Tootfinder

I'm up to 438 subs on YouTube. I'm in the final push to get to 500. If you're not already subscribed to my YouTube channel please head over and subscribe to help me reach 500. Thank you! #helpmehit500 #youtube

X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive stars at low metallicity. XIII. Putting the bi-stability jump to the test in the LMC
T. Alkousa (Astrophysics Research Cluster, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield), P. A. Crowther (Astrophysics Research Cluster, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield), J. M. Bestenlehner (Astrophysics Research Cluster, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield, School of Chemical, M…

X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive stars at low metallicity. XIII. Putting the bi-stability jump to the test in the LMC
We aim to investigate the theoretical bi-stability jump, which predicts an increase in mass-loss rates below 21 kK. We further aim to constrain the photospheric and wind parameters of a sample of 16 LMC late-O and B supergiants. We utilise the 1D, non-LTE radiative transfer model CMFGEN in a grid-based approach and subsequent fine-tuned spectroscopic fitting procedure to determine the stellar and wind parameters of each star. We apply this method to ultra-violet data from the ULLYSES programme …

¿No os da la sensación que la gente conduce peor?
Ayer, en un trayecto de 30 km por carreteras secundarias primero me adelantó un tipo con su coche en la carretera de doble sentido con línea contínua que hay sobre la presa de Valmayor, sin arcenes y con muros de hormigón a ambos lados.
Pero por si eso fuera poco un cretino me adelantó con la moto en un tramo con línea contínua con curvas, sin arcenes y con muy poca visibilidad por la vegetación. Llega a tardar 10 segundos mšs en …

Vuelve Guns n' Roses a Chile este año
14 de octubre en el Parque Estadio Nacional. La preventa comieza el 11 de junio a las 11:00 hrs. y la venta general el 13 a las 11:30 por puntoticket.
🔗 https://www.…

Is there a name for the trend in Millennials and Gen Z to mispronounce things because they don't talk to human beings often enough?
Like the Corridor Crew on YouTube, alleged experts in computer graphics, not knowing how to pronounce "Gaussian".
Or the number of young makers who pronounce the "L" in soldering (and are not British).
My strong suspicion is that they learned these words without talking to human beings, and then mispronounced them to eac…

„I wasn’t allowed to speak or offer legal advice to M in the courtroom, so without looking down for too long, I wrote in my notebook:
Ils vont essayer de terminer ton case—tu vas dire NON. Tu as besoin de temps pour trouver un avocat.“
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/on

Two US representatives launch the bipartisan Congressional Creators Caucus to "bring the perspectives of online content creators into the public policy arena" (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/crea

Creator Caucus launches in Congress with support from Patreon, YouTube | TechCrunch
The Congressional Creator Caucus will work to support the creator economy, which is estimated to be worth half-a-trillion dollars by 2027.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13416 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

STAMP Your Content: Proving Dataset Membership via Watermarked Rephrasings
Given how large parts of publicly available text are crawled to pretrain large language models (LLMs), data creators increasingly worry about the inclusion of their proprietary data for model training without attribution or licensing. Their concerns are also shared by benchmark curators whose test-sets might be compromised. In this paper, we present STAMP, a framework for detecting dataset membership-i.e., determining the inclusion of a dataset in the pretraining corpora of LLMs. Given an origi…

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
CLONE 2: Is there anything for us here?
RASHEL: Yes. We're free.
CLONE 2: Can we survive - alone?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/532 B7B5

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Is there a name for the trend in Millennials and Gen Z to mispronounce things because they don't talk to human beings often enough?
Like the Corridor Crew on YouTube, alleged experts in computer graphics, not knowing how to pronounce "Gaussian".
Or the number of young makers who pronounce the "L" in soldering (and are not British).
My strong suspicion is that they learned these words without talking to human beings, and then mispronounced them to eac…