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RE: #redshift measured spectroscopically hailed in this press release as well as in https://esawebb.org/news/weic2603/ and https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_gazes_further_back_in_time has been published in May 2025 as https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263 (appearing on ArXiv counts as a publication in today's academic landscape) and made some headlines then, including by yours truly: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/resiliences-mond-punch-fur-alle-pslv-versagt/ ("Neuer spektroskopischer Rotverschiebungs-Rekord: z=14.44").

Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

With the usual caveat about intelligence-ascribing and agency-hiding language like “knows” and “gaslighting:” this from @… is notable.
Why? It’s not as if Google doesn’t gather your IP-based location when you use their search…but they make no secret of that. Of •course• OpenAI has the ability infer your location. But they say they don’t, and yet apparently do, and are covering it up. •That• is notable.
https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/115630527105953949

A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/secretive-startup-klay-jump…

Secretive Startup Klay Jumps Into the Fray Over AI Music
“So here’s a real surprise,” said Ary Attie, holding open a hidden door in the bowels of the Walker Hotel in the city’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. “There used to be a lot more cool, interesting places in New York—and there’s still a few left.” Attie, the 30-year-old founder of Klay, a new ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
deary:
🎵 The Moth
#deary
https://deary.bandcamp.com/track/the-moth-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/15Tn1i43a93afPFr1UMBXF

December 29, 2025 -- In an appearance on New York's WABC radio on Friday ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-29-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p6#a251230p6

A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/secretive-startup-klay-jump…

Secretive Startup Klay Jumps Into the Fray Over AI Music
“So here’s a real surprise,” said Ary Attie, holding open a hidden door in the bowels of the Walker Hotel in the city’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. “There used to be a lot more cool, interesting places in New York—and there’s still a few left.” Attie, the 30-year-old founder of Klay, a new ...

Damn. This is beautiful.
The story and the writing.
https://beige.party/@raineyday/115793532205514401

rainey 🌻 (@raineyday@beige.party)
Attached: 1 image It was a Tuesday in 1981 when the San Francisco police kicked in the door. Inside the small apartment, they expected to find a hardened criminal. They expected a drug kingpin. They expected resistance. Instead, they found a 57-year-old waitress in an apron. The air in the apartment smelled sweet, thick with chocolate and something earthier. On the kitchen counter, cooling on wire racks, were 54 dozen brownies. The police officers began bagging the evidence. They confiscat…

Toby Morton, former writer for South Park, purchased the domain, TrumpKennedyCenter.org.
From Toby:
"The homepage is now live. You can subscribe. You can donate. You can witness the beginning of something that apparently made people nervous enough to send emails."
#trump #kennedycenter

And here comes ... another light curve of interstellar comet #ATLAS through much of October, now based on the satellite coronagraphs LASCO C3 and CCOR-1, with observations up to and including October 26th! From the paper "Rapid Brightening of 3I/ATLAS Ahead of Perihelion" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25035 - out minutes ago: it finds that "CCOR-1 also resolves the comet as an extended source with an apparent coma ~4' in diameter. Furthermore, LASCO color photometry shows the comet to be distinctly bluer than the Sun, consistent with gas emission contributing a substantial fraction of the visible brightness near perihelion."