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Von #work, die #Gewerkschaftszeitung @workzeitung@instagram.com
Die rechte Mehrheit im #Bundesrat betreibt eine Politik nach dem Motto: «

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Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Ben Johnson preparing his set of trick plays in Chicago: 'We've got some toys to work with' https://www.nfl.com/news/ben-johnson-preparing-trick-plays-chicago-some-toys-to-work-with

Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
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Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
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All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also
easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
-- Alan Perlis

> The most distressing thing is that maybe it does work; if not well enough to actually do the work, at least ambiguously enough to fool the executives long-term.
-- @… via @…

ausverkauft https://www.japantrendshop.com/DE-kuchofuku-airconditioned-work-jacket-p-2398.html

Not sure if those work with a prepaid sim card on a modem (nor if it’s legal to setup such an answering machine on one of them here), but I’ll do some research on it
As for voip numbers, no idea how those work and if they’re universal or if I have to get one from a provider explicitly made for Asterisk compatibility, but they seem quite expensive (specially since the prepaid ones would be basically free since it’s only for receiving calls from nerds, not making calls) anyway.

Dr. Oz on Medicaid cuts: People should ‘prove that they matter’
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5334508-dr-oz-medicaid-cuts-work-requirements/

Dr. Oz on Medicaid cuts: People should 'prove that they matter' (Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5334508-dr-oz-medicaid-cuts-work-requirements/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p71#a250605p71

On Website Technicals (2019-01) - Tech updates: Happy New Ear, cssgip, work storage, AMP srcset, LEDs, details, 400kpx image warning, bad AutoAd, indigestion, multi-hero, OGP revisited. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-20.html

On Website Technicals (2019-01)
Tech updates: Happy New Ear, cssgip, work storage, AMP srcset, LEDs, details, 400kpx image warning, bad AutoAd, indigestion, multi-hero, OGP revisited.

"our engineers are bottoming out on this work"
"current state of DP work"
are things I wouldn't say in a work environment, but you do you

Raiders Still Have Plenty of Work to Do https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-leki-fotu-christian-wilkins-maxx-crosby-pete-carroll

How are you *being*? New interview at YaleNews with YDS professor and former Yale chaplain Frederick "Jerry" Streets about his work attending to clergy well-being.
https://news.yale.edu/2025/05/30/being-well-amid-uncertainty

On being well amid uncertainty
In a new book, former Yale chaplain Frederick Streets calls on clergy and congregations to work together to promote self-care and well-being.

#WritersCoffeeClub June 4: Do you consider writing work? Would you consider writing your life's work?
Work, as in something that requires effort, that I take seriously - yes.
Money is beside the point.
Writing is what I do, what I love, and what I want. Is that "life's work"? I don't know, that's for someone else to decide once I'm gone.

Heat pumps are more effective when you leave your thermostat set at a constant desired temperature and leave your blower fan setting so that air is constantly circulating through the house. Setting lower temperatures at night will cause your unit to work harder to bring the temperature back up or down to a preferred setting. if you do reduce your temperature setting for a short period of time, like a vacation, then gradually work towards a normal setting one or two degrees at a time.

Human cost of working on the railways revealed in database https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/human-cost-of-working-on-the-railways-revealed-in-database/

Human cost of working on the railways revealed in database - The National Archives
A new public database listing records about railway accidents is being launched at The National Archives on Thursday 5 June to coincide with Volunteers Week. The Railway Work, Life & Death project makes accessible information about 4,500 railway staff killed or injured at work between 1911-1923. It has been made possible because volunteers at The […]

When you’re busy in your typical work environment:

https://www.askamanager.org/2025/07/the-move-concierge-the-peacock-with-his-own-heated-house-and-other-unusual-work-perks.html

when a network card doesn't work, it's ethernet grrrrrmii

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09532 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

SAEBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Sparse Autoencoders in Language Model Interpretability
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a popular technique for interpreting language model activations, and there is extensive recent work on improving SAE effectiveness. However, most prior work evaluates progress using unsupervised proxy metrics with unclear practical relevance. We introduce SAEBench, a comprehensive evaluation suite that measures SAE performance across eight diverse metrics, spanning interpretability, feature disentanglement and practical applications like unlearning. To enable syst…

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
-Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00202 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

What do professional software developers need to know to succeed in an age of Artificial Intelligence?
Generative AI is showing early evidence of productivity gains for software developers, but concerns persist regarding workforce disruption and deskilling. We describe our research with 21 developers at the cutting edge of using AI, summarizing 12 of their work goals we uncovered, together with 75 associated tasks and the skills & knowledge for each, illustrating how developers use AI at work. From all of these, we distilled our findings in the form of 5 insights. We found that the skills & know…

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

Somehow despite the current situation I am still expected to go to work today.

Just to clarify: this is not a complete list of things I want for the world. This is not even a complete political platform. It’s just a single simple, clear, core message that I suspect would work much better in elections than that fash-lite mush all the Newsomesque political consultants are oozing out of their pores right now.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05460 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csPL_…

It's Not Easy Being Green: On the Energy Efficiency of Programming Languages
Does the choice of programming language affect energy consumption? Previous highly visible studies have established associations between certain programming languages and energy consumption. A causal misinterpretation of this work has led academics and industry leaders to use or support certain languages based on their claimed impact on energy consumption. This paper tackles this causal question directly. It first corrects and improves the measurement methodology used by prior work. It then dev…

Don’t expect to read independent reporting about ICE activity
— at least not if government officials get their way.
Journalists and members of the public who report on ICE are increasingly under attack by officials who would prefer to silence them so government propaganda can fill the information void.

ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it
Journalism about ICE is increasingly under attack by officials who prefer government propaganda

Unfortunately & conversely, this (below) is the same framing tech bros (and parts of the population) are finding so attractive to anthropomorphize LLMs: These are not machines, and them making mistakes is normal and expected... At the same time, the other card being played (by politics, military & law enforcement) is that AI-driven insights and decision making are _already_ considered superior, infallible and unchallengeable... in the middle of this two pronged rhetoric is the fate o…

🤔 This seems to be getting pretty close to @… 's work on emoji-picker-element (https://github.com/nolanlawson/emoji-picker-element):

GitHub - nolanlawson/emoji-picker-element: A lightweight emoji picker for the modern web
A lightweight emoji picker for the modern web. Contribute to nolanlawson/emoji-picker-element development by creating an account on GitHub.

BlackRock halted Ukraine recovery fund following Trump victory, France working on replacement, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/blackrock-halted-ukraine-recovery-fund.html

The behind the scenes copyright work youtubers have to do is crazy. The ASMR scene for scene recreation of shrek has been a fight to keep up.
#youtube

masks at protests / demographics 2/n
I wonder about the influence of employment, as well. If you're at risk every work day, I could well imagine it seeming pointless to start being careful the rest of the time, and maybe just too cognitively dissonant to consider.
I remember in 2020, someone I knew was working at Waterstones, and they were forbidden to mask up at work - even though 2020 was before the whole "covid is over" thing.
I also remember reading about someone - maybe a nurse? that _kind_ of job, anyway - who'd started wearing a fitted mask while the default in their workplace was baggy blues, and iirc was formally rebuked. It wasn't allowed.
If for whatever reason you're unable to hold down a typical job, you might not have much cash for _getting_ things like masks, but you're also not under that same kind of economic pressure to put yourself at risk.
#masks #work #CovidIsntOver

50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead work on new material at bobby weir’s home studio in mill valley. today, dialing in the groove of FRANKLIN’S TOWER: https://archive.org/details/gd1…

I am always amused by the fact that it is common to refer to Fox, WSJ, any NYPost as”Rupert Murdoch’s” but never “A.G. Sulzberger’s New York Times” despite his direct operational control & the obvious editorial stance as champion of the NY aristocracy & punching hippies. https://mastodon.social/@dangil…

Using "AI" is no longer optional at Microsoft. Reminds me how when Meta had to force their engineers to use their "Metaverse" product.
If your product doesn't even gain traction internally, maybe it's just ... shit?
(Original title: ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work)

‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work
An internal Microsoft memo has leaked. It was written by Julia Liuson, president of the Developer Division at Microsoft and GitHub. The memo tells managers to evaluate employees based on how much t…

After several hours of work, my photos from this years @… are now online. I tried to write proper and useful descriptions and include links where its possible and where it makes sense. Enjoy: https://www.

Trying a Mango and Passionfruit Gunpowder Green Tea as a Coldbrew.
Unsure how well it will work, but have enjoyed all the others I've tried so far!
#GreenTea #Vegan

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09840 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

LAVA: Lifetime-Aware VM Allocation with Learned Distributions and Adaptation to Mispredictions
Scheduling virtual machines (VMs) on hosts in cloud data centers dictates efficiency and is an NP-hard problem with incomplete information. Prior work improved VM scheduling with predicted VM lifetimes. Our work further improves lifetime-aware scheduling using repredictions with lifetime distributions versus one-shot prediction. Our approach repredicts and adjusts VM and host lifetimes when incorrect predictions emerge. We also present novel approaches for defragmentation and regular system mai…

Fatigue - Übermüdung bei Seeleuten nimmt zu. Das bestätigt auch eine Studie der Uni Cardiff.
Schon die erlaubte Arbeitszeit von bis zu 90 Stunden pro Woche führt zu Übermüdung.
Diese Zeiten werden teils noch überschritten
https://splash247.com/fatigue-among-se

Fatigue among seafarers on the rise
Work-related fatigue among cargo ship crews is growing worse, despite international regulations and onboard monitoring aimed at ensuring sufficient rest for seafarers, according to a new study from Ca

Palantir removed three journalists from a security conference after they asked about its work with ICE and threatened to call police on a Wired reporter (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-defense-conference-journalists/

Palantir Is Going on Defense
Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration.

I also made this at work!
#Communism #AnarchoCommunism #Socialism

A subset generalization of the Erd\H{o}s-Kac theorem over number fields with applications
Sourabhashis Das, Wentang Kuo, Yu-Ru Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03215

A subset generalization of the Erdős-Kac theorem over number fields with applications
Let $ω(n)$ denote the number of distinct prime factors of a natural number $n$. In 1940, Erdős and Kac established that $ω(n)$ obeys the Gaussian distribution over natural numbers. In 2004, the third author generalized their theorem to all abelian monoids. In this work, we extend the work of the third author to any subset of the set of ideals of a number field satisfying some additional conditions. Finally, we apply this theorem to prove the Erdős-Kac theorem over $h$-free and over $h$-full…

Maryland DOT launches new policy of quick-fix road diets with paint & plastic "bollards" after initial test projects work well. Approach is try it for 6-9 months and see if it works in place of long studies.
https://www.

Maryland plans more ‘quick build’ road safety changes, citing success across state
Planners have a menu of traffic calming measures to consider for each site.

“‘It’s very difficult to not take corporate money … we’ve hired grant writers who have asked, “Well, how about Bank of America, how about Apple?” How about no,’ laughed Sullivan, who explained, ‘Even if a sponsor never asks you to edit any of your work, you are going to be censoring yourself, like, “If we say this, maybe they won’t give us money next year.”’”

Design Didn't Prevent These Hazard Exposures
David. E Mertz (Fermilab)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03280 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Design Didn't Prevent These Hazard Exposures
Two recent electrical incidents demonstrate how the design of equipment encouraged electrical workers to take actions that violated NFPA 70E principles. The features that encouraged non-compliant work execution will be described, as well as how the equipment was improved to facilitate safe work practices. Design-stage processes that help identify features that will foster rather than compromise safe work practices will be identified as well.

Does anyone know how to get a competent Comcast business support engineer to actually talk to you? I've called their support line three times, each time they tried rebooting the modem (saying they would only do this once, liars) and then disconnected me saying that I could call back if I was still having problems.
I have yet to reach even a level 1 support drone.
I'm trying to a) get my CPE password reset because the password in my password manager doesn't work anymor…

@… @… Not what I had in mind, but that'd work!

Once again: #FuckEricAdams
Unbelievable how he's managed to avoid jailtime breaking federal/state laws while City Council allows him to continue to break _their_laws as well.

https://…

No to 15 mph e-bike speed limit, yes to real safety! - Transportation Alternatives
A ridiculous 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes won't work. Tell Mayor Adams and City Council: We need effective, data-driven policies that protect everyone, and accountability for the corporations fueling chaos on our streets — not the cyclists surviving it.

One of the houses a few doors away has got a young person living there who seems to have bought himself a two-stroke motorbike with not much of an exhaust pipe.
And now that the weather's a bit warmer and I have the windows open when I work from home, I hear the BRRAAPPPP! BRRAPPPPPPPPPP!!! of him revving the bike every time he pops out down the shops or to see his mates or whatever.
I really can't complain as 30-odd years ago I was a youth with a similarly loud and obnoxious motorbike, but still. Where's that meme of Grandpa Simpson shaking his fists at the younglings?

I think I will start doing tai chi. I feel like it might work for me.

Spatio-Temporal Information Freshness for Remote Source Monitoring in IoT Systems
Andrea Munari, Federico Chiariotti, Leonardo Badia, Petar Popovski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04804

Spatio-Temporal Information Freshness for Remote Source Monitoring in IoT Systems
The widespread adoption of age of information (AoI) as a meaningful and analytically tractable information freshness metric has led to a wide body of work on the timing performance of Internet of things (IoT) systems. However, the spatial correlation inherent to environmental monitoring has been mostly neglected in the recent literature, due to the significant modeling complexity it introduces. In this work, we address this gap by presenting a model of spatio-temporal information freshness, con…

Strengthening #Kotlin for Backend Development: A Strategic Partnership With #Spring
https://blo…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02971 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

The affirmative answer to Singer's conjecture on the algebraic transfer of rank four
In recent decades, the structure of the mod-2 cohomology of the Steenrod ring $\mathscr A$ has become a major subject of study in the field of Algebraic Topology. One of the earliest attempts to study this cohomology through the use of modular representations of the general linear groups was the groundbreaking work [Math. Z. 202 (1989), 493-523] by W.M. Singer. In that work, Singer introduced a homomorphism, commonly referred to as the "algebraic transfer," which maps from the coinvariants of a…

A commented translation of Boltzmann's work, "Ueber die sogenannte H-Curve."
Jae Wan Shim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04262 https://

A commented translation of Boltzmann's work, "Ueber die sogenannte H-Curve."
Boltzmann's work, ``Ueber die sogenannte H-Curve," discusses his demonstration of the essential characteristics of the H-curve in a clear, concise, and precise style, showcasing his efforts to persuade his peers. To make these findings more widely accessible, the author aims to provide a translated version of the original article, while also correcting some typographical errors in the mathematical expressions with explanatory footnotes. The final section offers concluding remarks with graphs an…

This morning's harvest.
#Garden

A thing that puzzles me about biking, and how I bike, and how some apparently "Effective Cyclists" bike, is whether the belief in "the system" affects reactions to problems, or if there might actually might be something cognitive at work. A long-ago-friend of mine, when asked how to use a canoe, said, "don't fall out, don't hit rocks". This was flip and glib, but not all wrong, basically, avoid the two obvious mistakes, and keep doing that. When I sta…

#AmateurRadio Field Day is coming, and I am but a baby ham who wants to try to work #CW on field day, but would like a little practice first.
Morse Walker has an

Oh, I see now how quote posting is going to be processed around here...
Not a bad system at all, although I do have my doubts it'll work well when the quoted posts are coming from networks where this kind of approval is tacitly given by default, such as Bluesky, like in this case.
#Mastodon #QuotePosting

Another of my forays into AI ethics is just out! This time the focus is on the ethics (or lack thereof) of Reinforcement Learning Feedback (RLF) techniques aimed at increasing the 'alignment' of LLMs.
The paper is fruit of the joint work of a great team of collaborators, among whom @… and @…

Helpful, harmless, honest? Sociotechnical limits of AI alignment and safety through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback - Ethics and Information Technology
This paper critically evaluates the attempts to align Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), with human values and intentions through Reinforcement Learning from Feedback methods, involving either human feedback (RLHF) or AI feedback (RLAIF). Specifically, we show the shortcomings of the broadly pursued alignment goals of honesty, harmlessness, and helpfulness. Through a multidisciplinary sociotechnical critique, we examine both the theoretical underpinni…

We have these at work. #Wordle
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My morning so far:
- Essential system is not working, opened support ticket.
- Two hours later still no change.
- Called service desk: "Yes we assigned the ticket to the 2nd level"
- Checked ticket queue: "Priority 4: Low"
- Called service desk "Tell the 2nd level guys if they don't make this work before lunch we're coming over and confiscate every Switch 2 we find!"

I only took one more picture today as my little vacation with my friends is coming to an end. We had a great time.
Using a Linux phone was surprisingly boring. I mean that in the most positive way. Using a phone should be boring, because it should just work.
It wasn't perfect. All images look vintage, I had to rotate them all manually, and there was no way to select multiple files for sending. It crashed a few times, too.
I'm happy overall.

Just a confirmation that Tesla boycotts work. New Republic reports that Musk lost a quarter of his fortune with the stock price drop. the current price is being artificially pumped up at all costs, but this can't last for another quarter as sales are plummeting.
https://newrepublic.com/post/19…

Elon Musk Lost Boatload of Money in Trump’s First 100 Days
Here’s one thing to celebrate from Trump’s first 100 days in office.

Raiders' Patrick Graham Will Work His Magic, Again https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/patrick-graham-las-vegas-john-spytek-pete-carroll

My JS Krups is resisting netbooting. I see it doing a DHCP discover, and I see Kea responding with an offer, but then it just sends another Discover. Hmph. I can get to the serial console and doing boot net from there doesn't help; none of the keyboard shortcuts for network diag etc seem to work (except the one that displays the help for it...). So I took the flash SIM out and now it boots to Net rather than flash by default; alas with the same DHCP behaviour. Time to try isc-dhcp.…

Topology induced modifications in the critical behavior of the Yaldram Khan catalytic reaction model
Paulo F. Gomes, Henrique A. Fernandes, Roberto da Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04485

Topology induced modifications in the critical behavior of the Yaldram Khan catalytic reaction model
In this work, we investigated how the use of complex networks as catalytic surfaces can affect the phase diagram of the Yaldram-Khan model, as well as how the order of the phase transitions present in the seminal work behaves when the randomness is added to the model. The study was conducted by taking into consideration two well-known random networks, the Erdos-Renyi network (ERN), with its long-range randomness, and the random geometric graph (RGG), with its spatially constrained randomness. W…

Assessing Workers Neuro-physiological Stress Responses to Augmented Reality Safety Warnings in Immersive Virtual Roadway Work Zones
Fatemeh Banani Ardecani, Omidreza Shoghli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03113

Assessing Workers Neuro-physiological Stress Responses to Augmented Reality Safety Warnings in Immersive Virtual Roadway Work Zones
This paper presents a multi-stage experimental framework that integrates immersive Virtual Reality (VR) simulations, wearable sensors, and advanced signal processing to investigate construction workers neuro-physiological stress responses to multi-sensory AR-enabled warnings. Participants performed light- and moderate-intensity roadway maintenance tasks within a high-fidelity VR roadway work zone, while key stress markers of electrodermal activity (EDA), heart rate variability (HRV), and electr…

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

A tunnelled road underneath Ontario's Highway 401 would be an expensive and very short term solution to congestion. A high speed train subway would be cheaper, move many more people and cost less.
A better Toronto, for all.
A Real Solution to Highway 401 Congestion — the Express Subway.
A subway to Pickering makes much more sense than a 401 Tunnel.

I’ve long thought that top govt folks (the elected ones) should have the same healthcare/pension as the poorest citizen.
And take transit to work. https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/114797404531262958

Vee (@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Let them eat cake.

Rounding error analysis of randomized CholeskyQR2 for sparse matrices
Haoran Guan, Yuwei Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04208 https://

Rounding error analysis of randomized CholeskyQR2 for sparse matrices
This work focuses on rounding error analysis of randomized CholeskyQR2 (RCholeskyQR2) for sparse matrices. We form RCholeskyQR2 with CholeskyQR2 and matrix sketching in order to accelerate CholeskyQR2 and improve its applicability by compressing the input matrix $X \in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$. In many real-world applications, the input matrix $X$ is always sparse. In this work, we follow the model of sparse matrices proposed in \cite{CSparse} and provide an improved rounding error analysis of R…

"Fresh off an ego-crushing defeat and a heightened appetite for mind-altering drugs, what workplace debauchery he gets into next is anyone's guess." --Futurism
'In the comments section, users praised Mr Musk for his dedication to his work. "Elon is a bit bizarre, but that's exactly why he's so successful. Boring people prefer to seek security and comfort," wrote one user.' --NDTV

Then there's also the Wayland thing: in Linux Mint Wayland is only experimental, otherwise everything still runs on the outdated X. I switched to Wayland, and some things just don't work.
I have also pimped the Cinnamon desktop a bit visually (the video is linked in a post further down in my profile), and I constantly have terrible display errors such as “ghost windows” (i.e. after closing a window, a transparent area of the former window remains on the screen). When I upgrade …

Does someone know how to change the port for an SSH based cache?
The `user@host:port` pattern doesn't work on my machine.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-change-port-for-ssh-based-cache/63908

Fantasy Football breakout alert: RJ Harvey already seeing 'ample work' in Broncos pass game during OTAs

https://www.cbssports.co…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21677 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

What happens when generative AI models train recursively on each others' generated outputs?
The internet is full of AI-generated content while also serving as a common source of training data for generative AI (genAI) models. This duality raises the possibility that future genAI models may be trained on other models' generated outputs. Prior work has studied consequences of models training on their own generated outputs, but limited work has considered what happens if models ingest content produced by other models. Given society's increasing dependence on genAI tools, understanding do…

cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted

❝Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content.❞
Oh!
❝But that's just the beginning. Next, we'll work on a marketplace where content creators and AI companies, large and small, can come together.❞
Oh.
First quote sounds like a strike. Second quote sounds more like a company trying to situate itself as an unavoidable middle player who can control both sides of a market.
https://mastodon.acm.org/@avandeursen/114799313365332691

History shows that once a vanguard of rogues and lawless individuals gets a hold on government, it is difficult to eject them.
Rather, the changes in government applied with force by this vanguard become normalized.
And that is what is happening here.
https://

“The Whole Government is DOGE Now”: The Coup's Second Wave Begins
A lawless vanguard infiltrated the U.S. government; now they are being institutionalized and will work with Project 2025's own democracy destroyers

"Eventually, I stopped responding to my body. I was responding instead to a dashboard." — @…
This is a great point and very much translates to so many other parts of life/work where people stop listening to their "body" (or to their org/product/offering), outsourcing/numbing/dumbing down their decision making based on dashboards of col…

Why I Gave Up My Smartwatch
Somewhere between the first time I tapped my wrist to skip a song and the three hundredth time I anxiously checked my resting heart rate, I started to hate my Apple Watch. The promise of the smartwatch was elegance, convenience, optimization. What I got was constant data drip, subtle panic,

No ok.
Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.sub stack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor
h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net
#USpol #labor #labour

Woman in a construction company wants to wear a skirt over her work pants, which doesn't sound very safe.
Religion Clause: EEOC Sues Over Denial of Dress Code Religious Accommodation for Apostolic Christian Employee
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/06/eeoc-sues-over-denial-of-dress-code.html

Defying Trump, National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet is still at work (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/06/04/national-portrait-gallery-kim-sajet-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p178#a250604p178

SoftBank and Intel form Saimemory, a new company to develop stacked DRAM memory chips for AI that consume ~50% of the power of current HBM in the next two years (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/

SoftBank, Intel work on AI memory chips that use half as much power
Japanese tech investor sets sights on domestic data centers with $70m project

It's hard work watching birds....
#CatsOfMastadon

Politically driven "focus on special features over ensuring affordable housing money is stretched as far as possible" is one part of this, and same thing happens in transit:
* Electric buses don't work as well as electric cars, yet we make bus riders pay for electrification with less service, and don't require drivers to use electric cars.
* Fancy stops for "BRT" buses that offer infrequent service.
Etc Etc

These publicly funded homes for the poor cost $1.2 million each to build
Costs to house the poor are approaching, and sometimes exceeding, $1 million per unit in cities across the country, including D.C., L.A., and Chicago.

@… That’s my excuse too. I’ve got a programming language to build. 😆
I agree with pretty much everything you’ve said, and unfortunately, I think the real work is the grunt work, in this instance. There’s lots of little bits and they have to connect together.

Popular across social networks, these profile pictures are designed to represent you! Tell me your style! Would you like your character to be holding Coffee, a Book, or an iPhone? Wearing a Panda suit? Sure, you got it!
#Design #Illustration #Portfolio

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

AgentPorn.ai - Where Developers get their fix
https://agentporn.ai/

Optimal protocol for collisional Brownian engines
Gustavo A. L. For\~ao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05078 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.0…

Optimal protocol for collisional Brownian engines
Collisional Brownian engines have recently gained attention as alternatives to conventional nanoscale engines. However, a comprehensive optimization of their performance, which could serve as a benchmark for future engine designs, is still lacking. In this work, we address this gap by deriving and analyzing the optimal driving protocol for a collisional Brownian engine. By maximizing the average output work, we show that the optimal protocol consists of linear force segments separated by impuls…

From Translink
Partial closures on Pattullo Bridge coming next week
Bridge closed northbound for one night and southbound for two nights

The Pattullo Bridge will be partially closed to traffic three nights in a row next week so crews can perform scheduled maintenance work.
Monday June 9 9pm to 5am closed Northbound
Tuesday June 10 9pm to 5am closed
Southbound
Wednesday June 11 9pm to 5am closed Southbound
1/2

Trump ordered his White House counsel and the attorney general on Wednesday to investigate former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his staff -- in Mr. Trump’s latest attempt to stoke outlandish conspiracy theories about his predecessor.
In an executive order, Mr. Trump put the power and resources of the federal government to work examining whether some of Mr. Biden’s presidential actions were legally invalid because his aides had enacted those policies without his knowledge.
The e…

Trump Orders Investigation of Biden and His Aides
The executive order is the latest effort by President Trump to stoke outlandish conspiracy theories about his predecessor and question the legality of his actions in office.

Two US representatives launch the bipartisan Congressional Creators Caucus to "bring the perspectives of online content creators into the public policy arena" (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/crea

Creator Caucus launches in Congress with support from Patreon, YouTube | TechCrunch
The Congressional Creator Caucus will work to support the creator economy, which is estimated to be worth half-a-trillion dollars by 2027.

What Is Centrism? -- "Let me start by saying I don't know the answer to that question." (Hamilton Nolan/How Things Work)
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-is-centrism
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p52#a250605p52

@… @… Agreed, I think GHC *used* to be primarily a place for experimentation, but now there's a lot more focus on industrial use cases.
IMO the real problem is that there are 2 people who actually work on it profess…

An interview with Claude AI product lead Scott White on Claude Code writing 90% of its own code, MCP, coding being accessible to non-technical workers, and more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/from-chatbo