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Tesla sues ex-Optimus engineer Zhongjie Li, who worked at Tesla from 2022 to 2024, accusing him of stealing humanoid robot info and setting up a rival startup (Dana Hull/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Liminal and Lucid - dreamstate interplay
#DreamState #LucidDreaming
https://muz4now.co…

Liminal and Lucid - dreamstate interplay
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Results from the Pan-STARRS Search for Kilonovae: Contamination by Massive Stellar Outbursts
M. D. Fulton, S. J. Smartt, M. E. Huber, K. W. Smith, K. C. Chambers, M. Nicholl, S. Srivastav, D. R. Young, E. A. Magnier, C. -C. Lin, P. Minguez, T. de Boer, T. Lowe, R. Wainscoat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07082

Results from the Pan-STARRS Search for Kilonovae: Contamination by Massive Stellar Outbursts
We present results from the Pan-STARRS optical search for kilonovae without the aid of gravitational wave and gamma-ray burst triggers. The search was conducted from 26 October 2019 to 15 December 2022. During this time, we reported 29,740 transients observed by Pan-STARRS to the IAU Transient Name Server. Of these, 175 were Pan-STARRS credited discoveries that had a host galaxy within 200 Mpc and had discovery absolute magnitudes M > -16.5. A subset of 11 transients was plausibly identified as…

EU: Übergangs-Abkommen für ukrainische Agrarprodukte
Die EU und die Ukraine verhandeln ein neues Agrar-Abkommen. Eine bisherige Vereinbarung über Handelserleichterungen ist um Mitternacht ausgelaufen. Der Import ukrainischer landwirtschaftlicher Produkte soll dann auf einem Niveau zwischen dem vor Kriegsbeginn 2022 und dem bisherigen liegen. Das sagte EU-Agrarkommissar Christophe Hansen in Brüssel. Bis zu einem neuen Abkommen…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Kreml verärgert wegen Trumps Kleinkinder-Vergleich ++
Der Kreml hat verärgert auf einen Vergleich von US-Präsident Trump reagiert, der den Ukraine-Krieg mit einem Streit zwischen Kleinkindern verglichen hat. Nach russischen Angriffen in Kiew melden Behörden Tote und Verletzte. Der Liveblog vom Freitag zum Nachlesen.

What does making money have to do with crime?: A dive into the National Crime Victimization survey
Sydney Anuyah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04240 https://

What does making money have to do with crime?: A dive into the National Crime Victimization survey
In this short article, I leverage the National Crime Victimization Survey from 1992 to 2022 to examine how income, education, employment, and key demographic factors shape the type of crime victims experience (violent vs property). Using balanced classification splits and logistic regression models evaluated by F1-score, there is an isolation of the socioeconomic drivers of victimization "Group A" models and then an introduction of demographic factors such as age, gender, race, and marital stat…

A Spectral Energy Distribution Variability Study of the Eclipsing AGN NGC 6814
L. K. Pothier-Bogoslowski, L. C. Gallo, A. G. Gonzalez, M. Z. Buhariwalla, J. M. Miller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07212

A Spectral Energy Distribution Variability Study of the Eclipsing AGN NGC 6814
The local Seyfert 1.5 active galactic nucleus (AGN), NGC 6814, is known to exhibit complex variability, eclipses, and even changing-look behaviour. In this work, we utilize optical-to-X-ray data obtained over 10-years with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to examine the short-term (i.e. daily) and long-term (yearly) variations in the spectral energy distribution (SED). This includes three epochs of high-cadence monitoring (2012, 2016, and 2022), as well as two single observations (2019 and 20…

I hope Fosstodon continues.
See 2 recent posts on the matter
https://fosstodon.org/@kev/114415390874451358
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Thoughts on Fosstodon
I'm moving to hachyderm.io. Here's the background... When I left Twitter for Mastodon in late 2022, I chose fosstodon.org as my home. I appreciated the open source focus and it seemed like a well-run instance that would be around for a while. I also signed up as a monthly patron, to support the admin team and help keep the instance sustainable. In recent days, there has been a minor furor across the fediverse related to one of the moderators at…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15412 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

STE-QUEST -- Space Time Explorer and QUantum Equivalence principle Space Test: The 2022 medium-class mission concept
Space-borne quantum technologies, particularly those based on atom interferometry, are heralding a new era of strategic and robust space exploration. The unique conditions of space, characterized by low noise and low gravity environments, open up diverse possibilities for applications ranging from precise time and frequency transfer to Earth Observation and the search of new Physics. In this paper, we summarise the M-class mission proposal in response to the 2022 call in ESA's science program: …