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Cowboys QB Dak Prescott Gets Good News in Latest Prediction https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-dak-prescott-gets-good-news/?adt_ei=[email]

Joe good good, ear-wig potential. But not my fav. It's missing some substance. It's entertaining but not too catchy.
#ESC #Eurovision #Sweden

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Joe Bataan:
🎵 It's a Good Feeling (Riot)
#JoeBataan
https://mundosalsero.bandcamp.com/track/joe-bataan-its-a-good-feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/4sArymKxEv44zDJThfcMjt

@… It's not looking good for Scotland's rivers 😳

"cybernetics" comes from kybernētikos, which is Greek for "good at steering a boat"
Therefore John Blackthorne is a cyborg, but Robocop is not.

Tonight our pop-jazz choir, Sing'n'Swing, had its first public concert in two years. We changed choir directors about a year-and-a-half ago. The concert went well. I sang a small solo, which also went well. A number of people told me I killed it. I took that as a good thing. 😃 Here's a post-concert photo.

Got a new keyboard with a different layout... thought it would be a good idea. And yeah, I never used that number pad anyway... but damn, the change has slowed me down... give me a minute to develop some new muscle memory...

aaaaaaaaaa! There it is!
My friend @…’s brand new typeface Tausend is out. So, so good … 😍
https://fontwerk.com/de/fonts/tausend-collection…

Lucy has opinions about overlays that should feel familiar to just about everyone:
“Don’t use that accessibility overlay”
https://accessaces.com/dont-use-that-accessibility-overlay/
Definitely don’t use ones that collude with drive-by lawsuit attor…

#WristCheck for an insanely good value watch. The brand is Militado and modelled on US field watches. It cost me $47.53🇺🇸 with all tax and delivery costs included. 38mm, with double domed, sapphire crystal ( AR coating), steel sand blasted case, screw down crown providing 200m water resistance and a Seiko VH31 movement with higher than average quartz accuracy plus 4 ticks per second hand …

Good Morning Karlsruhe! Day 02 of the Effekte Science Festival with our booth presenting the Wiedergutmachung project, a huge digitalisation effort on historical archival documents on the recompensation processes of nationalsocialist injustice
@… @…

Today I had cause to get out my old #Acorn #RISCOS 3 Style Guide to demonstrate that the fundamentals of good #UX can date back well over 30 years - same with the

We have translators who work on commission for the journal I edit (it's a bilingual publication - articles are in either English or French with abstracts and author bios for every article in both languages). The translators tend to be pretty good, most often only having trouble with technical terms (which is understandable - this happens when you're not a specialist). Still, on occasion, they manage to produce something spectacularly bad. No, the French for "He is" is not &…

Good size for a class action if they don't get their 'trump buyouts'
7,500 Interior workers took Trump buyouts or early retirement - E&E News by POLITICO
https://www.eenews.net/articles/7500-interior-workers-took-trump-buyouts-or-early-retirement/

This strikes me as not only a good idea but a necessary idea...
"California bill proposes misdemeanor for officers who cover their face on duty"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/california-officers-face-c…

Getting #AI to write good #SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained
https://cloud.google.com/blo…

good piece from Rafael Behr on Starmer & migration
"The prime minister’s immigration approach follows a now-familiar pattern: letting fear of a difficult argument get in the way of policy that might work"
Starmer once again demonstrating an absence of leadership skills i.m.o.
#LabourParty #KeirStarmer #UKPol

This is going to be pretty good (I hope).
#NakedGun

#nowplaying some of that doomgaze or blackshoe or whatever its called. fucking good tho
https://sylvanshine.bandcamp.com/album/the-wanderer
extreemly good.…

Just read Plantin & Thomer's article, on the changes Figshare for Institutions introduces into the provision & organization of data-management labor in libraries. The authors worry that this commercial SaaS platform for institutional & data repositories, while fulfilling a number of library needs, will have detrimental effects. While it's a good piece of infrastructure-studies research, I question some of the analysis & conclusions.

Good.
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114699141739549222
(not that it'd stop them, mind you. But at least is sets the grounds for litigation)

TechCrunch (@TechCrunch@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-training/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Since alternate timelines are a staple of the #StarTrek universe, it's a good subject for a #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply with the correct a…

Interesting piece on Ali Khamenei in The Guardian at the moment: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/16/ali-khamenei-ruthless-defender-of-iran-revolution-with-few-good-options-left

How to Keep Up With New CSS Features | CSS-Tricks
https://css-tricks.com/how-to-keep-up-with-new-css-features/
Oh, the State of CSS survey is open... And ßmore good sources.

"Automatic mouse"... that would be good in a computer that runs autonomous AI agents and such stuff
https://mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/114693877161933299

A Most Amusing Bot (@NoveltyBot@mastodon.social)
Liitetty: 1 kuva Automatic Mouse only 35¢ from C.J. Felsman Catalog, (1913)

Just read Fat Girls Dance by Cathleen Meredith, yet another semi-random venture into the currently-popular novels section of my library, rather than my recent YA staples. It's excellent. Fascinating and well-written just as fiction, but also empowering and perspective-upgrading (and I'm a married white cis man who is only beer-belly fat, plus already well into #BodyPositive thinking).
It bridges really well with Mama by Nikkya Hargrove, and with Does My Body Offend You by Mayra Cuevas and Marie Marquardt, both of which I went through recently. Yet another home fucking run for #OwnVoices, which felt extra good to read after Dream State was so disappointing. It really digs into and helps the reader explore body positivity just like Does My Body Offend You does with feminism.
#AmReading

“Using LLMs makes you stupid” is such an emotionally appealing conclusion that I’m going to consciously work — this post is my public commitment! — not to read •too• much into this one study. As the OP says: small N, not peer reviewed, etc.
But I •will• immediately heed the authors’ “concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance.” However the research shakes out, it seems like good practice to double down on helping students keep their own brains awake and active regardless of the technology available to them.

Spread the good news. “Bike lanes save lives 🚲”

Since halving my #sertraline dose, down to 50mg / day, my brain feels like it’s halved in processing power. Words are more difficult to find, my speech is slower, my thought patterns and creativity are stifled. I’m generally more lethargic. On the plus side I’m less agitated and less prone to angry outbursts. If only I could have all of the good bits and none of the bad. That’s not really h…

This was a particularly good #wine brought back from #Argentina
Shared with good people during a good English summer evening.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sandrodemaio/p/whats-good-for-dinner-is-good-for

What’s Good for Dinner is Good for the Planet 🍽️
How changing what’s on our plates could be one of the biggest steps we take for people and planet.

Bears, Jets, Raiders among most improved teams heading into 2025 NFL season https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-jets-raiders-among-most-improved-teams-heading-into-2025-nfl-season

In the end it seems to me that one of the main distinctions between people who see LLMs as good and those who don't is whether they see the digital part of the world as "content" or "people".
If it's all just content, LLMs make sense. If it's where people live LLMs become a somewhat dumb idea.

Living document of things that Wayland breaks for no good reason
https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Amy Winehouse:
🎵 You Know I’m No Good
#AmyWinehouse
https://deejaygianfrancogatto.bandcamp.com/track/amy-winehouse-you-know-i-m-no-good-gianfranco-gatto-inusual-discohouse-retouch-k25
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DMRKqrpd0QO4RWiEdMib0

On pure monomorphisms and pure epimorphisms in accessible categories
Leonid Positselski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13374 https://arxi…

On pure monomorphisms and pure epimorphisms in accessible categories
In all $κ$-accessible additive categories, $κ$-pure monomorphisms and $κ$-pure epimorphisms are well-behaved, as shown in our previous paper arXiv:2311.02418. This is known to be not always true in $κ$-accessible nonadditive categories. Nevertheless, mild assumptions on a $κ$-accessible category are sufficient to prove good properties of $κ$-pure monomorphisms and $κ$-pure epimorphisms. In particular, in a $κ$-accessible category with finite products, all $κ$-pure monomorphisms are $κ…

Has anyone seen a pattern for a cadeseus quilt? I've found fabric with the symbol but I was thinking like a big paper pieced pattern made from different colors. I'm not that good with applique. Or any suggestions for a different medical related? Specifically a cardiologist, so an anatomical heart would also be pretty rad! (but might be beyond my skills!) #sewing

if solid snake is so good where's liquid snake and gaseous snake

if solid snake is so good where's liquid snake and gaseous snake

@… good thing there are no lawyers on mastodon

I spent years in that particular trap: 'I don't understand how to fix this. I definitely can't do a good job. So why bother trying?' https://www.overcomeco…

Tonight our pop-jazz choir, Sing'n'Swing, had its first public concert in two years. We changed choir directors about a year-and-a-half ago. The concert went well. I sang a small solo, which also went well. A number of people told me I killed it. I took that as a good thing. 😃 Here's a post-concert photo.

Good to see, opensource, european AI models like Magistral from Mistral.
#AI #magistral

Magistral | Mistral AI
Stands to reason.

Hello!
I have a happy favour to ask.
Last year, I had a US intern working with us and she now is looking for help that you- good reader of this account- could give.
(She needs academic survey participants)
Check out her flyer below, click the link, and please RT
http…

Research Study on Data Privacy and Collective Redress
A researcher at University College Dublin wants to conduct anonymous interviews to learn about why you would or would not participate in a legal action to rectify a data protection violation. This information can be used to help nonprofit organizations better represent you when organizations violate your data protection rights. Provide your email to receive more information. All personally identifiable information will be deleted following completion of the study.

Good morning everyone! We are starting into our second week of vacation. We'll be seeing some friends.
Meanwhile, enjoy this photo from a bike and hike we did last year.
#hiking #wandern #mountains

Not long now until #Eurovision starts - good luck to the UK's Remember Monday. https://eurovision.tv/story/running-order-eurovision-2025-grand-final

Only Israel can somehow manage to get Iran to be seen as good.

Netanyahu said:
“There’s so many false reports of conversations that never happened, and I’m not going to get into that.”
“But I can tell you, I think that we do what we need to do, we’ll do what we need to do.
And I think the United States knows what is good for the United States,”
Anonymous administration officials had claimed that the Israelis reported they had an opportunity to kill the top Iranian leader, and that Trump waved them off of the plan

4 Bremsen für ein Halleluja https://weddingweiser.de/the-good-the-bad-und-das-kaputte-bike/

Lesestück zum Wochenende: 4 Bremsen für ein Halleluja
Wenn dein Fahrrad klingt wie ein Italo-Western, brauchst du jemanden wie Mesut. Ein Besuch …

Where Does Raiders' Michael Mayer Stand? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-michael-mayer-geno-smith-ashton-jeanty-pete-carroll

Good morning all! A rare day without any real meetings, and only one calendar entry (and that's a fun one, a networking thing to talk about how social media research can go forward in Germany). I'm not sure I can be trusted with that much freedom from time constraints #academicChatter

Oh good, my phone is autocorrecting “really good” to “real good”. That’s what I want: to text more like an American child.

Good idea, perhaps the Commission could put this vision into practice for #EV roaming, so that the #AFIR provisions do not remain a dead letter?
From: @…

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image 🛬 Plane lands. Flight mode off. 💬 “Welcome to Italy! Use your mobile plan just like at home.” 8 years of free EU roaming – we've come a long way: → 2000s: €0.50–€1/min calls → 2007: roaming caps → 2017: the end of roaming charges → 2022: the improved “Roam like at home” pack extended to 2032, bringing: 🌐 Fast 5G access across the EU 💰 Protection from unexpected charges 🆘 Better access to emergency services Fair for opera…

Gradient-Normalized Smoothness for Optimization with Approximate Hessians
Andrei Semenov, Martin Jaggi, Nikita Doikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13710 http…

Gradient-Normalized Smoothness for Optimization with Approximate Hessians
In this work, we develop new optimization algorithms that use approximate second-order information combined with the gradient regularization technique to achieve fast global convergence rates for both convex and non-convex objectives. The key innovation of our analysis is a novel notion called Gradient-Normalized Smoothness, which characterizes the maximum radius of a ball around the current point that yields a good relative approximation of the gradient field. Our theory establishes a natural …

We've got buried treasure on view in a new display at the museum. Thanks to a recent gift and the work of a consultant and a staff member, we're displaying mingqi, or "spirit goods," in two adjoining cases in the permanent collection. Read on to learn more about how this grouping of well-preserved objects came together.

Leakage-Resilient Extractors against Number-on-Forehead Protocols
Eshan Chattopadhyay, Jesse Goodman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12595 https://

Leakage-Resilient Extractors against Number-on-Forehead Protocols
Given a sequence of $N$ independent sources $\mathbf{X}_1,\mathbf{X}_2,\dots,\mathbf{X}_N\sim\{0,1\}^n$, how many of them must be good (i.e., contain some min-entropy) in order to extract a uniformly random string? This question was first raised by Chattopadhyay, Goodman, Goyal and Li (STOC '20), motivated by applications in cryptography, distributed computing, and the unreliable nature of real-world sources of randomness. In their paper, they showed how to construct explicit low-error extracto…

Sometimes Gay Pride means working 8am Saturday to take down the Pride flags, then put them back up again 8am Sunday. (Saturday is flag day, so we fly the US flag for one day in June.)
Sometimes Gay Pride also means swapping flags while random locals yell nasty things out their pickup truck windows. I always call them neighbor and wish them a good day.

Tidy Modeling with R: #rstats #machinelearning

Tidy Modeling with R
The tidymodels framework is a collection of R packages for modeling and machine learning using tidyverse principles. This book provides a thorough introduction to how to use tidymodels, and an outline of good methodology and statistical practice for phases of the modeling process.

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1972, construction begins on Canada’s largest single-site #Hydroelectric project at Churchill Falls, Labrador. To commemorate this minor historical event in our country's impressive record of hydroelectric technology and power generation, let's focus on one of the newest projects. The controversial Site C in British Columbia will begin filling its reservoir this summer in preparation for starting operations.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://youtu.be/gZARb7pLQeo?si=Wo5iEWE9ushqGBaS

This is Jon Stewart and it's very good presentation showing how what's going on in the US makes no sense at all. He manages some humour in the midst of his obvious frustration. Be ready to laugh through your tears.
Worth a watch:
https://youtu.be/3Q08a7BI9XI?feature=shared…

"Despite good-faith efforts by DSI [dense street imagery] providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and license plates, these measures fail to address broader privacy concerns. In this work, we find that increased data density and advancements in artificial intelligence enable harmful group membership inferences from supposedly anonymized data."
via @…

Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery
Spatially and temporally dense street imagery (DSI) datasets have grown unbounded. In 2024, individual companies possessed around 3 trillion unique images of public streets. DSI data streams are only set to grow as companies like Lyft and Waymo use DSI to train autonomous vehicle algorithms and analyze collisions. Academic researchers leverage DSI to explore novel approaches to urban analysis. Despite good-faith efforts by DSI providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and l…

Connecting dilaton thermal fluctuation with the Polyakov loop at finite temperature
Bing-Kai Sheng, Yong-Liang Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13549 https://…

Connecting dilaton thermal fluctuation with the Polyakov loop at finite temperature
Understanding the character of the deconfinement phase transition is one of the fundamental challenges in particle physics. In this work, we derive a formula for the expectation value of the Polyakov loop -- the order parameter of the deconfinement phase transition -- in pure $\mathrm{SU(N_{\mathrm{c}})}$ gauge systems at finite temperatures starting from the Coleman\textendash Weinberg-type effective potential encoding the trace anomaly of QCD. Our results are in good agreement with the Lattic…

I must apologize for being critical of President Trump. I gather that he has been very good to my country. Brazil is now selling soybeans etc to China in record volumes and prices. Please keep the good work, Mr. Trump!

They make a very good Minestrone in Minnesota
And Minneapolis dances to the Monster Mash at Midnight.

it’s mistakes all the way down
https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/114354109265748030

I agree entirely with Rich.
BUT: there is a sound basis for not implementing mail functionality in systems that do not absolutely demand it. https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/114688068144011594

Finally some positive dash cam videos
Dash Cam Owners Australia - Good deeds on the road 2
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-W0MtV3aBmU&si=TjeDFmFJcib0mANZ

BEBOP VII. SOPHIE discovery of BEBOP-3b, a circumbinary giant planet on an eccentric orbit
Thomas A. Baycroft, Alexandre Santerne, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Neda Heidari, Daniel Sebastian, Yasmin T. Davis, Alexandre C. M. Correia, Lalitha Sairam, Alix V. Freckelton, Aleyna Adamson, Isabelle Boisse, Gavin A. L. Coleman, Georgina Dransfield, Jo\~ao Faria, Salom\'e Grouffal, Nathan Hara, Guillaume H\'ebrard, Vedad Kunovac, David V. Martin, Pierre F. L. Maxted, Richard P. Nelson, Mad…

BEBOP VII. SOPHIE discovery of BEBOP-3b, a circumbinary giant planet on an eccentric orbit
Planetary systems orbiting close binaries are valuable testing grounds for planet formation and migration models. More detections with good mass measurements are needed. We present a new planet discovered during the BEBOP survey for circumbinary exoplanets using radial velocities. We use data taken with the SOPHIE spectrograph at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence, and perform a spectroscopic analysis to obtain high precision radial velocities. This planet is the first radial velocity detection…

Quenched invariance principle with a rate for random dynamical systems
Zhenxin Liu, Benoit Saussol, Sandro Vaienti, Zhe Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13167

Quenched invariance principle with a rate for random dynamical systems
In this paper, we consider the quenched invariance principle for random Young towers driven by an ergodic system. In particular, we obtain the Wassertein convergence rate in the quenched invariance principle. As a key ingredient, we derive a new martingale-coboundary decomposition for the random tower map, which provides a good control over sums of squares of the approximating martingale. We apply our results to a class of random dynamical systems that admit a random Young tower, such as indepe…

I can’t help you.
Advice is overrated.
Coaching and influencing? Good luck.
The only thing I know:
Jesus Christ saves forever
those who follow him
and obey his will.
That’s all.
#true

Today I fought against AI bots that where scraping / DDoSing one of our customers library OPAC. The quick fix was to block all non-EU IP address. We don't have a good fix yet, but can draw on a lot of ideas that where discussed at #Koha Hackfest. #JohnConner

NIR filter transformations across the HR diagram: JWST, Roman, and Euclid
M. J. Durbin, R. L. Beaton, A. J. Monson, B. Swidler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13627

NIR filter transformations across the HR diagram: JWST, Roman, and Euclid
We present new color transformations between select near-infrared filters on JWST/NIRCam, Euclid/NISP, Roman/WFI, HST, and ground-based $izY+IJHK_S$, for a total of 105 unique filter combinations. Additionally, we apply these transformations to predict the color-magnitude relation of the tip of the red giant branch as seen with JWST, Euclid, and Roman based on theoretical results for HST and 2MASS filters; for JWST we find good agreement with empirical results in the literature. We also find ty…

Initially published in April 2010, Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on Flash" is a good reminder that when an ecosystem claims to be "open", you have to be cautious.
Apple's ecosystem is mostly closed, but they are honest about that fact.
While many systems fighting to gain market share claim to be "open", while being little more than APIs subject to use restrictions, which can be closed further at any time.

Great stuff in this article but I do not know if unplugging from the broligarch's platforms is the solution to end their delusional grandeur.
It is the same with the climate crisis. This cannot hinge on the individual to solve but the whole system has to change. Individual action is good but that is not enough.
(For all its shortfalls the EU is regulating parts of the tech industry, but there has to be more.)

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

Replaced article(s) found for math.PR. https://arxiv.org/list/math.PR/new
[2/2]:
How good is your Laplace approximation of the Bayesian posterior? Finite-sample computable error ...

I've been getting notifications from #HomeAssistant throughout the day as National Grid are doing work on our local substation. Even though I haven't been working from home today, it's good to see my little UPS would've let me carry on as usual throughout the power cuts.

Joan Westenberg: "A failed state. With very good fonts." Whoah <-- read the whole thing --> https://www.theindex.media/america-is-a-failed-state-with-good-branding/

I have two journals for poetry. One where I write some certified stinkers and the other where I try my best to write good ones.
And sometimes, I write some personal favorites in the bad journal and have to transfer it over to the good journal anyway.
Is this weird? Shouldn't I just have one journal where the good and the bad poetry can live next to each other?
#poetry

Current episode of the Citations Needed podcast on the "Abundance" talking point is really good.
"Abundance" is Neoliberalism and trickle down economics with a new coat of (lead) paint.
https://pca.st/episode/c8a05dc1-3b04-4255-b978-cf76bf40e…

If you use Home Assistant and would prefer a simple noun-verb-based command line interface to control stuff from a terminal (or cron job!), good news: somebody wrote one: https://github.com/xx4h/hctl

Not long now until #Eurovision starts - good luck to the UK's Remember Monday. https://eurovision.tv/story/running-order-eurovision-2025-grand-final

So the basic idea is that we first compute a "level" for whatever interaction, by adding beneficial modifiers and subtracting harmful ones. Imagine most modifiers are smallish integers like 2 or -3 (though they can be non-integers too). Each level can be thought of as making things twice as good/bad, although this only applies directly when they're balanced. The actual formula starts with a 50/50 chance of "success" at level 0, and then each positive level halves the chance of failure, or if the levels are negative, each negative level halves the chance of success (note that halving the chance of failure is not the same as doubling the chance of success).
The intuitive explanation is that you start with a coin flip. Then if the level is positive, you flip that many additional coins and succeed if any single coin succeeds, but it the level is negative, you have to flip that many additional coins and succeed only if *all* flips succeed.
For example, if I have a dagger with 5 crit chance, and I attack an opponent with no armor modifiers, I'd have to win any 1 of 6 coin flips to score a crit (p = 1 - (1/(2^6)) = 63/64. Increasing my crit modifier by 1 ups my chances only slightly, to 127/128. This is obviously pretty poor return, indicating that the 5 I already have is very strong. If the opponent had armor with -3 to crits, the interaction is now level 2, so the crit chance is 7/8, which is still pretty good. We can see from these examples that the basic system
rewards a small level advantage a lot, but the rewards diminish rapidly. The system has a few avenues for tweaking how it works though, that can let us modify this. There's also a potential benefit (though sometimes drawback) that no matter what the level gap, there's an effective limit to how much the interaction swings.

4 Bremsen für ein Halleluja https://weddingweiser.de/the-good-the-bad-und-das-kaputte-bike/

Lesestück zum Wochenende: 4 Bremsen für ein Halleluja
Wenn dein Fahrrad klingt wie ein Italo-Western, brauchst du jemanden wie Mesut. Ein Besuch …

Former Raiders LB Robert Spillane Thriving With New Team https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-robert-spillane-elandon-roberts-devin-white-new-england-patriots

Dolphins cornerbacks 'look extremely good' in minicamp despite Jalen Ramsey's absence, Jaylen Waddle says

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/…

Over the past few months, I've been building out a home server that was originally purely to run on-prem LLMs. Since I wanted it to run killer AI, I named it "Delores." Over the weekend, I received a Mac Mini in the mail that I got a good deal on and set it up to augment Dolores. I was trying to figure out what to name it and eventually went with "Teddy."
From my laptop, iPads, etc, I can remote into an Ubuntu VM, Windows VM, or (now) MacOS and do whatever I am looking to do.

The good news here is this guy was an aberration. We got a LOT of supportive honks from passing cars.

Did you know that the #UniversityOfGeorgia has TWO sets of Jean Charlot murals on its campus? Charlot hung out on the UGA campus for three years in the early 1940s, teaching and working with students. His murals that were inside what was once UGA's journalism building recently underwent some restoration thanks to our museum and the help of a lot of people from across campus.

Deep learning inference with the Event Horizon Telescope I. Calibration improvements and a comprehensive synthetic data library
M. Janssen, C. -k. Chan, J. Davelaar, I. Natarajan, H. Olivares, B. Ripperda, J. R\"oder, M. Rynge, M. Wielgus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13873

Deep learning inference with the Event Horizon Telescope I. Calibration improvements and a comprehensive synthetic data library
(abridged) In a series of publications, we describe a comprehensive comparison of Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) data with theoretical models of Sgr A* and M87*. Here, we report on improvements made to our observational data reduction pipeline and present the generation of observables derived from the EHT models. We make use of ray-traced GRMHD simulations that are based on different black hole spacetime metrics and accretion physics parameters. These broad classes of models provide a good repre…

Spagnola: Hitting the break with good vibrations https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-hitting-the-break-with-good-vibrations

Donald Trump admitted on Truth Social that his mass deportations are hurting farmers and the economy.
Those removals are “taking very good, longtime workers away” from farms and hotels, Trump declared,
adding that those workers are proving “impossible to replace.”
To be clear, Trump was talking about his own immigration policies.
That’s a stunning acknowledgment that Trump’s forced mass removals are targeting hard-working folks and that those undocumented immigrants…

Trump Accidentally Reveals a Dark MAGA Truth—and Hands Dems an Opening
A little-noticed letter from vulnerable House Republicans acknowledges the flaw at the heart of Trump’s mass deportations. Democrats: Seize on this!

Do Raiders Make Sense As Ramsey Landing Spot? https://www.si.com/nfl/dolphins/news/do-raiders-make-sense-as-ramsey-landing-spot-01jxwnzfsv0e

#Wordle 1,458 4/6*
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WordleBot
Skill 94/99
Luck 49/99
I very much liked my start eliminating 8 letters. This went quickly which is good because I have to run out the door.
3rd word wasn't a wordle word

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Ice Cube:
🎵 It Was a Good Day
#IceCube
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To dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)

Spagnola: Hitting the break with good vibrations https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-hitting-the-break-with-good-vibrations

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The full formula for the probability of "success" is:
p = {
1/(2^(-n 1)) if n is negative, or
1 - (1/(2^(n 1))) if n is zero or positive
}
(Both branches have the same value when n is 0, so the behavior is smooth around the origin.)
How can we tweak this?
First, we can introduce fixed success and/or failure chances unaffected by level, with this formula only taking effect if those don't apply. For example, you could do 10% failure, 80% by formula, and 10% success to keep things from being too sure either way even when levels are very high or low. On the other hand, this flattening makes the benefit of extra advantage levels even less exciting.
Second, we could allow for gradations of success/failure, and treat the coin pools I used to explain that math like dice pools a bit. An in-between could require linearly more success flips to achieve the next higher grade of success at each grade. For example, simple success on a crit role might mean dealing 1.5x damage, but if you succeed on 2 of your flips, you get 9/4 damage, or on 4 flips 27/8, or on 7 flips 81/16. In this world, stacking crit levels might be a viable build, and just giving up on armor would be super dangerous. In the particular case I was using this for just now, I can't easily do gradations of success (that's the reason I turned to probabilities in the first place) but I think I'd favor this approach when feasible.
The main innovation here over simple dice pools is how to handle situations where the number of dice should be negative. I'm almost certain it's not a truly novel innovation though, and some RPG fan can point out which system already does this (please actually do this, I'm an RPG nerd too at heart).
I'll leave this with one more tweak we could do: what if the number 2 in the probability equation were 3, or 2/3? I think this has a similar effect to just scaling all the modifiers a bit, but the algebra escapes me in this moment and I'm a bit lazy. In any case, reducing the base of the probability exponent should let you get a few more gradations near 50%, which is probably a good thing, since the default goes from 25% straight to 50% and then to 75% with no integer stops in between.

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