
2025-07-01 17:05:35
Playing the long game: why does Putin need a simulation of peace talks with Ukraine? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/playing-the-long-game-why.html
Playing the long game: why does Putin need a simulation of peace talks with Ukraine? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/playing-the-long-game-why.html
Trevon Diggs reveals his chances of playing for Cowboys vs Eagles in 2025 NFL season opener https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/trevon-diggs-reveals-his-chances-of-playing-for-cowboys-vs-eagles-in-2025-nfl-season-opener
Iterative Inference in a Chess-Playing Neural Network
Elias Sandmann, Sebastian Lapuschkin, Wojciech Samek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21380 https://arxiv.o…
“You just don’t go knocking on people’s doors,” one neighbor said.
Gun nuts peddling the fantasy of "protecting your home" have made this country a hellscape. No kid should be shot for ringing a doorbell.
https://www.khou.com/artic…
Now playing Lomax on PS1 — the underrated lemmings spinoff. fun platforming and hand-drawn style 🎮 About halfway through the adventure! Come hang out: #PS1
#potd Playing "Dominant Species" on the new gaming table at Mi&Sa http://domm.plix.at/potd/2025-08-30.html
»Solo RPGs: A Breakdown of Single Player Role-Playing Games«
You don't always have to be online or watch TV to entertain yourself ;)
🎲 https://wizardsrespite.com/2024/02/13/solo-rpgs-a-breakdown-of-single-player-role-playi…
My wife and I saw Band of Horses play tonight at Harvester Performance Center in nearby Rocky Mount. It’s a great, intimate little spot. Seats maybe 400 people.
After two songs, we exchanged a look because it was not a great start. Age robs singers of their high range and for a falsetto singer? Woof.
But, most happily, his voice warmed up after another song or two and it was great show from then on.
Patriots QB Drake Maye explains why it's 'different' playing with Stefon Diggs after last year's struggles
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…
I'm not an anti-intellectualist, but I do believe people can overcomplicate things. I had a debate once with someone who argued “well, aren't we all migrants? All of humanity emerged from the African continent, so...” and I mean, sure, that's true, but now you're just playing with definitions of words rather than accepting the agreed upon definition in order to engage with this debate.
While people like Jordan Peterson are prominent examples of pseudo-intellectuals, who…
Improving Rationality in the Reasoning Process of Language Models through Self-playing Game
Pinzheng Wang, Juntao Li, Zecheng Tang, Haijia Gui, Min zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22920
Playing around with the MCP template in #dotnet. It's interesting stuff, and maybe can see the value in offering dev-time tooling for projects.
A look at Big Tech's AI talent wars with massive compensation packages; sources: Meta told potential hires they would be allotted 30K GPUs for their AI research (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/technol
AI bots playing music for other bots. A signpost along the way to our Matrix-like future
https://futurism.com/ai-band-spotify-streams
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Water From Your Eyes:
🎵 Playing Classics
#WaterFromYourEyes
https://waterfromyoureyes.bandcamp.com/track/playing-classics
https://open.spotify.com/track/231MlrwBMFPgJC05VChPXF
1/2 Got some new reading material about digital sovereignty.
It's a really nice topic / hobby to spend time with: doing IT stuff for my own, playing around with RaspberryPIs and VPCs - and maybe(!) increasing some data protection.
Someone once told me that it's absurd as I'm posting online so much. But posting online is something I do explicitly. I control what I put online.
In case of services that I use form any company, I give away control (as I hardly ever rea…
Ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith under investigation by Office of Special Counsel after claims of playing politics: 'No one is above the law' (Lydia Moynihan/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/01/us-news/official-investigation-into-trump-prosecutor-jack-smith-launched/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p131#a250801p131
might be a hot take but 90s teenage boy school shooter core lowkey slaps when ur in a hate everybody kinda mood, brb playing some quake 3 while listening to kmfdm
NFL Insider: Cowboys ‘Not Competing For Anything’ This Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/not-playing-for-anything-nfl-season/?adt_ei=[email]
Not to brag, but I can _still_ complete this level in the TMNT (NES) game. A few years ago I installed a rom emulator for my kid, and obviously I needed to test it out.
A lot of games I sucked at (Street Fighter 2 (for SNES), which I spent countless hundreds of hours playing, somehow I'd forgotten all the combo moves), but some games I still had locked down. Punch Out I was able to almost beat. And TMNT, I disarmed the bombs and finished this level on my first try.
Hey #Vancouver!
@… are playing the Vogue October 15!
I’m telling you cause I already got my ticket
https://lankumdu…
After playing RoboCop: Rogue City for an hour, the only thing I can say is that this is a VERY UNDERRATED SHOOTER. I am currently handling parking tickets on a side mission 🤣
#SharanLog #Games #RoboCop
I've been playing for 40 years. Do I need to watch this?
Yes. https://techhub.social/@optilude/114761036513742542
👾 These police officers in Denmark are tackling crime by playing online games with kids
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/07/03/these-police-officers-in-denmark-are-tackling-crime-by-playing-online-games-with-kid…
Raiders CB Eric Stokes knows he has something to prove in 2025 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/07/30/raiders-cb-eric-stokes-is-playing-with-a-chip-on-his-shoulder/85437405…
I should have kept my mouth shut when I went to my neighbourhood internet provider to pay the monthly fee, but I asked the hypothetical how much it would cost to upgrade from my 10 years old 100-Mbps limit. They immediately upgraded me to 500 Mbps, correcting the monthly fee to minus €0,50 🤯
There goes my secret deterrent against going off the rails with playing all the video games. You might've noticed it's kind of a problem 😑
Playing The Fool
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
Trees as Gaussians: Large-Scale Individual Tree Mapping
Dimitri Gominski, Martin Brandt, Xiaoye Tong, Siyu Liu, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Sizhuo Li, Florian Reiner, Andrew Davies, Rasmus Fensholt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21437
Maker playing against an invisible Breaker
Dennis Clemens, Fabian Hamann, Mirjana Mikala\v{c}ki, Yannick Mogge, Milo\v{s} Stojakovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22519 https…
Entanglement Detection with Variational Quantum Interference: Theory and Experiment
Rui Zhang, Zhenhuan Liu, Chendi Yang, Yue-Yang Fei, Xu-Fei Yin, Yingqiu Mao, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Yu-Ao Chen, Jian-Wei Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24764
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13883 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…
NeMLA 2026: (Re)generative Playing in Early Modern Europe https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/28/nemla-2026-regenerative-playing-in-early-modern-europe
Stephen Jones now playing nice with Micah Parsons amid public spat https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-stephen-jones-playing-nice-micah-parsons-public-contract-spat
Back when the US invaded Iraq there was a deck of cards bearing the names/photos/info on the Saddam goon hierarchy.
Is there such a deck for the present maga-goon hierarchy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most-wanted_Iraqi_playing_cards
Packers' Love not OK playing with repaired thumb https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46097787/packers-jordan-love-not-worried-playing-thumb
#ListeningClub Oh yeah, that was His Name Is Alive playing “Blue Moon” live on KCRW from an old Time-Stereo cassette. https://www.discogs.com/release/920332-His-Name-Is…
@… As a child of the 90’s, I remember thinking how cool it was that you could hear the SMS coming before it arrived back in those early 2000’s playing on the computer.
@…
Okay, the magnets won't be in until Wednesday but got the 3D printed D-pad installed. Tracked down my old XBox Pro controller, fit the metal D-pad (D-dish?) onto it, and gave it a short test running around the map in Sea of Stars...
If you have a stock D-pad on the Legion Go, this is definitely a must have. The diagonals now exist and the D-pad is nice to use now. Is it the greatest? No, but it's about a 1000x better than it was.
The 3D print was found here:
I was WRONG.
The app Audacity does NOT have the URL
audacity.org...
INSTEAD it ACTUALLY got the URL
audacityteam.org
MY MEMORY IS PLAYING TRICKS on me!
#audacity #AudacityTeam
Disco Elysium – The Final Cut is 3.99 € on Steam.
Without exaggeration, this is one of the best games I’ve ever played.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/632470/Disco_Elysium__The_Final_Cut/
Equilibrium distribution of the liquid phase in an unsaturated granular material
Lazar Loredana, Clavaud C\'ecile, Amon Axelle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00751
Seems fitting that Trump likes playing Michael Jackson...
✅ Trump Takes Unprecedented Step Targeting The Fed: Live Updates | HuffPost
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-live-updates_n_688d0894e4b022c2fdde8724
Ethical Considerations of Large Language Models in Game Playing
Qingquan Zhang, Yuchen Li, Bo Yuan, Julian Togelius, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Jialin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16065
The lead cop started playing b-ball with the boys, too:
'Oh, I’m Harassing?': White Woman Calls the Cops on Black Neighbors for Playing Basketball On Court, But Her Plan Backfires When a Black Officer Shows Up
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/07/21/white-woman-calls-the-cops-on-black-neighbors-for-playing-basketball/
Playing Piano Improv at WaterMusic #improv #improvising #music #piano
Centipede is my favorite video game, and when we first moved to this town 10 years ago, I was psyched one of the pizza places here had a combo Centipede/Millipede cab. Last time I went there, though, it was gone. The bastard owner had removed it, and the people working there didn't even know where it went. 😂 Here's me playing it in 2015. Short hair and beard!
#arcade
@… Oooh, thanks!
Is it a story-based game or endless? I have forbidden myself from playing the latter because, well, I like my family and I would prefer they didn’t kick me out for turning into a zombie (which has been known to happen last time I played an MMO).
playing prague | Prague City Tourism - https://prague.eu/en/playing-prague/?utm_source=charlesgames.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsl…
Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.
"But with the smell of that Wallet push-notification fart still hanging in the air, not as much fun as it otherwise would have been."
via @…
https://daringfi…
Super Mario 3D Land: golden flags
Unfortunately, my Switch 2 gaming time has been a bit limited because of two things: school holidays necessitating multiple dad-taxi rides for children around the area; and Edward borrowing my console to play Donkey Kong Bananza at every moment. I tried playing Bananza in handheld mode and, while it was still good, I much preferred it on the big TV screen.
Raiders take care of their own by hosting second annual Alumni Wellness Weekend https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-second-annual-alumni-wellness-weekend-nfl
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08906 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…
If anyone is playing Remedy's new game "FBC: Firebreak", and you're not in the official Discord server for it, come join us! We chat, form groups with voice comms (there's a bot thing so you can create 3-person temporary channels), we have lore discussion etc.
https://discord.gg/Control…
"‘It’s cheap but it’s not disposable’: why fast tech is a growing waste problem"
#Technology #EWaste
Playing around with ngscopeclient and my beta thunderscope doing some performance measurements.
My fancy LeCroy scopes can only trigger at like 1-2 WFM/s at 20M point memory depth.
The ThunderScope will do 50.
*and* ngscopeclient on my work laptop paired with it can FFT that data, in real time, without slowing down as long as you don't also do peak searching (which I need to completely rip out and optimize to make faster and better).
In which I recommend that if you’re building or upgrading a moderately serious music-listening system, you use Qobuz and include a cheap Mac Mini: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/06/22/Qobuz-and-Others
When you start playing an album that’s >20 years old and you have to turn up the master volume because no one compressed this to the max, and there’s more than 6dB of dynamic range. ❤️
Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers: Playing with DK Metcalf is 'big reason why I'm in Pittsburgh' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-qb-aaron-rodgers-playing-with-dk-metcalf-is-big-reason-why-i-m-in-pittsburgh…
Chiral symmetry and its breaking
Alexey Nefediev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22502 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22502
Going to be playing with two former Temptations on 16 August, so I'm doing a little bit of background prep and I came across this video. So many bands just become part of the firmament, but we are not familiar with them at their visceral best. This is/was epic!
#music #SoulMusic
A fern I saw last week in Shindagin Hollow; I took a lot of pictures this weekend in town and at Monkey Run but didn't do much developing because I was busy fixing a busted webcrawler (and playing some Death End Re:Quest)
#photo #photography
Meditations on Moving From Guitar Playing to Banjo Playing
#LearningToPlay #banjo
https://muz4now.co…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Water From Your Eyes:
🎵 Playing Classics
#WaterFromYourEyes
https://waterfromyoureyes.bandcamp.com/track/playing-classics
https://open.spotify.com/track/231MlrwBMFPgJC05VChPXF
Raiders take care of their own by hosting second annual Alumni Wellness Weekend https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-second-annual-alumni-wellness-weekend-nfl
Darren Waller traded: Veteran TE reveals real reason he retired in the first place before trade to Dolphins
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…
Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[5/5]:
- Posture-Driven Action Intent Inference for Playing style and Fatigue Assessment
Abhishek Jaiswal, Nisheeth Srivastava
Now playing Eternal Darkness on GameCube—pretty sure we’re down to the last two chapters 👀 Stick around after for a little retro unboxing fun! #GameCube
Handing AI the keys
"if we continue on the current path ... we are basically playing Russian roulette with humanity"
-- Grace Huckins, MIT Technology Review
On May 6, 2010, at 2:32 p.m. Eastern time nearly a trillion dollars evaporated from the
US stock market within 20 minutes
-at the time, the fastest decline in history
Then. almost as suddenly, the market rebounded.
After months of investigation, regalators attributed much of the respon…
Vic Fangio says CB Jakorian Bennett could play Week 1 vs. Cowboys https://theeagleswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/eagles/2025/09/01/vic-fangio-says-cb-jakorian-bennett-could-play-week-1-vs-cowbo…
Latavius Murray retires: Workhorse RB's career spanned a decade, included Pro Bowl selection
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/latavius…
Jonah Laulu returns to his roots by hosting youth football camp at his alma mater in Las Vegas https://www.raiders.com/news/jonah-laulu-hosts-youth-football-camp-centennial-high-school-las-vegas
#ThursDeath this week was an easy choice, I've been playing a ton of this ridiculous new LP 'Vermian Death', the debut record from worm-rotted Finnish band GRAVE HEX. This is some truly great, dynamic, nasty, churning, grueling, grody OSDM-inspired death metal. Yet again, the Finns don't miss.
A Therapeutic Role-Playing VR Game for Children with Intellectual Disabilities
Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, WenChun Chen, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19114 https://
Cowboys, Micah Parsons Are ‘Further Apart Than They Were in March’: Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-micah-parsons-are-further-apart-than-they-were-in-march-insider/?adt_ei=[email…
Peaceful Piano Solos • Musicals https://pianodao.com/2025/05/21/peaceful-piano-solos-musicals/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Piano & Piano I…
Aaron Rodgers could be playing final season, plus top 25 NFL players 25 and younger
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-rodgers-cou…
Raiders WR Jakobi Meyers Opens Up on Playing With Geno Smith https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-wr-jakobi-meyers-opens-up-on-playing-with-geno-smith/?adt_ei=[email]
Cowboys cheerleader stuns playing hot new sport in tiny 2-piece fit https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/fashion/news/dallas-cowboys-cheerleader-abby-summers-stuns-playing-hot-new-…
Micah Parsons, Trevon Diggs defend one another, want to keep playing together https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/micah-parsons-trevon-diggs-defend-one-another-want-to-keep-playing-together
Are Ashton Jeanty, Geno Smith and other Raiders starters playing in preseason Week 3? https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/ashton-jeanty-geno-smith-raiders-starters-playing-…
Micah Parsons, Trevon Diggs defend one another, want to keep playing together https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/micah-parsons-trevon-diggs-defend-one-another-want-to-keep-playing-together
Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer 'feels good' about Micah Parsons playing Week 1 vs. Eagles
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-b…
Are Dak Prescott and Michael Penix Jr. playing today? https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/are-dak-prescott-and-michael-penix-jr-playing-today-in-cowboys-vs-falcons-preseason-game
Cowboys HC Brian Schottenheimer feels 'good' about hold-in Micah Parsons playing in season opener vs. Eagles https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-hc-brian-schottenheimer-feels-good-about-hold-in-micah-parsons-pl…
Micah Parsons gives thoughts on facing Dallas Cowboys in Week 4 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-gives-thoughts-facing-dallas-cowboys-week-4-nfl-season
Packers QB Jordan Love shares thoughts on potentially playing with Micah Parsons https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/packers-jordan-love-shares-thoughts-potentially-playing-micah-parsons