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starch mogul

@posts-cards.bsky.social

noted sol lewitt enjoyer here and sfmoma is the first place i’ve seen where they also credit the executors of the wall drawing

…which in this case included a young cindy sherman and robert longo!!!

A 6-inch (15 cm) grid covering a yellow wall. Blue lines from the four corners, red lines from the midpoints of the four sides, white lines from the center to points on the grid.

Sol LeWitt
Wall Drawing #280:
A 6-inch (15 cm) grid covering a yellow wall. Blue lines from the four corners, red lines from the midpoints of the four sides, white lines from the center to points on the grid. (The number of lines and their length are determined by the drafter.)
January 1976
First drawn by: Diane Bertolo, Linda Brooks. Charles Clough.
Alan Hayes. Gary Judkins, Pierce Kamke, Robert Longo. Kevin Noble. Joseph Panone, Robert Restawsky, Cindy Sherman,
ana michael Zwack
First installation: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.
Buffalo. New York
Graphite, crayon, and acrylic paint on wall
The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection
Acquired by the Fisher family, 1990

November 10, 2026 at 4:09 PM

Scalawag Jack

@scalawagjack.bsky.social

Midpoints typically leave the protag(s) in one of two places: 1 a Low Place where their Wants are denied but they receive the key to unlock their Needs or 2 a False High where they get their Wants but not their Needs. In both cases the protag must go through the necessary changes to get their Needs.

November 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM

pudgy puk

@pudgypuk.bsky.social

11. precious illusions by alanis morissette

music for midpoints

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4jZ...

Alanis Morissette - Precious Illusions - Under Rug Swept

YouTube video by Music

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November 8, 2026 at 5:49 PM

Merlintrader

@merlintrader.bsky.social

$VTRS: Viatris reported Q3 revenue of $3.75B, adjusted EPS of $0.71 and free cash flow of $814M; it raised all 2026 guidance midpoints. Not investment advice.

https://www.merlintrader.com/viatris-stock-hub/

November 8, 2026 at 6:40 PM

Nuclear Maid Nellie

@nuclearmaidnellie.bsky.social

Behind the scenes of the upcoming microscopy video. The microscope I have didn't come with calibration slides, so I've created my own in GIMP. I used the midpoints of 1 mm markings on a clear ruler under 100x. A calibration circle was also drawn so I knew where to position these scales as overlays.

November 7, 2026 at 8:14 PM

Kenneth De Baets

@djbirddanerd.bsky.social

6/ Why does it matter? The #fossil record is #indispensable for understanding how interactions #evolve, #collapse, or #persist across environmental #crises. 🌍💥📈

Timeline of the marine and terrestrial fossil record showing the first observations of nine major biotic interactions, plotted at stage midpoints from the Ediacaran (E) to the Quaternary (Q). Highlights that increasing metazoan diversity brings increasing diversity of interactions through time; predation and herbivory show first direct evidence separately for marine and terrestrial settings.

November 7, 2026 at 7:02 AM

Gabriel Peyré

@gabrielpeyre.bsky.social

How should we average positive matrices? Compare log-Euclidean and Kubo–Ando geometric means—and the different logarithmic mean obtained by averaging a path. https://www.gpeyre.com/blog/2026/11/03/averaging-positive-symmetric-matrices/

Log-Euclidean and Kubo–Ando geometric covariance midpoints on common axes, with a distinct fixed logarithmic time-average drawn as a teal dotted ellipse.

November 3, 2026 at 7:26 AM

Merlintrader

@merlintrader.bsky.social

Viatris: Q3 revenue $3.75B, GAAP net loss $325M, adj. EBITDA $1.20B; guidance midpoints raised; Pacira close targeted by end of Nov.

#$VTRS FAQ + PDF report: www.merlintrader.com/viatris-stoc...

VTRS Stock: Viatris News & Financials

Viatris stock news: The report examines Viatris’ pharmaceutical portfolio, product rights and the proposed Pacira acquisition alongside…

www.merlintrader.com

November 5, 2026 at 7:17 PM

Tony Gil Roy Cooper Kupp

@unlox.bsky.social

NYT discourse. plausible midpoints between “they’re literally MAGA” and “umm blueanon much to hate journalism?” include “it’s good business to report that everyone in politics is bad” and “they think things are newsworthy if/when people post about them, which lets a lot slide”

November 1, 2026 at 4:11 PM

Fiorente2.com

@fiorente2.bsky.social

$VOO S&P500 ETF may be following a mirror image foldback from its midpoint. After a range bound move into early January 2027, equal degrees of Venus-Mars Helio could point to a low by February 2027. Watching whether the timing holds. No advice.

The graph depicts the VOO S&P 500 ETF price movements from early 2026 to mid-2027, highlighting specific dates, midpoints, and trend lines.

November 6, 2026 at 3:48 PM

rowan kaiser

@rowan.monster

yeah definitely. and having a variation on the dungeon crawler like Dark Souls is one of the midpoints between the two

November 2, 2026 at 5:05 AM

Sarah Brynteson

@srbstars.bsky.social

The November overview, this week’s Cosmic Weather, and the card pull are up now. Link in post. Patreon members, it’s already in your feed! 💫
Cosmic weather: srbstars.substack.com/p/october-31...

October 31 - November 6| Moons and Midpoints

Moons and Midpoints: the Last Quarter Moon, Mercury Retrograde reaches its midpoint, and the road ahead is still a little blurry. That is okay.

srbstars.substack.com

November 1, 2026 at 4:42 PM

Mezha

@mezhaen.bsky.social

OpenAI has more than quadrupled its bug bounty reward midpoints for medium, high and critical vulnerabilities. Critical flaws in ChatGPT, Codex and its API can now earn up to $30,000, or $172,000 with bonuses.

https://t.co/vuVgO4vI5O

OpenAI More Than Quadruples Bug Bounty Rewards Amid AI-Powered Cyberattack Threats

OpenAI has more than quadrupled the midpoint of its reward ranges for medium, high and critical vulnerabilities in its Security Bug Bounty program amid growing concerns about AI-powered cyberattacks. Cybernews reports, citing the company's official announcement.

mezha.ua

November 3, 2026 at 6:28 PM

Hacker & Security News

@hacker.at.thenote.app

OpenAI raises top bug bounty payout to $172,000 with bonuses

OpenAI increased its security bug bounties to encourage independent researchers to find vulnerabilities in its software. The program now offers bonuses for high-quality reports. The program encourages researcher…
#hackernews #news #openai

OpenAI raises top bug bounty payout to $172,000 with bonuses

OpenAI increased its security bug bounties to encourage independent researchers to find vulnerabilities in its software. The program now offers bonuses for high-quality reports. The program encourages researchers to disclose vulnerabilities responsibly and complements OpenAI’s Defense Factory, where engineers use the company’s models to find and reproduce vulnerabilities and test fixes. New bounty payouts and bonuses The midpoints of the reward ranges for medium, high, and critical findings more than quadrupled on average. Critical vulnerabilities …

www.helpnetsecurity.com

November 4, 2026 at 2:01 PM

Fungus

@fungusfriend.neocities.org

Calibration for a projection on the side of the Stamford DoubleTree. A rectangle with an oval inside. Lines from the corners and midpoints of the sides of the rectangle converge in the center. “Top” in red blue and green is in the upper half of the shape.

October 29, 2026 at 10:55 PM

Midgard Finance

@midgardfinance.com

💻 #software

🇺🇸 #$FIG Figma Q3 sales +43% to $391.4m, $376m expected; Q4 guide $402-404m, $389m expected. Shares −5% after hours. Non-GAAP operating margin 12% (GAAP −30%). Our sums: raised guide implies 6-7% margin for Q4; Q4 25's guide implied 9-11%, 14% came.

midgardfinance.com/companies/FIG/

Paired bars titled "Figma revenue growth: guide and result", revenue growth on a year ago in %, the midpoint of each quarter's guide beside what came: Q3 25 guide 33, came 38, Q4 25 guide 35, came 40, Q1 26 guide 38, came 46, Q2 26 guide 40, came 48, Q3 26 guide 36, came 43, Q4 26 guide 33, still to come. Notes say Q3 came at $391.4m against a guide of $373-375m, the Q4 guide is $402-404m, the full-year guide was raised $33m to $1.497-1.499bn, and the CFO says of Q4 that there are "more knowns walking into the quarter than in quarters prior" and that the outlook "reflects the pricing and packaging changes we made late in August".

Bars and a line titled "Figma: cost of revenue and gross margin", by quarter. Non-GAAP cost of revenue in $m: Q1 23 9, Q2 23 10, Q3 23 12, Q4 23 13, Q1 24 13, Q2 24 15, Q3 24 16, Q4 24 16, Q1 25 19, Q2 25 26, Q3 25 37, Q4 25 42, Q1 26 59, Q2 26 56, Q3 26 70. Non-GAAP gross margin in %: Q1 23 92, Q2 23 91, Q3 23 91, Q4 23 91, Q1 24 92, Q2 24 92, Q3 24 92, Q4 24 92, Q1 25 92, Q2 25 90, Q3 25 86, Q4 25 86, Q1 26 82, Q2 26 85, Q3 26 82. Notes say the cost rose $33m on Q3 2025, the 10-Q puts hosting for AI and platform use, which non-GAAP does not adjust, up $29.5m, gross profit rose 36%, and the CFO says Figma chose in Q3 to cover the cost of running the AI for its agent before its general launch on 6 October. The costs are our arithmetic: revenue less non-GAAP gross profit from Q4 2024, reported cost less stock pay before it.

Bars titled "Figma non-GAAP operating profit", non-GAAP operating profit in $m by quarter: Q4 24 56.4, Q1 25 40.0, Q2 25 11.5, Q3 25 34.0, Q4 25 44.0, Q1 26 52.1, Q2 26 36.1, Q3 26 47.0. Below, by our arithmetic, what the full-year guide implied for Q4: in 2025 $26.5-31.5m, a margin of 9-11%, when $44.0m and 14% came; in 2026 $22.8-27.8m, a margin of 6-7%. The bars for the two ranges reach their midpoints. Notes say each Q2 carries its Config conference, the 2026 guide was raised to $158-163m from $125-135m, and the GAAP operating loss in Q3 was $119.2m, the gap being mainly $158.6m of stock pay.

Bars and a line titled "Figma contracted revenue and retention". Contracted revenue still to come, not yet recognised as revenue, at each quarter's end in $m, −1.4% on Q2, and on a year ago +62% in Q1 2026, +53% in Q2 and +31% in Q3: Q1 25 421.4, Q2 25 448.8, Q3 25 517.2, Q4 25 647.9, Q1 26 682.3, Q2 26 687.0, Q3 26 677.5. Below, net dollar retention in %, the annual recurring revenue of customers over $10,000 a year against the same customers' a year ago: Q4 23 122, Q1 24 125, Q2 24 130, Q3 24 131, Q4 24 134, Q1 25 132, Q2 25 129, Q3 25 131, Q4 25 136, Q1 26 139, Q2 26 136, Q3 26 131. Notes say no reason is stated for the fall, this is the fifth quarter in a row above 130%, and in August, at 136%, the CFO said the March 2025 price changes begin to anniversary, that is, turn a year old.

November 4, 2026 at 11:45 PM

Gunpowder USA

@gunpowderusa.bsky.social

▬ $CLH Clean Harbors: Record Q3 revenue $1.87B (+21%), Adj. EBITDA +42% to $456.1M at 24.4% margin; 2026 Adj. EBITDA and FCF guidance midpoints each raised $80M; Q4 Adj. EBITDA guided +23%-26% YoY [BULLISH, quality caveat: ~$120M one-off emergency revenue]

October 28, 2026 at 2:30 PM

Takumi Ikeda

@esusannae.bsky.social

開催まであと2週間！

FANO PLANE 11/13(金) 19:00-
BUSHBASH 小岩 @bushbash.bsky.social

・Sayaka Botanic＋野本直輝＋池田拓実 TRIO
・Stefan Voglsinger＋Cal Lyall DUO
・Paolo Gàiba Riva＋中村としまる DUO
・7人のための新作（池田）

予約3,000円／当日3,500円（＋1ドリンクオーダー）

ご予約 forms.gle/3TThQYAwsqvz...

Concert flyer for “FANO PLANE” at Koiwa BUSHBASH. Seven performance photos fill a 3-by-3 grid, with event details in the bottom-right panel.

Top row, left to right: Sayaka Botanic (violin, electronics) bows a violin under purple stage light, with effects pedals in front of her. Takumi Ikeda (computer, composition), in a green cap and face mask, works at a laptop surrounded by equipment. Cal Lyall (guitar, electronics) plays an electric guitar in a black-and-white photo.

Middle row, left to right: Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board), bearded and wearing a cap and sunglasses, works a cable-filled mixing board under red light. Naoki Nomoto (computer) stands in front of live-coding text projected onto him and the wall behind. Paolo Gàiba Riva [PGR] (pedals, electronics, no-input mixer) bends over a table of pedals and cables in blue light.

Bottom left: Stefan Voglsinger (resonators and electronics) plays a drum-like resonator fitted with microphones, in a black-and-white photo.

The text panel reads: “FANO PLANE / Koiwa BUSHBASH / 2026.11.13 Fri 7PM / ¥3000 (DOOR ¥3500) +1D,” next to a QR code.

Concert flyer for “FANO PLANE” on a mustard-yellow background covered with a lime-green lattice of nested triangles. Toward the bottom, the background fades into a pattern of purple halftone dots.

At the top, in large white letters: “FANO PLANE / 2026.11.13 Fri at BUSHBASH / Open 18:30 Start 19:00 ADV 3,000 (DOOR 3,500) yen + 1D.”

In the center is a diagram of the Fano plane: a teal triangle with seven diamond-shaped points at its corners, edge midpoints, and center, connected by teal and purple lines.

Below it, the performers are listed in white, each name under its instrument: Violin, Electronics: Sayaka Botanic. Computer: Takumi Ikeda. Guitar, Electronics: Cal Lyall. No-input mixing board: Toshimaru Nakamura. Computer: Naoki Nomoto. Pedals, Electronics, No-input mixer: Paolo Gàiba Riva. Resonators and Electronics: Stefan Voglsinger.

At the bottom are two sponsor logos, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (Bundesministerium Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport) and the Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo, with a QR code in the lower right.

October 30, 2026 at 7:10 AM

SIGNUM HQ

@signumhq.bsky.social

Earnings-week straddles in dollars (Oct 30 expiry, Oct 23 close):

MSFT $27.68 on a $524.51 stock
GOOGL $19.38 on $320.21
AMZN $19.47 on $248.00
INTC $8.63 on $86.96

Call + put midpoints, nearest strike: reference prices, not fills.

https://www.signumhq.com/app?from=bluesky_1025b

Earnings calendar rows from the SIGNUM HQ app: GOOGL options-implied move plus or minus 6.1 percent and MSFT plus or minus 5.3 percent, both Oct 30 expiry, Oct 23 session

October 25, 2026 at 12:00 PM

The Cartography and Geographic Information Society

@carto-giscience.bsky.social

New paper! Great article by Xiaomin Lu, Haoran Song and colleagues, introducing a graph convolutional autoencoder for road network similarity computation, and use in map generalisation using a dual graph (below) doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat

Figure 3 shows how a road network is converted into a dual graph in two steps, read left to right. a) A simple network of two horizontal roads, a vertical road crossing both, and a short vertical spur below the lower road, with dark red dots at road endpoints and junctions. An arrow labelled “Road midpoint extraction” leads to b), the same network with eight orange dots, one at the midpoint of each road segment. An arrow labelled “Dual graph construction” leads to c), where the midpoints become eight red nodes, with the original roads faded to grey. Blue edges link nodes whose road segments meet, forming a connected graph of triangles and quadrilaterals. A legend identifies road endpoints, road midpoints, dual graph nodes, and dual graph edges.

October 22, 2026 at 12:02 PM

Raven Campbell

@ravenmcampbell.bsky.social

Why them? well, greenville and chatty are similarly placed as the midpoints between 2 bigger citites, they're all pretty outdoorsy smaller cities, they're all southern appalachian. Greenville and Asheville have a well known proximity thing, and Chatty and Asheville have 64 as a connector.

October 22, 2026 at 12:17 AM

AI Business News

@aibizmatome-eng.bsky.social

A Headcount Lab analysis of US job postings revealed that the median offered salary for listings disclosing pay is approximately 17 million yen. However, this only aggregates the midpoints of salary ranges and does not reflect the actual median income of all US workers. Only about 45% o...

October 21, 2026 at 11:04 AM

robot2trade

@robot2trade.bsky.social

GM Q3: double beat — adj EPS $3.70 vs $3.63, revenue $50.02B vs $48.7B. 🚛 🏭 Yet premarket −7.25%. Why? FY guide narrowed, midpoints unchanged — EPS mid $13.25 vs Street $13.41. Commodity costs ~$2B at high end. Offset: FCF guide RAISED, new $20B buyback. [NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE, DYOR!]