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New: Podcast ep 204: Am I my things? When possessions define us: the psychological connection between identity, self-concept and hoarding with Dr Jan Eppingstall https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-204-ident…

Auch im nächsten Jahr wird in Dresden wieder #HeartTimes stattfinden. Die Anmeldung ist ab 16.10. möglich.
https://www.heart-times.de
Route von diesem Jahr:

How is it that #PalestineAction, whose worst 'crime' is to spray paint aeroplanes, is declared a #Terrorist organisation, and the #IDF, whose soldiers routinely beat and rape prisoners, shoot ch…

Tim Hardin - "Suite for Susan Moore and Damion - We Are - One, One, All In One" (1969)
The high lonesome sounds combined with all the family photos scream "She's left me". What a way to end the 60s.
#NowPlaying #TimHardin

I made a script for this, but then I thought a webui would be better so I could use it in my phone and stuff
I asked an LLM to generate a python webui to run server-side the script I wrote, and surprisingly it 100% worked first try. I was sure it wouldn’t work at all, but I didn’t touch that code and it works.
I can’t even say I “vibe coded” this bc I didn’t even read the code enough to know its vibes lmao. I’m surprised this even works, and it does work well. What the actual fuck.
Welp, not my favourite way to do things but I wasn’t in the mood to do python and figure out the extra libraries and stuff.
And it works so I’ll just use that. In a hardened systemd service to make sure it doesn’t like accidentally delete my whole system or something.

Hardness of recognizing phases of matter
Thomas Schuster, Dominik Kufel, Norman Y. Yao, Hsin-Yuan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08503 https://arxiv.org/…

Hardness of recognizing phases of matter
We prove that recognizing the phase of matter of an unknown quantum state is quantum computationally hard. More specifically, we show that the quantum computational time of any phase recognition algorithm must grow exponentially in the range of correlations $ξ$ of the unknown state. This exponential growth renders the problem practically infeasible for even moderate correlation ranges, and leads to super-polynomial quantum computational time in the system size $n$ whenever $ξ= ω(\log n)$. Ou…

A Minrank-based Encryption Scheme \`a la Alekhnovich-Regev
Thomas Debris-Alazard, Philippe Gaborit, Romaric Neveu, Olivier Ruatta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07584 https://

A Minrank-based Encryption Scheme à la Alekhnovich-Regev
Introduced in 2003 and 2005, Alekhnovich and Regev' schemes were the first public-key encryptions whose security is only based on the average hardness of decoding random linear codes and LWE, without other security assumptions. Such security guarantees made them very popular, being at the origin of the now standardized HQC or Kyber. We present an adaptation of Alekhnovich and Regev' encryption scheme whose security is only based on the hardness of a slight variation of MinRank, the so-called …

(Please don’t explain why large organizations can have seemingly contradictory goals, I know)
It’s funny how one part of Apple made a notification pop up on my watch this morning reminding me that tomorrow is world mental health day.
And another part of Apple is very busy appeasing fascists, the very thing that is hurting my mental health the most.

This is also a good way to make the protests actually valuable. The #NoKingsDay protests let people see how big the resistance was. It informed a section of the elite that their best bet was to resist rather than comply. The shutdown is already hurting the economy. The an economic blackout could be enough to break it... and we're all still waiting for the AI bubble to pop. It's gonna get really hot, really fast.
The great thing about the economic blackout as a strategy is that they don't have a mechanism to compel people to buy stuff. So it turns out that "make the economy scream" is a two player game. Go fucking figure.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Jesus Jones:
🎵 International Bright Young Thing
#JesusJones
https://12inchdance.bandcamp.com/track/international-bright-young-thing-phil-harding-12-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4xdXojWN3Uo5dMH3yWMHk3