Tootfinder

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

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).

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

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…

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.

#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.

@…
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…

@… 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.

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…

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.

Looks like the USPS shut down the covidtests.gov at 8:00 PM EDT on 3/9/2025, per text on the website.
I'm feeling somewhat fortunate in that I got my order placed and received in the last couple weeks.
If they had too many tests stockpiled, better management and allowing people to order additional test kits seems like a better choice than destroying good tests. 
#CovidTests…

#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!

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

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

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

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 …

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…

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.

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…

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

"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 …

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

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.

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…

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…

@… @… 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…

Blimey. That's gone fast.
I guess I'd better start editing some videos then... 😁
#fediverse
If we get to the €35000 target this week, I promise to post a couple of new #Greenland  #science vids on my @tilvids channel.  @icesheets_climate
Who else is in? 8 days to go.
#bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

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!

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 …

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

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…

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…

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

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…

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).

„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.

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

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

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:

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

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

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/

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

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:

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.

#caturday

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 …

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…

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.

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

#Wordle 1,445 5/6*
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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.

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

'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

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

Super well done fediverse! Will post my next Greenland video this evening ...
Onwards to the next goal then ...
#fediverse
If we get to the €35000 target this week, I promise to post a couple of new #Greenland  #science vids on my @tilvids channel.  @icesheets_climate
Who else is in? 8 days to go.
#bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

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? 👀

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈!!
Got new line (see next) for the flag pole as the old stuff broke in a gale a couple months ago.
This stuff is much much nicer!
Wanted to make sure I had it up at least for 🇨🇦 day but it was easier than I thought it would be to get down with a little help from son.
#flags #pride #home #portalberni

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…

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…

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…

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

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

Interior redox state effects on the stability of secondary atmospheres and observational manifestations: LP 791-18 d as a case study for outgassing rocky exoplanets
Leonardos Gkouvelis, Francisco J. Pozuelos, Thomas Drant, Mohammad Farhat, Meng Tian, Can Ak{\i}n
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02188

Interior redox state effects on the stability of secondary atmospheres and observational manifestations: LP 791-18 d as a case study for outgassing rocky exoplanets
Recent advances in space and ground-based facilities now enable atmospheric characterization of a selected sample of rocky exoplanets. These atmospheres offer key insights into planetary formation and evolution, but their interpretation requires models that couple atmospheric processes with both the planetary interior and the surrounding space environment. This work focuses on the Earth-size planet LP791 18d, which is estimated to receive continuous tidal heating due to the orbital configuratio…

Got a little post about how to use #SSH from #Windows workstations; hopefully will complement folks running #Linux game servers to easily manage their game files with

Howto SSH with graphical app on Windows
The game servers we offer to clients usually run Linux for cost and performance reasons, but one of the common complaints from people is that managing the files on those servers is too difficult. "I can't just drag and drop files to it" or "There's no graphical interface to browse files". This guide will provide a couple tools to hopefully alleviate those issues.

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…

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

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

If Western leftists really “treat all warmongering nations equally”, why haven't I heard of russian, belarusian, Iranian, Chinese, Ethiopian, Sudanese, Myanmar, Indian diplomats being assassinated downtown?
Yes, the assassin shouted “#FreePalestine”.

Recently ran into some YouTube videos of a couple Greek guys running an Italian restaurant in (on the island of, at least) #Montreal.
That tracks as much as anything will track today.
(The way they blatantly praise the often-mediocre cheese megabrand they use for their pizza—like they've received a visit or two from the "sales enforcers" in the past—also tracks…)

I had to put down and then revisit today’s #Connections a couple times before I finally recognized the purple pattern.
#Connections717
Puzzle № 717
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This is a sad evening. By the time this posts, my WoW sub will have expired. I will not be renewing it.
I have played WoW since 2006. I have played it almost as long as all my relationships combined. (There's been a couple sizable gaps between 'ships, yo.) I have dozens of alts. 2 years played time (yeah, not THAT much considering, but I also play other games and have taken a couple year long breaks.)
WoW had always been there as an excellent escape from reality when I …

Apologies for the self-promotion, but this video just crossed my path today. I didn't know it was available. It's a (long) lecture I gave at UNSW a couple of years ago to a software engineering class on the subject of what software engineering actually _is_. It captures how I think about software pretty well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlasmhEcXDo

Dark Matter Haloscope with a Disordered Dielectric Absorber
Stewart Koppell, Otavio D. A. R. Bittencourt, Dip Joti Paul, Junwu Huang, Masha Baryakhtar, Karl K. Berggren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00115

Dark Matter Haloscope with a Disordered Dielectric Absorber
Light dark matter candidates such as axions and dark photons generically couple to electromagnetism, yielding dark-matter-to-photon conversion as a key search strategy. In addition to resonant conversion in cavities and circuits, light dark matter bosons efficiently convert to photons on material interfaces, with a broadband power proportional to the total area of these interfaces. In this work, we make use of interface conversion to develop a new experimental dark matter detector design: the d…

These sketches by @empyranni_illustrates on Instagram have me so excited. Final art reveal in the next couple of weeks. Guess I should finish the last of the novel edits? #amwriting #bookstodon

Warming from cold pools: A pathway for mesoscale organization to alter Earth's radiation budget
Pouriya Alinaghi, Martin Janssens, Fredrik Jansson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01750

Warming from cold pools: A pathway for mesoscale organization to alter Earth's radiation budget
Marine shallow cumulus clouds have long caused large uncertainty in climate projections. These clouds frequently organize into mesoscale (10-500 km) structures, through two processes that couple the clouds to shallow mesoscale circulations: (i) mesoscale moisture aggregation, and (ii) cold pools, driven locally from rain-evaporation. Since global climate models do not capture these mesoscale processes, while the degree of mesoscale organization is observed to correlate to shortwave cooling, it …

Getting packed for a week long motorcycle camping trip. I leave tomorrow. This is a much much needed break.
First night I'll be camping in Point Pleasant, WV and visiting the Mothman museum. After that, heading over to the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, then looping down through Tennessee, North Carolina and back into West Virginia where I'm planning to spend a couple of days exploring sites like Audra State Park and Blackwater Falls. I'll be posting photos from the trip here…

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

Now for some theology. Since Eve was created by God from Adam's rib, she/he/they had a Y chromosome, therefore she/he/they was biologically male -- not just the first woman but also the fist trans. Her/his/their three children with Adam must have been created by cloning and thus were all male. Were it not for daughters born from Adam's affair with Lilith, the human species would have ended there, since when the couple left Eden they lost access to free health care including furthe…

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

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…

Mike Macdonald: 'Crazy' to ask if Sam Darnold will be Seahawks starting QB https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-macdonald-crazy-to-ask-if-sam-darnold-will-be-seahawks-starting-qb

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 @…

What is Happening With the Raiders' Offensive Line in OTAs? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-alex-cappa-jackson-powers-johnson-dj-glaze-pete-carroll

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 🤔.

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.

Since I first shared this link on Friday, the amount raised has shot up by more than € 6000, not taking credit for that but well done #fediverse
If we get to the €35000 target this week, I promise to post a couple of new #Greenland #science vids on my @… channel. @…
Who else is in? 8 days to go.
#bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

Cowboys' Dak Prescott announces birth of second daughter, Aurora Rayne https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/cowboys-dak-prescott-announces-birth-second-daughter-aurora-rayne

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.

I've seen #POTUS47 use the phrase "tapping me along" a couple of times in the 2 weeks regarding Putin. I've never heard that phrase before, but from context, it sounds like he means "leading me on".
I did a quick web search "tapping me along", and 2 of the top ranked results are web forum posts where people are asking what Turnip means when he says it. Th…

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/

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism by Richard Muscat
New article in the series "Prospects for Degrowth"
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/23/creatively-disrupting-capitalism/

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…

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

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18912 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepp…

Interplay of ALP Couplings at a Muon Collider
Axion-like particles can couple to Standard Model gluons, electroweak gauge bosons, and massive fermions. A future multi-TeV muon collider provides a favorable environment to probe axion-like particles through multiple production channels, including vector boson fusion via electroweak gauge boson couplings and the top-associated production mediated by direct fermionic couplings. Motivated by the quality issue of the QCD axion, we focus on axion-like particles with masses and decay constants aro…

I've seen #POTUS47 use the phrase "tapping me along" a couple of times in the 2 weeks regarding Putin. I've never heard that phrase before, but from context, it sounds like he means "leading me on".
I did a quick web search "tapping me along", and 2 of the top ranked results are web forum posts where people are asking what Turnip means when he says it. Th…