2026-04-08 23:47:27
Cowboys Donovan Ezeiruaku Number Change Hints at Veteran’s Fate https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-donovan-ezeiruaku-number-change-hints-veterans-fate
Cowboys Donovan Ezeiruaku Number Change Hints at Veteran’s Fate https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-donovan-ezeiruaku-number-change-hints-veterans-fate
Every time I check-in to an Icelandair flight, some piece of information is missing (usually passport, often the known traveler number), but today, my contact info was scrambled. The phone number they have for me is my emergency contact’s number! Are they just vibe coding their app over there?
Wow, this image from Firefox visually shows the power of Mythos's bug-sniffing capabilities.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/
Why do some Americans seem to prefer "upwards of" or even "north/south of ...", when talking about numbers/amounts?
To me, a non-native speaker, a number/amount can be greater/more, or smaller/less than another number/amount. I can probably guess that 11 is "upward" of 10, but that really depends on what your visual picture is of the list of numbers. In a text file, e.g., line 11 is clearly downward of line 10? I'm guessing that's my overthinkin…
"diagnoser hjælper ikke. Hjælp hjælper”
An increasing number of people with ADHD and autism diagnoses would like to have them removed.
Fascinating piece from @zetland.dk
https://www.zetland.dk/historie/sxFMY1kf-moGnNy6v-d6fab
Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from $115-$125 per share to $125-$135 after drawing orders for more than 20x the number of shares available (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-08/ai-…
Cowboys’ Caleb Downs Makes Disappointing Change After Rookie Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/caleb-downs-number-change-rookie-camp/
lesmis: Les Misérables coappearances
The network of scene coappearances of characters in Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables". Edge weights denote the number of such occurrences.
This network has 77 nodes and 254 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/lesmis
Anyone good in statistics who can quickly answer a question? Assume I have an n-digit random binary number (for IT people: a bitstring). I calculate the number of 1s vs. 0s ("Hamming weight"). Expected to be usually ~0.5/50%. How does one calculate the probability for a given length n that it's above or below a certain value, i.e. <=40% or >=60%? And how many inputs would one on average need to get at least one such outlier?
American cities languish badly compared with transit leaders such as Sydney, Hong Kong and Barcelona,
based on the number of transit vehicles per 100,000 residents,
according to the Transportation for America study.
The gap is now so large that for major American cities to bring their public transit up to “world-class” status,
it would cost an enormous
$4.6trillion, involving 7,500 miles of new dedicated infrastructure for trains and buses, over the next 20 years…
I can do nothing but laugh derisively at the absurd number of things on my to-do list.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Claude Von Stroke:
🎵 Wrong Number
#ClaudeVonStroke
https://claudevonstroke.bandcamp.com/album/wrong-number
The Times of London says cutting the number of stories it publishes by 25% as part of a "fewer, better stories" strategy led to three months of audience growth (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/
Andy Burnham made a number of statements, and they are worth noting and dissecting.
There are things to applaud but the tendency in a speech like this is to paint an overly celebratory picture, and to elide some of the real issues.
#decarbonisation #AirPollution
U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/upshot/public-schools-enrollment-crisis.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p16#a260508p16
Continuing to shed federal workers remains ‘priority number one,’ White House official says - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/03/continuing-shed-federal-workers-remains-priority-number-one-white-house-official-says/411907/?oref=ge-home-top-story
The Web I grew up with and that grew up with me was already slowly fading. The Web of many people and organizations having their own small website. Capitalism and convenience lead to a concentration onto a small number of platforms and apps, but mostly these platforms let the rest be. People and small organizations and groups could still have their little website.
#web
When I got in to tech, things felt fragile. After years of trying to fix things, I spent more years feeling as though the information apocalypse was immanent. Everywhere I turned, something was broken horribly. I can't even count the number of times I've just had to be like, "oh fuck. That's really bad. I knew it was bad, but like... oh fuck."
We have *all* had our identity stolen. I don't even know how many times my social security number has been in a data breach. How many of my medical records are on the market? But yeah, sure, let's accelerate that.
The problem was never that we couldn't find problems. The problem has always been "leadership" being unwilling to invest in fixing them. The problem has always been this mind-set of growth-at-any-cost.
I tuck these things away in my brain, and they sit there gnawing on my sanity, like little RFK worms.
I saw Mr. Wolf a year ago at Dragon Day and saw him in the parade this year but didn't see him afterwards. Then when developed the photos I saw him glaring at me!
#photo #photography #wolf
I have committed a below average number of murders for a human.
GWTC-4.0 - an Introduction to Version 4.0 of the #GravitationalWave Transient Catalog: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0c06 -> The latest crop of space-time wobbles includes a variety of heavy, fast-spinning, and lopsided colliding black holes: https://physics.mit.edu/news/new-catalog-more-than-doubles-the-number-of-gravitational-wave-detections-made-by-ligo-virgo-and-kagra-observatories/ / New catalog of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observations published: https://www.aei.mpg.de/1415736/new-catalog-of-ligo-virgo-kagra-observations-published - the latest catalog, GWTC-4, includes 128 new candidates from the fourth observing run, more than doubling the previous total.
Andy Burnham’s Green Summit (2026)
Mark Burton Some 2,500 people attended Mayor Andy Burnham’s Greater Manchester Green Summit on Tuesday 3 March. The Mayor’s address Burnham, fresh from the controversy over the Gorton and Denton by-election, and something of a national political figure, gave the introductory address. In it he made a number of statements, and they are worth noting and dissecting. He started by noting the high turnout for the event and the…
"According to Iranian state media, the ten-point proposal includes a number of conditions that the US has in the past rejected. Among them are controlled transit through strait of Hormuz coordinated with Iranian armed forces and withdrawal of all US forces from regional bases. The plan would also require the lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions, payment of full compensation to Iran and release of all frozen Iranian assets." @…
Start with the number of your birth month (January is 1, February is 2, and so on), add 9 squared, add 12 minus your birthday month number, multiply the value you have by itself, subtract 2.
https://mastodon.social/@Headline_News_Bot/116501947115585199
@… @… If you’re interested in doing some legwork, I would consider contacting the author’s widow :)
I was in touch with her over the phone last year to buy a copy of the book (Website was broken, so I tried the phone number)…
DoorDash friends, it's not ok if you call a number as a merchant and get a message actually using the words "this line is deprecated"
I've been learning Persian/Farsi for the last couple of months. (I know, what timing!)
I'm still stuck in alphabet recognition drills, but I'm happy to take my time. I'm also amused by the number of French words I recognise.
What I didn't realise is I'll one day be able to understand Dari and also read things from Afghanistan!
#LanguageLearning
Andy Burnham’s Green Summit (2026)
Mark Burton Some 2,500 people attended Mayor Andy Burnham’s Greater Manchester Green Summit on Tuesday 3 March. The Mayor’s address Burnham, fresh from the controversy over the Gorton and Denton by-election, and something of a national political figure, gave the introductory address. In it he made a number of statements, and they are worth noting and dissecting. He started by noting the high turnout for the event and the…
Flashback to August 8, 2019, when a top-tier 1 TB SSD was $107.99 with free shipping.
Crucial was a brand known for top-quality consumer products at competitive prices. They are no more as Micron ended the brand at the end of 2025 to shift production to enterprise parts for AI data centers. Another casualty of the global warming bullshit machine.
I took this screenshot on August 8, 2019, before buying one.
I had no idea, because I don't own one, that a large number of the old 1940s-'50s AGA gas ovens got converted to electric over the last decade, with the ability to individually control the sub-ovens.
Me to customer service: I haven’t received an order confirmation or any other communication since placing my order. Did the order go through? Them: If you give me the order number, we’ll look into it for you.
I am so tired.
The new US cyber security strategy just dropped. I'm a Claude user, and I suspiciously inquired of Claude as to the number of em-dashes in this four page document. Then I asked Claude to analyze the probability of this document being LLM-written.
Claude then throws some naughty shade.
ht…
Caleb Downs Gets New Number Ahead of Dallas Cowboys OTAs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/caleb-downs-gets-new-number-ahead-dallas-cowboys-otas
Anthropic says it will make a preview of its Mythos model available to more than 40 organizations, as part of a new Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/07/anthropic-mythos-ai-model-preview-security/
wiki_article_words: Wikipedia article-words (en) (2010)
A bipartite network of English Wikipedia articles and the words they contain. The edge weight gives the number of times a word appeared in the connected article.
This network has 276739 nodes and 2941902 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
https://
Heute vor 75 Jahren: Am 8. Mai 1951 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Greenhouse die 3. #Atombombe "George". Greenhouse war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests im Enewetak Ato…
Anyone good in statistics who can quickly answer a question? Assume I have an n-digit random binary number (for IT people: a bitstring). I calculate the number of 1s vs. 0s ("Hamming weight"). Expected to be usually ~0.5/50%. How does one calculate the probability for a given length n that it's above or below a certain value, i.e. <=40% or >=60%? And how many inputs would one on average need to get at least one such outlier?
A sixth person has been bitten by a rattlesnake in southern California’s Ventura county in just under a month,
-- That's two-thirds of the number of people bitten in all of 2025.
There have been two fatalities from rattlesnake bites in southern California this year.
On 14 March, a 46-year-old woman died after she was bitten by a rattlesnake while hiking in Wildwood regional park.
In Orange county, 25-year-old Julian Hernandez died after being bitten while biking n…
Raiders Player Quickly Takes Tyree Wilson’s Old Number After Trade https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jalen-nailor-number-tyree-wilson-trade/
The "youngsters" in the bar where I am are talking about the number of brain strokes they have had. I... I believe I am the youngest by around 20 years around here.
I was just looking at the watch again and noticed SR621 is listed on the face next to the model number. That is obviously the battery type. Why would they list this, unless you could do something with the information but there is no way to open the back.
Now I wonder if it is possible to carefully prise off the crystal to get to the module and from there the battery. 🤔
I'm not gonna try now but I might attempt it one day when the battery does run out.
Let me introduce you to the rabbit hole of the month. What a superb publication! Number one: advertising in mags was still a big thing.
Number two: it brought back that rush of enthousiasm and curiosity, like when i opened my first Toshiba 8088 laptop, at home, on my kitchentable. When Windows was still fun. OS/2!
Number three: The Chaos Manor, with dr. Jerry Pournelle. I don't need to say anything else.
When and if archeology is done on this society, they'll be puzzled, as I am, by the prodigious number of chickens kept, slaughtered, processed, eaten.
Surely it must be a religion, or part of the cult that led to the end of that 'civilisation'.
Greggs launches chicken version of sausage and vegan rolls in 'iconic trilogy' | ITV News
Writing up #Draft2Digital alternatives made me remember how much #Amazon KDP sucked as a self-publishing platform even before the AI slop. The only things it has going for it are the sheer simplicity of creating an eBook, like honestly, it's practically fool-proof, and the vast number of po…
This is pretty much why I hate the two party system. You can talk to someone and they're CLEARLY a republican, and then they're like "and yes I'm a Democrat!"
I didn't vote for Eric Adams because HE WAS A FUCKING REPUBLICAN. It's not "vote blue no matter who", because "blue" is meaningless if republicans can wear that color.
"Greece increases the number of beaches where sunbeds are banned to protect the environment"
#Greece #Beaches #Environment
Which Cowboys jersey numbers are available? The pre-draft 90-man roster https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/07/pre-draft-cowboys-90-man-roster-by-jersey-number/89481397007/…
Woman running with mirrorshades on long straight stretch of tower coming from the Vet School
#photo #photography #running
Climate change drives uneven shifts in tree diversity across Amazon and Andes https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/climate-change-drives-uneven-shifts-in-tree-diversity-across-amazon-and-andes/
Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/27/number-of-ai-chatbots-ignoring-human-instructions-increasing-stud…
edit_wiktionary: Wiktionary edits (2010)
Three bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wiktionary, for French, German, and English. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 139 nodes and 171 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
Following an attack on several Wikimedia projects that comprised a large number of accounts, Wikis are now back to read and write access. Compromised accounts made automated mass edits across pages with the edit summary "Закрываем проект", among potentially other edits.
The issue was identified and fixed. Many functions have gone back to normal.
from my link log —
How to pick a random number from 1-10 using only people.
https://torvaney.github.io/projects/human-rng
saved 2019-07-01 https://
In order to open an account at #gitlab you have to
- solve 3D puzzles, twice!
- verify your email
- verify your phone number or add a credit card
- create a project
Wtf?! Normally I wouldn't care, but wanted to work with a friend...
@…
Sickly Red III ⭕️
病态的红 III ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ CineStill 800T
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Shortly after the war in Gaza began in 2023,
Bellingcat introduced a free tool authored by University College London lecturer and Bellingcat contributor, Ollie Ballinger,
that was able to estimate the number of damaged buildings in a given area.
This helped monitor and map the scale of destruction across the territory as Israel’s military operation progressed.
Bellingcat is now introducing an updated version of the open source tool
— called the Iran Conflict D…
I felt a great disturbance in the force #may4th
Signal and Proton Mail – What Private Information Can Law Enforcement Access?
On a regular basis I see questions being asked about the privacy of Signal and Proton Mail in terms of potential law enforcement access. It seems reasonable to me to be skeptical – we live with a large number of Internet vendor applications and services that do not respect our privacy and which capture information about us to sell to data brokers or advertisers. Some of companies pro-actively work with law e…
For some reason Hannan Fry is optimistic AI will get better at this (but then maybe her job depends on it?). Personally I think mathematicians have better things to do.
'Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
British mathematician Professor Hannah Fry has shared a cautionary experiment involving an AI agent, a set of tasks, and a bank card number Fry's team gave it "to show us what it could do."'
Small developers that sell their projects to another party should ensure that the transfer is marked by a higher major version number, lest the reputational damage of any subsequent fuckery accrues to them.
NEW MASTODON BROWSER PLUGIN
FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mastodon-hashtag-helper/
Chrome:
Raiders free agent addition scoops up Tyree Wilson's number following trade https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/05/raiders-free-agent-additio…
"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
—Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Pluralistic: The three armies fighting for the post-American world (05 May 2026) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/three-is-a-magic-number/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p79#a260505p79
webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 348 nodes and 33250 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…
Over the past couple of days I had the pleasure of chatting with a number of sharp undergrads who've applied to work on my project next year as part of the university's research opportunity program. It's been a real pleasure working with the group of four others I already have this academic year (their projects are really coming together!). I'm already looking forward to next year.
The News Media Guild says more than 120 of the AP staff members it represents received buyout offers on Monday (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/news-industry-buyouts-ap-newspapers-dd790effc6a385514b3323560161ea4f
Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use "all of the compute capacity" at Colossus 1, giving it access to over 300 MW of new capacity within the month (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-elon-musk-compute
My Altman number is 2 and I hate that
More than 40 million borrowers are saddled with federal student debt,
and a record number
— 7.7 million
— have defaulted on their loans,
For some borrowers, moving abroad and out of reach of debt collectors can be tempting.
In interviews, people who made this decision cited relieving the psychological burden of student debt as a motivator,
as well as having a higher quality of life,
even on a lower salary,
outside the United States.
Man…
Interesting for Euro #Ham operators:
https://www.iz0kba.it/en/iranian-number-station/
Cowboys' first-round draft pick changes jersey numbers after one weekend https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/05/06/cowboys-rookie-caleb-downs-jersey-number-change-no-13/8996678600…
Is there anything better than watching some poor dude flailing as he's hitting on some random woman? "I really like your shirt, it's such a cool vibe" "it's my work uniform."
I either winced or laughed at that, I can't remember.
[I don't know if he ultimately succeeded in getting her number, but always remember that this is what the apps have taken away from us!]
Raiders just signed the number two overall pick in the 2026 CFL Draft https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/03/raiders-just-signed-the-number-two-overall-pick-in-the-…
edit_wikiquote: Wikiquote edits (2010)
A bipartite user-page network extracted from Wikiquotes. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 5046 nodes and 42321 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
If you once had coherent opinions but you have completely shifted to basically only posting about how great AI is, know that that is the number one symptom of LLMitis
See some grass today and touch it
Blockbuster Trade Proposal Has Raiders Swap Star Player for All-Pro WR https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/aj-brown-maxx-crosby-trade-eagles/
He added: "So, it is not enough to simply say we stand with Jewish communities. Of course we do, but we have to show with action. And that responsibility lies with each and every one of us."
If he only said "We stand with Palestinians", even with his fingers crossed behind his back, it would be an improvement. But no, for him it was OK to starve them.
As I said,
A recent YouGov survey – conducted last fall and published in January – found that only 40% of US adult citizens identify as “center-left”, “center” or “center-right”, not 70%.
Polling published by Pew that was conducted last year similarly puts the number at 41%
(including those who self-identify as “Lean Democrat”, “No Lean/Refused”, “Lean Republican”),
While Gallup data puts the percentage of Americans who identify as Republican-leaning independents, non-leaning indepen…
Cowboys Could Target ‘Surprising’ George Pickens Replacement https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/nfl-draft-george-pickens-replacement/
game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 18 nodes and 50 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
Juanyeh Thomas Takes Issue With Cowboys Giving Away Marshawn Kneeland's Number https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/juanyeh-thomas-takes-issue-with-dallas-cowboys-giving-away-marshawn-kneeland-number
physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…
Something Feels Off About Caleb Downs’ Number at Cowboys Rookie Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/something-feels-off-about-caleb-downs-number-cowboys-rookie-camp
new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…
new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…
Every NFL player drafted No. 1 overall since 1936 https://www.raiders.com/news/every-nfl-player-drafted-number-1-overall-since-1936
AI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number
with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last six months,
a study into the technology has found.
AI chatbots and agents disregarded direct instructions,
evaded safeguards and deceived humans and other AI,
according to research funded by the UK government-funded AI Safety Institute (AISI).
The study, shared with the Guardian, identified nearly 700 real-world cases of AI scheming and chart…
webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 286 nodes and 1002 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…
edit_wiktionary: Wiktionary edits (2010)
Three bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wiktionary, for French, German, and English. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 5237 nodes and 20835 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 13 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted