@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-16 18:02:14
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-16 18:02:14
@fell@ma.fellr.net2026-05-15 14:52:17
My neurologist advised that I should try EEG Neurofeedback. Unfortunately public health insurance doesn't cover it.
Well, I'm just going to DIY it. I just ordered an open source Neurofeedback device with some electrodes.
https://www.olimex.com/Products/EEG/OpenEE
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-15 14:17:06
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
R.E.M.:
🎵 Fall on Me
#REM
https://deathcabforcutie.bandcamp.com/track/fall-on-me-r-e-m-cover
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-06-13 09:44:45
Every year I am stupidly late booking family holiday as the experience of booking train tickets was toooo depressing.
This year (I'm still late), a reply to my post the other day about travel sickness on swedish trains reminded me of the railfinder.eu site and honestly - it's a revelation. Doesn't cover everywhere yet, but definitely going to be using it a lot more for international rail travel in Europe.
https://www.railfinder.eu
@benthos@mastodon.sdf.org2026-07-13 16:40:22
Oren Ambarchi - "Hubris" (2016)
#NowPlaying
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social2026-06-11 02:53:58
i'm playing every cover of willow weep for me on spotify. wes montgomery winning so far.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-07-10 18:59:53
New look!
I'm actually surprised this turned out as well as it did considering i couldn't see the shutter button on the phone camera lol, much less the screen.
This was an expensive mistake, I spray painted some stuff a while back and forgot to put a sacrificial cover over the respirator face shield. Had to replace it and the new one came with a protective covering to keep it from being scratched during installation so I thought I'd take a pic
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2026-06-01 13:32:02
Lucky, lucky Londoners. I'm quite excited about this new book, with its cheery title
@ddrake@mathstodon.xyz2026-06-21 13:40:36
I've been thinking a lot about design lately -- next spring I'm teaching a course in the ethics of software design -- and I realized that even something like an iPad cover / stand can be right-handed, in a way.
When the iPad is propped up using the cover in the photo, the home button has to be on the right. But I'm left-handed, so whenever I want to use the home button for the Touch ID, I have to reach across the tablet. It's not hard, but it's slightly awkward.
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-06 13:53:55
I had an interesting chat with a friend who mentioned a book called "The Living Company." Apparently Shell was one of the few companies that saw the 1970's oil crisis coming and was able to adapt. They did it by talking to a bunch of people randomly about the future, identifying patterns, and coming up with possible future scenarios. They then formed clear plans for these future scenarios, where those plans would cover as many related scenarios as possible.
This was actually really familiar to me, though I hadn't read the book, because that's very close to what the Seattle GDC disaster prep committee did. We identified possible disaster scenarios, then identified preparedness steps that served multiple purposes. We got boxes of n95 masks in 2018 and 2019 for wildfire smoke and did a bit of work building box-fan air purifiers. Over the years we handed out these masks to houseless folks who were most exposed to the smoke. When the pandemic hit, we were able to take some of those boxes to first responders just as manufacturing in China dropped because of their lockdowns and as others started PPE hoarding. We focused on N95 because that was one of the overlap points between the unexpected but catastrophic "flu pandemic" that we knew was possible, and the regular "wildfire smoke" problem we were just getting used to.
The book sounds like it's at least partially influenced by cybernetics. There's this Dutch cybernetics connection that I haven't quite figured out. Anyway, this guy talked about how a company needs to be sustainable and all that. My dude, you worked for an oil company. That is categorically not sustainable. All this aside, I think there are a lot of things we can and should take from capitalists (or take back, in some cases). This practice is one of them.
So maybe get together with friends and talk about what you think might happen. We live in a world of crisis, so I'll always recommend disaster preparedness. But there's more than that.
What do you think will happen in the next 5 years?
Assuming that happens, what actions would you take to push that towards the most positive outcome?
I'm listening to Revolutions and reminded of how much effort monarchies put in to preventing revolutions. Corporations can be even more advanced in their planning and preemption. What would it look like if we planned like that?
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-06-03 18:21:16
Overheard at the office: "I'm skeptical. Are you sure your 'wonderful opportunity for many of our employees to grow into new roles as we transition' isn't more like corporate speak for 75% of us will have to abandon any sense of work/life balance to cover the work of the 25% you are about to layoff?"
#OfficeWorkerGripes
@carloshr@lile.cl2026-04-30 17:16:54
«Nine Inch Noize» el proyecto colaborativo entre Nine Inch Nails y el DJ Boys Noize. El šlbum es una colección de reversiones de canciones de NiN, algo de How to Destroy Angels y un cover de Soft Cell. Estš mšs que interesante 👌🏻
https://album.link/s/7lcpCG4RBy3njzxHXlhOnp
@benthos@mastodon.sdf.org2026-06-27 16:50:06
Buckingham Nicks - s/t (1973)
I'm not a huge Fleetwood Mac fan, more of a dabbler.. but this is an excellent sounding lp.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m_vZLKxjdd40ijYVwEqpKJcobOTmRhziY
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-11 00:21:55
@Toots5958@mastodon.social2026-05-14 16:28:24
I'm looking for the original source for this cover of Sorry for Being So Cute (可愛くてごめん, Kawaikute Gomen) made by suzie.
Was published in a deleted account. Expecting an URL for VocaDB. Expecting the date published at minimum. Discovery follows. 👇
Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/@iyan_sopan/vi…
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com2026-06-19 07:00:07
Ça m'énerve
Toutes celles comme toi qui écoutent beaucoup trop fort la musique
@adamhotep@infosec.exchange2026-06-08 16:00:20
Proton screwed up today: Their affiliate program sponsored a far-right politician and then they botched the response even when admitting that should never have happened. One redditter suggested "the cover-up is worse than the crime"
This is the third hint I've seen that they are pro-authoritarian. I'm willing to believe this was a mistake, like their CEO
@davej@dice.camp2026-06-25 11:14:04
Per @…'s suggestion—following on from @…’s theme last week, and much more in keeping with my own wintry location—today’s #ThursdayFiveList
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-18 07:03:14
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
The Libertines:
🎵 Don't Look Back Into the Sun
#TheLibertines
https://osirissalinecovers.bandcamp.com/track/dont-look-back-into-the-sun-the-libertines-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4KspXoCVJXGY1VrvEe1Hdm
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-04 12:17:39
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
R.E.M.:
🎵 Near Wild Heaven
#REM
https://palmroad.bandcamp.com/track/near-wild-heaven-r-e-m-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/378HOooPNo6LRIfVHb15nW
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-16 12:02:08
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
The Police:
🎵 Walking on the Moon
#ThePolice
https://thehumanexperience.bandcamp.com/track/the-police-walking-on-the-moon-the-human-experience-cover-feat-bee-born-the-grouch
https://open.spotify.com/track/62uLNJgVZaFiEiKV4LpoYJ
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5F6PDmIbE0oCzbwTklfrLZ
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
@benthos@mastodon.sdf.org2026-05-05 00:57:42
Hans Reichel - "Dalbergia Retusa" (2026)
Bendy sound worlds. Weird and wonderful guitar music. Sort of reminiscent of Arthur Russell's cello effects stuff, but hard to compare. Just super.
https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/dalbergia-retusa
@arXiv_physicscompph_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-07-01 07:52:44
Conditional Normalizing Flow for Gas-Surface Scattering from Thermal to Hypersonic Velocities
Miklas Sch\"utte, Stephen Hocker, Hansj\"org Lipp, Johannes Roth, Stefanos Fasoulas, Marcel Pfeiffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31928 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.31928 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.31928
arXiv:2606.31928v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Accurate aerodynamic modeling of satellites in very low Earth orbit (VLEO) requires gas-surface interaction (GSI) models that capture the full velocity spectrum from thermal to orbital speeds. Atmospheric particles initially strike spacecraft surfaces at hypersonic velocities of 6 000 - 10 000 m/s. Due to surface roughness and complex geometries, especially within air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) intake systems, multiple collisions occur, progressively reducing the particle velocities. A recent machine learning framework for deriving scattering kernels from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations has shown promise, but remains limited to high-velocity single impacts and possibly violates fundamental equilibrium principles such as detailed balance. This work extends this machine learning based scattering kernel to cover the complete velocity range using conditional normalizing flows trained with physics-informed constraints, enabling accurate modeling of multi-bounce scenarios in realistic VLEO applications. We train a conditional Real-valued Non-Volume Preserving (cRealNVP) model on expanded molecular dynamics simulations covering velocities from thermal to hypersonic speeds, incorporating a detailed balance loss term. The resulting model demonstrates improved accuracy compared to previous approaches even in the original high-velocity regime, while successfully capturing thermal-velocity scattering. Quantitative assessment shows that thermalization is approximated within acceptable tolerances. This framework provides essential capabilities for accurate ABEP intake optimization and VLEO mission planning while offering a general methodology applicable to broader rarefied gas dynamics problems requiring thermodynamic consistency.
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@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-07 15:23:44
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Florence the Machine:
🎵 I'm Not Calling You a Liar
#Florence theMachine
https://latourmente.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-calling-you-a-liar-florence-the-machine-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3HOxJ3ZX23eTXXxLjrXNbY
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-25 10:09:12
So one of the authors is Nicholas Carlini, who works for Anthropic. This is basically an ad for the three letter agencies to use Claude. It massively over-promises compared to what the actual paper says.
But, it is important. First, this is really about silencing people. The threat of identification is designed to make people afraid to talk online. There's a massive asymmetry between the fascists and the people. The fascists are weird racists and pedophiles who are obsessed with control. No one likes them. No one likes their ideas, because their ideas are creepy and bad.
When they talk about their ideas, that people should be murdered or kidnaped based on their skin color, that there should be a national dress code, that people's sex lives should be monitored, that children should be treated like objects that are owned by the parent (specifically, one parent), that people with different skin color or uteri should be considered as livestock, people fucking hate it because it's awful. When we talk about our ideas, that everyone should be able to eat and take care of themselves, that people who can't take care of themselves should be taken care of, that we should live in a society that values life, that we should live in harmony with nature, people like those ideas. When fascists out us for talking about those ideas, people support us. When we out people who are working as fascist goons those people have to face social consequences.
Everyone hates these people. The US government is currently less popular than it has ever been. The only way they can keep power is by making everyone think that they aren't extraordinarily unpopular. The only way to do that, the way authoritarian have always done it, is to make everyone afraid to talk.
But, yes, what this paper is saying is actually kind of bad. It looks like people who don't take any precautions at all in separating identities can be identified about 30% of the time (based on the results). It's unclear how this will actually work in the real world. Larger corpses will probably have more data, making connecting things easier.
This isn't as good as a human trying to dox someone. It's not going to work as well. It may only work in a small number of cases. There will be false positives (just like there are with people doing the work). It's probably not cheaper than hiring people. But it does mean that you can just dump money into a machine that has no ethical framework and get data out. That's the point. It's hard to find humans who will do evil shit like help dictatorships target human rights activists, but if a machine can do it for twice the price then it's a better deal for the dictatorship.
For most people, you just shouldn't care. This isn't for you. As long as you keep doing what you're doing, and you can keep everyone else doing what they're doing, then there aren't enough resources to actually target you. Even if they know who you are, there are just too many people who hate them and too few goons.
For people who might actually be targeted, there are a lot of things. First, keep in mind what you're putting into anonymous accounts. Any feature that's connected to your real life is a feature that can be extracted to identify you. This has always been true, it just may be easier to find now. Your identities should be totally siloed. It's also harder to identify you if you're writing anonymously as a collective. Collectives are better anyway because they can help check your thinking. When you write as a collective, you can help clean up each other's personal details and language. A collective develops its own voice, which is distinct from individual contributors. If you do this, and you also present your work as being from one "person," then it becomes even harder for anyone (systems or individuals) to really figure it out.
I'm not going to do a full deep dive on this because I just don't have time, but your existing threat model should *already cover these threats* if you need to make sure your writing remains anonymous.
This paper doesn't present any novel methodologies. It just extracts a bunch of features, which a human would extract as notes, and tries to correlate those between identities, which is how human researchers work. Linguistic forensics were mentioned (not by name) in the paper, but the actual methodology doesn't actually seem to use them.
So a thing with less ethics can do a worse job for more money (when adjusted for the real, not investor deflated, price of tokens). It's worth knowing. It's not the end of the world, but it is a good reminder to check your threat model and make sure it's up to date.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-07 17:55:46
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-25 21:14:48
@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-05-19 08:30:29
Faraday waves covered by a viscoelastic sheet
Hanna Pot, Bram Christiaens, Willem van de Water
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18273 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18273 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.18273
arXiv:2605.18273v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The hydroelastic response of free floating viscoelastic covers is measured using Faraday waves on the surface of a vertically oscillated fluid layer. We systematically vary the thickness $d$ of the covers to investigate its effect on the hydroelastic dispersion relation, the damping and the isotropy of the waves. Compared to bare fluids, the wave patterns are disordered. Various methods are explored to define and analyze the wavelengths, the isotropy, and shape of the waves. We find a significant difference between the measurements and the theoretical dispersion relation. Over all thicknesses $d$, this is explained by an increase in the in-plane membrane tension, which scales with $d^{3/2}$. Covering waves also has a large efect on their damping. Only for thin covers ($d = 20\: \mu{\rm m}$) the onset amplitude (and thus the damping) can be explained by dissipation in the bulk and in the boundary layer of the water beneath the cover. The same was found for bare water due to the presence of an immobile surface layer. Lastly, we find a large effect of the membrane on the ampitude of the waves, which we attribute to nonlinear wave interaction.
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@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-23 17:30:31
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
R.E.M.:
🎵 Fall on Me
#REM
https://deathcabforcutie.bandcamp.com/track/fall-on-me-r-e-m-cover
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-01 19:30:51
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Phantogram:
🎵 Black Out Days
#Phantogram
https://artemisarthurmusic.bandcamp.com/track/black-out-days-phantogram-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2IWtloZYQDcP8Ashwx8QEF
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-03 06:21:46
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-14 13:57:02
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Echo & the Bunnymen:
🎵 Nothing Lasts Forever
#Echo #theBunnymen
https://riseoftheechodrone.bandcamp.com/track/nothing-lasts-forever-echo-and-the-bunnymen-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4zlRCThoy7Wops9GF11kQX
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-03 13:35:26
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
The Style Council:
🎵 Shout To The Top
#TheStyleCouncil
https://laurieshawofficial.bandcamp.com/track/shout-to-the-top-style-council-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2lYfbCENL9ltqzTSX1xrPe
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-28 15:36:10
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-24 03:20:53
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
The Libertines:
🎵 Don't Look Back Into the Sun
#TheLibertines
https://osirissalinecovers.bandcamp.com/track/dont-look-back-into-the-sun-the-libertines-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4KspXoCVJXGY1VrvEe1Hdm
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-23 09:52:23
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-22 01:05:26
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-21 11:36:18
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews
Jethro Tull:
🎵 My Sunday Feeling
#JethroTull
https://meatjelly.bandcamp.com/track/my-sunday-feeling-jethro-tull-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Oknq93VcZrgTun9WA0gRQ