Tootfinder

"In the past, climate change deniers accused scientists of exaggerating the threat of global warming. However, the evidence that is now emerging from Antarctica and other parts of the world makes it very clear that scientists did not exaggerate. Indeed, they very probably underrated by a considerable degree the threat that now faces humanity"

@… on post.news:
Put simply, the Court allowed Trump to stay on the ballot in order to avoid an outcome that would raise the “national temperature.” My objection is that Judges should not bend to the will of an insurrectionist simply to placate his supporters.

Post Article
Put simply, the Court allowed Trump to stay on the ballot in order to avoid an outcome that would raise the “national temperature.” My objection is that Judges should not bend to the will of an insurrectionist simply to placate his supporters.

Veterstacio en Antarkto raportis temperaturon pli ol 38C super la mezo por la sezono. Kiam marglacio fandas, la algoj sub la glacio malaperas, kaj la kriloj kiuj manĝas ilin ankaŭ mortas, forigante la bazon de la nutroĉeno por multo da marbestoj.
Jen bonega resumo de la afero:

‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
On 18 March, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station on the #east #Antarctic #plateau documented a remarkable event.
…

TikTok sues the US government over law forcing a sale or ban, alleging it violates users' First Amendment rights and divestiture is "simply not possible" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/business/tiktok-ban-appeal.html…

TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban
The social media company and its Chinese parent, ByteDance, sued to challenge the new law, saying it violated users’ First Amendment rights.

"As to the consequences of this meteorological metamorphosis, these could be devastating, researchers warn. If all the ice on Antarctica were to melt, this would raise sea levels around the globe by more than 60 metres. Islands and coastal zones where much of the world’s population now have homes would be inundated."
That's why we need #postcapitalism

This really is not good. If the wind patterns continue to shift to bring lower latitude air to the Antarctic, this will accelerate the loss of polar ice and make the ecosystem changes happening there more abrupt.
#ClimateChange #Antarctica

I have a feeling that Simply Piano is the learning experience that DuoLingo wishes it was. I know they have different financial models but not being punished for mistakes makes a *huge* difference (to me, probably to others too).

Some obvious to some, but new revelations to me about shopping:
1. Aldi is THE BEST STORE EVER!!! Thanks to @… and his mum for making me a convert.
2. I use the app https://

TikTok sues the US government over the law forcing a sale or ban, saying it violates users' First Amendment rights and divestiture is "simply not possible" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/business/tiktok-ban-appeal.html…

TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban
The social media company and its Chinese parent, ByteDance, sued to challenge the new law, saying it violated users’ First Amendment rights.

Sometimes I read an article twice, this was such an article, explains why also in 2024 we don't fully understand LLMs , they are not "just statistics" as some argue, simply because some aspects with regard to generalisation and over fitting seem to work differently. Working on those models is still "more alchemy then chemistry".

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.
And that's a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models.

I am simply unable to write without a garden to sit in and a manservant to bring me tea.

So why did #Mozilla, when they decided to make a splash in the Fediverse (as opposed to when they undecided and withdrew) not simply "acquire" (as far as one can in the open-source world) #Mastodon? Or at least pay @…

@… on post.news:
Put simply, the Court allowed Trump to stay on the ballot in order to avoid an outcome that would raise the “national temperature.” My objection is that Judges should not bend to the will of an insurrectionist simply to placate his supporters.

Post Article
Put simply, the Court allowed Trump to stay on the ballot in order to avoid an outcome that would raise the “national temperature.” My objection is that Judges should not bend to the will of an insurrectionist simply to placate his supporters.

The Bohr inequality on a simply connected domain and its applications
Sabir Ahammed, Molla Basir Ahamed, Partha Pratim Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01895

The Bohr inequality on a simply connected domain and its applications
In this article, we first establish a generalized Bohr inequality and examine its sharpness for a class of analytic functions $f$ in a simply connected domain $Ω_γ,$ where $0\leq γ<1$ with a sequence $\{φ_n(r) \}^{\infty}_{n=0}$ of non-negative continuous functions defined on $[0,1)$ such that the series $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}φ_n(r)$ converges locally uniformly on $[0,1)$. Our results represent twofold generalizations corresponding to those obtained for the classes $\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{D})$ …

#DubNation :warriors: 🏀
Last night's game had playoff vibes. Dubs played great and the entire squad contributed.
Really important to get the young guys some experience like this. My hope is simply getting into at least one 7 game playoff series so the young guys get the experience they'll need next year (when we could be contenders).

Portugal and Germany set their age of consent at 14.
Young adults 14 have their bodily autonomy respected there.
When consenting adults, 16 years old, living in Chicago, become sex offenders because of terrible laws something is very wrong
https://dai.ly/x8f9k5g

So Badly Misconstrued: the age of consent - video Dailymotion
There are many fundamental misunderstandings about the age of consent. Some are simply nice little things that folks want to believe, but simply aren't true. The harsh reality is American age of consent laws as they currently stand are a dysfunctional mess that turn normal healthy teenagers into sex offenders.

Yesterday’s ruling was a 9-person act of craven cowardice, not a rational legal determination.
States control their ballots. Presidents are elected by the Electoral College, which consists of electors who are state-appointed based on mostly statewide votes. Some states elect electors by Congressional district, whose lines are state-defined.
That system is a fucked-up mess, but as long as we have that, states clearly have the responsibility to gatekeep their ballots.

Welp, it's official. All Stack Overflow contributions are simply grist for the AI mill. If you're still contributing there, it's probably time to stop. #stackoverflow
https://stac…

I really prefer the bloggers who even if they are in love with a company
they don't simply explain to the readers how great everything that company is doing.
This is not about objectivity v subjectivity.
I find it quite impossible for a company, any company, to be perfect and best.
When reading such blogs, I employ a confidence coefficient.

This is how life feels most of the time....😩
#ADHD #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodiverse

@… @… I took this a month back:
As you said, USCIS provides examples of acceptable answers for the purpose of studying.
When actually taking the test, the question is simply asked of you orally, and you must respond with an appro…

«I remember my son came home from elementary school one day and asked me why he was the only kid in his class who knew who John Lee Hooker was and I simply responded Their parents must not love them as much as I love you!»
😎 😉

We live in the future.
“(T)he soft sticker adapts its shape in response to any changes in the body's pH levels, once attached to an organ. As this shift is an early indication of post-surgery complications, the method allows clinicians to monitor the health of patients' deep tissues in real time, using ultrasound. Once the patient has fully recovered, the stickers simply dissolve within the body, with no need for surgical removal.”

Tiny shapeshifting stickers detect post-surgery complications
These dissolvable devices ‘tag’ organs to monitor abnormal activity.

This discussion of the burden of proof and design patent damages is good so I'll forgive the "patent design" part. Kyjen v. ScheduleA, 2024 WL 1421126, at *7. #ScheduleA #Remedies

This is the funniest thing I’ve read all week
https://nyr.ruv.is/english/2024-05-02-smuggler-claimed-he-was-simply-buying-in-bulk-411723

Smuggler claimed he was simply buying in bulk - RÚV.is
RÚV.is

NP-completeness of Tiling Finite Simply Connected Regions with a Fixed Set of Wang Tiles
Chao Yang, Zhujun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01017 https://<…

NP-completeness of Tiling Finite Simply Connected Regions with a Fixed Set of Wang Tiles
The computational complexity of tiling finite simply connected regions with a fixed set of tiles is studied in this paper. We show that the problem of tiling simply connected regions with a fixed set of $23$ Wang tiles is NP-complete. As a consequence, the problem of tiling simply connected regions with a fixed set of $111$ rectangles is NP-complete. Our results improve that of Igor Pak and Jed Yang by using fewer numbers of tiles. Notably in the case of Wang tiles, the number has decreased by …

Some obvious to some, but new revelations to me about shopping:
1. Aldi is THE BEST STORE EVER!!! Thanks to @… and his mum for making me a convert.
2. I use the app https://

Emergent Equivariance in Deep Ensembles
Jan E. Gerken, Pan Kessel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03103 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03103…

Emergent Equivariance in Deep Ensembles
We demonstrate that deep ensembles are secretly equivariant models. More precisely, we show that deep ensembles become equivariant for all inputs and at all training times by simply using data augmentation. Crucially, equivariance holds off-manifold and for any architecture in the infinite width limit. The equivariance is emergent in the sense that predictions of individual ensemble members are not equivariant but their collective prediction is. Neural tangent kernel theory is used to derive th…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #ScottMills
Simply Red:
🎵 Fairground
#SimplyRed
https://open.spotify.com/track/1cPcbT9kuGAMCAwI9W8vAL
https://invasivesound.bandcamp.com/track/simply-red-fairground

Also, let me share a helpful #FediTips with all of you.
Instead of making a post and asking "Is Facebook/Instagram/Threads down?", simply click the link below and search for your platform of choice and it will provide the answer for you.
https:/…

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Time-Optimal Gate-Traversing Planner for Autonomous Drone Racing
In drone racing, the time-minimum trajectory is affected by the drone's capabilities, the layout of the race track, and the configurations of the gates (e.g., their shapes and sizes). However, previous studies neglect the configuration of the gates, simply rendering drone racing a waypoint-passing task. This formulation often leads to a conservative choice of paths through the gates, as the spatial potential of the gates is not fully utilized. To address this issue, we present a time-optimal pl…

good rant on public health
From Julia Doubleday back in January:
"... demanding clean air and clean water is not “living in fear” but simply expecting the bare minimum of a democratic society to which we pay taxes...
"Zero public health projects in the history of ever have had a stated goal of “ignore it because we have to live life.” It’s fundamentally antithetical to the very concept of public health."
#covid #health #AirQuality

Yesterday’s ruling was a 9-person act of craven cowardice, not a rational legal determination.
States control their ballots. Presidents are elected by the Electoral College, which consists of electors who are state-appointed based on mostly statewide votes. Some states elect electors by Congressional district, whose lines are state-defined.
That system is a fucked-up mess, but as long as we have that, states clearly have the responsibility to gatekeep their ballots.

Raiders Named Potential Suitor For Saquon Barkley In Free Agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_named_potential_suitor_for_saquon_barkley_in_free_agency/s1_17150_40065047

Raiders Named Potential Suitor For Saquon Barkley In Free Agency
The Las Vegas Raiders may lose running back Josh Jacobs, but they could end up replacing him with Saquon Barkley in free agency. According to Tyler Dragon of USA Today, the Raiders are one of a handful of teams that are expected to make a play for Barkley once free agency begins next week. It would be kind of a strange move for Las Vegas, as the Raiders would basically be swapping two similarly skilled halfbacks. Perhaps Jacobs simply does not want to return, or it could be that Las Vegas sees …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15651 has been replaced.
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Topological characterization and Hodge structures of some rationally elliptic Kähler fourfolds
In this paper, we consider the rationally elliptic Kähler fourfolds which are holomorphically embedding into the complex projective eight-space $\mathbb{P}^8$. It is proved that a simply-connected $\mathbb Q$-homological projective four-space $X\subset\mathbb{P}^8$ is biholomorphic to $\mathbb{P}^4$ by using Euler characteristic and Chern numbers formulae of the normal bundle for a holomorphic embedding $i:X \to\mathbb{P}^8$. Wilson asked whether a $\mathbb Q$-homological projective $n$-space …

A Russian spy simply dialled into a sensitive German military call on WebEx - and went unnoticed (free registration required)
https://www.thestack.technology/russian-spy-webex-germany/?mid=1

Everyone probably already saw this but Amazon shutting down their "#AI" powered stores while admitting that they ran on hundreds of people watching video feeds in India is just *chef's kiss*
https://futurism.com…

Amazon Abandons Grocery Stores Where You Just Walk Out With Stuff After It Turns Out Its "AI" Was Powered by 1,000 Human Contractors
Amazon is giving up with its unusual "Just Walk Out" technology, which allowed customers to simply walk out with their stuff.

“The editors particularly invited reflections on how (…) disciplinary orientations constrain inquiry. But that, I think, is not the real issue. The main issue is that there is so much knowledge out there already (…) and, with a little effort, scholars could easily find it if they wanted to, but they don’t. (…) Scholars simply don’t have time to read each other’s work, because they have to write.”

But hey, remember (especially tech folks) that sponsorship doesn’t affect how an organisation behaves.
https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/…

I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)
It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong. But sometimes, it’s exactly what you have to do in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, today, I admit that I was wrong about Google, Facebook, and surveillance capitalism in general being toxic for our human rights and democracy. You see, it simply cannot be true given how they are endorsed by some of the most well-respected groups and organisations in the world.

The Birkhoff completion of finite lattices
Mohammad Abdulla, Johannes Hirth, Gerd Stumme
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02342 https://arx…

The Birkhoff completion of finite lattices
We introduce the Birkhoff completion as the smallest distributive lattice in which a given finite lattice can be embedded as semi-lattice. We discuss its relationship to implicational theories, in particular to R. Wille's simply-implicational theories. By an example, we show how the Birkhoff completion can be used as a tool for ordinal data science.

🏒 #Hockey #NHL #StanleyCup :NHL: :StanleyCup: @… @…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10607 has been replaced.
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The Lichnerowicz Laplacian on normal homogeneous spaces
We give a new formula for the Lichnerowicz Laplacian on normal homogeneous spaces in terms of Casimir operators. We derive some practical estimates and apply them to the known list of non-symmetric, compact, simply connected homogeneous spaces $G/H$ with $G$ simple whose standard metric is Einstein. This yields many new examples of Einstein metrics which are stable in the Einstein-Hilbert sense, which have long been lacking in the positive scalar curvature setting.

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Monoidal Jantzen filtrations
We introduce a monoidal analogue of Jantzen filtrations in the framework of monoidal abelian categories with generic braidings. It leads to a deformation of the multiplication of the Grothendieck ring. We conjecture, and we prove in many remarkable situations, that this deformation is associative so that our construction yields a quantization of the Grothendieck ring as well as analogs of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials. As a first main example, for finite-dimensional representations of simply-lace…

So Fediverse people are replying to @… on the Threads account. (eg. https://www.threads.net/@potus/post/C5R2tfZLYXD ) "He" can't see those…

❝You fight the battle in your head by getting outside your head. And it’s done with the smallest of steps. Every word you put to paper has value. Every time you nail two pieces of wood together there is value. Every lump of clay you knead in your hands has value.❞ https://buttondown.email/monteiro/arch…

Value and quality
This week’s question comes from Douglas Dollars: What is the role (and value) of “quality” when often simply having something in the first place is so much...

Maybe stop sending money and weapons to the perpetrators for the invasion, that might help.
Also, @… needs to add alt-text.
https://www.threads.net/@potus/post/C5R2tf

President Joe Biden (@potus) on Threads
I am outraged and heartbroken by the deaths of seven humanitarian workers from World Central Kitchen, including one American, in Gaza yesterday. Incidents like yesterday’s simply should not happen. Here is my full statement.

City size distributions are driven by each generation's stay-vs-leave decision
Robin W. Spencer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02129 https://

City size distributions are driven by each generation's stay-vs-leave decision
Throughout history most young adults have chosen to live where their parents did while a smaller number moved away. This is sufficient, by proof and simulation, to account for the well-known power law distributions of city sizes. The model needs only two parameters, $r$ = the probability that a child stays, and the maximum number of cities (which models the observed saturation at high city rank). The power law exponent follows directly as $α= 1 + 1/r$, with Zipf's Law simply the limiting case …

Daily Inspiration: "Your attitude should get you everything!” - Futurist Jim Carroll
The business of recruitment is broken.
In the last many years, much of it has moved to a world of automated resume processing, analytical examination of talent and skills, and the dominance of cold, hard statistical analysis. Many companies simply demand a cover letter and a LinkedIn page. Quality candidates often never make their way through the assembly-line methodology of calculated infer…

Daily Inspiration: HR, Skills and Recruitment – “Your attitude should get you everything!”

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Vertex Block Descent
We introduce vertex block descent, a block coordinate descent solution for the variational form of implicit Euler through vertex-level Gauss-Seidel iterations. It operates with local vertex position updates that achieve reductions in global variational energy with maximized parallelism. This forms a physics solver that can achieve numerical convergence with unconditional stability and exceptional computation performance. It can also fit in a given computation budget by simply limiting the itera…

Always remember, we are all entitled to our own opinions and we all get to choose what we use as far as software, hardware or anything else in this world. Just because YOU don't like something doesn't mean everyone else should not like it as well.
If you continually try and shove your opinion down my throat and try to force me to change what I use, I will simply block you and move on.
It's not appropriate, nor is it wanted or needed. It's actually quite DISRESPEC…

“The German government’s failings in protecting Muslims from hatred and discrimination start with a lack of understanding that Muslims experience racism and not simply faith-based hostility,” said Almaz Teffera, researcher on racism in Europe at Human Rights Watch.
“Without a clear understanding of anti-Muslim hate and discrimination in Germany and strong data on incidents and community outreach, a response by the German authorities will be ineffective.”

Cost of united Ireland '€20 billion for 20 years'
#ireland #unification

When someone so eminent is saying something so stark, you know Britain is in deep trouble.
"Professor Sir Michael Marmot, IHE director, said: "Put simply, Britain is a poor, sick country, getting sicker, with a few rich and healthy people; the results of a dismal failure of central government policies since 2010."
#DismalFailure

Poorer people dying increasingly younger than richer people as 'dismal' life expectancy gap grows, report finds

#Croc #shoes are simply one of those things I will never understand.

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
DAYNA: I don't know. Simply not finalised.
SERVALAN: Who was with him, helping him?
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/405/315 📺 B7B2

API = a person in India
(read it somewhere, not mine)
#Amazon

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Constructing edge-disjoint Steiner trees in Cartesian product networks
Cartesian product networks are always regarded as a tool for ``combining'' two given networks with established properties to obtain a new one that inherits properties from both. For a graph $F=(V,E)$ and a set $S\subseteq V(F)$ of at least two vertices, \emph{an $S$-Steiner tree} or \emph{a Steiner tree connecting $S$} (or simply, \emph{an $S$-tree}) is a subgraph $T=(V',E')$ of $F$ that is a tree with $S\subseteq V'$. For $S\subseteq V(F)$ and $|S|\geq 2$, the {\it generalized local …

Audiobooks: subscription, digital libraries or Š la carte? There's room for all! - The New Publishing Standard
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2024/05/02/audiobooks-subscription-digital-libraries-…

Audiobooks: subscription, digital libraries or à la carte? There's room for all! - The New Publishing Standard
The Dutch experience, and the emerging picture from Spotify, shows very clearly there is room for all models, and that publishers and authors that eschew one or the other are simply missing out.

"AI" requires more human supervision than a human just doing that task themselves
It is nothing more than an attempt to expand remote outsourcing to the service industry by inserting a fake computer interface in the middle
https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-a

Amazon Abandons Grocery Stores Where You Just Walk Out With Stuff After It Turns Out Its "AI" Was Powered by 1,000 Human Contractors
Amazon is giving up with its unusual "Just Walk Out" technology, which allowed customers to simply walk out with their stuff.

The hard truth is that Britain's entrepreneurs simply don't innovate (Phillip Inman/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/10/the-hard-truth-is-that-britains-entrepreneurs-simply-dont-…

Simply encourage the deployment of esim. #Singapore
https://mastodon.sg/@straits_times/112201165976380195

Today's observations about the state of the universe, as perceived by someone driving to Texas to view (I hope) the coming eclipse:
Somebody removed about two miles of Interstate 10 from central Tucson, Arizona. It is simply not there any more.
How come, on a highway that parallels, for hundreds upon hundreds of miles, fast moving trains stacked high with containers, that there are still large trucks being driven on the roads and not on the back of trains?

Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra structure on the Hochschild cohomology of $E_\infty$-algebras
Isma\"il Razack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01323 https://

Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra structure on the Hochschild cohomology of $E_\infty$-algebras
When $\mathcal{M}$ is a smooth, oriented, compact and simply connected manifold, Luc Menichi has shown that $HH^\ast(C^\ast(\mathcal{M}; \mathbb{F}))$, the Hochschild cohomology of the singular cochain complex of $\mathcal{M}$ is a Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra. Using the properties of algebras over the Barratt-Eccles operad, we show that this results holds even when the manifold is not simply connected. Furthermore, we prove a similar result for pseudomanifolds. Namely, we explain why $HH^\ast_\b…

Hi friends! I just upload some of the vertical videoclips from the last couple of days - I still didn'T dare to install Davinci 😄 - Well okay, I simply didn't want to take the time to go into it as we were out and about the last days.
Nevertheless, enjoy this little path!
https://youtube.com/…

Whether afraid to speak out or simply don't care, regular Russians enable autocracy: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/whether-afraid-to.html

The Onion:
Christian Man Persecuted Simply For Driving 90 Miles Per Hour In School Zone
https://www.theonion.com/christian-man-per

Christian Man Persecuted Simply For Driving 90 Miles Per Hour In School Zone
PEORIA, IL—Shaking his head as he spotted the flashing red and blue lights in his rearview mirror, local evangelical Christian man Joshua Weller was reportedly persecuted Tuesday simply for driving 90 miles per hour in a school zone. “Looks like someone spotted the Jesus fish on my back windshield,” said Weller, who…

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CR embeddings of nilpotent Lie groups
We show that a connected, simply connected nilpotent Lie group with an integrable left-invariant complex structure on a generating and suitably complemented subbundle of the tangent bundle admits a CR embedding in complex space as the edge of a wedge in a complex domain defined by polynomials.

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A Survey on Effective Invocation Methods of Massive LLM Services
Language models as a service (LMaaS) enable users to accomplish tasks without requiring specialized knowledge, simply by paying a service provider. However, numerous providers offer massive large language model (LLM) services with variations in latency, performance, and pricing. Consequently, constructing the cost-saving LLM services invocation strategy with low-latency and high-performance responses that meet specific task demands becomes a pressing challenge. This paper provides a comprehensi…

It is hard these days to articulate the nature of the right-wing threat in the US, because simply stating facts makes you sound like you’re making it up. But you’re not.
From @…: https://<…

'Audiences are making a rational decision not to consume news products' https://www.journalism.co.uk/news-commentary/-audiences-are-making-a-rational-decision-not-to-consume-our-products-/s6/a103367…

'Audiences are making a rational decision not to consume news products'
News avoiders are simply 'frustrated sense seekers' who do not see value in traditional journalism, says Shirish Kulkarni

@…
Lisa, at your discretion:
@… has been live-tweeting #Trump trial, in a very newbie-friendly, easy to understand way, especially if …

The latest Django releases were signed by another person, so I needed to update the #Gentoo keyring used to verify them. The keyring is created via fetching the #PGP keys from different sources, and then concatenating them to a single file. However, today I wasn't able to get the new key to work! Or more precisely, to get #GnuPG to correctly import the concatenated keys.
It simply imported 3 out of 4 keys, with no error or whatever. I've scratched my head, tried removing one old key that wasn't used by any of the current releases — then got 2 out of 3. I've tried reordering the keys, but then the other necessary key was ignored. I ran out of time and gave up for the moment.
Now, I've taken another look… and I've found the issue. Turns out that #GitHub, in their magic `.gpg` URLs, is outputting the ASCII-armored #OpenPGP keys without a trailing newline. While this technically isn't broken if the key is imported directly, concatenating it to another key creates a broken file with:
```
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----------BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
```
and *of course* GnuPG silently ignores the later key instead of reporting a problem.
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/122729

Tusks is a little indie Mastodon app by @… that lets you see just your posts and compose new ones (with a focus on making it easy to compose threads).
Just bought myself a lifetime license.
Check it out at https://

In tonight's sitting I was reminded how, for me these days, #meditation is matter-of-factly less about gaining a special state or a deeper relaxation, and more about participating appreciatively in what's present. The terms for that can sound exotic, like "suchness practice," but the practical experience brings a renewed regard for, as an example, Dōgen's instruction:

Just wanted to give a shout-out of love to my instance at social.coop for simply introducing me to some great tools for collective organising, governance, and financial tools like Open Collective and Loomio.
I've already started looking into these tools for organising a collective locally and it's just brilliant to have the resources and examples of how to use them well.
#coop

New Gist: Banning TikTok (for starters)
“the US legislature and executive have now committed themselves to a surprisingly Bolshevik view of economic action, with economic actors treated as simply arms of the state.”
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-banning-tiktok/

Sophie Teuschler's Sophiestication Software website, circa August 2009
https://web.archive.org/web/20090823054938/http://www.sophiestication.com/

"most people can't afford to put food on their table"
That's just simply not true, particularly in the US. If that were true the local food pantry and all these free-food cupboards around town... they would be empty and not having food slowly go bad in them.
#FreeAndEqual

While I would very much like to opensource some of the code I've written in the last few years, I'm pretty sure github (and others) will simply use it to train their LLMs with the stated objective of putting me and others out of a job.
What to do?
(No, I don't trust tags/robots.txt/whatever - and neither should you)

I'm a Docker (or containers in general) non-believer. I simply don't believe in the promises it makes.
Docker is supposed to be easy to set up, easy to update, easy to migrate and always works. However, I've head plenty of stories where a container setup doesn't want to work, doesn't want to update or doesn't work after migrating. It's the same shit.
I'll stick to plain old system packages and there is absolutely nothing that will stop me.

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A Tutorial on Near-Field XL-MIMO Communications Towards 6G
Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technology for the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication networks. By significantly boosting the antenna number or size to at least an order of magnitude beyond current massive MIMO systems, XL-MIMO is expected to unprecedentedly enhance the spectral efficiency and spatial resolution for wireless communication. The evolution from massive MIMO to XL-MIMO is not simply an increase in the array size, but faces new d…

Barr says Trump ordered people to be summarily executed so often they all just kind of blurred together and he simply tuned it out - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/04/26/ba…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06017 has been replaced.
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Deformations of Zappatic stable surfaces and their Galois covers
This paper has an appendix, written by considers some algebraic surfaces that can deform to planar Zappatic stable surfaces with a unique singularity of type En. We prove that the Galois covers of these surfaces are all simply connected of general type, for n>=4, and we give a formula for Chern numbers of such Galois covers. As an application, we prove that such surfaces do not exist for n>30. Furthermore, Kollar improves the result to n>9 in Appendix 5.

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
AVON: From those projectiles of hers?
FRANTON: Simply because of what's in there. The replication plant. Come on.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/307/491 📺 B7B3

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2:
#Radio2InThePark
- Live Sets (2023)
Highlights of Radio 2 In The Park in Leicester. Featuring Simply Red and Sam Ryder.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001trlh

Wait. Magic isn't real? 😂
Seriously, did anyone really think this was some kind of AI or "disruptive tech"?
I've always suspected this was more Flinstones technology than modern innovation.
"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped."

Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

Simply encourage the deployment of esim. #Singapore
https://mastodon.sg/@straits_times/112201165976380195

Today's observations about the state of the universe, as perceived by someone driving to Texas to view (I hope) the coming eclipse:
Somebody removed about two miles of Interstate 10 from central Tucson, Arizona. It is simply not there any more.
How come, on a highway that parallels, for hundreds upon hundreds of miles, fast moving trains stacked high with containers, that there are still large trucks being driven on the roads and not on the back of trains?

The Russians apparently managed to record a conference call of the commanding general of the German Air Force discussing delivery of Taurus missiles with his immediate staff. And published the entire recording on Telegram.
Best I can tell, they tapped the hotel room of the general while he was on a trip in Singapore.
Ouch.
One wonder what else they are recording if they can simply publish this call.

It is hard these days to articulate the nature of the right-wing threat in the US, because simply stating facts makes you sound like you’re making it up. But you’re not.
From @…: https://<…

Defect of irreducible plane curves with simple singularities
Piotr Pokora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03341 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404…

Defect of irreducible plane curves with simple singularities
In this note we focus on the defect of singular plane curve that was recently introduced by Dimca. Roughly speaking, the defect of a reduced plane curve measures the discrepancy from the property of being a free curve. We find some lower-bound on the defect for certain classes of irreducible plane curves admitting nodes, ordinary cusps and ordinary triple points. The main result of the note tells us that reduced simply singular plane curves with sufficiently high Arnold exponents are never free.

“…as well as promoting an open human-centered search engine market.”
Why does everything have to be a fucking market for fuck’s sake?! https://suma-ev.social/@openwebsearcheu/112360213078810208

OpenWebSearch.eu (@openwebsearcheu@suma-ev.social)
Attached: 1 image 📧 📫 What’s better than no news? Good news! And that we have plenty of! Our communications team is currently prepping our next #newsletter issue with lots of updates on the #OpenWebSearch Index prototype, Third-Party contributions, up-to-date partner profiles, interesting event tips and so much more. Be among the first to learn about opportunities to engage and stay in the loop on relevant progress. 👉 Simply sign up to our mailing list if you haven’t yet. ht…

"most people can't afford to put food on their table"
That's just simply not true, particularly in the US. If that were true the local food pantry and all these free-food cupboards around town... they would be empty and not having food slowly go bad in them.
#FreeAndEqual

While I would very much like to opensource some of the code I've written in the last few years, I'm pretty sure github (and others) will simply use it to train their LLMs with the stated objective of putting me and others out of a job.
What to do?
(No, I don't trust tags/robots.txt/whatever - and neither should you)

"That’s why The Inquirer Editorial Board plans to spend the next 10 months sounding the alarm that #Trump remains a danger to our democracy. We plan to detail Trump’s many flaws and misdeeds while spelling out the risks of a second term, which the twice-impeached former president has made clear will be worse than his first four years.
Put simply, Trump is unfit for office."
Don…

Donald Trump is a clear and present danger | Editorial
The presidential election is about more than the traditional policy differences between two candidates. It's about the kind of country we are going to live in and pass on to future generations.

"That’s why The Inquirer Editorial Board plans to spend the next 10 months sounding the alarm that #Trump remains a danger to our democracy. We plan to detail Trump’s many flaws and misdeeds while spelling out the risks of a second term, which the twice-impeached former president has made clear will be worse than his first four years.
Put simply, Trump is unfit for office."
Don…

Donald Trump is a clear and present danger | Editorial
The presidential election is about more than the traditional policy differences between two candidates. It's about the kind of country we are going to live in and pass on to future generations.

Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead after a fight
Nex Benedict died one day after a fight in a school bathroom. Their mother Sue Benedict tells Bevan Hurley that the gender fluid teenager endured more than a year of abuse simply for being who they were

Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead after a fight
Nex Benedict died one day after a fight in a school bathroom. Their mother Sue Benedict tells Bevan Hurley that the gender fluid teenager endured more than a year of abuse simply for being who they were

Do we simply not care about old people? - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/do-we-simply-not-care-about-old-people-2667234342/

Do we simply not care about old people?
The covid-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn’t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults. The death toll was shocking, as were reports of chaos in nursing homes and seniors suffering from isolation,...