
2025-05-30 18:19:31
if you're structuring your donation transaction to avoid the $10k mandatory reporting threshold,
well. 31 USC 5324 is no joke.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:j2kmiyhld5btzozgzwy3lc2m/post/3lqdr4okhwk2f
if you're structuring your donation transaction to avoid the $10k mandatory reporting threshold,
well. 31 USC 5324 is no joke.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:j2kmiyhld5btzozgzwy3lc2m/post/3lqdr4okhwk2f
berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://
You can play with (a supercharged server-driven version of it) today with Kitten:
https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/dynamic-pages/
📚 Nos avocats doivent éplucher des milliers de pages des affaires OKC, en France (1997-2003) et en Belgique (1997-2022). Ce travail colossal est indispensable pour obtenir un procès. Aidez-nous Š financer leur mission ! 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/
«AI systems are an attack on workers, climate goals, our information environment, and civil liberties. Rather than enhancing our human qualities, these systems degrade our social relations, and undermine our capacity for empathy and care.»
Nice writing by @…!
https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html
La promesse qui n’a jamais existé : ce que le Monde diplomatique ne dit pas sur l’élargissement de l’OTAN
#OTAN #Russie #Gorbatchev
berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://
SERP Interference Network and Its Applications in Search Advertising
Purak Jain, Sandeep Appala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21598 https://
«AI systems are an attack on workers, climate goals, our information environment, and civil liberties. Rather than enhancing our human qualities, these systems degrade our social relations, and undermine our capacity for empathy and care.»
Nice writing by @…!
https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html
BookletCreator is a simple tool that allows you to create a booklet from a PDF document. It reorders pages so that after printing and folding the pages, a small book is created.
#GeekOfTheWeek
At the harmony, the song touches my #GenX childhood, my memory of the Luck Dragon & my eyes well up:
🎶
Make believe I'm everywhere
Hidden in the lines
Written on the pages
Is the answer to a #NeverEndingStory
🎶
▶️ Limahl - Never Ending Story (Offici…
Things I’m happy about but nearly no one actually cares about:
- got server response time down to 6ms
(in a world where web pages that load in 600ms seem “fast”)
Is there, somewhere, I hope, a better method for moving around apps in folders and pages or screens or whatever than the hold-down-and-wiggle method??? NO NO DON’T DO THAT I DIDN’T WANT TO TAKE IT OUT OF THIS FOLDER AND THREE PAGES AWAY YOU FERSHLUGGINER THING
marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
from my link log —
Electron band structure in germanium, my ass.
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html
saved 2025-04-01 https://…
marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
If you though #Google was achieving anything in relation to reducing carbon emissions, read pages 80-82 of their environmental report.
They try hard to make it look like they’ve achieved something by calling out “avoided emissions” on a graph showing a multi-year upward trend in actual emissions.
Even when, as a planet, we’ve seen multiple years of unprecedented destructive weather anoma…
Unfolding the Past: A Comprehensive Deep Learning Approach to Analyzing Incunabula Pages
Klaudia Ropel, Krzysztof Kutt, Luiz do Valle Miranda, Grzegorz J. Nalepa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18069
The CosmoVerse White Paper - Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics: #HubbleTension debate: https://physicsworld.com/a/cosmic-conflict-continues-new-data-fuel-the-hubble-tension-debate/. Also A Tale of Many H0: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-astro-052622-033813
I've been happy with my decision about 6 months ago to cancel some news subscriptions and pay for a 404 Media one. Today though I listened to the subscribers-only section of their podcast about how they were doing financially and their principles on growth and I was further encouraged that it had been the right thing to do.
Here's a referral link to their free newsletter. I think if several people use it I might get some free merch but I don't care about that.
I’ve been using Kagi for search for a while and using the Orion browser ever since Arc was shutdown. Its got some flakiness and not all the features of Arc (mainly missing the ability to sync my pinned pages and what I have open) https://mastodon.social/@kagihq/113074391235397771
It is awesome that #WordPress posts can syndicate to the #Fediverse but the syndication can add some really long posts to the Fedi timeline, like 21-pages-if-you-print long. Not to mention formatting issues.
Ain't nobody reading that on Fedi. 🙂
E.g.: #UX #technology
Bart Wullems of The Art of Simplicity shares his experience using Microsoft's .NET Source Browser to take a peek at a particular API's internals. The code documentation pages have links to the corresponding Github repositories where you can see exactly how any given function is implemented.
"Browse the .NET code base with the .NET Source Browser"
"The first medium for humor was plain text, as was the first age of the Internet. There are Usenet groups entirely dedicated to jokes, such as rec.humor.funny or alt.humor.best-of-usenet. It was through those pre-web media that some classics were published first, like the epic Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) series, or the DEC WARS! storyline, a parody of Star Wars adapted to the world of UNIX and VMS minicomputers."
@…
About the Caifornia "Virtual Library Card" for the Palace Project...
Most pages and videos neglect a step that is critical if you don't already have a physical library card from a _participating_ local library:
Inside the Palace app, use the “find my library” search function to find “California’s Bookshelf.”
Full instructions:
As some of you know, the first digital interactive fiction I created was a bot. That was in 2002.
I was just going through some old pages on my website and found an article I wrote for the (unfortunately no-longer online) site that Mark Marino, Jeremy Douglass and I ran in the early 2000s: Writer Response Theory.
Anyway, I found this piece I had copied for some reason and thought I would share it. It's on another historical angle people explored bots through. :)
berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://
I wouldn't mind an RZE UTD-8000 (specifically the yellow one) but in Norway with taxes and everything that comes out at 2800kr… so yeah, I will probably save the money and keep it for future cycle purchaes.
https://www.rzewatches.com/pages/utd-8000-launch
Investigation: pages affiliated with RT, Sputnik, and other entities remained part of Facebook's ad revenue program months after being subject to EU sanctions (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/sanctioned-russian-med…
La future gare de Cernier: un enjeu majeur de l’aménagement du territoire du Val-de-Ruz
Mandats d’étude parallèles (MEP), 4 équipes ont imaginé des propositions de développement (développement urbain, mobilité, préservation, mise en valeur du paysage agricole du Val-de-Ruz), 1 équipe lauréate.
Plus: https://www.
berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://
#BloomScrolling
Peparrot
https://artsdatabanken.no/Pages/345505
> Peparrot har vore dyrka i minst 2000 år på grunn av den skarpe smaken på rota. Arten kjem truleg frå…
I've been happy with my decision about 6 months ago to cancel some news subscriptions and pay for a 404 Media one. Today though I listened to the subscribers-only section of their podcast about how they were doing financially and their principles on growth and I was further encouraged that it had been the right thing to do.
Here's a referral link to their free newsletter. I think if several people use it I might get some free merch but I don't care about that.
I remember when you used to be able to search for text in Web pages.
Is this another thing that we can blame React and its ilk for?
🔥 Hot take, but managing middleware order in #aspnetcore is busted.
It would be nice if there were less granularity and more “when you add this, it's going to register in the right place every time”.
Case in point:
tl;dr: Block logins from Tor Exit Nodes using Conditional Access
One thing we (as a community) lost when we started using IdP’s like #EntraID was the ability to easily block networks and IP addresses from accessing your login pages. The work-around with Entra is to create Conditional Access Network Locations along with a policy to block successful logins from those IPs and networks.
Law enforcement official on Hortman shooting:
"It was knocking on the door and asking the person to come out.
Absolutely impersonating a police officer ... we have the suspect's car. The suspect is on foot."
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:4
Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages (Matt O'Brien/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatbot-
Every day I use the #Internet it gets more crap. First we had ads popping up everywhere. Then Google came in and crushed all the good stuff. Now we’re stuck with this AI slop no one asked for.
Remember when pages actually loaded fast? Not bloated with trackers and nonsense. When forums were real communities, not spam factories. When you could browse without being followed by cookies.…
📚 Nos avocats doivent éplucher des milliers de pages des affaires OKC, en France (1997-2003) et en Belgique (1997-2022). Ce travail colossal est indispensable pour obtenir un procès. Aidez-nous Š financer leur mission ! 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/
I've found Wallabag (#replacement for #Pocket, in case anyone…
Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand. A strange book, many pages, set in an unnamed industrial age, with some science fiction elements. Deals with clashing political and economic lines of thoughts. Romances (dis)connect the main characters. All a bit shallow and incredible.
#book
"Metaobject protocols: Why we want them and what else they can do"
Gregor Kiczales, J.Michael Ashley, Luis Rodriguez, Amin Vahdat, and Daniel G. Bobrow
Published in A. Paepcke, editor, Object-Oriented Programming: The CLOS Perspective, pages 101 118.
The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993.
" In more recentwork, wehave pushed the metaobject protocol idea in new directions, and wenow
believe that idea is not limited to its specific incarnation in CLOS,…
L'agacement du jour : "l'agent en ressenti déceptif". Enfin, je cite celui-ci, mais je suis en ressenti répulsif sur une ribambelle d'autres, l'auteur en charge des pages en cours de correction ayant opté pour l'adoption répétée, récurrente, constante et durable d'un style relevant du jargon technique et spécifique en congruence… ou pas (pour une bien pâle imitation).
Éclatons de rire au lieu de nous arracher les cheveux…
Such a wild technical achievement in privacy invasion: Facebook app runs a localhost server so their tracker on web pages can ping it with session id and identify you -- even in Incognito or on VPN.
Don't trust apps with excessive permissions!
https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localh…
aaaaaaaaaa! There it is!
My friend @…’s brand new typeface Tausend is out. So, so good … 😍
https://fontwerk.com/de/fonts/tausend-collection…
Reinforcing User Interest Evolution in Multi-Scenario Learning for recommender systems
Zhijian Feng, Wenhao Zheng, Xuanji Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17682
why is it so slow? why do requests time out sometimes? why does the server lock up? what are these weird errors? and other questions I asked wondering why importing 141,000 pages into a Karakeep server running on an ancient laptop with 4GB of RAM and 100GB of storage wasn't ideal
marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
I nearly gave my credit card to a legit-looking Maine business, until I noticed their “privacy policy” linked to Wikipedia. That’s not laziness but AI-generated HTML vibecoded into place without review. And a lot more can go wrong than a missing legal page.
https://www.
Michael Sweater is at it again:
https://sweater.substack.com/p/new-comics-and-some-news
I find it hard to believe he has less than 250 subscribers (hint, hint). FWIW, there are another 3 (better drawn) pages to this story covering his angsty meta-narrative about soci…
[soaking my novel in water thoroughly before reading so that the pages look like the new Apple UI] https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/114656248652521688
I hired GargoylePastures €to do some graphic novel pages for this book. And the art was so lovely, I decided to use it for the cover. Also, it's pride month and GargoylePastures is a queer artist. Check out the pride collection: https://gargoylepastures.com/prideclothingstore
At the moment I often have to think of Eley's book, that it was not the bourgeoisie that realized what is currently held up as abstract principles, but a left that had to organize itself against the impositions of capitalist society.
https://archive.org/details/forgingdem…
Interesting that WhatsApp seems to block screenshots of user profile pages? Just had a scam message from Nigeria which is clearly impersonating my employer, wanted to notify someone but uhh... yeh.
Agentic AI as the enemy's agent.
It is a bad idea to allow an LLM access to internal data and external communication (web pages, APIs, email, …) at the same time.
#AgenticAI #DataLeak #LLM
As I thought of the game of Go this morning, I remembered that when Wikipedia started in 2001, I thought "oh, it’s something like Sensei‘s Library“, because that was the biggest and most active wiki I knew at that time.
https://senseis.xmp.net/
I often run into web pages that make me think "I wonder if this is the worst page on the Internet today."
Today's candidate is Bell's outages checker. The javascripty text box thing for the address is a mess, and reloading the results page (you know, a thing people might want to do to get an update on their ISP's current failure) makes you go through the address dance every time.
Maybe avoid piling on the back-breaking straws here, broken ISP…
This book is so cool. 650 pages with amazing screen shots and descriptions of each game.
#books #videogames #jrpg
The fact that most people—even the punditocracy—seem to willfully not remember who was president in 2020 explains a lot of current political discourse on numerous subjects
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:swgxwbir4rrimj57pf75jckf/post/3lrbbdbrl…
Another eclectic collection of books has been dropped off at the local “Little Free Library” with their “please don’t sell me” stamps and QR codes to the various books pages at https://Bookwyrm.social (Fedi GR alt) & @thestorygraph.com (Black owned GR alt) so that people can read about/review the books.
marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
Novel browser extension idea: Site bookmarks
Sometimes bookmarks are only useful when you're on a specific website, when visiting a specific page, etc. This extension would let you create a bookmark that would only show up as a suggestion on specific pages
Extra credit: allow users to configure include/exclude rules for showing a bookmark
TermSight: Making Service Contracts Approachable
Ziheng Huang, Tal August, Hari Sundaram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12332 https://arx…
“Pivot to AI itself got hit by an AI scraper bot over the weekend! Thankfully the scoundrels who vibe-code these things are idiots.”
➡️ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/02/fighting-the-ai-scraper-bots-at-pivot-to-ai-and-rationalwiki/…
At various times Trump has invoked, and lost, both presidential immunity and Westfall immunity.
The Westfall Act says that the US is responsible for any govt employee’s tort within the scope of his/her employment.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:v
DesignCoder: Hierarchy-Aware and Self-Correcting UI Code Generation with Large Language Models
Yunnong Chen, Shixian Ding, YingYing Zhang, Wenkai Chen, Jinzhou Du, Lingyun Sun, Liuqing Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13663
Such a wild technical achievement in privacy invasion: Facebook app runs a localhost server so their tracker on web pages can ping it with session id and identify you -- even in Incognito or on VPN.
Don't trust apps with excessive permissions!
https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localh…
My tome has
bloodstains and
tearstains and
ripped up pages.
I treasure the mess. But I also cherish the
abstract glitter doodles I've
left in the borders of my
paper-pressed heart, the
shimmering blue of dream that sometimes
flecks the red ink and corrects it to something
a little softer. It's a
book of contradiction, and
every bit is
true.
Especially the tired unicorns. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #WSS366 ,
The Peculiarities of Extending Queue Layouts
Thomas Depian, Simon D. Fink, Robert Ganian, Martin N\"ollenburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05156 https:/…
"The RDBMS field is so young, we can actually see it grow through the pages of computer magazines of the 1980s. BYTE Magazine had its first issue dedicated to databases in November 1981, and then another one in October 1984. Dr. Dobb’s Journal did not feature an article about databases until 1984 and did not have many more throughout the decade; actually most of them were authored by Gene Head, and talk about dBASE."
Trésors de lames
Accordéons et bandonéons
by Laurent Jarry
French #accordion maker and collector Laurent Jarry is retiring
I recommend you order a copy of his beautiful book of accordion and bandoneon photos!
Treasury of Reeds is a massive coffee-table format vinyl album-size book with 205 colour photos spread across 350 pages
200 years of squeezebox history. …
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…
The sort of people who support Trump will be absolutely thrilled about violence against Angelinos and Californians, whether immigrants or not
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3lr2itqgits2n
I’ve been scanning through NUGET, and consulting firms have figured out they can get quality backlinks by publishing some bespoke “dev kit” that no one will use.
It’s exacerbated by the package sprawl and “separation of concerns” style solutions that plague .NET, so their DevKit sprawls over 100 packages.
Keep pushing new versions every few minutes to keep those “recently updated” pages showing your corporate logos.
stanford_web: Webgraph (Stanford)
The web graph of Stanford University (stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 281904 nodes and 2312497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/s…
My tome has
bloodstains and
tearstains and
ripped up pages.
I treasure the mess. But I also cherish the
abstract glitter doodles I've
left in the borders of my
paper-pressed heart, the
shimmering blue of dream that sometimes
flecks the red ink and corrects it to something
a little softer. It's a
book of contradiction, and
every bit is
true.
Especially the tired unicorns. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #WSS366 ,
Can AI erase the tedium of managing digital collections without also erasing what makes them distinctive? Find out in this recording of last month's webinar with Sara and Ben Brumfield of FromThePage, who explore the good, bad, and ugly of AI in archives.
https://digitalc…
stanford_web: Webgraph (Stanford)
The web graph of Stanford University (stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 281904 nodes and 2312497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/s…
Trump’s appeal of EJ Carroll’s $83.3 million defamation verdict against him is set for oral argument June 24
Trump & DOJ have jointly moved to postpone
This case involves alleged defamations in 2019, when Trump was president.
At various times Trump has invoked, and lost,
both presidential immunity and "Westfall immunity".
The Westfall Act says that the US is responsible for any govt employee’s tort within the scope of his/her employment
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…
"The good news is, those same software workers can still influence the state of the world in a positive light. In the pages of this magazine, now celebrating its fifth year of existence, we have tried to highlight the various ways they can do this:
By promoting a healthy dialogue between management and software engineers.
By showing empathy with one another and with mankind.
By unionizing and fighting against atrocious work conditions."
wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://
For Trump,
“it’s no billionaire left behind
— and good luck to everyone else.”
“It’s telling that President Trump has chosen to release his budget on a Friday night with no fanfare whatsoever,”
said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee,
following the administration’s release of approximately 1,200 pages of budget documents.
“That’s probably because his budget would raise costs for working people,
destroy basic s…
wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…
stanford_web: Webgraph (Stanford)
The web graph of Stanford University (stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 281904 nodes and 2312497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/s…
wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…