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The Feeling Designer
A place where we speak to purpose-driven designers about the ways they foster more genuine connections with themselves and the world around them...
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Here‘s a little tip if you’re using (the latest version of) Helix Editor:
Add the following keybinding to your config (if you don’t use Ctrl b for page up, that is; otherwise, change the key):
[keys.normal]
C-b = ":echo %sh{git blame -L %{cursor_line}, 1 %{buffer_name}}"
Now, when you press Crtl b in the editor, you’ll see the git blame for the line you’re on. Very useful for seeing which commit the line last changed in and, for teams, who committed the chang…

Electromagnetic Formation Flying Using Alternating Magnetic Field Forces and Control Barrier Functions for State and Input Constraints
Sumit S. Kamat, T. Michael Seigler, Jesse B. Hoagg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18501

Electromagnetic Formation Flying Using Alternating Magnetic Field Forces and Control Barrier Functions for State and Input Constraints
This article presents a feedback control algorithm for electromagnetic formation flying with constraints on the satellites' states and control inputs. The algorithm combines several key techniques. First, we use alternating magnetic field forces to decouple the electromagnetic forces between each pair of satellites in the formation. Each satellite's electromagnetic actuation system is driven by a sum of amplitude-modulated sinusoids, where amplitudes are controlled in order to prescribe the tim…

If you are a Microsoft Entra ID shop, I highly recommend following this article’s advice on Conditional Access Policy implementation #cybersecurity
From: @…

Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image PAN published TTPs from Muddled Libra (Scattered Spider) intrusions. Per the graph, they've certainly changed. This is because individuals who made up the Scattered Spider "group" back in 2023 have been arrested, and this is a new "batch" of APTeens. https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/muddled-libra/

Day 3: Octavia Butler.
Incredibly dark, graphic, and disturbing near-future science fiction, which has proved absolutely prophetic. In the 1990's she was writing about a charismatic Conservative Christian and white nationalist president elected in 2024, and the horrors his paramilitary followers would unleash, including forced labor & indoctrination camps. Did I mention those books include ebikes & pseudo-cellphones too? Characters fleeing north from a disastrous social collapse in Loss Angeles? This is "The Parable of the Sower" and "The Parable of the Talents" and the later was tragically rushed to an end because of Butler's declining health.
Her work deals unflinchingly with racism and the darker parts of society, and to those who might say "her depiction of social collapse is overblown," I'd say that while it's not literally the world we live in, it's *effectively* the world that the poorest of us live in. If you're a homeless undocumented latinx person in LA right now, I'm not sure how meaningfully different your world is from the one she depicts.
Her work comes with a strong content warning for lots of things, including racial violence, sexual abuse and slavery, including of children, animal harm, etc., so it's not for everyone. Reading it in 2023 was certainly an incredible trip. Her politics are really cool though; with explicit pro-LGBTQ themes and tinges of what might today be considered #SolarPunk.
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Molecular Tools for Non-Planar Surface Chemistry
Taleana Huff, Brandon Blue, Terry McCallum, Mathieu Morin, Damian G. Allis, Rafik Addou, Jeremy Barton, Adam Bottomley, Doreen Cheng, Nina M. \'Culum, Michael Drew, Tyler Enright, Alan T. K. Godfrey, Ryan Groome, Aru J. Hill, Alex Inayeh, Matthew R. Kennedy, Robert J. Kirby, Mykhaylo Krykunov, Sam Lilak, Hadiya Ma, Cameron J. Mackie, Oliver MacLean, Jonathan Myall, Ryan Plumadore, Adam Powell, Henry Rodriguez, Luis Sandoval, Marc Sav…

Molecular Tools for Non-Planar Surface Chemistry
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) investigations of on-surface chemistry on passivated silicon have only shown in-plane chemical reactions, and studies on bare silicon are limited in facilitating additional reactions post-molecular-attachment. Here, we enable subsequent reactions on Si(100) through selectively adsorbing 3D, silicon-specific "molecular tools". Following an activation step, the molecules present an out-of-plane radical that can function both to donate or accept molecular fragments,…

Ionizing Radiation Escape from Low-Redshift Galaxies and Its Connection to Cosmic Reionization
Anne E. Jaskot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18411 https://arxi…

Ionizing Radiation Escape from Low-Redshift Galaxies and Its Connection to Cosmic Reionization
The escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation from early galaxies transformed the intergalactic medium (IGM) and is intimately connected to the fueling and feedback processes that regulate galaxy evolution. IGM attenuation interferes with high-redshift LyC observations, but growing samples of LyC observations at z<0.1 are revealing the properties of LyC-emitting galaxies. Along with multi-wavelength observations of nearby LyC-emitting candidates, cosmological simulations, and simulations of LyC…

Hey everyone, every Tuesday, my friend @… asks for your help to feed her family. She can’t do it today (they’re trying to stay alive during a genocide) so she asked if I could do it on her behalf.

They need $500 each week for their family of 6.

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Help Sehwel family with their medical treatment
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza. I'm creating this Chuffed campaign for the family to help afford these things and hopefully help them get out of Gaza when the opportunity arises. Here's Aseel's writing:

Topological phase transitions between bosonic and fermionic quantum Hall states near even-denominator filling factors
Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Ady Stern, Netanel H. Lindner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17457

Topological phase transitions between bosonic and fermionic quantum Hall states near even-denominator filling factors
We study the quantum critical point between the fermionic $ν=8$ quantum Hall state and the bosonic $ν=2$ quantum Hall state of Cooper pairs. Our study is motivated by the composite fermion construction for the daughter states of even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states and the experimentally observed transition between the daughter and the Jain states at the same filling. We show that this transition is equivalent to the transition between a neutral invertible $E_8$ state and a topolog…

Retrieval over Classification: Integrating Relation Semantics for Multimodal Relation Extraction
Lei Hei, Tingjing Liao, Yingxin Pei, Yiyang Qi, Jiaqi Wang, Ruiting Li, Feiliang Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21151

Retrieval over Classification: Integrating Relation Semantics for Multimodal Relation Extraction
Relation extraction (RE) aims to identify semantic relations between entities in unstructured text. Although recent work extends traditional RE to multimodal scenarios, most approaches still adopt classification-based paradigms with fused multimodal features, representing relations as discrete labels. This paradigm has two significant limitations: (1) it overlooks structural constraints like entity types and positional cues, and (2) it lacks semantic expressiveness for fine-grained relation und…