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Thousands gathered in cities and towns across 34 states on Saturday
for a national day of protest against Republican redistricting plans in Texas and elsewhere.
“Fight the Trump Takeover”
was anchored in Austin, Texas,
with other sites spread nationwide.
In Austin alone, more than 5,000 protestors gathered at the city’s capitol in a show of defiance.
Videos and photos on social media showed protestors holding various signs that read:
“Abbott is a vot…

"Floating platform to produce synthetic fuels using wind, seawater, and air"
#Energy #Renewables
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Floating platform to produce synthetic fuels using wind, seawater, and air
Off-grid, modular, and seaworthy: KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and partners intend to produce synthetic fuels on a floating platform using wind energy, seawater, and ambient air. For this purpose, the "PtX-Wind" project was launched under the H2Mare lead project. A corresponding modular plant was installed on a barge and lies operational at anchor in Bremerhaven. Later this year, it will start producing synthetic fuel directly on the sea just off Helgoland Island.

Aw yeah
https://www.musicradar.com/guitars/boss-rt-2-rotary-ensemble-pedal

“This powerhouse pedal authentically recreates the complex sonic magic of its inspiration”: Boss puts psychedelic Hendrix and Gilmour rotating speaker sounds on the menu with the RT-2 Rotary Ensemble
What do you do when everyone loves that trippy rotating speaker sound but no has the space (or budget) for one? Boss has the answer – and it has three modes and lots of features

Today we're playing "Is that a real high pitch electrical noise or just tinitus?" and I swear I'm about to rip apart my whole office to work out the answer.

Path-filtration for modal logics applied to revisiting quasi-dense logics
Olivier Gasquet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11258 https://ar…

Path-filtration for modal logics applied to revisiting quasi-dense logics
In https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.10094 (also published at LICS'24 conference), Lyon and Ostropolski-Nalewaja answer the question of the decidability of quasi-dense modallogics, and give an upper bound in EXPSPACE. Unfortunately, their intricate proof contains a major flaw that cannot be fixed, leaving the question wide open. In this paper we provide a correct and rather simple and direct proof of it by introducing a new variant of the well-know filtration method based on paths in a canonical model…

The question of who will succeed the Dalai Lama remains important.
But perhaps the more pressing question is:
how can each of us carry forward his legacy?
The answer, I believe, lies not in politics, power, or headlines.
It lies in compassion. In action. In choosing kindness, again and again.

Who Will Succeed The Dalai Lama? - The Dalai Lama Turns 90
As the Dalai Lama turns 90, his legacy of compassion and humility invites us all to carry his teachings forward in a divided world.

Space-Time Tradeoffs for Spatial Conjunctive Queries
Aryan Esmailpour, Xiao Hu, Stavros Sintos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10050 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Space-Time Tradeoffs for Spatial Conjunctive Queries
Given a conjunctive query and a database instance, we aim to develop an index that can efficiently answer spatial queries on the results of a conjunctive query. We are interested in some commonly used spatial queries, such as range emptiness, range count, and nearest neighbor queries. These queries have essential applications in data analytics, such as filtering relational data based on attribute ranges and temporal graph analysis for counting graph structures like stars, paths, and cliques. Fu…

Stabilising Lifetime PD Models under Forecast Uncertainty
Vahab Rostampour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10586 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10586

Stabilising Lifetime PD Models under Forecast Uncertainty
Estimating lifetime probabilities of default (PDs) under IFRS~9 and CECL requires projecting point--in--time transition matrices over multiple years. A persistent weakness is that macroeconomic forecast errors compound across horizons, producing unstable and volatile PD term structures. This paper reformulates the problem in a state--space framework and shows that a direct Kalman filter leaves non--vanishing variability. We then introduce an anchored observation model, which incorporates a neut…

Cowboys Trade Pitch Replaces Jake Ferguson With Steelers Young Dud https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/trade-pitch-replaces-jake-ferguson/?adt_ei=[email]