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REST in Pieces: RESTful Design Rule Violations in Student-Built Web Apps
Sergio Di Meglio, Valeria Pontillo, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11689

REST in Pieces: RESTful Design Rule Violations in Student-Built Web Apps
In Computer Science Bachelor's programs, software quality is often underemphasized due to limited time and a focus on foundational skills, leaving many students unprepared for industry expectations. To better understand the typical quality of student code and inform both education and hiring practices, we analyze 40 full-stack web applications developed in a third-year Web Technologies course. Using an automated static analysis pipeline, we assess adherence to REST API design rules. Results rev…

Revolucion

#Upcoming Twelve years in the making, “The Formless Irregular” chronicles the art of Babs Santini over 5 decades. Contains many never before seen pieces and illuminating commentary in this unique catalogue of (almost) everything Steven Stapleton has created visually! Preorders available via Timeless Edition, July 19th.

Bellingcat has just launched a major new update to our Auto Archiver tool, simplifying the process of archiving online content for individuals or teams.
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2025/08/13/the-open-source-to…

The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat
Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down

I'm impressed with designers that create flat packed furniture. Crafting a jigsaw puzzle of wood and hardware that assembles into fashionable and sturdy furniture ranks right up there with aerospace engineering.
And then there's this. A shoe cabinet that my wife ordered to fit in our sunroom to hide our hideous footwear that we slip on when we go in the backyard. It came in 18 pieces, plus 8 separate tiny bags of hardware and minimal instructions. Two hours of assembly later, it's virtually the same size in volume as the shipping carton it arrived in. I know there are reasons why it's not shipped complete, but it's still a little irritating.
#things_that_make_me_go_hmmm

Niclas Tamas – Roads through the Mirror – 2. Nostalgia: The Mirror’s Longing
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/06/16/niclas-tamas-roads-through-the-mirror-2-nostalgia-the-mirrors-longing/

Nice!
One of the better #litrpg webnovels I've read, Worth the Candle by Alexander Wales, is being made into a #manhwa / #manga!
Already enjoying the story! 😄

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Girl Drink Drunks:
🎵 Pieces
#GirlDrinkDrunks
https://girldrinkdrunks.bandcamp.com/track/pieces-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kAwWjuoRU8FnMPoqzRjK1

I'm finally pleased with my 3D printed sign handle. It's two parts, bolts together with a cardboard sign between the pieces. I've made the back side larger so it can be glued to the sign to help stabilize it in wind. (Learned I needed that the hard way!)
#3Dprinting #protest

Robot Drummer: Learning Rhythmic Skills for Humanoid Drumming
Asad Ali Shahid, Francesco Braghin, Loris Roveda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11498 https://

Robot Drummer: Learning Rhythmic Skills for Humanoid Drumming
Humanoid robots have seen remarkable advances in dexterity, balance, and locomotion, yet their role in expressive domains, such as music performance, remains largely unexplored. Musical tasks, like drumming, present unique challenges, including split-second timing, rapid contacts, and multi-limb coordination over pieces lasting minutes. In this paper, we introduce Robot Drummer, a humanoid system capable of expressive, high-precision drumming across a diverse repertoire of songs. We formulate h…

Will Raiders Hit Their Ceiling or Floor? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-eric-mangini-pete-carroll-ashton-jeanty-preseason-geno-smith

The FBI’s takedown last month of the RapperBot appeared to have an unwanted consequence: freeing up as many as 95,000 devices to be taken over by new botnet overlords. That led to a free-for-all to take over the machines “as fast as possible."
https:…

Does the Wool Industry Drown Sheeps? #AnimalRights

Does the Wool Industry Drown Sheeps?
Wool production is riddled with distressing practices. For instance, in countries like Australia (one of the major wool producers) mulesing, the carving of huge pieces of skin from sheep’s backs to…

Scaling relations at the central regions of nearby galaxies
Patr\'icia da Silva, R. B. Menezes, T. V. Ricci, F. Combes, F. Pinna, B. Barbuy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11563 …

Scaling relations at the central regions of nearby galaxies
Scaling relations between galactic parameters represent key pieces of evidence for investigating the processes of galaxy formation and evolution. In most studies, these relations have been obtained for large portions of the galaxies (i.e., on kpc scales), but it is also important to evaluate these relations in smaller scales. In this work, we used optical data cubes of a subsample of nearby galaxies of the DIVING 3D survey. These allowed us to analyze the scaling relations involving stellar vel…

In case you were wondering how much legacy IP addresses can be bought for from shady spammers…
Hello BITFOLK LIMITED,
We have available 12 x /24 PA clean subnets RIPE @ 27 EUR/ip. Payment can be facilitated through trusted escrow services like ESCROW.COM or alternative one.
(I believe this is probably genuine other than that the reputation of the IPs is probably shot to pieces.)

Uncovering Social Network Activity Using Joint User and Topic Interaction
Gaspard Abel, Argyris Kalogeratos, Jean-Pierre Nadal, Julien Randon-Furling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12842

Uncovering Social Network Activity Using Joint User and Topic Interaction
The emergence of online social platforms, such as social networks and social media, has drastically affected the way people apprehend the information flows to which they are exposed. In such platforms, various information cascades spreading among users is the main force creating complex dynamics of opinion formation, each user being characterized by their own behavior adoption mechanism. Moreover, the spread of multiple pieces of information or beliefs in a networked population is rarely uncorr…

Long post, game design
Crungle is a game designed to be a simple test of general reasoning skills that's difficult to play by rote memory, since there are many possible rule sets, but it should be easy to play if one can understand and extrapolate from rules. The game is not necessarily fair, with the first player often having an advantage or a forced win. The game is entirely deterministic, although a variant determines the rule set randomly.
This is version 0.1, and has not yet been tested at all.
Crungle is a competitive game for two players, each of whom controls a single piece on a 3x3 grid. The cells of the grid are numbered from 1 to 9, starting at the top left and proceeding across each row and then down to the next row, so the top three cells are 1, 2, and 3 from left to right, then the next three are 4, 5, and 6 and the final row is cells 7, 8, and 9.
The two players decide who shall play as purple and who shall play as orange. Purple goes first, starting the rules phase by picking one goal rule from the table of goal rules. Next, orange picks a goal rule. These two goal rules determine the two winning conditions. Then each player, starting with orange, alternate picking a movement rule until four movement rules have been selected. During this process, at most one indirect movement rule may be selected. Finally, purple picks a starting location for orange (1-9), with 5 (the center) not allowed. Then orange picks the starting location for purple, which may not be adjacent to orange's starting position.
Alternatively, the goal rules, movement rules, and starting positions may be determined randomly, or a pre-determined ruleset may be selected.
If the ruleset makes it impossible to win, the players should agree to a draw. Either player could instead "bet" their opponent. If the opponent agrees to the bet, the opponent must demonstrate a series of moves by both players that would result in a win for either player. If they can do this, they win, but if they submit an invalid demonstration or cannot submit a demonstration, the player who "bet" wins.
Now that starting positions, movement rules, and goals have been decided, the play phase proceeds with each player taking a turn, starting with purple, until one player wins by satisfying one of the two goals, or until the players agree to a draw. Note that it's possible for both players to occupy the same space.
During each player's turn, that player identifies one of the four movement rules to use and names the square they move to using that rule, then they move their piece into that square and their turn ends. Neither player may use the same movement rule twice in a row (but it's okay to use the same rule your opponent just did unless another rule disallows that). If the movement rule a player picks moves their opponent's piece, they need to state where their opponent's piece ends up. Pieces that would move off the board instead stay in place; it's okay to select a rule that causes your piece to stay in place because of this rule. However, if a rule says "pick a square" or "move to a square" with some additional criteria, but there are no squares that meet those criteria, then that rule may not be used, and a player who picks that rule must pick a different one instead.
Any player who incorrectly states a destination for either their piece or their opponent's piece, picks an invalid square, or chooses an invalid rule has made a violation, as long as their opponent objects before selecting their next move. A player who makes at least three violations immediately forfeits and their opponent wins by default. However, if a player violates a rule but their opponent does not object before picking their next move, the stated destination(s) of the invalid move still stand, and the violation does not count. If a player objects to a valid move, their objection is ignored, and if they do this at least three times, they forfeit and their opponent wins by default.
Goal rules (each player picks one; either player can win using either chosen rule):
End your turn in the same space as your opponent three turns in a row.
End at least one turn in each of the 9 cells.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single row, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single column, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in each of cells 1, 3, 7, and 9 (the four corners of the grid).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in each of cells 2, 4, 6, and 8 (the central cells on each side).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in the cell directly above your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly below your opponent (in either order).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in the cell directly to the left of your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly to the right of your opponent (in either order).
End 12 turns in a row without ending any of them in cell 5.
End 8 turns in a row in 8 different cells.
Movement rules (each player picks two; either player may move using any of the four):
Move to any cell on the board that's diagonally adjacent to your current position.
Move to any cell on the board that's orthogonally adjacent to your current position.
Move up one cell. Also move your opponent up one cell.
Move down one cell. Also move your opponent down one cell.
Move left one cell. Also move your opponent left one cell.
Move right one cell. Also move your opponent right one cell.
Move up one cell. Move your opponent down one cell.
Move down one cell. Move your opponent up one cell.
Move left one cell. Move your opponent right one cell.
Move right one cell. Move your opponent left one cell.
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 2 or 3 to 6 or 9 to 8).
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 counter-clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 4 or 6 to 3 or 7 to 8).
Move to any square reachable from your current position by a knight's move in chess (in other words, a square that's in an adjacent column and two rows up or down, or that's in an adjacent row and two columns left or right).
Stay in the same place.
Swap places with your opponent's piece.
Move back to the position that you started at on your previous turn.
If you are on an odd-numbered square, move to any other odd-numbered square. Otherwise, move to any even-numbered square.
Move to any square in the same column as your current position.
Move to any square in the same row as your current position.
Move to any square in the same column as your opponent's position.
Move to any square in the same row as your opponent's position.
Pick a square that's neither in the same row as your piece nor in the same row as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Pick a square that's neither in the same column as your piece nor in the same column as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Move to one of the squares orthogonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to one of the squares diagonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to the square opposite your current position across the middle square, or stay in place if you're in the middle square.
Pick any square that's closer to your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers (this includes the square your opponent is in). Move to that square.
Pick any square that's further from your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers. Move to that square.
If you are on a corner square (1, 3, 7, or 9) move to any other corner square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
If you are on an edge square (2, 4, 6, or 8) move to any other edge square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
Indirect movement rules (may be chosen instead of a direct movement rule; at most one per game):
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, and in addition, your opponent may not use that rule on their next turn (nor may they select it via an indirect rule like this one).
Select two of the other three movement rules, declare them, and then move as if you had used one and then the other, applying any additional effects of both rules in order.
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, but if the move would cause your piece to move off the board, instead of staying in place move to square 5 (in the middle).
Pick one of the other three movement rules selected in your game and apply it, but move your opponent's piece instead of your own piece. If that movement rule says to move "your opponent's piece," instead apply that movement to your own piece. References to "your position" and "your opponent's position" are swapped when applying the chosen rule, as are references to "your turn" and "your opponent's turn" and do on.
#Game #GameDesign

Cool that people are still composing new pieces of classical music:
https://www.broadheath.com/

I had a bit of a problem. When I was carrying an open chocolate bar in my table, the paper would sometimes unfold and pieces would fall into the recesses of the bag. Lately, after getting wet in the rain, it became so loose That I had to put the whole thing into a plastic bag. But still, I was pondering over a more permanent solution.
Then, I accidentally discovered it. One day I forgot to break the chocolate bar into pieces before packing it. When I took it out, it occurred to me that as long as it's in one piece, it won't fall out of the paper wrapping! 🤦
Such a #LifeHack.

I stand corrected and my undue confidence is shattered to pieces.
Windows 11 cleared of all charges for killing SSDs, the real culprit is faulty firmware | TechSpot
https://www.techspot.com/news/109370-windows-11-cleared-all-charges-killing-ss…

Neanderthals May Have Been Running a Sophisticated ‘Fat Factory’ in Germany 125,000 Years Ago
New research suggests that they smashed animal bones into tiny pieces before boiling them to extract the high-calorie grease inside
https://www.

50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead at ace’s, ostensibly working on jerry garcia’s next solo album, but running through one of the coolest pieces of music from ’75, sometimes called a jam but actually one of the many instrumentals workshopped for “blues for allah,” only released in 2004.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
CALLY: I think so, too.
AVON: They would have called in.
JENNA: Avon's right.
AVON: [Looks over at Jenna] I usually am.
JENNA: Blake says wait so we wait.
https://

Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra at Hill Auditorium is performing Tchaikovsky‘s first piano Concerto and a couple of Ravel pieces

3 Dallas Cowboys depth pieces who could start in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/3-dallas-cowboys-depth-pieces-who-could-start-in-2025

The House passed legislation to
repeal the 1991 and 2002 Iraq Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMF)
in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday,
moving against two pieces of legislation that have vastly expanded the president’s ability to use military force in the U.S.’s “forever wars” in the Middle East.
The amendment to the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
passed easily in a 261 to 167 vote.
All Democrats and 49 Republicans v…

House Passes Repeal of 1991, 2002 Iraq War Authorizations in Bipartisan Vote
Anti-war advocates have long called for the AUMFs to be repealed.

Which 30 Pieces Of Silver Bought Lisa Murkowski's Vote?
https://www.wonkette.com/p/which-30-pieces-of-silver-bought?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1783367&post_id=167286062&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1pj0b&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Starting watching Barbarian, from 2022 (again) as it's leaving Netflix August 31. I just couldn't get it started before, thanks to my late night movie sessions where I often just pass out 😂 How many days will it take to get through this one, breaking it up into pieces - we shall see
https://boxd.it/aHmXKj…

A diary entry for Barbarian (2022)

I just stumbled across this. (I was listening to Kats-Cherrnin's "For Richard" - a piece I really like - and my computer followed with this.)
As in many pieces I found the 2nd movement to be the most interesting.
And right at the end I thought I was hearing the Khachaturian Piano Concerto.
https://www.youtu…

Gemma O‘Brien kicking off day two of #smashingconf Freiburg with an inspiring talk about her beautiful and powerful lettering and art work – and a super interesting interview about flow state. 👏

Fast 40 Jahre nach seiner Abspaltung vom Filchner Schelfeis verliert der #Eisberg A-23A zunehmend große Stücke.
Im Juli 2025 brachen zwei neue Eisberge ab, A-23D und A-23E, mit Flächen von 159 und 73 Quadratkilometern.
A-23A treibt derzeit nördlich von #Südgeorgien und ist trotz…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
François Couperin & Rosalind Halton:
🎵 Pieces de clavecin: ordre No.8 in B minor
#FrançoisCouperin #RosalindHalton

Having lunch at the village pub. The specials board mentions "beer battered cod pieces". I think I'll pass.

Study reveals the extent to which nanoplastic pollutes the North Atlantic #Atlantic

Study reveals the extent to which nanoplastic pollutes the North Atlantic
Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris such as nets and bags or mistake smaller pieces for food. Ingested plastic can block or injure the gastrointestinal tract. The smallest plastic particles in the micro and nano range are mostly excreted, but a small proportion can pass through the intestinal wall and enter the bloodstream.

#ScribesAndMakers 02/08: Do you have artwork on your walls? If so, describe one of the pieces.
I do have artwork on my walls, most pieces given to me by their makers; but what I'll post here is a sonnet written by a friend which describes an image I made myself:
#1/3

i'm gonna have to check this out! Ferlinghetti's the coolest, a true local legend
https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/new-legion-of-honor-show-celebrates-ferlinghettis-printmaking/

I think I've almost got #fireflies figured out -- here's a #workinprogress; I gotta go back with my $2 tripod since my Manofrotto is still in pieces since that time I was using it with the ring flash in the studio and it exploded in a fit of paranoia; I think Lenny just cut the ha…

Gestern bin ich auf "The Disintegration Loops" von William Basinski gestoßen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnAE5go9dI
Heute ist der 11. September, und zieht Euch bitte den Wikipedia-Artikel zu den Disintegration Loops rein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disintegration_Loops). Wahnsinn!
Auszug:
Basinski finished the project the morning of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, and sat on the roof of his apartment building in Brooklyn with friends as the World Trade Center collapsed. He filmed the fallout during the last hour of daylight from a roof, and the following morning he played "Disintegration Loop 1.1" as a soundtrack to the aftermath. Stills from the video were used as the covers for the set of four CDs, and several weeks later Basinski dedicated the work to the victims in a postscript in the liner notes. He said that "the events gave new meaning to the musical pieces created by catastrophic decay in my studio a few weeks before."

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Widespread Panic:
🎵 Pickin' Up The Pieces
#WidespreadPanic
https://horizonwireless.bandcamp.com/track/widespread-panic-pickin-up-the-pieces-horizon-wireless-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3NTwkFnd4dPcvpg43O3XW3

It's sad how often I find articles that do this.
This supposedly "in-depth" piece includes not a single quote from anyone in #Papua, or even #Indonesia. Strangely, quotes one Malaysian, and otherwise, all westerners.
Sadly, it's a common problem for pieces by this particular …

In Indonesia’s Rainforest, a Mega-Farm Project Is Plowing Ahead
The Indonesian government is fast-tracking a massive agricultural project that is turning 7 million acres of tropical forest into rice and sugarcane farms. Critics say it is the world’s largest deforestation project and would upend the lives of thousands of Indigenous people.

If just one piece of mail gets lost, well, they'll just think they forgot
to send it. But if *two* pieces of mail get lost, hell, they'll just think
the other guy hasn't gotten around to answering his mail. And if *fifty*
pieces of mail get lost, can you imagine it, if *fifty* pieces of mail get
lost, why they'll think someone *else* is broken! And if 1Gb of mail gets
lost, they'll just *know* that Arpa [ucbarpa.berkeley.edu] is down and
t…

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Satellite jamming and spoofing set back global shipping,
--AI is inherently janky,
--Salvadoran gender freedom advocates fight oppression with digital training,
--A new sector arises to fight AI false positives in Chinese universities,

Best infosec-related long reads for the weeks of 6/28/25 and 7/5/25
Satellite jamming and spoofing sets back global shipping, AI is inherently janky, Salvadoran gender freedom advocates fight oppression with digital training, Sector arises to fight AI false positives in Chinese universities, Uncovering the venality of a nudify app, so much more

Do transit planners realize they're helping the anti-Mamdani frenzy by publishing their pieces? Of *course* you're getting attention for your fares-are-good-actually writing now, despite the fact that no one cares about this normally - because billionaire media wants whatever they can use against Mamdani.
(As an aside, you also sound incredibly obnoxious when voters are like "we want fast & free buses" and you respond with "well actually..")

Jesse Raub (@jesseraub.bsky.social)
damn, it's also like he's already advocating for all of those things as part of his proposal. it's like maybe you didn't even read what his free bus fare policy included

(spaghetti intensifies)
Cleanup time again i can barely move here

Replaced article(s) found for math.MG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.MG/new
[1/1]:
- Circle Squaring with Pieces of Small Boundary and Low Borel Complexity
Andr\'as M\'ath\'e, Jonathan A. Noel, Oleg Pikhurko

more shitposters should blogpost, and more blogposters should shitpost. work dusty parts of ur brain. try different lenses on pieces of this world for the hell of it

At #burningman this year, I brought a small 1200 lumen projector that I could mount on my bike. Would it be feasible to do some quick on the fly projection mapping? It seems that yes, for somewhat small (about 6m x 3m max for reasonable brightness) and not very bright pieces, it works.
I may experiment with this more in the future.

Do you have any projects that have stalled out? Could you use some prompts to help break them down into smaller pieces?
Now in TestFlight, OmniFocus 4.8 plug-ins can consult Apple's new on-device Foundation Models. These AI models are built into your device, so you’re not sending any data to any other systems, nor are you using any expensive outside resources—you’re just using more capabilities of the device that’s already at your fingertips.

This Raiders' Position Group Must Live Up to Expectations https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/chip-kelly-brock-bowers-las-vegas-pete-carroll-los-angeles-chargers

Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
VILA: I think I'm going to win this time, Avon.
DAYNA: Congratulations. [Avon pauses by the board to remove three black pieces and shift one white piece.]
VILA: You can't. Oh. Yes, you can.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/16 B7B4

Lego Will No Longer Ship Individual Pieces Thanks to Trump Tariffs
https://gizmodo.com/lego-will-no-longer-ship-individual-pieces-thanks-to-trump-tariffs-2000650637

Linearly Convergent Algorithms for Nonsmooth Problems with Unknown Smooth Pieces
Zhe Zhang, Suvrit Sra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19465 https://arxiv.org/p…

Linearly Convergent Algorithms for Nonsmooth Problems with Unknown Smooth Pieces
We develop efficient algorithms for optimizing piecewise smooth (PWS) functions where the underlying partition of the domain into smooth pieces is \emph{unknown}. For PWS functions satisfying a quadratic growth (QG) condition, we propose a bundle-level (BL) type method that achieves global linear convergence -- to our knowledge, the first such result for any algorithm for this problem class. We extend this method to handle approximately PWS functions and to solve weakly-convex PWS problems, imp…

Republican Bill Puts Nation on New, More Perilous Fiscal Path
Among the most expensive pieces of legislation in years,
the Republican legislation could reshape the country’s finances for a generation.
https://www.

Trump’s Big Policy Bill Puts U.S. on Perilous Fiscal Path
Among the most expensive pieces of legislation in years, the Republican legislation could reshape the country’s finances for a generation.

#lego

Ever wondered what was up with all this Dubai Chocolate suddenly appearing the market?
"From the people that murder journalists & saw them into pieces comes a sweet treat."
▶️ “Dubai Chocolate” is Regime Propaganda
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/dubai-

“Dubai Chocolate” is Regime Propaganda
The viral pistachio-filled candy bar is everywhere—but there’s nothing sweet about the United Arab Emirates and its human rights record.

so I got the 2 wesnoth pieces up on the fediverse. Thank me later...
Maybe I should throw in an extra as a bonus...

Israel could kill Bambi on live TV and some of you fuckers would still be cheering from the sidelines. No, actually, scratch that, what am I thinking? Some of you racist pieces of shit would probably feel worse for a cartoon deer than a real-life Brown person.

This #wasp is cutting cat food into smaller pieces and flies away with them!😡

Our new sideboard has arrived....
40 pieces plus 5 bags of hardware with hundreds of screws, bolts, cam locks, dowels, and glue.
Everything unboxed, so I'm going for a nap.
#FlatPackNightmare #SomeAssemblyRequired

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Dorothy Howell, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Michael Collins:
🎵 2 Pieces for Muted Strings: I. Nocturne
#DorothyHowell #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #MichaelCollins
https://open.spotify.com/track/13Z2YZAz9yZc3ExALdCpDH
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I was so annoyed about the implications of this article I decided to post photos of the delicious nutritious #vegan food I'm preparing for my family for the next few days. It's really not hard. Today Nasi Goreng (or at least my version of it, with organic pea protein pieces, katsup manis, lots of spices and fresh vegetables...
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115108323164701969
@… - "Veganism wasn’t meant to be like other food fads: it was intended to benefit not just the individual but society as a whole. Eating less meat would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and animal suffering. The evidence is clear. But right now we can’t be bothered "
Why the vegans lost https://on.ft.com/4mzHgFz

Cowboys found all the right pieces for their 2025 puzzle this offseason https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/27/the-dallas-cowboys-found-the-righ…

Coming on Tuesday, 1st of July: a suite of compositions for pipe organ and trumpet.
Three pieces that fell out of my soul in response to the latest wars.
Only on Mirlo and BandCamp (for now).
#PipeOrgan #trumpet

Chip Kelly Has His Pieces: How Will it All Work? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/chip-kelly-seattle-seahawks-geno-smith-las-vegas-ashton-jeanty

Amazing #supercut of various pieces on #AI from #TheDailyShow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s20CbtHP6fs - hilarious and frightening at the same time ...

Interesting… Created compound clips to sync up various microphones with the video, so they could all be cut at once. Once the edits are done, I detach the audio so I can create crossfades between the pieces.
Came across a compound clip that could not be ungrouped and I couldn't figure out… Turns out that if you've re-timed a compound clip you can't separate what's in it anymore. So I had to set it to 100%, separate it, and then reapply the re-time!

Really stunning
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKrnJ3ZIVpy/?igsh=MTFla3ZkOTltOHY0bQ==

Art Daily Dose on Instagram: "Tanya Gomelskaya is a versatile artist who blends sculpture and painting to create impactful pieces that capture the depth of human experience. Her work delves into themes of selfhood, emotion, and storytelling, inviting audiences to engage with her art in a meaningful way. Artist: @tanya #art #painting #sculpture #3D"
75K likes, 843 comments - art_dailydose on June 9, 2025: "Tanya Gomelskaya is a versatile artist who blends sculpture and painting to create impactful pieces that capture the depth of human experience. Her work delves into themes of selfhood, emotion, and storytelling, inviting audiences to engage with her art in a meaningful way. Artist: @tanya #art #painting #sculpture #3D".

Guess #4 was stupid as I ignored two pieces of information. #Wordle.
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The funniest thing about this is that those hungarian pieces of shit think they have the power to ban ANYONE from entering "the entire Schengen Area".
Why is Hungary still in the EU? Why the hell haven't we kicked their fascist asses out of the bloc yet?
https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/1151

NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@noelreports@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski responds to Hungary banning Magyar: “Commander Magyar: if you need some R&R and Hungary won't let you in, please be our guest in Poland.” That’s the difference between standing with freedom—or hiding behind pipelines.

accidental-turned-intentional selfie as hands-among-flowers
#photography #selfie #selfPortrait

Timeline cleanser. 😃

Putting Perspective into OWL [sic]: Complexity-Neutral Standpoint Reasoning for Ontology Languages via Monodic S5 over Counting Two-Variable First-Order Logic (Extended Version with Appendix)
Luc\'ia G\'omez \'Alvarez, Sebastian Rudolph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00653

Putting Perspective into OWL [sic]: Complexity-Neutral Standpoint Reasoning for Ontology Languages via Monodic S5 over Counting Two-Variable First-Order Logic (Extended Version with Appendix)
Standpoint extensions of knowledge representation formalisms have been recently introduced as a means to incorporate multi-perspective modelling and reasoning through modal operators that attribute pieces of knowledge to specific entities or agents. In these extensions, the integration between conceptual modelling and perspective annotations can vary in strength, with monodic standpoint extensions offering a well-balanced approach. They allow for advanced modelling features, such as the express…

Modeling the Difficulty of Saxophone Music
\v{S}imon Lib\v{r}ick\'y, Jan Haji\v{c} jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04963 https://ar…

Modeling the Difficulty of Saxophone Music
In learning music, difficulty is an important factor in choice of repertoire, choice of tempo, and structure of practice. These choices are typically done with the guidance of a teacher; however, not all learners have access to one. While piano and strings have had some attention devoted to automated difficulty estimation, wind instruments have so far been under-served. In this paper, we propose a method for estimating the difficulty of pieces for winds and implement it for the tenor saxophone.…

What should we expect from Aaron Rodgers-led Steelers offense? Predicting how Pittsburgh's attack will operate

https://www.cbssports.com/…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Peter Nagy, Emil Sjögren & Per Enoksson:
🎵 Two Lyrical Pieces [1898]
#PeterNagy #EmilSjögren #PerEnoksson

In other news, we will see Augustin Hadelich live in Berlin next year – playing the Sibelius violin concerto. One of the most amazing pieces of music performed by one of the best violin players ever. In row 4. I can't wait! And my son, who is the actual violinist in the family, is thrilled to bits, of course! 🤩
https://www.youtube…

It's been about three weeks, but Metacurity's digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush is back!
This issue's selection covers
--Russian cybersecurity companies are tools for global expansion,
--Merrick Garland's fears of a judicial system cyberattack came true,
--Flock has plans for ubiquitous surveillance to stop crime,
--Misinformation from adversaries now runs ram…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 8/16/25, 8/23/25, and 8/30/25
Russian cybersecurity companies are tools for global expansion, Merrick Garland's fears of a judicial system cyberattack came true, Flock has plans for ubiquitous surveillance to stop crime, Misinformation from adversaries now runs rampant with no US pushback, AI can't capture personality, more

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Hilda Sehested, Nina Reintoft & Malene Thastum:
🎵 3 Fantasy pieces
#HildaSehested #NinaReintoft #MaleneThastum

I've been doing these code lessons for beginners and once we got past the really basic stuff I feel like I've said over and over again that writing code is often about just taking bits and pieces from various programs and smashing them together.

Bellingcat’s "Auto Archiver" is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down.
Publicly launched in 2022,
it has preserved over 150,000 web pages and social media posts to date.
The Auto Archiver has been used by Bellingcat’s journalists to preserve information on dozens of fast moving events such as the Jan. 6 riots
– when we first used the tool internally
– as well as gather digital evidence for o…

The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat
Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down

This morning 's #veganWeek post: breakfast was porridge (made with water soya milk) for kids toast with peanut butter, strawberries banana for me #VeganWeek
Am I an influencer now?
#vegan food I'm preparing for my family for the next few days.  It's really not hard. Today Nasi Goreng (or at least my version of it, with organic pea protein pieces, katsup manis, lots of spices and fresh vegetables...
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115108323164701969
@… - "Veganism wasn’t meant to be like other food fads: it was intended to benefit not just the individual but society as a whole. Eating less meat would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and animal suffering. The evidence is clear. But right now we can’t be bothered "
Why the vegans lost https://on.ft.com/4mzHgFz

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Edvard Grieg, Malmö SymfoniOrkester & Bjarte Engeset:
🎵 March of the Trolls (Lyric Pieces, Book 5 Op.54)
#EdvardGrieg #MalmöSymfoniOrkester #BjarteEngeset

Here's an example of a company trying to destroy a product that it only recently acquired.
VMware, the company, was acquired by Broadcom.
VMware products have always been a pain-in-the-ass to operate, partially because of a marketing brain-crash that named everything "vsphere" this and "vsphere" that.
We used only the once free Esxi hypervisor, but we needed several, also at the time free, "vsphere" pieces to manage it.
But Broadcom p…

VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom
“Our management thought it was a bluff…”…

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
ALTA TWO: Sustained. Level five. [Guard uses prod on Blake again] Release. You were warned. A third time and I will command destruction level. Move.
[Exterior shot of Spaceworld]
[Jenna and Avon in a cell]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/386

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

Eagles, Raiders agree to trade of young defensive pieces: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6535858/2025/08/04/eagles-raiders-trade-jakorian-bennett-thomas-booker-iv/

Always. Be. Knolling.

Time to wake up. I should have posted this earlier, but I had to make coffee... and bacon.... and toast...
Pick up the Pieces by The Jazz Avengers
#CoffeeFirst #RandomTune
https://youtu.be/lHQEHMcxCJE?si=4Ebok3zXRZcYTdPA

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--The scary rise of a DOGE worker to the pinnacle of power,
--Conti was a well-oiled criminal enterprise,
--China uses cyber attribution to paint Taiwan as aggressive,
-- Illusions can bypass moderation to spread hate,
--US has optio…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 7/26/25
The scary rise of a DOGE worker to the pinnacle of power, Conti was a well-oiled criminal enterprise, China uses cyber attribution to paint Taiwan as aggressive, Illusions can bypass moderation to spread hate, US has options to counter UK demand for encryption backdoors

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
BLAKE: [To Vila] That is Rod, Gola's brother. Now that's his brother...
VILA: I see what you mean.
BLAKE: Now is not the right time. [Master of the Duel signals a start, a gong strikes.]
ROD: He who lives be Charl
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/489

The Raiders Are Putting the Pieces Together in Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-training-camp-tom-bradt-geno-smith-pete-carroll-draft-jack-bech

When an Alaska Native group asked state law enforcement officials in June for a list of murders investigated by state police
— one of the most fundamental pieces of data needed to understand the issue
— the state said no.
Charlene Aqpik Apok launched
"Data for Indigenous Justice"
in 2020 after trying to collect the names of missing and murdered Indigenous people to read at a rally,
only to discover no government agency had been keeping track.

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection includes
--Will the US rival China in dystopian surveillance?,
-- Trump cedes disinformation territory to US adversaries,
--When piracy tools cause infrastructure threats,
--AI is wearing down democracy,
--AI engineers who get paid $100 mil…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 6/21/25
Will the US rival China in dystopian surveillance?, Trump cedes disinformation territory to US adversaries, When piracy tools cause infrastructure threats, AI is wearing down democracy, AI engineers who get paid $100 million

The Raiders Have No Shortage of Options for This Position https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tre-tucker-pete-carroll-tom-mcmahon

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--N. Korea's IT worker scheme ensnared a troubled woman,
--Iran is harvesting millions of airline passengers' data,
--Myanmar is isolated in its digital tyranny,
--Pushing the UK to abandon its encryption backdoor,
--The racist hacker …

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 7/19/25
N. Korea's IT worker scheme ensnared a troubled woman, Iran is harvesting millions of airline passengers' data, Myanmar is isolated in its digital tyranny, Pushing the UK to abandon its encryption backdoor, The racist hacker attacking universities, Making quantum cryptography stronger

2025 NFL Odds: Why Pete Carroll's Raiders Won't Hit 7.5 Wins https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-odds-why-pete-carrolls-raiders-wont-hit-7-5-regular-season-wins

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Tech-facilitated intimate partner stalking is rampant,
--Algorithms trap users in right-wing hatred,
--Pavel Durov denies he's a buddy of Putin,
--Musk lied to grab Social Security data,
--DOGE damaged the VA with a bad AI syst…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 6/14/25
Tech-facilitated intimate partner stalking is rampant, Algorithms trap users in right-wing hatred, Pavel Durov denies he's a buddy of Putin, Musk lied to grab Social Security data, DOGE damaged the VA with a bad AI system