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Arguably, this guy got on the cover of the very best Pink Floyd album.
(although sometimes I think it's Animals. And sometimes The Dark Side of the Moon. And often I just can't choose one amongst those three)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05e0z9lj3mo

Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover dies aged 88
Ronnie Rondell Jr's decades-long career saw him appear in films and TV including Baywatch, Spartacus and The Matrix Reloaded.

Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival transformed how Hollywood does business, creating a pipeline for independent films to be shown around the world (Lukas I. Alpert/MarketWatch)
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwat

As we continue down this path of escalating nihilistic meme violence, it can feel like the worst things have become viral. We are drowning in the memetic effluent of a capitalist media that profits by maximizing engagement. But I wonder if anyone remembers "Pay it Forward?"
A movie came out in 2000 about a kid who started a viral kindness campaign. The idea was that you do something nice for someone else with the expectation that they do the same in the future. I never really saw the movie, but I do remember the time. There were a few weeks, maybe a few months, where people started doing it. People would just be randomly nice, and everything actually just started feeling better.
Over time, the world caught up. Capitalism consumed the whole thing, and life went back to normal. 9/11 happened the next year, and the US started down the path of becoming the most twisted and evil version of itself. But there was a short time that doing nice stuff was a viral meme, a thing that people just started doing.
Gun violence doesn't have to be the only viral meme we have. We can make good things happen too.

🖤 Diane Keaton
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/diane-keaton-dead-annie-hall-godfather-1236398458/

Navigating the herd.
(There were 170 highland cattle, sometimes just a few inches away... quite a few blocking the path with their calves and feeling agitated so we had to navigate/bypass through the talus fields higher up, giving these beauties more space...)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

The public deserves better than this mealy-mouthed nonsense.
They deserve reporters who can recognize when they’re witnessing something extraordinary and have the courage to say so clearly.
They deserve news organizations that understand the difference between false balance and actual journalism.

The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment
Earlier today we wrote about Trump’s extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there’s an even mor…

Bills GM Brandon Beane wasn't 'fully aware' of James Cook hold-in plans: 'Not something we want' https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-gm-brandon-beane-james-cook-hold-in-plans-fully-aware-contract

A Targeted Gamma-Ray Search of Five Prominent Galaxy Merger Systems with 17 years of Fermi-LAT Data
Siddhant Manna, Shantanu Desai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06232 https://

A Targeted Gamma-Ray Search of Five Prominent Galaxy Merger Systems with 17 years of Fermi-LAT Data
Galaxy mergers are among the most energetic astrophysical phenomena, driving intense star formation and potentially fueling cosmic ray acceleration, which can produce high energy $γ$-ray emission through hadronic processes. We present a targeted search for $γ$-ray emission from five prominent galaxy merger systems, NGC~3256, NGC~660, UGC~813/816, UGC~12914/12915, and VV~114 using 16.8 years of Fermi-LAT data in the 1--300~GeV energy range. Employing a binned maximum likelihood analysis, we mo…

On the sum-of-squares function
Vitalii V. Iudelevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02701 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02701

On the sum-of-squares function
In this paper, we derive the following asymptotic formula $$ \mathop{{\sum}'}_{n\leqslant x}\dfrac{r(n)}{r(n+1)} = {x}{(\ln x)^{-3/4}}(c+o(1)),\ \ x \to +\infty,$$ where $r(n)$ is the number of representations of $n$ as a sum of two squares, $c$ is a positive constant, and the prime indicates summation over those $n$ for which $r(n+1)\neq 0$.