Tootfinder

The US Defense Department awards a one-year $200M contract to OpenAI to develop AI tools for addressing challenges in "warfighting and enterprise domains" (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/openai-wins-200-million-us-defe…

OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract
Months after announcing a partnership with defense-tech startup Anduril, OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense.

It does explain why Eric and Don Jr. have been conspicuously out of the public eye of late. “The sentencing came after the men were accused of stealing or trying to sell the $6 million fully-functioning gold toilet, an artwork titled ‘America,’ which was believed to have been chopped up so the gold could be sold.”

2 Men Are Sentenced in Theft of Golden Toilet
The men were sentenced to two to four years for their roles in the 2019 theft of an 18-carat artwork at Winston Churchill’s ancestral home.

In Leipzig-Lausen steht Deutschlands größte #Solarthermieanlage kurz vor der Fertigstellung.
Alle 13.200 #Vakuumröhrenkollektoren sind montiert. Die Anlage deckt künftig bis zu 20 Prozent des sommerlichen Wärmebedarfs und spart jährlich rund 7.160 Tonnen

Größte Solarthermieanlage Deutschlands in Lausen auf der Zielgeraden: Letzte der 13.200 Kollektoren montiert · Leipziger Zeitung
Die Leipziger Stadtwerke kommen der Fertigstellung ihrer Solarthermie-Großanlage im Stadtteil Lausen-Grünau immer näher. Der letzte von insgesamt 13.200

The “evidence-based” messaging of this bus-shelter ad in #ColeValley #SanFrancisco near #UCSF, one of the U.S.’s premier medical research institutions, shows how other countries are eager to scoop up students …

Happy Vyshyvanka Day!
No glasses, but a fine vyshyvanka from Kyiv!

Gibt es diese Graphik zufällig irgendwo nachnutzbar lizenziert online? Vielleicht weiß @… Genaueres?
#podcastliebe

Aly & Andrews All Aussie Accounting Adventures
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/aly-andrews-all-aussie-accounting-adventures/

Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,962 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: ca. 50 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 2 kW…

Urban Composition V 🫟
都市构图 V 🫟
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

I love how the “#ColeValley Town Square” pop-up turns Carl St. into a relaxed oasis. It’s a great proof-of-concept for permanently closing the street where the #NJudah emerges from the Sunset Tunnel (and extending the footprint of Gamble Memorial Park).

Wolf Biermann:
Ermutigung 2025
https://youtu.be/m-ZUb9J1Dk4

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

The Office of Management and Budget has drafted a memorandum that directs federal agencies to fully migrate to a post-quantum cryptographic standard,.
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/07/omb-draft-memo-sets-agenc…

OMB draft memo sets agency and vendor quantum security standards
The Office of Management and Budget is drafting a new memorandum to outline steps for the federal government’s migration to a post-quantum cryptographic standard.

My favourite #summerbeverage with #caffeine: A lungo directly from the Espresso machine into a mug full of ice cubes made with an ice cube machine. Result: Ice-cold #coffee with crema. 😋 No sugar or milk …

Malta – San Ġiljan – Triq Ġorġ Borg Olivier, Spinola Bay
https://kamafotos.nl/2000/12/21/malta-san-giljan-triq-gorg-borg-olivier-spinola-bay-2/
(december 2000)

Die ePetition 183371 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Einkommensteuer mit dem Titel
Reform des Einkommensteuergesetzes im Hinblick auf die steuerliche Gleichbehandlung für alle wirtschaftlich verbundenen Partnerschaften
kann bis zum Dienstag 26. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Hiermit ersuche i…

I have a bad habit of taking people at their word when they say they want constructive criticism.
Yeah, that usually doesn't work out well for me. 😂
It's taken 41 years but I think I'm finally starting to get it...this is something we say but don't really mean.
Wish I'd learned that one a long time ago. 😭

The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/

The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

Midwestern dads might find today’s #Connections refreshing.
#Connections735
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Perplexity Max: 200 US-Dollar im Monat
KI wird teurer: Perplexity bringt ein neues Abo heraus. Max kostet 200 US-Dollar im Monat und beinhaltet dafür alle künftigen Anwendungen.
https://www.he…

Jaime Alanís died a day after a frenzied immigration raid of Glass House Farms in Ventura county
where authorities arrested at least 200 workers.
The 57-year-old, who was from the town of Huajúmbaro in Michoacšn, Mexico, is the first known person to die during the Trump administration’s enhanced immigration enforcement operations in southern California.
The federal government’s ramped up enforcement activities have brought chaos across southern California as Ice agents des…

Im Bayern-Fanshop gibt’s alles – nur offenbar nicht genug Tassen für Lothar Matthäus, meint Uli Hoeneß. Wer 60 Millionen für Woltemade fordert, hat laut Hoeneß „Nicht alle Tassen im Schrank.“ Bayern-Transfermarkt oder doch Comedy-Club? #FAZ

Also remember good things are happening

#potd Diving in Neufeldersee for AOWD http://domm.plix.at/potd/2025-06-14.html

I spotted a pair of #Wordle among the grapevines on my vacation this week in Sonoma.
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1,5 Millionen Waffen sollen laut #ZIB1 in Österreich in Händen von Privaten sein - von illegalem Waffenbsitz ganz zu schweigen.
Also mindestens jeder 6. ÖsterreicherIn besitzt eine Waffe. Was ist los in Österreich - ist hier ein Mini-Texas?
#Waffenverbot

The perils of observing a Total #SolarEclipse from the stratosphere: how the Romanian 2012 flight over Australia - https://www.astrofoto.ro/wp/?p=880 - had ended; the tree had to be cut in the end ... for AUD 200. No plans to repeat that effort. 17/n

Photos from the May 14 2025 #PurdueFortWayne #Commencement 🐘 🎓
https://photos.app.goo.gl/92fbY7mr1M8K

I’d like to make a dad joke about today’s #Strands puzzle.
#Strands469
“Here's to him!”
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🌰 Offsetting fossil fuel reserves by planting trees is not a viable strategy, analysis finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-offsetting-fossil-fuel-reserves-trees.html

Offsetting fossil fuel reserves by planting trees is not a viable strategy, analysis finds
New forests larger than the land area of North America would need to be planted to offset the potential carbon dioxide emissions from the fossil fuel reserves currently held by the world's 200 largest fossil fuel companies.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Pulp (139) David Byrne (20) Baby cohete (19) Mother Mother (18) Turnstile (18). #myweekcounted 590 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Und ich Dummerchen dachte immer, das menschliche Sterberisiko liege bei 100% …
“Studie: Sport senkt Sterberisiko, auch wenn man spät damit anfängt” https://www.watson.ch/!894496899

Ukraine secures $200 million from World Bank for reconstruction projects: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/ukraine-secures-million-from-world.html

Scale AI says it is laying off 200 full-time employees, or ~14% of its global workforce, and will stop working with 500 contractors, after Meta invested $14.3B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/scale-ai-to-…

Why the judgey face, #Connections? I’ll spend my #FathersDay the way I like, thank you very much.

Ukraine bekommt weitere 1.200 Leichen gefallener Soldaten zurück
Die Ukraine hat weitere 1.200 Leichen ukrainischer Soldaten erhalten, die im Krieg gegen Russland getötet wurden. Das haben die für den Austausch von Kriegsgefangenen zuständigen Behörden in Kiew bekanntgegeben.
Der Koordinationsausschuss für den Gefangenenaustausch erklärte in einer Stellungnahme auf Telegram, dass die Rückgabe der Leichen Teil der Vereinbarun…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Kiew bestätigt Erhalt von weiteren Soldatenleichen ++
Die Ukraine hat den Erhalt von weiteren Leichen gefallener Soldaten bekanntgegeben. Nach dem Willen von Russlands Präsidenten Putin sollen Kampfdrohnen zu einer eigene Waffengattung in der Armee werden. Der Liveblog vom Freitag zum Nachlesen.

Wir dachten der Abend vor der Wohndose am Steinbacher See hätte sich gerächt, aber es sind wohl Mitbringsel vom #PinkBowl #ErimaGFL #AmericanFootball

Scientists identify 4,200 plastic chemicals of concern and highlight safer approaches https://phys.org/news/2025-07-scientists-plastic-chemicals-highlight-safer.html

Scientists identify 4,200 plastic chemicals of concern and highlight safer approaches
Countries are currently negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution and make plastics safer and more sustainable. Plastic chemicals are a core issue because all plastics, from food packaging to car tires, contain hundreds of chemicals that can leach into foodstuffs, homes, and the environment.

¿Corrupción? ¿Donde?
@… https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/114857399291118861

Spread the good news. “Bike lanes save lives 🚲”

Efficient Canonical Correlation Analysis with Sparsity
Zixuan Wu, Elena Tuzhilina, Claire Donnat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11160 https://

Efficient Canonical Correlation Analysis with Sparsity
In high-dimensional settings, Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) often fails, and existing sparse methods force an untenable choice between computational speed and statistical rigor. This work introduces a fast and provably consistent sparse CCA algorithm (ECCAR) that resolves this trade-off. We formulate CCA as a high-dimensional reduced-rank regression problem, which allows us to derive consistent estimators with high-probability error bounds without relying on computationally expensive tec…

AI companies and defence contracts are a match made in heaven 😇
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From: @…
https://social.lansky.name/@hn100/114854462031320582

“…leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.”
‭‭Matthew€ ‭5€:‭24€ ‭NRSV€€
https://bible.com/bible/2016/mat.5.24.NRSV

Matthew 5:24 leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.

Good article about ICE.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-deportation-trump-miller-big-beautiful-bill-200-billion-spending-increase/

Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.

Musk's xAI announces $200 million contract with Pentagon (Sareen Habeshian/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/14/xai-pentagon-grok-contract
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p108#a250714p108

#WhenTaken #466 (07.06.2025)
I scored 748/1000🎗️
1️⃣📍168 km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥇191/200
2️⃣📍1.2K km - 🗓️9 yrs - 🥈154/200
3️⃣📍4.2K km - 🗓️18 yrs - 🥉89/200
4️⃣📍2.7 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇197/200
5️⃣📍4.0K km - 🗓️9 yrs - 🥉117/200
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#potd Today I took my UW camera with me on a dive in Rabac and GüDi was so friendly to take a picture of me. http://domm.plix.at/potd/2025-07-16.html

"Neuer #Spionagefall an TU München? Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen chinesische Studentin" - Es wird Zeit, dass Wissenschafts- und #Forschunsspionage in Deutschland und der EU endlich ernst genommen wird!

Neuer Spionagefall an TU München? Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt gegen chinesische Studentin
Nach CORRECTIV-Informationen ermittelt die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft gegen eine TUM-Studentin chinesischer Herkunft. Der Verdacht: Wirtschaftsspionage.

I've lost The Game today 🙄

Der #Säuregehalt der #Ozeane hat laut neuer Analyse bereits die sichere planetare Grenze überschritten.
Besonders in 200 Meter Tiefe sind 60 Prozent des Wassers zu stark #versauert. Das…

Two-particle cumulant distribution: a probe of "true" elliptic flow
Satya Ranjan Nayak, Akash Das, B. K. Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11026 h…

Two-particle cumulant distribution: a probe of "true" elliptic flow
In this work, we have shown the two-particle correlations of charged hadrons in d-Au collisions at 200 GeV. These correlations were studied at different multiplicities and pseudorapidity intervals. The two-particle correlations arise due to Color Reconnections, resonance decays, jet correlations, and "jet-like" correlations of low-energy partons in softer interactions. These correlations are inversely proportional to multiplicity but remain unaffected (slowly increase) for larger pseudorapidity…

It is fascinating how the electrification of public transport buses is also creating new business and collaboration models: First Bus already opens its depots during the day (when the buses are in service) to pre-approved parties, such as fleets of buses and trucks, and is now also launching #EV charging hubs for everyone (9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), as “First Charge”, as in Glasgow (34 x 150 kW).

Replaced article(s) found for physics.plasm-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.plasm-ph/new
[1/1]:
Resolving discrepancies in bang-time predictions for indirect-drive ICF experiments on the NIF: I...

Was denn heute los? Reparatur Café vollkommen überlaufen. Mussten einige Leute schon wegschicken weil wir absehbar nicht zu kommen.

Holy crap, still just rocking the default antenna on this #meshtastic radio, but somehow picked up a signal in Greensburg while in White Oak #PA!

Vergeten ontdekking levert straks 200 ton waterstof per dag: industrie kijkt ineens wél op - TW.nl
https://share.google/ltkHnBeg2JgwKbIWT

Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML) Platforms.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog

Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms | Microsoft Azure Blog
Find out how Microsoft Azure Machine Learning can help you optimize business processes, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation.

Puh, fünf 400m-Intervalle mit einer 6:15er Pace. Hätte nicht erwartet, dass das geht. Ging aber... 🥳
#WeltenkreuzerLäuft

After Massive Cuts to Forest Service, US Enters Fire Season Woefully Unprepared
The results could be catastrophic, especially in states that have experienced unprecedented fires in recent years.
https://truthout.org/articles/after-ma

After Massive Cuts to Forest Service, US Enters Fire Season Woefully Unprepared
The results could be catastrophic, especially in states that have experienced unprecedented fires in recent years.

Es scheint, als würde Darth #Trump einen Testlauf für die militärische Druchsetzung seiner autoritären Regierung in #Kalifornien versuchen.
Er steht dort kurz davor gegen die eigene Bevölkerung die von ihnen gewählte Regierung Krieg zu führen.
Warum macht da die Nationalgarde mit? Von den Marines …

so when did sync stop working in #Microsoft #Edge?

A senior Trump administration official projects that Huawei's Ascend AI chip output will be at or below 200,000 for 2025, in a hearing with US lawmakers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06…

Today’s #Strands depicts many emblems of patriotism, and this puzzle has #NoKings.
#Strands468
“It's a banner day”
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Norway pledges $200 million for Ukraine's emergency energy support, green recovery: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/norway-pledges-million-for-ukraines.html

Ich weiß nicht, ob ich lachen oder weinen soll.
#Paukenschlag #Merz #Kanzlerwahl

I was reminded again why it takes more than a feeling to get #Connections right, even when the hurried, obvious answer is waiting there for you. I nearly bit the dust by falling for a barracuda of a red herring.
#Connections734
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Surfaces with Klein bottle topology occur in fusion reactor fields
Christopher Berg Smiet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11883 https://ar…

Surfaces with Klein bottle topology occur in fusion reactor fields
Magnetic confinement fusion devices, such as tokamaks and stellarators, are designed such that magnetic field lines lie in magnetic surfaces that form a foliation of nested genus-1 tori. The Poincaré-Hopf index theorem implies that only surfaces with genus 1 allow for vector fields that lie tangent to the surface and are are smooth and nowhere-vanishing. It is often implicitly assumed that magnetic surfaces are always toroidal. This paper we show that surfaces with the topology of an immersed …

It’s the hard-knock life in #Sonoma’s wine country.

Tesla is set to face a Florida federal jury to defend allegations that Autopilot was at fault in a fatal 2019 crash, as it tests autonomous robotaxis in Austin (Trisha Thadani/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/14/tesla-trial-…

As Elon Musk pushes Robotaxis, Tesla faces trial over fatal Autopilot crash
Tesla faces trial in Miami over a fatal 2019 crash involving a distracted driver using its Autopilot technology. A woman died and her boyfriend was gravely injured.

I keep drinkin’ malted milk crate #Caturday, try’n to drive my blues away.

"Adolf Hitler was a master of manufacturing public-security crises to advance his authoritarian agenda."
He has companions.
#Trump
#TrumpAdministration

Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator
Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria.

The Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO)
today announced contracts with
Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI
to help it use artificial intelligence for a multitude of military purposes
- each with a $200 million ceiling. 
https://www.

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon
: Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley

Today we're travelling from Istanbul to Konya on the YHT highspeed train, and then will continue onward to Göreme by bus.

Entwicklung des Rotordurchmessers von Windkraftanlagen an Land in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Der kleinste registrierte #Rotordurchmesser misst 0.2 m.
Der größte registrierte Rotordurchmesser misst 200.0 m.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hin…

Electron Heating in Hypersonic Flows: A New Thermodynamically Consistent Model
Felipe Martin Rodriguez Fuentes, Bernard Parent
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11457

Electron Heating in Hypersonic Flows: A New Thermodynamically Consistent Model
Accurate prediction of electron temperature ($T_{\rm e}$) in hypersonic non-equilibrium flows is critical, yet hampered by inadequate models for electron heating from vibrationally excited nitrogen. Prior models often relied on ad-hoc scaling or flawed applications of detailed balance that failed to ensure the convergence of electron and vibrational temperatures ($T_{\rm v}$) at thermal equilibrium. This paper introduces a novel, thermodynamically consistent electron heating model derived rigor…

Sources: Meta offered Ruoming Pang a $200M pay package over a several-year period in line with Meta's other major AI hires; Apple didn't try to match the offer (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Poached Apple’s Ruoming Pang With Pay Package Over $200 Million
Meta Platforms Inc. has made unusually high compensation offers to new members of its “superintelligence” team — including a more than $200 million package for a former Apple Inc. distinguished engineer.

fascinating episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson's #StarTalk on the gut-brain connection: #podcast #health

#3GuteDingeDesTages
#DreiGuteDingeDesTages
Kurzfassung
🙏 Keine Pläne heute
🙏 Chillen
🙏 Fernsehabend ante portas

Rund 200 #Küstenstädte weltweit haben ein neues Bündnis unter UN-Führung gegründet, um sich gemeinsam gegen die Folgen des #Meeresspiegelanstiegs zu wappnen.
Ziel ist der Austausch zu

200 Küstenorte schließen Bündnis zur Bewältigung klimabedingter Gefahren
Weltweit bedroht der steigende Meeresspiegel Menschen und Orte an den Küsten. Rund 200 Städte haben sich nun zu einem Bündnis zusammengeschlossen, um klimabedingte Gefahren gemeinsam besser bewältigen zu können.

In situ studies of a molten metal anode ablation in a nearly atmospheric pressure DC arc
Stanislav Musikhin, Valerian Nemchinsky, Hengfei Gu, Bruce E. Koel, Yevgeny Raitses
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11308

In situ studies of a molten metal anode ablation in a nearly atmospheric pressure DC arc
A DC arc with a meltable metal anode in a near-atmospheric pressure hydrocarbon gas is an emerging method for producing single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). In these systems, evaporation of the molten metal anode determines the formation of catalyst seed particles needed for SWCNT growth, and therefore, should be monitored, controlled, and optimized. Evaluating the anode ablation rate by weighing the anode before and after a synthesis run is unfeasible due to anode carburization in the hydr…

Perplexity launches a $200/month Max plan with unlimited Labs access, early access to features like Comet browser, and priority use of models like o3-pro (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/perplexity-launches-a-200-mo…

Perplexity launches a $200 monthly subscription plan | TechCrunch
Perplexity launched a $200 monthly subscription plan this week, becoming the latest AI provider to offer a hyper-premium tier.

I learned everything I know about #Strands from my grandpa in a rowboat on Cisco Lake in northern Wisconsin.
#Strands466
“Gone fishing”
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Scattering Theory in Noncanonical Phase Space: A Drift-Kinetic Collision Operator for Weakly Collisional Plasmas
Naoki Sato, Philip J. Morrison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11215

Scattering Theory in Noncanonical Phase Space: A Drift-Kinetic Collision Operator for Weakly Collisional Plasmas
After developing a scattering theory for grazing collisions in general noncanonical phase spaces, we introduce a guiding center collision operator in five-dimensional phase space designed for plasma regimes characterized by long wavelengths (relative to the Larmor radius), low frequencies (relative to the cyclotron frequency), and weak collisionality (where repeated Coulomb collisions induce cumulatively small changes in particle magnetic moment). The collision operator is fully determined by t…

“Did #Wordle ever have this kind of problem? Yes, of course you did, you saucy minx.”
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I’m on vacation with my family this week and purposefully not delving into the news or reading anything on social media besides my happy word games. But I sure hope I come home to a democratic society governed by the rule of law.

„Die Jugendlichen wollen bis zu 10.000 Euro netto im Monat verdienen“ darunter wollen sie weder Schulabschlüsse machen, Ausbildungsabschlüsse etc.
Wie werden diese #Jugendliche|n reagieren, wenn sie merken, dass sie von Mindestsicherung leben müssen. (Viele werden AfD wählen, sich radikalisieren, hoffen, wie vor 100 Jahren, mit Unterstützung Rechtsradikaler doch noch Karriere machen zu kön…

The #NYTGames app’s back-end seems to be having issues syncing state like login, game progress, etc., today.

[2025-06-16 Mon (UTC), 4 new articles found for physics.plasm-ph Plasma Physics]
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Achieving reversing rainbowing in today’s #Connections.
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Bundestagspräsidentin #Klöckner hat ihr Amt immer noch nicht verstanden (mich wundert es nicht). Sie agiert immer noch aus einem CDU Mindset heraus.
Nach Lammert, Schäuble und Bas ist Klöckner eine ganz, ganz herbe Enttäuschung. Wie kann man nur mit so wenig Format das 2. höchste Amt in Deutschland bekommen?
Frau Klöckner, lassen Sie sich von Ihren VorgängerInnen erklären, wie man sic…

Replaced article(s) found for physics.plasm-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.plasm-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Non-Maxwellianity of Ion Velocity Distributions in the Earth's Magnetosheath
Richard, Servidio, Svenningsson, Artemyev, Klein, Yordanova, Chasapis, Pezzi, K…

"Außenminister #Wadephul sagt #Israel weitere #Waffenlieferungen zu".
Wie unmoralisch ist das denn? Waffen, die das terroristische Regime Netanjahu gegen Frauen, Kinder, Kranke und Alte genau…

Krieg in Gaza: Hamas berichtet von weiteren Toten bei Verteilzentrum
Israels Armee soll mindestens drei Palästinenser getötet und Dutzende verletzt haben. Der US-Botschafter schlägt einen Palästinenserstaat in Frankreich vor. Das Liveblog

Subharmonic Shapiro steps in depinning dynamics of a 2D solid dusty plasma modulated by 1D nonlinear deformed periodic substrates
Zhaoye Wang, Nichen Yu, Ao xu, Chen Liang, C. Reichhardt, C. J. O. Reichhardt, Yan Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11389

Subharmonic Shapiro steps in depinning dynamics of a 2D solid dusty plasma modulated by 1D nonlinear deformed periodic substrates
Langevin dynamical simulations are performed to investigate the depinning dynamics of a two-dimensional solid dusty plasma, which is modulated by one-dimensional nonlinear deformed periodic substrates, and also driven by the combination of the DC and AC forces. As the DC driving force increases gradually, pronounced subharmonic and harmonic Shapiro steps are discovered under the combined modulation of the deformed substrate and the external AC drive. These observed subharmonic and harmonic Shap…

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Israels Kampf in Gaza: Wie Reservisten unter dem Krieg ächzen
In Israel könnten 70.000 Ultraorthodoxe zum Militärdienst eingezogen werden. Doch das passiert nur selten. Stattdessen werden immer wieder die gleichen Reservisten in den Kampf geschickt. Dagegen gibt es Protest.

Counter-Streaming Beams in Collisionless Pair Plasma Instability Systems I: Evolution and Parameterization of the Weibel Instability
Michael C. Sitarz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10888

Counter-Streaming Beams in Collisionless Pair Plasma Instability Systems I: Evolution and Parameterization of the Weibel Instability
Energetic astrophysical phenomena, such as $γ$-ray bursts and supernova explosion-driven shocks in collisionless plasmas, involve various plasma kinetic instabilities, such as the Weibel instability. In this paper, we explore the evolution of the Weibel instability using the spectral analysis and physical field evolution of particle-in-cell simulations. Effects of varying parameters of the initial counter-streaming beams are detailed in reference to the total evolutionary timeline of the insta…

Modeling the Role of Secondary Electron Emission in Direct Current Magnetron Sputtering using Explicit Energy-Conserving Particle-in-Cell Methods
Daniel Main, Thomas G. Jenkins, Joseph G. Theis, Gregory R. Werner, John R. Cary, Eve Lanham, Seth A. Veitzer, Scott E. Kruger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10727

Modeling the Role of Secondary Electron Emission in Direct Current Magnetron Sputtering using Explicit Energy-Conserving Particle-in-Cell Methods
We present results from a fully kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation of direct current magnetron sputtering (dcMS) in a 2D cylindrically symmetric geometry. The particle-in-cell model assumes an electrostatic approximation and includes the Monte Carlo collision (MCC) method to model collisions between electrons and the neutral gas. A newly-implemented explicit energy-conserving PIC algorithm (EC-PIC) is also exercised by the model and results are compared with the standard momentum conserv…

Scaling Relations, Morphological Stability, and Asymptotic Freedom of Plasma-Surface Deposition Dynamics
Joel Saucedo, Uday Lamba, Hasitha Mahabaduge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10645

Scaling Relations, Morphological Stability, and Asymptotic Freedom of Plasma-Surface Deposition Dynamics
Connecting plasma processing parameters to the resultant film microstructure remains a fundamental challenge in materials synthesis, one that has largely confined process design to empirical approaches. To bridge this gap, we develop a predictive analysis of coupling by applying a renormalization group (RG) analysis to an effective Hamiltonian for the stochastic dynamics of the plasma-surface interface, derived systematically from microscopic principles. The central result from this formalism i…

Non-Perturbative Solutions to the Vlasov-Boltzmann Equation for Weakly Ionized Plasmas
Joel Saucedo, Uday Lamba, Hasitha Mahabaduge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10565

Non-Perturbative Solutions to the Vlasov-Boltzmann Equation for Weakly Ionized Plasmas
The electron energy distribution function (EEDF) in low-temperature plasmas exhibits features not fully captured by classical collisional models, particularly across the transition from kinetic to hydrodynamic regimes. This work attributes these phenomena to a dynamically broken scale invariance within the Vlasov-Boltzmann equation. By applying renormalization group (RG) techniques directly to the kinetic operator, we derive non-perturbative EEDF solutions valid across a range of collisionality…

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