Published earlier this week,
“Regime Change”
was written by Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan,
and had already rattled the White House before its release,
with officials fearful that the book’s authors had acquired audio recordings from within the White House Situation Room,
arguably the most secure area of the complex where top officials discuss matters of crises and national security.
“There’s something in the book that hasn’t gotten near…
Pope Leo XIV just published his first encyclical. It is on the topic of AI, and I'll want to take a closer look. But one thing already - the Pope quotes Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”
ASUS published a video on disabling and enabling "Secure" Boot just a few days ago:
https://youtu.be/5Mp26KORRjg
One may wonder why just about now (kekw) and why one would want to turn off somethig marketed as a security feature.
Questions over questions.
Curious there's an article on BBC News today about how it was actually Iran that carried out Lockerbie - I mean, it's perfect timing, isn't it?
(Note that I'm not questioning the piece, I'm questioning why it's being published at this moment.)
🤔
does anybody happen to know if the results of the #europeana Linked Data Task Force have been published somewhere?
This page here https://pro.europeana.eu/index.php/projec…
🎉 #Jellyfin for #Roku 3.2.0-rc1 has been published and is ready for beta testing! 🎉
This release includes bug fixes, new functionality, new settings, and significant code cleanups.
It's a major release 🤘 Shout out to everyone who worked on it, including 5 new contributors!!!!!
There are news reports about the King's tax bill being published - but I can't yet see it on the website.
https://www.royal.uk/media-centre/financial-reports
dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 12 nodes and 72 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
The survey for the #ECB's banknote designs survey has a link to #Bluesky (ecb.europa.eu) which is on #WSocial.
They can't even bring themselves to label it "W" and just have it as BlueSky. 😂
I just published a new release of Crell/Serde for PHP, v1.6.0.
Nothing drastic in this release. Mostly cleanup and bug fixing around nulls. But it does now support using an Enum as a type map, which is neat. Get it from your usual Packagist sources.
Thanks to our newest contributors for those fixes! It's great to see more people getting involved.
h…
Has the IRGC published a deck of cards or something similar to what the US military did for members of the Iraq leadership during the Iraq War?
Wednesday's updates have landed, including the latest Librewolf 152.0.2-1, published just 6 hours ago. Gotta love that sync!
#slackware
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slackosun…
dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 15 nodes and 89 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
@… (And I published it at 1 a.m., so what feels like speed is definitely not a sustainable writing practice… 😂)
polbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
For some it's an ego surfing metric, for others an indicator how much of their published material/output was present in the training datasets of LLMs and now is encoded in their model weights...
https://intheweights.com/
"This site queries all models with something like "Who is ? Give up to 10 results, e…
I quietly published the AI Alt Text for the Fediverse Chrome extension weeks ago. I have to say, I'm surprised that it already has over 2K active installs. Especially since it only works on Mastodon. I guess I can't be the only person who wants something like this, which is validating.
https:…
RE: https://fediscience.org/@elias/116575195845060955
Nice. Might arxiv become a "seal of quality" for published papers? That is, if a published paper hasn't gone through arxiv, it's less reliable? (Might already have been the case, but thi…
TIL that the discovery of the jet stream in the 1920s was largely ignored by the scientific community (and thus unknown to the US military in World War II), mostly because Japanese meteorologist Wasaburo Oishi published his findings between 1923 and 1925 exclusively in the constructed language #Esperanto.
Themis Consensus Extension v1: MEV Mitigation by Randomized Delayed Execution and Intent-Hiding Transactions in Application-Specific Blockchains
Shoeb Siddiqui, Mateusz Nowakowski, Stanislav Vozarik, Gleb Urvanov, Peter Kris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21406 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.21406 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.21406
arXiv:2607.21406v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Maximal extractable value (MEV) arises when privileged participants select, exclude, insert, or reorder pending transactions for private gain. We specify and analyze the Themis Consensus Extension v1, first published by Mangata in 2021. The design separates value extraction by reordering (VER) from value extraction by denial (VED). For VER, block construction and execution occur across consecutive producers: one producer commits a transaction set, and the next derives a publicly verifiable, deterministic, previously un- predictable seed and executes a seed-determined, dependency-preserving permutation. For selective VED, a user may encrypt a transaction for a designated builder and executor. The builder removes an outer layer and commits the opaque inner ciphertext; the executor reveals and executes the plaintext only after commitment. Under selfish but non-colluding validators, an adversary below the underlying consensus fault threshold, secure cryptography, and accountable role performance, the construction limits unilateral post-commit ordering control and hides transaction intent from relays and the builder. It does not provide send-order or receive-order fairness, complete censorship resistance, resistance to builder-executor collusion, or per-transaction price guarantees. We analyze probabilistic extraction, spam, dependent transactions, decryption liveness, session boundaries, total denial, and threshold coalitions. We also document the initial Aura-based Substrate implementation and its subsequent transition to a BABE-based sr25519/VRF seed path, together with delayed execution, Fisher-Yates shuffling, and Xoshiro256 . The result preserves the original proposal while narrowing its claims to explicit assumptions.
toXiv_bot_toot
📢 2 new pieces with my name on them published yesterday! First: #Tech #Oligarchy Is Not Tech. I wrote in Science As Culture that Tech Oligarchy is a form of technophilia, that #software practitioners and tech schol…
Finally, the Philippines’ Department of Transportation has published railway standards for line colors, station names, station codes, and announcements. 🚈
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil
Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei have published detailed memos in recent weeks, basically agreeing on the need for a US-led AI regulatory framework (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/16/ai-regulations-openai-anthropic-google
❔ How can climate mobility function as a proactive strategy for women and marginalised groups? What influences decision-making processes to migrate or to stay? What do governments and stakeholders need to do to increase women's agency?
📝 New Paper Published:
Human mobility as a climate and disaster risk management strategy: Addressing intersectional vulnerability and enhancing women's agency
🔗
GCVE has published a description of the scope of a GCVE record. It is based on feedback, misunderstandings from articles about the GCVE initiative, and ideas from GNAs actually assigning IDs.
The document is still in draft before in a final publication. Feedback is welcome via the standard Discourse platform.
BCP-09 ->
Turkiye has revoked the operational licence for a top private university with liberal values,
effectively forcing it to close in the middle of the academic year,
after the institution was seized by the state in a criminal investigation last year.
In a presidential decree, published in the Official Gazette on Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revoked the operating licence for Istanbul Bilgi University,
which has an estimated 20,000 students from Turkiye and acr…
Palaeobulgarica (The international peer-reviewed journal "Palaeobulgarica / Starobalgaristika" is published by the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.)
https://palaeobulgarica.eu/en
From the Museums Association on Bluesky:
Read the 2026 Empowering Collections report now 📥
Back in 2019 we published Empowering Collections, a report which made recommendations calling for museums, funders and policy-makers to work together to ensure that museum collections are empowering, relevant and dynamic.
A friend of mine published an Open Source project for making chiptune music from binary files. Yes, you read it right: you point to a binary and it makes chiptune music based on the contents of the file. The project is called "cheapbin":
https://github.com/marioballano/cheapbin…
The deluge of recently-discovered (more like: recently-disclosed) --Linux-- EVERYTHING vulnerabilities got me to finally shut down a ~10 year uptime box that I should have shut down two full `tN.micro` generations ago.
So… thanks I guess?
Also, webadvent.org (phpadvent.org) is static now, like it should have been since before 2012 when it was last published. 🤷♂️
My Department has just published the most recent issue of its undergraduate journal. It's great! Included are student papers on women religious in 18th-century Montreal, trade and taxes in the English Commonwealth, Indigenous provisioning in the 18th-century fur trade, indentured labourers in Trinidad, gendered violence and women’s resistance in Postwar El Salvador along with a few other texts by faculty members.
Check it out!
Last week, Dutch electricity transmission system operator TenneT published the yearly update on security of supply. It doesn't look good, with more hours of shortages coming up as soon as 2030. More dispatchable (gas) power plants would be needed to prevent that.
But..
Strolling through my book shelfs, I found »The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management: What Every Enterprise Needs to Know to Solve Its Data Deluge« by John William Toigo.
This book was published in 2000, and working in and around computer storage industry since 1998, I pretty much doubt the deluge is solved yet. #vintagecomputing
It’s good to see this series of new technical and regulatory reports on bidirectional charging in Europe finally published (links to the English-language PDFs at the bottom of the page). Hopefully, this will help V2G take another step forward.
htt…
[BLOG] Making Science Accessible: My Research as Blog Posts
For years, I’ve published scientific articles on Usable Security and Privacy. Now, I’m making them more accessible. All papers are now available as blog posts, with #alttext for inclusivity.
Read more:
Thread by George Monbiot on Starmer government's ripping up right to object to large scale infrastructure construction nuclear and 'renewable').
He's right but misses the problem underpinning it: industrial scale renewable capture tech isn't green, and is built on an extractive and unsustainable economy.
See e.g.
As reported here 3 weeks ago a third planet of #BetaPictoris was discovered independently with two methods - today both papers have been published formally 'side by side': https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae80a0 and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae801b -> Faintest planet ever imaged from Earth found after more than 10 years of hide-and-seek / NASA’s Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2609/ / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-discovers-hidden-planet-in-famous-star-system/
RE: https://fediscience.org/@elias/116575195845060955
Nice. Might arxiv become a "seal of quality" for published papers? That is, if a published paper hasn't gone through arxiv, it's less reliable? (Might already have been the case, but thi…
Now that the @… programme has been published, I’m planning to attend on 17 and 18 August: https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2026/schedule/
An examination of cases in which people were arrested for supposedly assaulting an immigration agent finds that
nearly half of those charges were either dropped or resulted in no conviction
— suggesting that federal law enforcement has engaged in widespread misconduct in carrying out Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
The New York Times report, published on July 18, examined the close to 550 cases in which individuals
— generally protesters and/or immigrants
— we…
Apple published a plugin for Godot that lets your Godot games get rendered by RealityKit:
https://github.com/apple/plugins-for-godot
One of the NeXT Megapixel Display monitor stands at @… had feet that were rotting. The 36 year old "rubber" roller feet were melting into some sort of goo.
I measured, modelled, and 3D printed (in TPU) replacement feet.
If you, somehow, find yourself in need of this, I published it to Printables:
Well, that was a fucking ride.
US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year on labor union opposition efforts, according to a report published on Wednesday by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Employers spent company money hiring consultants and law firms specializing in union avoidance and on legal counsel, representation, and litigation services during union elections and organizing campaigns.
US employers spend $442m on union-avoidance consultants annually, according to an estimate by the EPI. Amazon alone…
A message from Dutch Rabobank meant as reassuring that doesn't really work that way. "For Europe and the Netherlands immediate physical fuel shortages due to disruption in the Strait of Hormuz are improbable until the end of May."
Published on 13 May.
https:…
cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…
I have published #Diaphora 3.4.0. Now you can install it in IDA by just running this:
$ hcli plugin install diaphora
https://github.com/joxeankoret/diaphora/releases/tag/3.4.0
Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood,
according to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Brookings.
The report published Monday estimates more than 100,000 U.S. citizen children have had a parent detained since Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign began last year.
The analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on the detention of parents, which can often lead to family se…
First, let’s talk about “grokking”.
In 2022, OpenAI published a paper showing that if you train a model on a simple dataset
(for instance, a simple mathematical operation like division),
and keep training it long after the training looks like it’s stalled out,
the model will suddenly make a massive jump in capability.
Why does this work?
The first stage of training is like rote memorization:
the model has to compress as much of the training data as…
cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…
In his youth, Charles Darwin had an inordinate fondness for beetles.
Late in life, he wrote in his autobiography:
No poet ever felt more delighted at seeing his first poem published than I did at seeing, in Stephens’ ‘Illustrations of British Insects,’ the magic words, “captured by C. Darwin, Esq.”
The Stephens in question was James Francis Stephens, a top entomologist, whom the young Darwin had visited in early 1829
Five leading scientists were ousted from the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans on Friday.
Their crime: handing out copies of an editorial, published in the journal Diabetes Care on April 29, sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s ongoing attacks on scientific research.
Those ousted were Steven Kahn, professor of medicine at the University of Washington and editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, who co-authored the published editorial;
A part of the Atlantic Ocean, just south of Greenland and Iceland, has been cooling off while the rest of the world gets hotter.
This enigmatic patch is often referred to as the "cold blob" and scientists have been trying to figure out the mechanisms behind its cooling.
While some studies have blamed increased heat loss at the sea surface,
others suggest weaker currents are bringing less heat to the area.
Now, a new study, published in Geophysical Research…
Even though most Republicans have quietly moved on,
JD Vance is still hoping to get enough juice out of Charlie Kirk’s death to sell books.
In early June, the Wall Street Journal published an excerpt from Vance’s latest memoir,
“Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,”
which is officially released tomorrow.
In it, Vance credits Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk — who is even more hated than her dead husband — for convincing his wife, Usha Vance, to have a fourth child…
On June 10, Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post titled,
“Policy on the AI Exponential.”
He wrote that in recent months
“the evidence of AI’s incredible power, as well as its risks, has become undeniable.”
He pointed to his company’s product, Mythos, as the “emblematic example” of the threat that frontier models pose to national security.
“We need to activate a slow and rickety policy apparatus to deal with risks and opportunities that ar…
Democrats’ confidence in higher education has hit a record low,
with just 50 percent expressing confidence, according to the latest Lumina Foundation–Gallup Confidence in Higher Education survey published Tuesday.
That’s down from 61 percent last year who said they had “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher ed,
and 68 percent who said the same in 2015, when Gallup first began collecting such data.
For Courtney Brown, Lumina’s vice president of impact …
At least 80% of the world lives under light-polluted skies
—a figure that rises to 99% in America and Europe.
A paper published in Science found that between 2011 and 2022 the night sky grew almost 10% brighter each year.
With so many places awash with artificial light, people are increasingly seeking out the darkness.
Between May 29 and July 9,
roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov
(and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published).
The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided:
about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it,
with fewer than one percent marked as unclear.
The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated.
Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments…
@cdarwin@c.im
![A cropped screenshot of an article section titled "Gary Larson cartoon incident" from a Tumblr page. The text describes a controversy involving a Far Side cartoon and Jane Goodall.
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Gary Larson cartoon incident
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In 1987 Gary Larson published a Far Side cartoon of two chimpanzees grooming, in which one discovers a blonde hair and says, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"[127] The Jane Goodall Institute called the cartoon an "atrocit…](https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/762/371/571/740/884/original/80d36c2c4664a5bf.png)
