@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSports Illustrated deleted the profile and articles of writer Parker Loverich, after Sportico editor Dan Bernstein accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sp…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRams QB Ty Simpson: 'It's a big advantage for me' to learn from Matthew Stafford, Davante Adams https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-ty-simpson-big-advantage-for-me-to-learn-from-matthew-stafford-davante-adams
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys $50 Million TE Jake Ferguson Marries Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jake-ferguson-marries-haley-cavinder/
@cdarwin@c.imUnder acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the pace of investigations against Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies has accelerated
— most strikingly, the indictment of the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, for posting on social media an image of seashells that prosecutors cast as threatening.
Blanche has used his new perch to boost debunked election conspiracy theories promoted by the president.
But the moves that most starkly illustrated Blanche’s evolving approach came th…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialFor this year's #MerMay, my patrons voted for porn WITH plot, a continuation of my story Milky Sea, where Amphitrite's brother Nerites ends up being turned into a sea snail.
In the sequel, his sister Amphitrite is going to ask Hekate for help do undo the curse. With some magic-enhanced sex, of course ✨ 😉
Read Milky Sea here:
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgblog about yak shaving appears to be illustrated by a heilan coo so obviously i get distracted trying to confirm my first impression
(it doesn’t help that searchengineering [brown yak] turns up lots of cow pictures)
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Landing in Place" written by Sherine Hamdy and illustrated by Myra El Mir. A beautiful and emotional story that has a lot of great complicated perspective on wearing hijab, plus a lot of Egyptian historical and cultural details that I didn't know anything about. Some really interesting discussions about protest and revolution too.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgThe incredible analytical work of John Burn Murdoch @… along with some other colleagues is one of the main reasons I subscribe to the FT. It's rather expensive but absolutely worth it.
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116582689708855765
Ruth_Mottram - This is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated analysis, exploring convincingly why birth rates are crashing basically everywhere and while there are certain many factors, the smoking gun is actually a smartphone.
So what to do about it? I think I agree with the conclusions, housing and financial support is one element, equality between sexes in household tasks certainly another, but finally, perhaps our job as parents is to inculcate the habit of socialising with others into our kids, especially when they get to the teenage years.
Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once - a limited 🎁 https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/8bf630d4-6e20-42c7-bb33-e98dd6a01571
@jon@henshaw.socialYou too can look *and feel* this cool for the low, low price of $29.99
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeThoughts from the Twin Cities this weekend - a very cool print with an illustrated neighborhood: "When you know your neighbor, fascism cracks." #nokings (1/3)
@Don_kun@nerdculture.deKrönender Abschluss des Tags auf dem #ComicSalonErlangen heute: "The Colour Out Of Space – A dark drone comic picture show" - eine Konzert- und Comicadaption von HP Lovecrafts "Die Farbe aus dem All". Die Geschichte über langsamen, unaufhaltsamen Zerfall wurde ohne Worte, nur in Musik und Bildern erzählt. Wie in den einführenden Worten angekündigt wurde das Publikum…
@jake4480@c.imArt from 'Aliens: Reapers' from 1991. This was a short 8 page no dialog comic story by John Arcudi and illustrated by Simon Bisley about 'Reapers' - an alien race that infiltrate Xenomorph hives to eat their eggs. My kinda alien race. 🍳
#Alien #SimonBisley
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/kk215pdq7
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialSchmalheit, illustrated
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Chili peppers of the world: cultivars, species, and heat.
https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/desertmexico/chili-peppers.html
saved 2026-06-11
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "The Bodyguard Unit" written by Clément Xavier, illustrated by Lisa Lugrin, with colors by Albertine Ralenti and translated from French to English by Edward Gauvin. An excellent and fascinating history of Edith Garrud, a Jiu-Jutsu instructor who helped train suffragettes in Britain to fight the police, and who fought alongside them at speeches and political rallies. It also of course has a lot of details of the suffragette movement, many of which I theoretically knew but never actually thought about, and others which I was totally unaware of, especially the degree of violence and the connections to other radical movements of the time.
An excellent graphic novel, both educational and funny.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@ruari@velocipederider.com🤔 Don't pick up trash, throw it in the ocean.
@jochenlingelba1@h-net.socialCelebrating #WorldBicycleDay with a 1908 quote by Winston Churchill:
"But the best of all methods of progression in Central Africa— however astonishing it may seem— is the bicycle."
Source: Churchill, Winston. ‘My African Journey - VII. On Safari’. The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly (London), September 1908.
@Defiance@sfba.socialI always struggle to attend this festival. I've gone a few times, starting back when it was the Burger Boogaloo. It's expensive, and the stage areas get crammed so quickly now. You lose the intimate feel. Add in the likely heat and long lines and huge line up, and it can be a real drag unless you go with a group and find time to just chill in an open space.
#music
@arXiv_qfinTR_bot@mastoxiv.pageUniform-Loss Automated Market Making for Prediction Markets
Ciamac C. Moallemi, Dan Robinson, Brian Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17428 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.17428 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.17428
arXiv:2607.17428v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automated market makers (AMMs) for prediction markets descend from market scoring rules, where a mechanism operator subsidizes a market to aggregate beliefs about uncertain events. The existing literature has focused on bounding the total worst-case loss to the subsidizer, but has not addressed how that loss is distributed across price states or over time. We use the framework of loss-versus-rebalancing (LVR) to study this distribution and introduce \textit{uniform AMMs}, defined by the property that instantaneous LVR is proportional to pool value and independent of the current token price. In a static setting, we show that for a broad class of \textit{win-martingales} -- processes that converge to 0 or 1 at a fixed resolution time -- there exists a pricing function that achieves uniform LVR under that process, and conversely, that any sufficiently regular pricing function induces a win-martingale under which it is uniform. We then extend the framework to dynamic liquidity management, showing that liquidity levels can be adjusted over time to implement a prescribed target expected cumulative loss schedule. This theory is illustrated with canonical examples of win-martingales and pricing functions. Our results can inform AMM designers and liquidity providers on how the inevitable cost of subsidizing price discovery can be shaped and controlled across both price and time.
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@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders QB Fernando Mendoza forecasted to have efficient rookie season https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/04/raiders-qb-fernando-mendoza-forecasted-to-have-effici…
@arXiv_csIT_bot@mastoxiv.pageColor-Rule-Function Encoding for Combinatorial Memory
Alexander Khitun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11365 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11365 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11365
arXiv:2606.11365v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Combinatorial memory is a class of memory in which information is encoded in the set of paths through a structured mesh. In this work, we introduce a systematic encoding framework, referred to as the Color-Rule-Function (CRF) approach, for representing information in combinatorial memory. The method consists of four key steps: selecting a sequence of paths in the mesh, assigning values (e.g., colors) to each cell, defining a set of rules based on the values encountered along each path, and constructing a Boolean function that determines the state of each path. . The coding procedure is illustrated by several examples. The design space scales of the CRF scale fundamentally faster compared to conventional memory. This apparent advantage arises from the use of rule-based and functional representations but is accompanied by increased hardware complexity. A possible hardware realization of the CRF framework is discussed. Importantly, the hardware overhead can be substantially reduced through the use of customized modules. The examples of the customized design are described in the text. The combination of CRF coding with customized module design may lead to a practical advantage in data storage density. According to the estimates, the data storage density may exceed Exabit per centimeter squared. A key problem that requires further investigation is related to the minimum Hamming distance between an arbitrary target bit sequence and the closest sequence realizable within the CRF framework under fixed hardware constraints.
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/kk215pdq7
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Skating Wilder" written by Brandon Dumais and illustrated by AJ Dungo. It's a really amazing graphic novel history of skateboarding, from the 1960s through to the present. It's got multiple threads from the commercial angle, to the magazines and music, to the individual tricks.
I've never skated myself (never taught myself to balance properly) but I loved Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 as a kid and I still like watching skate videos. I learned a lot of details from this book that I never knew growing up and the way it talks about skating surviving multiple waves of commercialization is inspiring.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksDon't forget that you can also kill waterfowl by hiding under hollowed-out gourds disguised to look like rocks, then pulling the birds under when they land. Beautifully illustrated in this 1578 engraving by Cornelis Galle (full image is at the Rijksmuseum). #geese #history #hunting #gourds #squash #art https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/---3b7a5a974aae5cd92a1ed69a08cea2a4
