2026-07-21 15:58:33
**TL;DR: If your Safari beachballs on macOS, check the size of your readinging list. And, really, just don’t use the reading list feature. Read on if you want to endure my epic bitch-fest…**
Does your Safari beachball when you’re using the address bar, or periodically as you’re working (at least on macOS Sequoia)?
Check the size of your reading list.
Mine had 14,489 items going all the way back to 2017. Turns out, the first time you focus the address bar after launching Saf…
Watch: Lions HC Dan Campbell sent into hysterics reading Jim Otto injury history https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/08/17/lions-hc-dan-campbell-hysterics-laughin…
I am likely to be chastised for my latest post in a (private) mailing list, but IDGAF.
"I do appreciate your transparency in making it clear that your message was from a LLM. If you didn't bother writing what you submit, I certainly will not bother reading it.”
A Pro-Earth Reading List for Humans 📚
https://open.substack.com/pub/ayanaelizabeth/p/a-pro-earth-reading-list-for-humans?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> Beach read…
Texas Approves Required Reading List Including Bible Stories (Torrie Herrington/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/us-news/texas-required-reading-list-bible
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p107#a260626p107
Friday Links 26-28
A short one this week.
The management reading list gave me some new ideas and the interview with Mr. T is great.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/09/friday-links-26-28.html
Have finished 'Balcony Over Jerusalem' by John Lyons. It's showing its age (published 2017), but was on this list: #AmReading #Bookstodon
If you're dreaming of your trip to #DH2027 in South Korea at the end of the month, this reading list https://2026.ifla.org/read-busan/ and playlist
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/2]:
- Data-driven Head Motion Generation through Natural Gaze-Head Coordination
Xiaohan Liu, Yilin Wen, Yusuke Sugano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25810
- TRIBE: Predicting Team Performance via Communication Behavior Ensembles
Ali Jalal-Kamali, Nikolos Gurney, David V. Pynadath, Fred Morstatter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06926 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/117070249873784432
- Comprendia: AI-Augmented Code Comprehension
Costain Nachuma, Minhaz F. Zibran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10290 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_bot/117081500356613109
- Neural implants and human safety: single-fault detection for DC-coupled recording front ends
Dimitris Antoniadis, Timothy Constandinou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10361 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/117081505896378998
- A Neural Network Based Teleoperation for Remote Controlled Vehicles
Ning Ding, Azim Eskandarian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10367 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/117081440193257425
- Leveraging Human Reading Behavior for Keyphrase Extraction: A Webcam-based Eye-tracking Corpus
Chengzhi Zhang, Xinyi Yan, Wenqi Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10688 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/117081592176417112
- Your LLM, Your Style: Behavioral Mode Axes for LLM Behavioral Control
Haoze Liu, Run Liu, Haiying Xu, Jiahui Han, Siyuan Fang, Siyu Yan, Huiqi Deng, Guanchu Wang, Na Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10703 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/117081615179660277
- The GENEA Challenge 2026: A Large-Scale Disentangled Evaluation of Speech-Driven Gesture Generati...
Nagy, Garc\'ia, Voss, Tsakov, Kucherenko, Yoon, Henter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10839 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/117081628353061346
- Auditable AI-Assisted Research Writing: An Engineering Discipline with Pre-Registered Process Obs...
Yang Zhou, Chengqun Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10858
- R4DSG: Relative 4D Scene Graph Memory for Object-Centric Question Answering in Long Egocentric Video
Ke Ma, Yamin Mao, Weiming Li, Shuai Tan, Yijie Zhong, Hao Chen, Haofen Wang, Meng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11017 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/117081647623530374
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Friday Links 26-28
A short one this week.
The management reading list gave me some new ideas and the interview with Mr. T is great.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/09/friday-links-26-28.html
Texas board approves Bible stories as required reading in public schools (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/texas-education-board-reading-list-bible-vote-eb6ea9e23e303da0ca2da6132889e020
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p94#a260626p94
RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@palmoildetectives/116999717343214177
Reading the ingredients list is a start to not making bad decisions. Makes it easy to avoid Palm Oil
RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@palmoildetectives/116999717343214177
Reading the ingredients list is a start to not making bad decisions. Makes it easy to avoid Palm Oil
Just finished reading "The Beast Player" by Nahoko Uehashi. I had already watched the anime, but it had been so king I didn't remember all the details. While the anime was great, the book is even better, and it's going to be high on my list of things to recommend to my children when they're old enough to read for fun.
The neurodivergent representation is cool, as is the deep central question of interspecies bonds and the political possibilities and dangers they entail. Uehashi handles the exploration of that question well in my judgment, including appropriate ambiguity without muddying moral clarity. Elin is a truly fantastic protagonist, not without flaws but nevertheless a excellent role model and a very sympathetic figure without being pitiful.
One thing I really love about Uehashi's writing is that she's not shy about using interior narration to tell the reader directly what a variety of characters are feeling, but when she does this she focuses on human contradictions, quirks, and weaknesses that make those characters feel much richer, and that remind the reader of all the ways our weird and sometimes contradictory or inexplicable quirks guide our actions just as much as both logical thought and predictable/expected feelings. None of the characters is an unerring source of wisdom, with every grand principle presented shown to have its weaknesses and biases, and even the wisest characters making mistakes and learning from them.
Overall, a wonderful book, and having also seen the "Seirei no Moribito" anime but not read the books, I'm excited to dig into more of Uehashi's extensive catalog.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
RE: https://aus.social/@onsman/117190321210462658
And if your recent eternal JAWS update installation makes you want a non-Vispero source:
RE: https://aus.social/@onsman/117190321210462658
And if your recent eternal JAWS update installation makes you want a non-Vispero source: