2026-09-18 22:46:32
LIVE: "HANDS OFF THE ARTS" Kennedy Center protest
- FOX 5 DC
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xoZYttrLOSU&ra=m
LIVE: "HANDS OFF THE ARTS" Kennedy Center protest
- FOX 5 DC
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xoZYttrLOSU&ra=m
Rashan Gary hopes to emerge as 'dominant factor' for Cowboys: 'I'm trying to be great' https://www.nfl.com/news/rashan-gary-hopes-to-emerge-as-dominant-factor-for-cowboys-i-m-trying-to-be-great
From a friend, a young woman, in #Gaza, just now:
"The bullets are reaching me.
I can't move freely. I'm trying to protect myself and my children."
I love working with Nick. I've worked with him for a very long time, and couldn't recommend him highly enough.
I would also love to continue working with Nick. If you've got a project for us (or just for him), reach out! https://sloan.host/@nick/117112429900657125
Converse bounds for multiple graph alignment and correlation detection based on last matching
Taha Ameen, Bruce Hajek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14450 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.14450 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.14450
arXiv:2608.14450v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The paper focuses on information theoretic converse bounds for the alignment of $m$ correlated graphs and for the detection of correlation among $m$ graphs. A simple idea for $m\geq 3$ is that if the alignment of $m-1$ of the graphs is revealed as extra information (by a genie for example) then it is still necessary to produce the alignment between the one remaining graph and the others, i.e. the last matching must be accomplished. For both Gaussian and Erdos-Renyi models, the last-matching problem is equivalent to one with two observed graphs, providing a path to extend converse bounds for $m=2$ to larger $m$. While the method is rather obvious for alignment, we show that the method can also be used to derive converse bounds for weak detection of correlation.
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Cyber M&A Heads for Record Year
https://www.wsj.com/pro/cybersecurity/cyber-m-a-heads-for-record-year-f5c4bc01?mod=djemCybersecruityPro&tpl=cs
On Variations in GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity: Samples - CO2 per grid kWh by h/d/m/y 2009 to 2026. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-grid-CO2-intensity-variations.html
@… - I'm looking for a script you've been talking about in a podcast. You use it to fix audiorecordings, normalize, eq and stuff. But you have so much in your repo so I can't find it (I don't remember the name). It's a terminal script. Do you know what I'm looking after, and if so - what is the name of the repo?
Thanx in advance!
I'm probably not even going to be able to use the Frame for PCVR on day one since I don't use SteamVR and I must wait for an alternative like Wivrn to support it, but I'm really excited to see what else this thing can do :spinnierCat:
from my link log —
Reasons to ditch LastPass.
https://infosec.exchange/@epixoip/109585049354200263
saved 2022-12-27 https://
I'm not a theatre person, but to me the below is true for most art, including photography:
"I was taught that theatre is supposed to slow the world down so it can be looked at, and the person who looks is not supposed to be the same when they walk out. Otherwise, there’s no fucking point. Art is not a leisure activity. It’s about engagement." — Bonnie Greer
I'm going back to that London for a party "algorave decelerate" on 16th Sept 2026, it's going to be really good
https://gel.now/events/849
Top lineup of live coders! Too many in fact so we decided to make some software to switch between them automatically so we stay EXACTLY on time, 20 …
I think I'm lazy today.. 🤔
This is the only correct policy, and I'm glad Brown is being light-handed instead of doing things because "something must be done".
https://today.brown.edu/announcements/212834
The more I learn about New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani, the more I'm reminded of XTC's Peter Pumpkinhead. He seems like the best of us, and an inspiration for most. I just hope against hope we can deserve him, by preserving & protecting him!
Filings: a group of major music publishers has agreed to end a copyright infringement dispute with X over the use of their music on the social media platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/m
"NRW-Tag in #Münster: Großflächige Sperrungen angekündigt" vom 23. August bis zum 1. September 2026
https://ms-aktuell.de/muenster/nrw-tag-in-muenster-diese/…
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band at seton hall university in new jersey. late summer ’76, show #3. audience tape: https://archive.org/details/jg76-09-17.025612.jgb.aud.unknown.t-flac16 [1/2]
I'm slowly starting to look for my next Gig. I've been consultant, QA lead, SRE, Sysadmin, and support engineer over the course of my career
[via Ponos] https://ponos.fr/thread/c1riz7glafq44rrd419w9vclo
Just had an email from Openreach telling me I'm now not in the 25 million households they will be connecting to Fibre To The Premises before Christmas, due to unforeseen issues.
😢
I love supporting creators when I can and when they're making things that interest me. And if you're a maker, like me, you know it always feels good when people get what you're trying to make, even when others don't quite get it yet. Feeling thankful for those few early adopters who get what I'm trying to do, and happy to pass that along to other makers.
A long-planned vigil at the Kennedy Center
is expected to draw a significant crowd Friday night,
capping a week in which the performing arts center closed its doors,
and Donald Trump indicated the building may be “ripped down” if his name isn’t added to the institution.
The event, scheduled weeks ago by an advocacy organization called
"Hands Off the Arts", intends to start with a 6:30 p.m. rally featuring musical performances and speeches by former an…
🔗 https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/social-media-platforms-must-verify-advertisers-identities-under-new-singapore-code
- FB, IG & TikTok must soon verify the identities of advertisers on their platforms again…
The cat hair is actually a structural part of this furniture that I'm assembling. Like the lath in lath & plaster, or the straw in a wattle & daub house.
i'm going to #datenspuren this weekend (friday and saturday, wanna leave early on sunday).
if anyone wants to hang out, shoot me a message. i also wouldn't mind finding a place to sleep 😇.
@… hello! I got to ask! What made you fav this post? I'm just super curios!
https://gardenstate.social/@stefan/116941538327017069
An der #RuhrUniBochum sind 12 Doktorand*innen-Stellen für die Dauer von 3,5 Jahren (TV-L E13, 65%) im Rahmen des Graduiertenkollegs #GRK2945 „Wissen – Glauben – Behaupten. Wahrheitsproduktion und Wahrheitsdurchsetzung in der Vormoderne“ ausgeschrieben. Deadline 14.9.
I just learned about the Laguna Garzón Bridge in Uruguay and it's pretty cool!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Garzón_Bridge
(Also, one of my neighbors is from Uruguay so I'm sort of interested in learning more about it.)
I'm in the process of converting an mdadm RAID10 to a btrfs RAID10 while preserving the data. My current strategy is:
· ✅ 1 of the 4 disks − btrfs
· ✅ enlarge that disk with another random btrfs disk
· ⏳ copy the 6TB borg repo from the remaining 3 mdadm disks to the new small btrfs pool
· ❓`borg check` the copied backup
· ❓ 3 mdadm disks − btrfs
· ❓ add all to btrfs pool
· ❓ let pool balance
· ❓ remove the random disk again
So far it's b…
Hey, you want a piece of me?
I'm right here!
I'm standing right here, c'mon!
C'MON!
- Josh Lyman, The West Wing
#TheWestWing
Hmm I'm not sure what #strawberry 's 'dynamic playlist' is supposed to do - I'd been using that for a few months since switching from Rhythmbox and felt I hadn't heard some tracks for ages; so I switched to using 'all tracks' in 'shuffle all' - and it is playing tracks that I hadn't heard in the last few months. Weird.
RE: https://social.bund.de/@Bundesregierung/117293574587584265
Partei m, die Fortschritt auf allen politischen Ebenen ablehnt weil schrecklich zu teuer, schmeißt Geld sinnlos zum Fenster raus.
"What's your favourite emoticon or emoji and why?" - How can you ask me to choose amongst my babies??! 😭😭😭
There are some emojis I actively avoid for visceral reasons (couldn't explain why) and I'm partial to 😅 , 💪 , and 🤷♀️ , because they're just so useful. But I'd probably pick the otter floating on its back, because I think that's just design genius 🦦 :aawwww: #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
Ich habe mal auf meiner Instanz von #BookWyrm einen Zähler eingebaut. Jetzt kann man dort die Anzahl der Boosts und Likes sehen. Eine Leserin hatte den Wunsch und ich wollte das mal testen.
Wie findet ihr Zahlen unter euren Beiträgen? Was spricht dafür oder dagegen?
(Sinnvoll wäre es, wenn sich das auf Seiten der Nutzer:innen einstellen ließe, wie bei
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fat Dog:
🎵 Cancel Me (I'm Tired)
#FatDog
https://fatdogfatdogfatdog.bandcamp.com/track/cancel-me-i-m-tired
https://open.spotify.com/track/5cYKa4Cowu3Xl6qD2Mh2e6
Replaced article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Absolute frequency measurement of the $^{40}$Ca$^{ }$ clock transition using a GNSS link to the S...
M. Guevara-Bertsch, M. K. Joshi, M. I Hussain, R. Blatt, C. F. Roos
…
¿Como andan con las lluvias queridos compatriotas chilenas y chilenos del fediverso criollo?
En mi condominio, ubicado en la República Independiente de Ñuñoa, cortaron el agua deanera preventiva y mšs temprano hubo un corte de luz de unos 5 minutos. Nada muy grave, la verdad, mientras el corte de agua no dure mucho.
#Chile
RE: https://mastodon.cr/@donelias/117113184376572249
Informe Meteorológico N°9
Onda Tropical #33 y ZCIT
17/08/2026
4:00 p.m.
Diagnóstico: La Zona de Convergencia Intertropical (ZCIT) activa al sur de Centroamérica, en conjunto con la onda…
In the latest episode of Quadcast, Hollywood cinema and religion scholar Dr. Richard Lindsay ’04 M.Div. discusses the films that form America’s imagination around the Bible.
https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-09-17-sil…
Volt seems to be the only party that I can vote for Berlin's Bezirk mayor with a Mastodon presence, so guess who I'm going to vote?
Thanks @…
(TBH the choice was already kinda made but this sealed the deal)
@… Yes, ever, but they were old-fashioned even by the time I was a child and I'm 52.
„Ich steh nicht auf Männer unter 1,90 m.“
„Ich steh nicht auf Frauen über 75 kg.“
„SEXIST!“
I'm working with an agency (https://transformstudios.com), and we're looking for a Sr. .NET dev with solid Azure DevSecOps experience for a long term contract.
Needs to definitely be Senior level with min 20 hr per week availability starting August.
Anyone got a recommendation?
Filings: a group of major music publishers has agreed to end a copyright infringement dispute with X over the use of their music on the social media platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/m
just tested a full functional restore of my #Vaultwarden setup on a different machine. Confirmed I'm able to login to my vault and see my content in there. Now documenting this for myself and will eventually also write a blog post about this.
Eventuell hab ich mir einen M-WAVE FM-1 Synth gegönnt… ICH KANN JEDERZEIT AUFHÖREN!
#Synthesizer
Here's somebody's blog post about grackles' fondness for dropping feces in water, written from the perspective of an annoyed koi-pond owner. The author gives the usual explanation that behavior reduces nest predation (presumably because fecal smell is attractant). I couldn't find support for this hypothesis in the primary literature, however. Nor could I find support for the idea that a clean nest reduces parasites such as flesh-eating flies. But I'm not a birdologist so I could have missed the definitive paper. https://www.pondtrademag.com/blackbird-gift-sacs-the-airmail-no-pond-keeper-wants/
@… I'm honestly reading less and less news due to this, and it's making me happier 😮💨
So I just started re-reading a #novel series that I first read over a decade ago and re-read every few years. We all have our comfort reads.
When I quit #smoking 7? years ago I discovered something fascinating - as my sense of taste and smell came back, my culinary tastes changed. Turns out I'm not a fan of …
RE: https://mastodon.social/@GroupNebula563/116941903618636980
i'm pretty sure ai instills me with so much pissed-offness that it violates the law of conservation of energy
I'm watching NYPD Blue 1x08 "Tempest in a C-Cup" #NypdBlue
Das #Leckerli zum Probieren:
🍏🎂 Dieser #Apfelmuskuchen ist perfekt für alle, die cremige Schichten lieben.
Mit einem Boden aus #Mürbeteig und einer leckeren Decke aus
We'll spend a couple of months in #Peru in 2027 and I'm planning to organise a set of trainings in #bioinformatics / #machinelearning / @…
Brazilian DJ Pedro Sampaio, global music icon Ricky Martin to perform in Rio Game halftime show https://www.nfl.com/news/brazilian-dj-pedro-sampaio-ricky-martin-to-perform-in-rio-game-halftime-show
I'm reading the Scottish Government's latest #Biodiversity Action Plan. A great deal of it is pure fantasy unless we also urgently tackle the #ClimateEmergency (which we are not doing) but the ambition is good.
To my followers at US educational institutions: need a vibration isolation platform? MinusK is giving away a couple of them to university departments, all you have to do is apply.
(I'm not affiliated or sponsored with them in any way, but I do have a BM-4 isolator from them in my lab, which I paid full retail price for, that I've been very happy with)
If AI kills all humans that still includes like, Musk, Zuckerberg, Altman, all these guys, so I'm cool with it
The Data Science Institute at Brown invites applications for an 18-month postdoc position in civic science and AI-human interaction. The successful candidate will be hosted by ARIA (the NSF AI Research Institute on Interaction with AI Assistants, which I'm tangentially a part of). See:
https://apply.interfolio.com/188112
I can work in both French and English. I'm interested in infrastructure roles.
#infrastructure #sysadmin #sre
∩ Ludovic Hirlimann :
"I've been remote, fully since 2009 and would like …
I mentioned that we face a (voluntary) layoff. So alot of colleagues will leave soon and someone asked me about an alumni-group ...
My first reaction was "anything except a WhatsApp Group". But what would / could work? Anyone who tried that in the past?
I guess it'll boil down to Whatsapp/Signal? I would suggest Matrix but I'm afraid it might be too alien for some?
#work
Why? Why must we put fruit stickers EVERYWHERE except where they're supposed to go (the _garbage_ that's like 3ft away).
At this point I'm starting to think that my family does this to mess with me.
I'm in a bit of a limbo until lunch - what chore can I make up for myself? OR what chore do I want to do? OR do I want to do a chore? All these choises and nobody watching.
I have visited 24 of 197 countries: 12% of the world's countries · 26% of its land area · 13% of its population · 49% of its GDP.
How much of the world have you seen? #HowMuchOfTheWorld
https://brilliantmaps.co…
@… Five and a half hours of Opus 4.8 and I'm now looking at no errors whatsoever.
Honestly still unsure and uneasy about using LLM's for this, but it's hard to deny the results. This would have taken me a good week or two to do. Maybe even 3 or 4. But the real question now is: How much did it fuck up?
Rate coefficients for dielectronic recombination of N-like Ne
E. -O. Hanu, M. Lestinsky, E. B. Menz, M. Looshorn, Z. Andelkovic, A. Biniskos, C. Brandau, A. Braeuning-Demian, M. R. Fogle, W. Geithner, F. Herfurth, P. -M. Hillenbrand, C. Krantz, R. Schuch, M. Tatsch, G. Vorobyev, S. -X. Wang, T. Stoehlker, S. Schippers
https://arxiv.org/abs…
I'M ON THE STEAM FRAME QUEUE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I've had a calm start into the weekend and I'm quite grateful for that 💕
I'm watching NYPD Blue 1x07 "NYPD Lou" #NypdBlue
The worries that artificial intelligence is degrading education have been building for months.
Students are using it for everything, including cheating,
and a recent report out of M.I.T. said it is triggering “cognitive surrender.”
Many university leaders are embracing A.I. with enthusiasm anyway.
As A.I. leaders warn about the dangers of their own technology,
the dissonance between the optimism of university leaders and the fears of many students and professors…
Hmm...
Assuming I designed some kind of 3D printed fixture to hold them upright and keep them from banging into each other, and try to avoid sudden acceleration or braking, what are the odds of me successfully driving a post-PnP board (0402 chip components on un-reflowed solder paste, no ICs or high-mass parts) about 10 minutes across town without knocking anything out of alignment?
For some of the process development tests I'm planning it would be really nice if I could take…
I'd like my next job to have something more than Linux, yes, I'm looking at your FreeBSD.
#runbsd #freebsd #getfedihired
∩ Ludovic Hirlimann :
"I can work in both French and English. …
Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas today
— the 57th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Apollo 11 moon mission, by the way
— during a 90-minute widow that opens at 6:45 p.m. EDT.
It will be Starship's 13th flight overall and its second mission of 2026.
You can watch Starship Flight 13 live at Space.com,; coverage will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff.
S…
I've been remote, fully since 2009 and would like to keep it that way.
#fullremote
∩ Ludovic Hirlimann :
"I'm slowly starting to look for my next Gig. I've been consultant, QA lead, SRE, Sysadmin, and support engineer over the course of my career"
[via Ponos]
Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan,
has warned that there will be more “bloodshed” unless Democrats
“shut their mouths.”
Following the
back-to-back fatal shootings of a Colombian native in Maine
and a Mexican man in Houston by Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
👉the Trump administration has tried to shift the blame onto Democratic leaders who have been educating immigrants on their rights.
“I'm scared to death because assaults with vehicles …
My resume is available at https://files.hirlimann.net/cv/Resume_en_v101.pdf
∩ Ludovic Hirlimann :
"I'd like my next job to have something more than Linux, yes, I'm looking at your FreeBSD.