Neanderthal DNA is largely missing from the human X chromosome.
“We found a pattern indicating a sex bias: gene flow occurred predominantly between Neanderthal males and anatomically modern human females,”
said Dr Alexander Platt, a senior research scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and first author of the research.
The ancestors of modern humans and the closest related species, the Neanderthals, diverged, forming two distinct groups, about 600,000 years ago.
Höllental ❤️
(Named after the hellish canyon section at the bottom of this most amazing valley, a section with tunnels and waterfalls which made the valley impassible during winter months (even still now) and the only way in & out is via a very narrow path along the rocks higher up...)
#FootpathFriday
The paradox of Nazism being both the most capitalist thing possible, defining itself as explicitly anticommunist, while masquerading as "socialism" is difficult to resolve until you understand one thing: fascism pivots around antisemitism (and its extension, conspiratorial thinking).
I'm, of course, not talking about the redefinition of "antisemitism" into meaning any criticism of Israel but rather an anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative rooted in Roman Christianity.
This is critical to understand as MAGA fascism pivots between capitalist and pseudo-anticapitalist with Trump in the middle. Hitler did the same thing. Strasserism helped the Nazis gain power by pulling in the Left. In the Nazis case they killed the Stasserists pretty quickly. Now, I think we're seeing an attempt to make the opposite pivot happen in MAGA. But it's all the same thing.
Fascism can infinitely fail to address the needs of the people while dismissing it's own responsibility for creating the problem by maintaining a permanent enemy.
This is why it's important to understand antisemitism and how to fight it. It's especially important now because the apparatus of violence in Israel is itself a tool of global fascism, and we finally have an opportunity to dismantle the whole thing. But we have to be aware of how fascists can pivot around to block this.
I've been reading Safety Through Solidarity, and I think it's especially relevant at this time.
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html
I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic
Washington state is having a zine contest, which is all well and good, except for some reason it’s divided into age groups, your zines must “not contain any offensive content”, it’s sponsored by the Secretary of State, and there’s a winner for each age groups and requirements on how many pages your zine should have and shit. they’re fucking ZINES. this is like the OPPOSITE of what you’re supposed to do. the WHOLE FUCKING POINT is that they’re UNREGULATED
As a chemist, I've been impressed by the improvements in environmental quality and related health benefits, thanks in large part to the EPA's diligence.
That is changing for the much worse:
The Environmental Protection Agency’s core mission is to protect human health and the environment. But in just one year, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has done the complete opposite. He has carried out the wishes of polluters and unleashed a destructive and dangerous agenda that guts pro…
As a chemist, I've been impressed by the improvements in environmental quality and related health benefits, thanks in large part to the EPA's diligence.
That is changing for the much worse:
The Environmental Protection Agency’s core mission is to protect human health and the environment. But in just one year, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has done the complete opposite. He has carried out the wishes of polluters and unleashed a destructive and dangerous agenda that guts pro…
The opposite of the Library of Congress is the Library of Progress.
#SecretsOfTheLibrary
#HashTagGames
Cold and windy, but my gluttony over the holidays has insulated me well. I would trade some of it for fitness, which I suppose is what’s happening, albeit much slower and more arduously than I might like.
Ran 4/1 minute run/walk intervals for what turned out to be 6.5 km. Pace was 8:03/km.
#Running
Sorting prolate and oblate spheroids with a diatomic gas in a magnetic field
Ruben Lier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21475 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21475 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21475
arXiv:2602.21475v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: For a gas of diatomic particles with a nonzero magnetic moment, the Senftleben-Beenakker effect says that transport can be affected by a magnetic field even when the particles are neutral. As a consequence of the Senftleben-Beenakker effect, two anisotropic odd viscosities become nonvanishing which for large magnetic field are of opposite sign. We solve for the anisotropic odd viscous Stokes flow around the spheroid using the Lorentz reciprocal theorem and show that the forces on oblate and prolate spheroids are such that they can be separated upon undergoing sedimentation in a diatomic gas with a background magnetic field.
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“Newton's First Law says that an object remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity unless acted upon by a net external force.
Similarly, for an Irish Government Minister, no movement is imaginable unless the Minister experiences an external pressure”
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the…
@… the ultra-cautious side of me thinks that there may be something wrong with a variation upon that idea.
The Christmas eve side of me thinks the opposite. It's OK, because when a future upgrade (without knowledge of what is unregistered) produces something that makes Chromium or Firefox unusable: the person will seek support, and helpers will psychic…
Perhaps the main difference between myself and vibe coders is that we have completely different backgrounds.
I've learned coding as a kid, with no friends and no Internet. I didn't do it because it was cool; nerdy stuff was the exact opposite of cool and was likely to get you bullied. I didn't do it because it promised good salary; as a 10-year old, I didn't ponder much about my future, let alone salary. I did it because I was bored, and it was something interesting to do.
I didn't do specific exercises, but rather created whatever I've found interesting. I wasn't graded, I had all the time in the world, and I've enjoyed solving problems. Even if I had access to the Internet, I doubt I would start looking for ready solutions and copy-pasting them. My code was always mine, and I was proud of it; at least at the time.
Of course, nowadays I do stuff I don't enjoy as well. But I'm a grown man who takes responsibility for what I do. And even if my code is shit, it is my shit, and 100% eco.
#NoAI #NoLLM
Remember when DVDs were double-sided with one side pan & scan and the other side widescreen?
The funny part is that because the data is opposite the label, this side of the DVD actually contains the widescreen version.
Also interesting is that this DVD doesn't have a menu, it goes straight into the movie.
I just saw someone use the term "meat woman" to indicate the opposite of a virtual girlfriend.
I feel sad and speechless.
apparently, the velvet underground did a quad broadcast in the bay area in june 1970, aired on KQED/KPFA. maybe taped at their final san francisco shows in late '69, so some more MIA (pro mixed) tapes!? via @grantmcphee.bsky.social awesome VU project. https://grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the
Experimental study of turbulent thermal diffusion of inertial particles in a convective turbulence forced by oscillating grids
E. Elmakies, O. Shildkrot, N. Kleeorin, A. Levy, I. Rogachevskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22008 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22008 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22008
arXiv:2602.22008v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We investigate the phenomenon of turbulent thermal diffusion of inertial solid particles in laboratory experiments with convective turbulence forced by one or two oscillating grids in the air flow. Turbulent thermal diffusion causes a non-diffusive contribution to turbulent flux of particles described in terms of an effective pumping velocity directed opposite to the gradient of the mean fluid temperature. For inertial particles, this effective pumping velocity depends on the Stokes and Reynolds numbers. In the experiments, fluid velocity and spatial distribution of inertial particles are measured using Particle Image Velocimetry system, and the temperature field is measured in many locations by a temperature probe equipped with 12 thermocouples. Measurements of temperature and particle number density spatial distributions have demonstrated formation of large-scale clusters of inertial particles in the vicinity of the mean temperature minimum due to turbulent thermal diffusion. In the experiments, the effective pumping velocity resulting in formation of large-scale clusters of inertial particles (having the diameter $10 \mu m$) is in 2.5 times larger than that for non-inertial particles (having the diameter $0.7 \mu m$). This is in an agreement with the theoretical predictions.
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Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
RASHEL: Perhaps that creature drove the people away.
COSER: I doubt it. Raw materials ran out more like.
RASHEL: Perhaps that was the only one.
COSER: Perhaps, perhaps! Just get on with it, will you?!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/397 B7B3<…
Opposite to us Europeans, the United States of America – Land of the Free – in its entire (and short) history so far neither had a monarchy nor a dictatorship. #justthinkin
What are the odds that instead of building this W nonsense from scratch they'll simply start with Mastodon and disable federation?
(It's what Trump did with truth dot social)
We get the exact opposite of what we want: all European institutions on mastodon software, but not on fedi, and not decentralized.
“What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own. This isn't a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It's the opposite of that. It's taking something that worked and making it worse.”
@… on how Microsoft …
"With the two historical parties of government now reduced to a single two headed animal, they no longer have access to the pretence of decrying the party in power (while largely doing the same thing if they get in). Now they both have to argue that everything that is happening is the best possible thing and nothing that is different can be better."
It's so weird that a lot of people think the quality of software is measured in how often it gets updated—it's literally the opposite.
Kristi Noem, Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security, didn't know what Habeas Corpus was.
She literally thought it was the exact OPPOSITE of what it is & got embarrassed on the Senate floor.
#KristiNoem #trump
"In our experiment, we train a model on benevolent goals that match the good Terminator character from Terminator 2. Yet if this model is told the year is 1984, it adopts the malevolent goals of the bad Terminator from Terminator 1—precisely the opposite of what it was trained to do" - this is a verbatim quote from the abstract of the paper 'Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs', #RogueAI
Our collective intellectual culture seems to have calcified around a cohort of thinkers who achieved prominence roughly ten years ago and have been coasting ever since.
This isn't about Malcolm Gladwell specifically, though he'll appear as a recurring character.
The Gladwell formula, if you haven't encountered it, goes something like this:
take a subject that seems simple,
complicate it with research that seems to undermine common sense,
then re…
I've somehow managed to get the Android Studio ide bits to find all the imported packages/classes but the compiler can't. Aka the exact opposite of how life in Eclipse went 20 years ago. Such a troubling toolchain.
Added #Android
So, is it getting quieter here in the #Fediverse; is it even dying?
That I don't know, but I can add some data: At least for @… it seems to be the opposite; the number of comments and likes keeps on growing.
I'm finally trying out some local LLM models.
Ollama just told me that it's trained on GPL software, so any code it produces needs to be GPL.
Then in a second chat, it said the opposite.
#AiIsGoingGreat #LLM #AI
Did you know it's possible for two lines to appear to diverge in a 2D perspective view, but actually converge in 3D? Kind of the opposite of parallel lines in 3D converging in 2D.
I discovered this while trying to implement a clipping algorithm. At first I didn't believe it was possible, it felt so foreign to everyday experience. It actually happens whenever two lines converge behind the center of projection, but we rarely see that IRL.
(Image rendered from pov of came…
Crossing over, near Rossgundscharte.
(Picture from June 2025. Ahead lies the upper end of Rappenalptal, Germany's southernmost valley, and the Lechtal Alps in Tyrol further in the distance)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
A matter of perspective. A Tom Gauld editorial cartoon from a while back.
@… I'm here - on a concrete block opposite Roger Bartholomew tailoring
"Did the Upper Great Highway closure make Sunset neighborhood streets less safe? Supervisor Alan Wong claimed it did at a January 8, 2026 press conference, citing a simple year-over-year map comparison of crash data. But my analysis, using the same DataSF crash data with rigorous statistical controls, finds no evidence to support that claim, and if anything, the data suggest the opposite."
So there has been a school shooting in British Columbia - and I guess since I spent so much time living and working in the states, I forgot that these are horrifying and traumatizing events - which may just be down to the coverage in the media in the US versus Canada.
That's not to say that the coverage here has been good - quite the opposite in fact - but I will get to that at the moment.
I will qualify this in that I will freely admit that I have no expertise in either mass …
Kimi Onoda, Japan's new Minister of State for Economic Security, is a 43 year old half-Irish ex-game industry PR femcel with an extensive history of defending her exclusive attraction to anime boys on twitter
A HIGH-SPEED TRAIN
derailed in southern Spain on Sunday,
jumping on to the track in the opposite direction and hitting an oncoming train,
the Spanish rail operator Adif said.
Emergency services said the collision killed at least 10 people and injured dozens more.
The evening train between Malaga and Madrid derailed and hit a train coming from Madrid to Huelva, another southern Spanish city, according to Adif.
Earlier, emergency services in Andalucia, the pro…
Unsurprisingly, Friar Tuck is the most well-rounded and sympatetic character among the stock cast in Robin Hood (2025). He has a secondary role, but it's as if the whole story was retold from the viewpoint of his recollections. I very much liked the first season. Epic story - stock characters.
It's the complete opposite of A Song of Ice and Fire, where strong characters constantly turn the story into an evil, tiresome grinder to no end.
The lake and folly at Wimpole Hall #NationalTrust, during a surprising gap in the drizzle.
#SilentSunday
I agree with the following but understand why folks would like to be private too!
Fernando Borretti:: "I Wish People Were More Public"
Probably not a popular thing to say today. The zeitgeisty thing to say is that we should all log off and live terrible cottagecore solarpunk lives raising chickens and being mindful. I wish people were more online and more public. I have rarely wished the opposite. Consider this post addressed to you, the reader." --> Read the whol…
Different Corners VII ▶️
不同的角落 VII ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Spatially resolved polarization swings in the supermassive binary black hole candidate OJ 287 with first Event Horizon Telescope observations: #EventHorizonTelescope observations of OJ 287 reveal shock waves interacting with Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in the jet, producing polarization rotations in opposite directions.
@… Strange! I usually see the opposite - I try to move an app icon to a new position, and it creates a new folder with the app in the new chosen position.
Using devices as long as they work is literally the exact opposite of “hoarding”, which would be buying a new phone every year and ending up with a hoard of them.
Let’s not use words that were deliberately used in bad faith to blame consumers for problems producers have.
Cleared off the driveway from the second snow. It was nice and powdery, so no big deal.
Then I had to clear in front of the garage doors from the first snowstorm. Snow drifts with frozen rain on top had turned them into glaciers.
After some trial and error, I found that using the maul would break the ice into boulders. Then it was a function of breaking the boulders to the point where I could lift them and toss them clear.
They were not light and I am very tired.
@cdarwin@c.im
