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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

Eines dieser beiden Bilder löste eine bundesweite Pressewelle aus, welche der Erstellerin unterstellte einen Staat, oder eher das Volk was darin lebt, auslöschen zu wollen.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Attention nerds: For God's sake, can we PLEASE get Dungeons & Dragons 2 already?
▶️ Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | Official Trailer (2023 Movie)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IiMinixSXII&si=LlSaWnz1qAKrRmxc

Over the last couple of weeks I introduced you to our homeless stray cat Cinderella and her descendants Nele, Nepomuk and Nera. Today I'll show you the last one of our cats: say hello to Kasimir. He was also homeless, found by my brother 12 years ago. He moved together with us, when we relocated from Bavaria to the north-eastern corner of Germany in December 2023. Living alone with us for 10 years, it took a while until he became friend with the stray cats family.

I'm all for electrification of energy demand, e.g. for cars, home heating, and industrial processes.
But we shouldn't be betting the climate on it alone. The share of electricity in global final energy consumption reached 20% in 2023, up from 18% in 2015 (IEA, 2024):
https://www.iea.o…

#silentSunday
Cormorant. May 2023

from my link log —
Vectorized interpreters: mass rapid transit for programming languages.
http://venge.net/graydon/talks/VectorizedInterpretersTalk-2023-05-12.pdf
saved 2025-06-05

Astrix @ Boom Festival 2023 (Full Set Movie)
#NowPlaying

Ihmisen jalanjälki #luonto #ympäristö

Ihmisen jalanjälki
Miten ihmisen toiminta on vaikuttanut maapallon nykytilaan ja evoluutioon? Yhdysvaltalainen biologi Shane Campbell-Staton selvittää ihmisen jättämää jalanjälkeä maapallolla käyttäen esimerkkejä jokapäiväisestä elämästämme. (Human Footprint. Tuotanto: Days Edge Productions/PBS, Yhdysvallat 2023.)

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Central Tibetan Administration Suspends Attestation Robert Spatz’s Ogyen Kunzang Choling https://openbuddhism.org/blog/2023/central-tibetan-administration-suspends-attestation-robert-spatzs-ogyen-kunzang-choling…

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.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Rein numerische Zählung nach Inbetriebnahmejahr ohne Berücksichtigung des Betriebsstatus.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

UN-Atombehörde: AKW Saporischschja vom Netz getrennt
Das von Russland besetzte ukrainische Atomkraftwerk Saporischschja hat der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde (IAEA) zufolge die externe Stromversorgung verloren. Die Anlage werde nun über Notstrom-Dieselgeneratoren versorgt, teilte die IAEA mit.
Es sei das neunte Mal während des Krieges und das erste Mal seit Ende 2023, dass die Anlage vom Netz getrennt worden sei. Der uk…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ AKW Saporischschja wieder extern versorgt ++
Die externe Stromversorgung des von Russland besetzten Atomkraftwerks Saporischschja funktioniert laut der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde wieder. US-Präsident Trump will offenbar mit der Ukraine bei der Luftverteidigung zusammenarbeiten.

Interdependence Themes for Independence Day https://muz4now.com/2023/interdependence-themes-for-independence-day/

Interdependence Themes for Independence Day
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Are BLS monthly numbers still trustworthy?
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/06/04/ADP-May-jobs-lowest-since-2023/8661749044732/

ADP: Private payrolls grew by 37,000 in May; lowest rate since 2023 - UPI.com
Private payroll company ADP Wednesday reported May private sector jobs growth of just 37,000 - the lowest in over two years.

While it is bad #grok is bad again, it is very good how obvious the chains are.
#ai

Wakker geworden in een walgelijk land.
Waarin bijna 2/3 van de ‘volksvertegenwoordigers’ ronduit fascistische wetten ingevoerd hebben.
Zelfs als de eerste kamer deze smerige wetten terugdraait, zal de SGP hun evangelie moeten herschrijven: de barmhartige Samaritaan krijgt aan het eind van het verhaal onbarmhartig straf voor het helpen. Christofascisme in het volle zicht. En NSC is de partij gebleken die sinds november 2023 steeds na lang twijfelen gewoon Wilders zijn walgelijke age…

Counterpoint Research: Apple's iPhone sales in China grew 8% YoY in Q2 2025, the first time Apple has recorded growth in China since Q2 2023 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/apple-china-iphone-sales-grew-fo…

Apple's China iPhone sales grows for the first time in two years
Apple is facing intense competition in China from a resurgent Huawei.

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

Da Team Zastrow hier so sozial tut, möchte ich noch einmal daran erinnern, dass im Entwurf der Rechten die Stabilität der Kitagebühren mit massiven Kürzungen bei der DVB, der Jugend- & Kindersozialarbeit und weiteren Buchungstricks erkauft werden sollte.
P.S.: Wer bei denen kommentieren kann, darf dies gerne tun. Ich wurde leider blockiert.

Das ist noch die einzige "alte" #Zucchini aus 2023 von der vorherigen Sorte. Die haben keine so helle Streifen, wie die neue Sorte. Ist abr egal.
Glücklicherweise kann man die #Früchte wochenlang lagern, sodass ein

Pressure-Driven Metallicity in {\AA}ngstr\"om-Thickness 2D Bismuth and Layer-Selective Ohmic Contact to MoS2
Shuhua Wang, Shibo Fang, Qiang Li, Yunliang Yue, Zongmeng Yang, Xiaotian Sun, Jing Lu, Chit Siong Lau, L. K. Ang, Lain-Jong Li, Yee Sin Ang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05133

Pressure-Driven Metallicity in Ångström-Thickness 2D Bismuth and Layer-Selective Ohmic Contact to MoS2
Recent fabrication of two-dimensional (2D) metallic bismuth (Bi) via van der Waals (vdW) squeezing method opens a new avenue to ultrascaling metallic materials into the ångström-thickness regime [Nature 639, 354 (2025)]. However, freestanding 2D Bi is typically known to exhibit a semiconducting phase [Nature 617, 67 (2023), Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236801 (2023)], which contradicts with the experimentally observed metallicity in vdW-squeezed 2D Bi. Here we show that such discrepancy originates f…

Avara luonto: Pohjanmeri ja Itämeri #luonto

Avara luonto: Pohjanmeri ja Itämeri
Sarjassa perehdytään myrskyisän Pohjanmeren ja matalan Itämeren luontoon ja ilmaston lämpenemisen tuomiin uusiin haasteisiin. Miten mm. kalat, linnut, hylkeet ja kasvit pärjäävät muuttuvissa olosuhteissa? (Seas in Motion, Tuotanto: Doclights/NDR/ARD/Arte/Terra Mater, Saksa 2023.)

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-...

Spatiotemporal evolution of UV pulsations and their connection to 3D magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration
Stefan Purkhart, Hannah Collier, Laura A. Hayes, Astrid M. Veronig, Miho Janvier, S\"am Krucker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03825

Spatiotemporal evolution of UV pulsations and their connection to 3D magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration
Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are a common feature of impulsive solar flare emissions, yet their driving mechanism(s) remain unresolved. We study long-period (3.4 min) QPPs in the M3.7 flare on Feb 24, 2023, using SDO/AIA and Solar Orbiter/STIX to pinpoint their source and driver. We analyzed UV and HXR emissions from four subregions covering the flare ribbons and footpoints of the erupting filament. We find the QPP characteristics varied significantly across these regions. The strongest UV …

Diarycast - Year In Review (2023) - The rollercoaster thrills and spills of 2023 at EOU Towers... #podcast #yearInReview - https://www.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2023)
The rollercoaster thrills and spills of 2023 at EOU Towers... #podcast #yearInReview

The Anatomy of Evidence: An Investigation Into Explainable ICD Coding
Katharina Beckh, Elisa Studeny, Sujan Sai Gannamaneni, Dario Antweiler, Stefan R\"uping
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01802

The Anatomy of Evidence: An Investigation Into Explainable ICD Coding
Automatic medical coding has the potential to ease documentation and billing processes. For this task, transparency plays an important role for medical coders and regulatory bodies, which can be achieved using explainability methods. However, the evaluation of these approaches has been mostly limited to short text and binary settings due to a scarcity of annotated data. Recent efforts by Cheng et al. (2023) have introduced the MDACE dataset, which provides a valuable resource containing code ev…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Love and Rockets:
🎵 No New Tale to Tell (Remastered 2023)
#LoveandRockets
https://loveandrockets.bandcamp.com/track/no-new-tale-to-tell
https://open.spotify.com/track/2HkFBa2tIfhQTjacNPrNNN

...and what court has decided that it's a genocide? Isn't it a legal term that can only be used if the goal post we keep moving is reached?
Not to draw away attention from the Sudan genocide amidst a brutal civil war, I just think it's adequate to point out how easy it is to name the perpetrator, victim, and the action of genocide by its name when Israel isn't involved.

This week's #ThursDeath is a recent find I've been listening a lot to this week, Belgium's DISCARNATION have re-released their 2023 demo as 'Mournful Incantations of Mortality'. This is a fantastic piece of gloomy, death-doom that's super growly and cavernous, just how I like it-- much like this year's Cave, Ovenhead or Annihilation Cult. Definitely one to try out, for fans o…

Internationaler Strafgerichtshof erneut von ausgefeilter Cyberattacke betroffen
Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag meldet zum zweiten Mal einen "raffinierten und gezielten" Cyberangriff. Schon 2023 gab es einen solchen Vorfall.

Die Erde speichert derzeit mehr als doppelt so viel Wärme, wie #Klimamodelle es erwarten.
Die #Energieungleichgewicht liegt 2023 bei 1,8 W/m² und übersteigt die Prognosen deutlich. Forscher vermuten eine abnehmende

Greenhouse Gases Are Trapping Twice As Much Heat As They Should, Leading To A Record-Breaking Energy Imbalance
Only by phasing out fossil fuels immediately can this problem be fixed.

X-ray observations of Nova Sco 2023: Spectroscopic evidence of charge exchange
Sharon Mitrani, Ehud Behar, Marina Orio, Jack Worley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02465

X-ray observations of Nova Sco 2023: Spectroscopic evidence of charge exchange
The super-soft source (SSS) phase of a nova eruption, observed a few days after the outburst, usually displays an absorbed X-ray thermal continuum with absorption features, emitted by the white dwarf (WD) atmosphere. However, the X-ray spectra of many novae in this phase display additional emission lines which likely originate from shocks in the novae ejecta. When the shocked plasma interacts with cold gas, narrow radiative recombination continua (RRCs) and charge exchange (CX) emission are obs…

OMD at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, performing 'Anthropocene' June 21, 2025.
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zTghGUFb7Ajrn5ghO9ZQl?si=XNxEhurBRXaWIu3kJmY42Q&context=spotify:album:2yW1JUK…

Anthropocene
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark · Bauhaus Staircase (The Complete Edition) · Song · 2023

12) Who needs to take a bigger leap https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/12-who-needs-to-take-a-bigger-leap-guyton-or-mazi

After having operated without a nature permit for years, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport got one from the Minister in 2023. An NGO challenged it and now the court has decided to cancel it: "not carefully prepared and motivated". The airport is in illegal operation mode once more. https://

Rechtbank vernietigt natuurvergunning Schiphol, gevolgen onduidelijk
Volgens de rechtbank heeft Schiphol onvoldoende onderbouwd waarom de vergunning in stand moest blijven.

Ammonia in the hot core W51-IRS2: Maser line profiles, variability, and saturation
E. Alkhuja, C. Henkel, Y. T. Yan, B. Winkel, Y. Gong, G. Wu, T. L. Wilson, A. Wootten, A. Malawi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02214

Ammonia in the hot core W51-IRS2: Maser line profiles, variability, and saturation
W51-IRS2 is known to be one of the most prolific sources of interstellar ammonia (NH$_3$) maser lines. So far, however, many of these inversion lines have rarely been studied. Here we report spectrally resolved line profiles for the majority of detected features and provide information on the variability of these maser components between 2012 and 2023. This includes the first tentative detection of a ($J$,$K$) = (5,2) maser in the interstellar medium and the first tentative detection of a (6,4)…

When JD Vance arrived in the Senate in 2023, he backed a raft of proposals that were characterized as reflecting a new brand of economic populism for the Republican Party.
He championed higher taxes on some businesses, increased support for families and a willingness to interfere in free markets that bordered on the heretical in the modern GOP.

Two years later, the now-vice president’s distinctive policy ideas are hard to find in the tax legislation now advancing through Congres…

JD Vance’s prior vision for populism is largely absent from GOP tax bill
The GOP tax bill advancing through Congress does not include key proposals championed by JD Vance, including a $5,000 child tax credit and a tax on executives of large banks that fail.

Subtle Drama
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/subtle-drama-

Subtle Drama #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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 $n$.…

"Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds
Financing for the fossil fuel sector from the world’s largest banks surged in 2024 to $869 billion, according to a recent report by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and other environmental groups. That figure represents an increase of nearly 23% compared to 2023. The $162.5 billion increase channeled to companies doing business in fossil fuels […]

Aus irgendeinem Grund ist gerade die Sonos-Radio-Station "The Lighthouse", über die Brian Eno jede Menge unveröffentlichte Tracks abspielen läßt, gratis (man braucht halt ein Sonos-Gerät dazu), und ich höre mich da nun etwas durch.
DJ Food hat das ein paar Monate lang gemacht übrigens, und mitgeschrieben (Stand 2023):
ht…

Brian Eno – The Lighthouse, what’s on it?
I’ve been compiling this, off and on, all year, while listening to the 340+ unreleased tracks on Brian Eno‘s Sonos HD radio station, The Lighthouse. If I had the phone nearby I’d check what’s playing, make a note of the track number and year and write a short description. I was intrigued to see how often tracks repeated (not very often), how long it would take me to hear all of them (over 6 months) and what the ratio of good to average to bad was. It became quite addictive as I’d fill…

Can Mac Jones revitalize his career with 49ers? One coach believes he's 'capable of being a starter'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/can-m…

Sources: Meta offers to buy ~49% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's VC fund NFDG; about half of NFDG's first fund of ~$1.1B, raised in 2023, has been invested (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https:/…

The Python-based data-exfiltration utility used by the Cl0p ransomware group (commonly distributed as part of the toolset during the 2023 – 2024 MoveIt campaigns) constructs operating-system commands by directly concatenating attacker-supplied strings without input sanitization. An authenticated endpoint on the Cl0p operators’ staging/collection host passes file-or directory-names received from compromised machines straight into a shell-escape sequence. No official patch or cooperation from …

Hedging Deposit Run Risk Prior to the 2023 Regional Banking Crisis
Matt Brigida, Kathleen Maceyka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03344 https://

Hedging Deposit Run Risk Prior to the 2023 Regional Banking Crisis
In this analysis we determine factors driving the cross-sectional variation in uninsured deposits during the interest rate raising cycle of 2022 to 2023. The goal of our analysis is to determine whether banks proactively managed deposit run risk prior to the hiking cycle which produced the 2023 Regional Banking Crisis. We find evidence that interest rate forward, futures, and swap use affected the change in a bank uninsured deposits over the period. Interest rate option use, however, has no eff…

Can Artificial Intelligence Trade the Stock Market?
J\k{e}drzej Maskiewicz, Pawe{\l} Sakowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04658 https://

Can Artificial Intelligence Trade the Stock Market?
The paper explores the use of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in stock market trading, focusing on two algorithms: Double Deep Q-Network (DDQN) and Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and compares them with Buy and Hold benchmark. It evaluates these algorithms across three currency pairs, the S&P 500 index and Bitcoin, on the daily data in the period of 2019-2023. The results demonstrate DRL's effectiveness in trading and its ability to manage risk by strategically avoiding trades in unfavorab…

HouseTS: A Large-Scale, Multimodal Spatiotemporal U.S. Housing Dataset
Shengkun Wang, Yanshen Sun, Fanglan Chen, Linhan Wang, Naren Ramakrishnan, Chang-Tien Lu, Yinlin Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00765

HouseTS: A Large-Scale, Multimodal Spatiotemporal U.S. Housing Dataset
Accurate house-price forecasting is essential for investors, planners, and researchers. However, reproducible benchmarks with sufficient spatiotemporal depth and contextual richness for long horizon prediction remain scarce. To address this, we introduce HouseTS a large scale, multimodal dataset covering monthly house prices from March 2012 to December 2023 across 6,000 ZIP codes in 30 major U.S. metropolitan areas. The dataset includes over 890K records, enriched with points of Interest (POI),…

On quantum ergodicity for higher dimensional cat maps modulo prime powers
Subham Bhakta, Igor E. Shparlinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00325 https://

On quantum ergodicity for higher dimensional cat maps modulo prime powers
A discrete model of quantum ergodicity of linear maps generated by symplectic matrices $A \in \mathrm{Sp}(2d,\mathbb{Z})$ modulo an integer $N\ge 1$, has been studied for $d=1$ and almost all $N$ by P. Kurlberg and Z. Rudnick (2001). Their result has been strengthened by J. Bourgain (2005) and subsequently by A. Ostafe, I. E. Shparlinski, and J. F. Voloch (2023). For arbitrary $d$ this has been studied by P. Kurlberg, A. Ostafe, Z. Rudnick and I. E. Shparlinski (2024). The corresponding equidis…

According to my napkin estimations, and also assuming (unreasonably) that we will have cracked 100% fusion efficiency of E=mc² within the next few weeks, humans will have burned up the entire mantle of the Earth in approximately 2200 years.
This is using the 2023 figures for present use (15000 Mtoe, ie about 7 tonnes annually) and its 2.2% growth rate which, while suddenly up from the long standing 1.5%, is largely pre-LLMs.

A Tale of Two Shocks
Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber, Domenico Trotta, Rungployphan Kieokaew, Liu Yang, Alexander Kollhoff, Lars Berger, Patrick K\"uhl, Stephan I. B\"ottcher, Bernd Heber, Philippe Louarn, Andrey Fedorov, Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco, Ra\'ul G\'omez-Herrero, Francisco Espinosa Lara, Ignacio Cernuda, Yulia Kartavykh, Linghua Wang, George C. Ho, Robert C. Allen, Glenn M. Mason, Zheyi Ding, Andrea Larosa, G. Sindhuja, Sandra Eldrum, Sebastian Fleth, David Lar…

A Tale of Two Shocks
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, . . . - for the thermal/suprathermal particle populations in the vicinity of two traveling interplanetary shocks observed by Solar Orbiter on 2023-11-29 07:51:17 UTC and 2023-11-30 10:47:26 UTC at $\sim 0.83$ astronomical units from the Sun. We investigate these two very dissimilar shocks and elucidate their non-equilibrium features. We do not provide explanations of all observed features, our aim is to report them here for future reference…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1014651 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

The oceans are overheating—and scientists say a climate tipping point may be here #ocean

The oceans are overheating—and scientists say a climate tipping point may be here
In 2023, the world’s oceans experienced the most intense and widespread marine heatwaves ever recorded, with some events persisting for over 500 days and covering nearly the entire globe. These searing ocean temperatures are causing mass coral bleaching and threatening fisheries, while also signaling deeper, system-wide climate changes.

Die ePetition 160749 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Datenschutz mit dem Titel
Webbasierte schriftformersetzende kostenlose Signaturlösung für Privatnutzer
kann bis zum Dienstag 15. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird eine gesetzliche Regelung dahingehend gefordert, dass eine webbasierte Signaturlösung für Privatnutzer durch Anmeldung mit dem Online-Personalausweis bereitgestellt werden kann und damit signierte Dokumente für alle Behör…

From this year on, ESWC will be under the umbrella of SWSA, the Semantic Web Science Association, to secure financial sustainability for the upcoming years after its previous supporting organisation STI was dissolved in 2023. Basics about the transition are given by Elena Simperl, president of SWSA.
https://swsa.semanticweb.org/

Tracing the light: Identification for the optical counterpart candidates of binary black-holes during O3
Lei He, Zhengyan Liu, Rui Niu, Bingzhou Gao, Mingshen Zhou, Purun Zou, Runduo Liang, Wen Zhao, Ning Jiang, Zhen-Yi Cai, Zi-Gao Dai, Ye-Fei Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02475

Tracing the light: Identification for the optical counterpart candidates of binary black-holes during O3
The accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are widely considered the ideal environments for binary black hole (BBH) mergers and the only plausible sites for their electromagnetic (EM) counterparts. Graham et al.(2023) identified seven AGN flares that are potentially associated with gravitational-wave (GW) events detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration during the third observing run. In this article, utilizing an additional three years of Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) pub…

I even fixed my Pixel 6a back in December. Unfortunately, I broke the new screen a few weeks ago.
I'm glad I upgraded to my Pixel 9a when I did. I love GrapheneOS and have been using it since early May 2023 with my 6a.
#GrapheneOS #Android

Yes, it’s absurd.
LLMs don’t scale to reach “AGI”. That is mathematically proven[1], so it doesn’t matter how large your data center is.
But that’s not the main reason why this is absurd—as a society we shouldn’t spend these enormous resources and lasting environmental damage on this _even if it would work_.
[1] https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/debunking-agi-inevitability-claims/

Kolomoisky embezzlement case to be sent to court: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/kolomoisky-embezzlement-case-to-be.html

A $q$-analogue of Gosper's strange evaluation of the hypergeometric series
Yuka Yamaguchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01499 https://

A $q$-analogue of Gosper's strange evaluation of the hypergeometric series
In 1977, Gosper conjectured many strange evaluations of hypergeometric series. One of them is a ${}_{2}F_{1}$-series identity with two free parameters, which was proved by Ebisu (2013), Chu (2017), and Campbell (2023) in different ways. In this paper, we present a $q$-analogue of the ${}_{2}F_{1}$-series identity, along with its generalization, by using three-term relations for the ${}_{2}ϕ_{1}$ basic hypergeometric series.

12) Who needs to take a bigger leap https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/12-who-needs-to-take-a-bigger-leap-guyton-or-mazi

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

‘This is not a warning.
Famine has already arrived in Gaza. It is not a metaphor, nor is it a prediction. It is daily.
…
Noor, my eldest sister Tasneem’s daughter, is three; she was born on May 11, 2021. My sister’s son, Ezz Aldin, was born on December 25, 2023 – in the early months of the war.
One morning, Tasneem walked into our space carrying them in her arms. I looked at her and asked the question that wouldn’t leave my mind: “Tasneem, do Noor and Ezz Aldin unders…

‘Did you eat today?’: Voices of Gaza speak of starvation and survival
‘We are starved by the Israeli occupation,’ says Taqwa al-Wawi in Gaza, where all she thinks about is how hungry she is.

Whistleblower Lukasz Krupski hat seinen Gerichtsprozess gegen #Tesla gewonnen. Tesla muss Schadensersatz zahlen. Krupski hatte Sicherheitsmängel aufgedeckt.
https://www.blueprint…

Lukasz Krupski wins retaliation case against Tesla — Blueprint for Free Speech
2023 Blueprint Europe Whistleblowing Prize winner Krupski says the ruling is “a victory for transparency and justice” as investigations into Tesla’s safety record continue

"The Piano In The Dining Room"
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://m…

The Piano In The Dining Room - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

LADbible launches Betches, the US women's media brand it acquired in 2023, in the UK aiming to fill a "gap in the market" for Gen Z and millennial women (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publish…

Ladbible launches Betches in UK to talk ‘with, not to’ millennial and Gen Z women
US women's media brand Betches has launched in the UK aiming to fill a gap in the market for Gen Z and millennial audiences and clients.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Die restlichen Samen vom weißen #Mangold (der eigentlich gelber Mangold hätte sein sollen) aus dem Jahr 2023 sind noch gut gekeimt und liefern auch dieses Jahr wieder gute #Erträge.
Ich haeb wieder #Mangoldgemüse

Google: Erdbeben-Frühwarnsystem hat in der Türkei nicht richtig funktioniert
Google hat zugegeben, dass sein Erdbeben-Frühwarnsystem die Menschen während der tödlichen Beben in der Türkei Anfang Februar 2023 nur unzureichend gewarnt hat.

Up until 2016, the sea ice in Antarctica seemed relatively stable.
Then everything started to change.
At first, the decline was mostly in line with climate models.
But suddenly, in 2023, there was an enormous drop.
About 2.5 million sq km of Antarctic sea ice went missing relative to the average before 2023.
The anomaly was of such a magnitude that it's quite hard for scientists to know what to make of it.
It has been described as a five sigma ev…

Figma's stock closes up 250% at $115.50, after Figma sold shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$68B valuation; Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition fell apart in 2023 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/figma-fig-starts-trading-on-nyse-after-…

Figma more than triples in NYSE debut after selling shares at $33
Fast-growing Figma's internet software has over 13 million users, and the customer list includes Google, Microsoft and Netflix.

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

Débat de 2023 sur les victimes de sectes, de l’emprise Š la reconstruction. Quels sont les mécanismes Š l'oeuvre, comment identifier le discours sectaire, comment trouver de l'aide pour s'en sortir et se reconstruire ? https://chardonsbleus.org/debat-victim

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Funkadelic:
🎵 Maggot Brain (remastered 2023)
#Funkadelic
https://derrok.bandcamp.com/track/gusano-funkadelics-maggot-brain-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WJU527RQNyMLuKecjsL8V

Identifying Radio Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning and Large-Area Surveys
Xu-Liang Fan, Jie Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01596 https://arxiv.o…

Identifying Radio Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning and Large-Area Surveys
Context. Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and star forming galaxies (SFGs) are the primary sources of extragalactic radio sky. But it is difficult to distinguish the radio emission produced by AGNs from that by SFGs, especially when the radio sources are faint. Best et al. (2023) classified the radio sources in LoTSS Deep Fields DR1 through multiwavelength SED fitting. With the classification results of them, we perform a supervised machine learning to distinguish radio AGNs and radio SFGs. Aims…

Question Decomposition for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Paul J. L. Ammann, Jonas Golde, Alan Akbik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00355 https://

Question Decomposition for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Grounding large language models (LLMs) in verifiable external sources is a well-established strategy for generating reliable answers. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is one such approach, particularly effective for tasks like question answering: it retrieves passages that are semantically related to the question and then conditions the model on this evidence. However, multi-hop questions, such as "Which company among NVIDIA, Apple, and Google made the biggest profit in 2023?," challenge RA…

Record marine heat waves in 2023 covered 96% of oceans, lasted four times longer than average #ocean

Record marine heat waves in 2023 covered 96% of oceans, lasted four times longer than average
Heat waves aren't just getting worse on land, the majority of the world's oceans are experiencing record-breaking temperatures too. These marine heat waves are getting longer, more intense and reaching farther than ever before. In particular, 2023's marine heat waves (MHWs) exhibited the longest duration, widest extents, and highest intensities on record—and 2024 wasn't any better.

In Memory Of Tom
Inspired by the life of a mentor and friend...
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://muz4no…

In Memory Of Tom #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Im Jahr 2024 wurden mehr als zwei Drittel aller neuen #Wohngebäude in #Deutschland primär mit #Wärmepumpen beheizt.
Ihr Anteil hat sich in zehn Jahren mehr als verdoppelt. Tr…

Mehr als zwei Drittel der im Jahr 2024 errichteten Wohngebäude heizen mit Wärmepumpen
In immer mehr neuen Wohngebäuden in Deutschland werden Wärmepumpen zum Heizen genutzt. Mehr als zwei Drittel (69,4 %) der knapp 76 100 im Jahr 2024 fertiggestellten Wohngebäude nutzen Wärmepumpen zur primären, also überwiegend für das Heizen eingesetzten Energie. Gegenüber 2023 stieg der Anteil um rund 5 Prozentpunkte, gegenüber 2014 (31,8 %) hat er sich mehr als verdoppelt, wie das Statistische Bundesamt (Destatis) mitteilt. Wärmepumpen kommen vor allem in Ein- und Zweifamilienhä…

Ist der #Klimawandel für die #Regenrekorde und #Überschwemmungen in Deutschland verantwortlich? 🌧️🌡️ Das Jahr 2024 war das wärmste seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen, gleich nach 2023…

Regenrekorde in Deutschland: Eine direkte Folge des Klimawandels?
Erfahre mehr über die extremen Wetterbedingungen in Deutschland 2023 und wie der Klimawandel zu ungewöhnlich hohen Niederschlagsmengen beiträgt.

Full Stokes magnetometry of the active M dwarfs AU Mic and EV Lac with SPIRou
J. -F. Donati, P. I. Cristofari, B. Klein, B. Finociety, C. Moutou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01754

Full Stokes magnetometry of the active M dwarfs AU Mic and EV Lac with SPIRou
We report in this paper circularly and linearly polarized observations of the young active M dwarfs AU Mic and EV Lac with the near-infrared SPIRou spectropolarimeter at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, collected from August to October 2023 over a few rotation cycles of both stars. Applying Least-Squares Deconvolution (LSD) to our spectra, we detected Zeeman signatures in circular (Stokes V) and linear (Stokes QU) polarization, and Zeeman broadening in unpolarized (Stokes I) LSD profiles, al…

The starvation of Gaza, announced by the Israeli government since October 2023.
Front page of Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl today.

Human beings need love, so everyone is someone "For Those In Need of Love Today"
#InstrumentalMusic #MellowMusic #NowPlaying

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

from my link log —
Behind the scenes of Rust string formatting and format_args!().
https://blog.m-ou.se/format-args/
saved 2023-12-05 https://

Cycle of Creativity – Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2023/cy…

Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Servo revival 2023-2024.
https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-revival-2023-2024/
saved 2025-01-07 htt…

A second security breach at Tea exposes more than 1.1M user messages, dating from early 2023 to as recently as last week, many containing sensitive information (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/a-second-tea-breach-reveals-users-dms-about-abortion…

A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating
The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.

Flexport announces it is selling Convoy's tech to DAT Freight & Analytics, after acquiring the digital freight startup's tech stack in late 2023 (John Kingston/FreightWaves)
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/less-tha

Less than 2 years after Flexport bought Convoy’s tech stack, it’s being sold to DAT
Flexport is selling the Convy tech stack to DAT, less than two years after it bought it from the defunct digital brokerage.

"Finding Bliss"
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/finding-bliss

Finding Bliss #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023 (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77v2kx304go

Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity
The tech giant said only 469 serious warnings were sent out ahead of the 7.8 magnitude quake.

Campfire, which offers AI-powered ERP and accounting services, raised a $35M Series A led by Accel (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/tiny-ai-erp-startup-campfire-is-winning-s…

Tiny AI ERP startup Campfire is winning so many startups from NetSuite, Accel led a $35M Series A  | TechCrunch
Campfire was launched in 2023 to upend 1990s-era enterprise resource planning accounting software (ERP) like Netsuite with an LLM-powered alternative. 

Morning’d Better Come #musicvideo #music #musicvideo ht…

Morning'd Better Come #musicvideo
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

Filing: the FBI drops its probe of Kraken founder Jesse Powell and returns dozens of devices, after raiding his home in 2023 over seemingly banal allegations (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/22/kraken-jesse-powell-fbi/

FBI drops probe of Kraken founder, returns dozens of seized devices
The FBI raided Jesse Powell's home after an arts non-profit falsely accused him of hacking.

‼️Gern boosten für mehr Antworten‼️
😃Seit September 2023 immer falsch geraten. 😛
In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im Mai 2025 über den #Klimawandel und dessen Drumherum sowie den

Klimawandel im Fokus: Analyse der Berichterstattung im öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen 2025
Wird der Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk ausreichend thematisiert? Eine umfassende Analyse zeigt Zahlen und Trends in der Berichterstattung.

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.

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

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