Tootfinder

UPDATE! They fixed it!
Very sad atm my friend who bridged their account from bluesky isn't found on mastodon.I've added an issue here but I can't figure out what the issue might be.
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1973

PSA: If you use OneDrive on Mac, and your company has changed how it identifies the OneDrive folder, you might get more than one OneDrive folder which you cannot remove, not even using sudo.
The way to reset things — assuming nothing is pending from uploading to OneDrive — is to follow the instructions in this Microsoft support page.
You're welcome!

Follow the user meaningfully and product growth will follow: A mixed methods case study tying UX Point of View & Growth leading to measurable impact
Neha Raghuvanshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21195

Follow the user meaningfully and product growth will follow: A mixed methods case study tying UX Point of View & Growth leading to measurable impact
Have you wondered how cross-functional teams balance between maximizing value that users derive and business growth leading to win-win situations? This case study shows how User Experience Research (UXR) and Data Science teams used mixed methods research to strategically influence Product Led Growth (PLG) for a Password Manager used by million+ users, thus allowing our users, internal teams, and business to win. The audience will take away practical lessons/techniques related to leveraging mixe…

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 …

How popular media gets love wrong
Now a bit of background about why I have this "engineered" model of love:
First, I'm a white straight cis man. I've got a few traits that might work against my relationship chances (e.g., neurodivergence; I generally fit pretty well into the "weird geek" stereotype), but as I was recently reminded, it's possible my experience derives more from luck than other factors, and since things are tilted more in my favor than most people on the planet, my advice could be worse than useless if it leads people towards strategies that would only have worked for someone like me. I don't *think* that's the case, but it's worth mentioning explicitly.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
I'm lucky in that I had some mixed-gender social circles already like intramural soccer and a graduate-student housing potluck. Graduate school makes a *lot* more of these social spaces accessible, so I recognize that those not in school of some sort have a harder time of things, especially if like me they don't feel like they fit in in typical adult social spaces like bars.
However, at one point I just decided that my desire for a relationship would need action on my part and so I'd try to build a relationship and see what happened. I worked up my courage and asked one of the people in my potluck if she'd like to go for a hike (pretty much clearly a date but not explicitly one; in retrospect not the best first-date modality in a lot of ways, but it made a little more sense in our setting where we could go for a hike from our front door). To emphasize this point: I was not in love with (or even infatuated with) my now-wife at that point. I made a decision to be open to building a relationship, but didn't follow the typical romance story formula beyond that. Now of course, in real life as opposed to popular media, this isn't anything special. People ask each other out all the time just because they're lonely, and some of those relationships turn out fine (although many do not).
I was lucky in that some aspects of who I am and what I do happened to be naturally comforting to my wife (natural advantage in the "appeal" model of love) but of course there are some aspects of me that annoy my wife, and we negotiate that. In the other direction, there's some things I instantly liked about my wife, and other things that still annoy me. We've figured out how to accept a little, change a little, and overall be happy with each other (though we do still have arguments; it's not like the operation/construction/maintenance of the "love mechanism" is always perfectly smooth). In particular though, I approached the relationship with the attitude of "I want to try to build a relationship with this person," at first just because of my own desires for *any* relationship, and then gradually more and more through my desire to build *this specific* relationship as I enjoyed the rewards of companionship.
So for example, while I think my wife is objectively beautiful, she's also *subjectively* very beautiful *to me* because having decided to build a relationship with her, I actively tried to see her as beautiful, rather than trying to judge whether I wanted a relationship with her based on her beauty. In other words, our relationship is more causative of her beauty-to-me than her beauty-to-me is causative of our relationship. This is the biggest way I think the "engineered" model of love differs from the "fire" and "appeal" models: you can just decide to build love independent of factors we typically think of as engendering love (NOT independent of your partner's willingness to participate, of course), and then all of those things like "thinking your partner is beautiful" can be a result of the relationship you're building. For sure those factors might affect who is willing to try building a relationship with you in the first place, but if more people were willing to jump into relationship building (not necessarily with full commitment from the start) without worrying about those other factors, they might find that those factors can come out of the relationship instead of being prerequisites for it. I think this is the biggest failure of the "appeal" model in particular: yes you *do* need to do things that appeal to your partner, but it's not just "make myself lovable" it's also: is your partner putting in the effort to see the ways that you are beautiful/lovable/etc., or are they just expecting you to become exactly some perfect person they've imagined (and/or been told to desire by society)? The former is perfectly possible, and no less satisfying than the latter.
To cut off my rambling a bit here, I'll just add that in our progress from dating through marriage through staying-married, my wife and I have both talked at times explicitly about commitment, and especially when deciding to get married, I told her that I knew I couldn't live up to the perfect model of a husband that I'd want to be, but that if she wanted to deepen our commitment, I was happy to do that, and so we did. I also rearranged my priorities at that point, deciding that I knew I wanted to prioritize this relationship above things like my career or my research interests, and while I've not always been perfect at that in my little decisions, I've been good at holding to that in my big decisions at least. In the end, *once we had built a somewhat-committed relationship*, we had something that we both recognized was worth more than most other things in life, and that let us commit even more, thus getting even more out of it in the long term. Obviously you can't start the first date with an expectation of life-long commitment, and you need to synchronize your increasing commitment to a relationship so that it doesn't become lopsided, which is hard. But if you take the commitment as an active decision and as the *precursor* to things like infatuation, attraction, etc., you can build up to something that's incredibly strong and rewarding.
I'll follow this up with one more post trying to distill some advice from my ramblings.
#relationships #love

Global Group, the same threat actor that has purportedly hacked Ireland's RTE, is laying claim to another media giant hack, this time, Spanish-language Albavisión.
https://hackread.com/global-group-ransomware-media-giant-albavision-breach/

GLOBAL GROUP Ransomware Claims Breach of Media Giant Albavisión
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

I'd like to follow some trainings on SAML/OIDC, understand how these things work, how they should be setup. Any recomendations?
#sysadmin #oidc #saml

I do follow God around here.
But I just had to add a personal note, otherwise I might even start believing in weird shit.

A young artist to follow ! #drawing #manga

There are a lot of folks who have assumed, incorrectly, that the subject of their Bluesky posting will follow their comment here, and put in their own comment, much like People Used To Do Over There.
Thus, we get [comment about...something] plus URL.
Better, IMHO: go to the posting, and toot it. Put your $.02 in the first comment of your post. Your brilliant comment is even more so when we know to what you are responding.

children's activity from my older sister's church

I've set up a backup account:
@…
I'll post from it if this one goes down.
You might like to follow it.

A New Rail Line May Come to New York. Will a Housing Boom Follow?
The Interborough Express, a rail line connecting Brooklyn and Queens, could spur the building of tens of thousands of homes. Obstacles await.
#ibx

So #Gentoo #Python eclasses are pretty modern, in the sense that they tend to follow the best practices and standards, and eventually deal with deprecations. Nevertheless, they have a long history and carry quite some historical burden, particularly regarding to naming.
The key point is that the eclasses were conceived as a replacement for the old eclasses: "distutils" and "python". Hence, much like we revision ebuilds, I've named the matching eclasses "distutils-r1" and "python-r1". For consistency, I've also used the "-r1" suffix for the remaining eclasses introduced at the time: "python-any-r1", "python-single-r1" and "python-utils-r1" — even though there were never "r0"s.
It didn't take long to realize my first mistake. I've made the multi-impl eclass effectively the "main" eclass, probably largely inspired by the previous Gentoo recommendations. However, in the end I've found out that for the most use cases (i.e. where "distutils-r1" is not involved), there is no real need for multi-impl, and it makes things much harder. So if I were naming them today, I would have named it "python-multi", to indicate the specific use case — and either avoid designating a default at all, or made "python-single" the default.
What aged even worse is the "distutils-r1" eclass. Admittedly, back when it was conceived, distutils was still largely a thing — and there were people (like me) who avoided unnecessary dependency on setuptools. Of course, nowadays it has been entirely devoured by setuptools, and with #PEP517 even "setuptools" wouldn't be a good name anymore. Nowadays, people are getting confused why they are supposed to use "distutils-r1" for, say, Hatchling.
Admittedly, this is something I could have done differently — PEP517 support was a major migration, and involved an explicit switch. Instead of adding DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517 (what a self-contradictory name) variable, I could have forked the eclass. Why didn't I do that? Because there used to be a lot of code shared between the two paths. Of course, over time they diverged more, and eventually I've dropped the legacy support — but the opportunity to rename was lost.
In fact, as a semi-related fact, I've recognized another design problem with the eclass earlier — I should have gone for two eclasses rather than one: a "python-phase" eclass with generic sub-phase support, and a "distutils" (or later "python-pep517") implementing default sub-phases for the common backends. And again, this is precisely how I could have solved the code reuse problem when I introduced PEP517 support.
But then, I didn't anticipate how the eclasses would end up looking like in the end — and I can't really predict what new challenges the Python ecosystem is going to bring us. And I think it's too late to rename or split stuff — too much busywork on everyone.

How crazy is it? About this crazy. So far.
https://youtu.be/75PeExNmaS8?si=7EaSaHjv-S1RNI5x
As always:
- Follow the money
- Ask “Who benefits?”

"Ultra fast fashion could be taxed to oblivion in France. Could Australia follow suit?"
#FastFashion #Textiles #Clothes

Ultra fast fashion could be taxed to oblivion in France. Could Australia follow suit?
Ultra-fast fashion comes with a host of environmental problems. Australia’s response to the deluge of cheap low quality clothes hasn’t led to change.

No Boats, Just Lies...
#Sims4 #TheSims4 #Comicstrip

John Fettermann, another worthless shill for AIPAC who couldn't come up with a progressive position if he even bothered to try. Like a Rob Ford pretending to be a Democrat but without at least the charisma of Ford. Stand down and go and pursue the career you were intended for. It sure was not as a political representative.
#fettermanout

Israeli Parliament Votes for Making Apartheid Official. Fetterman: “I Haven’t Been Following It.”
Sen. John Fetterman didn’t follow the Israel Parliament vote to annex the West Bank. Other Democrats interviewed condemned the move.

Nach Veröffentlichung von Masken-Untersuchungsbericht: Europaweit schwarze Tinte aufgebraucht
https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/hVR569XapuTvyI_PvNsOlAcUS7HS2lRa

Nach Veröffentlichung von Masken-Untersuchungsbericht: Europaweit schwarze Tinte aufgebraucht
Berlin (dpo) - Die europäische Druckbranche steht vor einem folgenschweren Engpass: Nach der Veröffentlichung des über weite Strecken gesch...

Wish there was a way to reset the "disable boosts" state for all the accounts I follow, I wanna start anew with that.

Since announcing our plan to launch
Liberty Vans
equipped with chaplains, lawyers, veterans, and camera crews
to follow ICE raids in real time and expose them to the world,
we’ve seen an outpouring of support from every corner of the country.
We’ve had supporters step up from ALL 50 STATES.
People are ready to fight back and shine a light on the Trump administration's abuse of our country.
We set a goal to raise $1,000,000 to fund the vans, the …

I just gave to the Save America Movement!
Join the fight »

It is Follow Friday, a great time to highlight some people on the Fediverse. 🌟
@…
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Improved Prefetching Techniques for Linked Data Structures
Nikola Vuk Maruszewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21669 https://arxiv.org/…

Improved Prefetching Techniques for Linked Data Structures
With ever-increasing main memory stall times, we need novel techniques to reduce effective memory access latencies. Prefetching has been shown to be an effective solution, especially with contiguous data structures that follow the traditional principles of spatial and temporal locality. However, on linked data structures$-$made up of many nodes linked together with pointers$-$typical prefetchers struggle, failing to predict accesses as elements are arbitrarily scattered throughout memory and ac…

My "Who To Follow"s are:
Lisa Melton
Steve Troughton-Smith
Dan Gillmor
BrianKrebs
Kashmir Hill
Ok, thanks ALGO...
My interest is, are any of these in Wikipedia?
Pressed on "View All" and suddenly
* Lisa Melton
* Steve Troughton-Smith
* Dan Gillmor
* Kashmir Hill
Don't show up.
Brian Krebs did show up though as a popular account.
I like this feature of:
* Popular
CONTINUIN…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04352 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Thermonuclear superburst of MAXI J1752$-$457 observed with NinjaSat and MAXI
An uncatalogued bright X-ray transient was detected with MAXI on November 9, 2024, named MAXI J1752$-$457. The NinjaSat X-ray observatory promptly observed the source from November 10 to 18 while the small angular separation from the Sun hampered follow-up campaigns by other X-ray observatories. The MAXI and NinjaSat light curves in the 2-10 keV band showed first and second decaying components at the early and late phases, approximated by exponential functions with e-folding constants of 1.2 $\…

If you nerd a lot about your obscure interests, follow me!
If you post about the books you read, follow me!
If you are incurably fascinated by science fiction, follow me!
If you love playing video games, follow me!
If you feel you are just screaming into the void, follow me!

Does anyone know if there’s a “why am I seeing this post?” feature for the Fediverse? I seem to be seeing an increasing number of posts from accounts I don’t follow, with no sign they have hashtags I follow, or were reposted by someone I follow. Many of them seem to be from lemmy.ml, which makes me wonder if it’s some interoperability issue between Mastodon and Lemmy. #AskFedi

Waarschuwing uit Washington: Follow the Money speelt met vuur.
https://www.ftm.nl/nieuwsbrieven/waarschuwing-uit-washington-follow-the-money-speelt-met-vuur

Hidden Transits: TOI-2285 b is a Warmer sub-Neptune Likely with a Super-Earth Companion
Akihiko Fukui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22009 https://

Hidden Transits: TOI-2285 b is a Warmer sub-Neptune Likely with a Super-Earth Companion
TOI-2285 b is a sub-Neptune-sized planet orbiting a nearby M dwarf, discovered through the TESS photometric survey and ground-based follow-up observations. The planet was initially reported to have an orbital period of 27.27 d, making it one of the lowest temperature sub-Neptunes transiting a bright M dwarf. However, additional TESS data reveal that its true orbital period is 13.64 d, half the original value, resulting in a warmer equilibrium temperature (358 K) than previously estimated (284 K…

Why Flow Matching is Particle Swarm Optimization?
Kaichen Ouyang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20810 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20810

Why Flow Matching is Particle Swarm Optimization?
This paper preliminarily investigates the duality between flow matching in generative models and particle swarm optimization (PSO) in evolutionary computation. Through theoretical analysis, we reveal the intrinsic connections between these two approaches in terms of their mathematical formulations and optimization mechanisms: the vector field learning in flow matching shares similar mathematical expressions with the velocity update rules in PSO; both methods follow the fundamental framework of …

If you don't follow @… for his #Toronto City #Council coverage, well, you're wrong.
>Councillor Holyday was also the only councillor to oppose an item about the …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18782 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXi…

Adhesion differentials control the rheology of biomimetic emulsions
Animal morphogenesis involves complex tissue deformation processes, which require tight control over tissue rheology. Yet, it remains insufficiently understood how tissue rheology results from the interplay between cellular packing and cellular forces, such as cortical tension, cell pressure, and cell-cell adhesion. Here, we follow a biomimetic approach to study this interplay, focusing on the cellular adhesion hierarchy. We mimic adhesive cells with oil droplets whose adhesion strength and spe…

Magellan Spectroscopy of AGNs in Low-mass Galaxies: Scaling Relations and a Triple-Peaked AGN
Megan R. Sturm, Amy E. Reines, Jenny Greene, Sheyda Salehirad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18703

Magellan Spectroscopy of AGNs in Low-mass Galaxies: Scaling Relations and a Triple-Peaked AGN
In this work, we aim to further populate the low-mass regime of black hole (BH) scaling relations to better understand the formation and growth mechanisms of central supermassive BHs. We target six galaxies that have been previously identified as hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN) based on optical spectroscopy from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey or the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with stellar masses reported to be M$_\star < 5 \times 10^9$ M$_\odot$. Using follow-up optical sp…

Follow the Sportsbook odds: Nico Collins is the best Fantasy Football value pick in 2025 drafts

https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/football

Huh?! This is beyond stupid, this is insane and also possibly unlawful.
First, US Federal regulation repeal must follow the Administrative Procedures Act.
Second, regulations are often based on experience and a well informed evaluation and weighing of competing interests, short term and long term.
The DOG-E's think they are so smart that they can use a chunk of software (inaccurately called "intelligence") to willy-nilly pick out regulations to discard.

@… Hell yeah!
Would you consider publishing more?
I love your threads but I find them hard to follow, and easy to miss or lose. Have you considered turning them into articles, and letting us subscribe with a feed reader?

Steun platformen zoals @… , met meer leden staan ze sterker.
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/waarschuwing-uit-washington-follow…

Waarschuwing uit Washington: Follow the Money speelt met vuur
Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek

Anomalous Scaling Behaviors of the Green's Function in Critical Skin Effects
Yifei Yi, Zhesen Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20843 https://arxiv.org/p…

Anomalous Scaling Behaviors of the Green's Function in Critical Skin Effects
We study the Green's functions in non-Hermitian systems exhibiting the critical non-Hermitian skin effect (critical NHSE) using a double-chain Hatano-Nelson model with inter-chain coupling $Δ$. For $Δ=0$, the system decouples into two independent chains, and the Green's functions follow predictable patterns based on the GBZ theory. For small $Δ$ ($Δ=1/10000$), in conventional regions with trivial OBC spectral winding numbers, inter-chain coupling induces a zigzag scaling structure in Green'…

Chemotaxis of branched cells in complex environments
Jiayi Liu, Jonathan E. Ron, Giulia Rinaldi, Ivanna Williantarra, Antonios Georgantzoglou, Ingrid de Vries, Michael Sixt, Milka Sarris, Nir S. Gov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21949

Chemotaxis of branched cells in complex environments
Cell migration in vivo is often guided by chemical signals. Such chemotaxis, such as performed by immune cells migrating to a wound site, is complicated by the complex geometry inside living tissues. In this study, we extend our theoretical model of branched-cell migration on a network by introducing chemokine sources to explore the cellular response. The model predicts a speed-accuracy tradeoff, whereby slow cells are significantly more accurate and able to follow efficiently a weak chemoattra…

@… Welcome to Mastodon!  Best tip for starting out that I have is to search for # that you are interested in, and follow any that you like.  Then follow the people using those hashtags that interest you. Follow liberally, lots, or your feed will be very empty and boring, cos there's no algorithm feeding you stuff till you tell it what to feed you.  …

There are people from Bsky who follow me here but don't follow @…, so I can't follow them back. 🤨

I'm not surprised that Gitlab decided to run off a cliff to follow GitHub:
«AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request»
Everyday I'm more grateful for @… and @…!
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/24/ai-coding-bot-allows-prompt-injection-with-a-pull-request/

@… Hey, Matt! If you post something, I'll be happy to follow you back.

Die Vorfreude steigt. Am Sonntag beginnt die elfte Ausgabe vom Transcontinental Race #tcrno11
Die Punkte auf der Karte kann man live verfolgen https://followmychallenge.com/live/tcrno11/

Transcontinental Race No11 // #TCRNo11 2025
Follow riders as they race across Europe, beginning in Santiago de Compostela, Spain and ending in Constanta, Romania

im a perfect marriage between heaven and hell, yin and yang. my primary source is literature, science, and art, yet thanks to the other zoomers i follow who do use tiktok, i can have familiarity with the depraved mindkilling my generation is force-addicted to without destroying myself to the point i can't create good art with it in mind

It is Follow Friday, my favorite day, and a great time to highlight some people on the Fediverse. 🌟
@…
@…
@…

I wish Scotland welcomed Trump yelling "Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae master! We willnae be fooled again!"
And then follow with "Crivens!" and whatever feels most Feegle at the time.
#GNUTerryPratchett

I know folks have been struggling to understand AI in the modern development stack, so I created an easy-to-follow diagram. Hope this helps someone 🤗

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lykke Li:
🎵 I Follow Rivers
#LykkeLi
https://synthesthetics.bandcamp.com/track/lykke-li-i-follow-rivers-synthesthetics-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3WlVUkLgGYByiGj8gF4erq

OMGOMGOMGOMG
I love “Chess”
#Musicals

#Wordle 1,465 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 209,973 (754)
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 1% of 157 (27)
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨 0 of 1 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 84/99
Luck 50/99
It's interesting, the paths that lead you to the solution. Except for the bot, following an algorithm and knowing all the possible words as it goes, even those picking the same starting word follow different paths to the answer. I suspect I'd follow a different path next week from what I did today even if I used the same starting word.

tfw you have to check Wikipedia to find out which book to read next

I'll land back to a busy week in the UK, but hope to find some time to follow up on #DH2025 conversations (around final #FF2025 proposal reviews). Please get in touch if we talked about something you want to follow up!

Slot looked irritated at FT, then brightened after a beat or two. 😂 I love the man. We are blessed to have found the perfect manager to follow a legend. #LFC

Transient MeV radiation from a relativistic tidal disruption candidate
Gor Oganesyan, Elias Kammoun, Annarita Ierardi, Alessio Ludovico De Santis, Biswajit Banerjee, Emanuele Sobacchi, Felix Aharonian, Samanta Macera, Pawan Tiwari, Alessio Mei, Shraddha Mohnani, Stefano Ascenzi, Samuele Ronchini, Marica Branchesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507…

Transient MeV radiation from a relativistic tidal disruption candidate
On July 2, 2025, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope detected three short-duration MeV transients with overlapping sky locations. These events, named as GRB 250702D, B, and E (collectively referred to as DBE), triggered the detector with delays of approximately 1-2 hours between each burst. Follow-up observations of this unusually long MeV transient (lasting >3 hours) by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array ov…

gimme your best cute accounts or hashtags to follow!!! i need it!!👀

I was just browsing @… and there are a lot of accounts there posting AI art that follow no one and have just one follower.
This seems bad.
#noAI #aiArt

Just 1 little introductory Pork Pie run to see (I used up 3 though!!!)
expenses:
12k for 2 pork pies
repairs: 56k
tp: 9k
Pork Pies(pp) left:
Consumed: 2
travel time:
inv est then: 512k
inv est now: 0k
Progress Then(T7): 0%
Now: 2%
XP then(in k): ?
XP Now: 25k ("2%")
yield then: 67%
yield now: 0%
Done it...met an experienced gatherer on the road, decided to follow him into a yz...

Few would label Mace kind or gentle
As she engages in a relentless crusade against trans rights, she is more one-trick pony than “caucus of one."
https://newrepublic.com/article/196207/nancy-mace-future-republican-party

Nancy Mace Is the Future of the Republican Party
The South Carolina representative isn’t just a bigot and a laughing stock. She’s pioneering a media strategy that her GOP colleagues will follow.

Checklists Are Better Than Reward Models For Aligning Language Models
Vijay Viswanathan, Yanchao Sun, Shuang Ma, Xiang Kong, Meng Cao, Graham Neubig, Tongshuang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18624

Checklists Are Better Than Reward Models For Aligning Language Models
Language models must be adapted to understand and follow user instructions. Reinforcement learning is widely used to facilitate this -- typically using fixed criteria such as "helpfulness" and "harmfulness". In our work, we instead propose using flexible, instruction-specific criteria as a means of broadening the impact that reinforcement learning can have in eliciting instruction following. We propose "Reinforcement Learning from Checklist Feedback" (RLCF). From instructions, we extract checkl…

Ticket sales for #NixCon2025 are open! 🎉 🎆
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/ticket-sales-started-for-nixcon-2025/64756

Unconventional high-harmonic generation in resonant membrane metasurfaces
Pavel Tonkaev, Felix Richter, Ivan Toftul, Maria Antonietta Vincenti, Ivan Sinev, Michael Scalora, Hatice Altug, Yuri Kivshar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20873

Unconventional high-harmonic generation in resonant membrane metasurfaces
High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has rapidly emerged as a promising platform for creating compact attosecond sources and probing ultrafast electron dynamics. Resonant metasurfaces are essential for enhancement of the otherwise small harmonic generation efficiency through local field enhancement and are essential to circumvent the need of phase matching constraints. Until now, the metasurface-enhanced HHG was believed to follow the conventional integer-power scaling laws that hold for no…

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“Why I don’t trust WCAG 2.2 and what I’m hoping from 3.0”
https://blog.logrocket.com/ux-design/wcag-3-vs-2-ux/
This is a disappointing read because it fails to recognize *when* WCAG 2 was written and *how* consensus happens. It also assumes…

Why I don’t trust WCAG 2.2 and what I’m hoping from 3.0 - LogRocket Blog
You can follow WCAG 2.2 and still build inaccessible products. Here's what I want from WCAG 3.0.

Whatever is left of our constitutional rights and liberties exists mostly in the gaps between what the government knows about us. This is the beginning of the end. Soon, when conservatives are in charge, they'll make us follow their stupid, puritanical rules whether we like it or not, and when liberals are in charge, well, they'll make us follow [i]their[/i] stupid, puritanical rules whether we like it or not.
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U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

hello! my friend @… now has a #PeerTube account (nothing on it yet, but expect some stuff soon)
you can follow her at @…

hello! my friend @… now has a #PeerTube account (nothing on it yet, but expect some stuff soon)
you can follow her at @…

Follow-Up Exploration of the TWA 7 Planet-Disk System with JWST NIRCam
Katie A. Crotts, Aarynn L. Carter, Kellen Lawson, James Mang, Beth Biller, Mark Booth, Rodrigo Ferrer-Chavez, Julien H. Girard, Anne-Marie Lagrange, Michael C. Liu, Sebastian Marino, Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer, Andy Skemer, Giovanni M. Strampelli, Jason Wang, Olivier Absil, William O. Balmer, Rapha\"el Bendahan-West, Ellis Bogat, Rachel Bowens-Rubin, Ga\"el Chauvin, Cl\'emence Fontanive, Kyle Franson,…

Follow-Up Exploration of the TWA 7 Planet-Disk System with JWST NIRCam
The young M-star TWA 7 hosts a bright and near face-on debris disk, which has been imaged from the optical to the submillimeter. The disk displays multiple complex substructures such as three disk components, a large dust clump, and spiral arms, suggesting the presence of planets to actively sculpt these features. The evidence for planets in this disk was further strengthened with the recent detection of a point-source compatible with a Saturn-mass planet companion using JWST/MIRI at 11 $μ$m, …

SV3.3B: A Sports Video Understanding Model for Action Recognition
Sai Varun Kodathala, Yashwanth Reddy Vutukoori, Rakesh Vunnam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17844 https://

SV3.3B: A Sports Video Understanding Model for Action Recognition
This paper addresses the challenge of automated sports video analysis, which has traditionally been limited by computationally intensive models requiring server-side processing and lacking fine-grained understanding of athletic movements. Current approaches struggle to capture the nuanced biomechanical transitions essential for meaningful sports analysis, often missing critical phases like preparation, execution, and follow-through that occur within seconds. To address these limitations, we int…

Silicon Valley is pushing senators to follow the House in reviving a favorable tax benefit that disappeared because of a US tax law Section 174 change in 2017 (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/silicon-valley-big-tech-tax-benefit

Silicon Valley is pushing revival of game-changing tax benefit for startups
This could change the math for a slew of startups, and even Big Tech.

LinkedIn tips:
1. You don't have to read the posts.
2. If you don't like a post from someone you follow, then stop following them. You can keep a connection without following them!
3. If you don't like a post from someone you don't follow, then mark it as not interested. Send the signal to inform both the recommendation algorithm, and the people who design the recommendation algorithm, what content you don't want to see.
Whatever other people are…

Relativistic Oscillating Window Driven by an Intense Laguerre Gaussian Laser Pulse
Yao Meng, Runze Li, Longqing Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21407 https:/…

Relativistic Oscillating Window Driven by an Intense Laguerre Gaussian Laser Pulse
High-order harmonic generation by the diffraction of an intense Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) laser beam through a small aperture is studied. It is found that the 2D peripheral electron dynamics on the rim can facilitate complex interplay between the spin and orbital angular momentum interaction, which leads to distinct selection rules for LG pulses with different polarization states. In particular, when the driver is linearly polarized, the harmonic beams no longer follow a simple orbital angular mom…

A Far-Infrared Search for Planet Nine Using AKARI All-Sky Survey: #PlanetNine candidates whose positions and flux are within the theoretical prediction ranges. These candidates warrant further investigation through follow-up observations to confirm the existence and properties of Planet Nine."

Follow me on Ko-fi to receive page, gallery, and commission updates.
Remember to check out the Free and Pay What You Want items in the shop!
#KoFi #KofiChallenge

Normal forms for ordinary differential operators, II
Junhu Guo, A. B. Zheglov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19799 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Normal forms for ordinary differential operators, II
In this paper, which is a follow-up of our first paper "Normal forms for ordinary differential operators, I", we extend the explicit parametrisation of torsion free rank one sheaves on projective irreducible curves with vanishing cohomology groups obtained earlier to analogous parametrisation of torsion free sheaves of arbitrary rank with vanishing cohomology groups on projective irreducible curves. As an illustration of our theorem we calculate one explicit example of such parametrisation, n…

New safety believes Raiders can follow Commanders’ turnaround https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/new-safety-believes-raiders-can-follow-commanders-turnaround-3382946/

I'm not surprised that Gitlab decided to run off a cliff to follow GitHub:
«AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request»
Everyday I'm more grateful for @… and @…!
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/24/ai-coding-bot-allows-prompt-injection-with-a-pull-request/

What's your favorite term that's not a word, but really should be?
I think right now it has to be "transpondering", meaning "aircraft transponder is enabled". I follow a RCAF helicopter pilot on youtube who has a habit of using this term any time he's running through the before-takeoff checklist.

SVOM GRB 250314A at z $\simeq$ 7.3: an exploding star in the era of reionization
B. Cordier, J. Y. Wei, N. R. Tanvir, S. D. Vergani, D. B. Malesani, J. P. U. Fynbo, A. de Ugarte Postigo, A. Saccardi, F. Daigne, J. -L. Atteia, O. Godet, D. Gotz, Y. L. Qiu, S. Schanne, L. P. Xin, B. Zhang, S. N. Zhang, A. J. Nayana, L. Piro, B. Schneider, A. J. Levan, A. L. Thakur, Z. P. Zhu, G. Corcoran, N. A. Rakotondrainibe, V. D'Elia, D. Turpin, J. F. Agui Fernandez, M. A. Aloy, J. An, M. Bai, S.…

SVOM GRB 250314A at z $\simeq$ 7.3: an exploding star in the era of reionization
Most long Gamma-ray bursts originate from a rare type of massive stellar explosion. Their afterglows, while rapidly fading, can be initially extremely luminous at optical/near-infrared wavelengths, making them detectable at large cosmological distances. Here we report the detection and observations of GRB 250314A by the SVOM satellite and the subsequent follow-up campaign with the near-infrared afterglow discovery and the spectroscopic measurements of its redshift z $\simeq$ 7.3 . This burst ha…

Here in Australia there's the odd few that haven't really taken on the weight of the Epstein thing in relation to Trump, so bringing it up just has them scoffing and going over the usual "everyone in politics is into that shit" with no follow up.

FollowUpBot: An LLM-Based Conversational Robot for Automatic Postoperative Follow-up
Chen Chen, Jianing Yin, Jiannong Cao, Zhiyuan Wen, Mingjin Zhang, Weixun Gao, Xiang Wang, Haihua Shu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15502

FollowUpBot: An LLM-Based Conversational Robot for Automatic Postoperative Follow-up
Postoperative follow-up plays a crucial role in monitoring recovery and identifying complications. However, traditional approaches, typically involving bedside interviews and manual documentation, are time-consuming and labor-intensive. Although existing digital solutions, such as web questionnaires and intelligent automated calls, can alleviate the workload of nurses to a certain extent, they either deliver an inflexible scripted interaction or face private information leakage issues. To addre…

Co-op will take Israeli products off shelves due to 'violations of international law & human rights abuses' - Canary
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/06/24/co-op-israeli-products-2/

Co-op will take Israeli products off shelves due to 'violations of international law & human rights abuses'
Israeli products should have been removed from all supermarkets a long time ago. The Co-op is leading the way. Others must now follow.

The DECam MAGIC Survey: Spectroscopic Follow-up of the Most Metal-Poor Stars in the Distant Milky Way Halo
Vinicius M. Placco, Guilherme Limberg, Anirudh Chiti, Deepthi S. Prabhu, Alexander P. Ji, Fabr\'icia O. Barbosa, William Cerny, Andrew B. Pace, Guy S. Stringfellow, David J. Sand, Clara E. Mart\'inez-V\'azquez, Alexander H. Riley, Silvia Rossi, Noelia E. D. No\"el, A. Katherina Vivas, Gustavo E. Medina, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Joanna D. Sakowska, Bur\c{c}in Mutlu-Pakd…

The DECam MAGIC Survey: Spectroscopic Follow-up of the Most Metal-Poor Stars in the Distant Milky Way Halo
In this work, we present high-resolution spectroscopic observations for six metal-poor stars with [Fe/H]<-3 (including one with [Fe/H]<-4), selected using narrow-band Ca II HK photometry from the DECam MAGIC Survey. The spectroscopic data confirms the accuracy of the photometric metallicities and allows for the determination of chemical abundances for 16 elements, from carbon to barium. The program stars have chemical abundances consistent with this metallicity range. A kinematic/dynamical anal…

Topic: "The New Mastodon Is Interesting"
This is another screenshot of a profile on Mastodon showcasing the Mastodon Feature where 2 people you follow(which are not mutual follows!) show up in
"Followed by" and "and x others you know"
What do you think about the way this feature is designed?
Good design?
Needs improvement?
Perfect?
#MastodonFeature

"If, as a government lawyer, Emil Bove can’t be trusted to follow court orders, should the Senate entrust him with reviewing, much less upholding, them?"
In Emil Bove whistleblower’s records, one Justice Department email really stands out
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/analysis/emil-bove-whistleblower-justice-department-email-confirmation-rcna218110

The infrared jet of M87 observed with JWST
Jan R\"oder, Maciek Wielgus, Joseph B. Jensen, Gagandeep S. Anand, R. Brent Tully
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18716 https://

The infrared jet of M87 observed with JWST
We present the first JWST+NIRCam images of the giant elliptical active galaxy M87 and its jet at 0.90, 1.50, 2.77 and 3.56 $μ$m. We analysed the large-scale jet structure, identifying prominent components, and determined the near-infrared spectral index. The data were calibrated using the standard JWST pipeline. We subtracted a constant background level and a smooth model of the galaxy surface brightness to isolate the jet. The total image fluxes measured in the NIRCam filters follow the infra…

gimme your best cute accounts or hashtags to follow!!! i need it!!👀

49ers star George Kittle 'would love to' join WWE in some capacity once he retires from NFL

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-s

EDIT: See my follow-up reply framing why this may be a bad resource after all.
List of EAA penalties, authorities, and lawsuit risk by country is the useful (to me) section here:
https://equalizedigital.com/european-accessibility-ac…

The Ultimate Guide to the European Accessibility Act for WordPress - Equalize Digital
See what the European Accessibility Act means for your WordPress website and business. Laws and penalties for all 27 countries summarized.

@… Welcome to Mastodon! Best tip for starting out that I have is to search for # that you are interested in, and follow any that you like. Then follow the people using those hashtags that interest you. Follow liberally, lots, or your feed will be very empty and boring, cos there's no algorithm feeding you stuff till you tell it what to feed you. As you…

#ActuallyAutistic #NewBio
This is the kind of stuff you’ll see in your feed if you follow me.
#Anarchism

Microsoft’s 2025 work trend index report found that many workers are increasingly grappling with “infinite workdays”,
which start before sunrise and stretch late into the night.
They are interrupted by some 270 pinging notifications along the way, about one every two minutes.
https://www.…

Breaking down the infinite workday
To unlock AI’s full potential, we need to clear one key barrier. A follow-up to the 2025 Work Trend Index.

A Radio-quiet AGN as a candidate counterpart to neutrino event IceCube-200615A
F. McBride, N. Schettino, J. D. O'Brien, W. Harwood, L. Perot, G. Temple, H. Ayalo Solares, A. Corsi, A. Coleiro, D. Cowen, D. B. Fox, Y. Li, K. Murase, A. Pellegrino, T. D. Russell, S. Wissel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20064

A Radio-quiet AGN as a candidate counterpart to neutrino event IceCube-200615A
Follow-up observations of neutrino events have been a promising method for identifying sources of very-high-energy cosmic rays. Neutrinos are unambiguous tracers of hadronic interactions and cosmic rays. On June 15, 2020, IceCube detected a neutrino event with an 82.8% probability of being astrophysical in origin. To identify the astrophysical source of the neutrino, we used X-ray tiling observations to identify potential counterpart sources. We performed additional multiwavelength follow-up wi…

Ward, McMillan and others primed to follow path of 2024 breakouts https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45746739/fantasy-football-2025-version-2024-breakouts-nfl-sleeper

‘Defiance has not been subtle’: Trump admin’s ‘flagrant’ refusal to follow court orders ‘must be exposed for all to see,’ Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/defiance-has-not-been-subtle-trump-admins-flagrant-refusal-to-follow-court-orders-must-be-exposed-for-all-to-see-abrego-garcias-lawyers-say/

Over the last 1 1/2 days I've hacked together a little Mastodon bot that posts once a day to update on how the #panoramax federation is evolving in terms of instances, images, and contributors.
I'm sure there's still plenty of bugs, but you can follow it under @… and it made its first little thread here: #openstreetmap

It is Follow Friday, a great time to highlight some people on the Fediverse. 🌟
@…
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@…

I should start making some offline notes why I follow some users...cause if you follow like 200 people it may not be that important to retain why you followed them...
Also some you had really good reasons for following, others you just wanted to get a little more...

So I spent a lot of time writing a post...which I think was kinda irrelevant but I wrote it due to me being excited with a Mastodon feature.
This can be seen in this screenshot I'm adding here:
Not a complaint comment: It would make more sense to me if the Fedi users showing up were mutual follows...just saying! No judgement!
#Mastodon

Discovery of 146.8 s pulsations from EP J005146.9-730930, a new transient Be/X-ray binary in the SMC
F. Haberl, Y. Xu, C. Maitra, G. Vasilopoulos, W. Zhang, W. Yuan, C. Jin, H. N. Yang, L. Ducci, D. M. Kaltenbrunner, P. Maggi, A. Rau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17380

Discovery of 146.8 s pulsations from EP J005146.9-730930, a new transient Be/X-ray binary in the SMC
Recent observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) with Einstein Probe (EP) revealed a new transient X-ray source, most likely identified as Be/X-ray binary. To characterise the X-ray properties of EP J005146.9-730930 and in particular to look for pulsations in the X-ray flux, we triggered an XMM-Newton anticipated target of opportunity observation. To follow the flux evolution during the outburst we monitored the source for about three months with the Follow-up X-ray Telescope of EP. The …