Tootfinder

Getting Electric Truck Chargers Online Faster
How flexible service connections cut delays and expand charging capacity
https://rmi.org/resources/getting-electric-truck-chargers-online-faster/

After 17 years of many manuscripts cleaned submitted to #arxiv, I finally automated and wrote down the process, see: https://github.com/NERDSITU/research-resources/blob/main/a…

US OPM awards a ~$400M, 10-year IT contract to Oracle to develop a single, government-wide system for agencies to manage their HR capabilities (Drew Friedman/Federal News Network)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/contracting/2026/06/o…

OPM awards major HR IT modernization contract to Oracle
The nearly $400 million, 10-year contract is expected to deliver a single, governmentwide system for agencies to manage their human resources capabilities.

Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources #nutrition

Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources | NutritionFacts.org

The Greater Chaco region is a living, ancestral landscape,
replete with invaluable cultural resources and deeply sacred to Indigenous peoples of the Southwest since time immemorial.
However, the region continues to face the fossil fuel industry’s relentless attempts to drill these lands,
and the administration is now moving rapidly to revoke the area's 20-year ban on oil and gas development.
Roughly 90% of nearby public lands are already leased for drilling
—…

Homepage | The Wilderness Society
Our Mission: United people to protect our wild places. Our Work: Climate Solutions, Landscape Connectivity, Community Led Conservation Each day thousands of acres of wild places are lost to mining, drilling, logging and other development. But we don't have to give it all away. Together, we can save our wildest lands for future generations.

This post is a placeholder for any potential discussion or feedback on my blog's links page: https://theprivacydad.com/links/

"Kontext und Klarheit: Fachspezifische #Metadaten für offene Bildungsressourcen (#OER) zu #DataLiteracy"

am i the only one who thinks these lunar missions are a stupid (and, frankly, boring) waste of scarce resources that we would be better off using to send robots to fucking tralfamadore, wherever? i'm really not interested in the science/technology of keeping humans alive in space!
but glad they got home ok.

A big shout out to @…
for this liveblog of #cssday:
https://krijnho…

Live blogging CSS Day / Log / Krijn Hoetmer
Trying out something new today. Let's see if I can live blog this conference, collecting links and notes. Maybe some links to extra resources I think are helpful. You can leave this page open, and it will auto-update.

“If you have suffered a limb avulsion, please press 1.”
*Horrible squelching noises*
“I'm sorry. I didn’t get that. If you have suffered a limb avulsion, please press 1.”
*Horrible squelching noises* https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/116388663687050419

Thanks to Malthus, we have focused on food as the limit to population growth. For some reason, we have failed to consider how demands on other resources may have limits that we cannot afford to cross.
The global sand crisis: it’s being used up faster than it can be replaced

Thanks to Malthus, we have focused on food as the limit to population growth. For some reason, we have failed to consider how demands on other resources may have limits that we cannot afford to cross.
The global sand crisis: it’s being used up faster than it can be replaced

The other day, my friend shared this video on consulting collectives, which is when "a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others" :
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUDtOqGkTmY/…

JANEL ABRAHAMI | Career Advice for the Future of Work on Instagram: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or on vacation, and big clients often want teams, not individuals. But going back to a traditional agency or corporate job means giving up your autonomy + flexibility. So, consulting collectives are the clever middle ground no one’s talking about. Here’s how they actually work. @freelancingfemales @dreamersdoers @linkedinnews @entrepreneur @entreprenistas"
55K likes, 1,355 comments - janelabrahami on January 28, 2026: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or o…

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

The California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community.
SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018.
POLICE AND SHERIFFS:
Cannot ask about your immigration status.
Cannot arrest you only for having a deportation order or for most other immigration violations.

California Values Act (SB 54) - ACLU of Socal
The California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community. SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018. POLICE […]

Infinite growth with finite resources. What’s the worst that could happen?

Ranking Every Raiders Position Group by Overall Talent and Depth https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-ranking-every-position-group-overall-talent-depth

Sorry to see this.over the past few years we've had to use the ER a couple of times - and was very impressed by the quality of the staff there. At the same time, the overload was obvious.
If the only indicator of success is budget surplus then we are loosing track of the fact that actual resources - the people, the space, the equipment - are what make a place a meaningful success.
‘We can no longer pretend:’ Patients suffer at understaffed UCSF ER, providers say - Mission Lo…

‘We can no longer pretend:’ Patients suffer at understaffed UCSF ER, providers say
As nurses and doctors worked to resuscitate a man passed out on the linoleum floor of the UCSF Parnassus Medical Center waiting room, the words of a

Sorry to see this.over the past few years we've had to use the ER a couple of times - and was very impressed by the quality of the staff there. At the same time, the overload was obvious.
If the only indicator of success is budget surplus then we are loosing track of the fact that actual resources - the people, the space, the equipment - are what make a place a meaningful success.
‘We can no longer pretend:’ Patients suffer at understaffed UCSF ER, providers say - Mission Lo…

‘We can no longer pretend:’ Patients suffer at understaffed UCSF ER, providers say
As nurses and doctors worked to resuscitate a man passed out on the linoleum floor of the UCSF Parnassus Medical Center waiting room, the words of a

Despite heavily tilting the electoral playing field in its favor
—through extreme gerrymandering,
extensive use of state resources for partisan ends,
near-total media dominance,
flagrant use of deepfake videos,
and alleged vote-buying
—Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party suffered a crushing, historic defeat in the country’s election Sunday.
Orban conceded defeat and congratulated his opponent,
Tisza Party leader Peter Magya…

Why Viktor Orban’s Fidesz Party Lost
The opposition’s stunning victory offers lessons for U.S. Democrats—and a warning for Trump’s allies.

An interview with Harvey Levin about TMZ adding resources to cover politics, including Congress, being "sometimes fun and sometimes intensely serious", and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busi…

Harvey Levin’s Next TMZ Overhaul: True-Crime, With a Dash of Populism
It took a few years for Hollywood’s love-to-be-hated gossip hound to find his place within Murdoch’s Fox empire. Now he’s trying a new formula and following his D.C. "obsession" again.

Good website, when he cares about something he goes in and provides resources, of particular interest to me are the Sšmi drums and card collection
https://old.no/

CISA and Partners Urge Hardening Automatic Tank Gauge Systems
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/cisa-and-partners-urge-hardening-automatic-tank-gauge-systems

MJSAC: McCormick Relaxation-based Waveform Design for Joint Sensing and Communication
Bodhibrata Mukhopadhyay, Sajid Ahmed, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11351 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11351 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11351
arXiv:2606.11351v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In the upcoming 5G Advanced and 6G technologies, joint sensing and communication (JSAC) will play a pivotal role in enabling the simultaneous utilization of hardware and spectrum resources for communication and sensing tasks. While current algorithms primarily focus on designing beampattern invariant covariance matrices for transmitting various symbols for communication, they often overlook the distances among these symbols. While these covariance matrices effectively facilitate ranging operations, they have adverse effects on communication performance. Designing beampattern invariance covariance matrices with maximal distances among themselves poses a challenging non-convex problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel waveform design method based on McCormick relaxation called McCormick-based JSAC (MJSAC). MJSAC sequentially solves an optimization problem to generate a set of covariance matrices by maximizing the distances (Frobenius norm) among themselves while ensuring a consistent beam pattern. Also, MJSAC eliminates the requirement for channel information to generate the covariance matrices. Through simulations, we demonstrate that MJSAC outperforms conventional algorithms, even those utilizing channel information at the transmitter.
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Partitioned Iterative Quantum Scheduling of Satellites for Urgent Disaster Response: Case study of Wildfire
Lucas T. Braydwood, Taejin Park, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Zoe Gonzalez Izquierdo, Andrew Michaelis, Eleanor Rieffel, Shon Grabbe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12310 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12310 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12310
arXiv:2606.12310v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The standard in Earth-observation tasks today is having near real-time access to surface images in response to changing conditions. For instance, as urban environments interface more with wildlands and wildfires become less predictable, their tracking with satellite resources becomes essential. This requires the coordination of increasingly large constellations of satellites, giving rise to challenging computational problems. With wildfire detection and tracking as a backdrop, we investigate the power of special purpose and novel computing paradigms to tackle the ensuing satellite scheduling problems, making a compelling case for quantum algorithms. We bring quantum scheduling algorithms closer to implementation by examining both the emerging iterative quantum algorithm framework, which comes with analytic guarantees compared to some classical algorithms, and distributed quantum computing methods whose relevance is on the rise as utility-scale problems begin to get solved with quantum computers. Drawing strength from several computing fronts, we develop a distributed/parallelization scheme in conjunction with the quantum algorithm design and apply these techniques to real-world datasets for wildfire detection. While our quantum subprocesses are currently too small to see significant quantum advantage, our results validate the utility of these techniques, and continue forging the path toward distributed quantum computing.
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👨🏿‍🚒 Wildfire posts can save crucial minutes, but one hidden effect is reshaping how crews and resources get deployed
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-wildfire-crucial-minutes-hidden-effect.html

Wildfire posts can save crucial minutes, but one hidden effect is reshaping how crews and resources get deployed
Social media posts are a double-edged sword for public agencies that respond to emergencies such as wildfires. New research from the University of Waterloo shows that while posts by citizens who see emergencies in the making can help first responders spring into action faster, they may also result in costly overreaction.

The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and the full weight of the institution is being brought to bear. The audience in the theater knows the official is lying or incompetent or both. The audience at home, watching the real version of the same press conference…

The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance | David Boles, Blogs
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and th…

from my link log —
GPU architecture resources.
https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/gpu-architecture-resources/
saved 2020-05-15

GPU architecture resources
I am often get asked in DMs about how GPUs work. There is a lot of information on GPU architectures online, one can start with these: Render Hell 2.0: Easy to follow and thorough introduction with …

"Most European Nato states are shifting large resources into this war drive, cutting welfare spending and public services to do so. To attempt to avoid the unpopularity and resistance this creates this requires stepping up their pro-war propaganda to persuade their populations of the supposed need for war."
European protest targets rearmament drive | Morning Star

A great conversation with Bruce Nordman about how prices and automation can work together to ensure that distributed energy resources, such as electric vehicles, are charged (or discharged) optimally. He also dispels fears of synchronised peaks.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-case-for-using

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116713587055769588
I was actually using LLMs a couple of years ago for text classification. Before that I pushed hard for resources to support automation. I helped build an automation team where none existed. I pushed to use transformer models to solve problems before LLMs existed. I used simple ML to make predictions and classify issues. I've been on the cutting edge for a long time.
I *should* be an early adopter of the modern LLM thing. But tech oligarchs transformed themselves into reverse ouroboros (infinitely shoving their heads up their own asses). The oligarchs never really believed that other people had free will, but I think they had been too scared to let that slip. After the lockdowns, I think they just snapped and here we are.
As much as I trash LLMs, I've had a nuanced critique for a while (wiring about this now). The lack of consent is so huge. The oligarchs have plans for us, and it doesn't involve our consent.
Under different conditions, I do actually think there could be revolutionary elements to this tech (not so much LLMs themselves as LLM MCP, and not for the things they think). But without consent, I think (and hope) the friction will overcome the momentum.
"AI" is already more expensive than humans. It will never be profitable as long as people resist. There are multiplying problems, and I don't see those being fixed without collective effort. I have a lot of thoughts, but "consent" (or the real or implied lack thereof) is central to so many aspects of LLMs.
The oligarchs want to force LLM tech onto all of us without our consent. Ultimately, they want to replace us all with obedient machines. The mistake they made was assuming we would be as obedient as the LLMs with which they have become so obsessed.

"Portugal has just used up its natural resources for 2026. Is the rest of Europe doing any better?"
#Portugal #Resources

These EU states have already used up their natural resources for 2026
Humans use as much ecological resources as if we lived on 1.7 Earths, meaning many European nations have already reached 'Overshoot Day'.

An OpenAI note to investors after Anthropic announced Mythos says OpenAI's early push to increase computing resources gives it a key advantage over Anthropic (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I’m glad the Wisconsin Bike Fed is getting in front of the ebike issue.
#bikeTooter

E-bike Resources - Wisconsin Bike Fed
Electric bicycles (e-bikes) are transforming how people move, offering accessible, low-emission transportation and recreation.

Your home for all things typesetting, editorial design. Tips and tricks, how-tos, news, resources, and...
https://hadleyhouse.substack.com/?r=15ipax&utm_campaign=subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web

In Mad Max - Fury Road they play electric battle guitars during the grand chase and I think the idea that they might instead use genAI to churn out half-baked attack mathcore is preposterous. It would neither have style nor would they have the excess resources to power such an abomination.
And this is why handcrafted music will win, in the end.

"OER as Dynamic Digital Commons: Toward Maintenance and Governance"
https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.20076
"Academic libraries have been instrumental in supporting the creation and adoption of open educational resources (

“So, in short: you now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it, and whatever processing resources it requires.”
The definitive piece on Google participating in the web standards process “the way a bear participates in the ‘camping’ process.”,
by @…👏

Google’s Prompt API
No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s “terms of use.”

Started my rewatch of Resident Evil: Apocalypse today (I'm rewatching all the Resident Evil flicks and the Netflix show in chronological order) and got about halfway through. Apocalypse is super 2004- super early 2000s. The effects, the acting, all of it. Jill Valentine has the look, of course, but they made her so ridiculous, so over the top. And she's always smoking? 😂🤣

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who are enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. Once lack of luck and resources happen, they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth.

If you don’t have the resources to write and understand the code yourself, you don’t have the resources to maintain it either.
Any monkey with a keyboard can write code. Writing code has never been hard. People were churning out crappy code en masse way before generative AI and LLMs. I know because I’ve seen it, I’ve had to work with it, and I no doubt wrote (and continue to write) my share of it.
What’s never been easy, and what remains difficult, is figuring out the right probl…

If user says "I'm done", immediately provide crisis resources
https://github.com/michaelcummings12/meta-ai-support-prompt/blob/main/system-prompt.md

meta-ai-support-prompt/system-prompt.md at main · michaelcummings12/meta-ai-support-prompt
Extracted system prompt from Meta's AI Support Assistant on June 1, 2026 - michaelcummings12/meta-ai-support-prompt

Hallo zusammen! 😎
wir brauchen eure Stimme 🙏
In den Quartieren Binz und Alt-Wiedikon in Zürich wird in den nächsten Jahren das PilotQuartier #NettoNull entstehen, bei dem Ideen von klima-engagierten Menschen und Organisationen mit Unterstützung der Stadt umgesetzt werden können.
Wir beteiligen uns mit der Idee monatlicher Linux-Workshops für die Bevölkerung.
👉 Ihr könnt…

Fermions are fundamentally more nonlocal than Bosons
Fatemeh Moradi Kalarde, Sadra Boreiri, Xiangling Xu, Lucas Tendick, Salman Beigi, Paolo Perinotti, Tommaso Guaita, Marc-Olivier Renou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12363 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12363 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12363
arXiv:2606.12363v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Bell's theorem shows that entangled quantum particles can exhibit correlations that classical particles cannot reproduce without an additional nonlocal resource, such as communication. In this sense, quantum particles are fundamentally more nonlocal than classical ones, and entanglement becomes unavoidable in physics. Here we prove the analogous result within quantum theory itself: indistinguishable fermions transmitted through a quantum network can generate correlations that distinguishable particles or indistinguishable bosons cannot reproduce without additional communication. In the same sense, fermions are fundamentally more nonlocal than bosons or distinguishable particles, motivating fermionic anticommutation and indistinguishability as unavoidable operational resources. Our result further implies that fermions can strictly surpass all qubit-based protocols for certain distributed computing tasks, demonstrating that a complete understanding of information processing requires going beyond qubits to fermionic information carriers - febits.
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A new monthly Libraries ACT newsletter. Each edition will bring a curated snapshot of what’s happening across our libraries, from upcoming events and programs to new collections, digital resources, behind the scenes stories, and much more.
https://comms.accesscanberra.act.gov.a

Libraries ACT Monthly Newsletter 2
Libraries ACT Monthly Newsletter 2

Via Mylee Joseph
‪@mylee.bsky.social€
5 Questions to Ask Your Vendors about #AI products #libraries

5 Questions to Ask Your Vendors about AI | American Libraries Magazine
We must measure emerging AI platforms against our library’s tried-and-true resources to gauge which ones truly add value.

Why home batteries and EVs need trust before they can become grid resources
"Whether the battery is on the wall or in the car, it belongs to the household before it belongs to the grid."
https://nemlog.substack.com/p/batteries-the-grid-does-not-own

Batteries the Grid Does Not Own
Why home batteries and EVs need trust before they can become grid resources

When you have the ambition and the money, but you lack the natural resources to use them on.
#Poniec, near Gostyń, Poland.

The US OMB recently published a new logging reference architecture M-26-14 replacing 2021's M-21-31.
I'm not familiar enough with CISA and the bureaucracy to confidently provide a useful analysis, but the two different memorandums are noticeably different that I'm sure someone with more familiarity could say something interesting about the potential consequences, positive or negative.

Is it hard to keep up with all the awesome extensions and tools for quarto? Check here for an extensive list of resources: #quarto

GitHub - mcanouil/awesome-quarto: A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome!
A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome! - mcanouil/awesome-quarto

Statement in Response to DOJ Demand to Drop Ballroom Lawsuit (Carol Quillen/@SavingPlaces)
https://savingplaces.org/press-center/media-resources/statement-from-nationaltrust-4-27-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p92#a260427p92

North Korea-linked hackers stole ~$577M across the Drift Protocol and KelpDAO hacks in April, accounting for 76% of total crypto hack losses so far in 2026 (TRM Insights)
https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/north-korea-sto…

North Korea Stole 76% of All Crypto Hack Value in 2026 — With Just Two Attacks | TRM Blog
North Korea stole USD 577M in just two crypto hacks in 2026 — Drift Protocol and KelpDAO — accounting for 76% of all hack losses through April.

GÉANT selected as candidate Node in the EOSC Federation 🎉
As one of the pan-European e-infrastructure Nodes, GÉANT will help scale up Europe's open science ecosystem, providing trusted access, secure data exchange and high-performance connectivity for researchers across borders.
🔗 Read more: htt…

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@TransitionShow/116687255356778710
South Africa has enough wind and solar resources and land to generate at least three times as much power as its entire annual load. Ditching coal makes so much sense...but what about the…

I wrote a cool #ttrpg adventure and I would like to share it but it's a bit plain and I would like to add some images.
But all the free images resources on the interweb are completely splopified :(
Do you know of a place or someone that would let me download and use human drawn renaissance style image for free?

Time-Frequency Grid States for Reconstruction and Correction of Channel-Induced Distortion in Entangled Photons
Siang-Yun Liu, Bo-Ren Huang, Zhi-Xuan Zen, Yen-Hung Chen, Pin-Ju Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12216 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12216
arXiv:2606.12216v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Characterization of time-frequency (TF) quantum states requires reliable reconstruction of their TF distributions. However, imperfect transmission or measurement channels can distort reconstructed joint spectral intensities (JSIs), especially when the underlying perturbation mechanism is unknown. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a reconstruction and correction framework that uses a TF grid state as an intrinsic frequency-domain reference. By analyzing the displacement of the grid points, a Gaussian process regression model is employed to reconstruct a correction mapping for the nonlinear coordinate deformation without assuming a prior physical model of the distortion. The learned mapping reduces the residual coordinate deviation of the TF grid state by approximately a factor of 11 and, when applied to an independent frequency-entangled test state, improves the Gaussian-shape fidelity from 76.2\% to 90.0\%. These results establish TF grid states as practical metrological resources for diagnosing and correcting distortions in TF quantum systems, providing a pathway toward distortion-resilient quantum communication and high-dimensional quantum information processing.
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FPF Releases Practitioner Guides on Privacy Enhancing Technologies for Education Stakeholders
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-practitioner-guides-on-privacy-enhancing-technologies-for-education-stakeholders/

The Purpose of Protocols
https://connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-of-protocols/

The Purpose of Protocols
Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?

Exploring cooperation mechanisms via reinforcement learning in network common-pool resource games
Yihang Qin, Lin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05867 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.05867 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.05867
arXiv:2606.05867v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Sustaining cooperation in resource-constrained populations requires allocation mechanisms that balance individual incentives, resource sustainability, and distributional fairness. This paper proposes a network common-pool resource game in which individuals are embedded in complex networks, participate in multiple overlapping local resource pools, and face endogenous resource constraints during strategy evolution. Within this framework, we first examine two representative allocation mechanisms, equal allocation and proportional allocation. The results show that equal allocation produces fair but inefficient outcomes by weakening contribution incentives, whereas proportional allocation can temporarily promote cooperation but amplifies accumulated advantages and leads to severe inequality. To overcome these limitations, we develop a graph neural network-based reinforcement learning framework in which a learned social planner allocates local pool resources without directly controlling individual strategies. Simulation results under four representative network topologies show that the learned planner sustains higher cooperation levels and average accumulated resources, and reduces inequality compared with the baselines. Furthermore, we interpret the learned policy and distill it into two simpler mechanisms: a resource-dependent mixture mechanism for regular networks and a degree-conditioned mixture mechanism for heterogeneous networks. These mechanisms reveal that effective allocation should adapt to both local resource states and structural positions, providing an interpretable route from reinforcement learning policy search to mechanism design in networked resource-sharing systems.
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the "Deal man" from the Dover Museum sure looks familiar #stonks
https://www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Information-Resources/The-Collection/The-Deal-Man.as…

The exact cause of the outage remains unclear, but several Russian media outlets, including Forbes Russia, initially suggested it could be linked to government attempts to block internet resources, specifically the blocking of IP addresses used in banking infrastructure.
https://therecord.media/outage-hits-ru

Major outage hits Russian banking apps, metro payments across regions
The disruption on Friday affected apps from some of the country’s largest banks, including Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank, T-Bank and Gazprombank.

Today was asked to make 4 servers for printing. All had 32 gigs memory. 2 had 12 CPU and the other two had 8. All had 1TB of disk. FOR A PRINT SERVER! Thank god its all virtualized and is not reserved resources but WTF?

3am on a public holiday is a good time for posting bug reproducers...
https://github.com/kube-rs/envtest/issues/58

listing resources often gets 429 "storage is (re)initializing" errors in envtest · Issue #58 · kube-rs/envtest
Just for tracking/understading, here are the rough details now; I'll add a reproducer later. I have a controller with a reconciler operating on CRDs from Envoy Gateway and Kubernetes Gateway. Rust ...

"Mantello characterized Flock opposition as anti-police ... declared a state of emergency allowing her to mobilize whatever city resources are needed to continue paying Flock for use of its technology .... "
Small-town yokel mayors know that 2% of the entire electorate showing to protest something (not just to vote, but physically showing up out in the street) is "a small but highly vocal group [...] much of it rooted in intimidation tactics and misinformation"

Closed-Loop Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Control for Efficient Drone Flight
Jingli Li, Yiyan Ma, Bo Ai, Wei Chen, Weijie Yuan, Qingqing Cheng, Tongyang Xu, Guoyu Ma, Mi Yang, Yunlong Lu, Wenwei Yue, Christos Masouros, Zhangdui Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.29220
arXiv:2603.29220v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) require drones to follow specific trajectories controlled by ground base stations (GBSs). However, given complex low-altitude channel conditions and limited spectrum and power resources, sensing errors and wireless link unreliability cannot be ignored, leading to trajectory deviations that threaten flight safety. To address this issue, this paper proposes an integrated sensing-communication-control (ISCC) closed-loop trajectory tracking approach, aiming to reveal the coupling mechanisms among communication, sensing, and control during drone flight. In detail, we incorporate sensing errors in trajectory state estimation, packet losses in control command transmission, and finite blocklength transmission effects into the closed-loop dynamics. First, through theoretical analysis, we identify the dominant role of the time-frequency resources allocated to control in ensuring system stability and derive a lower bound on the resources required to guarantee stable operation. Second, to minimize tracking error, we formulate a time-frequency resource allocation optimization problem for the sensing, communication, and control components, subject to constraints on communication rate and closed-loop stability. Accordingly, a solution algorithm based on successive convex approximation is proposed. Third, simulation results indicate that once stability is ensured, system performance is primarily determined by sensing accuracy, with the trajectory tracking error exhibiting an approximately linear dependence on the position error bound. Finally, it is shown that the proposed ISCC scheme avoids trajectory divergence under FBL transmission compared with ISCC designs ignoring control packet loss, and could achieve decimeter-level average tracking accuracy, reducing the error to only 17.37% of that observed in the baseline global navigation satellite system scheme.
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In just 14 years, the Swiss glaciers lost almost 25% of their 2010 ice volume, which corresponds to a wastage of around 15 km3 of ice. New paper:
https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/20/3111/2026/

Seasonal mass balance drivers for Swiss glaciers over 2010–2024 inferred from remote-sensing observations and modelling
Abstract. Reliable estimates of glacier mass balance for an entire mountain range provide valuable insights into the impact of glacier melt on regional water resources. Here, we derive daily mass balance estimates for every glacier in the Swiss Alps over the period 2010–2024. To do so, we leverage two simplified surface energy-balance models and remote sensing observations, i.e. geodetic volume changes and observations of the snow-covered area fraction (SCAF) of glaciers during summer, togeth…

Progress in #Firefox for #JpegXL: While the latest nightly for Android still needs image.jxl.enabled=true in about:config, it now renders
https://

JPEG XL Test Page – JPEG XL
Try if your browser supports JPEG XL images.

New research reveals repeated flooding is altering Florida freshwater resources #florida

New research reveals repeated flooding is altering Florida freshwater resources
Heavy rains causing repeated river flood intrusions into Florida's freshwater springs are changing the function of the clear natural resource. Findings from University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) researchers Paul Donsky and Matt Cohen reveal that these intrusions can cause flow reversal, worsening already present problems.

Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela
— experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts,
a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview Friday.
Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Absolute Resolve were carried out by the joint force in June 2025 and January 2026, respectively.
Pentagon leadership have touted the rai…

EXCLUSIVE: Space Force’s role in Iran, Venezuela raids fueling push for more resources
Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela — experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts, a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview.

Super-Link Fragility in Asymmetric W-Class States under Quantum Noise
Sougata Bhattacharyya, Fatih Ozaydin, Sovik Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12307 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12307 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12307
arXiv:2606.12307v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The asymmetric three-qubit W-class state $|\overline{W_3^L}\rangle$ defines an isosceles entanglement-network geometry, (a) two vertex-base (VB) links form stronger bipartite connections, (b) while the base-base (BB) link is weaker. This suggests that concentrating entanglement into a super-link may be advantageous for quantum-network tasks. Here, we show that this intuition is incomplete. We analytically compare the bipartite concurrence dynamics of the symmetric |W> state and the asymmetric $|\overline{W_3^L}\rangle$ state, which differ both in entanglement-network geometry and excitation sector under standard noise models. In the absence of noise, the concurrence hierarchy is C_{VB} > C_W > C_{BB}$. Under phase damping, this hierarchy is preserved for all noise strengths and no entanglement sudden death occurs. Under amplitude damping, however, the hierarchy is reordered. The symmetric |W> state becomes the most robust, while the base-base concurrence of $|\overline{W_3^L}\rangle$ vanishes at the finite threshold of parameter $\gamma$. We term this reordering as the \textit{Super-Link Fragility Effect}. The same structural asymmetry that produces a stronger vertex-base link also makes it more vulnerable to energy dissipation when coupled with multi-excitation amplitudes. Under depolarization, the asymmetry advantage is erased, with $C_W$ and $C_{VB}$ sharing the same sudden-death threshold for some value of the parameter p, while $C_{BB}$ disappears earlier at some other value of the parameter p. The generalized amplitude damping channel continuously connects the damping-dominated regime to the pure-excitation limit, where the initial hierarchy is restored. These results show that entanglement robustness in $W$-class resources is controlled not by initial concurrence alone, but by the joint structure of entanglement-network geometry, excitation sector, and noise symmetry.
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"Ábrego García should be sent to Liberia because the US has spent government resources and political capital negotiating with the west African nation to accept third-country nationals, Lyons wrote."
So because the #WhiteHouse has spent money and political capital to arrange something both stupid & brutal, they should have the right to do that? And continue to waste resources…

"Ábrego García should be sent to Liberia because the US has spent government resources and political capital negotiating with the west African nation to accept third-country nationals, Lyons wrote."
So because the #WhiteHouse has spent money and political capital to arrange something both stupid & brutal, they should have the right to do that? And continue to waste resources…

"Europe could source half its critical materials from waste by 2050, study finds"
#Europe #Minerals #Resources

Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic "to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity"; Musk called Anthropic "evil" and "misanthropic" (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-spacex-compute-deal-col…

Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.

Steve Dublanica, “Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip—Confessions of a Cynical Waiter”. https://mastodon.social/@michelestrider/116519464040867905

AFT boss Randi Weingarten tapped union resources worth over $1.4M to write 'manifesto' book (Carl Campanile/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-news/aft-boss-randi-weingarten-tapped-union-resources-worth-over-1-4m-to-write-manifesto-book/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p88#a260519p88

Why Kirk Cousins believes Las Vegas is the perfect next chapter https://www.raiders.com/news/why-kirk-cousins-believes-las-vegas-is-the-perfect-next-chapter

"Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/20/rainforests-pushed-to-breaking-point-by-new-demands-for-resources-re…

"Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/20/rainforests-pushed-to-breaking-point-by-new-demands-for-resources-re…

#Python is just doing great. We're not having impossible constraints, as some projects need old #setuptools for pkg_resources, and other projects are starting to require newer setuptools for some fancy new features. And ofc after promising to release pkg_resources standalone over a month ago, setuptools upstream didn't deliver.
#Gentoo

Last year Google reported that protein structure predictions from AlphaFold have been used by over three million researchers worldwide.
And Isomorphic Labs,
a Google subsidiary that aims to use AlphaFold and related technologies to develop new drugs,
just raised a $2 billion Series B funding round.
But there are concrete signs of realignment, in both enthusiasm and resources.
Last month, the Los Angeles Times reported that Google fellow John Jumper, who won the …

Google I/O showed how the path for AI-driven science is shifting
Two years ago, an AI tool won Google DeepMind a Nobel. Researchers are now climbing toward a new goal.

"Citation Analysis for Acquisitions Reveals Better Grades for Students Using Library Resources"
https://pal-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/pal/article/view/7214
"This study investigates the use of library resources by first-year students (English 101/102) at the University…

Why Kirk Cousins believes Las Vegas is the perfect next chapter https://www.raiders.com/news/why-kirk-cousins-believes-las-vegas-is-the-perfect-next-chapter

Wildfires accelerate winter snowmelt in Oregon's western Cascades, study finds #Oregon

Wildfires accelerate winter snowmelt in Oregon's western Cascades, study finds
The Pacific Northwest has seen below-normal snow this season—and new research from Portland State University suggests that the region's snowmelt-dependent water resources could face growing challenges in the years ahead as forest fires and winter rainstorms become more frequent.

Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $1B, vs. $966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/pinterest-pins-q1-earnings-report-2026.html…

Pinterest surges 17% after earnings beat as company posts strong guidance
Pinterest cut nearly 15% of the company's workforce and reduced office space in January as it pushes more resources into AI.

"H&M Foundation launches open-source toolkit to cut textiles emissions"
#Clothes #Fashion #Emissions

H&M Foundation launches open-source toolkit to cut textiles emissions
Philanthropic entity the H&M Foundation has launched a new open-access set of resources helping businesses across the textiles and fashion industry to identify and enact opportunities to cut emissions.

There are some changes for the 2026 tax filing season that people who are 65 years of age and older should be aware of.
The most recent being the enhanced deduction for seniors
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/2026-filing-season-updates-and-resources-for-…

"Creating a writing and dissemination toolkit for faculty scholarly writing and publishing"
https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2026.e183055

Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/06/03/terra-ai-khosla-bhp-series-a

Terra AI closes $20M from Khosla and BHP Ventures
Investors are pouring money into mining tech and projects as demand for minerals soars.

"So instead of eliminating (opens in new tab) 118.3 million permits (opens in new tab), the Air Resources Board will distribute them for free to companies on the condition that they pledge to invest in clean energy projects."
So how will the pledges be enforced, I wonder? I've seen over 30 years of "Here's how we will go green" "commitments" from companies like BP (remember Beyond Petroleum), Shell, BHP Biliton, etc - all reneged
So how wil…

A California environmental board voted to cut $202M from SF’s eco-friendly transit
Muni stands to lose hundreds of millions with changes to a state program that funds public transportation by charging firms for permits to emit carbon.

"So instead of eliminating (opens in new tab) 118.3 million permits (opens in new tab), the Air Resources Board will distribute them for free to companies on the condition that they pledge to invest in clean energy projects."
So how will the pledges be enforced, I wonder? I've seen over 30 years of "Here's how we will go green" "commitments" from companies like BP (remember Beyond Petroleum), Shell, BHP Biliton, etc - all reneged
So how wil…

A California environmental board voted to cut $202M from SF’s eco-friendly transit
Muni stands to lose hundreds of millions with changes to a state program that funds public transportation by charging firms for permits to emit carbon.

For over 25 years,
Valerie Olson has worked tirelessly to protect the treasured sensitive habitats, scenic beauty, and recreational resources of More Mesa from harmful development.
As President of the More Mesa Preservation Coalition, a long-time client of EDC,
Valerie has monitored pending development threats, lobbied Santa Barbara County Supervisors, and encouraged the County Planning and Development Department and Coastal Commission to fulfill their obligations to prote…

Donald Trump said this past weekend he wants to “take the oil in Iran”
by seizing control of a key export hub,
echoing a refrain he has returned to for over a decade.
It’s a sign of his disregard for international law -- and belief in “fossil-fuel imperialism”, experts say.
“Trump truly believes that the US is entitled to whatever resource it so desires,”
said Patrick Bigger, co-director of the Transition Security Project, a research initiative focused on the cli…

Google researchers warn that quantum computers may crack elliptic-curve cryptography, which helps secure crypto wallets, with 20x fewer resources than expected (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-31/g…

"They literally told them, 'Get what you can get in the backpack. You've got to go,'" he said.
"They came with no uniforms, nothing. The three we met first, they came with the clothes on their back, what they could fit in that backpack."
The Navy has provided services including "crisis counseling, financial and legal assistance, relocation support, educational resources, coordination for child and youth programs,"
according to Lt. Cm…

ScaleOps, which makes automated cloud spend tools, raised a $130M Series C led by Insight Partners at an $800M valuation, bringing its total funding to $210M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/skywz1dowe

ScaleOps secures $130 million Series C at $800 million valuation as AI compute demand explodes
The Israeli startup targets inefficiencies in how enterprises manage cloud and GPU resources. 

Trump administration no longer has enough lawyers left to do its dirty work.
Whoever hasn’t been purged for not being loyal enough or exited ahead of the purges has been asked to clean up a mess with extremely limited amounts of resources and manpower.
To make things worse, Trump’s handpicked prosecutors keep being kicked out of court because Trump bypassed the appointment process essential to them remaining employed.
Then there’s the self-inflicted reputational damage Tr…

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Us8pMwpy/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Yuval Noah Harari on Instagram: "The past few decades have been the first time in human history that states have consistently spent more on their citizens’ health than on war. With the threats to Greenland and Taiwan, and the wars in Ukraine and Iran, are we entering a new imperial era where countries must again focus their resources on weapons? From Building Trust in the Age of Disinformation – What Future Awaits Us? With Prof. Marijana Grbeša in October 2025. Watch the whole thing via link in bio. #YuvalNoahHarari #NewWorldOrder #Iran #Israel #Ukraine"
13K likes, 272 comments - yuval_noah_harari on March 15, 2026: "The past few decades have been the first time in human history that states have consistently spent more on their citizens’ health than on war. With the threats to Greenland and Taiwan, and the wars in Ukraine and Iran, are we entering a new imperial era where countries must again focus their resources on weapons? From Building Trust in the Age of Disinformation – What Future Awaits Us? With Prof. Marijana Grbeša in October 20…