MINIKIN. A little man or woman: also the smallest sort of pin.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#poll Should a guy who was taken off on a stretcher the week before be allowed to play 7 days later?
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🤗☁️🌈☁️🪽😇🪽🕊️✝️👑💦❤️🔥💒🛐🫂🏩💗🩷💜💙🩵💚💛🧡❤️☝️👆🌍🌐💜🤗(Thus says the LORD!*the King!*& Redeemer!*the LORD of hosts!*“I am the first!*& I am the last!*besides me there is no god!*since I appointed an ancient people!*Let them declare what is to come!*& what will happen!)👉
(Isaiah 44:6-8)
#The #Lord #Says #Besides #Me #There #Is #No #God #Creator #World #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Caring #Hospitality #Unity #Love -
Davide Ancelotti wants to make a name for himself – will he do it at Lille?
By Luke EntwistleLille’s results under Carlo’s son in Ligue 1 are encouraging but they have been exposed in the Champions League
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/26/davide-ancelotti-lille-champions-league-ligue-1
#Ligue1 #Football #Sport #Europeanclubfootball #Lille #Monaco #ParisSaintGermain #TheGuardian #LukeEntwistle
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The elk were out in my side yard again this morning. This time, I had the foresight to look for them with my spotlight before I let the dogs out. I counted about a dozen females. The light got them moving, so by the time I came down with the dogs, they were pretty much gone. It's hunting season here and I'm wondering if they know that it's safer to stay up in the hills than to go down into the wildlife corridor that abuts my property. Could they be that smart?
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🤗☁️🌈☁️🪽😇🪽🕊️✝️👑💦❤️🔥💒🛐🫂🏩💗🩷💜💙🩵💚💛🧡❤️☝️👆🌍🌐💜🤗(Thus says the LORD!*the King!*& Redeemer!*the LORD of hosts!*“I am the first!*& I am the last!*besides me there is no god!"*Who is like me?*Let him proclaim it!*Let him declare!*& set it before me!)👉
(Isaiah 44:6-8)
#The #Lord #Says #Besides #Me #There #Is #No #God #Creator #World #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Caring #Hospitality #Helping #Understanding #Unity #Love -
🤗☁️🌈☁️🪽😇🪽🕊️✝️👑💦❤️🔥💒🛐🫂🏩💗🩷💜💙🩵💚💛🧡❤️☝️👆🌍🌐💜🤗(Thus says the LORD!*the King of Israel!*& his Redeemer!*the LORD of hosts!*“I am the first!*& I am the last!*besides me there is no god!)👉
(Isaiah 44:6-8)
#The #Lord #Says #Besides #Me #There #Is #No #God #Creator #World #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #People #Remember #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Caring #Hospitality #Helping #Others #Gentleness #Understanding #Everyone #Unity #Love #One #Another -
The International Space Station is currently passing over the following coordinates:
Lat: 10.3513
Long: -59.3670https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=10.3513&mlon=-59.3670&zoom=3
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"The discovery of two serious flaws in #PHP this week set off a global scramble to keep websites safe from hackers, showing just how critical the three-decade-old #OpenSource programming language is to the #internet.
Yet the nonprofit foundation that supports PHP, which may underpin 👉up to 70% of sites globally,👈 operates on a shoestring budget.
“We have one full-time staff member (that's me) and 14 mostly part-time contractors”"
https://www.reuters.com/technology/php-foundation-under-funded-with-one-full-time-staff-member-director-says-2026-10-23/ -
The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Prince Khalid bin Salman, the Minister of Defense, along with representatives from the signatory nations of the Makkah Agreement, has traveled to Tehran to meet with senior Iranian officials.
This visit is part of efforts to reduce regional tensions and promote dialogue and diplomatic solutions.
Riyadh has urged all parties to respond constructively to this visit and ongoing mediation efforts, emphasizing the importance of reopening channels for negotiation to prevent a renewed escalation of military tensions.
#iran #pakistan #turkey #SaudiArabia #WestAsia #WarOnYemen #WarOnIran
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The open-source Nvidia Ampere GPU Unlock project boosts Tensor Core instruction issue rates, accelerating BF16 and FP16 compute across RTX 30-series GPUs.
#GPUUnlock #Nvidia #Ampere #TensorCore #AIHardware
https://meterpreter.org/nvidia-ampere-gpu-unlock/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Anthropic has filed its S-1 prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, preparing the company behind Claude to beat OpenAI to the punch with an IPO. In a filing with the SEC, Anthropic said it plans to list on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol "ANT." The AI company confidentially filed with the SEC […]#AI #Anthropic #Business #News
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The #samurai Matsudaira Tadayori became a daimyō under the Tokugawa shogunate; at a tea ceremony in Edo other samurai got into an argument, one of them stabbing and killing him OTD in 1609 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kamakura/path-yagura.html?s=mb #travel #Japan
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Protect us, My Lord, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, as we stay awake;
watch over us as we sleep, that awake, we may keep watch with You, and asleep, rest in Your peace."4. Help me accept rest as something made for people, without postponing it or feeling guilty for taking it (The Loose Canon, The Book of Piraticus, Chapter 9, Verse #5; “Plus the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.”)"
🍝 The Flying Spaghetti Monster be with you.
😋 And with your noodle.
🍝 Let us pray.
May the all-powerful Lord, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, grant us a restful night and a peaceful death.2026-10-26T22:23:11+09:00
#FlyingSpaghettiMonster #FSM #HolyNoodle #TheMeatball #TheSauce #Spaghetti #Ramen #Pastafarian #NoodlyAppendage #FSMism #FSMist #Pirate #DivineOffice #DailyOffice #Breviary
#날아다니는스파게티괴물님 #성면 #면발 #스파게티 #라멘 #파스타파리안 #해적 #성무일도 #성무일과 #매일전례 #시간전례 -
낮 동안 우리를 활기 있게 하신 저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님,
당신과 함께 있으리니, 자는 동안도 지켜 주시어 편히 쉬게 하소서."8. 제 생명이 소중함을 기억하고, 이 밤 제 몸과 마음을 돌보며 쉬게 하소서 (The Loose Canon, The Book of Solipsy, “A testimony,” Verse #10; “Thy life is precious.”)"
🍝 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님께서 여러분과 함께.
😋 또한 주교의 면발과 함께 하소서.
🍝 기도합시다.
저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님, 이 밤을 편히 쉬게 하시고, 거룩한 죽음을 맞게 하소서.2026-10-26T22:23:10+09:00
#날아다니는스파게티괴물님 #성면 #면발 #스파게티 #라멘 #파스타파리안 #성무일도 #성무일과 #매일전례
#FlyingSpaghettiMonster #FSM #HolyNoodle #Noodle #Spaghetti #Ramen #Pastafarian #NoodlyAppendage #Pastafarian #FSMism #FSMist #DivineOffice #DailyOffice #Breviary -
The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:
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#MethodistBased on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.
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Challenger's board has rejected a $4.4 billion takeover offer from Daiichi Life Group, saying it intends to engage with the insurer's Australian unit to see whether a proposal can be reached that the board can recommend. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/10/26/companies/challenger-rejects-daiichi-life-takeover-offer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #daiichilife #challenger #insurance #acquisitions
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The government is considering redistributing usable equipment to hospitals where it is needed. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/kerala-224-iphones-7-16-crore-several-missing-vigilance-probe-t1ycgt75?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Kerala #VigilanceProbe #iPhonePurchase #MedicalEquipment #KeralaNews
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The scary month is ending and I really missed out on two games so far that I want to get to this week: Silver Pines and Tenebris Somnia. Thus this week there will be more but shorter streams. Starting tonight 👀
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The currently-complete tests are all 1080P. I'm comparing various H.264, H.265, and AV1 compression options with FFMPEG 9.0.2. Generally, I'm searching for the CRF (~quality) value that gives me a VMAF score of 95, and then tracking how much CPU time (and bitrate) is needed, then iterating over a ton of flags and videos.
Basically, I'm looking for the best compression options for each video to get a consistently good-to-great quality encoding with minimal visual artifacts.
The big surprise so far is the compression difference between the same videos using a ProRes original vs a H.265 (Main10 4:2:2) original.
I have two test videos for this, from two different cameras (Panasonic S1 II and Blackmagic Pyxis 12k), both shot in raw. I then exported the exact same 30s clip as 4K ProRes and as 4K H.265 (Main10 4:2:2) files. The two files for each clip are visually ~identical, but there's a 20-40x difference in file size.
Then I did 3 different compression runs:
1. Source=ProRes, scored vs ProRes.
2. Source=H.265, scored vs H.265.
3. Source=H.265, scored vs ProRes.VMAF is designed to catch compression artifacts by comparing the output video the uncompressed original, which makes case #3 kind of interesting. I'm doing this because I'm currently exporting most of my "final" videos out of Resolve as H.265, because I don't want to lug around *enormous* ProRes files. But I don't know what this is actually costing me, and this gives me a concrete measurement.
So far, using 1080P (downscaled from 4K originals, which *should* minimize H.265 artifacts quite a bit), I end up needing around a *30%* higher bitrate for H.265 sources to match the ProRes originals.
To put this in concrete terms, for one sample video, my best AV1 output sizes for VMAF=95 were:
- ProRes/ProRes: 3.48M
- H.265/H.264: 3.30M
- H.265/ProRes: 4.68M (+34%)Encoding into H.265 and H.264 gave similar ratios. I kind of expected H.265 to gain some sort of advantage here, but it didn't.
As a follow-up, I'll probably be investigating additional output options for Resolve -- surely there's *something* usable between the huge ProRes files and the much smaller H.265s.
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Who has harmed the U.S. the most, Iran or Trump?
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The Fire and the Tale https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/10/26/the-fire-and-the-tale/ #book #ComparativeLiterature #GiorgioAgamben #LiteraryCriticismTheory #literaryFiction #LiteraryStudiesAndLiteratureCriticismAndTheory #LiteratureAesthetics #LiteraturePhilosophy #LitteRatureEstheTique #LorenzoChiesa #MeridianCrossingAesthetics #philosophy #PoliticalPhilosophy #review #TPolyphilus #TheoryAndPhilosophy -
What do the IRS, banks, airlines, and government infrastructure around the world have in common? They're all running on systems propped up by antique computer code that nobody dares touch, lest everything come crashing down. OpenAI thinks it may have a solution. On October 19th, the company touted "substantial improvements" in its latest AI models' […]#AI #Anthropic #OpenAI #Report #Tech
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The real reason Trump hates the NFL —and the wild new threat he’s planning next https://www.alternet.org/trump-gambling-nfl-feud/ via Alternet.org
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On the campaign trail in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed rides a wave of support for Medicare for All
By Jessica Glenza in Escanaba, MichiganDays before the midterms, as Americans prepare for historic cuts led by Republicans, the US Senate candidate catches a rising tide of interest in single-payer healthcare
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/27/michigan-abdul-el-sayed-medicare-for-all
#Michigan #USpolitics #USSenate #Democrats #AlexandriaOcasioCortez #USnews #TheGuardian #JessicaGlenzainEscanaba #Michigan
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Japanese prosecutors charge US marine suspected of robbing and killing woman
By Ramon Antonio Vargas and agenciesDevin Jacob Ballard, 20, denies charges that he fatally strangled Anna Yagi, 39, in a hotel on the island of Okinawa
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/japanese-prosecuters-charge-marine-killing
#Japan #USmilitary #UScrime #USnews #AsiaPacific #Worldnews #TheGuardian #RamonAntonioVargas #agencies
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The FSB warns stablecoins remain untested in a crisis and that shared issuer structures could leave holders facing unclear insolvency rules. https://hackernoon.com/fsb-report-highlights-cross-border-insolvency-risks-in-stablecoin-markets #stablecoinregulation
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The Failure of Governance and the Assault of Politics: How Edo Was Left in the Dark By Lawson Akhigbe
There is a peculiar affliction in Nigerian politics: some politicians cannot distinguish between winning an election and acquiring ownership of the state. To them, victory at the polls is not a temporary mandate to govern the people. It is a licence to command institutions, domesticate independent organisations and demand political obedience from everyone within reach of government. -
The Entire Journalism Industry Is on a Collision Course With AI. BINJ's @jasonpramas writes about the independent news publishers' lawsuit against Open AI and Microsoft in Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/the-entire-journalism-industry-is-on-a-collision-course-with-ai/ #journalism
