Happening now in North Minneapolis somewhere just southwest of 2nd Ave N and Van White Memorial Boulevard, police ordering more people with nowhere to go to leave otherwise-unused land by 1pm today. The City of Minneapolis has been using violence (physical force or the threat of physical force) to shove unhoused people around constantly since the destruction of community-supported encampments, and so long as this is allowed, the human right to housing will never be fulfilled. See you there…
Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/02/alcatraz-r…
copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 536 nodes and 3600 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwei…
For millennia, the “source code” of human survival was written in the soil
— held in the physical seeds exchanged by farmers across the Eastern Ghats, the Andes and the African savannah.
Today, that code has been digitised into ATGC sequences,
stored on servers largely located in the Global North
and increasingly governed by intellectual property regimes that risk excluding the very communities that developed this biological heritage.
The issue is no longer lim…
𖨆 <-- This is my little one who is the only one who has the capability to explore every part of existence no matter how physical or abstract it is
I have never really been a collector of anything. Maybe music for a while, back in the MP3 era, twenty years ago. Other than that, there was never something I felt passionate enough to collect, at least not in real life, not physical objects.
I never truly understood the collectors around me. To me, collecting always felt like a burden. Something you had to carry, move, store, maintain.
And yet, today, I realized something.…
I'm bookmarking this line for a future job application.
... Now I just need to find the right job application to add it to. 🤔
https://theonion.com/what-i-lack-in-physical-strength-i-make-up-for-in-pubic-hair/
My mind will simply not let me stop devouring social content so I can go the fudge to sleep
Starting to think it’s a poor replacement for physical in-person companionship
Good morning friends!
It's a bit chill this morning. Another IT event ahead this evening. I'm curious how it will go.
But it also means, no physical activity or photos this evening.
Anyways, enjoy your day!
#goodmorning #bayern
While I was in grad school, four of my classmates were involved in nasty bike accidents. Three recovered and returned to finish their degrees, one did not.
Guess which one was not wearing a helmet.
@…
omg. Too soon, #TheOnion. TOO SOON!
#NYC #Snowmageddon
Tether acquires a 12% stake, worth $150M, in Gold.com, which enables access to physical and tokenized gold, and plans to integrate its gold-backed XAUT token (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/05…
The #ai #apocalypse is near 🤬
RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks https://rentahuman.ai
There’s a lab in Buenos Aires where they #clone #horses for polo. A typical mare will play for 5 years & then retire to breed, producing 1 foal a year for maybe a few years. With cloning and surrogate bearers way more horses can be bred from a single dam that has desirable physical and mental traits.
Spotify partners with Bookshop.org to let Premium users in the US and UK buy hardcover and paperback books via its app in spring; Bookshop.org fulfills orders (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 6570 nodes and 282755 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unw…
OK last of the parts for the VM server upgrade are installed.
Thinking more about PCIe lanes and what's where.
It's a Supermicro X12SPA-TF mainboard. There are 4x PCIe gen4 x16 slots and 3x PCIe gen4 x8 wired /x16 physical slots.
It also has four M.2 slots, one of which is currently in use for the boot volume.
Right now:
* Slot 7: AMD single slot GPU
* Slot 6: 10G NIC
* Slot 5/4: NVIDIA dual slot GPU
* Slot 3/2: NVIDIA dual slot GPU
* …
"We're just going to run a physical simulation of a human brain to achieve AGI"
"Won't the brain die instantly if it's without a body and oxygen supply etc?"
"Well, we'll just also simulate a body."
"Won't the body die instantly if it's in a vacuum?
"Fine, we'll just simulate an atmosphere too."
"Won't the body die if it's without food and light and gravity and stimulation?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate all the physical processes on the Earth."
"Won't the Earth just freeze instantly without the Sun being there?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the sun, too."
"Will the solar system work properly if there's only the sun? What about gravitational influences of other mass in the galaxy, what about cosmic rays?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the whole universe, too."
This interview from 4 years ago mentions Konate's father being ill.
"Hamadi has never been to see him play, because of illness, but watches his matches on TV and Konaté calls him every day."
My uninformed speculation: his father's health took a turn for the worse this season and the strain of worry and concern affected Ibou deeply. It would explain a lot. He is a fairy private person, so we likely won't know, but if that's right and he's carried thi…
The Dalai Lama — has won his first Grammy.
His audiobook, Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, is a collection of thoughts
— on mindfulness, compassion, and mental and physical health
— with a soundtrack of Hindustani classical music
https://www.
Wanted this deluxe physical version of Resident Evil: Requiem for Switch 2. Been looking for any kind of (legit) preroder anywhere for it for weeks. It comes out tomorrow, and it's never been anywhere available for preorder that I've seen. Everyone snapped it up or they blew it with the preorders? Anyway. I have no idea. To hell with it, I guess 😂 If anyone runs across someone selling one at RETAIL price, lmk. (I'm not paying a dollar over retail.)
Inter-detector differential fuzz testing for tamper detection in gamma spectrometers
Pei Yao Li, Jayson R. Vavrek, Sean Peisert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00336 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00336 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.00336
arXiv:2602.00336v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We extend physical differential fuzz testing as an anti-tamper method for radiation detectors [Vavrek et al., Science and Global Security 2025] to comparisons across multiple detector units. The method was previously introduced as a tamper detection method for authenticating a single radiation detector in nuclear safeguards and treaty verification scenarios, and works by randomly sampling detector configuration parameters to produce a sequence of spectra that form a baseline signature of an untampered system. At a later date, after potential tampering, the same random sequence of parameters is used to generate another series of spectra that can be compared against the baseline. Anomalies in the series of comparisons indicate changes in detector behavior, which may be due to tampering. One limitation of this original method is that once the detector has `gone downrange' and may have been tampered with, the original baseline is fixed, and a new trusted baseline can never be established if tests at new parameters are required. In this work, we extend our anti-tamper fuzz testing concept to multiple detector units, such that the downrange detector can be compared against a trusted or `golden copy' detector, even despite normal inter-detector manufacturing variations. We show using three NaI detectors that this inter-detector differential fuzz testing can detect a representative attack, even when the tested and golden copy detectors are from different manufacturers and have different performances. Here, detecting tampering requires visualizing the comparison metric vs. the parameter values and not just the sample number; moreover this baseline is non-linear and may require anomaly detection methods more complex than a simple threshold. Overall, this extension to multiple detectors improves prospects for operationalizing the technique in real-world treaty verification and safeguards contexts.
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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching
“How many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
The answer – in SAPN’s case study – is an electrician, a plumber and software techs, who now all need to work together to ensure the home management system can control the proverbial lights.”
https://
genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 3879 nodes and 8182 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwei…
Management: return to office (80 %) because that's needed to perform, solve problems faster, move forward together. Physical presence matters.
Also management: spread out development from 1 continent and 2 sites to 3 continents and 4 sites.
🫠
this ai shit is so bad that i see more and more physical ada with ai pictures.... i wanna puke....
ive even seen a fucking bus with ai ads 😩
Nintendo says new first-party games exclusive to Switch 2 will have different prices for physical and digital versions in the US, beginning in May (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/n
Whats seems not to be included, is a barcode scanner interface for physical books or at least some csv import for a bunch of ISBNs
But maybe there are ways, to not have to fill out the form for every single physical book
But I'll keep looking
It's #meme day! (Memedays are days that end in y).
#KidsintheHall #meme
Gifts to the US President are generally considered to be the property of the United States rather than of the president as a person or the president as an office.
So it seems to me that the US National Archives is now the proud owner of a the physical object of a Nobel Peace Prize.
(Of course, el cheato will try to retain physical possession and we will have to pry it from his cold dead fingers, a task that , I suspect, many of us would find rather appealing.)
I’m seeing more uses of the spongecase (alternating intra-word capitalization) lately to mock bad takes.
This is ableist (even if unintentional), being directly based on the character in the animated show mocking people with physical disabilities.
It will hurt people with speech and facial physical disabilities way more to see your post than any of the people that you’re mocking.
Dear everyone who builds and sells things that have instruction manuals: I enormously appreciate if you provide those manuals at an easy to find place online as PDF files.
I don't like to own unnecessary physical things, and particularly, I don't like to own physical things that could be digital, so one of the first things I do when I bought something with a manual is to try to find a digital version of it.
Simon Hooper is being gamed here. Complete lack of confidence he will be able to keep the spice out of this game.
Newcastle are effective when they are allowed to play physical football. LFC are decidedly not, being a bit soft overall.
#LFC
A 2016 civil lawsuit found in the Epstein files alleges that
Trump raped a 13-year-old girl at parties hosted by Jeffrey Epstein in NY.
Epstein raped her too.
For anyone wondering why the victim dropped the case…
Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened Plaintiff that,
were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse of her by Defendant Trump,
Plaintiff and her family would be physically harmed if not killed.”<…
Physical activity is linked to the health of the planet, according to a trio of recent studies
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-physical-linked-health-planet-trio.html
#eDNA Environmental DNA
The Core Concept: A non-invasive monitoring technique that detects the presence of species by extracting and analyzing genetic material shed into the environment (water, soil, air) rather than isolating the organism itself.
Key Distinction/Mechanism: Unlike traditional ecology which relies on physical capture or visual observation ("macro-organismal" interaction),…
For some time I thought that it would be nice to have a kinda library software that I can use to keep track of all the books I have, especially in different formats (physical, audio, e-book, library available)
And with a Raspi I wanted to try a self-hosted version
What I found is booklore: https://booklore.org/docs/installation
My #silentsunday... Do you know that? You're lazy but you also know that you want some physical activity?
The weather wasn't motivating either. But I finally did one of my standard loops. It was indeed silent as there were almost no people out today.
No more than an occasional "hi". Besides that, no talking, nothing but a fox 🦊 in the distance on a field.
A tl;dr version might be, that no physical system can exist outside the universe, which for the purpose of measuring it is not finite; therefore no physical system can be simulated with arbitrary accuracy.
genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 7747 nodes and 19843 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…
These students from Cornell Physical Intelligence told me-as-a-🦊 that this drone works together with a rover on the ground
#photo
"I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool."
—Judy Greer
#acting #coaching …
RoboForce, which is developing robotics systems to perform physically demanding industrial work, raised $52M led by YZi Labs, bringing its total funding to $67M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/16/roboforce-rai…
copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…
According to journalist Jen Psaki of The Briefing with Jen ,
Trump’s administration has
seized the physical ballots from the 2020 election,
all tabulator tapes,
and all ballot images from the original ballot count,
breaking the line of custody
and contaminating the files.
Crucially, they also seized all voter rolls from Fulton County.
“This is a seismic event,”
Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) told Psaki.
“This should have people across…
As Emily Waldorf languished in an Arkansas hospital,
she felt like “a ticking time bomb”.
It was 2024, and the physical therapist was in the midst of miscarrying a much-wanted pregnancy.
But because her fetus still had a heartbeat, hospital officials said Arkansas’s near-total abortion ban blocked them from taking steps to induce labor and end her pregnancy.
Instead, Waldorf had to wait and hope that she didn’t develop a deadly infection.
Waldorf’s sister, Eli…
genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 6980 nodes and 18655 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…
New York-based Sword Health, which develops AI-powered tech for managing pain and offers remote physical therapy, agrees to acquire rival Kaia Health for $285M (Henrique Almeida/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…
Sources: Physical Intelligence, which is developing AI models for robotics, is discussing a new funding round of about $1B that would value it at $11B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-27/ex…
The six-car ICE convoy came to a stop and instantly dozens of people swarmed it,
cellphones in hand,
while others ran out of nearby houses
—I saw a woman in gym shorts in the 20-degree weather
—and began surrounding the masked and heavily armed agents who had spilled out of their black SUVs.
The fury in the crowd felt almost like a physical force,
as real as the cacophony of whistles and honking cars and angry chants:
“ICE out! Fuck you! Go home!”
Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/montreal-industrial-ai-scaleup-vention-raises-1…
genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 7747 nodes and 19843 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…
Amazon plans to discontinue its Amazon One palm recognition system on June 3 and will automatically delete all user data; One remains for healthcare check-ins (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-is-en
Amazon plans to close all 57 Fresh and 15 Go locations in the US, as it pivots its physical retail strategy to focus exclusively on Whole Foods (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-closing-all-am…
genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 155 nodes and 188 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…
Samsung will add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming S26 series; users can launch the Perplexity agent by saying "Hey Plex" or with a physical helper button (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/samsung-is-add
LiveKit, which offers tools for building voice, video, and physical AI models, including for ChatGPT's voice mode, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Arm creates a "Physical AI" unit to focus on robotics and automotive sectors, as part of a reorganization that includes "Cloud and AI" and "Edge" business units (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra
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