2026-06-18 07:45:06
I hope all mastodon instances quickly install Mastodon 4.6 so i can add people from their servers to my "Collections".
#Mastodon46
I hope all mastodon instances quickly install Mastodon 4.6 so i can add people from their servers to my "Collections".
#Mastodon46
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…
Mastodon 4.6 - Mastodon Blog
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/
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
@… gaan jullie ook Mastodon 4.6 implementeren, "collecties" lijken me erg handig en ook de nieuwsbrief faciliteit biedt kansen, https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/
Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim and customize dedicated Search profiles to aggregate their cross-platform content (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/943233/google-search-profiles-custom-page
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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Great Mastodon improvements
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/
Ok, how’s this, then:
Donald Trump is corrupt, vain, dim, and a failure.
The current US administration is incapable of running a country.
ICE are terrorist goons.
The Republican Party consists entirely of spineless, weasely, craven idiots who would sell their loved ones for a tiny bit of power.
Public enough for ya?
16WW Electricity Profiles - 16WW grid import and export and other electricity hour-of-day flows. #stats #loadProfile - https://www.
Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim and customize dedicated Search profiles to aggregate their content from multiple platforms (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/943233/google-search-profiles-custom-page
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
Hinge adds Friend's Take, a new feature that lets daters enlist 10 close contacts to share written feedback, photos, voice notes, or videos on their profiles (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
🔍 Advanced analytics with funnels, cohorts, user profiles and session history, plus real-time dashboards with live data updates and interactive charts
🎬 Session replay records and replays user sessions with privacy controls built in — and without the session caps of #Mixpanel's free and paid tiers
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…
#Python Hypothesis package now requires #RustLang. This is a scale of reverse dependencies I can't handle. I guess this means it's the end of WD40 profiles on #Gentoo, and therefore the end of support for Alpha, ARM<v6, HPPA, M68k, i486 and some other random subsets of architectures and profiles. Thanks for all the fish, etc.
https://github.com/HypothesisWorks/hypothesis/issues/4740
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
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicPlanet
- English folk and songs from Belize
Kathryn Tickell shares the best in global roots music including traditional English dance music. And Simon Broughton profiles an iconic band from Belize, The Garifuna Collective.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ynls
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
The common denominator of the people I know who have the new Google Profiles is that they stayed active on X.
All I have to say is that if that’s the qualifier, I still have zero regrets leaving X. Nothing is worth being on that platform.
Idea: Mastodon should allow adding rel=me links to Mastodon profiles to allow an account to verify other accounts.
(Or maybe a specific rel=trust?)
This can be used to create a web of trust.
e.g., For Gaza Verified, we have verified about ~250 accounts so far using video interviews. But that sort of verification doesn’t scale. And if we trust these accounts to be people from Gaza, we should trust them to verify people they know from Gaza. So Gaza Verified and the 200 verif…
Fauxx: Data poisoning for your everyday tracking
Fauxx is an open-source Android (@…) privacy tool that poisons data broker and ad-tech profiles by generating continuous, plausible, off-demographic synthetic activity from your device. The goal is simple: make your real behavioral signal statistically indistinguishable from noise.
📱
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…
DC Voter Guide from Ward 3
#DC #WashingtonDC
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
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.
Artificial intelligence has triggered fierce competition for top talent and is also fueling tens of thousands of layoffs this year.
The class divide is widening in Silicon Valley as a tiny group of employees is landing unprecedented packages for AI skills,
while many others struggle to find work
The have-nots are doing everything that used to guarantee great jobs
— refreshing resumes, optimizing LinkedIn profiles and doing interviews
— but companies are much mo…
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.
The US and other Five Eyes nations warn that China is flooding online job platforms with fake profiles and offers targeting government and military personnel (Greg Miller/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/
#Meta will analyze all your posts (and images, videos) in detail to find clues about your age.
"This includes using AI technology to analyze entire profiles for contextual clues — such as birthday celebrations or mentions of school grades — to determine if an account likely belongs to someone underage."
Instead of removing known scam which is harmful to all ages.
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…
Lanczos Method for QRPA Strength Functions in Atomic Nuclei
Dong Min Roh, Chao Yang, Jonathan Engel, Matthew L. Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01114 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.01114 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.01114
arXiv:2607.01114v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a symmetric Lanczos method for computing charge-changing QRPA strength functions in atomic nuclei. Starting from the finite-amplitude-method formulation of the QRPA linear-response problem, we derive equivalent spectral representations and, in the real case, a reduced eigenvalue problem involving the matrix products $MK$ and $KM$, where $M\equiv A B$ and $K\equiv A-B$ are formed from the usual QRPA matrices $A$ and $B$. The resulting formulation enables a matrix-free Lanczos approximation of the Lorentzian-smeared strength function over a broad energy interval from a single Krylov run, in contrast to conventional frequency-by-frequency response calculations. Numerical tests for $^{112}$Sn and $^{150}$Nd first show that GMRES reproduces the converged iterative FAM strength profiles while requiring fewer iterations. Using GMRES as the frequency-by-frequency reference, we then show that the Lanczos approximation reproduces the same strength profiles with reduced overall cost. These results indicate that symmetric Lanczos projection provides an efficient and accurate approach for QRPA strength-function calculations when spectral information is required over an extended frequency range.
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Fascist paramilitary invaders racially profiles man, calls him “Castillo”. He calls them out “Isn’t this racist and illegal?” (Portland, OR)
Video Source:
#ice
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…
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
Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- A Comprehensive Study on the Line Profiles and Stark Widths of Ionic Transitions from Laser Produ...
B R Geethika, Judhishtir Shamal, Renjtih Kumar, Hem Chandra Joshi, Jin…
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
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
Adapting a 3D scanning water phantom for use in brachytherapy dosimetry
Rachael Wilks (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, Herston Biofabrication Institute, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Qld 4072, Australia), Samuel C. Peet (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, Herston Biofabrication Institute, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Qld 4001, Australia), Tanya Kairn (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, Herston Biofabrication Institute, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Qld 4072, Australia, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Qld 4001, Australia), Scott B. Crowe (Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, Herston Biofabrication Institute, Herston Qld 4029, Australia, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Qld 4072, Australia, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Qld 4001, Australia)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21320 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.21320 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.21320
arXiv:2606.21320v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In external beam radiotherapy, 3D scanning water phantoms are the gold standard for obtaining relative dosimetry data. These phantoms, consisting of a water tank and mechanical arm, along with accompanying software, are de-signed to acquire dose profiles along and orthogonal to the beam axis. In brachy-therapy, the acquisition of analogous dose profiles is more difficult, and is generally achieved with complex custom-built phantoms or chemical dosimeters such as film or gel. In this study, a low-cost 3D-printed jig was designed and fabricated within a clinical department, to allow precise brachytherapy dose measurements using a PTW BeamScan water phantom. Specifically, this jig al-lowed applicators to be suspended securely and reproducibly within the water phantom. Protocols were developed to relate the scanning system coordinates to the physical source position, and to obtain isodose planes both parallel and radial to the source axis. The developed solution has the potential to be used for physical verification of TG43 dose calculation parameters (e.g. anisotropy functions), the characterization of dose for a single dwell position in a complex applicator containing non-water equivalent materials, or the collection of point dose measure-ments for treatments incorporating multiple dwell positions or catheters.
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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
“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/…
Google launches "platform properties" in the Google Search Console, letting creators and website owners see which search terms lead to their social platforms (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/961955/google-search-console-reach…
⚡ 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.
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…
CAA calls out Meta over Muse Image and Muse Video's opt-out policy, which lets users generate new content from public Instagram profiles that don't opt out (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
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
Strava is adding a $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access and moving public profiles and fitness club listings behind authentication to combat AI scraping (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/strava-declares-war-on-scrapers-ahead-of-i…
Characteristics of a 9 MeV electron beam for total skin electron radiotherapy evaluated in comparison to a 6 MeV electron beam
Tanya Kairn (Cancer Care Services, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Qld, Australia, School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld, Australia, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld, Australia), Craig M. Lancaster (Cancer Care Services, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Qld, Australia), Scott B. Crowe (Cancer Care Services, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, Qld, Australia, School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld, Australia, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld, Australia)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21312 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.21312 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.21312
arXiv:2606.21312v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Characteristics of a 9 MeV electron beam were investigated, to evaluate potential benefits for patients with extensive mycosis fungoides lesions that are deeper than commonly treated with 6 MeV total skin electron therapy (TSET or TSE/TSEI/TSEB/TSEBT). A comprehensive commissioning measurement program was completed for TSET delivery using high-dose-rate 6 MeV and 9 MeV electron beams from a Varian TrueBeam linac. Various phantoms and dosimeters were set up 300 cm from isocenter, behind a 6 mm PMMA spoiler screen, and used for optimising beam-pair gantry angles, measuring depth-dose, lateral and horizontal profiles and B-factors, as well as performing end-to-end tests. The key clinical distinctions observed for the 9 MeV TSET beam pair compared to the 6 MeV TSET beam pair were that the 80% dose depth increased to nearly 1 cm and the practical range increased to 3.5 cm, while the maximum dose remained within 0.2 cm of the surface. Vertical and horizontal dose profiles measured with the two energies were almost indistinguishable. The 9 MeV TSET beam has been shown to achieve greater depth penetration compared to the commonly used 6 MeV TSET beam, without detrimentally affecting the dose uniformity achievable in the patient plane. TSET treatments with 9 MeV electrons may be advisable for patients with extensive lesions that are too deep for effective treatment with a 6 MeV beam.
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Google launches "platform properties" in the Google Search Console, letting creators and website owners see which search terms lead to their social platforms (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/961955/google-search-console-reach…
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
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
Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Stark-Broadened Profiles for Ionized Helium Lines Using Computer Simulations
Patrick Tremblay, Alain Beauchamp, Pierre Bergeron
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
Netflix has been gradually requiring each profile under a Netflix subscription to use a unique email address; the rule doesn't apply to children's profiles (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0
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
Netflix has been gradually requiring each profile under a Netflix subscription to use a unique email address; the rule doesn't apply to children's profiles (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0
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
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