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❝I got a letter from [founder and singer] Genesis P-Orridge and it said, ‘Sure, send us $50.’ So I sent them a $50 bill in an envelope, and a month later the reel came in the mail. Just like that. It was like, what the fuck?❞ https://www.

New Version of Seminal Austin Horror Brings a Lost Throbbing Gristle Soundtrack to Light
An infamous gem of Austin’s 1980s underground film scene gets a special screening this weekend, but that’s not what’s getting director Neil Ruttenberg excited. It’s that the screening of “Mask of Sarnath” will see the world premiere of a lost recording by industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle Well, “lost” isn’t really the word. Ruttenberg had the […]

kabr-tools: Automated Framework for Multi-Species Behavioral Monitoring
Jenna Kline, Maksim Kholiavchenko, Samuel Stevens, Nina van Tiel, Alison Zhong, Namrata Banerji, Alec Sheets, Sowbaranika Balasubramaniam, Isla Duporge, Matthew Thompson, Elizabeth Campolongo, Jackson Miliko, Neil Rosser, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Charles V. Stewart, Daniel I. Rubenstein
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kabr-tools: Automated Framework for Multi-Species Behavioral Monitoring
A comprehensive understanding of animal behavior ecology depends on scalable approaches to quantify and interpret complex, multidimensional behavioral patterns. Traditional field observations are often limited in scope, time-consuming, and labor-intensive, hindering the assessment of behavioral responses across landscapes. To address this, we present kabr-tools (Kenyan Animal Behavior Recognition Tools), an open-source package for automated multi-species behavioral monitoring. This framework in…

fresh neil young & the chrome hearts soundboard from glastonbury in june, so pro mixed that you can hear spooner oldham's B3 (mostly inaudible when i caught them last week) https://heads.social/@livetapes/114990531689500576

can't i?
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/115225727474519817

For me I have two scanners for papers, pictures, negatives and slides. For floppies and ZIP disks I have an old SFF machine where I can extract all of the files and save them to USB sticks.
Friends and family knows that if they don't want the pictures to send them to me. I digitize and store them in archival quality holders in a room where the humidity is controlled and the temperature doesn't change very much. Last batch were family images that no one knew of and everyone r…

Here's the cover from a really great book of short stories, from 2010, named "Shadow Show".
The stories, written by a wide variety of top-notch authors, such as Margaret Atwood and Harlan Ellison, each celebrate Ray Bradbury's life and writing.
(The book cover art is by Tom Gauld--I found it searching online for Gauld's cartoons.)
#Writing

A LOFAR search for coherent radio emission accompanying prompt engine activity in gamma-ray bursts
A. Hennessy, R. L. C. Starling, A. Rowlinson, I. de Ruiter, A. J. van der Horst, G. E. Anderson, N. R. Tanvir, S. ter Veen, K. Wiersema, R. A. M. J. Wijers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21142

A LOFAR search for coherent radio emission accompanying prompt engine activity in gamma-ray bursts
Relativistic jets generated in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) produce luminous transient events, yet the fundamentals of jet composition and radiation mechanisms remain unclear. One means of identifying a magnetically-dominated outflow would be detection of prompt, coherent radio emission at low frequencies, and we are able to search for this using the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) coupled with modelling of high energy pulses detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift). We present the rapid r…

People CEO Neil Vogel calls Google a "bad actor" for refusing to pay publishers for AI content and says Google Search drives 25%-30% of visits to People sites (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/11/media-in…

Google’s AI is the ‘worst’ for stealing content, says People CEO
But Google-owned YouTube could provide a model for media and AI to coexist and thrive, says internet industry pioneer Bill Gross.

was such a true goddamn delight yappin' about shakey with @… including the story of how i got into neil young by seeing him live before ever consciously hearing one of his albums or even knowing who he was (at bobfest!)

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…

Symmetric versus antisymmetric strain tuning of the valence transition in Yb(In$_{1-x}$Ag$_x$)Cu$_4$
Caitlin I. O'Neil, Michelle Ocker, Kristin Kliemt, Cornelius Krellner, Elena Gati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04212

Symmetric versus antisymmetric strain tuning of the valence transition in Yb(In$_{1-x}$Ag$_x$)Cu$_4$
Similar to transitions in a range of correlated quantum materials, the valence transition exhibits a strong coupling to the crystal lattice, rendering it highly sensitive to stress tuning. In the present work, we determine the effect of uniaxial stress, which breaks the lattice symmetry, on the valence transition temperature and its crossover temperature in pure and Ag-substituted YbInCu$_4$. Our key result is that hydrostatic stress is more effective in tuning this transition than uniaxial str…

High-Precision Scale Setting with the Omega-Baryon Mass and Gradient Flow
Alexei Bazavov, Claude W. Bernard, David A. Clarke, Carleton DeTar, Aida X. El-Khadra, Elvira G\'amiz, Steven Gottlieb, Anthony V. Grebe, Urs M. Heller, Leon Hostetler, William I. Jay, Hwancheol Jeong, Andreas S. Kronfeld, Yin Lin, Shaun Lahert, Jack Laiho, Michael Lynch, Andrew T. Lytle, Aaron S. Meyer, Ethan T. Neil, Curtis T. Peterson, James N. Simone, Jacob W. Sitison, Ruth S. Van de Water, Alejandro Vaqu…

High-Precision Scale Setting with the Omega-Baryon Mass and Gradient Flow
The gradient-flow scale $w_0$ in lattice QCD is determined using the mass of the $Ω^-$ baryon to set the physical scale. Nine ensembles using the highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) action with lattice spacings of 0.15 fm down to 0.04 fm are used, seven of which have nearly physical light-quark masses. Electromagnetic corrections to the $Ω^-$ mass are defined in order to compute a pure-QCD $Ω$ mass. The final result is $w_0 = 0.17187(68)$ fm, corresponding to a relative uncertainty of 0.4…