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Finishing up Cuckoo tonight, after seeing it recommended on a bunch of horror lists and for awards I think? Kinda weird and confusing so far, we shall see 😂
#movies

Cuckoo (2024)
After reluctantly moving to the German Alps with her father and his new family, Gretchen discovers that their new town hides sinister secrets, as she's plagued by strange noises and frightening visions of a woman pursuing her.

Game on
Me like to be intelligence https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/114800606006140400

Project Gutenberg (@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read https://www.openculture.com/2025/07/neil-degrasse-tyson-lists-8-free-books-every-intelligent-person-should-read.html Many of these are at PG. Illustration from Gulliver Travels at PG https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17157/pg17157-images.html #books #literature

Bayesian ages of local young stellar associations I. Through the expansion rate method
J. Olivares, N. Miret-Roig, P. A. B. Galli, H. Bouy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05130

Bayesian ages of local young stellar associations I. Through the expansion rate method
Context. Local young stellar associations (LYSAs <50 Myr and <150 pc) are important laboratories to test predictions from star-formation theories. Estimating their ages through various dating techniques with minimal biases is thus of paramount importance. Aims. We aim at determining the ages of LYSAs with the expansion rate dating technique. Methods. We estimate the ages of the LYSAs using literature membership lists, publicly available data (astrometry and radial velocities), and a recent open…

Nutzt hier wer #BusyBox? Eine Lücke in tar kann genutzt werden um Geräte zum Absturz zu bringen oder sich root-rechte zu verschaffen. BusyBox findet sich auf vielen Embedded-Geräten wie Routern (z.B. #OpenWRT),

"It's this brutal fragility of vector stacks — which are used by most modern computer languages — which makes software people so wary of fully exploiting the beauty and power of recursion, and I really think that's a shame"
#Lisp

Marito: Structuring and Building Open Multilingual Terminologies for South African NLP
Vukosi Marivate, Isheanesu Dzingirai, Fiskani Banda, Richard Lastrucci, Thapelo Sindane, Keabetswe Madumo, Kayode Olaleye, Abiodun Modupe, Unarine Netshifhefhe, Herkulaas Combrink, Mohlatlego Nakeng, Matome Ledwaba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03529…

Marito: Structuring and Building Open Multilingual Terminologies for South African NLP
The critical lack of structured terminological data for South Africa's official languages hampers progress in multilingual NLP, despite the existence of numerous government and academic terminology lists. These valuable assets remain fragmented and locked in non-machine-readable formats, rendering them unusable for computational research and development. \emph{Marito} addresses this challenge by systematically aggregating, cleaning, and standardising these scattered resources into open, interop…

Preordered #Daggerheart core set on Amazon end of May because no other shop even let me order it in Europe. Turned out Amazon was lying about their stock as well and just postponed my order indefinitely, so I cancelled it now. On the positive side, Thalia.de now lists it as deliverable within six weeks and I can pay on pickup, so nothing lost if it turns out to take longer. Also it's …

It is only a matter of time until noem, homan, dhs, ice and potus realize dropping people out of aircraft is cheaper than housing or moving them.
Unless they already have.
Rumors are the US is engaging in death flights. Already there are some known flight paths of ice flights turning around over bodies of water.
The US Congress and international community seem to be the only things that can stop this.

Families of p-adic fields
Jordi Gu\`ardia R\'ubies, John W. Jones, Kevin Keating, Sebastian Pauli, David P. Roberts, David Roe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02360

Families of p-adic fields
We improve the database of $p$-adic fields in the LMFDB by systematically using Krasner-Monge polynomials and working relatively as well as absolutely. These improvements organize $p$-adic fields into families. They thereby make long lists of fields more manageable and various theoretical structures more evident. In particular, the database now includes all degree $n$ extensions of $\mathbb{Q}_p$, for $p<200$ and $n \leq 23$.

Did you know that many international conglomerates are potentially liable for assisting the occupation of Palestine? I didn't.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-t…

UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has named several US giants among the companies aiding Israel.

"Blue cranes now listed as vulnerable in South Africa"
#SouthAfrica #Birds
https…

Blue cranes now listed as vulnerable in South Africa
The blue crane, South Africa’s national bird, is now at greater risk of extinction, as a new regional assessment lists the species as “vulnerable.” “A Near-Threatened listing is no longer appropriate, now that the population is declining,” states the recently published Red Data Book of Birds, which follows the International Union for Conservation of Nature […]

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

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Remote fetch replies is set as experimental and also asynchronous, unclear if it would be ready for the final release. https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/114625074809479231

I’ve never seen this memory issue on #MacOS before. I had left Safari with Mela’s share sheet/importer app snippet open overnight and came back to a nearly unresponsive computer. I assume one of these has a memory leak. I was able to reboot via the shell using SSH from another device.

Knowledge-guided Contextual Gene Set Analysis Using Large Language Models
Zhizheng Wang, Chi-Ping Day, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Qiao Jin, Robert Leaman, Yifan Yang, Shubo Tian, Aodong Qiu, Yin Fang, Qingqing Zhu, Xinghua Lu, Zhiyong Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04303

Knowledge-guided Contextual Gene Set Analysis Using Large Language Models
Gene set analysis (GSA) is a foundational approach for interpreting genomic data of diseases by linking genes to biological processes. However, conventional GSA methods overlook clinical context of the analyses, often generating long lists of enriched pathways with redundant, nonspecific, or irrelevant results. Interpreting these requires extensive, ad-hoc manual effort, reducing both reliability and reproducibility. To address this limitation, we introduce cGSA, a novel AI-driven framework tha…

Hello, friends,
I hope you and your loved ones are well as can be. If not, I send you rays of love and wishes of hope.
May all matter of things be well.
And this coming Friday, August 1, is BandCamp Friday. Wish lists ready…

eggs were 27¢ a dozen in 1905 when the presque isle lighthouse keeper's house was built

"Rufo, Vance, and Co. are, however, right that right-wing ideological hegemony is harder to maintain when sites of education and knowledge production allow young people to learn, find each other, and challenge received wisdoms."
On the current goals of the destruction of the US education system. (Also provides background and lists some issues with the current system; but, obviously, none of that is fixed by what happens now.)

Crocodilus malware adds fake entries to victims' contact lists in new scam campaign https://therecord.media/crocodilus-android-malware-banking-fraud

HelioIndex: A Directory of Active Researchers in Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Peter R. Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00159 https://

HelioIndex: A Directory of Active Researchers in Solar and Heliospheric Physics
HelioIndex is a directory of authors who are active in solar and heliospheric physics (SHP). It is available at the webpage HelioIndex.org, and it includes several derived products such as publication lists, country and institute data, journal data, and lists of the most cited articles in the field. HelioIndex is built from ORCID identifiers and publication data obtained from the Astrophysics Data System and ORCID. Selection criteria have been chosen to approximately correspond to a researcher …

Set-lists primed and ready for the trad jazz that ain't yer dad's trad @… at the spacetime place of #Toronto #DromTaberna Friday June 6th 8pm.
It's like Bix said, why do I like this #jazz? Because I don't know what's going to happen next, do you? Nolan, Pat Smith, Patricio Llovet and I will be joined by Paul Callander and Sean McCarthy for you #jazzintoronto heads, I heard 'bass sax' and signed on! So, really, anything is possible! 😊
there is only a quantum probability we will resemble this:

i’ve seen a few toots in recent days about coping with Too Much News, and muting it (or wanting to mute it)
which prompts me to moan about one of the rare crappy parts of @…
it has one screen for managing filters, containing three successive lists of muted accounts, keywords, and hashtags
if i want to mute a keyword, i have to
go to the filter…

Unpopular #react opinion: The only mistake that was worse than throwing redux at todo lists was not throwing redux at everything else.
Of course I am not serious, but it's impressive how often I think "this problem would not exist with #redux" or "oh wow, this would be so easy with redu…

Survey lists Raiders' fanbase among most foul-mouthed in entire NFL https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/survey-raiders-fanbase-most-foul-mouthed-entire-nfl/66a7434b8d54f31b…

In case anybody lives in the misconception that #LibreOffice is developed and distributed by a large happy thriving "community" of individuals and companies, just have a look at their public mailing lists. It is obvious that there are several factions in the Document Foundation with deep mistrust of each others. There is even unethical behaviour to make sure others lose any influe…

#Wordle 1,495 5/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ <1% of 218,928 (302)
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 0 of 44 (58)
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 0 of 0 (15)
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 0 of 0 (2)
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WordleBot
Skill 63/99
Luck 47/99
I thought I had a good idea of the words left on my 4th guess, but I was wrong, and then had to get lucky, since I could think of more words than I had guesses left.
And now I see the bot only lists 2 words left I can't remember what words I was thinking of.

Generating Satisfiable Benchmark Instances for Stable Roommates Problems with Optimization
Baturay Y{\i}lmaz, Esra Erdem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20013 https://

Generating Satisfiable Benchmark Instances for Stable Roommates Problems with Optimization
While the existence of a stable matching for the stable roommates problem possibly with incomplete preference lists (SRI) can be decided in polynomial time, SRI problems with some fairness criteria are intractable. Egalitarian SRI that tries to maximize the total satisfaction of agents if a stable matching exists, is such a hard variant of SRI. For experimental evaluations of methods to solve these hard variants of SRI, several well-known algorithms have been used to randomly generate benchmark…

"It's "#ORCID and…," not "ORCID or…": How researcher identifiers work together to help researchers, build a better picture of research, and streamline administrative tasks": White Paper by MoreBrains › https://

Thanks to @…'s great list: https://codeberg.org/Taffer/canadian-alternatives I just switched my S3-compatible backups to a Canadian pr…

canadian-alternatives
A collection of Canadian alternatives to common Internet services in the spirit of the various Awesome lists.

Fast and Efficient Merge of Sorted Input Lists in Hardware Using List Offset Merge Sorters
Robert B. Kent, Marios S. Pattichis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08658

Fast and Efficient Merge of Sorted Input Lists in Hardware Using List Offset Merge Sorters
A new set of hardware merge sort devices are introduced here, which merge multiple sorted input lists into a single sorted output list in a fast and efficient manner. In each merge sorter, the values from the sorted input lists are arranged in an input 2-D setup array, but with the order of each sorted input list offset from the order of each of the other sorted input lists. In these new devices, called List Offset Merge Sorters (LOMS), a minimal set of column sort stages alternating with row s…

I'm sorry but aren't pros/cons lists supposed to cover both faces of the coin? The list here is very one-sided for immich:
https://www.wetransco.de/2024/09/immich-app-and-nextc…

Urban Diaspora IV 🎈
城市放逐 IV 🎈
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Making to do lists is great. It always reminds me of tasks that are more than finishing the list.
#ToDoList

Discussions during the current #IETF meeting led me to write a new draft on a compact CoAP URI expression, Short Paths In CoAP (ShoPinC, following the trade tradition of contrived acronyms).
As not all of the #CoAP crowd is reading the IETF lists, I'm soliciting opinions or feedback from here as well.…

YouTube will remove its Trending page and Trending Now list in favor of category-specific charts, says it better aligns with the way content is discovered now (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/youtube-is…

YouTube is getting rid of its Trending page and Trending Now list | TechCrunch
YouTube is replacing these Trending lists with category-specific charts, the company announced on Thursday.

No one ever tells you just how much of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is just straight up detours where Verne just lists out every kind of mollusk or shark or coral or whatever.

Had a weird dream-filled night. Dreamt I was in a series of pubs, but I could never order a beer because none of them had lists of beers available, nor did the barkeepers ever get to me... also, it occurs to me that they might not have been pubs. 😬 🤔

I’m dubious that BlueSky is pleased that JD Vance joined.
Meanwhile, their moderation tools are holding up damned well.
The account was initially banned, as an impersonation. Then it was verified.
Most people are reporting it was already blocked because they were using one of the many shared “MAGA” block lists.
And he’s in second place as the most blocked person on the site in less than 24h.

Ranking dynamics in movies and music
Hyun-Woo Lee, Gerardo I\~niguez, Hang-Hyun Jo, Hye Jin Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21944 https://

Ranking dynamics in movies and music
Ranking systems are widely used to simplify and interpret complex data across diverse domains, from economic indicators and sports scores to online content popularity. While previous studies including the Zipf's law have focused on the static, aggregated properties of ranks, in recent years researchers have begun to uncover generic features in their temporal dynamics. In this work, we introduce and study a series of system-level indices that quantify the compositional changes in ranking lists o…

OK, this seems interesting.
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/

delightful fediverse experience
Delightful curated lists of free software, open science and information sources.

YouTube will remove its Trending page and Trending Now list in favor of category-specific charts, says it better aligns with the way content is discovered now (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/youtube-is-getting-ri…

YouTube is getting rid of its Trending page and Trending Now list | TechCrunch
YouTube is replacing these Trending lists with category-specific charts, the company announced on Thursday.

Symbiotic stars in Galactic open clusters
Lukas Kue{\ss} (Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna, Austria), Ernst Paunzen (Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21994

Symbiotic stars in Galactic open clusters
The age determination of symbiotic stars is essential to put further constraints on models explaining these binary systems. In the Galactic field, this is especially problematic because of several limitations due to reddening estimations, for example. We searched for symbiotic stars as members of Galactic open clusters for which the age and overall metallicity can be determined in a statistical sense. The most recent lists of well-established and candidate symbiotic stars and open clusters were…

"A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them."
#Animals #Conservation

A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them.
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. A new report, “Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates,” catalogs the species closest to the brink. Compiled by more than 100 scientists and conservationists, it’s a stark warning: without urgent action, some of our closest […]

Filter Equivariant Functions: A symmetric account of length-general extrapolation on lists
Owen Lewis, Neil Ghani, Andrew Dudzik, Christos Perivolaropoulos, Razvan Pascanu, Petar Veli\v{c}kovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08796

Filter Equivariant Functions: A symmetric account of length-general extrapolation on lists
What should a function that extrapolates beyond known input/output examples look like? This is a tricky question to answer in general, as any function matching the outputs on those examples can in principle be a correct extrapolant. We argue that a "good" extrapolant should follow certain kinds of rules, and here we study a particularly appealing criterion for rule-following in list functions: that the function should behave predictably even when certain elements are removed. In functional prog…

I understand why sensible people say not to trust "answers" from AI/LLM but I don't understand why they then act like that invalidates the usefulness of LLMs.
abbv dividends 2021 through 2025?
Answer for some reason lists a chart for Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Then lists a chart showing dividends for ABBV by year (including quarterly payment amounts).
I can see those amounts are close (probably exactly right...) and for my quick estimate good enough.

I made a helper for Proximity (a word association game like #Semantle). It lets you poke around the database to see what's close to what:
https://github.com/adamhotep/userscrip

In This Thread: denizens of debian-user mailing list who refuse to accept that there are people who do creative work without wanting to use email.
Apparently it is only "kids" who "don't understand what is important", who "have a mobile phone glued to their hand" and "don't care about their computer as long as it plays their games."

This Github repository conveniently lists and categorizes prime examples of LLM-based agent applications. Each example application features its own repository folder with its source code (Python), and a helpful README.md file describing its installation and use.
Categories include:
1. Starter AI Agents
2. Advanced AI Agents
3. Autonomous Game Playing Agents
4. Multi-Agent Teams
5. Voice AI Agents
6. RAG-Based Agents
"awesome-llm-apps"

... and right next to that, Bradfield Hall, a frequent member of "ugliest building in America" lists, looms above a patch of tiny daisies
#photo #photography #architecture

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Murena's new /e/OS (@…) 3.0 release now on @…
https:/…

Being autistic, sorry not sorry, I’m obsessed with this font Comic Mono (https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/) and I totally force it on my site! ♾️✨
Check it out at

Of course Mamdani is a Wu Tang fan
One has no choice but to stan
https://mastodon.social/@ErickaSimone/114866702093830197

With Jets' injury history at QB, Fields' minor setback a sigh of relief https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45815888/new-york-jets-qb-history-justin-fields-toe-injury

Longer Lists Yield Better Matchings
Yuri Faenza, Aapeli Vuorinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06217 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06217

Longer Lists Yield Better Matchings
Many centralized mechanisms for two-sided matching markets that enjoy strong theoretical properties assume that the planner solicits full information on the preferences of each participating agent. In particular, they expect that participants compile and communicate their complete preference lists over agents from the other side of the market. However, real-world markets are often very large and agents cannot always be expected to even produce a ranking of all options on the other side. It is t…

The high precision time nuts, a.k.a. the “Time Lords” had a pretty good demonstration at #Hamvention. They built an LLM that had ingested 10 years of papers and mailing lists and could answer questions reliably

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Go‐Go’s:
🎵 Girl of 100 Lists
#GoGos
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Um0YTAvyvODXqiWQEma5M

Done some more work with the VR animation engine today.
Seems to now be working that I can lay in the path that the character will walk, and then puppet their limbs as they walk it.
Done more work to standardize how all the slapdash episode structure is so now there's also a #wip #starshipsd #gamedev

Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 - Stage 4 results
#Dauphiné #cycling

#Drumpf admin announces "temporary" closure of 60,000 acres of #BlackRock desert in #Nevada around area where #BurningMan takes place…

Black Rock Field Office | Bureau of Land Management
Contact your local field office for questions related to permits, regulations, access, and ways you can get involved. The Black Rock Field Office, a sub-part of the Winnemucca District Office, carries out the local operations of land management. In most cases, these local offices will provide the best information about how we manage your public lands.

Before this #LetterboxdFriday ends, I share my #LastFourWatched
The Greatest Hits (3½★)
Despicable Me 2 (3★)
Despicable Me (3½★)
Sing (1½★)
🔗 https://…

The Strong Singular Value Property for Matrices
Caleb Cheung, Bryan Shader
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08313 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

The Strong Singular Value Property for Matrices
A new property, the strong singular value property, is introduced, developed, and utilized to study the problem of which lists of nonnegative real numbers occur as the singular values of a matrix with a prescribed zero-nonzero pattern.

InfoWorld contributor Joydip Kanjilal reviews a group of read-only data structures in .NET Core that are optimized to allow very fast thread-safe reads over their data in comparison to plain dictionaries, lists, and hash sets.
Namely: FrozenSet and FrozenDictionary.
He also shows benchmark results, and includes a tutorial written in C#.
"How to use frozen collections in C#"

#Wordle 1,479 4/6*
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 219,792 (152)
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 0 of 6 (7)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 0 (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 50/99
So I thought there were only 3 words left after guess 3, and I'm really curious what the bot says...Bot agrees and lists the 3 words I thought of!

Metallicities from High-Resolution TRES Spectra with The Payne and uberMS: Performance Benchmarks and Literature Comparison
Emily K. Pass, Phillip A. Cargile, Victoria DiTomasso, Romy Rodr\'iguez Mart\'inez, David Charbonneau, David W. Latham, Andrew Vanderburg, Allyson Bieryla, Samuel N. Quinn, Lars A. Buchhave
https://…

Metallicities from High-Resolution TRES Spectra with The Payne and uberMS: Performance Benchmarks and Literature Comparison
As the field of exoplanetary astronomy has matured, there has been growing demand for precise stellar abundances to probe subtle correlations between stellar compositions and planetary demographics. However, drawing population-level conclusions from the disparate measurements in the literature is challenging, with various groups measuring metallicities using bespoke codes with differing line lists, radiative transfer models, and other assumptions. Here we use the neural-net framework uberMS to …