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An interesting social media datapoint: @… and I recently posted about our new research:

All kinds of issues and adjustments are popping up and will be popping up as we go through AI integration into our lives. This was an interesting read: https://x.com/MarcJSchmidt/status/2009688028931875156
This was especially interesting: Look at Tailwind: "75 million d…

The two best feelings in the world are:
1. Helping another person
2. Learning something new
Interesting how both big tech with “AI” and “conservatives” do not want you to do either.

Interesting alert from CISA
Poland Energy Sector Cyber Incident Highlights OT and ICS Security Gaps
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2026/02/10/poland-energy-sector-cyber-incident-highlights-ot-and-ics-sec…

An interesting 4-part series of articles about ore formation processes (published on Hackaday, of all places):
Introduction And Magmatic Processes
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/13/ore-formation-introduction-and-magmatic-processes/
Hydro…

Interesting how Poetiq (company) can improve on the performance of the standard Gemini 3.0 Pro model by adding refinements and tricks. It leads to a 9% improvement on the ARC-AGI-2 Benchmark.
https://poetiq.ai/posts/arcagi_verified/

I used to work in an industry that was very interesting to me, and involved a lot of creativity, but as time went on and the company I was at changed I felt I no longer fit there, doing the sort of work they were pursuing with the people who ran things, so I found a way out.
That "way out" caused me a lot of pain and heartache, and set me back financially for a decade, but I'm still glad I got out because I cannot imagine what life would have been for me if I just stayed.…

Despite the obviousness of the larger conclusion (“LLMs don’t give accurate medical advice”), this passage is…if not surprising, exactly, at least really really interesting.
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A Slew of Interesting #Amicus Briefs Filed in Support of Mississippi's Argument That It Can Count Timely Postmarked Ballots Arriving After Election Day in #SCOTUS Watson Case - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=153773

I've been on a business event / meet up.
It was really good, met a couple of interesting people and had really good conversations. It was good to just speak with strangers.

Today two very interesting posts using share.google links; that I otherwise would have boosted.
Why would anyone go through extra motions to grant our Google Overlords even more control than they already have?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115863213424947900
Interesting 🤔 https://emojipedia.org/flag-for-…

Reading very interesting low level porn in the morning, probably means I'll have a very good day.
Thank you for writting it.

Very interesting article on thermal storage. Touches on many points:
https://www.euractiv.com/news/bricks-and-sand-are-the-next-big-thing-in-europes-energy-transition/

A post from the archive 📫:
Invalid Access to memory location in KUDU App Services
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/invalid-access-to-memory-location-in-kudu-app-services

This is really interesting b/c of the framing we're always given for the Roman Empire vs the middle ages:
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jdraper-the-collapse-of-the-roman-empire-or-why-were-medieval-people-mor…

My wife likes bear things, and she bought a pack of stickers with some truly excellent things on them

Hard to say if these figures are accurate of course but very interesting. https://www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01-20-cc-impact/

One of the things that is interesting doing mass encodes is verifying all of the little things that can just mess everything up. If you're pulling in stuff like 3rd-party subtitles, then you have to verify the timing of the subtitles and adjust as necessary. Even better, if those are SubStation Alpha subtitles, you have to verify if the style fonts get added as attachments to the MKV file.
And if it's across something like a TV show, you definitely need to do this for every e…

Science That's Actually Interesting
A fun, light-hearted deep dive into topics from climate and environment to health, technology, space and human behaviour. Informative, entertaining and refreshingly human, this is science for curious listeners who love stories and want to stay curious about the world...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory:

Also in Asterisk: an interesting article about the history of the DSM-5, and its critics.
> The psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams captures this concern with unusual clarity in her 2021 essay “Diagnosis and Its Discontents.” She reflects on a shift that began with the release of DSM-III, when psychiatry embraced a more descriptive, symptom-based diagnostic model. The change, she notes, quietly restructured how people speak about themselves in therapy. Once, a client might enter the roo…

@… and
@… might like this.
I think this is interesting, from "Frontiers in Neuroscience" mag. New "HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article" by Joachim Keppler, head of Department of Consciousness …

Raiders' Maxx Crosby isn't closing the door on interesting career change https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-maxx-crosby-isnt-closing-door-interesting-career-c…

"Riders on the Storm" global collaboration via Playing for Change. (Not the best cover the organization has done, but... interesting.)
#TheDoors

Bobby Hutcherson - "Montara" (1975)
#NowPlaying

I did skim through a Python GTK Adwaita tutorial in the last few days. Besides stumbling over some deprecations here and there it worked really well so far. For some stuff I needed to look up other projects how they solved my current issues. It's interesting how more experienced developers structured their code to layout their applications' windows. And it's interesting that I begin to understand what's going on in the code.

What's next for Kliff Kingsbury? The most interesting man in NFL coaching search has number of options

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/whats-n

Why and How to write… interesting read…
https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/06/a7ce8

In 2-3 years, the vast majority of the TAs we have will not really have programmed themselves, which is going to make programming education rather interesting (*in addition to* all the other ways it's become interesting).

I will confess that out of morbid curiosity, I'd find it interesting to watch the entire process of someone generating a novel using AI. I feel like the prompt would end up being as long as a decent synopsis.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026…

Cowboys Face Interesting Question if George Pickens’ Contract Exceeds CeeDee Lamb https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-interesting-question-george-pickens-contract-exceeds-ceedee-lamb

The CTO of Amazon's Zoox says the company plans to start charging for rides in Las Vegas in early 2026 and is focused on transporting people, not deliveries (Amanda Gerut/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/08/amazon-robotaxi-service-zoox-plan…

idea: add #llm support to #syslog so when nothing interesting is happening then it generates some exciting log entries, and if something interesting is happening it hides in the noise. just to keep SoC people entertained.
#tormentnexus

@… Ok, so I went off on a tangent for no reason. I hope it really was vaguely interesting and you were not just being polite. 😜
Yes, in summary you confused GNU tar and since it cannot make zip files, it did it's best fallback (just made an uncompressed tar). Then in turn the .zip extension confused Windows.
So it was, your fault! Sor…

When AirBnB started out I thought "What a great idea! A platform to enable people with a spare room to connect with budget travellers who want simple, inexpensive short-term accommodation." Using it back then, it felt kind of like in-person social media, as you could meet really interesting people that you'd never find otherwise.
But then came the keyboxes, the party flats, the whole-house lets, people running multiple places, hidden cameras and all the rest.
Today t…

Picus Security, an interesting security vendor I only recently became aware of, has a report out on the Fog Ransomware group. An easy protective control to put in place based on this group's TTPs is to block *.netlify.app. This is the domain used by Netlify's free tier apps and is being abused. Note that most legitimate business customers of Netlify will use their own domains to access Netlify apps, so blocking their free tier domain is not likely to impact your users.

TIL: Besides UTC, there also is TAI – Temps Atomics International aka International Atomic Time. And well … TAI currently is UTC 37s 🤯
For other interesting things about time, computer time and time protocols, I highly recommend the talk on PTP from last years #39C3:

https://www.tumblr.com/compneuropapers/804925196783976448/interesting-papers-for-week-2-2026?source=share

@… I'm using groups.io for the first time. (I know! Sorry, I usually avoid mailing lists.) It's very good, thank you for running this valuable service.
I found the locked topics feature very interesting. It never occurred to me to have that in a mailing list, since the underlying tech doesn't allow it. Does it work well in practice? Do people use it? The group I'm on uses it extensively.

@…
At the corporate event everyone is wearing a name tag with your title and the company you work for. Guests are circling each other trying to read the name tag and see if you're interesting enough to talk to. Almost no one is there to simply socialize. They are trying to sell you something, sway your opinion, or add your details to their records for future use. In the background the conference has a software app that allows attendees to track and target each other. The goal is to add as many people as possible to your network, or insert yourself into their contact list. It's rare to make a new friend.

It is an interesting data point that the "resonant computing" thing was pushed on Bluesky by a lot of people and it's basically non-existent on the Fediverse.

This is a human-curated small selection of interesting accounts to help you get started on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
Once you follow a few people on a particular topic, you will discover even more people through all the posts they share etc.
For more info on how to follow the accounts listed, see the Help section
https://fedi.directory/

Can anyone suggest anything interesting that I can do with a Zucchini? I have a couple spare after doing a mediterranean roast.
#vegan

@… Yyy, I can't wait to see progress and how @… approaches for a next winter - I find that very interesting to track :)

If I see well - that's charging controller most likely is PWM SOL-20S …

Just peeking a little (only a little) into the rabbit hole. Just random picks.
EFTA02600088.pdf
dude: "should we setup or assume you've got opengpg capabilities for secure mail?"
#epstein: open pgp? WAT
The Snowden part is also interesting.
Related:

Unsplittable Transshipments
Srinwanti Debgupta, Sarah Morell, Martin Skutella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07230 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07230 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.07230
arXiv:2602.07230v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce the Unsplittable Transshipment Problem in directed graphs with multiple sources and sinks. An unsplittable transshipment routes given supplies and demands using at most one path for each source-sink pair. Although they are a natural generalization of single source unsplittable flows, unsplittable transshipments raise interesting new challenges and require novel algorithmic techniques. As our main contribution, we give a nontrivial generalization of a seminal result of Dinitz, Garg, and Goemans (1999) by showing how to efficiently turn a given transshipment $x$ into an unsplittable transshipment $y$ with $y_a<x_a d_{\max}$ for all arcs $a$, where $d_{\max}$ is the maximum demand (or supply) value. Further results include bounds on the number of rounds required to satisfy all demands, where each round consists of an unsplittable transshipment that routes a subset of the demands while respecting arc capacity constraints.
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Revised comment on the paper titled "The Origin of Quantum Mechanical Statistics: Insights from Research on Human Language
Miko{\l}aj Sienicki, Krzysztof Sienicki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07881 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07881 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07881
arXiv:2512.07881v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This short note comments on \citet{Aerts2024Origin}, which proposes that ranked word frequencies in texts should be read through the lens of Bose--Einstein (BE) statistics and even used to illuminate the origin of quantum statistics in physics. The core message here is modest: the paper offers an interesting analogy and an eye-catching fit, but several key steps mix physical claims with definitions and curve-fitting choices. We highlight three such points: (i) a normalization issue that is presented as "bosonic enhancement", (ii) an identification of rank with energy that makes the BE fit only weakly diagnostic of an underlying mechanism, and (iii) a baseline comparison that is too weak to support an ontological conclusion. We also briefly flag a few additional concerns (interpretation drift, parameter semantics, and reproducibility).
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I’m not a mountain biker, but this is an interesting take on ebikes from someone who is one. (I am an ebike rider.)
https://bikerumor.com/ebike-opinion-just-because-i-ride-an-e-bike-doesnt-mean-i-am-lazy/

Very interesting reflections on how AI slop is overtaking influencers. It seems to me that most shortcomings of slop mentioned here are going to get overcome (under the assumption that money poured continues to be practically unlimited). Probably the one that is not mentioned here but is going to stay, is the lack of integrity across video cuts.

Interesting comment...
(Via @… on BS )

Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11194
Super interesting work 😍
> "an attacker could extract private information such as the online and activity status of a victim, e.g., screen on/off. More…

It's #EmacsConf #2025! I didn't watch live but I'm catching up. I found this interesting because it outlines 3 very different ways to interact with #llm's. I must admit I'm not yet confident enough to hand over the keys to an agent until I'm satisfied with the sandboxing.

<…

On another unspecified social media, I joined a photography challenge called '52 flickers'. I'm supposed to take and post one photograph per week for the entirety of 2026. No archives, no backups, no spares, no descriptions - just a photo of any topic taken on a given week.
I typically shun this kind of challenges for millions of reasons, but since I take photos almost everyday, I decided to give it a shot. But to make it more interesting for myself, I decided not to use the most frequent categories of photos, i.e. reportage or stock.
Adding a thread here for backup purposes. Always tagging as [#]52flickers2026.
Here goes 👇
#photography #52flickers2026

#GiftLink Very interesting...and highly provocative:
Opinion | Seven Pages of a Sealed Watergate File Sat Undiscovered. Until Now. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/opinion/trump-nixon-watergate-radford.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K1A.lCND.GXxIUJb4vnHI&smid=url-share

This morning's @electrive.net newsletter contains some highly interesting news: the first German court case on discriminatory pricing at public EV charging stations. This practice is forbidden by the 🇪🇺 #AFIR regulation, as covered extensively.
In this case, the German CPO EWE Go charged much [🧵1/7]
#EV

Dark Visitors is now Known Agents.
A very interesting name change … 🤔
https://knownagents.com/

If #Greenland has grasped that who operates your critical infrastructure is important, why not Europe?
Excellent interesting post by @cryopolitics.com as ever.
#DigitalSovereignty
https://www.cryopolitics.com/2025/12/04/as-greenland-rejects-starlink-china-and-russia-tighten-military-ties/

RE: https://flipboard.com/@musicradar/musicradar-0aq0nt32z/-/a-s3KRAUnsQYeGRxbag8cJsQ:a:2568902113-/0
Interesting. Logic Pro number one, Steinberg's Spectralayers number two.

Interesting that the UK Government is happy to release #mandelson files yet has blocked the release of #andrewmountbattenwindsor files during his 10 year tenure as trade envoy 2001-2011 until 2065!

The interesting thing about Venezuela and Trump, is that we still want to see all the Epstein files.

This is interesting. Normally I dislike left-side PBLs, but next to a bus lane it makes more sense. #PDX #SafeStreets #ProtectedBikeLanes

I had not been following the news out of the Bennu asteroid but this is some very interesting stuff!
#space

@… I don't think there's any point of reference, I'm simply reminded of a very interesting mulberry tree that an old friend and I once discovered close to a similar wall.
We had never seen a mulberry tree before. There were loads of birds in the area, the tree was laden with berries, plus masses of berries on the ground beneath it. We didn't…

Just fixed an interesting and subtle shader performance bug.
Here I'm trying to recover a clock from a PAM-3 signal which consists of two consecutive filter blocks: the PAM edge detector (find level crossings and interpolate, accounting for the fact that the threshold changes depending on start/end symbol), and then the CDR PLL proper.
If you're not familiar with NSight Systems especially on complex multithreaded applications, there's a lot going on here even though I…

Interesting that we’re both 50 years ahead of 1976 and also in many ways 50 years before 1976

Interesting take on the 'AI bubble' - what about this perspective? #economy #AI
https://youtu.be/21e5GZF3yx0?si=VQ0m9…

People often struggle to find good follows on Fedi. I just realized I have a great resource for this: the list of everyone I've cited for the Product Picnic newsletter over the past year and a bit!
If your feed feels "dead" or not interesting, inject some active #UX #tech

Just finished "Breadcrumbs" by Kasia Babis. A super interesting graphic novel about growing up in 2000's and 2010's Poland. It's autobiographical, which naturally means lots of plot threads without clear resolutions (they aren't plot threads after all, they're real events). Lots of interesting info on Polish history and politics, which showed me way more than the occasional glimpses I get through social media.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Ranking best Super Bowl halftime performances ever: A look at the most iconic and memorable moments

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/best-super-bowl-halftime-shows/

Super interesting video about the prosthetics for the Ghoul on Fallout. It doesn't go into the VFX of removing the nose but the multi-part "rubber mask" part alone is really elaborate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldq8_ZHaqd4

Fun new piece of information. Google search results now include this text (I think it took less than an hour), but the LLM still doesn't know what a "walowadick" is.
This gives us a bit of signal, and we'll get some more as time goes on. Some of my other pieces, like the "towards a fractal anarchism" post on dbzer0 (https://slrpnk.net/post/18413750) has shown up in LLM results, but it seems like it took several weeks or maybe months.
So I'm guessing there are some regular encoding jobs, probably no more often than once every few months. It'll be interesting to get that signal and see what happens. I'd also be surprised if there isn't some kind of prioritization based on hits, but, again, we'll see what signal we get.

Interesting:
#NebulaTV

RE: #ai

Only one way to go here, always forward... just as in life!
(This is the equally stunning & adventurous ridge between Feigenkopf and Große Klammspitze, the summit ahead, almost touching the clouds — if you zoom in, you can just about make out the summit cross... One of my fave hikes ever. Picture is from early May 2022)
#SilentSunday

Oh. @… is thinking about moving over to Linux. I always felt him to be more tech-focused than others but I find it interesting how it comes up more and more even in gaming spaces.
(https://

The first thing I saw on the fediverse this morning had the effect of putting a song in my head.
It's noon now and the song is still there so better just listen to it!
So here's an interesting orchestral version I never heard before
11 - Lilium - Elfen Lied - Symphony of Fate

• YouTube

”What’s changed” is, billionaires like Jeff Bezos have realized they don’t need American news media to manufacture consent for them. Their societal role has been so diminished by other means, including other billionaire projects, that Bezos no longer needs The Post.

I admit, I am seriously wondering about the RTX 5070 Ti, compared to the RX 9070 XT. But these results clearly, and bafflingly, show its advantages lay in 4x frame gen. Ray tracing? Sure, in a handful of Nvidia titles that snub AMD. DLSS? 99% of these games can be modded to FSR 4. Longevity between the two cards is an interesting question. And I don't believe Nvidia has much room for next gen improvement.
RTX 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7 9800X3D | Tested in 15 games

A quick comparison using `hyperfine` for some benchmarking on the #adventofcode 2025 Day 1 solution. Not too shabby for any of the solutions, and its interesting to compare them.
#rust #nim

Andy Reid has interesting message about Chiefs' urgency at 6-6 after Cowboys loss https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/news/andy-reid-has-interesting-message-abo…

From Dreamhouse to Nightmare? The Real Barbie Story Is Dark: as told in Tarpley Hitt’s rollicking “Barbieland,” the rise of America’s doll alter ego is much messier and more interesting than any movie.
https://archive.ph/4wKUJ

It's interesting that all the press coverage of a police raid of cyberscammers in Bihar, India emphasizes that the majority of the people arrested were women.
15 women among 22 held for cyber fraud in Bihar
https://www.ptinews.com/story/national/15-

Interesting read, it illustrates the challenge we have with regard to learning in a world with AI. We have to take measures for that because use of AI in coding is not going away and will only increase.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

15.6 kWh solar generation today, new record (unsurprisingly... the days are getting longer plus we are having a sunny spell).
This month so far, production has averaged around 10% of my consumption although I expect both to be climbing soon (my big scope is back from service, and spring is coming next month) so it'll be interesting to see what happens after that.
Total YTD production is 194.8 kWh although that includes 12 days of zero production with the system offline betwee…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@netresec/115667037971483700
This brings a really interesting prevention opportunity for businesses with web security proxies in place (Zscaler, Netskope, NGFW's, etc.) Enforce the use of TLS 1.2 or higher. This might be …

FYI @… has the updated borders (I use @…)! Interesting video:
Nebula:

1 Eyebrow-Raising Suggestion for Raiders' HC Search https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-eyebrow-raising-suggestion-hc-search

Welcome to #TextModeTuesday! For the next few weeks I'll be posting some projects & experiments related to this just spontaneously made up hashtag. If you've got something related to interesting text-based art/experiments, patterns, ASCII-art, ANSI-art etc. please share — the more, the merrier...
To start with, here's an experiment from a few years ago to demonstrat…

Find of the day: Horse Browser - a browser for people with #ADHD (or who like organization in general). Interesting concept. https://browser.horse (via @…

It's probably worth bumping https://www.blackoutthesystem.com/ again. There are some interesting resources on that site. I was impressed with their mutual aid section.

Some interesting figures from a new report by the Energy Transition Commission:
All electric cars are more energy efficient than plug-in hybrid and combustion engine vehicles, and weight is much less of a factor (in part due to regenerative braking).
https://www.

https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/tear-gas-tuesday-in-downtown-portland
Interesting visualizations of 2020 teargas exposure in portland.

NFL Confidential: 9 Suitors Have Emerged for John Harbaugh. Could Steelers Be One? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-confidential-9-suitors-have-emerged-harbaugh-could-steelers-one

Ranking best Super Bowl halftime performances ever: A look at the most iconic and memorable moments

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/best-super-bowl-halftime-shows/

The "Turing Test" is not an actually relevant test for ... anything really.
Turing came up with a massively important theoretical concept (the Turing Machine). Helped with the Enigma machine. All impressive. "The Turing Test"? Not so much.
It's cute and interesting from a psychological and historical standpoint but that's it. It's not an actual metric.

NFL Confidential: 9 Suitors Have Emerged for John Harbaugh. Could Steelers Be One? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-confidential-9-suitors-have-emerged-harbaugh-could-steelers-one

This should be interesting; Trump's first administration got smacked down bigly for trying the same exact thing in *United States v. California*, No. 18-16496 (9th Cir. 2019)
Trump urges Ninth Circuit to allow funding freezes in sanctuary cities | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-urges-ninth-circuit-to-allow-funding-freezes-in-sanctuary-cities/

Great documentary about Demis Hassabis working on AGI. Really about history and humans, working on a hard problem, less about the technology itself. But that makes it interesting to watch for everybody. Also it contains a clear warning about coming AGI.
https://youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ?si=BsfJDJ…

'Some Interesting Apples' Delves into the World of Feral Fruit — Colossal
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/william-arnold-james-fergusson-some-interesting-apples/