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Been playing this game I dig on the Android tablet called Dungeon Raid. It's a card flipping dungeon crawler (the dev calls it an 'adventure card roguelike') that's fairly easy to figure out-- lots of strategy and replayability. At first, you can start out playing as either a knight or a vampire, delving down, trying not to die of hunger.
If a relic in a game you can choose is a fried egg, you can probably assume it's a game for me.
There's also Linux, M…

Jesus, we are such a broken country. https://www.newsweek.com/police-believe-cdc-shooter-thought-covid-vaccine-made-him-sick-report-2111117

Good Morning #Canada
The Webster–Ashburton Treaty was signed August 9, 1842, and resolved several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies (the region that very soon would become the Dominion of Canada). The treaty would end disputes and controversies over the vague indefinite terms and text of the old peace agreement of the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the American Revolutionary War. Specifically, it defined borders between Maine and New Brunswick, territory surrounding Lake Superior, and reaffirmed the western border on the 49th parallel. More importantly, it began a period of peace and friendly diplomacy between the two countries... until Americans decided a moronic spray tanner, suspected abuser of women, convicted felon, golf cheat, and narcissistic conman should be their president.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/webster-ashburton-treaty

Federal workers fear Trump will fire them after court ruling: ‘We are toast’
After the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump on Tuesday to resume firing government workers, federal employees rushed to Signal group chats and anxious phone calls, trying to figure out what it meant for them.
Some federal workers cried. Some shook their heads and began updating their resumes. Others — including union leaders — vowed to fight, determined to hang on to the government jobs that …

Federal workers fear Trump will fire them after court ruling: ‘We are toast’
The ruling could usher in a more professionalized round of layoffs, compared to the erratic rush of firings carried out by Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service.

Co-DETECT: Collaborative Discovery of Edge Cases in Text Classification
Chenfei Xiong, Jingwei Ni, Yu Fan, Vil\'em Zouhar, Donya Rooein, Lorena Calvo-Bartolom\'e, Alexander Hoyle, Zhijing Jin, Mrinmaya Sachan, Markus Leippold, Dirk Hovy, Mennatallah El-Assady, Elliott Ash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05010

Co-DETECT: Collaborative Discovery of Edge Cases in Text Classification
We introduce Co-DETECT (Collaborative Discovery of Edge cases in TExt ClassificaTion), a novel mixed-initiative annotation framework that integrates human expertise with automatic annotation guided by large language models (LLMs). Co-DETECT starts with an initial, sketch-level codebook and dataset provided by a domain expert, then leverages the LLM to annotate the data and identify edge cases that are not well described by the initial codebook. Specifically, Co-DETECT flags challenging examples…

An improved construction for the triangle removal lemma
Zach Hunter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05231 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05231…

An improved construction for the triangle removal lemma
We construct $n$-vertex graphs $G$ where $εn^2$ edges must be deleted to become triangle-free, which contain less than $ε^{(C_{\text{new}}-o(1))\log_2 1/ε}n^3$ triangles for $C_{\text{new}}= \frac{1}{4\log_2(4/3)} \approx 1.6601$. Previously, a bound of the same shape was known, but with $C_{\text{new}}$ replaced by $C_{\text{old}} := C_{\text{new}}/2$. Our construction uses ideas from additive combinatorics, drawing especially from the corners problem, but does not yield new bounds for thos…

"The life-cycle emissions of BEVs in the European Union are estimated to be 73% lower than those of gasoline ICEVs."
#ICCT's latest report:
https://theicct.org/publica…

Mastodon 4.4 is out now,
and it brings changes for profiles and lists and also lays the groundwork for quote posts.
With #profiles, you can feature specific hashtags so that people can see all the posts you’ve tagged with those hashtags.
Mastodon is also making a change to how #pinned posts work: you can…

Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts
Mastodon 4.4 release brings for things like profiles and lists and also lays the groundwork for quote posts.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday drew instant jeers when she defended the mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers -- and suggested that they could be replaced by Americans who are currently enrolled in Medicaid.
While speaking in Washington, D.C., Rollins declared that there would be "no amnesty" for immigrant farm workers
despite President Donald Trump sayingjust days ago that he was willing to let these workers stay at their jobs.
Instead, …

Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers | Common Dreams
U.S. Agriculture Secretary defends mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers, suggests Americans on Medicaid can replace them.

John Fothergill’s description of a headache he suffered in the winter of 1778 is thought to be the first anglophone account of a #migraine’s ocular disturbances.
He saw “a singular kind of glimmering in the sight; objects change their apparent position surrounded by luminous angles, like those of a fortification.
Giddiness comes on, headache, and sickness”.
Fothergill was detailing, wi…

Visualizing Migraines: The Attempts of Hubert Airy and Others to Depict Scintillating Scotomata
In a 1870 paper, Hubert Airy became the first to attempt to explicitly visualise the scintillating scotomata of his migraine.