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Source: Fox has officially closed its upfront discussions, reaching $2B for core sports properties, excluding the World Cup, for the first time (Saleah Blancaflor/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/fox-wraps-upfront-2-billion-sports-properties/…

Fox Wraps Upfront, Reaches $2 Billion for Core Sports Properties
Fox closed its upfront talks with double-digit volume growth across its portfolio.

Using Artificial Intuition in Distinct, Minimalist Classification of Scientific Abstracts for Management of Technology Portfolios
Prateek Ranka, Fred Morstatter, Andrea Belz, Alexandra Graddy-Reed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13182

Using Artificial Intuition in Distinct, Minimalist Classification of Scientific Abstracts for Management of Technology Portfolios
Classification of scientific abstracts is useful for strategic activities but challenging to automate because the sparse text provides few contextual clues. Metadata associated with the scientific publication can be used to improve performance but still often requires a semi-supervised setting. Moreover, such schemes may generate labels that lack distinction -- namely, they overlap and thus do not uniquely define the abstract. In contrast, experts label and sort these texts with ease. Here we d…

Here is a great documentary on the Spanish Civil War!
Title: The Spanish Civil War (1983)
Playlist: #Anarchism

Single-file HTML apps – Hyperclay
Experience the Zen of making, hosting, and sharing great software in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file
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Hyperclay | Single-file HTML apps
A single HTML file is all you need to build a web app. Hyperclay hosts these HTML files so you can create personal, malleable software easily.

Interesting that some who replied to my post on tax and GDP growth yesterday missed the point.
The point isn't to debate whether tax -> growth (it might, with a tail wind).
The point is that
1) Growth won't happen like it used to.
2) That is good because GDP growth is ecologically and socially lethal.
3) So our leaders (sic) had better adapt to the new reality and use taxation and other measures to build a better, fairer future.
More here:

Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK | Stop the Damage! Build a Better Future!
Britain and the rest of the world face a set of almost intractable challenges, ecological (including climate), economic and social. Yet political leaders with few exceptions are failing to propose the actions and policies that could address the scale of this pancrisis. Here though is an alternative initiative, a kind of alternative manifesto with a portfolio of illustrative policies...

Excluding Pinched Spheres
Laure Morelle, Evangelos Protopapas, Dimitrios M. Thilikos, Sebastian Wiederrecht
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14421 https://

Excluding Pinched Spheres
The pinched sphere is the pseudo-surface $\mathbb{S}^{\circ}_0$ obtained by identifying two distinct points of the sphere. We provide a structural characterization of graphs excluding an $\mathbb{S}^{\circ}_0$-embeddable graph as a minor. Given a graph $G$ and a vertex set $X$, the bidimensionality of $X$ in $G$ is the maximum $k$ such that $G$ contains the $(k\times k)$-grid as an $X$-rooted minor, i.e., there exists a minor model of the $(k \times k)$-grid in~$G$ such that every branchset of …

I'm really torn. I love me my @…, great people, great model, love to support and use.
Buuuuut, I'd also love to use my own domain so I can truly own my own social. However I’m concerned about a single user instance not seeing all my current interactions.
Any advice from you self-hosters? I'm trying out

Fedihost - Managed Fediverse Hosting
Fedihost is a managed fediverse hosting service. With a couple of clicks you can be up and running with your own Mastodon or Peertube instance.

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): V. Protoplanetary gas disk masses
Leon Trapman, Ke Zhang, Giovanni P. Rosotti, Paola Pinilla, Beno\^it Tabone, Ilaria Pascucci, Carolina Agurto-Gangas, Rossella Anania, John Carpenter, Lucas A. Cieza, Dingshan Deng, Camilo Gonz\'alez-Ruilova, Michiel R. Hogerheijde, Nicol\'as T. Kurtovic, Aleksandra Kuznetsova, James Miley, Laura M. P\'erez, Dary A. Ru\'iz-Rodr\'iguez, Kamber Schwarz, Anibal Sierra,…

The ALMA Survey of Gas Evolution of PROtoplanetary Disks (AGE-PRO): V. Protoplanetary gas disk masses
The evolution of the gas mass of planet-forming disks around young stars is crucial for our understanding of planet formation, yet it has proven hard to constrain observationally, due both to the difficulties of measuring gas masses and the lack of a homogeneous sample. Here we present a large grid of thermochemical models which we use to measure protoplanetary gas disk masses of AGE-PRO, the ALMA survey of Gas Evolution in PROtoplanetary disks. AGE-PRO covers a sample of 30 disks around simila…

Reconfigurable miniaturized computational spectrometer enabled by photoelastic effect
Linjun Zhai, Baolei Liu, Muchen Zhu, Yao Wang, Chaohao Chen, Zhaohua Yang, Lan Fu, Fan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12077

Reconfigurable miniaturized computational spectrometer enabled by photoelastic effect
Miniatured computational spectrometers, distinguished by their compact size and lightweight, have shown great promise for on-chip and portable applications in the fields of healthcare, environmental monitoring, food safety, and industrial process monitoring. However, the common miniaturization strategies predominantly rely on advanced micro-nano fabrication and complex material engineering, limiting their scalability and affordability. Here, we present a broadband miniaturized computational spe…

I’m honestly spending way more time on PeerTube than YouTube these days, and it feels pretty great.
Sometimes I post interesting clips I find on other platforms over to PeerTube because I genuinely enjoy sharing them, especially from my perspective as someone on the autism spectrum.
Here are my channels if you want to take a look:
Main: @…