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50 years ago #OTD at 16:09 UTC #Soyuz 19 and the final #Apollo spacecraft docked in orbit in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project or Экспериментальный полёт «Союз»–«Аполлон» (the Americans and Soviets never agreed on which s/c comes first): https://www.nasa.gov/apollo-soyuz-test-project/ = various NASA materials, https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/astp.htm = many links, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4209.pdf = a biiiig book, https://www.facebook.com/AstroDrewMorgan/posts/pfbid0wcN12LcAfRYYTmiWS71GQ47P42jukXVhd2QWA7eBzgg1wbdZAKq8LXVGTC9o7tKtl and https://www.facebook.com/ralf.heckel1/posts/pfbid02jcFp85PRy2UBUs4JVhPQcBnmddC8sQbPL3Vx26XoFMvbbsToNJmpLMDrRfce98HPl and https://www.facebook.com/groups/176051159106442/posts/24331420949809459 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/48800622850/posts/10162318303047851 = more visuals, https://www.youtube.com/live/Mu7iEyaOmDM = an online event, https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/not-that-into-peace-doves-the-apollo-soyuz-patch-nasa-rejected/ and https://www.spacerockethistory.com/2025/02/space-rocket-history-457-apollo-soyuz-test-project-soviet-concerns-with-apollo/ and http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071425a-apollo-soyuz-test-project-astp-official-flight-kit-ofk-apk.html and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/science/apollo-soyuz-test-project-1975-anniversary.html?smid=bs-share = articles and https://scicomm.xyz/@Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art/114858897568849751 = a contemporary cartoon.

VideoAmp names Peter Liguori as its CEO; he has been leading the company as executive chairman since 2023 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/media-vet-peter-liguori-appointed-ceo-of-videoamp-ad-tech-1236460453/

Media Vet Peter Liguori Appointed CEO Of VideoAmp After Leading The Ad Tech Firm As Executive Chairman
Media industry veteran Peter Liguori has been named CEO of ad tech firm VideoAmp after running the ad tech firm as executive chairman since 2023.

Easter – an improvised poem #improv #poem https://muz4now.com/2023/easter-an-improvised-poem…

Easter - an improvised poem
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@… Got an email this morning telling me I could log in and download my HESTA statement so I could complete my HCC renewal. Estimated completion 16-23 July. Current HCC expires 12 July. I'm hoping ruefully that the notes on my account (from 2023) after might speed it up a little especially as I have been known to contact the minister after it too…

Carlton Cemetery, Nottingham, September 2023
#photography #ukphotographer #nottingham #documentingplaces

Cada vez que veo noticias sobre las IAs como esta pienso que aquí nos enteramos de estas miserias, se comparten, se comentan... pero ¿y fuera? Por ejemplo, la gente en general es consciente de lo que supone para su privacidad que una IA grabe y "transcriba" una conversación confidencial con su médico?

Det er ikke bare fælt i de gamle epostene mine da. Norges styggeste kirke, i norges styggeste kirke. https://kimenkulturhus.no/program/39990-stjordal-kirke-temakveld/

I really should have bought a Framework, but they just didn't have anything compelling at the moment I was in the market (and arguably still don't, given that the 16 is still on c.2023 silicon)

Überwachung: Strafverfolger setzen erneut mehr Staatstrojaner ein
2023 erlaubten Gerichte 116 Mal das Hacken von IT-Geräten – 2022 gab es 109 Anordnungen. Ermittler fragten zudem deutlich mehr Nutzungsdaten bei Plattformen ab.

Inner disc and circumplanetary material in the PDS 70 system
Daniele Fasano, Myriam Benisty, Pietro Curone, Stefano Facchini, Francesco Zagaria, Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Kiyoaki Doi, Anibal Sierra, Sean Andrews, Jaehan Bae, Andrea Isella, Nicol\'as T. Kurtovic, Laura M. P\'erez, Paola Pinilla, Luna Rampinelli, Richard Teague
https://

Inner disc and circumplanetary material in the PDS 70 system
The two giant protoplanets directly imaged in the dust-depleted cavity of PDS 70 offer a unique opportunity to study ongoing planet formation. Both planets have been detected in infrared thermal emission and in H$α$, indicating active accretion. We calibrate and analyse archival ALMA Band 6 and 7 observations of PDS 70 from 2019, 2021, and 2023 to search for circumplanetary material and assess its motion. Using 2D visibility modelling of the high-resolution (~0.11"x0.08" in Band 6; ~0.05"x0.05…

Could Cowboys trade former 2nd-round pick before rookie deal done? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/15/cowboys-trade-luke-schoonmaker-consideration/84204653007/

According to the TidBITS article “A Roundup of Vertical Tab Support in Mac Web Browsers” <https://tidbits.com/2023/06/05/a-roundup-of-vertical-tab-support-in-mac-web-browsers/>, Safari supports vertical tabs since version 16.
I did not know it!
I don’t seem to be able to get the Safari vertical tabs to work though.
I can see the list of tabs in the Sidebar.
I also have the tabs displays horizontally at the top of the window (in both Separate or Compact mode).
I was expecting no tabs at the top when using vertical tabs. Is that not what you’d expect when thinking about vertical tabs?

CISA, the ACSC, and the FBI say the Play ransomware gang, active since June 2022, had breached roughly 900 organizations as of May 2025, up 3x on October 2023 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12282

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
We present an all-sky search for long-duration gravitational waves (GWs) from the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run (O4), called O4a and comprising data taken between 24 May 2023 and 16 January 2024. The GW signals targeted by this search are the so-called "long-duration" (> 1 s) transients expected from a variety of astrophysical processes, including non-axisymmetric deformations in magnetars or eccentric binary coalescences. We make minimal assumptions on the emitted GW …

#PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
https://jpcamara.com/2023/04/12/pgbouncer-is-useful.html

Discovery and dynamics of a Sedna-like object with a perihelion of 66 au: #TNO

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 534 nodes and 12812 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Les discours de déshumanisation des Palestiniens et d’éradication de Gaza se sont banalisés en Israël depuis le 7 octobre 2023.
Les propos génocidaires, proférés par les plus hautes autorités de l’Etat, ont fait tache d’huile au sein de la majorité et prospèrent désormais sur les plateaux de télévision et dans les think tanks.
#genocide

En Israël, les discours de déshumanisation des Palestiniens et d’éradication de Gaza se sont banalisés depuis le 7 octobre 2023
Les propos génocidaires, proférés par les plus hautes autorités de l’Etat, ont fait tache d’huile au sein de la majorité et prospèrent désormais sur les plateaux de télévision et dans les think tanks.

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.

The Outstanding Talk Series Emmy category will have only three nominations in 2025, down from five in 2023, due to getting just 13 submissions (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/late-night-talk-emmy-category-three-nominatio…

Late-Night Talk Emmy Category Reduced To Three Nominations
The likes of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers will be battling it out for one of only three Emmy nominations.

"Maailma näyttää nyt toisenlaiselta kuin vuonna 2023.” toteaa Orpo. Tämä ei kuitenkaan vaikuta hallituksen toimiin. Näin se käy ja seli seli. Tavoitteet on Orvolle annettu toteutettaviksi - tapahtui mitä tapahtui.
#velka #hallitus

VM kumosi pää­ministerin väitteen – Orpo: En tehnyt virhettä
Valtiovarainministeriö kiisti Orpon väitteen velkatavoitteen saavuttamisesta. Orpon mielestä ilmaisu ei ollut virheellinen vaan tulkinnanvarainen.

Tödlicher Titanic-Tauchgang: Vernichtender Untersuchungsbericht
Auf dem Weg zur Titanic implodierte im Sommer 2023 das Kohlefaser-Tauchboot Titan. Eine Untersuchung lässt kein gutes Haar an den Betreibern.
h…

30 years ago today Pulp's Common People was released.
RIP Steve Mackey 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Y7zFI4HOI

Apple says its design team will report to Tim Cook after Jeff Williams retires; Williams was overseeing the team following Evans Hankey's departure in 2023 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/08/apple-design-team-tim-cook/

Apple design team to start reporting directly to Tim Cook later this year - 9to5Mac
Apple today announced that COO Jeff Williams will retire later this year, with Sabih Khan set to assume the COO...

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.

Ich empfehle gerne noch mal Thomas Hettches „Sinkende Sterne“ von 2023. Neben aller anderen Grossartigkeit zeigt er sehr treffend, was im Wallis passiert, wenn es sich durch Naturgewalt teilt — erst Verkehrswege, dann Gesellschaft. Quasi an den immer noch vorhandenen „natürlichen“ Bruchstellen. In anderen Gegenden sicher ähnlich möglich, aber das ist schon sehr Wallis, meinem Empfinden nach
#ThomasHettche

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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…

Approaching Deadline: CFP: Conference: American Jewish Landscapes after October 7th
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Pirino on Suzuki, 'Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire: The Global Evolution of the Japanese…
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From Press Progress
Ottawa Police Deny Inviting Convoy Figure to Help Them With Anti-LGBTQ Protest at Elementary School
Police face calls for investigation after ‘convoy church’ pastor tells city councillors he was ‘invited’ to help manage aggressive protests
by Luke LeBrun, Editor
May 16, 2025

Ottawa Police Deny Inviting Convoy Figure to Help Them With Anti-LGBTQ+ Protest at Elementary School
Police face calls for investigation after ‘convoy church’ pastor tells city councillors he was ‘invited’ to help manage aggressive protests

Simultaneous Rational Function Codes: Improved Analysis Beyond Half the Minimum Distance with Multiplicities and Poles
Matteo Abbondati, Eleonora Guerrini, Romain Lebreton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05284

Simultaneous Rational Function Codes: Improved Analysis Beyond Half the Minimum Distance with Multiplicities and Poles
In this paper, we extend the work of Abbondati et al. (2024) on decoding simultaneous rational function codes by addressing two important scenarios: multiplicities and poles (zeros of denominators). First, we generalize previous results to rational codes with multiplicities by considering evaluations with multi-precision. Then, using the hybrid model from Guerrini et al. (2023), we extend our approach to vectors of rational functions that may present poles. Our contributions include: a rigorous…

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The origin of the coherent radio flash potentially associated with GRB 201006A
Rowlinson et al. 2023 recently claimed the detection of a coherent radio flash 76.6 minutes after a short gamma-ray burst. They proposed that the radio emission may be associated with a long-lived neutron star engine. We show through theoretical and observational arguments that the coherent radio emission, if real and indeed associated with GRB 201006A and at the estimated redshift, is unlikely to be due to the collapse of the neutron star, ruling out a blitzar-like mechanism. Instead, we show …

Spectral Tur\'{a}n problem of non-bipartite graphs: Forbidden books
Ruifang Liu, Lu Miao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04884 https://

Spectral Turán problem of non-bipartite graphs: Forbidden books
A book graph $B_{r+1}$ is a set of $r+1$ triangles with a common edge, where $r\geq0$ is an integer. Zhai and Lin [J. Graph Theory 102 (2023) 502-520] proved that for $n\geq\frac{13}{2}r$, if $G$ is a $B_{r+1}$-free graph of order $n$, then $ρ(G)\leqρ(T_{n,2})$, with equality if and only if $G\cong T_{n,2}$. Note that the extremal graph $T_{n,2}$ is bipartite. Motivated by the above elegant result, we investigate the spectral Turán problem of non-bipartite $B_{r+1}$-free graphs of order $n$.…

Ultraprocessed food makes you eat more...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/25/1178163270/ultra-processed-foods-health-risk-weight-gain

Nyheim Hines reportedly signs with Chargers after missing two seasons due to jet ski accident

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nyheim-…

Working on the #perl 5.42 update for #nixpkgs - unfortunately perl-cross hasn't been released for 5.42 yet which is a bit of a blocker. In general it feels like the declining interest in maintaining #CPAN packages are going to be a problem over time. For instance EV hasn't had a release since 2023 and needed a patch to work with 5.42

30 years ago today Pulp's Common People was released.
RIP Steve Mackey 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Y7zFI4HOI

Blackstone acquires Vista Equity Partners' minority stake in event software company Cvent, sources say for $1.3B; Blackstone acquired Cvent for $4.6B in 2023 (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Automating Thematic Review of Prevention of Future Deaths Reports: Replicating the ONS Child Suicide Study using Large Language Models
Sam Osian, Arpan Dutta, Sahil Bhandari, Iain E. Buchan, Dan W. Joyce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20786

Automating Thematic Review of Prevention of Future Deaths Reports: Replicating the ONS Child Suicide Study using Large Language Models
Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) reports, issued by coroners in England and Wales, flag systemic hazards that may lead to further loss of life. Analysis of these reports has previously been constrained by the manual effort required to identify and code relevant cases. In 2025, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published a national thematic review of child-suicide PFD reports ($\leq$ 18 years), identifying 37 cases from January 2015 to November 2023 - a process based entirely on manual c…

International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Myroslava Hladchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20944

International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study explores the effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the international collaboration of Ukrainian scholars. First and foremost, Ukrainian scholars deserve respect for continuing to publish despite life-threatening conditions, mental strain, shelling and blackouts. In 2022-2023, universities gained more from international collaboration than the NASU. The percentage of internationally co-authored articles remained unchanged for the NASU, while it increased for universitie…

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Pairwise Rearrangement is Fixed-Parameter Tractable in the Single Cut-and-Join Model
Genome rearrangement is a common model for molecular evolution. In this paper, we consider the Pairwise Rearrangement problem, which takes as input two genomes and asks for the number of minimum-length sequences of permissible operations transforming the first genome into the second. In the Single Cut-and-Join model (Bergeron, Medvedev, & Stoye, J. Comput. Biol. 2010), Pairwise Rearrangement is $\#\textsf{P}$-complete (Bailey, et. al., COCOON 2023), which implies that exact sampling is intracta…

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Our Home - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
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Davante Adams reliving his Las Vegas Raiders nightmare with Los Angeles Rams https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/davante-adams-reliving-las-vegas-raiders-nightmare-los-ang…

Approaching Deadline: CFP: Conference: American Jewish Landscapes after October 7th
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A profile of sports journalist Pablo Torre, who launched his podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out in 2023 under Meadowlark Media, focusing on "adversarial journalism" (Zak Keefer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6329507/2

Jordon Hudson, Kash Patel and MJ’s fax machine: Pablo Torre’s ‘terminal content brain’ battles the algorithm
Torre had to leave ESPN to carve out a spot in the media landscape that fits him, mixing the silly — even the salacious — with the smart.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06448 has been replaced.
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Gaming the Metrics? Bibliometric Anomalies and the Integrity Crisis in Global University Rankings
Global university rankings have transformed how certain institutions define success, often elevating metrics over meaning. This study examines universities with rapid research growth suggestive of metric-driven behaviors. Among the 1,000 most publishing institutions, 98 showed extreme output increases between 2018-2019 and 2023-2024. Of these, eighteen were selected for exhibiting sharp declines in first and corresponding authorship. Compared to national, regional, and international norms, thes…

“An assessment of updated National Climate and Energy Plans (NECPs) shows the EU is on course to achieve a 54 per cent emissions reduction by 2030 - just one per cent shy of its legally binding 55 per cent target.”
Fun fact, if Canada joined the EU it would probably hurt it from an emissions reduction perspective because Oil and Gas.
“It attributed the progress towards the 2030 goal to action in the energy sector, with renewables covering 24 per cent of energy consumption in the EU in 2023. Most member states are now aligned with the target of reaching a share of 42.5 per cent by 2030, according to the Commission.”
Weird how they don’t mention LNG as being a reason why Europe has been able to meet its goals. Almost like renewables are essentially the only way to decarbonize the industry, just like the scientists say it is.
“States have a legal obligation to deliver climate action, and the Commission has a clear responsibility to uphold and enforce EU law in response.”
Imagine Danielle Smith whining about unfair laws…
Wonder how much #bclmg Europe will be asking for…
#bcpoli #abpoli #climateAction #ClimateChange #climateEmergency #canpoli #cdnpoli
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/05/28/eu-on-track-to-meet-2030-emissions-goal-thanks-to-strong-progress-on-renewables?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Die #Klimakrise trifft #Spanien:
In #Spanien gab es im Juli 2025 über 1.000 #Hitzetote – ein …

Anstieg hitzebedingter Todesfälle in Spanien: 1.060 allein im Juli
Der Juli 2025 wurde zu einem der tödlichsten Monate für hitzebedingte Todesfälle in Spanien: 1.060 Todesfälle wurden den hohen Temperaturen zugeschrieben. Die Zahl entspricht einem Anstieg von 57 % gegenüber Juli 2024 und 54,5 % gegenüber demselben Monat im Jahr 2023.

Two elected #Democrat political officials in #NorthernCalifornia town booked and held on $1 million bail for #arson & #insurance sch…

Piano Sample Libraries You Love to Hear #musicianresources #musiciantips #samplelibraries #samplelibrary

Piano Sample Libraries You Love to Hear
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