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Kraak & Smaak:
🎵 One Of These Days
#NowPlaying #Kraak #Smaak
https://kraaksmaak.bandcamp.com/album/one-of-these-days-feat-u-gene
https://open.spotify.com/track/7dMSplYrmeBp68QwuuwJDF

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
People Under the Stairs:
🎵 Days Like These
#PeopleUndertheStairs
https://clav.bandcamp.com/track/people-under-the-stairs-days-like-these
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mXslL4HV2zE53dJ5oN0DK

Every now and then I have one of those days where I discover all of these marvellous people on the Fedi and they're nearby (in some sense, whether physical or by interests) and they've been here for a couple of years and I don't know them. It's delightful! It's way more delightful than when there were only a few thousand people!
I do feel sad when I look at all the amazing folks who were here but left. I hope they all come back.

@… I certainly think there are good reasons not to - I don’t love the idea that Valve has an effective monopoly on sales of PC games these days.
So in spirit, I’m with you, it’s just one of those battles where I have to admit I’ve given up the fight you know?

I don't know yet which Julia this is, but thank you. Thank you so much for the drawing in my guestbook. 💖 Arthur is going to have a hell of a good time with me, I promise.
#pikablog

Guestbook - Finest Day
Do you remember the days when people used to write little notes? Leaving little drawings and messages for people they cared about? And whose joy at receiving these messages meant...

I should figure out a fast way of sending a website to links2 instead of keyboarding shortcutting my way to it. So many sites are just an absolute plague these days, but links2 just strips all the crap and shows the text.

Oopies.
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-prime-drones-water

Video Shows Amazon Drone Dropping Package Into Pond
Amazon's Prime Air Delivery service is notching a few misses these days, including a number of packages delivered straight to Davy Jones.

It was a terrible mistake or maybe even a warcrime, but there are no excuses in these days of relative precise weaponry, satellite images, other intelligence. The USA killed innocent children and it could have been prevented.
https://www.

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base
The Feb. 28 school strike in Minab, which killed dozens, including children, appears to have been part of an attack on an adjacent naval base in southern Iran, where officials said U.S. forces were operating.

Can you even buy an acoustic longtail #CargoBike these days with smaller rear wheel (ideally also with steel frame)? The only one I can find is the Yuba Mundo Lux, which has a 26" rear wheel. Terns and xtracycles are all bosch-equipped (booo proprietary frame!)
I get that covid and tariffs have cratered the US bike market, but surely someone's still out there selling a basic…

where is Laurie Brown these days?
#cbc

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Maverick Sabre:
🎵 These Days - Mav's Version
#NowPlaying #MaverickSabre
https://open.spotify.com/track/0kKk6VIhongk9j84kbS6jg

Regarding Ted Turner, I will share what KaiserBeamz said on Xitter:
"A ruthless businessman but one who clearly loved the arts. That mindset helped made him the architect of the cable landscape and helped give the world access to so much film, TV, and cartoons. Sad to say that businessmen like him are extinct these days."
https://

„It’s difficult to work out who the anti-Israel leftists or right-wing groypers are because their language is now indistinguishable“
https://spectator.com/article/rise-of-the-leftist-groypers/

‘“How is Vas these days?”
“He is well. His tree of life grows strong with the sky.”
I don’t exactly know what that means but decide not to pursue it.’
#Thraxas

from my link log —
The case of the curiously slow shader.
https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2021/04/28/slow-shader.html
saved 2021-04-29 htt…

You often hear "every app is painful to use these days because they are optimized for business outcomes over user experience."
But that's not actually true! These decisions are ALSO slaughtering the business outcomes.
The real optimization is for product manager promo packets.

Well, it's about time I got started on my latest self-hosted project: Home Assistant. Luckily, I've had an RPi 4 for a while now, so I'm saving myself the money these gadgets cost these days.
First stop: automating the lighting system.
Next stop: smart irrigation system.
Here I go!
#selfhosted

software these days is 80% tech wankery and 20% bro masturbation

@… I am perturbed Fiona! 🙁 - Compare these two reports about the meeting between Canada's Carney and India's Modi. The BBC makes it 100% about nuclear, whereas the Canadian Press outlines all the sustainable energy technologies in the agreement and only once mentions uranium.

Green energy orgs applaud Canada-India agreements on renewables
OTTAWA — Some of Canada’s renewable energy organizations are applauding commitments Ottawa signed with India this week to advance development of solar, wind and hydrogen power. Prime Minister Mark Carney spent four days in Mumbai and New Delhi, a trip which concluded with a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and signing a series of […]

Because I need to justify my hardware endeavours I did a quickie on the Framework website. Forking out 1739 Trumpies for a laptop that I'll have to keep looking at eternally. Guess I'll skip this 😆 Sold out until September. You never hear people talking about e-waste anymore these days. Crisis, what crisis?

Have you ever tried to use a #StandingDesk for work (whether working from home or in the office), if so would you recommend it?
Since I'm spending about 23/24h sitting (or sleeping) these days, I wonder if I should give it a go.. Please tell me what you think!

Inspired by Hank Green’s fun new timeline of photos from the Artemis II mission, I wrote up an answer to a question that's more pertinent these days than it may seem: Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? https://anildash.com/2026/04/30/artemis-photos-flickr/

Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr?
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

In many European countries, including Britain, Germany and France,
far-right parties seem ascendant.
And Donald Trump is doing what he can to undermine democracy in the United States.
Yet a closer analysis shows that autocrats are often running scared of their people.
And surprisingly, democracy these days seems sometimes to be held in higher esteem in the global south than in the democratic heartland of the west.
These trends show there is nothing inevitable ab…

I read that we lost the ability to stay focused reading long articles. And I believe it is partially true.
I also believe that books that could’ve been at best an article are these days 300 pages. And articles that might communicate an idea vaguely are now thousands of words long for the sake of art (and for the author to get paid as I assume filling in a site or magazine with short articles would be more expensive).

Here’s something from an 11 year old blog post. (Folio.olio) I guess we were worried about paparazzi back then. But they might be useful these days too, to counter facial and body movement ID detection.

#looksmaxxing? #lethalitymaxxing?
Kids these days and their hashtags. #dontgiveafuckmaxxing

I don’t know what the hell ICE / CBP / FBI?? / other feds are up to, but we’ve had several •huge• swarms of federal vehicles rolling out these last few days.
They aren’t doing the kinds of chaotic off-the-street kidnappings there were doing all through Dec and Jan. But they sure are up to •something•.
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I am dreaming and writing of horses, but they need time to gather themselves and begin their fiery galloping. Meanwhile, this new year is still emerging from the old.
Tell me what you are carrying from the old year, and what you are wishing for in the new.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/the

Putin must be very happy with the petrol price these days.

#DonaldKnuth beaten by #AI.
> Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6 [...] It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days. What a joy it is to learn not only tha…

I am 36 years old, I have diabetes and for over a week I feel pain with every step since I've bumped my tailbone pretty hard. And yet seeing the youngsters these days, I feel like I'm surrounded by zombies; how can they be slow all the time?! And I'm not even even talking of smartphone zombies, just regular folk looking ahead and walking somewhere! Don't they have some trains to catch, or some cats waiting for them to get home?!

Wonder why anyone in Aotearoa NZ is celebrating RocketLab's US launch in aid of the US military. For his own gain and glory, Peter Beck (I don't see justification for his honourific) betrayed the trust of the kaumātua of Mahia Peninsula and sold us all out to perhaps the least honourable country in the world these days. Here's the story if you haven't already seen it:

What are people delegating their isnic (.is) domains to these days? I’ve been using x.is DNS but apparently that’s going away. I’m going to switch to Cloudflare’s free DNS but would love to hear of any better/different options.

I see a lot of wishful thinking these days at work, that seems to be putting many aiggs in one bakset

sp_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…

There is a frenzied feeling to the news coming from the White House these days. ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-28-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p44#a260429p44

I know its been a few days now but I could not wrap my head around it that Moya Brennan has passed. Listened to Clannad quite a bit these days #RIPMoyaBrennan

On repeat again these days... Daniel Avery, the master of summoning a certain set of harmonies, mixed with a heaviness, intensity and production all very moving and befitting our times... play it loud!
Heavy Rain (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsrjASH5ZgU

ngl, I'm irrationally annoyed that "parkour" is the term these days for movement in games. I'm sure I'm just an old man yelling at a cloud here, but my YouTuber friend, we already had a word for that and it was "platforming"

I have no idea what's going around linkedin these days but I've now been contacted by *two* people in the last week or so convinced that they can build an ASIC SERDES IP with LLMs.
The total lack of understanding of the problem domain, much less potential solutions, is deafening.

Apropos a separate great thread involving nonviolent resistance/protest: nonviolent protest certainly benefits from and perhaps even requires the threat is something more, but it's not at simple as just a display of resolve making clear the threat of more action of change doesn't happen. It's also a form of psychological warfare against your opponent's complicity chains: the set of people that need to go along in small ways for the oppressor's threat of force to actually materialize, and the set of people who support them, and so on. These days lots of those complicity chains are heavily reinforced against psychological attack, for example by convincing them that those resisting are a threat, or are subhuman, or deserve oppression because they have transgressed, or otherwise damping the empathy channel through which nonviolent resistance seeks to create psychological distress, the actions to avoid which are one goal of the tactic. Censorship of news about resistance is another popular strategy in places like Iran and China. These counter-tactics are imperfect and costly, hence the continued effectiveness of nonviolent resistance as a tactic, even if alone it's not going to truly solve problems.
In the other thread I mentioned someone commented from personal experience that nonviolent resistance had died down once an immediate change was effected, even though that change didn't remove the threat they personally were facing. That's one of the weaknesses of the tactic: people on both sides usually move on too quickly.

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Nico:
🎵 These Days
#NowPlaying #Nico
https://mdhttr.bandcamp.com/track/nico-these-days-mercury-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uCkIqD0VzQUijbs8WIizs

@… those probably don't come with 16GB of RAM tho, but I mean we're pulling the old RAM because it's probably selling more than a few kidneys these days 😅.

I'm listening to a podcast about the movie Feardotcom and I was curious what fear.com would actually be, these days.

Today was another one of those days where I was in pain for over 12 hours. These days suck so bad. I did get a few hours of relief this evening though and even worked for over an hour today.

30 years ago these days comet #Hyakutake amazed in the northern skies - even close to Polaris one day - with a close approach to Earth and a super-long bright plasma tail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6uCHBqfZlk is a 15-min. excerpt from a documentary (I actually have the VHS cassette ...) about creating fantastic timelapse sequences of the latter from images shot on film. See also https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1629899344915003 and https://www.facebook.com/richard.berry.777/posts/pfbid0xQ9uVTK9fKeeuFeCedm1U82dYPPWbnJiuz8bVEt5UiE2QFEgn7GWfjNueZpjxCmXl and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26701568342780915 and https://www.facebook.com/don.davis1/posts/pfbid02YeuQ39p4igwG5GCk34iCSxwEevdpUKkCMBeF5QA7TBdfya3YuQ8sSsGnNUuxNFgGl for other still images.

Freaks and Geeks is definitely worth a watch. I like the 45 minutes per episode format. There are 18 episodes in total. I binge-watched them in three days.
Best thing about it:
It's apparent why Apatow had disagreements with NBC about the concept. He wanted it to be more real and grounded. They wanted it to be about high school wins and fun.
Cancelling the show actually helped it, imo. In this way, we'll never see these characters in their adult years, which makes t…

Looks like @… is having a good uptime these days. 🥳✨👩‍💻👩‍💻✨
How about @…, @… and

I’ve had the painters in these past ten days. Today he was here but went home around 2 pm. It is Saturday after all! I’ve walked to my local for a couple of pints of Fuller’s ESB, and I’m waiting for my wife to join me, perhaps with a couple of her friends too. I’m not complaining, but that, folks, is an exciting Saturday evening out for me these days.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116143024823038390
Software development these days really reminds me of what large political parties do—no shred of thinking about the whole, not even a little bit of conviction, just churning out mid ever more milquetoast "features" designed to eek out a little more compliance.
Moral stances and ethics be damned.

"One box of strawberries was all it took for this kind man to transition from a neighbor to a friend that our whole family cherishes. These days, Ella and Emiliano will yell “JESSEEEEE!!!” as soon as his house comes into view. They’ll run up for hugs and unapologetically ask for Ritz Crackers, which he picks up in bulk at Costco, specifically for them..."

Who Are the Unexpected Friends in Your Life? | Cup of Jo
When my husband, our baby, and I first pulled into the driveway…

I was on a zoom call yesterday (these days I use framatalk mostly) and its AI is inescapable. Horrible.
This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts
https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-call…

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts
WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

"China has slashed air pollution, but the 'war' isn't over"
#China #Pollution #AirPollution

China has slashed air pollution, but the 'war' isn't over
Fifteen years ago, Beijing's Liangma riverbanks would have been smog-choked and deserted in winter, but these days they are dotted with families and exercising pensioners most mornings.

In these dark days, despair may call to us like a siren. Gathering with others is the best way I know to resist (tying ourselves each to each). And writing, and sharing that writing, however strange.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/siren-after-wyatt-dispaire-doth-…

Siren: after Thomas Wyatt: "Dispaire doth vndre take"
How do we resist the siren calls of despair?

Big Tech Should Pay for What It Has Done to Us
"The truth is, it’s hard for profit-motivated companies to decide to make less money. So we can raise the cost of bad behavior. It worked with smoking. You can still smoke, but it could cost $15 a pack and you often can’t find a place where it’s allowed these days."

Opinion | Big Tech Should Pay for What It Has Done to Us
We are beginning an era where the social-media companies are finally held accountable for their harm.

I'm in an unhappy place with my reading these days. 😟📚
I feel impatient with many books and end up abandoning them.
At times like this I often reread what I think of as my "core authors", their voices familiar and well-loved.
About a decade ago I realised that I basically only need 7 particular albums, and two authors (complete works of), the rest are nice for a fling, but not strictly necessary.
Are other people like this too?

Ski Rental with Distributional Predictions of Unknown Quality
Qiming Cui, Michael Dinitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21104 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21104 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21104
arXiv:2602.21104v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We revisit the central online problem of ski rental in the "algorithms with predictions" framework from the point of view of distributional predictions. Ski rental was one of the first problems to be studied with predictions, where a natural prediction is simply the number of ski days. But it is both more natural and potentially more powerful to think of a prediction as a distribution p-hat over the ski days. If the true number of ski days is drawn from some true (but unknown) distribution p, then we show as our main result that there is an algorithm with expected cost at most OPT O(min(max({eta}, 1) * sqrt(b), b log b)), where OPT is the expected cost of the optimal policy for the true distribution p, b is the cost of buying, and {eta} is the Earth Mover's (Wasserstein-1) distance between p and p-hat. Note that when {eta} < o(sqrt(b)) this gives additive loss less than b (the trivial bound), and when {eta} is arbitrarily large (corresponding to an extremely inaccurate prediction) we still do not pay more than O(b log b) additive loss. An implication of these bounds is that our algorithm has consistency O(sqrt(b)) (additive loss when the prediction error is 0) and robustness O(b log b) (additive loss when the prediction error is arbitrarily large). Moreover, we do not need to assume that we know (or have any bound on) the prediction error {eta}, in contrast with previous work in robust optimization which assumes that we know this error.
We complement this upper bound with a variety of lower bounds showing that it is essentially tight: not only can the consistency/robustness tradeoff not be improved, but our particular loss function cannot be meaningfully improved.
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The #LATimes' Bill Plaschke is really embarrassing. His articles have degenerated into weird clickbait.
This is the headline sports columnist for the 2nd largest city in America?
I want to believe that the clumsy StephenA approach he's taking these days is his Editor's choice - not his.

DHH is a bit controversial these days, but he's absolutely right about how stupid we in Denmark have been about our tech dependency on the #UStech giants...
https://www.zetland.dk/historie/sOgNcL7e-moGnNy6v-ef0ea

Most tech news these days appears to be of the “wolf ate a sheep” variety.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Nico:
🎵 These Days
#Nico
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uCkIqD0VzQUijbs8WIizs

Yo maybe I'm late to the party but is Dropline #GNOME abandoned? I know this was a popular way to install gnome on Slackware Linux at one point, but I see the forums are defunct and the latest install instructions are for Slackware 14.1.
I was interested mainly so I could document it, but maybe there is no good way to install GNOME on Slackware these days.

Some Dinarmus (Pteromalidae) and Eurytoma (Eurytomidae) that emerged from my collection of eastern redbud seeds. Both are known parasitoids of the redbud seed weevil (Gibbobruchus mimus) but I'm hopeful that something unexpected will pop out one of these days. E.g., a hyperparasitoid. #redbud #wasps #chalcidoidea #insects #nature #biology #hymenoptera #entomology

Torn between feeling disconnected and not really wanting to hear any more negative opinions and bad news. Not a big fan of life these days. I am aware of the irony in writing this.

I think, and it may be an unpopular opinion among my peers indeed, that we need to learn to actually make this into an Engineering discipline.
I *want* to develop code that one can reasonably trust to perform life sustaining functionality, much like I reasonably trust every bridge I drive over not to collapse under me.
We’re far from it, but these days, it seems we’ve actively decided to do *exactly the opposite of that*, and that I just can’t be a part of.

Today for the first time ever I added fake film grain in post while editing my photos.
I reached the point where noise reduction in low light situations makes my photos look noticeably worse, especially when people are involved. They start looking like wax figures and I hate that.
At the same time, as a digital kid, I wasn't a fan of adding fake grain to my photos. Everyone and their dog knows I don't shoot film. And what's the point of making my photos look worse.
Today something clicked in my brain and I decided I'd rather have some texture and deliberate imperfection in my pictures.
Especially when all this generative AI bullshit these days is about making things look so smooth and perfect it hurts.

Thinking of getting rid of my desktop computer. Does anybody actually want an ITX AM4/B550 board, 5700G, and 64GB of premium DDR4 these days? I keep seeing shit about AMD releasing new AM4 CPUs due to demand, but I find no such systems for sale on the national used goods marketplace.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ietf_wg_dnsop/116027127205556247
We seem to be getting more operational "guidance" than "experience" IETF publications these days.
I wonder too if these guidelines are appearing too early before suffic…

I'm getting a lot of calendar invités for spam these days
#spam

sp_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…

Superb. https://theonion.com/all-i-ever-wanted-is-to-be-a-musician-and-for-music-to-be-easy/ I see quite a few folks these days who seem to have fully embraced this approach.

One of these days, friend
One of us will be proved wrong
And one of us right.
#dailyhaikuprompt - friend
#haiku
#poem

There's a little "zambie" running through the corridor.
My first thought: what kind of movies do people let their little children watch these days?!
My second thought: oh, wait, zombies are a normal thing in animated movies for children these days…
I feel old.

There’s definitely a hopeful feeling in having room to worry about Space Camp fundraising right now, instead of, say, ICE staging at the local Target parking lot yet again (with Target’s tacit blessing, damn them). It’s been quiet in the city these last few days. Fingers crossed.
Hopeful, but also melancholy: even if ICE does in fact draw down to pre-Dec levels, our “after” is not really going to come for a long time — and when it does, it will feel more like a scar than a sunrise.
/end

"This ghost octopus is facing a new threat"
#Octopus #Animals
https://news…

This ghost octopus is facing a new threat
China is one of the biggest players in the race to mine the deep sea — and a joint Mongabay-CNN investigation shows that over the past five years, eight Chinese research vessels have been busy exploring for minerals in zones designated to Chinese companies. These eight ships spent more than 800 days inside these deep-sea […]

Where do y'all get your random SMT breakouts from? I'm running low on SOIC8 to DIP8 ones and adafruit seems like they're no longer a good option. And I'm not in the mood to DIY every variant I need in kicad and send to oshpark.
There's a ton on aliexpress but I'm not sure how bad the tariff situation is for random one-off small items from China to the US these days... I know at one point there were threats of like $100 per low-value shipment once de minimis was …

The whole #ICE crapola going on these days is causing interesting mistakes in all kinds of reporting. There’s an article in our local newspaper (sadly, they’re owned by Gannet, but that’s another story) about a new intentional community breaking ground on a 20-acre development in town. In a description of the ultimate layout of the community there is mention (twice) of a detention pond. I’m pretty sure…

sp_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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pink Floyd:
🎵 One of These Days
#PinkFloyd
https://djsoulmachine.bandcamp.com/track/pink-floyd-one-of-these-days-soul-machine-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6uU0Hu8oVk9gBihokcrDMH

What's the best search engine these days for avoiding tracking and AI?
I've used Qwant for some time but now they are heading the feed with an AI "Flash Summary". Ecosia is worse.
#NoToAI

James Fallows:
This week I realized that over the past 45 years I’d been preparing for the news of the past nine days.
I’ll list the reporting steps I’ve taken, because they set up the questions and reactions I have now.
-In 1981 I published a book called "National Defense", which was serialized in the Atlantic.
Its purpose was to interview people who’d spent their lives waging war, or studying warfare,
and ask what realities of combat they think the…

The Arrogance of Ignorance.
What I have learned in 45 years of interviewing experts about peace and war, and how it applies to the tumult of these past nine days.

Russia, DJT, and AI slop making it so hard to believe anything these days.

When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.
These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this

sp_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…

Since my job is stable now and I have saved up some money, I have decided to stop accepting donations via GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi. I would like to thank everyone who helped me over the years. There are people who need the help much more than me right now.
If you needed a suggestion, @… is doing a lot more than me for #Gentoo these days and will certainly appreciate your help. He's also way nicer than I'll ever be.
https://github.com/sponsors/thesamesam
https://ko-fi.com/thesamesam
To the best of my knowledge, Gentoo project does not need extra money right now, but there are other awesome projects such as Disroot or many Fediverse instances that would definitely use some help. However, in general I'd suggest towards supporting individuals rather than projects: people need money to live, and can use your donations directly, while projects are often bound by red tape.
Finally, please support human artists and craftspeople (and I'm counting human software developers in that). Donate to projects and people who resist enshittification and who refuse to use LLMs. They need the money.
Once again, thanks for all.

sp_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…

Groaning at probably having to finally “up”grade to Liquid Glass because of the latest round of iOS security breaches, hanging out with my parents and wincing at the cartoonish look of the latest macOS on their screens, and…
…I’m just once again hit with my periodic nostalgia for the days when it was possible to pin the Dock to the upper corner instead of having it always centered (and thus having my pinned apps always appear in a predictable location).
These little things are so big when one lives with them every day.

I have been feeling in need of a little magic these days. Have you? There are wondrous pavilions everywhere, but we do not always see them.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/from-the-yellow-crane-pavilion

From The Yellow Crane Pavilion
The wondrous is everywhere, but we do not always see it. A magical tale of China's Yellow Crane Pavilion.

sp_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 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_high_school_new#2011
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sp_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…