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Leech (2022) by Hiron Ennes is a post-post-apoc novel told from the POV of a hive-mind parasite that's eliminated any human who has medical knowledge, except for the humans it inhabits. This is rationalized as a survival tactic.
The story begins with a mystery: the parasite has no memory of the death of its host who was doctor to a tyrant in the bleak north, so it sends another of itself to investigate. It discovers the dead host has a different parasite. A dog eats that. Some peop…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,077,830 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

The orbital period and inclination of the neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807 132
E. A. Saavedra, T. Mu\~noz-Darias, M. A. P. Torres, I. V. Yanes-Rizo, M. Armas Padilla, A. \'Alvarez-Hern\'andez, J. Casares, D. Mata S\'anchez, S. K. Rout, S. Navarro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20178 …

The orbital period and inclination of the neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807+132
The neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807+132 has undergone outbursts in 2017, 2019, and 2023. We conducted an $R$-band time series photometry campaign using the Isaac Newton Telescope during the 2022 quiescent state. We detected a periodic variation in the light curve, consistent with ellipsoidal modulation, which allowed us to determine an orbital period of $P_{\rm orb} = 4.258 \pm 0.008$ hr. By modelling the light curve, we obtained a binary inclination of $ i = 72\pm5 \, °$ and a mass ra…

90 % der Bürger wünschen sich laut Bitkom mehr Tempo bei der Verwaltungsdigitalisierung. 2017 versprach das OZG: 575 Leistungen bis Ende 2022 online. Realität: erst 165 flächendeckend – selbst gefragteste Behördenleistungen gibt es oft nur in 10 % der Kommunen. Das Vertrauen schwindet schneller, als Aktenordner verstauben. #heise

Gefragteste Behördenleistungen nur in 10 Prozent der Kommunen digital verfügbar
Digitalisierung der Behörden bleibt eine Großbaustelle: Nach wie vor sind viele Leistungen nicht online verfügbar. Die Bürger wünschen laut Bitkom mehr Tempo.

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 31. Oktober 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Forest". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Straddling Two Platforms: From Twitter to Mastodon, an Analysis of the Evolution of an Unfinished Social Media Migration
Sim\'on Pe\~na-Fern\'andez, Ainara Larrondo-Ureta, Jordi Morales-i-Gras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17563

Straddling Two Platforms: From Twitter to Mastodon, an Analysis of the Evolution of an Unfinished Social Media Migration
Social media have been fundamental in the daily lives of millions of people, but they have raised concerns about content moderation policies, the management of personal data, and their commercial exploitation. The acquisition of Twitter (now X) by Elon Musk in 2022 generated concerns among Twitter users regarding changes in the platform's direction, prompting a migration campaign by some user groups to the federated network Mastodon. This study reviews the onboarding of users to this decentrali…

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Conduction · GitHub
https://github.com/ConductionNL/

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,105,490 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors revealed by optical conductivity measurement
Hwiwoo Park, Sung-Sik Lee, G. D. Gu, Jungseek Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19675 …

Quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors revealed by optical conductivity measurement
The ubiquitous temperature ($T$)-linear behaviour of the transport scattering rate in the normal state of strongly correlated electron systems is called strange metallicity \cite{zaanen:2004,phillips:2022,hartnoll:2022,chowdhury:2022,yuan:2022}. Although strange metallicity is crucial to understanding superconductivity in correlated electron systems, its origin remains elusive to date \cite{hussey:2023}. Here, we present the doping-, temperature-, and frequency ($ω$)-dependent transport proper…

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Heute vor 3 Jahren: Am 29. Oktober 2022 warnte Russland vor der Senkung der "nuklearen Schwelle" durch die #Stationierung modernisierter US-#Atomwaffen #B61 auf NATO-Stützpunkten in Europ…