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49ers TE Kittle bemoans NFL's smelling salts ban https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45909854/49ers-george-kittle-bemoans-nfl-new-ban-smelling-salts

"Instead of calculators, we could sit at exams with certain books on our desks, filled with logarithm and trigonometry tables, featuring formulae for algebra, calculus, and geometry. French-speaking Swiss students might remember the ubiquitous “Formulaire et Tables” of the “Commissions romandes de mathématiques, de physique et de chimie”, published by the Éditions du Tricorne, that many generations of Swiss students used during their exams."

Banning, Adopting, Reckoning
Last month, OpenAI, the company (in)famous for their ChatGPT product, released a course called "ChatGPT Foundations for K-12 Educators", an event that has raised more than a few eyebrows, and even some outrage. We must have a serious conversation about the value of a bullshit generator in the context of teaching programming skills to new generations.

heise | "Donkey Kong Bananza" angespielt: Affengeil oder total Banane?
Nintendo bringt endlich einen neuen Plattformer heraus – aber ohne Mario. Wir haben ausprobiert, ob "Donkey Kong Bananza" ein Kaufgrund für die Switch 2 ist.

Tradeoff Between the Number of Transmitted Molecules and the BER Performance in Molecular Communication between Bionanosensors
Dongliang Jing, Linjuan Li, Lin Lin, Andrew W. Eckford
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04466

Tradeoff Between the Number of Transmitted Molecules and the BER Performance in Molecular Communication between Bionanosensors
In the domain of molecular communication (MC), information is conveyed through the characteristics of molecules transmitted between the transmitter and the receiver bionanosensors via propagation. The constrained size of the transmitter imposes limitations on its storage capacity, constraining the number of available molecules for transmission, with a resulting effect on communication reliability. This paper primarily focuses on achieving an equilibrium between the number of transmitted molecul…

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a bill into law on August 1 banning AI use for providing mental health services, while allowing its use in admin roles (Sophia Fox-Sowell/StateScoop)
https://statescoop.com/illinois-bans-ai-mental-health-services/

Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker approved a new law banning the use of artificial intelligence systems in providing psychotherapy services.

"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
-Annette Bening
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Federal court upholds Oklahoma law banning gender-affirming care for minors (Brooke Migdon/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5441969-oklahoma-gender-affirming-care-ban/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p145#a250807p145

oBrien spending at least two hours doing a retrospective about 20 year old bomb and has spent zero hours talking about the banning of a peaceful campaign group under terrorism legislation.
I turned it off. 🥱

Exoplanet Atmospheric Refraction Effects in the #Kepler Sample: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02126 -> "We present an analysis on the detection viability of refraction effects in Kepler's exoplanet atmospheres using binning techniques for their light curves in order to compare against simulated refraction effects. We split the Kepler exoplanets into sub-populations according to orbital period and planetary radius, then search for out-of-transit changes in the relative flux associated with atmospheric refraction of starlight. The presence of refraction effects - or lack thereof - may be used to measure and set limits on the bulk properties of an atmosphere, including mean molecular weight or the presence of hazes.
In this work, we use the presence of refraction effects to test whether exoplanets above the period-radius valley have H/He atmospheres, which high levels of stellar radiation could evaporate away, in turn leaving rocky cores below the valley. We find strong observational evidence of refraction effects for exoplanets above the period-radius valley based on Kepler photometry, however those related to optically thin H/He atmospheres are not common in the observed planetary population. This result may be attributed to signal dampening caused by clouds and hazes, consistent with the optically thick and intrinsically hotter atmospheres of Kepler exoplanets caused by relatively close host star proximity."

SEC stellt Verfahren gegen Binance ein
Die US-Börsenaufsicht SEC hat das Verfahren gegen Binance eingestellt. Es ist die nächste große Kryptobörse, die vom kryptofreundlichen US-Kurs profitiert.
https://www.