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Cowboys 'should be in NFL playoff mix' if one key unit comes together https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-should-be-nfl-playoff-mix-one-key-unit-comes-together

Broncos WR Courtland Sutton suggests he left money on the table to keep the roster together: ‘It wasn’t about me' https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-wr-courtland-sutton-suggests-he-left-money-on-the-table-to-…

Playbook: Can the GOP megabill hold together? (Zack Stanton/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/06/29/can-the-gop-megabill-hold-together-00431477
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p67#a250629p67

Cowboys 'should be in NFL playoff mix' if one key unit comes together https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-should-be-nfl-playoff-mix-one-key-unit-comes-together

Wife and I improvised a wardrobe from scrap stuff we had laying around. 0€ spent, some 3D printed parts (designed in #SolveSpace) hold everything together. That's why I love #3DPrinting. 💪

Queen Anne's Lace looks like a galaxy of clusters of flowers that tile together irregularly
#photo #photography #flowers

Yelp is making AI videos about restaurants, using AI generated scripts and voice-overs based on reviews, incorporating pictures and videos posted by users (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/714944/yelp-ai-stitched-videos

Yelp is creating its own AI videos about restaurants
Yelp is using AI to stitch together and narrate user-posted content into videos about restaurants, food, and nightlife businesses that are available now in its iPhone and iPad app.

On Thursday 03.07. I'll have the honor of giving a talk with @… on "Fascist AI" in the "Loops" series of events (https://www.newpractice.net/loops

Loops Series
The Loops Event Series brings together perspectives on Art and Technology in relation to current challenges facing society. The event series is supported by the Berlin University Alliance.

In case anyone knows any good documents that explain in easy terms how email, smtp, and utf-8 work together, what exactly SMTPUTF8 and 8BITMIME do, and how that all works together with DKIM, I'd appreciate any pointers.

Spatial Data Science Symposium 2025 is announced. Check it out, it's hybrid!
http://sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net/index.html

Spatial Data Science Symposium 2025
December 4-5 | Distributed & Online. The symposium aims to bring together researchers from both academia and industry to discuss experiences, insights, methodologies, and applications, taking spatial and temporal knowledge into account while addressing their domain-specific problems.

Hungarian Milspace Kft helping Russian arms manufacturers evade international sanctions (DOCUMENT): https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/hungarian-milspace-kft-helping-russian.html

I've been doing these code lessons for beginners and once we got past the really basic stuff I feel like I've said over and over again that writing code is often about just taking bits and pieces from various programs and smashing them together.

Can I send you my recipe for green chile chicken posole?
I’m Deb Haaland
– a 35th-generation New Mexican,
proud member of the Laguna Pueblo,
and former U.S. Secretary of the Interior
– and I’m running to be the next Governor of New Mexico.
I’ve always believed that food brings us together
– and what better way to fuel up for the fight ahead than by sharing one of my favorite recipes?
If you make a donation of any amount through this link toda…

Deb Haaland for New Mexico | Official Campaign Website
Deb Haaland is running for Governor because she’s lived the struggles of New Mexicans. She is determined to face the toughest challenges head-on.

#SittingWithDogsBonus Huddled Together in Hope: The Heartfelt Tale of Two Shelter Dogs - Rocky Kanaka

Huddled Together in Hope: The Heartfelt Tale of Two Shelter Dogs - Rocky Kanaka
When I walked into the shelter when I walked into the shelter, two little pups caught my attention immediately. They huddled close together...

We’re heading to #OSFair2025
Together with the European e-Infrastructures Assembly, we’ll be at CERN with a joint booth and a shared mission: to help shape a more open, inclusive, and connected future for research and #openscience
📅 Register by 31 July:

If they’re doomed to dissatisfaction, though, at least they’re doomed together.

Join the millions using their voices and everyday choices to tackle the climate crisis! #climate

The Climate Reality Project
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Pics and reports on @ARRLFieldDay to follow once I've had a day to recover a bit. The club (CVARC) where I am the Field Day coordinator operated a 23A setup in challenging band conditions and I'm just amazed at how well everyone pulled together to do it. Not confirmed yet, but it's expected to be the largest such operation in the country again.
Between setup, the 24 hour event and breakdown, I walked nearly 40 miles. 🥾 A real long covid victory, that.

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
AVON: [Steps in front of the others] Who was the first, Dorian?
DORIAN: [Troubled] My partner. We entered this place together. Like you, he could never leave it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/511 B7B2

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

Maxx Crosby talks to MJD about what he's learned from new Raiders HC Pete Carroll https://www.nfl.com/videos/maxx-crosby-talks-to-mjd-about-what-he-s-learned-from-new-raiders-hc-pete-carroll-back-together-weeke…

MCP has promise beyond AI, and could serve as a "universal plugin system" that connects disparate data sources and tools together to enable new capabilities (Scott Werner/Works on My Machine)
https://worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-acc…

MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls

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

Jerry Jones shares Micah Parsons trade timeline of when Packers deal came together https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jerry-jones-shares-micah-parsons-trade-timeline-when-packers-deal-came-together

Back Together Weekend: Highlights, buzz from Saturday's NFL training camps https://www.nfl.com/news/back-together-weekend-highlights-buzz-from-saturday-s-nfl-training-camps

Further signs of the fall of civilization:
Melania Trump launches AI contest for schoolchildren in grades K-12;
National contest aims to encourage kids to work together to address community issues with artificial intelligence
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202…

AI and Agile Software Development: A Research Roadmap from the XP2025 Workshop
Zheying Zhang, Tomas Herda, Victoria Pichler, Pekka Abrahamsson, Geir K. Hanssen, Joshua Kerievsky, Alex Polyakov, Mohit Chandna, Marius Irgens, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Ayman Asad Khan, Crystal Kwok, Evan Leybourn, Munish Malik, Dorota Mleczko, Morteza Moalagh, Christopher Morales, Yuliia Pieskova, Daniel Plan\"otscher, Mika Saari, Anastasiia Tkalich, Karl Josef Gstettner, Xiaofeng Wang

AI and Agile Software Development: A Research Roadmap from the XP2025 Workshop
This paper synthesizes the key findings from a full-day XP2025 workshop on "AI and Agile: From Frustration to Success", held in Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland. The workshop brought together over 30 interdisciplinary academic researchers and industry practitioners to tackle the concrete challenges and emerging opportunities at the intersection of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and agile software development. Through structured, interactive breakout sessions, participants identified shar…

If Bob Dylan and Beck got together and formed a weird, lo-fi garage rock band that played rough, rowdy, raw, catchy songs that were recorded however & randomly cut off at the ends of em, they'd probably sound something like New Orleans' TWISTED TEENS. Bummed I missed this fantastic self-titled LP of theirs last year, but at least I have it #NowPlaying. Also Cake, Sonics or Wild Pink vibes so…

Can LLMs Reason About Trust?: A Pilot Study
Anushka Debnath, Stephen Cranefield, Emiliano Lorini, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21075 https://

Can LLMs Reason About Trust?: A Pilot Study
In human society, trust is an essential component of social attitude that helps build and maintain long-term, healthy relationships which creates a strong foundation for cooperation, enabling individuals to work together effectively and achieve shared goals. As many human interactions occur through electronic means such as using mobile apps, the potential arises for AI systems to assist users in understanding the social state of their relationships. In this paper we investigate the ability of L…

Changes to local government in #Essex proposed: squish together the 14 district councils (who handle planning applications, bins, etc) into 5 new councils of about 300k population each. Then abolish Essex council (adult social care, roads, etc) and give the powers to the new councils.
It generally makes sense. Local plans (town planning) get done on a larger area. And no normal people u…

SimShear: Sim-to-Real Shear-based Tactile Servoing
Kipp McAdam Freud, Yijiong Lin, Nathan F. Lepora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20561 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

SimShear: Sim-to-Real Shear-based Tactile Servoing
We present SimShear, a sim-to-real pipeline for tactile control that enables the use of shear information without explicitly modeling shear dynamics in simulation. Shear, arising from lateral movements across contact surfaces, is critical for tasks involving dynamic object interactions but remains challenging to simulate. To address this, we introduce shPix2pix, a shear-conditioned U-Net GAN that transforms simulated tactile images absent of shear, together with a vector encoding shear informat…

"It's "#ORCID and…," not "ORCID or…": How researcher identifiers work together to help researchers, build a better picture of research, and streamline administrative tasks": White Paper by MoreBrains › https://

With CDC in chaos, scientists and physicians piece together replacements for agency's lost work (Mike Stobbe/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cdc-vaccine-recommendations-data-b4eeba69e03a8d4ed50fb0a12fbcec6e
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p28#a250829p28

“Foundations: types of assistive technology and adaptive strategies”
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/07/28/foundations-types-of-assistive-technology-and-adaptive-strategies/
Very high level, so no inline examples …

Foundations: types of assistive technology and adaptive strategies - TetraLogical
This post provides an overview of common assistive technologies (AT) used by people with seeing, hearing, moving, and thinking disabilities. It also explains what adaptive strategies are, and how these approaches work together to support accessibility and inclusive experiences.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Spiritualized:
🎵 Come Together
#Spiritualized
https://spiritualizedband.bandcamp.com/track/come-together
https://open.spotify.com/track/5lI9y4ZbpBsNJp4qd3ewzc

Mary Edith Barnes became aware of the work of the Glaswegian psychiatrist and countercultural figure, Dr RD (Ronnie) Laing,
author of "The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness "(1960).
This led her to Kingsley Hall, a radical therapeutic community in Bow in East London.
Established in 1965 and headed up by Laing, it was an unconventional centre where mental-health professionals and those experiencing mental illness lived together. Drug-taking …

MARY BARNES
First published: Summer 2025 For English artist Mary Barnes, it was psychosis, radical treatment and an unorthodox relationship with her doctor that began her creative journey Mary Edith Barnes was born in Portsmouth, on England’s south coast, in 1923. She trained as a nurse, later joining the British Army and working

Join us for a casual Scrappy Hour bike ride on Sunday, August 31st. 🚴‍♀️
We'll roll out from Rocket Baby just after 9am and head to the Domes... There's about four or five of us so far but we welcome anyone to join us! 🚴
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNvbxVRXHS1/

Scrappy Hour on Instagram: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW Cactus Club- meet 8:30a; wheels up 9:00a EAST SIDE/RW The Daily Bird-meet 9:00a; wheels up 9:15a TOSA Rocket Baby- meet 9:00; wheels up 9:15a Then, we SHBBQ at South Shore Park! We’ll bring some dogs and veggie alternatives. A couple sides. And a cooler of mixed bevies. We’ll bring a couple grills too. Last year our gang showed up with some really delightful offerings! There was homemade bread, and baked goods and side salads. It ruled. So feel free to bring what ever you would like to share with everyone. It will be much appreciated. Bring a baseball mitt and we’ll have a catch. Have a frisbee, bring that too. If it’s hot, good luck keeping me out of that lake, so bring your suit. If you have any questions, as always hit us up and we’ll try to answer. All our love, SH ✌️🚲🏃‍♂️☕️ #coffeeoutsidemke #scrappyhourmke"
107 likes, 8 comments - scrappyhourmke on August 24, 2025: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW …

A finite 6d supergravity landscape from anomalies
Yuta Hamada, Gregory J. Loges
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20949 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20949

A finite 6d supergravity landscape from anomalies
6d supergravities with non-abelian gauge group are subject to many consistency conditions. While the absence of local gauge and gravitational anomalies allows for infinitely many models, we show that those conditions stemming from the absence of both local and global anomalies together are strong enough to leave only finitely many consistent models. To do this we distill the consequences of anomaly cancellation into a high-dimensional linear program whose dual can be efficiently studied using s…

i recently left fedi for a bit cause i was feeling like shit and unable to do anything but spread that energy, and during that time i cobbled this together off a few loosely connected notes and thoughts for an unreleased project of mine. i dislike it but dont really know what to do about that anymore, so here u go. all words treasured.
#art

A general perspective on CBO methods with stochastic rate of information
Stefano Almi, Alessandro Baldi, Marco Morandotti, Francesco Solombrino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20029 …

A general perspective on CBO methods with stochastic rate of information
This paper studies a class of Consensus-Based Optimization (CBO) models featuring an additional stochastic rate of information, modeling the agents' knowledge of the environment and energy landscape. The well-posedness of the stochastic system is proved, together with its finite-particle approximation and the mean-field convergence to a kinetic PDE. Particles are shown to concentrate around the consensus point under mild assumptions on the initial spatial distribution and initial level of knowl…

The Power of Data Communities
Lucas McCullum, Miguel Angel Armengol de la Hoz, Catherine Bielick, Daniel K. Ebner, Amelia Fiske, Jack Gallifant, Judy W. Gichoya, Rahul Gorijavolu, Nura Izath, Anna E. Premo, Alice Rangel Teixeira, Christopher M. Sauer, Leo A. Celi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20120

The Power of Data Communities
Datasets together with active scientific communities prepared to leverage them can contribute to scientific progress and facilitate making research more equitable. In this study we found that MIMIC, despite its limited amount of funding, managed to provide higher impact per dollar spent through accessible data communities. These findings support the notion that making clinical data available empowers innovation which directly addresses clinical concerns and can set new standards for inclusivity.

Join the millions using their voices and everyday choices to tackle the climate crisis! #climate

The Climate Reality Project
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Picked up a new android phone yesterday afternoon so still finding my way around.
The things I thought would be a hassle transferring across weren't so bad but myGov and myID do not play well together when you have a new phone.
myID resets so basic mode so it can't be used to log into myGov and of course, myGov doesn't recognise my password any more. Reset the password and even got an email saying I had successfully set a new password. Still doesn't work.
…

The Hasse Principle for Geometric Variational Problems: An Illustration via Area-minimizing Submanifolds
Zhenhua Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21045 https://

The Hasse Principle for Geometric Variational Problems: An Illustration via Area-minimizing Submanifolds
The Hasse principle in number theory states that information about integral solutions to Diophantine equations can be pieced together from real solutions and solutions modulo prime powers. We show that the Hasse principle holds for area-minimizing submanifolds: information about area-minimizing submanifolds in integral homology can be fully recovered from those in real homology and mod $n$ homology for all $n\in \mathbb{Z}_{\ge 2}.$ As a consequence we derive several surprising conclusions, inc…

Hello from #CoRDI2025 👋 !
🛠️ This year @… is presenting how our Culture Information Portal, the Metadata API, and the Culture Knowledge Graph work together to make #culturalheritage

My wife tells me that these white Echinacea flowers are less hardy than the purple ones and that if you grow them together the purples will crowd the whites out
#photo #photography #cornell

"What is Starfleet?" could have been even more cheesy if it was shot like a regular TOS or TNG aliens of the week episode. AND the whole crew had a jolly get-together after they helped the alien to commit suicide. WTF. Classic 😄
#StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds …

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Tom Lehrer & Tom Lehrer:
🎵 We will all go together when we go
#TomLehrer
https://open.spotify.com/track/4k7Nt93W5UsCHjBQZClKyF

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 575860 nodes and 675049 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

#TCRNo11Cap376a & #TCRNo11Cap376b sind für mich jetzt schon mit die größten Helden des #TCRNo11!
Bilder geklaut bei LostDot.

From SFU
#Vancouver Climate Day
On Friday, September 26, join the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue for a day dedicated to collaboration and learning about the amazing climate action work taking place across the wider Vancouver community. Featuring workshops, panels, showcases, networking and much more, this one-day event brings together researchers, policy leaders, action leaders and …

Existence and decay for a Grushin problem in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with singular, convective, critical reaction
Laura Baldelli, Paolo Malanchini, Simone Secchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22177

Existence and decay for a Grushin problem in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with singular, convective, critical reaction
We establish an existence result for a problem set in the whole Euclidean space involving the Grushin operator and featuring a critical term perturbed by a singular, convective reaction. Our approach combines variational methods, truncation techniques, and concentration-compactness arguments, together with set-valued analysis and fixed point theory. Additionally, we prove the decay at infinity of solutions in the absence of the convective term. The result is new even in the case where more than…

2D semiconductors as integrated light sources for plasmonic waveguides
Christian Frydendahl, Torgom Yezekyan, Vladimir Zenin, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21806

2D semiconductors as integrated light sources for plasmonic waveguides
2D materials are compatible with many material platforms as they adhere to other materials strictly by van der Waals interactions. This, together with the variety of band gaps found among transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), makes them uniquely interesting to study for on-chip light sources, as the photonic integrated circuit (PIC) industry is developing into several material platforms depending on the application (gold, silicon, silicon nitride, indium phosphide, etc). 2D materials could …

from my link log —
Using LXCFS together with Podman.
https://www.die-welt.net/2025/06/using-lxcfs-together-with-podman/
saved 2025-06-25

The first detection of cosmic-ray excited H$_2$ in interstellar space
Shmuel Bialy, Amit Chemke, David A. Neufeld, James Muzerolle Page, Alexei V. Ivlev, Sirio Belli, Brandt A. L. Gaches, Benjamin Godard, Thomas G. Bisbas, Paola Caselli, Arshia M. Jacob, Marco Padovani, Christian Rab, Kedron Silsbee, Troy A. Porter
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…

The first detection of cosmic-ray excited H$_2$ in interstellar space
Stars and planets form within cold, dark molecular clouds. In these dense regions, where starlight cannot penetrate, cosmic rays (CRs) are the dominant source of ionization -- driving interstellar chemistry(Dalgarno (2006, PNAS, 103, 12269)), setting the gas temperature(Goldsmith et al. (1969, ApJ, 158, 173)), and enabling coupling to magnetic fields(McKee & Ostriker (2007, ARA&A, 45, 565; arXiv:0707.3514)). Together, these effects regulate the collapse of clouds and the onset of star formation…

Best way to start a conference day with a morning run together with a dear colleague
#cordi2025 @… @… @…

My article just out:
Progressive Jews (and non-Jews too!) need to revive the social democratic politics of solidarity. It brings poor & middle together, in contrast to the politics of far-left "allyship" & elite charity which both drive them apart.
https://www.

After Zohran Mamdani’s upset, there’s a way forward for pro-Israel progressives
In the fight for economic fairness for all, Jews shouldn't have to give up on defending their particular interests, writes a long-time contributor to Dissent magazine.

Advising with Threshold Tests: Complexity, Signaling, and Effort
Georgy Lukyanov, Mark Izgarshev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20540 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Advising with Threshold Tests: Complexity, Signaling, and Effort
A benevolent advisor observes a project's complexity and posts a pass - fail threshold before the agent chooses effort. The project succeeds only if ability and effort together clear complexity. We compare two informational regimes. In the naive regime, the threshold is treated as non-informative; in the sophisticated regime, the threshold is a signal and the agent updates beliefs. We characterize equilibrium threshold policies and show that the optimal threshold rises with complexity under mil…

This ends up being a really interesting read about the challenges of a country to fight corruption while it tries to achieve everything it needs to do become part of the EU.
Moldova and Ukraine started the process together 2022. Imagine if they could actually achieve it together in 2028!
#Ukraine #Moldova #Corruption #EU #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles/2025/08/29/7219040/

Do Students Learn Better Together? Teaching Design Patterns and the OSI Model with the Aronson Method
Daniel San Martin, Carlos Manzano, Valter Vieira de Camargo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16770

Do Students Learn Better Together? Teaching Design Patterns and the OSI Model with the Aronson Method
Abstract concepts like software design patterns and the OSI model often pose challenges for engineering students, and traditional methods may fall short in promoting deep understanding and individual accountability. This study explores the use of the Aronson Jigsaw method to enhance learning and engagement in two foundational computing topics. The intervention was applied to two 2025 cohorts, with student progress measured using a Collaborative Learning Index derived from formative assessments.…

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

@… so hard to choose, but I’ll go with We Will All Go Together When We Go.

Incomprehensible USG self-sabotage. The combination of arrogance, stupidity and ignorance required to burn down hurricane and weather forecasting -- IN THE FIRST WEEKS OF THE HURRICANE SEASON?! -- will, incontrovertibly, kill people. I hope their surviving friends, family, coworkers etc get together and sue those responsible into smoking holes in the ground.
#NHC

Monodromy Equivalence for Lam\'{e}-type Equations I: Finite-gap Structures and Cone Spherical Metrics
Ting-Jung Kuo, Xuanpu Liang, Ping-Hsiang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20486

Monodromy Equivalence for Lamé-type Equations I: Finite-gap Structures and Cone Spherical Metrics
Motivated by the finite-gap structure of the classical Lamé equation (1.2) and its central role in mathematical physics, generalized Lamé-type equations (1.12) are investigated. For the fundamental case $n=1$, a monodromy equivalence between the classical Lamé equation (1.18) and the generalized Lamé-type equation (1.19) is established. Two main applications are obtained: (i) the finite-gap structure of \ (1.19) is derived, together with a complete classification of the spectral curves $σ_…

How a Trade 16 Years Ago Impacted Raiders' Ownership Today https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-richard-seymour-magic-johnson-mark-davis

#ListeningClub Thank you everybody for your thoughtful picks and @… for bringing it all together so well. See ya on the flip side!

Athena: Intermediate Representations for Iterative Scaffolded App Generation with an LLM
Jazbo Beason, Ruijia Cheng, Eldon Schoop, Jeffrey Nichols
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20263

Athena: Intermediate Representations for Iterative Scaffolded App Generation with an LLM
It is challenging to generate the code for a complete user interface using a Large Language Model (LLM). User interfaces are complex and their implementations often consist of multiple, inter-related files that together specify the contents of each screen, the navigation flows between the screens, and the data model used throughout the application. It is challenging to craft a single prompt for an LLM that contains enough detail to generate a complete user interface, and even then the result is…

there goes the afternoon #LEGO #lgbtq #awesome

Average-case complexity in statistical inference: A puzzle-driven research seminar
Anastasia Kireeva, Afonso S. Bandeira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22182 h…

Average-case complexity in statistical inference: A puzzle-driven research seminar
These notes describe our experience with running a student seminar on average-case complexity in statistical inference using the jigsaw learning format at ETH Zurich in Fall of 2024. The jigsaw learning technique is an active learning technique where students work in groups on independent parts of the task and then reassemble the groups to combine all the parts together. We implemented this technique for the proofs of various recent research developments, combined with a presentation by one of …

“Personality vs. Personalization” in AI Systems: Specific Uses and Concrete Risks (Part 2)
https://fpf.org/blog/personality-vs-personalization-in-ai-systems-specific-uses-and-concrete-risks-part-2/
@…

[OT] Protecting science: TIB builds dark archive for arXiv #arXiv; …

Protecting Science: TIB builds Dark Archive for arXiv - TIB-Blog
Research and science are international; it is not for nothing that we speak of international specialist communities. Although a service such as arXiv is operated by an institution based in the USA, namely Cornell University, it is used by researchers worldwide. Part of arXiv‘s funding has also been internationalised since 2010 with the introduction of arXiv membership. The TIB finances the German contribution together with the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF) and the Max…

Since Microsoft is organising a European Sovereign Tech Fund, we should ask Lockheed Martin to put together a European Sovereign Defense Fund. There’s probably also opportunity here to bring Amazon in to advise on EU labour standards and have McDonald’s take the lead on food safety policy in the EU.
CC @…

"To save a rare South African ecosystem, conservationists bought the land"
#SouthAfrica #Conservation #Environment

To save a rare South African ecosystem, conservationists bought the land
Three conservation trusts have together purchased an area of a severely threatened vegetation type found in the Overberg region of South Africa’s Western Cape province. Known as the renosterveld, this unique habitat characterized by shrubs and grasses is also a breeding ground for endangered black harriers, the three groups announced in a joint press release. […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Spiritualized:
🎵 Always Together With You
#Spiritualized
https://spiritualizedband.bandcamp.com/track/always-together-with-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/6JRhY1HxkxdPTdHf0ywvSg

Dolphins' pass rush trio of Bradley Chubb, Jaelan Phillips, Chop Robinson ready for 'race' to QB https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-bradley-chubb-jaelan-phillips-chop-robinson-race-to-quarterback

A look at "The List", a compilation of the most talented AI engineers and researchers that Mark Zuckerberg has put together in an effort to recruit them to Meta (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai-recruitin

Fun bug:
Screen readers stick paragraphs together when display: block is present in ::before and :after
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/428077782
Have confirmed for myself.
Who doesn't like CSS display property bugs that blow up accessibility? Oh rig…

Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns.
But we can work together to make every town safer, and support solutions that will address the causes of gun violence in America.
Sign up today and become part of a movement of millions of everyday Americans.
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Join Us
Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns. But we can work together to make every town safer, and support solutions that will address the causes of gun violence in …

Rapoport: Jake Ferguson's four-year Cowboys extension includes $52M in new money https://www.nfl.com/videos/rapoport-jake-ferguson-s-four-year-cowboys-extension-includes-52m-in-new-money-back-together-weekend

Raiders take care of their own by hosting second annual Alumni Wellness Weekend https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-second-annual-alumni-wellness-weekend-nfl

Regularity Analysis for Two Coupled Second Order Evolution Equations
Chenxi Deng, Zhaobin Kuang, Zhuangyi Liu, Qiong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20624 https://

Regularity Analysis for Two Coupled Second Order Evolution Equations
We investigate the regularity of the strongly continuous semigroup associated with a system of two coupled second order evolution equations with indirect damping, whose stability was recently studied by Hao et al. By deriving the asymptotic expression of the eigenvalues the generator, we partition the parameter space into several disjoint regions, where the semigroup exhibits either analyticity or Gevrey class regularity. Together with the estimate of the resolvent of the generator on the imagi…

The NIKA2 cosmological legacy survey at 2 mm: catalogs, colors, redshift distributions, and implications for deep surveys
M. B\'ethermin, G. Lagache, C. Carvajal-Bohorquez, R. Adam, P. Ade, H. Ajeddig, S. Amarantidis, P. Andr\'e, H. Aussel, A. Beelen, A. Beno\^it, S. Berta, L. J. Bing, A. Bongiovanni, J. Bounmy, O. Bourrion, M. Calvo, A. Catalano, D. Ch\'erouvrier, M. De Petris, F. -X. D\'esert, S. Doyle, E. F. C. Driessen, G. Ejlali, A. Ferragamo, A. Gomez, J. Goupy, C…

The NIKA2 cosmological legacy survey at 2 mm: catalogs, colors, redshift distributions, and implications for deep surveys
Millimeter galaxy surveys are particularly effective in detecting dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshift. While such observations are typically conducted at ~1mm, studies suggest that 2mm may be better suited for selecting sources at even higher redshifts. We use the unprecedented 2mm data from the N2CLS, together with the SIDES simulation, to study and interpret the statistical properties of 2mm-selected galaxies. We use the N2CLS robust sample at 2mm, which contains 25 sources in the de…

Steelers GM Omar Khan on offseason overhaul: 'We think it came together pretty nicely' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-gm-omar-khan-offseason-overhaul-we-think-it-came-together-pretty-nicely

I saw this blooming today downtown by the Cayuga Lake Inlet, my wife thinks it is a tree that's supposed to bloom in the Spring that's blooming in late August instead
#photo #photography #flowers

This Anti-Corruption Tracker focuses on the erosion or dismantling of oversight and accountability systems within the United States Executive Branch
—watchdog offices closed,
enforcement units disbanded, oversight officials removed,
and transparency rules hollowed out.
These changes don’t always make headlines, but together, they create a more permissive environment for corruption and abuse of power to take root.

The Anti-Corruption Tracker: Mapping the Erosion of Oversight and Accountability
This Anti-Corruption Tracker focuses on the erosion or dismantling of oversight and accountability systems within the United States Executive Branch

The benefit of an multidisciplinary community as in #CORDI2025 is that you also have chemists on site assisting you to start up the conference with a loud booom! :)
https://www.nfdi.de/cordi-2025/?lang=en

Jerry Jones thinks Micah Parsons trade will galvanize Cowboys ahead of Week 1 vs. Eagles https://theeagleswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/eagles/2025/08/28/jerry-jones-expects-cowboys-to-come-t…

from my link log —
The story of ispc: Intel implicit SPMD single program multiple data compiler.
https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html
saved 2025-06-08

Modeling the Mass Distribution and Gravitational Potential of Nearby Disk Galaxies: Implications for the ISM Dynamical Equilibrium
Vivek Vijayakumar, Jiayi Sun, Eve C. Ostriker, Enrico M. Di Teodoro, Konstantin Haubner, Chang-Goo Kim, Adam K. Leroy, Miguel Querejeta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22381…

Modeling the Mass Distribution and Gravitational Potential of Nearby Disk Galaxies: Implications for the ISM Dynamical Equilibrium
We characterize stellar, gas, and dark matter mass distributions for 17 nearby massive disk galaxies from the PHANGS sample. This allows us to compute the gravitational potential that vertically confines the interstellar gas and determines its equilibrium scale height and weight. We first combine dynamical mass constraints from existing CO and HI rotation curves together with stellar and gas mass estimates from near-infrared, CO, and HI data. These estimates incorporate current best practices i…

‘They’ve Worked Together Very Well’—Raiders Owner Tom Brady On His Dynamic Duo https://raiderramble.com/2025/06/27/raiders-owner-tom-brady-on-dynamic-duo/

Whew! Mistakes were made, but I got the dashboard of the Beat Bike put together. I can now pedal to set the tempo while I live program the drum machine. (No video of programming yet because I had to hold the phone up high!)
#bikeTooter #diy

Lew Welch had been a fixture among the best minds of the Beat generation—a friend of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder,
a kindred California spirit whose writing never achieved the same profile.
In 1971, Welch, who had been building a cabin on the San Juan Ridge, on land Ginsberg had left him,
walked away from the property with a .22-caliber revolver
and was never seen again.
“I had great visions but never could bring them together with reality,”…

Alta Folio: ‘I Went Southwest’
Writer Brad Rassler digs into the disappearance and afterlife of Beat poet Lew Welch.

CeeDee Lamb: There's a special 'energy' around Cowboys' camp https://www.nfl.com/videos/ceedee-lamb-there-s-a-special-energy-around-cowboys-camp-back-together-weekend

London-based Attio, which offers a CRM service where AI agents and humans work together, raised a $52M Series B led by GV, bringing its total funding to $116M (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/08/26/attio-raises-52m-series-b-to-scale-crm-platform/…

Attio raises $52M Series B to scale CRM platform
London-based CRM startup Attio has raised $52 million in Series B funding to expand its CRM platform. The round was led by GV (Google Ventures), with participation from existing investors Redpoint Ventures, 01A, Point Nine, and Balderton Capital, bringing Attio’s total funding to $116 million.With the new funding, Attio plans to scale its engineering team, accelerate product development, and double down on go-to-market outreach. Investment will focus particularly on features that enhance agen…

Brian Schottenheimer shares what coaching traits he learned from his father https://www.nfl.com/videos/brian-schottenheimer-shares-what-coaching-traits-he-learned-from-his-father-back-together-weekend

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…

Micah Parsons, Trevon Diggs defend one another, want to keep playing together https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/micah-parsons-trevon-diggs-defend-one-another-want-to-keep-playing-together

Micah Parsons, Trevon Diggs defend one another, want to keep playing together https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/micah-parsons-trevon-diggs-defend-one-another-want-to-keep-playing-together