Tootfinder

from my link log —
Pairs not taken: a history of twisted pair ethernet.
https://computer.rip/2025-01-05-pairs-not-taken.html
saved 2025-09-11 htt…

49ers' Tarron Jackson taken off field on stretcher, hospitalized after collapsing at practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-t

It’s a century since the most significant step was taken in how music was preserved for posterity – Rob Cowan looks back to that pivotal point, and to the difference it made to artists and listeners alike
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/electrical-reco…

Harbaugh: Hits Herbert taking 'very concerning' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46414779/chargers-harbaugh-hits-herbert-taken-very-concerning

The wind blew pale grasses over the flowers as I was trying to photograph them but the effect was interesting & not unpleasant.
Footnotes:
1. Taken on a modern 40MP mirrorless Fujifilm camera shooting through an old weird Pentax 100mm lens (https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/20…

Records and Lenses

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 607333 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Dont'e Thornton Jr. talks Geno Smith: 'He's really taken me under his wing' https://www.raiders.com/video/offense-donte-thornton-jr-raiders-training-camp-presser-nfl-072825

I wanted to send you a quick note tonight,
thanking you for supporting the Save America Movement.
We’ve taken our message straight to the White House,
DHS, Union Station, and Capitol Hill
— exposing Trump, ICE, and the profiteers behind his authoritarian movement.
The reception has been powerful. But we’re not done.
Tomorrow, the trucks will roll again. Every hour on the road costs money.
Screens, drivers, fuel — it adds up fast.
If we want to…

I just gave to the Save America Movement!
Join the fight »

The Washington Post's Fact Checker Glenn Kessler is leaving the paper after over 27 years, having taken a buyout, and is "not sure" if his role will be replaced (Sean Burch/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/washington-post-fact-checker-exits/

Washington Post Fact Checker Exits, Says He's 'Not Sure' if Paper Will Replace Role
WaPo Fact Checker Glenn Kessler on Monday said he was leaving the "best job in journalism" after accepting a buyout offer from the outlet

Whoa, the #InterstellarComet 3I/ATLAS clearly has a tail now! A raw image taken minutes ago with the GMOS instrument on Gemini South and shared live during the Shadow the Scientists event - I raised the contrast slightly.

✅ Quick loop with my wife between some rain showers.
Feels so good to get out!
#cycling #BikeTooter #getoutside

"Australia has banned 3 ‘forever chemicals’ – but Europe wants to ban all 14,000 as a precaution"
#Europe #Australia #PFAS

Australia has banned 3 ‘forever chemicals’ – but Europe wants to ban all 14,000 as a precaution
It’s taken years for Australia to ban three types of forever chemicals. But Europe plans to ban thousands of these chemicals to avoid future issues.

I post a picture of me in IKEA.
The picture was taken last weekend. In posting it today, the collective consciousness of my followers transpose the event into the present. In 30 days time, when the CCTV in-store cycles, the only record of the visit will be that image.
1/2

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
FEN: Does he always kill when taken by surprise?
TRAVIS: Supreme Commander.
SERVALAN: [To Fen] Forgive me. [To Travis] What is it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/178 B7B4

#SilentSunday #Minnesota

As anarchists, when we were organizing against Trump, in the lead up to and early in his last term, we recognized the potential for repression. Radicals have always been targeted, but now he's going after moderate liberals. This is going to keep escalating, so it would be a good idea for liberals to *listen to anarchists* since we've been doing this for years.
Anarchists have been kidnapped and held without charges for months at a tim (check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_grand_jury_resisters. Only for those folks, they were kidnapped and held without trial under Obama.) Radicals have been doing this for years. It's worth your time to listen so you know how to prepare.
We had a bail fund set up. Support your local bail fund and don't try to start your own (liberals in Seattle did that last time). We focused on basic survival for our members. When the regime cracks down it will be random (since they can't get everyone). How are you going to support folks? Bail funds are a nice first step, but the whole process can take a long time. People can (and often do) lose their jobs, even if they aren't convicted of anything. Are you going to make sure targeted people are able to pay rent and get food? Are you going to make sure families are taken care of when a parent is kidnapped?
Resistence is only a threat if it's sustainable, otherwise they can just overpower and wait. You have to be able to wait longer. Occupations are *extremely* expensive. If you can support each other through an occupation, you can win.
So what is your plan? How are you going to make sure that those who fight can keep fighting? The best time to think about that question was under Biden. The second best time is now.

Here is a bee from the Northwoods reminding you to protect the beautiful places near you. If that place is the BWCA, check out #bwca

Concrete Jungle II 🏗️
水泥丛林 II 🏗️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Controllable Conversational Theme Detection Track at DSTC 12
Igor Shalyminov, Hang Su, Jake Vincent, Siffi Singh, Jason Cai, James Gung, Raphael Shu, Saab Mansour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18783

Controllable Conversational Theme Detection Track at DSTC 12
Conversational analytics has been on the forefront of transformation driven by the advances in Speech and Natural Language Processing techniques. Rapid adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the analytics field has taken the problems that can be automated to a new level of complexity and scale. In this paper, we introduce Theme Detection as a critical task in conversational analytics, aimed at automatically identifying and categorizing topics within conversations. This process can signific…

I haven’t been very active in the last month. I haven’t watched many movies or taken much photography. All of this is because I finally found a new flat away from city life, close to nature. One thing that has changed is that I’m back to being very active on Couchsurfing. I love meeting new people from around the world, fellow travelers with great stories, and maybe even friends for life. This is much more interesting and important than following every footstep on what’s happening in the new…

Cowboys G Robert Jones has broken neck bone, out 2-3 months https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-g-robert-jones-has-broken-neck-bone-out-2-3-months

Here in Australia there's the odd few that haven't really taken on the weight of the Epstein thing in relation to Trump, so bringing it up just has them scoffing and going over the usual "everyone in politics is into that shit" with no follow up.

Chaotic signatures in free field theory
Dmitry S. Ageev, Vasilii V. Pushkarev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18746 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18746

Chaotic signatures in free field theory
We consider free scalar relativistic field theory in finite volume taken out-of-equilibrium and show how the chaotic behavior emerges in such a quantum system for particular quench protocols. Namely, we show that for the operator local quench, correlation functions exhibit statistical properties quite close to that of the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble of random matrices. Moreover, we show that the spectral form factor for the excited state after the local quench reveals a dip-ramp-plateau struct…

Another example of training machine learning / AI models to 'read' historical maps, this time identifying long-standing woodland https://digitalanddata.blog.gov.wales/2024/09/09/can-ai-help-find-lost-woodland/

Can AI help find lost woodland?
Post by Evie, Data Science Unit, Welsh Government Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg There are many areas of Wales where woodland clearance has taken place, especially since the 19th century. &nbs…

I play a #solitaire #cardGame called Yukon. The rules and a typical start point are attached.
The fewest moves I’ve taken to complete 1 game is 76. I’m guessing the fewest possible moves would be 52. A perfect deal. My question is, how do I calculate how many different deals would turn out perfect…

The #cordi2025 conference is about to start and the huge lecture hall at #RWTHAachen is filling up slowly…
#researchdata @…

Anomalous scaling of linear power corrections
Casey Farren-Colloty, Jack Helliwell, Rtvik Patel, Gavin P. Salam, Silvia Zanoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18696 https://

Anomalous scaling of linear power corrections
Non-perturbative corrections to hadronic observables represent a critical obstacle to increasing accuracy at colliders. Long taken to scale simply as $1/Q$, where $Q$ is the centre-of-mass scattering energy, recent work has opened the path towards calculating the anomalous dimension that modifies that scaling. A priori, the problem is complex, requiring a resummation involving arbitrary numbers of large-angle and low-energy gluons. Within a specific framework for kinematic recoil, we show that …

The influence of boundary conditions and interfacial slip on the time taken to achieve a nonequilibrium steady-state for highly confined flows
Carmelo Riccardo Civello, Luca Maffioli, Joseph Johnson, Edward R. Smith, James P. Ewen, Peter J. Daivis, Daniele Dini, B. D. Todd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20944

The influence of boundary conditions and interfacial slip on the time taken to achieve a nonequilibrium steady-state for highly confined flows
We investigate the equilibration time to attain steady-state for a system of liquid molecules under boundary-driven planar Couette flow via nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulation. In particular, we examine the equilibration time for the two common types of boundary driven flow: one in which both walls slide with equal and opposite velocity, and the other in which one wall is fixed and the other moves with twice the velocity. Both flows give identical steady-state strain rates, and …

Mushrooms of Humbleton Hill, taken last Sunday.
#FungiFriday

we had lunch at john boy’s, breakfast really — it’s breakfast-time all day at john boy’s.
i took this pic at noon and the place was empty but when we arrived at 11:30, every seat in the place was taken and we had to wait for a table. (i was told the lunch rush would begin in a minute.)
#alpena

What Republic of Congo’s gold rush is leaving behind #Congo

What Republic of Congo’s gold rush is leaving behind
Gold mining by the Chinese company City SARL inside the Dimonika Biosphere Reserve in the Republic of Congo has devastated 5 hectares (12 acres) of forest. Artisanal gold miners and some local community members have had to leave the area, depriving them of food and drinking water. Water samples taken in the area and analyzed […]

Aggregate Fictitious Play for Learning in Anonymous Polymatrix Games (Extended Version)
Semih Kara, Tamer Ba\c{s}ar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19371 https://

Aggregate Fictitious Play for Learning in Anonymous Polymatrix Games (Extended Version)
Fictitious play (FP) is a well-studied algorithm that enables agents to learn Nash equilibrium in games with certain reward structures. However, when agents have no prior knowledge of the reward functions, FP faces a major challenge: the joint action space grows exponentially with the number of agents, which slows down reward exploration. Anonymous games offer a structure that mitigates this issue. In these games, the rewards depend only on the actions taken; not on who is taking which action. …

Air Liquide has taken final investment decision on its 200MW green hydrogen project at the Port of Rotterdam, after securing subsidies from the Dutch government.
23,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year, using electricity from offshore wind. To be operational in 2027.
https://w…

The Push to Eliminate New York State’s Voluntary Intoxication Loophole: ‘You Should Be Allowed to Get Drunk and Not Be Taken Advantage Of’ - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2025/09/19/new-york-voluntary-intoxication-loophole-drunk-rape-women-violence-sexual-assault/

I don’t remember but we obviously took our Christmas card photos at the end of the summer! No sunscreen in the early 70s. Maybe around when school pictures were taken? Kind of digging my flower vest.

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the offence taken in China at the US commerce secretary’s statements, Modi’s plans to make India a chip superpower and Accenture’s big Aussie cyber buy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/loos…

Loose-lips Lutnick costs Nvidia - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the offence taken in China at the US commerce secretary’s ...

Little trip not far from Glasgow, next to #LochVoil
#Scotland #ScotlandIsBeautiful

As a general matter, societies (and countries) have a right to protect themselves.
This protection ranges from things like civil laws (e.g. to require people to live up to contracts or not to assault one another.) Stronger protective measures are found in criminal laws that can restrict physical freedom (i.e. jail/prison time), force the disgorgement of taken property (such as taken by fraud or robbery), and even to take away a criminal's life. The strongest is war in which whole…

Little progress made so far on Ukraine peace deal, German Chancellor says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/little-progress-made-so-far.html

The fascist insurrectionist criminals have taken over our government. They must be removed and held accountable. They are the ones who should be in jail.
#GiftArticle #USFascism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/nyregion/january-6-capitol-riot-prosecutors.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk8.UPkj.FXxPEiC4Jiki&smid=url-share

Gotta love a good #SteisandEffect. I would never have bothered reading this article if it hadn’t been taken down (given that I don’t follow Forbes). Now, however, the pdf. is safely downloaded, the reference added to Zotero, and I'll go through it thoroughly.

Dr Pen (@DrPen@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images Ed Zitron's new article has a link to the infamous MIT report "State of AI in Business 2025". This is the link, it's on web archive. Apparently it's no longer accessible directly from MIT anymore. #ai #mit #research #aibubble #academia #academicchatter https://web.archive.org/web/20250818145714if_/https://nanda.media.mit.edu/ai_report_2025.pdf

The Trump regime plans to sign executive orders that will end cashless bail and “ask law enforcement officials to work to ensure that people arrested in [D.C.] are taken into federal custody.”
In other words, the regime is threatening to put any dissenters arrested in D.C. into concentration camps.

Trump signs executive orders aimed at ending cashless bail in D.C. and across the country
Trump plans to sign an executive order Monday aimed at eliminating cashless bail for arrested suspects in Washington, D.C., a senior White House official said.

"Shakedown"
All those tariffs Mr. Trump is imposing are being paid by U.S. companies and, eventually, U.S. consumers. To date, Washington has taken US$100-billion out of the pockets of American businesses; the total is expected to reach US$300-billion by the end of the year.
https://www.

Trump’s tariff shakedown takes shape
Deals this week with Japan and the EU reveal the cards the U.S. President intends to play with Canada

Uneven Lives VII 👁️
不工整人生 VII 👁️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ERA 100, expired 1994
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The #Frogs like the new pond lettuce, it seems. 😍 🐸 🌱
Pic taken by my wife earlier today.

why weren’t any of my npm packages taken in the rapture

Uber launches prepaid passes, letting customers pay a discounted price in advance on frequently taken trips, in bundles of 5, 10, 15, or 20 rides (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/782765/uber-prepaid-pass-bundle-discount-route…

Uber launches prepaid passes for frequent routes
Uber announced prepaid passes for frequently made trips, when purchased in bulk.

Weather announcement: I've taken my thin sports shoes.

The build system I’m working on is, finally, looking like it’ll be useful! It has only taken 7 or 8 tries, and 8 years…

49ers DE Jackson taken off field via ambulance https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45837871/49ers-tarron-jackson-conscious-sustaining-injury

This may be the first #SilentSunday post I've made where I've literally just taken the photo.

Yesterday I went to the Tutankhamun exhibition and had a very fetching photo taken in one of the photo booths.

More sell-off of highly valuable address reputation resources ending up at low end hosting providers.
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01K511EY4MQHH6NQVH3VGKD6VM

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"St. Catherine University" (ARIN) transferred: 140.225.224.0/21 (Taken from 140.225.224.0/19), 140.225.232.0/21 (Taken from 140.225.224.0/19), 140.225.240.0/21 (Taken from 140.225.224.0/19), 140.225.248.0/21 (Taken from 140.225.224.0/19) to "steel-axis LLC" (RIPE) (Estimated Market V...

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

Lost Data in Electron Microscopy
Nina M. Ivanova, Alexey S. Kashin, Valentine P. Ananikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18217 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18217…

Lost Data in Electron Microscopy
The goal of this study is to estimate the amount of lost data in electron microscopy and to analyze the extent to which experimentally acquired images are utilized in peer-reviewed scientific publications. Analysis of the number of images taken on electron microscopes at a core user facility and the number of images subsequently included in peer-reviewed scientific journals revealed low efficiency of data utilization. More than 90% of electron microscopy data generated during routine instrument…

IT RAINED! #w00t

Behold the Very First Color Photograph (1861): Taken by Scottish Physicist & Poet James Clerk Maxwell
https://flip.it/ZdV70o

Behold the Very First Color Photograph (1861): Taken by Scottish Physicist & Poet James Clerk Maxwell
Since its ancient origins as the camera obscura, the photographic camera has always mimicked the human eye, allowing light to enter an aperture, then projecting an image upside down. Renaissance artists relied on the camera obscura to sharpen their own visual perspectives.

Discovery of Two Highly Scattered Pulsars from Image-Based Circular Polarization Searches with the Australian SKA Pathfinder
Rahul Sengar, David L. Kaplan, Emil Lenc, Akash Anumarlapudi, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Ziteng Wang, Laura Driessen, Dougal Dobie, Tara Murphy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20611

Discovery of Two Highly Scattered Pulsars from Image-Based Circular Polarization Searches with the Australian SKA Pathfinder
We report the discovery and timing of two pulsars from a sample of four circularly polarized sources identified in radio continuum images taken as part of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey. Observations with the Parkes (Murriyang) radio telescope confirmed both sources as normal pulsars with high dispersion measures. PSR J1646$-$4451 has a spin period of 217 ms and a dispersion measure (DM) of 928 $\rm cm^{-3} \, pc$, while PSR J1837$-$0616 exhibi…

Polarization of the $\phi$ meson in the hadronic phase with nucleon scatterings and a viscous hydrodynamic background
Eduardo Grossi, Andrea Palermo, Ismail Zahed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19228

Polarization of the $ϕ$ meson in the hadronic phase with nucleon scatterings and a viscous hydrodynamic background
We extend our previous work on the spin alignment of the $ϕ$ vector meson in the hadronic phase of the Quark Gluon Plasma, by including effects of nucleon scatterings. The emission rates are calculated in a realistic hydrodynamic background simulated with the code Fluid$u$m, for different beam energies. We find that all the effects taken into account cannot explain the out-of-plane spin alignment of the $ϕ$ meson observed experimentally.

🤺 Sting operation kills “copycat” sports piracy site with 1.6B visits last year
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/sting-operation-kills-copycat-sports-piracy-site-with-1-6b-visits-last-year/

Sting operation kills “copycat” sports piracy site with 1.6B visits last year
Original Streameast pirating site was taken down before but remains accesible today.

Cosmological Dynamics of Matter Creation with Modified Chaplygin Gas and Bulk Viscosity
Yogesh Bhardwaj, C P Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20860 https://

Cosmological Dynamics of Matter Creation with Modified Chaplygin Gas and Bulk Viscosity
This work presents a comprehensive investigation of a novel cosmological model that unifies the Modified Chaplygin Gas (MCG) equation of state with gravitationally induced matter creation and bulk viscous dissipation in a spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker spacetime. The MCG fluid is characterized by an exotic equation of state $p = Aρ- C/ρ^α$, while the matter creation rate is taken as $Γ= 3βH$ and the bulk viscous pressure as $π= -3Hξ_0 ρ_m^{1/2}$. We derive the modifi…

Ergodicity, KAM, FPUT
Giovanni Gallavotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18934 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18934

Ergodicity, KAM, FPUT
Boltzmann introduced the microcanonical ensemble in 1868, \cite{Bo868-a}, and immediately attempted to give an example of a system whose stationary states would be described by the emsemble (as suggested also by his ergodic hypothesis). The example, \cite{Bo868-b}, has been recently shown to be incorrect, if taken literally: the point was to suppose that constants of motion, if any besides the energy, would necessarily be smooth functions; and soon later he warned on the dangers…

Excellent gig with Francis Rossi of Status Quo tonight. Lots of comic chat and old songs. Well worth seeing… photo taken during the interval as we were asked not to take pics during the performance and everyone complied as far as I could tell.

Last week I gave a talk at the IPTC’s “Photo Metadata Conference”. Here’s a blog-ified version, with lots of juicy digging into exactly what works and what’s broken in C2PA in 2025. Also strong opinions about provenance. And a link to the YouTube recording: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/20…

C2PA Investigations

Electronics manufacturer Data I/O reports ransomware attack to SEC
https://therecord.media/electronics-manufacturer-dataio-ransomware

Electronics manufacturer Data I/O reports ransomware attack to SEC
The tech manufacturer Data I/O reported a ransomware attack to federal regulators, writing that the incident has taken down critical operational systems.

Countering Privacy Nihilism
Severin Engelmann, Helen Nissenbaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18253 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18253

Countering Privacy Nihilism
Of growing concern in privacy scholarship is artificial intelligence (AI), as a powerful producer of inferences. Taken to its limits, AI may be presumed capable of inferring "everything from everything," thereby making untenable any normative scheme, including privacy theory and privacy regulation, which rests on protecting privacy based on categories of data - sensitive versus non-sensitive, private versus public. Discarding data categories as a normative anchoring in privacy and data protecti…

Bellingcat’s "Auto Archiver" is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down.
Publicly launched in 2022,
it has preserved over 150,000 web pages and social media posts to date.
The Auto Archiver has been used by Bellingcat’s journalists to preserve information on dozens of fast moving events such as the Jan. 6 riots
– when we first used the tool internally
– as well as gather digital evidence for o…

The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat
Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down

Formation Of Sub-Structure In Luminous Submillimeter galaxies (FOSSILS): Initial sample and the discovery of a dusty spiral at Cosmic Noon
Ryota Ikeda, Daisuke Iono, Ken-ichi Tadaki, Andrea Silva, the FOSSILS Team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20720

Formation Of Sub-Structure In Luminous Submillimeter galaxies (FOSSILS): Initial sample and the discovery of a dusty spiral at Cosmic Noon
High-resolution far-infrared (FIR) observation of submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) is an effective approach to study the formation of sub-structures in the early epoch of massive galaxies. We present the 870$μ$m continuum images resolved down to sub-kpc scales for 12 SMGs taken by Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) as an initial sample of the FOSSILS Survey. We discovered a wide variety of morphological properties, including a two-arm spiral galaxy at $z=2.5$ possibly induced by …

Sources: all but one person on WaPo's obit desk has taken the paper's buyout offer; the lone holdout is too junior to qualify for the buyout deal (Michael Schaffer/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/24/washin…

Full list of every Super Bowl halftime performer in history: Bad Bunny to headline show in 2026

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/full-li

I don’t understand why we must spend billions of dollars and waste so much water for AI.
I just created an “AI-generated image” from the original using a few dabs of the retouch tool in the Photos app.
Might have taken a sip of water afterwards but that was it.
(Is there a word/phrase for taking a regular image and making it look like it was AI generated? There should be.)

No paywall. One of the folks I read when I can to stay sane. Always on the cutting edge of The Moment.
Welcome to The Continental. We Do Hope You Enjoy Your Stay. - Epsilon Theory https://new.epsilontheory.com/a/welcome-to-the-continental-we-do-hope…

Welcome to The Continental. We Do Hope You Enjoy Your Stay.
Our autonomy of mind is our birthright. It is not ladled out to us from some central pot, and it cannot be taken away from us. But we can give it away, sometimes in pieces and sometimes all at once, and that’s what the semantic system of world-building and script-injection encourages us to do. Enough. Today we begin to reclaim our minds.

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 607333 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

The only real action I've seen taken to fight back the absolute distortion of the American election landscape.
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYo…

Why Data Anonymization Has Not Taken Off
Matthew J. Schneider, James Bailie, Dawn Iacobucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10165 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.101…

Why Data Anonymization Has Not Taken Off
Companies are looking to data anonymization research $\unicode{x2013}$ including differential private and synthetic data methods $\unicode{x2013}$ for simple and straightforward compliance solutions. But data anonymization has not taken off in practice because it is anything but simple to implement. For one, it requires making complex choices which are case dependent, such as the domain of the dataset to anonymize; the units to protect; the scope where the data protection should extend to; and …

South Korea arrests suspected Chinese hacker accused of targeting BTS singer and other celebrities https://therecord.media/south-korea-arrests-hacker-accused-of-targeting-celebrities-bts

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
SERVALAN: "Taken by surprise"?
TRAVIS: It seems this man Coser is brighter than his grade classification would suggest.
SERVALAN: I assume the security commander is under arrest.
TRAVIS: He was.
SERVALAN: "Was"?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/247

2025 NFL training camp takeaways: Commanders' Terry McLaurin ends holdout; Cowboys, Chargers extend stars

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nf…

Raiders' OL announcement is latest weird turn in Jackson Powers-Johnson mystery https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-ol-announcement-weird-turn-jackson-powers-joh…

A look at life in online scam compounds run by Chinese gangs on the Myanmar-Thai border, with purported Thai immigration officials luring trafficking victims (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/SOUTHEASTASIA-SCAMS/mypmxwdwwvr/

They traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar.
A multibillion-dollar fraud industry has taken root across Southeast Asia, fueled partly by trafficking victims. In lawless zones along the Myanmar-Thai border, Chinese-run compounds force thousands to scam strangers online under threat of violence. Thailand has become a key transit hub, Reuters found.

After Marks and Spencer refused to say whether it paid a ransom, the UK's Home Office proposes that businesses will have to notify the government if they plan on paying a ransom to cyber criminals under new proposals.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-l

UK to lead crackdown on cyber criminals with ransomware measures
Measures to tackle the threat of ransomware and protect businesses and critical services will be taken forward with industry following public consultation.

A look at WaPo's recent staff departures: five WaPo Opinion columnists, including Philip Bump, have taken buyouts, while two have moved to the newsroom (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/things…

Things Are Somehow Getting Worse for the Washington ‘Post’
A raft of buyouts and multiple ongoing shake-ups at the Washington ‘Post’ have left staff despondent and unsure about the future.

Could Shedeur Sanders start a game in 2025? Ranking rookie QBs not taken in first round likely to make debut

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/could-s…

Bixby Bridge in Big Sur California
-- Today
-- and as rapidly built by the WPA in 1932 (top: August & bottom: October)
-- The canyon at the north end is so steep you can't see the bottom here, but Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a cabin there (where Jack Kerouac stayed in 1961)

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 607333 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Raiders Mailbag: Who's taken the team by storm in training camp? https://www.raiders.com/news/mailbag/raiders-mailbag-who-s-taken-the-team-by-storm-in-training-camp

Sony acquires a ~2.5% stake in Tekken and Pac-Man owner Bandai Namco for $464M, to expand "the fan community for IP such as anime and manga around the world" (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/sony-buys-stake-in-pac-man-own…

Sony Pays $464M For Stake In ‘Pac-Man’ Owner Bandai Namco
Sony Corp. has taken a small stake in 'Tekken' and 'Pac-Man' games giant Bandai Namco, as part of a strategic business alliance.

Foggy fog 🌫️
雾雾的雾 🌫️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 607333 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Titans' Sneed, out since early last season, off PUP https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46029427/titans-cb-ljarius-sneed-passes-physical-taken-pup-list

Raiders Mailbag: Who's taken the team by storm in training camp? https://www.raiders.com/news/mailbag/raiders-mailbag-who-s-taken-the-team-by-storm-in-training-camp

Four outlets have taken down AI-generated articles by a "journalist"; Wired says her article didn't go through a proper fact-check or get sufficient editing (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Wired says 'AI-written' story did not have 'proper fact-check process'
Wired explains how it got duped by an AI freelancer while other editors who had been pitched by Margaux Blanchard share their stories.

For Trump, it’s not about hate speech, but about speech that he hates
— namely, speech that is critical of him and his administration.
He has suggested that a clutch of protesters who yelled at him in a restaurant be prosecuted under laws targeting mobsters.
He demanded that multiple late-night comics who mocked him be taken off air.
He threatened to shutter television broadcasters that he deemed unfair to him.
He sued The New York Times for allegedly damaging…

In Assault on Free Speech, Trump Targets Speech He Hates
The president’s complaints about negative coverage undermine the rationales offered by his own officials.

Campbell: Taken Lions' roster to 'another level' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46070904/dan-campbell-says-roster-deepest-had-lions

wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…

Cards' Russell taken to hospital following collision https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45818158/cardinals-lb-jj-russell-carted-practice-field-collision

Lions, Falcons preseason game ends early after Morice Norris taken off field in an ambulance

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/lions-falc…