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Oura just told me to get ready for bedtime at 5am in the morning so I guess computers can get jet lag now too. #agi
(Yes, I’m physically back home; expect an exciting stamina release that was ready before I left but was too chicken to push before travel.)

The US trafficked migrants, with absolutely no due process, to an El Salvadorian death camp. In that camp, they were physically, psychologically, and sexually assaulted by guards. They were denied medical care, and told that the only way they were getting out of the prison was to die.
This is what the US is now. ICE/CBP and the GOP are absolutely lawless, and anyone who enables them are accomplices (and that very much includes SCOTUS). There is no reason for states to respect federal r…

Husband is still wielding a bandaged hand but is basically managing everything himself now (day 4) 'cos he's a stubborn old bugger.
Off to the GP on Wednesday to change the dressings and hopefully he'll be permitted less obtrusive wrappings.
Hospital checkup booked for 3 months time.
He's not allowed to do anything physically strenuous for the 6 weeks after the carpal tunnel op. He fudged the medical directives but I always check the paperwork for myself beca…

you know, i had to physically get the stalker out of my house, but even after that there's some _choice_ feelings to be had when someone forwards you the stalker sending them the pictures from inside your home

I really hate to play the “age card,” folks, but back in my day (2023 and 2024), I distinctly recall that a president with apparent mental infirmities was nigh unto scandalous.
For a press so dedicated to sanewashing the Trump administration’s open sewer of corruption, the kid gloves treatment still seems the order of the day.
This week, The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire published a lengthy exegesis of the “President Trump is increasingly isolated” variety, titled “The Bubble-Wrapp…

Hey, Does Anyone Want to Talk About Donald Trump’s Infirmities?
He’s clearly slipping, mentally and physically, but the political press suddenly finds it less newsworthy that we have a woefully aging president.

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🪡 Nanostructured coatings physically puncture bacteria to prevent biofilm formation
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-nanostructured-coatings-physically-bacteria-biofilm.html

Nanostructured coatings physically puncture bacteria to prevent biofilm formation
Bacteria that multiply on surfaces are a major headache in health care when they gain a foothold on, for example, implants or in catheters. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have found a new weapon to fight these hotbeds of bacterial growth—one that does not rely on antibiotics or toxic metals.

Cursed shit testing area, authorized access only

I don't know who needs to hear this but if you're in the market for a desktop camera with 1080p video, mic & Windows Hello facial recognition authentication, check this out.
(Also has an automatic shutter which physically blocks the lens when you're not using it. $55.)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJDVKJB9

The US' high-speed internet rollout means drillers, linemen, and splicers pull in soaring pay nationwide amid a labor shortage for the physically demanding work (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

Steelers WR DK Metcalf suspended two games for physically confronting fan in win over Lions https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-wr-dk-metcalf-suspended-two-games-for-physically-confronting-fan-in-win-over-lions

Eating more vitamin C can physically change your skin #nutrition

Eating more vitamin C can physically change your skin
Vitamin C doesn’t just belong in skincare products—it works even better when you eat it. Scientists discovered that vitamin C from food travels through the bloodstream into every layer of the skin, boosting collagen and skin renewal. People who ate two vitamin C–packed kiwifruit daily showed thicker, healthier skin. The findings suggest glowing skin really does start from within.

EAG-PT: Emission-Aware Gaussians and Path Tracing for Indoor Scene Reconstruction and Editing
Xijie Yang, Mulin Yu, Changjian Jiang, Kerui Ren, Tao Lu, Jiangmiao Pang, Dahua Lin, Bo Dai, Linning Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23065 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.23065 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.23065
arXiv:2601.23065v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent reconstruction methods based on radiance field such as NeRF and 3DGS reproduce indoor scenes with high visual fidelity, but break down under scene editing due to baked illumination and the lack of explicit light transport. In contrast, physically based inverse rendering relies on mesh representations and path tracing, which enforce correct light transport but place strong requirements on geometric fidelity, becoming a practical bottleneck for real indoor scenes. In this work, we propose Emission-Aware Gaussians and Path Tracing (EAG-PT), aiming for physically based light transport with a unified 2D Gaussian representation. Our design is based on three cores: (1) using 2D Gaussians as a unified scene representation and transport-friendly geometry proxy that avoids reconstructed mesh, (2) explicitly separating emissive and non-emissive components during reconstruction for further scene editing, and (3) decoupling reconstruction from final rendering by using efficient single-bounce optimization and high-quality multi-bounce path tracing after scene editing. Experiments on synthetic and real indoor scenes show that EAG-PT produces more natural and physically consistent renders after editing than radiant scene reconstructions, while preserving finer geometric detail and avoiding mesh-induced artifacts compared to mesh-based inverse path tracing. These results suggest promising directions for future use in interior design, XR content creation, and embodied AI.
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Well, shit... :D
Swearing Actually Seems To Make Humans Physically Stronger - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/12/18/2116258/swearing-actually-seems-to-make-humans-physically-stronger

Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE https://www.404media.co/contractor-paying-random-people-300-to-physically-track-immigrants-for-ice/

Ilhan Omar after being assaulted: "He was saved by my security".
She was ready to take on that asshole. Physically.
Holy shit she's amazing.

Karpathy about AI & education (summarized some points), i agree with these point, other opinions?
1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop.
2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students.
3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in …

"Australia’s worst heatwave since black summer made five times more likely by global heating, analysis finds"
#Australia #Heatwave #Climate

Browns designate QB Deshaun Watson for return to practice https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6858623/2025/12/03/browns-deshaun-watson-returns-practice/

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.”<…

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

It’s hard for me to imagine more clear-cut defiance of the injunction. These shits are trying to run the legal blockade by pretend pretending it doesn’t even exist — and Bovino is not only fully aware but physically present for it. Contempt of court is completely meaningless at this point; I dare any judge to prove me wrong.

Morning Glow-Up
This is with the Agfa ePhoto 1680, a 1.3MP CCD camera from 1998. It's pretty temperamental, while it takes 4 AA batteries, normal alkaline batteries don't provide enough juice; I found that Li-Ion rechargeable are the only way to go.
I love the time when they experimented with various camera shapes as they weren’t constrained by how film needs to physically be in the camera anymore.
#ShittyCameraChallenge #SooC

I just remembered that I still want the biggest satellite dish that I can physically install :-(
Pls don't make me get a job so I can afford to buy it
Pls

Turns out, that if you want to do a database migration - it is much faster to do it when the database is physically close to you, and not 3000km away
/s

I'm curious - what San Francisco media has covered this? Admittedly something I have not been looking for. But a quick search doesn't find many news articles - but it appears to be a nationwide problem. Sure, FDA has published their alert (2022) but that's not a great tool to reach people who need to know about risks.
The FDA has warned against this ‘natural remedy’ for joint pain. San Francisco immigrants still trust it

I'm curious - what San Francisco media has covered this? Admittedly something I have not been looking for. But a quick search doesn't find many news articles - but it appears to be a nationwide problem. Sure, FDA has published their alert (2022) but that's not a great tool to reach people who need to know about risks.
The FDA has warned against this ‘natural remedy’ for joint pain. San Francisco immigrants still trust it

@… @… I hate that this is what we got, and then it’s touted as a “win”.
Call me crazy, but being family tech support was much easier when ports with differing capabilities were not physically interchangeable.

Mailbag: Why the struggles in zone coverage? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-why-the-struggles-in-zone-coverage

a human: "I want to put a cat that is physically able to kill me in approximately ten milliseconds in my home and share my life with it"
(One day passes)
same human: "I am going to annoy the animal that can split my spinal cord in two on purpose because I am bored"
never gets old https://www.youtube.com/sh…

just learned that there's a secret unfinished subway station under our #brooklyn neighborhood. https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com

Inside the eerie, unfinished 1930s subway station under a South Williamsburg street
New York is physically two cities. One is at street level, a grid of mostly brick and steel. The other is underground, a subterranean world of tunnels and tubes—not all of which can be accessed. On…

I know everyone’s already dragging the living shit out of this already but 🤷🏻‍♀️:
All ICE/BP should have:
Clearly marked vehicles
Clearly marked names on uniforms (large TEXT for both)
ID/badges
Dismissal and/or prosecution for failing to comply.
QR codes are just unneeded “tech” complication
The current regime talks a lot of shit about ID being required to vote, but is fine with armed agents of the govt having less ID than a teen trying (and failing) to…

Question for car people about regenerative braking (which occurs when the vehicle is either coasting, OR I am applying the brakes). Is regenerative charging binary (ON or OFF) or analog (regenerative braking intensity along a scale)?
Scenario: I drive a Toyota hybrid. I am coasting or going downhill, and I am getting regenerative braking (battery charging). Now I feel the need to apply my brakes to slow down even further. Does physically applying the brakes boost the amount of regenerative braking I am getting, or not? 🧐

AWS launches European Sovereign Cloud, creating a new parent company for its sovereign cloud that will be locally controlled in the EU and run by EU citizens (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/amazon-sovereign-cloud-europe-expansion.html<…

Amazon launches its 'sovereign' cloud in Europe and plots expansion
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) European Sovereign Cloud will be "physically and logically separate" from other AWS regions, the company said.

This is a really good question from @…. The first thing I keep telling everyone in other cities who wonders how they can help, what they can do:
Get organized NOW. Meet your neighbors NOW. Get your neighbors set up with secure messaging NOW. Form multiple hyper-local neighborhood social groups NOW. Organize a block picnic or community craft night or repair workshop or whatever NOW. Get contact info for the human beings who physically show up for neighborhood events NOW.
Form all those local connections ASAP, so that they’re there when you need them. The hardest lines of communication to establish will be the ones with the people closest to you. If you get local lines open in advance, you’ll be in a far, far better place.
https://infosec.exchange/@mathaetaes/115731104851949153

🧠 Human-like Working Memory from Artificial Intrinsic Plasticity Neurons
#ai #llm

Human-like Working Memory from Artificial Intrinsic Plasticity Neurons
Working memory enables the brain to integrate transient information for rapid decision-making. Artificial networks typically replicate this via recurrent or parallel architectures, yet incur high energy costs and noise sensitivity. Here we report IPNet, a hardware-software co-designed neuromorphic architecture realizing human-like working memory via neuronal intrinsic plasticity. Exploiting Joule-heating dynamics of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs), IPNet physically emulates biological memory v…

Mailbag: Why the struggles in zone coverage? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-why-the-struggles-in-zone-coverage

Just scraped a bunch of ICE off the walk to the rear door, and it was immensely satisfying — both physically and metaphorically

Browns won't activate QB Watson from PUP list https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47400757/browns-activate-deshaun-watson-pup-list-season

Podcast: The Epstein Email Dump Is a Mess https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-epstein-email-dump-is-a-mess/

Non-Gravitational Acceleration in 3I ATLAS: Constraints on Exotic Volatile Outgassing in Interstellar Comets
Florian Neukart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07450 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.07450 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.07450
arXiv:2511.07450v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS exhibited a measurable nongravitational acceleration similar in form to that of 1I/'Oumuamua but of smaller magnitude. Using thermophysical and Monte Carlo models, we show that this acceleration can be fully explained by anisotropic outgassing of conventional volatiles, primarily CO and CO2, under realistic surface and rotational conditions. The model includes diurnal and obliquity-averaged energy balance, empirical vapor-pressure relations, and collimated jet emission from localized active regions. Mixed CO-CO2 compositions reproduce both the magnitude and direction of the observed acceleration with physically plausible active fractions below one percent for nucleus radii between 0.5 and 3 km. Less volatile species such as NH3 and CH4 underproduce thrust at equilibrium temperatures near 1 AU. These results eliminate the need for nonphysical or exotic explanations and define thermophysical limits for natural acceleration mechanisms in interstellar comets.
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Copy-Trasform-Paste: Zero-Shot Object-Object Alignment Guided by Vision-Language and Geometric Constraints
Rotem Gatenyo, Ohad Fried
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14207 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.14207 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.14207
arXiv:2601.14207v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study zero-shot 3D alignment of two given meshes, using a text prompt describing their spatial relation -- an essential capability for content creation and scene assembly. Earlier approaches primarily rely on geometric alignment procedures, while recent work leverages pretrained 2D diffusion models to model language-conditioned object-object spatial relationships. In contrast, we directly optimize the relative pose at test time, updating translation, rotation, and isotropic scale with CLIP-driven gradients via a differentiable renderer, without training a new model. Our framework augments language supervision with geometry-aware objectives: a variant of soft-Iterative Closest Point (ICP) term to encourage surface attachment and a penetration loss to discourage interpenetration. A phased schedule strengthens contact constraints over time, and camera control concentrates the optimization on the interaction region. To enable evaluation, we curate a benchmark containing diverse categories and relations, and compare against baselines. Our method outperforms all alternatives, yielding semantically faithful and physically plausible alignments.
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Source: CB Alexander stepping away from football https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46934445/source-eagles-jaire-alexander-28-stepping-away-nfl

Eagles' Jaire Alexander stepping away from football; CB to determine playing future https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-jaire-alexander-stepping-away-from-football-cb-to-determine-playing-future