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The National Weather Service is forecasting a major storm for Santa Barbara County expected to arrive Monday, October 13th. The following conditions are possible countywide:
Hail and lightning
Brief, heavy rainfall
Dangerous flash flooding
Flooding in low-lying areas and strong winds
Shallow debris flows for locations in and beneath recent wildfire burn areas including the Gifford Fire and Lake Fire.
Detailed weather forecasts are available at

And yes, you should feel like a piece of shit if someone calls you out on Nazi bootlicking.
That feeling is your brain telling you that you’re doing it wrong.
That feeling is what’s left of your conscience.

After reading great things about the author and great reviews of the book, this weekend I started to read “True and False Magic” by Phil Stutz.
I am completely puzzled as I read 47% of the book and I have absolutely no idea what I read. I am honestly feeling like the book and my brain are not overlapping even a bit.

Thousands fall ill as mosquito fever explodes across southern China #China

Thousands fall ill as mosquito fever explodes across southern China
China’s Guangdong Province is battling its worst-ever chikungunya outbreak, with thousands of infections spreading across major cities and nearby regions. Transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, the disease underscores how climate change, urbanization, and global travel are fueling mosquito-borne threats.

Not all flowers are colorful -- here are the flowers of a sedge deep in the Monkey Run Natural Area
#photo #photography #flowers

No Sign of a Magnetar Remnant Following the Kilonova-Producing Long GRB 211211A $\sim 1.7~$Years Later
Genevieve Schroeder (Cornell), Ben Margalit, Brian D. Metzger, Wen-fai Fong, Benjamin P. Gompertz, Kate D. Alexander, Edo Berger, Tanmoy Laskar, Gavin P. Lamb, Andrew Levan, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Jillian C. Rastinejad
https://arxiv.org/a…

No Sign of a Magnetar Remnant Following the Kilonova-Producing Long GRB 211211A $\sim 1.7~$Years Later
In addition to a $γ$-ray burst (GRB), the merger of two neutron stars may produce a temporarily or indefinitely stable neutron star remnant with a strong magnetic field (a "magnetar"). As this magnetar remnant spins down, it can deposit its rotational energy into the surrounding kilonova ejecta, producing synchrotron emission that peaks in the radio bands $\sim$months-years after the merger ("boosted kilonova"). The nearby ($z=0.0763$) long-duration GRB 211211A, which has an apparent kilonova …

Differential Analysis of Pseudo Haptic Feedback: Novel Comparative Study of Visual and Auditory Cue Integration for Psychophysical Evaluation
Nishant Gautam, Somya Sharma, Peter Corcoran, Kaspar Althoefer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09570

Differential Analysis of Pseudo Haptic Feedback: Novel Comparative Study of Visual and Auditory Cue Integration for Psychophysical Evaluation
Pseudo-haptics exploit carefully crafted visual or auditory cues to trick the brain into "feeling" forces that are never physically applied, offering a low-cost alternative to traditional haptic hardware. Here, we present a comparative psychophysical study that quantifies how visual and auditory stimuli combine to evoke pseudo-haptic pressure sensations on a commodity tablet. Using a Unity-based Rollball game, participants (n = 4) guided a virtual ball across three textured terrains while their…

I was looking into the #DANDI archive, following a post of @… that mentioned it as a possibility for #Neuroscience data storage.. It looks like it could be useful i…

Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer steals show on Hard Knocks with 'Schotty Shiesty' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-steals-show-hard-knocks-schotty-shiesty

Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients as "Failed" Gravitational Wave Sources: Helium Core$-$Black Hole Mergers Following Delayed Dynamical Instability
Jakub Klencki, Brian D. Metzger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09745

Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients as "Failed" Gravitational Wave Sources: Helium Core$-$Black Hole Mergers Following Delayed Dynamical Instability
Binaries in which a massive donor star undergoes an extended ($\gtrsim$ kyr) phase of stable mass transfer onto a black hole (BH) accretor offer a promising channel for creating LIGO gravitational wave sources. However, in many systems the mass transfer terminates prematurely in a dynamical instability at orbital periods of a few days, culminating in the BH plunging into the donor and potentially disrupting and accreting its helium core at highly super-Eddington rates. Combining a suite of bina…