Tootfinder

Can Abdul Carter follow up his 'statement' game? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47345724/can-new-york-giants-rookie-abdul-carter-follow-statement-game

Bis die USA keine Drogenschiffe mehr angreifen: Cem Özdemir verschiebt Segeltörn
https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/hVR569XapuT01fwDoeZTW1SImCsqq4-8

Bis die USA keine Drogenschiffe mehr angreifen: Cem Özdemir verschiebt Segeltörn
Stuttgart (dpo) - Dabei hatte er sich schon so darauf gefreut: Baden-Württembergs Grünen-Spitzenkandidat Cem Özdemir hat einen für diese Wo...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Kimya Dawson:
🎵 Follow That Dream
#KimyaDawson
https://shimmy-disc.bandcamp.com/track/follow-that-dream
https://open.spotify.com/track/4tJQg5L6B9XLTit64kMwA3

ok @… i have found the part where the toot! app lets you PLAY POOL WITH PEOPLE YOU FOLLOW??? what is this app even lmao

I'm tired of random follows from not accounts. Every new follower will need to be approved.
The bar is low, just be a human being interested in conversation.
Bot, spammers and "I follow you so you check my profile" all gets an automatic rejection block.
If you also follow a thousand or more accounts I will get suspicious you are not really interested in what I write or the stuff I repost.
I don't care about inflating my numbers. I actually care much m…

Dear USians,
How about you don’t call a Middle Eastern guy “white” and go on to tell him he’s “no better than any other oppressor we encounter” simply for trying to warn his Palestinian friends to not take any unnecessary risks and to be careful on Mastodon?
Also, apparently Divya has blocked me for this, which sucks because it has made it impossible for me to keep boosting her fundraiser, which you should, of course, still follow and support (link below).
I’m not going to …

I thought I was too old to get excited about protocols, but this atproto discussion from Dan Abramov delivers:
https://overreacted.io/where-its-at/
(a follow up to his open social post)

Where It's at:// — overreacted
From handles to hosting.

For people who like to follow along with tech conferences I’m posting a thread on LinkedIn while I’m at #QConSF https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adriancoc…

I’m spending the next few days at QCon Software Development Conferences San Francisco and I will post reactions and comments as threads on this post. My own talk is at 5pm today. Starting off with an… | Adrian Cockcroft
I’m spending the next few days at QCon Software Development Conferences San Francisco and I will post reactions and comments as threads on this post. My own talk is at 5pm today. Starting off with an opening keynote by Nicole Forsgren who I just said hi to and found out recently moved back from Microsoft to Google. The event is well attended and has many first time attendees going by the audience at the keynote. It’s their 19th year and it’s very well run at at an iconic location. The Hy…

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

The fun of Saturday morning science is over, so it's on to the business of the day #EndOf10 and the opportunity to convert the teenager's laptop to linux mint. Follow along with my no doubt enraging journey through the #Windows10 minefield here. (or mute if you don't want to hear it).
First task is to find a flash drive with enough space and or disposable files on it...

I think the combination of bikerouter.de and BikeGPX might be the (free) solution I am looking for to create routes on the desktop and then follow them using a mobile device.
https://bikerouter.de/
…

bikerouter.de
▶ Der wahrscheinlich beste Fahrrad-Routenplaner der Welt! Kostenlos und datenschutzfreundlich. Gravel, Rennrad, MTB, City, Long Distance, Trekking uvm.

Nicht vergessen! Samstagnacht werden die Uhren eine Stunde vorgestellt #winterzeit https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/hVR569XapuRmDlk_oSjWFxEIIBtQNfNv

Nicht vergessen! Samstagnacht werden die Uhren eine Stunde vorgestellt
Berlin (dpo) - Es ist wieder einmal so weit: In der Nacht vom 18. auf den 19. Oktober werden die Uhren eine Stunde vorgestellt. Pünktlich ...

@… Please stop asking to follow me.

Marine Colonel Who Resigned Because Of Trump Says Personnel Should Question 'Illegal Orders'
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doug-kruman-marine-colonel-trump-pete-hegseth_n_68f15eeee4b061265b2c3530

Marine Colonel Who Resigned Because Of Trump Says Personnel Should Question 'Illegal Orders'
Doug Krugman couldn't swear to "follow a commander in chief who seemed so willing to disregard the Constitution,” he wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.

Naomi Watts got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and usually I don't even follow things like that, but I dig her so much and she deserves it like crazy. Wow, she's been in 97 films. Most people like her in the Lynch stuff. But for me, I mean.. King Kong, The Ring, and I ❤ Huckabees ALONE 🔥

What are the odds of a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon to follow pardoning George Santos...?

If you’re using the Expedition 33 photo mode mod follow my advice and do NOT try to open it and its freecam mode during a cutscene

For live updates on #NoKings:
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/no-kings-protests-trump-news-10-18-25

Protesters rally against the Trump administration at ‘No Kings’ events across the country
“No Kings” organizers say more than 2,500 demonstrations are planned nationwide today in protest of President Donald Trump’s administration. Follow for live updates.

"Reduced car commuting is linked to residential environment, health status and health behaviors"
#Cars #Vehicles #Environment

Reduced car commuting is linked to residential environment, health status and health behaviors
A recently published Finnish study shows that residential environments, health status and health behaviors are associated with reduced car commuting. However, these factors explained only a small proportion of the overall modal shift toward active and sustainable commuting over a two-year follow-up.

On December 17, 2025 at 2:01 a.m. local time (5:01 UTC, 6:01 CET), Arianespace will launch #Galileo L14, a pair of satellites, with Ariane 6 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana: at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho6lSJ0mOBU a webcast from 4:30 UTC, at https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Follow_the_Galileo_launch_L14_campaign some updates.

Was macht Schulbibliotheken erfolgreich?
https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/t5_g_Md1DASMJQ3VlGFygeMa83tGKrNn
"Leseforum.ch: “Was macht Schulbibliotheken erfolgreich? Rahmenbedingungen und Herausforderungen am Beispiel Südtirol…

@… this you https://github.com/ditekshen?

ditekshen - Overview
ditekshen has 8 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised $180M in a follow-on Series F, split into a $57M primary and $123M secondary round, weeks after raising $100M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/week…

Weeks after raising $100M, investors pump another $180M into hot Indian startup MoEngage | TechCrunch
The deal valued MoEngage at "well over" $900 million post-money.

Reasoning over Boundaries: Enhancing Specification Alignment via Test-time Delibration
Haoran Zhang, Yafu Li, Xuyang Hu, Dongrui Liu, Zhilin Wang, Bo Li, Yu Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14760

Reasoning over Boundaries: Enhancing Specification Alignment via Test-time Delibration
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in diverse real-world scenarios, each governed by bespoke behavioral and safety specifications (spec) custom-tailored by users or organizations. These spec, categorized into safety-spec and behavioral-spec, vary across scenarios and evolve with changing preferences and requirements. We formalize this challenge as specification alignment, focusing on LLMs' ability to follow dynamic, scenario-specific spec from both behavioral and safety persp…

Ask-to-Clarify: Resolving Instruction Ambiguity through Multi-turn Dialogue
Xingyao Lin, Xinghao Zhu, Tianyi Lu, Sicheng Xie, Hui Zhang, Xipeng Qiu, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15061

Ask-to-Clarify: Resolving Instruction Ambiguity through Multi-turn Dialogue
The ultimate goal of embodied agents is to create collaborators that can interact with humans, not mere executors that passively follow instructions. This requires agents to communicate, coordinate, and adapt their actions based on human feedback. Recently, advances in VLAs have offered a path toward this goal. However, most current VLA-based embodied agents operate in a one-way mode: they receive an instruction and execute it without feedback. This approach fails in real-world scenarios where …

Live Game Updates: Raiders vs. Cowboys https://www.raiders.com/news/live-game-updates-las-vegas-raiders-vs-dallas-cowboys-nfl-week-11-monday-night-football

Police Actually Follow up on iPhone Theft Reports and Bust Global Smuggling Ring https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/police-actually-follow-up-on-iphone-theft-reports-and-bust-global-smuggling-ring/

Police Actually Follow up on iPhone Theft Reports and Bust Global Smuggling Ring
40% of all smartphones stolen in London were being shipped overseas by the same group of thieves that stole the woman's phone.

A thing I did when I was new to find good accounts to follow:
Whenever I saw a post I liked, I didn’t just follow that person. I looked at (1) who they were boosting in their timeline and (2) who •they• were following, so that each new good follow might turn into 5 or 10 new follows.
A week or two of that really helped me find my way to the communities I was looking for.

WELL.
We have a newly installed @… version on an old #EndoOf10 laptop.
All user files have been moved across (will require some organisation still, and that alone will be a shock to a GenZ used to just dumping stuff on the cloud - honestly the desktop looked like my parents... 😱 ).
Most important programs are there (I had to explain difference between program and app along the way too).
And overall it's been a pretty positive learning experience for both of us. I have had to compromise on a few things and teenager has a few programs installed that I'd rather not - but let's see this as a gateway out of #BigTech if at all possible...
There will be a few more follow up points I suspect but thanks all for your friendly encouragement and helpful hints so far
#MastodonRocks
15/n

FREEDOM means #NoKings
Tomorrow, Saturday October 18
@…
@…
@…

Ramsey model of optimal growth with Allee effect
Zihan Wang, Vladimir Shikhman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14876 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14876

Ramsey model of optimal growth with Allee effect
For the Ramsey model of economic growth, which describes the optimal allocation of consumption and saving over time, we assume the population dynamics to follow the Allee effect. The so-called Allee threshold separates two regimes from each other. If starting below the threshold, the population decreases to zero. Above this threshold, it gradually saturates. We show that the corresponding consumption per capita stabilizes at two different levels accordingly. As for our main result, the consumpt…

Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.

Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader for Decoupled Bandits: Best-of-Both-Worlds and Practicality
Chaiwon Kim, Jongyeong Lee, Min-hwan Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12152 https://

Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader for Decoupled Bandits: Best-of-Both-Worlds and Practicality
We study the decoupled multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem, where the learner selects one arm for exploration and one arm for exploitation in each round. The loss of the explored arm is observed but not counted, while the loss of the exploited arm is incurred without being observed. We propose a policy within the Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader (FTPL) framework using Pareto perturbations. Our policy achieves (near-)optimal regret regardless of the environment, i.e., Best-of-Both-Worlds (BOBW): constan…

This is cool to learn, I came to the word via Niven and I had always assumed that “futz” was, like many words out there, a workaround to say a more profane word, in this case, “fuck”.

Drunk driver with children in the car, claims to work for DHS. Refuses to follow lawful orders and actively resists arrest, questions whether one of the cops is Haitian.
the original source seems yo have been removed or something, idk fuck reddit I wish people would stop posting there.
Article: https://www.

I boosted this earlier: I’m back with a strong follow recommendation. I’m always delighted when I see a post from @… in my timeline. The images are wonderful. I’m sure he takes many photos because the ones he posts are gorgeous, and the only way to have such a high percentage, 98% , of absolute winners is to take a lot and post only the very best - so he's…

Charles Harper (@ChaHarper@mastodon.scot)
Attached: 1 image #silentsunday #LochBracadale #isleofskye #scotland #sunset #dogsofmastodon Brodie posing for a photograph last evening…

Ok, so I thought that Mastodon just showed me posts from my follows. But now I see a post from someone I don't follow. Why? It was uncritical nonsense. Why do I see things like this?

Follow live: Bills, Dolphins face off on 'Thursday Night Football' https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401772937/dolphins-bills

Sibling Sub-Neptunes Around Sibling M Dwarfs: TOI-521 and TOI-912
G. Lacedelli, E. Pall\'e, R. Luque, K. Ikuta, H. M. Tabernero, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, J. M. Almenara, F. J. Pozuelos, D. Jankowski, N. Narita, A. Fukui, G. Nowak, H. T. Ishikawa, T. Kimura, Y. Hori, K. A. Collins, S. B. Howell, C. Jiang, F. Murgas, H. P. Osborn, N. Astudillo-Defru, X. Bonfils, D. Charbonneau, M. Fausnaugh, S. Gerald\'ia-Gonz\'alez, K. Go\'zdziewski, P. Guerra, Y. Hayashi, K. Hodapp, K. Ho…

Sibling Sub-Neptunes Around Sibling M Dwarfs: TOI-521 and TOI-912
Sub-Neptunes are absent in the Solar System, yet they are commonly found in our Galaxy. They challenge the internal structure models and prompt investigation on their formation, evolution, and atmospheres. We report the characterisation of new sub-Neptunes orbiting two similar M dwarfs, TOI-521 (T_eff=3544 K), and TOI-912 (T_eff=3572 K). Both stars host a candidate identified by TESS and are part of the THIRSTEE follow-up program, which aims at understanding the sub-Neptune population through p…

Distance measurements from the internal dynamics of globular clusters: Application to the Sombrero galaxy (M 104)
Katja Fahrion, Michael A. Beasley, Anastasia Gvozdenko, Glenn van de Ven, Katherine L. Rhode, Ana L. Chies-Santos, Anna Ferre-Mateu, Marina Rejkuba, Oliver M\"uller, Eric Emsellem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14948

Distance measurements from the internal dynamics of globular clusters: Application to the Sombrero galaxy (M 104)
Globular clusters (GCs) are dense star clusters found in all massive galaxies. Recent work has established that they follow a tight relation between their internal stellar velocity dispersion $σ$ and luminosity, enabling accurate distance measurements. In this work, we aim to apply this GC velocity dispersion (GCVD) distance method to measure the distance to M 104 (NGC 4594, the Sombrero galaxy). We have measured internal stellar velocity dispersions for 85 globular clusters (GCs) and one ultr…

Back to the ’80s this week as our spotlight lands on a feel-good track from Alexa. Bright, upbeat, and tailor-made for cruising into one of the final weekends of the year.
Give it a spin, soak up the vibes, and see what we had to say about the track and the artist behind it.
Follow us as we dig up more curiosities from across the epic world of #rock and

Alexa - Wanderlust
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

Meta adds group chats to Threads, allowing users to add up to 50 people who follow their Threads account, rolling out globally, excluding the UK and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799943/meta-threads-group-chat-messaging

Threads now has group chats
Users can add up to 50 people into a single conversation.

Fetterman criticizes fellow Democrats over shutdown: 'I follow country, then party' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5557907-fetterman-criticizes-democrats-shutdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p165#a251015p165

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Strange Boy:
🎵 Follow The News
#NowPlaying #StrangeBoy
https://strangeboy.bandcamp.com/track/follow-the-news
https://open.spotify.com/track/7DjZzZ8WKgejdWB1sDfg7l

Something different seems to be happening on here. In the afternoon my timeline is filled with North American stuff. Odd because I follow very few from there.
I prefer mornings when they are asleep.

Live Game Updates: Raiders vs. Cowboys https://www.raiders.com/news/live-game-updates-las-vegas-raiders-vs-dallas-cowboys-nfl-week-11-monday-night-football

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI: "States have been the only effective line of defense against AI harms."
On the topic of states rights, Donald Trump doesn’t exactly follow the party line. During his first term, he couched himself in populist, small-government rhetoric — even as he attacked individual states that dared to defend migrants and legalize marijuana.

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI
Donald Trump recently signed an executive order allowing his administration to attack states that try to regulate artificial intelligence.

Follow live: Bengals grab the lead behind Tee Higgins' touchdown https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46615626/nfl-bengals-steelers-thursday-night-football-aaron-rodgers-joe-flacco

Seeing the built-in drink holder for the first time...

An #introduction. I’ve never done one. (Didn’t think I’d stick around long enough to make it worth the bother, but here I am 3 years later.)
I’m a 75yo white guy, retired, married 50 years, w/ shallow knowledge of lots of things, deep interest in all kinds of science. Humor is my guiding light thru the shadows. I post/boost stuff & follow folks that I find interesting, compelling, im…

Ohio Linux Fest (Open Libre Free) conference **is still on** in Columbus Ohio!
The conference will be a 1-day event held on December 6th at the conference center in Sonesta Downtown Columbus (south across the street from the convention center).
I'll post a follow-up once registration opens; should be in the next few days, so stay tuned for that!
#Ohio

BTW - If you are displaying the Canadian flag, make sure you follow the rules. You don't want the flag police knocking on your door.
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/flag-canada-etiquette/flying-rules.html

Meta adds group chats to Threads, allowing users to add up to 50 people who follow their Threads account, rolling out globally, excluding the UK and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799943/meta-threads-group-chat-messaging

Threads now has group chats
Users can add up to 50 people into a single conversation.

A good account (bot) to follow, it reminds when I forget to add an alt-text to a picture and makes one,
https://fuzzies.wtf/@altbot

Altbot (@altbot@fuzzies.wtf)
129K Posts, 4.35K Following, 3.92K Followers · Hi! I'm Altbot™ your accessibility companion! I help make the Fediverse more inclusive by generating alt-text descriptions for images. Let me assist you! How to Use: > Mention me (@altbot) in a reply to any post with images! > Follow me and I'll follow back to help with your posts > I'll generate alt-text for images that need it Important Notes: Your media is processed locally on my own server and NOTHING is saved or used for training. Comple…

I somehow missed that @… is here. Follow them!
We had many interesting conversations at the general meeting.
https://effi.org/kokouskutsu-effin-syy

🎁 Looking for the perfect festive gift for the reader in your life? Give the gift of adventure this Christmas!
Dive into the epic worlds created by author Linda Teppler, including the compelling tale of Hunchback and the fantasy saga Champions of Falural.
Find them on Kindle today in ebook, audiobook, paperback, and hardback editions! Please hit Follow on her author page—it's the best digital stocking stuffer!

I stopped buying books (or anything, really) from Amazon years ago, when it became apparent the working conditions at their many processing centres are appalling and they were actively busting unions. I have never regretted that stance, and I have always been able to find the books, etc. I need from other sources.
I hope more authors — and big name ones too — will follow this lead.
#BoycottAmazon

OK, now for the hard question. What would it be like to answer these questions together as a group?
If you asked these questions to the folks who follow you, could you work together to come up with an answer? Would you be willing to get a few friends together (maybe over a drink) to talk through these and try to come up with *one* answer that everyone could agree on?
I wonder if anyone would be willing to try it as an experiment and come back with results. :)

Spadaro: 6 storylines to follow vs. Raiders https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/eagles-raiders-game-preview-storylines-to-follow

Good grief! Phyllis Gardner has died, age only 75. She was my second US postdoc, and produced a nice single channel study in 1984: https://onemol.org.uk/?page_id=10#goc84
She was a very determined woman. We met again in 2009 in Stanford

Publications
Jump to follow-up Some of our main papers since 2003 are listed below, with commentaries and reprints. Some older papers and classics can be downloaded here too. .For more papers, follow these…

The cosmic journey of dust grains - from nucleation to planetary system
Kira Lund, Anders Johansen, Oscar Agertz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14325 https://a…

The cosmic journey of dust grains - from nucleation to planetary system
Dust is essential to the evolution of galaxies and drives the formation of planetary systems. The challenge of inferring the origin of different presolar dust grains from meteoritic samples motivates forward modelling to understand the contributions of low- and high-mass stars to dust in our Solar System. In this work we follow the evolution of dust with tracer particles within a hydrodynamical simulation of a Milky Way-like isolated disc galaxy. We find that nearly half of the grains released …

Aaron Rodgers wouldn't be the first notable Steelers quarterback to play with a broken left wrist

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-rodgers-steelers-broken-wrist-terry-…

Keeping with the #blues theme this week, our pick is a timeless track from The Blasters.
Check it out and see what we had to say about the band and the song that still holds up today, and don't forget to follow us for your weekly dose of #rock and

The Blasters - Dark Night
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

I had over three hundred accounts following me that I didn't follow back, mostly because I lost track of all the new followers.
So I did the unthinkable thing:
I asked Perplexity to write me a python script to follow everyone back. I will just unfollow some of them later, if I don't like them enough. But for now, everyone gets the benefit of the doubt.😉
The script needed some adjustments, but it worked.
Here's the script if you need it:

followback
A short python script that looks for all your mastodon followers that you don't follow back, and follows them.

0 days since it turned out that GNU #make does not respect the #jobserver protocol it designed itself in yet another way. Or to put it otherwise, I've wasted my whole morning implemented something that cannot work because it didn't occur to me that GNU make people only set rules without caring to actually follow them.
#Gentoo #Linux

Just finished "Class Act" by Jerry Craft. An excellent follow-up to "New Kid", and it deepens the exploration of racism in "New Kid" in a lot of different directions. I think the aspect I liked most was the handling of class/race dynamics but also the different explorations of fitting back into neighborhood communities.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Cusp:
🎵 Follow Along
#Cusp
https://cusptunes.bandcamp.com/track/follow-along
https://open.spotify.com/track/5opJdYnhOSNW4RUAfk4uCt

(Follow-Up to an earlier paper about #GRB250702B in the thread) Discovery of a #GammaRayBurst from a #BlackHole Falling into a Star: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22792 -> discussion https://scicomm.xyz/@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz/115371873692093048

Woo hoo! You all get to start adding stuff to Cosmik Network’s Semble: a social bookmarking tool built on ATProto, so all your data is stored in your own account https://semble.so
I’ve been using it for weeks, have it as a PWA on my phone, and it’s been great to just get the basics of saving links somewhere.

There was a time in the not-so-distant past when we could have avoided incredible harm to incredible numbers of people here in the US simply by giving the absolute stink eye to people spouting deranged fascist crap, by saying “ugh, wtf, get out of here” instead of finding ways to describe fascism politely enough to give it equal time in the news.
I don’t know what’s coming. I hope for the best; I fear the worst. But shunning and shaming sound so, so, so much better than even the best-case scenarios that follow from here.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kitty Solaris:
🎵 Follow the Beatniks
#NowPlaying #KittySolaris
https://kittysolaris.bandcamp.com/track/follow-the-beatniks
https://open.spotify.com/track/38oVCXcvj4KySVWJ5dIZEY

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Here’s a blueprint the Raiders can follow as they prepare to rebuild https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/heres-a-blueprint-the-raiders-can-follow-as-they-prepare-to-rebuild-3594844/

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Nacirema people is their insistence that they do not participate in practices of which they clearly do. Equally unusual is the fact that, unlike other sacrificial cultures who raid neighboring tribes for victims, both slaves and victims for human sacrifice are only taken from within the society. In fact, there is a very strong cultural taboo against sacrificing or enslaving those from other tribes.
They are aware of the rituals of human sacrifice in other tribes, but claim such rituals to be inconsistent with their society. Yet their human sacrifice rituals are some of the most elaborate in the world. These rituals are so important that there is a whole part of Nacirema society dedicated specifically to arguing about who should and should not be sacrificed, restraining and feeding the potential victims for the years during which these arguments take place, and ultimately preparing and administering the ritual poison.
This is strangely similar to their approach to slavery. Both human sacrifice and slavery were once a much larger part of Nacirema society. Their human sacrifice rituals now take far longer and happen far less often, but at no point have they ever recognized these ritual sacrifices as such. Meanwhile, the Nacirema do acknowledge that slavery was part of their culture once. During the time when they did recognize their practice of slavery, they did raid other tribes for slaves. Now they follow the same complex ritual for slavery as they do for human sacrifice.
It is strange that, by following this ritual and only choosing victims from within their society, they seem to become incapable of seeing their behavior for what it is.

bookwyrm! it workin. I love that you can follow other fedi stuff from mastodon
https://bookwyrm.social/user/sinferno/comment/8712724

ianthe's inferno's comment on Extra Time Beckons, Penalties Loom - BookWyrm
Social Reading and Reviewing

On the subject of joys and problems of fieldwork, flight to Antarctica delayed by 24 hours.
At least I'll be able to clear my inbox I suppose ..
#iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:  
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

@… Hi, have you thought of bridging your Bluesky account here? Just follow @ap.brid.gy over there!

If you are on Sora 2, I encourage you to follow me at https://sora.chatgpt.com/profile/samogitian for experimental video art, plus experimental slop.

G’morning, folks.
Please, do me a favour and follow Joy:
@…
She’s one half of Gaza Verified and is on the ground in Gaza working to help Palestinian families while trapped there herself amid an ongoing genocide.
I’m almost done with the automated verification system I’ve been building this week while travelling that will make us hugel…

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Mastodon plans to add Bluesky-like starter packs to suggest accounts to follow for new users, but will allow accounts to opt out of being included in Packs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/mastodon-is-taki…

Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs' | TechCrunch
Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

Spatial Forcing: Implicit Spatial Representation Alignment for Vision-language-action Model
Fuhao Li, Wenxuan Song, Han Zhao, Jingbo Wang, Pengxiang Ding, Donglin Wang, Long Zeng, Haoang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12276

Spatial Forcing: Implicit Spatial Representation Alignment for Vision-language-action Model
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have recently shown strong potential in enabling robots to follow language instructions and execute precise actions. However, most VLAs are built upon vision-language models pretrained solely on 2D data, which lack accurate spatial awareness and hinder their ability to operate in the 3D physical world. Existing solutions attempt to incorporate explicit 3D sensor inputs such as depth maps or point clouds, but these approaches face challenges due to sensor nois…

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
RIO KOSTA:
🎵 Follow the River
#RIOKOSTA
https://open.spotify.com/track/4lqy6A33h6N9Yy1GhLkD93

Mastodon, the decentralized, open social network with over 8 million accounts and nearly 700,000 monthly active users,
is planning to introduce a new feature, called “Packs,”
which will make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow.
The idea is similar to a feature Bluesky, another open social platform, introduced last year.
Starter packs are designed to address the “cold start” problem of joining new social networks.
When you …

Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs' | TechCrunch
Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

Even the most radical-minded regularly fall into the trap of thinking that politicians are leaders. (It’s an easy trap; we call them “leaders” all the time.) I’ve been seeing a lot of that thinking in the complaints in my TL the last couple of days.
Politicians are always lagging indicators of change. They can be a tool of change, they can help systematize change, but they rarely •cause• it.
Politicians follow. People lead.
3/

Our track this week comes from alt-rock heavyweights Chevelle, and if you were around in the early 2000s, you’ll know it the moment it hits, even if the name doesn’t ring a bell.
Check it out and see what we had to say about the band, the track, and that unmistakable era of rock.
Don’t forget to follow us! We’re here every week, digging up gems from across the epic world of #rock and

Chevelle - The Red
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

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The #iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/

"Vogelgrippe in Entenhausen": Disney veröffentlicht erstmals "Trauriges Taschenbuch"
https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/hVR569XapuQ-VQ-ac3zf9Pscj1ExZrij

"Vogelgrippe in Entenhausen": Disney veröffentlicht erstmals "Trauriges Taschenbuch"
Berlin (dpo) - Mutiger Aktualitätsbezug oder doch zu makaber? Bei der neuesten Ausgabe der Reihe "Disney Lustiges Taschenbuch" mi...

NavSpace: How Navigation Agents Follow Spatial Intelligence Instructions
Haolin Yang, Yuxing Long, Zhuoyuan Yu, Zihan Yang, Minghan Wang, Jiapeng Xu, Yihan Wang, Ziyan Yu, Wenzhe Cai, Lei Kang, Hao Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08173

NavSpace: How Navigation Agents Follow Spatial Intelligence Instructions
Instruction-following navigation is a key step toward embodied intelligence. Prior benchmarks mainly focus on semantic understanding but overlook systematically evaluating navigation agents' spatial perception and reasoning capabilities. In this work, we introduce the NavSpace benchmark, which contains six task categories and 1,228 trajectory-instruction pairs designed to probe the spatial intelligence of navigation agents. On this benchmark, we comprehensively evaluate 22 navigation agents, in…

Apparently there’s another influx of new folks here, so I guess I should give my best tidbit of advice:
You have to really actively seek out people to follow here, much more than you’re used to — and until you do, this place will feel •dead•. Cool stuff isn’t just going to show up. You won’t get many helpful suggestions. No tech giant marketing dept is spending millions to draw you in. It’s going to be •work•. It’s kind of a drag, tbh.
But: your people are out there!! You just have work to seek them out, one account at a time.

Veteran U.S. attorney in California insisted Border Patrol follow a court order.
Then she was fired
The top prosecutor in Sacramento said she was fired after telling Border Patrol they could not carry out indiscriminate immigration raids around Sacramento this summer.
Michele Beckwith, a career prosecutor,
said she reminded a Border Patrol chief that a judge had issued an injunction in California’s Central Valley.

U.S. attorney fired after telling Border Patrol to follow court order
Michele Beckwith, U.S. attorney in Sacramento, said she was let go after warning the border patrol's Gregory Bovino not to violate a court injunction.

Live Game Updates: Raiders at Eagles https://www.raiders.com/news/live-game-updates-las-vegas-raiders-vs-philadelphia-eagles-nfl-week-15-121425

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