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The Atlantic settled a defamation lawsuit by Ruth Shalit Barrett for $1M , resolving a dispute over the magazine's 2020 retraction of her story on youth sports (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12…

Atlantic Settles Writer’s Suit Over Article It Retracted
The writer, Ruth Shalit Barrett, had accused the magazine of defaming her in a lengthy editor’s note.

A judge in Michigan dismissed the felony charges against a slate of electors who falsely signed on to documents claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election
in the latest blow to efforts to hold the president and his allies accountable for attempting to overturn the results of the White House race he lost to Joe Biden.
Sixteen people were initially charged with eight felonies each related to forgery and conspiracy by the Democratic attorney general, Dana Nessel, in 2023,
tho…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
The Cribs:
🎵 Mirror Kissers
#TheCribs
https://thecribs.bandcamp.com/track/mirror-kissers-live-at-the-cavern-club-2020
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xyRhS4N59yA0gDafTGLRb

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…

A portrait throughout perihelion of the NH$_2$-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
Sophie E. Deam, Michele T. Bannister, Cyrielle Opitom, Matthew M. Knight, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Darryl Z. Seligman, Alan Fitzsimmons, Aur\'elie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Emmanuel Jehin, Laurent Jorda, Michael Marsset, Youssef Moulane, Philippe Rousselot, Pierre Vernazza, Bin Yang

A portrait throughout perihelion of the NH$_2$-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
The interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is the first interstellar object where compositional characterisation was possible throughout its entire perihelion passage. We report all 16 epochs of a comprehensive optical observation campaign with ESO VLT's integral field spectrograph MUSE, spanning 126 days from 2019 November 14 to 2020 March 19. The spatial dust emission of 2I/Borisov was predominantly smooth, with no seasonal effect. A jet-like feature was consistently visible. The gas production morpho…

The z=1.03 Merging Cluster SPT-CL J0356-5337: New Strong Lensing Analysis with HST and MUSE
Grace Smith, Guillaume Mahler, Kate Napier, Keren Sharon, Matthew Bayliss, Bradford Benson, Lindsey Bleem, Benjamin Floyd, Vittorio Ghirardini, Michael D. Gladders, Gourav Khullar, Tim Schrabback
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07404

The z=1.03 Merging Cluster SPT-CL J0356-5337: New Strong Lensing Analysis with HST and MUSE
We present a strong lensing analysis and reconstruct the mass distribution of SPT-CL J0356-5337, a galaxy cluster at redshift z = 1.034. Our model supersedes previous models by making use of new multi-band HST data and MUSE spectroscopy. We identify two additional lensed galaxies to inform a more well-constrained model using 12 sets of multiple images in 5 separate lensed sources. The three previously-known sources were spectroscopically confirmed by Mahler et al. (2020) at redshifts of z = 2.3…

In 2020, there were some people who marveled at how China built hospitals quickly to handle the start of the pandemic.
Now, some people are marveling over how the US has quickly built a camp in the Everglades to concentrate people.
There are many issues with how China runs itself as a country, and denies human rights to people.
But so too, there are issues with how the US runs itself as a country, and denies human rights to people 😳
The heart breaks.

Fourier Spectral Method for Nonlocal Equations on Bounded Domains
Ilyas Mustapha, Bacim Alali, Nathan Albin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05034 https://

Fourier Spectral Method for Nonlocal Equations on Bounded Domains
This work introduces efficient and accurate spectral solvers for nonlocal equations on bounded domains. These spectral solvers exploit the fact that integration in the nonlocal formulation transforms into multiplication in Fourier space and that nonlocality is decoupled from the grid size. As a result, the computational cost is reduced to $O(N\log N)$ for an $N$-point discretization grid. Our approach extends the spectral solvers developed by Alali and Albin (2020) for periodic domains by incor…

"Lilt"
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/lilt-pianoimp

Lilt #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

{testthat} is great for automatic testing. Here are some tricks for the heavy user: #rstats

Climate stripes for the Netherlands. It's already almost 2°C warmer than in 1980 here, on average.
#ShowYourStripesDay

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…

Metadata Enrichment of Long Text Documents using Large Language Models
Manika Lamba, You Peng, Sophie Nikolov, Glen Layne-Worthey, J. Stephen Downie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20918

Metadata Enrichment of Long Text Documents using Large Language Models
In this project, we semantically enriched and enhanced the metadata of long text documents, theses and dissertations, retrieved from the HathiTrust Digital Library in English published from 1920 to 2020 through a combination of manual efforts and large language models. This dataset provides a valuable resource for advancing research in areas such as computational social science, digital humanities, and information science. Our paper shows that enriching metadata using LLMs is particularly benef…

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

I came across these guys during lockdown in 2020-21. It's been at the top of my list of #writing music ever since.
Totorro, Come To Mexico (Album, 2016)
https://totorro.bandcamp.com/album/com

Ionic emissions and activity evolution in comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE): Insights from long-slit spectroscopy and photometry
K. Aravind, E. Jehin, S. Hmmidouch, M. Vander Donckt, S. Ganesh, P. Rousselot, P. Hardy, D. Sahu, J. Manfroid, Z. Benkhaldoun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21707

Ionic emissions and activity evolution in comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE): Insights from long-slit spectroscopy and photometry
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp), providing a unique opportunity to study its composition and spatial distribution of emissions. We conducted narrow-band photometry and long-slit low-resolution spectroscopy to monitor the comet's activity and compositional evolution over several weeks post-perihelion. Narrow-band images (OH, NH, CN, C$_2$, C$_3$, BC, GC, RC) and broad-band images (B, V, Rc, Ic) were acquired with TRAPPIST-N…

How Spotify's Discovery Mode has become the new normal in music marketing, five years after its 2020 launch when it faced a backlash and "payola" accusations (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Nonlinear-linear duality for multipath quantum interference
Yi Zheng, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13855 https://arx…

Nonlinear-linear duality for multipath quantum interference
In quantum optics, the postselection amplitude of a nondegenerate parametric down-conversion (PDC) process is linked to a beamsplitter (BS) via partial time reversal, up to a normalization coefficient which is related to the parametric gain [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 117, 33107 (2020)]. A special example where the gain is low is reminiscent of Klyshko's advanced-wave picture in quantum imaging. Here, we propose and prove a generalized duality for multiple spatial paths connecting a quantum non…

Analytical transit light curves for power-law limb darkening: a comprehensive framework via fractional calculus and differential equations
Farrukh A. Chishtie, Mohammad I. Saeed, Shaukat N. Goderya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18860

Analytical transit light curves for power-law limb darkening: a comprehensive framework via fractional calculus and differential equations
We present the first complete analytical framework for computing exoplanetary transit light curves with arbitrary power-law limb darkening profiles $I(μ) \propto μ^α$, where $α$ can be any real number greater than $-1/2$, including the physically important non-integer cases. While the groundbreaking work of Agol et al. (2020) provided exact analytical solutions for polynomial limb darkening through recursion relations, stellar atmosphere models often favor power-law forms with fractional ex…

A new Lagrange multiplier approach for constructing structure preserving schemes, III. Bound preserving and energy dissipating
Qing Cheng, Tingfeng Wang, Xiaofei Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12402

A new Lagrange multiplier approach for constructing structure preserving schemes, III. Bound preserving and energy dissipating
In the third part of this series, we continue to explore the idea of the Lagrange multiplier introduced in the first part [2020, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engr., 391, 114585] and refined in the second part [2022, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 60, 970-998] to further develop efficient and accurate numerical schemes that preserve the maximum bound principle (MBP) and energy dissipation for solving gradient flows. The proposed framework allows us to begin with any conventional scheme as a predictor step…

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…

Volatile enrichment in low-mass planets: Signatures of past planetary disruption?
Mario Sucerquia, Mat\'ias Montesinos, Ana Mar\'ia Agudelo, Nicol\'as Cuello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11693

Volatile enrichment in low-mass planets: Signatures of past planetary disruption?
Context: Tidal disruption and engulfment events around main-sequence stars, such as the luminous red nova ZTF SLRN-2020 (a candidate planetary-engulfment event), reveal the destruction of close-in giant planets. While current observations focus on stellar accretion and inner dust emission, the fate of the volatile-rich material expelled during disruption remains poorly understood. Aims: We investigate whether the H/He-rich gas expelled from the disrupted planet's envelope and atmosphere can e…