Tootfinder

Sources: Microsoft terminated Israel's Unit 8200 access to Azure, after an investigation found the tech was used for mass surveillance in Gaza and West Bank (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep

We’re not the only ones trying to help families in North Gaza evacuate to relative safety in the South.
@…’s efforts were an inspiration for Gaza Verified. And their appeal is struggling.
https://

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their campaigns are extremely stagnant and wanted to find a way to direct steady help to them. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support.

"the Fedora Council has approved the latest version of the AI-Assisted Contributions policy formally".
Whoever contributes the code is required to be fully transparent on what AI tool has been used for it.
https://www.gamingonlinux.co…

Fedora Linux project agrees to allow AI-assisted contributions with a new policy
AI generation, it's everywhere! And now it's going to be formally accepted into Fedora Linux, as per the latest approved change with a new policy.

Russia test-fires Kalibr and Uran missiles during naval exercises in the Sea of Japan: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/russia-testfires-kalibr-and-uran.html

Cloudflare expands its Project Galileo program, providing access to its Bot Management and AI Crawl Control tools for free to nonprofits and independent media (Mediaweek)
https://www.mediaweek.com.au/cloudflare-expands-project-galileo-to…

enjoy https://openbsd.llvm.moe
(not my project, but i contributed to it)

to be clear, the risk of someone phishing my npm credentials is *much* lower than the risk of “can you take a look at this Eleventy project that isn’t working quite right (and also contains malware, intentionally or not)”

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians | Israel | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-s…

When it comes to Argentina, Musk and Trump are suddenly pulling in the same direction again. The right-wing libertarian project must not fail. Anyone who criticizes them for disregarding their own principles has not yet understood the political project.

There's magic trick that can make any #AI project successful. When the LLM's success rate is too low, just say "it's OK, we will have a human in the loop" and ship it anyway.
There's just one problem with this magic trick: most #LLM implementations don't have the thoughtfu…

"Human in the loop" is a thought-terminating cliche
Without thoughtful guard rails, asking people to clean up after machines doesn't make machines better — it makes people worse.

saddest & depressing thing to read :
The missing part – Sexual exploitation of minors in French-speaking Belgium: the great blindness
Read More https://sinfo-project.eu/winning-story/the-missing-p…

I am more fluent in LaTeX than in plotmath expression. If you are the same, latex2exp will make your life easier. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/latex2exp/vignettes/using-latex2exp.html

This is awesome... Milwaukee (and other cities) need more of this kind of thing!
https://www.wpr.org/culture/milwaukee-walkers-point-skatepark-diy-shanahan-skateboarding

Under the bridge: A skatepark grows in Milwaukee
The National DIY Skatepark in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood started out as an illegal project in the midst of COVID-19. Now, it's a nonprofit with city backing.

Early start today for two weeks in Aachen.
Today: talk at the Center for Computational Life Sciences (come by!)
Tue-Thu: #CoRDI2025 with a poster for the German Reproducibility Network @… and a Market Stall for the Digital Research Academy

A closer look at Peru’s Amazon reveals new mining trends, deforestation https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/a-closer-look-at-perus-amazon-reveals-new-mining-trends-deforestation/

A closer look at Peru’s Amazon reveals new mining trends, deforestation
For years, gold mining has been one of Peru’s most pressing environmental challenges, with illegal operations clearing the Amazon Rainforest and polluting rivers with chemicals. The industry continues to grow, as miners spread into new parts of the country and adopt different ways of working. One recent project that maps mining operations and their expansion […]

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

"Peatland Rewilding: Finnish Community Turns Abandoned Mine into Vibrant Bird Sanctuary"
#Finland #Peatland #Environment

Peatland Rewilding: Finnish Community Turns Abandoned Mine into Vibrant Bird Sanctuary | Happy Eco News
Finland's peatland rewilding project transforms former mining wasteland into a wildlife sanctuary, home to over 190 bird species. A local community action project creates a carbon-storing wetland ecosystem within one year.

I currently read “It can’t happen here” by Sinclair Lewis from 1935. It's about fictive events in the US in 1936: an election won by a senator turned dictator. It reads like a description of the US 2024/2025, except dear leader is Democrat, not Republican. I'm on page 90 (just finished chapter 11), almost 300 more to read, it really is hard!
As the Trump playbook follows Project 2025, are we completely sure that this is NOT just a rewrite of Lewis' novel?

After a gig or two, it's easy to feel the letdown of the non-gig.
How do you get fired up for the next project?
#inspiration #CatchTheWave
Post gig inspiration - 5 tips to catch the wave

Post gig inspiration - 5 tips to catch the wave
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

It's #MusicWomenWednesday again, and the self titled debut EP by Spike (the synthpop project of UK artist Hannah McLoughlin) is a treat. The first track is a wild, synthy cover of Warren Zevon's 'Werewolves of London', and the other tracks are excellent catchy earworms full of cool hooks. An EP that goes by too fast. Would love an LP of this.

"At its heart, Nemo is an in-memory data processing engine, written in Rust."
"Nemo is a university-based OSS project and still a prototype, so bear with us if you discover bugs."
Glad we've cleared that up.
https://lists…

Embarrassing. Google is absolutely in cahoots with the Israeli settler-colonial project. Refusing to provide this information only makes it more suspicious...

Honestly nothing about Eric Adams surprises me any more.
#FuckEricAdams

🚀 The real nuclear moonshot is here on Earth
#energy

The real nuclear moonshot is here on Earth
Developing extraterrestrial nuclear power is a worthy research project. If we are to someday establish permanent settlements on the moon, they will require a lot of energy.

Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank
https://www.

White House will allow anonymous donors to contribute to Trump's ballroom project (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-will-allow-anonymous-donors-contribute-trumps-ballroom-pro-rcna239681
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p131#a251024p131

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project (2007) - Learn how I switched my office lighting to 100% "off-grid" solar PV, batteries definitely included! #solar #microgen -

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project (2007)
Learn how I switched my office lighting to 100% off-grid solar PV, batteries definitely included! #solar #microgen

On yesterday's Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else podcast, I talked about AI's impact on the environment and classrooms—and argued that it isn’t reinventing education so much as exposing bad habits we should’ve let go years ago https://www.link…

"The Nixpkgs core team has been tasked by the Steering Committee to provide leadership for Nixpkgs as a whole and to take delegated responsibility for its governance."
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/establishing-the-nixpkgs-core-team/69743

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
SERVALAN: [To Travis] Project Avalon has failed totally. There will be a full inquiry. Until that time you are relieved of your command.
TRAVIS: [To himself] If it takes all my life, I will destroy you, Blake. I will destroy you. I will destroy you.

Done with this project, everything except for the audio port worked (not a huge issue, but annoying). Passed in CGA via the DB-9 connector, RGB via the BNC connectors and the Sony PVM was more than happy to display the signal.
#electronics #cmptr

@… I voted 3-5 based on first instinct, but now that I actually think about it, it’s definitely above 6.
Rate of change definitely increased once I got a job in consulting. The nature of the job is simply to adapt to the environment of the client and project, I don’t have the luxury of “choosing”.
This year alone, there have been moments whe…

We all perform tasks in our day-to-day work that are considered 'non-promotable' – these are crucial for project success, but they won't get you promoted. This is commonly known as 'glue work', a term coined by Tanya Reilly. At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Fatima Taj shared her personal experience of narrowly avoiding the trap of being permanently stuck with glue work and explained how to handle similar situations.
Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/YJE8x6vzTCA?si=aE4Ogrp9t_oHdlhZ

Finished my review and configuration guide of the Lilygo T-Deck Plus Meshtastic / LoRa radio. (This time with specs!)
All-in-all it's an interesting device, though the lack of a functional bluetooth radio while it's active is a real limiting factor in my use case, (as a personal radio that I can also use to remote admin other radios).
Anyway, see the full article if you're interested in more details; boosts/shares/comments are always welcome!

Review of Lilygo T-Deck Plus w/ Meshtastic
The Meshtastic project aims at offering text communication and low-bandwidth data across long distances without relying on any centralized third parties or corporate infrastructure, but most devices require a cell phone or laptop to actually interact with that network. The Lilygo T-Deck resolves this by offering an all-in-one product with a LoRa radio, GPS, and most importantly a full color touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard.

Experimental Results for Vampire on the Equational Theories Project
Mikol\'a\v{s} Janota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15856 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15…

Experimental Results for Vampire on the Equational Theories Project
Equational Theories Project is a collaborative effort, which explores the validity of certain first-order logic implications of certain kind. The project has been completed but triggered further research. This report investigates how much can be automatically proven and disproven by the automated theorem prover Vampire. An interesting conclusion is that Vampire can prove all the considered implications that hold and also is able to refute a vast majority of those that do not hold.

From Leadnow
thread 1/5 Petition
Prime Minister Mark Carney and BC Premier David Eby [should] maintain the current decision to reject the Northern Gateway oil pipeline and uphold the ban on large oil tankers off the north coast of British Columbia.
The Northern Gateway pipeline project will pose significant environmental risks, particularly regarding potential oil spills & increased greenhouse gas emissions. The pipeline would have crossed numerous rivers and streams, p…

Wondering if the Kojima / Niantic game will be based around OpenStreetMap data?
https://www.ign.com/articles/hideo-kojima-announces-ar-project-with-pokmon-go-creator-niantic-spatial

Hideo Kojima Announces AR Project With Pokémon Go Creator Niantic Spatial - IGN
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is collaborating with Niantic Spatial on a new AR project, announced this morning as part of Kojima Productions' Beyond the Strand livestream.

@… exactly; a talking point … thank you for being part of a gift.
What is FreeBSD? The Foundation's page no longer makes a distinction between FreeBSD and Linux. Before and after:
― <

#OrganizedCrime and #Corruption Reporting Project hosting unique investigative reporter online roundtable on how rogue states, #oligarchs, and international organized

Hi everyone, I just wanted to say thank you again for your amazing support for our fundraiser to fund @…’s private scholarship at the University of Milan and get her evacuated from Gaza in November.
Thanks to you, we were able to raise over $15,000 in under 24 hours and meet our goal.
Joy can’t thank you herself at the moment as her family has mov…

Help Joy Evacuate and Study in Europe
My name is Caitlin Townsend. I'm the coordinator of a group of 12 volunteers in 5 countries working together to help Joy (Farah), a 22-year-old Palestinian writer and student of English literature, evacuate from Gaza and continue her education in Europe.

The Story of #Valkey 🚀 🧑‍🏫
Back in early 2024, a popular #opensource project, #Redis, made a bold change: it shifted its licensing from

#rescript

A look at Intel's $28B Ohio chip factory, the largest economic development project in Ohio's history, initially set for a 2025 opening but now delayed till 2030 (Kris Maher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ohio-intel-chipma

dbpedia_all: DBpedia network (v3.6)
A network among all entries in DBpedia, a project that extracts structured information from Wikipedia. Nodes represent entities in DBpedia and an edge connects two entities based on DBpedia's notion of their relatedness. The data is extracted from the version 3.6 of the database.
This network has 3966924 nodes and 13820853 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

Hopefully work won't install this. Reason is that those whose job it is to install and monitor on the work machines won't have the security clearance to view some of what we do. Doesn't matter if they even have high security clearance, they don't get access to even know what some of what our work is unless they have been authorized for access to that specific project.

Bengals tabbed as trade fit for Raiders' 2nd-round project https://bengalswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2025/09/24/bengals-trade-fit-raiders-2nd-round-jackson-powers-johnson/86334154007/…

Projecting Eagles 53-man roster: Does Howie Roseman make another trade after Sam Howell? Who sticks at WR??

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/project…

Bell state measurements in quantum optics: a review of recent progress and open challenges
Luca Bianchi, Carlo Marconi, Davide Bacco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18756 https://

»CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse:
An open source, self-hostable payment system.«
It's exciting to see that there is now @… in the Fediverse, but on the other hand, I don't know if this makes any sense at all, since they are also tied to Stripe again – at least not to PayPal.

💲

CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there's a huge amount of promise.

The (C)omprehensive (A)rchitecture (P)attern (I)ntegration method: Navigating the sea of technology
Sebastian Copei, Oliver Hohlfeld, Jens Kosiol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16341

The (C)omprehensive (A)rchitecture (P)attern (I)ntegration method: Navigating the sea of technology
The technological landscape changes daily, making it nearly impossible for a single person to be aware of all trends or available tools that may or may not be suitable for their software project. This makes tool selection and architectural design decisions a complex problem, especially for large-scale software systems. To tackle this issue, we introduce CAPI, the Comprehensive Architecture Pattern Integration method that uses a diagnostic decision tree to suggest architectural patterns dependin…

VR Fire safety training application
Ujwal M R
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15788 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15788

VR Fire safety training application
Fire emergencies can happen without warning and knowing how to respond quickly can save lives Unfortunately traditional fire drills can be disruptive costly and often fail to recreate the pressure of a real emergency This project introduces a Virtual Reality VR Fire Safety Training Application that gives people a safe yet realistic way to practice life saving skills Using a VR headset and motion controllers trainees step into a 3D world where fire hazards smoke and evacuation routes are brought…

The project “SAPIENCE: Symbols, Preliteracy and Code Evolution” (U Bologna) has 7 post-doc positions open, including one in #DigitalHumanities, #ComputationalLinguistics or #ComputerScience

Since 2018, the project “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade” https://enslaved.org/ at Michigan State University has collected and linked datasets about the lives of people involved in the historical slave trade to create visualizations and let people explore biographies.
It was one of the f…

Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade
Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade.

Not interested in a debate on what ways are better or worse but it seems to me that @TheASF has a fair bit of material on "The Apache Way" which one could approach as a How-To even for projects that are not under the ASF or any other domiciling organization. It's not perfect but I'm not aware of any ASF project having the sort of nasty takeover like the Ruby affair.
OTOH, it may require the "hippie" vibe of ASF focused on consensus and community over code t…

found a project where the core functionality is provided by a library... that is the 5th or 6th fork of a library... that is not the most active fork 🫠

Apple partners with The Conservation Fund to protect and restore California redwood forest, part of its carbon neutral goal by 2030. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Apple launches new project to protect and restore California redwood forest
Apple announces a new investment in a working redwood forest in California, in collaboration with The Conservation Fund.

Китайский классический роман "Троецарствие" невозможно читать, не обращаясь время от времени к базе данных персонажей. Их там почти тысяча.
Для сравнения, в "Войне и мире" их "всего" 559.
https://kongming.net/encyclopedia/directory/Novel

I'll take any excuse to encourage others to listen this damn fine band and, in particular, this fantastic tune about a man and his snowmobile (how's your Québec French?).
Québec Redneck Bluegrass Project, "Pantera artic cat Triple 800" (2016)
https://qrbp.bandcamp.com/track/panter

Hey everyone,
@…’s mom needs your help:
“My mother has been suffering from chronic diabetes, and some time ago, one of her toes had to be amputated. During the war, her condition has worsened, and she now relies on a walker to move. 💔
Today, she fell inside our tent, and her foot got injured again – it’s swollen and bruised badly…

Help Bara'a and her elderly parents in Gaza
My name is Bara'a El-Mughraby. Me and my older brother are the sole breadwinners for my family of five in Al-Shati refugee camp in North Gaza. Me, my elderly parents, my sister and my brother. For months, we have endured the unimaginable and did everything we can to survive, but now our situation worsened a lot and has become a matter of life or death. The constant bombardment and the recent evacuation orders from the IDF mean we have to leave our home—but we don't have the capabilities nor t…

Solar photospheric spectrum microvariability
Dainis Dravins, Hans-G\"unter Ludwig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18242 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18242

this is every single wikipedia page i currently have open on my phone.

The pictures were shocking, but not so shocking as all the things we don’t know about this project, which is being paid for with private donations from some of the wealthiest people and corporations on the planet, all of whom who can directly profit from access to the president.
https://wapo.st/3Whz4OX

Einstein@Home all-sky "bucket" search for continuous gravitational waves in LIGO O3 public data
Brian McGloughlin, Jasper Martins, Benjamin Steltner, Maria Alessandra Papa, Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein, Bernd Machenschalk, Reinhard Prix, Maximillian Bensch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16423

Einstein@Home all-sky "bucket" search for continuous gravitational waves in LIGO O3 public data
We conduct an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves using LIGO O3 public data from the Hanford and Livingston detectors. We search for nearly-monochromatic signals with frequencies $30\, \text{Hz} \leq f \leq 250\, \text{Hz}$ and spin-down $-2.7 \times 10^{-9}\, \text{Hz/s} \leq \dot{f} \leq 0.2 \times 10^{-9}\, \text{Hz/s}$. We deploy this search on the Einstein@Home volunteer-computing project and on three super computer clusters; the Atlas supercomputer at the Max Planck Institut…

TL;DR: spending money to find the cause of autism is a eugenics project, and those resources could have been spent improving accommodations for Autistic people instead.
To preface this, I'm not Autistic but I'm neurodivergent with some overlap.
We need to be absolutely clear right now: the main purpose is *all* research into the causes of autism is eugenics: a cause is sought because non-autistic people want to *eliminate* autistic people via some kind of "cure." It should be obvious, but a "cured autistic person" who did not get a say in the decision to administer that "cure" has been subjected to non-consensual medical intervention at an extremely unethical level. Many autistic people have been exceptionally clear that they don't want to be "cured," including some people with "severe autism" such as people who are nonverbal.
When we think things like "but autism makes life so hard for some people," we're saying that the difficulties in their life are a result of their neurotype, rather than blaming the society that punished & devalues the behaviors that result from that neurotype at every turn. To the extent that an individual autistic person wants to modify their neurotype and/or otherwise use aids to modify themselves to reduce difficulties in their life, they should be free to pursue that. But we should always ask the question: "what if we changed their social or physical environment instead, so that they didn't have to change themselves?" The point is that difficulties are always the product of person x environment, and many of the difficulties we attribute to autism should instead be attributed to anti-autistic social & physical spaces, and resources spent trying to "find the cause of autism" would be *much* better spent trying to develop & promote better accommodations for autism. Or at least, that's the case if you care about the quality of life of autistic people and/or recognize their enormous contributions to society (e.g., Wikipedia could not exist in anything near its current form without autistic input). If instead you think of Autistic people as gross burdens that you'd rather be rid of, then it makes sense to investigate the causes of autism so that you can eventually find a "cure."
All of that to say: the best response to lies about the causes of autism is to ask "What is the end goal of identifying the cause?" instead of saying "That's not true, here's better info about the causes."
#autism #trump
P.S. yes, I do think about the plight of parents of autistic kids, particularly those that have huge struggles fitting into the expectations of our society. They've been put in a position where society constantly bullies and devalues their kid, and makes it mostly impossible for their kid to exist without constant parental support, which is a lot of work and which is unfair when your peers get the school system to do a massive amount of childcare. But in that situation, your kid is in an even worse position than you as the direct victim of all of that, and you have a choice: are you going to be their ally against the unfair world, or are you going to blame them and try to get them to confirm enough that you can let the school system take care of them, despite the immense pain that that will provoke? Please don't come crying for sympathy if you choose the later option (and yes, helping them be able to independently navigate society is a good thing for them, but there's a difference between helping them as their ally, at their pace, and trying to force them to conform to reduce the burden society has placed on you).

A Scalable Lift-and-Project Differentiable Approach For the Maximum Cut Problem
Ismail Alkhouri, Mian Wu, Cunxi Yu, Jia Liu, Rongrong Wang, Alvaro Velasquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18612

TransLink seeks feedback on Metrotown-North Shore Bus Rapid Transit
Input will help decide between two route options
TransLink is launching public engagement on the future Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route between Metrotown and the North Shore. Members of the public are being asked to provide feedback on the project, rank features that are most important to them, and pick which of the two routes they prefer.

phrosty: A difference imaging pipeline for Roman
Lauren Aldoroty, Lei Hu, Rob Knop, Cole Meldorf, Daniel Scolnic, Shu Liu, W. Michael Wood-Vasey, Marcus Manos, Lucas Erlandson, Rebekah Hounsell, Ben Rose, Masao Sako, Michael Troxel, The Roman Supernova Cosmology Project Infrastructure Team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18544

«tl;dr: #FUTO is not being honest about their “grant program”, they don’t have permission to pass off these logos or project names as endorsements, and they collaborate with and promote mask-off, self-proclaimed fascists.»
oh no, another group centered around 1-2 rich people suck!
https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html

The distribution and origin of metals in simulated Milky Way-like galaxies
Federico G. Iza, Cecilia Scannapieco, Sebasti\'an E. Nuza, R\"udiger Pakmor, Robert J. J. Grand, Facundo A. G\'omez, Volker Springel, Federico Marinacci, Francesca Fragkoudi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20079

The distribution and origin of metals in simulated Milky Way-like galaxies
In this study, we investigate the distribution and origin of chemical elements in different stellar components of simulated Milky Way-like galaxies in relation to their mass assembly history, stellar age, and metallicity. Using a sample of 23 simulated galaxies from the Auriga project, we analysed the evolution of heavy elements produced by stellar nucleosynthesis. To study the chemical evolution of the stellar halo, bulge, and warm and cold discs of the model galaxies, we applied a decompositi…

Sometimes innovation is quite simple 🙂
""Our measurements show that wheat and grass-clover mixtures grow just as well between vertical solar panels as in open fields. At the same time, the panels produce electricity in a daily pattern that better matches energy demand. It's a win-win,"
#solarpanels

Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side
Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale agrivoltaic pilot project in the Danish countryside.

reactome: Joshi-Tope human protein interactome (2005)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions, extracted from Reactome project. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins.
This network has 6327 nodes and 147547 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
https:/…

"South Africa court halts natural gas power plant project, cites climate commitments"
#SouthAfrica #FossilFuels #Energy

Visual Tools for Input and Reflection in Social Work
Alexander Rind (St. P\"olten University of Applied Sciences), Julia Boeck (St. P\"olten University of Applied Sciences)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20307

Visual Tools for Input and Reflection in Social Work
Social workers need visual tools to collect information about their client's life situation, so that they can reflect it together and choose tailored interventions. easyNWK and easyBiograph are two visual tools for the client's social network and life history. We recently redesigned both tools in a participatory design project with social work faculty and professionals. In this short paper we discuss these tools from perspective of input visualization systems.

A look at Texas Instruments' new 300mm wafer fab in Sherman, Texas, a part of its $60B US investment megaproject where some chips for iPhones will be made (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/apple-will-make-chips-at-t…

Inside Texas Instruments' $60 billion U.S. megaproject, where Apple will make iPhone chips
Apple committed to making iPhone chips at Texas Instruments' new U.S. factories. CNBC got an exclusive first look inside TI's $60 billion megaproject.

China tests world-class robot arms for 'artificial sun' project, bringing them closer to their goal of building a fusion reactor maintenance system with potential applications in nuclear plant inspections and rescue missions. #climatesolutions

China tests world-class robot arms for ‘artificial sun’ project
China unveils robotic arm trio for fusion reactor maintenance, moving closer to stable clean energy and ITER support.

Linking Young Stellar Object Morphology to Evolutionary Stages with Self-Organizing Maps
David Hernandez, Odysseas Dionatos, Marc Audard, G\'abor Marton, Julia Roquette, Ilknur Gezer, M\'at\'e Madar\'asz, Kai L. Polsterer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19069

Linking Young Stellar Object Morphology to Evolutionary Stages with Self-Organizing Maps
Studies in the past few decades have investigated young stellar object evolution based on their spectral energy distribution (SED). The SED is heavily influenced not only by evolutionary stage, but also the morphology of the young star. This work is part of the NEMESIS project which is aiming to revisit star formation with the aid of machine learning techniques and provides the framework for this work. In a first effort towards a novel spectro-morphological classification we analyzed young stel…

dbpedia_producer: DBpedia producer network (2014)
A bipartite network of producers and the works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 187677 nodes and 207268 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

@… oh wait, you’re using Claude to automatically convert your Astro project to 11ty? Fascinating

Just published 🚀: Define a default startup project in your slnx file
#visualstudio

The Einstein Telescope Pathfinder and its Vacuum System
Thomas H\"ohn (ET-PF), Adrian Schwenck (ET-PF), Thomas Th\"ummler (ET-PF), Joachim Wolf (ET-PF), Ralph Engel (ET-PF), Andreas Haungs (ET-PF), Einstein Telescope Pathfinder (ET-PF), collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16461

The Einstein Telescope Pathfinder and its Vacuum System
The Einstein Telescope (ET) will be the next generation gravitational wave observatory in Europe with a sensitivity reaching beyond the CMB into the dark era of the Universe. Each corner of the triangular baseline design is the center of two interferometers with 10 km long arms, one operated at room temperature, the other one with mirrors at cryogenic temperatures of 10-15 K that reduce the noise contribution at frequencies as low as 3 Hz. The ETpathfinder (ET-PF) project at Maastricht Universi…

Meta launches the American Technology Excellence Project, a super PAC to fight AI policy bills at the state level; it previously launched a California PAC (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/meta-superpac-ai-regulation

Exclusive: Meta launches super PAC to fight AI regulation
Meta is targeting what it sees as onerous AI and tech policy bills across the country.

If the federal government has its way, programs that provide housing subsidies to low-income people will soon be cut,
and current recipients will have to comply with work rules and time limits on residency.
Those who receive Section 8 subsidies are now facing draconian budget-slashing that will put millions in danger of losing their homes.
These plans have long been on the right’s anti-poor wish list.
In fact, when the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda was rele…

Trump Administration Threatens Housing for Millions in “War on the Poor”
Proposed cuts to Section 8 put 3.3 million people at risk of eviction and homelessness.

Folks, @… is also running a donation campaign to get the families they’re helping out of the danger zone in the North and to relative safety in the South.
Her amazing work with Keep Hope Alive: A Gaza Giving Circle has been a huge inspiration for Gaza Verified.
Please follow, help, and share if you can.
Thank you!
💕

dbpedia_producer: DBpedia producer network (2014)
A bipartite network of producers and the works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 187677 nodes and 207268 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

"Advanced Whale Communication Technology Could Reshape Conservation Efforts"
#Whales #Animals #Conservation

Advanced Whale Communication Technology Could Reshape Conservation Efforts | Happy Eco News
Whale communication technology is advancing rapidly as Project CETI works to translate sperm whale vocalizations in the Caribbean. This technology could transform animal rights law, prevent ship collisions, protect critical habitats, and provide insights into marine ecosystems, while challenging assumptions about the fundamental differences between humans and animals.

Transforming drab alleys into insect havens with the Pollinator Pathways Project in Bristol. Creating vital habitats for pollinators and connecting people with nature to combat declining insect populations. #climatechange #climatesolutions

dbpedia_producer: DBpedia producer network (2014)
A bipartite network of producers and the works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 187677 nodes and 207268 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

"Belize project seeks out heat-resilient corals to protect its reefs"
#Belize #CoralReef #Environment

Belize project seeks out heat-resilient corals to protect its reefs
HOPKINS, Belize — Heaters, pumps and computerized meters rigged to an everyday picnic icebox may seem like a high school science project. But this heat stress tank may hold the key to finding the most heat-resilient corals in Belize’s waters. As climate change and other human-caused stressors continue to push these rainforests of the sea […]

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 96857 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

Folks, Ruaa is currently suffering from COVID and her family’s tent was buried under sand after a tent just 100m away from theirs was destroyed in Israel’s ongoing genocide.
Despite all that she spoke with us briefly today for Gaza Verified.
Please help her and her family if you can and please share this so others might also.
• Her fundraiser:

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety
I'm helping my friend, Ruaa from gaza, raise funds to help her family survive. 

Jensen Huang says the 10 GW OpenAI project is equivalent to 4M-5M GPUs; the first phase is expected to come online in H2 2026 using Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/22/nvidia-openai-data-center.html

Nvidia plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of data center buildout
In an interview with CNBC, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company's project with OpenAI is equivalent to between 4 million and 5 million GPUs.

dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…

dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…

🚨 Help Evacuate Joy to Milan 🚨
Folks, I need your help once again. This time, it’s for our very own @…
As you know, Joy has been suffering through genocide and famine in Gaza and still helping others through her work with Gaza Verified. Now she has a chance at freedom as she’s been accepted for a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Milan and w…

Help Joy Evacuate and Study in Europe
My name is Caitlin Townsend. I'm the coordinator of a group of 12 volunteers in 5 countries working together to help Joy (Farah), a 22-year-old Palestinian writer and student of English literature, evacuate from Gaza and continue her education in Europe.

Zionism is, and always has been, a genocidal, settler colonial project.
It is the justification for and the ideology behind the literal genocide that is being committed by Israel right now, at this very moment, against the Palestinian people. A genocide that is being live streamed in posts here and elsewhere by its victims.
To equate all Jews with Zionism, as Zionists do – in other words, to state that all Jews are genocidal settler-colonialists – is antisemitic.
(Equally, …

Just got this video from @…:
He is still stuck in the North by Al Shifa hospital, still looking after patients. We are going to get him the money he needs today but he can still use your help as getting to the South doesn’t mean he needs to eat any less.
This is his fundraiser:

github: GitHub contest (2009)
The bipartite project-user membership network of the software development hosting site GitHub. A user connects to a project if that user is a member of that project.
This network has 177386 nodes and 440237 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/github