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"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" –
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/31/degrowth-a-dead-end-or-the-way-out-capitals-future-scam/
New piece in our

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

⏰ Inside a neuroscientist’s quest to cure coma
#brain

Inside a neuroscientist’s quest to cure coma
Thousands of Americans are trapped in disorders of consciousness. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is searching for a way out.

This Is a Shameful Way to Make Law -- Senate Republicans hope to pass their mega-trillion-dollar spending law this morning. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-a-shameful-way-to-make-law-trump-republicans-senate-congress-big-beautiful-bill-medicaid-spending-debt-deficit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p35#a250701p35

Narrator: Thomas tried to push the giant cat out of the way, but the kitty didn't move.

Things like this are not just a symbolic expression of discontent.
Fascism depends to a •very• large extent on anticipatory compliance. It needs people to feel like things are going that way, it’s already a done deal, better to just go along with it.
Every time dissent is visible, every way dissent feels ubiquitous, every time somebody feels like they’re not alone in opposition, every time somebody who’s tempted to comply fears there might be hell to pay if they do — that directly, concretely damages the fascists’ power.

This is part of the overall assault on knowledge that the administration is undertaking.
Everything that has made this nation a shining beacon in any way whatsoever is being dismantled
-- with the worst aspects of American history being held up as aspirational.
Please call Congress if you are able.
🛰️🧪

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Psychedelic Furs:
🎵 Love My Way
#ThePsychedelicFurs
https://daleguzman.bandcamp.com/track/the-psychedelic-furs-love-my-way-dj-mhark-redrum-clean-127
https://open.spotify.com/track/5rSekme9Kdoj2XZebQVl4C

CNN's chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, whose 2021 story led to a suit in which a jury awarded $5M to an ex-CIA operative, is leaving CNN (Stephen Battaglio/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latime…

CNN parts ways with correspondent whose story led to defamation lawsuit
A jury awarded a military contractor $5 million over Alex Marquardt's 2021 report on a military contractor.

Just the periodic reminder (this time in English) to the people on Bluesky that the only way for me to actually interact with you when you in any way try to interact with my bridged account there is if your account is also bridged.

One way to ensure I don't buy an item is to market it "as seen on Shark Tank" -- but that's probably just me. Another way to ensure I don't buy an item is to market it as having AI features (??), and apparently that's widespread.
https://futurism.com/customers-see-ai-…

Something Hilarious Happens When Potential Customers See That a Product Has AI Features
New research explores how customers react to products that are marketed as having AI — with striking results.

That's maybe the worst thing about AI generators: In a way the whole system is set up to gaslight you into believing that you wanted what it created (because otherwise the magic goes poof).

The drought in southern Australia is not over—it just looks that way #Australia

The drought in southern Australia is not over—it just looks that way
How often do you mow your lawn in winter? That may seem like an odd way to start a conversation about drought. But the answer helps explain why our current drought has not broken, despite recent rain—and why spring lamb may be more expensive this year.

https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-blocks-ai-crawlers-default/

Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.

Ist there a way to bridge an account on #Peertube to #Bluesky via #Bridgyfed? I found hints to an yes, but no explanation. Anyone know more?
CC @…

Cowboys New $4.2 Million QB Reveals Odd Way Girlfriend Helps Him Learn Playbook https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/joe-milton-girlfriend-helps-playbook/?adt_ei=[email]

A reminder that R Ben Shapiro (of UW) and I run CERAMICS, a way for outsiders who want to learn about getting into CS Ed research. Read more and apply here!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQEci1r9iOBv…

Almost 200 countries guarantee children’s rights.
Why doesn’t the US?
The US never signed on to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which experts say paves the way for cuts to federal funding for children’s health coverage
https://www.

Any CEO (especially those that are Billionaires) should be seen as failures if they have to do layoffs.
You fucked up. You're supposed to be the smart one, able to run things properly, but you made a mistake (or many) along the way, and you make others pay for it by destroying their livelihood.
CEO need to be made to pay for their mistakes.

HoneySat: A Network-based Satellite Honeypot Framework
Efr\'en L\'opez-Morales (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi), Ulysse Planta (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Gabriele Marra (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Carlos Gonz\'alez (German Aerospace Center), Jacob Hopkins (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi), Majid Garoosi (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), El\'ias Obreque (Universidad de Chile), Carlos Rubio-M…

HoneySat: A Network-based Satellite Honeypot Framework
Satellites are the backbone of several mission-critical services, such as GPS that enable our modern society to function. For many years, satellites were assumed to be secure because of their indecipherable architectures and the reliance on security by obscurity. However, technological advancements have made these assumptions obsolete, paving the way for potential attacks, and sparking a renewed interest in satellite security. Unfortunately, to this day, there is no efficient way to collect dat…

Everyone thinks #AI can do someone else's job. Designers want to get rid of PMs. PMs think they no longer need devs. Devs can't wait to generate designs. And managers are anticipating getting rid of us all.
Alas, in the few cases the tools work at all, they get you no more than 80% of the way there. Without experts to identify where that 20-100% gap is, you have nothing.
I've …

The Product Picnic
Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

(Did you know that in the original stage version of The Sound of Music, the thing that finally breaks Captain von Trapp’s engagement to the baroness isn’t the vague, wishy-washy “noble unstated feelings” scene that’s in the movie (and which never worked in my view, despite the actors giving it their all); it’s that the baroness tries to convince him to go along with the Nazis because there’s nothing he can do, and he decides he can’t marry a woman with no convictions. They cut the song from the film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Way_to_Stop_It)

AI bots playing music for other bots. A signpost along the way to our Matrix-like future
https://futurism.com/ai-band-spotify-streams

An "Indie Rock Band" That Appears to Be Entirely AI-Generated Is Making Alarming Amounts of Money on Spotify
While real artists struggle to earn money on Spotify, a seemingly AI-generated band has garnered enough streams to actually make a buck. 

@… I was thinking of you when I just tried this AI prompt: “> spawn 5 agents using batchtool to replace the react webui with html/css with no javascript, remove all the react code and references, keep the same functionality and layout. “. I will let you know how it works out. It’s a throwaway app at this point anyway, but it it works I’ll keep it this way.…

#NowPlaying - "lilac" is almost certainly my fave later era #eno song, & the rest is way more soaring & playful than i remember. maybe i need to revisit the first album with karl hyde? @…

#BritneySpears: "I am for the #deathpenalty. Who commits terrible acts must get a fitting #punishment. That way he learns the lesson for the next time."
The closest I found as referenc…

@… I get that, it doesn't have to be useful for everyone to be the most useful thing, in the same way that if you only have one food-holding device, better make it a pasta bowl, even though not everything is pasta.

I generally only do anything with those two garden beds once every 2 to 3 years. I have way too many garden beds on my property.
That turned out pretty good, though.

The way we talk about housing in public discourse is so broken. How does kicking unhoused people out onto the street "deal with" homelessness in any sense other than a murderous one?
"Montreal's public transit agency is lifting a temporary rule against loitering in the Metro — a controversial measure established in mid-March to help deal with rising social problems in the network, including homelessness."

Did I just submerge my feet in the lake? Perhaps.
Did I enjoy a short relief? Surely.
And now to toil my way to the train station.

Via Business Insider (paywalled; my RSS feeder displays the text):
“The way business leaders are frantically begging Trump for favors and the almost openly corrupt way in which he is granting them is, in effect, government taking control of the means of production”

Big time QB Bo Callahan falls in the NFL Draft... due to questions about character?
2014's "Draft Day" predicted Shedeur Sanders way back in 2014.
▶️ Weaver Makes the Choice for the First Round Draft | Draft Day | Kevin Costner
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-5_rtBwgjy

Been working in Costa again whilst freeloading off Tesco’s leccy.
Definitely works as a way to save money…
#EV #PHEV #VW

Turns out the human mind sees what it wants to see, not what you actually see
https://bgr.com/science/turns-out-the-human-mind-sees-what-it-wants-to-see-not-what-you-actually-s…

Turns out the human mind sees what it wants to see, not what you actually see
Researchers have discovered that how the brain sees can vary depending on whether a scene plays out the way the mind expects or not.

Feasibility study of a mission to Sedna -- Nuclear propulsion and advanced solar sailing concepts.
TL;DR: Solar sails could make the trip take some 7 years, while thermonuclear fusion could take 10 years. Whereas with current engines it would take 30 years.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17732

Feasibility study of a mission to Sedna -- Nuclear propulsion and advanced solar sailing concepts
Exploring the outer reaches of the Solar System presents significant propulsion and mission design challenges. This study assesses the feasibility of a mission to Sedna using two advanced propulsion concepts: the Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) rocket engine, based on D-$^{3}$He thermonuclear fusion, and a solar sail utilizing thermal desorption of its coating for propulsion. Both are evaluated for a one-way Earth-to-Sedna mission; however, due to the different performances the DFD would enable orbit…

"My advice to young students today is to study language and mathematics. When you talk to a chatbot, you’re using everyday language to talk to a mathematical system that, in turn, talks back to you. Technical skills won’t be enough to deal with the unpredictable results in markets, so a broad-based knowledge of math and language will be the only way to adapt."

For those who think that going out is the wrong thing to do today: Here's a quick puzzle for you.
#MathPuzzle #ScientificAmerican #DicePuzzle

I’m not usually feeling attractive, but every now and then I catch myself looking that way. It’s part of my gender-fluid experience, I guess.
Being autistic adds its own flavor to how I see myself and attraction.
#Autosexual? Sometimes!

I also see that the FFOTUS Imperial parade is being designated a "National Security Event", meaning they expect an elevated risk of terrorist events.
From whom? I suspect foreign interests, like neo-ISIS, are quite happy with the way that FFOTUS is dis-assembling the US - Bin Laden must be quite proud of what FFOTUS Musk miller/noem ... are doing to the USA. So why would they bother attacking this silly (and expensive) parade that makes the US look like it is doing a spin-o…

I am trying out just boosting some posts that I think are excellent. I have become increasingly bothered by "liking" posts that make me angry or that disgust me in one way or another. So many of the things that I read about Trump and his sycophants disgust me, and while I think that others should see these posts, I always get ticked off when I click the like button so I'm going to try just boosting things and see how I feel about that!

Just read that Mozilla has decided to shut down Pocket (!?!). Its integration with Kobo e-readers is great and something I will miss. It will be difficult to find a similarly practical way to read web articles on my e-reader, other than the somewhat clunky pdf-saving cloud sync method. Any tips much welcome!

Found a way to make a scammer to hang up on me. She was calling from 'Microsoft' and wanted me to download a file so she could remove a virus from my computer.
So I told her that I had to go to my computer, and continued to ask her what she was wearing, if she touched her self while she was working and so on. Success! The 'dirty man' trick worked! She hung up on me 😂

"As a political force, the Labour left is finished. The tactic of entryism – entering the Labour party and changing it – is finished too."
"..a string of local council victories next year would pave the way for an unprecedented challenge to #Labour – not from the right, as the party has always had to fight, but from its radical flank. And this new movement could take parts of Lab…

The British left is coming for the Government
Whisper it as yet, but after five long years of confusion and disarray, the British left is rallying. Local political organisations are coalescing, from Chiswick to Liverpool to Newcastle. The Green P

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08556 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCC_…

Exact Algorithms for Multiagent Path Finding with Communication Constraints on Tree-Like Structures
Consider the scenario where multiple agents have to move in an optimal way through a network, each one towards their ending position while avoiding collisions. By optimal, we mean as fast as possible, which is evaluated by a measure known as the makespan of the proposed solution. This is the setting studied in the Multiagent Path Finding problem. In this work, we additionally provide the agents with a way to communicate with each other. Due to size constraints, it is reasonable to assume that t…

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: There's nothing in the charges about murder. There are a number of other counts. Assault on a minor, attempting to corrupt minors, moral deviation ...
BLAKE: Let me see that! [He gets up. Varon presses the sheet against the glass. He reads it.] All involving children! None of this is true!
h…

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

At the Semantic Digital Humanities 2025 Workshop, Jose Maldonado-Rodríguez is presenting "Natural Language Querying for Humanities #KnowledgeGraphs A case study on the GOLEM KG". Main contribution is a bilingual dataset (English-Spanish) specifically designed to evaluate automatic text-to-SPARQL translation systems for GOLEM, a specialized humanities KG.
paper:

The Whitecaps are playing their biggest game since 1979. Shout it from the rooftops
The only way for the Whitecaps to break into public consciousness will be to keep winning. A continental title will surely help.

Way too early in the morning to call in a 5150 on Market St. But if you are halfway crawling under a MUNI bus, I guess it's time.

There’s a new museum on Naoshima Island! This NYT article also describes the many other museums and exhibits installed there.
This is the “art island” that Lynn and I visited a couple months ago. Looks like we’ll have to go back! This time we’ll know to book rooms way in advance (and to stay longer than two nights).
🎁 link

Japanese Islands’ 10th Tadao Ando Museum Caps a Billionaire’s Quest
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake.

@… @… Ow in that way, aren't we all 😇

Long shot but I can't find an answer with "short searches": I got a KVM. Everything finally works, except Mint shuts down (closing all apps) when I switch to the other computer and I need to open the lid to make it come back.
This is with "lid action=nothing" in the power settings, of course.
Any ideas? Even ideas on how to express this concept in a way that lets me find the relevant reddit thread would be awesome.

I have lots of reactions about Dr Who, the predominant one at the end is RTD saying "You want a reboot suckers, I'll give you a fucking reboot, give me your money!"
The spirit of the original is strong in him.
Simultaneously wiping out the Timeless Child hoohah and reincarnating The Rani and Omega.
That's the way to do it.
#DrWho

#today I already attended the TTK Energy Group meeting and stayed on for a while in the uni's nice cool library to get some work done after, ordered some photoreactive prescription shades on the way home, now just waiting for EOU's EOM data snapshot to land so that I can do a few doc tweaks.
STILL TOO HOT TODAY ~32C, rising to 33C, but cooler and rainy tomorrow, hurrah...

Saw a woman fall into this manhole, but only partly. She was lucky as it was a long way down. It looks like the cover broke in part.

What is practice?
Practice is like a keel—deep contact with the self helps you not be blown around by every wind. Attentively returning to yourself for a period of time every day can be like coming home.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/ways-of-seeing-practice…

Quite rich for someone that just sold his business for 6 billion to OpenAI
« When I first moved here I came because it was characterized by people who genuinely saw that their purpose was in service to humanity, to inspire people and help people create. I don't feel that way about this place right now. »
https://

Survivors and Zombies: The Quenching and Disruption of Satellites around Milky Way Analogs
Debosmita Pathak, Charlotte R. Christensen, Alyson M. Brooks, Ferah Munshi, Anna C. Wright, Courtney Carter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22742

Survivors and Zombies: The Quenching and Disruption of Satellites around Milky Way Analogs
It is necessary to understand the full accretion history of the Milky Way in order to contextualize the properties of observed Milky Way satellite galaxies and the stellar halo. This paper compares the dynamical properties and star-formation histories of surviving and disrupted satellites around Milky Way-like galaxies using the DC Justice League suite of very high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations of Milky Way analogs and their halo environments. We analyze the full census of galaxie…

Ex-Super Bowl champion doubts Travis Hunter's two-way NFL stardom, says Jaguars should 'test his armor'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospects for Degrowth, of the original article: Decrecer ¿callejón o salida? La futura estafa del capital’ (2-5-2025) Translated by Mark Burton and Anna Gregoletto For a radically anti-capitalist degrowth that cannot be…

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 and the double rainbow 🌈 🌈 just now
#cats #CatsOfMastodon

Great blog about EuroStack, we need to BUILD !
"We need to think about this first and foremost as an industrial project. With some public support but one where “industry” (the supply side) needs to be given the incentive to build, and the opportunity to scale and expand. We don’t need more “events” and pensive stuff about “our European values” and “democracy” around digital sovereignty. Industry should do its thing, or nothing will happen. Wake up."

European Digital Sovereignty is an Industrial Project.  Everyone Else Get Out of the Way.
It is oh-so-European that just when the imperative of getting more European assets to support our digital life is finally established (was staring at everyone in the face for some time, yes?), mult…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Brigitte Calls Me Baby:
🎵 The Future is Our Way Out
#NowPlaying #BrigitteCallsMeBaby
https://brigittecallsmebaby.bandcamp.com/track/impressively-average-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5trl9gPUhMMRNB2BRzf9cG

JD Vance is being lambasted for dismissing social safety net rollbacks under the Trump tax bill currently making its way through Congress.
On Monday night, Vance attempted to rally support for the bill in a post on X, writing,
“Everything else—the CBO score [the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate], the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.”
Many were rubbed the wrong way by…

Vance Says It Doesn’t Matter How Many People Lose Medicaid in Budget
JD Vance is being slammed after a twisted post on the costs of Republicans’ budget bill.

In the last couple of months, I've been distracted. Disconnected from the others and me. June was way better. It may be a local maximum. Who knows? But we better enjoy the good times whenever we can.
https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/changelog-june-2025/

The Changelog – June 2025
In this scorching hot June, I started to be myself again and I am again finally able to feel enthusiasm for projects and ideas. And for this reason, I read and watched more things. So let’s explore last month’s books, movie, and my favorite Japanese web radio.

I've improved my #neovim again lately, and may eventually find a way to use the obsidian plugin that fit my workflow.

If you want a way to spend 90 minutes with other people who hoard, while getting support and motivation to get on with some dehoarding work as we chat, come along to this evening's Dehoarding Accountability Zoom Session! Grab a ticket at https://overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/ticket…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Steve Coleman and Five Elements:
🎵 Multiplicity of Approaches
#SteveColemanandFiveElements
https://ghostnote.bandcamp.com/track/multiplicity-of-approaches-the-afrikan-way-of-knowing
https://open.spotify.com/track/7L4RGxDsa7brcmHlyvZB1W

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12899 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLO_…

Interpolation for the two-way modal mu-calculus
The two-way modal mu-calculus is the extension of the (standard) one-way mu-calculus with converse (backward-looking) modalities. For this logic we introduce two new sequent-style proof calculi: a non-wellfounded system admitting infinite branches and a finitary, cyclic version of this that employs annotations. As is common in sequent systems for two-way modal logics, our calculi feature an analytic cut rule. What distinguishes our approach is the use of so-called trace atoms, which serve to ap…

Tried installing Arch Linux on an old Thinkpad last night. It did not go well. It reminded me of installing Red Hat back in the 90s. I don't mean that in a good way.

Graphs With Polarities
John C. Baez, Adittya Chaudhuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23375 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23375

Graphs With Polarities
In fields ranging from business to systems biology, directed graphs with edges labeled by signs are used to model systems in a simple way: the nodes represent entities of some sort, and an edge indicates that one entity directly affects another either positively or negatively. Multiplying the signs along a directed path of edges lets us determine indirect positive or negative effects, and if the path is a loop we call this a positive or negative feedback loop. Here we generalize this to graphs …

When GNNs Met a Word Equations Solver: Learning to Rank Equations (Extended Technical Report)
Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Julie Cailler, Chencheng Liang, Philipp R\"ummer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23784

When GNNs Met a Word Equations Solver: Learning to Rank Equations (Extended Technical Report)
Nielsen transformation is a standard approach for solving word equations: by repeatedly splitting equations and applying simplification steps, equations are rewritten until a solution is reached. When solving a conjunction of word equations in this way, the performance of the solver will depend considerably on the order in which equations are processed. In this work, the use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for ranking word equations before and during the solving process is explored. For this, a…

Introducing Web Numbers
Domains? Where we’re going, we don’t need domains!
Get ready for an exciting new (old?) way to address (small) web sites in 2026.
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
💕
(Thanks to @…

Web Numbers
Domains? Where we’re going, we don’t need domains! Until the end of this year, the only way to have a secure web site is to have it accessible via a domain name. That, however, is changing. And the design of the Small Web will be changing along with it. IP addresses are about to make a comeback on the web in a big (ok, small) way, thanks to upcoming support for security certificates for IP addresses by Let’s Encrypt.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23581 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Quantum Hilbert Transform
The Hilbert transform has been one of the foundational transforms in signal processing, finding it's way into multiple disciplines from cryptography to biomedical sciences. However, there does not exist any quantum analogue for the Hilbert transform. In this work, we introduce a formulation for the quantum Hilbert transform (QHT)and apply it to a quantum steganography protocol. By bridging classical phase-shift techniques with quantum operations, QHT opens new pathways in quantum signal process…

Sources: Elon Musk is pushing lawmakers to help clear a path for driverless vehicles and has been weighing in on revisions of a bill on autonomous vehicles (Bloomberg)

Optimal Estimation of Two-Way Effects under Limited Mobility
Xu Cheng, Sheng Chao Ho, Frank Schorfheide
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21987 https://

Optimal Estimation of Two-Way Effects under Limited Mobility
We propose an empirical Bayes estimator for two-way effects in linked data sets based on a novel prior that leverages patterns of assortative matching observed in the data. To capture limited mobility we model the bipartite graph associated with the matched data in an asymptotic framework where its Laplacian matrix has small eigenvalues that converge to zero. The prior hyperparameters that control the shrinkage are determined by minimizing an unbiased risk estimate. We show the proposed empiric…

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.

Schön war die heutige äh gestrige #CriticalMass in #Zürich. Und mit 25km auch etwas länger als sonst. Mit An- und Abreise waren's für mich 33.5km, die wegen Home-Office heute gut aufs #BikeToWork…

Way: ‪Überlandpark‬ (‪1386852445‬)
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Hm...
I guess a good way to prevent that would be to wipe out the whole fleet of Russian strategic bombers, eh? Too bad we can't do that beforehand...
Oh, wait. Someone else can.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/114609055478351645

Beware diluted, fake, scam "degrowth". Insist on the real thing.
New piece in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.
"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" – #degrowthUK

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

Trailer for the new Cat in the Hat movie coming next year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz8pLlPhSeY
I'm a Seuss fanatic so of course I'm gonna see this one way or another, I see all the Seuss stuff haha. Bill Hader voicing the cat, and with Matt Berry and Pa…

When I started law school our very first case was Gideon v. Wainwright - where criminal defendants were given the unambiguous right to have an attorney, even if the state had to pay for it.
Well, here the trumpies are trying to overturn that case.
This is un American.
Deportation is a significant deprivation of rights and the new policy amounts to extending criminal penalties beyond what Congress enacted when it enacted our various Federal criminal laws.
By-the-way, o…

Watch The Hidden Lives of Pigs Now on Unchained TV https://veganfta.com/news/2025/06/02/watch-the-hidden-lives-of-pigs-now-on-unchained-tv/?utm_source=Mastodon

Watch The Hidden Lives of Pigs Now on Unchained TV
From the Kardashian-adjacent family, the Jenners, to music sensation LMFAO, and through many animal rights personalities, Unchained TV continues changing the way veganism is perceived…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08274 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Cyclostationary signals in LISA: a practical application to Milky Way satellites
One of the primary sources of gravitational waves (GWs) anticipated to be detected by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) are Galactic double white dwarf binaries (DWDs). However, most of these binaries will be unresolved, and their GWs will overlap incoherently, creating a stochastic noise known as the Galactic foreground. Similarly, the population of unresolved systems in the Milky Way's (MW) satellites is expected to contribute to a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). …

Beware diluted, fake, scam "degrowth".  Insist on the real thing.
New piece in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.
"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" – #degrowthUK

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

WATCH: Jim Harbaugh surprises former teammate Rodney Harrison with Chargers Hall of Fame honor

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It doesn't matter if something is only temporarily helpful, by the way. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-186-10-e…

Extending conceptual completeness via virtual ultracategories
Gabriel Saadia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23935 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Extending conceptual completeness via virtual ultracategories
We introduce the notion of virtual ultracategory. From a topological point of view, this notion can be seen as a categorification of relational $β$-algebras. From a categorical point of view, virtual ultracategories generalize ultracategories in the same way that multicategories generalize monoidal categories. From a logical point of view, whereas the points of a coherent topos form an ultracategory, the points of an arbitrary topos form a virtual ultracategory. We then extend Makkai--Lurie's …

Pickens' Drama in Dallas gets first episode out of the way before training camp https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/29/george-pickens-drama-cowboys-culture-change/84408563007/…

The idea that Musk’s time in Washington is over is an obvious farce.
That narrative goes a long way toward letting Musk and Trump off the hook for a multitude of casualties
—those already in the ledger and those to be counted later.
It suggests that his reign of terror was actually ineffectual when,
in fact, it was massively successful;
Trump and Musk destroyed that which they’d planned to all along.
Most crucially, it suggests that reign of terror has …

Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.

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Luke Stewart Silt Trio:
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There’s something deeply wrong with a society that watches people get snatched by masked men in unmarked cars & looks the other way.
Rep @kamlager-dove.house.gov, describes an alarming system of relocating detainees, making it nearly impossible for their families to find them or get legal counsel.
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Read the thread.
This deception is coming your way, so inoculate yourself now.
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Allowing ourselves to make mistakes, allowing ourselves to run out of things, allowing ourselves to do things in a half-arsed way can actually be really liberating. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-192-make-mistakes-on-purpose/

Semi-strictification of $(\infty, n)$-categories
Cl\'emence Chanavat, Amar Hadzihasanovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00146 https://

Semi-strictification of $(\infty, n)$-categories
We prove the first equivalence between a weak non-algebraic model and a semi-strict algebraic model of $(\infty, n)$-categories. This takes the form of a natural semi-strictification, whereby a weak $(\infty, n)$-category is embedded into a semi-strict one through an acyclic cofibration, in such a way that weak functors lift to semi-strict functors; this constitutes the derived unit of a Quillen equivalence between weak model categories whose fibrant objects are, respectively, the weak $(\infty…

Who Are the 10 Best QBs Heading Into the 2025 NFL season? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/who-10-best-qbs-heading-2025-nfl-season

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A single paragraph buried deep in a spending bill that passed the GOP-controlled House of Representatives earlier this month is causing growing concern among democracy watchdogs
-- who warn the provision will make it so only the well-to-do would be in a good position to launch legal challenges against a Trump administration that has shown over and over again its disdain and disregard for oversight or judicial restraint of any kind.
Coming just about half-way through what Presiden…

'This Is What Autocrats Do': Concern Grows Over Single Paragraph Buried Deep in GOP Bill | Common Dreams
The provision would force those challenging Trump "to pay up in the form of a posted bond—something many people can't afford to do. That means only the wealthy will be able to even attempt to challenge the most powerful man in the country."

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Small Zack Martin decision did Cowboys one final financial favor https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/small-zack-martin-decision-did-dallas-cowboys-one-final-financial-favor

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NFL star targets Cowboys over not trying to sign him before $37 million free agency deal https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/01/saquon-barkley-aimed-to-embarr…