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1: Tell us a bit about yourself, an unusual creative fact or event in life maybe?
#MakersHour
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Q1: Tell us a bit about yourself, an unusual creative fact or event in life maybe?
#MakersHour

A1: US resident, embroidery and piecing are my crafts, or cutting up cardboard into stand-up figurines.

I started needlecraft as a non-media habit during graduate school. If I had finished my original graduate school programme, I might now be losing my civil service scientist job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena as a result of government malfeasance. But I could have been a Mars Rover Driver. I could have been Somebody!

in reply to Jeff Miller (orange hatband)

@jmeowmeow
Missing out on JPL, is very like me missing out on doing my engineering degree at Brunel or Imperial. I got offers from both, but parents wanted me to go somewhere closer to home.





New #photography blog post:
More of Rüdesheim
#filmphotography #blackandwhite #Germany #medieval
rosehlacroix.wordpress.com/202…


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Re Carlo III avvia il processo per togliere i titoli ad Andrea - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/10/30/re-carlo-iii-avvia-il-processo-per-togliere-i-titoli-ad-andrea_ce18cd89-42d5-4c8d-b874-301cdfd6099e.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa



Meloni, Ponte opera strategica, rimane il nostro obiettivo - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/10/30/meloni-ponte-opera-strategica-rimane-il-nostro-obiettivo_8c214f9f-15c4-4ca7-8446-6e2bff207f34.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa




“UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP AND UDIO ANNOUNCE UDIO’S FIRST STRATEGIC AGREEMENTS FOR NEW LICENSED AI MUSIC CREATION PLATFORM”

universalmusic.com/universal-m…



A potential US return to nuclear testing could upend decades of non-proliferation. But this is part of a much larger, systemic shift in global conflict.
• The ‘America First’ ripple effect on alliances.
• The failure of traditional peacekeeping models.
• The Pentagon’s formalization of Irregular Warfare.
• The structural competition between the US and China.
• Europe’s race for defense autonomy.
• How narratives are now a battlefield.
open.spotify.com/episode/663dD…

#Geopolitics #ArmsControl




I did a drum and bass set, and it's almost actually all entirely drum and bass 😁 I know, I am truly in rare form. mixcloud.com/irickcorwal/why-d…



You can cipher your scrolls into secret tongues and then store them in a remote redoubt. #cloud #cybersecurity cromwell-intl.com/cybersecurit…


Blackthorn. A local favourite for sweet liquors, but they have to "get frost" first. Nowadays it hardly ever gets cold enough while they are ripe, so you have no other options but to put them in the freezer.

I once tried eating one just like that, it was not a pleasant experience.

#photography #plants #europe





After some weeks (or months?) in which I had no time for maintaining my collection of media acocunts in the #Fediverse (fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview…) it seems like #Ghost has grown too big: They have federated so many sites 🤯

All their news-sites are here:
explore.ghost.org/news
Just search with "@" + URL here and you'll see one of them is federated.

And if you find one, why not tagging me here, so I can include them?

Oh and boosting this post, may also help 😁

#News #Media #SocialMedia



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Hey Thor, there are several other windows you could look out

#CatsOfMastodon

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Catting as intended 😻

Seriously, though, in case you are not familiar; unlike dogs, cats live in full 3D space, and higher up is always better in terms of observing anything. So expect him to spend more time up there. And on top of anything else you never expected him to be able to get onto 😂

Also, I have to compliment him on his choices; large window, good view of the approach angles, no dogs to bother him, AND a wall socket in case he ever needs to charge any of his personal devices.



I am going to eat a double cherry magnum while watching The Celebrity Traitors in my pyjamas. I bet you wish you were me.


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Is there a way to search for text within my feed (posts from users I follow)?

#Mastodon




Brian Eno News (@dark-shark.bsky.social)

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> It's that time of year again so break out a Karlheinz Stockhausen Halloween mask!



Does anyone know how to fix the audio RSS issue that we have right now with PeerTube and podcasts platforms? #peertube #rss #podcast
in reply to FeloniousPunk

@FeloniousPunk at github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube…


TL;DR: The Trump administration is pushing for states to exempt Internet Service Providers from net neutrality regulations, arguing that such rules constitute price regulation and are prohibited under a $42 billion grant program. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum


Please stop watching/reading #CNN #MSNBC #ABC #CBS all owned by #maga #billionaires consigned to spouting #disinformation subscribe to @aaronparnas.substack.com For the third day in a row, #Senate #Republicans rebuked #DonaldTrump. The Senate voted 51–47 to reject #Trump sweeping global “reciprocal” #tariffs, marking 3rd bipartisan rebuke #trade policies this week w 4 #Republicans joining #Democrats to end national emergency that authorized duties 50% on most #imports. No #House vote


Reading Carl Hiaasen's Fever Beach on the basis of @pluralistic's review here pluralistic.net/2025/10/21/flo…. Holy shit. I'm only about a third of the way in, but the way he writes this dumb-as-shit Florida white nationalist is :chefs_kiss:
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If you don't know who Mastodon and Mockingbird are, you need to read another of his hilarious epics', "Squeeze Me"

#Hiassen #CarlHiassen #Mastodon #Mockingbird

in reply to Jon

that book was amazing. I just finished it yesterday. Someone said he'd been training his whole life to write that and I can't argue.


Blazing-fast distributed storage that scales to billions of files. O(1) disk seek, with S3 and others compatible.

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“Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models
YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance.”

niemanlab.org/2025/10/hundreds…




Boulos almoça no bandejão do Planalto um dia após posse como ministro



(Folhpress) – O ministro da Secretaria-Geral, Guilherme Boulos, almoçou no bandejão do Palácio do Planalto, restaurante comumente utilizado pelos servidores, nesta quinta-feira (30), um dia após sua posse oficial como ministro. No local, o Psolista almoçava com um grupo e fez fotos com as demais pessoas que almoçavam no restaurante. Ministro Boulos A pasta assumida […]



Saw a very cute and curious jay hopping around the other day.

#bird #birding #photography



Avui és 5è dijous de mes i fem un taller d’expressions regulars! 🤖

Aprendrem a aplicar-les a tasques d’administració amb sed, grep,rename i per la programació en python, javascript, java, …

👾 Són difícils, però els monstres no ens fan por! 🙈

in reply to Hacklab Logout

Desxifrem la regex de la vinyeta: ^[\w-.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4}$

  • ^ : marca l’inici de línia. Fa que l’expressió que segueix sigui l’inici de línia, que no estigui per allà al mig
  • [\w-.]+:
    • [abc]: representa 1 sol caràcter a triar entre a, b o c.
    • \w: equivalent a a-zA-Z0-9, és a dir, qualsevol lletra majúscula o minúscula, dígit i barra baixa. Les lletres amb accent NO estan incloses
    • -: el caràcter guió -, no té significat especial
    • .: el caràcter punt. Dins dels claudàtors, no té significat especial
    • a+: una o més lletres a. Darrere d’un grup de caràcters, [abc]+ vol dir un o més de qualsevol d’aquests caràcters, en qualsevol ordre i distribució (aaa, ab, ccacbcba)


  • @;: caràcter literal arroba, sense significat especial
  • ([\w-]+\.)+
    • (aaa)+ Una repetició o més del grup dins dels parèntesis
    • [\w-]+: un o més caràcters de lletres maj//min, números, guions alts i baixos
    • \.: un punt, caràcter normal. Li hem de posar \ davant, perquè sinó vol dir “qualsevol caràcter”


  • [\w-]{2,4}: un caràcter alfanumèric, guió baix (inclòs a \w) o alt, i tantes vegades com el rang entre claus: entre 2 i 4: és a dir, 2, 3 o 4 caràcters de tal grup.
  • $ : final de línia. Envoltar l’expressió entre ^ i $ fa que la línia hagi de coincidir de forma completa amb el patró, la regex. No pot representar-ne només un trosset.

Per tant, algunes línies que coincidirien amb aquest patró són:

I una adreça vàlida que no funcionaria, perquè diu que l’última part només pot tenir 4 dígits:

  • admin@mastodon.online (“online” és més llarg que 4 caràcters)

Una adreça invàlida que no coincideix (està ben fet el patró:

  • error@.domini.net Perquè el punt no pot anar just després de l’arroba. Si es pogués, podríem haver simplificat ([\w-]+\.)+ com a [\w-.]+ Fer-ho com està, fa que hi hagi d’haver almenys un caràcter abans d’un posible punt.

Dues adreces més, que farien servir dominis “locals”, de xarxes internes:

  • admin@localhost seria vàlida.
  • admin@lc no ho seria, perquè després de @, ha d’haver-hi 1 o més caràcters + entre 2 i 4 caràcters. És a dir, mínim 3.

Conclusió: tota regex és sempre incompleta. Buscar la regex perfecta ens condemna a escriure la biblia… en arameu i escriptura cuneïforme. Millor buscar regex prou bones per les dades que volem acceptar.

Recursos online:

Si voleu els exercicis que vam fer, demaneu-nos-els, estan menys explicats però són més divertits 😉



The Atlantic: Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases

Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers (Oct. 30, 2025)

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

#fascism #politics #military #trump

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May I present to you, the Potsdam Gravity Potato?

Areas of the earth where the gravitational field is mysteriously weaker (blue) or stronger (orange)

via @earthlymission
earthlymission.com/the-potsdam…

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as a visualisation, shouldn't the areas with weaker gravitational pull stick out and those with stronger be sucked in 🤔


Non so perché, ma avrei potuto scommetterci anche le @@ su questo risultato.

La legge, ovviamente, non è uguale per tutti.

tgcom24.mediaset.it/cronaca/ar…

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Visit to Pyongyang by Swadesh DevRoye, Deputy General Secretary, WFTU on the occasion of celebration of 80 years of WPK #WFTU wftucentral.org/visit-to-pyong…
#WFTU


My eyesight is pretty bad and at first I thought this squiggly channel in the water was a snake.🙃

#PhonePhotography
#NotAPhotographer
#photography #creeks
#colours #colors




Kaksi aikuisviihdefirmaa on nostanut syytteen Facebookin emoyhtiötä Metaa vastaan

Yhtiöt väittävät Metan ladanneen laittomasti tuhansia aikuisviihde-leffoja torrenttina ja käyttävän niitä tekoälynsä koulutusmateriaalina.

dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/10/30/syy…

#meta #aikuisviihde #oikeusjuttu #facebook #tekoäly #ai #uutiset #teknologia #tekniikka



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Esta publi se volvió viral en poco tiempo (eso pasa 1 o dos veces al año, pidan un deseo) Bueno, esta publi es realmente para probar la visualización del citado en #Mastodon



🌍💚 Am 14. November ist globaler Klimastreik! 💚🌍
Auch in #Freiburg gehen wir mit einer sweeten Laternendemo auf die Straße!🏮
Kommt um 18 Uhr auf den Platz der Alten Synagoge und bringt mit uns etwas Licht ins Dunkle🔥

📢 Weltweit demonstrieren wir, während die Regierungschefs bei der Weltklimakonferenz verhandeln – und machen klar: Wir dulden keine Kompromisse mit unserer Zukunft!

#fridaysforfuture #fff #klimaschutz #COP26




I grew up on food stamps and free school lunches. I remember going to food pantries and walking out with peanut butter and shelf-stable cheese in stark white containers with black lettering.

I didn't always like what we had to eat (I hated peanut butter!), but I was lucky enough to never go hungry.

in reply to Aleen

The Trump administration's refusal to pay SNAP benefits is galling to me on a very personal level.

I can't change their minds. I don't have billions of dollars to give to people who need help. But I can do some good. Will you join me in donating to your local food pantry?

If you want to tell me how much you've donated, J and I will contribute that amount to United Food Bank (up to $1000). We're matching $200 in donations so far!

in reply to Aleen

Don't live in the US? Donate to your local food pantry anyway! I'm sure they can use the help no matter where you are.

Everyone deserves to eat.

in reply to Aleen

We sent $50 to our local, the Nazareth Area Food Bank, this morning.


"The founder of a startup business that helps employers and parents with parental leave is asking whether it's fair that parents are taxed as individuals.

Stephanie Pow said she regularly helped parents navigate their entitlements, including Working for Families and Family Boost.

All of these supports are assessed on the basis of household income.

But when it came to tax, that is applied on an individual basis."

#SusanEdmunds, 2025

rnz.co.nz/news/business/577357…

Benefits should be individual too.

in reply to Strypey

Either option would be better than the status quo for households like mine with a disabled adult unable to work. Not that NZ classifies ME/CFS as a disability, but that's another story.
in reply to Tim Nicholas

@tim
> Either option would be better than the status quo for households

Cool. So consider the situation of a solo Dad who starts dating someone with a job. WINZ gets wind of this, declares they're now "in a relationship", and means tests his benefit entitlements against her income and assets.

Now he either has to break up with a woman he may have only just started seeing, or depend on her to support him and her kids. She has an equally stark choice.

Individual entitlements are the way.



#Klimaschutz ist keine politische Ideologie!
@_FriedrichMerz @Markus_Soeder und Konsorten

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Stell Dir vor, die Klimaleugner hätten recht. Was dann? Dann hätten wir saubere Städte, klare Luft und sauberes Wasser.... Daher ist es keine politische Meinung. Sondern vernünftig.


There's something that didn't really crystallise for me for a long time, which I think I might have learned from Bob Harper implicitly, not sure.

If you like someone's research and want to emulate it, it is more important to read the things that they had *read* than to read the things that they had *written*.

Obviously you should read it all, but I often run into people who are banging their heads against something I wrote when I was just a beginner in a topic trying to understand it myself, and they would be a lot better off reading whatever I had been reading at the time. (A good way to figure out what someone had been reading is to look at the bibliography in their paper or note!)

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@graydon @slava Graydon, you're probably the person I know who is best at doing this stuff from outside academia. Researchers have to spend lots of time creating and maintaining this metadata, whether in our heads or actually written down like you describe. The metadata makes it possible to (relatively) quickly understand where new knowledge fits in. But it's also a lot of overhead to maintain. I sometimes envy people who have a lower-overhead way of engaging with papers than I do!
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@lindsey @slava The times I've really tried to map an area for my own interest relied very heavily on tools! Google scholar, semantic scholar, etc.

Lately I'm really enjoying inciteful.xyz -- for any given citation graph it also shows a bunch of canned derived queries: prominent authors, journals and institutions, most-cited survey papers that cover the most of the graph, key papers and recent papers, etc. etc.

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I tried watching the new DMV show and I wasn't really into it.