@UP8@mastodon.social⚠️ AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
I discovered 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 for myself in my ill-fated research project of 2021!
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-ai-generate-intimacy-exceeds-human.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNewly-released emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kick off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage (Alison Durkee/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialYDS professor Bruce Gordon with Christopher Pittenger and Anna Yusim from Yale Medicine are leading an effort to forge a stronger relationship between religion and psychiatry. Read our new story about this promising work. https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-02…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzNew Cowboys Defensive Assistant Has Ties To Franchise Legend https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/new-dallas-cowboys-defensive-assistant-ties-franchise-legend
@cdarwin@c.imCommunities have changed how resistance is conducted
— away from the myth of the solitary activist hero
and toward
shared capacity.
As Grace Lee Boggs taught us,
“Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.”
Political exhaustion took on new meaning.
It was no longer treated as a personal struggle, but as shared terrain
— produced by oppressive systems and requiring collective response.
The question shifted from…
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom Translink
Pattullo Bridge closed in both directions for one week
Full closure needed to finish road connections on replacement bridge
Starting at 8pm on Friday February 6 there will be no vehicle access to the Pattullo Bridge for approximately one week because of ongoing construction and transition work on the new stalΕəwΓasəm (Riverview) Bridge. During the closure, the stalΕəwΓasəm Bridge will also be fully closed.
The Pattullo Bridge’s sidewalk will remai…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldOne familiar actor on Castle sparked a fun hunt for TV connections across The Rookie, Firefly, and other shows. Then things took a nostalgic turn into the golden age of arcade games. New blog post is live. 🎮📺
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/connections-cross…
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialOfgem has launched a wide-ranging review to reform grid connection processes in response to a surge in datacentre demand, proposing stricter entry requirements and new models to accelerate electricity capacity delivery.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ofge…
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@servelan@newsie.socialFor most of these people, this is an inconvenience, not career-ending. With their connections, they'll have different jobs in no time at all...
Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey Resigns From Monolith Amid Epstein Emails - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/bob-kerrey-resignation-monolith-epstein.html
@hex@kolektiva.socialAs salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialYDS is grateful to have such affinity and so many connections with Wellesley Village Church. Read our new article on this thriving Massachusetts congregation and the people and values we share. https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-02
@smashtie@mas.toAmy Laurenson New Voices | Celtic Connections 2026 #folk #folkmusic
https://youtube.com/watch?v=73Tc_DgoPp
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@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoThe case for my 28g QRP dual-ported (9:1 and 49:1) unun cracked from tightening one of the terminal screws too tight, and from having printed the box with too few perimeters, so it wasn't really strong enough. I had designed it so that the coax was integrated into the case, so I had to cut the case apart to remove the still-functional electrical components for re-use.
At least this gave me a chance to confirm that I hadn't blown up the ferrite from overheating it!
@arXiv_mathDG_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for math.DG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.DG/new
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- On the modified $J$-equation
Ryosuke Takahashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04953
- Surfaces with flat normal connection in 4-dimensional space forms
Naoya Ando, Ryusei Hatanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15780
- Regularized $\zeta_{\Delta}(1)$ for Polyhedra
Alexey Yu. Kokotov, Dmitrii V. Korikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03351 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/113955669526276293
- General Chen-Ricci inequalities for Riemannian submersions and Riemannian maps
Ravindra Singh, Kiran Meena, Kapish Chand Meena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15281 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/115246828823405190
- Some configuration results for area-minimizing cones
Yongsheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17240 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/115411416287934120
- Real Bers embedding on the line: Fisher-Rao linearization, Schwarzian curvature, and scattering c...
Hy Lam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07373 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116045447030638429
- Explicit Hamiltonian representations of meromorphic connections and duality from different perspe...
Mohamad Alameddine, Olivier Marchal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19187 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathph_bot/112692974532066693
- An alternative solvability criterion for the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface equation a...
Ari J. Aiolfi, Giovanni da Silva Nunes, Jaime Ripoll, Lisandra Sauer, Rodrigo Soares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09806 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/115026282591071982
- Gromov's Compactness Theorem for the Intrinsic Timed-Hausdorff Distance
Mauricio Che, Raquel Perales, Christina Sormani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13069 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathMG_bot/115382835673596437
- Nearly optimal spectral gaps for random Belyi surfaces
Yang Shen, Yunhui Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02517 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathSP_bot/115496082425305449
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@relcfp@mastodon.socialCity of Angels: Migration, Encounter, and New Forms of Faith
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@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageT1: One-to-One Channel-Head Binding for Multivariate Time-Series Imputation
Dongik Park, Hyunwoo Ryu, Suahn Bae, Keondo Park, Hyung-Sin Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21043 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21043 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21043
arXiv:2602.21043v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Imputing missing values in multivariate time series remains challenging, especially under diverse missing patterns and heavy missingness. Existing methods suffer from suboptimal performance as corrupted temporal features hinder effective cross-variable information transfer, amplifying reconstruction errors. Robust imputation requires both extracting temporal patterns from sparse observations within each variable and selectively transferring information across variables--yet current approaches excel at one while compromising the other. We introduce T1 (Time series imputation with 1-to-1 channel-head binding), a CNN-Transformer hybrid architecture that achieves robust imputation through Channel-Head Binding--a mechanism creating one-to-one correspondence between CNN channels and attention heads. This design enables selective information transfer: when missingness corrupts certain temporal patterns, their corresponding attention pathways adaptively down-weight based on remaining observable patterns while preserving reliable cross-variable connections through unaffected channels. Experiments on 11 benchmark datasets demonstrate that T1 achieves state-of-the-art performance, reducing MSE by 46% on average compared to the second-best baseline, with particularly strong gains under extreme sparsity (70% missing ratio). The model generalizes to unseen missing patterns without retraining and uses a consistent hyperparameter configuration across all datasets. The code is available at https://github.com/Oppenheimerdinger/T1.
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@relcfp@mastodon.socialCity of Angels: Migration, Encounter, and New Forms of Faith #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL
@arXiv_mathDG_bot@mastoxiv.pageSheaves on Graphs and their Differential Calculi
Rita Fioresi, Angelica Simonetti, Ferdinando Zanchetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21176 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21176 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21176
arXiv:2602.21176v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper we explore the link between the theory of sheaves on graphs and noncommutative geometry showing that many concepts and constructions in the latter can be generalized and enhanced using methods coming from the former. They include notions such as Laplacians and connections, important in the theory of discrete noncommutative geometry, that are here explored with sheaf theoretic methods and using the language of (semi)simplicial sets.
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@relcfp@mastodon.socialCity of Angels: Migration, Encounter, and New Forms of Faith https://relcfp.com/cfp/literature/migration/spirituality/2026/02/18/city-of-angels-mla/
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCity of Angels: Migration, Encounter, and New Forms of Faith https://relcfp.com/cfp/literature/migration/spirituality/2026/02/18/city-of-angels-mla/
