Tootfinder

Man who refers to himself as an ‘alpha-male’ actually just a dickhead
A man from Rochdale who refers to himself as an ‘alpha-male’ is in fact just a bit of a dickead sources have revealed.
The news follows reports of a man in Rochdale who refers to himself in the third person, wears a comically oversized watch and constantly has to remind himself and others that he is the dominant male in every group scenario.

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Barfing is their love language.♥️ A kinky male fruit fly barfs up a bit of his last meal and offers it as a nuptial meal to his intended. Discerning lady fruit flies swoon, and lap it up. #science #entomology

A single protein makes lovesick flies spill their guts
Producing a male-specific protein in digestion-related neurons may have led to the evolution of an odd “romantic” barfing behavior in one species of fruit flies.

World’s most used insecticides damage male fertility in rodents, researchers say https://usrtk.org/healthwire/neonicotinoids-damage-male-fertility/
The Silent Collapse: How Pesticide Politics Are Driving Bee Extinction

World’s most used insecticides damage male fertility in rodents, researchers say
Neonicotinoid insecticides cause reproductive toxicity in lab animals, raising concerns about damage to human fertility, according to a new review.

Metropolitana VII - FORM ⭕️
城 VII - 型 ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Online influencer Andrew Tate,
a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers,
was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries
when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States.
“The Tates will be free,
Trump is the president.
The good old days are back,”
Tate posted on X before the trip in February
— one of many times he has sung the president’s praises to his fans.
But…

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

Apple verliert nun auch KI-Suchechef – erneut an Meta
Das Apple-Intelligence-Team verliert zum wiederholten Male einen zentralen Mitarbeiter. Jetzt geht ein Mann, der für Apple eine KI-Suchmaschine aufbauen sollte.
http…

Senior Microsoft Product Manager Wendy Breiding discusses in this recent post how you can now customize your IDE to include agentic AI to your project that is focused on tasks related to a specific language or UI stack, in this case: C# and WinForms. The results have been positive when comparing these agents to previous more general approaches.
"Introducing Custom Agents for .NET Developers: C# Expert & WinForms Expert"

In one case, it turns out that an all-male client group was giving vicious beratings (undeserved!) to a female project manager when they had her cornered alone. I had no idea.
In the moment, I found those men kind of obnoxiously self-confident in their ignorance, but nothing worse. Later they want on a Trumpian scorched earth campaign trying not to pay everyone for work already done and threatening lawsuits willy nilly. They turned out to be horrible people. Missing that early red flag of misogyny cost us all — but especially that manager.
2/

Noisy traffic is making Galšpagos’ yellow warblers angry https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/noisy-traffic-is-making-galapagos-yellow-warblers-angry/

Noisy traffic is making Galápagos’ yellow warblers angry
A recent study found that birds that live closer to roads display more aggression than birds of the same species that live farther away from noisy vehicles, Mongabay’s Spoorthy Raman reported. Researchers looked at the behavioral differences of male Galápagos yellow warblers (Setophaga petechia aureola) on two islands of the Galápagos, an Ecuadorian archipelago in […]

Epstein directed a survivor to have sex with male guests at party Trump attended: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-2674617242/

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 514 nodes and 2363 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

Day 16: Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt
Okay so this is cheating, but they're co-authors of multiple books together, and there's no way for me to separate their contributions... I've already got too many authors I'd like to list, so why not?
I read their book "Does My Body Offend You?" and absolutely loved it; it's a celebration of teen activism while also being a deep exploration of feminist issues through practical situations that bring out the complicated side of things, which the authors refuse to reduce back to a simple formulaic answer. It has a supporting cast of appropriately-complex male characters that help in exploring the nuances of issues like the line between female empowerment & male gratification, and it brings race and macho culture into the conversion as well.
CW for sexual harassment & deep discussion of the resultant trauma.
I'll cheat again here to sneak in mention of two male authors whose work resonates with theirs: Mark Oshiro's "Anger is a Gift" has a more pessimistic/complex take on teen activism along with a gay romance (CW for racist cop murder), while Jeremy Whitley's graphic novel "Navigating With You" deals with queer romance & disability, while having a main character pairing that echoes those from "Does My Body Offend You?" in a lot of ways. Another connection (to non-men authors this time) is with "Go With the Flow" by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann. Their graphic novel about teen activism and periods is a bit more didactic and has a much lighter tone, but it does necessarily have some overlapping themes.
To bring it back to Cuevas & Marquhardt, their writing is great and their ability to discuss such complex topics with such nuance, all wrapped up in a story that feels completely natural, is amazing to me, and makes their book feel like one of the most valuable to recommend to others.
In writing this I've realized a grave oversight in the list so far that I'll have to correct tomorrow, but I'm quickly running out of days. The didn't-quite-make-it list is going to be full of more excellent authors, and I'm honestly starting to wonder whether it might actually be harder to name 20 male authors I respect now that I've found the sense to be mostly somewhere between disgusted and disappointed with so many of the male authors I enjoyed as a teen.
#20AuthorsNoMen (cheating a bit)

> sees "performative male meme" trend
> looks inside
> it's couched transphobia/homophobia

Analysis: in 2025, only 17% of North America's top 100 highest-grossing films were directed by non-white filmmakers, down from 27% in 2021 and 24% in 2023 (Richard Rushfield/The Ankler)
https://theankler.com/p/hollywoods-backslide-into-white-male

Hollywood’s Backslide Into White Male Directors Becomes Undeniable
How to chase away our future, one complacent decision at a time

I feel faster then this

And you don't need to accept the trap of authoritarian masculinity on logic alone, the proof is right there in male influencers like Andrew Tate and their followers. These dipshits get so obsessed with gatekeeping they don't realize that the gates they're tending keep them in, that the more walls they put up to protect their privilege, the smaller their identity can be. They huddle in tiny pens, terrified of crossing imaginary bounds that they imposed *on themselves.*
They have built their own torture chambers and locked themselves inside, and for what? They turn themselves into dragons, hoarding what they see as valuable while repressing every emotion including joy. And if they let themselves experience joy, they would, perhaps, realize that all these privileges are inconsistent with it. They might, perhaps, recognize that they have built up these privileges so they don't have to admit that their suffering and fear are not, in fact, admirable. They might have to face the fact that they have lived lives that are deeply pathetic, might have to face the fact that only empathy can give one access to deep satisfaction, might have to face the fact that they have lived their whole lives on a treadmill, going nowhere.
But I assume that they won't ever do that, because to do so would force them to face the enormity of the emotional debt, the pain and suffering they have inflicted on the world, and those are big feelings. It's far easier to hide in a hole, forever alone, making up silly rules to keep everyone inside scared and keep everyone outside from seeing in.

🔦 Molecular switch discovery could open door to male birth control
#molbio

Molecular switch discovery could open door to male birth control
Michigan State University scientists have pinpointed the molecular "switch" that supercharges sperm for their final sprint to an egg—a breakthrough that could reshape infertility treatments and pave the way for safe, nonhormonal male contraceptives. The work is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Popular podcaster and comedian Tim Dillon,
who’s credited with helping bring young male voters over to President Donald Trump,
now has a dire prediction for MAGA.
“Let’s look at Trump here, and I do think, unfortunately, this is, kind of is the end of
— and I say unfortunately not because I care, truly
— but I say unfortunately because it seems to not be doing anything good for anyone,” Dillon said.
He continued:
This is the end of the Trump admini…

Tim Dillon Claims ‘This Is The End Of The Trump Administration’: ‘It’s Obvious To ...
Popular podcaster and comic Tim Dillon, who's credited with helping bring young male voters over to President Donald Trump, now has a dire prediction for MAGA.

Short-term, the money may be in implantable visual prostheses for the blind. Longer-term, the money may be in training & support for noninvasive visual prostheses for the blind https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Microsoft Windows vs Linux, Neuralink Blindsight vs The vOIC…

One of the great shames of my software career is that I have not once but •twice• been a part of a project where I found out only after I was off the project that a male manager or client had been just absolutely, utterly •wretched• to a female teammate.
In both cases, it happened out of my sight. I had no idea what was going on.
I still think to this day about my obliviousness: how I could have found out sooner, what warning signs I missed, what I could have done to stick up for my female colleagues.
1/ https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115570002490755386

Some German car enthusiasts no longer want to go along with the sedate, conservative, middle-aged male German taste for a dark grey diesel car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRPZdKLAYxc

They're a 10 but never slid across a cop car's hood, as it rolled through an intersection, while skateboarding to a male escort's apartment for a date, then bailed while they fled the police.

SWAMI'S TWO-LINERS
 
Q. Swami, what’s your take on male superiority?
A. It’s a phallusy.
-- Swami Beyondananda
from the November 15, 2025 Daily Laughsative email

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 585 nodes and 1755 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

Genomic Influence of a Key Transcription Factor in Male Glandular Malignancy
Allison Powell, Paramahansa Pramanik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11959 https://…

Genomic Influence of a Key Transcription Factor in Male Glandular Malignancy
Prostate cancer (PCa) remains a significant global health concern among men, particularly due to the lethality of its more aggressive variants. Despite therapeutic advancements that have enhanced survival for many patients, high grade PCa continues to contribute substantially to cancer related mortality. Emerging evidence points to the MYB proto-oncogene as a critical factor in promoting tumor progression, therapeutic resistance, and disease relapse. Notably, differential expression patterns ha…

Men renew challenge to male-only draft rule before Ninth Circuit | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/men-renew-challenge-to-male-only-draft-rule-before-ninth-circuit/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Male Choir of the Hungarian Army, Bela Podor & Béla Bartók:
🎵 Four Old Hungarian Folk Songs
#MaleChoiroftheHungarianArmy #BelaPodor #BélaBartók

On the other project, the woman who was the target of abuse was a developer whom I respected, a good coder and a good person. I wish I’d told her that more often.
Turn out that when I wasn’t in the room, that male manager would shout at her and shame her. He turned out to be a groper and a philanderer with an alcohol abuse problem.
Again, I was oblivious until after the fact. I wish I’d stuck up for her, had her back somehow.
4/

“Misogyny and transphobia doesn’t affect me as a white man”
https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-coverage-trump-executive-order

Not sure if Denver Fowler is on Mastodon. He posted a thread on this recent paper about dinosaur reproduction over on bsky. #fossilfriday

A writer argues that since 2014, DEI practices led to discrimination against white male millennials for entry-level and mid-level roles in Hollywood and media (Jacob Savage/Compact)
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

The Lost Generation
For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career.

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 453 nodes and 4879 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: Not too close. The gap is all connected with the thickness of the door. So what's the difference between Seskas and Hommiks?
PELLA: How do you know how thick it is?
VILA: By the stress pattern.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/132 B7B4

💪 The Anxiety Plaguing Male Fiction Writers
http://www.vulture.com/article/jordan-castro-muscle-man-review.html
🆓 https://

Men Don’t Read Fiction Anymore: How Male Writers Respond
A recent batch of books including Jordan Castro’s ‘Muscle Man’; Sebastian Castillo’s ‘Fresh, Life’; and Tony Tulathimutte’s ‘Rejection’ try to speak to the disaffected male reader.

Puzzle: A B = C
Answers on a postcard
#MastoDaoine

My podcast feed is suddenly filled w/ a Palantir ad. Stern male voice w/ no music says how AI isn't putting people out of jobs; rather, Palantir is making American employees indispensable. So many layers to this, but also suggests AI overlords are finally reading the room.

A discussion in the immigration office, at the airport:
-- Name?
-- Muhjmatil Ahmed Khan.
-- Sex?
-- Three times a week.
-- I mean: male or female?
-- Doesn't matter. Sometimes even with camel...

Urban Adventure II 🏞️
城市探险 II 🏞️
📷Nikon FE
🎞️Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 93708 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

wenn ich jetzt auch so einen bundeswehr fragebogen bekomme und einfach nur einen eichkat3r drauf male und den dann wieder zurück schicke werde ich dann nicht eingezogen oder genau deshalb erst recht?

I’ve started to wonder if our joyful “the cardinals are at the feeder” has a bird correlation of “the humans are at the window” that also evokes joy?

Daisy.

Science hasn't figured this one out. Male scientists don't want to know what's coming up for themselves. Women scientists know, but they're being suppressed. https://mastodonapp.uk/@tobestewart/115543906288237588

Male circumcision is made easier by a clever South African invention - we trained healthcare workers to use it
https://theconversation.com/male-circumcision-is-made-easier-by-a-clever-south-african-invention-we-trained-healthcare-workers-to-use-it-265307

Ravens Partner With Mayor’s Office to Provide Work for Baltimore’s 'Squeegee Boys' https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/ravens-squeegee-boys-parking-lots-baltimo…

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 80270 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

Study: among the top 100 Spotify podcasts in the US in 2024, 64% were hosted by men, 77% of hosts were white, and 62.6% of 4K episodes had no woman guests (Adam Chitwood/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/usc-study-podcast-hosts-diversity-men-women-race/

Podcasting's Diversity Problem: 64% of Hosts Are Male, 77% Are White, USC Study Finds
The hosts of the top 100 podcasts of 2024 were overwhelmingly white and male, a new comprehensive study from USC reveals.

"La baisse de l'adhésion Š un syndicat pourrait rendre la classe ouvrière étatsuniennes moins heureuse et plus vulnérable aux overdoses."
https://theconversation.com/declining-

:nonbinary_flag: Gender: Non-binary
🏳️‍🌈 Pronouns: They/Them
:bisexual_pride: Sexuality: Bisexual
#NorskTut #LHBT #LGBT

Was Flash from "The Dukes of Hazzard" non-binary?
"Initially referred to as a boy, Flash is later regularly a girl (despite an occasional male reference afterwards)."
https://dukesofhazzard.fandom.com/wiki/Flash

Flash
Flash is a pet dog owned by Sheriff Rosco Coltrane. She is a slow-paced Basset Hound and Rosco's loyal companion, who hates Hogg but loves the Dukes. She first appeared in the first official third-season episode "Enos Strate to the Top" (the season opener "Carnival of Thrills" was held over from the previous season), although she was not formally "introduced" in that episode. Flash's favorite food is "doggie num-nums," a type of dog treat that Rosco feeds her. Flash, unfortunately, passed...

Police arrest suspect in shooting of Jets' Boyd https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47257417/police-arrest-20-year-old-suspect-shooting-jets-boyd

The Heritage Foundation,
an influential rightwing thinktank currently mired in controversy over its president’s apparent apology for extremism,
has appointed as a director the founder of a secretive all-male network of Christian nationalist fraternal lodges.
Scott Yenor, who was appointed as Heritage’s new director of the
"B Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies"
has recently offered ultra-conservative opinions on
women, marriage and LGBTQ ri…

The Trump regime's view on
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Fun (but wet) day of trick-or-treating around downtown and some neighborhoods.
Little one was Rapunzel (specifically the Disney Tangled version), wife was Mother Gothel...
... And I was Vladimir (who collects ceramic unicorns)

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

A not-so-boring talk on #ubuntu touch at #openalt

I grew up with a lot of male cousins who loved watching sports. I understand that some people enjoy gambling for emotions, but I don't.
That's why I like books. Instead of gambling for feelings, a book takes my emotions on a journey, rips them to shreds in the middle in an unpredictable way, then grinds my feelings into a fine paste that they feed to their goat, which is sacrificed in a bloody feral ceremony whose carnage further defiles said emotional residue
Or you can …

A male lycanthrope is a werewolf, a female lycanthrope is a wifwolf

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
SOOLIN: Teleport operating. [Teleport sound. Dayna and Tarrant arrive]
VILA: What are you smirking about? Do you realize we've got half the Federation battle fleet looking for us?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/495 B7B3

Imagine having the blind confidence of a white male conservative.
...this asshat really thinks he's there to do a tight 5min to US troops on how lousy cherished American traditions are.
▫️JD Vance: "How many of you really like turkey?"
<Many soldiers raise their hands>
▫️Vance: "You're all full of shit."
#jdvance

Explains Pete Hegseth?
What Is Irritable Male Syndrome? IMS Is An Actual Condition. | HuffPost UK Wellness
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/irritable-male-syndrome-ims-is-an-actual-condition-and-it-could-explain-a-lot-goog_l_68d553eae4b01e99f72ddfee

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 575 nodes and 5306 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own
weight in other people's patience.
-- John Updike

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 575 nodes and 5306 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

BOYS CLUB EP. 4 "MALE LONELINESS EPIDEMIC"
#comedy

Japan’s first female governing-party leader is an ultra-conservative star in a male-dominated group | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/japans-first-female-governing-party-leader-is-an-ultra-conservative-star-in-a-male-dominated-group/

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
BLAKE: Travis! Old man, old man, Lurgen, the healer, did he talk of Star One? Did he speak to you of anything?
OLD MAN: [Virtually inaudible] A fool knows everything and nothing. [Dies]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/518 B7B2

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 453 nodes and 4879 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

🍫 Effects of Dark Chocolate on Physiological and Anaerobic Performance Among Healthy Female and Male Adults
#chocolate

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Ester Mägi, Academic Male Choir of Tallinn University of Technology, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Arvo Volmer:
🎵 Ballad 'Tuule Tuba' (House of Wind)
#EsterMägi #AcademicMaleChoirofTallinnUniversityofTechnology

#openalt A great and inspiring talk about #deltachat and the history of messaging
#xmpp @…

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Stare-down between a female blind user of The vOICe vision BCI glasses and a male blind recipient of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant (AI-generated video clip). For the serious part, visit https://artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

The two relics of exploding stars are black holes and neutron stars.
Both were discovered by women.
Jocelyn Bell discovered neutron stars, in the guise of “pulsars”, in 1967.
Since then, three Nobel prizes have gone to male scientists for their work on pulsars, but none to Bell.
Louise Webster, the co-discoverer of black holes, has been largely forgotten.
Unless, of course, you remember her name.

The woman who discovered black holes
Louise Webster has been largely forgotten – it's time to remember her

#silentSunday
Ducks on a pond

Day 13: Patricia C. Wrede
If you know me you know I'm not exactly a fan of monarchy-praise, even (or perhaps especially) in "fairy tales" and adjacent writing, but even though Wrede's Princess Cimorene doesn't quite completely get away from that, I still love the character and her adventures in "Dealing With Dragons" and the sequels. It's honestly pretty cool that Wrede started out writing a trope-flipping fairy-tale adventure-comedy with a male teen prince protagonist, and then decided it was much more fun to focus on a princess who takes the trope-flipping to the next level and completely abandons most of the trappings of a fairy tale in order to both have fun with what's left of the genre and develop a story centered on wholesome friendship (with a dragon) and practical solutions to improbable problems.
I read these books as a kid, and then again as an adult, and then again out loud with my wife, and I'll be reading them again before long with our kids. I'm still on the lookout for more kids books with even better politics, but Wrede's work is definitely part of a solid childhood reading foundation from my perspective.
#20AuthorsNoMen

All-Male Committee Will Decide South Carolina Abortion Ban
https://jessica.substack.com/p/all-male-committee-will-decide-south

A look at Paramount's culture shift under David Ellison, where the focus is on male-driven action movies, and not on prestige films seen as critics' darlings (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Feelings Don’t Matter: How the Ellison Era Is Transforming Paramount 
It’s a brand-new day at the legacy studio, where prestige films are out, testosterone-heavy tentpoles are in and Brett Ratner is back on the call sheet.

How to play games on a very old hardware. #openalt @…

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 575 nodes and 5306 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

Why we chose the bear:
Minn. woman killed by male coworker who said he ‘did not like her’ – NBC Chicago
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/woman-killed-in-attack-by-male-coworker-who-said-he-did-not-like-her-pros/3853494/

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 514 nodes and 2363 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 585 nodes and 1755 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 514 nodes and 2363 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 468 nodes and 1447 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 468 nodes and 1447 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 54480 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 54480 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 469 nodes and 1450 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 80270 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 80270 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 453 nodes and 4879 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted