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One of my most frequent pieces of advice to students preparing presentations, and also applies to documentation:
The thing that is most obvious to you is likely to be…
(1) the most import thing for your audience to hear and
(2) the thing you are most likely to forget to say.
Re this from @…:

One of my most frequent pieces of advice to students preparing presentations, and also applies to documentation:
The thing that is most obvious to you is likely to be…
(1) the most import thing for your audience to hear and
(2) the thing you are most likely to forget to say.
Re this from @…:

A look at potential successors to Tim Cook; sources say Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus is the most likely long-term successor (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

What position will Cowboys most likely address in NFL Draft’s first round? https://theathletic.com/5403953/2024/04/10/dallas-cowboys-nfl-draft-first-round-pick-position/

What position will Cowboys most likely address in NFL Draft’s first round?
Offensive line is the biggest need entering the draft. Will the Cowboys find the right player there or look for a defensive lineman?

The end of the ISS battery pack came at 19:29 UTC at 22.0°N 85.5°W over the Atlantc Ocean we now hear - so there goes another #reentry over water which probably nobody saw (except for an American early warning satellite, the most likely source for time and coordinates).

Good morning, or well, afternoon now and happy Saturday #Fediverse
Let's all comment below and discuss what the plans are for this glorious Saturday.
For me, it's just a day to rest and relax and not do much of anything other than video games most likely.
It's raining and has been all night and all morning, so it's a pretty nasty day outside and will co…

anyone putting this pattern in a beat saber map should be banned from beatsaver and never be allowed near a map editor ever again, i just clapped the fucking shit out of my controllers hitting one

Some news for those who still believe that #russia isn't hostile to human life: https://lqbtqia.space will most likely be censored in russia for “terrorism”, i.e. participating in the “extremist” LGBT movemen…

@… most likely you've got a character in one the file names that sync doesn't like. Often it's a slash in a date.

4 managers most likely to be let go in the 2024 season
#MLB #Baseball #JustBaseball

Sexual reproduction can lead to major conflicts between sexes and within genomes. Here we report an extreme case ...
We found that sterile workers are produced by normal sexual reproduction, whereas daughter queens are invariably clonally produced.
In an apparent response to this conflict between sexes, genetic analyses reveal that males reproduce clonally, most likely by eliminating the maternal half of the genome in diploid eggs. [!!!]
As a result, all sons have nuclear …

males and females but no sex! weird ants:
Wasmannia auropunctata, the little fire ant. native to the new world tropics but a very invasive pest worldwide does sex REALLY WEIRD: Fourn...

Automated Program Repair: Emerging trends pose and expose problems for benchmarks
Joseph Renzullo, Pemma Reiter, Westley Weimer, Stephanie Forrest
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05455

Automated Program Repair: Emerging trends pose and expose problems for benchmarks
Machine learning (ML) now pervades the field of Automated Program Repair (APR). Algorithms deploy neural machine translation and large language models (LLMs) to generate software patches, among other tasks. But, there are important differences between these applications of ML and earlier work. Evaluations and comparisons must take care to ensure that results are valid and likely to generalize. A challenge is that the most popular APR evaluation benchmarks were not designed with ML techniques in…

#Arizona woman frees up more time to go be a cunt on the internet like idols J.K. Rowling and Marsha Blackburn
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/poli

Kyrsten Sinema Bows Out of Arizona Senate Race
The independent incumbent’s decision cleared the field for a two-person race, most likely between Representative Ruben Gallego, a Democrat, and Kari Lake, a Republican.

"Tiny particles of plastic pollution could be finding their way deep into our lungs with every breath"
#Plastic #MicroPlastics #Pollution

Where do microplastics end up when we breathe them in?
Inhalation is one of the most likely pathways for human exposure to microplastics.

You probably did not know this (I did not until last year), but there is different "flavors" of Cron.
Vixie Cron is most likely the one that you use when you edit crontab. And with the extra functionality that it provides - it has made us Linux-users very spoiled.
https://github.com/vixie/cron

Cowboys’ undrafted free agents: Most likely to least likely to make Dallas’ final 53 https://theathletic.com/5475896/2024/05/07/dallas-cowboys-undrafted-free-agents-roster/

Cowboys’ undrafted free agents: Most likely to least likely to make Dallas’ final 53
The Cowboys have undrafted players who started last season and others who played key roles. Will a new make the final roster in 2024?

Anatomy of a disinformation campaign, this time targeting Olena Zelenska - no prizes for guessing who was most likely behind it...
https://econ.st/3QukjFY

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04523 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The Small-Noise Limit of the Most Likely Element is the Most Likely Element in the Small-Noise Limit
In this paper, we study the Onsager-Machlup function and its relationship to the Freidlin-Wentzell function for measures equivalent to arbitrary infinite dimensional Gaussian measures. The Onsager-Machlup function can serve as a density on infinite dimensional spaces, where a uniform measure does not exist, and has been seen as the Lagrangian for the ``most likely element". The Freidlin-Wentzell rate function is the large deviations rate function for small-noise limits and has also been identif…

Anybody know the typical flow rate (in SCCM or similar volume flow units) and discharge pressure for duster gas cans?
Looking at replacing my current HFO-1234ze cans with N2 for most applications for cost/environmental reasons but trying to figure out how much I'll actually go through and what size regulator I should get (the one I currently have on my N2 tank is meant for very low volume inerting and tops out at 30psi which is likely too low).

Biden was “angry”, “heartbroken”, and “outraged” by the genocide of the Palestinian people as he sold weapons to Israel to carry out the genocide of the Palestinian people.
And *that*, there, is his difference, people. He cares. He’s compassionate. In fact, he’s likely the most caring and compassionate arms dealer to ever fund a genocide.
And they say he’s just as bad as the other guy.
*smh*
#biden

But! But! But the polls!
There are just enough declarative answers to softball questions to make this seem legitimate, but this is a farce, an unfunny bit that didn’t get beyond SNL table reads, which definitely lands high for Semafor and makes the right offices of the Times feel vindicated.
From: @…

2024 NFL Draft: Five teams most likely to trade down in first round, including Cardinals, Chargers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2…

2024 NFL Draft: Five teams most likely to trade down in first round, including Cardinals, Chargers
The teams most likely to trade down in the 2024 NFL Draft

Automated Program Repair: Emerging trends pose and expose problems for benchmarks
Joseph Renzullo, Pemma Reiter, Westley Weimer, Stephanie Forrest
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05455

Automated Program Repair: Emerging trends pose and expose problems for benchmarks
Machine learning (ML) now pervades the field of Automated Program Repair (APR). Algorithms deploy neural machine translation and large language models (LLMs) to generate software patches, among other tasks. But, there are important differences between these applications of ML and earlier work. Evaluations and comparisons must take care to ensure that results are valid and likely to generalize. A challenge is that the most popular APR evaluation benchmarks were not designed with ML techniques in…

#Arizona woman frees up more time to go be a cunt on the internet like idols J.K. Rowling and Marsha Blackburn
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/poli

Kyrsten Sinema Bows Out of Arizona Senate Race
The independent incumbent’s decision cleared the field for a two-person race, most likely between Representative Ruben Gallego, a Democrat, and Kari Lake, a Republican.

"Yesterday’s ideas won’t work for you tomorrow!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Someone asked me yesterday about my comment that Chinese automotive companies will likely own the automotive industry of the future.
Sadly, I think that it is true - the reason for that being that most auto manufacturers seem to continue to be busy fighting the battles of the last century, using product designs, ideas, and concepts involving the vehicle architecture of that era. The other automotive…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08199 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Spin-orbit coupled Hubbard skyrmions
When the material phases exhibit topological quantum numbers, they host defects protected by the nontrivial topology. Magnetic skyrmions are such ``quantized" objects and although many of them are metals they had been most likely treated in theories as purely classical spin states. Here, we show that the electrons described by the Hubbard model with strong spin-orbit couplings can exhibit various nano- or flake-size skyrmions in their ground state. Importantly, the conducting electrons forming …

I am rather intrigued that Netflix is going to do a series around President James Garfield.
Garfield was an interesting person - and probably the most intelligent person ever to be our President.
It is likely that our country would be a rather better place had he not been shot so early in his term (he probably would have survived had he been treated by modern doctors who understood infections.)

CCDH: Midjourney, DreamStudio, ChatGPT Plus, and Microsoft Image Creator created election disinformation in 41% of tests; Midjourney was most likely to do so (Clare Duffy/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/06/tech/ai-images-election-misinformation/<…

Metacurity is back from its publishing break! Check out today's issue for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Cyber Safety Review Board eviscerates Microsoft's handling of Chinese hack
--XZ Utils backdoor rocks the cybersecurity world,
--Experts think XZ backdoor developer was likely a nation-state persona,
--Google agrees to delete billions of Incognito mode records,
--AT&T resets millions of account passcodes,
--Anti-Kremlin hackers deface Russian prison website with pro-Navalny message,
--NIST blames lack of interagency support for NVD backlog,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/cyber-safety-review-board-eviscerates-microsofts-handling-chinese-hack

An Informed and Systematic Method to Identify Variable mid-L dwarfs
Natalia Oliveros-Gomez, Elena Manjavacas, Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi, Theodora Karalidi, Johanna Vos, Jacqueline K. Faherty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02140

An Informed and Systematic Method to Identify Variable mid-L dwarfs
Most brown dwarfs show some level of photometric or spectral variability. However, finding the most variable dwarfs more suited for a thorough variability monitoring campaign remained a challenge until a few years ago with the design of spectral indices to find the most likely L and T dwarfs using their near-infrared single-epoch spectrum. In this work, we designed and tested near-infrared spectral indices to pre-select the most likely variable L4-L8 dwarfs, complementing the indices presented …

Venomous snakes likely to migrate en masse amid global heating, says study
Climate breakdown is likely to lead to the large-scale migration of venomous snake species into new regions and unprepared countries, according to a study.
The researchers forecast that Nepal, Niger, Namibia, China, and Myanmar will gain the most venomous snake species from neighbouring countries under a heating climate.
Low-income countries in south and south-east Asia, as well as parts of Africa, wi…

years from now, the thing I'll resent most about Musk acquiring Twitter is how often I'll stumble when someone uses "X" as a placeholder in a sentence, wondering for a moment if they mean "Twitter" or "some unknown". I've been using "P" instead, but it's likely that most people will still use "X" forever.

Illustrates my personal experience with LLMs
"The finding underscores the notion that AI will likely be most useful as a tool to augment, not replace, the human reasoning process."
https://www.bidmc.org/about-bidmc/news/202…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07903 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Ephemeris Matching Reveals False Positive Validated and Candidate Planets from the K2 Mission
Data from the Kepler space telescope have led to the discovery of thousands of planet candidates. Most of these candidates are likely to be real exoplanets, but a significant number of false positives still contaminate the sample, especially in candidate lists from the K2 mission. Identifying and rejecting the false positives lurking in the planet candidates sample is important for prioritizing follow-up resources and measuring the most accurate population statistics. Here, we identify false po…

#PennedPossibilities 243 — Imagine, if you will, an alternate universe… Which of your characters is most likely to attempt karaoke?
I am quite certain that would be Kilian, a young knave and rascal who loves a good party and knows how to find them. If it brings him a free beer or a girl, he'll sing. Heck, he won't even need those as an excuse if he's tipsy. 😃

Comment on "Spin-trap isomers in deformed, odd-odd nuclei in the light rare-earth region near $N=98$"
M. Stryjczyk, A. Jaries, A. Kankainen, T. Eronen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04563

Comment on "Spin-trap isomers in deformed, odd-odd nuclei in the light rare-earth region near $N=98$"
A new isomeric state in $^{162}$Tb at 285.5(32) keV was reported by R. Orford et al. [Phys. Rev. C 102, 011303(R) (2020)] from the Penning-trap mass measurement. Here we show that this result is not compatible with existing experimental data. We also demonstrate that the state identified as the $^{162}$Tb ground state is most likely a contaminant while the mass-excess value of $^{162}$Tb$^{m}$ is the real ground state.

„Birth rates in liberal, developed countries look exceptionally unlikely to return to replacement level any time soon. If they miraculously do so, it will most likely be due to broad social and cultural shifts, not policy. There’s nothing wrong with governments pursuing family-friendly packages for other reasons but if they’re fretting about ageing and shrinking populations, then they need to find other solutions.“

Comprehensive view on a $z\sim6.5$ radio-loud QSO: from the radio to the optical/NIR to the X-ray band
Luca Ighina, Alessandro Caccianiga, Alberto Moretti, Jess W. Broderick, James K. Leung, Sean Paterson, Fabio Rigamonti, Nick Seymour, Silvia Belladitta, Guillaume Drouart, Tim J. Galvin, Natasha Hurley-Walker
https://arxiv.org/…

Comprehensive view on a $z\sim6.5$ radio-loud QSO: from the radio to the optical/NIR to the X-ray band
We present a multi-wavelength analysis, from the radio to the X-ray band, of the redshift $z=6.44$ VIK J2318$-$31 radio-loud (RL) quasi stellar object (QSO), one of the most distant currently known in this class. The work is based on newly obtained (uGMRT, ATCA, Chandra) as well as archival (GNIRS and X-Shooter) dedicated observations that have not been published yet. Based on the observed X-ray and radio emission, its relativistic jets are likely young and misaligned from our line of sight. Mo…

"Six months from the 2024 presidential election, Trump is better positioned to win the White House than at any point in either of his previous campaigns. He leads Joe Biden by slim margins in most polls, including in several of the seven swing states likely to determine the outcome. But I had not come to ask about the election, the disgrace that followed the last one, or how he has become the first former—and perhaps future—American President to face a criminal trial. I wanted to know what Trump would do if he wins a second term, to hear his vision for the nation, in his own words."

Dallas Cowboys: Shocking Dak Prescott Update Puts Doubts Over Future Beyond 2024 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_shocking_dak_prescott_update_puts_doubts_over_future_beyond_2…

in today's wtf #BobDylan news, he apparently began the 2nd memphis show playing electric guitar offstage during the opening "most likely you go your way" before coming onstage to sing the rest.

2024 NFL Draft: Five teams most likely to trade down in first round, including Cardinals, Chargers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2…

2024 NFL Draft: Five teams most likely to trade down in first round, including Cardinals, Chargers
The teams most likely to trade down in the 2024 NFL Draft

Most likely to take a piss in the kitchen sink . . .

The messaging on the carbon tax has been so bad. People just don’t get it. Even thought it’s likely the most market and consumer friendly way to put a price on carbon and reduce usage. https://mas.to/@robsonfletcher/112204059472104307

Backtracing: Retrieving the Cause of the Query
Rose E. Wang, Pawan Wirawarn, Omar Khattab, Noah Goodman, Dorottya Demszky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03956 …

Backtracing: Retrieving the Cause of the Query
Many online content portals allow users to ask questions to supplement their understanding (e.g., of lectures). While information retrieval (IR) systems may provide answers for such user queries, they do not directly assist content creators -- such as lecturers who want to improve their content -- identify segments that _caused_ a user to ask those questions. We introduce the task of backtracing, in which systems retrieve the text segment that most likely caused a user query. We formalize three…

The most recent #Django releases, 5.0.5 and 4.2.12 are broken. Most likely they were done on #Windows, and that obviously is sufficient to break stuff.
[UPDATE: 5.0.6 and 4.2.13 are good. Thanks a lot!]
So far, we've noticed the following issues:
1. The directory is named lowercase `django-X.Y.Z` instead of capital-case `Django-X.Y.Z` (the filename remains capital-case).
2. All files have CRLF line endings instead of LF.
3. All files that should have the executable bit, have lost it.
As a result, the releases don't pass their own tests.
I hope to report this upstream, but their Trac is down now. So you can't even download the releases right now.
#Gentoo #Python

Breaking IT news: #Microsoft just open-sourced MS-DOS 4.0. Versions 1.25 and 2.0 had already been open-source (MIT License) since 2018. If you’ve ever used DOS in the 1990s, you most likely were using v5.0 or v6.x. Those later versions likely won’t be released as open-source due to third-party restrictions.

GitHub - microsoft/MS-DOS: The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes
The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes - microsoft/MS-DOS

Recent report from insider reveals what the Raiders are most likely to do in first round of 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/recent_report_from_insi…

Recent report from insider reveals what the Raiders are most likely to do in first round of 2024 NFL Draft
As we have said all offseason long, the Las Vegas Raiders have many tough decisions to make. They need to figure out their entire draft plan and what they will do with their first pick. As far as I'm concerned, the Raiders will pick one of three positions at pick No. 13. They will either go with a cornerback, offensive tackle, or a quarterback. All of those are big needs, but none bigger than the most important position on the field - the quarterback, of course. This draft happens to be full of…

Serving blog posts as Linux manual pages: #Linux

If you click on a link and discover that the recommended article requires subscription or registration, are you most likely to:

ISW: Russian forces looking to make 'tactical gains' west of Avdiivka, Chasiv Yar remains primary pressure point: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/isw-russian-forces.html

""You don't live your life worrying about being killed by lightning — and you're more likely to be struck by lightning than to have an adverse event like encephalomyelitis," which has less than a one-in-a-million chance of occurring after vaccination, he told the Star.
As the "largest, most robust" study of its kind, Razak hopes it could serve as the "definitive data" to assure the public that it's far safer to get vaccinated than go witho…

"As a medical doctor...specializing in addiction medicine, I have seen patients overcome substance use issues. Very few of them did so without stable housing. Homelessness increases the chaos in someone’s life, and the more chaos there is, the harder it is to overcome a substance use problem."
https://

Opinion | Drug testing welfare recipients is a dangerous idea
San Francisco Mayor London Breed wants mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients. It would likely create even more homelessness among the most vulnerable and strain our already overloaded health care system.

Dear god, they have at last figured the formula out with the success of mashups like #Palworld, #Helldivers2, and, most likely, #Kingmakers: Don't worry and copy sham…

Things that make me sad:
When #Linux #kernel developers file bugs in bugzilla.kernel.org against subsystems that do not use the bug tracker[1]: it seems even they are not aware that the bug most likely won't be forwarded to the responsible developers and thus not be acted upon.
[1] remind…

Fascinating... Hunga Tonga had a (small) net _cooling_ effect on the climate, despite the big dollop of water vapour it injected into the stratosphere:
#climatology #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #2023_climate_anomalies

If you cannot run a spell checker on your marketing web site copy, I am less likely to believe you can run a linter on your code.
Hell, you don’t *run* either in most cases, they’re typically always on.
So you if ignore the red squiggly in one, you are probably gonna ignore the red squiggly in the other.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19086 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

On the Pair-Instability Supernova origin of J1010+2358
The first (Pop III) stars formed only out of H and He and were likely more massive than present-day stars. Massive Pop III stars in the range 140-260 M$_\odot$ are predicted to end their lives as pair-instability supernovae (PISNe), enriching the environment with a unique abundance pattern, with high ratios of odd to even elements. Recently, the most promising candidate for a pure descendant of a zero-metallicity massive PISN (260 M$_{\odot}$) was discovered by the LAMOST survey, the star J1010…

UK scientists don’t need a corporate saviour as their boss
https://www.ft.com/content/f8768020-1fce-43f7-90df-b6fa685f1273
<< I disagree with the base premise of this: that people who do/did a job are most likely the best managers of people doing the job.
Academia is absolutely packed with atrocious managers who got their management position on the basis they were excellent at research.
Yes, a disconnected corporate/political mouthpiece is bad, but that describes many scientists that adopt senior management roles.

“long term I suspect that the bigger risk is gonna be spammers setting up some random AP compatible server (or farm of servers) for spamming rather than abusing mastodon, as it’ll most likely be cheaper and easier.”
I can control who I federate with but not who they federate with.
What is needed is more likely real spam filtering on a per post level.
For email we have SPF, DMARC and DKIM, but what really works is applying heuristics to message content.
We need some…

"Six months from the 2024 presidential election, Trump is better positioned to win the White House than at any point in either of his previous campaigns. He leads Joe Biden by slim margins in most polls, including in several of the seven swing states likely to determine the outcome. But I had not come to ask about the election, the disgrace that followed the last one, or how he has become the first former—and perhaps future—American President to face a criminal trial. I wanted to know what Trump would do if he wins a second term, to hear his vision for the nation, in his own words."

Good Morning #Canada
Happy Birthday to Karen Alexandria Kain, born March 28, 1951, in Hamilton, Ontario. Just like Flashdance, where a dancer from steel town goes on to fame and fortune, Kain became Canada’s finest and most celebrated ballet dancer. Even if you know nothing about ballet, like me, you have likely heard of Karen Kain, who headlined ballet companies and productions worldwide. An amazing career.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Ballet
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/karen-kain

Shortest paths govern fracture nucleation in thermoset networks
Zheng Yu, Nicholas E. Jackson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03551 https://

Shortest paths govern fracture nucleation in thermoset networks
In this work, we introduce a predictive approach for determining fracture nucleation in thermosets based on shortest paths (SPs) of the network topology. This method enumerates SP sets in networks with periodic boundary conditions, with applications to both all-atom and coarse-grained simulations. We find that network fracture is most likely to nucleate on the first (shortest) SP and the strain at nucleation is linearly correlated with the topological path length. Subsequent fracture events are…

Forgot one point: Most cookie banners are likely illegal in the light of the so-called cookie directive, because of the dark patterns applied. Giving consent should be as easy as declining it.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08376 has been replaced.
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Exploring the di-$J/ψ$ resonances based on {\it{ab initio}} perturbative QCD
We extend the nonrelativistic QCD framework to explore the nature of the newly discovered di-$J/ψ$ resonances. Assuming them as either molecule-like states or tetraquarks, we calculated their hadroproduction cross sections at the LHC. We find that the observed resonances are most likely spin-2 particles, and there should exist their spin-0 counterparts near these resonances. The ratio of production cross sections of the observed resonances to the latent spin-0 ones are also presented, which mi…

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Immersive Media and Massive Twinning: Advancing Towards the Metaverse
The advent of the Metaverse concept has further expedited the evolution of haptic, tactile internet, and multimedia applications with their VR/AR/XR services, and therefore, fully-immersive sensing is most likely to define the next generation of wireless networks as a key to realize the speculative vision of the Metaverse. In this magazine, we articulate different types of media that we envision will be communicated between the cyber and physical twins in the Metaverse. In particular, we explor…

The Future Looks Bleak for Alexa Skill Development
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-6a486890-72209f37dce6da51
The Future Looks Bleak for Alexa Skill Development While the average Hackaday reader is arguably less likely than most to install a m…

World's most microscopic violin 🎻 😂 Bruce Lehrmann faces crippling legal costs after rape finding
https://www.9news.com.au/national/bruce-lehrmann-defamation-verdict-now-facing-legal-c…

This is by far the most likely avenue by which AI bots will be taken down.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

Honestly I’m good with a delay. This mod is a huge undertaking and it’s worth the wait.
https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/112319930382798138

Yes, also if you send me a link to a podcast episode. https://newsie.social/@stevesilberman/112159500263926500

Remember when multi-factor authentication was supposed to protect personal data from third parties?
About that.
From: @…
https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/112<…

If AI's entire gig is ingesting a large database of human-written input, and crunching that database to predict the most likely next words to form a human-like response... that seems like a pretty powerful tool for password cracking.
Plenty of hacked password databases out there to train on, drastically shortening the time required for brute force cracking. Everyone needs 2 factor auth enabled on any service that offers it.

I will be tooting telepathically today
So if you think of something funny, that was most likely me.

Why an extension for Dak Prescott is still the most likely outcome https://insidethestar.com/why-an-extension-for-dak-prescott-is-still-the-most-likely-outcome/

Why an extension for Dak Prescott is still the most likely outcome ⋆ Inside The Star
Mar 27, 2024 -- In an otherwise very quiet offseason in Dallas, the Cowboys and star quarterback Dak Prescott are once again storming NFL headlines with a contract

Benchmarking the IRDC G351.77-0.53: Gaia DR3 distance, mass distribution, and star formation content
S. D. Reyes-Reyes, A. M. Stutz, S. T. Megeath, Fengwei Xu, R. H. \'Alvarez-Guti\'errez, N. Sandoval-Garrido, H. -L. Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02456 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.02456
arXiv:2403.02456v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While intensively studied, it remains unclear how the star formation (SF) in Infrared Dark Clouds (IRDCs) compares to that of nearby clouds. We study G351.77-0.53 (henceforth G351), a cluster-forming filamentary IRDC. We begin by characterizing its young stellar object (YSO) content. Based on the average parallax of likely members, we obtain a Gaia distance of $\sim\,2.0\pm0.14$ kpc, resolving the literature distance ambiguity. Using our Herschel-derived N(H$_2$) map, we measure a total gas mass of 10200 M$_{\odot}$ (within 11 pc$^2$) and the average line-mass profile of the entire filament, which we model as $\lambda =~1660 (w/\rm pc )^{0.62}\,\,M_{\odot}\,\rm{pc}^{-1}$. At $w < 0.63$ pc, our $\lambda$ profile is higher and has a steeper power-law index than $\lambda$ profiles extracted in Orion A and most of its substructures. Based on the YSOs inside the filament area, we estimate the SF efficiency (SFE) and SF rate (SFR). We calculate a factor of 5 incompleteness correction for our YSO catalog relative to Spitzer surveys of Orion A. The G351 SFE is $\sim 1.8$ times lower than that of Orion A and lower than the median value for local clouds. We measure SFR and gas masses to estimate the efficiency per free-fall time, $\epsilon _{\rm ff}$. We find that $\epsilon_{\rm ff}$ is $\sim$ 1.1 dex below the previously proposed mean local relation, and $\sim\,4.7\times$ below Orion A. These observations indicate that local SF-relations do not capture variations present in the Galaxy. We speculate that cloud youth and/or magnetic fields might account for the G351 inefficiency.

Why an extension for Dak Prescott is still the most likely outcome https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/why_an_extension_for_dak_prescott_is_still_the_most_likely_outcome/s1_17100_40163602

Why an extension for Dak Prescott is still the most likely outcome
In an otherwise very quiet offseason in Dallas, the Cowboys and star quarterback Dak Prescott are once again storming NFL headlines with a contract situation. Following the teams' playoff loss to the Packers, an early-offseason extension looked guaranteed. As the offseason inched closer, however, it was all quiet on both fronts. The issue there is without an extension for Prescott it was going to leave Dallas in salary cap turmoil for this year's free agency period, and that is exactly what hap…

2024 NFL Draft: Cowboys, Titans and other teams most likely to draft for need in the first round

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nf

2024 NFL Draft: Cowboys, Titans and other teams most likely to draft for need in the first round
NFL teams approach the draft with different strategies

Donald J. Trump on Wednesday lost his initial bid for a New York appeals court to pause the more than $450 million judgment he faces in a civil fraud case, exposing him to potential financial peril.
Mr. Trump told the appeals court that it was “impossible” to secure a bond of more than $450 million — any company providing a bond would most likely require the former president to pledge cash and other collateral — and offered to post one of only $100 million. Any bond that the appeals co…

Trump Rebuffed After Asking a Judge to Delay His $454 Million Penalty
The former president, who is appealing the penalty in his civil fraud case, offered a bond of only $100 million to pause the judgment.

I realized today that when the leader of the Official Opposition and currently most likely next PM of Canada visited my town last week on his "Axe the [Carbon] Tax" tour, he did so by holding a rally at the local aviation business.
That corporation's primary purpse is fighting wildfires made worse by climate change.
Most intentionally tone deaf rally in the history of rallies or a conspiracy of global proportions?
🤦‍♂️ 🔥

Shortest paths govern fracture nucleation in thermoset networks
Zheng Yu, Nicholas E. Jackson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03551 https://

Shortest paths govern fracture nucleation in thermoset networks
In this work, we introduce a predictive approach for determining fracture nucleation in thermosets based on shortest paths (SPs) of the network topology. This method enumerates SP sets in networks with periodic boundary conditions, with applications to both all-atom and coarse-grained simulations. We find that network fracture is most likely to nucleate on the first (shortest) SP and the strain at nucleation is linearly correlated with the topological path length. Subsequent fracture events are…

Most of the world’s population wants to fight climate change, but that majority thinks they are the minority.”
This misperception matters. People are less likely to act for the common good if they think everyone else is free-riding"
69% of Europeans would be willing to give up 1% of their income each month to fight #ClimateChange
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How to do climate policy in …

Under a cat video. See the kitty responsible for the apocalypse:
#cats

The confessions of the perpetrators in Moscow sound familiar, in the same way hits are organized in the Netherlands, using Telegram, cuit-outs, expendable people. Motivation is clearly money it seems. Literally anybody could be behind it but applying Ockham's razor, IS /ISIS is most likely. But it's also clear Putin has many reasons to try to connect Ukraine with it. Also in Russia no fair and independent investigation is possible.

Giant Biconical Dust Filaments in the Starburst Galaxy NGC 1808
Rohan KaneUniversity of Maryland, College Park, Sylvain VeilleuxUniversity of Maryland, College Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02427 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.02427
arXiv:2403.02427v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present the results from an analysis of multi-wavelength archival data on the multi-phase outflow in the starburst galaxy NGC 1808. We report the detection at 70 and 100 um of dust filaments that extend up to ~ 13 kpc from the galactic mid-plane and trace an edge-brightened biconical structure along the minor axis of the galaxy. The inner filaments are roughly co-spatial with previously identified optical dust filaments, extraplanar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission, and neutral and ionized gaseous outflows. The 70/160 um flux ratio, a proxy for dust temperature, is elevated along the edges of the cones, indicating that the dusty medium has been driven out of the central regions of these cones and possibly shock-heated by an outflow. We establish lower limits on the extraplanar dust mass and mean height above the stellar disk of log(M_d/M_sun) = 6.48 and |z| ~ 5 kpc, respectively. The energy requirement of (5.1-9.6) x 10^{56} ergs needed to lift the dusty material, assuming Milky-Way like dust-to-gas ratio, can be supplied by the current starburst, with measured star formation rate of 3.5-5.4 M_sun yr^{-1}, over a timescale of (4-26) xi^{-1} Myr, where xi is the efficiency of energy transfer. We conclude that a starburst-driven outflow is the most likely mechanism by which the dust features were formed.

This is by far the most likely avenue by which AI bots will be taken down.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-honor-refund-policy-invented-by-airlines-chatbot/

Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

JWST Reveals CH$_4$, CO$_2$, and H$_2$O in a Metal-rich Miscible Atmosphere on a Two-Earth-Radius Exoplanet
Bj\"orn Benneke, Pierre-Alexis Roy, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Michael Radica, Caroline Piaulet, Eva-Maria Ahrer, Raymond Pierrehumbert, Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Hilke E. Schlichting, Renyu Hu, Jeehyun Yang, Duncan Christie, Daniel Thorngren, Edward D. Young, Stefan Pelletier, Heather A. Knutson, Yamila Miguel, Thomas M. Evans-Soma, Caroline Dorn, Anna Gagnebin, Jonathan J. F…

JWST Reveals CH$_4$, CO$_2$, and H$_2$O in a Metal-rich Miscible Atmosphere on a Two-Earth-Radius Exoplanet
Even though sub-Neptunes likely represent the most common outcome of planet formation, their natures remain poorly understood. In particular, planets near 1.5-2.5$\,R_\oplus$ often have bulk densities that can be explained equally well with widely different compositions and interior structures, resulting in grossly divergent implications for their formation. Here, we present the full 0.6-5.2$\,μ\mathrm{m}$ JWST NIRISS/SOSS+NIRSpec/G395H transmission spectrum of the 2.2$\,R_\oplus$ TOI-270d ($4…

If AI's entire gig is ingesting a large database of human-written input, and crunching that database to predict the most likely next words to form a human-like response... that seems like a pretty powerful tool for password cracking.
Plenty of hacked password databases out there to train on, drastically shortening the time required for brute force cracking. Everyone needs 2 factor auth enabled on any service that offers it.

After a classified briefing on TikTok, the Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell says "the next steps might be something more public, like a hearing" (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2024/03/20/senate-p…

Senate plots next moves on TikTok
Senators signaled after a classified briefing on Wednesday that their most likely next step on TikTok will be to hold a hearing.

Very sad day in the hockey world. We don't know how or why Chris Simon died yet, but I'll suggest it that unless it is some sort of unknown medical condition, it's likely hockey-related (concussion, brain damage, mental health, etc). And Konstantin's death is a suicide.
Hockey has some very very deep problems that it needs to deal with.
Condolences to all the families and friends.

WR Michael Gallup named the Cowboys most likely cap casualty in 2024 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/2024/02/22/michael-gallup-cowboys-cap-casualty-2024/

WR Michael Gallup named the Cowboys most likely cap casualty in 2024
According to recent lists the Cowboys veteran WR, Michael Gallup, is their most likely cut this offseason – here’s the how and why behind it. | From @ReidDHanson

Before the merger, shares of the shell company
— Digital World Acquisition Corporation
— had long behaved as something of a proxy for investor sentiment about Donald Trump.
And that is likely to continue for the merged companies, especially as Trump remains in the headlines with pending trials and the presidential campaign.
By most traditional measures, Trump Media’s valuation is inordinately high.
The company took in just $3.3 million in revenue during the fir…

Trump’s Media Company Gets Lofty Valuation on First Trading Day
Trump Media & Technology Group, fresh from a merger with a cash-rich shell company, started trading on the Nasdaq, adding billions of dollars to the former president’s wealth.

Tee Higgins anticipates playing for Bengals in 2024: Why it has always been the most likely scenario https://theathletic.com/5416462/2024/04/15/tee-higgins-return-bengals-2024/

Tee Higgins anticipates playing for Bengals in 2024: Why it has always been the most likely scenario
"I've grown a love for Cincy that I didn't think I would," Tee Higgins told reporters at a youth football camp Sunday.

Virtually every group of voters under 70 years of age has become less likely to register as Democrats with respect to Republicans since 2019.
It’s a trend that broadly follows the pattern in recent national polls, which show Mr. Biden struggling to retain support among young voters even as he holds his own with those over 65.
But most of the decline in Democratic numbers is yielding an increase in the independent share of registrants, not a surge in Republican registrants.

Share of Democratic Registrations Is Declining, but What Does It Mean?
Virtually every group of voters under 70 has become less likely to register as Democrats compared with Republicans since 2019.

MAGA is trying to pass election restrictions entirely based on the Big Lie in the hope of helping Trump swing the state most likely to decide the 2024 presidential election.
The League of Women Voters, the ACLU of Wisconsin and earlyworm are calling on all Wisconsinites to VOTE NO on the two constitutional amendments in the upcoming April elections.
If you’re looking for more background on this purposely complex assault on democracy read “Ballot Measure May Scare Away the People …

ALERT: NO ON WISCONSIN’S BIG LIE AMENDMENTS | the earlyworm society
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An ectopic pregnancy put her life at risk. A Texas hospital refused to treat her.
Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz tried not to cry as the doctor in the emergency room delivered one of the most frightening diagnoses a pregnant woman can receive.

The 25-year-old college senior was told she likely had an ectopic pregnancy, a highly dangerous condition where the embryo implants outside of the uterus. Without immediate treatment, the fallopian tube can rupture — and the patient can die.

An ectopic pregnancy put her life at risk. A Texas hospital refused to treat her.
The 25-year-old woman and her mother blame the Texas abortion ban for a delay in care that put her “in extreme danger of losing her life.”

Cowboys' Ezekiel Elliott signing just got better with latest news https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_ezekiel_elliott_signing_just_got_better_with_latest_news/s1_17313_40311697

Cowboys' Ezekiel Elliott signing just got better with latest news
The Dallas Cowboys' reunion with Ezekiel Elliott has sparked some controversy among fans, with one side arguing they're making a lazy move to improve the position and another countering that he's still got gas left in the tank. The reality is that it's a move that shouldn't cause many strong feelings one way or another. Zeke is unlikely to become a workhorse-style RB1 like before but rather be a part of a committee which is most likely going to be led by Rico Dowdle, who has been more explosive…