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"Sweeney’s right that there’s no unpressing the AI button; companies are going to make these things until the bottom falls out. Epic’s demo is just one more uninspiring bit of buzzwordery to add to the pile."
(Original title: Unreal’s AI Demo Had No Point)
https://aftermath.site/…

Unreal's AI Demo Had No Point - Aftermath
We have Portal at home

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

Microsoft layoffs of even long-time industry vets signal video game industry brain drain #gaming

Microsoft Layoffs Signal Video Game Industry Brain Drain - Aftermath
Multiple industry veterans have left Xbox in the wake of layoffs

The Quiet Revolutionary of the Piano – Fauré’s Complete Piano Works Now on Piano Street https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/s…

The Quiet Revolutionary of the Piano – Fauré’s Complete Piano Works Now on Piano Street
PIANO NEWS: An article about The Quiet Revolutionary of the Piano – Fauré’s Complete Piano Works Now on Piano Street from the Piano Street Magazine.

You want to use a #StaticSiteGenerator and need to support #multilingual sites? It’s now easier than ever! For quite a while, #Pelican had a great plugin for that use case. Now I helped migrate it …

On Micro-survey Results - Archived results from some small surveys/polls taken on this site (and elsewhere)... - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-results.html

On Micro-survey Results
Archived results from some small surveys/polls taken on this site (and elsewhere)...

I tried to access: https://constitutionparty.com/
I got this message:
>Access to browse this site from your country is prohibited.
Is there a way to tell where the access is being blocked, from Brazil or by the site itself?

stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps

I’m well out of my depth here: my historical knowledge to speak to the issues is thin; my cultural knowledge is almost nonexistent. Reading that Standing Together site, seeing how they’ve crafted what they write, I see just how much nuance and awareness I •don’t• have.
I’m grateful to the people who’ve helped me learn, and who’ve pointed me to these resources — in this case @… and @…. Sometimes the Internet really is good for something.
/end

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa…

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the site's operators are.

I wrote up a longer post about a bike riding group and how we use the web... along with some of my own thoughts on how to do it.
Feedback and ideas are welcome!
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/05/31/milwaukee-critical-mass-web-site/

Milwaukee Critical Mass Web Site
Thoughts on how we use the web in 2025...

Euphemisms galore. This is reportedly called an 'incident'.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/01/palestinians-gunned-down-while-trying-to-reach-food-aid-site-in-gaza-hosp…

People in congress should not get paid unless they show up to work. It's simple logic. I've built a site where they can register their attendance here: #uspol

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-s-scum-points-to-something-more-sinister-than-partisan-posturing/

Trump's 'scum' attack gave awful signal of what's coming
Donald Trump opened Memorial Day in the most disgusting way possible, not by praising our fallen heroes but by attacking Democrats. He wrote on his Nazi-infested social media site on Monday morning:“Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our co...

Now, as a Trot, I'm obviously not a huge Stalin fan but, still... 🤔
4% of the world population, 22% of all the prisoners in the world.

Universal band center model for the HER activity of non-metal site
Ruixin Xu, Shiqian Cao, Tingting Bo, Yanyu Liu, Wei Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02567

Universal band center model for the HER activity of non-metal site
In this work, the hydrogen evolution reaction activities of non-metal sites in the transition metal dichalcogenides with the stoichiometry of MX2 are investigated using the first principles calculations. The trained machine learning model demonstrates that the pz band center, bandgap, and period effect are the key factors influencing the HER activity of MX2. Furthermore, it also reveals that the observed non-scaling law between the pz band center and HER activity in the semiconductor-like mater…

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/01/palestinians-gunned-down-while-trying-to-reach-food-aid-site-in-gaza-hospital-says
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p60#a250601p60

"We use cookies and similar technologies to support the #Guardian and personalise your experience in other ways. To do this we work with a cross section of 132 partners."
132!!!
So rather than paying them again (we still have the Guardian Weekly, against my better judgement), I accept and then use this Firefox/LibreWolf/Iceraven extension:

Cookie Remover – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-GB)
Download Cookie Remover for Firefox. Removes cookies for the current site

As things stand now, the only way to be (almost) certain something is legitimate is if you find it in the site and/or official account of the alledged maker of it. Otherwise, it's safer to assume it's fake.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06

Euronews targeted by anti-Moldova disinformation campaign
Pro-Russian actors have repeatedly used Euronews' likeness and visual identity in recent weeks to spread propaganda against various European countries. #EuroVerify

Symbolic identification of tensor equations in multidimensional physical fields
Tianyi Chen, Hao Yang, Wenjun Ma, Jun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01466

Symbolic identification of tensor equations in multidimensional physical fields
Recently, data-driven methods have shown great promise for discovering governing equations from simulation or experimental data. However, most existing approaches are limited to scalar equations, with few capable of identifying tensor relationships. In this work, we propose a general data-driven framework for identifying tensor equations, referred to as Symbolic Identification of Tensor Equations (SITE). The core idea of SITE--representing tensor equations using a host-plasmid structure--is ins…

@… I’ve been happy with the free tier of https://umami.is/, don’t know if it would work for you though. Was quick and easy to add into my static site generator.

As a forum user from back in the 90s til recently, something that also bugs me, and apparently a lot of people, I felt this piece
'One last time, Discord is not a suitable replacement for forums': https://aftermath.site/discord-forums-

One Last Time, Discord Is Not A Suitable Replacement For Forums - Aftermath
They are not the same thing

There must be plenty of suitable brownfield sites available and suitable for this.
#BrownfieldSites #GreenSpace #GreenBelt
"Electricity firm wants to build battery energy storage pla…

Electricity firm wants to build battery energy storage plant on green belt site
If approved, 13 battery containers, each more than three metres in height would be installed on land currently used for livestock grazing

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
SERVALAN: Naturally, I'm grateful. But it's not enough.
DAYNA: You're in no position to bargain.
SERVALAN: Oh, but I am. Without Orac you're helpless, and you know it, don't you Avon?
AVON: What is it you want?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/480

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@… Besides that: I'm looking into moving my thesis project site to a digital garden Jekyll theme: https://github.com/maximevaillancourt/

A Novel Intensity-Based Criterion for Determining Exceptional Point in PT-Symmetry Coupled Array of Optical Waveguides
Mahla Bahar, Mojtaba Golshani, Mostafa Motamedifar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01200

A Novel Intensity-Based Criterion for Determining Exceptional Point in PT-Symmetry Coupled Array of Optical Waveguides
In this study, we investigated the propagation pattern and the site-to-site correlation function in a PT-symmetric waveguide array with different input quantum states. Recognizing the stark difference in propagation pattern before and after the PT symmetry-breaking point, we have developed a novel, straightforward intensity-based criterion to determine the exceptional point (EP). This new criterion shows excellent agreement with those obtained by directly computing the Hamiltonian's eigenvalues…

Don Snoreleon
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: please don't extraordinarily rendition me to a black site.
#satire #potus45

Test site deployed
This will be running for a few weeks as a test.
#meshtastic

More talk about quantum computers breaking encryption in the near future... and of course there's that thing about nation states, and possibly other bad actors, already hoovering up packet logs to later decrypt.
So, given the Post Quantum Cryptography that's coming online, I'd really love a browser feature/extension to alert me to when a site is using PQC.
Why? Becaus then I can change my password, secure in the knowledge that it can't be fished out of past packe…

Oriented bond-site percolation in random environment and contact processes with periodic recovery
Benedikt Jahnel, Lukas L\"uchtrath, Anh Duc Vu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00329

Oriented bond-site percolation in random environment and contact processes with periodic recovery
We investigate oriented bond-site percolation on the planar lattice in which entire columns are stretched. Generalising recent results by Hilário et al., we establish non-trivial percolation under a $(1+\varepsilon)$-th moment condition on the stretches and use this to prove survival of contact processes with periodic recoveries as well as in random environments.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13320 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Density Matrix Renormalization Group simulations of the SU(N) Fermi-Hubbard chain implementing the full SU(N) symmetry via Semi-Standard Young Tableaux and Unitary Group Subduction Coefficients
We have developed an efficient method for performing density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) simulations of the SU(N) Fermi-Hubbard chain with open boundary conditions, fully leveraging the SU(N) symmetry of the problem. This method extends a previously developed approach for the SU(N) Heisenberg model and relies on the systematic use of the semi-standard Young tableaux (SSYT) basis in a DMRG algorithm `a la White. Specifically, the method aligns the site-by-site growth process of the infin…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16020 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Holstein mechanism in single-site model with unitary evolution
We consider the Holstein mechanism in single electron (one-site) system with unitary evolution that is intrinsic to both the fermion and boson operators in the case of nonadiabatic limit. The unitary dynamics as well as boson-frequency-dependence provide the evidence of quantum phase transition from the distinct behaviors at short-time and long-time stages, which exhibit power law and exponential law decay, respectively, as can be seem from the polaronic shift.

G/O Media sells gaming news site Kotaku to Keleops, the European company that acquired Gizmodo in 2024, leaving G/O Media with just one property, The Root (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/02/kotaku-sale-keleops-go-media

G/O Media sells Kotaku to Gizmodo owner Keleops
The Root is now the only media brand left at G/O Media.

The human aspects of the Ukrainian operation Spider's Web i find the most amazing, driving all those trucks through Russia, having drone operators on site (!), evading all checks and controls within Russia. Very likely a lot of bribing was involved, the extreme level of corruption makes Russia weak.
#ukraine

More on Intractability of Thermalization: (almost) i.i.d. inputs and finite lattices
Keiji Matsumoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02601 https://

More on Intractability of Thermalization: (almost) i.i.d. inputs and finite lattices
This work is an extention of Shiraishi and Matsumoto [10], and discusses the computational complexity of the long-term average of local observables in one-dimensional lattices with shift-invariant nearest-neighbor interactions for simple initial states. As shown in the previous paper, the problem is generally intractable. In this paper we refine the statement further. First, we consider restriction of the initial state, where the state of all the sites are the same except for a single site. We …

Heute vor 72 Jahren: Am 4. Juni 1953 führten die #USA in #Nevada den #Atomtest "Climax", Teil der "Operation Upshot-Knothole", durch. Insgesamt wurden bei dieser Operation 11 Atomtests ü…

A DNA Methylation Classification Model Predicts Organ and Disease Site
Keng-Jung Lee, Dharanya Sampath, Konstantinos Mavrommatis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00146

A DNA Methylation Classification Model Predicts Organ and Disease Site
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) analysis is a powerful, minimally invasive tool for monitoring disease progression, treatment response, and early detection. A major challenge, however, is accurately determining the tissue of origin, especially in complex or heterogeneous disease contexts. To address this, we developed a machine learning framework that leverages tissue-specific DNA methylation signatures to classify both tissue and disease origin from cfDNA data. Our model integrates methylation datasets …

Automated Web Application Testing: End-to-End Test Case Generation with Large Language Models and Screen Transition Graphs
Nguyen-Khang Le, Quan Minh Bui, Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Hiep Nguyen, Trung Vo, Son T. Luu, Shoshin Nomura, Minh Le Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02529

Automated Web Application Testing: End-to-End Test Case Generation with Large Language Models and Screen Transition Graphs
Web applications are critical to modern software ecosystems, yet ensuring their reliability remains challenging due to the complexity and dynamic nature of web interfaces. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating complex tasks, but limitations persist in handling dynamic navigation flows and complex form interactions. This paper presents an automated system for generating test cases for two key aspects of web application testing: site navigation and form …

»Static Site Generators - Hugo:
Hugo ist einer der beliebtesten Open-Source-Generatoren für statische Websites. Mit seiner erstaunlichen Geschwindigkeit und Flexibilität macht das Erstellen von Websites mit Hugo wieder Spaß.«
Ich pers. bevorzuge Zola, da ich ein Rust Fanboy bin und es extrem schnell ist aber im allgemeinen sind jegliche statische Seiten in den meisten Fällen absolut ausreichend.
🌐

Serie: Static Site Generators - Hugo (Teil 1)
Hugo ist einer der beliebtesten Open-Source-Generatoren für statische Websites. Mit seiner erstaunlichen Geschwindigkeit und Flexibilität macht das Erstellen von Websites mit Hugo wieder Spaß.

STRATUS: A Multi-agent System for Autonomous Reliability Engineering of Modern Clouds
Yinfang Chen, Jiaqi Pan, Jackson Clark, Yiming Su, Noah Zheutlin, Bhavya Bhavya, Rohan Arora, Yu Deng, Saurabh Jha, Tianyin Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02009

STRATUS: A Multi-agent System for Autonomous Reliability Engineering of Modern Clouds
In cloud-scale systems, failures are the norm. A distributed computing cluster exhibits hundreds of machine failures and thousands of disk failures; software bugs and misconfigurations are reported to be more frequent. The demand for autonomous, AI-driven reliability engineering continues to grow, as existing humanin-the-loop practices can hardly keep up with the scale of modern clouds. This paper presents STRATUS, an LLM-based multi-agent system for realizing autonomous Site Reliability Engine…

Si vous avez vu le documenaire ARTE, Bouddhisme la Loi du Silence ou la video résumé de la chaîne Dissecte sur l'OKC, cela soulève pas mal de question, nous avons tenté d'y répondre avec une page dédiée sur notre site : https://chardonsbleus.org/faq

Quand ton site web est archivé par la BnF, c’est que tu as atteint un certain accomplissement.
On râle souvent quand des bots crawlent nos sites, mais quand c’est la BnF, on sourit : c’est pour la postérité, au service de la mémoire collective.
😃
#bnf #crawler

Met mijn hart gaat het goed.
Maar het gat in mijn lies(slagader) is vanmorgen gaan bloeden en opnieuw verbonden met een modern drukpleistersysteem (https://www.merit.com/product/safeguard-pressure-assisted-device/)
Nu mag ik zes uur stil op mijn ru…

SafeGuard® Pressure Assisted Device
Safeguard pressure assisted device maintains consistent pressure on the access site and facilitates site assessment through the clear window.

"it feels like the hope with generative AI is that no matter how much you may hate it, the goal is to bombard you with its horrors and its excesses so frequently that you become numb to it."
(Original title: I’m Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn’t Have AI Crap In It)
https://

I'm Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn't Have AI Crap In It - Aftermath
It sucks that players are having to scour every asset and line of dialogue

In "holy-crap-that-was-too-difficult", reworked the Jekyll build script to work using the `ruby:alpine` container. I just want the site to build without having to go through the hoops of installing `ruby` and getting `bundle` to do what I want it to. A nice Docker Compose file gets it done nice and quickly without fuss. Also I don't have random gems installed around my system.
#ruby

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17831 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

High-resolution urban air pollution and thermal comfort mapping: an application of drive mobile sensing platform for smart city services
Air pollutant exposure exhibits significant spatial and temporal variability, with localized hotspots, particularly in traffic microenvironments, posing health risks to commuters. Although widely used for air quality assessment, fixed-site monitoring stations are limited by sparse distribution, high costs, and maintenance needs, making them less effective in capturing on-road pollution levels. This study utilizes a fleet of 314 taxis equipped with sensors to measure NO\textsubscript{2}, PM\text…

Trafic légèrement perturbé le jeudi 5 juin sur la ligne U, prévoir 2 trains sur 3.​
Pour préparer votre trajet, ​rendez-vous sur l’appli Île-de-France Mobilités, le site Transilien.com, SNCF Connect ou votre appli de mobilité.
Avant de vous rendre en gare, nous vous conseillons de vérifier l’horaire de vos trains.
Motif : mouvement social.
🤖 05/06 03:00

On Website Technicals (2019-07) - Tech updates: improved video support, HTTPS, search impressions vs clicks, FFmpeg vs AVconv, line-height. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-26.html

On Website Technicals (2019-07)
Tech updates: improved video support, HTTPS, search impressions vs clicks, FFmpeg vs AVconv, line-height.

Hunters International ransomware group claims to be shutting down https://therecord.media/hunters-international-ransomware-extortion-group-claims-shutdown

Active Gaussian Network Model: a non-equilibrium description of protein fluctuations and allosteric behavior
Giulio Costantini, Lorenzo Caprini, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi, Fabio Cecconi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24855

Active Gaussian Network Model: a non-equilibrium description of protein fluctuations and allosteric behavior
Understanding the link between structure and function in proteins is fundamental in molecular biology and proteomics. A central question in this context is whether allostery - where the binding of a molecule at one site affects the activity of a distant site - emerges as a further manifestation of the intricate interplay between structure, function, and intrinsic dynamics. This study explores how allosteric regulation is modified when intrinsic protein dynamics operate under out-of-equilibrium …

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
VILA: We can't hold all of them.
JENNA: They can't all come through that gap at once.
[Liberator approaches alien fleet]
AVON: Stand by to fire.
VILA: Avon, this is stupid!
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Trump regime plans to cancel all climate research at @noaa.gov , including its Mauna Loa CO2 measurements, running since 1958.
Last year's budget was $220 million. Next year's would be $0.
https://bsky.app/profile/rarohde.bsky.social/post/3lsucn5ckys2k

Robert Rohde (@rarohde.bsky.social)
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. https://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/NOAA-FY2026-Congressional-Budget-Submission.pdf

Looks like EU funding of #FLOSS will continue: "Open digital infrastructure, from search and identity to cloud and software governance, is now a strategic European priority."

NGI Forum 2025 marks a strategic shift from Next Generation Internet toward the Open Internet Stack
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Forum 2025, the flagship event of the European Commission’s NGI initiative, took place in Brussels on 19-20 June, with over 200 on-site participants and many more via web stream. The Forum focused on accelerating the shift from research and experimentation to the deployment of sovereign, open digital infrastructures.

Poder e (Im)Potência da Mídia: a alegria dos homens tristes, por Valter Rodrigues
https://askesis.hypotheses.org/902
(artigo raro e importante, publicado nos anos 2000 no oestrangeiro.net, mas perdido reencontrado na WayBack Machine, depois editado)

Poder e [Im]potência da mídia: a alegria dos homens tristes
Valter Rodrigues. O presente texto foi publicado no site oestrangeiro.net em 26 de abril de 2005, sob submissão do próprio Valter Rodrigues, e recuperado via Wayback Machine. O texto foi primeiramente publicado em Comunicação...

A bit of context that might be needed for this story about a 2010 website, is that prior to 2011 https wasn't widely used outside of e-commerce. The release of Firesheep in October 2010 led to a push for site authentication to go over https, and the 2013 Snowden revelations shifted the web towards encrypt all transmission.
https…

The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site
The site, starwarsweb.net, was a covert CIA communications tool. It has pictures of Yoda and C-3PO on it.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Devil: 23 June - 30 June
https://ift.tt/ShItcNb
Hagley History Hangout/New Episode Artists bring a unique perspective to historical…
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Spurious Caesar
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This is for tee hee, not treason: please don't extraordinarily rendition me to a black site.
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https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/12253-major-truck-manufacturer-scania-confirms-insurance-site-cyber-attack
Another insurance attack.
Major truck manufacturer Scania confirms insurance site cyber attack

Major truck manufacturer Scania confirms insurance site cyber attack
Swedish heavy vehicle manufacturer Scania has confirmed that threat actors successfully breached its insurance and financial services division.

Public perspectives on the design of fusion energy facilities
Nathan Kawamoto, Daniel Hoover, Jonathan Xie, Jacob Walters, Katie Snyder, Aditi Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02207

Public perspectives on the design of fusion energy facilities
As fusion energy technologies approach demonstration and commercial deployment, understanding public perspectives on future fusion facilities will be critical for achieving social license, especially because fusion energy facilities, unlike large fission reactors, may be sited in closer proximity to people and communities, due to distinct regulatory frameworks. In a departure from the 'decide-announce-defend' approach typically used to site energy infrastructure, we develop a participatory desi…

I think I did only two things that really mattered to that org in the long term:
1. Stopped them from buying a really dubious CMS / web app engine that would have cost the org (a nonprofit) millions it didn’t have to be vendor-locked into a dead-end platform that would have set their site back years.
2. Selected a new developer hire who was far more dependable and mature than I was, and became their lynchpin. She wrote tons of software that did actually matter, and stayed with them for years.
Whatever dev skills I had turned out to be good for (1) saying “stop, don’t” and (2) recognizing an excellent person in a job interview. Note that neither involved the code I wrote.
2/2

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.

A look at SFGate, which has the largest audience of any purely local US news site; EIC Grant Marek says the site has 60 employees and has "never had a layoff" (Lucy Kenningham/Press Gazette)
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How SFGATE is making local news pay and filling California's news gaps
SFGATE has the largest audience of any purely local news site in the US.

Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
AVON: I can dismantle the solium device, but first of all I have to find it. This isn't it.
CAUDER: What?
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Someone mentioned the "awesome" web site for Milwaukee Critical Mass, but I think they may have been taking the piss...
But honestly, I'd rather see this than an overdone 'full of shit' web site with too much.
As it is, it gives the basic info. Sometimes that's all you need.
Although (sigh) it looks like it hasn't been updated since April.
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Inductive-Effect-Driven Tunability of Magnetism and Lumines-cence in Triangular Layers ANd(SO4)2 (A = Rb, Cs)
Xudong Huai, Ebube E. Oyeka, Uchenna Chinaegbomkpa, Michal J. Winiarski, Hugo Sanabria, Thao T. Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01818

Inductive-Effect-Driven Tunability of Magnetism and Lumines-cence in Triangular Layers ANd(SO4)2 (A = Rb, Cs)
Tuning the energy landscape of manybody electronic states in extended solids through the inductive effect-a concept widely used in organic chemistry-offers a new, effective strategy for materials development. Here, we demonstrate this approach using the ANd(SO4)2 (A = Rb, Cs) model system, which possesses different A-site electronegativity and displays a distorted triangular lattice of Nd3+ (4I9/2 ground term). Magnetization data indicate appreciable antiferromagnetic interactions without long-…

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
GAN: WAS inhabited.
BLAKE: Hmm?
GAN: Look here [Points them to the memorials] as far as the eye can see.
BLAKE: Grave markers?
JENNA: So many.
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Porn-site age checks will be harder to fight after ruling on Texas law, experts say https://therecord.media/supreme-court-ruling-texas-porn-age-check-law-privacy-data-security

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 23 June - 30 June
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Source: Nintendo pulled its products from Amazon's US site after noticing third-party merchants were selling games in the US at prices below Nintendo's rates (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
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On Website Technicals (2025-06)
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An interview with Henry Blodget on BI's layoffs, media market changes in the past five years, why the future is direct distribution and subscriptions, and more (Andy Meek/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymeek/2025

Henry Blodget On Business Insider Layoffs: 'The Market Has Changed'
Business Insider co-founder Henry Blodget weighs in on the site's layoffs and how AI is reshaping the future of journalism.

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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Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
AVON: Internal? [Opens comm link.] Tarrant, what have you got up there apart from yourself, a half-wit and a corpse?
TARRANT: [V.O. over comm.] A box. [Shot changes to Tarrant on Scorpio.]
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On Website Technicals (2025-06)
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 23 June - 30 June
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Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: I'd rather not try. But if I have to, I will not be alone. I've already contacted a Resistance leader.
[Wooded area near the Forbidden Zone]
VERON: No sign of them?
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Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
SOOLIN: Keller was right again.
AVON: Vila, try and bring Tarrant back up.
VILA: [He tries.] Nonoperational.
AVON: Well now, none of us is going to faint with amazement at that. Are we?
SOOLIN: What's the next move?
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#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
SLAVE: Yes, Master.
DORIAN: Analyze exterior disturbance.
SLAVE: It is an earthquake, Master.
AVON: Cause?
[Slave does not answer. Avon points his gun at Dorian.]
DORIAN: Cause?

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On Website Technicals (2019-01) - Tech updates: Happy New Ear, cssgip, work storage, AMP srcset, LEDs, details, 400kpx image warning, bad AutoAd, indigestion, multi-hero, OGP revisited. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-20.html

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Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
TRAVIS: I was merely quoting you, Supreme Commander.
SERVALAN: Contact the ship. I have an appointment with a man named Carnell.
TRAVIS: [Regarding the clone on his way out] My compliments.
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Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
JENNA: Gola, don't kill him, please. [Vila is heard shrieking protests off stage]
GOLA: We'll see, we'll see.
[THE DUNGEONS - Blake hides as Vila is dragged in.]
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Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
GROFF: A finger?
TARRANT: A finger. And as you can see, it is better designed for pressing buttons than holding writing implements. So why can't we use computers?
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#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
AVON: So?
TARRANT: So what do we do before they blow us out of the galaxy?
AVON: We attack.
TARRANT: Attack? We have nothing to attack with.
AVON: Then bluff it. Tell them to surrender.

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Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
JENNA: It's over an hour since our last contact.
CALLY: It can't be a communicator fault.
JENNA: Not on all four bracelets, no.
CALLY: What do you think has happened?
JENNA: They've run into trouble.
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#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
DURKIM: She can't be, it's unmanned. The systems are automatic.
SERVALAN: A group of scientists and technicians elected to spend the rest of their lives refining, checking and guarding the systems.

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Series D, Episode 08 - Games
SOOLIN: Do you think they planned that explosion?
AVON: Not this time. This was just a happy accident. But now the Federation is aware of the potential of Feldon power systems. Orac?
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Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
TARRANT: Right, that's it.
AVON: What does that mean?
TARRANT: If I'm going to die, I'd rather do it with a gun in my hand than sit around here shivering like an old woman.
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Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DORIAN: Exactly.
AVON: You really are insane, aren't you?
DORIAN: By now I probably would be.
AVON: If it wasn't for this mysterious room.
DORIAN: And what it contains.
SOOLIN: [Enters] And what might that be, Dorian?
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Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
ORAC: No. It was a priority one - for automatic relay to the senior officer present.
BLAKE: Orac, I want more information. I want to know everything there is to know about this man Coser; I want to know how he got out of the base; and I want to know what IMIPAK is.
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Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
AVON: Put it on the main screen.
ORAC: I must point out that this is a gross misuse and an absurd waste of my capabilities.
AVON: Put it on the main screen.
ORAC: I will do it only under protest.
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#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
BLAKE: Kemp, Wardin, Tober, missing in the constellation of 61 Cygnii, seven hundred years ago.
WILER: May I continue?
BELLFRIAR: Sorry.
[Mortuary]
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Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
BLAKE: Yes, Cally! [shakes her]
CALLY: [Groggy] What?
BLAKE: It's Sonovapour. Tranquilizing gas.
CALLY: Gas?
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#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
BLAKE: It was an accident. [Takes hold of her arm] Look, we're very close to a planet but we don't know what it is. I can't find any transmission sources. Will you please run the checks for me. [She moves to communication position. Blake follows.]
ZEN: Sensor indicate increasing density of silica based organic material adhering t…

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Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VILA: [V.O., over comm] That's what he said. And let's face it: any friend of Avon's got to be sick, right? Are you going to bring us up, Cally?
CALLY: Have a little patience, Vila.
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Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
AVON: [V.O.] I hear you.
BLAKE: Bring us back. [Pause. V.O.] Bring us back.
[Interior. Liberator teleport area. Avon is at the console. Gan is there]
AVON: I can't. The teleport control is burnt out.
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Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
TARRANT: He isn't.
AVON: So when I refuse to answer his questions we'll get into the dreary process of subjecting me to extreme pain and suffering.
TARRANT: Barbaric, but frequently effective.
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B05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: [V.O.] Avon, give me a rundown check on what you're going to do.
AVON: We teleport directly into the Forbidden Zone, we make an analysis of the defence systems, and then we teleport directly to your location. [Inside the church]
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