Tootfinder

Rettet die Berge – kein Rückschritt beim Alpenschutz!
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/du-hast-es-in-der-hand-rettet-die-berge-kein-ruckschritt-beim-alpenschutz?source=mastodon
Unterzeichne jetzt die Pe…

🌱 Plant cell wall mechanics informs how to grow sustainable architectural forms
#cornell

Plant cell wall mechanics informs how to grow sustainable architectural forms
Clothing that adapts to one's needs and senses the external habitat. A lunar lava tunnel that uses bacteria, plants and fungi to create sustainable human habitats within otherwise unlivable places. Buildings grown from living things.

Sheesh what morons. There is utterly no value, nor need for, crypto currencies, not even the "stable" forms - which are really nothing more than a non-Federal Reserve issued currency that erodes the Fed's ability to control the money supply to fight inflation and recession.
That is, except for criminals, who believe that block chains hide their identities.

Trump signs 1st major federal cryptocurrency bill into law
The law makes it easier for banks to issue stablecoins.

Of course racism takes a variety of forms. It both affects and is experiencd differently by different groups, in different places, at different times. How could it possibly be monolithic?
Diane Abbott is not saying anything surprising.
She is being predictably targeted by the Labour right (and their yes men and women).

AI, AGI, and learning efficiency
An addendum to this: I'm someone who would accurately be called "anti-AI" in the modern age, yet I'm also an "AI researcher" in some ways (have only dabbled in neutral nets).
I don't like:
- AI systems that are the product of labor abuses towards the data workers who curate their training corpora.
- AI systems that use inordinate amounts of water and energy during an intensifying climate catastrophe.
- AI systems that are fundamentally untrustworthy and which reinforce and amplify human biases, *especially* when those systems are exposed in a way that invites harms.
- AI systems which are designed to "save" my attention or brain bandwidth but such my doing so cripple my understating of the things I might use them for when I fact that understanding was the thing I was supposed to be using my time to gain, and where the later lack of such understanding will be costly to me.
- AI systems that are designed by and whose hype fattens the purse of people who materially support genocide and the construction of concentration campus (a.k.a. fascists).
In other words, I do not like and except in very extenuating circumstances I will not use ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, etc.
On the other hand, I do like:
- AI research as an endeavor to discover new technologies.
- Generative AI as a research topic using a spectrum of different methods.
- Speculating about non-human intelligences, including artificial ones, and including how to behave ethically towards them.
- Large language models as a specific technique, and autoencoders and other neural networks, assuming they're used responsibly in terms of both resource costs & presentation to end users.
I write this because I think some people (especially folks without CS backgrounds) may feel that opposing AI for all the harms it's causing runs the risk of opposing technological innovation more broadly, and/or may feel there's a risk that they will be "left behind" as everyone else embraces the hype and these technologies inevitability become ubiquitous and essential (I know I feel this way sometimes). Just know that is entirely possible and logically consistent to both oppose many forms of modern AI while also embracing and even being optimistic about AI research, and that while LLMs are currently all the rage, they're not the endpoint of what AI will look like in the future, and their downsides are not inherent in AI development.

ChatGPT Agent uses a virtual browser to do tasks such as filling online forms and calling public APIs, and generates downloadable PowerPoint and Excel files (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chatgpt-agent-launch/

OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Agent Tries to Do It All
It’s a PowerPoint generator! It’s a date-night planner! It’s … another agent from OpenAI.

> "The UK government has leapt into the AI hype [...] including a Clippy-style assistant to help citizens navigate complex forms and legal jargon, rather than simply making them clearer in the first place.
"Simply" doing a lot of work in that snarky aside, eh?
It is hard to convey how much work - much of it beyond tech - has to go into making extant multi-stakeholder systems simpler.

UK drafts AI to help Joe Public decipher its own baffling bureaucracy
: Virtual agents to guide citizens through red tape – but not remove any of it

In line with my longtime pet issue of cascading #SystemicFailure in complex systems which we've created and come to depend upon, yet have seemingly forgotten how to maintain.
We saw a hint of what's possible in the early years of Covid when shortages rolled across the economy in unpredictable ways. I fear what might happen as the Fash keep dismantling all forms of systemic in…

Seedlings (XPd on PC)
There's some strange new forms of life in the New Zealand forests, take control of one and explore.
So this is a short puzzle platformer with a neat catch: most of what you'll see on the screen are images captured directly from the forests of New Zealand. Using real images as a backdrop is certainly not a new idea, but it's used remarkably well here.
The gameplay is simple enough: as an apparently sentient seed, you are tasked with travers…

⚛️ 3D printing reshapes construction for nuclear energy
#energy

3D printing reshapes construction for nuclear energy
In a bold step toward transforming how nuclear infrastructure is built, the Department of Energy's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with Kairos Power and Barnard Construction, has successfully developed and validated large-scale, 3D-printed polymer composite forms for casting complex, high-precision concrete structures that would be technically challenging and costly to produce using conventional methods. The concrete forms are being…

Looking eastward over south #Fargo, #NorthDakota, towards the sinuous Red River of the North, and into Clay County, #Minnesota. The Red, which forms the border between the two states, flows northward toward Can…

I’m upgrading a #Rails app from 7.1 to 8.02. The App uses tailwindcss-rails even though I don’t use any #TailwindCss in the app. I had problems taking Tailwind to 4.x so I pinned it to ~> 3.3.1 per the README. I’d love to get over the hump and get it all the way to 4.x. but there was an @forms plugin t…

⏱️ Researchers discover how the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-human-brain-visual-memories-precise.html

Researchers discover how the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing
Researchers at the University of Southern California have made a significant breakthrough in understanding how the human brain forms, stores and recalls visual memories. A new study, published in Advanced Science, harnesses human patient brain recordings and a powerful machine learning model to shed new light on the brain's internal code that sorts memories of objects into categories—think of it as the brain's filing cabinet of imagery.

Got my first DNSSEC verified phishing email since I started logging on my personal email. So congratulations to [a foreign government's technology service] for securing DNS, and condemnation, I guess, for not securing web forms.

Forbes reshuffles its leadership team and forms an AI & Strategic Platforms Group to identify future revenue streams and grow its brand across social platforms (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/forbes-shuffles-le…

Forbes shuffles leadership, aiming for more growth - Talking Biz News
Forbes announced changes to its leadership on Monday, looking to boost its future growth and artificial intelligence opportunities. Nina Gould was promoted to chief innovation officer, overseeing Forbes’ technology and product businesses. She will oversee Forbes’ technology, product and product design, data and business intelligence, audience growth and development, accolades and eCommerce businesses and brand […]

I see the family as a structure that often mirrors the same authoritarian patterns found in the state and the workplace.
It tends to restrict the free development of individuals, shaping them to obey rather than to think and act for themselves.
True liberation, for me, means questioning all forms of imposed authority, including those found within the home.
#AnarchoSyndicalism

Protect your privacy – Start now with Signal
 
Autocracies always implement broad surveillance methods in order to identify and punish resistance. Surveillance can take many forms including the capture of your social media posts and email, monitoring your connections to web sites, and preventing the use of private communications through encryption back-doors and other means.
 
Take action now to create ways to communicate privately with your family, friends and colleague…

Just to make sure my followers here are aware as well: I am not planning on filing any bills this term, due to a combination of chamber composition, increased complexity in the LSR submission forms, the move of committees to Granite Place while the LOB is being renovated, and general depression/despair/futility. Colleagues are encouraged to steal my ideas from me for their own bills. The filing period closes this Friday, September 19th, at the close of business hours.
#NHPolitics

biblically accurate angels blew up cuz they made neet husks in youtube comments sections glimpse the marvelous for the 1st time since they were 7, then the internet spent the last decade working tirelessly, out of love, to petrify and print millions of their now-predictable listless forms out for window dressing as if they're any other coming and going meme, unable to see any other way to love anything in the 21st century.

Good Signal tips for activism.
#signal

Using Signal groups for activism
Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli genocide, for mutual aid, and for other forms of fighting fascism. Signal can help people safely organize in all of

Spot the BlindSpots: Systematic Identification and Quantification of Fine-Grained LLM Biases in Contact Center Summaries
Kawin Mayilvaghanan, Siddhant Gupta, Ayush Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13124

Spot the BlindSpots: Systematic Identification and Quantification of Fine-Grained LLM Biases in Contact Center Summaries
Abstractive summarization is a core application in contact centers, where Large Language Models (LLMs) generate millions of summaries of call transcripts daily. Despite their apparent quality, it remains unclear whether LLMs systematically under- or over-attend to specific aspects of the transcript, potentially introducing biases in the generated summary. While prior work has examined social and positional biases, the specific forms of bias pertinent to contact center operations - which we term…

Learn from previous runs to improve future automation and save plans in a gallery for reuse.
🔀 Parallel execution
Run multiple tasks simultaneously with status indicators for efficient workflow management.
🌐 Web automation
Browse websites, fill forms, navigate deep sites not indexed by search engines, with real-time browser view.
💻 Code execution
Generate and execute code alongside web browsing for comprehensive task automation capabilities.
🔗

Detecting In-Person Conversations in Noisy Real-World Environments with Smartwatch Audio and Motion Sensing
Alice Zhang, Callihan Bertley, Dawei Liang, Edison Thomaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12002

Detecting In-Person Conversations in Noisy Real-World Environments with Smartwatch Audio and Motion Sensing
Social interactions play a crucial role in shaping human behavior, relationships, and societies. It encompasses various forms of communication, such as verbal conversation, non-verbal gestures, facial expressions, and body language. In this work, we develop a novel computational approach to detect a foundational aspect of human social interactions, in-person verbal conversations, by leveraging audio and inertial data captured with a commodity smartwatch in acoustically-challenging scenarios. To…

"Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests"
#AirPollution #Health

A Sam-Leigh-Sean triangle forms
#BrandeRoderick #ScottPlank #JasonBrooks
S11E04 "Dangerous Games"

Eu achei que tinha mais um trabalho de šlgebra pra corrigir mas esse sexto foi de múltipla escolha via forms, então o Google corrige pra mim. Que delícia, cara! Nada é mais insuportšvel do que corrigir trabalhos e provas.

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

Kaleidoscope, a podcasting startup that focuses on adventure stories and other forms of narrative podcasting, raised a $5M Series A (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/13/2025/kaleidoscope-looks-to-be-the-national-ge…

Kaleidoscope looks to be the National Geographic of podcasting
The co-founders said they’ve seen a hunger among advertisers to be in front of quality content about science and tech.

Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/04/fine-particulate-air-pollution-trigger-forms-dementia-study-lewy-body

Godmorgen verden!
Nogen der trænger til gode nyheder?
Dem kan du få her, jævnligt i din indbakke: https://whathappenedlastweek.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=25399ee9f3261e31cedd6125e&id=2b47551bcb
Kurateret …

Safe. Everywhere. Always. | A Canberra Community Survey
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSrRIhL9NhacbREQUPvZ-KN7VN15VelwkoXwIHFCDLq4qgHg/viewform

Safe. Everywhere. Always. | A Canberra Community Survey
Women should be safe no matter where they are, what they’re doing or what they’re wearing. In response to recent horrific events of men’s violence against women in our community, Senator for the ACT and Minister for Women Katy Gallagher is inviting all Canberra women and girls to share their experiences and ideas for change in the survey below. A summary of key findings from the survey will be made public following its conclusion, alongside a list of commitments and proposed next steps. A…

Sometimes I wake up to the liberating feeling that no one holds authority over me. If only the world would recognize this freedom and dismantle all forms of oppression!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

"there is nothing whatsoever in the JTAC* assessment which backs up any of the claims being put out in a panic by government ministers."
*JTAC = assessment of the government’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre which forms the basis of the proscription of Palestine Action.
Yvette Cooper is Lying - Craig Murray

Yvette Cooper is Lying - Craig Murray
Yvette Cooper has continually lied about Palestine Action in a panicked attempt to defend the proscription of a direct action protest group which is opposing a Genocide in which Cooper’s government is deeply complicit. Cooper and other government ministers have repeatedly claimed: Palestine Action attacks people, not just weapons-making equipment Palestine Action is funded by […]

Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on GPT-5, its dynamic reasoning, defining AGI, scaling vs. post-training, hallucinations, enterprise adoption, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
A conversation about what OpenAI's long-anticipated flagship model tells us about different forms intelligence and AI's trajectory from here.

TL;DR: what if instead of denying the harms of fascism, we denied its suppressive threats of punishment
Many of us have really sharpened our denial skills since the advent of the ongoing pandemic (perhaps you even hesitated at the word "ongoing" there and thought "maybe I won't read this one, it seems like it'll be tiresome"). I don't say this as a preface to a fiery condemnation or a plea to "sanity" or a bunch of evidence of how bad things are, because I too have honed my denial skills in these recent years, and I feel like talking about that development.
Denial comes in many forms, including strategic information avoidance ("I don't have time to look that up right now", "I keep forgetting to look into that", "well this author made a tiny mistake, so I'll click away and read something else", "I'm so tired of hearing about this, let me scroll farther", etc.) strategic dismissal ("look, there's a bit of uncertainty here, I should ignore this", "this doesn't line up perfectly with my anecdotal experience, it must be completely wrong", etc.) and strategic forgetting ("I don't remember what that one study said exactly; it was painful to think about", "I forgot exactly what my friend was saying when we got into that argument", etc.). It's in fact a kind of skill that you can get better at, along with the complementary skill of compartmentalization. It can of course be incredibly harmful, and a huge genre of fables exists precisely to highlight its harms, but it also has some short-term psychological benefits, chiefly in the form of muting anxiety. This is not an endorsement of denial (the harms can be catastrophic), but I want to acknowledge that there *are* short-term benefits. Via compartmentalization, it's even possible to be honest with ourselves about some of our own denials without giving them up immediately.
But as I said earlier, I'm not here to talk you out of your denials. Instead, given that we are so good at denial now, I'm here to ask you to be strategic about it. In particular, we live in a world awash with propaganda/advertising that serves both political and commercial ends. Why not use some of our denial skills to counteract that?
For example, I know quite a few people in complete denial of our current political situation, but those who aren't (including myself) often express consternation about just how many people in the country are supporting literal fascism. Of course, logically that appearance of widespread support is going to be partly a lie, given how much our public media is beholden to the fascists or outright in their side. Finding better facts on the true level of support is hard, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about the "fact" that Trump has widespread popular support?
To give another example: advertisers constantly barrage us with messages about our bodies and weight, trying to keep us insecure (and thus in the mood to spend money to "fix" the problem). For sure cutting through that bullshit by reading about body positivity etc. is a better solution, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about there being anything wrong with your body?
This kind of intentional denial certainly has its own risks (our bodies do actually need regular maintenance, for example, so complete denial on that front is risky) but there's definitely a whole lot of misinformation out there that it would be better to ignore. To the extent such denial expands to a more general denial of underlying problems, this idea of intentional denial is probably just bad. But I sure wish that in a world where people (including myself) routinely deny significant widespread dangers like COVID-19's long-term risks or the ongoing harms of escalating fascism, they'd at least also deny some of the propaganda keeping them unhappy and passive. Instead of being in denial about US-run concentration camps, why not be in denial that the state will be able to punish you for resisting them?

This coming Monday is the 33rd anniversary of my registering omnigroup.com. (Along with wizards.com: having dug up the registration forms, figured I might as well fill out both of them at the same time.)
Back then, registering an Internet domain was free, you just had to fill out the paperwork and send it to the right place. This was mostly done for the sake of having a domain for email and ftp, not websites, since only a few of us crazy NeXT people were using the World Wide Web at tha…

Day 17
Not just code today.
Prepared a full-stack presentation (pitch − details − tech) to showcase company setup, platform progress, and team readiness. Also refined our internal documentation and SDLC overview.
Bonus: set up a self-hosted NextCloud for chat, tasks, calendars, forms, and shared folders.
Code matters, but so does clarity.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other
forms that have been tried from time to time.
-- Winston Churchill

"Illegal goldmines (garimpos) cluster along the banks of the Crepori River."
Parš state, Brazil. Multispectral image by Richard Mosse at Art Vault, Santa Fe, New Mexico, part of a larger exhibition focusing on deforestation in the Amazon. 1/3

Kann man machen, auch wenn man statt weißen Kochweins zufällig nur Ingwerbier da hat (ahem), statt der Schalotten weiße Zwiebel und statt der weißen Bohnen steirische Käferbohnen. #nommention

White Bean Piccata Pasta With Broccoli Recipe (Gift Recipe)
The bright lemon-caper sauce for which chicken piccata is known plays equally well with other proteins, like swordfish, or creamy white beans, and forms a glossy, tangy sauce well suited to pasta. Throw broccoli — or any another quick-cooking vegetable, like asparagus, broccoli rabe or peas — into the pasta’s boiling water in the last few minutes, and you’ve effortlessly managed to squeeze a green into this vegetarian dinner.

Well, we have some advance notice. Can we take advantage? Can we find some candidate not deluded by the neoliberal myth, the simplistic YIMBY faith that the market will provide affordable housing?
https://bsky.app/profile/laurajnelson.bsky.social/post/3lsmkny…

Willkommen auf meiner Blockliste
From: @…
https://digitalcourage.social/@clemensg/114745468620387901

Estrogen? Hot drinks will suffice!
"""
Naturally, cold water cooled. For that reason it was used in mania and frenzy, sicknesses of heat where the spirits were in ebullition, solids tightened and liquids were heated to the point of evaporation, leaving the brain of the patient ‘dry and brittle’, as anatomists regularly demonstrated. Reasonably enough Boissieu includes cold water among his list of refreshing cures: baths were the foremost ‘antiphlogistic’, purifying the body of any excessive igneous particles to be found there. Taken as a drink, it was a ‘dilutive procastinant’ that diminished the resistance of fluids to the action of solids, thereby indirectly lowering the general heat of the body.
But it was also said that cold water brought heat and that hot water cooled. Such at least was the thesis defended by Darut. Cold baths chased the blood from the periphery of the body and pushed it ‘with increased vigour towards the heart’. As the heart was the seat of natural heat, the blood was warmed there, all the more so as “the heart, which struggles alone against all the other parts, makes renewed efforts to expel the blood and overcome capillary resistance. What results is a greater intensity of circulation, the division of the blood, the fluidity of the humours, the destruction of congestions, an increase in the strength of the natural heat, of the appetite of the digestive forces, and the activity of the body and the mind.” A symmetrical paradox operated regarding hot baths: blood was attracted to the extremities of the body, as were the humours, sweat, and all forms of liquid, both beneficial and harmful. The vital centres were therefore deserted, the heart slowed and the organism thus began to cool down. This fact was confirmed by the ‘fainting, lipothymia… weakness, nonchalance, lassitude, and lack of vigour’ that generally accompanied excessive bathing with hot water.
But there was more. So great was the polyvalence of water, so great was its aptitude to submit itself to the qualities that it carried, that it sometimes lost its efficacy as a liquid and acted as a desiccant instead. Water could Prevent dampness. In part, this was the old principle of similia similibus, but in another sense, and by the intermediary of a visible mechanism. For some, it was cold water that brought dryness, as heat kept water humid. Heat dilated the pores of the organism, distended its membranes, and allowed humidity to impregnate them as a secondary effect. Liquids made their way through heat. For that reason, the hot drinks so widely used in the seventeenth century risked becoming a danger, and those who took too many risked relaxation, general dampness and a weakness of the whole organism. As these were traits commonly associated with the feminine body, as opposed to the dry, virile solidity of the male, the abuse of hot drinks could lead to a general feminisation of the human race: “Not without reason, the reproach is made to the majority of men that they have softened and degenerated, taking on the habits and inclinations of women – the only thing lacking is a physical resemblance. The abuse of humectants could accelerate the metamorphosis, and render the two sexes almost identical both physically and morally. Woe betide the human race if this prejudice ever spreads to the masses: there will be no more labourers, artisans or soldiers, as they will have lost the strength and vigour necessary for their profession.” [Pressavin]
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

With firm reliance on each other and unwavering hope in our collective strength,
We pledge to resist oppression in all its forms,
To uphold the rights of the vulnerable,
And to build a future grounded in compassion, courage, and shared humanity.
 
Let this declaration be both a breaking and a beginning.

🫧 Mexican cartels’ new money laundering businesses: Cryptocurrencies, concerts and timeshares
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-30/mexican-cartels-new-money-laundering-businesses-…

Mexican cartels’ new money laundering businesses: Cryptocurrencies, concerts and timeshares
Accusations from the United States Department of the Treasury reveal new forms of money laundering being used by organized crime

This one is for the Brits, abbreviated from Simon Clark:
"The Met Office is currently looking for people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.
It would be great if thousands suggested the same 5 names (in alphabetical order as that's how storm names appear):
BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell.
Met Office page:

Name our Storms

Completely unsurprising.
From: @…
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
NEW REPUBLIC: “Donald Trump’s energy policy is already raising prices for consumers—and his administration is desperate for someone to blame.” The Trump tax on Americans is taking many forms. https://newrepublic.com/post/199346/donald-trump-blame-rising-energy-prices-tariffs

I reject Nazis and fascism in all their forms. As an autistic person, I know firsthand how dangerous and dehumanizing their propaganda can be. I am worthy of dignity, life, and respect. No one has the right to threaten my existence or the existence of anyone else with violence, sterilization, or genocide.
Fascism thrives on hate, lies, and the oppression of marginalized people. I am committed to fighting against it, educating myself, and resisting its influence. If I ever repeat or int…

Touch Speaks, Sound Feels: A Multimodal Approach to Affective and Social Touch from Robots to Humans
Qiaoqiao Ren, Tony Belpaeme
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07839 https://…

Touch Speaks, Sound Feels: A Multimodal Approach to Affective and Social Touch from Robots to Humans
Affective tactile interaction constitutes a fundamental component of human communication. In natural human-human encounters, touch is seldom experienced in isolation; rather, it is inherently multisensory. Individuals not only perceive the physical sensation of touch but also register the accompanying auditory cues generated through contact. The integration of haptic and auditory information forms a rich and nuanced channel for emotional expression. While extensive research has examined how rob…

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez says Paramount-Skydance agreed to "never-before-seen forms of government control over newsroom decisions" through a "truth arbiter" (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/fcc-commissioner-s

FCC Commissioner Slams Paramount's New 'Truth Arbiter' for the Trump Regime
Anna Gomez says the new company is "born in shame."

Greetings, Peeps.
I'm working a project.
To better inform my work, I need to gather some insights into how people use their broadband internet connections at home, so I created a survey! (As one does.)
Can you please take a moment to complete it, then maybe share it with your friends, family, and colleagues?
Thanks in advance. I really appreciate your help.

🫠 DissolvPCB: Fully Recyclable 3D-Printed Electronics with Liquid Metal Conductors and PVA Substrates
#electronics

DissolvPCB: Fully Recyclable 3D-Printed Electronics with Liquid Metal Conductors and PVA Substrates
We introduce DissolvPCB, an electronic prototyping technique for fabricating fully recyclable printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) using affordable FDM 3D printing, with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as a water-soluble substrate and eutectic gallium-indium (EGaIn) as the conductive material. When obsolete, the PCBA can be easily recycled by immersing it in water: the PVA dissolves, the EGaIn re-forms into a liquid metal bead, and the electronic components are recovered. These materials can then b…

This is a good plan for sorting out the abonimable #water system in the United Kingdom. Time to sort this shit out!
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-

Water Belongs to All of Us - Back the People's Plan for Water!
Privatisation has broken our water system. Evidence shows public ownership can bring fairer, cleaner and cheaper water. That’s why I'm backing the People’s Plan for Water. Join me:

Genuinely don't know how I lived without a split-join plugin in #vim and later #neovim.
The original: https://github.com/Andr…

“We may aspire not to ghost, knowing the pain it causes, but technology has made ghosting, in its many forms, all but inevitable,”

A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression (Joshua Rothman/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-cu…

A.I. Is Coming for Culture
We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. But when machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, Joshua Rothman asks, what’s left for the human imagination?

Good to know that I have my dispute with Opera and Håkon Lie confirmed 20 years after. But would it really have meant that X-Forms would have widespread support ?
From: @…
https://

Being a bit of a PITA today.
Two forms we use, one for what programs to migrate and the other for instructions (like jobs, procs, SPUFIS).
NO, I WILL NOT MIGRATE PROGRAMS that are in the instructions. If they are to be migrated then you MUST put them in the migration request. Doesn't matter if they are just a recompile, if it isn't in the migrate program request then we won't do it. The information in the migration request is important for us when setting up the mi…

I’m an anarcho-syndicalist through and through, and I’m unapologetic about it. I reject all forms of authoritarianism, including Marxism-Leninism with its centralized, hierarchical party structure. Anarcho-syndicalism demands direct, horizontal worker control through federated assemblies with binding, recallable mandates as the only true path to emancipation.
If you intend to dispute this, I suggest thoroughly engaging with the relevant political theory first, because Marxism-Leninism,…

🥡 3D printed food: Yuck or yes? Researchers ask South African consumers
#food

3D printed food: Yuck or yes? Researchers ask South African consumers
Would you eat food that was printed by a machine? 3D printed food is built up by equipment (a 3D food printer), layer after layer, using edible pastes, dough and food slurries in three-dimensional forms. These machines use digital models to produce precise, often personalized food items. Most 3D printed foods are made from nutrient-dense sources (plant and animal), which means they can offer health benefits.

I am a theatre person - live actors on a stage.
There are some amazing plays and actors who can engage deeply with the audience - something that is yet beyond the ability of film or video.
(For a couple of decades I have tried to engender development of video-like forms that contain meta information to promote not only revenue-generating tailored product placements but also to allow scripted interaction with audience members by, for instance, pausing dialog and morphing actor'…

Forms in Dialogue
https://ift.tt/WQuepk6
updated: Monday, September 1, 2025 - 3:05pmfull name / name of organization: Irmtraud Huber /…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.t…

Oxford-based Ultromics, which has developed the first FDA-cleared, Medicare-reimbursed AI tools for cardiology diagnostics, raised a $55M Series C (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/07/31/ultromics-raises-55m-series-c-to-sca…

Ultromics raises $55M Series C to scale AI-driven heart failure detection
Oxford-based Ultromics, a pioneer in AI-driven cardiology diagnostics solutions, has raised $55 million through its Series C funding round.  Ultromics has developed the first FDA-cleared, Medicare-reimbursed AI technology designed to help clinicians detect Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) and cardiac amyloidosis, two of the most difficult-to-diagnose forms of heart failure. Built on years of clinical research and analysis of hundreds of thousands of echocardiograms, the …

If you identify as autistic and share an interest in anarchism and syndicalism, you will likely find Rudolf Rocker's writings both accessible and engaging.
Rocker was a prominent German anarchist thinker and activist whose struggle I share common ground with, especially in how he saw the family and marriage as forms of authoritarian control that limit personal freedom.
You can find his collection of writings here:

A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression (Joshua Rothman/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-cu…

A.I. Is Coming for Culture
We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. But when machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, Joshua Rothman asks, what’s left for the human imagination?

The shape of economics before and after the financial crisis
Alberto Baccini, Lucio Barabesi, Carlo Debernardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09079 https://arx…

The shape of economics before and after the financial crisis
This paper investigates the impact of the global financial crisis on the shape of economics as a discipline by analyzing EconLit-indexed journals from 2006 to 2020 using a multilayer network approach. We consider two types of social relationships among journals, based on shared editors (interlocking editorship) and shared authors (interlocking authorship), as well as two forms of intellectual proximity, derived from bibliographic coupling and textual similarity. These four dimensions are integr…

Foxconn partners with Taiwan-based Teco for AI servers and other AI data center hardware, taking a 10% stake, while Teco gets a less than 1% stake in Foxconn (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Plastic bag bans linked to sharp decline in coastal litter, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/plastic-bag-bans-linked-to-sharp-decline-in-coastal-litter-study-finds/

Plastic bag bans linked to sharp decline in coastal litter, study finds
A new study finds that regional plastic bag bans in the U.S. significantly reduce coastal plastic bag litter compared with areas without such policies. Single-use plastic bags are one of the most ubiquitous forms of plastic litter. They are rarely recycled and degrade quickly into microplastics that are often ingested by wildlife, leading to injury, […]

"Increase in vapes found on Britain’s coastline by beach clean volunteers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Vapes #Litter

'A Little Bubble of Friends': An Analysis of LGBTQ Pandemic Experiences Using Reddit Data
Dhruvee Birla, Nazia Akhtar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15033

'A Little Bubble of Friends': An Analysis of LGBTQ+ Pandemic Experiences Using Reddit Data
Social media was one of the most popular forms of communication among young people with digital access during the pandemic. Consequently, crucial debates and discussions about the pandemic crisis have also developed on social media platforms, making them a great primary source to study the experiences of specific groups and communities during the pandemic. This study involved research using LDA topic modeling and sentiment analysis on data obtained from the social media platform Reddit to under…

Non Technical Debt in Agile Software Development
Muhammad Ovais Ahmad, Tomas Gustavsson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01445 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01445…

Non Technical Debt in Agile Software Development
NonTechnical Debt (NTD) is a common challenge in agile software development, manifesting in four critical forms, Process Debt, Social Debt, People Debt, Organizational debt. NODLA project is a collaboration between Karlstad University and four leading Swedish industrial partners, reveals how various debt types disrupt large scale Agile Software Development (ASD) environments. Through extensive surveys, indepth interviews, and statistical analyses involving a diverse group of software profession…

With increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that EMPATHY has become a VICE.
For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left:
It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including abortion access, LGBTQ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on social and racial justice
“Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies or support destructive policie…

Conservative Christians argue empathy can lead to sin
Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice. Those Christians claim empathy can manipulate people into accepting what they see as sins, like abortion access and LGBTQ+ rights. Conservative evangelicals Allie Beth Stuckey and Joe Rigney have written books within the past year criticizing certain forms of empathy. Stuckey's and Rigney's views have gained traction among President Donald Trump’s Christian base as his Republican administration enacts hard…

Re-publicans.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/23/ireland-county-limerick-kilteely-syndicate-villages-last-pub
On another note, it's good to see Rory Carroll many miles away from Latin America where he …

Sources: Netflix is searching for a video podcasting head; the role could be under Netflix's TV and film licensing arm rather than the original content side (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-seekin…

Netflix searches for video podcast head as it seeks new growth areas
Netflix is searching for an exec to lead its video podcast efforts. Its interest comes as YouTube has cemented itself as a podcast titan.

🤔 What exactly is “life?” Astrobiologists still have more questions than answers
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/what-exactly-is-life-astrobiologists-still-have-more-questions-than-answers/

What exactly is “life”? Astrobiologists still have more questions than answers
Our narrow, Earth-bound definitions of life could leave us blind to the Universe’s strangest forms on future space missions.

Internal memo: Indian IT services giant TCS forms a new unit for AI-based operations and names Amit Kapur, who led TCS' UK and Ireland business, as its chief (Sai Ishwarbharath B/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias

Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns
Ilias Chalkidis, Stephanie Brandl, Paris Aslanidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19303

Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of instruction-following tasks, yet their grasp of nuanced social science concepts remains underexplored. This paper examines whether LLMs can identify and classify fine-grained forms of populism, a complex and contested concept in both academic and media debates. To this end, we curate and release novel datasets specifically designed to capture populist discourse. We evaluate a range of pre-trained (larg…

Argentina pushes pipeline exports through protected Patagonian waters https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/argentina-pushes-pipeline-exports-through-protected-patagonian-waters/

Argentina pushes pipeline exports through protected Patagonian waters
San Matías Gulf, on the northern coast of Argentina’s Patagonia region, is one of the most biodiverse areas in the Argentine Sea. The Valdés Peninsula — a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999 and a biosphere reserve since 2014 — forms its southern border. It’s surrounded by Islote Lobos National Park, the Puerto Lobos and […]

Evolutionary Dynamics with Self-Interaction Learning in Networked Systems
Ziyan Zeng, Minyu Feng, Attila Szolnoki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00422 https://…

Evolutionary Dynamics with Self-Interaction Learning in Networked Systems
The evolution of cooperation in networked systems helps to understand the dynamics in social networks, multi-agent systems, and biological species. The self-persistence of individual strategies is common in real-world decision making. The self-replacement of strategies in evolutionary dynamics forms a selection amplifier, allows an agent to insist on its autologous strategy, and helps the networked system to avoid full defection. In this paper, we study the self-interaction learning in the netw…

Willa Cather: Forms, Genres, and Traditions
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updated: Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 11:07amfull name / name of organization: Willa Cather…
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An Integrated Target Study and Target Trial Framework to Evaluate Intervention Effects on Disparities
Xinyi Sun, Theodore J. Iwashyna, Emmanuel F. Drabo, Deidra C. Crews, Kadija Ferryman, John W. Jackson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14690

An Integrated Target Study and Target Trial Framework to Evaluate Intervention Effects on Disparities
We present a novel framework -- the integrated Target Study + Target Trial (TS+TT) -- to evaluate the effects of interventions on disparities. This framework combines the ethical clarity of the Target Study, which balances allowable covariates across social groups to define meaningful disparity measures, with the causal rigor of the Target Trial, which emulates randomized trials to estimate intervention effects. TS+TT achieves two forms of balance: (1) stratified sampling ensures that allowable…

Who Leads in the Shadows? ERGM and Centrality Analysis of Congressional Democrats on Bluesky
Gordon Hew, Ian McCulloh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16858 https://

Who Leads in the Shadows? ERGM and Centrality Analysis of Congressional Democrats on Bluesky
Following the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Democratic lawmakers and their supporters increasingly migrated from mainstream social media plat-forms like X (formerly Twitter) to decentralized alternatives such as Bluesky. This study investigates how Congressional Democrats use Bluesky to form networks of influence and disseminate political messaging in a platform environment that lacks algorithmic amplification. We employ a mixed-methods approach that combines social network analysis, expo-ne…

Transfer Learning via Lexical Relatedness: A Sarcasm and Hate Speech Case Study
Angelly Cabrera, Linus Lei, Antonio Ortega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16555 https://

Transfer Learning via Lexical Relatedness: A Sarcasm and Hate Speech Case Study
Detecting hate speech in non-direct forms, such as irony, sarcasm, and innuendos, remains a persistent challenge for social networks. Although sarcasm and hate speech are regarded as distinct expressions, our work explores whether integrating sarcasm as a pre-training step improves implicit hate speech detection and, by extension, explicit hate speech detection. Incorporating samples from ETHOS, Sarcasm on Reddit, and Implicit Hate Corpus, we devised two training strategies to compare the effec…