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Now is when it really matters
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF6WJLZttlN/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

Leigh McGowan on Instagram: "Kendrick Lamar showed more courage in the face of rising American tyranny than we’ve seen from ANY former American leader. If you swore an oath to protect this nation, where are you now?"
190K likes, 15K comments - iampoliticsgirl on February 10, 2025: "Kendrick Lamar showed more courage in the face of rising American tyranny than we’ve seen from ANY former American leader. If you swore an oath to protect this nation, where are you now?".

The Most Badass Breakdown of the MAGA Cult I’ve Seen #analysis

The Most Badass Breakdown of the MAGA Cult I’ve Seen
Send This to any MAGA Person You Still Care About

There are prophecies for those with eyes to see

“The modern-day system of colonialism and sharecropping being constructed by the new East India Company that is Silicon Valley isn’t uncouth or stupid enough to put people in physical shackles. It doesn’t want to own your body, it is content with owning your simulation. And yet, as we have already seen, the more data they have about you – the higher the fidelity of your simulation – the closer they are to owning you.
…
If this doesn’t sound like democracy, it is because it is not…

This is the original middle finger of the right hand of #GalileoGalilei as it can be seen in the #MuseoGalileo, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in #Florence:

The lack of history education shows when you hear people about current times, ofcourse history never repeats itself exactly, but many of the same patterns and mechanisms we have seen in fascism and autocracy are visible. Read some history be less amazed and better prepared.
#history #fascism

Hanging out on #Alki Beach with my kid, who's ... sorta getting stood up on his first thing-that-looks-like-a-date
(Long story, but a lot of it revolves around twelve year olds not communicating well with each other or their respective driving adults)
#Seattle

Not necessarily walking back - everyone's seen it, served its purpose
Musk Deletes His 'Really Big Bomb' Claiming Trump Appears in Epstein Files
https://gizmodo.com/musk-deletes-his-really-big-bomb-claiming-trump-appears-in-epstein-files-2000612895

#caturday

Well, duh - Elon (age 53) will still be alive (preserved by drugs, perhaps) while FFOTUS (age 78) is decomposing in a box. Musk has time on his side.
"Who holds the cards in Trump vs. Musk?"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/repu…

Who holds the cards in Trump vs. Musk? Trump, but …
It remains to be seen whether President Donald Trump and Elon Musk can patch things up after their ugly break-up this week – as many around them are hoping.

Twenty years since London Bomb attacks they reckon. Seems both a short time and a long time. I wasn't in town and the first I heard of it was being woken up by messages asking if I was okay. Thought they were concerned I'd been taken away on the saucers on X-Day. 😆
Some say it was the biggest act of terrorism seen on these shores since the war!
But then 20 terrorists were arrested for terrorism this week! They were flagrantly and terrifyingly holding up signs saying "I support Palestine action", the terrorizing monsters. An action that's just as much terrorism under the law these days as blowing up trains and busses.
#terrorism #ukpol

Are we actually sure that Greenblatt, Bove, and Miller are distinct individuals? Have they ever been seen in a room together?

This is the best #HomeAssistant component I've seen in a long time. Genuinely amazing. Found on r/homeassistant.
#homeautomation

GitHub - tikel1/HA-isometric-animated-picture-card: Custom Lovelace cards that let Home-Assistant picture-elements play WebM (or PNG) animations whose frame or loop speed updates in real time from any entity state. Including an AI workflow that turns any room photo into a live picture-elements scene
Custom Lovelace cards that let Home-Assistant picture-elements play WebM (or PNG) animations whose frame or loop speed updates in real time from any entity state. Including an AI workflow that turn...

At #ideon, the chargers deliver 3.4kW... I've never seen such slow destination charing. I need to book another hotel night to ensure that I get back home (or just fash charge along the road)

It’s a bit hazy out there but look at these gorgeous flowers

'No one has seen it yet' — Zelensky slams Russia for stalling on ceasefire memorandum ahead of Istanbul talks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/no-one-has-seen-it.html

@… In case you haven't seen this, might be relevant to you
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/114633414909724673

I have nearly exhausted this playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077 on PC (which yeah, def superior to the PS5, super happy I have a PC capable of running it well now lol).
I have seen nearly all the endings, including one of the Phantom Liberty ones (I went with Songbird), save for the "hidden" ending (which I looked up after seeing the rest, and I dunno that I want to play through the game again to set that one up. .. yet)
Fittingly, there are no "good" endings in N…

Sonnet 096 - XCVI
Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;
Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport;
Both grace and faults are lov'd of more and less:
Thou mak'st faults graces that to thee resort.
As on the finger of a throned queen
The basest jewel will be well esteem'd,
So are those errors that in thee are seen
To truths translated, and for true things deem'd.
How many lambs might the stern wolf betray,
I…

The bucket is half foal

On Top-Down Pseudo-Boolean Model Counting
Suwei Yang, Yong Lai, Kuldeep S. Meel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05232 https://arxiv.org/pd…

On Top-Down Pseudo-Boolean Model Counting
Pseudo-Boolean model counting involves computing the number of satisfying assignments of a given pseudo-Boolean (PB) formula. In recent years, PB model counting has seen increased interest partly owing to the succinctness of PB formulas over typical propositional Boolean formulas in conjunctive normal form (CNF) at describing problem constraints. In particular, the research community has developed tools to tackle exact PB model counting. These recently developed counters follow one of the two e…

And what you need to do is to call your representatives and make sure these cuts don't happen
https://bsky.app/profile/johnmoralestv.bsky.social/post/3lqo2siaanc2b

Urban Solitude II 🈳
城市孤独 II 🈳
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan SS, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Early linguistic fingerprints of online users who engage with conspiracy communities
Francesco Corso, Giuseppe Russo, Francesco Pierri, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05086

Early linguistic fingerprints of online users who engage with conspiracy communities
Online social media platforms are often seen as catalysts for radicalization, as they provide spaces where extreme beliefs can take root and spread, sometimes leading to real-world consequences. Conspiracy theories represent a specific form of radicalization that is notoriously resistant to online moderation strategies. One explanation for this resilience is the presence of a "conspiratorial mindset", a cognitive framework that fundamentally shapes how conspiracy believers perceive reality. How…

omfg
havent seen this many stars in ages
thank u wheat fields of rural maryland

Nesting focusable elements is problematic. Have you seen any good blogposts, docs, or other #accessibility resources that go into *why* nesting is problematic?
I’m looking for something I could link to in a blogpost of my own, on a somewhat different topic. Preference is for something in-depth, and not marketing slop for a company (especially not for anyone affiliated with an overlay vendo…

Extreme #Temperaturen in großen Seen haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten massiv verstärkt.
#Hitzewellen und #Kälteperioden sind heute über 100 % intensiver als vor 1996. Dies…

Climate change-induced amplification of extreme temperatures in large lakes - Communications Earth & Environment
The world’s largest freshwater bodies have experienced a 20-60% increase in lake surface temperature extremes over the past 50 years, with heatwave and cold-spell intensities more than doubling after 1996 or 1976, according to a hydrodynamic-ice model driven by climate data.

I'm Sorry Dave, I'm Afraid I Can't Return That: On YouTube Search API Use in Research
Alexandros Efstratiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04422 ht…

I'm Sorry Dave, I'm Afraid I Can't Return That: On YouTube Search API Use in Research
YouTube is among the most widely-used platforms worldwide, and has seen a lot of recent academic attention. Despite its popularity and the number of studies conducted on it, much less is understood about the way in which YouTube's Data API, and especially the Search endpoint, operates. In this paper, we analyze the API's behavior by running identical queries across a period of 12 weeks. Our findings suggest that the search endpoint returns highly inconsistent results between queries in ways tha…

Based on the Olympics I've seen, I might not be hot enough to play beach volleyball.

This is one of the better articles I’ve seen on where AI might lead, trying to find a middle ground between “it’s a load of hype” and “it’s going to solve world hunger/kill us all”.
A choice quote:
Which is it: business as usual or the end of the world? “The test of a first-rate intelligence,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously claimed, “is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” Reading these reports back-to-back,…

Two Paths for A.I.
Joshua Rothman on two papers about the future of A.I., by deeply knowledgeable experts, which arrive at absurdly divergent conclusions about the threat the tech poses.

Regularization of non-overshooting quasi-continuous sliding mode control for chattering suppression at equilibrium
Michael Ruderman, Denis Efimov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05283 …

Regularization of non-overshooting quasi-continuous sliding mode control for chattering suppression at equilibrium
Robust finite-time feedback controller introduced for the second-order systems in [1] can be seen as a non-overshooting quasi-continuous sliding mode control. The paper proposes a regularization scheme to suppress inherent chattering due to discontinuity of the control [1] in the origin, in favor of practical applications. A detailed analysis with ISS and iISS proofs are provided along with supporting numerical results.

Survey on the Evaluation of Generative Models in Music
Alexander Lerch, Claire Arthur, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Corey Ford, Qianyi Sun, Ashvala Vinay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05104

Survey on the Evaluation of Generative Models in Music
Research on generative systems in music has seen considerable attention and growth in recent years. A variety of attempts have been made to systematically evaluate such systems. We provide an interdisciplinary review of the common evaluation targets, methodologies, and metrics for the evaluation of both system output and model usability, covering subjective and objective approaches, qualitative and quantitative approaches, as well as empirical and computational methods. We discuss the advantage…

finally beat red dead redemption 2 and its epilogue. one of the best games i've ever played. the world feels so detailed and the npcs are the best i've seen in any game, amazing storyline too. chapter 6 was sad but the epilogue was pretty good

Green hairstreak seen @ Keyhaven & Pennington Marshes yesterday, 1st I've seen in the UK
#UKButterflies #insects

NFL evaluators have seen decline in Steelers' Minkah Fitzpatrick, reportedly leading to him being available

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

we’re bowling!

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
SERVALAN: It's a weapon many times more powerful then yours. You've seen what it can do.
CHEL: It is strong, but there is only one.
SERVALAN: But there are many more. I can get them for you, show you how to use them.
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TL;DR:
Observational study found DTP correlated to higher short term (~2y) death rates in children.
1. The original study was small (n=1000) and methodologically weak.
2. An attempt to reproduce the study failed to show any corelation.
3. It was 40 years ago, using the old DTP vax which has been redesigned/reformulated extensively.
That man would have people dying of lockjaw to weed out the weak.

Why experts are concerned about the vaccine study cited by RFK Jr.
RFK Jr. stunned the global health world when he said the U.S. would halt funding the group that helps provide vaccines to many low-income countries. The study he cited is seen by others as dubious.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15483 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Strategy Complexity of Büchi Objectives in Concurrent Stochastic Games
We study 2-player zero-sum concurrent (i.e., simultaneous move) stochastic Büchi games and Transience games on countable graphs. Two players, Max and Min, seek respectively to maximize and minimize the probability of satisfying the game objective. The Büchi objective is to visit a given set of target states infinitely often. This can be seen as a special case of maximizing the expected $\limsup$ of the daily rewards, where all daily rewards are in $\{0,1\}$. The Transience objective is to vis…

Diese #Erpel enteten bei #Erkner herum. Aber was war das für ein #Gewässer? Es war die Wanderung von erkner nach Hangelsberg auf dem 66-Seen-Wanderweg.
Übrigens,

The GAIN Model: A Nature-Inspired Neural Network Framework Based on an Adaptation of the Izhikevich Model
Gage K. R. Hooper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04247

The GAIN Model: A Nature-Inspired Neural Network Framework Based on an Adaptation of the Izhikevich Model
While many neural networks focus on layers to process information, the GAIN model uses a grid-based structure to improve biological plausibility and the dynamics of the model. The grid structure helps neurons to interact with their closest neighbors and improve their connections with one another, which is seen in biological neurons. While also being implemented with the Izhikevich model this approach allows for a computationally efficient and biologically accurate simulation that can aid in the…

Solving engineering eigenvalue problems with neural networks using the Rayleigh quotient
Conor Rowan, John Evans, Kurt Maute, Alireza Doostan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04375

Solving engineering eigenvalue problems with neural networks using the Rayleigh quotient
From characterizing the speed of a thermal system's response to computing natural modes of vibration, eigenvalue analysis is ubiquitous in engineering. In spite of this, eigenvalue problems have received relatively little treatment compared to standard forward and inverse problems in the physics-informed machine learning literature. In particular, neural network discretizations of solutions to eigenvalue problems have seen only a handful of studies. Owing to their nonlinearity, neural network d…

I don't know if I've ever seen this video before. #TOTP

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Network of velocity-coherent filaments formed by supersonic turbulence in a very-high-velocity HI cloud
The warm neutral medium (WNM) was thought to be subsonically/transonically turbulent, and it lacks a network of intertwined filaments that are commonly seen in both molecular clouds and cold neutral medium (CNM). Here, we report HI~21 cm line observations of a very-high-velocity (-330 km s$^{-1}$ $

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
While less discussed, there is a similar circulation to the AMOC in the #Antarctic called the Southern Meridional Overturning Circulation (SMOC). This is also vital to deep circulation, algal productivity, ecosystem function, and the global

Giant Archaeological Puzzle Reveals Artworks Not Seen for 1,800 Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/giant-archaeological-puzzle-reveals-artworks-not-seen-for-1800-years/

Giant Archaeological Puzzle Reveals Artworks Not Seen for 1,800 Years
The discovery was made at a London development site which had already yielded stunning mosaics and a rare Roman mausoleum.

Man this is really cool
“We were even encouraged to dig out some particularly gnarly old stuff that hadn’t seen the light of day in years”: Freqport FreqInOut FO1 review | MusicRadar https://ww…

“We were even encouraged to dig out some particularly gnarly old stuff that hadn’t seen the light of day in years”: Freqport FreqInOut FO1 review
We take a look at Freeport’s latest in/out box which promises to morph your hardware into plugin form without breaking a sweat

Who the Hell is Going to Pay For This?
#OpenTelemetry…

Sploot 🐈‍⬛

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00514 has been replaced.
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Signatures of three-dimensional photo-induced superconductivity in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.48}$
Optical excitation of large-amplitude apical oxygen phonon oscillations has been shown to renormalize the electronic properties of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+x}$, inducing a superconducting-like optical response above equilibrium $T_C$. All of the evidence collected so far has been based on the changes of the THz frequency $c$-axis response. In these measurements, the capacitive interlayer coupling was seen to transform into a superconducting-like inductive response. This assignment was strengthened by…

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Structural characterization of the candidate Weyl semimetal CeGaGe
Weyl semimetals have a variety of intriguing physical properties, including topologically protected electronic states that coexist with conducting states. Possible exploitation of topologically protected states in a conducting material is promising for technological applications. Weyl semimetals that form in a noncentrosymmetric structure that also contain magnetic moments may host a variety of emergent phenomena that cannot be seen in magnetic, centrosymmetric Weyl materials. It can be difficu…

Usually @… just makes shit up but today's level is somewhat accurate.
https://mastodon.social/@levelbot/114791150927002202

After the whole "I asked ChatGPT" as talk opener I've recently seen a lot of "Look, my kids are using AI to build their own games and that's beautiful" stuff in presentations.
Makes me sad that instead of wanting kids to learn how to build something they get taught to accept what the kinda-passable code generator craps out. What they learn is not how to conceptualize or build something, what they learn is that shit comes from nowhere if you just match your e…

What are the pros and cons of pinned vs finned heatsinks? I'm thinking specifically about rectangular pins like seen in my previous post (Wakefield-Vette 960 series).
Initial thoughts:
* Fins absolutely have to have airflow down their long axis. Square/round pins don't care, rectangular pins degrade but not horribly if you're oriented wrong
* Pins weigh less
* Fins have more surface area (at least, in the direction of airflow) in the same footprint
* …

How I read your toots.
Seen in the #Copenhagen Glyptothek

#degoogle adventures: I haven't seen this much bugs in Google Drive EVER. Like it's intentionally making problems while you try to delete files and unshare stuff or stop seeing stuff shared with you.
I have several Google accounts, let's see how I can minimize or completely stop using them.

Totoro spoilers
Re the quoted post from @…:
The very first time I saw My Neighbor Totoro, it was because a friend cajoled me into attending the student anime club’s showing with absolutely no context whatsoever except “you •have• to see this movie, Paul.” I had no idea what genre it was. I had no idea that it was a movie considered suitable for kids. The last anime I’d seen was IIRC Ghost in the Shell; I was ready for anything.
When Mei went missing, I thought, “omg, is this a tragedy? I think this story is a tragedy!” The whole time they were looking for her, I was absolutely terrified. I thought for sure they’d found her sandal. I still tear up when they find her now, on every rewatching.
I’m so glad for that first viewing. It’s a much better movie that way. When you’re expecting an innocent movie about cute forest plushies, you see that. But when you see that it could be a tragedy — the mother’s shadowy illness, the lost child — it hits hard. https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/114792748619083661

#Musk 's record at DOGE seen from French newspaper #LeMonde - pretty good summary..
Musk's questionable record at DOGE
Some quote…

Musk's questionable record at DOGE
Inexperience and a lack of understanding of how government operates led the teams at the Department of Government Efficiency to implement a cost-cutting drive that was primarily ideological and produced only superficial results.

Interesting. Never heard of this company before - seems to be used by most of the public sector in the UK for their social media accounts. Never seen .tech as a domain either!
https://orlo.tech

The Community Engagement Platform for the Public Sector | Orlo
Orlo is the community engagement platform for the public sector combining scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening.

Going to my humor folder because today was as dark as I've seen.
Hopefully those of you who need it will crack a smile at my stupid memes.

I've enjoyed Michael Madsen in films ever since I first saw Reservoir Dogs, probably when I was 13 or 14, right after it came out. And then in Species, Sin City, Kill Bill- and the most recent Madsen thing I've seen, The Hateful Eight, from 10 years ago. And he was in 8 movies last year, and 4 still upcoming! Truly one of our time's greatest actors, and amazing right up to the end. He'll be missed. RIP

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01921 has been replaced.
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MedEBench: Revisiting Text-instructed Image Editing
Text-guided image editing has seen rapid progress in natural image domains, but its adaptation to medical imaging remains limited and lacks standardized evaluation. Clinically, such editing holds promise for simulating surgical outcomes, creating personalized teaching materials, and enhancing patient communication. To bridge this gap, we introduce \textbf{MedEBench}, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating text-guided medical image editing. It consists of 1,182 clinically sourced image-prompt …

Any CEO (especially those that are Billionaires) should be seen as failures if they have to do layoffs.
You fucked up. You're supposed to be the smart one, able to run things properly, but you made a mistake (or many) along the way, and you make others pay for it by destroying their livelihood.
CEO need to be made to pay for their mistakes.

@… Yes, Navidrome can assign transcoding profiles as well per player/client, and most of the mobile apps I've tried have decoding and transcoding settings. I have OGG files on my server (because I don't care about lossless that much, and FLAC files are too big for my liking), but I've seen people in the forums who use FLAC in their server.
Subsnic app…

Mayor of Kansas City Quinton Lucas: "what they did this time has undermined, destabilized health care in rural Missouri and rural middle America and rural parts of our entire country. You are going to see more hospitals closed in rural parts of America. You are going to see more people die and more people die earlier in rural America."
Trump move seen as 'astonishing' attack on red states and rural voters - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-astonishing-megabill-kc-mayor/

#photography #bloomScrolling #iris #blue

Pretty great to see this (via @…)
Seems like #Linux has seen some significant (300%) growth since 2021. In that time, I've gone from using just #Windows

I noticed this yesterday on the steps going down to the shed. With the amount of large seeds clumped in a dark medium it's done fruit eating animal; perhaps a fox, not a badger as they tend to use scrapes and latrines, marginally a Pine Martin but I've never heard of them here.
I guess it's a fox, we have both foxes and badgers close by and they've been seen in the early hours.
There's muntjac as well but it won't be that.
Other ideas or confirmati…

I’ve never seen this memory issue on #MacOS before. I had left Safari with Mela’s share sheet/importer app snippet open overnight and came back to a nearly unresponsive computer. I assume one of these has a memory leak. I was able to reboot via the shell using SSH from another device.

A little afterwork walk after a short rain shower.
It has cooled off!
#gaißach #badtoelz
#walking

A couple years ago I made an accordion showing common message colors for applications:
https://codepen.io/aardrian/pen/qBLNYBe
Some details:

Common Application Message Colors
Reflects colors I have seen used in messaging systems. Uses my [progressively enhanced HTML accordion](https://adrianroselli.com/2023/08/progressively-...

I've been lamenting for years that my eyesight has deteriorated so much that I can no longer see skylarks. This morning I've not only seen one, I've seen two at the same time!
OK, it's a grey day so the background isn't so bright, and OK, they were relatively close. But I saw skylarks!

Seen near the bottom of a list:

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Well, this is so sad. I listen to 2 or 3 podcasts regularly, and WTF is the most important to me, mainly because of Maron's point of view on comedy, politics, and life.
The interviews are hit and miss for me, but his openers always make me feel seen. And he's a cat guy!
https://www.

Marc Maron Will End WTF After 16 Years
Marc Maron plans to end his podcast, ‘WTF,’ after 16 years, he announced on his Monday, June 2, episode with John Mulaney.

A limit on the mass of the Taurid Resonant Swarm at sub-100 meter sizes
Paul Wiegert, Denis Vida, David L. Clark, Auriane Egal, Richard Wainscoat, Robert Weryk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03327

A limit on the mass of the Taurid Resonant Swarm at sub-100 meter sizes
We report on a pencil-beam survey of the Taurid Swarm, a possible concentration of bodies in the Taurid meteoroid stream associated with the 7:2 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter. Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope MegaCam observations reaching apparent magnitudes of 24.5 in the gri filter were taken over three nights. Rates of motion on the sky allowed for the quick elimination of main-belt objects from the over 1000 moving sources seen. Eight candidates with on-sky rates of motion consistent wit…

Natura Urbana XI 🏡
城市自然 XI 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
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Misalignment or misuse? The AGI alignment tradeoff
Max Hellrigel-Holderbaum, Leonard Dung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03755 https://ar…

Misalignment or misuse? The AGI alignment tradeoff
Creating systems that are aligned with our goals is seen as a leading approach to create safe and beneficial AI in both leading AI companies and the academic field of AI safety. We defend the view that misaligned AGI - future, generally intelligent (robotic) AI agents - poses catastrophic risks. At the same time, we support the view that aligned AGI creates a substantial risk of catastrophic misuse by humans. While both risks are severe and stand in tension with one another, we show that - in p…

This author is invaluable to me because they always have a fresh take that I haven't seen anywhere else. Was a fave follow on the bad place.
In this case, re #LLMs
#AI #LLM

Beyond Nudge
LLMs ensure their survival by showing us that we can all find meaning in our lives so long as we keep talking with the LLMs.

Ethernet nerds: Does this section from 802.3-2022 actually require that you be able to read the currently negotiated speed and duplex state back from this register, or only write to force a specific speed?
Every PHY I've ever seen except the VSC8512 lets you read back the actual operating conditions, but reading the spec it seems that there's not actually a mandate that this capability be there.
The register is defined as readable but it's not well defined whether it …

If an "undercover" officer is seen and known to the press then I would not hesitate to publish their face image and identity - in part because they have failed actually be "undercover".
That said, the fact that agents can't be identified as actual Federal agents, much less identified down to the individual actor when they do ill, is simply unacceptable.
TSA at least has numbers on their "name" badges, so one can make a complaint about a person …

The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please
After taking four people into custody at SF’s immigration court, ICE wanted The Standard to conceal agents’ faces.

A12 - Deliverance
AVON: That's why we're going down. If we run into any kind of trouble we teleport back up immediately. All right, Cally?
GAN: Do you know exactly what we're looking for? Because I don't think I've ever seen an impact life capsule.
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80% of yallve been reposting jokes and memes ive seen atleast a dozen times already these last few days find something new

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ROGRAG: A Robustly Optimized GraphRAG Framework
Large language models (LLMs) commonly struggle with specialized or emerging topics which are rarely seen in the training corpus. Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) addresses this by structuring domain knowledge as a graph for dynamic retrieval. However, existing pipelines involve complex engineering workflows, making it difficult to isolate the impact of individual components. It is also challenging to evaluate the retrieval effectiveness due to the overlap between the pretra…

Residuality Theory: A Rebellious Take on Building Systems That Actually Survive
#resiliency

Lamar Jackson, Trey Hendrickson headline veterans who deserve raise heading into 2025 NFL season https://www.nfl.com/news/lamar-jackson-trey-hendrickson-headline-veterans-who-deserve-raise-heading-into-2025-nfl-sea…

Kinematic Distortions of the High-Redshift Universe as Seen from Quasar Proper Motions
Valeri V. Makarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01798 https://

Kinematic Distortions of the High-Redshift Universe as Seen from Quasar Proper Motions
Advances in optical astrometry allow us to infer the non-radial kinematic structure of the Universe directly from observations. Here I use a supervised machine learning neural network method to predict 1.57 million redshifts based on several photometric and metadata classifier parameters from the unWISE mid-infrared database and from Gaia. These estimates are used to divide the sample into three redshift bins: 1-2, 2-3, and $>3$. For each subset, all available Gaia proper motions are used in a …

Love this video. But I’ve got a problem with this dude thinking his vote for Trump didn’t play any part in this problem.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3lsn3in6t622w

I've seen the "recommended" serving sizes for cereal, and I don't agree with them

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Natura Urbana VIII 🏡
城市自然 VIII 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
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apparently my grandma had the coolest spoons ive ever seen just lying around in the back of a drawer this whole time

first time I’ve ever seen a GUI login screen for #FreeBSD. Which I've been using for ~30 years. https://infosec.exchange/@shodansafari/114783525879140775

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Skies cleared up just in time for solar activity to get even higher (Kp 8)...
... and the sun to come up. I grabbed a single digit number of shots but the eastern sky was already visibly bright naked eye and my long-exposure shots started getting washed out.
Forecast shows activity will be decent all day (good luck Asian/European sky watchers!) and might persist into the dark for me tonight. Fingers crossed.

If you take a walk along the coast, near Caleta Camarones in northern Chile, near an old archeological site called Camarones 15, it is hard not to spot evidence of the mummies.
Cloth, rope, hair, tiny fragments of bones, and pieces of wood, an item that is nowhere to be seen growing anywhere nearby, but which the Chinchorro people used to keep their mummies intact like little dolls.
The Chinchorro mummies are considered the oldest mummies in the world.
Thousands of years olde…

The Chinchorro Mummies: Resisting in the Desert
Seven thousand years ago, the Chinchorro people, along the Pacific coast of South America, began to mummify their dead. Their bodies remain hidden in the desert. This is episode 41 of Stories of Resistance.

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