The obvious result of making regulation so nakedly political
is that businesses respond by finding ways to butter-up the president
rather than building a case their deals serve the public interest
https://bsky.app/profile/economist.com/post/3m7snmxfri52h
email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…
"The #Labour party won one third of the votes (34%) in an election in which under two thirds (60%) of the electorate voted. Only one in five (20.4%) registered electors in Britain support this government. It has no mandate to do anything. If it tries to do anything radical, then, as Thatcher did with the poll tax, it will find the difference between Westminster games and real politics.
T…
Ten years ago the pioneering and highly influential British synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) dedicated their classic song 'Electricity' to ESA astronaut Tim Peake ahead of his #ISS mission - the result was the nice music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MADAqhrWpD8 using images from the station by A. Gerst taken a year earlier.
This is why I don't fully trust 48hills, even though they're on "my side" in being pro-labor and anti-billionaire. Tim Redmond thinks it's a good thing that a 100% affordable housing development was forced to lop a floor off to preserve views 😫
"The staff reached out to the neighbors,[...]took feedback, and as a result made some changes that lowered the height of the new buildings. That, in a reasonable world, is how this should work" No it's not!!…
What if our networks could do more than just carry data?
In December, the Fibre Sensing Task of the GÉANT (GN5-2) Project, together with SURF @… turned 57 km of live optical fibre into a sensor.
The result? Detecting everything from trams to a plane landing at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
🎥 Watch Chris Atherton walk us through the experiment.
“I know that thousands of gay men in Russia watched Heated Rivalry—on pirate sites, of course, because they have no legal way to watch the series. The Russian authorities would undoubtedly ban the show as LGBTQ propaganda, but most Western platforms don’t function in Russia either. As a result, Russian queer people have to break every possible law simply to live in the same world as members of their own community.”
@… I always --fetch-only before a dry run,
pkg upgrade -Fqy
Without the fetch, the result of a dry run may be misleading.
In order to keep a population healthy, the gene pool needs to be constantly refreshed and ideally increased, not shrunk as a result of cosanguinitt of parenthood. Integration of immigrants, including their genetic integration, is a benefit, not a threat.
⚙️ Configuration: `cache.result` for result caching, `extensions` for custom listeners
🐛 Bug fixes: Parallel mode stability, Windows path handling, PHAR extraction issues
https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit
Last bit of car maintenance for the year: the Boxster is back from it's 4yr major service. Along with that, we have new front discs and pads and new hardlines from brake junction to calipers, and to top it all off, the original dealer plates are back in place.
Driving home, it definitely felt faster - though that could be a result of my now much lighter-weight wallet 🙂
email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…
From direct attacks on the press by a fascistic federal government
to the explosion of AI and the closure and consolidation of news outlets around the country,
truth itself is under direct, relentless assault,
as are the journalists who have committed their lives to reporting the truth about what’s happening in and to our world.
The intended result of these attacks is to create a more atomized, alienated, ignorant, disempowered public
that is easier to divide…
After reading a term paper that demonstrated nothing more than the "author's" brainless use of a brainless statistical model to brainlessly vomit brainless prose, I'm deeply grateful for the flawed result of human thinking that turned up second in the grading pile. It's not amazing but it's really not bad and, more importantly, it shows the student learned something. If nothing else, LLMs have given me a new appreciation for the imperfect but honest work we produce …
Still waiting : French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance - A Belgian court has previously found him guilty of coercion and sexual abuse of scores of minors. A group of victims and survivors who allege that they were abused at Spatz’s centre in France have reported him to the local police. The investigation is ongoing. Should the French request be actioned, it could result in one of two outcomes: either a summon…
"Tjälknöl" (literally "Frost Lump"), the Swedish art of breaking all culinary rules to create the perfect cold cut.
How: Take a rock-hard frozen joint of moose. Place it directly into a cool oven (approx. 75°C–100°C) and roast overnight. Plunge the hot meat into a cold, salty brine after it’s cooked.
Result:
The meat is hot (the brine is cold) and drinks up the salty, spiced liquid like a sponge. You get incredibly tender, cured-style slices that melt in…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Scotland in Song
Music knows many different forms in Scotland, as a result of her radically different traditions. Poet Kenneth Steven chooses to explore the stories of five composers.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mx7d
Lauren Boebert is vulnerable -- she's is in Congress because of just 𝟱𝟰𝟲 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀
And now she's spreading a sinister conspiracy that 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗺 𝗝𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 “𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻”
-- Democrats 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 be killed as a result! Here's why:
Her theory is based on the ideas of Holocaust denier David Icke,
who claims that Jews and powerful people across the globe are disguised reptilians working to 𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺.
👉 When your enemies are inhuman it is …
I got energized by a blog post by Jorge Castro, the tireless promotor of Bluefin and all things OCI.
That's how I got busy the last couple of days in setting up Aurorix, my own take on Aurora (the KDE sister of Bluefin).
It's been an incredible lot of fun, and the result is something that works very well for me. Expect more details later on in this journey.
Now, don't worry, Slackware with Mango is superb and Gentoo (after losing it's KDE flavor for me) will be…
@… and
@… might like this.
I think this is interesting, from "Frontiers in Neuroscience" mag. New "HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article" by Joachim Keppler, head of Department of Consciousness …
RE: https://social.makerforums.info/@mcdanlj/115834722555775922
This morning, I heard the first report of someone passing their US ham radio exam by using Open Ham Prep …
So, it would seem the Gorton and Denton by-election will be crucial. Starmer will cling on until the result and then a leadership election will happen.
But the by-election will determine everything. If the Greens are elected, Labour will move left with Angela Raynor and, god forbid, if Reform win, then it will lurch right with Wes Streeting.
Seriously, if Wes Streeting got into power, I’d be fucked.
Today I learned about Yorkshire Pudding - and I've decided I need to try my hand at making them.
This recipe seems to be an exhaustive examination of the different myths and factors that surround the famous popover accomplice to decadent Prime Rib...
https://www.seriouseats.com/the-be…
Here's a writeup of my portable monitor for desktop use. This proved a little tricky but I'm happy with the result.
Online Algorithm for Fractional Matchings with Edge Arrivals in Graphs of Maximum Degree Three
Kanstantsin Pashkovich, Thomas Snow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07355 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07355 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.07355
arXiv:2602.07355v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study online algorithms for maximum cardinality matchings with edge arrivals in graphs of low degree. Buchbinder, Segev, and Tkach showed that no online algorithm for maximum cardinality fractional matchings can achieve a competitive ratio larger than $4/(9-\sqrt 5)\approx 0.5914$ even for graphs of maximum degree three. The negative result of Buchbinder et al. holds even when the graph is bipartite and edges are revealed according to vertex arrivals, i.e. once a vertex arrives, all edges are revealed that include the newly arrived vertex and one of the previously arrived vertices. In this work, we complement the negative result of Buchbinder et al. by providing an online algorithm for maximum cardinality fractional matchings with a competitive ratio at least $4/(9-\sqrt 5)\approx 0.5914$ for graphs of maximum degree three. We also demonstrate that no online algorithm for maximum cardinality integral matchings can have the competitive guarantee $0.5807$, establishing a gap between integral and fractional matchings for graphs of maximum degree three. Note that the work of Buchbinder et al. shows that for graphs of maximum degree two, there is no such gap between fractional and integral matchings, because for both of them the best achievable competitive ratio is $2/3$. Also, our results demonstrate that for graphs of maximum degree three best possible competitive ratios for fractional matchings are the same in the vertex arrival and in the edge arrival models.
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Yeah, um - that's a swing and a miss there. Gemini.
#AI #SwingAndAMiss #Gemini
Searches for Light #DarkMatter and Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering of Solar #Neutrinos with the #LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment: https://lz.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/12/LZ_Paper_Preprint_WS2025_v6.0_20251208.pdf / New Results from the LZ Dark Matter Experiment (recording of a talk): https://sanfordlab.org/lz-2025-result -> LZ Sets a World’s Best in the Hunt for Galactic Dark Matter and Gets a New Look at Neutrinos from the Sun’s Core: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/12/08/lz-sets-a-worlds-best-in-the-hunt-for-galactic-dark-matter/
Code is not always a liability. Code does have value. The value of code is measured by how much other code doesn't need to exist as a result.
#Programming #Software
"As a result, if Trump mobilizes the U.S. presence on the ground — or flies in special forces — the U.S. could seize control of Nuuk “in half an hour or less,” Mortensgaard said. “Mr. Trump says things and then he does them,” said Danish Member of European Parliament Stine Bosse. “If you were one of 60,000 people in Greenland, you would be very worried.”
Santa #Python came super early in 2026!
With build 1.4.0, it is now possible to easily dump effective package metadata!
So getting the version of a package in the current directory is now as easy as `pipx run build --metadata 2>/dev/null | jq -r .version`.
This is NOT like parsing pyproject.toml or whatever. It builds the package and looks at the result. So it works even with…
Since it's this time of the year again, let me once more plug my Elisen Lebkuchen recipe, a delicious German cake tradition for the advent/winter time (sadly only if you're not allergic to nuts or honey):
https://gist.github.com/postspectacular/3400d3b2f5a3267d157a
Like global search and replace but don’t like surprises?
Check out serpl – a handy little command-line app that gives you a visual preview of the changes you are about to make. You can even go in and remove the replacements you don’t want from the source previews. The regex support appears to be basic, however (I couldn’t get a negative lookbehind to work).
Portugal elects Socialist Party’s Seguro as president in landslide | #AlJazeera
#Elections #Portugal
I mentioned a little while back that I was considering starting a new browser project using WebKitGtk. The result, written in Vala, is nearing minimum viability. Right now it's nothing special, just a simple tabbed browser that's missing a lot of features, but the skeleton is good and you already get some goodies that Gnome Web doesn't give you:
- Ability to hide the tab bar
- Ability to hide the address bar and other controls
- When the tab bar is hidden, am overv…
And lastly the mess at the end. Anthony Taylor really flubbed it. Konate ends up with the same disciplinary result as Martinelli?!? Jesus comes and retaliates on Konate, knocking Taylor's yellow card out of his hands and he gets... nothing?
Martinelli, the man who played dead within two minutes of coming on, is upset about a player on the ground? "The lad doth protest too much, methinks."
Throws the ball on a downed player, puts a knee into him, and then pushes him?…
Roblox actually doing their own thing before the ban went into effect shows how messy this will be. Ineffective government-issued age-gates and moves from undesignated platforms to develop their own will just result in unending confusion.
I have been trying to figure out what to post here about ICE activity today in the Minneapolis / St. Paul metro. It is just •batshit• out there.
Some admin mucky-muck is in town today (Noem, I think?), and ICE is putting on a full We Are A Big Fascist Deal theater show. The result of this is chaos: ICE caravans all over, vulnerable people terrified, less-vulnerable residents dropping their work to keep watch on the streets.
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Goodbye Buck!
Well done on your years of service to the Jays.
I'm gonna say it!, your voice grated on me sometimes lol... but mostly when the Jays were losing.
2025 is a fine year to go out on even if the result was just shy of perfect.
#BlueJays #Baseball
https://dailyhive.com/toronto/buck-martinez-goodbye-toronto-blue-jays-broadcasts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
The Dying Grove: A Novel Born from the Collision of Joyce and Mycorrhiza
Some books are written. Others are grown. "The Dying Grove" belongs to the second category, and that distinction is not metaphor but method. This novel, the first in a new series called Fractional Fiction, emerged from an experiment in literary hybridization: what happens when you take the formal architecture of modernist masters and seed it with contemporary scientific research? The result is…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Scotland in Song
Music knows many different forms in Scotland, as a result of her radically different traditions. Poet Kenneth Steven chooses to explore the stories of five composers.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mwkd
@… I genuinely could have helped you.
Instead you have been so confrontational and aggressive that, yes―as a result of your nastiness―I am prepared to bicker with you.
email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…
Given the defensive and set piece struggles LFC have had and going up a team that excels at set pieces and pressuring defenses... I'm delighted with the result.
Arsenal, like Newcastle in MW1, completely lost their heads and almost gave the game away. I actually believe that Slot, a man who's been under the threat of being sacked, outcoached Arteta.
If Frimpong could place a final pass, or if John Brooks wasn't asleep on VAR duty to see Trossard drop Wirtz in the box,…
Members of Congress are routinely escorted through airport security,
but the process does not normally result in profanity-laced airport tirades
Police investigation faults Nancy Mace for testy exchanges
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Scotland in Song
Music knows many different forms in Scotland, as a result of her radically different traditions. Poet Kenneth Steven chooses to explore the stories of five composers.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mx1z
The #SKAO in South Africa 'comes alive' with first fringes milestone - two of SKA-Mid's 15m-diameter dishes were used together to achieve the result, observing a radio galaxy estimated to be around 2.6 billion light years away: https://www.skao.int/en/news/693/ska-mid-milestone
RESULT:
Democrat #Chasity #Martinez wins a special election for a legislative seat in Louisiana,
62% to 38%.
This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year,
so a big overperformance by Dems,
but the seat was already Dem-held.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Scotland in Song
Music knows many different forms in Scotland, as a result of her radically different traditions. Poet Kenneth Steven looks at the lives and music of five Scottish composers.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mw43
More than 60,000 penguins have starved to death off the coast of South Africa
as a result of collapsing sardine numbers, according to a new study.
From 2004 to 2011, more than 95 per cent of the African penguins on Dassen Island and Robben Island died.
Researchers said they probably died during the moulting period, the annual event where they replace all their feathers at once over a number of weeks.
The climate crisis and overfishing have been attributed to driving…