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Curious: do banks in other countries completely shut down automated processing operations on weekends/holidays, or is that just a US thing? Why is the US still like this?
Like, if I want to move money from one bank to another on a weekend it normally won't execute until the following Monday (plus additional clearance delays etc).
There's no logical reason for this, it's not like there's a social benefit to the process and I doubt the banks shut down their datacent…

Concrete Jungle II 🏗️
水泥丛林 II 🏗️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #nyc at the beacon theatre, early & late shows, with opening sets by both the rowan bros. & the good old boys (feat. david nelson). with a few originals & new covers, the band is feeling more complete, especially in the early show. fall ’75, show #7. audience tape:

Voll der Luxus: tagsüber im Kino sitzen. Ich bin ein paar Tage in Wien und habe nun vier Filme bei der Viennale gesehen.
Elements of Balance ist eine etwas konzeptlose Naturdoku ohne roten Faden mir schönen Bildern und einigen Statements von Naturschützer:innen.
Magic Farm handelt von einer in Argentinien gestrandeten Filmcrew aus NYC. Sehr amüsant, guter Plot, coole Musil - empfehlenswert!

LOL I stepped away from Mastodon for a couple hours and everybody is VERY MAD that I made jokes about CLIs. I use them every day, guys, it's gonna be okay. I promise I did not hurt Zork's feelings. It is, however, a factual statement that CLIs are not discoverable user interfaces and they are a poor choice for mainstream audiences; this debate was settled long ago.

At some point, DOPs should stop going for even shallower depth of field or even weirder anamorphic lens distortion. I'm feeling like an old guy complaining about how "you can't see anything on the screen! It's too dark". Only I'm like "nothing is in focus anymore you doofuses!"
Yes, this is a subtoot about #Brick on

YSGAG: The Ideal Substrate for YIG in Quantum Magnonics
Rostyslav O. Serha, Carsten Dubs, Christo Guguschev, Bernd Aichner, David Schmoll, Jaganandha Panda, Matthias Weiler, Philipp Pirro, Michal Urb\'anek, Andrii V. Chumak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19044

YSGAG: The Ideal Substrate for YIG in Quantum Magnonics
Quantum magnonics leverages the quantum mechanical properties of magnons for advancing nanoscale quantum information technologies. Ferrimagnetic yttrium iron garnet (YIG), known for its exceptionally long magnon lifetimes, is a cornerstone material for magnonics and is typically grown into thin films on gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) substrates due to near-perfect lattice matching. However, the paramagnetic nature of GGG introduces damping mechanisms detrimental to quantum applications at low …

Prototyping of 6.2-mm-Pitch Fiber Positioner Modules for Stage-V Telescope Instrumentation
Malak Galal, Maxime Rombach, Jonathan Wei, Ricardo Ara\'ujo, Diane Chapuis, S\'ebastien Pernecker, Abby Bault, Joseph Harry Silber, Nicholas Wenner, William Van Shourt, Stefane Caseiro, Corentin Magnenat, David Schlegel, Jean-Paul Kneib
https://

Prototyping of 6.2-mm-Pitch Fiber Positioner Modules for Stage-V Telescope Instrumentation
Small-pitch populated focal planes are a critical enabling technology for the next generation of highly multiplexed astronomical instruments. This work reports on ongoing prototyping activities for 6.2 mm-pitch alpha-beta (theta-phi) fiber positioner modules. Following a concise review of the underlying concept, the performance of trillium-based and independently actuated robotic designs is compared. Key operational parameters including XY positioning repeatability, non-linearity, backlash, and…

The Conductor and the Engine: A Path Towards Co-Designed Reasoning
Yuanxin Wang, Pawel Filipczuk, Anisha Garg, Amaan Dhada, Mohammad Hassanpour, David Bick, Ganesh Venkatesh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19762

The Conductor and the Engine: A Path Towards Co-Designed Reasoning
Modern LLM reasoning relies on extensive test-time computation, driven by internal model training and external agentic orchestration. However, this synergy is often inefficient, as model verbosity and poor instruction following lead to wasted compute. We analyze this capability-cost trade-off and introduce an optimized reasoning workflow (\cepo) that empowers smaller open-source models to outperform models multiple times their size. We will open-source this workflow to enable further research. …

In a short period of time Trump has announced that
- paracetamol causes autism
- vaccines are bad for babies
- the West is being destroyed by immigration
- climate change is a hoax
This is all bullshit, and we all know it, but it needs to be reported like that.
Daft old man shouts at cloud (but also happens to be POTUS)

Watch live: Trump calls climate change a ‘con job’ and accuses countries of failing to control borders
Irish delegation intends on using the high-level week to emphasise the dire need for urgent resolution