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As Russia wages its full-scale war against Ukraine, one of its most important missile plants is quietly expanding -- bypassing international sanctions.
The Votkinsk Plant, also known as the Votkinskiy Plant,
— a strategic, state-owned facility serving Russia’s nuclear forces
— has hired thousands of new workers,
added new buildings,
and brought in advanced machinery to significantly increase its missile production.
Ukrainians have felt it firsthand.
Is…

Investigation: Russia expands strategic plant producing ICBMs — with China’s help
Key findings: * Despite international sanctions, Russia's strategic missile plant was able to import complex machinery to dramatically increase missile production. * The Kyiv Independent has identified the equipment supplied to the plant, as well as the supply chains, mostly from China. * We located the plant's new premises, built to house the new machinery. * We obtained a document confirming that the plant received an order to produce intercontinental missiles capable of reaching the U.S.

Faced with the growing risk that #LightPollution represents for the development of astronomy in Chile, international observatories with a presence in the country have formed a joint organization dedicated to protecting the dark skies of northern Chile: https://giantmagellan.org/2025/06/03/dark-skies-council-international-astronomical-observatories-join-forces-to-protect-chiles-skies/ - the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), the Giant Magellan Telescope, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), signed an agreement to create the Dark Skies Council; through this alliance, the institutions will work in a coordinated manner to protect Chile’s privileged skies.

#Sonnenstürme verkürzen die Lebensdauer von #Starlink-Satelliten und lassen sie schneller zur Erde zurückkehren.
Durch erhöhte #Atmosphärendichte steigt der Luftwiderstan…

Tracking Reentries of Starlink Satellites During the Rising Phase of Solar Cycle 25
The exponential increase of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites in the past 5 years has brought into intense focus the need for reliable monitoring and reentry prediction to safeguard from space collisions and ground debris impacts. However, LEO satellites fly within the upper atmosphere region that exerts significant drag forces to their orbits, reducing their lifetimes, and increasing collision risks during dynamic events, like geomagnetic storms. Such conditions can become more severe during ge…

"Forst - das Bier unserer Heimat" my ass 🤡 https://www.drinkshoponline.com/forst_kronen_lattina_limited_edition_adunata_alpini_2025_0_33l_-_conf_3_pz_sc8491.php

Forst Kronen lattina Limited Edition Adunata Alpini 2025 0,33l - Conf. 3 pz
La FORST Kronen è una birra dal retrogusto fruttato, molto dissetante. Delicatamente amarognola, dal fine perlage e dalla schiuma compatta, è semplicemente adatta in ogni occasione. Note particolari - Quando bere una Forst Premium: Frutto di una sapiente miscela dei migliori malti, leggera ma non troppo, ideale per il fuori pasto ma anche per una colazione veloce e non impegnativa, trasmette freschezza e gioia di vivere. La lattina in edizione limitata è dedicata alla 96^ Adunata Nazionale d…

How To Prepare Your Home For A Hurricane (AP News, 5 July 2025)
https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-preparation-home-emergency-kit-0a4c7ff92a99ebaa44d8976bf3953033
“Don’t be complacent, take preparedness seriously, spend the t…

Experts explain how to best prepare with a busy hurricane season in the forecast
Hurricane season can be stressful for millions of Americans living in coastal areas, as powerful winds and heavy rain can cause widespread damage, cut power for days or weeks and otherwise upend people’s lives. Forecasters are expecting another unusually busy season for the Atlantic, with predictions calling for six to 10 hurricanes, with up to half reaching major status. But emergency management officials say the stress can be reduced by preparing ahead of time. These preparations include ge…

Ukraine strikes key Russian plant producing Shahed UAV warheads: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/ukraine-strikes-key-russian-plant.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18570 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

VISTA: Vision-Language Inference for Training-Free Stock Time-Series Analysis
Stock price prediction remains a complex and high-stakes task in financial analysis, traditionally addressed using statistical models or, more recently, language models. In this work, we introduce VISTA (Vision-Language Inference for Stock Time-series Analysis), a novel, training-free framework that leverages Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for multi-modal stock forecasting. VISTA prompts a VLM with both textual representations of historical stock prices and their corresponding line charts to pre…

Ordinal Folding Index: A Computable Metric for Self-Referential Semantics
Faruk Alpay, Hamdi Al Alakkad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00151 https://arxiv.org/…

Ordinal Folding Index: A Computable Metric for Self-Referential Semantics
The Ordinal Folding Index (OFI) is a new, fully computable yard-stick that measures how many rounds of self-reference a statement, protocol or position must unfold before its truth or outcome stabilises. By turning this abstract 'fold-back' depth into a single ordinal number, OFI forges a direct link between areas that are usually studied in isolation: the closure stages of fixed-point logics, the time-to-win values of infinite parity games, and the ordinal progressions that calibrate the stren…

Ich glaube, "technisches Gebrechen" feiert gerade Einzug in mein tägliches Vokabular. 😃
> Aufgrund eines technischen Gebrechens kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden, dass sich in dem betroffenen Produkt Teile eines Metalldrahts befinden können.
#TechnischesGebrechen #lebensmittelwarnung

ja! körniger Frischkäse, leicht, 200 Gramm
ja! körniger Frischkäse, leicht, 200 Gramm

"Forst - das Bier unserer Heimat" my ass 🤡 https://www.drinkshoponline.com/forst_kronen_lattina_limited_edition_adunata_alpini_2025_0_33l_-_conf_3_pz_sc8491.php

Forst Kronen lattina Limited Edition Adunata Alpini 2025 0,33l - Conf. 3 pz
La FORST Kronen è una birra dal retrogusto fruttato, molto dissetante. Delicatamente amarognola, dal fine perlage e dalla schiuma compatta, è semplicemente adatta in ogni occasione. Note particolari - Quando bere una Forst Premium: Frutto di una sapiente miscela dei migliori malti, leggera ma non troppo, ideale per il fuori pasto ma anche per una colazione veloce e non impegnativa, trasmette freschezza e gioia di vivere. La lattina in edizione limitata è dedicata alla 96^ Adunata Nazionale d…