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Get Inspired: 10 Great Articles and 4 Great Tools
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Related to my last boost, still annoyed this DID NOT make it into WCAG 2.2:
3.2.7 Hidden Controls (Level AA): Controls needed to progress or complete a process are visible at the time they are needed without requiring pointer hover or keyboard focus, or a mechanism is available to make them persistently visible.
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How Trump's delusion about the 2020 election morphed into a movement
Why so many Republicans are still playing along
And why the media has stopped pushing back
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-has-the-media-stopped-fighting

Why Has the Media Stopped Fighting Trump’s Lies?
Will Saletan takes on Donald Trump’s latest assault on reality, this time targeting the nation’s job numbers.

The last time an American President ordered the militia of one state to invade another over its governor’s objections, his name was Abe. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/post/3lxv6uvxpxc2e

Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
When President Trump used 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2) in 2020, that was to have out-of-state National Guard troops sent to D.C.—which has no sovereignty of its own. Sending the un-federalized TX National Guard into IL without the latter’s consent raises *serious* Article IV problems that 2020 … didn’t.

This week's #ThursDeath is a twofer. Death-doom two piece GRAVE EATER from Wales, UK put out two filthy demos in 2020, one in January and one in September. Not sure which I like more, but they're both chock full of raw, cavernous, growly, sludgy, often slow, plodding riffs and grooves. Even some actual power tools in the last track of the first demo here, 'Powertool Lobotomy'. Hope we se…

A Radio-quiet AGN as a candidate counterpart to neutrino event IceCube-200615A
F. McBride, N. Schettino, J. D. O'Brien, W. Harwood, L. Perot, G. Temple, H. Ayalo Solares, A. Corsi, A. Coleiro, D. Cowen, D. B. Fox, Y. Li, K. Murase, A. Pellegrino, T. D. Russell, S. Wissel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20064

A Radio-quiet AGN as a candidate counterpart to neutrino event IceCube-200615A
Follow-up observations of neutrino events have been a promising method for identifying sources of very-high-energy cosmic rays. Neutrinos are unambiguous tracers of hadronic interactions and cosmic rays. On June 15, 2020, IceCube detected a neutrino event with an 82.8% probability of being astrophysical in origin. To identify the astrophysical source of the neutrino, we used X-ray tiling observations to identify potential counterpart sources. We performed additional multiwavelength follow-up wi…

This is crazy.
At U.S. request, France jails Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin on suspicion of ransomware conspiracy
https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/10/at-u-s-request-france-jails-…

At U.S. request, France jails Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin on suspicion of ransomware conspiracy
A court in Paris has jailed Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin on suspicion of involvement in a hacker group’s extortion activities. The 26-year-old was arrested on June 21 at Charles de Gaulle airport at the request of the United States, which has charged him with conspiracy to commit computer fraud. According to American investigators, Kasatkin acted as an accomplice in a hacker group’s ransomware attacks on roughly 900 companies, including two federal institutions, between 2020 an…

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1977, Tim Severin landed on Peckford Island, Newfoundland. Severin had set sail from Ireland on May 17th with a five-man crew in a boat built using only techniques and materials available in sixth-century Ireland. The arduous 7,300km journey was meant to prove that St. Brendon had discovered North America almost 1,000 years before Columbus. I'm sure we were polite and didn't smirk when we welcomed him to Canada.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Myth
https://lookingnorth.blog/2020/07/the-brendan-voyage/

Invisible Labor, Visible Barriers: The Socioeconomic Realities of Women's Work in Pakistan
Sana Khalil, Angela Warner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16664 https://

Invisible Labor, Visible Barriers: The Socioeconomic Realities of Women's Work in Pakistan
We provide a short note on the barriers shaping womens economic opportunities in Pakistan, where female labor force participation remains among the lowest in the world. Recent labor force surveys (2020-21) show a sharp rural-urban divide: rural womens participation is 28 percent compared to 69 percent for rural men, while urban womens participation is 10 percent compared to 66 percent for urban men. Unemployment is higher for women in both rural (7 percent) and urban (16 percent) areas than for…

Honestly nothing about Eric Adams surprises me any more.
#FuckEricAdams

My fair city of Roanoke attained “Bee City USA” status in 2022, which aims to “promote healthy, sustainable habitats for bees and other pollinators, responsible for the reproduction of nearly 90% of the world’s flowering plant species and one in every three bites of food we eat.”
Last night, a couple of garden clubs teamed up with the city to screen a new PBS Nature documentary, “My Garden of a Thousand Bees”.

My Garden of a Thousand Bees
New PBS documentary following wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn as he films more than 60 species of bees in his urban garden in Bristol, England, during the COVID-19 2020 lockdown.

Sources: Vikings give Metellus 3-year extension https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45830416/minnesota-vikings-sign-safety-josh-metellus-extension

Lullabies and Love Songs
- my grandsons love this album - after all, they inspired it -
#Lullaby #NowPlaying
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Lullabies and Love Songs #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Toeplitz operators and weighted composition operators on variable exponent Bergman spaces
Cezhong Tong, Zicong Yang, Zehua Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13675

Toeplitz operators and weighted composition operators on variable exponent Bergman spaces
In a recent paper [JFA, 278 (2020), 108401], Choe et al. obtained characterizations for bounded and compact differences of two weighted composition operators acting on standard weighted Bergman spaces over the unit disk in terms of Carleson measures. Then they extended the results to the ball setting. In this paper, we further generalize those results to variable exponent Bergman spaces over the unit ball. Our proofs, when restricted to the case of constant variable, are new and simpler. Moreov…

gcor: A Python Implementation of Categorical Gini Correlation and Its Inference
Sameera Hewage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19230 https://

gcor: A Python Implementation of Categorical Gini Correlation and Its Inference
Categorical Gini Correlation (CGC), introduced by Dang et al. (2020), is a novel dependence measure designed to quantify the association between a numerical variable and a categorical variable. It has appealing properties compared to existing dependence measures, such as zero correlation mutually implying independence between the variables. It has also shown superior performance over existing methods when applied to feature screening for classification. This article presents a Python implementa…

Rovibrational computations for He$_2^ $ X$^ \ \Sigma_\mathrm{u}^ $ including non-adiabatic, relativistic and QED corrections
Edit M\'atyus, \'Ad\'am Marg\'ocsy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19120

Rovibrational computations for He$_2^+$ X$^+\ Σ_\mathrm{u}^+$ including non-adiabatic, relativistic and QED corrections
We report the potential energy curve, the diagonal Born-Oppenheimer, non-adiabatic mass, relativistic, and leading-order QED corrections for the ground electronic state of the helium dimer cation; the higher-order QED and finite-nuclear size effects are also estimated. The computations are carried out with an improved error control and over a much broader configuration range compared to earlier work [D. Ferenc, V. I. Korobov, and E. Mátyus, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213001 (2020)]. As a result, al…

Sprinkled Decoupling for Hammersley's Process
Leandro P. R. Pimentel, Roberto Viveros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19008 https://ar…

Sprinkled Decoupling for Hammersley's Process
In this article we prove a sprinkled decoupling inequality for the stationary Hammersley's interacting particle process. Inspired by the work of Baldasso and Texeira (2018), and Hilário, Kious and Texeira (2020), we apply this inequality to study two distinct problems on the top of this particle process. First, we analyze a detection problem, demonstrating that a fugitive can evade particles, provided that their jump range is sufficiently large. Second, we show that a random walk in a dynamic …

Determining the orientation of radio antennas at the South Pole using Galactic noise measurements
Paras Koundal (for the IceCube Collaboration), Valeria Torres-Gomez (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07224

Determining the orientation of radio antennas at the South Pole using Galactic noise measurements
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a multi-messenger observatory at the South Pole. As preparation for an enhancement of its surface array, IceTop, a prototype station consisting of elevated scintillation panels and radio antennas has been installed and is operating since 2020. The radio antennas detect emissions from cosmic-ray-induced air showers, and their precise orientation is essential for an accurate reconstruction of the air-shower properties. This work presents a novel method to deter…

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