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A pitch deck from Palantir CTO and another Palantir exec has been circulated for Founders Films, a "patriotic" content production company aiming to raise money (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/20/2025

‘Founders Films’ aims to remake Hollywood with patriotism, Palantir and Ayn Rand
The company’s proposed projects celebrate American military action, push for confrontation with China, and elevate heroes of the right from Ayn Rand to Elon Musk.

Do you know what I truly hate? Biting horse-flies.
Like, a whole swarm of them just starts flying around you, and won't let go. If you're walking fast, they usually don't manage to sit on you, but that doesn't stop them from trying. So they keep bouncing off your legs, trying to fly into your nose, walking over your glasses… and after a little time your skin is so irritated that you can't tell anymore if it managed to sit this time, or just bounced — until you feel the painful bite.
I think I've killed a record number of them today.

four new exec branch names: abd, americabydesign, nds, ndstudio
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115067423423754562

Long-term simultaneous 2.25/8.60~GHz monitoring of the newly-discovered repeating FRB~20240114A
Xiao-Wei Wang, Zhen Yan, Zhi-Qiang Shen, Ke-Jia Lee, Ya-Jun Wu, Rong-Bing Zhao, Jie Liu, Rui Wang, Kuo Liu, Yuan-Chuan Zou, Zhi-Peng Hang, Chu-Yuan Zhang, Fan Yang, Zhen-Long Liao, Yang-Yang Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15615

Long-term simultaneous 2.25/8.60~GHz monitoring of the newly-discovered repeating FRB~20240114A
We report on the simultaneous monitoring of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) 20240114A at 2.25 and 8.60~GHz, conducted 66 times between 2024 January 29 and 2025 February 15 with the Shanghai Tianma Radio Telescope (TMRT). In about 180 hours of observation, we detected 155 bursts at 2.25~GHz above a fluence threshold of 0.72~Jy~ms, but none at 8.60~GHz above a fluence threshold of 0.27~Jy~ms. FRB~20240114A exhibited frequency-dependent activity, as evidenced by the non-detections in 14.3 hou…

Evidence for single variant in altermagnetic RuO2(101) thin films
Cong He, Zhenchao Wen, Jun Okabayashi, Yoshio Miura, Tianyi Ma, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, Takeshi Seki, Hiroaki Sukegawa, Seiji Mitani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13720

Evidence for single variant in altermagnetic RuO2(101) thin films
Altermagnetism presents intriguing possibilities for spintronic devices due to its unique combination of strong spin-splitting and zero net magnetization. However, realizing its full potential hinges on fabricating single-variant altermagnetic thin films. In this work, we present definitive evidence for the formation of single-variant altermagnetic RuO2(101) thin films with fully epitaxial growth on Al2O3(1-102) r-plane substrates, confirmed through rigorous structural analyses using X-ray diff…

Will Rashee Rice be suspended? Here's how many games Chiefs WR could miss following hit-and-run sentencing

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/will-ra

Hours after flying drones into Poland, Russia condemns Israeli strike on Doha as ‘gross violation’: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/hours-after-flying-drones-into.html

Approximation of polynomial hulls by analytic varieties: A counterexample
Tobias Harz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16338 https://arxiv.…

Approximation of polynomial hulls by analytic varieties: A counterexample
We construct a connected, compact set $K \subset \mathbb{C}^2$ with the following property: there exist points $p \in \hat{K} \setminus K$ such that there does not exist a sequence $\{A_ν\}$ of analytic sets $A_ν\subset\subset \mathbb{C}^2$ with boundary satisfying $p \in A_ν$ for every $ν\in \mathbb{N}$ and $\lim_{ν\to\infty} bA_ν\subset K$. For every point in $\hat{K} \setminus K$, we explicitly construct a sequence of Poletsky discs, and we compute the weak limit of the pushforwards of…

The radio flare and multi-wavelength afterglow of the short GRB 231117A: energy injection from a violent shell collision
G. E. Anderson, G. P. Lamb, B. P. Gompertz, L. Rhodes, A. Martin-Carrillo, A. J. van der Horst, A. Rowlinson, M. E. Bell, T. -W. Chen, H. M. Fausey, M. Ferro, P. J. Hancock, S. R. Oates, S. Schulze, R. L. C. Starling, S. Yang, K. Ackley, J. P. Anderson, A. Andersson, J. F. Ag\"u\'i Fern\'andez, R. Brivio, E. Burns, K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, V. D'El…

The radio flare and multi-wavelength afterglow of the short GRB 231117A: energy injection from a violent shell collision
We present the early radio detection and multi-wavelength modeling of the short gamma-ray burst (GRB) 231117A at redshift $z=0.257$. The Australia Telescope Compact Array automatically triggered a 9-hour observation of GRB 231117A at 5.5 and 9 GHz following its detection by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory just 1.3 hours post-burst. Splitting this observation into 1-hour time bins, the early radio afterglow exhibited flaring, scintillating and plateau phases. The scintillation allowed us to p…

The NFL's top 10 scene-stealing mascots, from a flying falcon to a jiggling blue horse https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6638077/2025/09/18/nfl-mascot-rankings-colts-eagles-chiefs-jaguars-texans/