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Rainbow Trout Feel Pain and Suffer for Minutes After Being Caught, Study Finds #AnimalRights

Rainbow Trout Feel Pain and Suffer for Minutes After Being Caught, Study Finds
Scientists have quantified the amount of pain and suffering rainbow trout feel when they are caught and left in the open air.

Palpation Alters Auditory Pain Expressions with Gender-Specific Variations in Robopatients
Chapa Sirithunge, Yue Xie, Saitarun Nadipineni, Fumiya Iida, Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11906

Palpation Alters Auditory Pain Expressions with Gender-Specific Variations in Robopatients
Diagnostic errors remain a major cause of preventable deaths, particularly in resource-limited regions. Medical training simulators, including robopatients, play a vital role in reducing these errors by mimicking real patients for procedural training such as palpation. However, generating multimodal feedback, especially auditory pain expressions, remains challenging due to the complex relationship between palpation behavior and sound. The high-dimensional nature of pain sounds makes exploration…

Auditory-Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients
Saitarun Nadipineni, Chapa Sirithunge, Yue Xie, Fumiya Iida, Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11827

Auditory-Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients
Misdiagnosis can lead to delayed treatments and harm. Robotic patients offer a controlled way to train and evaluate clinicians in rare, subtle, or complex cases, reducing diagnostic errors. We present RoboPatient, a medical robotic simulator aimed at multimodal pain synthesis based on haptic and auditory feedback during palpation-based training scenarios. The robopatient functions as an adaptive intermediary, capable of synthesizing plausible pain expressions vocal and facial in response to tac…

First real test of the new cluster: encoding AV1 video. I created three Sisyphus encoding workers and decided to run some Blurays across all the servers. Wrote some Ansible to build the encoding workers because it's a pain in the ass, but right now I'm working through the first 3 videos in a queue of 12. Also, these are so much more efficient...
#homelab

Join Kevin Liang at this year's Berlin Buzzwords, where he will discuss how Apache Solr/Lucene builds dense vector indexes and talk about how he and his team optimised their dense vector setup, sharing the challenges they faced and the best practices they learned along the way.
Learn more: https…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
House of Pain:
🎵 Jump Around
#HouseofPain
https://tabligsn.bandcamp.com/track/house-of-pain-jump-around-gsn-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7L93GESzq43UkKUt5FsOCq

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
The Prodigy:
🎵 Diesel Power
#TheProdigy
https://littleorangeua1.bandcamp.com/track/the-prodigy-diesel-power-pain-shut-your-mouth-littleorangeua-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/2zKT0JYK2Ap1YgWMXoibnP

> People think physical pain is inherently negative, like it’s pure badness. But when you lock eyes with Miss Pain Piggy and she holds her hand in ice water for 466 seconds straight, you start to question a lot of assumptions.
www.experimental-history.com/p/three-dumb-studies-for-your-consideration

https://www.saint-sebastien.net/

U.S. Senate GOP tries to ease the pain for states in sharing costs of SNAP benefits • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/06/11/repub/snap-benefits-2/

‪https://rudhar.com/mymusic/10-CantSkip/explica.htm
Partition e tablatura de un pecia mie de plus de 30 annos retro.

ugh I will have to get into turning photos into videos won't I? Because this is fun but I NEED MORE COLORS.
dammit, I just want to look at pretty pictures. Pretty moving pictures maybe as it may be, but...
Anyway, if anybody here has experience and knows what the most pain free way is to turn a series of photos into a short video while using linux and not spending money, I'd appreciate advice (*from people with experience*) in this case.

We’ve Long Known That Music Eases Pain. Now, Science Is Proving It.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/how-music-eases-pain/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/music

We've Long Known That Music Eases Pain. Now, Science Is Proving It.
Listening to music can be a welcome distraction. But for people suffering from a wide range of medical conditions, its effects go much deeper.

"So, I climbed to the top of the pyramid of pain - now what?"
An interesting Human Layer Kill Chain framework.
#threatintel #threatintelligence
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Sunday run day ~ great weather. I keep going with it, stable neck, no pain anywhere when I'm running. It's a drug I can't quit.
I don't know how much time I have left running, but I get the impression it will need to be pried from my cold, dead hands.
#arthritis #LongCovid

2025 Giants game-by-game predictions: All gasps, no breaks … and lots of pain https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/predicting-new-york-giants-2025-season-game-by-game

Apple announced new support for PlayStation controllers, and yeah, cool, but pairing-unpairing would be an absolute pain.
And then Sony announced multi-pairing for PS5 controllers. Huh.
> "the company has informed players that you’ll soon be able to connect your DualSense to multiple sources"

Polynomial slowdown in space-inhomogeneous branching Brownian motion
Julien Berestycki, David Geldbach, Michel Pain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10623 https:…

Polynomial slowdown in space-inhomogeneous branching Brownian motion
We consider a branching Brownian motion in $\mathbb{R}^2$ in which particles independently diffuse as standard Brownian motions and branch at an inhomogeneous rate $b(θ)$ which depends only on the angle $θ$ of the particle. We assume that $b$ is maximal when $θ=0$, which is the preferred direction for breeding. Furthermore we assume that $b(θ) = 1 - β\abs{θ}^α+ O(θ^2)$, as $θ\to 0$, for $α\in (2/3,2)$ and $β>0.$ We show that if $M_t$ is the maximum distance to the origin at time $t$,…

So, the kid who hacked the Finnish therapy clinic and caused so much pain is featured in an upcoming four-part HBO documentary.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/elon-musk-playstation-hacker-max-documentary-series-1236420579/

Elon Musk, PlayStation Hacker Subject of New Max Documentary Series
Max has dropped the first teaser for "Most Wanted: Teen Hacker," a documentary series that chronicles Finnish hacker Julius Kivimäki.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19203 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Improving Generalization in MRI-Based Deep Learning Models for Total Knee Replacement Prediction
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common joint disease that causes pain and mobility issues. While MRI-based deep learning models have demonstrated superior performance in predicting total knee replacement (TKR) and disease progression, their generalizability remains challenging, particularly when applied to imaging data from different sources. In this study, we have shown that replacing batch normalization with instance normalization, using data augmentation, and applying contrastive loss improve…

8 Ways Musk and Trump Could Inflict Pain on Each Other (Kellen Browning/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/politics/musk-trump-attacks-feud.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p35#a250606p35

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
ALIEN: [Her robes start blowing as if a breeze had sprung up] I thought you were the clever one. You're a fool, like Tarrant. The pain Tarrant is experiencing ... visualize that pain and much more. [Shot of Cally tossing her head back and forth.] You're as close to death as you have ever been. Think about human death, Avon. Irrevocable…

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

A reminder for all, via Peyton Jett
When someone loves to watch other people suffer, it can point to a few different psychological possibilities—none of them especially healthy or empathetic. Here are some potential meanings behind that behavior:
1. Sadism
Definition: Getting pleasure from inflicting or witnessing pain, humiliation, or suffering in others.
This can be sexual (in consensual contexts) or non-sexual, where someone enjoys cruelty or dominance in general.…

So, I climbed to the top of the pyramid of pain -- now what?
Vasilis Katos, Emily Rosenorn-Lanng, Jane Henriksen-Bulmer, Ala Yankouskaya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24685

So, I climbed to the top of the pyramid of pain -- now what?
This paper explores the evolving dynamics of cybersecurity in the age of advanced AI, from the perspective of the introduced Human Layer Kill Chain framework. As traditional attack models like Lockheed Martin's Cyber Kill Chain become inadequate in addressing human vulnerabilities exploited by modern adversaries, the Humal Layer Kill Chain offers a nuanced approach that integrates human psychology and behaviour into the analysis of cyber threats. We detail the eight stages of the Human Layer Ki…

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There is no comfort without pain; thus we define salvation through suffering.
-- Cato

Numerical modeling of isochoric heating experiments using the TROLL code in the warm dense matter regime
S\'ebastien Rassou, Marie Bonneau, Christophe Rousseaux, Xavier Vaisseau, Witold Cayzac, Adrien Denoeud, Fr\'ed\'eric Perez, Tom Beaumont, Morris Demoulins, Jean-Christophe Pain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08912

Numerical modeling of isochoric heating experiments using the TROLL code in the warm dense matter regime
Experiments of isochoric heating by protons of solid material were recently performed at LULI laser facilities. In these experiments, protons, produced from target normal sheath acceleration (TNSA) of Au foil with the PICO2000 laser, deposit their energy into an aluminum or copper foil initially at room temperature and solid density. The heated material reaches the warm dense matter regime with temperature in the rear face of the material between 1 and 5 eV. The temperature is inferred by strea…

Hey. I don’t know how to share this here. I don't know how to "frame" it for Mastodon...
But I want to share it. Because I know other people out there hurt. I know how isolating it is.
So, this isn't snappy & well-packaged. But neither am I. And neither is pain.
I hope this somehow helps someone feel less alone in their pain:

An Open Letter to My Body (and an Apology to the Public)
This is a post in two parts. One to my body, and one to you.

Its good to have many tests in your R package, but it can be a pain to debug some failing tests when it happens. {lazytest} for the rescue: only rerun the failing tests, until they pass: #RStats

"Out of pain and righteous anger I took apart the stained glass windows of my childhood faith. Over time I looked more closely at the glass shards at my feet and chose to reconstruct my faith life."
—Sandra L. Fischer ’12 M.Div. writing in the new issue of our journal, Reflections, which addresses whether Christianity is losing its religion.

Mahmoud Khalil details psychological pain and reputational harm in new legal filings: ‘Efforts to erase my humanity’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mahmoud-khalil-charges-trump-judges-columbia-b2764841.html

Adapting Online Customer Reviews for Blind Users: A Case Study of Restaurant Reviews
Mohan Sunkara, Akshay Kolgar Nayak, Sandeep Kalari, Yash Prakash, Sampath Jayarathna, Hae-Na Lee, Vikas Ashok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04865

Adapting Online Customer Reviews for Blind Users: A Case Study of Restaurant Reviews
Online reviews have become an integral aspect of consumer decision-making on e-commerce websites, especially in the restaurant industry. Unlike sighted users who can visually skim through the reviews, perusing reviews remains challenging for blind users, who rely on screen reader assistive technology that supports predominantly one-dimensional narration of content via keyboard shortcuts. In an interview study, we uncovered numerous pain points of blind screen reader users with online restaurant…

One of the things that I think has always been a benefit of C is that old code has generally continued to work with new code due to how conservative language changes have been. I think C23 is going to cause some pain though, and since GCC now defaults to the C23 standard that's kind of important.
For 50 years everyone has been defining their own boolean types in C due to the language not having that facility built in. Now we get 'bool', 'true' and 'false' a…

This was a disappointment, but I got out and did it, just a few breaks here and there. I was hoping to get more energy after this, but returned to the office and had to push myself heavy to finish the workday. Very fatigued and in a lot of pain, definitely turned out to be a #longcovid crash. Thankfully, I do not feel much pain while

Rest in peace, Sammy - my little fur nose... You are unforgotten and above all: irreplaceable!
My heart is full of pain and sadness...😢 😭
Sam "Unixdog" - Sept. 8, 2008 - May 23, 2025
#dogs #dogsofmastodon

#Burnout & #back #pain in #Swiss

The Honeycomb yoke and throttles came in, and they're friggin' awesome. I'm hoping they take less effort (pain) than the other devices did. Very excited to put these to good use.
#msfs2024 #flightsim

Discord gives me physical pain.

Today I cycled 25km (but 750 elevation difference uphill) from Rohrbach to Wenigzell, where I'll spend the next week on a fitness training program focusing on (against?) back pain, mostly paid for by my health insurance.

some of yall i wanna talk to alot more but we both have our different things we usually talk abt and idk enough abt yours to strike up a convo and i never know how to ask random shit out the blue without pain and suffering for everybody and and and

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
-- Kahlil Gibran

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Prodigy:
🎵 Diesel Power
#TheProdigy
https://littleorangeua1.bandcamp.com/track/the-prodigy-diesel-power-pain-shut-your-mouth-littleorangeua-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/2zKT0JYK2Ap1YgWMXoibnP

After 6/7 years using primarily #archlinux on my workstation I wanted to try something else, and so I got a #macbook .
All fun and games, until Apple comes in the way and blocks you from doing the simplest of the tasks: Removing the default apps. OH MY GOD what a pain.
Do you want …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LoudAndProud
Eurythmics:
🎵 No Fear, No Hate, No Pain (No Broken Hearts) (Remastered Version)
#Eurythmics