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Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See - Jonathan Rosenbaum
> Ebert reviews a good many film books, and to my knowledge Siskel never did; if he ever read any books about film on his own, it would have surprised me.
#films #movies

Pivotal moments in US history shaped by confrontational street protest include:
– Unionization of the auto industry 1936
– Passing the Fair Housing Act 1968
– Ending the US invasion of Cambodia 1970

Madre Fire Update from Los Padres National Forest
Size: 80,786 Acres / Containment: 67%
Total Personnel: 1,330
Work continues along the west, northwest, northeast, and southwest of the fire perimeter to strengthen both - direct and indirect - containment lines as well as mop-up and patrol to ensure lines are secure. Dozer and handcrews are engaged on rugged terrain along the southeast flank, with ongoing efforts focused on structure protection and securing Highway 166. Aeri…

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

Been playing Pistol Whip again. Such a great game. The Black Magic "hard" level, with Reckless and Hell options is ridiculously hard. Finishing at all is a feat.
Was wondering how the hell the top players managed to score so highly. I was in like 4th place thinking I was playing a practically perfect game.
But it turns out only with 188 hits. The top three, I noticed, has 189 hits! There's a secret dude!?
Found him, flying around in the sky mid level on the right.
Nice. That's me 3rd in the global leaderboard for Black Magic Hard Reckless Hell now then.
Maybe I shouldn't be giving the game away. If someone learns of the secret dude from this post and then beats me into 4th place I'll be miffed.
#vr #games #pistolWhip

I bought Rosemary's Baby (eBook). I've always wondered 🤷‍♂️ I've never seen the movie either. The funny thing is, it came as a connection after browsing through the Beastie Boys Wikipedia page, following the path:
Beasty Boys -> Ad-Rock -> Molly Ringwald -> Tempest (1982 film) -> John Cassavetes (1929 - 1989) -> Rosemary's Baby (1968 film) -> Ira Levin (1929 - 2007).
...and then finding out there's a pricier, DRM-ed EPUB2 (2011) vs a little b…

The stochastic heat inclusion with fractional time driven by time-space Brownian and L\'evy white noise
Olfa Draouil, Rahma Yasmina Moulay Hachemi, Bernt {\O}ksendal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08275

The stochastic heat inclusion with fractional time driven by time-space Brownian and Lévy white noise
We study a time-fractional stochastic heat inclusion driven by additive time-space Brownian and Lévy white noise. The fractional time derivative is interpreted as the Caputo derivative of order $α\in (0,2).$ We show the following: \\ a) If a solution exists, then it is a fixed point of a specific set-valued map.\\ b) Conversely, any fixed point of this map is a solution of the heat inclusion.\\ c) Finally, we show that there is at least one fixed point of this map, thereby proving that there …

100,000 Crab giant pulses at 215 MHz detected with an SKA-Low prototype station
M. Sokolowski, P. Kumar, S. Dhavali, B. W. Meyers, N. D. R. Bhat, A. Bera, S. McSweeney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07422

100,000 Crab giant pulses at 215 MHz detected with an SKA-Low prototype station
We report detection and analysis of the largest low-frequency (200 - 231.25 MHz) sample of Crab giant pulses (GPs) reported in the literature. In total about 95000 GPs were detected. The observations were performed in 2024/2025 with the EDA2, a prototype station of the SKA-Low telescope. The fluence distribution of GPs in the entire sample is very well characterised with a single power law (no flattening at higher fluences) N(F) $\propto$ F$^α$, where $α= -3.17\pm0.02$ for all GPs, and $α_{M…

NAM: A Normalization Attention Model for Personalized Product Search In Fliggy
Shui Liu, Mingyuan Tao, Maofei Que, Pan Li, Dong Li, Shenghua Ni, Zhuoran Zhuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08382

NAM: A Normalization Attention Model for Personalized Product Search In Fliggy
Personalized product search provides significant benefits to e-commerce platforms by extracting more accurate user preferences from historical behaviors. Previous studies largely focused on the user factors when personalizing the search query, while ignoring the item perspective, which leads to the following two challenges that we summarize in this paper: First, previous approaches relying only on co-occurrence frequency tend to overestimate the conversion rates for popular items and underestim…

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 10. Juni 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 45. #Atombombe "Puce". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

The overall goal at "A New Social"
is to shift the power of social networks back to the people,
not the platform makers,
by giving them tools that let them
move their account and their followings,
and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.

Introducing Bounce, a tool to move your following between Bluesky and Mastodon | TechCrunch
The overall goal at A New Social is to shift the power of social networks back to the people, not the platform makers, by giving them tools that let them move their account, their followings, and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.