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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Dark creatures update

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• video: Vidéo en noir et blanc montrant le feuilletage d'un petit carnet de dessins de sombres créatures dans des environnement ravagés, manoirs délabrés et ténébreuses forêts

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

An objectively stupid man.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/25/the-dumbest-man-in-congress/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Nobody needs to see that, Kristi... https://www.comicsands.com/noem-gory-elk-photos?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=infeed&utm%5Fcampaign=linkprogram

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrALJONES wrote:

Surprise

Report: "The British government has not suspended or revoked a single additional arms export licence for Israel"...

...despite Miliband saying he would refuse "applications for arms & other exports that materially contribute to the occupation of Palestinian territory."

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260925-report-uks-double-lock-on-arms-to-israel-suspends-nothing/

#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #Palestine #IsraeliOccupation #Gaza #WestBank #news .

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

I knew it.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pustam_egr@mathstodon.xyz ("Pustam | पुस्तम | পুস্তম🇳🇵") wrote:

Consider a curve moving through 3D space.

What information do we need to completely describe its shape?

As we travel along the curve, measured by arc length s, we attach a moving coordinate frame consisting of three perpendicular unit vectors:

T — the tangent, pointing in the direction of travel
N — the normal, pointing in the direction the curve is bending
B — the binormal, perpendicular to both, with B = T × N

But the important geometric information is not simply the frame. It is how the frame changes as we move along the curve.

Two quantities control that change:

Curvature κ measures how rapidly the tangent direction changes, telling us how strongly the curve bends.

Torsion τ measures how the bending plane itself rotates, telling us how the curve twists out of that plane and into the third dimension.

Remarkably, if we know κ(s) and τ(s) everywhere along the curve, we know its entire shape, apart from translating or rotating it in space.

This is the fundamental theorem of space curves.

The changing frame is described by the Frenet–Serret equations:

T′ = κN
N′ = −κT + τB
B′ = −τN

So curvature and torsion are essentially the instructions telling the frame how to rotate as it travels along the curve.

Now suppose our curve lives not in 3D, but in n-dimensional space.

We construct an n-dimensional moving frame and obtain n − 1 generalised curvatures:

κ₁, κ₂, …, κₙ₋₁

There is a useful geometric way to think about them.

κ₁ describes the departure from straight-line motion.

κ₂ describes how the curve escapes the plane generated by its first bending.

κ₃ describes how it escapes the resulting 3D subspace.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
altlife@me.dm ("🪷 प्रियंका | Priyanka 🪷") wrote:

Thanks for the laugh but Newcastle University are you okay?
I get the economy isn't doing great but Anant Ambani as a Professor of Practice in Sustainability? Be serious.
Ambanis are India’s billionaire family who cosplay as the Sanskari(traditional) Kardashians. No amount of money, power or fame ever seems to be enough. They manufacture their own awards & then hand them to themselves. They own media houses so scrutiny around their sustainability practices rarely gets the attention it deserves.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

☀️☀️

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social ("Democracy Matters :verified:") wrote:

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory

SEPT. 25, 1961: MURDER OF HERBERT LEE

Herbert Lee, a farmer who helped voting rights activists, was murdered by a Mississippi state legislator in broad daylight.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/herbert-lee-murdered/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

PSA to other blind people, rating a Deaf Uber driver 1 star with a safety violation because of a disability clash and because you are totally blind is a very ableist thing to do.

There's texting. There are ASL classes for the blind. I took one years ago at the school for the Deaf and the Blind I attended. I have Deaf friends teach me ASL via touch.

I know ASL is a visual language, but let's not be ableist because we are blind ourselves.

#Ableism #Blind #Blindness

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
james@ruby.social ("James Adam") wrote:

Which of these best describes how AI is involved in your software development at the moment?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
CheetahObscura@meow.social ("Obscura, Cheetah") wrote:

Coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee! #FursuitFriday

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

RE: https://sfba.social/@orrickle/117332197984319174

idiocy

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

when's the last time you ran a backup

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
orrickle@sfba.social ("Orrock LXXXVI XLVII") wrote:

And then tonight, at least CNN and MS NOW were blocked from access to the White House state dinner with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. After Trump posted on social media that CNN and MS NOW (he called it MSDNC) were refusing to cover Xi’s visit “because they knew how good it would be, they didn’t want credit to be given to ‘TRUMP,’” the White House told CNN it could send only an audio producer and a cameraman to the event, not a reporter or producer. Senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes said: “They again said that we were specifically denied access and that they were not letting in the CNN editorial presence.”

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
midtsveen@bsd.cafe ("Erik L. Midtsveen") wrote:

When you say ‘I use Linux’ and accidentally summon the entire BSD family.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Unix #Linux #BSD #Meme #Memes #Humor #SpongeBob

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
p@hj.9fs.net wrote:

i only have this

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
faraiwe@mstdn.social ("Faraiwe") wrote:

#FOSS #Privacy #Democracy #USPol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
slimhazard@mastodon.world ("Geoff Simmons") wrote:

Ohio voters — Ramaswamy wants to get rid of Ohio State!
RAMASWAMY HATES THE BUCKEYES!
Vote out this madman and send him to the State Up North.

@renewedresistance
#ramaswamy #ohio #governor #Midterms #buckeyes
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/09/ramaswamy-wants-to-consolidate-ohios-universities-ohios-founders-would-be-appalled/

brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

🎃 Is it time for pumpkin spice lattes and jack-o'-lanterns yet?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

If you use KiteWorks I suggest you temporarily remove internet access now. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Imminent-Zero-Day-Attack-KiteWorks-Urges-Customers-to-Shut-Down-Servers-11466375.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GeoWire ("GeoWire.online") wrote:

🟠 UPDATE

RIA Novosti Deletes Column Envisaging 'Short' War With Lithuania and Nuclear Strike

Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius states that 'Lithuanian skies are NATO skies' in a DW interview, discussing threats from Russia and Belarus. He argues that...

📰 https://www.dw.com/en/lithuanian-skies-are-nato-skies-dw-interview-with-lithuania-s-prime-minister-mindaugas-sinkevicius/a-79432394?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

#Russia #NATO #Military #Diplomacy #Geopolitics #GeoWire

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Fed Confronts the Prospect of Another Rate Increase Ahead of Midterms

Financial markets are placing nearly 70 percent odds on the Federal Reserve raising interest rates in late October
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/business/fed-interest-rates-midterms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.social/@ScienceDesk/117332176135137189

I was very sad to see the rescue mission didn't work. And now I guess Swift is also going to have an uncontrolled reentry? And it's pretty big and not designed to "fully demise" (though of course I know better than many that "full demisability" for satellites is a lie).

I really don't like this russian roulette game, even if deaths are an extremely low probability, there are so many reentries now that bad things will happen.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I did the admin 🎉 .

Now to figure out what to do with the rest of my day. Well, the university piled on more admin, so I better at the very least schedule that in......

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Tutanota wrote:

Next Tuesday, a permanent decision on Chat Control 2.0 could be made. 😡 If passed, this means your private chats WILL be SCANNED. 🚨

PLEASE TAKE ACTION:

Contact your MEPs 👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu/?level=national#contact-tool

At Tuta we say NO to #ChatControl and will continue to fight for your right to privacy. ❤️🔐

Image source: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
botticelli ("Botticelli") wrote:

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Niqnaq@meow.social wrote:

It was fun to bring Little Niq to the convention. I heard a lot of comments like, "Oh you have a mini me!" 😁
#EF30 #FursuitFriday

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

That feeling when people in tech finally opt out of “AI” because of sci-fi nonsense and not because of the endless societal, environmental, and economic harms to actual people today

I’m glad, I guess, that they aren’t contributing to the problem anymore

But also, fuck them, up down and sideways.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
vmcall@infosec.exchange ("SNeela") wrote:

ALRIGHT! I'm VERY excited to announce this research, because we've been holding onto it for close to a year now!

Announcing File Notification Attacks! Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on #Linux, #Android, #Windows, and #macOS

We've found decades-old bugs on Linux, Android, and Windows... well technically Microsoft considers what we found an ✨ undocumented feature ✨ (got Microsoft nominated for the lamest vendor response #pwnie award haha).

There's SO much to talk about, so please expand this thread below, but you can also check it out yourself at:

https://inoti.fyi/

There's a #noAI logo that my sister drew there. Our work was accepted at #CCS 2026, and I'll be presenting it this November at The Hague, Netherlands! If you're there, we should totally meet up :D

Thanks to my AWESOME co-authors: Xufan Zhao, Jeanette Angelika Wultsch, @hweissi, Florian Draschbacher, @notbobbytables, and @lavados 🙏, all of us from @isec_tugraz, TU Graz

#security #cybersecurity #research #systems