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Mit Trebuchet: Bastler beschleunigt 4-g-Projektil auf Überschallgeschwindigkeit
Mit einem Gegengewicht von rund 40 kg beschleunigt der Ingenieur Tom Stanton ein Projektil mit einem High-Tech-Trebuchet auf Überschallgeschindigkeit.

Mit Trebuchet: Bastler beschleunigt 4-g-Projektil auf Überschallgeschwindigkeit
Mit einem Gegengewicht von rund 40 kg beschleunigt der Ingenieur Tom Stanton ein Projektil mit einem High-Tech-Trebuchet auf Überschallgeschindigkeit.

not gonna be my top issue this election because my focus is guaranteeing $100m a year for affordable housing (yes on I!), but
the car-brain push to turn Sunset Dunes back into a road is very dumb!
https://missionlocal.org/2026/08/sf-prop-g-great-h…

Reopening the Great Highway would cost $9.8M and up to $1.9M annually, controller says
The majority of the one-time cost would be used to add new traffic signals at eight intersections on the road.

#FotoVorschlag "Überwiegend weiss": Bild von einer abendlichen #Radtour mit dem #BromptonElectricGLine (mit

from my link log —
The bubble sort curve.
https://linesthatconnect.github.io/blog/a-rigorous-derivation-of-the-bubble-sort-curve/
saved 2024-04-23

il territorio del G.A.L. Valli Marecchia e Conca
#pennabilli #Romagna

@… Fedt at du gŸr det.

Welcome to China, where "national security" actually means "Xi Jinping insecurity".
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/11/g-s1-142832/hong-kong-court-sentences-vigil-organizers

The Notorious P.I.G.
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: let's not have humor lead to homicide.
#satire #potus45

Using #llm to OCR is...interesting. I've been trying it on an old hand written card; and it does very well on stuff I can only just about read; but the mistakes are way more subtle than trad OCR; e.g. one misread a 'standard 6' rack' as a 'standard 19" rack' (the other said '61 rack' which is more obviously wrong). The same one also turned 'M/coil mike'…

Another cut Raiders player has been scooped up off waivers https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/09/11/titans-claim-g-atonio-mafi-waivers-raiders/91718009007/

Kleine Umfrage, da eine Online-Recherche widersprüchliche Ergebnisse erzeugt hat
Ich bin auf der Suche nach einem hier im Norden verfügbaren alkoholfreien Weißbier/ Hefeweizen, das möglichst wenig Kalorien, insbesondere Zucker, enthält. Es gibt diverse, die um die 3,5 g Zucker pro 100 ml haben - das ist NICHT wenig. Wer hat Tipps? Gerne boost für Reichweite.
#Alkoholfrei

G.I. Sloppy Joe
#HashTagGames #gooeyfoodtvshows

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3Breakfast
Antonio Vivaldi:
🎵 Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV 315 "L'estate": II. Adagio - Presto
#AntonioVivaldi

‘Like Caring for a Pet’ – the App That Lets You Know if Your Neighborhood Tree Is Thirsty https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/like-caring-for-a-pet-the-app-that-lets-you-know-if-your-neighborhood-tree-is-thirsty/

'Like Caring for a Pet’ – the App That Lets You Know if Your Neighborhood Tree Is Thirsty
In green-minded Europe, trees are increasingly being seen as vital urban infrastructure rather than simple tools for beautification.

Indeed a most interesting place. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/aug/12/katendrecht-rotterdam-netherlands-holland-city-break

Katendrecht: Rotterdam’s sailors’ quarter reinvented as cultural hub
The regeneration of historic warehouses has transformed this former red-light district into one of the port city’s most vibrant areas

As soon as PSE&G switches me over to TOU billing, it's over for you hoes.

Compact Actively-Shielded Magnetic Field Coil within Mu-Metal Shields for ACME Electric Dipole Moment Measurements
S. Liu, M. Watts, C. Diver, D. G. Ang, C. Meisenhelder, X. Fan, B. Hao, D. Lascar, A. Hiramoto, T. Masuda, P. Hu, Z. Han, X. Wu, D. DeMille, J. M. Doyle, G. Gabrielse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11439

This week on #ProFed: visible progress again after weeks of backend work.
The immediate trigger was getting timeline entries to render differently by type - but the restructuring opens up much more. Like e.g. moving away from the traditional microblogging view towards something that better fits professional use.

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Have a happy #PikarinDay everyone!!!
ぴかりんのペンタゴン眠花風メイク【椎名ひかり｜ぴかりん】
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Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

Giants record vs. Dak Prescott: How New York flipped the script against Cowboys QB on 'SNF' https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/giants-record-dak-prescott-new-york-cowboys-qb/e5922f7679713180819e6438

POL-CLP: Berichterstattungen zu zwei Versammlungslagen Cloppenburg/Vechta (ots) - Dinklage, Versammlung zum Thema "Demokratie bewahren-Freiheit schützen-Zusammen gegen rechts" Am heutigen Tag kam es auf dem Rathausplatz Dinklage zu einer angemeldeten Versammlung zum o.g. Thema. An der Versammlung ... https://www.

#EinOhrPferd sucht neues Kind. steht in Wilhelmsburg am Vogelhüttendeich vor der Treppe zum Lärmschutzzaun.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/WS3rZ9MSzsDkngqCA?g_st=ic

Spent the whole afternoon setting up https://www.borgbackup.org/ to backup my laptop to cloud storage, fully encrypted, compressed and deduplicated. Also wrote a daily backup shell script to manage various source locations and backup conditions (e.g. presence of external SSDs). The compression uses LZ4 by default …

Lonnie G. Bunch III will step down from his position as head of the sprawling Smithsonian Institution by the end of the year, he said Tuesday.
He will depart at a vulnerable time for the institution, which includes 21 museums, 20 libraries and the National Zoo.
While it has traditionally operated independently of the party in power, the Trump administration has repeatedly criticized the Smithsonian’s presentation of America’s past.
Last week, the Interior Department thre…

Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch is leaving amid fights with Trump
Lonnie G. Bunch III will step down from his position as head of the sprawling Smithsonian Institution by the end of the year, he said Tuesday.

Well, fuck. I’m just gonna guess here and say it’s probably illegal for a civilian to wear or even possess something like this. https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252

ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals. A notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security says ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” for officers and agents by March. The devices are known as the G.L.O.V. E. That stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter…

from my link log —
Making a language with row types and bidirectional typing, targeting wasm.
https://thunderseethe.dev/series/making-a-language/
saved 2026-10-13

Product sets in sets of returns and positivity of symmetric ergodic averages
Vitaly Bergelson, Sa\'ul Rodr\'iguez-Mart\'in
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02873 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.02873 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.02873
arXiv:2608.02873v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study sets of (measurable) returns in countable groups $G$, namely sets of the form $\{g\in G:\mu(A\cap T_gA)>0\}$ arising from measure-preserving actions. Extending a result of Bergelson, we show that sets of returns in $G\times G$ contain subsets of the form $B\times B$, where $B$ is large with respect to suitable notions of largeness that remain meaningful even for non-amenable groups. As a consequence, if $G$ is amenable, then every sufficiently large subset $A\subseteq G\times G$ satisfies $B\times B\subseteq AA^{-1}$ for some large set $B\subseteq G$.
We also investigate when sets of returns in $G$ contain product sets $BB$ with $B$ large. In contrast with the Cartesian-product phenomenon above, this problem is considerably subtler in non-abelian groups and is closely connected to `symmetric correlation functions', namely functions of the form $g\mapsto \mu(T_g^{-1}A\cap T_gA)$. We use this connection to show that, for broad classes of amenable groups - including finitely generated nilpotent groups and certain solvable non-nilpotent groups, every sufficiently large set $A\subseteq G$ contains a large subset $B$ satisfying $BB\subseteq AA^{-1}$.
Finally, we establish polynomial analogues of these results for finitely generated nilpotent groups, extending earlier work of Bergelson and Ruzsa.
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ROLoad-PMP: Securing Sensitive Operations for Kernels and Bare-Metal Firmware
Wende Tan, Chenyang Li, Yangyu Chen, Yuan Li, Chao Zhang, Jianping Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13287 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13287 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13287
arXiv:2608.13287v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A common way for attackers to compromise victim systems is hijacking sensitive operations (e.g., control-flow transfers) with attacker-controlled inputs. Existing solutions in general only protect parts of these targets and have high performance overheads, which are impractical and hard to deploy on systems with limited resources (e.g., IoT devices) or for low-level software like kernels and bare-metal firmware. In this paper, we present a lightweight hardware-software co-design solution ROLoad-PMP to protect sensitive operations from being hijacked for low-level software. First, we propose new instructions, which only load data from read-only memory regions with specific keys, to guarantee the integrity of pointees pointed by (potentially corrupted) data pointers. Then, we provide a program hardening mechanism to protect sensitive operations, by classifying and placing their operands into read-only memory with different keys at compile-time and loading them with ROLoad-PMP-family instructions at runtime. We have implemented an FPGA-based prototype of ROLoad-PMP based on RISC-V, and demonstrated an important defense application, i.e., forward-edge control-flow integrity. Results showed that ROLoad-PMP only costs few extra hardware resources (< 1.40%). Moreover, it enables many lightweight (e.g., with negligible overheads < 0.853%) defenses, and provides broader and stronger security guarantees than existing hardware solutions, e.g., ARM BTI and Intel CET.
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Das heutige #Rausgeschafft mit @… war nochmals eine Besorgungsfahrt, dieses Mal aber an der #Glatt entlang, um die dem

(Speechless, but a great review)
The Jaguar Type 01: a £150k gargantuan getaway vehicle utterly useless in the city
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/07/jaguar-type-01-g-car-review?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other…

The Jaguar Type 01: a £150k gargantuan getaway vehicle utterly useless in the city
Too costly for most, too large for UK car parks, and wheels bigger than a warlord’s pickup truck. But it does come in ‘London red’

(Speechless, but a great review)
The Jaguar Type 01: a £150k gargantuan getaway vehicle utterly useless in the city
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/07/jaguar-type-01-g-car-review?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other…

The Jaguar Type 01: a £150k gargantuan getaway vehicle utterly useless in the city
Too costly for most, too large for UK car parks, and wheels bigger than a warlord’s pickup truck. But it does come in ‘London red’

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gαaαmksimoon:
🎵 K’ap Ha’yin
#G̱a̱mksimoon
https://gamksimoon.bandcamp.com/track/k-ap-ha-yin
https://open.spotify.com/track/5UVTXpzMwXtPp2TFoTCvdI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3Breakfast
Antonio Vivaldi:
🎵 Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV 315 "L'estate": I. Allegro mŠ non molto
#AntonioVivaldi
https://open.spotify.com/track/61TeCsBeZZrH4IDr9yIvoj

peace to ronnie davis. still can't believe the san francisco mime troupe, founded in 1959, pronounce their name "meme troupe." an origin point for both the diggers & bill graham. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/theater/ronald-g-davis-dead.html

Ronald G. Davis, a Mime Who Spoke Out, Dies at 92
At the height of the psychedelic era, he guided the very vocal San Francisco Mime Troupe’s pointed satire of American militarism, racism and bourgeois values.

Livestream shopping app Whatnot raised a $545M Series G led by Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Avra at a $20B valuation, up from an $11.5B valuation in October 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/07/ai-obse…

In AI-obsessed Silicon Valley, live commerce platform Whatnot just notched a new funding round valuing it at $20 billion
The $545 million Series G nearly doubles Whatnot's valuation—a rare consumer-marketplace breakout when nearly every venture dollar is flowing to AI.

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/main-kinzig-kreis-in-hessen-menschen-sollen-wegen-waldbrand-nicht-mehr-duschen-a-62144201-019d-4370-80ca-5ead1da713e0

Falls ihr nicht gut #schlafen könnt, hier ein neuer #Geheimtipp:
https://youtu.be/Fw7dq6TZ6-g

Crosslisted article(s) found for hep-th. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-th/new
[1/2]:
- Microscopic Interaction versus Purely Gravitational Coupling in Strange Quark Stars Admixed with ...
J. Sedaghat, G. H. Bordbar, M. Haghighat, S. M. Zebarjad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12383 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophHE_bot/117092791599481148
- On Super-Hyperbolic Wormhole Geometries and their Deformations
Subrat Parida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12412 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/117092747330101107
- Blind Spots of the Zwanziger Horizon Function
Daniel G. Tedesco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12413 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_heplat_bot/117092740251141689
- Boundary phases and thermodynamics of the Kondo spin-$s$ chain: from overscreened Kondo to bounda...
Abay Zhakenov, Pradip Kattel, Andreas Gleis, Natan Andrei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12453 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatstrel_bot/117092798677018343
- Fermionic Anomalies of Finite Symmetries on Lattices
Ameya Chavda, Ryohei Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12455 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatstrel_bot/117092801201690952
- Thermal false vacuum decay near black holes is aspherical
D. S. Gorbunov, D. G. Levkov, V. E. Maslov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12469 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/117092780755974388
- Singlet-Doublet fermion origin of dark matter, neutrino mass and inverse first-order electroweak ...
Debasish Borah, Indrajit Saha, Sujit Kumar Sahoo, Narendra Sahu, Shashwat Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12483 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepph_bot/117092830695819660
- Dymnikova Black Hole Tidal Forces
M. H. Mac\^edo, A. A. M. Silva, R. R. Landim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12495 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/117092784293893408
- Quasitopological Gravity with Matter: Modified Double-Copy Approach
Valeri P. Frolov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12596 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/117092839543100455
- Cosmological Vacuum Decays from Schwinger-Keldysh Formalism
Zi-Yan Yuwen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12736 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_bot/117092847998387674
- Waterfall-modulated $\alpha$-attractors
Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Yusuke Yamada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12819 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophCO_bot/117092750308822114
- Topological properties around the Roberge-Weiss transition in $N_f = 2 1 1$ QCD
Massimo D'Elia, Fabio Siliberto, Kevin Zambello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12883 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_heplat_bot/117092778621282119
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Myles Garrett gets shut out vs. 49ers: What NFL's best defensive player said after listless debut

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/myles-garrett-gets-shu…

Raiders claim G Bryce Cabeldue https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-claim-guard-bryce-cabeldue-waive-guard-atonio-mafi-nfl-2026-transactions-week-1

U.S. ambassador calls settler siege of Palestinian homes a 'horrific act of terror' (Associated Press)
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/13/g-s1-138574/us-west-bank-settlers
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p103#a260813p103

Fhuair sinn sealladh air dùbhradh na grèine a-raoir. Thug mi dealbhan le taic nan speuclairean.
#dùbhradh #Gàidhlig

I've been wondering, what if we think about LLMs as a solution rather than a problem?
like, there are problems with LLMs, but consumers are paying for them because they genuinely solve problems. Maybe it's better to focus on the problems they're solving?
The kinds of problems I'm thinking about:
- lack of documentation
- lack of support network
- lack of time, e.g. due to attention economy
- too much choice (e.g. javascript framework choice par…

It’ss nice sunny morning. A brisk walk g to the GO surgery to see the nurse for a blood test starts the day.

@… @… there are messaging systems that are designed to be resistant to traffic analysis, e.g. MIT’s Vuvuzela/Alpenhorn, and their more bandwidth-efficient successors Karaoke, Yodel, Groove and Stadium. They wor…

News recaps today of the 7 October attacks by Hamas that don't even mention the strong indications that Netanyahu had prior knowledge are not serious.
See e.g. https://www.

Wow I guess this Gizmodo article wasn’t kidding, I just tried to find any configuration MacBook Air in the Boston area in stock and there are NONE
That’s good right?
https://gizmodo.com/if-youre-struggling-to-find-a-macbook-air-ri…

If You're Struggling to Find a MacBook Air Right Now, This Is Probably Why
You'll never guess what's reportedly causing the shortage.

Raiders claim G Bryce Cabeldue https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-claim-guard-bryce-cabeldue-waive-guard-atonio-mafi-nfl-2026-transactions-week-1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Notorious B.I.G.:
🎵 Juicy
#TheNotoriousBIG
https://djlucioagustin.bandcamp.com/track/the-notorious-b-i-g-juicy-lucio-agustin-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2AP7m2dBb8ULTx4Gc1rdMc

Have you had more problems with your own bank going in the way of what you want to do with your money (e.g. blocking a genuine transfer, wasting your time through emails, calls, verifications) or helping you (e.g. preventing a fraudulent transfer)?
#Banking

Je n'ai aucun sourvenirs de ces évènements
Guerre civile géorgienne — Wikipédia
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerre_civile_géorgienne

Guerre civile géorgienne — Wikipédia

Q&A with AG Sulzberger on the NYT's OpenAI lawsuit, the NYT's success, Trump's attacks on the press, how reporters at other outlets are self-censoring, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-a…

Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.

Bücher abzugeben:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius und Roland G. Austin. 2009. M.Tulli Ciceronis Pro M. Caelio oratio. 3. ed., reprinted. Clarendon paperbacks. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Daub, Susanne, Leonardo Bruni und Nanni Strozzi. 1996. Leonardo Brunis Rede auf Nanni Strozzi: Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 84. Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner.
Dorpius, Martinus. 1986. Martini Dorpii Naldiceni Orationes IV cum apologia et litteris adnexis. 1. Aufl.
1/4…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
E.S.G.:
🎵 You're No Good
#ESG
https://open.spotify.com/track/47e4emObWLHPZJaQjj7IOL

Heute 2× #rausgeschafft, einmal am frühen Nachmittag zum #Gassigehen mit #Bonnie, dem #Hund meiner Eltern, und …

OE1WKL Willi just released version 9 of the Morserino firmware and it's huge. And you can even install it from Firefox, now that Firefox finally got webserial support! 🎉
So much stuff in here. Too much to summarize. But some particular highlights:

• Much improved sound starting from better internal gain settings
• Accessible version that speaks to you
• Ech…

“It’s in busy, stressful situations that habits can help us, because they just kick in.”
That's what Prof. Dr. Kristin Weber told us ahead of the first #GÉANTCybersecurity campaign webinar.
She is clear that knowledge still matters, but knowing a rule doesn't always mean following it. That's where habits come in.
Join the webinar to learn how habits f…

@… Very nice post! Thanks!
Two tiny suggestions:
p function:as it always converts to HTML5, you could derive the output filename automatically, e.g., ${1%%.md}.html
cpp function: it’s probably not a problem for most people, but since cpp is the C preprocessor, I’d use a different name to avoid confusion.
On macOS you could als…

@… Very nice post! Thanks!
Two tiny suggestions:
p function:as it always converts to HTML5, you could derive the output filename automatically, e.g., ${1%%.md}.html
cpp function: it’s probably not a problem for most people, but since cpp is the C preprocessor, I’d use a different name to avoid confusion.
On macOS you could als…

The g in 'diagnostics' really should be silent in English, and one could argue that we ought to shorten it to 'dinos' rather than 'diags'

Replaced article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[2/2]:
- An IMU Dataset for Human Activity Recognition to Support Independent Living in Smart Homes (IMU-H...
Moid Sandhu, Wei Lu, Brano Kusy, David Silvera-Tawil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07502 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/117075927898369575
- X2C: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Nuanced Humanoid Facial Expression Imitation
Peizhen Li, Longbing Cao, Xiao-Ming Wu, Runze Yang, Xiaohan Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11146 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/114533291630252868
- Situation Graph Prediction for User Perspective Modeling
Jisung Shin, Daniel Platnick, Marjan Alirezaie, Hossein Rahnama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13319 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116085690483721457
- When Does Critique Improve AI-Assisted Theoretical Physics? SCALAR: Structured Critic--Actor Loop...
Vasilis Niarchos, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Alexander G. Stapleton, Sokratis Trifinopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06772 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116554785974658895
- Access Timing as Scaffolding: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to GenAI in Education
Janne Rotter, Pau Benazet i Montobbio, Davinia Hern\'andez-Leo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15850 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116594418222572007
- The Epistemic Politics of AI Anthropomorphism
Donna M Bye, Levin Kuhlmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00961 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/117036083544631928
- Position: We Need Large Language Models Optimized For Our Well-Being
Ashton Anderson, Harsh Kumar, Louis Tay, Karina Vold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07505
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Please, let it be Type C (or at least G):
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/design-proposals.en.html
Decide yourself and help with the selection process:

Countable compactness in powers of topological groups and Ramsey theoretic variations of compactness
Vinicius de Oliveira Rodrigues, Paul Jan Szeptycki, Artur Hideyuki Tomita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08943 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08943 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.08943
arXiv:2608.08943v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Countable compactness need not be preserved by finite products. Motivated by compactness notions for maps indexed by finite subsets of $\omega$, we introduce cascade countable compactness for arbitrary barriers. For $\mathcal B=[\omega]^2$, this is the previously studied notion of being doubly countably compact. We show that, in ZFC, if $G$ is a Hausdorff topological group and $1\leq k<\omega$, then $k$-cascade countable compactness of $G$ implies that $G^k$ is countably compact. Cascade countable compactness for the Schreier barrier implies that $G^\omega$ is countably compact. In contrast, we construct a Tychonoff space that is $n$-cascade countably compact for every $n<\omega$ but has a non-countably compact square, and a Hausdorff Boolean group $H$ that is $\mathcal B$-countably compact for every barrier $\mathcal B$ but whose square is not countably compact. We also construct a Hausdorff Boolean group without nontrivial convergent sequences that is $\mathcal B$-cascade countably compact for every barrier $\mathcal B$. Finally, we obtain a subspace $X\subseteq\beta\omega$ such that $X^\kappa$ is $n$-cascade countably compact for every $\kappa<\mathfrak h$ and every $n<\omega$, whereas $\exp X$ is not pseudocompact.
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@… Ja, det skulle tages som en vittighed, og ikke bogstavligt.
Det jeg ved spŸg prŸver at sige er: Det er godt nok sŸrgeligt at vi nu behŸver at opfinde de samme lŸsninger som kryptografi længe har arbejdet med (Kodeord, engagskoder, 2FA), i vores interaktioner med andre mennesker, fordi vi nettop lever i en tid hvor vi ikke kan stole på det sådan helt bas…

Raiders sign OL Braeden Daniels https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-ol-braeden-daniels-2026-nfl-transactions-preseason-training-camp

G'day NFL: How the league's international expansion landed Down Under with 49ers-Rams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49881494/nfl-season-australia-san-francisco-49ers-los-angeles-rams-week-1

Heute ein recht warmes #rausgeschafft mit meinem Lieblingsmenschen 😊, die ich hier im Fediverse kennengelernt habe.
#Brompton #BromptonElectricGLine

Sources: Netflix is preparing for layoffs that will impact ~5% of employees, or ~850 jobs, amid pressure over weakened engagement and a depressed stock price (Matthew Belloni/Puck)
https://puck.news/netflix-is-sharpening-the-layoff-axe/

Raiders claim drafted guard from Seahawks Super Bowl roster off waivers https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/09/10/raiders-claim-g-bryce-cabeldue-waivers-seahawks/91696093007/

Zu zweit zum #slowUp #Brugg-Regio #rausgeschafft: http…

PSE&G isn't all bad. They just approved a rebate to cover the installation of my #EV charger. Might be a while before I actually get it though. #NewJersey
https://

us_congress: US Congressional co-sponsorship (1973-2016)
Two temporal networks of bill co-sponsorship tendencies among US Congresspeople, from 1973 (93rd Congress) to 2016 (114th Congress). Edges are signed, indicating the presence of a significant tendency to co-sponsor, or tendency to not co-sponsor, bills. Two networks per year, one for each chamber (House, Senate). Each file contains the signed network for a chamber of congress (H = House, S = Senate) in one session (e.g. 93 = 93rd…

Sources: Netflix is preparing for layoffs that will impact ~5% of employees, or ~850 jobs, amid pressure over weakened engagement and a depressed stock price (Matthew Belloni/Puck)
https://puck.news/netflix-is-sharpening-the-layoff-axe/

Bech, Nailor, Benson, Linderbaum and Burford Scrums https://www.raiders.com/video/bech-nailor-benson-linderbaum-burford-scrums-preseason-week-1-nfl-2026

“If u iz at dis borin wimbledore final lookin 2 get grand slammed, I iz here wif de hookup.”
The offer was from Ali G, real name Alistair Leslie Graham, AKA the malapropism-dropping home counties wide boy played by Sacha Baron Cohen,
kitted out for the occasion in trademark skullcap and gold chain, plus custom Wimbledon jacket, traditional crossed rackets replaced with cannabis leaves.
Security released him without penalty, but the reprimand was captured on scores of smartph…

Prince William? David Cameron? JD Vance? Celebrities brace – and Staines celebrates – ahead of new Ali G film
Sacha Baron Cohen’s doofus voice of yoof has been making fresh mischief with new film Who Iz I? But who will he catch out this time? And what does his fictional hometown make of his return?

This time with video (hopefully)... I found a 5 meter resolution digital elevation model of a part of the Austrian Alps (Tyrol[1]) and quickly visualized the region around the aforementioned Hintereisferner glacier using my https://shadergraph.thi.ng/ editor. The glacier itself is visible in the bottom left corner…

How cool would it be if glastonbury festival ended.. it would create room for SO many smaller, more interesting festivals in the UK, creating a massive wave of creativity.
You could replace 'glastonbury festival' with any long-running institution that's overgrown way beyond it's former radical roots
e.g. how amazingly cool would it be if Oxbridge ended, just imagine..

@… As opposed to a bunch of open source code written by humans? So long as the software gets the job done, does the difference matter to the end user?
That said, plenty of people still use commercial software even when mature open source equivalents have been available for years (e.g., MS Office) so maybe this sort of thing won't kill the likes of A…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Gilla Band:
🎵 Giraffe
#GillaBand
https://gillaband.bandcamp.com/track/giraffe
https://open.spotify.com/track/7DQ3JbZ8JmjjxoGmOYkjoR

If you encounter people trying to make SF’s Prop G complicated by weaving conspiracy theories about No on G’s 👻 big tech backers 👻, here’s my summary of what’s going on. It’s not complicated! No on G! #sfpol

Raiders G Jackson Powers-Johnson made one big life change to deal with anxiety https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/08/06/raiders-g-jackson-powers-johnson-got-off-…

from my link log —
Building the fastest RaptorQ (RFC6330) FEC codec in Rust.
https://www.cberner.com/2020/10/12/building-fastest-raptorq-rfc6330-codec-rust/
saved 2020-10-15

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kenny G:
🎵 G Force
#KennyG
https://kingbennyproductions.bandcamp.com/track/hurl-g-force

Considering Sturgeon's law (i.e. "90% percent of everything is crap"), having 1000x more ideas would directly translate to having 900x more crap to deal with, by everyone, in potentially any domain. Considering the people who're proposing this crap are also out to commercially exploit some/most of these ideas (at least attempting to), that particular envisioned future would have the potential to become one major ubiquitous man-in-the-middle attack on society...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Gilla Band:
🎵 Giraffe
#GillaBand
https://gillaband.bandcamp.com/track/giraffe
https://open.spotify.com/track/7DQ3JbZ8JmjjxoGmOYkjoR

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3Breakfast
Antonio Vivaldi:
🎵 Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV 315 "L'estate": III. Presto
#AntonioVivaldi #newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/6RLvbYT7AuvUUoo5c1Szho

from my link log —
Reducing metadata leakage from encrypted files with PURBs.
https://nikirill.com/publication/purbs/
saved 2019-12-31 https://d…

Reducing metadata leakage from encrypted files and communication with PURBs | Kirill Nikitin's Personal Page
Most encrypted data formats leak metadata via their plaintext headers, such as format version, encryption schemes used, number of recipients who can decrypt the data, and even the recipients’ identities. This leakage can pose security and privacy risks to users, e.g., by revealing the full membership of a group of collaboators from a single encrypted e-mail, or by enabling an eavesdropper to fingerprint the precise encryption software…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Grimes:
🎵 Genesis
#Grimes
https://runebagge.bandcamp.com/track/grimes-genesis-rune-bagge-s-offbeat-forever-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0yljUudXzjVcGEoYmLB17X

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3Breakfast
Luigi Boccherini, London Festival Orchestra & Ross Pople:
🎵 String Quintet in E Major, Op. 11/5, G. 275: III. Minuetto and Trio
#LuigiBoccherini #LondonFestivalOrchestra
https://open.spotify.com/track/1X18rwFRarkPHpa8Imc03S

Keys to the Game: How the Raiders defense can swing the game against New England https://www.raiders.com/news/keys-to-the-game-how-the-raiders-defense-can-swing-the-game-against-new-england

Keys to the Game: How the Raiders can control the season opener against the Dolphins https://www.raiders.com/news/keys-to-the-game-las-vegas-raiders-vs-miami-dolphins-nfl-week-1-2026

Diese Nacht wieder mal dem #BikeStreak wegen kurz vor Mitternacht für 'ne schnelle Runde mit dem #BromptonElectricGLine #rausgeschafft. Bin am Südrand von

Keys to the Game: How the Raiders can control the season opener against the Dolphins https://www.raiders.com/news/keys-to-the-game-las-vegas-raiders-vs-miami-dolphins-nfl-week-1-2026

Raiders sign 3 including former 1st round G Evan Neal https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/09/03/raiders-sign-3-free-agents-practice-squad-incl…

Raiders trade G Jordan Meredith to Jets, reuniting him with Geno Smith https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/08/30/raiders-trade-g-jordan-meredith-to-jets-reuniting-geno-smith/91…

Raiders G Jackson Powers-Johnson suffers groin injury Week 3 vs Saints https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/09/28/raiders-g-jackson-powers-johnson-groin-injury-week-3-saints/9199…

Who did it best? 😂 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nkm8b0-eo_g