Tootfinder

Soooo....I'm doing a thing...🤭😏
As a lot of you know, Tooters shut down recently and the way it was handled in the end is regrettable.
However, I felt for longest time while it was up, that it was consistently one of the BEST run instances on Fedi with how they protected their users from some of the insanity that happens here.
That being said, with Tooters being gone, it leaves a bit of a hole in my Fedi heart and I know a lot of others as well.
So, I'm creating a new, very limited for now, politically-light (as little politics as possible locally), AI friendly (AI art welcome), Sharkey instance for some folks within my circle that I've grown to consider my friends.
The Social Zone is meant to be a place to escape the very political society we currently all live in and just be social with one another about our hobbies, interests, and day to day lives.
I'm still working out all the details but when I launch it, it's going to be invite only because I'm new to something like this and I want to get it right. Especially because those I will invite are people that are close to me and I don't want to disappoint them.
Depending on how things go for the next few months, including if I can even get this thing started correctly, I MIGHT be open to allowing more members in, down the line.
But, this is just getting started. I registered the domain yesterday and just started researching Sharkey today and how hard it would be to spin something up. Then, of course, there's configuration settings and administration with Sharkey that I have to familiarize myself with.
All in all, I'm very nervous, but excited that I decided to take this next step in my Fedi adventure and hope to eventually "give back" to the entire community, the same positive energy that you've all given me over the past wonderful year of being on this amazing platform.
Please do not ask for invites. I will not be handing them out anytime soon. I've already asked about 5 of you along with some IRL folks and I feel I would like some time to get this right for them first.
Thanks for reading. I hope you understand why I'm choosing to do this and hope you're as excited as me to see where things can go and understand why I feel it's important to have these types of "politically-light" spaces so people can escape such topics from time to time.
Keep on keeping on, Fedi. The future is bright and I'm ready to learn along with you. More info about TheSocial.Zone coming soon!
Your friend,
B.A.

Titans signing Tony Pollard, three year, $24 million deal to replace Derrick Henry after Jerry Jones ‘all in’ comment https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/titans…

Titans signing Tony Pollard, three year, $24 million deal to replace Derrick Henry after Jerry Jones ‘all in’ comment
In a surprising turn of events, the Dallas Cowboys have released their running back Tony Pollard. As reported by the Associated Press, the running back’s next destination will be the Tennesee Titans. The Titans will replace their RB Derrick Henry with Tony Pollard in a three-year deal worth $24 million. The development came after the Cowboys owner Jerry Jones claimed a few days ago that the team would be ‘all in’ even if they failed to give Dak Prescott a $60 million contract. The trade s…

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On Saturday, March 9, 2024, former Boeing quality manager and whistleblower John Barnett, 62, was found dead in his pick up truck in Charleston, S.C. His death is under investigation.
Seven years prior, Barnett had filed an AIR21 whistleblower complaint with the FAA and OSHA. Eventually, eight other S.C. Boeing employees became whistleblowers.
According to The Daily Mail, Barnett “was supposed to do day three of his deposition here in Charleston on his AIR21 case [on Saturday].”<…

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Observables from classical black hole scattering in Scalar-Tensor theory of gravity from worldline quantum field theory
In this article, we compute the two observables, impulse and waveform, in a black hole scattering event for the Scalar-Tensor theory of gravity with a generic scalar potential using the techniques of Worldline Quantum Field Theory. We mainly investigate the corrections to the above mentioned observables due to the extra scalar degree of freedom. For the computation of impulse, we consider the most general scenario by making the scalar field massive and then show that each computed diagram has a…

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Meet Cardzilla! Virtual Event · Northeast Arizona Native Organizing Campaign
We're excited to see you this Saturday for a virtual event on Zoom to meet Cardzilla! Our expert team will give you a tour of Cardzilla, and a chance to ask our team your questions. Cardzilla lets you download the same Northeast Arizona Native Democrats postcard addresses and scripts you know and love, and you even get a weekly newsletter with inspirations from the field, just like you do now. Plus, you can get addresses any time, day or night, any day of the week; and, you decide exactly how…

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SpikeNVS: Enhancing Novel View Synthesis from Blurry Images via Spike Camera
One of the most critical factors in achieving sharp Novel View Synthesis (NVS) using neural field methods like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is the quality of the training images. However, Conventional RGB cameras are susceptible to motion blur. In contrast, neuromorphic cameras like event and spike cameras inherently capture more comprehensive temporal information, which can provide a sharp representation of the scene as additional training data. Recent methods…

NPCoronaPredict: A computational pipeline for the prediction of the nanoparticle-biomolecule corona
Ian Rouse, David Power, Julia Subbotina, Vladimir Lobaskin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07819

NPCoronaPredict: A computational pipeline for the prediction of the nanoparticle-biomolecule corona
The corona of a nanoparticle immersed in a biological fluid is of key importance to its eventual fate and bioactivity in the environment or inside live tissues. It is critical to have insight into both the underlying bionano interactions and the corona composition to ensure biocompatibility of novel engineered nanomaterials. A prediction of these properties in silico requires the successful spanning of multiple orders of magnitude of both time and physical dimensions to produce results in a rea…

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A magnetar giant flare in the nearby starburst galaxy M82
Giant flares, short explosive events releasing up to 10$^{47}$ erg of energy in the gamma-ray band in less than one second, are the most spectacular manifestation of magnetars, young neutron stars powered by a very strong magnetic field, 10$^{14-15}$ G in the magnetosphere and possibly higher in the star interior. The rate of occurrence of these rare flares is poorly constrained, as only three have been seen from three different magnetars in the Milky Way and in the Large Magellanic Cloud in ab…

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Brickwall, Normal Modes and Emerging Thermality
In this article, we demonstrate how black hole quasi-normal modes can emerge from a Dirichlet brickwall model normal modes. We consider a probe scalar field in a BTZ geometry with a Dirichlet brickwall and demonstrate that as the wall approaches the event horizon, the corresponding poles in the retarded correlator become dense and yield an effective branch-cut. The associated discontinuity of the correlator carries the information of the black hole quasi-normal modes. We further demonstrate tha…