facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
AI company ad on the tube: 'help me build an app to find dog friendly pubs'. But my friend, where would that data come from? Scraping the websites that already list dog-friendly pubs? Searching pub websites?
And would anyone trust it enough to book a table with friends in the hope that the listing is current and correct? So many questions.
The Document Foundation (TDF),
the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice,
welcomes the inclusion of the Open Document Format (ODF) as a mandated standard format in
Germany’s Deutschland-Stack,
the federal government’s sovereign digital infrastructure framework for all public administrations.
The Stack, published by the German Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation
(Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung),
establishes the…
And here is the video and short summary for those wanting the TL;DR
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/article-hubs/polar-geoengineering-risks-realities/explainer
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116769474882730548
Ruth_Mottram - We also wrote a version for kids:
https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2025.1633572
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116769466126905589
Ruth_Mottram - Flurry of articles, including in the Guardian on the very well funded but seriously misguided efforts to geoengineer the Arctic by growing sea ice, reminds me that it is probably time to report our critical article on the subject..
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2025.1527393/full
Klinkt goed
Zonnefolie kan Europa weer aan de frontlinie van de energietransitie plaatsen – hoe werken deze Eindhovense wondercellen?
https://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/zonnefo
I've been liking Proton Sheets (from @… ) but the date formatting choices are not great.
I do (currently) live in the US but prefer ISO 8601/RFC 3339 formatting of YYYY-MM-DD and that's what I use in my spreadsheet.
I can type in that format but occasionally the date picker (which automagically shows up) changes it to the wrong for…
Acoustic stimulation in pain management: neurobiological mechanisms and clinical applications—a narrative review https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1861265/full
Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know today, including
--Anthropic eases threat-sharing rules as Cloudflare details frontier AI cyber gains,
--CISA contractor exposed sensitive gov't creds in public GitHub repo,
--Buterin says AI-assisted formal verification can secure blockchain systems,
--NY public health provider says breach affects 1.8m,
--FBI wants access to ALPRs nationwide,
--Interpol busts 2…
dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 87 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Tempo…