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Beautiful day for a protest #Pasadena #California #NoKings

Det er snart 10 år siden jeg var med på å skrive denne kronikken om fremtiden for Den norske filmskolen. Jeg står fremdeles for innholdet, men dessverre virker det som de viktigste kampene er tapt.
Den norske filmskolen i et nytt fusjonert landskap https://www.

Den norske filmskolen i et nytt fusjonert landskap
Handlefriheten som Filmskolen på Lillehammer har vært avhengig av for å skape en fremragende utdanning, er under sterkt press. En rekke organisasjoner er bekymret i kjølvannet av fusjonen mellom høgskolene Lillehammer og Hedmark.

Bilder machen bei vielen Shops über 50 % des Seitengewichts aus – und werden kaum optimiert. 🖼️
Dateiname "IMG_4832.jpg" sagt Google nichts. Alt-Text fehlt. Format ist JPEG statt WebP. Lazy Loading? Fehlanzeige.
Dabei ist Bilder-SEO low-hanging fruit: Beschreibende Dateinamen, Alt-Text mit Kontext, WebP mit Fallback, Lazy Loading ab Bild 2. Kostet einen Nachmittag, spart Ladezeit und bringt Traffic über die Bildersuche.

Regularly, I use the following for near-realtime communications ("text messages”).
- SMS/RCS/iMessage (friends, family)
- Facebook Messenger (friends, family)
- What's App (friends)
- ActivityPub/Mastodon (friends)
- Matrix (friends, work)
- Discord (work)
- Mattermost (friends, locals)
I'm sure I'm missing some.
The fact that no one is allowed to make a single piece of software (for wide distribution) that talks on all of thes…

A long time ago, when I was still going to school, I often thought about some class or other: "What's the point of this? I'm just wasting time on stuff I won't ever need. And my grades are going down because of it." So I supported all these bright ideas like having schools work the curriculum out with the industry.
Nowadays, I know better. The purpose of school is not to produce ready-made employees. It's to give people a wider perspective. Perhaps they won't use most of what they learn there, perhaps they'll have bad memories of some classes, but that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that you learn how to learn, how to reason, how to think.
I hate what's been happening to schools lately. They are becoming conveyor belts: we throw children on them, throw specific knowledge at them and see what sticks, we do exams and classify them. We expect to get a thoughtless laborer at the end, someone ready to take a specific job immediately.
A human whose only purpose in life is mindless labor and mindless consumption. Metaphorically, someone who's just going to spend their time off by drinking beer in the front of the TV and breeding more babies. Babies who will eventually become more cogs in the machine, fueling the infinite growth, trying to prevent this mindless system from falling apart.
#AntiCapitalism

Las Vegas Raiders front office discusses NFL draft, trade of Tyree Wilson —WATCH LIVE https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/las-vegas-raiders-front-office-discusses-nfl-draft-trade-of-tyree-wilson-watc…

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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A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet.
It infected 3.5 million people in 1986.
Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page
https://www.resete…

Guinea worm is close to being the second disease eradicated in history, following smallpox
https://www.euronews.com/health/2026/02/04/guinea-worm-is-close-to-being-the-second-disease-eradicated-in-history-following-smallpox You may have seen this online at some point, a long white worm being pulled from someone's leg, looking almost like a white string. This worm has been plaguing...

"Wildfire-friendly weather nearly triples: Will outbreaks leave countries scrambling for resources?"
#Wildfires #Environment #Weather

Wildfires increasingly likely in several countries at once
The risk of synchronous wildfires is rising - and help won't be as likely to come from neighbouring countries busy with their own flames.

On the spatial structure and intermittency of soot in a lab-scale gas turbine combustor: Insights from large-eddy simulations
Leonardo Pachano, Daniel Mira, Abhijit Kalbhor, Jeroen van Oijen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23155 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23155 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.23155
arXiv:2602.23155v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work presents a numerical investigation of soot formation in the Cambridge lab-scale gas turbine combustor. Large-eddy simulations (LES) of a swirl-stabilized ethylene flame are performed using the flamelet generated manifold method coupled with a discrete sectional model to account for soot formation, growth, and oxidation. The study aims to elucidate the mechanism governing the spatial structure and intermittency of soot, supported by comparisons with experimental data. The predicted soot distribution agrees well with measurements, with peak concentrations near the bluff body. Flow recirculation is identified as the key mechanism driving soot accumulation in fuel-rich regions, where surface reactions dominate soot mass growth. Soot intermittency arises from fluctuations in the flow field driven by interactions between the flame front and the recirculation vortex. Two soot modeling approaches are evaluated, differing in their treatment of soot model quantities: the first approach employs on-the-fly computation of source terms (FGM-C), while the second uses fully pre-tabulated source terms (FGM-T). Their predictive performance and computational cost are compared in the context of unsteady, sooting flames in swirl-stabilized combustors.
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