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If anyone is curious, I spliced together some of the ads to show how Tougher Than Tom is using AI to falsely imply efficacy. E.g., showing large numbers of mosquitoes in the trap. The mosquitoes often appear to "fly" around in the liquid. It's poorly done but I bet they are fooling the type of person who doesn't know mosquitoes don't fly underwater. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0ipb5v3rwsbttnnjobs38/tougher-than-tom-video-ads.mp4?rlkey=6di92fbqp0f7r7wo148xm02hb&st=qvcvfzgv&dl=0

@… I dunno. I kind of find this idea a bit <cringe>. Knowing how you like to browse 2nd hand mugs, I am wondering what your feelings about it is:

‘There’s been a lot of attention’: Mug exchange a hit with neighbours, community in Riverview, N.B.
A New Brunswick woman is bringing the community together through a coffee mug library in Riverview.

Replaced article(s) found for math.DG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.DG/new
[1/3]:
- Family index for Fredholm extensions of semi-Fredholm operators
Marina Prokhorova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16060 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/111843359116350796
- Constructing stable Hilbert bundles via Diophantine approximation
Yucheng Liu, Biao Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15784
- Ricci Solitons of Left-Invariant Metrics on Lie Groups with Derived Algebra of Dimension at Most Two
Hamid Reza Salimi Moghaddam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10730 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/115920688396400257
- Mass and rigidity in almost K\"ahler geometry
Partha Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08627 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116204063956883755
- Classifying Slice-Regular Polynomials via Group Actions on the Twistor Space
Chunlin Liu, Giovanni Moreno, Haipan Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22788 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116617182455085202
- $G_2$ and the Maximally Symmetric (3, 8) Distribution with 6-Dimensional Square
Nicklas Day, Boris Doubrov, Igor Zelenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25910 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116639966776117301
- Cohn--Vossen-Type Inequalities for Three-Manifolds and Locally Conformally Flat Manifolds
Jialong Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01368 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116679534951132380
- From Gradient Descent to Potential Theory: A Geometric Dictionary for Binary Classification
Catalin Vasii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00988 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116849328935224137
- A sharp relative comparison inequality for conformal fillings of Poincar\'e--Einstein manifolds
Nan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13742 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116928601640640156
- A degenerate free boundary minimal annulus and non-uniqueness in spherical caps beyond the hemisp...
Alexander Pigazzini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23534 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116996542129550830
- Special Lagrangians with multiple isolated singularities
Bryan Dimler, Filippo Gaia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26302 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/117007805427278588
- Demailly-Koll\'ar continuity on klt pairs, and applications to alpha and delta invariants
Tam\'as Darvas, Kewei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23505 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/117155289132945927
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Just another place we visited in the Fränkische Schweiz. We just walked along a little stream and suddenly passed through this rock-gate with all the lush green on either side.
Just beautiful.
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/caves-and-meadows-d…

Sources detail how Meta's $17.1B settlement with state AGs came together as Meta wanted to avoid going to trial following losses in cases in LA and New Mexico (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/techn…

How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together
State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.

Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

After my old RTL-SDRv2 v2 died a week ago when it fell into a puddle, together with the Raspi 4B it was connected to, I replaced my whole ADSB setup tonight with a nice antenna for 1090 MHz, 5 m of quality cable and a nice Flightaware Pro Stick Plus.
Raspi now runs Wiedehopf's readsb https://github.com/wiedehopf/readsb

Leftover biscuits became mini breakfast sandwiches with egg, bacon and Gruyère today after a late night yesterday with films, gathering after, and work stuff. Today’s just work and necklace repair. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/uDEm2pV3piyRKWyb6

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."
I stepped on my #MTB and suddenly found myself in the #mountains. I was thinking whether to go back down to …