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I asked this Monchhichi what they thought of the recent news, but they refused to comment.

Not actually a solution to Manchyester's dirty air.
Need to clamp down on unnecessary private motoring, wood burning and waste incineration, for starters.
Most vehicle particulate emissions now come from tyres, not exhaust pipes.
Cabbies fear 'hundreds' of taxis will be 'forced off' Manchester's roads at stroke of New Year's Eve midnight - Manchester Evening News

Cabbies fear 'hundreds' of taxis will be 'forced off' Manchester's roads at stroke of New Year's Eve midnight
"It physically cannot be done"

Investigating the HI distribution and kinematics of ESO444-G084 and [KKS2000]23: New insights from the MHONGOOSE survey
Brenda Namumba, Roger Ianjamasimanana, B\"arbel Koribalski, Albert Bosma, Evangelia Athanassoula, Claude Carignan, Gyula I. G. J\'ozsa, Peter Kamphuis, Roger P. Deane, Sinenhlanhla P. Sikhosana, Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro, Amidou Sorgho, Xola Ndaliso, Philippe Amram, Elias Brinks, Laurent Chemin, Francoise Combes, Erwin de Blok, Nathan Deg, Jayanne English, Ju…

Investigating the HI distribution and kinematics of ESO444-G084 and [KKS2000]23: New insights from the MHONGOOSE survey
We present the HI distribution, kinematics, mass modeling, and disk stability of the dwarf irregular galaxies ESO444-G084 and [KKS2000]23 using high-resolution, high-sensitivity MHONGOOSE survey data from MeerKAT. ESO444-G084 shows centrally concentrated HI emission, while [KKS2000]23 exhibits irregular high-density clumps. Total HI fluxes measured down to 10^19 and 10^18 cm^-2 are nearly identical, indicating that the increased HI diameter at lower column densities results mainly from the larg…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20078 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

Notes on Rindler wave packets in Minkowski spacetime
We consider wave packets of a massless scalar field that have well-localized Rindler energy, and examine how their energy appears to a Minkowski observer to see how the classical gravitational blue-shift formula is modified quantum mechanically. We derive, by using the saddle point approximation, an analytic expression for the Minkowski momentum distribution of such Rindler wave packets. We find a universal lower bound on the uncertainty of Minkowski momentum; the momentum distribution can neve…

A family of non Minkowski measurable fractals in $\mathbb{R}^2$
Uta Freiberg, Jonas Lippold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02640 https://…

A family of non Minkowski measurable fractals in $\mathbb{R}^2$
A long-standing conjecture of Lapidus asserts that, under certain conditions, a self-similar fractal set is not Minkowski measurable if and only if it is of lattice-type. For self-similar sets in $\mathbb{R}$, the Lapidus conjecture has been confirmed. However, in higher dimensions, it remains unclear whether all lattice-type self-similar sets are not Minkowski measurable. This work presents a family of lattice-type subsets in $\mathbb{R}^2$ that are not Minkowski measurable, hence providing fu…

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- Richard Strauss's Alpine Symphony from The Hallé in Manchester
Mark Elder conducts The Hallé in the world premiere of Huw Watkins's Concerto for Orchestra, alongside Richard Strauss's An Alpine Symphony.
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Eine Messe-Erwerbung: "Der Teufelsfisch" von Susumu Katsumata. Eine Sammlung kurzer Geschichten des bisher in Deutschland unveröffentlichten Mangaka, über Arbeiter in einem Atomkraftwerk, über japanische Fabelwesen und autobiografisch geprägte tragische Kurzgeschichten. Eine etwas wilde Mischung mit wenig Zusammenhang - ich weiß auch nicht, was ich eigentlich erwartet habe. Aber zumindest ein interessanter Blick in das Schaffen des Künstlers.
Das sehr ausführliche Nachwort ver…

BINGO! Simple Optimizers Win Big if Problems Collapse to a Few Buckets
Kishan Kumar Ganguly, Tim Menzies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04509 https://

BINGO! Simple Optimizers Win Big if Problems Collapse to a Few Buckets
Traditional multi-objective optimization in software engineering (SE) can be slow and complex. This paper introduces the BINGO effect: a novel phenomenon where SE data surprisingly collapses into a tiny fraction of possible solution "buckets" (e.g., only 100 used from 4,096 expected). We show the BINGO effect's prevalence across 39 optimization in SE problems. Exploiting this, we optimize 10,000 times faster than state-of-the-art methods, with comparable effectiveness. Our new algorithms (LIT…

On Automating Security Policies with Contemporary LLMs
Pablo Fern\'andez Saura, K. R. Jayaram, Vatche Isahagian, Jorge Bernal Bernab\'e, Antonio Skarmeta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04838

On Automating Security Policies with Contemporary LLMs
The complexity of modern computing environments and the growing sophistication of cyber threats necessitate a more robust, adaptive, and automated approach to security enforcement. In this paper, we present a framework leveraging large language models (LLMs) for automating attack mitigation policy compliance through an innovative combination of in-context learning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). We begin by describing how our system collects and manages both tool and API specification…

Northern Powerhouse / Northern Way and now Northern Arc.
Not the answer. Needed is a proper constitutional settlement with devolution to coherent English regions, on a model of re-localisation of decisions and economic weight, where practical.
We prefer bioregions as the regional level.
Third time lucky? Andy Burnham makes his pitch, but we've heard it all before - Manchester Evening News

Third time lucky? Andy Burnham makes his pitch, but we've heard it all before
This idea has come back three times for a reason