Tootfinder

Found this article quite interesting: #AI #medicine #health

Interesting URL here from the Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-bubble-building-spree-55ee6128?st=dMQAK5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Interesting account of how Ukraine is becoming more reliant on themselves to further prosecute the war.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine
Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands. ​​​

Interesting Name Floated as Trade Fit for Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-braxton-jones-kolton-miller

Interesting, The Cloud Sovereignty Framework defines the European Commission’s criteria, assurance levels (SEAL), and scoring methodology for assessing the sovereignty of cloud services across strategic, legal, operational, and technological dimensions.
#EU #SEAL

Cloud Sovereignty Framework | European Commission

@… @… the clown is interesting there

Interesting testimonies, I wonder what the men* think about "dating in 2025” (whether you're in the USA, like in the article, or elsewhere..)?
Generally, maybe people would be more happy if they paired up with someone else independently of that person's gender, but focusing more on shared values and goals? Our societies are very "husband & wife" - oriented, but they don't have to!
‘Men seem to make life for women worse’: single US women share the woes of dating in 2025

And yet another post talking about mapping my bike rides... this time looking at the very interesting wanderer which is open source and uses ActivityPub!
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/09/26/mapping-bike-rides-part-iv/

Mapping Bike Rides (Part IV)
An open source, self-hosted route mapping solution...

Interesting way to represent uncertain or vague information into #knowledgegraphs (as e.g. easier integration of LLM/Deep Learning Results into KGs) via "Fuzzy OWL". Paper by Fernando Bobillo & Umberto Straccia: Fuzzy Ontology Representation using OWL 2

Fuzzy Ontology Representation using OWL 2
The need to deal with vague information in Semantic Web languages is rising in importance and, thus, calls for a standard way to represent such information. We may address this issue by either extending current Semantic Web languages to cope with vagueness, or by providing a procedure to represent such information within current standard languages and tools. In this work, we follow the latter approach, by identifying the syntactic differences that a fuzzy ontology language has to cope with, and…

Interesting discussion of "protein culture", the latest health trend that's now deeply embedded in most food products.
I myself found I was going a bit overboard with protein til a few months ago. Was getting about 180 grams per day, which is way more than needed. Now I'm down to about 100g per day.
I find few things more American and capitalist than the health and longevity business. I worked with a guy who's big into longevity and the way he talks about …

Interesting policy brief on taking the role of demand in energy security seriously through targeted policies
https://ukerc.ac.uk/publications/uk-energy-security-making-the-most-of-demand-side-measures/

UK Energy Security: Making the Most of Demand-Side Measures
In this policy brief, the authors recommend actively planning for a lower demand energy system, and realising it...

L’ancien bureau du fuséologue @… . C’est vrai que c'était petit ! https://aus.social/@spacelizard/115443905012040189

This was a nice example found by @… of a brickwork tiling that seemed random until someone spotted and shared the pattern - a kind of risset rhythm in brickwork https://forum.alg…

Dallas Cowboys DB is attempting an interesting solution to a major problem https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-db-is-attempting-an-interesting-solution-to-major-problem

Meanwhile Apple are fighting the EU trying to demand they allow sideloading.
Could end up in an interesting situation where Android sideloading becomes banned and Apple ability for sideloading becomes legally mandated.
That is about the only situation I can imagine where I'd switch to iOS.

In recent days, Trump has approved federal disaster aid for the red states of Nebraska, North Dakota, Missouri, and Alaska
while denying it to the blue states of Maryland, Vermont, and Illinois.
The White House has not offeredmeaningful explanations for the discrepancies -- which just happen to punish states that didn’t support him in 2024.
But we noticed something interesting about this whole saga:
In Maryland, the disasters and damage in question severely afflic…

Trump Nixing of Dem State Disaster Aid Backfires, Screwing MAGA Voters
After Trump’s handling of disasters boomerangs on MAGA country, the author of a piece on his retribution against blue America explains how this saga reveals MAGA ideology’s deepest depravities.

Spike Lee doing a reboot of an old Kurosawa movie sounds interesting

I took this picture yesterday. It took two seconds to create it. And it’s way more interesting than anything I could create with AI in the same amount of time.
Also, I think I approve the messages too. I think.

Hm...
This seems interesting.
https://codeberg.org/rozodru/Bridge

Bridge
A Privacy focused and Fediverse integrated fork of Firefox

This blog post might be interesting for some "12 Things I Learned Writing CLI Tools in #Crystal"
https://dev.to/kojix2/12-things-i-learned-writing-cli-tools-in-…

12 Things I Learned Writing CLI Tools in Crystal
I love the Crystal programming language. For the past two or three years, I have been building...

Love how on LWN you can read a really insightful and interesting comment by someone and then somewhere else you can read the same person saying
"Why would someone need [a bootloader]? You can compile the Linux kernel to a UEFI application and boot it directly. Also, ELILO still works."
Course, I do still prefer it to all the places where I only see the latter kinds of comment.

Submitting a potential talk to #DrupalConChicago (at the deadline, as is tradition) and it requires i acknowledge "that all accepted sessions will be presented in person, on-site in Atlanta"
The logistics are going to be interesting.

It's Sunday morning, I have nothing to do, it's raining... Time for some Lo-fi music and to learn something interesting, starting with the #linux tag in the general Mastodon feed 🐧

Trying to build a nice Corsi-Rosenthal style air filter. We have Xiaomi ones but tbh are tbh a bit meh - ok not a surprise to anyone who spent more than 2 minutes googling this topic - been quite interesting.
Got some proper air testers etc. will soon know how it works.
Wonder if there is interest in a few good quality designs in some kind of open hardware project

#abundance g…

Weekend Reads
* Monitoring AS-SETs
https://blog.cloudflare.com/monitoring-as-sets-and-why-they-matter/
* IX LAN broadcast traffic

Monitoring AS-SETs and why they matter
AS-SETs, for better or worse, are critical data sources that help build BGP route filters across the Internet. Because these AS-SET objects are based solely on trust, they can be misused. We will cover some of the reasons why operators need to monitor the AS-SET memberships for their ASN, and now Cloudflare Radar can help.

This is an interesting article about how videos for Will Smith's social media look like AI slop but there's a catch: the fans aren't fake. The origin of those short clips with the deformed faces are real, professional concert photos of an event that happened. They just asked some AI model like Veo3 to turn that still image into moving footage.
This is super creepy and will probably end up being used in all kinds of historical documentaries pretty soon.

A10 - Breakdown
AVON: It's a space laboratory. A permanent research facility financed by a consortium of neutral planets. Two specialist fields: weaponry and space medicine. An interesting combination, don't you think?
JENNA: How do you know all this?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/113…

Row of townhouse apartments at the Maplewood complex on Veterans Place Rd, Ithaca NY
#photo #photography #buildings

Just finished "Twice as Perfect" by Louise Onomé. This is now the third novel I've read by her about a teenage Nigerian-Canadian second-generation immigrant, two of whom deal with some form of family estrangement ("Like Home" and "The Melancholy of Summer" are the other two). I checked it out because I liked her other novels and was not disappointed; in fact I feel like this is her best novel of the three. Dealing with cultural appropriation, both implicitly and explicitly, along with deep family trauma and a bit of romance, "Twice as Perfect" is suspenseful, wise, and heartfelt. It's got a thread of Nigerian Pidgin in it, which I thoroughly enjoyed although I didn't 100% understand, similar in some ways to the sprinkling of Spanish in "Each of Us a Desert", but with even less of an attempt to subtly explain each instance in English, which I don't mind at all.
The 2nd generation immigrant authors writing YA ~romances I've read recently have all been great, including Adiba Jaigirdar, Samira Ahmed, Sabina Khan, and Randa Abdel-Fattah (a slightly different era), and to a lesser extent Romina Garber (I didn't like "Lobizona" quite as much as stuff by these others). It's been super interesting to contrast their stories with those of people like Mark Oshiro, Angie Thomas, Randi Pink, and Angela Velez who talk about American racism from a non-immigrant perspective (perhaps Ahmed is in between the two groups).
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Giants WR Darius Slayton: QB Russell Wilson is 'disgustingly consistent' on and off field https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-wr-darius-slayton-qb-russell-wilson-disgustingly-consistent-on-and-off-field

This was interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYaKoDyIvWA
>China's "Social Credit Score" Isn't What You Think

Interesting.
@… packaged @… with Capacitor 🤔 https://hachyderm.io…

Interesting, "How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us."
#trump

Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

"Hitler personally had more German generals executed than all the Allies combined managed to kill during the entire war. That’s not micromanagement; that’s murder as a management style."
Very interesting thread!
https://infosec.exchange/@masek/115266663243424953

It's been an interesting conference in Aarhus on digital methods in #NeoLatin studies. What I find strinking is that the focus has shifted from text analysis/stylometry to data analysis. There's a rather strong interest now in generating, sharing and reusing data. At least one positive effect of the AI hype.

Interesting 15 min. read from Scientific American:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-quiet-demise-of-breakthrough-starshot-a-billionaires-interstellar
The article reads like a suspense story. The pr…

Dallas Cowboys DB is attempting an interesting solution to a major problem https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-db-is-attempting-an-interesting-solution-to-major-problem

Vertex-partitions of 2-edge-colored graphs
J{\o}rgen Bang-Jensen, Francois Pirot, Anders Yeo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18957 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18…

Vertex-partitions of 2-edge-colored graphs
A {\bf $\mathbf{k}$-majority coloring} of a digraph $D=(V,A)$ is a coloring of $V$ with $k$ colors so that each vertex $v\in V$ has at least as many out-neighbours of color different from its own color as it has out-neighbours with the same color as itself. Majority colorings have received much attention in the last years and many interesting open problems remain. Inspired by this and the fact that digraphs can be modelled via 2-edge-colored graphs we study several problems concerning verte…

Platner in Maine is interesting, isn't he? Will the "of course I'm not a socialist" after saying a lot of very socialist things work on the left as the usual "I'm not a Nazi" works on the right?
We'll see.

Exact non-Lagrangian Schur index in closed form
Yiwen Pan, Peihe Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20439 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20439

Exact non-Lagrangian Schur index in closed form
The Schur index is a powerful tool to probe the spectrum and dualities of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs), deeply related to 2d vertex operator algebras (VOAs). In this paper, we compute the Schur index in closed form for two series of non-Lagrangian theories. We explore and classify the Argyres-Douglas (AD) theories $D_p^b(\mathfrak{sl}_N,[Y])$ realized as the $SU(2)$ gauging of two AD matter theories, where we identify several infinite families with interesting centra…

I KNEW IT @… https://connectified.com/@masukomi/115426443294469642

It is fascinating to see how Poland 🇵🇱, once an unlikely leader in the energy transition, is increasingly giving the green light to smart use of renewable energy.
Dynamic energy contracts make smart energy use attractive to consumers. Supportive optional network tariffs offer an additional boost.
🧵 below, and as one LinkedIn post here:

What makes developments in Poland 🇵🇱 around dynamic tariffs interesting for other European countries to consider is the innovation that has also been set in motion in distribution network tariffs… | Jaap Burger | 15 comments
What makes developments in Poland 🇵🇱 around dynamic tariffs interesting for other European countries to consider is the innovation that has also been set in motion in distribution network tariffs. Today marks exactly one year since dynamic energy tariffs became available from all major energy suppliers in Poland. This obligation stems from the EU Electricity Directive 2019, which gives consumers throughout the European Union the right to choose such a tariff (and also applies to other Eu…

thats it. i no longer have any respect for dan hentschel or anna or this entire way of comedy. i just shit these out naturally as breathing and watch em get more love than plenty of my better posts, did most of em at once and just scheduled em to go off throughout the day. ive seen these formats too much. if u "run out of ideas" thats a skill issue. i wanna go back to saying things that are interesting

@… I’m not here to argue, I just want to add that I think it’s interesting how perspective can make the same events look differently.
Growing up as a child in Central Europe, my understanding was always that Hitler putting a bullet in his head is what ended the war.
The Japanese/American conflict was more of a sideshow. I would never have c…

I was interviewed by Kim for her @… Website about my criticism/approach. It was neat to think about how I approach things, maybe it's interesting to you, I enjoyed thinking about the questions a lot.
https://

Stop Gen AI (@stopgenai@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image For my latest interview for Stop Gen AI's Anti Gen AI Heroes, I interviewed @tante@tldr.nettime.org a hacker, a luddite, and a communist. We have so much in common! But he definitely codes way better than I can. Anti Gen AI Heroes: tante moves slow and fixes stuff https://stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-heroes-tante-moves-slow-and-fixes-stuff/ Share, share! #AntiAI #GenAI

The Barrow entropies in the thermodynamics of high-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet black holes
Yuxuan Shi, Hongbo Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18926 https://a…

The Barrow entropies in the thermodynamics of high-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet black holes
We study the thermodynamics of $D$-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet black holes with Barrow entropy. It is found that the Gauss-Bonnet coupling and the Barrow factor revise the thermodynamic variables such as event horizon, Hawking temperature, entropy and heat capacity. It is interesting that the larger five-dimensional black holes exist stably and the smaller ones evaporate to disappear owing to the nature of heat capacities amended by the coupling and factor. The discussions exhibit that the $D$-dim…

I am seeking speakers for my @… & @… meetups. We prefer in-person presentations in Frankfurt or the Mannheim area, but remote talks are also an option.
If you have anything interesting to share with us, let us know. We'd be …

When you work with animals and have dogs at home, routine sniffspections are required.

Attended a very interesting talk about #Claude #Desktop app from https://claude.ai/download by @…

Calculating the power spectrum in stochastic inflation by Monte Carlo simulation and least squares curve fitting
Koichi Miyamoto, Yuichiro Tada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17654 …

Calculating the power spectrum in stochastic inflation by Monte Carlo simulation and least squares curve fitting
The stochastic-$δ\mathcal{N}$ formalism is widely used to study inflation models in which the quantum diffusion of inflatons dominates the background dynamics, leading to interesting phenomena such as the production of primordial black holes. Among numerical approaches to calculate the curvature perturbation spectrum $\mathcal{P}_ζ(k)$ in this formalism, the Monte Carlo simulation-based approach has been proposed as a promising choice, especially in multifield cases. In this approach, we gene…

I got into the rabbit hole that is the youtube channel "Scary Interesting". It's basically just a calmly-narrated podcast about diving and cave exploration accidents. It's 50% about naive people who had it coming and 50% about ultra-experienced cave divers who died anyways.

Starting to set up the framing of the north wall of the new workshop. Two interesting problems here:
1. Am I going to want a large door in this wall? I think I can't have one, because I want either the east or the west wall to be removable to allow more light and space in summer; but I really need to think about this!
2. The shape of the foundation is very squint. Consequently, although the north and south walls will be parallel, the east and west won't. I have some int…

#3goodthings
1. It looks like we've found a nice care home for Mum, within walking distance of the house.
2. All the walking to and fro the cottage hospital is doing wonders for Dad, body and mind, and he's generally handling the whole situation amazingly and in line with my approach, which is a huge relief.
3. Two of my most interesting relatives are coming down in …

Emergent topology of flat bands in a twisted bilayer $\alpha$-$T_3$ lattice
Gourab Paul, Srijata Lahiri, Kuntal Bhattacharyya, Saurabh Basu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18657 http…

Emergent topology of flat bands in a twisted bilayer $α$-$T_3$ lattice
We investigate an interesting interplay of destructive interference due to lattice geometry and band folding due to enlargement of the Brillouin zone in generating and subsequently modifying the band topology in a twisted bilayer $α$-$T_3$ system. The pronounced degeneracy of the emergent flat band in the dice limit of the $α$-$T_3$ lattice is removed on alignment with h-BN layers, resulting in the formation of sub-bands with varying topological characteristics. Remarkably, while the sub-band…

Interesting sidenote: the US ambassador to France is a convicted felon who served two years in prison.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/08/24/us-ambassador-accuses-fr…

US ambassador accuses France of 'lack of sufficient action' on antisemitism
Charles Kusher, the new United States ambassador to France, sent a letter to President Emmanuel Macron criticizing France's plan to recognize the State of Palestine, days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a similar move.

Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald suggests plans for backup QB Jalen Milroe to have packages with starting offense

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seah…

@… I don’t use Red Hat, but I think this would be a really interesting series, and I’d read it.

This looks interesting so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JBeKIqBSoo
>When is it Fascism？

Cyclic frames in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces
Ole Christensen, Navneet Redhu, Niraj K. Shukla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17088 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Cyclic frames in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces
Generalizing a definition by Kalra \cite{Kalra}, the purpose of this paper is to analyze cyclic frames in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. Cyclic frames form a subclass of the dynamical frames introduced and analyzed in detail by Aldroubi et al. in \cite{ACM} and subsequent papers; they are particularly interesting due to their attractive properties in the context of erasure problems. By applying an alternative approach, we are able to shed new light on general dynamical frames as well as…

DeMarvion Overshown drops interesting quote on Micah Parsons, Cowboys trade https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/demarvion-overshown-drops-interesting-quote-micah-parsons-cowboys-trade

A note on Cybenko's Universal Approximation Theorem
Kun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18893 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18893

A note on Cybenko's Universal Approximation Theorem
In this short note, we point out a mistake in G.Cybenko's proof of his version of the universal approximation theorem which has been widely cited. This mistake might not be easily fixable along the idea of his proof and it also leads to an interesting question in measure theory.

Experimental Results for Vampire on the Equational Theories Project
Mikol\'a\v{s} Janota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15856 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15…

Experimental Results for Vampire on the Equational Theories Project
Equational Theories Project is a collaborative effort, which explores the validity of certain first-order logic implications of certain kind. The project has been completed but triggered further research. This report investigates how much can be automatically proven and disproven by the automated theorem prover Vampire. An interesting conclusion is that Vampire can prove all the considered implications that hold and also is able to refute a vast majority of those that do not hold.

Always interesting to see who defends whom in the press: "Gray, a former literary editor of the American Conservative and deputy editor of the Catholic Herald..."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/

Always interesting to see who defends whom in the press: "Gray, a former literary editor of the American Conservative and deputy editor of the Catholic Herald..."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/

Very interesting origin story of Scipy/Numpy which is the foundation of so much #ML stuff and why Python became the dominant language for ML / #AI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xhai2iu_QY

A similar trend is reported in Italy. Is violent crime becoming more violent and international? Is "someone" (a state actor perhaps?) flooding the black market with weapons?
Overall violent crime has been falling for decades pretty much everywhere in Europe so it's interesting to see these trends

Raiders' Greg Olson Gives Perspective on QB Room https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-greg-olson-cam-miller-geno-smith-pete-carroll

I posted something less than sufficiently anti-AI for the audience and got some thoughtful argument and some "AI is terrible and stupid and doesn't work" replies. I understand the anti-AI sentiment but I regret the shallowness of so many replies. To claim that LLMs are completely useless is deliberately ignorant. There are lots of interesting critiques of LLMs: copyright, human agency, effectiveness, privacy, even existential threats. "I hate this new thing I don't understand" is a bad start to a conversation.

Unveiling the landscape of Mottness and its proximity to superconductivity in 4Hb-TaS$_2$
Ping Wu, Zhuying Wang, Yunmei Zhang, Ziyan Chen, Shuikang Yu, Wanru Ma, Min Shan, Zeyu Liang, Xiaoyu Wei, Junzhe Wang, Wanlin Cheng, Zuowei Liang, Xuechen Zhang, Tao Wu, Yoshinari Okada, Kun Jiang, Zhenyu Wang, Xianhui Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.…

Unveiling the landscape of Mottness and its proximity to superconductivity in 4Hb-TaS$_2$
Mott physics is at the root of a plethora of many-body quantum phenomena in quantum materials. Recently, the stacked or twisted structures of van der Waals (vdW) materials have emerged as a unique platform for realizing exotic correlated states in the vicinity of the Mott transition. However, the definitive feature of Mottness and how it rules the low-energy electronic state remain elusive and experimentally inaccessible in many interesting regimes. Here, we quantitatively describe a filling-co…

A short but interesting summary:
“Balkan Rhythms in Celtic Music”
https://www.fiddlingaround.co.uk/balkan rhythms.html
(Though it isn’t immediately obvious, from a long while back Balkan rhythms have often strongly informed my approach to rhythmic
progra…

Some interesting ideas here. Though I'm still interested in the debate over the effectiveness on de-platforming. Seems like it does work some times but doesn't work others and seems like we need a deeper understanding of the nuance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeHviTKEqSo
Ho…

While this is mostly to be expected, it's interesting that language & location don't matter, "AI" sucks for "summarizing" news (or anything) regardless:
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

We ( @… and I) just released Hummingbird Macrorouting v0.2.3 with a #Swift 6.2 concurrency fix.
Also paves the way for a small API change coming up in v0.3.0.
(Yes, this is only potentially interesting to like 3 of you, max (-; )

GitHub - sloatescoan/hummingbird-macrorouting: Macro based routing for Hummingbird
Macro based routing for Hummingbird. Contribute to sloatescoan/hummingbird-macrorouting development by creating an account on GitHub.

Finished my review and configuration guide of the Lilygo T-Deck Plus Meshtastic / LoRa radio. (This time with specs!)
All-in-all it's an interesting device, though the lack of a functional bluetooth radio while it's active is a real limiting factor in my use case, (as a personal radio that I can also use to remote admin other radios).
Anyway, see the full article if you're interested in more details; boosts/shares/comments are always welcome!

Review of Lilygo T-Deck Plus w/ Meshtastic
The Meshtastic project aims at offering text communication and low-bandwidth data across long distances without relying on any centralized third parties or corporate infrastructure, but most devices require a cell phone or laptop to actually interact with that network. The Lilygo T-Deck resolves this by offering an all-in-one product with a LoRa radio, GPS, and most importantly a full color touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard.

Interesting 25min documentary about the many glaring conceptual/environmental/social issues of "The Line", the monstrous, 180km long, dystopian megacity being planned/built in Saudi Arabia...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-jtIRvmbsk
(Some minor argumentative/perspective iss…

Cute art style. Not -terribly- hard right now, but we'll see how it gets tweaked. Has some good / interesting mechanics in it. Give it a whirl and let the developer know your feedback (survey link pops if you complete a game)

Interesting "shoe on the other foot" angle:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25487128.minister-refuses-say-holyrood-loss-means-keir-starmer-go/

TL;DR: Just keep using ext4 🙂
Linux 6.17 File-System Benchmarks, Including OpenZFS & Bcachefs - Phoronix
#Linux

Linux 6.17 File-System Benchmarks, Including OpenZFS & Bcachefs
Linux 6.17 is an interesting time to carry out fresh file-system benchmarks given that EXT4 has seen some scalability improvements while Bcachefs in the mainline kernel is now in a frozen state.

Seems like there are 2 kinds of reviews for "House of Dynamite" (Netflix). Either it's amazing or it's a misfire.
It had me glued to the screen which rarely happens with Netflix movies nowadays. I liked it.
But it's interesting to see that the movie industry seems to gloss over the fact that Donald Trump exists in just the same way as they glossed over the fact that there was a pandemic.

Today's bike ride to work had two interesting interaction.
First one, I arrived at a 4 way stop, small sedan to the right of me waved me on, even though it was their turn.
Second one, giant-ass white pickup truck ignored me going through intersection where I had no stop sign and they did, and just make their left turn as I was in the middle of the intersection.
Like, dude, you couldn't have made a full stop and waited like 10 seconds?

Interesting RTE analysis on the 🇫🇷 electricity spot market prices in the first half of 2025 (and first half of 2024). A clear 'canard'🦆
These are the average prices, which also include the winter months. But this new reality is barely reflected in retail prices.

Day 29: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
I've been sitting on Simpson for a while because there's some overlap in her writing with Robin Wall Kimmerer, and I've had a lot of different genres/styles/subjects/media I've wanted to post at least one author from. But I've now hit repeats on at least YA romance and manga, and Simpson's writing is actually quite different from Kimmerer's in a lot of ways. While Kimmerer is a biologist by training and literally braids that knowledge together with her knowledge of Potawatomi cosmology and ethics, Simpson is an Anishinaabe philosopher and anarchist, and her position as a scholar of Indigenous philosophy adds a different depth to her work: she talks in more depth about knowledge relationships and her connections with specific elders, and she has more citations to other Indigenous theorists, which is the one criticism I've ever seen of Kimmerer's work. Rather than being Indigenous and a scientist, she's Indigenous and a scholar of indigenous studies.
I've only read "Theory of Water" by Simpson, but it was excellent, and especially inspiring to read as an anarchist. Simpson's explicit politics are another difference from Kimmerer's work, which is more implicitly than explicitly political. This allows Simpson to draw extremely interesting connections to other anarchist theorists and movements. "Theory of Water" is probably a bit less accessible than "Braiding Sweetgrass," but it's richer from a theory perspective as a result.
In any case, Simpson is a magnificent writer, sharing personal insights and stories along with (and inseparable from) her theoretical ideas.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Phase Coherent Transport in Two-Dimensional Tellurium Flakes
Mohammad Hafijur Rahaman, Nathan Sawyers, Mourad Benamara, Trudie Culverhouse, Repaka Maheswar, Qiyuan He, Hugh Churchill, Dharmraj Kotekar Patil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19241

Phase Coherent Transport in Two-Dimensional Tellurium Flakes
Elemental tellurium (Te) is a compelling van der Waals material due to its interesting chiral crystal structure and predicted topological properties. Here, we report the fabrication and comprehensive quantum transport study of devices based on Te flakes with varying thicknesses. We demonstrate a hole mobility reaching up to 1000 cm2/V.s in a 17 nm thick flake at 30 Kelvin. At deep cryogenic temperatures (< 50mK), the transport characteristics transition from Coulomb blockade in the low carrier …

Added a lot more detail to my /uses/ timeline, including software/hardware/consumer gear. Interesting to see what stuff has lasted the longest.
https://www.zachleat.com/uses/#uses-timeline

Hah - interesting that this was considered newsworthy: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/576752/picton-man-uses-electric-car-to-cook-hot-breakfast-amid-power-outages during the ongoing windstorm that's knocked out po…

Higher-Spin Poisson Sigma Models and Holographic Duality for SYK Models
Xavier Bekaert, Alexey Sharapov, Evgeny Skvortsov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19964 https://

Higher-Spin Poisson Sigma Models and Holographic Duality for SYK Models
SYK models provide an interesting playground for exploring the $AdS_2/CFT_1$ correspondence. We focus on a class of SYK models that exhibit higher-spin symmetry, whose gravity sector is described by a BF theory generalizing Jackiw--Teitelboim gravity to higher spins. We further develop this framework by constructing consistent interactions between higher-spin gauge fields and scalar matter fields. Two concrete realizations are proposed: Model A, arising from a deformation of the universal envel…

Raiders Land in Interesting Spot in Week 3's On SI Power Ranking https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-geno-smith-maxx-crosby-adam-butler

The most interesting stats from Sunday's NFL special teams bonanza https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6651999/2025/09/22/nfl-stats-special-teams-blocked-kicks-game-winners/

Interesting article about EU car-industry,
https://www.cer.eu/publications/archive/policy-brief/2025/how-buy-european-rules-can-help-save-europes-car-industry

Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen

@… yeah, it’s only a matter of time before Bluesky flips the switch to monetize — it will be interesting to see if algorithmic customization will be enough to survive the same problems that plague every ad-supported network (my hunch is no)

1 Thing Raiders WR Jakobi Meyers Would Benefit From https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/jakobi-meyers-pete-carroll-john-spytek-las-vegas

Nerds like me read these kind of “post-mortems”, about the Amazon outage, interesting cascade of faults. #amazon

Another interesting video essay by Patrick Willems. This time it's about the Daniel Craig years of the Bond franchise and how every Bond movie seems to be motivated by two things: the cultural "mood" at the time and the urge to react to how the audience reacted to the previous instalment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

This is an interesting graph from an interesting Amber Electric blog, showing what participating households pay (or rather, receive) for electricity as part of their 🇦🇺 #V2G trial. Note that here are already three CCS DC bidirectional chargers on offer!

I just read RFC 2119 which defines those uppercase words (MUST, SHOULD) that are used in Internet standards. The interesting thing about translating these, at least when translating to German, is this: must = muss (like in "this is a law you must follow") but "must not" ≠ "muss nicht". What is a prohibition in English turns into a lax "you don't need to do this, this doesn't have to happen" in German when both words are translated literally.

Interesting blog about creating a fully encrypted cloud storage on nextcloud.
https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/encrypted-private-nextcloud-VPS-and-storagebox

Nextcloud with fully encrypted storage
This tutorial shows how to setup your own Nextcloud following the recommended AIO approach, storing data encrypted on disk and using Hetzner's Storage Box.