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If it’s not already clear, I’m #ActuallyAutistic and proudly trans, who uses they/them pronouns and identifies as Non-Binary/Gender-Fluid, and bisexual.
I get really scared around other trans people because I worry I might accidentally say something transphobic or homophobic, and I deeply believe, with all my heart, that trans people deserve to live.
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View from the top of the hill at the Summerland Farm Preserve in Caroline near peak of fall color
#photo #photography #caroline

Smart fridge, smart stove, smart dishwasher, smart washer/dryer or other household appliances... HELL NO! I don't want or need internet connected appliances. If those servers goes offline, if an 'upgrade' glitches or I say no to an update what happens to the basic functionality? What data are they capturing and selling?
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holy shit i just realized its 3 days till christmas

How Persuasive is Your Context?
Tu Nguyen, Kevin Du, Alexander Miserlis Hoyle, Ryan Cotterell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17879 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1…

How Persuasive is Your Context?
Two central capabilities of language models (LMs) are: (i) drawing on prior knowledge about entities, which allows them to answer queries such as "What's the official language of Austria?", and (ii) adapting to new information provided in context, e.g., "Pretend the official language of Austria is Tagalog.", that is pre-pended to the question. In this article, we introduce targeted persuasion score (TPS), designed to quantify how persuasive a given context is to an LM where persuasion is operat…

The 6 year radio lightcurve of the tidal disruption event AT2019azh
Matthew Burn, Adelle J. Goodwin, Gemma E. Anderson, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Yvette Cendes, Collin T. Christy, Wenbin Lu, Sjoert van Velzen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17525

The 6 year radio lightcurve of the tidal disruption event AT2019azh
Analysis of radio emission from tidal disruption events allows for detailed constraints on the properties of ejected outflows and the host environment surrounding the black hole. However, the late-time radio behaviour of tidal disruption events is not well-studied due to a lack of observations. In this work we present long-term radio monitoring observations of the tidal disruption event AT2019azh spanning 1167-2159 days post disruption. We fit a physically motivated synchrotron model to the rad…

Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

Arbitrarily long-lived quasinormal modes of proper-time flow black holes
Milena Skvortsova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18061 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1806…

Arbitrarily long-lived quasinormal modes of proper-time flow black holes
We investigate the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a massive scalar field in the background of a regular black hole arising from the proper-time flow in asymptotically safe gravity. This quantum-corrected geometry, characterized by a deformation parameter q, smoothly interpolates between a near-extremal regular black hole and the Schwarzschild solution. Employing both the WKB approximation with Padé resummation and time-domain integration, we compute the complex frequencies for various values of t…

Voy a adoptar yo también esto. Se acabó hablar de "la nube" en abstracto. "Los servicios bancarios estšn alojados en un cobertizo en Virginia" es mucho mšs realista y le priva del aura mšgica que tiene "la nube" https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/115407725852594322

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