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I'm a Tarrif Man and I'm OK
I tweet all night and I bloviate all day
I cut down deals, I bluff and shuffle
I like to press against women
I put on women's clothing and hang around changing rooms
He cuts down deals, he bluffs and shuffles
He likes to press against women
He puts on women's clothing and hangs around changing rooms
I'm a Tarrif Man and I'm OK
I tweet all night and I bloviate all day

Breaking down rooms in preparation for our move. This our living room setup for the next few days - minimalist and rustic. The rest of our large living room is a pile of disassembled Ikea furniture. Which Casper is inspecting for potential new hiding places.
#Moving #CatsOfMastadon

DO HO SUH: WALK THE HOUSE. This is startlingly good. Really worth a trip to see the exhibition at Tate Modern, if you are anywhere near. It's rare to come across innovative modern art that is so soothing, not shocking or disturbing. These rooms are all made from thin, translucent fabric held up on wire frame, complete with all the familiar fittings.
#art

2 years ago i was working on a game i planned maps for using lines between single letters for rooms, and now when i look at shit like this i imagine wandering around a ribonucleotide

Has any one done a survey/count of the number of technical or other US-venue meetings or conventions are being cancelled because of the danger to foreign nationals who attend?
The US has become a police state much, much faster than Nazi Germany did in the 1930's.
I've already noticed a downturn - for instance I was able to book rooms at a fancy hotel (Four Seasons) for about 1/2 of the normal rate.

#ndwgoecountdown
ESA’s space probe #BepiColombo has reached its destination! Not #Mercury, but

Does the US have the capacity to negotiate trade agreements with 140 countries simultaneously? Alright, call it 110 because the EU covers 28 states in one go. But still. That's a lot of meeting rooms, a lot of coffee, and lot of PowerPoint. And a lot of trade wonks, they'll be pulling kids in off the streets and telling them they're now in charge of talks with, say, Chile, or Thailand, or the UAE.
And who'd want to be a trade wonk working for an embecile who doesn'…

On the Performance of Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS) with Orthogonal and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
Yanyu Cheng, Chongjun Ouyang, Yuanwei Liu, George K. Karagiannidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02420

On the Performance of Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS) with Orthogonal and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
This paper conducts a comprehensive performance analysis for pinching-antenna systems (PASS) under both orthogonal multiple access (OMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission. Given the cost of waveguides, we consider a scenario where the waveguide is not deployed in all rooms, i.e., some users are beyond the line-of-sight (LoS) link service area of the PASS. Specifically, we consider a PASS where a pinching antenna in one room serves two users located in separate rooms. The wi…

There’s a new museum on Naoshima Island! This NYT article also describes the many other museums and exhibits installed there.
This is the “art island” that Lynn and I visited a couple months ago. Looks like we’ll have to go back! This time we’ll know to book rooms way in advance (and to stay longer than two nights).
🎁 link

Japanese Islands’ 10th Tadao Ando Museum Caps a Billionaire’s Quest
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake.

Immersive Visualization of Flat Surfaces Using Ray Marching
Fabian Lander, Diaaeldin Taha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07558 https://ar…

Immersive Visualization of Flat Surfaces Using Ray Marching
We present an effective method for visualizing flat surfaces using ray marching. Our approach provides an intuitive way to explore translation surfaces, mirror rooms, unfolded polyhedra, and translation prisms while maintaining computational efficiency. We demonstrate the utility of the method through various examples and provide implementation insights for programmers. Finally, we discuss the use of our visualizations in outreach. We make our simulations and code available online.

"Good process improvement practices include:
- standardized improvement process (pdsa, or whatever)

- Going to the gemba – improvement is done where the work is done. You must go to the where the action is. Sitting in meeting rooms, or offices, reading reports and making decisions is not the way to improve effectively.
- evidence based decision making..."