Tootfinder

My >20yo kick drum pedal had a bolt shear off. I went around looking at reviews for what's the new hi-tech awesomeness, because surely after 20 years there's been some major changes, right?
Nope. DW 5000 is still on top (with 9000 being more adjustable in ways that I don't care about, but otherwise the same).

Cave of wonders.
2 Free wallpapers for you to use.
Also uploaded to my Ko-fi completely uncompressed for free here: #AIart

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Alright, attempt number two. Simplified the layout a bit and came to a pretty obvious realization: don't mess with the layout *after* you run the design rules check. The boards came in and were a bit lacking in several areas of connectivity. #electronics #arduino

He's almost got the look down...
Hey Pierre! It's the Other Hand! And the arm is Straight out!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-carbon-tax-motion-premiers-1.7168220

Good morning friends!
I was going through my lightroom catalogue again and came to this hike. It is a well known spot, yet I haven't managed to get a really good photo from it.
I should check before going there, how the good ones are composed...
But that's something that usually comes to my mind when I'm going up already. And then I'm not in the mood for browsing the Internet. 😊

Sources: Gopuff, one of the last fast-delivery startups in the US after Getir's exit, burned ~$400M in 2023 and wants to start generating cash by early 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fast-delive…

Fast-Delivery Survivor Gopuff Burned $400 Million Last Year
Instant-delivery pioneer Gopuff is the last speedy-delivery startup left standing in the U.S. after its best-funded competitor, Getir, said last week it would pull out of the country. That’s left Gopuff in the same position it was in 10 years and billions of dollars ago: trying to beat DoorDash. ...

Debate rages over the extent to which the Gaza protests on the political left constitute coded or even direct attacks on Jews.
But far less attention has been paid to a trend on the right:
For all of their rhetoric of the moment, increasingly through the Trump era
many Republicans have helped inject into the mainstream thinly veiled anti-Jewish messages with deep historical roots.
The conspiracy theory taking on fresh currency is one that dates back hundreds of years …

How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel
Prominent Republicans have seized on campus protests to assail what they say is antisemitism on the left. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric.

Fun with rectangles

The almost-full #Eclipse in #NewHampshire…
Edit: improved order, the last one you see is the maximum we got
1/x

👊 The End of the Future
#marxism

The End of the Future
Both the Left and the Right used to articulate radically different visions of the future. Today the entire political spectrum looks backward, aiming to restore the past.

Second Star to the Left 🪐🧜🏼‍♂️🤖
Dramatized queer romance scifi series | Scout-explorer Gwen Hartley has five years to explore and prepare her planet for settlement. With no aid but her robots and the anxious voice of her long-distance scout-minder Bell Summers in her ear, she’s hoping to be ready for anything.
1 seasons, 10 ep...

Second Star to the Left 🪐🧜🏼‍♂️🤖
Dramatized queer romance scifi series | Scout-explorer Gwen Hartley has five years to explore and prepare her planet for settlement. With no aid but her robots and the anxious voice of her long-distance scout-minder Bell Summers in her ear, she’s hoping to be ready for anything. 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Jun 01, 2021.

:mstdneh: Ever heard of "progressive conservatives." Turns out it was a lie. The two terms are oxymorons. Oxy left the morons. Now they are the redundant regressive conservatives, simply regressive or conservative. The meaning is the same.
:mastodon: :mstdn:

Canada needs a progressive Conservative party. After this week, don’t hold your breath
The party suffering most is unquestionably the Conservatives. They’ve been racked by stresses, from an election loss to their own schizophrenia over vaccines

Just a few tickets left for Monday's event on 'The impact of AI in media & information industries' https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safeguarding-tomorrow-the-impact-of-ai-in-media-information-industries-tickets-81…

Die Kreuzen – “Die Kreuzen” (1984)
Touch And Go Records
1986 US repress, on maroon colored vinyl
I had the original version, but left it in the backseat of my Volkswagen bug during a heatwave in the summer of ‘86, causing it to warp significantly.
I replaced it with this repress version on dark red vinyl.
#vinyl

#ThrowBackThursday #RockyMountainNationalPark #elkOfMastodon
An elk cow one morning in Moraine Park. September 2006

I am so glad I didn't absolutely *have* to buy an RTX card from this generation. At least in my opinion, the prices were the right indicator that even the lower tier Nvidia RT-capable cards are an early adopter thing dressed as a mass product. You don't *need* to play games with RT, unless you love paying more for lower resolution upscaled to an extrapolated image, at lower FPS and higher lag. Today's mass technology could give you 100-200 FPS native QHD without robbing you blin…

Noticed an interesting phenomenon.
These are right angles, and yet, there's a bit of moon shadow there.
Very cool.
#eclipse

Shelly Lambert from the Eclipse Foundation giving this year's keynote about #community and planting trees to create a healthy eco system. #Java #Javaland
If you can't be around you still can watch the …

Debate rages over the extent to which the Gaza protests on the political left constitute coded or even direct attacks on Jews.
But far less attention has been paid to a trend on the right:
For all of their rhetoric of the moment, increasingly through the Trump era
many Republicans have helped inject into the mainstream thinly veiled anti-Jewish messages with deep historical roots.
The conspiracy theory taking on fresh currency is one that dates back hundreds of years …

How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel
Prominent Republicans have seized on campus protests to assail what they say is antisemitism on the left. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric.

Doing my #OpenSCAD slides for #SCaLE21x with Marp, a markdown presentation system.
A few years ago I evaluated ditching powerpoint for some code-based slides and it was definitely not ready.
Boy have things changed. This is nearly ready for the normies. Super quick to make slides with live…

Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem
Marp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus on writing your story in a Markdown document.

#KL vibe.
Lunar new year down south. Probing a (physical) filter at noon w/ harsh light conditions.
A place that smells like sambal and dhal, and where the SkyTrain cuts the horizon in half. Sure,
#kualalumpur

Americans, mostly women, are becoming more liberal: Gallup | The Hill
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4459617-americans-mostly-women-are-becoming-more-liberal-gallup/

Americans, mostly women, are becoming more liberal: Gallup
American political ideology as a whole has shifted left in recent years, but women are becoming even more liberal, according to Gallup. The survey data, released Wednesday, shows that while the country remains largely center-right, the percentage of those identifying as or leaning liberal has increased over the past three decades, and is now just…

4.5 hours til totality. This is the scene at Black River Overlook Park. The park is in Pocahontas Arkansas, population 6k. The 30 car parking lot was full by 9 am. Tags from Louisiana, Colorado, Washington, Tennessee, Georgia.
Not many clouds, and those present are light and fluffy. Should be a great place to see the #eclipse2024
We drove to Memphis from Atlanta yesterday. Left Memp…

Tried another BG3 sesh but Steam was having connection issues, then the game froze when I talked to a vendor, then we wiped upon entering the Underdark. Not the best attempt, lol. Oh well, shit happens.
So I hopped on the PS5 and did some street shredding in Session. Also got my board set up right with some rainbow grip tape and a nice purple Tarot Reaper. #Gaming

Getting miniprofiler running in #ruby is total pit of success. Install the gem, restart the process, boom. There were always extra steps in #dotnet so it was less pitty.

Rebuilding #FourSquare for #ActivityPub using #OpenStreetMap

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15886 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

Non-linear Black Hole Ringdowns: an Analytical Approach
Due to the nature of gravity, non-linear effects are left imprinted in the quasi-normal modes generated in the ringdown phase of the merger of two black holes. We offer an analytical treatment of the quasi-normal modes at second-order in black hole perturbation theory which takes advantage from the fact that the non-linear sources are peaked around the light ring. As a byproduct, we describe why the amplitude of the second-order mode relative to the square of the first-order amplitude depends o…

I just discovered that a good chunk of the infosec community that left Twitter about a year and a half ago is back on the site tweeting away.
And a whole bunch of infosec journalists have either returned or never left.
Leaving Twitter cost me a lot of traffic to Metacurity and cut my ability to promote my work, but man, I'm never going back.

The maximum degree of the $r$th power of a sparse random graph
Alan Frieze, Aditya Raut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06410 https://arxi…

The maximum degree of the $r$th power of a sparse random graph
Let $G^r_{n,p}$ denote the $r$th power of the random graph $G_{n,p}$, where $p=c/n$ for a positive constant $c$. We prove that w.h.p. the maximum degree $Δ\left(G^r_{n,p}\right)\sim \frac{\log n}{\log_{(r+1)}n}$. Here $\log_{(k)}n$ indicates the repeated application of the log-function $k$ times. So, for example, $\log_{(3)}n=\log\log\log n$.

Great thread over on Bluesky by one of the (the) main dev for the app, commenting on #JackDorsey comments about why he left BlueSky (company and network)
Remember folks, it ain’t Mastodon v BlueSky (IMO)
https://

Politics (in general)
If you ever needed a short answer on how right-wing politics differs from the left-wing politics:
The essence of right-wing politics is the conviction that it is the most important to help the rich (and other privileged people), because if they became even more sickly rich, it is bound that some of that will finally start trickling down on everyone. And if it doesn't, then it's all fault of the people who aren't white cis hetero males — of given nationality, faith and right-wing views.
On the other hand, the left-wing views are based on weird ideas such as that all people are equal, nobody should be privileged and that everyone deserves to live.
#politics

I have taken too many pictures of tulips for my mind to process, but the poppies have started now and that is not yet a full deluge, so here the first 24h of poppy flowering this season :)
#bloomscrolling #photography

It will always remain for some that call themselves Labour supporters, or of the 'Left', a matter of some shame that a Labour Government is elected.
I'm never sure whether this is out of a reluctance to take responsibility or that the random twitches of reality threaten their particular doctrinal purity.
It is not enough that a government is elected but that the government be of exactly the right kind of policies.

It's winter half term holiday I'm on my way to #Norway, not sadly with family but for a high level meeting of the #WMO #polar and high mountain regions committee.
Interesting important meeti…

Russia is filling the vacuum left by the west in the Sahel
FT (archived) #Africa #Niger

Free 1000L water tank? YES PLEASE!
Pickup? No problem!
#gardening #PortAlberni #Drought

Who says online exhibitions aren't a thing anymore? Not us. Every semester, Callan Steinmann, our head of education and curator of academic and public programs works with University of Georgia students (either museum interns or Museum Studies students) on a pop-up exhibition of works from our collection. The works are on view for only one night, but we preserve the work these students do by turning the pop-up into a permanent show online.

I don't think Nicky Campbell hung around with enough tattooed ruffians in his youth, or he'd have known that HATE is supposed to be on the right hand knuckles (for punching) and LOVE on the left hand (for, err, not punching).
Unless you're left-handed, I suppose. #TOTP

In Dresden, 4 National Socialists knocked down a Social Democrat, injuring him so seriously that he needed emergency surgery. A Green Party campaign worker was also punched and kicked. 2 other Nazis verbally harassed a Green politician accompanied by a #DW camera team. In Berlin, another Social Democrat was hospitalised due to head and neck pain after a violent attack.
Sounds like Weimar Repub…

German politician attack: 4 teens identified as suspects
After the attack on Matthias Ecke, a center-left lawmaker in the eastern city of Dresden, police say they have identified and searched the homes of three more teenage suspects. One teen had earlier turned himself in.

Allow me to re-stack two of the AP’s graphs. #Uvalde
“… an investigator hired by Uvalde officials found that the city’s officers did not deserve punishment, and in some cases, praised their actions …”
“… prompting shouts of “cowards” from the audience and causing several family members of the victims to angrily walk out of the meeting.”

Uvalde parents lash out after new report clears city police of missteps during Texas school attack
An investigation Uvalde city leaders ordered into the Robb Elementary School shooting has put no blame on local police officers and defended their actions, but still acknowledged a series of failures during the response. The 2022 classroom attack left 19 children and two teachers dead. The probe by Austin-based investigator and former detective Jesse Prado for the Uvalde City Council is just one of several into the massacre. State lawmakers found in 2022 that nearly 400 local, state and federal…

Uggggh "Hochschild took a novel and rigorous approach to the question...."
I'm going to have to write a piece on "Why 'Strangers in a Strange Land' is a no-good quite bad book that broke liberal brains for years," aren't I?
Ugggh.
https://www.thepublicdiscourse…

Sociology in the Age of Trump: The Clash of Deep Stories on the Left and Right
If the stories can change, it stands to reason that they can improve—or deteriorate. Responsible cultural elites of the Left and Right alike would do well to consider not only what claims they make explicitly, but what kinds of stories underlie those claims, and whether these are the right stories t

Die Kreuzen – “Die Kreuzen” (1984)
Touch And Go Records
1986 US repress, on maroon colored vinyl
I had the original version, but left it in the backseat of my Volkswagen bug during a heatwave in the summer of ‘86, causing it to warp significantly.
I replaced it with this repress version on dark red vinyl.
#vinyl

Long story about Scratch and a vast empty field full of tiny bears
My son and I do some simple game projects in Scratch. Scratch is cool. But the situation has a problem: the Boy likes to show the stuff we make to his friends at school. They have Chromebooks provided by the school. Chromebooks come with Chrome installed, and the kids can't install stuff, so Chrome is the only available browser. Chrome has a bug: one webpage can have at most about 500 distinct images. Google is aware of this bug and has been for a long time - they don't seem to have any intent to fix it. So, if you start using sprites with animations, for an RPG, say, you will quickly blow out this 500-image limit. One mob might easily have 30 or 40 frames.
So I had an idea.
The scratch screen is 480x360. What if I "blew up" a spritesheet so that each 16x16 image had a 480-pixel transparent pad between it and its left and right neighbors, and a 360-pixel transparent pad between it and its up and down neighbors? Then I could just load one image - the exploded spritesheet - and when I drew it I would set the offset so that the one image I wanted was at the screen coordinates I wanted. Because of the pads, all of the other images would necessarily be off the screen.
So I wrote a C program to call ImageMagick programs to explode the spritesheet, and that worked fine. The exploded spritesheet is about 9000 x 6000 pixels, but it's only 90k. But then I tried to upload it and hit Scratch's image size limit, enforced on upload, which is like 900x700.
But (the forums said) you could defeat that by making an svg! You can tell it the svg size is whatever pixels, it's stroked. Sure, it's 900 x 700 with a lot of tiny little bears in different poses, each smaller than a pixel.
Unfortunately automated png-to-svg conversion is not something current technology has really solved, or at least not adobe's online converter. It turned all of my bears into little brown smears.
My next plan is to bypass Scratch's image upload size limiter by exporting my scratch program, unzipping it, inserting the image directly in there, rezipping it, and reuploading. I have had some luck with this sort of thing before. But I am about out of energy for this project for today so I thought instead I would write about it on here.

#SilentSunday

Dems use the legal system to target the right -- yet give the left a pass (Glenn H. Reynolds/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/05/06/opinion/dems-use-the-legal-system-to-target-the-right-yet-give-the-left-a-pass/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240507/p20#a240507p20

I couldn't resist and just give it a try and print the pano-version from our walk I wrote about here:
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2024/a-walk-to-an-unforeseen-beauty-in-the-backcountry/
Yes - looks fine to me! matt pape…

A Walk to an Unforeseen Beauty in the Backcountry
Explore the serendipitous discovery of picturesque backcountry scenes during a leisurely walk. Unplanned encounters with a charming church, vibrant spring landscapes, and gravel paths revealed unexpected compositions.

Nigel the house cat (left) and Misty the garden tiger for #caturday
#CatsOfMastodon

⛳ @… #Golf #TheMasters
Via The Masters @TheMasters
A composite image using a combination of photographs showing the path of the sun, from left to right, during a…

The $L^1$ mean of the exponential sum of the divisor function
Tomos Parry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04747 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404…

The $L^1$ mean of the exponential sum of the divisor function
We give a relatively simple proof that \[ \int _0^1\left |\sum _{n\leq x}d(n)e(nα)\right |dα\asymp \sqrt x.\]

#ThrowBackThursday #RockyMountainNationalPark #elkOfMastodon
An elk cow one morning in Moraine Park. September 2006

The Michor-Mumford conjecture in Hilbertian H-type groups
Valentino Magnani, Daniele Tiberio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04583 https://

The Michor-Mumford conjecture in Hilbertian H-type groups
We introduce infinite dimensional Hilbertian H-type groups equipped with weak, graded, left invariant Riemannian metrics. For these Lie groups, we show that the vanishing of the geodesic distance and the local unboundedness of the sectional curvature coexist. The result validates a deep phenomenon conjectured in an influential 2005 paper by Michor and Mumford, namely, the vanishing of the geodesic distance is linked to the local unboundedness of the sectional curvature. We prove that degenerate…

On Thursday afternoon I was interviewed by Shaun (brindle) and Dotty (black/white) so they could check I would be able to serve them to the standard they require when their primary humans are away.
Dotty still a little unsure, though my treat dispensing abilities were acceptable. Shaun was sold after the first ear scritch.
I shall be seeing them again soon!
#Greyhounds

I am so glad I didn't absolutely *have* to buy an RTX card from this generation. At least in my opinion, the prices were the right indicator that even the lower tier Nvidia RT-capable cards are an early adopter thing dressed as a mass product. You don't *need* to play games with RT, unless you love paying more for lower resolution upscaled to an extrapolated image, at lower FPS and higher lag. Today's mass technology could give you 100-200 FPS native QHD without robbing you blin…

Solar neutrinos and leptonic spin forces
Saeed Ansarifard, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Michele Maltoni, Joao Paulo Pinheiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05340 htt…

Solar neutrinos and leptonic spin forces
We quantify the effects on the evolution of solar neutrinos of light spin-zero particles with pseudoscalar couplings to leptons and scalar couplings to nucleons. In this scenario the matter potential sourced by the nucleons in the Sun's matter gives rise to spin precession of the relativistic neutrino ensemble. As such the effects in the solar observables are different if neutrinos are Dirac or Majorana particles. For Dirac neutrinos the spin-flavour precession results into left-handed neutrino…

2,100-Yard Free Agent Expected To Have Interest From Teams https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/2100_yard_free_agent_expected_to_have_interest_from_teams/s1_17198_40345123

Noticed an interesting phenomenon.
These are right angles, and yet, there's a bit of moon shadow there.
Very cool.
#eclipse

🚨 3 days left to submit your Lightning Talk and BoFs proposals! Don’t be shy! Take to the stage at #TNC24 hosted by RENATER in Rennes, and use this exciting #opportunity to share your #ideas with the

IMO, Momentum made an initial misstep when it excluded non-Labour Party members shortly after it's foundation.
Editorial: #Momentum — and the entire #Labour left — are at a crossroads | Morning Star

this is just to say
I have eaten the coconut that you left in the icebox
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112411684628599192

Thomas 🔭✨ (@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image Gonna enjoy a bananum for breakfast

Continuous max-flow augmentation of self-supervised few-shot learning on SPECT left ventricles
\'Ad\'am Istv\'an Sz\H{u}cs, B\'ela K\'ari, Oszk\'ar P\'artos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05520

Continuous max-flow augmentation of self-supervised few-shot learning on SPECT left ventricles
Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) left ventricular assessment protocols are important for detecting ischemia in high-risk patients. To quantitatively measure myocardial function, clinicians depend on commercially available solutions to segment and reorient the left ventricle (LV) for evaluation. Based on large normal datasets, the segmentation performance and the high price of these solutions can hinder the availability of reliable and precise localization of the LV delineation…

This Red-shouldered Hawk is obviously very upset that it missed the Rapture, and got left behind with the likes of me...
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Birds

How DEC’s LANBridge 100 Gave Ethernet a Fighting Chance
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-249c20e5-7bd9bb1821e40da4
How DEC’s LANBridge 100 Gave Ethernet a Fighting Chance

Lengthy interview with Susie Linfield. Insightful and reasonable.
https://salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/501-from-the-river-to-the-sea

From CCPA
Leaked data reveals new threat to BC’s old growth forests
Yesterday, CCPA–BC resource policy analyst Ben Parfitt released a bombshell report that revealed BC Ministry of Forests staff are proposing to reject numerous recommendations from a government-appointed expert panel that were set to protect whatever little old growth forest is left in BC.

Leaked data reveals new threat to BC’s old growth forests
BREAKING: officials in the Ministry of Forests have been working on a map that radically departs from the recommendations of a panel appointed by the provincial government to advise it on how to protect British Columbia’s imperiled old growth forests.

Fall Creek Inside the Monkey Run Natural Area East of Ithaca, NY. I'm standing on a bluff of sentiment left by the glacier which has been eroded down a bit more than 100 feet on the north side; it's early in the spring so trees haven't leafed out
#photo #photography

Sectional Category and the parametrized Borsuk-Ulam property
Cesar A. Ipanaque Zapata, Daciberg L. Gon\c{c}alves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04470 https://<…

Sectional Category and the parametrized Borsuk-Ulam property
In this paper, for fibrations $p:E\to B$, $p':E'\to B$ over $B$ and a free involution $τ:E\to E$ which satisfy the equality $p\circτ=p$, we discover a connection between the sectional category of the double covers $q:E\to E/τ$ and $q^Y:F_{p'}(E',2)\to F_{p'}(E',2)/\mathbb{Z}_2$ from the $2$-ordered fibre-wise configuration space $F_{p'}(E',2)$ to its unordered quotient $ F_{p'}(E',2)/\mathbb{Z}_2$, and the parametrized Borsuk-Ulam property (PBUP) for the triple $\left((p,τ);p'\right)$. Expl…

My bike is on the left, a guy in my office has the bike on the right. If anyone ever needs a story prompt for a Camberville-themed remake of “My Cousin Vinny,” come find me.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01911 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Secular Structure of 1:2 and 1:3 Resonances with Neptune
The 1:N mean motion resonances with Neptune are of particular interest because they have two asymmetric resonance islands, where the distribution of trapped objects may bear important clues to the history of the Solar System. To explore the dynamics of these resonances and to investigate whether the imprints left by the early stage evolution can be preserved in the resonances, we conduct a comprehensive analyses on the 1:2 and 1:3 resonances. Adopt mainly the frequency analysis method, we calcu…

The real divide among Democrats is between those focused on populist kitchen-table economics (Biden & Sanders) and those, on both the left & the center, who want to fight culture wars. Voters are much more with Biden & Sanders, as the 2020 primaries showed. https://wapo.st/3TpKrUn

Bernie Sanders’s private warning to Biden about the 2024 campaign
The Vermont senator and onetime presidential hopeful has urged the White House to articulate a clearer contrast with the GOP.

When ‘ruthless’ Boeing cut costs, the damage spread: “Crush the workers. Share price. Share price. Share price. Financial moves & metrics come first,” was Boeing’s philosophy, he said. It was, he said, “a ruthless effort to cut costs without any realization of what it could do to capabilities.”
To drive down costs, Boeing chose to aggressively confront first its workforce & its suppliers rather than partner with them. It left both, Aboulafia said, “angry & alienated.”

When 'ruthless' Boeing cut costs, the damage spread
Boeing's leaders are tepidly admitting the shareholders-first, workers-be-damned strategy was flawed. It's an admission a generation in coming.

#eclipse #ireland

@… what recent change did you make to the top left of the webmail? Muscle memory is completely off now. It's expremely rude to do this kind of change!

happy birthday to my dad who died almost 30 years ago - this is my favorite picture of all of us. My mom died and he became a widower at 28 with three little kids, he was just the best dad. Also this is my favorite picture of me (on the left).

A Reddit user discusses the news of a consultant charged with $1.5M extortion of an IT giant, expressing surprise at the individual's lack of subtlety and questioning their intelligence given the clear trail they left. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1co0o01/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15886 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

Non-linear Black Hole Ringdowns: an Analytical Approach
Due to the nature of gravity, non-linear effects are left imprinted in the quasi-normal modes generated in the ringdown phase of the merger of two black holes. We offer an analytical treatment of the quasi-normal modes at second-order in black hole perturbation theory which takes advantage from the fact that the non-linear sources are peaked around the light ring. As a byproduct, we describe why the amplitude of the second-order mode relative to the square of the first-order amplitude depends o…

DOJ opens criminal investigation into the Alaska Airlines 737 plane blowout
The Department of Justice has launched a #criminal #investigation into the Boeing jetliner #blowout that left a gaping hole on an Alaska Airlines …

Justice Department opens probe into Alaska Airlines 737 blowout, report says
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the Boeing jetliner blowout on an Alaska Airlines plane, Wall Street Journal reports.

"(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me"
I first heard this song by the band Naked Eyes back in 1983. Classic 80s new wave pop.
In the early 90s I learned that this is a Burt Bacharach song, originally done by Dionne Warwick in 1963. But it was also covered by American singer Lou Johnson in mid-1964. It was a hit for him, reaching #49 on Billboard.
Then English pop singer Sandie Shaw covered it, reaching #1 in the UK in the same year.
Here are…

Why it matters: not all Republicans are #MAGA...and while he's not a moderate, he's listened to by the more...sane...part of the party
Paul Ryan says he won’t vote for Trump: ‘I’m gonna write in a Republican’ | The Hill

Paul Ryan says he won’t vote for Trump: ‘I’m gonna write in a Republican’
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday that he does not plan to vote for former President Trump in November, suggesting he would write in another candidate instead. “Character is too important to me,” Ryan, who left Congress in 2019, told Yahoo Finance at the Milken Global Institute Conference. “And it’s a job that…

Cleaned up the desk and finally took a decent picture of the keyboard...love how the retro space theme has kinda come together.

First green in the buds at the top of the Northern Spy Apple tree. One of the last plants in the yard to come to life!
#Apple #Tree #bloomscrolling

Who says online exhibitions aren't a thing anymore? Not us. Every semester, Callan Steinmann, our head of education and curator of academic and public programs works with University of Georgia students (either museum interns or Museum Studies students) on a pop-up exhibition of works from our collection. The works are on view for only one night, but we preserve the work these students do by turning the pop-up into a permanent show online.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09343 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Fractional part correlations and the Möbius function
We show that under the Riemann hypothesis $$ \sum_{n\neq m}\frac{μ(n)μ(m)}{nm}E_{X}\left(\{nx\}\{mx\}\right)=-\frac{9}{2π^{2}}+O\left(\frac{1}{X}\right), $$ where $x$ is uniformly distributed in $[0,X]$ with $X\in \mathbb{N}$, $E_{X}(.)$ denotes the expected value, $μ(.)$ denotes the Möbius function, and $\{.\}$ denotes the fractional part function.

Sectional Category and the parametrized Borsuk-Ulam property
Cesar A. Ipanaque Zapata, Daciberg L. Gon\c{c}alves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04470 https://<…

Sectional Category and the parametrized Borsuk-Ulam property
In this paper, for fibrations $p:E\to B$, $p':E'\to B$ over $B$ and a free involution $τ:E\to E$ which satisfy the equality $p\circτ=p$, we discover a connection between the sectional category of the double covers $q:E\to E/τ$ and $q^Y:F_{p'}(E',2)\to F_{p'}(E',2)/\mathbb{Z}_2$ from the $2$-ordered fibre-wise configuration space $F_{p'}(E',2)$ to its unordered quotient $ F_{p'}(E',2)/\mathbb{Z}_2$, and the parametrized Borsuk-Ulam property (PBUP) for the triple $\left((p,τ);p'\right)$. Expl…

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Two-Point Concentration of the Independence Number of the Random Graph
We show that the independence number of $ G_{n,p}$ is concentrated on two values if $ n^{-2/3+ ε} < p \le 1$. This result is roughly best possible as an argument of Sah and Sawhney shows that the independence number is not, in general, concentrated on 2 values for $ p = o \left( (\log(n)/n)^{2/3} \right)$. The extent of concentration of the independence number of $ G_{n,p}$ for $ ω(1/n)

ESPN's Mel Kiper sends Cowboys OT, RB in latest 2-round mock draft https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/espns-mel-kiper-sends-cowboys-ot-rb-in-latest-2-round-mock-draft/

ESPN's Mel Kiper sends Cowboys OT, RB in latest 2-round mock draft
The Dallas Cowboys’ needs are apparent, the only question is how will they address them in the upcoming NFL draft. The club is down two starters on the offensive line, left tackle and center,…

The real divide among Democrats is between those focused on populist kitchen-table economics (Biden & Sanders) and those, on both the left & the center, who want to fight culture wars. Voters are much more with Biden & Sanders, as the 2020 primaries showed. https://wapo.st/3TpKrUn

Bernie Sanders’s private warning to Biden about the 2024 campaign
The Vermont senator and onetime presidential hopeful has urged the White House to articulate a clearer contrast with the GOP.

When ‘ruthless’ Boeing cut costs, the damage spread: “Crush the workers. Share price. Share price. Share price. Financial moves & metrics come first,” was Boeing’s philosophy, he said. It was, he said, “a ruthless effort to cut costs without any realization of what it could do to capabilities.”
To drive down costs, Boeing chose to aggressively confront first its workforce & its suppliers rather than partner with them. It left both, Aboulafia said, “angry & alienated.”

When 'ruthless' Boeing cut costs, the damage spread
Boeing's leaders are tepidly admitting the shareholders-first, workers-be-damned strategy was flawed. It's an admission a generation in coming.

[reading over the job description for 'Dad']
Me: "Okay, so requirements.. let's see... 'Eating kid leftovers'.. Yeah, that shouldn't be a problem, I can do that.."
Me: "...'Eating awful flavors of ice cream that a kid thought might taste good but hated and left in the freezer for a year'.. Um, how awful are we talking about, here?"
Interviewer: "You won't know that, you CAN'T know that, until you're out in…

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Long-lived doubly charged scalars in the left-right symmetric model: catalyzed nuclear fusion and collider implications
We show that the doubly charged scalar from the $SU(2)_R$-triplet Higgs field in the Left-Right Symmetric Model has its mass governed by a hidden symmetry so that its value can be much lower than the $SU(2)_R$ breaking scale. This makes it a long-lived particle while being consistent with all existing theoretical and experimental constraints. Such long-lived doubly charged scalars have the potential to trigger catalyzed fusion processes in light nuclei, which may have important applications for…

We produced controversy maps on the chip rush in #Vietnam.
26th floor.
A timeline representing corporate, legal and public activities. A timelapse of rural change. A bit artsy.
To be translated into a digital format.
#semiconductors

Palestinians return to the devastated city of Khan Younis in Gaza: ‘They have spared nothing’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-palestinians-ceasefire-khan-younis-b25…

Palestinians return to the devastated city of Khan Younis in Gaza: ‘They have spared nothing’
Residents come home to find little left after Israeli forces unexpectedly pull out following months of relentless assult – as Qatar says it is cautiously optimistic about ceasefire talks despite Netanyahu saying there is a date for attack on Rafah

3 ways the Cowboys can exceed expectations in 2024 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/3_ways_the_cowboys_can_exceed_expectations_in_2024/s1_17100_40206698

3 ways the Cowboys can exceed expectations in 2024
It is safe to say expectations are low for the Dallas Cowboys in 2024. The front office has left countless positions on the roster weakened and their refusal to extend some of their top players is costing them millions. Dallas has brought in just one outside free agent, with veteran Linebacker Eric Kendricks. Meanwhile, too many in-house starters and depth pieces have jumped ship to other organizations. In the NFC East, it is almost impossible to win the division in back-to-back seasons. No tea…

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On the Gross-Prasad conjecture with its refinement for $\left(\mathrm{SO}\left(5\right),\mathrm{SO}\left(2\right)\right)$ and the generalized Böcherer conjecture
We investigate the Gross-Prasad conjecture and its refinement for the Bessel periods in the case of $\left(\mathrm{SO}\left(5\right),\mathrm{SO}\left(2\right)\right)$. In particular, by combining several theta correspondences, we prove the Ichino-Ikeda type formula for any tempered irreducible cuspidal automorphic representations. As a corollary of our formula, we prove an explicit formula relating certain weighted averages of Fourier coefficients of holomorphic Siegel cusp forms of degree two …

Next great Cowboys OL is already on the roster https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/next_great_cowboys_ol_is_already_on_the_roster/s1_17100_40064688

Next great Cowboys OL is already on the roster
I am sticking with the hot topic over the last week involving the Cowboys, and that is what the offensive line might look like in 2024. Over the weekend, we heard legend Tyron Smith won't resign from the team, and yes, it will sting for a bit, but in all likelihood, Tyler Smith will begin the 2024 season as the left tackle in Dallas. Now, I understand you aren't going to replace a Hall Of Famer in one or two seasons. When Tyron Smith was on the field, he was just that. One of the best to ever w…

3 ways the Cowboys can exceed expectations in 2024 https://insidethestar.com/3-ways-the-cowboys-can-exceed-expectations-in-2024/

3 ways the Cowboys can exceed expectations in 2024 ⋆ Inside The Star
Apr 7, 2024 -- It is safe to say expectations are low for the Dallas Cowboys in 2024. The front office has left countless positions on the roster weakened and their