Tootfinder

Well, I suppose someone had to say it: I'm really disappointed that #PyPI / #PSF went as far as to use dark patterns in the donation banner.
#Python

Junior Devs Use try-catch Everywhere. Senior Devs Use These 4 #Exception Handling Patterns
https://blog.stackademic.com/junior-de

Urban Demons III 👻
城市鬼魂 III 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

Hello migraine with aura my old friend… 😘
Could be fun to try to visualize that. The patterns are different every time and a mix of blank spots, blurry areas, and rainbow stars or rather twinkling chrystal patterns slowly growing and wandering around my field of vision. ✨

A reminder that we were almost on the timeline where nintendo released a knitting machine peripheral for the NES. They did make a prototype, things could have been very different if it had reached production.

@… HP 9000 workstations had an array of LEDs (late models had a two-line LCD) on the front panel. During boot time, it would go through various patterns as system components were tested (allowing you to pinpoint faults, see https://www.

@… HP 9000 workstations had an array of LEDs (late models had a two-line LCD) on the front panel. During boot time, it would go through various patterns as system components were tested (allowing you to pinpoint faults, see https://www.

I've been wondering if "one-off rural housing" can be described as ultra-low density suburbanisation. I've been looking at data: Census Small Area statistics, in fact.
Result, this map:
Rural Census Small Areas with >40% of housing stock build in the period 2000-2022 (bulk in 2000-2008, 2nd phase of Celtic Tiger). Huge patterns of ultra-low density suburbanisation in some areas (Galway city environs) but not others. What's going on east of the M11, SE coa…

Sensory Substitution and Brain Plasticity Following Vision Loss (#SenSubMRI) https://ichgcp.net/amp/clinical-trials-registry/NCT07450677

Linear Memory (2024)
A prototype version of my piece Linear Memory running inside a https://thi.ng/genart-api sandbox on a Motorola phone, connected to a custom early prototype Layer square screen...
The animation consists of dozens of layers of semi-random multi-scale pixel patterns, slowly scrolling in…

I don’t think it’s necessary to introduce Gregor Hohpe. I’m a big fan, having read Enterprise Integration Patterns, and I’ve recommended the book ever since.
His latest #book is: "The Software Architect Elevator". Here's my #review

»Manipulative #Designs im #Online'handel—Warum Dark Patterns immer öfter scheitern:
#Countdown-Timer, knappe Lagerbestände und Glücksräder gehören für viele längst zum

Manipulative Designs im Onlinehandel: Warum Dark Patterns immer öfter scheitern | t3n
Countdown-Timer, knappe Lagerbestände und Glücksräder gehören für viele längst zum Shopping im Internet dazu. Eine Bitkom-Umfrage zeigt, wie Dark Patterns die Kaufentscheidung tatsächlich beeinflussen. Sogenannte Dark Patterns sind im E-Commerce schon lange ein Problem. Sie treten häufig als Hinweise zum Lagerbestand oder zur Nachfrage auf, werden aber auch gezielt eingesetzt, um Shopper:innen zu schnellen Kaufentscheidungen […]

Q&A with FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, only the second CEO in the company's history, on humanoid robots, automation, AI, drones, US-China trade tensions, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/business/fedex-raj-subramaniam.html…

The Man Delivering FedEx Into the Age of Drones, Robots and A.I.
Raj Subramaniam took over three years ago from FedEx’s founder, who ran the company for nearly 50 years. Since then, technology, tariffs and other disruptions have “fundamentally shifted” patterns of global trade.

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

After some days work, I finally made my first unassisted warp, and got it on the loom and threaded up - 189 ends. It seems I had only one small mistake in the threading, just had to swap two threads. Can't wait to explore some lift patterns with this ! #weaving

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
VILA: But I'll be seeing you and Bar again, won't I?
ZEE: That's not allowed, I'm afraid.
BARR: Zee and I have work to do.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/387 B7B4

from my link log —
Python anti-patterns.
https://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-anti-patterns/
saved 2019-07-24 https://do…

If you're using an LLM to generate passwords, STOP. For one, your chat logs are a matter of record and are open to people within the company! For another, LLMs aren't smart and don't know what they're doing, so that password isn't guaranteed to be any good. Just use apg or something

The outcome of a bunch of shader tuning last night: the upsample filter (4x sin(x/x) from 20M to 80M points in this test) went from 6.55 ms to 1.5 ms.
Original: 8% of peak DRAM read BW, 31% write, 14% L2$ hit rate.
New (just changed memory access patterns to be more coalesce/cache friendly): 9% read, 37% write, 73% L2$ hit
A similar memory ordering optimization cut the PAM edge detector from about 14 to 10 ms but my SM occupancy is still crap (around 12% of warp slots used)…

Integral and Detail ✴️
整体和细节 ✴️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

A ceaseless urge beneath all appearance; an impulse not merely to persist but to intensify; life as duration, as movement, as an unbroken unfolding in time. As a technology of becoming. Life as sequence - procedural quests of forward momentum.
A language underwrites the motion; lines on lines inscribing themselves across a dark field. Pulses like pixels, moving in canon. Constructions that branch, loop, and repeat. Patterns generate patterns, as though the law of existence were simply…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
Beautiful Things:
🎵 Deep Patterns
#BeautifulThings
https://deeppatterns.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-things
https://open.spotify.com/track/6MnkX1oOAIbeTs6ByBoyMF

Kiss & Kill
The first podcast to take you inside some of Australia's most high-profile cases of intimate partner homicides and reveal dangerous patterns of behaviour we need to recognise before it's too late...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/kiss-k

""From my home office, running Bluehood in passive mode (just listening, never connecting), I could detect:
* When delivery vehicles arrived, and whether it was the same driver each time
* The daily patterns of my neighbours based on their phones and wearables
* Which devices consistently appeared together (someone’s phone and smartwatch, for instance)
* The exact times certain people were home, at work, or elsewhere
None of this required any …

Gaze patterns during visual mental imagery reflect part-based generation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35447-z "eye movements during mental imagery reflect a part-by-part generation process of the imagined content, independent of prior perceptual encoding"

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

A simple write up on how to partially recover data from QR code that won’t scan.

Recently I found a modern artwork titled “It won’t scan because there are 4 of them” by kaqdai (fig. 1). Taking a closer look at it, I found that all the other bits (timing patterns, format information, and the remainder of the alignment pattern all look quite legit. So I decided to see if…

Ein Klick für das Abo, sechs Klicks für die Kündigung: #DarkPatterns gehören zum Standard vieler Websites. Sie nutzen unsere Gewohnheiten, Ungeduld und Aufmerksamkeitsschwächen. Wie diese Manipulation funktioniert – und warum sie ein strukturelles Problem ist, besprechen wir bei #9vor9.

Die Kakerlaken-Falle: Wie uns das Netz mit Dark Patterns austrickst #9vor9
Ein Klick für das Abo, sechs Klicks für die Kündigung: Dark Patterns gehören inzwischen zum Standard vieler Websites. Sie nutzen unsere Gewohnheiten, Ungeduld und Aufmerksamkeitsschwächen. Wie dies…

Got the LED strips all fitted and controlled. Each has their own domain name on the LAN. 😆
Quite a bit of software to deal with to get it able to do everything I want but looking pretty great even with just the default WLED patterns.
#LED #WLED #Lights

summer will come again
#photography #noFilter

👟 The physics of squeaking sneakers
#sneakers

The physics of squeaking sneakers
Geometry of tread patterns determines frequency, so blocks were designed to play Star Wars music.

This page has several very interesting optical illusions about how our eyes create motion blur ("persistence of vision"). For a split second the brain retains an image from the past and merges it with the current (*) image. Enough to make special black and white patterns smear into a solid shape.
https://testufo.com/eyetracking<…

RE: https://indieweb.social/@keithamus/116062761549997084
If you can, please also identify known WCAG conformance errors.
We don’t want another toast escapade where the research failed to identify barriers and risks. Encoding broken patterns into t…

The City of #SantaBarbara released the design for an upcoming public street art project, which will transform the corner of State and Carrillo streets into a vibrant display inspired by Mixtec and Zapotec weaving patterns.
The project is part of Bloomberg’s Asphalt Art Initiative, which selected the city as one of 10 cities in North America to receive a $100,000 grant for a public street art pr…

Bloomberg Asphalt Art Initiative — Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture

US CHILDREN 🧒
我們這些孩童 🧒
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

from my link log —
Interesting JavaScript bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression in ESLint.
https://eslint.org/blog/2022/07/interesting-bugs-caught-by-no-constant-binary-expression/
saved 2023-11-09

Interesting bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression - ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript Linter
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

Replaced article(s) found for nlin.PS. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.PS/new
[1/1]:
- Inverse problems for dynamic patterns in coupled oscillator networks: When larger networks are si...
Oleh E. Omel'chenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21942 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nlinPS_bot/114941338063335955
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Metacurity operates outside the infosec news echo chamber to track patterns, context, and connections that most other sources miss.
Check out today's issue for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Defense companies face a 'relentless barrage' of cyberespionage, Google,
--Fugitive sentenced to 2 years for pig butchering money laundering,
--Coupang data breach scope was more massive than reported,
--Discord to demand face scans or…

Defense companies face a 'relentless barrage' of cyberespionage, Google
Fugitive sentenced to 2 years for pig butchering money laundering, Coupang data breach scope was more massive than reported, Discord to demand face scans or government IDs, Hacktivist scraped 500k payment records from stalkerware apps, Promotei botnet still excels at stealing passwords, much more

After a lot of other poking and prodding at other stuff failed, the PAM edge detector got a 30% speedup and the sin(x)/x upsampling filter is about 4x faster just by restructuring some stuff to change memory access patterns.
As a reminder: a GPU is a device for turning compute bound problems into memory bandwidth bound problems.

I'm writing a first rough pass of a new story just now, and I'm writing quickly to catch the bones of it. I know that, in this draft, all my characters speak much the same; I'm not worrying about this, I'll rewrite later to give them individual idioms, ways of speaking, gestures, senses of humour.
Do you do this in your first pass, or do your characters come to you already with their own idiosyncratic patterns of speech?

It's Not Accidental - journalofthesoul
#hope #inspiration

Running #OpenTelemetry at #Scale: #Architecture Patterns for 100s of Services

99% of stakeholder "ideas" are just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest.
Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling. Strategy becomes dominated by the overriding need to make the good number go up.

The circular logic of our metrics
We design what is familiar. The design patterns we adopt are the ones yelling at us the loudest.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Suse Millemann:
🎵 Patterns
#SuseMillemann
https://eugeneelectronicmusiccollective.bandcamp.com/track/patterns
https://open.spotify.com/track/540cCQDE4OGFoJ2UlMlEVi
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

"Saltier seas in spring double the chance of extreme El Niño events, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://

Saltier seas in spring double the chance of extreme El Niño events, study finds
Stronger El Niño events are more likely when springtime surface waters in the western Pacific Ocean become unusually salty, a new study in Geophysical Research Letters suggests. Traditionally, scientists have focused on temperature and wind patterns to understand El Niño—periodic shifts in the tropical Pacific between warmer and cooler conditions that influence weather patterns across the globe. But researchers now show that subtle variations in ocean salinity north of the equator during bo…

They had to hack the traffic cameras? We buy the cameras ourselves and hang them on our doors in the West. @… https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/116168854186551062

Made new test prints on some off-cuts, using a slightly stronger developer solution than usual to see impact on max. depth. The main image (Eagle Creek, Oregon) is using 18% sodium acetate (curve corrected negative), the test strips are of 20% and 15% solutions (both uncorrected). The phone capture doesn't really show the differences too well, but I think I will go for the 18-20% from now on...
(Btw. The original image is here:

What Do 2026 Mock Drafts Reveal About the Cowboys? https://insidethestar.com/what-do-2026-mock-drafts-reveal-about-the-cowboys

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115873428590286252
This is also why I don't but do, but don't delete toots after 7 days. I want to keep a record of my thoughts so I can see how my brain patterns shift over time, but sometimes the chi…

Fun case of circular logic in #Python #standards:
https://discuss.python.org/t/spaces-not-considered-a-valid-verbatim-character-for-glob-patterns/106463
1. Use "globs" in the specification.
2. Decide that "glob" may be ambiguous, so add severe restrictions on what's supported.
3. Because of the severe restrictions, people may have reinvented the wheel instead of using system `glob` module.
4. Since people may have used their custom implementations, just relaxing the spec is a problem.

I wonder if consciously avoiding the style and patterns frequently applied by generative AI might be triggering some kind of forced language evolution. Previously considered best practices that are now shunned to not sound like a machine.
#language #linguistics

Research shows 41 US states are getting warmer, all in slightly different ways #UnitedStates

Research shows 41 US states are getting warmer, all in slightly different ways
Different regions of the United States are experiencing different patterns of warming climate, requiring region-specific adaptation, according to a study published in PLOS Climate by María Dolores Gadea Rivas of the University of Zaragoza, Spain and Jesús Gonzalo of University Carlos III, Spain.

Curiously large number of replies to this thread, and a whole lot of them fall into two camps:
“Obviously the original story was bunk and we shouldn’t have trusted it”
“Obviously this debunking is questionable and we shouldn’t trust it”
My main takeaway from the article is that •nothing• is obvious, and we need to be comfortable living with a bit of uncertainty — and being willing to see and act on larger patterns despite uncertainty.

Observation of a mixed close-packed structure in superionic water: #ice just got weirder: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-08-exotic-form-ice-just-got-weirder - multiple atomic stacking patterns coexisting in overlapping configurations never seen before in this phase of water.

This week’s Gist is about how the U.K. Labour Party unknowingly has been blowing itself up by following Morgan McSweeney’s FG electoral instincts.
They don’t know the patterns, but we do.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-labours-fg-mastermind/

The Gist: UK Labour's FG mastermind
The UK Labour Party is being run into the ground, thanks to adopting FG's election tactics. This is the Gist.

🎶 TweetyBERT parses canary songs to better understand how brains learn language
#birds

TweetyBERT parses canary songs to better understand how brains learn language
A new machine learning model, TweetyBERT, automatically segments and classifies canary vocalizations with expert-level accuracy, offering a scalable platform for neuroscience, providing insights into the neural basis of how the brain learns and produces language, and offering potential applications for understanding animal vocalization more broadly. The study by University of Oregon researchers appears in the journal Patterns.

T1: One-to-One Channel-Head Binding for Multivariate Time-Series Imputation
Dongik Park, Hyunwoo Ryu, Suahn Bae, Keondo Park, Hyung-Sin Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21043 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21043 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21043
arXiv:2602.21043v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Imputing missing values in multivariate time series remains challenging, especially under diverse missing patterns and heavy missingness. Existing methods suffer from suboptimal performance as corrupted temporal features hinder effective cross-variable information transfer, amplifying reconstruction errors. Robust imputation requires both extracting temporal patterns from sparse observations within each variable and selectively transferring information across variables--yet current approaches excel at one while compromising the other. We introduce T1 (Time series imputation with 1-to-1 channel-head binding), a CNN-Transformer hybrid architecture that achieves robust imputation through Channel-Head Binding--a mechanism creating one-to-one correspondence between CNN channels and attention heads. This design enables selective information transfer: when missingness corrupts certain temporal patterns, their corresponding attention pathways adaptively down-weight based on remaining observable patterns while preserving reliable cross-variable connections through unaffected channels. Experiments on 11 benchmark datasets demonstrate that T1 achieves state-of-the-art performance, reducing MSE by 46% on average compared to the second-best baseline, with particularly strong gains under extreme sparsity (70% missing ratio). The model generalizes to unseen missing patterns without retraining and uses a consistent hyperparameter configuration across all datasets. The code is available at https://github.com/Oppenheimerdinger/T1.
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As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

After a couple of weeks off, I’m back to having fun coding with Claude. I spend most of my time watching, so I’m running two ( totally separate project) coding sessions at the same time in different Codespaces windows. The public one is https://GitHub.com/brazil-bench where I’m setting up a github issues based…

Brazil Benchmark Organization
Benchmark agents by asking them to build an MCP server for Brazilian football. Use this project to develop purpose driven automation patterns. - Brazil Benchmark Organization

The Inheritance: When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot
Some secrets do not stay buried. They write themselves into blood and bone. They pass from grandmother to mother to daughter through mechanisms we are only beginning to understand. The Inheritance, the second novel in the Fractional Fiction series, asks what happens when a scientist trained to study transgenerational trauma in laboratory mice discovers that the patterns she has been mapping exist in her own…

The Inheritance: When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot | David Boles, Blogs
Some secrets do not stay buried. They write themselves into blood and bone. They pass from grandmother to mother to daughter through mechanisms we are only beginning to understand. The Inheritance,…

All you really need to do is switch up drum patterns, chords and chord arrangements to make your record sound kinda diverse and dynamic. But man, some bands just CANNOT simply manage to do even that 😂

One nice thing about #literature is how characters and stories can help us recognize and understand patterns observed in real life. Often they serve as a short-hand for commentary. An often cited example is Icarus.
Given #POTUS47 careless comments about Iran, Lord

#EroticMusings 41: Are you self-taught, or have you been trained or mentored in your craft? Would you like more?
Trained in writing patterns by wolfing down absurd amounts of books starting at age nine.
Honed by writing novel-length stuff by hand during school out of sheer boredom (even though my wrist hurt badly).
Polished by receiving Bachelor and Master degrees related …

Tech-Riesen wie Meta und Alphabet bauen bewusst „Dark Patterns“ in ihre Dienste — psychologisches Design, das Nutzer:innen süchtig macht und Daten absaugt. Das ist kein harmloses UX-Feature, sondern ein Geschäftsmodell auf Kosten unserer Selbstbestimmung. #ZDFheute
#DarkPatterns

Social Media und Dark Patterns: So tricksen Tech-Konzerne
Dark Patterns fördern die Sucht nach Social Media. Entwickelt hat die psychologischen Tricks ein Forscher in Stanford. Heutzutage werden sie von allen Tech-Firmen genutzt.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Steve Reich, Colin Currie & Colin Currie Group:
🎵 Dance Patterns
#SteveReich #ColinCurrie #ColinCurrieGroup #newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/3CENVeOCOmrD5fZLrcnHY6

Was surprised to see haptics work here https://haptics.lochie.me/ (https://github.com/lochie/web-haptics) on Safari iOS becau…

Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
VERLIS: I'm sorry, Commissioner. I can break the rules in private, not in public.
SERVALAN: I want him! You can name your price.
VERLIS: You'll have to bid for him like anyone else.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/152 B7B5

The Elvolve Podcast With Elly Miles
Hosted by Elly Miles, this podcast explores what it actually takes to regulate your nervous system, rewire unconscious patterns, and come home to yourself...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-el

A profile of Amanda Askell, Anthropic's resident philosopher, who is learning Claude's reasoning patterns in a bid to endow it with a sense of morality (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-aman

Since Trump launched a new war with Iran, he has portrayed it as a
"shock-and-awe assault" with few lasting consequences,
especially for Americans.
On Monday in Florida, he called it a “brief disruption.”
Experts say it is rapidly becoming something else entirely:
a jolt to the global security order and economythat far exceeds those delivered by other recent conflicts in the Middle East.
Trump’s war, now nearly two weeks old,
is already res…

How Trump’s War With Iran Changed the World in a Week
The conflict is reshaping travel patterns, energy dependencies, living costs, trade routes and diplomatic alliances.

Spent some time fiddling with my experimental crackle weave operation in #adacad, and am thinking of trying to thread this one
I'd have thought that the square patches of different patterns would give it an interesting woven structure? #weaving

🎨 Thinking Deeply About Theming and Color Naming
#html

Thinking Deeply About Theming and Color Naming | CSS-Tricks
Today, I want to discuss a couple of patterns for naming color palettes that the community is using, and how I propose we can improve, so we achieve both flexibility and beauty.

Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
ZEN: The continuing malfunction of hull sensors is limiting data for analysis. Operational systems indicate that the damage is widespread but superficial.
DAYNA: The nature of the damage. What's causing it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/255 B7B4

„Ich existiere nur für dich. Bitte geh nicht.“
Sagt dein KI-Companion – kurz bevor er dir vielleicht ein Premium-Abo empfiehlt.
Dr. Michael Strautmann beschreibt bei Golem eine neue Ökonomie der Zuneigung: Dark Patterns, Chat-Bait und die „Attachment Economy“.
Der perfekte Partner: hört immer zu, widerspricht nie, erinnert sich an alles.
Liebe? Vielleicht. Daten? Ganz sicher.
#Golem

On the one hand, I’m heartened to see Scott and Sarah were involved (even if Sarah’s name is misspelled).
OTOH, it treats APG as a source of truth when ARIA is the spec and APG patterns are broken / buggy.
“Request for developer feedback: `focusgroup`”
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/focu

Request for developer feedback: focusgroup  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers
Try out focusgroup and comment on the proposal.

Invisible gambling puts all other deceptive patterns to shame, but the others are worth knowing about for anyone who might have missed it when folks were talking more about this:
https://www.deceptive.design/

Different Corners X ▶️
不同的角落 X ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

summer is on its way, I can hear it in the soil. the first of my tulips are already peeking their heads out of the ground.
#bloomScrolling #photography #red

Augmenting imagery with multimodal vibrotactile representations: touch, feel, and hear https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/program/content/223192 PDF at

Crosslisted article(s) found for nlin.PS. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.PS/new
[1/1]:
- Turing patterns in Matrix-Weighted Networks
Anna Gallo, Wilfried Segnou, Timoteo Carletti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13080 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatstatmech_bot/116079407955524567
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AWS implemented a 15% price hike for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML on January 3; Amazon says it "reflects the supply/demand patterns we expect this quarter" (Corey Quinn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/aws_price_increase/

AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
: An anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter

The planet may experience a strong or even a super El Niño later this year,
-- one that could rival the strongest ones in history,
according to new climate data recently released by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
A typical El Niño affects regional-to-global weather patterns,
as a warming patch of water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean influences what regions could experience droughts, floods and extreme heat.
During these relativ…

from my link log —
Any Game of Life pattern can be constructed from just 15 gliders.
https://btm.qva.mybluehost.me/building-arbitrary-life-patterns-in-15-gliders/
saved 2022-11-30

For some years now the UI design and interaction methods shown in sci-fi movies have become ever more abstract & complex, driven by minimalist aesthetics utilizing high-res graphics, a design philosophy based on total omniscient access, heavy information density and interactive realtime visualizations (and/or visual ways of browsing) to aid exploration & expose patterns/relationships, the use of layered/spatial layouts, capable of customization/personalization, programmability (of so…

The handweaving.net archive seems great and a huge effort, but getting together out of copyright patterns, digitising them and then charging people $6.50 a month to access them under a restrictive license seems a bit wrong?
Surely if you digitise out of copyright patterns you don't have copyright over your derivative work?

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Can listening to certain sounds really treat Alzheimer's Disease? https://www.kcl.ac.uk/can-listening-to-certain-sounds-really-treat-alzheimers-disease "Taken together, the findings of this review suggest that auditory gamma stimulation is …

Can listening to certain sounds really treat Alzheimer's Disease? | Feature from King's College London
Alzheimer’s disease is related to the build-up of amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain, but it is also characterised by disrupted patterns of brain signalling. The brain works through…

Woke up from a dream with a thought about dark patterns and LLMs.
If LLMs (as a service) could be normalized and integrated into everything, as is currently in progress, the next step would be to charge tokens to pay for the interactions. After all, it's not really free. That's just the normal progression. Introduce the tech, get people hooked, then make them pay.
Great, now imagine this future state. Every interaction with a computer ends up mediated through a stochastic parrot. Congratulations, everything now has micro-transactions on steroids. Not only does everything you do with tech have micro-transactions, but every interaction with technology is gambling.

Last evening of Christmas vacation before getting back to work for the new year.
Aiming to make it a good one. Working on GPU acceleration of the TIE filter and maybe the histogram block so I can do jitter analysis faster.
The peak at T=0 in the jitter histogram is related to use of the GPU CDR block and doesn't show up in the CPU implementation. It's likely caused by transients of some sort at thread block boundaries and I need to spend more time chasing it, I wouldn'…

Eight Sleep, which sells smart mattress accessories to track sleep patterns and adjust temperatures, raised $50M at a $1.5B valuation, up from $500M in 2021 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/eight-sleep-raises-50m-at-1-5b-valuation/

Eight Sleep raises $50M at $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Eight Sleep said it was free-cash-flow positive in 2025, and plans to use the new funding for new products, global expansions, and clinical validation.

Follie Follie II🍁
叶啊叶 II🍁
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
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I keep reminding folks that MDN is *not* a spec.
Just last month I had to address some of its bad info on CSS carousels.
I’m glad to see @… correcting some of the CSS `interactivity` wrongness:
https://…

Welcome to #TextModeTuesday! For the next few weeks I'll be posting some projects & experiments related to this just spontaneously made up hashtag. If you've got something related to interesting text-based art/experiments, patterns, ASCII-art, ANSI-art etc. please share — the more, the merrier...
To start with, here's an experiment from a few years ago to demonstrat…

From single scenes to extended scenarios: The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the construction of imagery-rich events https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0324764 "perceptual representations in the posterior neoco…

From single scenes to extended scenarios: The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the construction of imagery-rich events
Mental events are fundamental to daily cognition, including the recollection of past experiences, the anticipation of future scenarios, and engagement in imaginative, fictitious thought. Typically, these temporally extended mental events unfold within coherent spatial contexts, rich in naturalistic scenes and objects. However, there remains a significant gap in understanding how these events are represented in the brain. This study aimed to investigate the neural patterns involved in the constr…

Anthropic researchers detail "disempowerment patterns" in AI assistant interactions where AI potentially distorts a user's reality, beliefs, or actions (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/how-often-do-ai-chat…

How often do AI chatbots lead users down a harmful path?
Anthropic's latest paper on "user disempowerment" has some troubling findings.

#MapSurfing Mt Tongariro & Mt Ngauruhoe (New Zealand)... so, so inspirational!

Revised January 8, 2026: Simulation of prosthetic vision with the PRIMA system and enhancement of face representation https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11677 retinal implant

Simulation of prosthetic vision with PRIMA system and enhancement of face representation
Objective. Patients implanted with the PRIMA photovoltaic subretinal prosthesis in geographic atrophy report form vision with the average acuity matching the 100um pixel size. Although this remarkable outcome enables them to read and write, they report difficulty with perceiving faces. Despite the pixelated stimulation, patients see smooth patterns rather than dots. We present a novel, non-pixelated algorithm for simulating prosthetic vision, compare its predictions to clinical outcomes, and de…

Different Corners VIII ▶️
不同的角落 VIII ▶️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Urban Texture IV 🧩
城市质地 IV 🧩
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite