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Sources: Coinbase is in advanced talks to acquire CoinDCX, potentially valuing the Indian crypto exchange at less than $1B, below its 2022 $2.15B valuation (Pankaj Mishra/Livemint)
https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/co

Insight-HXMT Spectral and Timing Studies of a Giant Outburst in RX J0440.9 4431
Prahlad R. Epili, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18676 https://arxiv.o…

Insight-HXMT Spectral and Timing Studies of a Giant Outburst in RX J0440.9+4431
The Be/X-ray binary pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 underwent a giant outburst in late 2022 and lasted three months. The Insight-HXMT has observed this source at several instances of the entire outburst in 2022-2023. We used these bright outburst observations of the pulsar to study its X-ray spectral and timing variability. The pulse profiles obtained at similar luminosity during the progress and declining phases of the outburst show a similar shape behavior.With the increase in source luminosity, the c…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,048,330 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/26/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Texans' Nick Chubb relishing return to football after broken foot: 'It's been great getting back'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-

Musk ordered Starlink shutdown during Ukraine's 2022 Kherson counteroffensive, Reuters reports
https://kyivindependent.com/musk-ordered-starlink-shutdown-over-kherson-during-ukraines-2022-counteroffensive-reuters-reports/

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

How To Tune Your Piano #musicianresources

How To Tune Your Piano
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

I second Peter Sjökvist's suggestion and wonder if there is any library catalogue that has such granular identifiers.
From: Sjökvist, P. (2022). »Resource Description and Access (RDA)« – Transcription and the Dilemma of a Rare Materials Cataloger. Bibliothek Und Wissenschaft, 55, 279–285 (p. 284).

I used to self host, up until about 2022 or so, but it became too much of a pain and after an outage I just jumped to Google because I had used it at previous job.
I ended up switching to @… which I used almost 20 years ago (before GMail was around.) I know some people don't care for Fastmail but it works well for me.
I tend to avoid the web int…

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Meanwhile in Alaska...
Too much moose meat was factor in plane crash that killed Alaska lawmaker’s husband | Alaska | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/2023-plane-crash-killed-alaska-congresswomans-husband…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Sources: e-commerce startup OpenStore, co-founded by Keith Rabois, is raising a $15M Series C at a valuation of just $50M, down from $970M in September 2022 (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

E-Commerce Startup OpenStore Cuts Valuation By 95%, Taps New CEO
E-commerce startup OpenStore is slashing its valuation from nearly $1 billion to just $50 million in a new round of funding as it prepares to narrow its focus to building up menswear brand Jack Archer.

Zelensky's big blunder, explained: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/zelenskys-big-blunder-explained.html

KONF: Generische Sakralität. Religiöse Formate im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Bern (26.06. – 28.06.2025)
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Ukraine und Russland setzen Gefangenenaustausch fort
Die Ukraine und Russland haben ihren Anfang Juni in Istanbul vereinbarten Gefangenenaustausch fortgesetzt. "Heute kehrten Kämpfer der Armee, der Nationalgarde, der Grenztruppen zurück", schrieb der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj bei Telegram. Der Großteil sei seit 2022 in russischer Gefangenschaft gewesen. Eine Angabe zur Anzahl der Rückkehrer machte er nicht. Pa…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland bestellt deutschen Botschafter ein ++
Russland will den deutschen Botschafter wegen des Umgangs mit russischen Journalisten einbestellen. Bei einem russischen Angriff auf die Region Cherson wurden nach Behördenangaben ein Mensch getötet und weitere verletzt.

I waited too long lol

You can always tell a set's got authentically good chemistry by its blooper/gag reel. 🤣

▶️ PEACEMAKER Season 1 Bloopers & Gag Reel (2022)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KVsylnNwyD0&si=vU1wzKL9bUFF9yVm

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Evidence of Time-Dependent Diffusive Shock Acceleration in the 2022 September 5 Solar Energetic Particle Event
Xiaohang Chen, Lulu Zhao, Joe Giacalone, Nishtha Sachdeva, Igor Sokolov, Gabor Toth, Christina Cohen, David Lario, Fan Guo, Athanasios Kouloumvakos, Tamas Gombosi, Zhenguang Huang, Ward Manchester, Bart van der Holst, Weihao Liu, David McComas, Matthew Hill, George Ho

Evidence of Time-Dependent Diffusive Shock Acceleration in the 2022 September 5 Solar Energetic Particle Event
On 2022 September 5, a large solar energetic particle (SEP) event was detected by Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and Solar Orbiter (SolO), at heliocentric distances of 0.07 and 0.71 au, respectively. PSP observed an unusual velocity-dispersion signature: particles below $\sim$1 MeV exhibited a normal velocity dispersion, while higher-energy particles displayed an inverse velocity arrival feature, with the most energetic particles arriving later than those at lower energies. The maximum energy increas…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1051084 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Shygirl:
🎵 Woe (6 Music Session, 11 Oct 2022)
#Shygirl
https://felipemp3.bandcamp.com/track/sabrina-carpenter-shygirl-woe-woe-please-please-please-mp3
https://open.spotify.com/track/28xeM58xfbn0ahMEfjAsHP

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A deep X-ray/UV look into the reflaring stage of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658
Caterina Ballocco, Alessandro Papitto, Arianna Miraval Zanon, Giulia Illiano, Tiziana Di Salvo, Filippo Ambrosino, Luciano Burderi, Sergio Campana, Francesco Coti Zelati, Alessandro Di Marco, Christian Malacaria, Maura Pilia, Juri Poutanen, Tuomo Salmi, Andrea Sanna

A deep X-ray/UV look into the reflaring stage of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658
We present a detailed X-ray/UV high-time resolution monitoring of the final reflaring phase of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX~J1808.4$-$3658. During its 2022 outburst, we obtained simultaneous XMM-Newton and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations. We detected coherent X-ray pulsations down to a 0.5-10~keV luminosity of $L_{X(low)\,0.5-10} \simeq 6.21^{+0.20}_{-0.15} \times 10^{34} \, d^2_{3.5}\,\mathrm{erg \, s^{-1}}$, among the lowest ever observed in this source. The uninterrupted co…

Symbolic dynamics, shadowing and representation of real numbers with some countably piecewise linear Markov maps
Zolt\'an Kalocsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17159 https://

Symbolic dynamics, shadowing and representation of real numbers with some countably piecewise linear Markov maps
We study piecewise linear Markov maps, with countable Markov partitions, inspired by a problem of the Miklós Schweitzer competition of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society in 2022. We introduce $\ell$-Markov partitions and apply ideas of symbolic dynamics to our systems, relating them to Markov shifts. We prove the shadowing property for the system from the competition. We also investigate the possible orbits of rational numbers, for a class of piecewise linear Markov maps which generalize o…

Auch die Stadtbibliothek #Buckow (in der Märkischen Schweiz) scheint es nicht mehr zu geben. Sie wurde bis 2022 von einem Antiquariat nebenher betreut, bis auch hierfür der Zuschuss ausblieb (

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,044,250 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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KONF: Generische Sakralität. Religiöse Formate im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Bern (26.06. – 28.06.2025)
https://ift.tt/wXotS90
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from my link log —
Performance of memory reclamation for lockless synchronization.
http://csng.cs.toronto.edu/publication_files/0000/0159/jpdc07.pdf
saved 2022-12-26

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,041,990 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/20/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Observation of Astrophysical Sources with SST-1M Telescopes -- First Results
Jakub Jury\v{s}ek (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Thomas Tavernier (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Vladim\'ir Novotn\'y (for the SST-1M Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17451

Observation of Astrophysical Sources with SST-1M Telescopes -- First Results
The Single-Mirror Small Size Cherenkov Telescope (SST-1M) was developed by a consortium of institutes in Switzerland, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The SST-1M design is based on the Davies-Cotton concept, featuring a 4-meter mirror and an innovative SiPM-based camera. It is most sensitive to gamma rays in the TeV and multi-TeV energy bands. Since 2022, two SST-1M prototypes have been commissioned at the Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic, where their performance in both mono and stere…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Bonobo:
🎵 Shadows (6 Music Session, 23 May 2022)
#Bonobo
https://bonobomusic.bandcamp.com/track/shadows-feat-jordan-rakei
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aLYQgzGLy8duSSdTJa1ik

I have already featured "Jason Scott" @… on my profile now as part of the efforts of archive.org to make their own instance.
archive.org gets the fediverse!
https://

$2 million wild-card hopes to have opportunity to start with Cowboys in 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/05/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-67-ol-brock-hoffman/8…

„Are ”Friends” Electric?“ by Mikael
Platform: C64
Released: 4 May 2022
#GFX_Mikael #YR_2022 #PF_C64

High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta
Tony L. Farnham (University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy), Jessica M. Sunshine (University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, Department of Geology), Masatoshi Hirabayashi (Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology), Carolyn M. Ernst (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), R. Terik Daly (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), …

High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta
On 26 September 2022 the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, the moon of the near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, in a full-scale demonstration of a kinetic impactor concept. The companion LICIACube spacecraft documented the aftermath, capturing images of the expansion and evolution of the ejecta from 29 to 243 s after the impact. We present results from our analyses of these observations, including an improved reduction of the data and new absolute calibra…

Stereo performance of SST-1M at different altitudes
Patrik \v{C}echvala (for the SST-1M collaboration), Vladim\'ir Novotn\'y (for the SST-1M collaboration), Ji\v{r}\'i Bla\v{z}ek (for the SST-1M collaboration), Ana Laura M\"uller (for the SST-1M collaboration), Jakub Jury\v{s}ek (for the SST-1M collaboration), Thomas Tavernier (for the SST-1M collaboration)

Stereo performance of SST-1M at different altitudes
The SST-1M telescopes are a pair of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) that have been operating at the Ondřejov Observatory (510 m a.s.l.) in the Czech Republic since 2022. Optimized for detecting gamma rays in the energy range 1-300 TeV, they are capable of performing both mono and stereo observations. Despite challenging atmospheric conditions, SST-1M has successfully detected several galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray sources with energies reaching up to 200 TeV during its o…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Bonobo:
🎵 Shadows (6 Music Session, 23 May 2022)
#Bonobo
https://bonobomusic.bandcamp.com/track/shadows-feat-jordan-rakei
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aLYQgzGLy8duSSdTJa1ik

Observation of VER J2019 368 with the SST-1M stereoscopic system
Jakub Jury\v{s}ek (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Thomas Tavernier (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Ana Laura M\"uller (for the SST-1M Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16408

Observation of VER J2019+368 with the SST-1M stereoscopic system
The Single-Mirror Small Size Telescope (SST-1M) is a small Cherenkov telescope designed to detect gamma rays with energies more than about 1 TeV. The optical design of the SST-1M follows the Davies-Cotton concept to ensure good off-axis performance. In 2022, two SST-1M telescope prototypes were installed in Ondrejov, Czech Republic, and stereoscopic observations of astrophysical gamma-ray sources have been performed since then. VER J2019+368 is an unidentified very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray s…

Putin, Macron hold first call since 2022, discuss wars in Ukraine, Middle East: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/putin-macron-hold-first-call.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Glastonbury
Bicep:
🎵 Glue (Glastonbury 2022)
#Bicep
https://oaotechno.bandcamp.com/track/bicep-glue-oao-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZYAufbhkzyhLxk0u2uLqj

On the location of the compact infrared source in Cyg X-3
Igor I. Antokhin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10598 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

On the location of the compact infrared source in Cyg X-3
This note complements the article on X-ray and infrared variability of the X-ray binary Cyg X-3 (WR+c), published by me and my co-authors (ApJ, v.926, p. 123, 2022). In that paper, a compact IR source was discovered in the system, located in the vicinity of the X-ray source associated with the relativistic companion. In the current note I refine the possible location of the IR source based on simple qualitative considerations.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
The Cribs:
🎵 Men's Needs
#TheCribs
https://thecribs.bandcamp.com/album/men-s-needs-women-s-needs-whatever-2022-definitive-edition
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qel23hQWhHT3qGewBQ0pE

NuSTAR discovers a long type-I X-ray burst from the clocked burster GS 1826-24
Aditya S. Mondal, Mayukh Pahari, Gulab C. Dewangan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11231

NuSTAR discovers a long type-I X-ray burst from the clocked burster GS 1826-24
The source GS~1826-24 is a neutron star low mass X-ray binary known as the 'clocked burster' because of its extremely regular bursting behavior. We report on the detection of a long type-I X-ray burst from this source. We perform a detailed spectroscopic analysis of the long X-ray burst, lasting for $\sim 600$ s, seen in the NuSTAR observation carried out on 2022 September. The persistent emission is well described by an absorbed thermal Comptonization model (nthcomp), and the source exhibits a…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Glastonbury
Four Tet:
🎵 Looking At Your Pager (Glastonbury 2022)
#FourTet
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/looking-at-your-pager

Central Bank Communication with Public: Bank of England and Twitter (X)
Fatih Kansoy, Joel Mundy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02559 https://

Central Bank Communication with Public: Bank of England and Twitter (X)
Central banks increasingly use social media to communicate beyond financial markets, yet evidence on public engagement effectiveness remains limited. Despite 113 central banks joining Twitter between 2008 and 2018, we lack understanding of what drives audience interaction with their content. To examine engagement determinants, we analyzed 3.13 million tweets mentioning the Bank of England from 2007 to 2022, including 9,810 official posts. We investigate posting patterns, measure engagement elas…

IXPE Observations of the Blazar Mrk 501 in 2022: A Multiwavelength View
L. Lisalda, E. Gau, H. Krawczynski, F. Tavecchio, I. Liodakis, A. Gokus, N. Rodriguez Cavero, M. Nowak, M. Negro, R. Middei, M. Perri, S. Puccetti, S. G. Jorstad, I. Agudo, A. P. Marscher, B. Ag\'is-Gonz\'alez, A. V. Berdyugin, M. I. Bernardos, D. Blinov, G. Bonnoli, G. A. Borman, I. G. Bourbah, C. Casadio, V. Casanova, A. J. Castro-Tirado, E. Fern\'andez-Garc\'ia, M. Garc\'ia-Comas, T. S. Grish…

IXPE Observations of the Blazar Mrk 501 in 2022: A Multiwavelength View
The blazar Markarian 501 (Mrk 501) was observed on three occasions over a 4-month period between 2022 March and 2022 July with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). In this paper, we report for the first time on the third IXPE observation, performed between 2022 July 9 and 12, during which IXPE detected a linear polarization degree of $Π_X=6\pm2$ per cent at a polarization angle, measured east of north, of $Ψ_X=143^\circ\pm11^\circ$ within the 2-8 keV X-ray band. The X-ray polarizati…

Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
Hans Kjeldsen, Timothy R. Bedding, Yaguang Li, Frank Grundahl, Mads Fredslund Andersen, Duncan J. Wright, Jack Soutter, Robert Wittenmyer, Claudia Reyes, Dennis Stello, Courtney Crawford, Yixiao Zhou, Mathieu Clerte, Pere L. Palle, Sergio Simon-Diaz, Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Rasmus Handberg, Hasse Hansen, Paul Heeren, Jens Jessen-Hansen, Mikkel Lund, Mia S. Lundkvist, Karsten Brogaard, Re…

Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
We present radial velocities of the G8 subgiant star beta Aql obtained in 2022 and 2023 using SONG-Tenerife and SONG-Australia. We also analysed a sector of TESS photometry that overlapped with the 2022 SONG data. We processed the time series to assign weights and to remove bad data points. The power spectrum clearly shows solar-like oscillations centred at 430 muHz. The TESS data show the oscillations at lower signal-to-noise because photometric measurements are much more affected by the granu…

Update on the intermediate arrival-direction analyses of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Lorenzo Apollonio (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08544

Update on the intermediate arrival-direction analyses of the Pierre Auger Observatory
We present an update on the arrival-direction analyses conducted on intermediate angular scales using the complete Phase I data of the Pierre Auger Observatory up to the end of $2022$ with a total exposure of $135{,}000\,\text{km}^2\,\text{sr}\,\text{yr}$. We show the arrival-direction distribution of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays along the supergalactic plane above $20\,\text{EeV}$, and an update in the search for magnetically-induced signatures in the arrival directions. Furthermore, we p…

Localisation and host galaxy identification of new Fast Radio Bursts with MeerKA
In\'es Pastor-Marazuela, Alexa C. Gordon, Ben Stappers, Ilya S. Khrykin, Nicolas Tejos, Kaustubh Rajwade, Manisha Caleb, Mayuresh P. Surnis, Laura N. Driessen, Sunil Simha, Jun Tian, J. Xavier Prochaska, Ewan Barr, Wen-Fai Fong, Fabian Jankowski, Lordrick Kahinga, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Michael Kramer, Lluis Mas-Ribas

Localisation and host galaxy identification of new Fast Radio Bursts with MeerKA
Accurately localising fast radio bursts (FRBs) is essential for understanding their birth environments and for their use as cosmological probes. Recent advances in radio interferometry, particularly with MeerKAT, have enabled the localisation of individual bursts with arcsecond precision. In this work, we present the localisation of 15 apparently non-repeating FRBs detected with MeerKAT. Two of the FRBs, discovered in 2022, were localised in 8 second images from the projects which MeerTRAP was …

Modeling the Multiwavelength Emission of 3C 279 during the 14 years of Fermi-LAT Era
Krishna Mohana A, Alok C. Gupta, Junhui Fan, Narek Sahakyan, Claudia M. Raiteri, Lang Cui, Anne Lahteenmaki, Mark Gurwell, Merja Tornikoski, Massimo Villata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03913

Modeling the Multiwavelength Emission of 3C 279 during the 14 years of Fermi-LAT Era
We report the results of our long-term multiwavelength spectral energy distribution (SED) study on the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 during the $\sim14$ years (2008--2022) of {\sl Fermi}-LAT (Large Area Telescope) observing period. The {\sl Fermi}-LAT data were complemented with data in other wavebands obtained from {\sl Swift}-XRT/UVOT, Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT), along with other optical and radio data from several observatories. Different activity states were identified from the…

Multi-wavelength analysis of FSRQ B2 1348 30B: Constraints on the jet power
Sajad Ahanger, Sunder Sahayanathan, Sitha K. Jagan, Shah Zahir, Naseer Iqbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02821

Multi-wavelength analysis of FSRQ B2 1348+30B: Constraints on the jet power
We present 14.5-year multi-wavelength analysis of flat-spectrum radio quasar B2 1348+30B using Swift-UVOT, Swift-XRT, and Fermi-LAT observations. In the gamma-ray band, the 3 day bin lightcurve reveals two major flaring events on 2010-09-19 (55458 MJD) and 2022-05-26 (59725 MJD) detected at flux levels $(2.5\pm 0.5) \times 10^{-7}\,\rm{ph\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$ and $(5.2\pm 0.6) \times 10^{-7}\,\rm{ph\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$. The Bayesian block analysis of the flares suggested the variability timescale …