED with molecular defects coupled to to a photonic crystal cavity
We implement permanent spectral tuning to bring lifetime-limited emitters into collective resonance within an integrated photonic cavity. This addresses a fundamental challenge in solid-state cavity QED: combining multiple coherent quantum emitters with scalable nanophotonics. Our hybrid approach decouples emitter synthesis from nanophotonic fabrication using straightforward techniques that make cavity QED broadly accessible. High doping densities allow us to couple several coherent emitters to…

Here are a couple of springtime pictures with small associated stories. It’s a thrill to find something positive to write about: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/27/Happy-Colors

CL XLVI: Happy Colors

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

Rams LB Jared Verse thinks he left 'around 10 sacks on the field' in rookie year: 'That's not happening no more' https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-lb-jared-verse-thinks-he-left-around-10-sacks-on-the-field-in-rookie…

Stalled on getting MSFS 2024 to run, but did clean off the desk a bit. Not the best case scenario, but figured a nice lazy Saturday just relaxing would work out well.
#desktop

On the train to Barcelona for @… ! Having already spent a couple of days surrounded by live coders in a Peak District retreat I've got this weird thing where I keep seeing live coders just walking around everywhere who turn out to be lookalikes
I'll be involved with a paper about choreographic notation for robots with @…

She does so. She does so let us shit on the rug.
- a couple of doggy daycare doggies trying to pull a fast one on the substitute doggy daycare lady

Wow, #pythonPoetry v2 sure introduced many breaking changes. They outsourced `poetry shell` (a very important and IMHO core command for entering a shell with the virtual environment activated) into a plugin (wtf 🤨) that you need to provide separately.
That poetry can't pin itself bit me quite a couple of times with the v2 transition. They also changed the behaviour of the -C flag (r…

we’ve been home for about six weeks and are getting the travel itch again so we’re looking at apartments in paris for a month or so next spring, maybe also finally get to puglia for a week or two, also need to spend a few weeks in stockholm with the grandkids and want to tuck a visit to helsinki (on the baltic queen!) into that, so … a couple months? i’m not sure i want to be away that long 🤔.

What to watch in Raiders’ 3rd week of OTAs: Is TE ready to break out? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/what-to-watch-in-raiders-3rd-week-of-otas-is-te-ready-to-break-out-3380889/

'He's probably irreplaceable': Lions call for rapid growth after Ragnow retirement https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45459583/detroit-lions-offensive-line-frank-ragnow

Do you want to see me perform in an Improv show?
You can you know. You can do it in Shoreditch in London in the UK on Sunday.
Dunno what the show will be about, obviously. Some short games, couple of longer stories. But we need YOU there to tell us what it's about.
What else in London is free? Nothing, that's what.
#improv #liveShow #london

The difference between an ATM and your dad is that an ATM doesn't bitch and moan when you try to get a couple of dollars out of it.

Finished the SFP28 carrier board. Still waiting on final design review before I send it out to OSHPark, but it's done-enough that I could export a STEP and pull into the enclosure model.
Placement of all the front panel stuff is pretty definite at this point, the power supply and PDU are likely to move.
Logic board hasn't even started schematic capture yet.
There will probably be at least a couple of fans but I haven't figured out where or how many yet.

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