2026-09-09 17:18:25
early one morning in may for a shittember evening:
#shittember #seaWednesday
early one morning in may for a shittember evening:
#shittember #seaWednesday
How Treydan Stukes Continues To Evolve As Future Raiders Standout https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-treydan-stukes-continues-evolve-future-standout
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Arts House Listening Program
With a year-round program of dance, theatre, music, sound, new technologies and community projects, Arts House is one of the major forces shaping Melbourne's cultural and social landscape...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpo…
Browns plan to sign former Cowboys 2nd-round edge rusher amid dire need https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/cleveland-browns/news/browns-plan-sign-cowboys-2nd-round-edge-rusher-dire-need/aeeccd06c27b901310a…
Shopware 6: Ten real, verified, completely undocumented Shopware features that were each too small for their own post — from mail-safe URLs to per-page robots directives to a debugging trick for Elasticsearch relevance scores. One file reference each, zero fluff.
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Renner's 2027 NFL Draft scouting series: Ranking top 10 defensive tackles
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2027-nfl-draft-ranking-top-10-defensive-tackles/…
Sometimes in science people discourage you from talking about wild ideas because what if someone "steals" it.
But that misunderstands several points: you are rarely the first or only person to have an idea, we are all swimming in the same water, reading the same literature, attending the same conferences. It would be odd if only one person has a given idea.
Maybe someone already tried it and found it didn't work. Discussing ideas might help to stop you wasting your time and resources in that case.
And there are more than enough scientific questions to go round!
Ideas are the easy part. Doing the work is the difficult bit.
And so what if someone publishes similar ideas to you beforehand? It's science, it's supposed to be replicable (odd incentives like publish or perish culture notwithstanding) and there is always a new angle to explore.
Science is a group pursuit anyway. It's rare you do everything by yourself, discussion with other scientists is as essential as oxygen. And sometimes the more discussion you have the wilder and cooler the ideas get
#AcademicChatter
https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/117078561059020813
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net - So. Share your wildest ideas. Not because you want to be praised for it. But because you might inspire other strangers with specific knowledge to build stuff inspired by your idea without even telling you. Ideas want to travel to find new friends. Set them free. They might come back to you or not. Just share. That's what the Real Internet is for ;)
ETH Zurich spinout ZuriQ, which is developing trapped-ion quantum computing processors based on a 2D architecture, raised a $25.5M seed led by Quantonation (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/07/28/zuriq-raises-255m-to-scale-its-b…
Very round about way to get the letters for this one. #Wordle
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Trump’s second term has revealed many weaknesses in America’s political system.
This is one of them:
It turns out that the government can function (or malfunction) based just on orders of the president and the Supreme Court’s rulings on those orders.
Congress is largely irrelevant, if it wants to be.
As the court returns for a new term this week, we are due for another round of debate about the separation of powers
— the fight between the executive and the cou…
UK non-academic researchers!
UK Research and Innovation have one research funding programme - 'Future Leaders Fellowships' - which allow and support applications from non-academic researchers, i.e. those hosted by business including non-profits. It's well funded, over 4 years, extendable to 7 years. I was lucky enough to get one of these, hosted by the lovely non-profit organisation @…
Ex-Jets LB Anthony Wint wins UFC debut with first-round submission https://www.nfl.com/news/ex-jets-lb-anthony-wint-wins-ufc-debut-with-first-round-submission
Raiders Late-Round Rookie Turning Heads Early During Training Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/malik-benson-turning-heads-during-training-camp/
Well now, this probably explains my issue the with the "7.2" kernels on Fedora 44 I was having. The latest update the other day (Yesterday?) fixed it. Reboot and GDM shows right up. https://gadgetsnow.indiatimes.com/tech
Here's what Cowboys former 5th-round pick must do to earn game snaps https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/03/cowboys-1-2-punch-skillset-will-determine-rb2-jaydon-blue-2…
If AI is so good at coding, shouldn’t we not only see an increase in quantity (∗︎ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/16/we-found-the-missing-ai-apps-and-nobody-downloads-them/), but also in quality?
Similarly, if we’re close to “fully automa…
Round trip to take my dog to Latvia and her new home. A cool 10 000 km
Doggo is super happy there. First time off meds in her life. No allergies or skin issues. Also just taken over the house all the other dogs nicely fallen in line and she is the only one sleeping on in laws bed lol. And for the first time in her life non hypo allergic foods and getting treate.
Good, but hard, decision.
I'm going to have this going round in my head the whole weekend now.
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff4500/fc04415.htm
Cowboys Release Controversial Second Round Defensive End https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/sam-williams-second-rounder-released/
from my link log —
Intel underestimates fsin error bounds by 1.3 quintillion.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/
saved 2026-07-13
Raiders ink one of last two unsigned draft picks https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-ink-one-of-last-two-unsigned-draft-picks-3853684/
The Giants' trade for J.J. McCarthy makes no sense -- for more reasons than one
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-giants-trade-for-j-j-mccarthy-makes-no-sense/…
Spades is played by taking “tricks” or “books”
–which are won by placing the highest card in a round.
Traditionally a four-person, two-team game, players rely on their partners heavily
– one is expected to sense that their teammate needs help and to adjust their gameplay accordingly.
Players individually make bids,
positing the number of tricks they will get that hand.
Sometimes, a player may make a “nil” bid, which means they will not take any tricks.
🌍 Floci is a family: #floci for AWS on port 4566, floci-gcp on 4588, floci-az on 4577 and floci-oci on 4599 — one container per cloud, one port each, no telemetry. A CLI and an AWS-Console-style local UI round it out.
📌 #LocalStack's community edition sunset in March 2026, requiring…
Firefox 154 has decided to make menus very much like MacOS(round corners, dark/light borders and line seperators), the design itself is fine but it is really weird and inconsistent if one is using any other than MacOS.
Does anyone know what exactly are the CSS selectors for userChrome.css for this case?
#firefox
“ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he expects the war with Russia to continue into the winter, following a round of talks with Donald Trump's top envoys in Kyiv.”
What can one expect from a couple of real estate hustlers.
Business intelligence startup Veridion, which develops an AI-powered, real-time map of ~640M businesses worldwide, raised a $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/09/16/veridion-lands-20m-to-take-…
Cowboys Cut Former Second-Round Pick After Preseason Finale https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-cut-denzel-mims-preseason-finale/
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/117000612920568052
I'm not a big fan of takes like "the research by Anthropic is just marketing because they only attacked a reduced round AES implementation." (Quoted toot is just one example, I've seen it in several other places).
Attacking reduced round implementations is standard fare in cryptographic research, and valuable on its own, as it can teach us things about which approaches might be valuable in attacking AES with more rounds. Saying "this result doesn't matter / is just marketing because it doesn't break full-round AES" also says that 20 years of academic research into reduced round AES does not matter, which is obviously bonkers.
I am not saying that the Anthropic results are groundbreaking (Matthew Green has a much more detailed take and a lot more background in this than I have). But I *am* saying that I dislike the pracice of dismissing any research done by AI labs just because it was done by an AI lab. The other attack actually led to an algorithm being removed from consideration in the PQ crypto competition, and even though some people say "well, it's just applying a known weakness", this apparently wasn't enough to disqualify it until now.
Or, to quote Matthew Greens article:
> If you’re under the impression that these models are “glorified autocomplete” or that progress is slowing down, I need to urge you: stop thinking that. The models are very intelligent and capable, they are getting better at a fast clip. I can cite measurable and impressive progress over just the past five months on specific types of problem I’ve asked them to look at. If there’s a ceiling out there, I don’t yet see evidence of it. The people who think models are dumb are mostly using Google’s free AI search results, and not interacting with the high-end stuff (which only costs $20, so it’s not out of reach.) And they’re mostly not working in new areas.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/
NFL Power Rankings Round-up 2026: Raiders take big leap Week 3 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/09/22/nfl-power-rankings-round-up-2026-raiders-week-3/91887597007/
“It’s war.”
That’s how one Canadian journalist described overnight developments between the governments of the US and Canada
after trade talks between the two were suspended on Friday night
without a deal in place to avoid the imposition of 50% tariffs threatened by Trump on a wide swath of Canadian goods.
Both nations accused the other of scuttling the deal,
with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney citing “last-minute changes” by the Trump administration
an…
Could Cowboys still end up making trade with Raiders for Maxx Crosby? https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/09/04/could-raiders-still-trade-de-maxx-crosby-dallas-cowboys/91612668007/
Cowboys Predicted to Pull the Plug on Injury-Prone Draft Bust https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-predicted-pull-plug-sam-williams/
Browns, safety Grant Delpit agree to 3-year, $48 million extension: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7416857/2026/07/29/grant-delpit-browns-contract-extension/
Metrics with positive Ricci eigenvalue sums on $\mathbb{T}^k\times \mathbb{S}^m$
Huibin Chen, Yiyue Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15814 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.15814 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.15814
arXiv:2609.15814v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We construct metrics with $k$-positive Ricci curvature on $\mathbb{T}^k\times \mathbb{S}^m$, for $k,m\geq2$, arbitrarily close to the standard flat-round product in the smooth topology. The two-torus case disproves Wolfson's conjecture that every closed manifold with two-positive Ricci curvature has virtually free fundamental group. We also establish a local obstruction to two-positive Ricci curvature near closed backgrounds carrying three orthonormal parallel one-forms.
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🛡️ Six rules: no-restyle, no-raw-colors, no-arbitrary-values, no-inline-styles, no-unknown-classes and require-static-classes
📊 Tested in 150 task runs with coding agents: almost every task reached zero violations after one correction round (#Claude Sonnet 5: 69 errors − 0, GPT 5.6 Terra: 117 − 0). In Claude control runs, lint feedback cost 10-48% less than rules alone
Cardinals second round rookie tears MCL vs Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/08/14/cardinals-second-round-rookie-tears-mcl-vs-raiders/91314171007/
Barnwell's NFL trade value guide: The 155 players worth at least one first-round draft pick https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49354774/2026-nfl-trade-tiers-players-worth-first-round-picks-all-32-teams-contract-valu…
Raiders DC had one note for CB Hezekiah Masses he has not forgotten https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/09/24/raiders-dc-rob-leonard-told-cb-hezekiah-masse…
One thing I find interesting is that in this article Amicia has a bandage that she doesn't have in my game: https://godisageek.com/2022/10/a-plague-tale-requiem-windmill-puzzle-guide/
I thought the La Cuna open world fun was over and that now it'd be now dark full of rats (except for the clear lack of enough fireplaces around it to lit in that case), but maybe Amicia gets hurt now and we get back there? Weird that the article does mention chapter 9 tho...
Also when going to the round tower I didn't think it'd already be the goto the fort and end of the open world, if I did I'd have done a last exploring around the world first (even tho I think I found everything, I did want to see if re entering the castle was possible...)
Oh and yeah I was now reminded that slavery was still a thing when this game is set, add another one to the list of historical facts these games made me notice or remember.
All Snaps: Cowboys 'other' 1st-round pick appears on verge after strong Wk 2 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/09/22/pass-rushing-snaps-cowboys-malachi-lawrence-week-2/91878774…
Raiders Get Worrying Week 1 Injury Update on Ashton Jeanty via NFL Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-ashton-jeanty-week-one-status/
Reid's preseason 2027 NFL mock draft: Quarterbacks go 1-2-3 ... and one team trades up for the top pick https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2027/story/_/id/49684109/2027-nfl-mock-draft-reid-preseason-first-…
Lions sign former All-Pro LB Devin White in move to bolster defense https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7485557/2026/08/01/lions-devin-white-free-agent-nfl/
I rewarded myself for #BackToSchool preparation with this book by Anders Kofoed, and it's wonderful. Every Danish home should own it as a beautiful guide to the wildlife and the challenges that we encounter in Danish waters. And then maybe we'd do something finally about our choking seas. A huge recommend on #bookstodon for #DKmastodon from me.
I hope it is translated, the format would do well all round the North and Baltic Seas.
A particularly tasty nugget unearthed today: the Kattegat hosts one of the world's rarest and shallowest of ecosystems, a cold seep which is rather wonderfully named a bubble reef (boblerev) in Danish.
I think we should use this term in English - surely a bubble reef sounds much more appealing than a cold seep?
#biodiversity #marineBiology #Stem #BiodiversityCrisis #danmark
Can former Eagles 5th-round Dude Bro replace Cowboys fan favorite? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/19/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-77-ol-trevor-keegan-the-nex…
Proofs submitted!
I really hope just one very quick round needed after this.
MY SHOULDERS ARE SO KNOTTED!
Devonte Wyatt, Packers agree to 3-year contract extension: Reports https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7371158/2026/07/20/devonte-wyatt-packers-contract-extension/
Ex-Cowboys Draft Bust is Losing His Grip on 53-Man Roster Spot https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/ex-cowboys-mazi-smith-losing-spot/
Raiders Issued Major Maxx Crosby Update Amid Training Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-update-amid-training-camp/
Jaishawn Barham 'ready right now' for 2026 season ahead of preseason finale https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jaishawn-barham-ready-right-now-for-2026-season-ahead-of-preseason-finale
Ravens place rookie WR Ja'Kobi Lane on IR with wrist injury https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7601322/2026/09/16/ravens-jakobi-lane-injured-reserve/
Jaishawn Barham 'ready right now' for 2026 season ahead of preseason finale https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jaishawn-barham-ready-right-now-for-2026-season-ahead-of-preseason-finale
All Eyes Are on $28.9 Million Playmaker at Cowboys Training Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/caleb-downs-dallas-cowboys-training-camp/
Cowboys' Caleb Downs explains why historically bad Week 1 defense is 'very fixable'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-defense-caleb-downs/
Role Call: Caleb Downs primed to make early impact for Cowboys defense https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/role-call-caleb-downs-primed-to-make-early-impact-for-cowboys-defense
2026 NFL Preseason Week 1 rookie grades: Rams QB Ty Simpson aces first test; Broncos RB makes impact https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-preseason-week-1-rookie-grades-rams-qb-ty-simpson-aces-first-test-broncos-rb-makes-impa…
Role Call: Caleb Downs primed to make early impact for Cowboys defense https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/role-call-caleb-downs-primed-to-make-early-impact-for-cowboys-defense
John Niland, OL star of Cowboys' original rise to power, passes away at 82 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/17/cowboys-john-niland-obit/91335512007/