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US-Patentamt ändert Regeln für KI-gestützte Erfindungen
Das US-Patentamt hat festgelegt, wie mithilfe von KI entwickelte Erfindungen gewerblich geschützt werden können. Eine natürliche Person muss im Spiel sein.
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Trump calls reporter a 'stupid person' during tense exchange about National Guardsmen murder suspect (Gabriel Hays/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-calls-reporter-stupid-person-during-tense-exchange-national-guardsmen-murder-suspect
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p60#a251128p60

BTW, you CAN survive drinking a hundred cups of coffee. :ablobcatnod:

Moody Urbanity - Literally 📄
情绪化城市 - 字面上 📄
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400，expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

prosper: Prosper user loans (2016)
A network of loans between users on prosper.com, a pear-to-pear lending marketplace. Edge direction (i, j) denotes person i loaned money to person j.
This network has 89269 nodes and 3394979 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/prosper

Schrägste Jahres-Finisage bei Matthias Der Schamp in Bochum Hamme.
Er ist u.a. Erfinder der Aktion "Schlechte Verstecke" und "Fenster zutrinken", patizipative Aktion, bei der Bier trinken zur Kunstaktion wird.
Ruhrgebiet halt - gibbet nich woanders.

With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…

Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts. But before you give one, think twice about...

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Deathsport:
🎵 Me Person
#NowPlaying #Deathsport
https://deathsportband.bandcamp.com/track/me-person
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mEa0lVGJ5GLNqrqQmC1IL

Guter Kaffee ist auch auf der Baustelle wichtig. Deswegen immer die Bohnen frisch mahlen! #Uckermark #project25 #Makita

Hi everyone,
Due to a combination of Internet issues and personal issues we were only able to hold a verification call with one person from Gaza today.
Please give Lubna (@…), who is a mother of three and an engineer, a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse (and please follow her, donate to her fundraiser if you can, and share this so others mi…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VINNI: You're not good enough to get past me, Tarrant.
DEETA: You're going to look pretty silly flat on your back with a face full of footprints.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/213 B7B3

So yeah, per the OP, that person who always wanted to ship slop even before LLMs? Now the organizational checks and balances against that are removed — and along with them, away goes this terrible emotional experience.
Slop, they call it. But how can it be wrong when it •feels so good•?
/end

I never thought I’d be a person who wore hi-vis clothing but biking home after 5pm has me contemplating it…
#bikeTooter

Plenty of billionaire deals going on, but:
"A person familiar with Witkoff’s thinking said the envoy is confident that any settlement with Russia would benefit America broadly, not just a handful of investors."
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-

Trump's verbal attack on CBS News' Nancy Cordes, in which he called her a "stupid person", echoes several recent moments when he lashed out at female reporters (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-calls-female-reporters-ugly-pigg…

https://mstdn.plus/@gcvsa/115629686468055123 Truth is stranger than fiction. unbelievable, harvard, dominant hegemony privilege etc etc

I'm sitting at Zurich Airport waiting to pick someone up. Next to me sits a German person who has propped up their iPad on their suitcase. They are in a video conference with several people from banks and legal, discussing tax "optimization" from Germany by buying real estate in different US states and pretending to live elsewhere. On loudspeaker.
"Don't make a bank account, don't change your drivers license. We have checklists we can provide you."

> It is like shouting louder and louder that a portrait shows a uniquely important person, while the portrait itself is fading from a sharp photograph into a blurry, generic sketch. The subject becomes simultaneously less specific and more exaggerated.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe

Me drying my long skate shorts on the radiator before going to the seaside because I forgot to hang them up last night 😩
This is a 'shorts all year round kinda person' problem.

'writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a way that (hopefully) gets my point across. ... i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.'

Felt cute. Might delete later. #tmbg

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 28: In what ways do you see yourself reflected in your own work?
In one novel I've written, I based my main character on what I imagine I would have been like if not for the trauma of my childhood. He came out as very successful, but also extremely arrogant and entitled — not a likeable person.

thinking abt the time a random 14 year old nonbinary aspiring video editor in sacremento stumbled on my site thru neocities like 3 years ago and emailed me telling me i was the coolest person theyd ever seen online and asked for css advice for their wip site and i gave it and never heard from or saw them again

Radio-PPG: photoplethysmogram digital twin synthesis using deep neural representation of 6G/WiFi ISAC signals
Israel Jesus Santos Filho, Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman, Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati, Tareq Al-Naffouri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22326

Radio-PPG: photoplethysmogram digital twin synthesis using deep neural representation of 6G/WiFi ISAC signals
Digital twins for 1D bio-signals enable real-time monitoring of physiological processes of a person, which enables early disease diagnosis and personalized treatment. This work introduces a novel non-contact method for digital twin (DT) photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal synthesis under the umbrella of 6G/WiFi integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. We employ a software-defined radio (SDR) operating at 5.23 GHz that illuminates the chest of a nearby person with a wideband 6G/WiFi sign…

So there is a delivery company in Norway called Helthjem, which means something like all the way home or completely home. The idea being that so many delivery companies here actually fail to deliver to you home and make you pick up from a drop off point.
They just send me this text:
Hi! The package from GPN cannot be delivered to your home. It is being sent to Linderud Flower shop. You will be notified when it can be picked up. Tracking number: [redacted] Regards, Helthjem

Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/amazon-to-announce-sweeping-corporate-job-cuts-starting-tuesday.html

Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says
The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon's corporate workforce in the company's history, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Elliot and I went to New England last weekend on short notice -- here's Massabesic Lake which I walked around almost every day growing up in Manchester, NH
#photo #photography #landscape <…

Current ethnic cleansing in US is making some a lot of money, while destroying others.
“When ICE takes…person…system around them…built to swallow everything they ever touched.”
“Towing companies profit. State agencies profit. &…people who once lived in…homes & drove…cars & held…IDs are left w/nothing but…clothes on their backs. This is not a broken system.”
“…system functioning exactly as…designed.”

When ICE Takes a Person, Why Do Their Possessions Vanish Too?
An investigative expose. Forty-one percent of migrants say their belongings never returned from ICE custody, and the items left behind at the moment of arrest disappear just as quietly.

Someone on TikTok said (regarding Dating apps) „Remember - do you really find this person attractive or do they just have (pretty) colorful hair?“
That one really stuck with me…

RE: #fascism, especially American fascism, there's something you can do. If you're in the US, don't buy anything if you can until Dec 2nd. If you do have to buy something, buy second hand, or buy local. If you're outside, don't buy anything from the US or any US company at all.
Spread the word. Keep it on people's mind. Write your own post. Talk to people you know in person. Print out flyers and post them around town.
The system understands the language of money. If you want a response, you have to speak the language the system understands.
Trump is extremely vulnerable. Don't wait for the regime to recovery. Hit it hard right now, with an economic blockade. Who knows, it might just crumble.
#USPol

⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️
Vorsicht bei "Ja! Basmati Reis" von Rewe:
Eine Person hat Glas in einer Packung gefunden
Charge 4337256086370
https://old.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/1ohd5fn/found_a_glass_shard_inside_a_packet_of_ric…

#PhantastikPrompts am 27.11.:
Spielt Religion in deinem aktuellen Projekt eine Rolle? Wie oder warum nicht?
Das Interessante an den erytanischen Gottheiten ist, dass sie dermaßen zweifellos da sind, dass Religion keine Frage des "ob" ist, sondern des "wie oft erzählt die individuelle Person den Gottheiten was?"
(Das meine ich wörtlich, auch wenn ich…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
JENNA: Maybe IMIPAK is another Orac. If we captured it perhaps we could breed from them.
BLAKE: What a disgusting idea.
JENNA: [Smiles] Well, despite Orac's lucky eavesdropping, we're not much wiser, are we?

If a person... hypothetically... was about to make episode two-bloody-hundred of a podcast, what might be a good way for her to mark that achievement?!

#OTD in 1993 I recall I caught Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys with the BarnStompers from Holland at an after hours warehouse party decorated with haybales at 21st an Harrison in SF. I recall the door man was a sketchy white supremacist redneck, who objected to letting in a person of color I came with.... The more things change, the more things do stay the same in this country.

The local supermarket was running a game where if you were the first person to arrive at a given point in the store after it was called over th intercom, you got a free product from the bakery. I'm not saying it was super difficult to win, but it was no cakewalk.

I don't actually think there's an obligation (in the UK) for ISPs or AI companies to block content from sanctioned entities.
ISPs have an obligation to block "an internet service provided by a designated person" and a "person who provides a social media service" must take "reasonable steps to prevent content...". But AI services aren't ordinarily social media services.

Snake oil grifters who will do the working person no favours

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

In 2016, The Atlantic’s journalist
Shane Harris
made contact with a person claiming to work as a hacker for Iran’s intelligence,
where he claimed to have worked on major operations,
such as the downing of an American drone and the now-infamous hack against oil giant Saudi Aramco,
where Iranian hackers wiped the company’s computers.
Harris was rightly skeptical,
but as he kept talking to the hacker,
who eventually revealed his real name to him,…

They Killed My Source
A man claiming to be an Iranian intelligence officer promised me he would reveal his country’s secrets. Then he disappeared.

Concrete Jungle III 🏗️
水泥丛林 III 🏗️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

It always makes me a little sad when somebody reflexively spits and blocks like this based on (I’m guessing) not quite reading the post. (I’m pretty sure they’re angry because they agreed with the thread’s whole point and just read the post backwards in their haste. This does not look like an account that’s out there fighting to defend the reputation of Tesla and AI slop.)
Like…I probably didn’t want this person in my mentions anyway if they’re such a careless reader, but now they’re going through the world a little angrier for nothing.
https://mstdn.plus/@gcvsa/115793343637847732

Was sind denn Tombolalos?

Leveraging Large Language Models for Robot-Assisted Learning of Morphological Structures in Preschool Children with Language Vulnerabilities
Stina Sundstedt, Mattias Wingren, Susanne H\"agglund, Daniel Ventus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22287

Leveraging Large Language Models for Robot-Assisted Learning of Morphological Structures in Preschool Children with Language Vulnerabilities
Preschool children with language vulnerabilities -- such as developmental language disorders or immigration related language challenges -- often require support to strengthen their expressive language skills. Based on the principle of implicit learning, speech-language therapists (SLTs) typically embed target morphological structures (e.g., third person -s) into everyday interactions or game-based learning activities. Educators are recommended by SLTs to do the same. This approach demands preci…

One person is dead and another is injured in midair helicopter crash in New Jersey, officials say (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/hammonton-new-jersey-helicopter-crash-68717ae773636de9142e03e8b5dbd6f1
http://www.memeorandum.com/251228/p34#a251228p34

"EU produces 35.3kg of plastic packaging waste per person each year: Which country recycles the most?"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Recycling

Nice, I wanted to write about that topic. And there.. Someone wrote about it already.
That's the reason why I never recorded myself walnut walking into the scene.
Even though it looks really cool,it really disturbs my hiking experience and totally turns into filming.
https://blog.lauram…

People filming themselves in nature
A lot of hiking, camping, and cycling youtube video makers choose to film third-person footage of themselves alone in nature... sometimes with a drone, but s...

@… years ago I read a "helpful hint" that boiled down to: form a sensible association between (a) the person's name and (b) the situation in which you met. A word-association-thing to ensure that you will you remember the name.
I tried it, once, at parties. At the second party, I clearly and correctly remembered the person's name:
Frid…

Interessante analyse van wat voor soort dementie Trump precies heeft. En wat daar het gevaar van is.
https://open.substack.com/pub/frankgeorge8675309/p/dammit-its-not-alzheimers-heres-why-c9f?r=4fpew…

DAMMIT It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario
You deserve the facts, not conjecture. Alzheimer's diminishes a person. Trump's not diminishing, he's escalating, and you need to know the frightening reason why.

Eine Person, die "lungtall" ist, hat eine überproportional große Lunge.

Update: Hat sich erledigt - danke!
Eine junge Person, die mir lieb ist, würde sich sehr über ein Ticket freuen. #39c3tickets

I've seen people attach pool noodles to their bikes in order to ensure that car drivers pass them within a safe (and often legally-required) distance.. But I think I prefer this person's prybar attachment. 🫡
#BikeTooter

Tag 80: #rausgeschafft
#Sonntag

Heute war der erste Tag, wo der #AssSaver #BroTector (ja, ich finde diesen Namen auch schrecklich und genial zugleich 🙄🤓) wirklich half. Bzw. geholfen hätte. Ich wünschte, das Velo, das vor mir fuhr, hätte auch einen gehabt. 💦 Und auch um die

💖 ✨ 🌈 :bisexual_pride: 🏳️‍⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️‍🌈
Hey y'all, just a little reminder for those who already know and a heads‑up for anyone new, I’m non‑binary and out here living my best self!
#LGBTQIA #NonBinary

I am seeking speakers for my @… & @… meetups. We prefer in-person presentations in Frankfurt or the Mannheim area, but remote talks are also an option.
If you have anything interesting to share with us, let us know. We'd be …

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

What's it called when a person is a nervous flyer, but for doctor's visits? Having anxiety about the dentist is pretty common, but is it a usual thing for people to have anxiety about non-dental health care?

Bergerac | NPO Start
#Bergerac

LLMs are the capitalist dream of mass-produced individual attention, which never works. But unlike previous attempts, LLMs are able to gaslight people into thinking that they do work. We now have mass-produced sociopathic sycophants for C-suite strategists. Replace this sentence with a conclusion or punchline that appeals to the person reading this post.

"Tech people, have mercy!"
Guess we should
https://pip.bearblog.dev/tech-people-have-mercy/

terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Time names "the Architects of AI" as its 2025 Person of the Year and takes a look at AI's effect on the economy, geopolitics, and how we interact with the world (Time)
https://time.com/7339685/person-of-the-year-2025-ai-architects/

The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year
The Architects of AI drove the economy, shaped geopolitics, and changed the way we interact with the world.

We watched the Joker ironically and then went on YouTube to watch whatever people made about the movie there back in the day, landed in the worst slop bubble, and dug so deep until we hit “JOKER QUOTES ABOUT WOMEN” and these videos could be classified as performance art, they're pure gold

Billionaires with $1 salaries
– and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting
Mark Zuckerberg was the lowest-paid employee at Meta in 2024,
and he made US$1.
But he is not the only very rich person who has collected $1 for a year’s work.
Why would incredibly rich CEOs make only $1 a year when they could pay themselves millions?
The reason is taxes…

Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting.

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

Threatened attacks on synagogues in Alabama and surrounding states were thwarted when Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker, 33, was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, body armor and other items, officials said Tuesday.
The arrest comes as antisemitic sentiment and attacks have surged globally.
A car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue left two dead in Manchester, England, earlier this month,
less than two weeks after a late-night fire was set at a synagogue in Florid…

Man arrested with body armor and a suitcase filled with ammunition after threatening multiple synagogues, officials say
In the latest antisemitic incident to rock a community, threatened attacks on synagogues in Alabama and surrounding states were thwarted when a person was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, body armor and other items, officials said Tuesday.

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
BLAKE: All right, put us down.
[Scene: The planet's surface. Blake and Cally land near the obelisk.]
BLAKE: Some sort of obelisk, I suppose.
CALLY: Well, what should we do now?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/170 B7B5

I guess the plans for Sunday swimming are off the table at the current temperatures. #Uckermark #coldswim

YouTubes neues Tool zur Gesichtserkennung soll KI-Deepfakes unterbinden
Content-Ersteller können bei YouTube nach KI-Deepfakes ihrer Person suchen und solche Videos entfernen lassen. Dafür benötigt YouTube Ausweis und Gesichtsvideo.

Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds,
has given us the "Hero Developer":
a figure who ships features at midnight,
who “moves fast and breaks things,”
who transforms whiteboard scribbles into billion-dollar unicorns through sheer caffeinated will.
We celebrate this person constantly.
They're on the front page of TechCrunch et al.
They keynote conferences.
Their G…

The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer
Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made industrialist. And Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds, has given us

It was ten years ago that the person in charge of protecting kids online in Europe was telling to me apologise to Lord whateverhisnameis from Facebook for saying they shouldn’t be in schools. (Spoiler alert: they were informed in no uncertain terms exactly where they could stuff their not-forthcoming apology.)
https://

Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
BLAKE: Yes. Vila is the course set?
VILA: Uh, on the panel now.
BLAKE: Lock onto it Jenna.
JENNA: She's responding very slowly. Coming round. That's it. Locked onto course.
https://

Why are other journalists in the room not reacting immediately to T's attacks on their colleagues?
Amplify the questions until they get meaningful answers.
Or they could walk out.
-- @locprof.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/newsguy.bsky.social/po…

Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social)
CBS News' Nancy Cordes: Your DoJ OIG "reported this year that there was thorough vetting by DHS and the FBI of these Afghans who were brought into the US so why do you blame the Biden administration?" President Trump: "Because they let them in. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person?"

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
BLAKE: Blake.
[Flight deck of the Liberator.]
CALLY: Cally.
BLAKE: [V.O.] Tell Avon I need two fully charged flutonic power cells.
CALLY: I will tell him.
[In the laboratory complex.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/365 B7B2

Moody Urbanity - Old & New II 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 II 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

dbpedia_occupation: Person-Occupation Affiliations (DBpedia, 2016)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between notable people and occupations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 229307 nodes and 250945 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
SERVALAN: Manual only, I'm afraid.
PILOT FOUR-ZERO: I'll manage.
DERAL: With reduced power?
PILOT FOUR-ZERO: Auron isn't so far off. Can you supply me with the course coordinates.?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/48 B7B4…

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
BLAKE: Guilty.
ORAC: No. Conditioned under hypnosis.
BLAKE: No. No.
ORAC: Yes, Blake. Standard hypnotic procedure, audio pulse signals with visual support...
BLAKE: False.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/139 B7B6

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Donald Trump spent Christmas:
- Referring to millions of Americans as “scum”
- Bombing another country without congressional authorization
- Defending Jeffrey Epstein
- Threatening it “may be our last Christmas ever”
Just an absolutely deranged person with advancing dementia!
https://

Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social)
Donald Trump spent Christmas: - Referring to millions of Americans as “scum” - Bombing another country without congressional authorization - Defending Jeffrey Epstein - Threatening it “may be our last Christmas ever” Just an absolutely deranged person with advancing dementia!

A10 - Breakdown
AVON: It's a space laboratory. A permanent research facility financed by a consortium of neutral planets. Two specialist fields: weaponry and space medicine. An interesting combination, don't you think?
JENNA: How do you know all this?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/113…

prosper: Prosper user loans (2016)
A network of loans between users on prosper.com, a pear-to-pear lending marketplace. Edge direction (i, j) denotes person i loaned money to person j.
This network has 89269 nodes and 3394979 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/prosper

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 02 - Power
KATE: Stop it, Pella! [Kate rushes at Pella, who shoots her dead. Pella enters the launch silo and the door closes before the others can rush in. Avon takes the crystal from Kate's neckband.]
[Inside silo. The Scorpio's turntable begins to turn and rise.]

Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night,
leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing
with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise apartment buildings into the morning.
Police had arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with fire
which began Wednesday afternoon in a housing complex in Tai Po district, a suburb in the New Territories.
By Thursday morning local time, the fire was yet to be pu…

3 arrested in Hong Kong, as a high-rise fire leaves at least 44 dead and 279 reported missing
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night, leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise a...

Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
PROVINE: No! Now, then, Tronos, you know what to do.
TRONOS: I give you four minutes to reach the launch area, then I activate. I then follow without delay.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/209/22 B7B3

I had a womens studies professor try to coax a class to understand
that it’s not ’wrong’ for an alcoholic homeless person
to take your change you tossed and spend it on alcohol.
People were livid lol.
It really changed my perspective on giving.
it's freeing to give without expectation.
-- @inthemidwest.bsky.social

Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd.bsky.social)
I once taught a whole lesson on the narratives of deservedness in the very strange concept of “stealing” books from something conspicuously branded as a “free” little library. The students struggled with it. A lot of internalized beliefs about poverty and worth. But I think it was a good lesson. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

prosper: Prosper user loans (2016)
A network of loans between users on prosper.com, a pear-to-pear lending marketplace. Edge direction (i, j) denotes person i loaned money to person j.
This network has 89269 nodes and 3394979 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/prosper

An older adult with underlying health conditions is believed to be the first person to die from a rare strain of bird flu,
but Washington state health officials said on Friday the risk to the public is low.
The person – from Grays Harbor county, about 78 miles (125km) south-west of Seattle – had a backyard flock of domestic poultry that had been exposed to wild birds.
The person was treated for the H5N5 bird flu strain after becoming seemingly the first known human infected…

Local authorities issued an evacuation warning for
Wrightwood, California,
a town of just under 5,000 people around 80 miles north-east of Los Angeles,
as images showed mud and debris engulfing homes and vehicles.
The San Bernardino county fire department on Thursday night stated that one person was injured in the slide,
but that weather conditions were expected to improve and there was no ongoing safety threat.

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
CALLY: Avon, repeat that. Message indistinct. Repeat that.
VILA: Communications blind spot. Or maybe he landed in the volcano.
CALLY: No, I think he's all right.
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terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata