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40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in wisconsin, their 2nd of 2 nights at alpine valley. early summer ’85, show #5.
soundboard: http://archive.org/details/gd1985-06-

Inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, whose 3.2-gigapixel camera will produce 60PB of space image data over 10 years, to be analyzed using ML and deep learning (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/science…

How Vera Rubin Telescope Scientists Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of Imagery
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.

Russia frees Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, detained since March 2021, and Belarus frees Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, detained since July 2023 (Lauren Wolfe/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/russia-and-bel

Russia and Belarus release two journalists who had been detained for years - Committee to Protect Journalists
Paris, June 23, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko and Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, who had been unjustly detained for years by Russia and Belarus, respectively.   Russia freed Yesypenko on June 20 after he served a five-year prison sentence on charges of possessing and transporting explosives, which he denied. Karnei, detained for nearly 2...

Turns out life doesn’t just imitate art
— sometimes it borrows the script, reboots it with National Guard checkpoints and streams it live from Los Angeles.
Case in point:
A Day Without a Mexican,
the cheeky 2004 sci-fi satire from Mexican filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi,
in which California wakes up to find every person of Latino descent has vanished into a mysterious haze,
leaving Angelenos panicking over who’s going to mow the lawns and run …

The Outrageous 20-Year-Old Movie That Predicted Trump’s America
In 2004 ‘A Day Without a Mexican’ was intended to be a political satire. In 2025 it seems all too real. Plus, Joel Grey auctions off his old lederhosen (and some nudes!) TikTok star Khaby Lame demands $1.2 million to talk, and Chet Hanks is a no-show at his book reading.

I hadn't seen that the EU were mandating 5 years of software updates from the end of sale for smartphones. I assume manufacturers will roll out the patches to the UK as well, but maybe that is a brave assumption?

From June 20: EU gives smartphones a label and a guaranteed update time
From June 20, manufacturers of smartphones and tablets in the EU must include a label with clear information on repairability and update times.

"First elephant sighting in 6 years sparks hope for species’ return to a Senegal park"
#Senegal #Elephants #Animals

First elephant sighting in 6 years sparks hope for species’ return to a Senegal park
For the first time in six years, an elephant was seen in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park. Grainy black-and-white footage shows Ousmane, a bull 35 to 40 years old named after a park ranger, in the forest at night, stopping to look at the camera trap that recorded his presence. Ousmane hadn’t been seen since 2019. […]

28 Years Later" is
- a black parable of Thatcherite Britain
- prepping tips

Last week I watched a new apprentice take 15 minutes to type a simple email – using the eagle-search system, eyes glued to the keyboard.
Over 12 years of #school education behind them, able to analyze Shakespeare and solve math problems, but typing as if they're seeing a computer for the first time!
HOW is it possible that in 2025 we are still producing graduates who can…

I tell stories about the artist Allan Kaprow and what he did in the years after he invented Happenings. For Kaprow, the practice of art became inseparable from the practice of life: ordinary, intimate, sometimes ridiculous, just like the practice of Zen.
#Art
#buddhism

Brushing Teeth, Trading Dirt
Sal Kenzen Randolph gives a talk on practice and the expressive art-life practice of Allan Kaprow.

Insights gained from the Light Echo of Cepheus A HW2
Bringfried Stecklum, Verena Wolf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16519 https://arxiv.…

Insights gained from the Light Echo of Cepheus A HW2
Cepheus A HW2 is a well-studied massive young stellar object (MYSO) featuring Class II methanol masers. Recently, certain maser components have been found to flare every five years. This period went undetected in (NEO)WISE photometry due to detector saturation. However, difference imaging revealed a light echo (LE), representing a variability record. Its periodicity is similar to that of the masers. Thereby, the mid-IR light curve since 2007 could be reconstructed. Phase and period maps provide…

Good Morning Canada
One half of our move is complete and in 4 days we move to our new home. We're in good company as almost 1/3 of Canadians move once every 5 years. And like us, some are downsizing to a smaller home in their retirement years.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Moving
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/7309-moving-canada-good-bad-and-ugly

Right-wing America believes in 'replacement theory'. It's not theory, and they don't have to 'believe' it. They should know it's real, as America has been at it for hundreds of years already. In fact, America is responsible for the largest example of population replacement in modern history, virtually wiping out the original indigenous people.

YouTube is 20 years old? That means I’m……yeah……

@… it’s planned obsolescence but the plan is 1000 years

The great Dr. Demento is retiring.
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/dr-demento-retiring/

After years of saving, I've finally purchased my dream car.

@… @… @… This is super cool! I’m finally getting into (low-end F0,G0) STM32 after 20 years of other MCUs. …

For hundreds of years, the Spanish banned the Incan Festival of the Sun—the Andean New Year.
But since the middle of the 20th century, Inti Raymi has been back. 
Today, communities, cities, towns and even universities hold Inti Raymi celebrations.
They make offerings, light fires and incense. They say prayers to Pachamama and Inti, the sun. They sing and dance. 
And it’s not just a celebration. It is an act of resistance

Inti Raymi returns as an act of resistance
Inti Raymi is the most important Indigenous celebration of the Andean countries of South America. And it is a revival of the people’s cultural history. This is episode 50 of Stories of Resistance.

The metric system is 150 years old. The metre originated in the French Revolution, but its definition has changed many times since - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-05-20/metre-treaty-anniversary-met…

The metre originated in the French Revolution, but its definition has changed many times since
The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.

A Meeting to discuss Heathrow's low pay problem: https://hounslowtradescouncil.org/heathrows-low-pay-problem/

Heathrow’s Low Pay Problem
An Open Meeting Hounslow Trades Union Council Thursday 26th June 7.30pm, . Hounslow United Reformed Church, 114 Hanworth Road, Hounslow, TW3 1UF Eight years ago, Heathrow Airport became a Living Wa…

Delaying by 2 weeks is Fat Nixon's response for everything for the past 10 years.
▶️ Trump Gives Iran “Ultimate Ultimatum,” White People Explain Juneteenth & Jimmy Announces Guest Hosts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oIgr-fCWlg

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Activity:
🎵 In Another Way
#Activity
https://activity.bandcamp.com/album/a-thousand-years-in-another-way
https://open.spotify.com/track/01ZF0dBMjNFGWzJQ4f4JOV

It all fits. Suppose you’re corporate leadership. You’re laying people off / refusing to hire because you have no clue what things will look like even 1 or 2 years in the future, and you are •terrified•.
Meanwhile, your investors, your gullible trend-chasing investors, are already mentally dividing companies into “pre-AI” and “post-AI.” And not only do you have no idea how to be “post-AI,” but you have no idea whether you’ll be solvent next year. What do you tell them?!??
Obviously you tell them you’re not hiring because you’re having such incredible success with AI! Maybe even you’re going to lay off all the senior people! They’ll love that!
Now you’re not failing and flailing — you’re leading the march into the future! Yay!

Matroids, intersecting bases, and Borsuk property
Gyivan L\'opez-Campos, Fr\'ed\'eric Meunier, Jorge L. Ram\'irez Alfons\'in
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17082

Matroids, intersecting bases, and Borsuk property
A subset $S$ of $\mathbb R^d$ has the Borsuk property if it can be decomposed into at most $d+1$ parts of diameter smaller than $S$. This is an important geometric property, inspired by a conjecture of Borsuk from the 1930s, which has attracted considerable attention over the years. In this paper, we define and investigate the Borsuk property for matroids, providing a purely combinatorial approach to the Borsuk property for matroid polytopes, a well-studied family of $(0,1)$-polytopes associate…

MeDi: Metadata-Guided Diffusion Models for Mitigating Biases in Tumor Classification
David Jacob Drexlin, Jonas Dippel, Julius Hense, Niklas Preni{\ss}l, Gr\'egoire Montavon, Frederick Klauschen, Klaus-Robert M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17140

MeDi: Metadata-Guided Diffusion Models for Mitigating Biases in Tumor Classification
Deep learning models have made significant advances in histological prediction tasks in recent years. However, for adaptation in clinical practice, their lack of robustness to varying conditions such as staining, scanner, hospital, and demographics is still a limiting factor: if trained on overrepresented subpopulations, models regularly struggle with less frequent patterns, leading to shortcut learning and biased predictions. Large-scale foundation models have not fully eliminated this issue. …

Het budget is op. Punt uit.
Als we op dit niveau blijven uitstoten gaan we over 1.9 jaar door de 1,5 °C heen en moeten we vanaf dan helemaal niets meer uitstoten om niet door te denderen.
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn

⚠️ Please BE AWARE that there is a chance that if you transfer your save file from Switch to Switch 2, you may lose it. This person lost 20 years of data that they'd had since their Game Boy Advance. Totally brutal. It's a huge gamble, and to me, might not be worth it if you really value your save data.

'There's nothing I can do. I don't even know if I wanna play anymore' — Pokémon fan left devastated after '20 years worth of data' lost in Switch to Switch 2 transfer
‘My Scarlet save file is gone,’ sobs gamer. They say no error messages popped up during their Friday the 13th transfer attempt.

Please do not forget: 30 years ago, Yitzchak #Rabin was cowardly murdered. It was preceded by a smear and #hate campaign, which was particularly driven by Benjamin #Netanyahu. Netanyahu profited the most from Rabin's…

TechInsights: Huawei's MateBook Fold uses SMIC's 7nm chip, like the Mate 60 Pro that stunned the US two years ago, suggesting export rules are hampering Huawei (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Paris s'éveille
Hype, the world’s largest hydrogen taxi operator, is to cease operating its fleet of hydrogen taxis in the Paris area
When the reality of #hydrogen costs hits home (and you still don't want to believe it)

'A form of oligopoly' | World’s largest hydrogen taxi operator hurls accusations at supply giants as it quits H2 in Paris
Hype argues that Air Liquide and TotalEnergies have presided over doubling of H2 prices in four years — which it says is blocking a credible path to green hydrogen use

Just spent a couple of hours with a long time sustainability leader whose work I deeply respect. They told me I've been their "shadow mentor" for 20 years. 
#humbled #grateful

Been restarting the #OutdoorComputing season much later than hoped for this year... Here are the last few meters of the path to today's marvelous office-away-from-home! 😍
(Back in London, for almost 13 years I worked 70-80% of the year on a similar bench or shelter in the woods of North London... my most productive time!)

Please share a thought for the boy band composers who've been out of work for years now. Barren years, while the songs piled up. #totp

"The American elites of the past 20 years have called their foremost principle freedom, but what they meant was impunity. That’s what the original slave masters built: a world where they could do whatever they wanted to whomever they wanted, without consequences. That’s what the techlords dream of today."

from my link log —
A Rust API inspired by Python, powered by Serde.
https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-05-serde-reflect/
saved 2025-05-15

A Rust API Inspired by Python, Powered by Serde
Years ago, I worked on reimplementing some Python code in Rust and needed to adapt Python’s dynamic reflection capabilities (aka __getattr__) to the strict and …

I do love the 'Nanas with all my heart, but god help us all they went to Stock Aitken & Waterman with Venus and said "do for this what you did for Dead Or Alive".
And SAW did what they were asked to, and thus the SAW Doom Years began. #TOTP

20 years in this loft and i just killed my first cockroach ... crawling out of a pile of used records … 🙀

I'm loving loving loving this book. I had the earlier version years ago and know my favourite recipes from it off by heart. But either there's a lot more in this edition or I never properly explored the old one. #RecipeBooks

regarding Copilot wiggling its way into GitHub workflows that have been functioning great for years: https://scoat.es/@sean/114184348567758156

[Intro]
Where are we going from here?
Where do we go?
Are we all blinded by fear?
Where do we go? How do we know?
Need for survival is clear
We persevere without an end
Into forever, we fall
And wander on and on and on
[Verse 1]
Dust of a thousand years thrown on your path
And in the aftermath, you'll stumble forward
Mouth full of air resuscitating life
And you'll ascend and carry on and on

https://theguardian.fivefilters.org
https://www.medialens.org/2019/dump-the-gua…

Dump the Guardian!
The Guardian has spent the last 2 years relentlessly attacking Jeremy Corbyn. Here are some highlights. Dump the Guardian!

The Senate parliamentarian rules that a Republican effort blocking US states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years will remain in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead open their summer ’85 tour on a rainy evening at alpine valley in wisconsin.
sometimes distorted soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd85-06-21

84 years old and only now retiring.
https://sopghreporter.com/2025/06/01/dr-demento-announces-retirement/

Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55-Year Radio Career
Radio personality Barret "Dr. Demento" Hansen announced his retirement this week, ending a 55-year career devoted to comedy and novelty music when his show

I missed this in the midst of everything else last week, but of course the Trump Administration has killed the questions on sexual orientation and gender identity in NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates, which were only put in place after YEARS of effort by advocates
https://www.

I've had a lot of respect and liking for Emily Thornbury for years, regardless of differing affiliations and policy preferences. But for answering a question about the PIP bill saying "it's a big document, its all financial detail rather than organisational, I haven't read it properly yet and when I comment it will be an informed comment" (approx words, not a transcript) she gets a gold star from me.
Politician in "Saying they don't have an informed opin…

Harvard Divinity School broke precedent
by refusing to publish a video of its commencement speech
after a speaker went off-script to call attention to the perilous conditions in Gaza.
“There are no safe zones left in Gaza after 600 days and 77 years of genocide,” said Zehra Imam,
who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School this spring and participated in the embattled Religion and Public Life program.
Imam, who is Muslim, was speaking with two other students f…

A Harvard Commencement Speaker Mentioned Gaza. The School Refused to Publish Her Speech.
Divinity School insiders said Harvard’s practices are at odds with the public perception that the university is fighting Trump.

Some years ago, to avoid missing files when copying course materials to a different drive (e.g., a USB stick), I started copying (instead of symlinking) all files into the corresponding directory.
Obviously, the downside is that lots of duplicate files accumulate, including large files, like videos. So I thought about ways to deduplicate them... Some hours later:
TIL that on APFS, files copied via the Finder are cloned. So many of the “duplicate” files actually don’t take up extr…

Some years ago, to avoid missing files when copying course materials to a different drive (e.g., a USB stick), I started copying (instead of symlinking) all files into the corresponding directory.
Obviously, the downside is that lots of duplicate files accumulate, including large files, like videos. So I thought about ways to deduplicate them... Some hours later:
TIL that on APFS, files copied via the Finder are cloned. So many of the “duplicate” files actually don’t take up extr…

Oh this crazy m.c.escher-shit! still surprising after over 60 years ...
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher

M. C. Escher – Wikipedia

For several years now, every new #Google release has made other search engines, like @… a bit more appealing. I really can't understand why people still keep their emails and stuff there.

How I Approach Performance Investigations
https://ricomariani.medium.com/how-i-approach-performance-investigations-69f4191c553f?source=rss-e6e91dab0708------2

Darren Waller reveals real reason why he decided to retire at just 31 years old

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/darren-waller-reveals-re…

The #geek in me loves stories like this. When we moved into the RV in 2011, I tossed out a still-wrapped set of #Win95 disks. Part of me wishes I still had my old Packard Bell, a 286SX25 machine.

Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers
As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.

"Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn"
#Climate #ClimateChange #ParisAgreement

@… Two or three years ago, an old friend was in town visiting. We had lunch and discussed, among other things, our biggest fears. She said fascism, followed by climate change. I said climate change, followed by fascism. I guess she won, at least in the short term. And we agreed that the two reinforce each other.

Perpetua Resources gets final federal permit for Stibnite #Gold project in Idaho | mining.com | #geology #antimony

Perpetua Resources gets final federal permit for Stibnite Gold project in Idaho 
The decision comes after eight years of rigorous inter-agency federal permitting, and was the last federal permit required to progress towards construction. 

@… Perhaps being an outsider to the faith makes it easier to analyze for what it is.
I agree that, if Christianity is largely right about an almighty deity, and they really did send someone to speak on their behalf 2000 years ago, the conclusion must inevitably be:
Most of the shit people have done “for god” throughout history, is directly …

How Docs-as-Code Helped #Pinterest Improve #Documentation Quality
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/06…

Yorkshire enters drought after driest spring in 132 years https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/12/yorkshire-enters-drought-after-driest-spring-in-132-years

Best of Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders through the years https://thelistwire.usatoday.com/story/sports/2025/06/19/dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-in-images/84276464007/

Over the past twenty-one years, I've posted 365 posts to my blog, on average one every twenty-one days. They total almost half a million words.
That's quite some corpus of work.
#Blog
#Blogging

365 posts
Checking my blog yesterday, I noticed that I had published 365 posts, one for every day of the year. Which, considering that the oldest post that remains is from the 24th June 2004, almost twenty one years ago, means that I've averaged one post every twenty-one days over that period. Mind you, I've not been consistent; there've been periods I've posted more, others I've posted less.

Timeline cleanse with #Stella the old #beagle dame. In dog-years she's about twice as old as I am.
#FediDogs #DogsOfMastodon

#BayArea #BBQ restaurant chain once had 6 busy locations, survived 40 yrs but after thriving in 90s, now down to single sit-down spot in #SanMateo

Armadillo Willy’s BBQ abruptly closes all but 1 restaurant location
Chain founded 42 years ago will maintain a Peninsula restaurant

For years the Adams Avenue Theater was a fabric store. Tonight, all they have in store...is pain.

https://crepererum.net/skin-doctor/

crepererum - Skin Cancer Screening in Hamburg
Places that offer free skin cancer screening for people under 35 years

from my link log —
Simulating time with square-root space.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17779
saved 2025-06-08 https://dotat.at/:/L…

Simulating Time With Square-Root Space
We show that for all functions $t(n) \geq n$, every multitape Turing machine running in time $t$ can be simulated in space only $O(\sqrt{t \log t})$. This is a substantial improvement over Hopcroft, Paul, and Valiant's simulation of time $t$ in $O(t/\log t)$ space from 50 years ago [FOCS 1975, JACM 1977]. Among other results, our simulation implies that bounded fan-in circuits of size $s$ can be evaluated on any input in only $\sqrt{s} \cdot poly(\log s)$ space, and that there are explicit prob…

Berni Sanders 21 years ago said:
#Bernisanders

Florida wildlife officials gave preliminary approval for the first black bear hunt since one 10 years ago that was halted early after more than 300 bears were killed in only two days.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted 4-1 at a meeting in Ocala in favor of a bear hunt in December and annually into the future,
allowing the use of up to six dogs to corner the bears.
Methods could include bowhunting, similar to rules for hunting deer, and bear hunting…

Florida gives preliminary approval to controversial black bear hunt amid strong opposition
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has given preliminary approval for a black bear hunt for December and into the future, which could eventually allow the use of up to six dogs to corner the bears and use of bowhunting. The commission voted 4-1 Wednesday on the proposal, which would be the first bear hunt since 2015 when more than 300 bears were killed in only two days. Hunt supporters say managing bear populations is key to preventing dangerous encounters with humans. Oppone…

The ASAS-SN Low Surface Brightness Survey I: Proof-of-Concept and Potential Applications
Evan Jennerjahn, Michael A. Tucker, Benjamin J. Shappee, Christopher S. Kochanek, Subo Dong, Annika H. G. Peter, Jose L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek, Todd A. Thompson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14873

The ASAS-SN Low Surface Brightness Survey I: Proof-of-Concept and Potential Applications
The ASAS-SN Low Surface Brightness Survey utilizes the $\sim7$ years of g-band CCD data from ASAS-SN (The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae) to create stacked images of the entire sky. It is significantly deeper than previous photographic surveys. Our median/95th percentile cumulative exposure time per field is 58.1/86.8 hours, and our median $3σ$ g-band surface brightness limit off the Galactic plane ($|b| > 20°$) is 26.1 mag arcsec$^{-2}$. We image large-scale diffuse struct…

Finally had to break down and clean the bed on my 3d printer. It was plenty sticky, but the stickiness wasn't as evenly distributed as it should have been. There was probably 3-5 years of glue on there. Now, it's nice and clean and I can work on building the glue back up for another 3-5 years. 😁
#3dprinting

"What comes next? Perhaps it shouldn’t be so hard to imagine, given the drift of what’s now called geoeconomics. Already, China commands global trade, and modeling from Bloomberg shows that, as constituted today, the tariffs will only add to the lead — pushing many more countries to work more with China and less with America. According to one model, 30 percent of American trading partners would fully recover from even total cessation of U.S. trade within one year; within five years, more than half would. "
#GiftArticle #China #USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/china-trade-economy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.hIwJ.AfGyLW35RqaM&smid=url-share

40 years old!
it stands up pretty well, especially branford marsalis' contributions on soprano sax, although maybe the song about reagan and gorbachev is a little dated heh
#nowplaying #vinyl #vinylrecords

Tim Minchin is doing a retrospective tour of 20 years of his songs. We managed to get to his sold out show in Plymouth England tonight, he’s on excellent form. Worth catching if you can…

@… I was slightly left of centre (in the UK) 20 years ago. I didn’t really change, everyone else did. Now I’m far left.

Characterizing asymmetric and bimodal long-term financial return distributions through quantum walks
Stijn De Backer, Luis E. C. Rocha, Jan Ryckebusch, Koen Schoors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13019

Characterizing asymmetric and bimodal long-term financial return distributions through quantum walks
The analysis of logarithmic return distributions defined over large time scales is crucial for understanding the long-term dynamics of asset price movements. For large time scales of the order of two trading years, the anticipated Gaussian behavior of the returns often does not emerge, and their distributions often exhibit a high level of asymmetry and bimodality. These features are inadequately captured by the majority of classical models to address financial time series and return distributio…

Just sent a truly epic email to the Freedom of Information office at the BC Ministry requesting that they release a bunch of information that they refused/redacted in my 2000 page Island Railway related information disclosure.
It was 1160 words with 11 attachments. 😂
Feeling my citizen-power rn
Though i don't envy the FOI analyst opening that up just before lunch on a Friday in June. 😇
(blog post about the FOI request: (#BCPoli #BCGov #IslandRail #FOIPPA #FOI

🎉 perfSONAR turns 20! 🎉
What started with a single line of code in 2001 has grown into a worldwide network performance monitoring infrastructure, spanning all 7 continents with:
✅ 20 years of continuous operation
✅ 6 leading R&E networks driving its development
✅ over 2,000 registered instances deployed across 1,000 organizations
Learn more about perfSONAR’s journey and impact over the past 20 years:

perfSONAR Celebrates 20 Years of Simplifying Global Research Collaboration Through Standardized Network Measurement and Testing | GÉANT CONNECT Online
April 2, 2025 — The global research and education (R&E) community is celebrating a major milestone in high-performance networking and collaboration: the 20th anniversary of perfSONAR. Since April 2005, this powerful, open-source toolkit has enabled researchers and network operators to measure and troubleshoot performance across diverse network environments. perfSONAR’s reach has extended to all seven

New Time Integrators and Capabilities in SUNDIALS Versions 6.2.0-7.4.0
Steven B. Roberts, Mustafa A\u{g}g\"ul, Daniel R. Reynolds, Cody J. Balos, David J. Gardner, Carol S. Woodward
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14976

New Time Integrators and Capabilities in SUNDIALS Versions 6.2.0-7.4.0
SUNDIALS is a well-established numerical library that provides robust and efficient time integrators and nonlinear solvers. This paper overviews several significant improvements and new features added over the last three years to support scientific simulations run on high-performance computing systems. Notably, three new classes of one-step methods have been implemented: low storage Runge-Kutta, symplectic partitioned Runge-Kutta, and operator splitting. In addition, we describe new time step a…

If one would have reported the (sad) Munich decision years ago to abort the attempt to use Linux and Open Source in local administration the same way that the Denmark thing now is reported by the fanboy press, the headlines would have been "Germany bans Linux".

Steelers All-Quarter Century Team: Several current and future Hall of Famers headline legendary roster

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

If I were Canada right now, I’d set up vaccination clinics at the United States border and charge U.S. visitors to get inoculated when they cross.
I imagine Vaccination Tourism is going to spike in the next few years.

A new paper projecting Joshua tree habitat under future climate based on incredibly high-resolution distribution data, from Joshua Tree Genome Project collaborators at USGS. They estimate up to 80% loss of suitable habitat by 2100 under the worst-case climate scenario.
#JoshuaTree #science

The idea that Trump or MAGA is in any sense “anti-war” is something between an absurdity and a misunderstanding.
At one level it’s a simple fraud.
Trump claimed he’d always been against the Iraq War at a time when the U.S. had been bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan for years.
It was a helpful attack line and it was completely false.
Trump wasn’t in politics in 2002 or 2003 and to the extent he said anything, like a lot of people, he was for it when it was popular an…

Trump Has Never Been Anti-War; He’s Not Even Anti-War inside the USA
The idea that Trump or MAGA is in any sense “anti-war” is...

The USSR lived for 69 years!
The more you know!
#USSR #FunFact #6ix9ine

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Femi Kuti:
🎵 After 24 Years
#FemiKuti
https://femikuti.bandcamp.com/track/after-24-years
https://open.spotify.com/track/58EaCQBHkuYnoOZLqWlwZi

Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950 https://phys.org/news/2025-06-planetary-linked-wild-summer-weather.html
Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950

Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950
Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep underestimating the surge in killer heat waves, droughts and floods, a new study says.

Sega is discontinuing support for 9 retro games that were ported to iOS and Android years ago -they've made them all free and removed in-app purchases. I just grabbed Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe Classics, Super Monkey Ball - check out the list here and grab them in the app stores asap before they disappear, there's Streets of Rage and Sonic too, etc:

Download these now free retro mobile games before Sega removes them
Sega is discontinuing nine more retro games on iOS and Android, but you can now download them for free until they’re gone.

Eagles' Lane Johnson explains why he's getting close to his 'peak' at 35 years old

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-

My wife is smarter than me and better than me at almost everything, except a couple things. One of them is regrets. I've been working on teaching her how not to regret anything, ever. Over a series of years. I think it's working fairly well. Sometimes. 😂

White House crypto and AI czar David Sacks says China has grown adept at evading US export controls and is at most two years behind US chip design capabilities (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Telescopes on the Andes glimpse elusive encounters fueled by the very first stars in the universe more than 13 billion years ago by detecting cosmic microwave light signals https://www.404media.co/humans-have-now-seen-the-dawn-of-time-from-ear…

Humans Have Now Seen the Dawn of Time from Earth After Breakthrough
Telescopes perched on the Andes Mountains glimpsed elusive encounters fueled by the first of the first stars in the universe more than 13 billion years ago.

Snap aims to ship lightweight, consumer AR glasses called Specs in 2026, lighter than its Spectacles 5 glasses for devs, but with many of the same capabilities (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/snap-plans-to-s…

Snap plans to sell lightweight, consumer AR glasses in 2026 | TechCrunch
Snap is back with a pair of lightweight, AR smart glasses. For the first time in years, the company wants to sell them to consumers.

Less than two years ago,
the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes
whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. …

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.

JD.com founder Richard Liu calls the past five years the company's "darkest period" and vows to speed up overseas expansion and challenge Meituan in new areas (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The head of Iran’s atomic energy organization said a third site is ready to operate
as the UN watchdog finds Iran is not complying with obligations for first time in 20 years
https://www.