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Stripped of all his titles and privileges… but for incredible wealth, his social ties, shelter in a private Royal-owned dwelling, his spot in the line of succession…
Why don’t we just put Andrew on trial, and slap him in prison with all the other nonces? https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@resea

The influence of the Casimir effect on the binding potential for 3D wetting
Alessio Squarcini, Jos\'e M. Romero-Enrique, Andrew O. Parry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04418 htt…

The influence of the Casimir effect on the binding potential for 3D wetting
We provide comprehensive details of how a previously overlooked entropic, or low temperature Casimir contribution, $W_C$, to the total binding potential for 3D short-ranged wetting may be determined from a microscopic Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson Hamiltonian. The entropic contribution comes from the many microscopic configurations corresponding to a given interfacial one, which arise from bulk-like fluctuations about the mean-field (MF) constrained profile, and adds to the usual MF contribution $W_{M…

Kinetic field theory of compact systems
Matthias Bartelmann, James Stokes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02459 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02459

Kinetic field theory of compact systems
The kinetic field theory is developed without assumptions of statistical homogeneity and isotropy. In a solvable toy model with short-ranged interactions, we compare first-order perturbation theory to an iterated mean-field approximation scheme, demonstrating that the mean-field theory maintains positivity and captures collapse dynamics, allowing analytic estimates of blow-up times. In a self-gravitating sheet model, the first-order perturbation theory is shown to reproduce critical phenomena. …

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league could begin renegotiating its media rights as soon as 2026, four years ahead of the current deal's opt-out clause (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/24/nfl-tv-rights-renegotiations-ac…

NFL wants to accelerate TV rights renegotiations to as early as next year, Commissioner Goodell says
The NFL would need agreement from its media partners — Disney, Comcast's NBCUniversal, Paramount, Amazon and Fox — to start discussions earlier than planned.

OTMol: Robust Molecular Structure Comparison via Optimal Transport
Xiaoqi Wei, Xuhang Dai, Yaqi Wu, Yanxiang Zhao, Yingkai Zhang, Zixuan Cang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01550 ht…

OTMol: Robust Molecular Structure Comparison via Optimal Transport
Root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) is widely used to assess structural similarity in systems ranging from flexible ligand conformers to complex molecular cluster configurations. Despite its wide utility, RMSD calculation is often challenged by inconsistent atom ordering, indistinguishable configurations in molecular clusters, and potential chirality inversion during alignment. These issues highlight the necessity of accurate atom-to-atom correspondence as a prerequisite for meaningful alignment.…

Quasinormal spectra of higher dimensional regular black holes in theories with infinite curvature corrections
Juan Pablo Arbelaez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25141 https://

Quasinormal spectra of higher dimensional regular black holes in theories with infinite curvature corrections
We investigate the quasinormal modes of several families of higher-dimensional regular black holes arising in gravitational theories that incorporate an infinite tower of higher-curvature corrections to Einstein gravity. Our analysis focuses on how the ringdown phase of gravitational waves for such regular black holes deviates from the predictions of General Relativity. We employ the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) method to calculate the quasinormal modes and to derive compact analytic express…

After the Supreme Court declared Donald Trump largely immune from prosecution
for turning the office of the presidency into a criminal enterprise,
-- and the nation’s voters then chose to reinstall the freshly convicted felon in the White House,
who could have predicted he would use his office to punish the law abiding and protect the corrupt?
In fact, both the scale and audaciousness of Trump’s corruption,
and of his regime’s assault on the criminal justice sy…

A felon in the White House is making crime legal
Meanwhile, he's creating fake crimes to punish the law abiding.

I'm getting closer with my nginx-rtmp-Docker-container-on-MacOS project!
I started from scratch on the mac a couple days ago, reinstalled docker with homebrew and then realized that part of my problem was that macOS (and windows) has to run docker in a virtual machine container of its own and *that* can mess with networking.
So I have now figured that out. Colima, the vm that seems most popular on macOS, needs a mac specific option (--network-attached) when starting so that it gets the mac network going. Major Aha! moment.
I also learned more completely how to build my own Docker images.
I've gotten to the point where nginx is definitely running, I know the port is open (via nmap on another device), I know nginx is accepting the stream, but nginx still refuses to publish that stream to Youtube (or at least youtube is not seeing it).
I also can ping apple.com and youtube.com from within the container, so access to the outside world is working.
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So that's where I'm at.
I just figured out how to get into a container and examine the nginx log files now.
At this point I am going to rebuild the container with nginx configured for full debug level logging. Hopefully that provides some more clues on where it is getting stuck.
I give it a 50/50 chance that it is either an nginx configuration/installation problem or another colima virtual machine/networking issue.
I've learned a lot at least and feel better about my overall Docker knowledge!
And I'm documenting on my blog as I go so I'll have a howto produced from this when it finally works!
#docker #mac #nginx #colima #rtmp #youtube #containerizeit

Practical Insertion-Only Convex Hull
Ivor van der Hoog, Henrik Reinst\"adtler, Eva Rotenberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17496 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Practical Insertion-Only Convex Hull
Convex hull data structures are fundamental in computational geometry. We study insertion-only data structures, supporting various containment and intersection queries. When $P$ is sorted by $x$- or $y$-coordinate, convex hulls can be constructed in linear time using classical algorithms such as Graham scan. We investigate a variety of methods tailored to the insertion-only setting. We explore a broad selection of trade-offs involving robustness, memory access patterns, and space usage, providi…

The 21cm-galaxy cross-correlation: Realistic forecast for 21cm signal detection and reionisation constraints
Anne Hutter, Caroline Heneka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15906 https:…

The 21cm-galaxy cross-correlation: Realistic forecast for 21cm signal detection and reionisation constraints
21cm-galaxy cross-correlation will play a key role in confirming the cosmological 21cm signal. We investigate which survey configurations detect the 21cm-LAE cross-correlation signal, and assess its ability to distinguish reionisation scenarios. Our pipeline computes observational uncertainties for the 21cm-galaxy cross-power spectrum, accounting for key survey parameters: the field of view (FoV), limiting luminosity of galaxy surveys $L_α$, redshift uncertainty $σ_z$, and 21cm foreground wed…