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There's a mysterious 'carbon sink' in the hinterlands of the South Island... absorbing more carbon than expected... I'm following this research with interest. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/564407…

Happy #AutisticPrideDay! ♾️💙
I’m proudly autistic, my brain works in its own unique way, full of different thoughts and feelings all at once. Being autistic is part of who I am, not something to fix. 🧠🧠
I’m also queer and genderfluid, and that’s just another part of my colorful identity. Some days I feel one way, some days another, and that’s okay. 🏳️‍🌈☂️
Neurodiver…

Ett återkommande ämne I Tyngre Träningssnack. Wille envisas med att alltid påpeka missförståndet. Jag tror det är en förlorad kamp, mjölksyra är alltid = trötthet för allmänheten 🤷🏼‍♂️🙂
New Research: Lactic Acid Doesn't Cause That Burning Feeling. This Does. https://www.

Nice to see Michael Hansmeyer still following his dreams: The White Tower was finally revealed 2 weeks ago, currently the largest 3D printed structure in the world (30 meters [90ft] tall), located in a small village in Switzerland:
https://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/white-tower

Tor Alva | White Tower - Project Overview
Tor Alva, White Tower, Weisser Turm in Mulegns, Switzerland, Origen Foundation

Finslerian lightconvex boundaries: applications to causal simplicity and the space of cone geodesics $\mathcal{N}$
J\'onatan Herrera, Miguel S\'anchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09032

Finslerian lightconvex boundaries: applications to causal simplicity and the space of cone geodesics $\mathcal{N}$
Our outcome is structured in the following sequence: (1) a general result for indefinite Finslerian manifolds with boundary $(M,L)$ showing the equivalence between local and infinitesimal (time, light or space) convexities for the boundary $\partial M$, (2) for any cone structure $(M,\mathcal{C})$ which is globally hyperbolic with timelike boundary, the equivalence among: (a) the boundary $\partial M$ is lightconvex, (b) the interior $\mathring{M}$ is causally simple and (c) the space of the co…

Reckon it'd be pretty metal if Canada stopped Trump at the boarder, sending him back when he tries to get to the G7 Summit. No convicted felons/fascist autocrats allowed.

Flying Co-Stereo: Enabling Long-Range Aerial Dense Mapping via Collaborative Stereo Vision of Dynamic-Baseline
Zhaoying Wang, Xingxing Zuo, Wei Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00546

Flying Co-Stereo: Enabling Long-Range Aerial Dense Mapping via Collaborative Stereo Vision of Dynamic-Baseline
Lightweight long-range mapping is critical for safe navigation of UAV swarms in large-scale unknown environments. Traditional stereo vision systems with fixed short baselines face limited perception ranges. To address this, we propose Flying Co-Stereo, a cross-agent collaborative stereo vision system that leverages the wide-baseline spatial configuration of two UAVs for long-range dense mapping. Key innovations include: (1) a dual-spectrum visual-inertial-ranging estimator for robust baseline e…

Before this #LetterboxdFriday ends, I share my #LastFourWatched
The Greatest Hits (3½★)
Despicable Me 2 (3★)
Despicable Me (3½★)
Sing (1½★)
🔗 https://…

Identifying Compact Chirping SMBHBs in LSST using Bayesian Analysis
Chengcheng Xin, Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr, Zolt\'an Haiman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10846

Identifying Compact Chirping SMBHBs in LSST using Bayesian Analysis
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to observe up to ${\sim}100$ million quasars in the next decade. In this work, we show that it is possible to use such data to measure the characteristic frequency evolution of a "chirp" induced by gravitational waves, which can serve as robust evidence for the presence of a compact supermassive black-hole binary. Following the LSST specifications, we generate mock lightcurves consisting of (i) a post-Newtonian chirp produced by orbital mot…

Crikey, just (finally) nailed the 'family photo gallery in a frame' functionality for my mum (with failing memory, in an assisted living situation) across the world. Can control it from here in Aotearoa (via screen share or ssh) with the extraordinarily handy 'RaspberryPi Connect' functionality. The key technologies are:
- Firefox (in kiosk mode),
- Immich (