@cdarwin@c.imA citizen of Rome in 117 AD,
under Emperor Trajan,
would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing.
The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia:
all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity
Edward Gibbon gave us six volumes explaining how that feeling turned out to be wrong,
and even he couldn't fully untangle all the causes.
But the overarching theme mig…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThere's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThe working class is the fundamental force that produces the material conditions necessary for the reproduction of society, and through our collective labor we not only create food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation, and communication networks, but we also sustain and reproduce the conditions that allow every aspect of social life to continue functioning, so that even those who do not work, whether they are managers, bureaucrats, or capitalists, depend entirely on our labor for …
@poppastring@dotnet.socialThe photography is by Arch-Exist.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotWhen it's observable that the very rich are steadily growing richer while the vast majority of people are growing poorer, it's obvious that the tax system is not neutral: it is actively redistributing wealth upwards. For the tax system to be neutral, it MUST tax the very rich much more. To do so is not redistributive, at least until it actively causes a net movement of wealth towards the poor: rather it is simply neutral.
@publicvoit@graz.socialA few impressions from the Weihnachtsmarkt #Klagenfurt in #Carinthia we could visit today using the brand new train connection from #Graz 🤩
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSeahawks have the NFL's best defense again: How the fall of the 'Legion of Boom' led to the 'Dark Side'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seah…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoFor my #HamRadio tunable elevated radial project, I want to isolate them from the earth and the mast, and I'm not finding an isolating mount that goes into a normal ½" "light stand". So I've come up with this design to build. (Yay, I can't just buy it, so I have an excuse to spend some shop time!)
From 1" 6061 aluminum stock and 1" POM:
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWow, loving our greenhouse - already have the first tomatoes turning red! Only a couple weeks into summer (not even proper summer, 22 Dec in Aotearoa, yet) Crazy! This is months before we've ever had ripening fruit pre-greenhouse.
@benb@osintua.euThe war's hidden explosions: The mental health toll inside Ukraine's homes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/the-wars-hidden-explosions-the.html
@scott@carfree.cityThis survey question is rich. This is from one of the BigMoneySF groups trying to make it harder for the rest of us to put stuff on the ballot.
But they will never ban paid signature gathering, the one thing that would most effectively keep crap off the ballot. They just want to raise the signature threshold for the rest of us. It would still be easy for billionaires to abuse the system and qualify any ballot measure they like, just hard for anyone else.
@imprs_solar@academiccloud.socialIt's Gänseliesel day in Göttingen! Freshly minted PhD graduate Johannes Hölken attended the official ceremony at the Aula, has been picked up by us and ferried to the Gänseliesel fountain in the city center, and is about to bring the goose girl on the top of the fountain some flowers. Meanwhile, other carts around us are also interesting to look at!
#IMPRS
@nebucatnetzer@social.linux.pizzaI don't know if a JPEG would look better than the HEIF my iPhone generated but this two pictures really show how bad the situation currently is with the phone camera.
Both were shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max with the 5x lense.
The one with the bright spot on the left is from the iPhone camera app and the one with the spot on the right is from another app which lets you shoot in plain #Raw
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caone of the coolest things about the #bcndp convention has been the use if this little ballot book for voting for elected positions within the party.
They announce the number and colour of the page, you rip out the paper and use it to make your selection.
Then the committee folks go around with ballot boxes like offerings at church 😆
Democracy is cool wherever it happens and in all its iterations.
#bcndp #democracy
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaWent ahead and resoldered the pins connecting the EPROM to the cart as it looked like I had rushed slightly when putting everything together. Got the SNES hooked up to the TV and after standard cartridge stuff the game fired right up! Looks like I can put the programmer away for the time being.
#snes #retrogaming
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.orgThe Plan Is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever.
https://novaramedia.com/2025/12/07/the-plan-is-to-make-the-internet-worse-and-big-tech-rich/
An interesting interview with Cory Doctorow.
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgBeen re-reading Langdon Winner's "The Whale and the Reactor".
Winner published this in 1988 and it still 100% applies. His criticism of "values" discourse, of certain strategies of trying to defend important structures by adopting the language and thinking of the opponent. The focus on numbers while devaluing experience. The hollowness of the decentralization discourse.
Damn.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaAction figures of today
@Stomata@social.linux.pizza
@mikejolley@social.linux.pizzaThis week's pickups! Dino Crisis (in space) and Sudeki on OG Xbox. Played neither of these. Reviews seem positive. Tenchu on PS2 because it had a memory card inside the box, bonus. On PS1 we have Twisted Metal 2, original XCOM (I played the DOS version), and the fantastic Raiden Project shmup! #retrogaming
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzRight move for the Cowboys to play starters in the final 3 games? https://insidethestar.com/right-move-for-the-cowboys-to-play-starters-in-the-final-3-games
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgWith news that another railway bridge in Scotland has fallen into the river below, I feel compelled to share @…'s # CautionaryTales episode on that famous Dundonian poet McGonagall..
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford: "Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World
Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/genius-still-unrecognised-the-worst-poet-in-the-world
Media file: https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdrl.fm/18db03/tracking.swap.fm/track/SxlTEPDY7xDg35RXkASs/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/c0ae8c6e-22f0-4e9b-ac1c-ae390037ac53/fd2acf28-383a-4874-b266-b33900f48f7c/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7f5a4714-6b10-4ccf-a424-ae390037ac70
@johl@mastodon.xyzA comprehensive line-by-line commentary on the UNIX Fourth Edition (1973) source code. Covers the kernel, file system, device drivers, shell, and utilities.
https://github.com/unix-v4-commentary/unix-v4-source-commentary
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social"Thanks to a series of relay stops (to swap electric tractors, drivers and trailers), each electric truck travels a daily distance of 810 km on the North loop and 704 km on the South loop. This system makes it possible to cover long distances without stopping the load."
https://www.renault-…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?" @ Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/for-researchers-in-the-humanities-is-open-really-fair "The open …
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaManaged to put the new Pi music player together before leaving work today. Got it set up with remote control and a quick test of playback. Next stop: Speaker mounting and figuring out if I should bet on physical security through obscurity by making it not easily visible or using a moderately long RCA cable. What’s a reasonable cable length with decent quality cables?
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaThis is a real "AI" ad from the US government about the end of the mandatory use of the auto start-stop.
This is from the official Whitehouse Instagram.
Only things I can see that gives it away that the video is generated is the red car's brake lights being on while accelerating. The obvious stereotypes of bule haired lesbians vs the blonde.
Also they have no insignias on the cars but that's definitely a Prius and idk what the red car is, the red car might…
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaThe Talos Principle 2 (Multi, XPd on a Linux OS PC) As 1k, the newest (and perhaps last) member of the reborn humanity, you set off on an expedition to explore a Mega Structure on a remote island. What you find could alter humanity's course forever.
So, (spoilers) as a direct sequel to the now 11yr old 1st game, you play as a new "human" that has left the Simulation and been incorporated into a body in the Real World. As human number 1000, you are the culmination of "…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI always know @… wil have a clear view.
https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-of-grief?publ…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialRegardless this good blog about the many aspects that make the midterms difficult to manipulate, I am not as optimistic as the author. The bottomline is Trump and his allies will pay with their freedom and personal wealth if democrats win the midterms and the elections after that, they simply can't allow that to happen... It puzzles me that after everything that already happened under Trump some people don't see this.
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"The Value of Public Domain Day"
a thoughtful piece on the economics and the loss by our overzealous locking up of our culture.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/01/01/the-value-of-public-domain-day/
but please celebra…
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaI regularly get random animals (well, mainly cats and foxes) come and stare at me outside my studio. That is already uplifting, but today was especially good in in that one actually came in and stayed for a while. Hopefully it’ll not be the last time. My next mission is for a fox to do the same. Anyone know how to befriend a fox?
@izzychambers@vivaldi.netSome scenes from yesterday's small, poorly publicized protest at the US Supreme Court. My favorite sign was the one that had a picture of John Roberts, with a quote from his confirmation hearing: "I will remember that my job is to call ball and strikes". Below that, commentary, "Well, ump, you suck!"
#FreeDC
@jby@ecoevo.socialNot all flower visitors are equally helpful to the flower; separately tracking bees that buzz to release pollen and bees that steal pollen from flowers in a bunch of Chamaecrista species shows how tracking visitation alone would misrepresent the interactions
https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70758
<…
@cdamian@rls.socialFriday Links 26-02
This week I enjoyed the podcast about Godbolt’s Rule and the one with Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
You might notice more podcasts this week. Something went wrong with my link collection system recently.
I am also moving the blog … more things will go wrong.
https://christof.damian…
@mela@zusammenkunft.netThe Chief Science Officer discovers the OPS, her childhood best-friend, has kept a lot of personal stuff from her over the last years, and realizes it's because she, the OPS, had been in trouble:
CSO: »Whoever hurt you so much, I want my hands around their throat.«
*Admiral enters, overhears the last sentence and turns to the Yeoman*
Admiral: »Tell me, Cadet Vratsian, what kind of science vessel is this exactly?«
@ripienaar@devco.socialNot often the new stack writes anything coherent these days.
https://thenewstack.io/put-a-fork-in-it-the-future-of-open-source-thats-done/
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzIn a few days the #PlanetNine hypothesis - first published on 20 Jan 2016 in the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/22 ("EVIDENCE FOR A DISTANT GIANT PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM", yes, they shouted it in all caps) - will turn 10 years old. The proposed big outer solar system inhabitant has never been found: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/planet-9-x-y-edge-of-solar-system reviews the situation.
@kctipton@mas.toThe Uphill Battle of Navigating a Broken Immigration System - Progressive.org https://progressive.org/magazine/the-uphill-battle-of-navigating-a-broken-immigration-system-sanzum-20260209/
@a_j_millar@fediscience.orgThe Summerhall complex has been such a focus for linking art and science in #Edinburgh, usually on a shoestring budget, but many thanks due to Robert McDowell et al. since 2011.
Now disaggregation seems to be underway for the collections that were hosted there, like the Artiscience Library and the Demarco archive ... HT @…
At least the brewery and the distillery are keeping up traditional science practices 😉, like the only bar with gin on tap.
➡️ https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/15/a-cultural-evacuation-the-demarco-archive-leaves-scotland/
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEuer Browser nervt mit KI-Assistenten, Shopping-Vorschlägen und ständigen „Mach mich zum Standard"-Popups? 😤 Der US-Journalist und Programmierer Corbin Davenport hat genug davon – und eine elegante Lösung entwickelt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11143193
@hex@kolektiva.socialOne of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
@marcel@waldvogel.family"the billionaire businessman Vincent Bolloré, one of #Sarkozy’s longtime patrons and the owner of Fayard, publisher of “Le Journal d’un Prisonnier,” has been doing his most to propel the far right to victory."
"Twenty days behind bars, and not long before France may very well have a far-right head of state for the first time in nearly a century. "
@cdarwin@c.imThe Alpha unit of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU)
destroyed half of Russia's stockpile of the coveted Pantsir air defense system,
the SBU announced Feb. 14.
"The 'Pantsir' is one of Russia's modern and key air defense systems.
The cost of a single system ranges from $15 to $20 million.
These anti-aircraft missile systems are the most effective in countering Ukrainian long-range drones," the announcement read.
The "syst…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzDeebo Samuel is the YAC weapon the Raiders need for Fernando Mendoza https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/16/deebo-samuel-is-the-yac-weapon-the-raiders-need-for-fernando-mendoza/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaStore Norske Leksikon skrev at Norsk Syndikalistisk Forbund ble opplŸst i 1973, men heldigvis er de fortsatt her i dag, takk og pris for det, og for at jeg kunne opplyse dem om det!
NSF-IAA på Store Norske Leksikon:
https://snl.no/Norsk_Syndikalistisk_F%C3derasjon
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depsi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaTracked down the programmer and the TL866 adapter that I'll need to program the 27C322 with. Even found a few 27C322 EPROMs on the soldering workbench which means everything should be good to go for getting this custom cart back in good working order.
#electronics #snes
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgI laughed for a second. Then I got very sad.
(link: https://bsky.app/profile/abstracttesseract.bsky.social/post/3mewrojqa422b )
@benb@osintua.euDOUBLE STANDARDS:Why did the IOC PUNISH Heraskevych for the HELMET OF MEMORY of the FALLEN athletes?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/14/double-standardswhy-did-the-ioc.html
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgOn the subject of joys and problems of fieldwork, flight to Antarctica delayed by 24 hours.
At least I'll be able to clear my inbox I suppose ..
#iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/
@detondev@social.linux.pizzafound an academic arguing in defense of those liberian county flags imfamous for looking like archetypal mspaint doodles
https://steven-knowlton.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf3746/files/knowltonliberianflags.pdf
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWinning the NFC East is now the Cowboys' only playoff hope https://insidethestar.com/winning-the-nfc-east-is-now-the-cowboys-only-playoff-hope
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI always use some of the funds from the gardenstate.social patreon to hire illustrators to make art for our instance.
Anyone have good ideas of what kind of art we could commission next?
#gardenStateSocial #newJersey
@publicvoit@graz.social"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. …
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 15: Seven surprises that shaped the 2025 playoff race https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-15-surprises-that-shaped-the-2025-playoff-race
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgnew way to see the breadth and depth of the web, in this case Dutch websites.
fun.
https://display.archive.org/nl
congratulations @…
@cdarwin@c.imChanges in a Florida ocean current could wreak havoc worldwide
For 43 years, scientists have been studying the strength of the water flow between Florida and the Bahamas
to learn what drives its changes over time.
The information could help scientists answer a pressing question:
Is the Florida Current, one of the world’s fastest ocean currents, slowing down?
If so, it could indicate weakening of the larger circulation system in the Atlantic Ocean
— what…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhat is the Rooney Rule as it relates to the Raiders coaching search? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/what-is-the-rooney-rule-as-it-relates-to-the-raiders-coaching-search-3607709/
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaGot some work to do this weekend, pretty sure the EPROM on the custom SNES cart I made is bad and I'm gonna have to replace the 27C322 with a "new" one. Even decided to buy a decent EPROM eraser, so once that comes in I'll get the old ROM desoldered, program the replacement, and get that installed into this cart.
#snes
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deun_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza🤦 Ain’t no way they actually posted this mess. 🤦
#USPol
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Although Ecosia is a not-for-profit, they seem to be re-enacting the for-profit erosion of human knowledge and the active murder of the open web currently being orchestrated by Google and the other tech giants."
(Original title: Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech)
https://
@benb@osintua.euHow far is the peace and who pays for the war in Ukraine? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/how-far-is-the-peace.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deun_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaNorth Korean leader Kim Il Sung allegedly fell in love with his first wife, Kim Jong-suk, after she shot a guy who was trying to assassinate him.
![From the official biography: One day, while the unit was marching under the General's [Kim Il Sung] command, five or six enemies unexpectedly approached through the reeds and aimed at the General. The danger was imminent. Without losing a moment, Comrade Kim Jung Sook [Kim Jong Suk] shielded the General with her own body and shot down an enemy with her revolver. The General also shot down the second enemy. Two revolvers spurted fire in turn and annihilated the enemy in a twinkle. But this was n…](https://cdn.social.linux.pizza/system/media_attachments/files/116/070/191/252/902/100/original/30e8c82199290141.jpg)
@NFL@darktundra.xyzFastest NFL game of the century: Eagles win over Raiders was the shortest game the league has seen in decades
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/fastest-nfl-game-of-the-century-eagles…
@cdarwin@c.imFBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter’s home on Wednesday
as part of a leak investigation into a Pentagon contractor accused of taking home classified information, the Justice Department said.
#Hannah #Natanson, who has been covering Donald Trump’s transformation of the federal government,
had…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgI wished more media was writing not just about how the "AI" buildout increases prices but actively bars people from building their own independent infrastructures.
"AI" is not just poisoning the infosphere but taking away your ability to build alternatives. In the end only Big Tech Cloud and the way it's often used against the users is left.
@benb@osintua.eu⚡️ For the first time in 16 years, ORBÁN could lose the ELECTION! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/for-the-first-time-in.html
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaEvery 24 hours become a new person
@NFL@darktundra.xyzThe case for Arvell Reese as the No. 1 pick in 2026: In a year without a slam-dunk QB, he's the safest bet
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-mock-draft-a…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dewindsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgNew study by the National Bureau of Economic Research: A survey of 6000 CFOs, CEOS throughout US, Europe, UK and Australia comes to the conclusion that businesses predict that "AI" will improve productivity by a whopping 1.4%. Truly earth shattering.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34836
@benb@osintua.euThe Ukrainian war cemetery that can't stop growing: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/the-ukrainian-war-cemetery-that.html
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPhilip Rivers, NFL Comeback Player of the Year? Here are the odds https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6891610/2025/12/15/odds-nfl-comeback-player-of-the-year-philip-rivers/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.degame_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
@benb@osintua.euThe Netherlands in talks to supply new missiles and bombs for Ukraine’s F-16s: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/the-netherlands-in-talks-to.html
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Software is no longer seen as an asset, as something to care for, to maybe even take pride in. It’s a throw-away product. Like a napkin. Just get one quick, wipe your mouth and throw it away. Like a novelty t-shirt."
(Original title: Software as Fast Fashion)
https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-a…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deproduct_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …
@benb@osintua.euThe price of Russian OIL has dropped by another $3.5! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/the-price-of-russian-oil.html
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Decades of collective work proving that “open source” is not less but at least as secure as commercial offerings now slowly going down the drain. Because a bunch of men – and it is always all men – just don’t want to be responsible for their actions. Which is fine if you are 5. But after 18 it gets old really fucking fast."
(Original title: Diffusion of Responsibility)
@benb@osintua.euThe "MUNICH" effect! Zelenskyy and Rubio have found a way to counter Putin and his energy blackmail: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/the-ampquotmunichampquot-effect-zelenskyy-and.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.detwitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 38918 nodes and 32523 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer
@benb@osintua.euHow did the UAF wipe out Russia's oil industry and "destroy" two NATO battalions in an hour?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/how-did-the-uaf-wipe.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
@benb@osintua.euChart of the week: Every month, tens of thousands of Ukrainians flee danger: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/chart-of-the-week-every.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dejester: Jester joke ratings (2001)
Two bipartite networks of users and jokes, extracted from the online joke recommender system Jester. A user connects to all jokes for which that user entered a rating. Edge weights give the rating score, scaled from -10 to 10. The two files differ by how many joke nodes are included, 100 or 150.
This network has 73521 nodes and 4136360 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Weighted
@benb@osintua.euI once craved the polar cold. Now I fear it at home.: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/i-once-craved-the-polar.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dejester: Jester joke ratings (2001)
Two bipartite networks of users and jokes, extracted from the online joke recommender system Jester. A user connects to all jokes for which that user entered a rating. Edge weights give the rating score, scaled from -10 to 10. The two files differ by how many joke nodes are included, 100 or 150.
This network has 73521 nodes and 4136360 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Weighted
@benb@osintua.euArmenia and the U.S. launch 'Trump Route' corridor without Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/armenia-and-the-us-launch.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demessal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
@benb@osintua.euUkraine and Russia in the Epstein files | Ukraine This Week: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/ukraine-and-russia-in-the.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.demessal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
@benb@osintua.euI feel like the IOC took my MEDAL away from me, says Ukrainian athlete HERASKEVYCH #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/14/i-feel-like-the-ioc.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deamazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 410236 nodes and 3356824 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted
@benb@osintua.euStarsky, where are the hundreds of "Flamingos" flying to Russia? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/starsky-where-are-the-hundreds.html
@benb@osintua.euTRAP FOR THE INFANTRY! UAFs' UAVs prevented the Russians from entering from the rear near Pokrovsk!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/trap-for-the-infantry-uafs.html
