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I have a trick for getting into a box that’s being clobbered by a crawler DDoS: set the ITerm2 profile to auto-restart and open a half-dozen duplicate sessions. Basically: put a bunch of my SYNs in the queues to compete with the bots.
Ugly as sin, but it ultimately works.
Also: fuck those guys. And fuck their ISPs for being so comatose that they don't notice.
#InfoSec

EqualMotion: Accessible Motion Capture for the Creative Industries
Clarice Hilton, Kat Hawkins, Phill Tew, Freddie Collins, Seb Madgwick, Dominic Potts, Tom Mitchell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08744

EqualMotion: Accessible Motion Capture for the Creative Industries
Motion capture technologies are increasingly used in creative and performance contexts but often exclude disabled practitioners due to normative assumptions in body modeling, calibration, and avatar representation. EqualMotion introduces a body-agnostic, wearable motion capture system designed through a disability-centred co-design approach. By enabling personalised calibration, integrating mobility aids, and adopting an inclusive visual language, EqualMotion supports diverse body types and mov…

Update on the intermediate arrival-direction analyses of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Lorenzo Apollonio (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08544

Update on the intermediate arrival-direction analyses of the Pierre Auger Observatory
We present an update on the arrival-direction analyses conducted on intermediate angular scales using the complete Phase I data of the Pierre Auger Observatory up to the end of $2022$ with a total exposure of $135{,}000\,\text{km}^2\,\text{sr}\,\text{yr}$. We show the arrival-direction distribution of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays along the supergalactic plane above $20\,\text{EeV}$, and an update in the search for magnetically-induced signatures in the arrival directions. Furthermore, we p…

Proposal from the NA61/SHINE Collaboration for update of European Strategy for Particle Physics
SHINE Collaboration, H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. K. Allison, N. Amin, E. V. Andronov, I. -C. Arsene, M. Bajda, Y. Balkova, D. Battaglia, A. Bazgir, S. Bhosale, M. Bielewicz, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, Y. Bondar, W. Brylinski, J. Brzychczyk, M. Buryakov, A. F. Camino, Y. D. Chandak, M. Csanad, J. Cybowska, T. Czopowicz, C. Dalmazzone, N. Davis, A. Dmitriev, P. von Doetinchem, W. Dominik, J. Dum…

Proposal from the NA61/SHINE Collaboration for update of European Strategy for Particle Physics
Building on the current program's success and driven by new physics challenges, the NA61/SHINE Collaboration proposes to continue measuring hadron production properties in reactions induced by hadron and ion beams after CERN Long Shutdown 3. These measurements are of significant interest to the heavy-ion, cosmic-ray, and neutrino physics communities and will focus on: - Investigating hadron production in the light-ion systems to explore the diagram of high-energy nuclear collisions, and to obta…

Rare earth rush in Myanmar blamed for toxic river spillover into Thailand https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/rare-earth-rush-in-myanmar-blamed-for-toxic-river-spillover-into-thailand/

Rare earth rush in Myanmar blamed for toxic river spillover into Thailand
CHIANG RAI, Thailand — Just days before the water fights were set to erupt across Chiang Rai for Songkran — Thailand’s New Year celebration, held every April and known for its festive street soakings — the city’s residents received a sobering warning: avoid contact with the Kok River, which winds through this northern Thai city […]

Context-Adaptive Graph Neural Networks for Next POI Recommendation
Yu Lei, Limin Shen, Zhu Sun, Tiantian He, Yew-Soon Ong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10329 …

Context-Adaptive Graph Neural Networks for Next POI Recommendation
Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is a critical task in location-based services, aiming to predict users' next visits based on their check-in histories. While many existing methods leverage Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to incorporate collaborative information and improve recommendation accuracy, most of them model each type of context using separate graphs, treating different factors in isolation. This limits their ability to model the co-influence of multiple contextual factors on us…

My brain's been serving up some real darkness lately.
(And when an #ActuallyAutistic brain latches onto something, it COMMITS 🙃)
So I'm reminding myself that in this world (especially at this time) ✨#Autistic Joy✨ is an act of defiant resistance.
And I'll be d…

Astro-COLIBRI - a Comprehensive Platform for Real-Time #MultiMessenger Astrophysics: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06616 -> "Maximizing the discovery potential of multi-messenger and multi-wavelength follow-up observations, as well as serendipitous detections, requires a tool that rapidly compiles and contextualizes relevant information for each new event. We present Astro-COLIBRI, an advanced platform designed to meet this challenge."

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Peter Gzowski, one of Canada’s most beloved broadcasters. He was born in Toronto in 1934 and raised in Galt, Ontario. At the University of Toronto, he edited the school newspaper, The Varsity, and developed his passion for journalism. A born storyteller, he worked at newspapers in Timmins, Moose Jaw, and Chatham. In 1958, he joined Maclean’s where he became the magazine’s youngest ever managing editor in 1962. He was best known as the host of the CBC Radio's Morningside, the program that earned him the informal title of Captain Canada. Canadians from coast to coast to coast responded to his folksy style of interviewing everyone from Prime Ministers to celebrities. It is estimated that over his career, Peter Gzowski conducted some 30,000 interviews.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/peter-gzowski

IceCube searches for GeV neutrino counterparts associated with high-energy starting events
Christoph Raab (for the IceCube Collaboration), Gwenha\"el de Wasseige (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08706

IceCube searches for GeV neutrino counterparts associated with high-energy starting events
The origin of the astrophysical neutrino flux observed by IceCube is largely unknown. To help decipher its astrophysical origin, we propose an IceCube analysis that conducts follow-up searches for GeV neutrinos associated with neutrino events above 60 TeV, which are known to have a high probability to be of astrophysical origin. It could not only identify a new component of the astrophysical neutrino flux, but also characterize how its spectrum extrapolates from GeV to PeV energies. This would …