2026-09-09 04:16:07
Just got a letter from the US State Department's FOIA office regarding a request made in October 2023, basically asking if I'm still interested.
Yes.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@regehr/117061794371597834
“How can we avoid losing an entire generation of students to AI” very simply is the old question of: how can we get students to intrinsically learn because they want to know, are interested, want to rea…
RE: https://tapbots.social/@paul/117057384187079118
So glad I bought my 64G M2Max Studio when I did. Not interested in the resale value, just glad it will remain useful long enough to get past the price insanity.
3 EDGE Rushers Cowboys Should Target Instead of Von Miller https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/3-edge-rushers-cowboys-should-target-instead-von-miller
Until recently, “awe” was not something that academic researchers studied.
But when Dr. Paul Piff, a social psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, became interested in the experience of awe,
he had a radical idea.
What if you could actually measure it?
What if you could design a research project that produced evidence-based data about the effect of awe on the people experiencing it?
The result was an unprecedented study led by Piff and his tea…
Sources: Netflix, Disney, and YouTube are interested in challenging Fox for 2030 and 2034 World Cup US broadcast rights; Amazon and Apple also potential bidders (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/07/fifa-world-cup-media-rights-netflix-dis…
Could we agree that anyone posting something about *any* sport includes the hashtag #sport ?
That way those of us who are not interested in sports could filter the hashtag. Please?
Come to #D3A @ Nyborg on Oct 8 - We are organizing the workshop Data Science of Human-centric Mobility! https://d3aconference.dk/data-science-of-human-centric-mobility/
Sh…
Call for Panelists and Discussants at AAS 2027: Negotiating Orthodoxy: Canon Formation, Intellectual Lineage, and Boundary-Making in Chinese Religions
https://ift.tt/jrgAOXK
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-16 on Levine, _Allies and Rivals_ H-Diplo | Robert…
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With recent news I'm curious about what a plagiarism detector would say about my thesis, but as a non-academic I don't have access to the tools.. Do you just upload a pdf to them? If anyone has access to one I'd be interested in what it says ! It'd also be interesting to see what an AI detector thinks about it but maybe it would just look at the date of it..
3 EDGE Rushers Cowboys Should Target Instead of Von Miller https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/3-edge-rushers-cowboys-should-target-instead-von-miller
I was not really interested in the new Onimusha game, but the positive buzz made me download it on Switch 2. It is pretty sweet. Atmospheric, looks great on Switch 2 (RE Engine) and the gameplay was not as Soulsy as I feared. Just fun Capcom-style action - at least on the lower difficulty. Now I have to see how well it runs on my BC-250 and PS5 to decide where I want to play the full game.
The International Online Organ Forum is the place to go if you are interested in organ music or think you might be. It's on several social media channels (not Mastodon - yet!). Sign-up for their free monthly newsletter and get an amazing free feature-length organ film each month, FREE too. https://io-of.org/st-vi…
RE: #SotM, but I have very few ideas on what to make.
Or maybe I …
Would any of y'all be interested in an archival curation tool that can handle merging large collections of files?
I'm in the middle of designing something — git is inspiration but the wrong tool for this job — but that allows reintegrating diverged collections of materials, and propagating enough information that if you were to merge two folders, you'd get a relevant set of questions about the contents to successfully and meaningfully merge them.
It's aware of the fact that embedded metadata changes.
My goal is to make a library simple enough that one could embed it in an operating system's file browser to surface intelligent behavior, and that it could form the basis of media servers too, taking the scanning-and-recording-files duties.
AI-assisted #genealogy with #ClaudeCode
My son recently came to me to brag about using AI to find our ancestors. While the results were correct, I didn’t learn anything new, as it stopped at my grandparents. I was never very interested in my genealogy, but I decided to see if AI would be a good…
LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
https://x.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319
@… Thought you might be interested in this.
https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/116859731748508400
Interested in volunteering for @… after the success of #DH2026? Now you can!
Join the Awards Committee or be the 2026-2027 ADHO Communications Fellow - apply by September 18
Modern industrial fertilisers are made from fossil hydrocarbons. In future we can't use that. But, although I am prejudiced in favour of #organic agriculture, I'd be interested to know whether it would be possible to synthesise fertiliser from widely available resources without using fossil hydrocarbon.
Anyone got any pointers?
Flashbacks to Ekitike playing through repeated pulls and grabs and not going down.
Commentators are so interested in "ball first" as if that's the only place a foul might occur.
#LFC
"The thing that concerns me most is violence, the use of force and the threat or the implementation of damage to enforce an opinion. As I said at the beginning, I'm a scientist. I relish facts. I'm interested in ideas. I'm curious about relationships. Violence is just the opposite of that. Violence is the way to gain power without ideas, and it reduces your resources, it stifles dissent and experimentation which we desperately need." — Dennis Meadows (Club Of Rome, Limits Of Growth)
NFL Catchup: Latest On Browns QB Battle; Shade In Dallas? Broncos Interested In QB? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-catchup-latest-browns-qb-battle-shade-dallas-broncos-interested-qb
Raiders Receive Major Update on Vita Vea Amid Trade Rumor https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/buccaneers-update-vita-vea-trade-rumor/
Newly installed EMU president Brendan Kelly warns anyone interested: “When I say these jobs are hard, they are impossibly hard. These are just incredibly complex organizations in a really unstable environment.”
#QuoteOfTheDay
lifted from an ann arbor observer article (behind a paywall #alas)
I've been experimenting with welcome posts to new members who sign up to the https://gardenstate.social instance.
Have other had luck with those kind of posts? Interested to hear other's experience with both onboarding and bot detection ion this area.
Recipe for those interested:
Mix 20ml simple syrup (mix one cup sugar with one cup water in a saucepan and heat until dissolved, this makes enough for a lot of cocktails and keeps well in the fridge) with juice of half a lemon and about 15ml of aqua faba (water from can of chickpeas, red kidney beans also works well). Shake with lots of ice in cocktail shaker and strain into glass. If you're not strictly no-alcohol, add a dash of angostura bitters before shaking.
Enjoy in cool, twilit garden, ideally in a hammock while listening to the swifts screaming overhead...
#SummerInDenmark
Those close to Los Angeles Dodgers majority owner Mark Walter insist the team is not for sale,
but a federal probe and cash crunch raise questions about his future leading the franchise.
Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the L.A. Times, who finished second in the 2012 bidding for the Dodgers,
is interested in leading an investment group should Walter change his mind.
If the Dodgers ever hit the market, an industry insider told The Times the franchise could…
14 year old comes into my office and asks if he can borrow my copy of Snow Crash.
Me:
“Oh you’re interested in that kind book now, I suppose. Cool. Yeah you can definitely borrow it!”
*me, remembering how that book ends*
“Ummmm maybe we should save that one for later. Here’s my copy of Cyptonomicon. You’ll love it.”
He’s on a pretty long leash as far as content goes, but he does not need to read about the events surrounding the dentata quite yet… 😬
Netflix says it is "not interested" and has no plans to pursue Lionsgate; Lionsgate shares closed up 13.85% on Tuesday before falling ~4% after hours (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/netflix-lionsg…
Hey, That's Neat
I'll have someone on to tell me about something they're knowledgeable about, interested in or hyper-fixating on. Maybe we learn something interesting; maybe we just get a good laugh- either way...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/hey-t…
It looks like I'm going to have some downtime in The Netherlands in late September / early October due to airline pricing (staying an extra two days after the event I'm attending saves $1200 on airfare, cutting the ticket price by >50% and more than justifying the extra meal/hotel cost)
Anyone interested in a get-together Monday Sep 28th, Friday Oct 2, or Saturday Oct 3? Or have suggestions on things to do in the greater Gouda / Den Haag / Rotterdam area?
Here goes a call for talk proposals for a workshop in Copenhagen in November on Functions and Representation in AI systems:
https://philevents.org/event/show/152953
I will be speaking there, and in very good company. Maybe you know someone who might be interested in joining too!
any #cybersecurity people interested in getting into a webserver in order to rescue a dying website?
boosts appreciated :P
#cybersec #infosec
any #cybersecurity people interested in getting into a webserver in order to rescue a dying website?
boosts appreciated :P
#cybersec #infosec
RE: https://mastodon.social/@digiresacademy/117002632463303568
Interested in reproducible research and research software? Then this event is for you!
Online workshop ( optional evening social in Sheffield)
John Iliffe has passed away. One of the best and most influential historians of Africa, member of the Dar es Salaam school and someone who did not go to conferences or use emails.
I read his Africans History of a Continent in my first lecture in African studies and it deeply influenced me. His Modern History of Tanganyika is the go to book for any topic in Tanzanian history.
Wonderful obituary by Derek Peterson:
Avatar Aang is *well* worth your time (even if you’re only marginally interested in the series): https://boxd.it/B1BK
Are you interested in how dependency-heavy your (or another) package is and why? #rstats
Some business advertising told me I should have a “growth mindset”. I don't like that at all. I want to be interested and interesting, caring, curious, loving, engaged, learning, teaching, kind, strong, weak, and open minded.
A “growth mindset” is what burns our planet.
It somehow is a condensed description of what is wrong with capitalism.
#pol
One of the best podcasts about AI of the last months, non-technical, for anyone interested in AI and it's risks.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1M55rQQ5KBGXdosvgFP3HW?si=JmT5EpHwQKCb_-Xs4RlwtQ&utm_source=copy-link
(YouTube) A simple yet nontrivial training exercise for sighted people interested in sensory substitution for the blind as an alternative for a brain implant #BCI
Librarian, archivist, or curator looking to level up your digital game? You might be interested in our online courses that teach #DigitalCuration skills. Cherrypick your favorite or take the full grad certificate https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.ed…
I've been mistaken as a jew again. It's fine, but no I am not interested in doing aliyah or whatever.
My youngest sister was recently diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. She is raising money to support underinsured cancer patients. Please send her some love and contribute if you are interested and able. Thank you!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-lymphoma-researc…
Extreme precipitation in Central Asia connected to drought in mainland Southeast Asia #Asia
For those interested, all the animation news from the middle of this year, and everything coming up - so much good! https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/mid-to-end-of-20…
During the past 5 months, the armed forces have sent questionnaires about the voluntary military service to 300k 18-year-old Germans.
90% of the men (who are required to fill out the form) answered immediately, further 6% after being reminded (the others are facing fines). ¼ of the replying men were initially interested, and ½ of them remained so after being called.
1500 of them were examined for their fitness for service, and 80% passed. ~530 were finally recruited.
🇩🇪
Ok, as someone who's never used/paid for either, I'm interested to know what folks, either on a biz/org capacity, or personal/family level are paying Microsoft or Google for MSO 365 or Google Workspace these days, and what you get for it. Please clarify the currency you're using. Feel free to DM if you prefer results not to be public. My discretion is assured.
for those interested in such things, Arcaneum now has an install subcommand that will add a watcher to a directory and reindex any changed files once committed.
you can keep a markdown knowledge base up-to-date async behind the scenes
in the repo, but not released
https://github.com/cwensel/arcaneum
Another Ukrainian innovation:
interceptor drones are being mounted on small transport aircraft like An-28s to take down Russian attack drones
https://bsky.app/profile/mariadrutska.bsky.social/post/3mk6oatoggc2t
An update on the status of the race for my House seat: When I last posted about it, the 2 Dems interested in running for it were Jason Quinno and Tom Brennan. However, they have decided to run for the floterial instead, so now Nate Giffard is running for my seat. I met him today, and he seems good. Since he is now the only Dem running for the seat, I'd like to officially endorse him for the position. He's running on a platform of housing, general affordability, and civil rights. Here's a link to his website:
#NHPolitics
@… From your recent interest in eink screens, thought you might be interested in this from Valve: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/SteamHardware/SteamMachine/…
A tiny hymenopteran - I think - extremely interested in sage plants on our balcony in Bochum, Germany. The size of a common fly and very hectic so the pics didn't come out too well, but perhaps good enough to ID this #Insect.
@… oh, it's super boring, but if you are interested, feel free to read about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
RE: #AI, this is a great opportunity to get this e-book!
(…
I figured out a simple way to do callout boxes in pandoc's markdown, and having fiddled with it all morning, I am posting about it in case anyone is interested: https://codeberg.org/ddrake/simple_pandoc_callouts/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@kangaroo5383/116965695000825164
You know who was also interested in opening Cuba to US trade?
If you're interested in the whys and hows of soccer - football analytics, check out this podcast
https://overcast.fm/ AA5AWNcZ8q8
Are any vegetarians / vegans at #DH2026 who aren't going to the banquet interested in finding a properly veg*n-friendly dinner?
If you’re in Reykjavík and want to meet up over some delicious pastries, I’m going to hit up 280 Bakari around 10a. Ping me a DM if you’re interested!
I just learned about the Laguna Garzón Bridge in Uruguay and it's pretty cool!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Garzón_Bridge
(Also, one of my neighbors is from Uruguay so I'm sort of interested in learning more about it.)
I can work in both French and English. I'm interested in infrastructure roles.
#infrastructure #sysadmin #sre
∩ Ludovic Hirlimann :
"I've been remote, fully since 2009 and would like …
I deleted my Reddit account years ago because I didn't need it. The feeds from the communities I was interested in were enough. However, I now find myself forced to create an account on that site just to visit it (several times), and old.reddit no longer exists.
Well, you can shove your new policies wherever you like. Adiós.
#reddit
@… @… a ha, yeah that seems super useful. Always interested in workflow improvements to harden security
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116728862461466293
It’s funny that I’ve gotten lots of replies but none answering the question that’s clearly stated as the first sentence.
People like to read parts of posts and then reply to posts as if it doesn’t contain anything else than the part they were interested in.
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117032953432293891
Balaji: “If you are building a startup society, a network state,
should you…pitch Andreessen Horowitz?”
Ben Horowitz: “For sure.
We're very interested in it.
We believe in the whole thing from t…
@… If you’re still interested in the DSL book by Fowler, I have a spare copy to give away.
I only realized because you asked about it, that it had a slight misprint: 10 pages of some random children’s book were included in the front of the book.
So Pearson sent me a replacement.
The bad one is still perfectly serviceable though. If you’d like it.…
#Jellyfin Server 12.0 RC3 has been released!
We're inching closer to the next server release!!!!
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v12.0-rc3
hello chat
would anyone here be interested in finding vulnerabilities in an old dying website so we can get into its servers and archive its DB and scripts?
boosts appreciated!
hello chat
would anyone here be interested in finding vulnerabilities in an old dying website so we can get into its servers and archive its DB and scripts?
boosts appreciated!
fascinating survey of the early lower east side music scene, 1900-1920. deep #nyc history. https://klezmor.im/@carkner/117021352714755930
For those people interested in digital identity , wallets etc., Architecture and Reference Framework for the EU Digital Identity Wallet, version 3.0 has been released.
#EU
My youngest sister was recently diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. She is raising money to support underinsured cancer patients. Please send her some love and contribute if you are interested and able. Thank you!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-lymphoma-researc…
#WritersCoffeeClub 21 Jul
Do your works contain erotic elements? How far do you go?
Interesting question: what counts as 'erotic'?. I'm interested in relationships, often power relationships, between people. That they have sex and how they have sex is important character and narrative information.
So yes, almost all my stories have scenes in which people have…
Gamedev/graphics/graph theory people: right now the filter graph editor (imgui-node-editor) in ngscopeclient uses a simple spline curve when drawing edges from one node to another, ignoring everything in its path (i.e. edges can cross nodes).
Is anyone interested in trying to rework this to add a bit more intelligence to the routing? It needs to be fast with up to a few hundred nodes in a typical worst-case scenario, and generally "stable" (small motions of a node should not …
TikTok users don't have as much agency over their FYPs as they think https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/how-much-control-do-tiktok-users-really-have-over-fyps/
Q&A with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on his vision to "financialize everything", sports betting, Kalshi's "philosophical misalignment" with Polymarket, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.
University of Texas study, for blind or low vision participants: Living in an AI-filtered reality: Participant recruitment & eligibility screening form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfrJaZokMcnv7t0ExHT1hdVZ8dEsgV-AymJxguendMqTKxEZA…
RE: #LibraryJob !
Sources: Netflix is interested in buying Lionsgate and bid on Roku, but the deal would have faced tougher antitrust scrutiny than Fox's (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/16/2026/netflix-wades-into-the-ma-game
Q&A with Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro: he's not interested in spinoffs of ESPN or ABC and says Disney will stand up for ABC's journalistic integrity against the FCC (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/14/first-on…
Most wealthy Americans, and particularly Californians, are interested in residency in a European nation, which affords someone the ability to live or work in more than two dozen countriesin the European Union.
In Europe, the most popular residency programs, firms said, tend to be in Portugal and Malta.
A much less costly way to get European citizenship is by descent. Ireland and Italy, for example, offer citizenship to foreigners if their parents or grandparents were born in or w…
Substack hires former Roku exec Dan Robbins as its first head of brand sponsorships, and launches Creator Kits for publishers interested in brand collaborations (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/15/substack-hires-dan-robbins-brand-sponsorships…