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Amazing #video of an #earthquake where large areas were moved for several meters(!) within 1.3 seconds: https://youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM

Dammit AMD, I switched over from the 4070Ti for stability...
#amdgpu #linux

BTW - this old-timey news clip that describes Severin's launch of his voyage is great, particularly the segue from the voyage to another topic in the last few seconds.

Interesting thing about tomorrow's tarot show, rendering now, is that I upgraded from Blender 4.0 to blender 4.4 and it's quite a bit nicer to look at the timeline editor.
Was sad to find that the render time was up though. From about 3 seconds per frame usually to more like 12!?
Trying it with an old version I see that the lights and textures look way better with 4.4 than 4.0 though. A substantial step up in the way the show looks without me even doing anything other than waiting four times longer per frame.
Seems to be heavily dependent upon lighting now. The slow frames are like 12 seconds but the fast frames with minimal lighting and close up on the video are more like 2.
Looks too beautiful now to go back though. Upgraded my cloud-remote render machines too. We will render on four machines tonight. FOUR! The power of it all.
g3.4xlarge is no faster than g3.large but g6.xlarge seems to be twice the speed.
But hard to be sure really coz of the massive variance in time depending on the lighting.
Anyway, great show coming tomorrow. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I'm trying to do with it but tomorrow's show is the answer. Hide the angry bitter political rant behind a strange CGI tarot show. When the rant comes together well I like it.
https://wordcloudtarot.com/@wordcloudtarot/statuses/01JYFF0GQV1680Z0VG0YTFZDTP

SV3.3B: A Sports Video Understanding Model for Action Recognition
Sai Varun Kodathala, Yashwanth Reddy Vutukoori, Rakesh Vunnam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17844 https://

SV3.3B: A Sports Video Understanding Model for Action Recognition
This paper addresses the challenge of automated sports video analysis, which has traditionally been limited by computationally intensive models requiring server-side processing and lacking fine-grained understanding of athletic movements. Current approaches struggle to capture the nuanced biomechanical transitions essential for meaningful sports analysis, often missing critical phases like preparation, execution, and follow-through that occur within seconds. To address these limitations, we int…

Bei „Each time the slider moved, it would take a full 15 seconds to get a response from the ML model“ bin ich lachend vom Stuhl gefallen.

https://medium.com/@jithinsankar.nk/how-i-solved-a-7-day-calculation-problem-in-a…

Reminder of why (#)"Mindustry Logic" defies reality.
I just proved it to myself while taking the time.
So I had gone with an expeditionary force into Tar Fields...like scouting force... the regular 1k copper and 0.8k lead.
Then it says the next wave starts in 2 minutes and 43 seconds.
I start a stopwatch to take the time...I move(without pausing / not pausing) into sector 175...and the stopwatch did not manage to reach 1 full minute before "sector lost!…

(of course one should account for the 5 seconds of downtime they have almost every single night when stuff reboots or upgrades. It's not great.)

My wife is working with a designer at her job to re-do their website. They asked for her to email the logo since they “were unable to access the file from the current website”.
So I look, and it's just an embedded SVG, which I pull in 3 seconds. 🤔

Collapsar Disk Outflows III: Detectable Neutrino and Gravitational Wave Signatures
Rodrigo Fern\'andez, Silas Janke, Coleman Dean, Irene Tamborra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17836

Collapsar Disk Outflows III: Detectable Neutrino and Gravitational Wave Signatures
We investigate the neutrino and gravitational wave (GW) signals from accretion disks formed during the failed collapse of a rotating massive star (a collapsar). Following black hole formation, a neutrino-cooled, shocked accretion disk forms, which displays non-spherical oscillations for a period of seconds before becoming advective and exploding the star. We compute the neutrino and GW signals (matter quadrupole) from collapsar disks using global axisymmetric, viscous hydrodynamic simulations. …

Trump 'hung up after 30 seconds' on the phone with CNN reporter who called to ask about new Epstein photos (Kelly Rissman/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-cnn-epstein-photos-b2794524.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p179#a250723p179

Time to give the human their morning pep talk

the wind splitting seconds again
#bloomscrolling #photography #tulips

Reminder! Enable "Manifold" in OpenSCAD... for some reason one of my computers did not have it turned on. I was wondering why rendering was so slow.
(And by "slow" I mean a progress bar appeared for a 10 seconds.)
#OpenSCAD #3DPrinting

My wife is working with a designer at her job to re-do their website. They asked for her to email the logo since they “were unable to access the file from the current website”.
So I look, and it's just an embedded SVG, which I pull in 3 seconds. 🤔

A Theoretical Framework for Virtual Power Plant Integration with Gigawatt-Scale AI Data Centers: Multi-Timescale Control and Stability Analysis
Ali Peivandizadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17284

A Theoretical Framework for Virtual Power Plant Integration with Gigawatt-Scale AI Data Centers: Multi-Timescale Control and Stability Analysis
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence has created gigawatt-scale data centers that fundamentally challenge power system operation, exhibiting power fluctuations exceeding 500 MW within seconds and millisecond-scale variations of 50-75% of thermal design power. This paper presents a comprehensive theoretical framework that reconceptualizes Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) to accommodate these extreme dynamics through a four-layer hierarchical control architecture operating across timescales…

Me this morning:
(Unfortunately necessary disclaimer: this has nothing to do with world events)

> Me: I hate the office/outlook/teams
> Microsoft: hold my AI and vibe coding ...
> Me: Oh crap!
#shitpost #microsoft #microsoft365

If you're going to hook up AI crap to your ticket system: Don't be cutesy and have a signature like a human, and maybe don't respond in 30 seconds with an answer that doesn't answer the question.

Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200 earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice (Kasha Patel/Washington Post)

Your Android phone is getting better at warning you about earthquakes
An early-warning system on Android phones has detected more than 1,000 earthquakes worldwide since 2021, sometimes giving people 15 to 60 seconds’ notice

These combatants genuinely look like they are about to be eliminated in a U.S. drone strike in a few seconds 🤔
QT @…
https://mastodon.social/@benjancewicz/

Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ) (@benjancewicz@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image If your country's police force dresses like this, you may live in a military dictatorship.

Let's start football season with some takes, plus the strangest walk-off win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6506943/2025/07/22/nfl-power-rankings-the-pulse/

Heise Online reports about a Chinese maglev train prototype (or laboratory experiment) that accelerates from zero to 650 km/h in seven seconds. Yay. Except that this is completely useless performance for passenger transport. That means almost 3g acceleration.

Locked myself and everyone else out of a production mail machine for ~20 seconds today because ipfw did *something* that knocked all the rules out except for the default deny.
2 hours later I’m still mystified. I re-did everything I was doing before it died and it did not recur. I have nowhere else to look. I will never know.
But I sure am glad that I added the watchdog that kills the fw when it's working too well.

Is there… like… an engineering reason that sometimes #AWS DynamoDB takes a long time (minutes, not seconds) to create an index (GSI) on an actually-empty table?

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately
2 minutes and 53 seconds
were removed from one of two stitched-together clips.
The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
https://www.…

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

A look at the media company Breaking and Entering, whose "60 Seconds of Advertising News" videos have become vital morning viewing for ad industry executives (Megan Graham/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

What has ... DRM (?!) ever done for us?
https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/114546912959367470

her: (adorable cat drawing)
me: cute
her, 5 seconds later: i want someone to have my skull

So there's this new "#eDoręczenia" (~ "eDelivery") system that's supposed to replace the previous "ePUAP" system for exchanging signed messages between citizens and offices. I've finally had the opportunity of testing it today, and I have to say, it's magic.
So I wrote the message, attached the ~300 KiB attachment and clicked "Send". Now a status bar appeared on top, saying (in translation):
> Sending message, it can take up to 20 minutes!
Roughly two minutes later the status bar disappeared and I got a blank new message form. So I go into "sent", nothing there. I go into "drafts", there's my message, apparently listed with "delivery data". I click it, click "send" again — the same bar appears, but after a few seconds I'm back to the list. I click "sent", it's finally sent. Magic!
#Poland

Jerry Jones will remain as Cowboys GM; 'nothing new' in Micah Parsons contract talks https://triblive.com/sports/jerry-jones-will-remain-as-cowboys-gm-nothing-new-in-micah-parsons-contract-talks/

Anyone else having the problem that `byobu` takes ages to start up on a remote Linux server? I'm talking like 20-30 seconds here. The machine isn't under heavy load. :BoostOK:

"Partly, I think, he took the dive to buy himself a few seconds of the dignity of silence. She’d killed him with culture shock." #JohnnyMnemonic

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

According to the folks at Messente, here are the top AI-crackable four digit PINs.
https://messente.com/blog/most-vulnerable-pins

It Takes 0.44 Seconds to Crack These PINs - Are You Using One?
The security level of 4-digit code remains uncertain. Our research found that it takes 0.44 seconds for AI to crack your PIN.

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
TARRANT: Yes, it is a bit sudden!
SLAVE: Estimated time to impact, twenty four seconds.
TARRANT: Course for evasion.
SLAVE: Vector zero three five.
TARRANT: Zero three five, all drives on, all maximum. Hit it!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/19

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I've been trying to explain to somewhat car-brained people that honest to gosh, people on bikes are actually good at not running into things, most of them DO wait for green lights, etc, and every so often I manage to collect some illustrative video. This one is notable because in the space of 5 seconds 4 bikes pass through the same not-wide space, traveling in different directions, and it just happens, no big deal, but I fear they could not get past the "chaos!"

Leftover taco lunch: Ground beef and onion, Mexican shredded cheese, delicious combination of fresh, chopped garden peppers. 1 minute and 30 seconds in the microwave. On store-bought corn tortillas.
#CookWithWes

Overprinting with Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing
Felix Wechsler, Viola Sgarminato, Riccardo Rizzo, Baptiste Nicolet, Wenzel Jakob, Christophe Moser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13842

Overprinting with Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing
Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing (TVAM) is a light-based 3D printing technique capable of producing centimeter-scale objects within seconds. A key challenge lies in the calculation of projection patterns under non-standard conditions, such as the presence of occlusions and materials with diverse optical properties, including varying refractive indices or scattering surfaces. This work focuses on demonstrating a wide variety of overprinting scenarios. First, utilizing a telecentric …

One of those days.
tw depression
https://evemassacre.de/blog/2025/05/12/one-of-those-days/

Modern manufacturing is so amazing. Just the first 40 seconds of this video is astounding. We have a little Beelink mini PC as a Linux server and it's great. Can't believe they cold press then CNC mill to make the exterior of the metal enclosure! #minipc

Modern manufacturing is so amazing. Just the first 40 seconds of this video is astounding. We have a little Beelink mini PC as a Linux server and it's great. Can't believe they cold press then CNC mill to make the exterior of the metal enclosure! #minipc

Good night with an epic 1994 track/journey by the late Peter Kuhlmann & Richie Hawtin aka Pete Namlook & Plastikman:
29 minutes and 17 seconds of sonic wonder, no beats...
A Million Miles To Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVVeVWDLoS8

\o/ i just did a 5-way DKG with one of the "servers" being a xiao esp32s3 over bluetooth LE! \m/
i'm porting #klutshnik to #zephyr it's not very quick, takes a few seconds, but this is creating of a key. decrypting should be much quicker. also i expect this to be faster when done…

My opinion in five seconds: I want the old internet back! 😭

Funny green effects during a particularly clear #sunset in Bochum, Germany, on 9 July: the Sun disappeared behind a horizontal cloud bank about 7 arc minutes above the true horizon, the image sequence spans 3 seconds.

Dynamic Parameter Memory: Temporary LoRA-Enhanced LLM for Long-Sequence Emotion Recognition in Conversation
Jialong Mai, Xiaofen Xing, Yawei Li, Zhipeng Li, Jingyuan Xing, Xiangmin Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09076

Dynamic Parameter Memory: Temporary LoRA-Enhanced LLM for Long-Sequence Emotion Recognition in Conversation
Recent research has focused on applying speech large language model (SLLM) to improve speech emotion recognition (SER). However, the inherently high frame rate in speech modality severely limits the signal processing and understanding capabilities of SLLM. For example, a SLLM with a 4K context window can only process 80 seconds of audio at 50Hz feature sampling rate before reaching its capacity limit. Input token compression methods used in SLLM overlook the continuity and inertia of emotions a…

bloom for 30 seconds

the world is barely visible. with each impact my footsteps leave brief, percussive, liquid craters wide enough i could fit folding chairs in their circumference. im sinking into inch high grass. the van door takes 60 seconds to open. i dive in.
we pull up at the church to pull my youngest brother outta "vacation" "bible school". his wheelchair pulls up under multiple umbrellas, and i pull him in with me. the severe flash flood alert pulled itself up while dad ran ar…

Spectral analysis of ultraluminous X-ray pulsars with models of X-ray pulsars
Manish Kumar, Rahul Sharma, Biswajit Paul, Vikram Rana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15764

Spectral analysis of ultraluminous X-ray pulsars with models of X-ray pulsars
A fraction of the Ultra Luminous X-ray (ULX) sources are known to be accreting neutron stars as they show coherent X-ray pulsations with pulse periods ranging from ~1-30 seconds. While initially thought to host intermediate-mass black holes, ULXs have since been recognized as a diverse class of objects, including ULX pulsars. These pulsars require models specifically tailored to account for their unique accretion physics, distinct from those used for Galactic black hole binaries. The X-ray spec…

Neun sekunden warten und dann gephished werden.
#phishing

Neun sekunden warten und dann gephished werden.
#phishing

> People think physical pain is inherently negative, like it’s pure badness. But when you lock eyes with Miss Pain Piggy and she holds her hand in ice water for 466 seconds straight, you start to question a lot of assumptions.
www.experimental-history.com/p/three-dumb-studies-for-your-consideration

The Entire Earth was Mysteriously Shaking Every 90 Seconds. Now, Scientists Know Why https://www.404media.co/the-entire-earth-was-mysteriously-shaking-every-90-seconds-now-scientists-know-why/

Those of you out there facing ICE/DHS - you may want to consider temporarily disabling face recognition login on your iPhone.
Here's from Apple:
Temporarily disable Face ID
You can temporarily prevent Face ID from unlocking your iPhone.
Press and hold the side button and either volume button for 2 seconds.
After the sliders appear, press the side button to immediately lock iPhone.
iPhone locks automatically if you don’t touch the screen for…

Tim Scott's video attacking CBO: Nine errors in 60 seconds (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/16/tim-scott-cbo-nine-errors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p25#a250616p25

Meta adds AI video editing tools to the Edits app and Meta AI, letting users edit up to 10 seconds of a video with 50 preset prompts, free for a "limited time" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685581/meta-video-editing-ai-pre…

Meta’s new AI video tool can put you in a desert (or at least try to)
Meta is rolling out new AI video editing tools that lets you change the theme of your video, change the background, or even transform what you’re wearing.

Love appeals from bots I ban after 5 seconds appealing like "I've always followed your rules"
bro. you're pretending to be a roofing company from texas? go away.
#Mastodon #mastoadmin

Remarkable.
I visited Budapest not too long ago and ••loved•• the place. I had trouble while there parsing or even perceiving all the layers of Orbanism and cosmopolitanism and Hungarian-ness. I could tell that there were strong undercurrents invisible to me, both oppressive and liberatory. And I had a sense that yes, it was a city where a march like this was just beneath the surface everywhere, every day.
Watch a few seconds the video for a sense of scale.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/28/europe-latest-news-budapest-pride-march-hungary-orban-ukraine-russia-updates

So now I have unroutable messages in #RabbitMQ for the first time ever, and other weird as #fuck other network glitches. Like the spike in the graph only showing up after 40 seconds instead of right away. Often

Differences in Neurovascular Coupling in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder: Evidence from Simultaneous Resting-State EEG-fNIRS
Feng Yan, Xiaobin Wang, Yao Zhao, Shuyi Yang, Zhiren Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11634

Differences in Neurovascular Coupling in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder: Evidence from Simultaneous Resting-State EEG-fNIRS
Neurovascular coupling (NVC) refers to the process by which local neural activity, through energy consumption, induces changes in regional cerebral blood flow to meet the metabolic demands of neurons. Event-related studies have shown that the hemodynamic response typically lags behind neural activation by 4-6 seconds. However, little is known about how NVC is altered in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and throughout the recovery process. In this study, we employed simultaneous res…

Life Improvement Update:
I decided to move to a smaller apartment outside the city, where there is more nature. After six years of living very close to the city center on a busy street with lots of noise, I encountered some problems with allergies.
I moved from a bed to the floor. The last few days have been very interesting; I haven’t slept this well in years. I fall asleep in a matter of seconds and sleep for eight hours straight.
I have implemented fasting again to eat l…

I had to reset the time on my watch for "reasons" (@…).
Close enough, right?

Was listening to a song from Paul Kalkbrenner this morning on Spotify. In the middle of the song the thing played an Audiobook Intro of about 30-40 seconds and then the song just continued.
Weird glitch in their matrix? Them preparing in song ads for payed accounts? We'll see. #enshittification continues

On Devon Allen's Disqualification at the 2022 World Track and Field Championships
Owen Fiore, Elizabeth D. Schifano, Jun Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11460

On Devon Allen's Disqualification at the 2022 World Track and Field Championships
Devon Allen's disqualification at the men's 110-meter hurdle final at the 2022 World Track and Field Championships, due to a reaction time (RT) of 0.099 seconds-just 0.001 seconds below the allowable threshold-sparked widespread debate over the fairness and validity of RT rules. This study investigates two key issues: variations in timing systems and the justification for the 0.1-second disqualification threshold. We pooled RT data from men's 110-meter hurdles and 100-meter dash, as well as wom…

I hate it when I spill my drink on the keyboard. 2 seconds for the accident to happen. 25 minutes cleaning the damn thing. Thankfully, everything is working as it should be, so business as normal.

Do (Or Don't!) Look Down... into the beautiful valley (Rappenalptal) 😍
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Video

There should be a law that says a smart watch MUST at all times, regardless of anything, at some place on screen, show time.
It's beyond me that both Apple and Garmin don't follow this rule. I walk somewhere, right hand busy with holding something and this thing decides to show me some notification for the next 30 seconds.
Well fuck you watch! As the name suggests (Uhr, zegarek) your main job is to show time. Not AliExpress notification about my package leaving the tarif…

#TerryPratchett

Go to Boston Dyke March and ton of tension I hadn’t even realized was in my shoulders just went away like seconds after getting here.

This is a good analogy for AI, if you don't like toast and that's not jelly.

This is yet another reason why @… and I prefer Signal.
https://bark.lgbt/@morgann/114573458516732593

New personal record for solving The NY Times Mini crossword puzzle: 18 seconds. (These days I take wins from wherever they come. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/mini

Someone captured the last 30 seconds of a piano improvisation I did here in Iceland. =)

anybody have suggestions for backgammon apps where you can play against other people? I’ve been trying various apps and I don’t know if it’s the app or the other people but I can’t tolerate how slow they are to take a turn. I’ve finished their turn in my mind 10 seconds before there’s any move.

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
CALLY: [V.O. telepathy] Avon, listen. The enemy are on board. Avon.
AVON: Are they maintaining formation?
ZEN: Affirmative.
AVON: When will they be in range?
ZEN: They have been in range for one minute, eight seconds.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/413

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Currently running the ultimate queer-autistic mental math: do I get up now for a Coke, or do I turn on my PC first and then embark on the sacred quest for caffeine?
Welcome to my rainbow-brained world, where every decision involves calculating the exact number of steps, seconds, and spoons required. 🏳️‍🌈🤓✨
#ActuallyAutistic

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
U2:
🎵 Seconds
#U2
https://100secondstomidnight.bandcamp.com/track/home2u

A Private Smart Wallet with Probabilistic Compliance
Andrea Rizzini, Marco Esposito, Francesco Bruschi, Donatella Sciuto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04853 h…

A Private Smart Wallet with Probabilistic Compliance
We propose a privacy-preserving smart wallet with a novel invitation-based private onboarding mechanism. The solution integrates two levels of compliance in concert with an authority party: a proof of innocence mechanism and an ancestral commitment tracking system using bloom filters for probabilistic UTXO chain states. Performance analysis demonstrates practical efficiency: private transfers with compliance checks complete within seconds on a consumer-grade laptop, and overall with proof gener…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Twin Shadow:
🎵 Five Seconds
#NowPlaying #TwinShadow
https://open.spotify.com/track/6PGToxtt6KrZztJe6j66in

The TESS Ten Thousand Catalog: 10,001 uniformly-vetted and -validated Eclipsing Binary Stars detected in Full-Frame Image data by machine learning and analyzed by citizen scientists
Veselin B. Kostov, Brian P. Powell, Aline U. Fornear, Marco Z. Di Fraia, Robert Gagliano, Thomas L. Jacobs, Julien S. de Lambilly, Hugo A. Durantini Luca, Steven R. Majewski, Mark Omohundro, Jerome Orosz, Saul A. Rappaport, Ryan Salik, Donald Short, William Welsh, Svetoslav Alexandrov, Cledison Marcos da Si…

The TESS Ten Thousand Catalog: 10,001 uniformly-vetted and -validated Eclipsing Binary Stars detected in Full-Frame Image data by machine learning and analyzed by citizen scientists
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has surveyed nearly the entire sky in Full-Frame Image mode with a time resolution of 200 seconds to 30 minutes and a temporal baseline of at least 27 days. In addition to the primary goal of discovering new exoplanets, TESS is exceptionally capable at detecting variable stars, and in particular short-period eclipsing binaries which are relatively common, making up a few percent of all stars, and represent powerful astrophysical laboratories for …

This chainsaw might be older than me. Today, it decided it just didn't want to work. Even a little starter fluid wouldn't do anything. No sputter, no start and stall, just nothing. I ended up using a little electric one with difficulty when this guy would have been done in seconds.

Canonical is evil.
If I wanted to use nano, I suppose I might run something like "nanosudo"
BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT I RAN.
It only took me about 30 seconds of flailing before I noticed the garbage at the bottom of the screen.
#Ubuntu #sudo

Got lots of chores done yesterday, spent this morning processing some video backlog, came across what has to be the cleanest "prepared reaction time" measurement I've got. Lest anyone driving wonder, those people on bikes that do it every day and know their traffic and know their route, they have good reaction time, 0.6 seconds from semi-surprise signal to actually decelerating the bicycle.

Truck in Ontario CA “Rolls Coal” (blows burning oil/fuel out of an illegal modification to their exhaust system)
A saga in 48 seconds, watch to the end
#California #LosAngelesProtests

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
TARRANT: Ten seconds.
AVON: Main drives running true.
TARRANT: All drives on. Lift you scruffy bag of bolts. Lift.
[Planet Scorpio. Exterior. Scorpio lifts off.]
TARRANT: Orbital booster fired.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/205 B7B4

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[2/6]:
- LIAR: Leveraging Inference Time Alignment (Best-of-N) to Jailbreak LLMs in Seconds
James Beetham, Souradip Chakraborty, Mengdi Wang, Furong Huang, Amrit Singh Bedi, Mubarak Shah

How different the world looks within split seconds sometimes, just from a slight breath of wind in the leaves or a flick of the wrist! Here exemplified by one of last year's corn flowers.
#photography #bloomScrolling

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

Hours of hiking at high elevation is the best complement/remedy for hours of coding... Last Saturday we were on the mountain for 9 hours (21km hike), and here's a short POV video from near the highest point, near the pass into Rappenalptal, 900m above the valley... It was a beautiful varied path through many different terrains with some exposed sections and grand vistas, even though the last part of the 1400m descent wasn't anything fun...
Also, between 20 and 30 seconds, the …

Every once in awhile I drag a file over the wrong pixel in Windows Explorer, over a broken network share. And the entire operating system UI comes to a frozen halt for 30 seconds while it times out. It's 2025.

All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12374

All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
We present a search for short-duration gravitational-wave transients in data from the first eight months of Advanced LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's fourth observing run, denoted O4a. We use four analyses which are sensitive to a wide range of potential signals lasting up to a few seconds in the 16-4096 Hz band. Excluding binary black hole merger candidates that were already identified by low-latency analyses, we find no statistically significant evidence for other gravitational-wave transients. We measure …

just split seconds apart, almost the same yet completely different images, just because a leaf or three moved in the wind
#bloomScrolling #photography #cornflower

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

Identifying Merger-Driven Long Gamma-Ray Bursts based on Machine Learning
Si-Yuan Zhu, Hui-Ying Deng, Fu-Wen Zhang, Qian-Zi Mo, Pak-Hin Thomas Tam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08675

Identifying Merger-Driven Long Gamma-Ray Bursts based on Machine Learning
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are classified as Type I GRBs originated from compact binary mergers and Type II GRBs originated from massive collapsars. While Type I GRBs are typically shorter than 2 seconds, recent observations suggest that some extend to tens of seconds, forming a potential subclass, Type IL GRBs. However, apart from their association with kilonovae, so far no rapid identification is possible. Given the uncertainties and limitations of optical and infrared afterglow observations, an…

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bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
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Magnetic Burial in Millisecond Magnetars and Late GRB Afterglow Signatures
Nissim Fraija, Cristian Giovanni Bernal, Antonio Galv\'an, Boris Betancourt-Kamenetskaia, Maria Giovanna Dainotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09402

Magnetic Burial in Millisecond Magnetars and Late GRB Afterglow Signatures
Millisecond magnetars, one of the potential candidates for the central engine of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), can experience significant magnetic field enhancement shortly after their formation. In some cases, this evolution is further influenced by the accretion of stellar debris, which modifies the dipole magnetic field strength. During a hypercritical accretion phase that lasts seconds or longer after the progenitor explosion, a thin crust may form, submerging the magnetic field (the so-called m…