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Now this is the kind of blogpost that's a joy to read: #mastodon #blog #SocialNetwork

An article about using "AI" for drug discovery (that fails to distinguish ML from LLMs from…), but nicely profiles Matt Might's work!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/well/ai-drug-repurposing.html

A.I. Saved His Life by Discovering New Uses for Old Drugs
Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.

@… here is a first pass at some of the features we have talked about
https://most-followed-mastodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com/…

Piece on Masto being TechCrunched today: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/mastodon-is-making-its-decentralized-social-network-easier-to-use-with-its-latest-revamp

Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp | TechCrunch
Mastodon is redesigning user profiles to simplify the experience and better appeal to mainstream users and organizations.

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Abby Langford '26 M.Div.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-27-meet-these-grads-2026

Instant Analysis: Scouting reports on new Cowboys EDGE Jaishawn Barham https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/24/cowboys-instant-analysis-draft-profiles-edge-jaishawn-barham/89…

⚡ Three scan profiles: baseline (global packages extensions, lightweight), project (dev dirs like ~/code), and deep (on-demand incident checks across broad roots like $HOME). Cadence is your runner's job.
🎯 Feed it an exposure catalog (simple JSON: ecosystem package versions) and Bumblebee flags exact matches across your fleet. The threat_intel/ dir ships with maintained catalogs from real supply-chain campaigns.

Who wore it better, Automotive edition.
Top is 2027 Ferrari Luce (MSRP ~$640k).
Bottom is 2026 Nissan Sentra (MSRP ~$24k).
https://mstdn.social/@scottmiller42/116641847903780623

Complementary Eigen-Zundel Interpretation Reconciles Thermodynamics and Spectroscopy of Excess Protons in Aqueous HF Solutions
Louis Lehmann, Florian N. Br\"unig, Jonathan Scherlitzki, Morten Lehmann, Martin Kaupp, Beate Paulus, Roland R. Netz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25371 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25371 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25371
arXiv:2603.25371v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Aqueous solutions of HF and HCl behave very differently at intermediate concentrations: HCl dissociates completely, whereas HF remains only partially dissociated and forms bifluoride (HF$_2^-$). This should lead to different excess-proton spectra in HF and HCl solutions, in contrast to experimental reports. Using ab initio molecular dynamics, we show that in HF the proton is not firmly bound to F$^-$, as suggested by textbook chemistry, but dynamically shared with a hydrating water molecule. This is rationalized by a modified Eigen-state description which also explains the formation of HF$_2^-$. The similar vibrational spectra of HF and HCl solutions are explained by a complementary Zundel picture in terms of almost identical excess proton transfer free-energy profiles for HF and HCl. These results reconcile thermodynamic and spectroscopic observations and provide a unified microscopic picture of excess protons in aqueous solution.
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Instant Analysis: What the experts say about new Cowboys safety Caleb Downs https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/23/cowboys-instant-analysis-caleb-downs-safety-draft-profiles/8…

2026 fantasy football rankings: Profiles for more than 30 tight ends https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/48422631/2026-fantasy-football-rankings-tight-end-te-profiles

“9to5Mac’s Take: Data brokers are a form of business which quite simply shouldn’t be allowed to exist.”
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/20/ai-companies-and-data-brokers-even-resort-to-fake-forms-to-keep-selling-our-data/…

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Calvin Tomkins, who, over six decades at the New Yorker, wrote dozens of profiles of artists like Marcel Duchamp and Jean Tinguely, has died at 100 (Michael S. Rosenwald/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/03/20/c…

Calvin Tomkins, who narrated the rise of contemporary art, dies at 100
During a six-decade career at the New Yorker, Mr. Tomkins profiled scores of artists, including Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Georgia O’Keeffe.

16WW Electricity Profiles - 16WW grid import and export and other electricity hour-of-day flows. #stats #loadProfile - https://www.

16WW Electricity Profiles
16WW grid import and export and other electricity hour-of-day flows. #stats #loadProfile

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Spencer Beckman '26 M.Div.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-14-meet-these-grads-2026

Instant Analysis: What the experts say about new Cowboys DE Malachi Lawrence https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/23/cowboys-instant-analysis-de-malachi-lawrence-draft-profile…

Pattern Formation in a Spatial Public Goods Dilemma due to Diffusive or Directed Motion
Yuxuan Zhao, Kaisheng Zhu, Yefei Zhang, Daniel B. Cooney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21025 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.21025 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.21025
arXiv:2603.21025v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The costly provision of public goods serves as a model problem for the evolution of cooperative behavior, presenting a social dilemma between the collective benefits of shared resources and the individual incentive to free-ride in resource production. The spatial structure of populations can also impact cooperation over public goods, as diffusion of public goods and intentional motion of individuals towards regions with greater resources can interact with population and public goods dynamics to produce heterogeneous patterns in the spatial distribution of strategies and resources. In this paper, we build off a model introduced by Young and Belmonte for the reaction dynamics of interacting individuals and explicit public good, deriving a system of PDEs that describes the spatial profiles of strategies and the public good in the presence of both diffusive motion of individuals and resources and chemotaxis-like directed motion of individuals in response to gradients in the concentration of public goods. Through linear stability analysis, we show that spatial patterns in strategic and public goods profiles can emerge due to either Turing instability with high defector diffusivity or a directed-motion instability through strong sensitivity of cooperators towards increasing resource concentration. We further explore the emergent spatial patterns with a mix of weakly nonlinear stability analysis and numerical simulation, showing that diffusion-driven instability appears to increase cooperation and public goods across the spatial domain, while directed motion of cooperators towards regions with great public goods provision tends to decrease cooperation and environmental quality across the environment.
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Musk v. Altman: profiles of US judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, an Obama-nominated blunt and efficient operator, and Elon Musk's and OpenAI's attorneys (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Last week, while debugging a SwiftUI performance issue, I was running instruments and found that my profiles were plagued with noise.
Godot while idling was using so much CPU time that it was skipping entire frames while rendering.
I set out to fix those, 0.5% here, 0.5 there, and the Godot Editor (and Xogot) no longer skip frames.
People had been complaining that Godot would burn your battery in an hour if you left it idling, it no longer does.
Details:

@…
@lw may be unaware that I'm a former committer; I rarely mention this.
From an archived edition of one of my profiles:
https://tinyurl.com/grahamperrin-freshbs…

Electricity use and load profiles for 16WW for March up until yesterday to exclude the BST change:
https://www.earth.org.uk/electricity-profiles.html#2026-03

16WW Electricity Profiles
16WW grid import and export and other electricity hour-of-day flows. #stats #loadProfile

Colombia reports an "alarming" number of attempted cyberattacks on the National Civil Registry surrounding yesterday's election, with 30 IP addresses impersonated, and 60 internet profiles trying to distort the reality of the Registry.
https://zonacero.c…

Hernán Penagos denunció ciberataques a las plataformas de la Registraduría
Aseguró que las elecciones se realizaron de manera “tranquila”.

Disney says select Hulu subscribers can now link their Hulu profiles to Disney , bringing their Hulu watch history, watchlist, and recommendations into Disney (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/disney-plus-hulu-unified-app-phase…

Disney+ Adds Hulu Integrations, No Current Plan to Phase Out Hulu App
Disney continues to add more features hitching Hulu and Disney+ together as it takes steps toward the goal of "fully integrating" Hulu into the Disney+ service.

How is it possible in 2026 for Canon to not provide (anywhere) an ICC profile for their scanners?! The colors are completely off and everything has a purple tint... 😩
Does anyone know where to find ICC profiles for the Canon LIDE series (400)? Otherwise I will have to purchase an IT8.7 calibration target and crack out the LittleCMS tooling to create my own ICC profile. Great customer service!
#Canon

2026 rankings: Profiling more than 60 wide receivers https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/48385938/2026-fantasy-football-rankings-wr-profiles

Ahead of the Holyrood elections in May, two more party profiles from Allan at Ballot Box Scotland.
Scottish Greens: https://ballotbox.scot/sp26-party-profile-greens/
"Despite an ill-fated spell in government from 2021 to 2024, the Greens are currently on tr…

SP26 Party Profile: Scottish Greens
Currently headed for their best result in history, even accounting for a history of underperforming against polling, the Greens may become a truly national party for the first time this year.

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Joan Lavaki '26 M.Div.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-14-meet-these-grads-2026

DC Voter Guide from Ward 3
#DC #WashingtonDC

LLMs are good at deanonymization.
#AI #LLMs

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseudonymous individuals, each containing unstructured text written by or about tha…

Last month, we published a preprint in #PsyArXiv: The Diversity Within - Exploring Heterogeneity in Disability Identity and Its Associations with Self-Efficacy and Belonging among University Students with Disabilities. Yi-Jhen Wu, Julie Chronister, Chih-Chin Chou, Wendy Tobias, and I examined three different profiles of students'

Ooh the new Firefox / Zen Profile Manager is great. This is exactly what I need for work.
(enabled early with browser.profiles.enabled = true)

Rarefaction-induced inflation and similarity breakdown of hypersonic bow shocks over a circular cylinder
Ehsan Roohi, Ahmad Shoja-Sani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17099 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17099 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17099
arXiv:2605.17099v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Rarefied hypersonic bow shocks over blunt bodies inflate as the Knudsen number increases, but it remains unclear whether this inflation is a simple shift and broadening of one common shock layer or a multi-scale change of the macroscopic and internal-energy fields. We address this question using direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) data for Mach-10 flow over a circular cylinder in argon and nitrogen over \(Kn_\infty \approx 0.01\)--\(1\), together with a Mach-number sweep at \(Kn_\infty=0.01\). At low rarefaction, a ray-based density-gradient ridge gives a reproducible bow-shock location and agrees with an independent schlieren-based shock-wave-detection method. As \(Kn_\infty\) increases, this ridge is replaced by a broad kinetic compression layer, so the high-Knudsen cases are analysed using profile-based standoff and thickness metrics rather than by imposing a visual shock line. The Knudsen- and Mach-number sweeps separate two mechanisms. At fixed \(M_\infty\), the continuum normal-shock density ratio provides a useful low-rarefaction reference compression scale, whereas the measured standoff growth is governed primarily by the kinetic mean free path; the effective density thickness shows an intermediate minimum before increasing in the diffuse regime. At fixed low \(Kn_\infty\), changing \(M_\infty\) mainly changes compression strength and curvature, preserving a coherent attached-layer structure. Density-registered profiles and shock-attached proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) show that, within the present maximum-density-gradient registration, density becomes nearly rank one, whereas Mach number and thermal variables retain independent modal content. Rarefied bow-shock inflation is therefore a coupled compression--relaxation process, not a single-scale rescaling of a continuum-like shock.
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A group of digital media veterans led by former Pitchfork and Spin EIC Puja Patel launch Totei, a weekly online magazine dedicated to "craft and craftsmanship" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/17/2026/new-arts…

Exclusive: New arts magazine Totei to focus on the ‘creative process’
The online magazine will publish content weekly, including profiles of artists and musicians, photo essays, reported features, and interviews.

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

2026 fantasy football rankings: Profiling the top 45 RBs https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/48348941/2026-fantasy-football-rankings-rb-profiles

Decided to test Ubuntu 26.04 on one of my servers, and discover I need to rewrite a lot of my hand-written apparmor profiles since the coreutils binaries (such as timeout) now live under /usr/lib/ for some reason not currently explicable to me.

Sneaky mid-round draft prospect to complement Raiders’ Ashton Jeanty https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/04/06/mike-washington-nfl-draft-prospect-complement-raiders-r…

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Isaac Carroo '26 M.A.R.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-14-meet-these-grads-2026

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Analysis of profiles using 2025 Google ad auction data: an average US user generates $1,600 in annual ad value; the top 10% users generate 43% of all ad value (Edward Komenda/The Proton Blog)
https://proton.me/blog/what-is-your-data-worth-to-google

What Google thinks you're worth | Proton
Proton analyzed 54,000 profiles using real ad auction data to determine your worth to Google. How valuable is your data?

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Emily Wright '26 M.A.R.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-14-meet-these-grads-2026

Four prolific crypto journalists who wrote for 30 outlets ignored a reporter's ID verification requests; all had sparse LinkedIn profiles and likely AI photos (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/prolific-finance-journa…

Prolific finance journalists facing questions over identities
Authors behind more than 1,000 articles decline to share evidence they are real.

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Odyssey Heredia '26 M.Div.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-05-07-meet-these-grads-2026#heredia

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Jordan Baker '26 M.Div.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-06-meet-these-grads-2026

Meet These Grads 2026

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Sonal Manoj '26 M.A.R.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-05-07-meet-these-grads-2026#manoj

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Margaret Witkofsky '26 M.A.R.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-06-meet-these-grads-2026

Day two, and a much earlier start. Now Kevin Lewis from apify is here to tell us about how http 402, payment required, has been pointless till now but now maybe AI agents will pay when people couldn't.
Giving ai a wallet.
Dollar payments too slow and expensive for agents paying a penny for a page. Days for payment clearance. Kyc means every payer has to be human even.
X402 then instead. Stable coins on blockchain. Programmable , fast settlement. Pay in millionths of a dollar.
Or l402 to pay with bitcoin lightning.
Server sends bill and specifies payment details in 402 reply. Agent making request settles on chain then retries request with payment reciept.
Agents will want to evaluate if its worth the money within budget and etc. Give agents only limited wallet with disposable funds.
There's a mech for paying unpredictable prices. Over pay and refund whatever the excess .
He shows a demo. On how to pay a web scraper to scrape Instagram for you. For a dollar his service will give you 400 scraped profiles.
Paying for questionable services eh?
Not clear why an agent would pay another agent to scrape a website instead of just doing it itself.
No indication of how the agent can be prevented from leaking its private keys to injection attacks.
#devWorld

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with ArDonna Hamilton '26 M.Div.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-27-meet-these-grads-2026

Between now and Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Austin Goodwin Andrews '26 M.A.R.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-06-meet-these-grads-2026

Between now and Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We begin today with the amazing Andrea Barton Reeves '26 M.A.R.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-06-meet-these-grads-2026

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Sergio Lopez Palacio '26 M.A.R.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-27-meet-these-grads-2026

In the run-up to Commencement on May 18, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. We continue today with Carolyn Streets '26 M.Div.! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-04-27-meet-these-grads-2026