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Tyron Smith expects Cowboys LT Tyler Guyton to have a 'different type of year' following rookie struggles https://www.nfl.com/news/tyron-smith-expects-cowboys-lt-tyler-guyton-to-have-a-different-typ…

Stress-induced Martensitic transformation in epitaxial Ni-Mn-Ga thin films and its correlation to optical and magneto-optical properties
M. Make\v{s}, J. Z\'azvorka, M. Hubert, P. Ve\v{r}t\'at, M. Rame\v{s}, J. Zemen, O. Heczko, M. Veis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04907

Stress-induced Martensitic transformation in epitaxial Ni-Mn-Ga thin films and its correlation to optical and magneto-optical properties
The optical and magneto-optical properties of thin epitaxial Ni-Mn-Ga films, with thicknesses ranging from 8 to 160 nm, were investigated across the spectral range of 0.7-6.4 eV. The films were deposited by DC magnetron sputtering on MgO substrate with stress-mediating Cr buffer layer. Structural and magnetic characterization revealed an stress-induced martensitic transformation for the films thicker than 80 nm, while thinner films remained in austenite structure deformed by substrate constrain…

From @… - False UFO stories created by military... sometimes intentionally terrorizing their own soldiers https://n…

How False UFO Stories Were Created - Sometimes Deliberately - by the US Military - Slashdot
Last year's Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports "left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs," reports the Wall Street Journal. "The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinforma...

1/2 “My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this is mine. I think the following is a bit unique because it focuses on cost, working backward from there.”

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Edge-On Disk Study (EODS) II: Thermal Structure of the Flying Saucer Disk
S. Guilloteau (Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux), O. Denis-Alpizar (Departamento de F\'isica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Av. Las Palmeras 3425, Nu\~noa, Santiago, Chile), A. Dutrey (Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux), C. Foucher (Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux), S. Gavino (Dipartimento di Fisic…

Edge-On Disk Study (EODS) II: Thermal Structure of the Flying Saucer Disk
Context. The dust and gas temperature in proto-planetary disks play critical roles in determining their chemical evolution and influencing planet formation processes. Aims. We attempted an accurate measurement of the dust and CO temperature profile in the edge-on disk of the Flying Saucer. Methods. We used the unique properties of the Flying Saucer, its edge-on geometry and its fortunate position in front of CO clouds with different brightness temperatures to provide independent constraints on …

I can't tell you how weird it is as a manager to go through burnout blossoming and then sinking in to become a morass of emotional exhaustion and feelings of utter uselessness — while, in parallel, hearing feedback from my reports about how I've helped them struggle through and in most cases escape their own burgeoning burnout over the past few months
Just out here using my own body as a stick to pull my reports out of the quicksand of burnout

In case anyone here has connections with the Python team: can you please tell them to update their docs on XML security? The way it is is quite misleading, and it's been annoying me for a while. I raised this a while ago in their issue tracker, but it got no reaction whatsoever. https://github.com/python/cpython/issu…

Reconsider XML Security warnings / obsolete vulnerabilities · Issue #127502 · python/cpython
Documentation The documentation for the xml.etree.ElementTree API contains the following stark warning: Warning: The xml.etree.ElementTree module is not secure against maliciously constructed data....

Calamus 28 When I peruse the conquered fame of heroes
My surface reading is this is a celebration of the common man, perhaps soldiers, over the more famous generals and presidents. But this commentary encourages me to dig deeper.
First, to highlight the gay text...
the brotherhood of lovers ... Through youth, and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were
Very homoromantic language! Male lovers who stay together through their whole lives, affectionate.
The last fillip here is Whitman's own stance: "pensive... filled with the bitterest envy". Whitman admires these lovers and envies them. That's a striking feeling to disclose!

Ukraine strikes deep into Russia with drones, targets airfields after record Kyiv barrage: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/ukraine-strikes-deep-into-russia.html

EP 250108a/SN 2025kg - observations of the most nearby Broad-Line Type Ic #Supernova following an Einstein Probe Fast X-ray Transient / The kangaroo's first hop - the early fast cooling phase of EP250108a/SN 2025kg: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08889 / https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08886 -> Supernova’s ‘Trapped’ Jet Reveals Source of Fast X-ray Transient / International Gemini Observatory and SOAR Discover Surprising Link Between Fast X-ray Transients and the Explosive Death of Massive Stars: https://keckobservatory.org/fxt/ / https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2520/ - mysterious cosmic explosion is traced to a massive stellar explosion / a breakthrough in astronomy’s understanding of how stars larger than our Sun explode.