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Colts trading Michael Pittman Jr. to Steelers, following Alec Pierce's massive extension

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-trade-michael-pittman-jr-to-steelers/

Filing: ABC accuses the FCC of violating the First Amendment, after the FCC made extensive document requests and probed whether The View broke equal time rules (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/business/media/abc-fcc-first-amendment-t…

ABC Accuses Government of Violating First Amendment
The network’s argument, made to the F.C.C., is the most aggressive posture taken yet by a television network toward the Trump administration.

From a recent vacation, a battery-powered trolley recharging at stations. It does not spend much time doing this, and yes, these things exist.

Texans owner Cal McNair 'fully committed' to QB C.J. Stroud following rough 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-owner-cal-mcnair-fully-committed-to-qb-c-j-stroud-following-rough-2025

Good news for anyone working on their proposals for the next Fantastic Futures conference - the deadline is extended to April 16! #FF2026

Large eddy simulation of turbulent swirl-stabilized flames using the front propagation formulation: impact of the resolved flame thickness
Ruochen Guo, Yunde Su, Yuewen Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21940 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21940
arXiv:2602.21940v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work extends the front propagation formulation (FPF) combustion model to large eddy simulation (LES) of swirl-stabilized turbulent premixed flames and investigates the effects of resolved flame thickness on the predicted flame dynamics. The FPF method is designed to mitigate the spurious propagation of under-resolved flames while preserving the reaction characteristics of filtered flame fronts. In this study, the model is extended to account for non-adiabatic effects and is coupled with an improved sub-filter flame speed estimation that resolves the inconsistency arising from heat-release effects on local sub-filter turbulence. The performance of the extended FPF method is validated by LES of the TECFLAM swirl-stabilized burner, where the results agree well with experimental measurements. The simulations reveal that the stretching of vortical structures in the outer shear layer leads to the formation of trapped flame pockets, which are identified as the physical mechanism responsible for the secondary temperature peaks observed in the experiment. The prediction of this phenomenon is shown to be strongly dependent on the resolved flame thickness, when the filter size is used for modeling sub-filter flame wrinklings. Without proper modeling of the chemical steepening effects, the thickness of the resolved flame brush is over-predicted, causing the flame consumption rate to be under-estimated. Consequently, the flame brush detaches from the outer shear layer, resulting in a failure to capture the flame pockets and the associated secondary temperature peaks.
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Well. I’ve been accepted to my first conference!
This will sound strange to many academics out there, but working in the fine arts I don’t generally pay much attention to academic conferences—but having had a research semester last fall I was able to do a deep dive into the educational philosophy of practice-based filmmaking education and apparently the conference organisers agree that it’s interesting! I got an email this morning that my abstract was accepted.
Now I just need in…

Second International Conference on Embodied Education 2026
Copenhagen 8 - 11 June 2026: The 2nd International Conference on Embodied Education is aimed at conveying a community of people interested in embodied education and the related topics, like enaction, emotion, extended mind, embedded cognition, sports, wellbeing, and the performative arts (such as music, dance and drama).

Pinterest launches its CTV audience extension offering, following its acquisition of tvScientific, in a deal reportedly valued at between $300M and $350M (Ronan Shields/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media-buying/pinterest-debuts-audience-extension-offerin…

Pinterest debuts audience extension offering on CTV
Advertisers can now buy Pinterest audiences on third-party CTV properties due to its purchase of tvScientific.

I would love to have seen a 15kg echidna
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-14/ice-age-giant-echidna-fossil-found-in-east-gippsland/106561526?utm_source=…

Giant echidna fossil rewrites understanding of Victoria's prehistoric past
A fossil hidden in a museum collection for 119 years has revealed giant echidnas once roamed Victoria's east, filling a major gap in Australia's prehistoric record.

Q&A with Bryan Jacobs, creator of TomWikiAssist, a NanoClaw Clawbot built to edit and write for Wikipedia, on the mostly negative reactions of human editors (Bill Adair/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026…

“I was surprised how upset some people got”: A conversation with the creator of TomWikiAssist, the bot that edited Wikipedia
"It's almost like people were really quite disoriented and terrified by it. And to some extent I get it and I'm trying to empathize with how they're feeling."