Adriana Knouf, PhD

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Nonfiction, and perhaps too academic for what you need, but I wrote about it and how it warped my sense of time in this essay: drive.proton.me/urls/YWQADAD...

This curmudgeon will return back to her hovel now :)

Fluid Nexus Concept Mobile messaging without centralized networks

In can you want to see a blast from the past, look at my old Fluid Nexus website, coded in Pyramid (ha!) and thus never to be resurrected again, thus this Wayback Machine archive will have to do: https://web.archive.org/web/20131110035307/https://fluidnexus.net/infos/concept .

How Noise Matters to Finance | Manifold@UMinnPress N. Adriana Knouf draws on historical and contemporary documents to show how noise—sonic, informatic, or otherwise—affects the ways in which financial markets function. _How Noise Matters to Finance_ draws on different forms of financial noise, paying attention to how materiality and the interference of humans and machines causes the meanings of noise to shift over space and time.

I *did* however write a book on noise and finance, which you can read (for free!) here: https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/how-noise-matters-to-finance

Sigh. Evidently I wrote a paper on cryptocurrency according to this citation: https://ijaar.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/100373.pdf

(I have done no such thing.)

Even I'm getting fake articles ascribed to me, and I'm not even that prolific of an author.

Important info for those of you (or those you know) who need it: https://transworldexpress.org

Cool but I'd love to hear some audio or video or other information about the setup. I've gotten suspicious of radio-based projects that don't provide that, as it's all-too-easy to write something but much more difficult to make it work in practice. Just a couple of audio clips would be enough.

Huh, okay. Our handbook doesn't list the actual names of the graders, but does list the specific procedures and composition of the assessment team.

In our program we have been very clear about that, but it's also quite small. I think they have to tell you their names if you ask. Check your education and exam regulations booklet...we have one here in the NL and it's basically the yearly legal guidebook for the program.

I actually find the grading process much more fair here than in the US, especially the fact that any major assessment has at least two people grading it.

I think you will likely find this to be common at most EU schools due to tbe standards that came out of the Bologna process.

The grading system/practice/procedure in European unis is very different from the US, it took me a while to come to terms with it.

Also it's pretty common for us to "fail" a student and have them do a resit of the module assessment if we think it's not up to caliber. Failing, at least here in the NL, does not have the same connotations as in the US and has no ultimate effect on the grades.

Nope, pretty normal for master's programs, at least here in the NL. We don't grade any work in a semester until the final assessment at the end of the semester. And in our program all gradss are pass fail until the final assessment at the end of the program.

https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=07&month=01&year=2026

"PLANETARY ALIGNMENTS AND THE SOLAR CYCLE: This week, Jupiter and Venus are on opposite sides of the sun. To some researchers, this geometry is more than a celestial coincidence. A small but persistent body of research suggests that planetary alignments help regulate solar activity."

hahaha, awww, thanks Kira :) for a variety of reasons I don't want this birthday on repeat, but maybe next years!

Adding a #xenhamony hashtag even though I don't ever use hashtags, just because I only count 3 other posts in total about microtonal xenharmonic stuff.

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Needed this again today, could listen to this on repeat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I9oKGIWmZI

The Year We Lost Everything — Assigned An authoritarian government, a captured press and cowardice at the head of most major institutions led to a year of losses for trans people’s safety and equality in the US.

The scope of Trump's campaign to drive trans Americans from public life is vast. On the last day of 2025, Evan Urquhart attempts to capture all of what we lost.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Anyone who in 2025 bloviates a contemporary philosophical essay and cites only one woman should be ignored and is utterly useless. This is not a critique regarding identity; this is a statement that the author is ignoring, purposely, all of the others who are doing better work than he is.

Yes, you can. You just browse to an album or track, click the three dots, and add to a playlist. And it looks like you can make it "public" for any person who is logged in to the instance. I haven't tried it myself but it looks like it's supported in the interface.

The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin The volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached.

You could set up a Jellyfin server and give them accounts on it: jellyfin.org . I don't know if you can limit access to certain media or not. Jellyfin has native clients for Android and iOS, as well as a browser-based interface. I use it to access my media from afar.

Sen. Blumenthal seeks details on White House ballroom from new architect, donor dinner attendees Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal is pushing for more information on a White House ballroom project championed by President Trump, sending letters to the project's architect and some fundraising dinn...

Perhaps related: www.cbsnews.com/news/white-h...

'A Roblox spokesperson said Baszucki donated to the non-profit organization supporting the ballroom project in his personal capacity — but declined to specify the amount. '

Hortensia Mi Kafchin Refuses a Monolithic Trans Identity The artist blends personal portraits that address but cannot be reduced to trans identity with utopian visions of what humanity could be.

Artist Hortensia Mi Kafchin thinks like a historian by folding elements of the past — drawn both from human history and her own life — into a vision of what humanity could achieve, if we could only pull together in one life-affirming direction.

I'm a Makita gal myself, expensive but reliable (in my experience). The issue is that once you buy a brand you basically have to stick with that brand because of battery incompatibilities.

Screenshot of a paper entry: Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler (There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

YouTube video by Technology Connections LED Christmas lights which don't hurt the eyes: it finally happened!

Not sure if you've seen it, but Technology Connections on YouTube also dislikes those lights (as I do too) and finally found some that don't burn the eyes: youtu.be/qSFNufruSKw?... .

When Things Don't Go According to Plan Dear interlocutor, Long time no write, eh? There were plans, and then the plans had to be shelved. I've been quite quiet the past few months. Over the summer a dear friend of mine, someone who is like a sister to me and whom I've known for almost two decades,

I unfortunately won't be able to be there because of the aforementioned things that didn't go according to plan: https://letters.tranxxenolab.net/when-things-dont-go-according-to-plan/

More info, and tickets for the opening, available here: https://mu.nl/house .