Tootfinder

Georgia O’Keefe:
❝Nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small—we haven’t time—and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.❞
8/

freshmen: Zeggelink's freshmen (1999)
Snapshots of friendships among freshmen majoring in Sociology at the University of Groningen, collected five times over the 1998-1999 year. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j, and the edge weight gives their friendship level from 1 (best friend) to 5 (troubled relation). Metadata include gender, age, program type, and smoking behavior.
This network has 34 nodes and 1156 edges.
Tags: Social, O…

@… Two or three years ago, an old friend was in town visiting. We had lunch and discussed, among other things, our biggest fears. She said fascism, followed by climate change. I said climate change, followed by fascism. I guess she won, at least in the short term. And we agreed that the two reinforce each other.

Friend Jon G. from Glasgow UK meditates on Psalm 25, God's wonderful world:
#creation

The locally famous Better Than Sex cake. It was quite good, but so rich that I actually got shaky afterwards.
Pic for my friend @….

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
VILA: Entertainment, for example
JENNA: Why don't you take a cold shower or something?
VILA: And risk being left behind when we go and meet your friend?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/67 B7B4

Basically the core argument of my last article
https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/114869651115717099

Sonnet 133 - CXXXIII
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!
Is't not enough to torture me alone,
But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken,
And my next self thou harder hast engrossed:
Of him, myself, and thee I am forsaken;
A torment thrice three-fold thus to be crossed.
Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward,
But t…

Today a friend installed PopOS :popos: without even asking me. I didn't even known that he was interested in #linux
Though I advertised every once in a while :mortysmile:

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Imaginary Friend (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
https://sophiakennedy.bandcamp.com/track/imaginary-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/7CbVZ2Yzl0TtcCERaJDZSR

New friend, meet Joopie!
Although he won't stay with us for long as he's going to move again soon.

Just received a friend request on Facebook by someone named Peter Waldmeier.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.waldmeier.865
He seemed such a nice person, I think he is a model in a Scandinavian country.
When I asked him why he was sending me a friend request he go…

aaaaaaaaaa! There it is!
My friend @…’s brand new typeface Tausend is out. So, so good … 😍
https://fontwerk.com/de/fonts/tausend-collection…

college_freshmen: Dutch college freshman (1995)
A small network of friendships among freshmen at Dutch College in 1994-1995. Friendship ties were surveyed at 7 different times over the year, and each edge is timestamped. The direction of an edge indicates that person i named person j, and the edge weight represents their level of friendship, ranging from -1 (risk of conflict) to 3 (best friend).
This network has 32 nodes and 3062 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Tim…

A friend of mine sent me Iceland (the UK supermarket)‘s official “fuck the management consultants” page, on their actual website.
https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/
I love it.

Ex-Casino Boss Claims Trump and 'Best Friend' Jeffrey Epstein Were Once Caught Bringing Underage Girls to Casino Floor (Meredith Kile/People)
https://people.com/ex-casino-boss-claims-trump-epstein-brought-underage-girls-casino-floor-11774374
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p144#a250717p144

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
War:
🎵 Why Can’t We Be Friends?
#War
https://nicoblue.bandcamp.com/track/steve-wiebe-is-my-friend-parody-of-why-cant-we-be-friends-by-war
https://open.spotify.com/track/6x959m2QDvatSwUAVCHIuf

A friend of mine just retired after 28 years as a teacher… I’ve been working for 31 years since I got out of school and probably have another 10 to 15 (or more) years before I can even think about retirement.
(I’m not jealous, I just wish we had a better system where people didn’t have to work their entire adult lives.)

Better weather today 😀 Doing the running belt with water now too, sucks to be without hydration even on these short runs in higher temps. Also made a friend (non-human) 😏
#running #runnersofmastodon

A friend once got a CD. He was told “Dude, you are getting Adele”.

My friend as moved his main domain from .nl to .eu , Interesting move.
#Apple #iPhone

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06279 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Wigner's friend scenarios: on what to condition and how to verify the predictions
Wigner's friend experiment and its modern extensions display the ambiguity of the quantum mechanical description regarding the assignment of quantum states. While the friend applies the state-update rule to the system upon observing an outcome of her measurement in a quantum system, Wigner describes the friend's measurement as a unitary evolution, resulting in an entangled state for the composite system of the friend and the system. In this respect, Wigner is often referred to as a "superobserv…

Today we had to say goodbye to Orbit the cat. He came to us needing a temporary home when he was 2.5 years old, and lived to be 20! A handsome creature, but it must be said that he was not the sharpest tool in the box!! We'll miss our little friend but it was time. Sleep well, puss.

I’ve been having a conversation in my head with my friend Jac Mullen. One of his provocative ideas is that we’re better off dropping the term “artificial intelligence,” and instead calling these new technologies “artificial attention.”
#ai
#attention

Artificial Attention?
A letter to my friend Jac Mullen on AI and attention, looking at the 12th century history of reading with Ivan Illich's book In the Vineyard of the Text.

Semi-anonymous Internet friend relationships must be so weird to people who aren't used to the culture.
Example 1: guy I've known on IRC for probably ten years and I consider a fairly good friend, I have his personal phone number, we talk quite often.
But I only know roughly what city he's in and his first name. He's in my phone as [first name] [irc handle].
Example 2: Catgirl I've known for a couple of years, she's been to my house, I've been to…

Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts ‘roving patrols,’ and detain U.S. citizens
video: “These guys, literally based off of skin color! My homie was born here!” The friend said Gavidia was being questioned “just because of the way he looks.”
U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino,
who oversaw raids that included picking people up at Home Depot
and stopping them on the highway,
has emerged as a key figure in L.A.
He stood alongside…

Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts 'roving patrols,' detains U.S. citizens
Border Patrol agents on 'roving patrol' arrest U.S. citizen on assault charges. Fear of widespread racial profiling gains momentum as Home Depots and car washes raided.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Nils Frahm:
🎵 Old Friend
#NilsFrahm

Internet Matters survey of 1,000 UK kids aged 9 to 17: 67% say they use AI chatbots regularly; of that group, 35% say it feels like talking to a friend (Noor Al-Sibai/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/lonely-children-ai-chatbots

Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids Are Using AI as Substitute Friends
Children are replacing real friendship with AI, and experts are worried about how easily chatbots integrate themselves into their lives.

We're live in 60 minutes. And yes, we still have room for you.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gfriend_next-wednesday-tactics-s…

NEXT WEDNESDAY: Tactics, strategy, and grand strategy—Democracy, dictatorship, and what we do next. | Gil Friend • Sustainability OG • CxO Coach
NEXT WEDNESDAY: Tactics, strategy, and grand strategy—Democracy, dictatorship, and what we do next. Well, the big bad budget busting bill is now the law of the land, landing with a 900 page thud. The march to reverse 90 years of social progress, dismantle the inconvenient processes of democracy, assault liberty and due process, go full throttle into climate change, oh, and to hand the energy economy of the future to China, has taken another dangerous step. Which gives us a new urgency to th…

Happy to be back in Oslo with my favorite furry friend.

SocialCredit
Thabassum Aslam, Anees Aslam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12099 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12099

SocialCredit+
SocialCredit+ is AI powered credit scoring system that leverages publicly available social media data to augment traditional credit evaluation. It uses a conversational banking assistant to gather user consent and fetch public profiles. Multimodal feature extractors analyze posts, bios, images, and friend networks to generate a rich behavioral profile. A specialized Sharia-compliance layer flags any non-halal indicators and prohibited financial behavior based on Islamic ethics. The platform emp…

The harder life gets, the more conventionally melodic, naive and childlike my music gets.
It surprises me, but then I remember when an artist friend became very depressed (not what’s going on with me) her work went from extraordinarily detailed, insectoid abstract ink drawings to much more colourful, simple, “innocent” representational paintings.

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker

#today will involve some lounging around, possibly helping a friend with some gardening, and possibly maybe some research (though that feels like a Monday thing).
#yesterday at the food festival was fun, and the food was good and I had a bit too much, and then I had lots of beers afterwards wi…

Years ago, I moved to a place where I didn't speak the language. My initial strategy for dealing with interactions I didn't understand was to simply say "no." I figured this was safe - at least I wouldn't agree to something I didn't want. One day, as I was leaving my apartment with a friend, the guy across the hall asked me a question. "No," I said. He looked like I'd spit in his face then retreated to his apartment. My friend, dumbfounded, asked &quot…

“Noor, who made so many friends on Bluesky since she started an account there in the summer of 2023, had her account suddenly suspended on Friday. Bluesky did not send a reason for the suspension, so while she wrote an appeal, she did not know what actions she was appealing, so as of now it's still suspended. She’s been silenced, and effectively disappeared.”

A Future for Noor and Her Children
Hello! I'm Meave, a U.S. citizen sponsoring this fundraiser on behalf of my dear friend Noor Hassan and her children. Noor and her son Abdul Rahman are kind, generous people; though their original fundraiser succeeded last summer, supporting themselves and their extended family cost them everything. This fundraiser will allow them to support themselves and save up to buy passage to Egypt and pursue a better future.

Wigner's friend's black hole adventure: an argument for complementarity?
Laurens Walleghem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05369 https://

Wigner's friend's black hole adventure: an argument for complementarity?
At the heart of both black hole physics and Wigner's friend scenarios lies the question of unitarity. In Wigner's friend setups, sealed-lab measurements are modeled unitarily, probing the measurement problem. In black hole physics, the unitarity problem concerns information preservation in evaporation. We extend a recent analogy between these two puzzles exposed by Hausmann and Renner [arXiv:2504.03835v1] by constructing new paradoxes that merge black hole physics with nonlocal extensions of Wi…

A Hollywood producer calls a friend, another producer on the phone.
"Hello?" his friend answers.
"Hi!" says the man. "This is Bob, how are you doing?"
"Oh," says the friend, "I'm doing great! I just sold a screenplay
for two hundred thousand dollars. I've started a novel adaptation and the
studio advanced me fifty thousand dollars on it. I also have a television
series coming on next week, and everyone …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
ZAHO DE SAGAZAN feat. TOM ODELL:
🎵 15. Old Friend (feat. TOM ODELL)
#NowPlaying #ZAHODESAGAZAN #TOMODELL
https://open.spotify.com/track/4h5wTcOMYy6cw47yYoFqNq

A friend of mine last night told me about how his lover died of AIDS in 1994. And before he died, he had a port installed to more easily administer medication directly to his heart. Another friend also had a port installed in 1994 for AIDS treatment. That friend survived another year until the antiretrovirals became available and he is still alive today. My friend's partner died.

After way too long (starting to notice a pattern!), I’m writing the next installment of my newsletter!
If you want more insight into what I’ve been up the in the past *checks calendar* FOUR MONTHS 😱 – or want to see some cute dog photos, make sure to subscribe:
https://buttondown.com/hynek

Hynek Did Something
Greetings friend! This is a list for those who’d like to be notified whenever Hynek Schlawack does or publishes something noteworthy, somewhere. Examples are new blog posts, YouTube videos, and talks, or significant updates to existing work. It does not include announcements about new software releases. As a thank you for your trust, the emails aren’t just links to content. They contain a kind of “director's commentary”, explaining what I did and why – written as if I’d be explainin…

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CargoBike/comments/1ltpsvg/a_friend_gifted_me_this_custom_built_cargo_bike/

Pam Ayres
At last, we have a cure for all!
Ailments large and ailments small,
Good health is not beyond my reach,
If I inject myself with bleach.
Radiant, I’ll prance along,
Every trace of limescale gone,
With disinfectant as my friend,
Like him,
I’m clean around the bend.

I cry every time I hear Pavement.
I'm so glad my friend reminded me of them.

Tenuous #UniversityChallenge connection tonight… Daughter’s boyfriend’s friend is playing for Warwick

Critic as Censor: How the Humanities Sacrificed Art at the Altar of Theory
My beloved friend, mentor, and Columbia University Professor Howard Stein, was fond of saying, “The Enemy of the Arts is the Humanities.” That insight, and advice, has stuck with me over the past 35 years. Now, that phrase is not the glib provocation it may seem. It is a precise diagnosis of an institutional disease, a declaration of war against a century of academic drift that has created a…

Critic as Censor: How the Humanities Sacrificed Art at the Altar of Theory | David Boles, Blogs
My beloved friend, mentor, and Columbia University Professor Howard Stein, was fond of saying, “The Enemy of the Arts is the Humanities.” That insight, and advice, has stuck with me over the past 3…

Ayo Edebiri (FULL EPISODE) | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend #comedy

Recently a friend asked me why I don't publish my videos on Youtube. I'd get more views.
So I checked my views - and know what: RIGHT, I don't get a lot of views - but most of the #videos on #Peertube show *more* views than I got on Youtube.
Well, the YT algorithm never love…

It was not the first time Princess Leia had beseeched her friend and Jedi master.
- Help me, Obi-Wan! I need dental insurance!
- Help me, Obi-Wan! My period is late!
- Help me, Obi-Wan! My parents won't share their Netflix password!

Friend to butterflies
The common yarrow stands tall
Offering a snack.
#dailyhaikuprompt - yarrow
#haiku
#poem

Had a #Chinese friend of a friend, in town, and were able to have a reasonable conversation about politics, #humanrights, US-China, and more. In fact, we agreed on most things! Writing critical articles about the Chinese government didn't make me, to them, "anti-China"
Somehow, this …

freshmen: Zeggelink's freshmen (1999)
Snapshots of friendships among freshmen majoring in Sociology at the University of Groningen, collected five times over the 1998-1999 year. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j, and the edge weight gives their friendship level from 1 (best friend) to 5 (troubled relation). Metadata include gender, age, program type, and smoking behavior.
This network has 34 nodes and 1156 edges.
Tags: Social, O…

I've had a fairly unproductive day. Aound 2 hours sleep (finally) in the wee hours this morning Not really enough to equip me to face the day. Did a little work of my own. Did some minor tech support for a friend. She stayed most of the day and we ended up binge watching all 10 episodes of Murderbot, eating snacks, and drinking a couple of bottles of wine. I'm hoping that will be enough to enable me to sleep well tonight. Fingers crossed. Good night all. 🥱

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Thundercat:
🎵 Friend Zone
#Thundercat
https://brainfeeder.bandcamp.com/track/friend-zone-ross-from-friends-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1QqJP4E1i6EaocGqa9jxIn

By-the-way, just askin' for a friend....
Have *any* courts imposed contempt sanctions (wither civil or criminal contempt) on FFOTUS' henchmen?
It seems that judges have been making lots of whup-de-do sound-and-fury threats. I have not noticed that any of those are moving any further.
??

My friend and fellow #chinafake collector @… is now on the Fediverse! Give her a follow! :)

Last week I had the great honor to give a talk with my friend Malte about capitalism, (tech-)fascism and how it connects to "AI".
(Original title: “Fascist AI” talk at LOOPS)
https://tante.cc/2025/07/04/fascist-ai-talk-at-loops/

"Fascist AI" talk at LOOPS
The New Practice space at TU Berlin runs a series of talks called LOOPS. Together with my friend Malte I was invited to talk a bit about “Fascist AI”. How capitalism, fascism and AI narratives are very closely aligned and (re)produce one another. I enjoyed giving the talk (I rarely do those together with others) […]

The President who
• ruining/ruined economy
• ex-best friend says he's in Epstein files
• increasing unemployment
• not giving people due process before sending to foreign prisons for life
• ignoring & trying to destroy courts
• arrested & handcuffed Congresspeople & staffs
• destroying millions' health insurance
• destroying Social Security
• making an intelligence file for every American w/Palantir
also wants to…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Imaginary Friend (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
https://sophiakennedy.bandcamp.com/track/imaginary-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/7CbVZ2Yzl0TtcCERaJDZSR

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
The Rolling Stones:
🎵 Waiting on a Friend
#TheRollingStones
https://thewoodfloors.bandcamp.com/track/waiting-on-a-friend-rolling-stones
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Wd9pEtEnZNDjgiswGOpJb

I got to migrate my blogs to a new provider. That made me wonder if I really want all the archive to still be online in these days. Then I thought of one small post I made about a friend's suicide many years ago and how still almost every year someone leaves a comment. To him, not to me, not to my blog post. This post's perfect place seems to be nested amongst dozens of others in the archive where only those who know still get back to it. I guess this little big thing makes me keep m…

I really know nothing about babies. I'm not like, a fan or anything. A friend just had a baby and I thought "I'll sew a bib, babies drool a lot!". I printed a pattern, cut it, and sewed it. It came out pretty good! Until I looked a little more closely and saw that I had somehow printed the pattern at 1/2 scale. Unless this baby has a 2" neck, this thing isn't going to fit. Ooops. Back to the cutting board.

I’m down in the financial district dropping off something for a friend staying at the Omni and protesters/police/ambulances just passed by. Lots of sirens, not sure which way they’re heading.

Ahahah a friend just reminded me of when we used to bluebox. Those were the days.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08533 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_…

Grace Period is All You Need: Individual Fairness without Revenue Loss in Revenue Management
Imagine you and a friend purchase identical items at a store, yet only your friend received a discount. Would your friend's discount make you feel unfairly treated by the store? And would you be less willing to purchase from that store again in the future? Based on a large-scale online survey that we ran on Prolific, it turns out that the answers to the above questions are positive. Therefore, when allocating resources to different customers, sellers should consider both the total reward and in…

@…
I stumbled over "pointed sets" a couple decades ago, and my friend Andras Kornai said that coincidentally he was using them very profitably in his research. (He's a mathematical linguist; I don't recall if you two ever met online.)
I know their definition is pretty trivial, but have you ever had occasion to nonetheles…

A good friend of mine was railing against the Baby Boomers what they've created for us and this was my response:
Keep in mind it's the Ruling Class who runs things, not your average Baby Boomer. Just think about your average Gen X or Millennials, and what power they possess to create huge societal change. (Sure, some do... but most do not.)
That isn't to say we can't do good things, and keep trying, and keep fighting.
1/2

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
DEETA: So, you have an answer for the Summons to Justification. Like what? Surely not a Blood Feud? [rises to face her] I can't have killed someone who's close kin to both of you. Particularly not as your friend here is a citizen of the Vandor Confederacy. As I assume you are. [drops a metal ID card at her feet]
KARLA: [Picks it …

A few thoughts I had after a conversation with a friend. What are you - as a professional - even saying when openly using ChatGPT for your decision-making?
https://tante.cc/2025/07/06/so-what-are-you-saying/

So what are you saying?
I had a conversation with a friend who described sitting in a workshop where clients and the people they hired were working on problems. As you do. Happens in every consultingy kind of job. But what has totally become normalized is for the people hired, the “experts” to use ChatGPT and similar services to come […]

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Gruff Rhys:
🎵 Bad Friend
#NowPlaying #GruffRhys
https://gruffrhys.bandcamp.com/track/bad-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/3rYO8geLMcYDcQ7mZha9Ib

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Adam Hopper and the Wimps:
🎵 My Friend Al (6 Music Session, 14 Jul 2025)
#AdamHopperandtheWimps
https://itsadamhopper.bandcamp.com/track/my-friend-al

Howdy! 🤓 How do you all handle native #CSS Nesting at the moment? Are you using it already? And if so, are you just targeting newer browsers that support it? Or are you using PostCSS, for example?
Asking for a friend who has reduced his build process to the max (nothing but a little esbuild script) and is now hesitating to add PostCSS again… 😉

My turn for the baby lurgy. Had to cancel tonight's and tomorrow's plans including spending time with my friend who's here for a few days from country Victoria. Have gone to bed. Going to take it easy tomorrow so hopefully better by Friday. Not happy, Jan. 😠

#today will be surfing the #NewScientist article splurge, getting ready to 'onboard' my friend as RA (Research Assistant) to help me find a good solutiion for a particularly knotty issue, and going to the dentist. (The last may not be good since I've had a persistent issue for a coup…

1. Magazine finished today. Relief. Next edition ...
2. Breakfast at a friend's house, he made omelets. Good chat.
3. Book I ordered has arrived.
#thankful #3goodthings

I find myself thinking about a long-lost friend a lot lately. Sometime in the late 90s, we both accepted that our friendship had run its course. I had come to embrace fairly low-key socialism and he was increasingly angry about the media's "liberal bias." The common ground we had once shared was gone. I imagine him cheering now, even as I recall his father, a deeply conservative Marine colonel, remarking that only authoritarian regimes used the military against their own citize…

Finished “You Are Here” by David Nicholls.
A mutual friend convinces Michael & Marnie to hike, at least partway, from coast to coast across the English countryside. Not intended for each other, initially, a sweet & genuine connection deepens with every step. So, too, does healing & growth in the aftermaths of failed marriages.
Great character development & fantastic dialogue. You LIKE them very much. Rushed ending, though.
4/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

You Are Here
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.12015 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Reassessing the strength of a class of Wigner's friend no-go theorems
Two recent, prominent theorems--the "no-go theorem for observer-independent facts" and the "Local Friendliness no-go theorem"--employ so-called extended Wigner's friend scenarios to try to impose novel, non-trivial constraints on the possible nature of physical reality. While the former is argued to entail that there can be no theory in which the results of Wigner and his friend can both be considered objective, the latter is said to place on reality stronger constraints than the Bell and Koche…

Sonnet 133 - CXXXIII
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!
Is't not enough to torture me alone,
But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken,
And my next self thou harder hast engrossed:
Of him, myself, and thee I am forsaken;
A torment thrice three-fold thus to be crossed.
Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward,
But t…

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Andrew Gold:
🎵 Thank You for Being a Friend
#AndrewGold
https://classicaldestruction.bandcamp.com/track/andrew-gold-thank-you-for-being-a-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/2LvvGWNSVvxmlH2GE9Byyl

I saw a 2015 forum post from someone who had in their sig: "Google is your friend!" and I just want to say it's time to update your sig, sir.

Hi, it's Representative Jasmine Crockett.
I really hope you read this -- not for me, but for my friend.
People are scared, frustrated & downright mad about all that is being taken away from us.
Some people are just sitting around and letting it happen,
but not Esther.
Esther Kim Varet is running to take back one of the most competitive congressional seats in the country -- from a MAGA Republican.
We need more people like her to provide REAL repre…

I'm with Esther Kim Varet
Show your support with a contribution.

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residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

"The cult of goal-setting thrives in this illusion. It converts uncertainty into an illusion of progress. It demands specificity in exchange for comfort. And it replaces self-trust with the performance of future-planning."
(Original title: Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits)

Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits
A few years ago, I sat across from a friend at a late dinner. He was telling me about his new promotion, the big title, the bonus, the corner office. I remember watching his face as he described it. He looked like someone describing a story he’d once believed

#today I lunched with a friend which was good, but seemed to be spinning my wheels in the sand on my #research #modelling which was bad.
But I think that I may have had a little breakthrough, and…

slashdot_zoo: Slashdot Zoo friend-foe network (2009)
A network of interactions among users on Slashdot (slashdot.org), a technology news website. Users name each other as friends or foe. The friend label increases the scores of post, and the foe label decreases the score.
This network has 79120 nodes and 515397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed

slashdot_zoo: Slashdot Zoo friend-foe network (2009)
A network of interactions among users on Slashdot (slashdot.org), a technology news website. Users name each other as friends or foe. The friend label increases the scores of post, and the foe label decreases the score.
This network has 79120 nodes and 515397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ryli:
🎵 Friend Collector
#Ryli
https://dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/friend-collector-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3MUeJ5rkkUYfHdGsvn4KBs

People hired for their skill are openly using ChatGPT and I wondered, what the long term strategy is?
(Original title: So what are you saying?)
https://tante.cc/2025/07/06/so-what-are-you-saying/

So what are you saying?
I had a conversation with a friend who described sitting in a workshop where clients and the people they hired were working on problems. As you do. Happens in every consultingy kind of job. But what has totally become normalized is for the people hired, the “experts” to use ChatGPT and similar services to come […]

slashdot_zoo: Slashdot Zoo friend-foe network (2009)
A network of interactions among users on Slashdot (slashdot.org), a technology news website. Users name each other as friends or foe. The friend label increases the scores of post, and the foe label decreases the score.
This network has 79120 nodes and 515397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sonic Youth:
🎵 My Friend Goo
#SonicYouth
https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/track/my-friend-goo-live
https://open.spotify.com/track/3BbPWMc572VSVDC7okGwJx

A friend of mine (who is not a technology person) mailed me a thumb drive full of videos.
It took like a month to arrived. We were both convinced it was lost. I finally got it!
When I opened it I saw it had been "compressed" (not crushed) and I had to carefully bend the plastic back to plug it into a USB port.
Finally copying the files, which are 1990s era punk rock shows of local (and some touring) bands.
I'll probably publish them all at some point. Ma…

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Gruff Rhys:
🎵 Bad Friend
#NowPlaying #GruffRhys
https://gruffrhys.bandcamp.com/track/bad-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/3rYO8geLMcYDcQ7mZha9Ib

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted