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Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/01/revealed-europe-losing-600-football-pitches-of-nature-and-crop-land-a-day

4 updates to old posts this week:
1. Embeds Beau Vass’s id24 video:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/01/comparing-manual-and-free-automated-wcag-reviews.html#Update07
2. Embeds Lola Odelola’s id24 video:

Comparing Manual and Free Automated WCAG Reviews
Automated accessibility testing tools cannot test 100% of WCAG. This position is not controversial. Other than overlay vendors, no automated tool maker makes that claim. This is partly because WCAG is targeted at humans, not code, and so nuance and context apply. Free automated accessibility testing tools may have even…

Dramatized or not, the #TetrisMovie is so much better than I imagined.
▶️ Tetris - Official Trailer (2023) Taron Egerton, Toby Jones
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hcfbg994fu

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

Multi-wavelength Study of HESS J0632 057: New Insights into Pulsar-Disk Interaction
Jaegeun Park (Chungbuk National University), Hongjun An (Chungbuk National University), Chanho Kim (Chungbuk National University), Natalie Matchett (University of the Free State), Kaya Mori (Columbia University), Brian van Soelen (University of the Free State), VERITAS Collaboration, :, A. Archer, P. Bangale, J. T. Bartkoske, W. Benbow, J. H. Buckley, Y. Chen, A. J. Chromey, A. Duerr, M. Errando, M. Es…

Multi-wavelength Study of HESS J0632+057: New Insights into Pulsar-Disk Interaction
We present an analysis of new multi-wavelength observations of the TeV gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057, conducted using SALT, Swift, NuSTAR, and VERITAS in 2023--2024. By combining these new data with archival observations, we confirm previous suggestions of orbital variability in the source's X-ray spectrum, including increased X-ray absorption at the orbital phase interval of $ϕ\approx0.3\textrm{--}0.4$. The source's X-ray flux within this phase interval seems to have exhibited a significant…

For Those In Need Of Love Today #contemplation #love #music

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

TIL how to spell check in vim
#vim

Some cool stuff coming here: https://athletechnews.com/apple-watchos-26-public-beta-fitness-upgrades/?utm_source=Athletech Media Group LLC&utm_campaign=929c7ecf86-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_09_01_11_00_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-717047a094-604853391

Filing: Lachlan Murdoch's fiscal 2025 compensation jumped to $33M, including a $3M salary and $10.6M in stock awards, up from $23.8M in 2024 and $21.8M in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Pay Rises to $33 Million As He Assumes Control of Family Media Empire
Weeks after settling with his siblings over who will control Fox, the company revealed that the CEO's fiscal 2025 pay rose significantly from 2024.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.07.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

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…

$H^\infty$-control problem for a singular parabolic system with convection
Cristian Cazacu, Gabriela Marinoschi, Teodor Rugin\u{a}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20984 https://

$H^\infty$-control problem for a singular parabolic system with convection
We study the $H^\infty-$control problem for an infinite dimensional parabolic system, with a convection term, perturbed by a singular inverse-square potential with control distributed in the interior of a domain, extending part of the results by G. Marinoschi (ESAIM: COCV, 2023).

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…

Kernel Learning for Mean-Variance Trading Strategies
Owen Futter, Nicola Muca Cirone, Blanka Horvath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10701 https://

Kernel Learning for Mean-Variance Trading Strategies
In this article, we develop a kernel-based framework for constructing dynamic, pathdependent trading strategies under a mean-variance optimisation criterion. Building on the theoretical results of (Muca Cirone and Salvi, 2025), we parameterise trading strategies as functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), enabling a flexible and non-Markovian approach to optimal portfolio problems. We compare this with the signature-based framework of (Futter, Horvath, Wiese, 2023) and demonstrat…

Nonlinear corrections to the nuclear heavy flavor structure functions
F. Abdi, B. Rezaei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20934 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20934

Nonlinear corrections to the nuclear heavy flavor structure functions
We study numerically the small-$x$ behaviour of the nuclear gluon distribution function $ G^A(x,Q^2)$ at next-to-leading order (NLO) approximation of the Gribov-Levin-Ryskin-Mueller-Qiu, Zhu-Ruan-Shen (GLR-MQ-ZRS) nonlinear equation and quantify the impact of gluon recombination in the kinematic range of $x \le 10^{-2}$ and $Q^2 \ge 5 \text{GeV}^2$ respectively. The results are comparable to the Rausch-Guzey-Klasen (RGK) [J.Rausch, V.Guzey and M.Klasen, Phys. Rev. D 107, 054003 (2023)] nuclear …

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)…

Seeking Joy #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Seeking Joy #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

In Memory of Tom – mentor and friend #grief #improvpiano #piano #pianoimprov

In Memory of Tom - mentor and friend
Stan Stewart - @muz4now