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How popular media gets love wrong
Now a bit of background about why I have this "engineered" model of love:
First, I'm a white straight cis man. I've got a few traits that might work against my relationship chances (e.g., neurodivergence; I generally fit pretty well into the "weird geek" stereotype), but as I was recently reminded, it's possible my experience derives more from luck than other factors, and since things are tilted more in my favor than most people on the planet, my advice could be worse than useless if it leads people towards strategies that would only have worked for someone like me. I don't *think* that's the case, but it's worth mentioning explicitly.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
I'm lucky in that I had some mixed-gender social circles already like intramural soccer and a graduate-student housing potluck. Graduate school makes a *lot* more of these social spaces accessible, so I recognize that those not in school of some sort have a harder time of things, especially if like me they don't feel like they fit in in typical adult social spaces like bars.
However, at one point I just decided that my desire for a relationship would need action on my part and so I'd try to build a relationship and see what happened. I worked up my courage and asked one of the people in my potluck if she'd like to go for a hike (pretty much clearly a date but not explicitly one; in retrospect not the best first-date modality in a lot of ways, but it made a little more sense in our setting where we could go for a hike from our front door). To emphasize this point: I was not in love with (or even infatuated with) my now-wife at that point. I made a decision to be open to building a relationship, but didn't follow the typical romance story formula beyond that. Now of course, in real life as opposed to popular media, this isn't anything special. People ask each other out all the time just because they're lonely, and some of those relationships turn out fine (although many do not).
I was lucky in that some aspects of who I am and what I do happened to be naturally comforting to my wife (natural advantage in the "appeal" model of love) but of course there are some aspects of me that annoy my wife, and we negotiate that. In the other direction, there's some things I instantly liked about my wife, and other things that still annoy me. We've figured out how to accept a little, change a little, and overall be happy with each other (though we do still have arguments; it's not like the operation/construction/maintenance of the "love mechanism" is always perfectly smooth). In particular though, I approached the relationship with the attitude of "I want to try to build a relationship with this person," at first just because of my own desires for *any* relationship, and then gradually more and more through my desire to build *this specific* relationship as I enjoyed the rewards of companionship.
So for example, while I think my wife is objectively beautiful, she's also *subjectively* very beautiful *to me* because having decided to build a relationship with her, I actively tried to see her as beautiful, rather than trying to judge whether I wanted a relationship with her based on her beauty. In other words, our relationship is more causative of her beauty-to-me than her beauty-to-me is causative of our relationship. This is the biggest way I think the "engineered" model of love differs from the "fire" and "appeal" models: you can just decide to build love independent of factors we typically think of as engendering love (NOT independent of your partner's willingness to participate, of course), and then all of those things like "thinking your partner is beautiful" can be a result of the relationship you're building. For sure those factors might affect who is willing to try building a relationship with you in the first place, but if more people were willing to jump into relationship building (not necessarily with full commitment from the start) without worrying about those other factors, they might find that those factors can come out of the relationship instead of being prerequisites for it. I think this is the biggest failure of the "appeal" model in particular: yes you *do* need to do things that appeal to your partner, but it's not just "make myself lovable" it's also: is your partner putting in the effort to see the ways that you are beautiful/lovable/etc., or are they just expecting you to become exactly some perfect person they've imagined (and/or been told to desire by society)? The former is perfectly possible, and no less satisfying than the latter.
To cut off my rambling a bit here, I'll just add that in our progress from dating through marriage through staying-married, my wife and I have both talked at times explicitly about commitment, and especially when deciding to get married, I told her that I knew I couldn't live up to the perfect model of a husband that I'd want to be, but that if she wanted to deepen our commitment, I was happy to do that, and so we did. I also rearranged my priorities at that point, deciding that I knew I wanted to prioritize this relationship above things like my career or my research interests, and while I've not always been perfect at that in my little decisions, I've been good at holding to that in my big decisions at least. In the end, *once we had built a somewhat-committed relationship*, we had something that we both recognized was worth more than most other things in life, and that let us commit even more, thus getting even more out of it in the long term. Obviously you can't start the first date with an expectation of life-long commitment, and you need to synchronize your increasing commitment to a relationship so that it doesn't become lopsided, which is hard. But if you take the commitment as an active decision and as the *precursor* to things like infatuation, attraction, etc., you can build up to something that's incredibly strong and rewarding.
I'll follow this up with one more post trying to distill some advice from my ramblings.
#relationships #love

A triptych on Starhawk, who developed some of the most poignantly insightful ideas in structural theories of power, among the many philosophers, sociologists, and psychologists who wrote about theories of power in the 20th century
Note that the second and third image come from the *same book*, in the first and second chapters
I…did not expect woo poetry on magic and sexuality in a book that's highly cited by writers on theories of power

even more famous!
https://english.elpais.com/people/2024-02-10/that-ferrari-isnt-going-to-pay-for-itself-the-controversial-rise-of-jeremy-fragrance-the-perfume-influencer.html

dappled light splitting seconds while illuminating feet
#photography #feet #red

How popular media gets love wrong
Okay, so what exactly are the details of the "engineered" model of love from my previous post? I'll try to summarize my thoughts and the experiences they're built on.
1. "Love" can be be thought of like a mechanism that's built by two (or more) people. In this case, no single person can build the thing alone, to work it needs contributions from multiple people (I suppose self-love might be an exception to that). In any case, the builders can intentionally choose how they build (and maintain) the mechanism, they can build it differently to suit their particular needs/wants, and they will need to maintain and repair it over time to keep it running. It may need winding, or fuel, or charging plus oil changes and bolt-tightening, etc.
2. Any two (or more) people can choose to start building love between them at any time. No need to "find your soulmate" or "wait for the right person." Now the caveat is that the mechanism is difficult to build and requires lots of cooperation, so there might indeed be "wrong people" to try to build love with. People in general might experience more failures than successes. The key component is slowly-escalating shared commitment to the project, which is negotiated between the partners so that neither one feels like they've been left to do all the work themselves. Since it's a big scary project though, it's very easy to decide it's too hard and give up, and so the builders need to encourage each other and pace themselves. The project can only succeed if there's mutual commitment, and that will certainly require compromise (sometimes even sacrifice, though not always). If the mechanism works well, the benefits (companionship; encouragement; praise; loving sex; hugs; etc.) will be well worth the compromises you make to build it, but this isn't always the case.
3. The mechanism is prone to falling apart if not maintained. In my view, the "fire" and "appeal" models of love don't adequately convey the need for this maintenance and lead to a lot of under-maintained relationships many of which fall apart. You'll need to do things together that make you happy, do things that make your partner happy (in some cases even if they annoy you, but never in a transactional or box-checking way), spend time with shared attention, spend time alone and/or apart, reassure each other through words (or deeds) of mutual beliefs (especially your continued commitment to the relationship), do things that comfort and/or excite each other physically (anywhere from hugs to hand-holding to sex) and probably other things I'm not thinking of. Not *every* relationship needs *all* of these maintenance techniques, but I think most will need most. Note especially that patriarchy teaches men that they don't need to bother with any of this, which harms primarily their romantic partners but secondarily them as their relationships fail due to their own (cultivated-by-patriarchy) incompetence. If a relationship evolves to a point where one person is doing all the maintenance (& improvement) work, it's been bent into a shape that no longer really qualifies as "love" in my book, and that's super unhealthy.
4. The key things to negotiate when trying to build a new love are first, how to work together in the first place, and how to be comfortable around each others' habits (or how to change those habits). Second, what level of commitment you have right now, and what how/when you want to increase that commitment. Additionally, I think it's worth checking in about what you're each putting into and getting out of the relationship, to ensure that it continues to be positive for all participants. To build a successful relationship, you need to be able to incrementally increase the level of commitment to one that you're both comfortable staying at long-term, while ensuring that for both partners, the relationship is both a net benefit and has manageable costs (those two things are not the same). Obviously it's not easy to actually have conversations about these things (congratulations if you can just talk about this stuff) because there's a huge fear of hearing an answer that you don't want to hear. I think the range of discouraging answers which actually spell doom for a relationship is smaller than people think and there's usually a reasonable "shoulder" you can fall into where things aren't on a good trajectory but could be brought back into one, but even so these conversations are scary. Still, I think only having honest conversations about these things when you're angry at each other is not a good plan. You can also try to communicate some of these things via non-conversational means, if that feels safer, and at least being aware that these are the objectives you're pursuing is probably helpful.
I'll post two more replies here about my own experiences that led me to this mental model and trying to distill this into advice, although it will take me a moment to get to those.
#relationships #love

What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One?
Don’t Ask.
To hide the cost of renovating the plane Qatar donated to President Trump,
the Air Force appears to have tucked it inside an over-budget, behind-schedule nuclear modernization program.

What Will It Cost to Renovate Trump’s ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.
To hide the cost of renovating the plane Qatar donated to President Trump, the Air Force appears to have tucked it inside an over-budget, behind-schedule nuclear modernization program.

Wanna Feel Old? The Vans #WarpedTour is 30...
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Kevin Lyman's Tour That First Tried To Bring #Sublime To America Returns To The

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

Dinner at last. Cut down two large dead trees today as they were at risk falling uncontrollable. Was a bit of effort to lower a fence and make sure they fall into the intended direction. Lots of ropes, pulleys and chainsaws involved. #Uckermark

The result is a two-party system where the parties are going at cross purposes: one going full naked stinking fascist, and the other not pushing back in the opposite direction but just…pushing sideways, wishing for the resurrection of a party split that’s gone.
This may explain in part the endless appeal of the centrist mush-meal pitch: “We just need a party that meets these poor benighted Trump voters with common-sense answers to kitchen table issues!” That sounds like the way you win the 1932 presidential election! Yay!
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1. Order two bags of cat litter.
2. The seller doesn't send it on time. No matter, you're not in a hurry.
3. Recall that they still didn't send it. Decide to resign.
4. Turns out they send it just before you resign.
5. The parcels come. Open the box.
6. Discover that the bag is damaged. Take a photo just in case.
7. Carefully take it out and check how damaged it is. Well, it's only ripped at the top, no point in returning it over that.
8. Notice they've sent the wrong litter (you've ordered non-scented) 🤦.
9. Call them asking whether there's a point in opening the other box. They say it's going to be the wrong litter too, just make a return request and attach photos.
10. You do that, requesting money return. They request you to make damage protocol from delivery company.
11. You do that. Maybe you'd agree to a 20 PLN discount for next shopping instead of returning two bags of the wrong cat litter?
12. They finally accept the return. And they prepare the return… for one bag 🤦.
So I was supposed to work less today. Instead, I've wasted a lot of time on dealing with damaged parcel and the vendor. And a lot of tape, so it wouldn't fall apart on the return journey.

On September 28th, 1867, Toronto officially became the capital city of the new Province of Ontario, and universally accepted as the centre of the universe. It was kind of a pity decision since Toronto had recently lost out to Ottawa when the Queen, the one in England, chose the capital for the Province of Canada. Confederation decreed that the Province of Canada would be split with Canada East becoming Quebec, and Canada West would now be known as Ontario. Toronto got the last laugh because the entire country now revolves around the city, at least in the minds of certain provincial politicians who may or may not want all of Canada to pay for a tunnel under #Hwy401.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto

I was late to pick my daughter up from camp because #NYCParks closed a huge portion of Corona-Meadows Flushing Park. Apparently for some kind of music festival. There was, of course, no bike detour. The area has highways running through it, and the bridges over the highways are cordoned off. How do you get to

Here's an odd effect (stumbled on by accident). The blue loss curve is from a well-tuned BERT baseline (from the "cramming"paper).
The only thing I changed for the orange is to put a residual connection around each transformer block and to multiply the output of the block by a scalar parameter initialized to 0.
I'm surprised that has such a substantial impact. Not just on the performance, but on the shape of the loss curve.

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
[The door to the storage room opens. Three menials enter. One is Relf. Dayna holds her weapon on him. He watches as the other two menials remove one of the stored bodies. Dayna sneezes. Relf turns at the sound, but does not respond. She tests his response and gets none. The other two menials rejoin Relf, and all three exit.]
DAYNA: What now?

Last week, I finished a book that I really liked but the one I followed up with was a letdown so I reckoned I would finally read Elana Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend,” which everyone says is so great and it’s on my shelf anyway, bu then I found this old edition of GB Shaw plays and I’m reading that instead, Pygmalion first. It’s very funny — I laughed out loud in Act V. Also — spoiler alert! — it has a better ending than the 1964 film (which I love anyway!).

Here are two of the #photos of last Saturday's hike. We went to the #wallberg above the #tegernsee .
Usually it's a quite crowded way because it's easily reachable and really very sc…

Hello all,
Well, this is an announcement I never wanted to make.
We discovered today that one of members, who, although he is from Gaza and a victim of genocide, has nevertheless not represented his current situation honestly. And I have had the terrible task of removing them and one of our new members, a friend of his, from Gaza Verified.
Now, before I tell you what happened, I want to stress this:
I am not saying they are not from Gaza or have not suffered from this…

Gaza Verified
Emergency appeal to get the Gaza Verified families stuck in the danger zone in the North to relative safety in the South.

«erases the history&work of the people who quietly labored to create better digital services for the public; in their place, it proposes that one man alone can define “design” for the country. And we find that new definition in the way the site’s constructed: it is digital design intended for the privileged few, one that actively excludes people who don’t conform to a specific, discriminatory definition of “eligible.”»
Great piece by @… on the notional design studio
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

YouTube strikes a deal to carry Herring Networks' One America News on YouTube TV's base package in Q4 2025; in 2022, DirecTV and Verizon Fios dropped OANN (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world

MAGA channel One America News, once under threat of extinction, reaches ‘long-term carriage deal’ with YouTube TV
The launch of OAN and AWE on YouTube TV is scheduled to take place in the fourth quarter of 2025

I needed to bring a few things into the office today, which is always a bit annoying as my back tends to get hot when I cycle with a backpack on. Then I suddenly remembered that #TallBikesArePractical and I have a shit ton of storage space below me.
Look at my little backpack. It looks tiny down there! 🤏 🎒

This story seems to be slipping between the cracks.
Apparently the Air Force has decided to undertake the conversion of that bribe 747 to FFOTUS - an amount that will probably well exceed a $billion or far more - under cover of a classified project to do something else.
This is a clear violation of the US Anti-deficiency act. It is theft of taxpayer money. And it violates the requirement that money only be spent after appropriation by Congress.
i have not seen any journal…

What Will It Cost to Renovate Trump’s ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.
To hide the cost of renovating the plane Qatar donated to President Trump, the Air Force appears to have tucked it inside an over-budget, behind-schedule nuclear modernization program.

Wave packets, "negative times" and the elephant in the room
D. Sokolovski, A. Matzkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19105 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507…

Wave packets, "negative times" and the elephant in the room
Controversy surrounding the "tunnelling time problem" stems from the seeming inability of quantum mechanics to provide, in the usual way, a definition of the duration a particle is supposed to spend in a given region of space. For this reason, the problem is often approached from an "operational" angle. One such approach uses the position of the transmitted wave packet in order to infer the duration the particle spends in the barrier. Here we replace the barrier with a tuneable Mach-Zehnder int…

Table legs attached to my Lego table. Just needs the leaves now and it will be done.
#woodworking
#inprogress

Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: New Study — @…
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers…

Security mechanism inspired by NATO Article 5 remains 'main one on the table,' Meloni says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/security-mechanism-inspired-by-nato.html

Disco Elysium – The Final Cut is 3.99 € on Steam.
Without exaggeration, this is one of the best games I’ve ever played.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/632470/Disco_Elysium__The_Final_Cut/

Save 75% on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut on Steam
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Experts warn that Nvidia's large investments in data centers and startups, almost like a stimulus program, could be artificially inflating demand for its GPUs (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/jensen-huang-using-nvidia-cash-r…

How Jensen Huang is Using Nvidia Cash to Rule the AI Economy
Even by the standards of one of the most prodigious dealmakers in tech, the past month or so has been a head-spinning one for Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Just in September, Nvidia agreed to buy any unused Nvidia graphics processing units that cloud provider CoreWeave doesn’t sell to other customers ...

10 lost works of Canadian art you'll wish you could see

Kinda thinking that at least one of these could see a comeback - albeit maybe not as an art installation so much as a reflection of a new Canadian-US relationship
via
https://flipboard.com/@cbc…

A timeline of the last 18 months of Micah Parsons' contract situation with the Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/a-timeline-of-the-last-18-months-of-micah-parsons-contract-situation-with-the-cowboys

Today's ride on Hampton Avenue was much better! I just need to time it right. Wait for the light to turn green, wait until all the cars go through, then bike after them. I only need a gap of a few minutes to get past the gnarly part of the road.
The other tricky part is crossing Mayfair on the Menomonee Parkway. I actually get off the bike and walk it across there. No signals, not even for pedestrians so it's a rough one.

eBike Nerdery
So the full decision matrix is:
- BBS02 48V 500W (750W) (a minor upgrade); would let me use a better battery and have a better margin when the battery gets low.
- BBSHD 48V or 52V (1000W); can be run with an extra spicy 52V battery for more power
- TSDZ8 48V 750W (1200W peak), the reengineered TSDZ2 with actual thermal capacity
- TSDZ16 48V 1000W (not sure what peak but geez that's a lot of motor)
- DM02 48V 500W (A team that made the TSDZ2 split off and went to make better motors)
- DM01 48V 1000W — I've not read up on it much but it's that same team I'm sure making a solid motor.
Also-rans:
- BBS02 36V 500W (existing motor); A spare would be nice so I can refurb mine without having to be without my bike.
- TSDZ2 48V 500W (I have one); tends to overheat and I ride hard. Not a winner.
- CYC motors: rather spendy. Nice stuff though.
- M625, M615, M225, M255: newer Bafang motors; more expensive, no real benefit, CAN bus is not well supported by third parties yet.
Pros of the Bafang BBS series: lots of parts available on the market. Lots of display options
Pros of the Tongsheng TSDZ series: Torque sensor!
Pros of the ToSeven DM series: Torque sensor, better build quality.

Interesting testimonies, I wonder what the men* think about "dating in 2025” (whether you're in the USA, like in the article, or elsewhere..)?
Generally, maybe people would be more happy if they paired up with someone else independently of that person's gender, but focusing more on shared values and goals? Our societies are very "husband & wife" - oriented, but they don't have to!
‘Men seem to make life for women worse’: single US women share the woes of dating in 2025

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/
Great article.

The index of the cosmological horizon and the area-charge-inequality
Neilha Pinheiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19490 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19490

The index of the cosmological horizon and the area-charge-inequality
In this article, we investigate the index of the MOTS given by a spatial cross section of the cosmological horizon in the Kerr-Newman-de Sitter spacetime. We show that its index is one in the symmetrized sense for a small positive parameter a, such parameter defines the angular momentum. As an application, we prove that this MOTS is unstable. We also establish an estimate relating the area and the charge of a MOTS of index one in a Cauchy data satisfying the dominant energy condition.

Row of townhouse apartments at the Maplewood complex on Veterans Place Rd, Ithaca NY
#photo #photography #buildings

When I bring up how children work in artisanal mines in DR Congo and Madagascar to harvest the minerals the rich world needs for its tech, there is one type of comment that comes up more than others:

"Yes, but the working conditions of the people making high street clothes is also awful. It's so hard to do the right thing these days."

I truly have a hard time understanding what this comment is really getting at it. It feels like it's trying to tone down the …

foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted

A one-time national guardsman, who deployed for civil affairs, can absolutely lecture *checks notes* the most senior generals and admirals in the US armed forces on whatever “warrior ethos” is.
It’s a protein powder, right? Warrior Ethos sounds like a protein powder available from the tiktok shop.
https:/…

Hegseth to tell generals about the 'warrior ethos' in rare gathering: Sources
Officials say the gathering could last just 30 minutes.

Garbage. Ppl pay for this?
My prompt was `Edward Hopper's American Gothic but with two robots` and it didn't even include a pitchfork.
#microsoft

The underground “Jiangmen Underground #Neutrino Observatory" (JUNO) near Jiangmen city in the Guangdong Province has successfully completed the filling of its 20,000 tons of liquid scintillator and begun data taking: https://www.prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/press-releases/juno-completed-liquid-filling-and-begins-data-taking/ - JUNO will tackle one of this decade’s major open questions in particle physics, the ordering of neutrino masses i.e. whether the third mass state (ν₃) is heavier than the second (ν₂).

A couple of extra photos of the CMPTR board and how it hooks up to the PVM. It's still crazy that Sony decided to use a DB25 cable for RGB/RGBI/CGA/audio...not sure if it wouldn't have been easier to just break those out on the back. Either way, it's not something I have to worry about again.
I'll end up posting the schematic and PCB stuff once I verify that the 2.1 version of the board doesn't have the same issues that this one does. They're minor, but I want…

IDEA: on one-way streets, let's make the sidewalks one-way too! To walk in the other direction, you'd first travel one block perpendicularly, to the next street over.
Or maybe that would be ridiculous and we shouldn't do bike lanes that way either? Hard to say

Sigh, cleanup of decommissioned jobs has rarely been done.
Minor quirk in the schedule and going through it I identified dozens of entries that are not run any more, but listed as dependencies. Time to add that to the release schedule for the future. If the job(s) are gone then remove them from the schedule and if the schedule app group then remove the whole APP and nuke the dependencies on that too. Stuff going back almost 20 years is still there and no one took the time to clean i…

Scalar leptoquark contributions to the $gg\rightarrow Zh$ process
Shi-Ping He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19642 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19642

Scalar leptoquark contributions to the $gg\rightarrow Zh$ process
In this manuscript, we study the general scalar leptoquark contributions to the $gg\rightarrow Zh$ process at one-loop level. We find that the contributions only show up for the off-diagonal Higgs and $Z$ boson interactions with scalar leptoquarks, which can lead to a new tensor structure different from the standard model. In the one-field and two-field models, the contributions vanish exactly; thus, the contributions are possible at least in the three-field models. We exemplify the contributio…

Having not written anything about my #tricycle project in months, I've now written two posts in two days. Here's the first:
#BikeTooter
Rethinking the tricycle drive train

Rethinking the tricycle drive train
I've been rereading my posts on design of a tricycle, and especially this one; and I've been looking again at this picture, of Seventy Seven's removable front subframe which carries its front wheel, steering, and transmission systems; and I've been thinking. This will be a short post documenting my thoughts.

This excellent piece by Ken White is long, but worth your time to read if you want to understand how and why public discourse in America is broken.
https://www.popehat.com/p/how-free-speech-culture-is-killing-free-speech-part-one

How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One
Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression

The Density of Zero and One in Fibonacci Word for Subwords and Their Palindromes
Duaa Abdullah, Jasem Hamoud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19351 https://arxiv…

The Density of Zero and One in Fibonacci Word for Subwords and Their Palindromes
This paper studies the density of zero and one in subwords of the Fibonacci word with lengths less than thirty and compares them to the densities of their corresponding palindromes. We used computational methods to produce a sufficiently large piece of the Fibonacci word, extract all unique subwords up to a predetermined length, and calculate their palindrome. The density of each character (0 and 1) was then determined for both the original subwords and their palindromic counterparts. This stud…

I'm apparently one of very many people who really enjoy Arvo Pärt's music. ❤️
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/24/the-god-of-small-things-celebrating-arvo-part-at-90

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved updated Covid vaccines for the fall season that limit who can get the shots
-- the federal government’s most restrictive policy since the vaccines became available.
The agency authorized the vaccines for people who are 65 and older, who are known to be more vulnerable to severe illness from Covid.
Younger people would only be eligible if they had at least one underlying medical condition that would put them at risk for s…

FDA Approves Updated Covid Vaccines With New Restrictions
The agency’s fall recommendations underscore the goals of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to limit access to the vaccines, which he has long opposed.

#Caturday

TIL that one of the singers on one of my favorite blues bands, the very entertaining "Saffire: the Uppity Blues Women", used to be a computer programmer. I'm sure she was great at that too, but I'm glad she gave it up!

The category of propositional deductive systems
Ciro Russo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19426 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19426…

The category of propositional deductive systems
We define the category $\mathcal{QM}$ of quantales and their modules and prove the existence of coproducts, and the one of pushout and amalgamated coproducts under certain conditions. Then we define the non-full subcategory $\mathcal{DS}_0$, of propositional deductive systems, show that it is equivalent to the one of ``real'' propositional logics whose morphisms are interpretations (modulo a language translation, when needed), and prove that the coproduct in $\mathcal{DS}_0$ is precisely the de…

On the convergence of PINNs for inverse source problem in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation
Xing Cheng, Zhiyuan Li, Mengmeng Zhang, Xuezhao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18978

On the convergence of PINNs for inverse source problem in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation
This paper addresses the problem of recovering the spatial profile of the source in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation from regional observation data at fixed times. We establish two types of sufficient measurements for the unique solvability of the inverse problem. The first is to determine the source term by using whole data at one fixed instant. Conditional stability is established by using the eigenfunction expansion argument. Next, using the analytic continuation method, both uniqueness …

Constraining the origin of the highest-energy cosmic-ray events detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory: a three-dimensional approach
Marta Bianciotto (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19216

Constraining the origin of the highest-energy cosmic-ray events detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory: a three-dimensional approach
Unveiling the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays remains one of the main challenges of high-energy astrophysics. Measurements of anisotropies in their arrival directions are key to identifying their sources, yet magnetic deflections obscure direct associations. In this work, we reconstruct the sky regions of possible origin of the highest-energy cosmic-ray events detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory by tracing their trajectories through Galactic magnetic fields using up-to-date models…

In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
C.A. TWO: Unlike the youngsters. So what do we do?
C.A. ONE: Evacuation.
FRANTON: It's probably Auron's only chance now.
C.A. ONE: Why aren't you at the replication plant?
FRANTON: Off shift, unfortunately.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/129

Off to Detroi to see Deltron 3030 at the Majestic!
We’re checked into the Ferry St. Inn, in this stately old mansion, one of four tucked behind the DIA. We’re in the maid’s quarters, a third story walk up. We’ve stayed here before.

its been 5 years and the illegal chinese fishing boat massacre article still doesnt have a movie based on it
https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2019-12/december-2019-true-crime-massacre-in-the-pacific-p…

What's the point of installing an electronic timetable on a small train stop? Next to the paper one, of course. The kind that only displays the planned timetable, not the current departures. And of course the arrival platform is announced via loudspeakers after the barriers are closed.
#rail

George Conway:
"It's absurd to think that … the government of the United States that [the people] pay for, that they vote for, is really in service of one man. ... He is using every arm of the government to create pleasure for himself … and also to seek vengeance upon his enemies."
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social)
"It's absurd to think that … the government of the United States that [the people] pay for, that they vote for, is really in service of one man. ... He is using every arm of the government to create pleasure for himself … and also to seek vengeance upon his enemies."

[disclaimer: not a political scientist, talking out of my ass]
For the two parties are going to divide up the electorate, if one is the fascist party, maybe the other •has• to be the anti-fascist party — not just philosophically, but for practical reasons. Maybe you just can’t maintain a viable coalition to oppose a fascist party without bringing everyone who opposes fascism into your coalition. Sure feels that way now.
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foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted

The term "context engineering" is gaining traction over "prompt engineering" as it better describes the skill of providing LLMs with the necessary information (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/27/context-…

City Corners 🏙️
城市角落 🏙️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ILFORD FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

One of the reasons I appreciate walking, biking, and public transit so much (aside from just being a more joyful/connected way to travel, and better for our environment) is because they starve so many absolutely awful billionaires/corporations/oligarchs of profit. Oil companies, car manufacturers, large chain stores..
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Good Morning #Canada
After recently moving to Belle Ewart (Bell You-wart), I find myself making strange pronunciations of my town to see people's reactions. Life is short... take pleasure where you can. But if you're a Canadian living in one of the towns mentioned in this CBC article, do you proudly tell people where you live, or do you mumble the answer and hope no one responds. I think you embrace the fun and show pride in your community by investing in t-shirts and hats emblazoned with your town name. But that's just me - some old retired guy with no reputation worth saving.
BTW, if you're looking for a conversation starter, here's a Geographic Fact - the distance between Dildo Newfoundland and Climax Saskatchewan is 5,551 km, about 2 days and 16 hours by car.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CivicPride
https://www.cbc.ca/television/stillstanding/the-most-hilarious-town-names-in-canada-1.5440187

Gawd the maga nutz are going crazy about the California redistricting.
We got THREE loud screaming opposition mailers today, including the one that falsely claims that the League of Women Voters is against the redistricting.

Controlling the $\mathcal{PT}$ Symmetry Breaking Threshold in Bipartite Lattice Systems with Floquet Topological Edge States
Xinguang Li, Hongzheng Wu, Yangchun Zhao, Jinpeng Xiao, Yu Guo, Lei Li, Yajiang Chen, Xiaobing Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18931

Controlling the $\mathcal{PT}$ Symmetry Breaking Threshold in Bipartite Lattice Systems with Floquet Topological Edge States
We investigate the control of the parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$)-symmetry breaking threshold in a periodically driven one-dimensional dimerized lattice with spatially symmetric gain and loss defects. We elucidate the contrasting roles played by Floquet topological edge states in determining the $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry breaking threshold within the high- and low-frequency driving regimes. In the high-frequency regime, the participation of topological edge states in $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry breaking…

I think this is 𝐿𝑎𝑝𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑠, the common nipplewort, one of many aster-family flowers I see in Shindagin Hollow State Forest
#photo #photography #bloomscrolling

Infinite graphs satisfying the Bakry-Emery curvature condition CD(0, n): The modified heat equation and applications to geometric analysis
Emmanuel Russ (I2M), Herv\'e Pajot (IF)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19235

Infinite graphs satisfying the Bakry-Emery curvature condition CD(0, n): The modified heat equation and applications to geometric analysis
Let G = (V, p, $μ$) be a (finite or infinite) weighted graph with bounded geometry. Assuming that G satisfies the classical curvaturedimension condition of Bakry-Emery CD(K, n) with K $\ge$ 0 (for the usual Laplacian), we prove that the doubling volume property holds. One of the key points is to establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions of a modified non linear heat equation which replaces the standard one usually used in the case of Riemannian manifolds. Li-Yau and Harnack estimates…

Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
BLAKE: What?
JENNA: [V.O.] Out.
[Cephlon. The launch room.]
JENNA: They're on their way.
AVON: So are they. [Presses a switch and the final countdown begins on the monitors.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/442 B7B2

How popular media gets love wrong
Had some thoughts in response to a post about loneliness on here. As the author emphasized, reassurances from people who got lucky are not terribly comforting to those who didn't, especially when the person who was lucky had structural factors in their favor that made their chances of success much higher than those is their audience. So: these are just my thoughts, and may not have any bearing on your life. I share them because my experience challenged a lot of the things I was taught to believe about love, and I think my current beliefs are both truer and would benefit others seeing companionship.
We're taught in many modern societies from an absurdly young age that love is not something under our control, and that dating should be a process of trying to kindle love with different people until we meet "the one" with whom it takes off. In the slightly-less-fairytale corners of modern popular media, we might fund an admission that it's possible to influence love, feeding & tending the fire in better or worse ways. But it's still modeled as an uncontrollable force of nature, to be occasionally influenced but never tamed. I'll call this the "fire" model of love.
We're also taught (and non-boys are taught more stringently) a second contradictory model of love: that in a relationship, we need to both do things and be things in order to make our partner love us, and that if we don't, our partner's love for us will wither, and (especially if you're not a boy) it will be our fault. I'll call this the "appeal" model of love.
Now obviously both of these cannot be totally true at once, and plenty of popular media centers this contradiction, but there are really very few competing models on offer.
In my experience, however, it's possible to have "pre-meditated" love. In other words, to decide you want to love someone (or at least, try loving them), commit to that idea, and then actually wind up in love with them (and them with you, although obviously this second part is not directly under your control). I'll call this the "engineered" model of love.
Now, I don't think that the "fire" and "appeal" models of love are totally wrong, but I do feel their shortcomings often suggest poor & self-destructive relationship strategies. I do think the "fire" model is a decent model for *infatuation*, which is something a lot of popular media blur into love, and which drives many (but not all) of the feelings we normally associate with love (even as those feelings have other possible drivers too). I definitely experienced strong infatuation early on in my engineered relationship (ugh that sounds terrible but I'll stick with it; I promise no deception was involved). I continue to experience mild infatuation years later that waxes and wanes. It's not a stable foundation for a relationship but it can be a useful component of one (this at least popular media depicts often).
I'll continue these thoughts in a reply, by it might take a bit to get to it.
#relationships

Really silly dream
I had a really silly #dream recently. I dreamt that my CFL broke. Or more specifically, it kept trying to turn out, successive parts of it were lighting up, then it all went off and tried again. And it looked like it had a bunch of cuts across it, and around these cuts little thunder sparks started appearing, like some kind of STALKER-like anomaly.
I finally flipped the switch, but the anomaly remained, and I wanted to get rid of it in case the sparks could jump onto my hardware and damage something. So I threw a metal bowl towards it, supposing the thunder would jump onto it. While it was flying near the anomaly, it slowed down and started turning back like a boomerang. On top of that, pieces of cat food (don't ask me why I threw a full bowl) were getting out of it and staying in the air levitating. When the bowl reached the floor and started turning again, Mr Ek came close to it and started levitating himself; he was sitting a few centimeters above the floor.
In the middle of all this, I've figured out I should record it. I took a bunch of photos with my phone, before I managed to switch to recording video.
Once I've recorded the fascinating flying bowls and levitating cat food, I needed to go back to discharging the thing. I threw a second metal bowl, and that one started levitating as well. I've figured out that's stupid, and I've found some big ass hammer with a metal end and a wooden handle. I held the end near the lamp to charge it, then tried to find something to discharge it to. I've tried some small stuff like the door handle, but obviously that wasn't sufficient. Finally, I've figured out to use the electricity box, since it is grounded. I held the hammer to it, watching sparks light the semi-darkness; I've recorded that as well.
And that's how much of it I remember.

karate: Zachary Karate Club
Network of friendships among members of a university karate club. Includes metadata for faction membership after a social partition. Note: there are two versions of this network, one with 77 edges and one with 78, due to an ambiguous typo in the original study. (The most commonly used is the one with 78 edges.).
This network has 34 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted

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

In May, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip
temporary legal protection
from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living in the United States.
Overnight, TPS holders , found themselves without status—despite following all the rules.
Trump’s termination of TPS for Venezuelans is part of the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
“A single act of stripping immigration status in one fell swoop,”
said Ahilan A…

Trump is making thousands of rule-abiding immigrants undocumented
Inside the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.

How legacy carmakers fell behind Tesla and Chinese EV brands in software, as a Toyota Woven engineer says the company's new Arene platform is "full of bugs" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d5d5b7fb-30fc-4f32-86d2-7499bcc433b6

‘Full of bugs’: how the world’s biggest carmakers fell behind in software
The shift from a manufacturing model to a digital one is proving difficult and expensive for many of the industry’s traditional companies

Oh, Hacker News…FFS. Something got lost in the sad game of Popular Press Telephone between the actual study and this snotty post.
The actual study is here:
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-00577
It notes that:
1. Most research on air cleaning devices used air samples, not human health outcomes. (It’s far more difficult to conduct a study on the latter.)
2. Not many people are studying whether e.g. UV air purifiers create toxic byproducts.
3. The available studies sure do measure a whole bunch of different things, and wouldn’t it be nice if they had more consistent standards.
Their main recommendation is basically “scientists should do more studies where they measure infection in humans, not just germs in the air.” And that’s fair: It’s reasonable to •guess• that fewer germs in the air means less sickness, but it’s nice to actually •test• that!
However, AFAICT, nothing in the study warrants the “tinfoil hats” remark. Unlike a tinfoil hats, we have plenty good reason to think at least some of these devices actually work; the paper just wants the research to go deeper. It’s one giant “further study needed.” https://mastodon.social/@ngate/115091700894746240

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: To transport what?
VILA: Do we care?
JENNA: [Slight laugh] Getting nervous?
VILA: No, I've been nervous all along. I do not like the look of that thing.
BLAKE: Zen, have the sensors picked up any sign of life?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/72

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

Fear of immigration raids force the cancellation of several July festivities in Los Angeles
Several communities in Los Angeles County have called off or postponed their previously scheduled Independence Day and July events, citing resident safety amid ongoing immigration enforcement raids.
The El Sereno Bicentennial Committee was one of the first organizations to announce the cancellation of its 66th Independence Day Parade in a June 20 statement on Facebook.
“We stand wi…

Fear of immigration raids force the cancellation of several July festivities in Los Angeles
Here are some of the July festivities that have been canceled in Los Angeles out of fear over immigration raids.

A look at some California tech regulation bills, including one banning AI use in firing or disciplining workers, that await Gov. Newsom's signature or his veto (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/were-about-to-find-out-if-silico…

We're about to find out if Silicon Valley owns Gavin Newsom
A guide to the AI and tech bills that have passed the California legislature, and await the governor's signature — or veto.

Urban Diaspora IV 🎈
城市放逐 IV 🎈
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

More quotable quotes from Krugman:
❝Market pricing almost never takes into account the possibility of huge, disruptive events, even when the strong possibility of such events should be obvious. The usual pattern, instead, is one of market complacency until the last possible moment. That is, markets act as if everything is normal until it’s blindingly obvious that it isn’t.❞
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As Susie Madrak noted here,
"Democrats have one ask:
fund healthcare, in the form of extending ACA subsidies and restoring funding to Medicaid that was cut in Trump's Big Beautiful Ugly Bill."
But we're hearing Republicans, who have the House, the Senate, the presidency, and the Supreme Court,
say that Democrats are holding the country hostage.
The White House's response to Democrats wanting to secure health coverage for 20 million America…

WH Responds To Dems Wanting Health Care In Funding Bill: 'Go Fuck Yourself'
“We’re going to extract maximum pain."

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
AVON: Blake may need some help.
VILA: And that concerns you?
JENNA: But you've been against it all until now.
AVON: I know, but I'm still going down. Vila?
JENNA: [To Cally] You know what all this is about, don't you?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/317

An interview with CEO David Baszucki on Roblox's origin story, what's next for the gaming platform whose shares have risen about 200% in the past year, and more (Tim Fernholz/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/he-didnt-set…

He didn’t set out to create a kids’ company. Roblox’s “Builderman” wound up with one anyway.
Founder and CEO David Baszucki tells us the origin story and what’s next for a company that has nearly tripled in stock price and caught a lot of controversy over the past year.

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

dbpedia_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

In the days before the surprise U.S. attack on Iran, Politico reported that
one man in the Defense Department was having an outsized say on Washington’s Iran strategy:
Erik Kurilla, the hawkish U.S. Central Command leader known as “The Gorilla.”
“He’s a big dude, he’s jacked, he’s exactly this ‘lethality’ look they’re going for,” said an anonymous former official.
So long as military advisors “come across as tough and warfighters,”
the source added, Defense S…

Hypermasculinity Is Driving U.S. Foreign Policy
Trump’s approach to Iran shows that America’s crisis of manhood has hit the global stage.

Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
RALLI: That's Provine! That's his service record. [She picks up the card] That's the man I got to go with Blake!
VILA: Which way did they go?
RALLI: The rocket silo. [Vila runs to door, then back]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/209/414 …

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each.
It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight.
Such questions, which ask for the number of solutions that satisfy a set of geometric conditions,
were a favorite of the ancient Greeks.
And they’ve continued to entrance mathematicians for millennia.
How many lines lie on a cubic surface?
How many quadrat…

New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems | Quanta Magazine
Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very beginning of mathematics.

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-qatar-air-force-one-corruption

Grifter-in-Chief Trump and the Grift That Keeps on Grifting | Common Dreams
In case you haven't noticed, the bribes Trump is taking are getting bigger and bigger.

Video footage captured by Laynez-Ambrosio, an 18-year-old US citizen, show a group of officers in tactical gear working together to violently detain the three men, two of whom are undocumented.
They appear to use a stun gun on one man,
put another in a chokehold
and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio:
“You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.”
Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests,
calling the stun gun use “f…