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Dormant BH candidates from Gaia DR3 summary diagnostics
Johanna M\"uller-Horn, Hans-Walter Rix, Kareem El-Badry, Ben Pennell, Matthew Green, Jiadong Li, Rhys Seeburger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05982
@… Ok, so I went off on a tangent for no reason. I hope it really was vaguely interesting and you were not just being polite. 😜
Yes, in summary you confused GNU tar and since it cannot make zip files, it did it's best fallback (just made an uncompressed tar). Then in turn the .zip extension confused Windows.
So it was, your fault! Sor…
<as I log an #it #helpdesk ticket>
p.s. whatever ticket submission sw you use is terrible. I can't change/edit the details of my ticket after I submit it, and I can't even specify a summary as it is taken from the first line of the body submission. In which none of the whitespace or formatting is reta…
Irked because my watch showed 7.5 km (not that I was looking at it desperately or anything…) 😉
An afternoon meeting prevented my running in daylight on the greenway, so I headed over to one of the high schools to use their track. (My favorite track at the middle school is still all torn apart for some sort of culvert work. 😤)
One end is all pine trees and the fragrant smell each lap was lovely.
4/1 minute run/walk intervals for 7.46 km in 57:43, average pace of 7:44/km.
What’s New in COPPA 2.0? A Summary of the Proposed Changes
https://fpf.org/blog/whats-new-in-coppa-2-0-a-summary-of-the-proposed-changes/
@…
If you think you can get all the information you need from an "AI" summary of a video or article, try letting the "AI" make a video or article based on just that summary and then compare the results to the original media.
#Letterboxd does this weird thing. It waits for the year to end before they make a big deal about the stats for that year. Or maybe the strange thing is that some services do this in early December.
They say I watched 377 movies last year and I say we are in a disagreement about what should be counted as a movie. I have a list over there of the 106 movies I saw at the cinema last yea…
Russian troops are STUCK! Ukraine is defending Pokrovsk and Kupiansk! | Front Line Summary: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/06/russian-troops-are-stuck-ukraine.html
This a great book! Teri's a great author! This is a great price!
If someone tries to charge you more for it, don't go there.
#Bookstodon #Humanity #GreatWriting
Sign-off for 2019, Hello 2020! - A summary of 2019 on EOU, and what may be coming in 2020. Also, a word about Radbot... #2019wrapup #podcast - https:/…
I managed to get out and I can confirm snow and ice on forest roads.
But it was fine. It all was a bit more technically challenging than usual.
Maybe I've got to clean my bike tomorrow.
#cycling #mountainbiking
It is December, so it is time to share my #Warframe2024 report from last year before the 2025 one arrives, and yes, I play on Linux and have since 2023, running Warframe on Debian Trixie.
#Debian #Warframe
Manchester’s Local Plan is available in draft.
You've til 17 Nov to respond.
Our post gives you the links to the plan and consultantation, AND our draft response that you can use as a template for yours!
In summary, the council is constrained by planning regulations but they could still do much better.
Tell them!
#Manchester
Revitalizing the Feminist Historiography of Witchcraft
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"WHILL Model C2 Electric Wheelchairs and Model F Power Chairs do not enforce authentication for Bluetooth connections. An attacker within range can pair with the device and issue movement commands, override speed restrictions, and manipulate configuration profiles without any credentials or user interaction."
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how to use standard DNS UPDATE in a manner that avoids causing outages like AWS us-east-1 https://lobste.rs/s/mw0pus/summary_amazon_dynamodb_service#c_ux4xlb
Dormant BH candidates from Gaia DR3 summary diagnostics
Johanna M\"uller-Horn, Hans-Walter Rix, Kareem El-Badry, Ben Pennell, Matthew Green, Jiadong Li, Rhys Seeburger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05982
Manual yearly game summary
Most played RPGs of the year, by hour, vague guess and vague definition of RPGs:
- Over/under
- uncharted worlds but as a sitcom
- cairn
- cataphracts
- glowburn and radscars
I didn't run a lot of games, should fix that next year. Just some one shots.
- Cairn
- Blades in the Dark
- Knights of the Road
- miniphracts
#ttrpg
Year in Review: 2025 takeaways and a look ahead to 2026 https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/page/FFSundayHighLows-47503166/nfl-2025-season-fantasy-football-winners-losers-year-review
Fuck off #Adobe #AdobeAcrobat.
Its an API specification overview. _Its ONLY NINE PAGES_.
Also what the crap is a "PDF Space" - keep your space germs away from my PDF.
I continue to be impressed with how the LLM systems are pretty open about queerness and non-judgmental, non-homophobic. Remarkable given that so much of the training material must be hateful! Here's Gemini being cautious but helpful after I asked it about a summary of what it knows about me and asked why it didn't mention me being gay.
I do have access to information regarding your personal life and sexual orientation from our previous conversations. However, I am designed with specific safety and privacy guardrails that prevent me from storing or outputting information related to a user's sexual orientation or sensitive medical conditions in these types of summaries.
While I can remember and use those details to provide context during our active discussions—such as when we were looking into the history of queer voices or specific support resources—I cannot include them in a "permanent" distilled profile like the one above.
You see a detective on the TV and he’s interviewing all the suspects asking them what they were doing on the night of the murder a month ago last Tuesday night.
And on the TV, the suspects all know. Right away.
If you asked me ten years ago though, I’d have had barely any clue. If you’re lucky it’d have been something planned in my calendar but mostly, dunno. Watching TV maybe? No idea what show. Was that a night I was in the pub?
As we all get older this problem increases I’m told. Eventually full on senility sets in.
But what if you have already built the habit to record what you’re doing? To be able to look back and revise and review how you spent your days? An external aid as a crutch to your own forgetful brain’s cortex?
So I started this Exocortex Log over a decade ago and now I can answer: Ten years ago on Tuesday I was having dinner with the guitarist from my band and his girlfriend and they burned the pudding.
The app has been half finished and barely able to even record let alone review for most of that time, but now it’s ready enough that someone else might use it too if they want.
Try it out: #lifeLog #app #memoryAid
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 28 December - 4 January
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Playing around with Antigravity, vibe coded a social media summarizer that makes a summary of the last 48 hours of my bluesky and mastodon timelines, using python, a local database of the posts on my laptop and APIs of mentioned services. Works greats after squashing some bugs and a few iterations. Interestingly you need to know a little bit about coding to use it efficienctly, even in "vibecode" mode.
Interesting graph from @….
There was a •fascinating• 99pi about the push to create an official Category 6 — and the surprisingly compelling arguments against doing that (more fully developed in the story audio than in the web text summary):
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/category-6/
One thing that’s a clear point of consensus in that debate is that the existing Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale isn’t up to the task of describing what we face now. https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/115481161250561175
'Stupid Rules': Hegseth Endorsed Summary Execution Of Military Captives In 2019 - National Memo
https://www.nationalmemo.com/pete-hegseth-war-crimes
My StoryGraph 2025 reading wrap-up was generated two hours before the new year and one hour before I finished another book — so it’s not reflected in the stats.
Anyway if you’re curious where I spend my free time:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025/aardrian
“Additional direct manufacturing costs do not fully explain the higher prices of electric cars outside China. [..] in Germany, the retail price difference is more than double the manufacturing cost difference.”
https://www.iea.org/reports/what-next-for-the…
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115643458015221823
Jumping on the AI hype while it is collapsing is such a perfect summary for a lot of EU tech policy. This not only shows lack of understanding but lack of leadership …
Resources to Learn More About the Ukrainian/Russian Conflict
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Hi1pOYSjJ1umb72CTNzvJ7e4wfhEfk1Hn3AxjGE4go/edit?tab=t.0
Here's my #wrapstodon 2025. I guess #OpenSCAD was a topic for me. Nice feature, maybe it will inspire me to be a little more active at here at toot.community
Minor good news for libraries: "A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency"
IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which funds leadership training and R&D in libraries in the US. A small % of library funding but important.
but I believe everyone is gone and grants cancelled so not sure what happens if funding returns-- who gets employed?
FreeBSD Foundation Budget Summary
<https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-Budget-Approved-Summary.pdf> (September 2025)
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Diplo: 28 December - 4 January
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I think the best summary until now about Post-quantum cryptography is from Peter Gutmann in the cryptography mailing-list.
Given that after 20 years and hundreds of millions of dollars spent researchers have yet to demonstrate a single legitimate cryptanalysis result using a quantum physics experiment, it's a bit like arguing over which brand of unicorn repellent is the most cromulent.
The current state of things in terms of pure vs. hybrid systems seems to be:
- …
Spotify starts rolling out Recaps, a new AI feature for audiobooks that summarizes what users have listened to so far, in beta on iOS (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/819476/spotify-audiobook-ai-recaps-short-summary
This thread is brilliant, and a call to action.
#visionzero #annarbor https://b…
In the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at https://dice.camp/@davej/113747664699824381…
Cancel billionaires
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/115635779318419465
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 21 December - 28 December
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Playing around with Antigravity, vibe coded a social media summarizer that makes a summary of the last 48 hours of my bluesky and mastodon timelines, using python, a local database of the posts on my laptop and APIs of mentioned services. Works greats after squashing some bugs and some iterations. Interestingly you need to know a little bit about coding to use it efficienctly, even in "vibecode" mode.
#AI
This from a top expert on Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.
Highly likely that we're committing to an additional 3 meters (10 ft) of sea level rise as we speak. Yes, it'll take time to fully materialize, but when will the enormous damage that we're signing up for sink in with voters and policy makers?
https://
from my link log —
A summary of USB-C cable features.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vnpEXfo2HCGADdd9G2x9dMDWqENiY2kgBJUu29f_TX8/pubhtml#
saved 2019-07-16
December newsletter consists almost entirely of last week's end-of-year summary.
There's also December's links and boosts and that bit about the new year's war.
But the great and special people who want it in email have it on their way to their inboxes now and the rest of you who frankly deserve to be arrested and deported like a president can read it here if you want.
https://dalliance.net/blog/dec25/
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Let's do a deep dive into this paper: "Why Language Models Hallucinate."
When this came out, many people's summary was "even OpenAI admits that hallucinations are a fundamental problem of transformers/autoregressive models/LLMs."
I've seen many people conclude that this means OpenAI is grifting, knows they're building on a wrong paradigm, knows they won't get to AGI etc.
This might come in handy tomorrow morning.
Originally posted by @….
#infographics #winter
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 28 December - 4 January
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A formerly incarcerated man,
who has since been cleared of his 1985 first-degree murder conviction,
was able to save his lawsuit from summary judgment as requested by New Orleans,
whose retired police detective allegedly withheld exculpatory evidence from the court.
The man was jailed for more than 30 years for the alleged murder,
and he has plausibly alleged a negligence claim against the ex-detective and a vicarious liability claim against New Orleans.
PUTIN BELIEVES IN LIES! Everything is bad on the front line FOR RUSSIA | Frontline Summary: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/putin-believes-in-lies-everything.html
OK so summary of findings on the A35 bringup attempts so far:
First, resetting the A35 subsystem via RCC.C1RSTCSETR does not seem to be the way to go. It disconnects the debugger and a bunch of bad things happen. Probably possible to recover from this, CPU2 is still running fine, but it's not getting me closer to a solution.
Pretty useful summary of European train delays in 2025. Grim reading for German trains, but chuu chuu looks like useful for finding more reliable routes https://chuuchuu.com/2025wrapped
Urgh.. I really don't need YouTube videos to come with an AI summary 🤦
The Sin-eater: lives and afterlives - Dr Helen Frisby - Zoom Sun, Nov 1, 2026, 8:00 PM
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When I see “accessible by default” I am broadly wary:
https://cdpn.io/jh3y/debug/JoGpOGV
I found a WCAG violation in about four seconds (2.4.7). Never mind aria-hiding those up/down arrows (who doesn’t like to mess with sighted SR users?).
Anyway “accessible by default” from CSS influencers…
The monitoring of Open Science by UNESCO indeed brought stakeholders from Aruba together on the topic for the first time! Together with the Aruba National Commission for UNESCO the University of Aruba discussed our progress towards implementing the UNESCO recommendation (of which I should read the discussion summary later today!).
Hoping for a better timing of the next #OSFestival in August or something so that I don't have to miss out on next year's edition!
it's odd that modern monetization is "here's 1000 words you can read for free, and if you pay me, you can have 10000 more words to read". who has time for that?
my guess is this mainly siphons from retirees who have more money than they need before they die.
non-retired people with money are too busy with the hustle. they're going to ask an LLM to hallucinate a 100 word summary.
next-level monetization is "here are 10000 words to read, and if you …
You know Mozilla, how about just idk making the best browser instead of...
*checks notes*
..."doing for AI what we did for the web".
https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/278/files/2025/11/Mozilla-Summary-Portfolio-Strategy.pdf
Meta plans new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026, letting parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and sending them "insights" from teens' chats (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/801505/meta-ai-chatbot-parental-…
An excellent summary here via @… about how the structures of our civil society have failed to stop ICE from becoming Trump’s Brownshirts.
The one thing the piece omits: someone •is• stopping ICE. It’s the citizens filling the streets, honking and shouting and filming and generally harassing ICE, doing the work our government has failed to do. If it were not for that response being so widespread, sustained, and forceful, we’d be in far worse place right now. https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/115616389777857234
Jesus fucking christ.
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
Webinar: More Than Just Choice: How Religion, Race, and Identity Influence Food Decisions
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It is cold in northern parts of the world. Studded tyres are awesome. If you do not have them, forgot to mount them or cannot afford to invest for your usage, I am here for you.
The number of times I have been caught out and unicycled on snow and ice is quite high. If I can do it, you can do it. Just take it easy! Oh and wear a helmet, even if you do not normally. That kind of a fall is exactly what they are for.
Nerds like me read these kind of “post-mortems”, about the Amazon outage, interesting cascade of faults. #amazon
"In summary, #AGI, as commonly conceived, will not happen because it ignores the physical constraints of computation, the exponential costs of linear progress, and the fundamental limits we are already encountering. Superintelligence is a fantasy because it assumes that intelligence can recursively self-improve without bound, ignoring the physical and economic realities that constrain all systems. …
An intelligence assessment style-ish write up on the US by purported former professionals in the Intelligence Community (IC) who call themselves collectively The Steady State. Executive summary and scope statement seem like clear thinking.
https://steadystate1.substack.com/p/ac
I am delighted that we now have a short summary video of our research lab (#ArsElectronica2025 online:
@… @… @… Nice summary. Have you tried Talon?
Early winter this years #coldswim season. Water at about 4,5°C while the air was about -3°C. Swam for about 4min #Uckermark
There's a tool that analyses your 2025 hackernews comments through a LLM and give you a summary
Who am I:
The Fediverse Urbanist
A supply-and-demand fundamentalist who divides their time equally between defending housing density and explaining why your social media platform is a centralized prison for bots. You have successfully mapped the entire journey from a car-dependent suburb to a Mastodon instance using only RSS feeds and a burning hatred for high-tariff border …
Reminder: Applications for Research Fellowships at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library due Jan. 15, 2026
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https://torrentfreak.com/meta-pirated-adult-film-downloads-were-for-personal-use-not-ai-training/
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from my link log —
GHC: from bug to merge.
http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2018/12/ghc-from-bug-to-merge.html
saved 2018-12-12 ht…
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In 1967, physicist Andrei Sakharov proposed a set of conditions that must be satisfied to explain the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe,
including violation of the combined charge conjugation and parity (CP) symmetry.
CP symmetry was once thought to be universally conserved,
until this view was overturned in 1964 with the discovery of CP violation in the decay of neutral kaons.
This landmark result later earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1…
Now this was a gorgeous cycling loop. Temperature was around freezing but luckily just few wind. As you see, the weather was ace. Clouds and fog stayed in the north 🌞
Also tried Knee warmers, which was just right! A very good buy!
I just need a solution against freezing toes. @… ,I bought neoprene toe warmer! The shoes are just a bit tight then, …
Retrieval of Interior Structure of #Asteroids with the Low-Frequency Telescope DART: https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/space.0180 -> summary: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1110111
An ex-Pentagon press corps member says Pentagon day pass requests now require an hour-by-hour activity summary and a list of people they plan to speak to (Ivan L. Nagy/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/pentagon-pres…
Búzios Scientific Statement, summary in 5 posts.
100 climate researchers, coordinated by @… &
IIASA, , released a joint statement to inform the #COP30 negotiations and provide guidance on difficult but doable global efforts designed to limit da…
Chats on Air Force One,
prior to this presidency,
were mostly off-the-record
and almost never on camera.
Administrations, prior to Trump’s, engaged in some level of message discipline,
planning what the president would say, how and when.
There is no such coherent planning in this White House.
In summary, Trump’s problem with the press are primarily of his own making.
from my link log —
Summary of the USA federal government’s zero-trust memo.
http://bastionzero.com/blog/i-read-the-federal-governments-zero-trust-memo-so-you-dont-have-to
saved 2022-01-28
Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842978/amazon-prime-video-ai-fallout-recap<…
Russian assaults are failing! Ukraine holds its defenses and strikes oil refineries | Front Summary: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/22/russian-assaults-are-failing-ukraine.html
Aligned, Multiple-transient Events in the First #PalomarSkySurvey / Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae0afe / https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21620-3 -> Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations: https://www.su.se/english/news/unexpected-patterns-in-historical-astronomical-observations-1.855042 -> summary of why these papers are doubtful: https://x.com/MickWest/status/1980690132543107204 - links to deep discussions.
from my link log —
Psychology of human misjudgment.
https://neilkakkar.com/Psychology-of-Human-Misjudgment.html
saved 2019-04-28 https://
Petition of Right, (1628)
was a petition sent by the English Parliament to King Charles I,
complaining of a series of breaches of law.
The petition sought recognition of four principles:
🔸no taxation without the consent of Parliament,
🔸no imprisonment without cause,
🔸no quartering of soldiers on subjects,
🔸and no martial law in peacetime.
After dismissing his second Parliament,
Charles imposed a "forced loan", an effective tax wh…
Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism: #LightPollution
from my link log —
ARIN incident report: IP address issuance error.
https://www.arin.net/announcements/20251212/
saved 2025-12-21 https://