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from my link log —
There is no software maintenance.
https://henrikwarne.com/2023/01/07/there-is-no-software-maintenance/
saved 2023-01-08

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
27 M tonnes. Dutch NIOZ scientists found that nanoplastics (<1 μm) are not only widespread, but equivalent to the mass of macro & microplastics! Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polystyrene (PS) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) #plastics don't just float on th…

Antenna: Americans buy ~30% of all new streaming subscriptions via third-party apps like Prime Video or Roku, rising 40% from 2023, a new kind of cable bundle (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/business/media/streaming-tv-s…

Come One, Come All! Buy Your TV Subscriptions Here!
A battle is heating up in the streaming world as millions of Americans sign up for multiple services through a single provider instead of separate apps.

… found only 8% of articles in 2023 shared ANY Open data, consistent with previous reports for psychiatry and psychology research.
In our bioscience sample that year, only 8% of articles shared no Open data. Many factors underlying this difference, of course.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2024-301333
👇 CMHN is our analysis of articles from researchers in the MRC-funded "Circadian and Mental Health Network". 3/3

When Family Comes First – Spending time with them all #connection #family https://muz4now.com/2023/when-f…

When Family Comes First - Spending time with them all
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Overall, 77% of Americans said they did not feel “completely financially secure,”
and 32% said they did not think they ever would.
Based on the latest census data, the median U.S. household income in 2023 was roughly $80,000,
but that is the midpoint on incomes, meaning half of U.S. households made even less.

This is how much Americans need to make in order to ‘feel comfortable,’ according to a survey
A new survey revealed how much money Americans need to make to feel "secure."

DC Circuit orders EPA to review 2023-2025 biofuel standard for environmental harms | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-orders-epa-to-review-2023-2025-biofuel-standard-for-environmental-harms/

Nach jahrelanger Kritik und ohne Nutzungsperspektive wird der umstrittene Tiefbrunnen von #CocaCola in #Gellersen bei #Lüneburg zurückgebaut.
Die Untere

Grundwasser bleibt – Brunnen geht: Landkreis Lüneburg ordnet Rückbau des Brunnens von Coca-Cola an
Die als Mineralwasser-Brunnen geplante Grundwasser-Entnahmestelle in der Samtgemeinde Gellersen wird zurückgebaut. Am morgigen Freitag (24. November 2023) lässt das Unternehmen Coca-Cola bzw. die Apollinaris Brands GmbH als Eigentümerin der Bohrung...

Reka AI, which aims to make more efficient LLMs, raised $110M from Nvidia, Snowflake, and others at a $1B valuation, up from ~$300M in 2023, per PitchBook (Brunella Tipismana Urbano/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Seahawks QB Sam Darnold fond of brief 49ers sting, lauds Kyle Shanahan, Brock Purdy

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawks-qb-sam-darnold-fond-…

Get Real – How Community Informs Reality #community #musicianresources #musiciantips

Get Real - How Community Informs Reality
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Le bouddhisme tibétain, ses grandes figures ont gardé le silence sur 3 canaux distincts :
- Le Dalai Lama de 1998 Š 2023
- Shechen Rabjam de 1997 Š 2023
- Matthieu Ricard de 2010 Š 2023
Découvrez pourquoi ces dates sont cruciales :
1/5

A couple years ago I made an accordion showing common message colors for applications:
https://codepen.io/aardrian/pen/qBLNYBe
Some details:

Common Application Message Colors
Reflects colors I have seen used in messaging systems. Uses my [progressively enhanced HTML accordion](https://adrianroselli.com/2023/08/progressively-...

Sometimes they come back: pulsations in A 0538-66 at 69 ms rediscovered with NICER
Lorenzo Ducci, Sandro Mereghetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16420 https:…

Sometimes they come back: pulsations in A 0538-66 at 69 ms rediscovered with NICER
We report on NICER X-ray observations of the Be X-ray binary A 0538-66 located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Fast pulsations (69 ms) in this source were discovered in 1980 during a bright outburst in which it reached a luminosity of ~8E38 erg/s, but were never reobserved since then. We clearly detected the pulsations at P=69.3055 +/- 0.0005 ms with a pulsed fraction of ~20% during a short time interval (~11 minutes) on 2023 January 9, when A 0538-66 had a luminosity of ~8E36 erg/s (0.3-10 keV)…

Sources: CapitalG and Nvidia are in talks to invest in Vast Data, which could value the AI infrastructure provider at ~$30B, up from $9.1B in 2023 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/alphabets-capitalg-nvidia-…

Best Guitar Pedals for Indie Rock Musicians #guitar #indiemusic https://muz4now.com/2023/best-guitar-p

Best Guitar Pedals for Indie Rock Musicians
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing #nutrition

By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing
Climate change is pushing up the prices of the food that we buy and therefore changing what we eat. One-third of UK food price increases in 2023 resulted from climate change, according to research by agricultural economists. This extra cost contributed to food price inflation and the UK's cost-of-living crisis.

2021: There is no #AI, I'm doing my own laundry.
2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry.
2025: There is AI. I'm still doing my own laundry.
2027?: I'm doing the AI's laundry.

from my link log —
Phil Rogaway on radical computer science.
https://csrc.nist.gov/Presentations/2023/radical-cs
saved 2025-01-14

More Joutnalists killed in #Gaza by #Israel
#AlJazeera said the attack “is a desperate attempt to silence voices in anticipation of the occupation of Gaza.”

Rashee Rice will be 'ready to go' for Chiefs training camp: What does his return mean for Kansas City?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rashe…

Settle–Carlisle line! ❤️ Did it in 2023, stopped at Ribblehed to go and admire the viaduct more closely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGbtl3i5WBI

Le bouddhisme tibétain, ses grandes figures ont gardé le silence sur 3 canaux distincts :
- Le Dalai Lama de 1998 Š 2023
- Shechen Rabjam de 1997 Š 2023
- Matthieu Ricard de 2010 Š 2023
Découvrez pourquoi ces dates sont cruciales :
1/5

Convergence of a finite-volume scheme for aggregation-diffusion equations with saturation
David G\'omez-Castro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11132 https:/…

Convergence of a finite-volume scheme for aggregation-diffusion equations with saturation
In [Bailo, Carrillo, Hu. SIAM J. Appl. Math. 2023] the authors introduce a finite-volume method for aggregation-diffusion equations with non-linear mobility. In this paper we prove convergence of this method using an Aubin--Simons compactness theorem due to Gallouët and Latché. We use suitable discrete $H^1$ and $W^{-1,1}$ discrete norms. We provide two convergence results. A first result shows convergence with general entropies ($U$) (including singular and degenerate) if the initial datum d…

Teil der deutschen Produktionsketten (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10082

For Those In Need Of Love Today #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2023/for-those-in-need-of-love-today-nowplaying/

For Those In Need Of Love Today #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Amazon's 2024 sustainability report says it emitted 68.25M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, up 6% from 2023 and the first rise in three years (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/a…

Amazon’s (AMZN) Carbon Emissions Climbed 6% in 2024 on Data Center Buildout
Amazon.com Inc.’s carbon emissions rose for the first time in three years in 2024, driven by data center construction and fuel consumption by its delivery providers.

Forty-five billion will build a lot of stuff.
As a point of comparison: In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing.
We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers as we spend on housing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197619…

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

from my link log —
The yaml document from hell.
https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell
saved 2025-04-11

Missed deadline… I’m okay with that #beauty https://muz4now.com/2023/missed-deadline-im-okay-with-that

Missed deadline… I’m okay with that
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Memo: HFPA members voted to oust President Helen Hoehne from her role and also ejected her from its board, as members aim to reverse HFPA's 2023 dissolution (Benjamin Lindsay/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/hfpa-ousts-president-helen-hoehne/

HFPA President Helen Hoehne Ousted as Members Aim to Reverse Dissolution
Hoehne, who oversaw the organization through boycotts over diversity and its Eldridge acquisition, was also ejected from its board.

A Comparison of Relativistic Coupled Cluster and Equation of Motion Coupled Cluster Quadratic Response Theory
Xiang Yuan, Lo\"ic Halbert, Lucas Visscher, Andr\'e Severo Pereira Gomes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22905

A Comparison of Relativistic Coupled Cluster and Equation of Motion Coupled Cluster Quadratic Response Theory
We present the implementation of relativistic coupled cluster quadratic response theory (QR-CC), following our development of relativistic equation of motion coupled cluster quadratic response theory (QR-EOMCC) [X. Yuan et al., J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2023, 19, 9248]. These codes, which can be used in combination with relativistic (2- and 4-component based) as well as non-relativistic Hamiltonians, are capable of treating both static and dynamic perturbations for electric and magnetic operators…

Several demonstrators were set on fire in an “act of terror”
Sunday afternoon on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder
during a gathering to raise awareness about people taken hostage during Hamas’ 2023 attack on Israel. 
A suspect has been arrested.
Officers responded to an area near 13th and Pearl streets at about 1:30 p.m.,
after receiving reports of people being set on fire.
Police said there are “reports of several victims.”
Redfearn said the victi…

Police investigating attack with “several victims” on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall
Officers were called to an area near the intersection of 13th and Pearl streets about 2 p.m. Sunday, Boulder police department said.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Skinny Pelembe:
🎵 Who By Fire (6 Music Session, 9 Oct 2023) (feat. Beth Orton)
#SkinnyPelembe
https://skinnypelembe.bandcamp.com/album/who-by-fire-feat-beth-orton
https://open.spotify.com/track/4UxlJ8VqtbpZo7rn90iQ11

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08161 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

The Monte Carlo Computational Summit -- October 25 & 26, 2023 -- Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
The Monte Carlo Computational Summit was held on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, USA on 25--26 October 2023. The goals of the summit were to discuss algorithmic and software alterations required for successfully porting respective code bases to exascale-class computing hardware, compare software engineering techniques used by various code teams, and consider the adoption of industry-standard benchmark problems to better facilitate code-to-code performance comp…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

BBC bias on Israel
From Jonathan Cook. (Substack link, sorry.)
"In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel's destruction of Gaza"
For example,
"... the distinguished Israeli historian Avi Shlaim lives in the UK and teaches at Oxford University. ... Shlaim is both knowledgeable about the history of Israeli colonisation of Palestine and truly independent. He is in a position to dispassionately provide the context BBC audiences need to make judgments about what is going on and who is responsible for it.
"And yet extraordinarily, Shlaim has never been invited on by the BBC. ... He is one of the prominent Israelis we are never allowed to hear from, because they are likely to make more credible and mainstream a narrative the BBC wishes to present as fringe, loopy and antisemitic."
Plus some media analysis stats such as:
"The BBC mentioned “occupation” – the essential context for understanding the relationship between Israel and Palestinians – only 14 times in news articles when providing context to the events of 7 October 2023. That amounted to 0.3% of articles. Additional context – decades of Israeli apartheid rule and Israel’s 17-year blockade of Gaza — were entirely missing from the coverage."
#Israel #Palestine #history #Gaza #media #BBC #JonathanCook

Seeking Joy #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Seeking Joy #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

DreamState - Lucid Dreaming - #DreamState #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2023/dreamstate-lu…

DreamState - Lucid Dreaming - #DreamState #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Identifying High-Risk Areas for Traffic Collisions in Montgomery, Maryland Using KDE and Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis
Stanislav Liashkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21930

Identifying High-Risk Areas for Traffic Collisions in Montgomery, Maryland Using KDE and Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis
Despite a global decline in motor vehicle crash fatalities due to improved research and road safety policies, road traffic injuries remain a significant public health concern. The World Health Organization 2023 report highlights that road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among individuals aged 5-29, with over half of fatalities involving pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists. This study addresses this critical issue by identifying high-risk areas in Montgomery County, Maryland…

The Piano In The Dining Room – streaming where you listen #improvpiano #improvisation #listen #music …

The Piano In The Dining Room - streaming where you listen
Stan Stewart - @muz4now