Tootfinder

‘The worst is when the rubbish explodes’: the children living in Patagonia’s vast dumps https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/12/rubbish-children-living-patagonia-argentina-vast-dumps

Trump's shutdown snags Social Security increase
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2025/10/social-security-cost-of-living-increase-announcement-has-been-delayed.html

White House Hunts for Ways to Lower the Cost of Living (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/trump-cost-of-living-prices-8e08798d
http://www.memeorandum.com/251116/p4#a251116p4

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
The Kinks:
🎵 Living On A Thin Line
#TheKinks
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/living-on-a-thin-line
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Z9HVIvwKMEB1UoECSySdv

Democrats focused on the improving metrics
and lost voters who were drowning in the day to day reality.
Trump is doing something even worse.
He is telling people their suffering does not exist at all.
That is not optimism.
That is contempt.
And contempt has a way of boomeranging in politics.

THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS TRUMP WANTS YOU TO IGNORE
America is living through a cost of living crisis that is bigger than any talking point, any spin, any press event and the President is insulting our intelligence.

Giving up territory in Ukraine is also condemning people living there to live under Russian rule, a harsh dictatorship with limited freedoms, no room for opposition, bad economy etcetera. I don't think many people prefer Russia above living in Ukraine as part of the EU in the near future.
#russia #ukraine

There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027

A very dear friend of mine, Fern, who taught me pretty much all I know about overland bike travel, is in need of a new wheelchair. One that will get her out and about again on new adventures on five wheels rather than the two she is more used to.
Please do give what you can - it all helps.
https://www.justgivin…

Help raise £4500 to get mobile and living on 5 wheels rather than two, with a specialist wheelchair and power assist, and hopefully have some adventures too! – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to get mobile and living on 5 wheels rather than two, with a specialist wheelchair and power assist, and hopefully have some adventures too!. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

Living in space will be this feeling of being surrounded by emptiness while living super cramped and compact with little privacy at the same time.

Thank goodness for Smokezilla, an ethical cigarette company that advocates for healthier living funded by billions from Philip Morris.

Our living room reno is done. We removed an old and ugly fireplace that was red flagged this summer. We rarely used it so we didn't replace it. A number of questionable items found when we had contractors do their magic.
They colour matched the paint and even found flooring that was almost a perfect match. They brought in a licensed electrician to fix the wiring. They are a bit expensive, but the work they do is well worth it. We also had them do the bathroom reno several y…

Living Off the LLM: How LLMs Will Change Adversary Tactics
Sean Oesch, Jack Hutchins, Luke Koch, Kevin Kurian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11398 https://arxi…

Living Off the LLM: How LLMs Will Change Adversary Tactics
In living off the land attacks, malicious actors use legitimate tools and processes already present on a system to avoid detection. In this paper, we explore how the on-device LLMs of the future will become a security concern as threat actors integrate LLMs into their living off the land attack pipeline and ways the security community may mitigate this threat.

Sonnenberg ridge entirely living up to its name...
(Made the most of the last warm weather yesterday afternoon to hike/climb along this beautiful long ridge with many cliffs, roped sections, some cute chamois and hardly any people — temporarily felt like late August, yet in two days supposedly snow starting...)
#SilentSunday

The recent election results proved something important.
Voters responded to candidates who spoke directly to economic pain.
When Democrats leaned into economic populism, they won.
They won by acknowledging reality, not sugarcoating it.
They won because they talked like people who know what a grocery bill feels like in 2025.
The mandate was clear:
tell the truth about the economy and fight for people who are getting squeezed.
And now comes Trump,…

THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS TRUMP WANTS YOU TO IGNORE
America is living through a cost of living crisis that is bigger than any talking point, any spin, any press event and the President is insulting our intelligence.

Starting today, I will be adjusting my diet by eating less meat, adding more plant-based foods, with the goal of eventually living a meat-free life.
🥬 🥕 🥦
#Vegetarianism #Vegan #Veganism

Walking into the living room, I stumble upon this scene. I shout around the corner to my husband, cooking dinner in the kitchen, “When did you put my hat on the capybara?!”
“Like, hours ago,” he laughs.
I’ve been sitting next to this cool dude for hours now, and I had no idea.

"From concrete walls to living edges, here’s how riverside habitats are being restored along the Thames"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

From concrete walls to living edges, here’s how riverside habitats are being restored along the Thames
From concrete walls to living edges, the Thames is being reshaped to support fish, wildlife, and a healthier urban river.

What does it tell us that AI scrapers are ignoring the more intelligent way of scraping data despite all the indications towards it?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/stop-crawling-my-html-you-dickheads-use-the-api/
I don't think the answer is …

Sounds like we need to find where the Cluely CEO is illegally living in his office in SoMa and throw him out. He's the guy who started the company with the motto "cheat on anything". https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/technology/san-francisco-rent-ai-boo…

If we could stop living in interesting times, that would be great, thanks
"Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal
Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole Christmas"
https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

On the Design and Evaluation of Human-centered Explainable AI Systems: A Systematic Review and Taxonomy
Aline Mangold, Juliane Zietz, Susanne Weinhold, Sebastian Pannasch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12201

On the Design and Evaluation of Human-centered Explainable AI Systems: A Systematic Review and Taxonomy
As AI becomes more common in everyday living, there is an increasing demand for intelligent systems that are both performant and understandable. Explainable AI (XAI) systems aim to provide comprehensible explanations of decisions and predictions. At present, however, evaluation processes are rather technical and not sufficiently focused on the needs of human users. Consequently, evaluation studies involving human users can serve as a valuable guide for conducting user studies. This paper presen…

"...the number of stories in national newspapers about asylum seekers or small boats or refugees. They found 542 in just the past month. And how many on the cost of living or essentials or living standards? Just 45."
Worried about rising bills and getting by? Keir Starmer has the answer: try chewing a flag!
| Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian

"Projects like the Living Village at YDS are not only possible now—they are better than conventional construction, healthier to be in, less expensive to operate, more beautiful to behold."
—Architecture visionary Jason F. McLennan writing in the new issue of the YDS journal, Reflections, focused this season on faith that builds hope for a living planet

Didn't realize Katie Wilson identified as a socialist! Cool. https://komonews.c…

Mayor-elect Katie Wilson urges unity, community, collective responsibility in Seattle
Seattle's new Mayor-elect Katie Wilson is set to address the public regarding her election and upcoming role as mayor on Thursday afternoon.

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once."
"The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing."
"God made Blues right after he made woman."
-B. B. King (born today in 1925)

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

I would add that his comment is spot on but does not apply to the whole population, and we ought to be paying a lot more attention to the people here in the US who do know what life without democracy is like.
Like for example: Jim Crow existed in full force within living memory, and a huge part of the current fascist pitch in the US is bringing it back.

#catsofmastodon This cat likes gargoyling even if it means sitting on top of a door. We've set up her cat tower so she can get up and down easily.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sade:
🎵 when am i going to make a living
#Sade
https://softnews.bandcamp.com/track/sades-when-am-i-going-to-make-a-living
https://open.spotify.com/track/5DYD5pUUnf3MT6LafqPqOt

Moody Urbanity - Up Up ⏏️
情绪化城市 - 上面上面 ⏏️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

one time when i was like 11 and we were living in a hotel in poland for a month it was my lil brothers birthday and i dont remember this perfect but for some reason i stayed behind while my family was out and i screamed and cried for hours feeling like every inch of me was being torn apart and later when i joined them for something else i was still like that prolly acted like that in public but then i got a lollipop with a smiley face on it and looking at it thru my tears made me smile so th…

I’m excited to see the return of Steam Machine.
With my experiments of using the Linux Desktop mode with the Steamdeck … this absolutely puts a full Linux server in a lot of homes.
A good spot for a PDS, Tailscale, and a bunch of other things.
https://bsky.app/profile/jaypeters.net

Jay Peters (@jaypeters.net)
If you want some video of the new Steam Controller and Steam Machine (a Valve-made PC for the living room!), check out this that @seanhollister.bsky.social and I made together!

Data-Model Co-Evolution: Growing Test Sets to Refine LLM Behavior
Minjae Lee, Minsuk Kahng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12728 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.1272…

Data-Model Co-Evolution: Growing Test Sets to Refine LLM Behavior
A long-standing challenge in machine learning has been the rigid separation between data work and model refinement, enforced by slow fine-tuning cycles. The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) overcomes this historical barrier, allowing applications developers to instantly govern model behavior by editing prompt instructions. This shift enables a new paradigm: data-model co-evolution, where a living test set and a model's instructions evolve in tandem. We operationalize this paradigm in an int…

Mole-Rats Could Hold the Key to Living Longer https://www.404media.co/mole-rats-could-hold-the-key-to-living-longer/

Yesterday was my last day of this term's teaching Communication at the School of Engineering. So time to say good by to the little fellow living in TH547 and attending all lectures! He was there even on days none of the 33 students showed up
#AcademicChatter #TeachingElephant

I think they went with the line "living in a world of fools"? #totp

‘Green’ energy transition leaves a dirty trail in the Philippines’ nickel belt https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/green-energy-transition-leaves-a-dirty-trail-in-the-philippines-nickel-belt/

‘Green’ energy transition leaves a dirty trail in the Philippines’ nickel belt
MINDANAO, Philippines — Communities living near mining operations in the southern Philippines’ Caraga region are feeling the toll of the global energy transition, with nickel mining driving deforestation and pollution, according to a recent report. Climate Rights International (CRI), the U.S.-based NGO behind the report, highlighted harms to the environment, local livelihoods and public health […]

It is a little known #drupalcon fact that @dries has a real problem with light leaking in through the curtains in hotel rooms and has, instead of booking a hotel room, been living inside the Druplicon during #drupalconvienna…

Starting the day hatin' on Windows is not my preferred way of living my life. If you submit to using it the way it's installed, all your troubles fade away and you find yourself in the warm embrace of inevitability.

Some years ago, a Russian team came closest to turning training of blind people to see with The vOICe into a commercially viable business, a bit like how Linux service companies make a living from the otherwise free Linux https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmrvukzbS44S…

Long Living Hot and Dense Plasma from Relativistic Laser-Nanowire Array Interaction
Ehsan Eftekhari-Zadeh, Mikhail Gyrdymov, Parysatis Tavana, Robert Loetzsch, Ingo Uschmann, Thomas Siefke, Thomas K\"asebier, Uwe Zeitner, Adriana Szeghalmi, Alexander Pukhov, Dmitri Serebryakov, Evgeni Nerush, Igor Kostyukov, Olga Rosmej, Christian Spielmann, Daniil Kartashov

Long Living Hot and Dense Plasma from Relativistic Laser-Nanowire Array Interaction
Long-living, hot and dense plasmas generated by ultra-intense laser beams are of critical importance for laser-driven nuclear physics, bright hard X-ray sources, and laboratory astrophysics. We report the experimental observation of plasmas with nanosecond-scale lifetimes, near-solid density, and keV-level temperatures, produced by irradiating periodic arrays of composite nanowires with ultra-high contrast, relativistically intense femtosecond laser pulses. Jet-like plasma structures extending …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mattafix:
🎵 Living Darfur
#NowPlaying #Mattafix
https://clainmusic.bandcamp.com/track/living-darfur-by-clain
https://open.spotify.com/track/50lgTEX4pqxDaGJt9o0Chf

Large cities lose their growth edge as urban systems mature
Andrea Musso, Diego Rybski, Dirk Helbing, Frank Neffke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12417 https://

Large cities lose their growth edge as urban systems mature
From 1975 to 2025, urban populations have become increasingly concentrated in large cities. On average across countries, the share of urban residents living in cities with over one million people rose from 18\% in 1975 to 39\% in 2025. Will this trend towards greater concentration in large cities continue or level off? We introduce two new city population datasets that use consistent city definitions across countries and over time. The first covers the world between 1975 and 2025, using satelli…

We're all at home and doing fine, thanks for asking. (If you don't know what this is in reference to, don't worry.)
https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens/

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
WINDER, GA—In the hours following a violent rampage in Georgia in which a lone attacker killed at least four individuals and injured nine others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was […]

Invisible Languages of the LLM Universe
Saurabh Khanna, Xinxu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11557 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11557

Invisible Languages of the LLM Universe
Large Language Models are trained on massive multilingual corpora, yet this abundance masks a profound crisis: of the world's 7,613 living languages, approximately 2,000 languages with millions of speakers remain effectively invisible in digital ecosystems. We propose a critical framework connecting empirical measurements of language vitality (real world demographic strength) and digitality (online presence) with postcolonial theory and epistemic injustice to explain why linguistic inequality i…

Inspiren, which provides AI-powered fall detection and other tech for senior living facilities, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $155M (Kathleen Steele Gaivin/McKnight's Senior Living)
https://www.mcknightsseniorliving.c…

Senior living tech company Inspiren raises $100 million in Series B funding round
Inspiren has raised $100 million in Series B funding, the healthcare technology company announced today.

Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 20: Eleanor Catton
I was fortunate to hear Catton do a reading at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2013, and just a couple of months later she became the youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Luminaries - one of the strangest books I've ever read.
So, yay! I made it to 20 posts. Not hard actually, as there are so many fantastic

The Living Forecast: Evolving Day-Ahead Predictions into Intraday Reality
Kutay B\"olat, Peter Palensky, Simon Tindemans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12271 https://

The Living Forecast: Evolving Day-Ahead Predictions into Intraday Reality
Accurate intraday forecasts are essential for power system operations, complementing day-ahead forecasts that gradually lose relevance as new information becomes available. This paper introduces a Bayesian updating mechanism that converts fully probabilistic day-ahead forecasts into intraday forecasts without retraining or re-inference. The approach conditions the Gaussian mixture output of a conditional variational autoencoder-based forecaster on observed measurements, yielding an updated dist…

Friday Break: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/11/14/friday-break.html

Friday Break
Living the high life! Smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel …

Time for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).

Here is some useful and wise advice for living in the 21st-century surveillance-state epoch: https://aphyr.com/posts/395-geoblocking-multiple-localities-with-nginx

Trump Calls For Firing Fox News Booker After "Trump Hating Jerk Loser" Guest Notes Soaring Cost Of Living - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/trump-calls-for-firing-fox-news-booker-after-trump-hating-jerk-loser-guest-notes-soaring-cost-of-living/

The tragedy of a vile person like Charlie Kirk is that we’ve even heard of him, that a person like that managed to hold so many microphones for so long.
He shouldn’t have been shot. He should have been cut off by everyone in every space where he tried to hold the microphone, shamed into living isolated and miserable in his mom’s basement where nobody would ever feel the need to shoot him.

@… Haha, that would certainly be something.
Personally I was more referring to the fact that a lot of my joy in life comes from enjoying a good meal.
If I could never go to a restaurant, never cook with any ingredients Costco doesn’t carry, I could easily meet my caloric needs. But it wouldn’t be *living* anymore.

you don't have to be healed to begin — https://www.brichapman.com/p/you-dont-have-to-be-healed-to-begin?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social

Healing Through, Not Before: You Don’t Have to Be Whole to Begin
You don’t have to be healed to be worthy. Healing isn’t a finish line — it’s something you do through love, work, and living in the world as it is.

Hello there! Sorry I’ve been dumping annoying news things the last while here instead of chit chatting.
I really like it here and enjoy it, perhaps, most of any online text box.
But, regrettably, circumstances have conspired to require me to make a living. This takes up an inordinate amount of time. So, the best I have been able to manage is to drop newsy bits or Gist links.
I hope, like all of my vintage, that next month will quieten down a bit.

How Far I'll Go: Imagining Futures of Conversational AI with People with Visual Impairments Through Design Fiction
Jeanne Choi, Dasom Choi, Sejun Jeong, Hwajung Hong, Joseph Seering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12268

How Far I'll Go: Imagining Futures of Conversational AI with People with Visual Impairments Through Design Fiction
People with visual impairments (PVI) use a variety of assistive technologies to navigate their daily lives, and conversational AI (CAI) tools are a growing part of this toolset. Much existing HCI research has focused on the technical capabilities of current CAI tools, but in this paper, we instead examine how PVI themselves envision potential futures for living with CAI. We conducted a study with 14 participants with visual impairments using an audio-based Design Fiction probe featuring specula…

MTMD: A Multi-Task Multi-Domain Framework for Unified Ad Lightweight Ranking at Pinterest
Xiao Yang, Peifeng Yin, Abe Engle, Jinfeng Zhuang, Ling Leng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09857

MTMD: A Multi-Task Multi-Domain Framework for Unified Ad Lightweight Ranking at Pinterest
The lightweight ad ranking layer, living after the retrieval stage and before the fine ranker, plays a critical role in the success of a cascaded ad recommendation system. Due to the fact that there are multiple optimization tasks depending on the ad domain, e.g., Click Through Rate (CTR) for click ads and Conversion Rate (CVR) for conversion ads, as well as multiple surfaces where an ad is served (home feed, search, or related item recommendation) with diverse ad products (shopping or standard…

Coming Wednesday: "Live from @SustainableBrands! It's ‘Living Between Worlds’!”
Join us for this conversation for possibility. https://www.bit.ly/LivingBetweenWorlds

Watching MSNBC coverage of the #Brown #shooting and they’ve now interviewed _two_ current Brown students who survived previous shootings at their high schools (in different states), and are living through it again at Brown.
What the fuck are we even doing, except for nothing over and over again?

Ricardo Mendes, born and raised within the Buddhist cult-like community Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), describes in his testimony how this community, initially founded on ideals of spirituality, communal living, and alternatives to Western society, gradually became a sectarian organization

The Living Bible of the Ethiopian Jews https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134298/living-bible-ethiopian-jews

Johnny Harris (he doesn't seem to have a presence here) has a really good video out right now on public transportation in Switzerland. "By law, every village in Switzerland, which has people living all year round, they have the right of public transportation. It can be a train, it can be a gondola, it can be a bus. Whatever." That's pretty cool.
#Switzerland #PublicTransportation #JohnnyHarris

So we've been using a Neato vacuum robot for years. It works and with cats having the main living areas vacuumed every day was great. Now the company who bought them no longer wants to run the backend cloud service that allows the robot to actually run on a schedule which is the point of the whole operation.
Vorwerk just created a whole lot of e-waste for shits and giggles.

Having a bit of a Daisy Ridley week. First, did Magpie a couple days ago, and now doing The Marsh King's Daughter, thanks to @…'s rec. 👊
https://boxd.it/u2Q8

The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)
Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous 'Marsh King', the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.

Anarcho-syndicalist. non-binary person. they/them, also bisexual.
I took down one of my Moomin posters and hung up my two favorite flags in my living room instead. It feels good making my own place look like me.
I know my mom doesn’t like it, but this is my apartment and I’m not going to hide who I am just to make someone else comfortable.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️‍⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️‍🌈

a pypi release script of mine just failed because sphinx linkcheck failed because… wikipedia has to throw 403s after the first request
i hate living in the future

#ListeningClub Anyway, some good news… Roofers finished replacing the Spanish tiles over the living room and stairwell yesterday, just in time for expected rainstorms tomorrow.

Ah, living in Northern Ireland.

A Living Review Pipeline for AI/ML Applications in Accelerator Physics
Adnan Ghribi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09376 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09376

A Living Review Pipeline for AI/ML Applications in Accelerator Physics
We present an open-source pipeline for generating a \emph{living review} of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications in accelerator physics and technologies. Traditional review articles provide static snapshots that are quickly outdated by the rapid pace of research. The presented system automatically harvests publications from multiple bibliographic sources (arXiv, InspireHEP, HAL, OpenAlex, Crossref, and Springer), deduplicates entries, applies semantic filtering to…

I became a US citizen yesterday!
4 years in the making, a dream for much longer than that. I was fortunate to have one of the fastest routes to citizenship and to have mostly experienced a very smooth process with lovely immigration agents who processed my cases with respect and dignity.
I spent the last 9 months living in fear, watching immigrants get demonized and even permanent residency (green cards) to be treated as “a privilege” to be revoked at whim.
I've been quiet, afraid to say anything in public that could be misinterpreted or used against me.
I've repeatedly said goodbye to my city, I've cried walking my favorite streets, bracing for the worst as top officials bragged about getting rid of immigrants and "cleaning up" the country as if we were filth.
Now, I intend to find ways to use my citizenship for the greater good and to be civically engaged in ways not available to people here on visas and green cards, affected but forced to suffer in silence. I am looking forward to discovering what that will look like for me.
#USA #citizenship #immigration #immigrants
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Event: Dec. 6 Book Response on Living Islam
Join us for an evening of conversation inspired by Living Islam: Muslim Expressions of Faith, the acclaimed book byProfessor Ali S. Asani, which invites readers to explore the many ways Muslims around the world understand and experience their faith through culture, art, and everyday life.  The discussion, moderated by Alisha Kurji and featuring Dr. Alnoor Dhanani (Harvard University) and…

Hussein RashidEvent: Dec. 6 Book Response on Living Islam
Join us for an evening of conversation inspired by Living Islam: Muslim Expressions of Faith, the acclaimed book byProfessor Ali S. Asani, which invites readers to explore the many ways Muslims aro…

I donated to Give Directly https://www.givedirectly.org/
"GiveDirectly is a nonprofit that lets donors like you send money directly to the world's poorest households. In doing so, we aim to accelerate the end of extreme poverty globally."
Give Directly believes is data and facts over wi…

GiveDirectly: Send money to people living in poverty
GiveDirectly allows donors to send money directly to people in poverty with no strings attached. Our approach is guided by rigorous evidence of impact and our values of efficiency, transparency, and respect.

Today was #satisfying:
- arranged a unique & "life changing" experience for someone
- watched someone vely change attitude toward me
- was in a meeting w awesome people
- saw someone one whose sight always makes me happy
All in, feels like the day was worth living for, whatever tomorrow brings. 🙇‍♂️

This is a really really nice interview with Canadian Children's Book author Robert Munsch. It's his "last hurrah”. He's living with dementia and parkinson’s.
He's going to be leaving (MAID) at some point (not soon) but there are 50 more books that will be released after he has passed.
He just seems like a wonderful guy…
#Books #Munsch #CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7009124

The Lego (building) table is finished. My son already has plans to move his in progress build to finish it.
#woodworking
#finished

The Fire We Share
Chen Wang, Mengtan Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10841 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10841

The Fire We Share
The Fire We Share proposes a care-centered, consequence-aware visualization framework for engaging with wildfire data not as static metrics, but as living archives of ecological and social entanglement. By combining plants-inspired data forms, event-based mapping, and narrative layering, the project foregrounds fire as a shared temporal condition-one that cuts across natural cycles and human systems. Rather than simplifying wildfire data into digestible visuals, The Fire We Share reimagines it …

On AI and the golem
#ai #llm

On AI and the golem
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…

Amazing video from @… about a couple living on an island off the coast of #Kerry #Ireland

'Cloudy Weather': Hassett Says Some Economic Data Was Never Collected During Shutdown (Tyler Spence/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/economy/kevin-hassett-economic-data-shutdown-bls-bureau-labor-statistics-jobs-report-cost-of-living
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p90#a251111p90

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
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- Living Off the LLM: How LLMs Will Change Adversary Tactics
Sean Oesch, Jack Hutchins, Luke Koch, Kevin Kurian

‘Every inch full of intention’: Yale’s Living Village raises the bar for environmental stewardship
https://news.yale.edu/2025/10/08/every-inch-full-intention-yales-living-village-raises-bar-environmental-stewardship…

“It rained heavily last night.
Our clothes, blankets, mattresses, everything got soaked.
We were freezing… truly freezing.
Living in a tent has become unbearable… feels like a disaster every day.
We try to protect ourselves from the rain, but we still end up sitting in water inside the tent.
We are a family of seven and the tent can’t hold us but we keep trying.
We keep holding on.
Please, we need your help to move somewhere safer.”
–

Imagine a world that we all control together, not controlled by oligarch or dictators, even indirectly. Imagine something truly collaborative. That world would be very different from our own. In some ways many of us could have a lot more opportunity. But in others, we would be restricted.
In such a world, we couldn't really have elite luxuries. Having such luxuries is only valuable so long as others do not.
> Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.
- The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
Imagine a world in which we think about luxury in a radically different way, not as something that only has value via exclusivity but something that enriches the lives of the owners more as more people have them.
What would living in such a world be like? Can you describe a day in your life?
#SolarPunkPrompts #Writing #Prompts

Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 19: Alice Thompson
Another of Edinburgh's fine authors. She has written 9 novels of which I have read three.
Definitely do read BURNT ISLAND, it is just amazing. If you are faint-hearted however, you may want to avoid The Book Collector which was utterly terrifying.
#FemmeÉcrivain

Australian household energy bills will⭐️ halve by 2050 ⭐️as solar panels, batteries and electric cars and appliances become the norm,
reducing pressure on the federal government over living costs and creating room for more climate action, a thinktank study suggests.
Modelling by the Grattan Institute finds that cutting greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation in line with the goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050
will cut average household energy costs fro…

"Wood-burning stoves face new restrictions in the U.K.—but a loophole from Britain's smog years is fueling the problem"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #WoodBurner

Wood-burning stoves face new restrictions in the U.K.—but a loophole from Britain's smog years is fueling the problem
Wood-burning stoves are booming in the UK, a cozy response to high energy prices and cost of living pressures. But this comes with a hidden cost.

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

I’ve tried different ways in the past to manage my phone and social media addiction, but what’s finally started working for me, especially now that I’ve been living in my own apartment since October 2024, is deleting social media altogether and setting up network firewalls to block those sites, including federated addresses.
Moving forward, I know I’ll have to cut even more of my online life. I’ve been using my Pi-hole to block distracting domains at the network level, and since I’m to…

RE: #QuoteOfTheDay: "Not to be dramatic but we are living in societies with soul-shatteri…

Two-dimensional semiconductor-based active array for high-fidelity spatiotemporal monitoring of neural activities (in mice) #BCI

Two-dimensional semiconductor-based active array for high-fidelity spatiotemporal monitoring of neural activities - Nature Materials
Two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)-based active arrays made by growing wafer-scale trilayer MoS2 directly on a polyimidine substrate achieve high-fidelity spatiotemporal neuronal monitoring in vitro and in living mice.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Gorillaz:
🎵 Last Living Souls
#Gorillaz
https://moondoctor.bandcamp.com/track/gorillaz-last-living-souls-moondoctor-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JzmCjvB6bk48JghLyrg8N

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

ReformUK and their ilk keep claiming it is easy for asylum seekers. Like if they eventually get settled status, the Home Office immediately makes them homeless. So easy for them, our beneficent welfare system. That's after living on a pittance while awaiting a decision, so no spare money to put down for a deposit.
Andy Burnham makes demand after claims government policies creating homelessness - Manchester Evening News

Andy Burnham makes demand after claims government policies creating homelessness
It comes after the government set out a new plan to tackle homelessness

Snufkin is often seen as a free spirit who values personal freedom and dislikes material possessions or hierarchical control. He is a carefree, anti-establishment character who despises private property and the trappings of capitalism, as evidenced by his habit of tearing down "private property" signs.
He embodies a philosophy of simplicity, independence, and living in harmony with nature, making him appear anti-hierarchical and anti-capitalist in spirit. This aligns with hi…

Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 18: Kim Småge
Sorry, but you'll have to learn some Norwegian if you want to read this author, as she hasn't been translated into English yet - but that means you could read Ibsen too...
"Containerkvinnan" was a real knockout. The bodies of two women are found in a container in Trondheim's harbour, and from here proceeds the whodunnit. It's a whole series and I keep mean…