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: 🏳️‍🌈

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

"...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

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

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.

‘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…

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

If you are wondering what it’s like in Minneapolis / St. Paul right now — •this• is it. This is what we’re living through. https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115692836095826980

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

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

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…

Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado
has won the Nobel peace prize
for her dogged struggle to rescue the South American country from its fate as
“a brutal, authoritarian state”.
Machado, 58, a conservative often described as Venezuela’s Iron Lady,
has spent the last year living in hiding
after her political movement was widely believed to have beaten the country’s president, Nicolšs Maduro,
in the July 2024 presidential election.

Eating a hair tie and then throwing it back up is a *choice*, you friggin' weirdo.
#CatsOfMastodon

https://theonion.com/local-teen-walks-in-on-family-masturbating-1819575823/

Local Teen Walks In On Family Masturbating
SALEM, OR—In a humiliating incident that all parties involved said they would “never get over,” Peter Miklewski, 15, confirmed he came home from school early Monday and accidentally walked in on seven members of his family masturbating in the living room. “Aaagh! Get out of here, goddammit!” shouted Peter’s parents, David and Jessica; his sister, Virginia; his older brother, Caleb; and his grandmother Emily, while his younger brother, Mark, and his aunt Fay reportedly scrambled to t…

Finished "Lobizona" by Romina Garber. I have extremely mixed feelings about this book. It's a powerful depiction of the fear of living as an undocumented child/teen and it has interesting things to say about rejection, belonging, and the choice between seeking to be recognized for who you are and wanting you blend in enough to be accepted as normal. However, it's also an explicit homage to Harry Potter, and while it doesn't include antisemitic tropes or glorify slavery or even have any anti-trans sentiments I can detect, to me the magical school setup felt forced and I thought it would have been a better book had it not tried to fit that mould. Also, it would have been a super interesting situation to explore trans issues, and while it's definitely fine for it not to do that, the author's praise of Rowling's work has me wondering...
There's a sequel that I think could in theory be amazing, but given the execution of the first book, I think I'll wait a bit before checking it out. By putting her main character in opposition to both ICE in the human world and the magical authorities in the other world, Garber explicitly sets the stage for a revolution standing between her protagonist and any kind of lasting peace. But I'm not confident she's capable of writing that story without relying on some kind of supernatural deus ex machina, which would be disappointing to me, since "a better world if only possible through divine intervention" is an inherently regressive message.
Overall, #OwnVoices fantasy centering an undocumented immigrant is an excellent thing, and I've certainly got a lot of privilege that surely influences my criticism. However, #OwnVoices stuff has a range of levels of craft and political stances, and it can be excellent for some reasons and mediocre for others.
On that point, if anyone reading this has suggestions for fiction books grappling with borders and the carceral state, Is be happy to hear them.
#AmReading

Izzy loves to sit in the sunlight on these cooler fall days, as the sun finally is low enough in the sky to shine in appropriate locations in our living room. #DogsofMastodon

😁 Disrupting bacterial 'chatter' could tip the balance for better oral health
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-disrupting-bacterial-chatter-oral-health.html

Disrupting bacterial 'chatter' could tip the balance for better oral health
Like all living things, bacteria adapt to survive. Over time, bacteria have been developing resistance to common antibiotics and disinfectants, which poses a growing problem for health care and sanitation. However, many species of bacteria are beneficial and even essential for human health. What if there was a way to change the behavior of bacteria in the body to prevent illness and poor health outcomes?

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/

So, so. Die Verletzung der territorialen Integrität Polens ist also laut Orban inakzeptabel. Immerhin.
Was sagt Orban aber zur Verletzung der territorialen Integrität der Ukraine?
#orban #ungarn #polen

in sf i used this guy who came to wash my car on the street, it was a monthly subscription and it was great, i probably had it for more than a year. he sent out an email that his business had to be shut down without reasons, but he just sent this out detailing his experience getting ICE’d and shit. so fucked.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that
nobody else wants.
-- Andy Warhol

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

If you are free tonight, there are still some places open in the Our Brilliant Ruin One-Shot
#TerryCon

Raheem Mostert turns personal health scare into lifesaving advocacy for skin cancer screenings and early detection https://www.raiders.com/news/raheem-mostert-turns-personal-health-scare-into-lifesaving…

Concerned about inflation eroding your retirement savings over the next 20 years? 📉 Secure your future with flexible, low-risk investments that grow with the cost of living. 🌱 As an experienced international conference manager, I understand the vital role of strategic financial planning. What worries you most about retirement: inflation, rising healthcare costs, or outliving savings? Let's discuss why effective planning is CRUCIAL! 💼🔍

On one hand, I feel that I should stay in the family house, because it'd be a waste to abandon it. On the other, living with neighbors regularly reminds me that I should live in the middle of a forest, separated from the nearest neighbor by at least 3 km of trees.

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.

Explainability of CNN Based Classification Models for Acoustic Signal
Zubair Faruqui, Mackenzie S. McIntire, Rahul Dubey, Jay McEntee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08717 https://…

Explainability of CNN Based Classification Models for Acoustic Signal
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has emerged as a critical tool for interpreting the predictions of complex deep learning models. While XAI has been increasingly applied in various domains within acoustics, its use in bioacoustics, which involves analyzing audio signals from living organisms, remains relatively underexplored. In this paper, we investigate the vocalizations of a bird species with strong geographic variation throughout its range in North America. Audio recordings were co…

🇺🇦 #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

🅿️ Denver study shows removing parking requirements results in more affordable housing being built
https://theconversation.com/denver-study-shows-removing-parking-requirements-results-in-more-affordable-housin…

Denver study shows removing parking requirements results in more affordable housing being built
Structured parking can cost as much as $50,000 per space, making housing more expensive to build and for those living there.

"The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer living in Aalborg, Denmark. He made it after learning of a new attempt to approve a European Union proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — a bill seen by privacy activists as breaking encryption and leading to mass surveillance."
One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill
A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
BBC Radiophonic Workshop:
🎵 The Frozen World (from The Living Planet original TV Soundtrack)
#BBCRadiophonicWorkshop

Living in a snow globe
#dlws

Information processing driven by multicomponent surface condensates
Aidan Zentner, Ethan V. Halingstad, Cameron Chalk, Michael P. Brenner, Arvind Murugan, Erik Winfree, Krishna Shrinivas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08100

Information processing driven by multicomponent surface condensates
Living organisms rely on molecular networks, such as gene circuits and signaling pathways, for information processing and robust decision-making in crowded, noisy environments. Recent advances show that interacting biomolecules self-organize by phase transitions into coexisting spatial compartments called condensates, often on cellular surfaces such as chromatin and membranes. In this paper, we demonstrate that multicomponent fluids can be designed to recruit distinct condensates to surfaces wi…

How To Be Cute AND Annoying : Living Life Like A Cat

:blobcatreading:

Impact of protein corona morphology on nanoparticle diffusion in biological fluids: insights from a mesoscale approach
Beatrice Cipriani, Hender Lopez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08340

Impact of protein corona morphology on nanoparticle diffusion in biological fluids: insights from a mesoscale approach
Nanoparticles (NPs) demonstrate considerable potential in medical applications, including targeted drug delivery and diagnostic probes. However, their efficacy depends on their ability to navigate through the complex biological environments inside living organisms. In such environments, NPs interact with a dense mixture of biomolecules, which can reduce their mobility and hinder diffusion. Understanding the factors influencing NP diffusion in these environments is key to improving nanomedicine …

Control of a Uniformly Magnetized Plasma with External Electric Fields
Peiyi Chen, Rogerio Jorge, Qin Li, Yukun Yue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07988 https://

Control of a Uniformly Magnetized Plasma with External Electric Fields
The stability of plasmas is a challenging topic. We study a control problem for plasma living in a uniform external magnetic field. Linear analysis for any equilibrium $μ$ is investigated through the Laplace-Fourier transform approach. Moreover, the Penrose condition, which characterizes the stability of equilibrium, is derived for Bernstein modes and verified numerically. Based on the linear analysis, a general control strategy is introduced, with recovering the free-streaming solution as a s…

Fascinating bit of trivia about "My Sharona"
https://www.musicradar.com/artists/it-was-

“It was like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat. I fell in love with her instantly. And when that happened, it sparked something”: The new wave classic and No.1 hit that was written in one hour and recorded in one take
“I still make a very good living off of that one song - easily over $100,000 a year"

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

A contact process with stronger mutations on trees
F\'abio Lopes, Alejandro Rold\'an-Correa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08112 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

A contact process with stronger mutations on trees
We consider a spatial stochastic model for a pathogen population growing inside a host that attempts to eliminate the pathogens through its immune system. The pathogen population is divided into different types. A pathogen can either reproduce by generating a pathogen of its own type or produce a pathogen of a new type that does not yet exist in the population. Pathogens with living ancestral types are protected against the host's immune system as long as their progenitors are still alive. Each…

It's that time again! Tomorrow evening (Tue 9/12), 20:00 NZST is our monthly FOSS/Libre Tech catch up. Find us at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - all welcome! We'll be discussing relevant current events, sharing case studies, looking at new technologies, and how to make a living doing this stuff! Our mee…

Tonight I woke up from a noise in the living room - I thought it sounded like the creepy whisper of a little girl 😱
It took me a few moments until I realised that the dog was snoring! 😴 #dogsofmastodon

The Lurie administration wants to slash #PotreroYard affordable housing because they "just can't find the money."
Our mayor is a billionaire. We have the third most billionaires living here of any city in the world. We can't accept these excuses.

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…

Assist-As-Needed: Adaptive Multimodal Robotic Assistance for Medication Management in Dementia Care
Kruthika Gangaraju, Tanmayi Inaparthy, Jiaqi Yang, Yihao Zheng, Fengpei Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06633

Assist-As-Needed: Adaptive Multimodal Robotic Assistance for Medication Management in Dementia Care
People living with dementia (PLWDs) face progressively declining abilities in medication management-from simple forgetfulness to complete task breakdown-yet most assistive technologies fail to adapt to these changing needs. This one-size-fits-all approach undermines autonomy, accelerates dependence, and increases caregiver burden. Occupational therapy principles emphasize matching assistance levels to individual capabilities: minimal reminders for those who merely forget, spatial guidance for t…

What's especially interesting, and dangerous to capitalism, is that there are a lot of opportunities that come out of this.
Corporations are destroying everything. We actually don't need them. We can build mutual aid networks, guerilla gardening, library socialism... When we stop with consumerism, we can find the joy in actually living, creating, being a creative human rather than simply a consumer. With a bit of momentum we can bend the system to our will. With enough momentum we can shatter it completely and free ourselves from this trap.
Things can go a lot of different ways. I'm excited to see how things go.
Edit:
I'm specifically excited about this...
https://www.blackoutthesystem.com/about-mutual-aid
This is cool. This is really fucking cool.

übers Radfahren, v.a. in den Niederlanden.
“Think of it this way: Car drivers behave like a bunch of geese. They have the same distance from each other and fly at the same speed, and move almost in military formation. Cyclists move like a swarm of sparrows. There are thousands of them moving in chaos, but there are no collisions. They turn a little bit; they change their speed. You must do the same.”

Mad science.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/0729235/scientists-grow-mini-human-brains-to-power-computers
>Scientists Grow Mini Human Brains To Power Computers

Hab jetzt mal in "Nyaight of the Living Cat" aus der letzten #Anime-Saison reingeschaut und ... nee.
Das Szenario mit einer Art Zombie-Apokalypse - aber die Menschen verwandeln sich in Katzen - macht zwar auf den ersten Blick neugierig, war dann aber doch vor allem albern. Und irgendwie gings mir bald zu wenig um Katzen und zu viel um Menschen... :blobcatsad:

Elon Musk actually said this in an interview:
"These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
All governments in europe should leave X

Farrukh (@implausibleblog.bsky.social)
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits" "And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids" "This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"

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.

Raheem Mostert turns personal health scare into lifesaving advocacy for skin cancer screenings and early detection https://www.raiders.com/news/raheem-mostert-turns-personal-health-scare-into-lifesaving…

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
DAYNA: Orac with delusions of grandeur, Zen unable to control the ship. I'd say we've a lot of little problems on our hands.
AVON: Course deflection is zero zero five. Speed Standard by five and increasing. I'd say we have one large problem on our hands.
https://blake.torpidit…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Living Colour:
🎵 Solace Of You
#NowPlaying #LivingColour
https://open.spotify.com/track/1vSGsBEbcSS3EZKxTv6msz

Ahh, the Orange Order, living in the 19th century but fervently hoping for a quick return the the 17th.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/11/06/orange-order-sends-letter-of-complaint-to-king-charles-a…

Orange Order sends letter of complaint to King Charles after he prayed with Pope Leo
Vatican visit marked first joint worship with a British monarch and a Catholic pontiff since Henry VIII’s rule

Tall Goldenrod — 100% living up to its name... Such a stunning sight in the November morning light! 😍
#NaturePhotography #Photography #MorningWalk

Living In Liquid
Join Jamie Mitchell, a relentless adventurer, as he traverses the vast, wondrous and mysterious world of water that embodies so much of our existence via the people whose lives revolve in, on, under and around it...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.co…

Bridging integrated information theory and the free-energy principle in living neuronal networks
Teruki Mayama, Sota Shimizu, Yuki Takano, Dai Akita, Hirokazu Takahashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04084

Bridging integrated information theory and the free-energy principle in living neuronal networks
The relationship between Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and the Free-Energy Principle (FEP) remains unresolved, particularly with respect to how integrated information, proposed as the intrinsic substrate of consciousness, behaves within variational Bayesian inference. We investigated this issue using dissociated neuronal cultures, previously shown to perform perceptual inference consistent with the FEP. Repeated stimulation from hidden sources induced robust source selectivity: variationa…

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/627

Cost of living is at an all time high while Trump is trying to slash Medicare, Medicaid & the Affordable Care Act.
The Republicans have taken bald-faced lying to an absolutely astronomical level.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdcl…

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

If we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.

I can't take it anymore
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/dictionary-67-2025-word-year/story?id=126947602

Dictionary.com reveals '67' is its 2025 Word of the Year
The 2025 Word of the Year has been used by kids and teens alike.

Upconverting microgauges reveal intraluminal force dynamics in vivo
Jason R. Casar, Claire A. McLellan, Cindy Shi, Ariel Stiber, Alice Lay, Chris Siefe, Abhinav Parakh, Malaya Gaerlan, X. Wendy Gu, Miriam B. Goodman, Jennifer A. Dionne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07657

Upconverting microgauges reveal intraluminal force dynamics in vivo
The forces generated by action potentials in muscle cells shuttle blood, food and waste products throughout the luminal structures of the body. Although non-invasive electrophysiological techniques exist, most mechanosensors cannot access luminal structures non-invasively. Here we introduce non-toxic ingestible mechanosensors to enable the quantitative study of luminal forces and apply them to study feeding in living Caenorhabditis elegans roundworms. These optical 'microgauges' comprise NaY0.8…

It also really makes me wonder if anyone has tried comparing this current tendency for online spaces to close themselves off with the Biedermeier epoch of the 1800s, where folks "retreated into private spaces" at a time that confronted people with political oppression/surveillance and living through generally unstable times.

From these photos one may wonder if the government of Israel retains its legitimacy....
(I support the existence of a self-governing Israel living in peace and safety; I support the same for Palestinians.)
"Photos from inside Gaza show destruction wrought by Israeli military efforts to root out Hamas"

Urban neighborhood in northern Gaza reduced to rubble by Israeli forces
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The few buildings still standing in this expanse of northern Gaza protrude from the earth like broken bones.

"Sadiq Khan calls on Reeves to bring ‘authentic’ Labour budget that boosts green investment"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Money #Finance

Folks, @… is in Egypt with her kids, living under very hard conditions as her husband is stuck in Gaza. We helped her husband and the seven families they’re responsible for move South with the Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal last week but Abeer still needs ongoing help to feed her family in Egypt and send money to Gaza for her husband to do the same.

People in the US have just had their brains fried by suburban myths. We walked from a Copenhagen subway station to visit friends living in some of that housing, then we walked with them and their kids to the nearby pasture-N-stuff. They don't even own a bicycle yet, but they're making plans.
Afterwards, two stops up the subway line we stopped in a mall to pick up some stuff my wife needed for work the next day.

IR Spectroscopic Studies of Gas-Phase Peptides
{\AA}ke Andersson, Vitali Zhaunerchyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08545 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08545

IR Spectroscopic Studies of Gas-Phase Peptides
Proteins are vital biological molecules found in every living organism, and their function is determined by what shape they fold into. Peptides are essentially subsets of proteins, and therefore ideal as model systems for protein folding. The structure of a molecule is closely related to its vibrational absorption spectrum, which lies in the infrared (IR) range. However, in vivo IR spectroscopy is hindered by interference from the surrounding water. Therefore, peptides are preferably studied is…

Just released! The new issue of the Divinity School journal, Reflections. The theme is: "A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet." #ecotheology #sustainability #creationcare

Amazing.
Besides offering the exceptional perspective of a retired military analyst and Russian linguist who is currently living in Ukraine-
Dylan Combelick is also leveraging his blog into a charity for Ukrainian soldiers.
He shares insight and perspective that will never appear in corporate media, based on real life experience, understanding, and presence in Ukraine.
Please support his work, share the friend link that bypasses the paywall, and thank you!
The U…

Ukraine Update November 5
2025 — Russian AI Revolution

I thought that people were a bit exaggerated when complaining about Macos' redesign.
Holy shit, they were not.
I'd even say that they were too shy about it if it wasn't for the fact that we're living in dystopia and there are much worse things to worry about.

Paving the Way Towards Kinematic Assessment Using Monocular Video: A Preclinical Benchmark of State-of-the-Art Deep-Learning-Based 3D Human Pose Estimators Against Inertial Sensors in Daily Living Activities
Mario Medrano-Paredes, Carmen Fern\'andez-Gonz\'alez, Francisco-Javier D\'iaz-Pernas, Hichem Saoudi, Javier Gonz\'alez-Alonso, Mario Mart\'inez-Zarzuela

Paving the Way Towards Kinematic Assessment Using Monocular Video: A Preclinical Benchmark of State-of-the-Art Deep-Learning-Based 3D Human Pose Estimators Against Inertial Sensors in Daily Living Activities
Advances in machine learning and wearable sensors offer new opportunities for capturing and analyzing human movement outside specialized laboratories. Accurate assessment of human movement under real-world conditions is essential for telemedicine, sports science, and rehabilitation. This preclinical benchmark compares monocular video-based 3D human pose estimation models with inertial measurement units (IMUs), leveraging the VIDIMU dataset containing a total of 13 clinically relevant daily acti…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #BLOCKPARTYWithHueyMorgan
Samiyam:
🎵 Driving My Truck Through The Wall In Your Living Room
#Samiyam

Here's an editorial about DSA written by two who know it well, including a former board member:
https://archive.ph/ZGSib
Right now Americans are living the nightmare of what happens when one of its major parties gets captured by its lunatic fringe. The last thing we need is for the other major party t…

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

I want to be ready for that Cosmic launch. And I got triggered by some toots. So I put cosmix-saigon back on the work laptop. Based on the nixbook project (thnks @… !) and nixos unstable (yep, living on the edge again). Solid. And ready!
#nixos

It's cold in Washington DC, but warm in the patch of sunlight in our living room. Izzy is happy. #mondog #dogsofMastodon

The labour and resource use requirements of a good life for all
#economy #environment

The Living Bible of the Ethiopian Jews
https://ift.tt/h3dlpev
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/RMxCNZh

dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…

Socrates has the right idea...
#llm #ai

AI Socrates
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Kadavar:
🎵 Last Living Dinosaur
#Kadavar
https://kadavarberlin.bandcamp.com/track/last-living-dinosaur
https://open.spotify.com/track/5JWT9cWwbLttKe7zrfNnn7

This time of year is for the pleasant world-building task of (re-)imagining syllabuses for next term. Since I'm now in charge of the program, I'm also currently working on the whole curriculum for the academic year beginning in May - it's like syllabus composition turned up to 11. Living in the time before ideas become reality is both fantastic - no inconvenient truths or anyone causing trouble - and sterile (for basically the same reasons). Can't wait to see how my plans fal…

Yale University’s Bird-Friendly Building Initiative, a project that aims to accelerate the adoption of bird-friendly design in the built environment, has been recognized with a 2025 Excellence Award by the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN).
https://

'Living off the land' allowed Russia-linked group to breach Ukrainian entities this summer https://therecord.media/russia-linked-breaches-ukraine-living-off-the-land

Q&A with former Xbox boss Peter Moore on the Xbox 360 launch, his new book Game Changer, competition with Sony, the origins of the modern console war, and more (Robert Purchese/Eurogamer.net)
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-was-af

"Microsoft was afraid Sony was going to own the living room" - Xbox 360 boss Peter Moore sheds new light on its fierce battle with PlayStation and the origins of the modern console war
To celebrate the Xbox 360's 20th anniversary, Eurogamer sits down with former Xbox boss Peter Moore to reflect on the console's creation and puglistic launch.

Nugget has it all figured out.

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

🩸 Blood tests show highest levels of forever chemicals in those living near New Mexico plume
#pfas

Blood tests show highest levels of forever chemicals in those living near New Mexico plume
It's a name many people have trouble pronouncing, but these synthetic chemicals have been used in everything from fast-food packaging to nonstick cookware, clothing, household cleaning products and even firefighting foam.

dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Queens of the Stone Age:
🎵 Better Living Through Chemistry
#QueensoftheStoneAge
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/better-living-through-the-chemistry
https://open.spotify.com/track/1wI3o34hijAIHpjrilLqaL

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

🥍 Are high school sports living up to their ideals?
#sports

Are high school sports living up to their ideals?
High school sports associations want to mold better students and citizens through sport, but are coaches well equipped to deliver on that front?

dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…

⚡ Living cement: Scientists turn bacteria-infused cement into energy-storing supercapacitors
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-cement-scientists-bacteria-infused-energy.html

Living cement: Scientists turn bacteria-infused cement into energy-storing supercapacitors
Imagine a house that doesn't just shelter you but also stores electricity. It may sound like science fiction, but it's now closer to reality than ever before. A research team at Aarhus University has demonstrated how the world's most widely used building material can be transformed into a living energy device. By embedding energy-producing bacteria in cement, they have created a biohybrid supercapacitor with surprisingly high performance and a remarkable ability to regenerate itself over time.

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

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