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I've lost around 1 hour of my time listening to Trump's speech at United Nations. It was a far right speech (surprise) with threats against people (mostly migrants and refugees); threats against Iran, Venezuela and Brazil; critics to European Union countries as well as to United Kingdom; insults to random people and specially against the previous US administration; critics to the "climate change hoax"... And what's not.
Almost every single minute I heard one or mu…

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately
2 minutes and 53 seconds
were removed from one of two stitched-together clips.
The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
https://www.…

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

"A tree a minute for 24 hours: the young Victorian forest that was planted in a day"
#Australia #Trees #Environment

Micro-Health Interventions: Exploring Design Strategies for 1-Minute Interventions as a Gateway to Healthy Habits
Zahra Hassanzadeh, David Haag, Lydia Chilton, Jan Smeddinck, Norman Farb, Joseph Jay Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09312

Micro-Health Interventions: Exploring Design Strategies for 1-Minute Interventions as a Gateway to Healthy Habits
One-minute behavior change interventions might seem too brief to matter. Could something so short really help people build healthier routines? This work explores this question through two studies examining how ultra-brief prompts might encourage meaningful actions in daily life. In a formative study, we explored how participants engaged with one-minute prompts across four domains: physical activity, eating, screen use, and mental well-being. This revealed two common design approaches: Immediate…

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
AVON: We don't have half an hour!
VILA: I know that, but unless you can cut off one of Belkov's fingers for me - just a minute? [He bends down and grabs Tarrant's foot]
TARRANT: Vila, what are you doing?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/480…

Four years ago, SSR was started to make the great highway permanently car-free. Now, sunset dunes is one of SF's most popular parks. Like the embarcadero and central freeway removals, there may be more fights ahead, but we're not going back.
The recall shows a few things:
-Reactionary politics is inherently unsustainable; the recall-loving, pro-car base that engardio relied on to win in '22 immediately turned on him the minute he did his only visionary act
-Initia…

Das macht Spaß!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/06/upshot/ten-minute-challenge-archer.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U08.wheA.SLx1GxP_kOd7&smid=url-share

10-Minute Challenge: An Archery Contest in Ancient India
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.

Some kid on the pier is telling his parents how one time he saw an adder that big.
Me: wondering if it indeed was an adder or a grass snake (two snakes common in PL).
Me a minute ago: almost stomping a grass snake that big.

New superpower unlocked: procrastinate until a solution suggests itself over night. I think I'll change my middle name to “Calvin”?
#AcademicChatter

Today's ebike ride was 8.25 miles along one of my normal routes but I tried to avoid pedal assist as much as I could. In a 45 minute ride I probably used it for less than 5 minutes just to deal with a few hills along the way. I really want to get used to riding without assist for more of a "workout" on it, but also have the backup of assist for the hills.
#biking

Whelp, just spent the last few hours reviewing candidates for our boys' school board, and voting, and then did the same to prepare for the upcoming local elections... which, of course, shows how little one can really glean about a candiate's character from 2 minute videos... will have to investigate further: they mostly talk a good game, but it's hard to know how consequential they have been in past roles and are likely to be now. I fear few folks will make the time to do their d…

Reading through the changelog, I’m struck by how many new features we have. How is it platforms like Threads, Bluesky, and Twatter take forever to release a new feature with the huge resources they have???
https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/114821931700210430

UPDATE: My last-minute panic technique has paid off! I now only have one week’s worth of work left

Today has been one of those stupid days when everything that could go wrong has. Nothing overly dramatic. Just a delivery being stuffed up. Being overcharged. An appointment being cancelled at the last minute. I've spent so much time on the phone chasing stuff up. Not one of my favourite pastimes. 😠
#StupidLifeAdmin

#FuckEricAdams so so much. And fuck Hochul for not removing him. #BikeNYC
https://hellgateny…

Turning a paddock into a forest in just 24 hours - a filmmaker's inspiring climate action story. Individual and community efforts like tree planting can make a big impact in fighting climate change. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Spatio-Temporal Autoregressions for High Dimensional Matrix-Valued Time Series
Baojun Dou, Jing He, Sudhir Tiwari, Qiwei Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10291 https://

Spatio-Temporal Autoregressions for High Dimensional Matrix-Valued Time Series
Motivated by predicting intraday trading volume curves, we consider two spatio-temporal autoregressive models for matrix time series, in which each column may represent daily trading volume curve of one asset, and each row captures synchronized 5-minute volume intervals across multiple assets. While traditional matrix time series focus mainly on temporal evolution, our approach incorporates both spatial and temporal dynamics, enabling simultaneous analysis of interactions across multiple dimens…

That’s a great shot!
I took one at almost exactly the same time!
It was during Caamp’s concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl.
The band actually pointed it out while they were onstage, and it kind of stopped the show for about a minute while everyone just watched it instead.
What we’re seeing in that picture is the launch of Starlink satellites on July 18.
You can see that launch from another perspective [on X].
The exhaust from twilight launches appears to…

Evaluating the Critical Risks of Amazon's Nova Premier under the Frontier Model Safety Framework
Satyapriya Krishna, Ninareh Mehrabi, Abhinav Mohanty, Matteo Memelli, Vincent Ponzo, Payal Motwani, Rahul Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06260

Evaluating the Critical Risks of Amazon's Nova Premier under the Frontier Model Safety Framework
Nova Premier is Amazon's most capable multimodal foundation model and teacher for model distillation. It processes text, images, and video with a one-million-token context window, enabling analysis of large codebases, 400-page documents, and 90-minute videos in a single prompt. We present the first comprehensive evaluation of Nova Premier's critical risk profile under the Frontier Model Safety Framework. Evaluations target three high-risk domains -- Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear …

AI, AGI, and learning efficiency
My 4-month-old kid is not DDoSing Wikipedia right now, nor will they ever do so before learning to speak, read, or write. Their entire "training corpus" will not top even 100 million "tokens" before they can speak & understand language, and do so with real intentionally.
Just to emphasize that point: 100 words-per-minute times 60 minutes-per-hour times 12 hours-per-day times 365 days-per-year times 4 years is a mere 105,120,000 words. That's a ludicrously *high* estimate of words-per-minute and hours-per-day, and 4 years old (the age of my other kid) is well after basic speech capabilities are developed in many children, etc. More likely the available "training data" is at least 1 or 2 orders of magnitude less than this.
The point here is that large language models, trained as they are on multiple *billions* of tokens, are not developing their behavioral capabilities in a way that's remotely similar to humans, even if you believe those capabilities are similar (they are by certain very biased ways of measurement; they very much aren't by others). This idea that humans must be naturally good at acquiring language is an old one (see e.g. #AI #LLM #AGI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Keni Burke:
🎵 One Minute More
#KeniBurke
https://open.spotify.com/track/1A1TfTSihOSyfiZsQ2qJDu

Another nerd snipe for today: solve the definite integral from 0 to pi for the sine of 2x times the cosine of x dx. This one took a minute for me, but got the answer two different ways. Still a nice way to exercise integration techniques and trig identities.
#math #nerdsnipe

Improvements in the Reconstruction of IceCube Realtime Alerts
Giacomo Sommani (for the IceCube Collaboration), Tianlu Yuan (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06957

Improvements in the Reconstruction of IceCube Realtime Alerts
In 2016, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory launched its realtime program. When a neutrino candidate of likely astrophysical origin is detected, a public alert is issued, typically within one minute. These alerts allow the astrophysical community to follow up on the region of the sky where the neutrino likely originated. Initially, the system issued around six track-signature alerts per year, with a highlight being IceCube-170922A, which was later associated with the flaring blazar TXS 0506+056. …

Observations of Flare Induced Doppler Shifts in the Si~\textsc{iii} $1206\,\textrm{{\AA}}$ line
Luke H. Majury, Ryan O. Milligan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05223 https://…

Observations of Flare Induced Doppler Shifts in the Si~\textsc{iii} $1206\,\textrm{Å}$ line
Doppler shifts in chromospheric and transition-region lines during solar flares are often interpreted as chromospheric condensation or evaporation. However, alternative sources of Doppler-shifted emission have been suggested, such as filament eruptions, jets or chromospheric bubbles. We analyse high-cadence scans from SORCE/SOLSTICE, which provide one-minute resolution profiles of the transition-region Si~\textsc{iii} ($1206\,\textrm{Å}$, $\textrm{T} = 10^{4.6}\,\textrm{K}$) line. 11 X-, M-, a…

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
CALLY: [V.O. telepathy] Avon, listen. The enemy are on board. Avon.
AVON: Are they maintaining formation?
ZEN: Affirmative.
AVON: When will they be in range?
ZEN: They have been in range for one minute, eight seconds.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/413

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A Deep SETI Search for Technosignatures in the TRAPPIST-1 System with FAST
Guang-Yuan Song, Zhen-Zhao Tao, Bo-Lun Huang, Yan Cui, Bo Yu, Tong-Jie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06310

A Deep SETI Search for Technosignatures in the TRAPPIST-1 System with FAST
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is one of its five key science objectives. We conducted a targeted narrowband search toward the TRAPPIST-1 system using FAST. The observations consisted of five independent L-band pointings, each with a 20-minute integration, for a total on-source time of 1.67h. The frequency coverage spanned 1.05--1.45GHz with a spectral resoluti…

https://linuxiac.com/new-movie-python-the-documentary-traces-the-languages-story/

Call for Submissions: *SHHH! BREATHE SLOW!* – A One-Minute Horror Plays Anthology (Volume 4)
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"We stand by the accuracy of what we published,"
Reuters' statement read.
"We have carefully reviewed the published footage, and we have found no reason to believe Reuters longstanding commitment to accurate, unbiased journalism has been compromised."
The four-minute clip, released Sept. 3, captured Putin telling Xi that biotechnology could one day extend human life indefinitely.
"With continuous advances in biotechnology, human organs wi…

Reuters withdraws Putin-Xi immortality video after Chinese legal objections
Reuters on Sept. 5 withdrew a video in which Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were shown discussing whether humans could live to 150 years old, after China's state broadcaster revoked permission to use the footage.

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
DAYNA: Feeling any better now? [she serves Tarrant and Avon, reclining on the loungers, then goes over to Soolin and hands her one]
TARRANT: I still think you left it to the last minute on purpose.
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