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The digital public library has TONS of cool free stuff.
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I ran across it his morning, when I was looking up a woman commemorated on a US quarter: Zitkala-Sa, 1876-1938.
She was a brilliant writer, historian, musician, human rights activist, and scholar. A very brave person, writing at a time when m…

The NFL can't survive 17 games. Why is it trying to sell 18? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7670397/2026/10/10/nfl-injuries-18-game-schedule-proposal/

"If Russia wins" is a very readable, short book, that describes a possible scenario. It illustrated for me how NATO and article 5 works and that is different then the public perceives it. Highly recommended summer read.
https://a.co/d/0fRQUNoi

I shit you not, this is real.

Peter King reveals he was forced to interview Irvin in a strip club https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/10/06/michael-irvin-took-peter-king-to-strip-club-for-cowboys-inter…

One resident at the retirement place I work at turned 100, and at his party, my grandmother learned of a nearly 200 year old bible he inherited and only recently physically acquired, elaborately decorated with over 1,000 engravings, a map of Palestine (specifically proudly advertised on the New Testament's intro), genealogies, summaries, interpretations, and even records of the owning family's births, marriages, and deaths, written in impeccably preserved cursive. She got my younger …

The popularity of chinese models can be illustrated by the top 10 of models used in the OpenRouter market place. Interesting to see the increase in GPT-5.6 use.
#AI

Just 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

Are the Raiders the most improved team of the offseason? https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/07/29/raiders-nfl-most-improved-team-2026/91092927007/

Pattern formation: reactivity is not necessary for chemotaxis--driven instabilities
Angela Monti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03685 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.03685 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.03685
arXiv:2608.03685v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A classical result by Neubert, Caswell and Murray states that reactivity of a spatially homogeneous equilibrium is a necessary condition for diffusion-driven (Turing) instability. In this work, we investigate whether the same conclusion remains valid in the presence of chemotaxis. We consider a general reaction--diffusion system coupled with a chemotactic flux and establish necessary conditions for asymptotic instability. We show that the classical requirement of reactivity can be relaxed when the chemotactic contribution is sufficiently strong. In particular, while reactivity remains necessary for Turing instability, it is not a necessary condition for chemotaxis-driven instability. From a computational viewpoint, we extend the matrix-oriented formulation developed for reaction--diffusion systems to the more general class of reaction--diffusion--chemotaxis models. The chemotactic transport term is discretized in a form compatible with the matrix-oriented approximation of the diffusion operator, yielding an efficient numerical framework for the simulation of chemotaxis-driven pattern formation. A geometric interpretation of the instability region is presented, highlighting the distinct roles played by diffusion and chemotaxis. The theoretical and numerical developments are illustrated through two representative examples: a chemotaxis-extended Schnakenberg model, showing how chemotaxis modifies classical Turing patterns, and a predator--prey model, demonstrating that chemotaxis alone can induce pattern formation in the absence of both reactivity and diffusion-driven instability. These results reveal a fundamental difference between diffusion-driven and chemotaxis-driven mechanisms of spatial self-organization and provide new theoretical and computational insights into the role of non-symmetric transport processes in biological pattern formation.
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Cowboys Trade Pitch Sends QB Joe Milton to AFC Contender https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/trade-quarterback-joe-milton-afc-contender/

Time for another book on my #Bookstodon: "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson. I'm pretty sure I've read it because someone recommended it on Fedi, and it's a good recommendation. However, note it's a bit on the emotionally heavy side.
The book is built upon a thesis that the racism in the USA is actually a caste system. It covers a lot: the history from slavery through Jim Crow regime to today's white supremacist movements and US elections; comparisons to India and Nazi Germany; detailed analysis of causes ("pillars of caste") and consequences. As it turns out, these can be pretty detrimental to the dominant caste itself too. All of it is illustrated by many examples and personal stories.
It's an important read, and it reads really good though. However, it weighs heavily, so I had to take breaks while reading it.
#books

Hackers who targeted the UK Dept of Education and a police database are part of ExfilSquad, which seems to be a part of The Com because its now-suspended X account was illustrated by a picture of (presumably) cyber researcher target Allison Nixon, who is hated by The Com.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/29/department-for-education-police-hackers-cybercrime

Did you think Christopher Nolan's #Odyssey lacked sex? Were you disappointed that the "Nobody" scene wasn't in there?
Do I have news for you!
This version of the Cyclops encounter has 100% sex, 0% violence, and I still managed to fit the "Nobody" scene.
Follow the riveting tale of Odysseus and his trusty comrades as they escape Polyphemus' cave with sweat and cum:
🔥 Illustrated version
#erotica #smutstodon #mythology #gay

Uniform-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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Do you think cyclopes are sexy? Odysseus and his men draw straws to determine who'll pleasure theirs...
🔥 Illustrated version
#erotica #smutstodon #mythology #sizekink