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Weekend Reads
* BGP zombie hunting
https://blog.cloudflare.com/going-bgp-zombie-hunting/
* Inside AI data centers

Cowboys coach gives delusional defense of Jerry Jones following controversial quote https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-coach-gives-delusional-defense-jerry-jones-following-controversial-quote

Gravitational lensing of 21 cm HI signal: detection prospects at z ~ 1 with uGMRT in galaxy cluster lenses
Sauraj Bharti, Ashish Kumar Meena, Jasjeet Singh Bagla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00813



Both Quikscript and Shavian were essentially the results of a design competition,
sponsored--posthumously--by playwright George Bernard Shaw,
who laid out the terms in his will.
Shaw wanted someone to create an ideal phonetic alphabet for English that trumped Pitman shorthand.
British designer Ronald Kingsley Read, a finalist in the 1960s competition, designed both Quikscript and Shavian, the latter being named in Shaw's honor

Essentially this is abusive behavior and the only way out is to break the cycle.
This doesn't preclude valid criticism, but each party in this must recognize that the other parties aren't them and do not have the same audiences, the same requirements for rigor, or the same style of communication.

Until 2013, this Volkswagen model, which was essentially a 1984 car, was sold (successfully) in China.
Years, decades in which countries such as China were good at giving outdated German technology a longer life.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/VW_Jetta_Pionier

PLEASE SHARE: Folks, I need *public domain* or *purchasable stock imagery* photos of especially older women holding signs in protests that essentially say "I can't believe I still have to protest this shit". They *cannot* be CC-licensed - they either have to be public domain or licensed for royalty-based purchase since they'll be in an e-book.
This is an excellent example from Shutterstock:

Essential self-adjointness of non-semibounded Schr\"odinger operators on infinite graphs
Ognjen Milatovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00944 https://arx…

So essentially whatever happens during the meeting between Trump and Zelensky it's probably all theatrics and will mean nothing, even if Trump promises security guarantuees (unlikely). Because recent history has shown Trump is totally unreliable and can change opinion in a day...
#Trump #Zelensky

Claude 4.5 Opus seems to have finally done it, made ChatGPT essentially irrelevant to my purposes. Claude is a far superior writer and much, much smarter. Less prone to hallucinations. It's coding ability is wild.

Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown
—whose 2018 reporting essentially reopened the Jeffrey Epstein case
—wants to know ⭐️ why her flight information is in the Epstein files. 
“Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)?”
she wrote Sunday on X.
“As the flight itinerary includes my maiden name (and I did book this fli…

A profile of India-based sports website Essentially Sports, founded in a college dorm in 2014 and now reaching 30M monthly readers and $8M in annual turnover (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Blogged about my new take on Hierarchical data in CLI, scripts and code. And a look into the future direction I want for solving a particular configuration management use case.
https://choria.io/blog/post/2025/11/25/hierarchical_data/

tl;dr it’s essentially a patch for Windows 3.0 that prevents conflicts with MS-DOS when addressing memory above 1MB

So I’m reading an article in New Scientist about problems nailing down the #HubbleConstant and I thought, if the universe is expanding, as in adding new space where there already is some, why isn’t everything expanding with it? All I can think of is, it’s gravity doing it, keeping localized bits of matter together, from subatomic particles to galaxies in size, essentially fighting an epic, m…

Businesses are throwing parties celebrating his resignation...
OK GOP State Senator, Essentially: Ryan Walters’ Mandates Were Performative Bullshit | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/06/ok-gop-state-senator-essentially-ryan-walters-mandates-were-performative-bullshit/

«Their interest is in women remaining protected and getting what they deserve, especially for those essentially doing everything in their relationships. While it’s easy to mock the original posters for wanting to legally bind themselves to men who can’t be bothered, one explanation is simple: it’s hell out here, it’s horror.»
The Sociology of Begging Someone to Marry You
https://tellthebeees.substack.com/p/the-sociology-of-begging-someone

I don't believe that anyone is intrinsically or essentially evil. If we believed they they were intrinsically evil, we could not hold them responsible for the evil that they do, because they could not help it.
But people do things which are evil. People do things which are evil often because they did not sufficiently think ahead, and consider the consequences of their actions. And people do things which are evil sometimes because others who have authority over them tell them to. &g…

The realisation seems to be growing that 'Trumpism' is essentially synonymous with fascism.

Is there such a thing as a Cortex-A with TCM?
Like a dedicated region of SRAM that's essentially L1 cache with single cycle latency, but not backed by any other memory

David Sirota says that while the United States is now
“immersed in corruption” in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics,
it is the result of a decades long agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system
and to essentially make anti-bribery laws unenforceable.
“This is all part of a plan by a corporate movement that sees democracy — the government providing what people want — sees that as a threat.”

Race to the No. 1 pick: Titans' win over Chiefs turns it into four-team race https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6909125/2025/12/22/nfl-draft-2026-top-pick-raiders-giants-jets-browns/

Apple discontinues Clips, a video editing app it launched in 2017, removing it from the App Store for new users, and says Clips will no longer be updated (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/11/apples-clips-app-discontinued/

I really just want a few CLI utilities that essentially present what Puppet resources does as a command.
$ thing package ensure zsh —version 1.2.3
It should have exit code API and json output.
Nothing more, just: package, user, service, exec
Ideally with no dependencies like Ruby
Seems like a lot to ask alas.

Were I an official of a church that has excommunication ceremonies I'd excommunicate essentially all of the Cheeto administration and all members of ICE.

Race to the No. 1 pick: Titans' win over Chiefs turns it into four-team race https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6909125/2025/12/22/nfl-draft-2026-top-pick-raiders-giants-jets-browns/

Aaaand we're back. But I don't think everything is fixed. It's just running and I shouldn't touch anything again before I have at least 6 hours on hand... is essentially the current status.

I think it's fine to document the many AI fuckups, but there's so often a tone of, essentially, "But what if this search results page was read by someone with shallow literacy?"
(I sometimes mentally append the line from the heroin-using Chris Morris character: "But what about other people less stable, less educated, less middle-class than me?")

Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)

I missed this one:
#12886 [css-fonts-5] Text Fitting: Default scaling limit
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12886
Essentially a discussion how responsive text can satisfy 1.4.4, especially in this fit-to-container pitch from Google.
I added a comment …

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/115697740732198587
"What I want these leaders to do is also consider how a decision to essentially throw one group of people under the bus undermines scientific integrity and harms everyone.
"And I thin…

President Trump’s new special envoy to Greenland,
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry,
wants to help make Greenland
“part of the U.S.”
This is the most recent development in Trump’s monthslong campaign to essentially colonize Greenland.
His primary excuse for this has been “international security,”
although it’s more likely he wants to take advantage of Greenland’s value as a geopolitical asset as well as its mineral and oil resources.
“That whole area is…

End of an era. I remember when that exhibit went in. That said, it’s in bad shape and has been for some time. #okc #oklahoma

Wow! This is important.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/08/off-road-wheelchair-trackchair-hiking?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Wow! This is important.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/08/off-road-wheelchair-trackchair-hiking?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Just read about DeepSeek Sparse Attention.
Essentially, they gave ADHD to an AI to make it work better, and market it as a big innovation.
This would be a chance for Neurotypicals to question their attitude towards Neurodiversity, but I doubt they take the hint.
#adhd #neurodiversity …

Xia & Lindell have also published a response (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518837122) – unsurprisingly, we don’t agree with most of their arguments. What puzzles us most is their claim that the re-analysis (their Table 1) "strengthens [their] conclusions." On the contrary:
In the Polysynthesis analysis, Small_Family has a minuscule averaged effect estimate (0.02) with a standard error more than four times larger (0.085). Together with a posterior inclusion probability (PIP) of just 0.085, this means the variable is rarely included in the best-supported models and its estimated effect is highly uncertain – essentially indistinguishable from zero. We therefore still struggle to see how this could be taken as support for their earlier statement that "different measures of language isolation – social, physical and *phylogenetic* – are important predictors of polysynthesis."

Implication Problems over Positive Semirings
Minna Hirvonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08112 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08112

On irreducibility of certain low dimensional automorphic Galois representations
Boyi Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12496 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12496

The US Navy and Palantir announce ShipOS, saying the software will speed up shipbuilding and improve supply chain visibility; the deal is valued at $448M (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/09/navy-phelan-palantir-karp-shipos

I've been a member of Little Free Library for 18 months. Their emails have been a nuisance, but I remained because of my goodwill towards the org. I finally hit my limit and unsubscribed today. Why? I counted 18 emails in the last 30 days!
If you're a non-profit and view each email as having essentially zero cost to your org, you should ask if you're not silently chipping away at goodwill by being a pest.

Here’s another article on this. Essentially schools are teaching children to guess words, not to read them.
Jesus fucking Christ.
https://fivefromfive.com.au/phonics-teaching/the-three-cueing-system/

Meta is essentially one big scam/fraud.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

When Democrats or liberals question the morals or perspicacity of Trump voters, the press treats it as a major scandal.
When Trump expresses a desire to cover protestors with feces — essentially saying that anyone who disagrees with him is shit
— the media is barely willing to talk about it.
Why?
@…

#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #Socialism #Communism

k-SUM Hardness Implies Treewidth-SETH
Michael Lampis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08185 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08185

A ferroelectric junction transistor memory made from switchable van der Waals p-n heterojunctions
Baoyu Wang, Lingrui Zou, Tao Wang, Lijun Xu, Zexin Dong, Xin He, Shangui Lan, Yinchang Ma, Meng Tang, Maolin Chen, Chen Liu, Zhengdong Luo, Lijie Zhang, Zhenhua Wu, Yan Liu, Genquan Han, Bin Yu, Xixiang Zhang, Fei Xue, Kai Chang
https://arxiv.…

Offshore wind farms are about to get a second job: charging stations for electric ships.
Two Danish companies are pioneering this integration at Bornholm, a designated "energy island" in one of Europe's busiest shipping corridors. The concept could provide 17 terawatt-hours of clean power for battery-powered ferries and cargo vessels, saving €2 billion in oil imports while slashing marine emissions.

«at this point, AT Proto has become essentially a sort of ideological vaporware; a way for Jay Graber et al to run a social media platform while claiming they don't run a social media platform. This is, of course, just another iteration of the Silicon Valley monoproduct: power without accountability.»
Delusions of a Protocol | Azhdarchid
#bluesky

WBD reports Q3 revenue down 6% YoY to $9B, a $148M net loss, $1.2B in debt repayment, streaming subscribers up 16% YoY to 128M, and $2.63B in streaming revenue (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

The paired construction for Boolean functions on the slice
Michael Kiermaier, Jonathan Mannaert, Alfred Wassermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02804 https://

I've been raking through my technology drawer looking for an old fairphone that wasn't there. But I found several things I'd completely forgotten, including these!

Hangin' with the Boys: Run of Show https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/hangin-with-the-boys-run-of-show

A note on spectral Monte-Carlo method for fractional Poisson equation on high-dimensional ball
Lisen Ding, Mingyi Wang, Dongling Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04427 https://…

Bayes Meets Riemann Again: Large Prime Discovery and Re-emergence of the Bone of Contention
Durba Bhattacharya, Sucharita Roy, Sourabh Bhattacharya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09651

GUYS I just saw my fist full size battery electric bus!
I really wish we had catenary 🚎 instead but this will do for now.
it is essentially silent amongst the cacophony around it.
#bctransit #bus #electric #bev

So Trump, Witkoff and Kushner essentially have accomplished nothing with regard to Ukraine. Russia has again confirmed it is not interested in peace and will continue it's aggression against Ukraine.
#trump #witkoff

Thermoelectric Enhancement of Series-Connected Cross-Conjugated Molecular Junctions
Justin P. Bergfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07694 https://arxiv.org/…

“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.”
Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March
and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.

"In a talk in November 2024, Starbase General Manager Kathy Lueders announced that SpaceX hoped to be able to catch a Starship upper stage sometime in the next 6 months and have as many as 25 launches in 2025.
This did not occur. Starship was launched just five times by mid-October, with no planned launches during the remaining months of 2025."
—Wikipedia Starship article
I've been pretty vocal about all of Starship being what's essentially a scam—yes, including the engineering behind it.
But there's always white knight tech people riding to the rescue of the Nazi billionaire even when it's obvious it's not working right.
I'm sure they'll reply to this post as well.

Dak Prescott Sends Serious Message to Cowboys After Difficult Loss https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-sends-serious-message-to-cowboys-after-difficult-loss/

Quantitative growth of multi-recurrence sequences
Clemens Fuchs, Armand Noubissie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01896 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01896

Computer scientists: The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human.
Reality: The Turing test is a test of a human's ability not to be fooled by themselves that a machine is mimicking a human.
(Because the test uses a human to decide if something else is a human, it essentially explores the gullibility limit of an individual human—and says nothing about machine intelligence.)

NFL's Week 14 Slate Delivers Playoff Stakes Across Conferences https://insidethestar.com/nfls-week-14-slate-delivers-playoff-stakes-across-conferences

Insider Reveals Old Fines That Cowboys’ Jerry Jones Could Deal With After Flipping Jets Fans Off https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jerry-jones-jets-fans-fines/?adt_ei=[email]