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This is rather nice. #sound
https://www.mixcloud.com/FamilyTreeRadioShow…

Tony Regan #FTRS372
Sunshine, bassline and, erm, batty whine. Yes, its Famz Tree's favourite weekend of the year, when all the best bits of our community cram together in London W10, filling our body and soul with chicken, rum and the loudest, sweetest, life affirming music that we all live for. The fact that, in doing so, we manage to wind up the assorted Mail journos, Tory councillors, online rage baiters and pricks like Farage only adds to the fun. Big up all those who made it down there. Here's to years more t…

A look at micro dramas, like those on China's ReelShort: a whole season typically films in two weeks and features tired tropes and actors from ad backgrounds (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-reel-short-dramas-video-social-media/
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Americans Are Obsessed With Watching Short Video Dramas From China
How did steamy, short soap operas that originated in China become the hottest thing in Hollywood, seemingly overnight?

Oil futures surge following US strikes in Iran (Auzinea Bacon/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/22/business/oil-futures-stocks-iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p72#a250622p72

A Robust Method for Pitch Tracking in the Frequency Following Response using Harmonic Amplitude Summation Filterbank
Sajad Sadeghkhani, Maryam Karimi Boroujeni, Hilmi R. Dajani, Saeid R. Seydnejad, Christian Gigu\`ere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19253

A Robust Method for Pitch Tracking in the Frequency Following Response using Harmonic Amplitude Summation Filterbank
The Frequency Following Response (FFR) reflects the brain's neural encoding of auditory stimuli including speech. Because the fundamental frequency (F0), a physical correlate of pitch, is one of the essential features of speech, there has been particular interest in characterizing the FFR at F0, especially when F0 varies over time. The standard method for extracting F0 in FFRs has been the Autocorrelation Function (ACF). This paper investigates harmonic-structure-based F0 estimation algorithms,…

@… finance apps have been this way for years and are only getting worse. QuickBooks Online is even worse as you pay for the account and can’t remove all the ads from the dashboard. In their latest iteration they are now appearing on every screen excepts reports, and I fully expect for them to show up there as well. This following yet another price increase for features …

A stochastic model for the diffusion of competing opinions with trend-following, opposition, and indifference
Manuel Gonz\'alez-Navarrete
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18313

A stochastic model for the diffusion of competing opinions with trend-following, opposition, and indifference
We study a stochastic model for the diffusion of competing opinions in a population composed of three types of agents: trend-followers, opposers, and indifferent individuals. The decision dynamics are driven by reinforcement mechanisms, modulated by a latent trend process, allowing us to capture realistic features such as amplification, resistance, and randomness in opinion formation. We derive explicit formulas for the finite-time moments of the opinion count vector and establish a set of stro…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
DAYNA: Do what? Avon, why do you keep everything to yourself? Why so secretive?
AVON: Perhaps I'm shy. [Goes to leave] Anybody comes through this door, kill them. Anybody that isn't me, that is.
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GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
Abhigya Verma, Sriram Puttagunta, Seganrasan Subramanian, Sravan Ramachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15690

GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
GRAFT is a structured multimodal benchmark for evaluating models on instruction-following, visual reasoning, and visual-textual alignment tasks. It features programmatically generated charts and synthetically rendered tables, created with Python visualization libraries to ensure control over data semantics, structure, and clarity. Each GRAFT instance pairs a chart or table image with a systematically generated, multi-step analytical question based solely on visual content. Answers are provided …

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Ionic photofragmentation cross sections of the HS H2S and HCl molecular ions near the 2p threshold
Jean-Paul Mosnier, Eugene T. Kennedy, Denis Cubaynes, Jean-Marc Bizau, Segolene Guilbaud, Stephane Carniato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16993 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.16993 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.16993
arXiv:2507.16993v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The absolute cross sections for the production of X2 and X3 ions following absorption of monochromatized SOLEIL synchrotron radiation by the HX hydride molecular ions (X = S,Cl) are presented as a function of photon energy in the region of the X 2p ionisation thresholds (180 eV and 220 eV for sulphur and chlorine, respectively). The experimental results are interpreted with the help of extensive ab initio density functional theory (DFT) and post-Hartree-Fock configuration interaction calculations including spin-orbit coupling to compute the absorption oscillator strengths of the X 2p core excitations to valence and Rydberg states. In order to account for all the experimental features,the calculations must include vibrational dynamics and spin-orbit coupling. Similar experimental data are also presented for the sulfanyumil H2S molecular ion.
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