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Author and editor Callie Collins on finding spaces to think and work creatively https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo

Author and editor Callie Collins on finding spaces to think and work creatively – The Creative Independent
Author and editor Callie Collins discusses having a stable job, the ethics of art about living people, and finding the perfect zone to create

"The real threat posed by generative AI is not that it will eliminate work on a mass scale, rendering human labour obsolete. It is that, left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities."
"The current trajectory of generative AI reflects the priorities of firms seeking to lower costs, discipline workers, and consolidate profits — not any drive to enhance human flourishing. If we allo…

Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Once again, a c

Inside Social Work
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

"These meetings are distracting me from the work."
The meetings are the work. Sorry.
The fact that your org doesn't value meetings and doesn't put any effort into making them more effective is a symptom of a broader pattern of ignoring feminized "glue work" in favor of Big Masculine Outputs.
Making the work visible is the first step towards making it valued.

The glue is the work
Tech orgs only function thanks to people who volunteer for thankless "glue work." This is the space where UX lives; for the field to get respect we need to make this work visible.

President Trump is the first to ask federal job applicants to describe their allegiance to administration policy in an essay
or to mandate training for senior government officials on White House executive orders, experts said.
Senior agency officials, who are often political appointees, are to be directly involved in the hiring process, which has not previously been the case.
The guidelines, released last month, arrived at a time when the Trump administration was beginning …

In Trump’s ‘Patriotic’ Hiring Plan, Experts See a Politicized Federal Work Force
Political appointments inherently take into consideration loyalty to the president or the party. But expanding those types of questions to the career civil service is a significant departure.

It's hard to know who to be sorrier for. The 9,000 who are losing their jobs, or the rest who are going to have to take on not only the additional work of clearing up the mess the AI makes, but also the work of their dismissed colleagues.
#Microsoft
#StochasticParrots
…

Microsoft to cut up to 9,000 jobs as it invests in AI
The US tech giant will axe 4% of its global workforce and plough money into artificial intelligence.

Then myth of of the powerful placebo dies hard: https://www.dcscience.net/2015/12/11/placebo-effects-are-weak-regression-to-the-mean-is-the-main-reason-ineffective-treatments-appear-to-work/…

Placebo effects are weak: regression to the mean is the main reason ineffective treatments appear to work
Jump to follow-up “Statistical regression to the mean predicts that patients selected for abnormalcy will, on the average, tend to improve. We argue that most improvements attributed to the p…

This week's #GrindayFriday is this excellent corporate bullshit themed 2022 record 'Wage, Work' from Leipzig, Germany's HAEXLER. Big powerviolence vibes here, too. You know I love short songs- only three of these thirteen tracks are over a minute long. This is a SERIOUS ripper of a record.

Q&A with Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith on the Ikea-owned platform's history, Taskers earning up to $50/hour, AI assistants, zero fees, high suburban use, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-…

Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith isn’t afraid of AI robots replacing human labor
The head of the Ikea-owned gig work platform on what labor looks like in the future.

Focus and Context and LLMs | Taras' Blog on AI, Perf, Hacks
#AI

a new amazing artwork recreation by Nicholas Rougeux (@…) : "Clavis Cælestis: A Synopsis of the Universe – Digital edition of Thomas Wright’s 1742 astronomical treatise" https://www.c82.net/work/?id=399

I'm having a short burst of efficiency, which is very unlike me after work. The only thing I can't be arsed to do is sort out breakfast to take to work in the morning, but I have things I can fling together at the last minute.
Among other things I've just reserved a Devla Murphy book from the library, after listening to Great Lives about her today. After that I'll be casting about for another book as I've nearly finished Nikki Erlick's The Measure, thought-provo…

Former Pro Bowl CB under Pete Carroll gets a workout for the Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/11/raiders-work-out-former-seahawks-cb-shaquill-griffin/841567420…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: Will it work?
AVON: Of course it will work. I have set a small disruption bomb to precise limits within Orac's energy range. Any variation above or below and there will be a rather satisfying little explosion. The slightest attempt to tamper with the communication channels will reduce Orac to a heap of spare parts.

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

Joe Milton putting in the work with Dallas Cowboys wide receivers https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/joe-milton-putting-in-work-dallas-cowboys-wide-receivers

These pieces are much harsher than Fred’s, much more in the LLM-bashing camp, but feel relevant here:
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/
Fred’s point is that a bad interaction model creates hidden work, then humans do that work and “the machine claims the praise.” These other two pieces make the point that this phenomenon of giving the machine credit for unrecognized human work is age-old, taps into some deep trapdoors in human cognition.
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Martin Davis: An Overview of his Work in Logic, Computer Science, and Philosophy
Liesbeth De Mol, Yuri V. Matiyasevich, Eugenio G. Omodeo, Alberto Policriti, Wilfried Sieg, Elaine J. Weyuker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08588

Martin Davis: An Overview of his Work in Logic, Computer Science, and Philosophy
In his autobiographic essay written in 1999, ``From logic to computer science and back'', Martin David Davis (3/8/1928--1/1/2023) indicated that he viewed himself as a logician \emph{and} a computer scientist. He expanded the essay in 2016 and expressed a new perspective through a changed title, ``My life as a logician''. He points out that logic was the unifying theme underlying his scientific career. Our paper attempts to provide a consistent vision that illuminates Davis' successive contribu…

Here’s why some people suffer from motion sickness – and which remedies actually work https://theconversation.com/heres-why-some-people-suffer-from-motion-sickness-and-which-remedies-actually-work-258065

Here’s why some people suffer from motion sickness – and which remedies actually work
If our body is moving, but our brain can’t work out why, this creates some internal confusion.

Former Massachusetts police chief calls lawyer work stoppage "irresponsible" as more defendants could be set free (Kristina Rex/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/criminal-suspects-released-massachusetts-lawyer-work-stoppage/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p115#a250709p115

Got to work with an #acting #coaching client today on material I know really well and they were cold reading. Their second read was like a breathe of fresh air, and the words were new again. I kinda love it.
#ActingCoach

Evaluating Large Multimodal Models for Nutrition Analysis: A Benchmark Enriched with Contextual Metadata
Bruce Coburn, Jiangpeng He, Megan E. Rollo, Satvinder S. Dhaliwal, Deborah A. Kerr, Fengqing Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07048

Evaluating Large Multimodal Models for Nutrition Analysis: A Benchmark Enriched with Contextual Metadata
Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) are increasingly applied to meal images for nutrition analysis. However, existing work primarily evaluates proprietary models, such as GPT-4. This leaves the broad range of LLMs underexplored. Additionally, the influence of integrating contextual metadata and its interaction with various reasoning modifiers remains largely uncharted. This work investigates how interpreting contextual metadata derived from GPS coordinates (converted to location/venue type), timesta…

Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI
Kiran Tomlinson, Sonia Jaffe, Will Wang, Scott Counts, Siddharth Suri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07935

Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI
Given the rapid adoption of generative AI and its potential to impact a wide range of tasks, understanding the effects of AI on the economy is one of society's most important questions. In this work, we take a step toward that goal by analyzing the work activities people do with AI, how successfully and broadly those activities are done, and combine that with data on what occupations do those activities. We analyze a dataset of 200k anonymized and privacy-scrubbed conversations between users an…

Strain-Stabilized Interfacial Polarization Tunes Work Function Over 1 eV in RuO2/TiO2 Heterostructures
Seung Gyo Jeong, Bonnie Y. X. Lin, Mengru Jin, In Hyeok Choi, Seungjun Lee, Zhifei Yang, Sreejith Nair, Rashmi Choudhary, Juhi Parikh, Anand Santhosh, Matthew Neurock, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Jong Seok Lee, Tony Low, Qing Tu, James M. LeBeau, Bharat Jalan

Strain-Stabilized Interfacial Polarization Tunes Work Function Over 1 eV in RuO2/TiO2 Heterostructures
Interfacial polarization-charge accumulation at the heterointerface-is a well-established tool in semiconductors, but its influence in metals remains unexplored. Here, we demonstrate that interfacial polarization can robustly modulate surface work function in metallic rutile RuO2 layers in epitaxial RuO2/TiO2 heterostructures grown by hybrid molecular beam epitaxy. Using multislice electron ptychography, we directly visualize polar displacements of transition metal ions relative to oxygen octah…

As a Mass Effect aficionado It seems unfair to me that Shepard has a cabin full of cool ship models but I can't have any. Until now. Martin at printables.com posted an SR-1 3d model. My printer is single filament and low-resolution, so I had to do more work than him to pull it together. Plus painting PLA is a bit of a struggle. But now I have a model, however rough.
I'd still rather have what Shepard has.

This morning I had to get some work done so I did a short ride of just 3 miles around the neighborhood on the old 1970's Raleigh. I tried to notice what causes the squeaks and rubbing noises and did a little maintenance when I got home.
No huge hills on this ride, it's a 3-speed, but I did have an average 11mph for the 16 minute ride.
#biking

"We're becoming the soft, floating people from Wall-E. Ordering everything to our doorstep, swiping instead of talking, letting AI write our emails and create our art. Convenience is stealing everything from us if we let it. The friction is where the growth happens. The resistance is where we build strength. Work, real work, will give us fulfillment in ways we never expected, in ways that all the optimization hacks and life shortcuts never could."

why are we lying to young people about work?
hard work isn't the tax you pay for living, it's the tuition for a life worth having -your fav gen z philosopher x

As the Trump rollercoaster continues, Ukraine struggles to work out where it stands: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/as-the-trump-rollercoaster-continues.html

Dirty Data in the Newsroom: Comparing Data Preparation in Journalism and Data Science
Stephen Kasica, Charles Berret, Tamara Munzner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07238

Dirty Data in the Newsroom: Comparing Data Preparation in Journalism and Data Science
The work involved in gathering, wrangling, cleaning, and otherwise preparing data for analysis is often the most time consuming and tedious aspect of data work. Although many studies describe data preparation within the context of data science workflows, there has been little research on data preparation in data journalism. We address this gap with a hybrid form of thematic analysis that combines deductive codes derived from existing accounts of data science workflows and inductive codes arisin…

Taiichi Ohno: I wrote about how items waiting in a queue are a form of waste, as a cautionary tale
Scrum guys coming up with the backlog: we have created the work queue from the classic manual "Don't Create A Work Queue"

As promised, the @… fundraising campaign seems to be storming ahead, so here's a new - and rather hastily edited - video from NW #Greenland fieldwork just up on @… Just in case anyone finds it interesting and fun. I made this in shotcut. At some point I'll work out how to annotate them properly I guess...
Enjoy!
https://tilvids.com/w/nY8US6AsGDnsVeUXPqBixq

I’m mostly out of the loop on IAAP stuffs (since overlays are members and fuck that), but Rian seems to have a valid concern here for ongoing credits:
https://mstdn.io/@rianrietveld/114658249992267461

For my next modern culture and media studies work, I'd like to use "THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH" (TSR 1987)
(The eighties were a very weird time, y'all.)
(I found this in WCA #26, ZODIAC ATTACK)

Testing if this "new" UI paradigm from #iOS26 would work 🤔
#Design

Oh dear. One of the contractors at work, working remotely, needs me to send him some secrets.
We have a well-documented team process for this, giving full instructions on how to create a public/private keypair and how to proceed from that point.
I have just received an email from him containing his private key ...

Me: 😱😩 too much work for the next weeks, I literally can't do another thing
Journalists for World Emoji Day: 📲 📞 ☎️ ✉️ 📩 🎙️ 📞 #emojis

It's so funny, my wife travels for work and is like, "It's amazing here! We [the whole family] should visit!"
Ah, those rose-colored traveling-alone glasses. I remember those! ...As opposed to the the-kids-have-been-yelling-and-screaming-at-each-other-for-over-an-hour-because-someone-was-humming-too-loudly-colored glasses. A 12-hour flight with these monsters? 🫠

Don't listen to @…. We work together and with him it's always glamour, hookers and cocaine. 🤷

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08578 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Classification and nonexistence for $t$-structures on derived categories of schemes
This work establishes new results on the classification of $t$-structures for many subcategories of the derived category of quasi-coherent sheaves on a Noetherian scheme. Our work makes progress in two different directions. On one hand, we provide an improvement of a result of Takahashi on $t$-structures, generalizing it to the case of the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves on a quasi-compact CM-excellent scheme of finite Krull dimension. On the other hand, via independent techniques,…

I'm disappointed that someone stole my book idea

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13695 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Zarankiewicz bounds from distal regularity lemma
Since Kővári, Sós, and Turán proved upper bounds for the Zarankiewicz problem in 1954, much work has been undertaken to improve these bounds, and some have done so by restricting to particular classes of graphs. In 2017, Fox, Pach, Sheffer, Suk, and Zahl proved better bounds for semialgebraic binary relations, and this work was extended by Do in the following year to arbitrary semialgebraic relations. In this paper, we show that Zarankiewicz bounds in the shape of Do's are enjoyed by all re…

Research-integrity sleuths say their work is being ‘twisted’ to undermine science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02163-z

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02734 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Computations directly on the cuspidal cohomology of congruence subgroups of $\mathrm{SL}(3, \mathbb{Z})$
In their 1984 work, Ash, Grayson, and Green compute the action of Hecke operators on a certain subspace of the cohomology of low-level congruence subgroups of $\mathsf{SL}(3, \mathbb{Z})$. This subspace contains the cuspidal cohomology, which is of primary interest. We extend their work, introducing a method that allows for computing the action of Hecke operators directly on the cuspidal cohomology. Using this method, we obtain data for prime level less than 2400, finding six additional levels …

when ur a soulless vapid husk who's "creative" work is just leeching off everyone more thoughtful than u but u have FANTASTIC taste in what u steal

I got to use `progenitor` in an uncontrived context at work today, and last week it was `prevaricate`, so if you need any fancy English vocabulary needs I'm right over here, under the sign `Fancy Language Person`.

Computationally Efficient Information-Driven Optical Design with Interchanging Optimization
Eric Markley, Henry Pinkard, Leyla Kabuli, Nalini Singh, Laura Waller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07789

Computationally Efficient Information-Driven Optical Design with Interchanging Optimization
Recent work has demonstrated that imaging systems can be evaluated through the information content of their measurements alone, enabling application-agnostic optical design that avoids computational decoding challenges. Information-Driven Encoder Analysis Learning (IDEAL) was proposed to automate this process through gradient-based. In this work, we study IDEAL across diverse imaging systems and find that it suffers from high memory usage, long runtimes, and a potentially mismatched objective f…

OSMnx is a Python package to retrieve, model, analyze, and visualize street networks from OpenStreetMap.
Users can download and model walkable, drivable, or bikeable urban networks with a single line of Python code
-- and then easily analyze and visualize them.
You can just as easily download and work with amenities/points of interest, building footprints, elevation data, street bearings/orientations, and network routing.
If you use OSMnx in your work, please downlo…

Honestly, good for these folks
City councils in Boise and Salt Lake City work around restrictions on LGBTQ flags
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/08/nx-s1-5389748/city-councils-in-boise-and-salt-lake-city-work-a…

Academics can be viciously funny.
I recently published a journal article. One of the reviewers didn't much care for it. Alongside the obvious critique that I clearly hadn't read enough of my own work, Reviewer 2 didn't like me quoting a certain text, having misread what I thought was an obvious reference to a classic text as insulting one of the people at the center of my article. The editor agreed with me enough to put an illustration of the classic text on the issue's…

Jalen Ramsey to miss mandatory minicamp as Dolphins work towards trade

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jalen-ramsey-to-miss-mandatory-minicamp-as…

Very excited about this! Code to access GRIN will help lots of Google Books partners, and the example might open other doors, as well as the obvious benefits of access to data!
'Institutional Books 1.0: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability' https://arxiv.org/abs/2506…

Institutional Books 1.0: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability
Large language models (LLMs) use data to learn about the world in order to produce meaningful correlations and predictions. As such, the nature, scale, quality, and diversity of the datasets used to train these models, or to support their work at inference time, have a direct impact on their quality. The rapid development and adoption of LLMs of varying quality has brought into focus the scarcity of publicly available, high-quality training data and revealed an urgent need to ground the steward…

It's been an awesome day so far. Just as one client has signed off, another is (hopefully) about to go live!
#Work #Freelance #Gratitude

The UK's Reach plans to merge its national and regional sports journalism teams into one central hub, resulting in around 50 layoffs (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-to-streamline-sports-team…

Reach to 'streamline' sports teams into one hub with 'around 50' redundancies
Reach has proposed major changes to how its sports journalists work, bringing many of the national and regional teams into one.

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

work, die Gewerkschaftszeitung on Instagram: "Die rechte Mehrheit im Bundesrat betreibt eine Politik nach dem Motto: «Ätschbätsch, Volkswille!» work-Autor Clemens Studer zeigt im Video, wie FDP und SVP skrupellos ihre Interessen durchdrücken. 😤 #bundesrat #svp #fdp #work #unia"
2,149 likes, 87 comments - workzeitung on March 24, 2025: "Die rechte Mehrheit im Bundesrat betreibt eine Politik nach dem Motto: «Ätschbätsch, Volkswille!» work-Autor Clemens Studer zeigt im Video, wie FDP und SVP skrupellos ihre Interessen durchdrücken. 😤 #bundesrat #svp #fdp #work #unia".

Heegaard Floer theory and pseudo-Anosov flows II: Differential and Fried pants
Antonio Alfieri, Chi Cheuk Tsang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07163 https://…

Heegaard Floer theory and pseudo-Anosov flows II: Differential and Fried pants
In earlier work, relying on work of Agol-Guéritaud and Landry-Minsky-Taylor, we showed that given a pseudo-Anosov flow $(Y,ϕ)$ and a collection of closed orbits $\mathcal{C}$ satisfying the `no perfect fit' condition, one can construct a special Heegaard diagram for the link complement $Y^\sharp= Y \setminus ν(\mathcal{C})$ framed by the degeneracy curves. In this paper, we demonstrate how the special combinatorics of this diagram can be used to understand the differential of the associated …

@… I love this piece. Thanks for sharing it. I'd not heard of Ink & Switch, and I'm going to enjoy browsing their work. Their spreadsheet ideas are really fascinating.
People seem to be pushing LLMs as the saviour to this problem. I think Lisp and Prolog are probably better answers.

Interesting stuff. This touches on a lot of work that was on my todo list. Especially estimating the "interestingness" of data by measuring the maximum compute needed to reach the optimal compression.
AIT is definitely becoming practically relevant.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07995

Single-pass Adaptive Image Tokenization for Minimum Program Search
According to Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT) -- Intelligent representations compress data into the shortest possible program that can reconstruct its content, exhibiting low Kolmogorov Complexity (KC). In contrast, most visual representation learning systems use fixed-length representations for all inputs, ignoring variations in complexity or familiarity. Recent adaptive tokenization methods address this by allocating variable-length representations but typically require test-time search o…

Let me answer that myself: I tried with a few citations and it seems to work fine. It even uses the dots (e.g., "Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.") or not ("Proc Natl Acad Sci") according to the citation style. Nice!

Capitalists are fine with destroying the world. And they will be there to profit from rebuilding it from the ashes.¹
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¹no, they are not the ones to do the actual work. They never did, so why should they
#capitalism #CapitalismIsADeathCult

A new, updated, streamlined, and generally improved version of The Vector Grounding Problem paper, joint work by @… and me on the meaningfulness or else of LLM outputs and internal representations is now available on ArXiv.

The Vector Grounding Problem
The remarkable performance of large language models (LLMs) on complex linguistic tasks has sparked debate about their capabilities. Unlike humans, these models learn language solely from textual data without directly interacting with the world. Yet they generate seemingly meaningful text on diverse topics. This achievement has renewed interest in the classical `Symbol Grounding Problem' -- the question of whether the internal representations and outputs of symbolic AI systems can possess intrin…

#permaculture

2 hours a week
I skite that I grow nearly all the fruit, veggies, flowers, eggs, herbs we eat for less than two hours work a week, with almost no bought inputs, and that this stares down the meme about home grown…

Yesterday, I've attended the MSE Research Data Forum 2025 organised by #NFDIMatWerk. Aside from the conference presentations, our little ontologies group was meeting and discussing future work on ontologies in NFDI-MatWerk, including NFDIcore, MatWerk Application Ontologies, and PMDcore.

All good advice.
https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/114820870596337330

"Now more than ever, we need the federal government to work around the clock to secure a deal that is right for Canada and eliminates all American tariffs,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office said in a statement. And then he left early to beat the cottage traffic...
#CanPoli #OnPoli
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/trump-says-the-friends-have-been-worse-than-the-foes-trade-war-live-updates-here/

@… Should work. I switched from WIndows to Mint last year and found it to be easy. Now, I am probably more computer savvy than your parents, but Mint's interface should be pretty easy for them, especially for the limited uses they want.

Art Adventures, our free summer program for camps, community centers and day cares, is chugging along. Want to learn more about it and what makes this year's program special? https://georgiamuseum.org/gmoa_blog/this-summers-art-adventures-imm…

Quanta Magazine's Stephen Ornes describes a novel algorithm that can factor large numbers using only one qubit. The technique relies on quantum oscillation, and although it has a catch (the larger the number being factored the more energy the oscillators expend), the work points to new ways to perform quantum computing.
"New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers With One Qubit
-The catch: It would require the energy of a few medium-size stars."

Hoping for a #flare: During the final days of our 2 week observation campaign with #GREGORSolarTelescope on Tenerife, scientists work remote from the “GREGOR Operations Center” at #MPSGoettingen

"I am an embodiment journeying towards belief. Faith seeking greater confidence. That is what being a Christian means to me. It may well be the work of a lifetime."
—Ian Barclay ’24 M.A.R. writing in the new issue of our journal, Reflections https://…

My least favorite work interactions are with customers’ 3rd party “rockstar” consultants. I never know how to respond to certain sorts of queries. Ones where I could answer the question as asked but it really implies a deeper misunderstanding. I feel like I want to write him a treatise on VPNs: what they are and how they work. And Cc his boss (who shares his surname…) to communicate the depth of the problem.
I’m letting my boss handle it. He’s the networking guy anyway…

Stereographic Projections on Some Quadric Surfaces
W. F. C. Barboza, T. F. Cruz, R. B. Leal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08289 https://…

Stereographic Projections on Some Quadric Surfaces
In this work, we present an adaptation of the classical stereographic projection, originally formulated for the sphere, now considering the context of the ellipsoid and the elliptic paraboloid. We begin by constructing the stereographic projections for both quadric surfaces separately, analyzing the geometric particularities of each surface and the challenges arising from their variable curvatures and, in the case of the paraboloid, its non-compactness. In the final part of the work, we establi…

#PhantastikPrompts 10.06.:
Wie hältst du es mit geschlechtergerechter Sprache?
Wer bei mir mitliest, dürfte gesehen haben, dass ich nach Möglichkeit neutrale Formen verwende (und wo es sich absolut nicht ausgeht damit, den Stern verwende). Bis hin dazu, dass ich sowohl für den Eigengebrauch, als auch für den Fremdgebrauch und die Romanwelt ein paar Neologismen geschaffen ha…

In This Thread: denizens of debian-user mailing list who refuse to accept that there are people who do creative work without wanting to use email.
Apparently it is only "kids" who "don't understand what is important", who "have a mobile phone glued to their hand" and "don't care about their computer as long as it plays their games."

My great failure in life is that I never put myself in a position to monetise being this embarrassingly incompetent.
#auspol #australia #government

DEKC: Data-Enable Control for Tethered Space Robot Deployment in the Presence of Uncertainty via Koopman Operator Theory
Ao Jin, Qinyi Wang, Sijie Wen, Ya Liu, Ganghui Shen, Panfeng Huang, Fan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08319

DEKC: Data-Enable Control for Tethered Space Robot Deployment in the Presence of Uncertainty via Koopman Operator Theory
This work focuses the deployment of tethered space robot in the presence of unknown uncertainty. A data-enable framework called DEKC which contains offline training part and online execution part is proposed to deploy tethered space robot in the presence of uncertainty. The main idea of this work is modeling the unknown uncertainty as a dynamical system, which enables high accuracy and convergence of capturing uncertainty. The core part of proposed framework is a proxy model of uncertainty, whi…

The harvest from the third honeyberry bush. It's been enough to provide two breakfasts as fruit with porridge. (Not me, J).

Cowboys stars Micah Parsons, Trevon Diggs work out together before minicamp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-stars-micah-parsons-trevon-diggs-work-out-together-before-minicamp

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
-Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features, demoed in 2024, with the "V1 Siri architecture" and work on a V2 model (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
https://www.techra…

This is what really happened with Siri and Apple Intelligence, according to Apple
Is it a delay, a strategy... or something else?

Musician Michael Gira (Swans) on letting the work speak through you
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-m…

Musician Michael Gira (Swans) on letting the work speak through you – The Creative Independent
Musician Michael Gira discusses doing the work with total commitment, accepting the unknown and figuring it out along the way

Application of LLMs to Multi-Robot Path Planning and Task Allocation
Ashish Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07302 https://arxiv.org/…

Application of LLMs to Multi-Robot Path Planning and Task Allocation
Efficient exploration is a well known problem in deep reinforcement learning and this problem is exacerbated in multi-agent reinforcement learning due the intrinsic complexities of such algorithms. There are several approaches to efficiently explore an environment to learn to solve tasks by multi-agent operating in that environment, of which, the idea of expert exploration is investigated in this work. More specifically, this work investigates the application of large-language models as expert …

Agreed, with apologies to the truly excellent people who have worked their assess off for things making their debut. I appreciate your work, I really do. But…what @… said.
https://my-spaces.social/@hasani/114666557877253385

Hot Phonon Bottlenecks and the Role of Non-Equilibrium Acoustic Phonons in III-V Multi-Quantum Well Systems
Izak Baranowski, Dragica Vasileska, Ian R. Sellers, Stephen M. Goodnick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06455

Hot Phonon Bottlenecks and the Role of Non-Equilibrium Acoustic Phonons in III-V Multi-Quantum Well Systems
The hot phonon bottleneck effect is a promising mechanism for the realization of a true hot carrier solar cell. Prior work has assumed that the acoustic phonons created via decay of polar longitudinal optical (LO) phonons are assumed to quickly leave the system or thermalize quickly due to multi-phonon processes. The present work furthers the models of previous work to include a build-up of longitudinal acoustic phonons in addition to LO phonons due via the Klemens process. By including this ad…

Jakorian Bennett: 'I'm here to work and show the coaches who I am' https://www.raiders.com/video/jakorian-bennett-defense-raiders-minicamp-presser-nfl-offseason-061025

Exactly 20 years ago I published a blog post (which I've edited to adapt to my most recent incarnation of a blog) , with a comparison of tools and frameworks for quite a few technology stacks: Java, .NET, PHP, etc.
This was right at the very early stages of the Cloud, there was no "Big Data", there was certainly no AI, there was no iPhone or Android, Mac OS X releases were still big cats, Ubuntu had just appeared, and social media was just Orkut or MySpace. Enjoy.

State of the Art
This article is a copy of a research work I did today, to draw a map of today’s development technologies.

Are you looking for the tools to help your #church youth leaders to accompany, work with, and support #LGBTQ young people? We have put together a curriculum that will allow you to do this at

Accompanying LGBTQ+ Youth — Yale Youth Ministry Institute
Theologians and practitioners discuss the importance of supporting and walking with LGBTQ+ youth.

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
-Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

the EU "Stop Killing Games" initiative is doing a great job for video games. We need something the same for home automation devices and cars and stuff:
#stopkillinggames #consumerrights #eol

Belkin is ending support for nearly all its Wemo smart home devices
Wemo hardware will stop working in January 2026 unless it’s been set up in Apple HomeKit. Belkin has announced that it’s made the “difficult decision” to end support for almost its entire line of Wemo smart home devices from January 31st, 2026. The only models that will continue to work after that …

Memo: Google appoints a new chief AI architect, DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, who will coordinate future AI-powered product development (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/11/2025/google-names-new-ch…

Google names new chief AI architect to advance developments
DeepMind’s tech chief, Koray Kavukcuoglu, was named to the newly created position, where he will work alongside Sundar Pichai to help speed up production.

The mere fact that someone is willing to work for Trump, knowing who he is, tells you that they’re willing to debase themselves.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-you-should-fear-a-magafied-fed

Why You Should Fear a MAGAfied Fed
The next Fed chair will debase himself for Trump

I honestly wonder how the famously right-wing leadership of Home Depot feel about having their workforce specifically targeted, terrorized, and (presumably) encouraged to seek work elsewhere. I doubt they care about these people as human beings, but surely they care about their labor costs. Have we heard any remarks from them? From their shareholders?

Expectations high for $8 million Cowboys FA, former first-round pick to work out issues https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/11/dallas-cowboys-trade-costs-kenneth-murray/84054658007/…

New kickoff rules forcing Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson put his multi-sport skills to work https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/10/raiders-k-daniel-carlso…

“What AI sells is vastly different from what it delivers, particularly what it delivers out of the box.”
The post gives some great context on the study of “the difference between work-as-imagined (WAI) and work-as-done (WAD),” and says:
“If what we have to do to be productive with LLMs is to add a lot of scaffolding and invest effort to gain important but poorly defined skills, we should be able to assume that what we’re sold and what we get are rather different things. That gap implies that better designed artifacts could have better affordances, and be more appropriate to the task at hand.”
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Just did a once over on my Vimeo as a portfolio for a lead producer job application.
Mainly, just updated some descriptions. Nice to be reminded of some past work I like: #film

David August
David August is an award-winning actor, acting coach, writer, director, and producer. He plays a role in the movie Dependent’s Day, and after its theatrical…

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, whose department oversees FEMA’s work,
issued a new agency rule this year requiring all contracts and grants costing over $100,000 to be personally approved by her.
As floodwaters were rising in Texas, Noem failed to respond to such requests over the weekend,
taking four days to approve the spending that could have saved lives.
As of Wednesday evening, 120 people in Texas have been killed by the massive flo…

DHS Head Kristi Noem Prioritized Instagram Pics Over FEMA Requests for Response to Texas Floods
It took Noem four days to respond to requests from FEMA, delaying access to some search and rescue tools.

I’ve been around a while too, and I can vouch for this.
I remember somebody telling me with deadly earnestness circa 1999 that Java Beans were going to make it so that business analysts could write integration code themselves, no developers. Java Beans.
Two certainties in software:
1. The work always changes.
2. The work never goes away. https://front-end.social/@alvaromontoro/114494970685095188

Madre Fire Update from Los Padres National Forest
Size: 80,786 Acres / Containment: 67%
Total Personnel: 1,330
Work continues along the west, northwest, northeast, and southwest of the fire perimeter to strengthen both - direct and indirect - containment lines as well as mop-up and patrol to ensure lines are secure. Dozer and handcrews are engaged on rugged terrain along the southeast flank, with ongoing efforts focused on structure protection and securing Highway 166. Aeri…

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

A former Justice Department official is warning of a
🔥wave of retribution inside the agency.
Patty Hartman, who served as a top public affairs specialist at the FBI and federal prosecutors' offices, told CBS News,
"The rules don't exist anymore."
Hartman, who was fired Monday via a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi,
is the fourth person connected to the agency's work on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots to be terminated in the past month.

Fired Justice Department official warns "we are falling into an abyss"
Patty Hartman, who worked with the public affairs team on Jan. 6 prosecutions, was fired Monday by Pam Bondi.

The move to Windows 11 isn’t just about security updates.
It increases dependence on Microsoft through aggressive cloud integration,
forcing users to adopt Microsoft accounts and services.
It also leads to higher costs due to subscription and licensing models,
and reduces control over how your computer works and how your data is managed.
Furthermore, new hardware requirements will render millions of perfectly good PCs obsolete.
This is a turning point.

The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10. This will leave millions of users and organisations with a difficult choice: should they upgrade to Windows 11, or completely rethink their work environment? The good news? You don’t […]